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497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison. 920 – Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII. 942 – Assassination of William I of Normandy. 1398 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur. 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England. 1583 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg. 1586 – Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan. 1718 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain. 1777 – American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States. 1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City. 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System. 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa. 1819 – Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela). 1835 – The second Great Fire of New York destroys 50 acres (200,000 square meters) of New York City's Financial District. 1837 – A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards. 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert. 1892 – First issue of Vogue is published. 1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire. 1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan 1913 – A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system. 1918 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. 1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1926 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful. 1927 – Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date. 1928 – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931. 1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3. 1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo. 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo. 1943 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act. 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper. 1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. 1948 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police. 1950 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea. 1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations. 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1960 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt. 1960 – Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed. 1961 – Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500. 1967 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned. 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. 1970 – 1970 Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens. 1973 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. 1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. 1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire. 1989 – Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years. 1989 – The Simpsons first premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". 2002 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years. 2003 – The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice. 2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. 2005 – Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. 2005 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. 2009 – MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals. 2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring. 2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1960. |
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1239 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1256) 1267 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324) 1554 – Ernest of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1612) 1556 – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Pakistani-Indian poet (d. 1627) 1616 – Roger L'Estrange, English pamphleteer and author (d. 1704) 1619 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine (d. 1682) 1632 – Anthony Wood, English historian and author (d. 1695) 1685 – Thomas Tickell, English poet (d. 1740) 1699 – Charles-Louis Mion, French composer and educator (d. 1775) 1706 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749) 1734 – Maria I of Portugal (d. 1816) 1749 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (d. 1801) 1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829) 1796 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1865) 1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878) 1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (d. 1892) 1812 – Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter (d. 1880) 1827 – Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (d. 1893) 1830 – Jules de Goncourt, French author and critic (d. 1870) 1835 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist and engineer (d. 1910) 1840 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (d. 1908) 1842 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician and academic (d. 1899) 1847 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (d. 1916) 1853 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician and immunologist, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933) 1859 – Paul César Helleu, French painter and illustrator (d. 1927) 1866 – Kazys Grinius, Lithuanian physician and politician, 3rd President of Lithuania (d. 1950) 1873 – Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1939) 1874 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950) 1881 – Aubrey Faulkner, South African-English cricketer and coach (d. 1930) 1884 – Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (d. 1976) 1887 – Josef Lada, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1957) 1890 – Prince Joachim of Prussia (d. 1920) 1892 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (d. 1950) 1893 – Charles C. Banks, English captain and pilot (d. 1971) 1893 – Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (d. 1966) 1894 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979) 1894 – Patrick Flynn, Irish-American runner and soldier (d. 1969) 1894 – Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977) 1895 – Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis player (d. 1967) 1898 – Loren Murchison, American sprinter (d. 1979) 1900 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998) 1900 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973) 1903 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1987) 1903 – Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (d. 1978) 1904 – Paul Cadmus, American painter and illustrator (d. 1999) 1905 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper (d. 2002) 1905 – Mohammad Hidayatullah, 11th Chief Justice of India, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (d. 1992) 1905 – Erico Verissimo, Brazilian author and translator (d. 1975) 1906 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (d. 1994) 1906 – Russell C. Newhouse, American pilot and engineer (d. 1998) 1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980) 1910 – Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American educator and author (d. 1999) 1910 – Sy Oliver, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1988) 1912 – Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, English captain and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 2012) 1913 – Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 1967) 1914 – Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (d. 2005) 1914 – Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet (d. 2013) 1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (d. 2000) 1917 – Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983) 1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004) 