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522 BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Bardiya, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. 61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. 1011 – Danish Viking raiders capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner. 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades. 1267 – Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales but as a vassal of the monarch of England. 1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the War of the Breton Succession. 1578 – Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards. 1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London. 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city. 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns. 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded. 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: Stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. 1850 – The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. 1855 – Iloilo was opened to world trade by Queen Isabella II of Spain.[1][2] 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought. 1864 – The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate. 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital. 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. 1918 – World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica. The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack. Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice. 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. 1923 – The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect. 1923 – First American Track & Field championships for women, New Jersey 1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia. 1938 – The Munich Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy settles the Sudetenland dispute in Germany's favor. The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are not invited. 1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely. 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China. 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. 1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts. 1971 – Oman joins the Arab League. 1972 – China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China. 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station. 1979 – The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara. 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. 1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed. 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time. 1991 – Haitian coup d'état. 1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached. 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize. 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis. 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history. 2009 – The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving 189 dead and hundreds injured. 2013 – Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria. 2016 – On 29 September 2016, eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducted "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir however Pakistan denied such allegations.[3] |
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106 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (d. 48 BC) 929 – Qian Chu, Chinese king (Ten Kingdoms) (d. 988) 1240 – Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scots (d. 1275) 1276 – Christopher II of Denmark (d. 1332) 1328 – Joan of Kent (d. 1385) 1373 – Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg (d. 1410) 1402 – Fernando, the Saint Prince, of Portugal (d. 1443) 1403 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (d. 1449) 1460 – Louis II de la Trémoille, French military leader (d. 1525) 1463 – Louis I, Count of Löwenstein, founder of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim (d. 1523) 1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (d. 1553) 1527 – John Lesley, Scottish bishop (d. 1596) 1538 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop and academic (d. 1603) 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1616) 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626) 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1615) 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (d. 1610) 1574 – Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, Scottish nobleman and politician (d. 1624) 1602 – Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (d. 1668) 1636 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (d. 1715) 1639 – William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician (d. 1683) 1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor and educator (d. 1720) 1674 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, French flute player and composer (d. 1763) 1678 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1766) 1691 – Richard Challoner, English bishop (d. 1781) 1703 – François Boucher, French painter and set designer (d. 1770) 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier and politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1783) 1725 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire (d. 1774) 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805) 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal of England (d. 1828) 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843) 1803 – Mercator Cooper, American captain and explorer (d. 1872) 1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1850) 1808 – Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (d. 1868) 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (d. 1865) 1816 – Paul Féval, père, French author and playwright (d. 1887) 1832 – Joachim Oppenheim, rabbi and author (d. 1891) 1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882) 1844 – Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 10th President of Argentina (d. 1909) 1853 – Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (d. 1917) 1863 – Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1919) 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and author (d. 1936) 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian historian, academic, and politician (d. 1934) 1876 – Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer (d. 1964) 1880 – Liberato Pinto, Portuguese colonel and politician, 79th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1949) 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1973) 1882 – Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (d. 1937) 1885 – George Scott, English footballer (d. 1916) 1891 – Ian Fairweather, Scottish-Australian painter (d. 1974) 1895 – Clarence Ashley, American singer, guitarist, and banjo player (d. 1967) 1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1980) 1895 – Roscoe Turner, American pilot (d. 1970) 1897 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980) 1898 – Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (d. 1976) 1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985) 1899 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins (d. 1980) 1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet, philosopher, and activist (d. 1981) 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954) 1902 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican lawyer and politician, 46th President of Mexico (d. 1983) 1903 – Diana Vreeland, American journalist (d. 1989) 1904 – Greer Garson, English-American actress (d. 1996) 1907 – Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman (d. 1998) 1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman, founded Publix (d. 1996) 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (d. 1967) 1910 – Bill Boyd, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977) 1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982) 1911 – Charles Court, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia (d. 2007) 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007) 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988) 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American director and producer (d. 2001) 1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (d. 2007) 1915 – Oscar Handlin, American historian and academic (d. 2011) 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (d. 1992) 1916 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (d. 1995) 1919 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player (d. 2014) 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992) 1920 – