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23 Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later. 610 Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. 1227 Assassination of Caliph al-Adil. 1302 A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the ByzantineVenetian War (12961302). 1363 End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history. 1511 Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France. 1535 The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. 1597 The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia. 1636 The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock. 1693 Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. 1725 Foundation of Rosario in Argentina. 1777 Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe. 1779 The Fort Wilson Riot takes place. 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention). 1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic. 1830 Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands. 1853 Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia. 1876 Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas. 1883 First run of the Orient Express. 1883 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. 1895 The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. 1917 World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders. 1918 An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007. 1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. 1936 In the East End of London, marches staged by British fascists and various anti-fascist organizations result in violent clashes between them in what becomes known as the Battle of Cable Street. 1940 Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. 1941 Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. 1943 World War II: U.S. captures the Solomon Islands from the Japanese. 1957 Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 1957 Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. 1957 Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS. 1958 Fifth Republic of France is established. 1960 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board. 1963 Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. 1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere. 1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. 1967 Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. 1974 Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece. 1976 Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train. 1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. 1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. 1988 U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. 1991 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique. 1992 El Al Flight 1862: An El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground. 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. 1997 The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash. 2001 NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. 2001 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed. 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded. 2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. 2010 The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated. |
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1160 Alys, Countess of the Vexin (d. 1220) 1274 Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1319) 1276 Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311) 1289 Louis X of France (d. 1316) 1331 James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (d. 1382) 1379 Henry III of Castile (d. 1406) 1515 Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586) 1542 Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1621) 1550 Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611) 1562 Christen Sψrensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647) 1570 Pιter Pαzmαny, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637) 1585 Anna of Tyrol (d. 1618) 1625 Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (d. 1661) 1626 Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1712) 1657 Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747) 1720 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (d. 1778) 1723 Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (d. 1798) 1759 Louis Franηois Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803) 1787 Franηois Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1874) 1793 Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (d. 1862) 1807 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Canada East (d. 1864) 1814 Jean-Franηois Millet, French painter and educator (d. 1875) 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893) 1835 Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American contralto opera singer (d. 1921) 1836 Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936) 1841 Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (d. 1912) 1841 Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925) 1858 Lιon Serpollet, French industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles (d. 1903) 1861 Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian (d. 1918) 1861 Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909) 1862 Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher (d. 1930) 1868 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 20th President of Argentina (d. 1942) 1874 John Ellis, English hairdresser and newsagent who served as one of the United Kingdom's executioners (d. 1932) 1875 Bob McKinney, American baseball player (d. 1946) 1876 Hugh McCrae, Australian actor and author (d. 1958) 1877 Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946) 1880 Damon Runyon, American author and playwright (d. 1946) 1881 Henry Potter, American golfer (d. 1955) 1881 Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948) 1884 Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (d. 1941) 1884 Subramaniya Siva, Indian author and activist (d. 1925) 1886 Luis Alberni, Spanish-American actor and singer (d. 1962) 1888 Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961) 1888 Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954) 1890 Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962) 1892 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1934) 1892 Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934) 1892 Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator (d. 1957 1895 Buster Keaton, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1966) 1895 Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944) 1900 August Mδlk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987) 1903 Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician (d. 1993) 1903 John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, invented the AtanasoffBerry computer (d. 1995) 1903 Pierre Garbay, French general (d. 1980) 1903 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946) 1907 Alain Daniιlou, French-Swiss historian and academic (d. 1994) 1910 Viktor Ader, Estonian footballer (d. 1966) 1910 Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002) 1913 Martial Cιlestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011) 1914 Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2003) 1914 Brendan Gill, American journalist and author (d. 1997) 1916 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009) 1916 Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006) 1916 George Sidney, American director and producer (d. 2002) 1917 Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967) 1918 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) 1922 Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987) 1922 Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group 1922 Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014) 1923 Charlton Heston, American actor and director (d. 2008) 1924 Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (d. 2012) 1925 Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012) 1926 Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012) 1927 Wolf Kahn, American painter 1928 Alvin Toffler, American journalist and author 1928 Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player 1929 Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968) 1929 John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004) 1929 Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1931 Terence Conran, English designer and businessman 1931 Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (d. 2011) 1931 Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (d. 2007) 1932 Milan Chvostek, Canadian director and producer 1933 Ann Thwaite, English author 1934 Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster 1934 Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist and poet 1936 Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager 1936 Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician 1937 Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress (d. 2015) 1937 David Crocker, American philosopher and academic 1937 Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2014) 1937 Jim Sillars, Scottish politician 1938 Kurt Wόthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1938 Norman D. Wilson, American actor (d. 2004) 1939 Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle racer 1940 Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player 1940 Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager 1940 Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer 1940 Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist 1941 Roy Blount, Jr., American journalist and author 1941 Karen Cushman, American author 1941 Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver 1941 Anne Rice, American author 1941 Robert Wilson, American director and playwright 1942 Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter (Sweet Honey in the Rock) 1942 Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1967) 1942 Jσhanna Sigurπardσttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland 1942 Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995) 1943 H. Rap Brown, American activist 1943 Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee (d. 2012) 1943 Dietmar Mόrdter, German footballer 1943 Florian Pitti?, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2007) 1943 Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager 1944 Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic 1944 Rocνo Dϊrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006) 1944 Eddie Gσmez, Puerto Rican bassist (Steps Ahead) 1944 Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager 1944 John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician 1945 Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister 1946 Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013) 1946 Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense 1946 Michael Mullen, American admiral 1946 Susan Sarandon, American actress, singer, and producer 1946 Bridget St John, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1947 Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist 1947 Jim Fielder, American bass player (Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Mothers of Invention) 1947 Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health 1948 Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician 1948 Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Roomful of Blues) 1949 Armand Assante, American actor and producer 1949 Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1949 Marion Albert Pruett, American murderer (d. 1999) 1950 Meg Bennett, American actress and screenwriter 1951 Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author 1952 Jody Stephens, American drummer (Big Star and Golden Smog) 1953 Tchιky Karyo, Turkish-French actor and singer 1953 Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Triumph) 1953 Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player 1955 John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player 1955 Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager 1956 Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright 1956 Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor 1957 Bill Fagerbakke, American actor and singer 1957 Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (Dance with a Stranger) (d. 2013) 1957 Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm 1958 Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host 1958 Ned Luke, American actor 1959 Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys) 1959 Tony Meo, English snooker player 1960 Joe Boever, American baseball player 1961 David W. Harper, American actor 1961 Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist 1961 Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh! 1962 Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer 1962 Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter 1963 A. C. Green, American basketball player 1963 Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator 1964 Peter Florence, English actor, founded the Hay Festival 1964 Sarah Lancashire, English actress and director 1964 Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, actor, and director (d. 2009) 1964 Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner 1965 Olaf Backasch, German footballer 1965 Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1965 Micky Ward, American boxer 1967 Marcus Bentley, English voice actor 1967 Ekin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer 1967 Liev Schreiber, American actor and director 1968 Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager 1968 Anzela Voronova, Estonian target shooter 1968 Tim Wise, American activist and author 1969 Abraham Benrubi, American actor 1971 Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer 1971 Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Powderfinger and Drag) 1972 Kurt Thomas, American basketball player 1973 Abyss, American wrestler 1974 Paco Leσn, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1975 Daniella Deutscher, American actress 1975 Panos Kiamos, Greek singer 1975 Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager 1975 Mohamed Jameel, Maldivian footballer 1976 Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer 1976 Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer 1976 Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author 1976 Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer 1976 Craig Robert Young, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1977 Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and kick-boxer 1977 Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre) 1978 Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer 1978 Kyle Lohse, American baseball player 1978 Go Soo, South Korean actor and singer 1979 Brandon Barash, American actor 1979 Stefan Booth, English actor and singer 1979 Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress and producer 1979 Bjφrn Phau, German tennis player 1979 Adam Voges, Australian cricketer 1980 Me'Lisa Barber, American sprinter 1980 Sarah Fisher, American race car driver 1980 Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer 1980 James Jones, American basketball player 1980 Tim Peper, American actor 1980 Tomα Rosickύ, Czech footballer 1981 Shaura, Japanese singer (Moi dix Mois) 1981 Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player 1982 Tony Gwynn, Jr., American baseball player 1982 Jered Weaver, American baseball player 1983 Dan Clarke, English race car driver 1983 Risa