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AD 81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. 629 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire. 786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun. 919 – Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech. 1180 – Genpei War: Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan. 1402 – Battle of Homildon Hill results in an English victory over Scotland. 1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland. 1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded. 1723 – Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta. 1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah. 1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2). 1763 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War. 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York. 1791 – The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France. 1808 – Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais. 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city. 1814 – Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner. 1829 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War. 1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court. 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought. 1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. 1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. 1917 – The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic. 1936 – Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza 1939 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia. 1940 – Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing. 1943 – World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons. 1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces. 1948 – The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo. 1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.[1] 1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere. 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. 1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. 1960 – Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution. 1969 – The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date. 1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI. 1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president. 1982 – President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated. 1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. 1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic. 1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal. 1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike. 1997 – Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. 1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. 1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. 2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME. 2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. 2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union. 2007 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. 2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. |
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208 – Diadumenian, Roman emperor (d. 218) 938 – Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian scholar and statesman (d. 995) 953 – Guo Zongxun, Chinese emperor (d. 973) 1032 – Dao Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1101) 1246 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1272) 1384 – Ephraim of Nea Makri, Greek martyr and saint (d. 1426) 1388 – Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer and cartographer (d. 1438) 1401 – Maria of Castile, Queen consort of Aragon and Naples (d. 1458) 1485 – Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Landgravine of Hesse (d. 1525) 1486 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German theologian, astrologer, and alchemist (d. 1535) 1543 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1615) 1547 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch politician (d. 1619) 1580 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (d. 1645) 1643 – Jeremiah Dummer, American silversmith (d. 1718) 1656 – Thomas Baker, English historian and author (d. 1746) 1713 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781) 1721 – Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 1807) 1736 – Robert Raikes, English philanthropist, founded Sunday school (d. 1811) 1737 – Michael Haydn, Austrian singer and composer (d. 1806) 1769 – Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (d. 1859) 1774 – Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (d. 1839) 1791 – Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (d. 1867) 1804 – John Gould, English ornithologist and illustrator (d. 1881) 1804 – Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (d. 1882) 1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903) 1843 – Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist (d. 1924) 1847 – Fanny Holland, English actress and singer (d. 1931) 1850 – Anton Mahnič, Slovenian bishop, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1920) 1853 – Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician (d. 1924) 1857 – Julia Platt, American embryologist and politician (d. 1935) 1860 – Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1940) 1864 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) 1867 – Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator (d. 1944) 1868 – Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright (d. 1925) 1869 – Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (d. 1953) 1872 – John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1963) 1879 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (d. 1966) 1880 – Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary (d. 1961) 1880 – Archie Hahn, American sprinter, football player, and coach (d. 1955) 1883 – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1908) 1885 – Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor, composer, and critic (d. 1975) 1886 – Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1948) 1887 – Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934) 1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983) 1892 – Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1968) 1896 – José Mojica, Mexican tenor and actor (d. 1974) 1898 – Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector (d. 1979) 1898 – Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar (d. 1974) 1898 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986) 1902 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1977) 1902 – Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist (d. 1993) 1903 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet and author (d. 1980) 1904 – Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (d. 1957) 1907 – Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (d. 1986) 1909 – Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor (d. 1989) 1909 – Stuff Smith, American violinist (d. 1967) 1910 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (d. 1982) 1910 – Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer (d. 1973) 1910 – Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman (d. 2003) 1910 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (d. 1999) 1911 – William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (d. 1999) 1913 – Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (d. 1971) 1913 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (d. 2013) 1914 – Mae Boren Axton, American composer and educator (d. 1997) 1914 – Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999) 1915 – John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope (d. 2014) 1916 – Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic 1916 – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (d. 2001) 1917 – Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2002) 1918 – Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (d. 1967) 1918 – Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (d. 2008) 1919 – Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and broadcaster (d. 1976) 1919 – Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2001) 1919 – Olga Lowe, South African-English actress (d. 2013) 1919 – Kay Medford, American actress (d. 1980) 1920 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist and author (d. 2009) 1920 – Lawrence Klein, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) 1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998) 1921 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 2005) 1921 – A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic 1921 – Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (d. 2013) 1921 – Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (d. 2001) 1922 – Michel Auclair, German-French actor (d. 1988) 1922 – Frances Bergen, American model and actress (d. 2006) 1922 – Alfred Käärmann, Estonian soldier and author (d. 2010) 1923 – Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter and costume designer (d. 2001) 1924 – Patricia Barringer, American baseball player and accountant (d. 2007) 1924 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014) 1924 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat (d. 1994) 1924 – Wim Polak, Dutch journalist and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1999) 1926 – Michel Butor, French author and critic (d. 2016) 1926 – Richard Ellsasser, American organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1972) 1926 – Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noblewoman (d. 2017) 1927 – Martin Caidin, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997) 1927 – Janet Davies, English actress (d. 1986) 1927 – Gardner Dickinson, American golfer (d. 1998) 1927 – Jim Fanning, American-Canadian baseball player and manager (d. 2015) 1927 – Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (d. 2014) 1928 – Jay Cameron, American reed player and saxophonist (d. 2001) 1928 – Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (d. 2001) 1928 – Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (d. 2004) 1929 – Larry Collins, American-French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2005) 1930 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and academic (d. 1992) 1930 – Romola Costantino, Australian pianist and critic (d. 1988) 1930 – Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (d. 2014) 1932 – Harry Sinden, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager 1932 – John Tembo, Malawian politician 1933 – Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress 1933 – Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (d. 2009) 1934 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (d. 1994) 1934 – Paul Little, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1993) 1934 – Kate Millett, American author and activist (d. 2017) 1934 – Don Walser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006) 1935 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator (d. 2008) 1936 – Harry Danielsen, Norwegian educator and politician (d. 2011) 1936 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (d. 1996) 1936 – Walter Koenig, American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1936 – Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1936 – Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and photographer 1937 – Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building 1938 – Franco Califano, Libya-born Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2013) 1938 – Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor (d. 2011) 1939 – DeWitt Weaver, American golfer 1940 – Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator 1940 – Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach 1941 – Bruce Hyde, American actor and academic (d. 2015) 1941 – Ian Kennedy, English lawyer and academic 1941 – Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, American civil rights activist 1941 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan drummer, composer, and bandleader 1941 – Alex St. Clair, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2006) 1942 – Oliver Lake, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer 1942 – Roger Lyons, English trade union leader 1942 – Bernard MacLaverty, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter 1943 – Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991) 1943 – Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1944 – Joey Heatherton, American actress, singer, and dancer 1944 – Günter Netzer, German footballer and manager 1945 – Martin Tyler, English sportscaster 1946 – Pete Agnew, Scottish rock bassist and singer (Nazareth) 1946 – Jim Angle, American soldier and journalist 1946 – Wolfgang Sühnholz, German-American soccer player and coach 1947 – Jon Bauman, American singer 1947 – Sam Neill, Northern Irish-New Zealand actor and director 1948 – Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (d. 2000) 1949 – Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977) 1949 – Ed King, American guitarist and songwriter (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2003) 1949 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1994) 1949 – Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer-songwriter 1950 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 1976) 1950 – Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver 1950 – Mike Nifong, American lawyer and politician 1950 – John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (d. 1989) 1951 – Volodymyr Melnykov, Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer 1953 – Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998) 1953 – Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer 1954 – Barry Cowsill, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2005) 1954 – David Wojnarowicz, American painter and photographer (d. 1992) 1955 – Steve Berlin, American saxophonist, keyboard player, and producer 1955 – Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American novelist and journalist 1955 – William Jackson, Scottish harp player and composer 1955 – Edu Manzano, American-Filipino actor and politician 1956 – Paul Allott, English cricketer and