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307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.[1] 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.[2] 1492 – Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. 1561 – The city of San Cristóbal, Táchira is founded. 1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.[3] 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act. 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. 1885 – The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate. 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.[4] 1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.[5] 1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States. 1909 – Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis. 1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert. 1917 – According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions. 1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed. 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years. 1931 – An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000. 1931 – A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne. 1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession. 1945 – World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada. 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government. 1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. 1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum. 1964 – Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état. 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. 1968 – American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."[6] 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors. 1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City. 1990 – Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. 1991 – 1991 Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California. 1992 – The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow. 1995 – TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board. 1995 – Selena is murdered by her fan club's president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after accusations of Saldívar embezzling money from Selena's fan club. 1998 – Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license. 2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed. 2018 – Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution. |
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1360 – Philippa of Lancaster (d. 1415) 1499 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)[7] 1504 – Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (d. 1552) 1519 – Henry II of France (d. 1559)[8] 1536 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shōgun (d. 1565) 1596 – René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1650)[9] 1601 – Jakov Mikalja, Italian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1654) 1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician (d. 1678) 1651 – Charles II, Elector Palatine, German husband of Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (d. 1685) 1675 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758) 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1750) 1718 – Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781) 1723 – Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766) 1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1783) 1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1809) 1740 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (d. 1849) 1747 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer (d. 1800) 1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (d. 1859) 1778 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (d. 1858) 1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852) 1809 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet and translator (d. 1883) 1809 – Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright (d. 1852) 1809 – Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864) 1813 – Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860–1862) (d. 1898)[10] 1819 – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (d. 1901) 1823 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (d. 1886) 1833 – Mary Abigail Dodge, American writer and essayist (d. 1896) 1835 – John La Farge, American artist (d. 1910) 1847 – Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1904) 1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878) 1851 – Francis Bell, Jewish New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1936) 1855 – Alfred E. Hunt, American businessman (d. 1899) 1859 – Emil Fenyvessy, Hungarian actor and screenwriter (d. 1924) 1865 – Anandi Gopal Joshi, Indian physician (d. 1887) 1871 – Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (d. 1922) 1872 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet manager and critic, founded the Ballets Russes (d. 1929) 1874 – Benjamín G. Hill, Mexican revolutionary general, governor of Sonora (d. 1920) 1874 – Henri Marteau, French violinist and composer (d. 1934) 1876 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (d. 1927) 1878 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946) 1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1946) 1885 – Pascin, Sephardi Jewish Bulgarian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1930) 1890 – Ben Adams, American jumper (d. 1961) 1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) 1891 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor and director (d. 1976) 1893 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1954) 1893 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German physician and historian (d. 1982) 1895 – Vardis Fisher, American author and academic (d. 1968) 1900 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974) 1905 – Robert Stevenson, English director and screenwriter (d. 1986) 1905 – George Treweek, Australian rugby league player (d. 1991) 1906 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) 1908 – Red Norvo, American vibraphone player and composer (d. 1999) 1911 – Freddie Green, American guitarist (d. 1987) 1911 – Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986) 1912 – William Lederer, American soldier and author (d. 2009) 1913 – Etta Baker, African-American singer and guitarist (d. 2006) 1914 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) 1914 – Dagmar Lange, Swedish author (d. 1991) 1915 – Albert Hourani, English historian and author (d. 1993) 1915 – Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese sergeant (d. 1997) 1916 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (d. 