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960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor. 1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano".[1] 1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people. 1576 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation. 1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public. 1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed. 1614 – Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian. 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China. 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden. 1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College. 1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. 1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. 1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time. 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray. 1901 – Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. 1917 – The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. 1933 – Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed. 1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards. 1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. 1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. 1940 – Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas. 1942 – World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers. 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. 1957 – Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later. 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. 1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. 1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom, except in cases of high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty would be abolished in all cases in 1998. 1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi. 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. 1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories. 1972 – HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda. 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million. 1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. 1983 – TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.[2] 1987 – Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded. 1994 – Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination. 1999 – Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder. 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". 2004 – Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. 2006 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.[3] 2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976. 2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage. 2016 –Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP party led NDA government, publicly announced the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes only a few hours before the implementation/imposition of diktat, i.e. from midnight, starting of November 9 (9-11 as per Indian date recordings), from the Indian economy, without popular consent, rendering 86% of Indian currency in circulation invalid. 2016 – United States Presidential Election: Donald Trump is elected as 45th president of the United States. |
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AD 30 – Nerva, Roman emperor (d. 98) 1342 – Julian of Norwich, English mystic and saint (d. 1416) 1407 – Alain de Coëtivy, French cardinal (d. 1474) 1417 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1480) (d. 1480) 1456 – Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort (d. 1474) 1491 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian monk and poet (d. 1544) 1543 – Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England (d. 1634) 1555 – Nyaungyan Min, King of Burma (d. 1605) 1563 – Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624) 1572 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1619) 1622 – Charles X Gustav of Sweden (d. 1660) 1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742) 1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and judge (d. 1772) 1710 – Sarah Fielding, English author (d. 1768) 1715 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (d. 1797) 1723 – John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1786) 1725 – Johann George Tromlitz, German flute player and composer (d. 1805) 1763 – Otto Wilhelm Masing, German-Estonian linguist and author (d. 1832) 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840) 1772 – William Wirt, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Attorney General (d. 1834) 1788 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene poet and educator (d. 1853) 1855 – Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1939) 1831 – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General of India (d. 1880) 1836 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (d. 1911) 1837 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907) 1847 – Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician, 6th President of France (d. 1907) 1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (d. 1912) 1848 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925) 1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919) 1866 – Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company (d. 1941) 1868 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic (d. 1942) 1878 – Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (d. 1951) 1881 – Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1942) 1883 – Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (d. 1953) 1883 – Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935) 1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1922) 1885 – George Bouzianis, Greek painter (d. 1959) 1885 – Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (d. 1951) 1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect and academic (d. 1966) 1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general and politician, 4th Japanese Military Governors of the Philippines (d. 1946) 1888 – David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1974) 1893 – Prajadhipok, Thai king (d. 1941) 1896 – Erika Abels d'Albert, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1975) 1896 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (d. 1977) 1897 – Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist (d. 1980) 1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1937) 1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1949) 1904 – Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (d. 1990) 1908 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (d. 1998) 1910 – James McCormack, American general (d. 1975) 1911 – Al Brosch, American golfer (d. 1975) 1911 – Robert Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (d. 1991) 1912 – June Havoc, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010) 1912 – Stylianos Pattakos, Greek general and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016) 1913 – Lou Ambers, American boxer (d. 1995) 1914 – Norman Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer 1916 – Lady Ursula d'Abo, English socialite (d. 2017) 1918 – Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier (d. 1999) 1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) 1919 – James S. Ackerman, American historian and academic (d. 2016) 1920 – Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014) 1920 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998) 1920 – Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2012) 1921 – Douglas Townsend, American composer, musicologist, and academic (d. 2012) 1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (d. 2001) 1922 – Thea D. Hodge, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2008) 1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1996) 1923 – Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017) 1923 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) 1924 – Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player and soldier (d. 2017) 1924 – Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974) 1924 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (d. 2014) 1924 – Victorinus Youn Kong-hi, South Korean archbishop 1924 – Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union 1926 – Carroll E. Lanier, American sailor and politician (d. 2012) 1926 – Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist 1927 – L. K. Advani, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India 1927 – Ken Dodd, English singer / comedian (d. 2018) 1927 – Chris Connor, American singer (d. 2009) 1927 – Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 2013) 1927 – Patti Page, American singer and actress (d. 2013) 1928 – Des Corcoran, Australian politician, 37th Premier of South Australia (d. 2004) 1928 – Ursula Haverbeck, German author and activist 1929 – Bobby Bowden, American football player and coach 1929 – António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher and academic 1931 – Jim Redman, English-Rhodesian motorcycle racer 1931 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 2016) 1931 – Paolo Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter 1932 – Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018) 1932 – Ben Bova, American journalist and author 1933 – Peter Arundell, English race car driver (d. 2009) 1935 – Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter 1935 – Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1990) 1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (d. 2008) 1936 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014) 1938 – Driss Basri, Moroccan police officer and politician (d. 2007) 1938 – Richard Stoker, English composer, author, and poet 1939 – Meg Wynn Owen, Welsh actress 1941 – Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress 1942 – Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican-American jockey 1942 – Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer and sportscaster 1943 – Martin Peters, English footballer and manager 1944 – Bonnie Bramlett, American singer and actress 1945 – Arduino Cantafora, Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and author 1945 – John Farrar, Australian-born music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist 1945 – Don Murray, American drummer (d. 1996) 1945 – Vincent Nichols, English cardinal 1945 – Arnold Rosner, American composer (d. 2013) 1946 – Guus Hiddink, Dutch footballer and manager 1946 – Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1947 – Michael Perham, English bishop (d. 2017) 1947 – Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979) 1947 – Margaret Rhea Seddon, American physician and astronaut 1947 – Lewis Yocum, American physician and surgeon (d. 2013) 1948 – Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (d. 2014) 1949 – Wayne LaPierre, American businessman, author, and activist 1949 – Bonnie Raitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1950 – Mary Hart, American journalist and actress 1951 – Gerald Alston, American R&B singer 1951 – Larry Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1951 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentinian captain 1951 – Laura Cox, English lawyer and judge 1951 – Peter Suber, American philosopher and academic 1952 – John Denny, American baseball player and coach 1952 – Christie Hefner, American publisher and businesswoman 1952 – Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist 1952 – Jerry Remy, American baseball player and sportscaster 1952 – Alfre Woodard, American actress 1953 – Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and manager 1953 – John Musker, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter 1953 – Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (d. 2013) 1954 – David Bret, French-English journalist and author 1954 – Michael D. Brown, American lawyer and radio host 1954 – Timothy Egan, American journalist and author 1954 – Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter and producer 1954 – Thanasis Pafilis, Greek jurist and politician 1955 – Patricia Barber, American singer-songwriter and pianist 1955 – Jeffrey Ford, American author and educator 1956 – Mari Boine, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer 1956 – Richard Curtis, New Zealand-English screenwriter, film and television producer, and film director 1956 – Steven Miller, American record producer and engineer 1957 – Alan Curbishley, English footballer and manager 1957 – Tim Shaw, American swimmer 1957 – Porl Thompson, English guitarist and songwriter 1957 – Hardi Volmer, Estonian singer and director 1958 – Don