sportscaster 1956 – Kostas Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 181st Prime Minister of Greece 1956 – Nathalie Roussel, French actress 1956 – Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager (d. 2018) 1956 – Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek lawyer and politician 1957 – Tim Wallach, American baseball player and coach 1957 – Kepler Wessels, South African cricketer, coach, and sportscaster 1958 – Paul Clark, English footballer and manager 1958 – Jeff Crowe, New Zealand cricketer, referee, and manager 1958 – Arlindo Cruz, Brazilian singer-songwriter 1958 – Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter 1959 – John Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1959 – Morten Harket, Norwegian singer-songwriter 1960 – Ronald Lengkeek, Dutch footballer 1960 – Melissa Leo, American actress 1960 – Callum Keith Rennie, English-Canadian actor and producer 1961 – Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician 1961 – Wendy Thomas, American businesswoman 1962 – Robert Herjavec, Croatian-Canadian businessman 1962 – Tom Kurvers, American ice hockey player and sportscaster 1962 – Bonnie Jo Campbell, American novelist and short story writer 1963 – Robin Singh, Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach 1964 – Faith Ford, American actress 1965 – Emily Bell, English journalist and academic 1965 – Dmitry Medvedev, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia 1965 – Kevin O'Hare, English ballet dancer and director 1966 – Aamer Sohail, Pakistani cricketer and politician 1967 – Jens Lien, Norwegian director, producer, and screenwriter 1967 – John Power, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1968 – Grant Shapps, English politician 1968 – Michelle Stafford, American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1969 – Denis Betts, English rugby league player and coach 1969 – Konstandinos Koukodimos, Australian-Greek long jumper and politician 1970 – Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist 1970 – Ben Garant, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1970 – Satoshi Kojima, Japanese wrestler 1970 – Jason Martin, Australian rugby league player, singer, and guitarist 1970 – Craig Montoya, American singer-songwriter and bass player 1970 – Mark Webber, English guitarist 1971 – Jeff Loomis, American guitarist and songwriter 1971 – Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist 1971 – Christopher McCulloch, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter 1971 – Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actress, director, and producer 1972 – Notah Begay III, American golfer 1972 – David Bell, American baseball player and coach 1973 – Tony Bui, Vietnamese director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Terrell Fletcher, American football player 1973 – Andrew Lincoln, English actor 1973 – Nas, American rapper 1973 – Linvoy Primus, English footballer 1973 – Mike Ward, Canadian comedian and actor 1974 – Chad Bradford, American baseball player 1974 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan runner 1974 – Mattias Marklund, Swedish guitarist 1974 – Sunday Oliseh, Nigerian footballer and manager 1974 – Helgi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer 1974 – Patrick van Balkom, Dutch sprinter 1976 – Agustín Calleri, Argentinian tennis player 1977 – Mattias Agabus, Estonian architect 1977 – Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (d. 2014) 1977 – Miyu Matsuki, Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2015) 1978 – Ben Cohen, English rugby union player 1978 – Carmen Kass, Estonian model and actress 1978 – Danielle Peck, American singer-songwriter 1979 – Ivica Olić, Croatian footballer 1979 – Stefan Stam, Dutch footballer 1980 – Ayọ, German singer-songwriter and actress 1980 – Gareth Maybin, Northern Irish professional golfer 1981 – Miyavi, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1981 – Katie Lee, American chef, author, and critic 1981 – Stefan Reisinger, German footballer 1981 – Yumi Adachi, Japanese actress and singer 1982 – SoShy, French-American singer-songwriter 1982 – Petr Průcha, Czech ice hockey player 1983 – Arash Borhani, Iranian footballer 1983 – Josh Outman, American baseball player 1983 – Frostee Rucker, American football player 1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011) 1984 – Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian film actor, singer and anchor 1985 – Paolo Gregoletto, American bass player and songwriter 1985 – Trevis Smith, American football player 1985 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer 1985 – Delmon Young, American baseball player 1986 – Jonathan Monaghan, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1986 – Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer 1986 – Barış Özbek, German-Turkish footballer 1986 – Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer 1986 – Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer and actress 1987 – Michael Crabtree, American football player 1987 – Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian-English rapper and producer 1988 – Martin Fourcade, French biathlete 1988 – Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer 1989 – Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress 1989 – Logan Henderson, American singer-songwriter 1989 – Jesse James, American actor 1989 – Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model 1990 – Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer 1990 – Petar Filipović, German-born Croatian footballer 1990 – Belinda Hocking, Australian backstroke swimmer 1990 – Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer 1991 – Dee Milliner, American football player 1991 – Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model 1991 – Shayne Topp, American actor and Smosh cast member 1992 – Connor Fields, American cyclist 1992 – Zico, South Korean rapper 1993 – Brandon Brown, American race car driver 1994 – Brahim Darri, Dutch footballer 1994 – Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish professional football central defender 1994 – Krasimir Stanoev, Bulgarian footballer 1995 – Deshaun Watson, American football player 1996 – Hugh Bernard, English cricketer 1996 – Myles Wright, English professional footballer |