2012) 1916 – Tommy Bolt, American golfer (d. 2008) 1916 – John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 1979) 1917 – Dorothy DeLay, American violinist and educator (d. 2002) 1918 – Ted Post, American director (d. 2013) 1919 – Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993) 1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, British aristocrat, socialite and author (d. 2014) 1921 – Lowell Fulson, African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999) 1921 – Peggy Rea, American actress and casting director (d. 2011) 1922 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999) 1922 – Patrick Magee, Irish actor (d. 1982) 1923 – Don Barksdale, American basketball player (d. 1993)[11] 1923 – François Sermon, Belgian footballer (d. 2013) 1924 – Leo Buscaglia, American author and academic (d. 1998) 1924 – Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer (d. 2002) 1925 – Jean Coutu, Canadian actor and director (d. 1999) 1926 – John Fowles, English novelist (d. 2005) 1926 – Beni Montresor, Italian director, set designer, author, and illustrator (d. 2001) 1926 – Rocco Petrone, American colonel and engineer (d. 2006) 1927 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader and activist (d. 1993) 1927 – William Daniels, American actor 1927 – Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish cardinal 1927 – Vladimir Ilyushin, Russian pilot (d. 2010) 1927 – Elmer Diedtrich, American businessman and politician (d. 2013) 1927 – Bud MacPherson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988) 1928 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975) 1928 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016) 1929 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc. (d. 2007) 1929 – Bert Fields, American lawyer and author 1930 – Yehuda Nir, Polish Jewish-American psychiatrist (d. 2014) 1930 – Jim Mutscheller, American football player and coach (d. 2015) 1931 – Miller Barber, American golfer (d. 2013) 1931 – Tamara Tyshkevich, Belarusian shot putter (d. 1997) 1932 – John Jakes, American author 1932 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 2013) 1933 – Anita Carter, American singer-songwriter and bassist (d. 1999) 1933 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983) 1934 – Richard Chamberlain, American actor 1934 – Shirley Jones, American actress and singer 1934 – John D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016) 1934 – Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1934 – Kamala Surayya, Indian poet and author (d. 2009) 1935 – Herb Alpert, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer 1935 – Judith Rossner, Jewish-American author (d. 2005) 1936 – Marge Piercy, American poet and novelist 1936 – Walter E. Williams, American economist and academic 1938 – Patrick Bateson, English biologist and academic (d. 2017) 1938 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician, 22nd Governor of Kerala (d. 2019) 1938 – Antje Gleichfeld, German runner 1938 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2005) 1938 – Tõnno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player (d. 2005) 1938 – Arthur B. Rubinstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2018) 1938 – David Steel, Scottish academic and politician 1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (d. 1993) 1939 – Israel Horovitz, American actor, director, and screenwriter 1939 – Walker David Miller, American lawyer and judge (d. 2013) 1939 – Volker Schlöndorff, German director and producer 1939 – Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer 1940 – Brian Ackland-Snow, English production designer and art director (d. 2013) 1940 – Barney Frank, American lawyer and politician 1940 – Patrick Leahy, American lawyer and politician 1941 – Franco Bonvicini, Italian author and illustrator (d. 1995) 1941 – Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (d. 2013) 1942 – Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician 1942 – Hugh McCracken, American guitarist and producer (d. 2013) 1942 – Michael Savage, far-right American radio host and author 1943 – Roy Andersson, Swedish director and screenwriter 1943 – Deirdre Clancy, English costume designer 1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor 1944 – Pascal Danel, French singer-songwriter 1944 – Angus King, American politician 1944 – Mick Ralphs, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1945 – Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist and engineer 1945 – Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian 1945 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (d. 1995) 1946 – Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984) 1946 – Bob Russell, English politician 1947 – Augustin Banyaga, Rwandan-American mathematician and academic 1947 – Wendy Overton, American tennis player 1947 – Kristian Blak, Danish-Faroese pianist, composer, and producer 1947 – Don Foster, English academic and politician 1947 – César Gaviria, Colombian economist and politician, 36th President of Colombia 1947 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and economist (d. 2011) 1948 – Gary Doer, Canadian politician and diplomat, 20th Premier of Manitoba 1948 – Al Gore, American soldier and politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Prize laureate 1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress 1948 – Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist 1949 – Gilles Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player 1950 – András Adorján, Hungarian chess player and author 1950 – Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor 1950 – Sandra Morgen, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2016)[12] 1953 – Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (d. 2014) 1955 – Svetozar Marović, President of Serbia and Montenegro 1955 – Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter 1957 – Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons 1959 – Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator 1961 – Ron Brown, American sprinter and football player 1961 – Howard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer 1962 – Olli Rehn, Finnish footballer and politician 1963 – Paul Mercurio, Australian actor and dancer 1964 – Mark Hoban, English accountant and politician 1965 – Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player and coach 1965 – Patty Fendick, American tennis player and coach 1965 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006) 1965 – William McNamara, American actor and producer 1965 – Steven T. Seagle, American author and screenwriter 1966 – Roger Black, English