Byron, American clarinet player and composer 1958 – Ken Lamberton, American author and educator 1958 – Selçuk Yula, Turkish footballer and journalist (d. 2013) 1959 – Miroslav Janů, Czech footballer and manager (d. 2013) 1959 – Chi Chi LaRue, American drag queen performer and director 1960 – Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor, singer, and director 1960 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor and producer (d. 2017) 1961 – Micky Adams, English footballer and manager 1961 – Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and television personality 1963 – Paul McKenna, English hypnotist and author 1965 – Jeff Blauser, American baseball player and manager 1965 – Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter 1965 – Mike Matarazzo, American bodybuilder and boxer (d. 2014) 1966 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality 1967 – José Luis Caminero, Spanish footballer 1967 – Henry Rodriguez, Dominican baseball player 1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress 1968 – Keith Jones, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1968 – José Offerman, Dominican baseball player and manager 1968 – Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer and manager 1968 – Parker Posey, American actress 1970 – Tom Anderson, American businessman, co-founded Myspace 1970 – David Hemp, Bermudian cricketer 1970 – Michael Jackson, Canadian actor 1970 – Diana King, Jamaican singer-songwriter 1970 – José Porras, Costa Rican footballer and coach 1971 – Carlos Atanes, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter 1971 – Tech N9ne, American musician, record producer, and actor 1972 – Chris Fydler, Australian swimmer 1972 – Gretchen Mol, American model and actress 1973 – Sven Mikser, Estonian politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Defence 1973 – David Muir, American journalist 1974 – Joshua Ferris, American author 1974 – Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer 1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese author and illustrator, created Naruto 1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese illustrator 1975 – Brevin Knight, American basketball player and sportscaster 1975 – Tara Reid, American actress 1975 – Alena Vašková, Czech tennis player 1976 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer and sportscaster 1976 – Colin Strause, American director, producer, and visual effects designer 1977 – Jully Black, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress 1977 – Bucky Covington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 – Nick Punto, American baseball player 1978 – Matthew Bulbeck, English cricketer 1978 – Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer 1978 – Maurice Evans, American basketball player 1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer and manager 1978 – Kensaku Kishida, Japanese actor and entertainer 1978 – Emma Lewell-Buck, English social worker and politician 1978 – Júlio Sérgio, Brazilian footballer and manager 1979 – Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player 1979 – Aaron Hughes, Irish footballer 1980 – Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer 1980 – Laura Jane Grace, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1980 – Holly Walsh, English radio and television host 1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer 1981 – Yann Kermorgant, French footballer 1982 – Ted DiBiase, Jr., American wrestler and actor 1982 – Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer 1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian singer-songwriter and producer 1983 – Sinan Güler, Turkish basketball player 1983 – Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower 1983 – Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer 1983 – Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer 1983 – Nikola Rachelle, English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer 1983 – Danielle Valore Evans American short story writer 1984 – Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2012) 1984 – Yoko Mitsuya, Japanese model and actress 1984 – Steven Webb, English actor 1985 – Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress 1985 – Míchel, Spanish footballer 1985 – Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (d. 2018) 1986 – Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austrian tennis player 1986 – Jamie Roberts, Welsh rugby player 1986 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013) 1987 – Édgar Benítez, Paraguayan footballer 1987 – Sam Bradford, American football player 1987 – Kazuchika Okada, Japanese wrestler 1987 – Mohd Faiz Subri, Malaysian footballer 1988 – Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer 1988 – Lucia Slaničková, Slovak heptathlete 1989 – Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer 1989 – Giancarlo Stanton, American baseball player 1990 – Ingrid Puusta, Estonian sailor 1990 – SZA, American singer-songwriter[4] 1991 – Aaron Fotheringham, American wheelchair athlete 1991 – Jack Littlejohn, Australian rugby league player 1991 – Dan Middleton, English YouTube personality and pro gamer 1992 – Christophe Vincent, French footballer 1993 – Przemek Karnowski, Polish basketball player 1993 – Fraser Mullen, Scottish footballer 2000 – Jasmine Thompson, English singer 2000 – Roy Wang, Chinese singer |
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397 – Martin of Tours, Frankish bishop and saint 618 – Adeodatus I, pope of the Catholic Church 785 – Sawara, Japanese prince 789 – Willehad, bishop of Bremen 928 – Duan Ning, Chinese general 940 – Yao Yi, Chinese chancellor (b. 866) 943 – Liu, empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (b. 877) 955 – Agapetus II, pope of the Catholic Church 977 – Ibn al-Qūṭiyya, Andalusian historian 1067 – Sancha of León, Queen of León (b. c. 1018)[5] 1115 – Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop and saint (b. 1066) 1122 – Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin 1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108) 1195 – Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135) 1226 – Louis VIII, king of France (b. 1187) 1246 – Berengaria of Castile (b. 1179) 1263 – Matilda of Béthune, French countess 1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (b. 1266) 1400 – Peter of Aragon, Aragonese infante (b. 1398) 1478 – Baeda Maryam I, emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1448) 1494 – Melozzo da Forlì, Italian painter (b. c. 1438) 1517 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish cardinal (b. 1436) 1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian and reformer (b. 1477) 1599 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1528) 1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyō (b. 1562) 1605 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1573) 1606 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530) 1658 – Witte de With, Dutch admiral (b. 1599) 1674 – John Milton, English poet and philosopher (b. 1608) 1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (b. 1652) 1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721) 1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator (b. 1754) 1828 – Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator and author (b.1753) 1830 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777) 1873 – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796) 1887 – Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker player (b. 1851) 1890 – César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822) 1895 – Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (b. 1828) 1901 – James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815) 1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870) 1917 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879) 1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (b. 1849) 1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879) 1944 – Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920) 1945 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849) 1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874) 1953 – Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) 1953 – John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887) 1956 – Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)[6] 1959 – Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890) 1960 – Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911) 1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913) 1968 – Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (b. 1914) 1968 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898) 1970 – Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892) 1973 – Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898) 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914) 1975 – Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925) 1977 – Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (b. 1931) 1977 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896) 1978 – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894) 1983 – James Booker, American singer and pianist (b. 1939) 1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (b. 1881) 1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1899) 1985 – Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1915) 1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890) 1994 – Michael O'Donoghue, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940) 1998 – Rumer Godden, English author and poet (b. 1907) 1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English colonel, mountaineer, and academic (b. 1910) 1998 – Jean Marais, French actor and director (b. 1913) 1999 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1941) 1999 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast and judge (b. 1898) 2001 – Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player and educator (b. 1930) 2002 – Jon Elia, Pakistani poet, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1931) 2003 – Bob Grant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1932) 2003 – C.Z. Guest, American actress, fashion designer, and author (b. 1920) 2003 – Guy Speranza, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956) 2004 – Peter Mathers, English-Australian author and playwright (b. 1931) 2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (b. 1928) 2005 – David Westheimer, American soldier and author (b. 1917) 2006 – Basil Poledouris, American composer and conductor (b. 1945) 2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist and academic (b. 1941) 2007 – Aad Nuis, Dutch journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1933) 2007 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (b. 1943) 2007 – Chad Varah, English priest, founded The Samaritans (b. 1911) 2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) 2010 – Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961) 2010 – Jack Levine, American soldier and painter (b. 1915) 2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (b. 1925) 2011 – Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1967) 2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922) 2012 – Lee MacPhail, American businessman (b. 1917) 2012 – Pete Namlook, German composer and producer (b. 1960) 2012 – Peggy Vaughan, American author (b. 1936) 2013 – William C. Davidon, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1927) 2013 – Penn Kimball, American journalist and academic (b. 1915) 2013 – Arnold Rosner, American composer (b. 1945) 2013 – Chiyoko Shimakura, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1938) 2013 – Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, Indian journalist and actor (b. 1957) 2014 – Phil Crane, American academic and politician (b. 1930) 2014 – Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot (b. 1917) 2014 – Don Paul, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925) 2014 – Hugo Sánchez Portugal, Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (b. 1984) 2014 – Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician (b. 1928) 2015 – Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist, founded the Polk Museum of Art (b. 1930) 2015 – Joseph Cure, American ice hockey player and actor (b. 1984) 2015 – Rod Davies, Australian-English astronomer and academic (b. 1930) 2015 – Om Prakash Mehra, Indian air marshal and politician (b. 1919) 2015 – Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and activist (b. 1942) 2017 – Dov Yaffe, Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi (b. 1928) |
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