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AD 23 – Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman son of Tiberius (b. 13 BC) 258 – Cyprian, African bishop and saint (b. 200) 407 – John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop and saint (b. 347) 585 – Bidatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 538) 619 – Yang You, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (b. 605) 775 – Constantine V, Byzantine emperor (b. 718) 786 – Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (b. 764) 820 – Li Yong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty 891 – Stephen V, pope of the Catholic Church 919 – Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland 927 – Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal, Irish abbot 949 – Fujiwara no Tadahira, Japanese statesman (b. 880) 1146 – Imad ad-Din Zengi, Syrian ruler (b. 1087) 1164 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119) 1214 – Albert Avogadro, Italian lawyer, patriarch, and saint (b. 1149) 1321 – Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (b. 1265) 1401 – Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór, Polish bishop (b. 1355) 1404 – Albert IV, duke of Austria (b. 1377) 1412 – Ingegerd Knutsdotter, Swedish abbess (b. 1356) 1435 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1389) 1487 – Mara Branković, Serbian princess (b. 1416) 1523 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459) 1538 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda (b. 1483) 1605 – Jan Tarnowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1550) 1613 – Thomas Overbury, English poet 1638 – John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (b. 1607) 1646 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire (b. 1591) 1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (b. 1625) 1715 – Dom Pérignon, French monk and priest (b. 1638) 1743 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690) 1749 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1675) 1759 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (b. 1712) 1807 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1724) 1821 – Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist (b. 1797) 1836 – Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1756) 1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (b. 1789) 1852 – Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (b. 1812) 1852 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769) 1862 – Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (b. 1793) 1862 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (b. 1834) 1879 – Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (b. 1808) 1891 – Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817) 1898 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857) 1901 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843) 1905 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852) 1916 – José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) 1927 – Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1877) 1931 – Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (b. 1856) 1936 – Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878) 1936 – Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1899) 1937 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850) 1942 – E. S. Gosney, American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation (b. 1855) 1951 – Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (b. 1890) 1952 – John McPhee, Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874) 1959 – Wayne Morris, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914) 1960 – M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic (b. 1908) 1961 – Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (b. 1885) 1962 – Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach (b. 1879) 1965 – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891) 1966 – Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1899) 1966 – Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1881) 1966 – Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey (b. 1895) 1975 – Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (b. 1902) 1979 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (b. 1917) 1981 – Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899) 1981 – William Loeb III, American publisher (b. 1905) 1982 – Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933) 1982 – John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (b. 1933) 1982 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese commander and politician (b. 1947) 1982 – Grace Kelly, American-Monacan actress; Princess of Monaco (b. 1929) 1984 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906) 1986 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (b. 1921) 1989 – Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916) 1991 – Julie Bovasso, American actress and playwright (b. 1930) 1991 – Russell Lynes, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1910) 1992 – August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic (b. 1906) 1992 – Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1903) 1994 – Marika Krevata, Greek actress (b. 1910) 1995 – Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (b. 1912) 1996 – Rose Ouellette, Canadian actress and manager (b. 1903) 1996 – Juliet Prowse, Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1937) 1998 – Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and 4th President of China (b. 1907) 1999 – Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910) 1999 – Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (b. 1947) 2000 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920) 2000 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist (b. 1906) 2001 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (b. 1931) 2001 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1918) 2002 – LaWanda Page, American actress (b. 1920) 2003 – Jerry Fleck, American actor and director (b. 1947) 2003 – Garrett Hardin, American ecologist and author (b. 1915) 2003 – John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer (b. 1915) 2005 – William Berenberg, American physician and academic (b. 1915) 2005 – Vladimir Volkoff, French soldier and author (b. 1932) 2005 – Robert Wise, American director and producer (b. 1914) 2006 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American bodybuilder and actor (b. 1926) 2006 – Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918) 2007 – Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (b. 1933) 2007 – Robert Savoie, Canadian opera singer (b. 1927) 2008 – Hyman Golden, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (b. 1923) 2009 – Keith Floyd, English chef and author (b. 1943) 2009 – Henry Gibson, American actor and (b. 1935) 2009 – Jody Powell, American diplomat, White House Press Secretary (b. 1943) 2009 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1952) 2011 – Malcolm Wallop, American politician (b. 1933) 2012 – Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (b. 1924) 2012 – Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician (b. 1963) 2012 – Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (b. 1949) 2012 – Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (b. 1913) 2013 – Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1989) 2013 – Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (b. 1931) 2013 – Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (b. 1941) 2014 – Tony Auth, American illustrator (b. 1942) 2014 – Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961) 2014 – E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1933) 2015 – Davey Browne, Australian boxer (b. 1986) 2015 – Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (b. 1947) 2015 – Martin Kearns, English drummer (b. 1977) 2015 – Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1949) |
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