runner and journalist 1966 – Nick Firestone, American race car driver 1968 – César Sampaio, Brazilian footballer 1969 – Nyamko Sabuni, Burundian-Swedish politician 1969 – Steve Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster 1970 – Alenka Bratušek, Slovenian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Slovenia 1970 – Samantha Brown, American television host 1971 – Demetris Assiotis, Cypriot footballer 1971 – Martin Atkinson, English footballer and referee 1971 – Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player 1971 – Craig McCracken, American animator, producer, and screenwriter 1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor 1972 – Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish director and screenwriter 1972 – Andrew Bowen, American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1972 – Luca Gentili, Italian footballer and coach 1972 – Evan Williams, American businessman, co-founded Twitter and Pyra Labs 1973 – Christopher Hampson, English ballet dancer and choreographer 1974 – Benjamin Eicher, German director, producer, and screenwriter 1974 – Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter[13] 1974 – Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bass player 1974 – Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer 1975 – Adam Green, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1975 – Nathan Grey, Australian rugby player and coach 1975 – Cameron Murray, Scottish rugby player 1975 – Ryan Rupe, American baseball player 1976 – Howard Frier, American basketball player 1976 – Igors Sļesarčuks, Latvian-Russian footballer 1976 – Graeme Smith, Scottish swimmer 1977 – Toshiya, Japanese bass player, songwriter, and producer 1977 – Garth Tander, Australian race car driver 1978 – Michael Clark, Australian cricketer and footballer 1978 – Stephen Clemence, English footballer, midfeider and manager[14] 1978 – Jarrod Cooper, American football player 1978 – Jérôme Rothen, French footballer 1979 – Omri Afek, Israeli footballer 1979 – Euan Burton, Scottish martial artist and coach 1979 – Alexis Ferrero, Argentinian footballer 1979 – Charlie Manning, American baseball player 1979 – Jonna Mendes, American skier 1979 – Rhys Wesser, Australian rugby league player 1980 – Martin Albrechtsen, Danish footballer 1980 – Karolina Lassbo, Swedish lawyer and blogger 1980 – Matias Concha, Swedish footballer 1980 – Kate Micucci, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress 1980 – Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player 1981 – Ryan Bingham, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1981 – Thomas Chatelle, Belgian footballer 1981 – Han Tae-you, South Korean footballer 1981 – Pa Dembo Touray, Gambian footballer 1981 – Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer 1982 – Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer 1982 – Bam Childress, American football player 1982 – Audrey Kawasaki, American painter 1983 – Hashim Amla, South African cricketer 1983 – Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress and musician 1983 – Sophie Hunger, Swiss-German musician 1983 – Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast 1983 – Nigel Plum, Australian rugby league player 1984 – David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player 1984 – Eddie Johnson, American soccer player[15] 1984 – James Jones, American football player 1984 – Martins Dukurs, Latvian sled racer 1984 – Kaie Kand, Estonian heptathlete 1984 – Alberto Junior Rodríguez, Peruvian footballer 1984 – Ed Williamson, English rugby player 1985 – Steve Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player 1985 – Jo-Lonn Dunbar, American football player 1985 – Jesper Hansen, Danish footballer 1985 – Ivan Mishyn, Ukrainian race car driver 1985 – Kory Sheets, American football player 1985 – Jalmar Sjöberg, Swedish wrestler 1986 – Andreas Dober, Austrian footballer 1986 – James King, Scottish rugby player 1986 – Paulo Machado, Portuguese footballer 1987 – Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer 1987 – Hugo Ayala, Mexican footballer 1987 – Amaury Bischoff, Portuguese footballer 1987 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess player 1987 – Kirill Starkov, Danish ice hockey player 1987 – Nelli Zhiganshina, Russian figure skater 1988 – Thomas De Corte, Belgian footballer 1988 – Conrad Sewell, Australian singer and songwriter 1988 – Dorin Dickerson, American football player 1988 – DeAndre Liggins, American basketball player 1988 – Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricketer 1989 – Alberto Martín Romo García Adámez, Spanish footballer 1989 – Nejc Vidmar, Slovenian footballer 1989 – Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer 1990 – George Iloka, American football player 1990 – Sandra Roma, Swedish tennis player 1990 – Bang Yong-guk, South Korean rapper 1991 – Milan Milanović, Serbian footballer 1991 – Rodney Sneijder, Dutch footballer 1992 – Stijn de Looijer, Dutch footballer 1992 – Beatričė Rožinskaitė, Lithuanian figure skater 1992 – Adam Zampa, Australian cricketer 1993 – Mikael Ishak, Swedish footballer 1994 – Tyler Wright, Australian surfer 1994 – Mads Würtz Schmidt, Danish road cyclist 1998 – Jakob Chychrun, American-born Canadian ice hockey player 1999 – Japhet Tanganga, English footballer[16] |
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32 BC – Titus Pomponius Atticus, Roman nobleman of the Equestrian order (b. 109 BC) 528 – Xiaoming, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 510) 963 – Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (b. 906) 1241 – Pousa, voivode of Transylvania 1251 – William of Modena, Italian bishop and diplomat 1340 – Ivan I of Moscow, Russian Grand Duke (b. 1288) 1342 – Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian Augustinian monk 1462 – Isidore II of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople 1491 – Bonaventura Tornielli, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1411) 1547 – Francis I, French king (b. 1494) 1567 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1504) 1621 – Philip III, Spanish king (b. 1578) 1622 – Gonzalo Méndez de Canço, Royal Governor of La Florida (b. 1554) 1631 – John Donne, English lawyer and poet (b. 1572) 1671 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637) 1723 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English soldier and politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661) 1741 – Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch scholar and author (b. 1668) 1751 – Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)[17][better source needed] 1797 – Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745) 1837 – John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776) 1850 – John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782) 1855 – Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1816) 1877 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1801) 1880 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835) 1885 – Franz Abt, German composer and conductor (b. 1819) 1907 – Galusha A. Grow, American lawyer and politician, 28th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1823) 1910 – Jean Moréas, Greek poet, essayist and art critic (b. 1856) 1913 – J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier (b. 1837) 1915 – Wyndham Halswelle, English-Scottish runner and captain (b. 1882) 1917 – Emil von Behring, German physiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) 1924 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (b. 1855) 1927 – Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and political reformer (b. 1858) 1930 – Ludwig Schüler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1836) 1931 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (b. 1888) 1935 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman and diplomat, founded Prince Matchabelli perfume (b. 1885) 1939 – Ioannis Tsangaridis, Greek general (b. 1887) 1944 – Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) 1945 – Frank Findlay, New Zealand banker and politician (b. 1884) 1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) 1950 – Robert Natus, Estonian architect (b. 1890) 1952 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1877) 1956 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver and actor (b. 1884) 1968 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885) 1970 – Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet Commander during the Winter War and the Eastern Front of World War II (b. 1894) 1975 – Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897) 1976 – Paul Strand, American photographer and director (b. 1890) 1978 – Astrid Allwyn, American actress (b. 1905)[18] 1978 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (b. 1899) 1980 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (b. 1905) 1980 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (b. 1913) 1981 – Enid Bagnold, English author and playwright (b. 1889) 1983 – Christina Stead, Australian author and academic (b. 1902) 1986 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (b. 1925) 1988 – William McMahon, Australian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) 1993 – Brandon Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1965) 1993 – Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (b. 1900) 1995 – Selena, American singer-songwriter (b. 1971) 1996 – Dante Giacosa, Italian automobile designer and engineer (b. 1905) 1996 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958) 1998 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer, activist, and politician (b. 1920) 1998 – Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924) 1998 – Joel Ryce-Menuhin, American pianist (b. 1933) 1999 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1922) 2001 – David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967) 2001 – Clifford Shull, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)[19] 2002 – Barry Took, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1928) 2002 – Moturu Udayam, Indian activist and politician (b. 1924) 2003 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1907) 2003 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (b. 1918) 2003 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1949) 2004 – Scott Helvenston, American soldier (b. 1965) 2005 – Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist and academic (b. 1951) 2005 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1905) 2005 – Frank Perdue, American businessman (b. 1920) 2006 – Jackie McLean, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1931) 2007 – Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1921) 2008 – Jules Dassin, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1911) 2008 – Bill Keightley, American equipment manager (b. 1926) 2009 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (b. 1927)[20] 2009 – Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge (b. 1911) 2011 – Gil Clancy, American boxer and trainer (b. 1922) 2011 – Alan Fitzgerald, Australian journalist and author (b. 1935) 2011 – Mary Greyeyes, the first First Nations woman to join the Canadian Armed Forces (b. 1920)[21] 2011 – Oddvar Hansen, Norwegian footballer and coach (b. 1921) 2011 – Ishbel MacAskill, Scottish singer and actress (b. 1941) 2011 – Henry Taub, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1927) 2012 – Judith Adams, New Zealand-Australian nurse and politician (b. 1943) 2012 – Dale R. Corson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914) 2012 – Bernard O. Gruenke, American stained glass artist (b. 1914) 2012 – Jerry Lynch, American baseball player (b. 1930) 2012 – Alberto Sughi, Italian painter (b. 1928) 2012 – Halbert White, American economist and academic (b. 1950)[22] 2013 – Charles Amarin Brand, French archbishop (b. 1920) 2013 – Ernie Bridge, Australian singer and politician (b. 1936) 2013 – Bob Clarke, American illustrator (b. 1926) 2013 – Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, Iranian lawyer and politician, Iranian Minister of Interior (b. 1917) 2013 – Dmitri Uchaykin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1980) 2014 – Gonzalo Anes, Spanish economist, historian, and academic (b. 1931) 2014 – Roger Somville, Belgian painter (b. 1923) 2015 – Betty Churcher, Australian painter, historian, and curator (b. 1931) 2015 – Cocoa Fujiwara, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1983) 2015 – Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1937) 2015 – Dalibor Vesely, Czech-English historian, author, and academic (b. 1934) 2016 – Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1930) 2016 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (b. 1927) 2016 – Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born English architect and academic, designed the Bridge Pavilion (b. 1950) 2016 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) 2016 – Denise Robertson, British writer and television broadcaster (b. 1932) 2017 – Gilbert Baker, American artist and LGBT rights activist (b. 1951) 2017 – James Rosenquist, American artist (b. 1933) 2019 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (b. 1985)[23] |
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