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307 – Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.[1] 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.[2] 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. 1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.[3] 1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII. 1547 – The first Lithuanian-language book, Simple Words of Catechism, is published in Königsberg. 1735 – The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 1746 – Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City. 1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony. 1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. 1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized. 1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time. 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield. 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator. 1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. 1912 – The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).[4] 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union. 1926 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam. 1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.[5] 1936 – Kashf-e hijab decree is enforced by Reza Shah ordering the police to physically remove the Hijab from any woman in public. 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. 1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces. 1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. 1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria. 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. 1972 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. 1979 – Password Plus debuts on NBC. 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". 1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board. 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed. 2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers. 2003 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board. 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. 2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32. 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three. 2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead. 2016 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico. |
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1037 – Su Dongpo, Chinese calligrapher and poet (d. 1101)[6] 1345 – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, kadi, and ruler of Sivas (d. 1398)[7] 1360 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1410) 1462 – Walraven II van Brederode, Dutch nobleman (d. 1531) 1529 – John Frederick II, duke of Saxony (d. 1595) 1556 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese daimyō (d. 1623) 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1643) 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616) 1587 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1629) 1589 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1638) 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658) 1628 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695) 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German economist and jurist (d. 1694) 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal (d. 1709) 1638 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1665) 1680 – Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter (d. 1764) 1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop, founder of Georgetown University (d. 1815) 1763 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American translator and diplomat (d. 1834) 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (d. 1844) 1788 – Rudolf of Austria, Austrian archduke and archbishop (d. 1831) 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer and educator (d. 1872) 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California (d. 1871) 1805 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 1878) 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871) 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (d. 1893) 1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Turkey (d. 1904) 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913) 1824 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and short story writer (d. 1889) 1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (d. 1861) 1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894) 1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter and academic (d. 1912) 1843 – Frederick Abberline, English police officer (d. 1929) 1843 – Karl Eduard Heusner, German admiral (d. 1891) 1843 – John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1926) 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931) 1854 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1925) 1860 – Emma Booth, English author (d. 1903) 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934) 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American philanthropist (d. 1943) 1866 – William G. Conley, American educator and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940) 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961) 1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1930) 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940) 1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Romanian lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953) 1876 – Arturs Alberings, Latvian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Latvia (d. 1934) 1879 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (d. 1948) 1881 – Henrik Shipstead, American dentist and politician (d. 1960) 1881 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (d. 1945) 1883 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (d. 1941) 1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, American general, politician, and diplomat, 51st United States Secretary of War (d. 1963) 1885 – John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945) 1885 – Mór Kóczán, Hungarian javelin thrower and pastor (d. 1972) 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch-American pastor and activist (d. 1967) 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1972) 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) 1891 – Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (d. 1986) 1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972) 1894 – Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (d. 1941) 1896 – Arthur Ford, American psychic, founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (d. 