1921 – Lore Berger, German-Swiss author and translator (d. 1943) 1922 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and academic (d. 2005) 1923 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (d. 2006) 1926 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985) 1926 – John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014) 1926 – Stephen Lewis, English actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2015) 1927 – Richard Long, American actor and director (d. 1974) 1927 – Edward Meneeley, American painter and sculptor (d. 2012) 1928 – Marilyn Beck, American journalist (d. 2014) 1928 – Eli Beeding, American captain and pilot (d. 2013) 1928 – Doyle Conner, American farmer and politician, 7th Florida Commissioner of Agriculture (d. 2012) 1929 – William Safire, American journalist and author (d. 2009) 1930 – Bob Guccione, American photographer and publisher, founded Penthouse (d. 2010) 1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor and painter 1930 – Dorothy Rowe, Australian psychologist and author 1931 – Gerald Finnerman, American director and cinematographer (d. 2011) 1931 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (d. 2014) 1931 – James McGaugh, American neurobiologist and psychologist 1932 – John Bond, English footballer and manager (d. 2012) 1934 – Irving Petlin, American painter and academic (d. 2018) 1934 – Ray Wilson, English footballer and manager (d. 2018) 1935 – Brian Langford, English cricketer (d. 2013) 1935 – Cal Ripken Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1999) 1936 – Pope Francis 1936 – Tommy Steele, English singer, guitarist, and actor 1937 – Brian Hayes, Australian-English radio host 1937 – Art Neville, American singer and keyboard player 1937 – Kerry Packer, Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket (d. 2005) 1937 – John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969) 1937 – Calvin Waller, American general (d. 1996) 1938 – Peter Snell, New Zealand runner 1939 – James Booker, American pianist (d. 1983) 1939 – Eddie Kendricks, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 1992) 1940 – Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist (d. 2013) 1940 – María Elena Velasco, Mexican actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015) 1941 – Dave Dee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009) 1941 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2012) 1942 – Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian general and politician, 7th Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1942 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1987) 1943 – Ron Geesin, Scottish pianist and composer 1944 – Jack L. Chalker, American author and educator (d. 2005) 1944 – Carlo M. Croce, Italian-American oncologist and academic 1944 – Bernard Hill, English actor 1945 – Ernie Hudson, American actor 1945 – David Mallet, British director 1945 – Chris Matthews, American journalist and author 1945 – Jüri Talvet, Estonian poet and critic 1945 – Jacqueline Wilson, English author and academic 1946 – Simon Bates, English radio host 1946 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter 1947 – Wes Studi, American actor and producer 1948 – Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015) 1948 – Jim Bonfanti, American rock drummer 1948 – Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkish economist and politician 1949 – Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer 1949 – Paul Rodgers, English singer-songwriter and producer 1950 – Laurence F. Johnson, American educator and author 1950 – Maurice Peoples, American sprinter and coach 1951 – Pat Hill, American football player and coach 1951 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1951 – Tatyana Kazankina, Russian runner 1953 – Bill Pullman, American actor 1954 – Sergėjus Jovaiša, Lithuanian basketball player 1955 – Brad Davis, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster 1956 – Peter Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1956 – Dominic Lawson, English journalist and author 1956 – Totka Petrova, Bulgarian runner 1957 – Wendy Hoyte, English sprinter 1957 – Bob Ojeda, American baseball player and coach 1958 – Mike Mills, American bass player, songwriter, and producer 1959 – Bob Stinson, American songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995) 1961 – Mansoor al-Jamri, Bahraini journalist and author 1962 – Paul Dobson, English footballer 1962 – Galina Malchugina, Russian sprinter 1962 – Rocco Mediate, American golfer and journalist 1964 – Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player and coach 1964 – Joe Wolf, American basketball player and coach 1965 – Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1966 – Tracy Byrd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1966 – Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician, 23rd Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1967 – Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1967 – Karsten Neitzel, German footballer and manager 1968 – Claudio Suárez, Mexican footballer 1968 – Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver and sportscaster 1969 – Laurie Holden, American actress and model 1969 – Inna Lasovskaya, Russian triple jumper 1969 – Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer 1969 – Mick Quinn, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer 1971 – Alan Khan, South African radio and TV presenter 1971 – Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player 1972 – Iván Pedroso, Cuban long jumper and coach 1973 – Eddie Fisher, American drummer[1] 1973 – Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower 1973 – Rian Johnson, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Paula Radcliffe, English runner 1973 – Hasan Vural, German-Turkish footballer 1974 – Charl Langeveldt, South African cricketer 1974 – Sarah Paulson, American actress 1974 – Giovanni Ribisi, American actor 1975 – Nick Dinsmore, American wrestler and trainer 1975 – Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan sprinter 1975 – Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress 1976 – Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater and coach 1976 – Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer and manager 1976 – Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer 1976 – Andrew Simpson, English sailor (d. 2013) 1976 – Takeo Spikes, American football player and sportscaster 1977 – Arnaud Clément, French tennis player 1977 – Samuel Påhlsson, Swedish ice hockey player 1977 – Katheryn Winnick, Canadian actress 1977 - Maria Brink, American heavy metal singer 1978 – Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and sportscaster 1978 – Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician 1978 – Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer and songwriter 1978 – Chase Utley, American baseball player 1978 – Riteish Deshmukh, Indian film actor, producer and architect 1979 – Matt Murley, American ice hockey player 1979 – Paul Smith, English footballer 1980 – Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver 1980 – Alexandra Papageorgiou, Greek hammer thrower 1980 – Eli Pariser, American activist and author, co-founded Avaaz.org 1981 – Jerry Hsu, American skateboarder and photographer 1981 – Tim Wiese, German footballer 1982 – Josh Barfield, American baseball player 1982 – Lorenzo Cittadini, Italian rugby player 1982 – Craig Kielburger, Canadian activist and author, co-founded Free the Children and Me to We 1982 – Stéphane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player 1982 – Ryan Moats, American football player 1982 – Onur