Kudo, Japanese model and actress 1983 Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer 1983 Matet de Leon, Filipino actress 1983 Chansi Stuckey, American football player 1983 Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player 1983 Tatsuya Ueda, Japanese singer and actor (KAT-TUN) 1984 Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi) 1984 Αlvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver 1984 Karolina Tyminska, Polish heptathlete 1985 Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter 1985 Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player 1986 Yuridia, Mexican singer 1987 Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer 1987 Will Puddy, English footballer 1987 Marina Weisband, German politician 1988 Joseph Marco, Filipino actor and model 1988 Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer 1988 Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater 1988 Derrick Rose, American basketball player 1989 Dakota Johnson, American model and actress 1989 Lil Mama, American rapper, dancer, and actress 1989 Stacey Solomon, English singer 1989 Rich Homie Quan, American rapper 1990 Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer 1997 Michelle Vito, Filipino actress 2005 Prince Emmanuel of Belgium |
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1052 Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020) 1250 Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226) 1305 Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249) 1582 Teresa of Αvila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515) 1597 Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550) 1646 Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1586) 1660 Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578) 1661 Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625) 1669 Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606) 1680 Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609) 1743 John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician (b. 1678) 1749 Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711) 1754 Tanacharison, American tribal chief (b. 1700) 1821 John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761) 1827 Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785) 1851 Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace (b. 1767) 1852 James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795) 1859 Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801) 1864 Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802) 1867 Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819) 1871 Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801) 1890 Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829) 1903 Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880) 1904 Frιdιric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834) 1904 Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847) 1910 Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850) 1935 Jean Bιraud, French painter (b. 1849) 1935 Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874) 1943 Irena Illakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906) 1944 Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873) 1946 Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (b. 1878) 1947 Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) 1951 Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920) 1951 Willie Moretti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1894) 1955 Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883) 1958 Ida Wόst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884) 1961 Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880) 1963 Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904) 1969 Natalino Otto, Italian singer and actor (b. 1912) 1970 Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (b. 1943) 1974 Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928) 1975 Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903) 1977 Josι Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917) 1981 Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905) 1982 The Amazing Criswell, American psychic and actor (b. 1907) 1982 Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932) 1982 Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898) 1989 Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970) 1989 Graham Chapman, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1941) 1990 Alyn Ainsworth, English singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1924) 1990 Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923) 1990 Martin Ziverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903) 1991 J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941) 1992 Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936) 1994 Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945) 1996 Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949) 1997 Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912) 1997 Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941) 1998 S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930) 1999 Erik Brψdreskift, Norwegian drummer (Immortal and Borknagar) (b. 1969) 1999 Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928) 1999 Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (The Jazztet) (b. 1928) 2000 Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914) 2000 Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) 2001 Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976) 2001 George Claydon, English actor (b. 1933) 2001 John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913) 2001 Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917) 2002 Andrι Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926) 2003 Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912) 2004 Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927) 2004 Rio Diaz, Filipino model, actress, and politician (b. 1959) 2005 Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924) 2006 Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933) 2007 Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925) 2009 Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928) 2009 Gόnther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918) 2009 Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (b. 1935) 2010 Norman Wisdom, English singer-songwriter, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1915) 2011 Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, American son of Anwar al-Awlaki (b. 1995) 2011 Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926) 2012 David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921) 2012 Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Zimbabwe (b. 1941) 2012 Daphne Slater, English actress (b. 1928) 2012 Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944) 2012 Gloria Taylor, Canadian activist (b. 1948) 2012 Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player (b. 1967) 2012 Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (b. 1956) 2013 John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921) 2013 Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917) 2013 Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933) 2013 Vυ Nguyκn Giαp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1911) 2013 Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917) 2014 Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941) 2014 Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (b. 1937) 2014 Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959) 2014 Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951) 2014 Paul Revere, singer with the American rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders (b. 1938)
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