1971) 1896 – Jaromír Weinberger, Czech-American composer and academic (d. 1967) 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, English soldier and author (d. 1977) 1899 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959) 1900 – Dorothy Adams, American character actress (d. 1988) [8] 1900 – Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982) 1902 – Georgy Malenkov, Russian engineer and politician (d. 1988) 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic (d. 1987) 1904 – Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer (d. 1948) 1904 – Tampa Red, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1981) 1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (d. 1997) 1905 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet (d. 1988) 1906 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter (d. 1969) 1907 – Keizō Hayashi, Japanese general and civil servant (d. 1991) 1908 – Fearless Nadia, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman (d. 1996) 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975) 1909 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (d. 1995) 1909 – Willy Millowitsch, German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999) 1909 – Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (d. 1995) 1909 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992) 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American author and educator (d. 1995) 1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian actress and ballerina (d. 1998) 1911 – Tom Delaney, English race car driver and businessman (d. 2006) 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author (d. 1970) 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (d. 1992) 1912 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2014) 1915 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991) 1917 – Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1994) 1920 – Richard Benedict, American actor and director (d. 1984) 1920 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (d. 1983) 1922 – Dale D. Myers, American engineer (d. 2015) 1922 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986) 1923 – Larry Storch, American actor and comedian 1923 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer and actor (d. 2011) 1923 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985) 1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist and author (d. 2008) 1924 – Benjamin Lees, Chinese-American soldier and composer (d. 2010) 1924 – Ron Moody, English actor and singer (d. 2015) 1925 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (d. 1972) 1926 – Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (d. 2012) 1926 – Lazzaro Donati, Italian artist (d. 1977) 1926 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (d. 2007)[9] 1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2004) 1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009) 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic (d. 2015) 1928 – Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington 1928 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (d. 1996) 1928 – Luther Perkins, American country guitarist (d. 1968) 1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (d. 2015) 1931 – Bill Graham, German-American businessman (d. 1991) 1931 – Clarence Benjamin Jones, American lawyer and scholar 1933 – Nolan Miller, American fashion and jewelry designer (d. 2012) 1933 – Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter 1933 – Willie Tasby, American baseball player 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987) 1934 – Gene Freese, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013) 1934 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (d. 1988) 1934 – Alexandra Ripley, American author (d. 2004) 1935 – Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher, founded Lapham's Quarterly 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977) 1936 – Zdeněk Mácal, Czech-American conductor 1936 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist, and academic 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host and producer 1938 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer and educator 1939 – Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer 1939 – Ruth Maleczech, American actress (d. 2013) 1939 – Alan Wilson, English mathematician and academic 1940 – Mark Bretscher, English biologist and academic 1940 – Cristy Lane, American country and gospel singer 1941 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1989) 1942 – Robin Ellis, English actor 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (d. 2018) 1942 – Junichirō Koizumi, Japanese politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan 1942 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress 1942 – Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014) 1943 – Charles Murray, American political scientist and author 1944 – Terry Brooks, American lawyer and author 1945 – Nancy Bond, American author and academic 1945 – Phil Beal, English footballer, defender[10] 1945 – Kadir Topbaş, Turkish architect and politician, 31st Mayor of Istanbul 1946 – Robby Krieger, American guitarist and songwriter[11] 1946 – Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Mexican drug lord[12] 1947 – Don Bendell, American rancher and author 1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2016) 1947 – David Gates, American journalist and novelist 1947 – Antti Kalliomäki, Finnish pole vaulter and politician 1947 – Samuel Schmid, Swiss lawyer and politician, 90th President of the Swiss Confederation 1947 – Terry Sylvester, English singer and guitarist 1947 – Luke Williams, New Zealand-American wrestler 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director and screenwriter 1949 – John Podesta, American lawyer and politician, 20th White House Chief of Staff 1949 – Lawrence Rowe, Jamaican cricketer 1951 – Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia 1951 – John McTiernan, American director and producer 1951 – Franz Pachl, German chess player and composer 1951 – Karen Tei Yamashita, American author and academic 1952 – Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator 1952 – Peter McCullagh, Irish mathematician and academic 1952 – Mel Reynolds, American academic and politician 1953 – Bruce Sutter, American baseball player 1954 – Konstantinos Kypriotis, Greek martial artist (d. 1995) 1955 – Joan Kingston, Canadian nurse, educator, and politician 1955 – Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer and coach 1955 – Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer 1957 – Nacho Duato, Spanish dancer and choreographer 1957 – David Lang, American composer and academic 1958 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education 1958 – Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler, trainer, and actor 1959 – Kim Duk-koo, South Korean boxer (d. 1982) 1959 – Mike Harwood, Australian golfer 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005) 1959 – Keith Rodden, American NASCAR crew chief 1960 – Lee Tomboulian, American pianist, accordion player, composer, and educator 1960 – Dave Weckl, American drummer 1961 – Keith Arkell, English chess player 1961 – Shoaib Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer 1964 – Marc Quinn, English sculptor 1964 – Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter 1966 – Willie Anderson, American basketball player 1966 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2009) 1966 – Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (d. 1990) 1967 – Torsten Gowitzke, German footballer and manager 1967 – Steven Jacobs, Australian television host and actor 1967 – R. Kelly, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and former professional basketball player 1967 – Tom Watson, English politician 1969 – J. Hunter Johnson, American game designer, author, and translator 1970 – Rachel Friend, Australian actress and journalist 1970 – Rod Maybon, Australian rugby league player 1971 – Jason Giambi, American baseball player 1971 – Jesper Jansson, Swedish footballer 1971 – Mike Süsser, German chef and author 1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer and coach 1972 – Paul Clement, English footballer, coach, and manager 1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer 1972 – Jacob Sager Weinstein, American author and humorist 1973 – Mike Cameron, American baseball player 1973 – Henning Solberg, Norwegian race car driver 1973 – Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster 1975 – Harris Jayaraj, Indian composer and producer 1976 – Kenneth Andam, Ghanaian sprinter and businessman 1976 – Carl Pavano, American baseball player 1977 – Amber Benson, American actress, writer, director, and producer[13] 1977 – Francesco Coco, Italian footballer 1979 – Torry Castellano, American drummer 1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer and manager 1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer 1979 – Sarah Polley, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter 1979 – Tomasz Schafernaker, Polish-English meteorologist 1979 – Mirella van Melis, Dutch cyclist 1980 – Adam Goodes, Australian footballer 1980 – Rachel Nichols, American actress and producer 1981 – Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player 1981 – Ioannis Kokkodis, Greek swimmer 1981 – Virgil Spier, Dutch sprinter and hurdler 1981 – Trent Waterhouse, Australian rugby league player 1982 – Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer 1982 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress 1983 – Jon Daly, Irish footballer 1983 – Chris Masters, American wrestler and actor 1984 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player 1984 – Stephen Simpson, South African race car driver 1984 – Jeon Ji-ae, South Korean actress 1984 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea 1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer 1987 – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player 1988 – Vitaliy Hoshkoderya, Ukrainian footballer 1988 – Adrián López, Spanish footballer 1988 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player 1989 – Kristján Einar, Icelandic race car driver 1989 – Lee Yi-kyung, South Korean actor 1990 – Hassan Adhuham, Maldivian footballer 1990 – Jeff Allen, American football player 1990 – Sascha Bigalke, German footballer 1990 – Scott Pye, Australian race car driver 1991 – Jorge Enríquez, Mexican footballer 1991 – Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer 1991 – Josh Jackson, Australian rugby league player 1991 – Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer, National captain[14] 1991 – Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer 1991 – Shin Ji-min, South Korean singer and rapper 1991 – Emiliano Tabone, Argentinian footballer 1992 – Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player 1992 – Koke, Spanish footballer 1992 – Apostolos Vellios, Greek footballer 1993 – Giovanni Galbieri, Italian sprinter 1993 – James Tedesco, Australian rugby league player 1998 – Manuel Locatelli Italian footballer 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer |
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307 – Hui of Jin, Chinese emperor (b. 259) 482 – Severinus of Noricum, Italian apostle and saint 871 – Bagsecg, Viking warrior and leader 926 – Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury 1079 – Adèle of France, countess of Flanders (b. 1009) 1107 – Edgar, king of Scotland (b. 1074) 1198 – Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1106) 1332 – Andronikos III, emperor of Trebizond 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266) 1354 – Charles de La Cerda, French nobleman (b. 1327) 1424 – Stephen Zaccaria, archbishop of Patras 1456 – Lawrence Giustiniani, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1381) 1464 – Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian and academic (b. 1385) 1538 – Beatrice of Portugal, duchess of Savoy (b. 1504) 1557 – Albert Alcibiades, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1522) 1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French sculptor and architect, designed the Château d'Anet (b. 1510) 1598 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525) 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564) 1664 – Moses Amyraut, French physician and theologian (b. 1596) 1707 – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (b. 1648) 1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653) 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706) 1789 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703) 1794 – Justus Möser, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1720) 1815 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (b. 1778) 1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765) 1853 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene-Hungarian poet and educator (b. 1788) 1854 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English field marshal and politician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (b. 1768) 1865 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1779) 1874 