Özsu, Turkish singer-songwriter 1983 – Erik Christensen, Canadian ice hockey player 1983 – Haron Keitany, Kenyan runner 1983 – Sébastien Ogier, French race car driver 1984 – Luis Maria Alfageme, Argentinian footballer 1984 – Julian Bennett, English footballer 1984 – Andrew Davies, English footballer 1984 – Mikky Ekko, American singer-songwriter and producer 1984 – Shannon Woodward, American actress 1985 – Łukasz Broź, Polish footballer 1985 – Craig Reid, English footballer 1985 – Greg James, English radio presenter and comedian 1986 – Emma Bell, American actress 1986 – Frank Winterstein, Australian-Samoan rugby league player 1987 – Bo Guagua, Chinese businessman 1987 – Chelsea Manning, American soldier and intelligence analyst 1988 – Liisa Ehrberg, Estonian cyclist 1988 – Grethe Grünberg, Estonian ice dancer 1988 – Kris Joseph, Canadian basketball player 1988 – David Rudisha, Kenyan runner 1988 – Craig Sutherland, Scottish footballer 1991 – James Hurst, American football player 1991 – Jordan Rankin, Australian rugby league player 1991 – Atsedu Tsegay, Ethiopian runner 1992 – Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist 1992 – Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer 1993 – Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player 1994 – Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player 1994 – Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor 1996 – Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater 1997 – Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player 1997 – Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater 1998 – Jasmine Armfield, English actress 1998 – Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer |
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779 – Sturm, abbot of Fulda 908 – al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier 908 – Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day 942 – William I, duke of Normandy 1187 – Pope Gregory VIII (b. 1100) 1195 – Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150) 1273 – Rumi, Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207) 1419 – William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of England 1471 – Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397) 1562 – Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522) 1645 – Nur Jahan, empress consort of the Mughal Empire (b. 1577) 1663 – Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583) 1721 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640) 1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783) 1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812) 1847 – Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791) 1857 – Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774) 1904 – William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848) 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824) 1909 – Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835) 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836) 1927 – Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892) 1928 – Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861) 1929 – Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863) 1930 – Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894) 1932 – Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867) 1933 – 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876) 1940 – Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860) 1942 – Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895) 1947 – Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877) 1956 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903) 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893) 1962 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892) 1964 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) 1967 – Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) 1970 – Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896) 1978 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) 1981 – Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903) 1982 – Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889) 1986 – Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925) 1987 – Linda Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951) 1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903) 1992 – Günther Anders, German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902) 1992 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909) 1999 – Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920) 1999 – Grover Washington Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943) 1999 – C. Vann Woodward, American historian and academic (b. 1908) 2002 – K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri Lankan Minister of Justice (b. 1910) 2003 – Otto Graham, American football player and coach (b. 1921) 2004 – Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931) 2005 – Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (b. 1922) 2005 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (b. 1929) 2005 – Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and academic (d. 1936) 2006 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (b. 1935) 2008 – Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach (b. 1914) 2008 – Freddy Breck, German singer-songwriter, producer, and journalist (b. 1942) 2008 – Dave Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1955) 2009 – Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983) 2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919) 2009 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (b. 1946) 2010 – Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) 2010 – Walt Dropo, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1923) 2010 – Ralph Coates, English footballer (b. 1946) 2011 – Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983) 2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941) 2012 – Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (b. 1947) 2012 – James Gower, American priest and activist, co-founded the College of the Atlantic (b. 1922) 2012 – Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician (b. 1924) 2012 – Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1929) 2012 – Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (b. 1957) 2013 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer (b. 1929) 2013 – Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926) 2013 – Richard Heffner, American historian and television host (b. 1925) 2013 – Tetsurō Kashibuchi, Japanese drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1950) 2013 – Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925) 2013 – Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (b. 1926) 2014 – Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913) 2014 – Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917) 2014 – Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949) 2014 – Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919) 2014 – Ivan Vekić, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938) 2015 – Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) 2015 – Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920) 2015 – Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928) 2016 – Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922) 2016 – Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920) 2016 – Gordon Hunt, American voice director (b. 1929) 2017 – Bob Glidden, American race car driver (b. 1944) 2017 – Francesco Leonetti, Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher and political activist (b. 1924) |
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