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814) 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1821) 1878 – Gauchito Gil, Argentinian saint (b. 1847) 1880 – Emperor Norton, English-American businessman (b. 1811) 1883 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825) 1896 – William Rainey Marshall, American banker and politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825) 1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet and writer (b. 1844) 1901 – John Barry, Irish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873) 1912 – Friedrich Schrempf, German journalist and politician (b. 1858) 1914 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and 30th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1823) 1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884) 1916 – Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress (b. 1860) 1918 – Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and director (b. 1892) 1918 – Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1827) 1920 – Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (b.1852)[15] 1925 – George Bellows, American painter (b.1882) 1934 – Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1880) 1934 – Alexandre Stavisky, Ukrainian-French financier (b. 1886) 1935 – Rauf Yekta, Turkish musicologist and author (b. 1871) 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880) 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general (b. 1857) 1942 – Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1869) 1943 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (b. 1919) 1943 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (b. 1879) 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American lieutenant and sailor (b. 1878) 1945 – Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900) 1948 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (b. 1887) 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883) 1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866) 1953 – Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883) 1954 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898) 1956 – Jim Elliot, American missionary and martyr (b. 1928) 1958 – Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869) 1958 – John Duff, Canadian race car driver (b. 1895) 1961 – Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910) 1963 – Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898) 1969 – Albert Hill, English runner and coach (b. 1889) 1969 – Elmar Kaljot, Estonian footballer and coach (b. 1901) 1970 – Georges Guibourg, French actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1891) 1972 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (b. 1911) 1975 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913) 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) 1976 – Robert Forgan, Scottish-English physician and politician (b. 1891) 1979 – Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (b. 1898) 1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907) 1981 – Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925) 1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908) 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919) 1983 – Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913) 1983 – Gale Page, American actress (b. 1910) 1984 – Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist and academic (b. 1912) 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906) 1990 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919) 1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (b. 1911) 1991 – Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960) 1994 – Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (b. 1915) 1994 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925) 1996 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968) 1996 – François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916) 1996 – Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907) 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) 1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905) 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) 2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932) 2003 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925) 2004 – John A. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1930) 2006 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (b. 1943) 2007 – Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (b. 1908) 2007 – Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1916) 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1922) 2007 – David Ervine, Northern Irish politician and activist (b. 1953) 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1925) 2008 – George Moore, Australian jockey and trainer (b. 1923) 2009 – Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan Journalist (b. 1958) 2010 – Art Clokey, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) 2011 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937) 2011 – Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924) 2012 – Dave Alexander, American singer and pianist (b. 1938) 2012 – T. J. Hamblin, English haematologist and academic (b. 1943) 2012 – John Madin, English architect, designed the Birmingham Central Library (b. 1924) 2012 – Bernhard Schrader, German chemist and academic (b. 1931) 2012 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (b. 1929) 2013 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1927) 2013 – Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (b. 1920) 2013 – Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (b. 1930) 2014 – Vicente T. Blaz, American general and politician (b. 1928) 2014 – Madeline Gins, American poet and architect (b. 1941) 2014 – Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (b. 1925) 2014 – Antonino P. Roman, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1939) 2015 – Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942) 2015 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926) 2015 – Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (b. 1921) 2016 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race car driver (b. 1926) 2016 – German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian & talent manager (b. 1933) 2017 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925) 2017 – James Mancham, Seychellois politician (b. 1939) 2017 – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (b. 1934) 2017 – Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) |
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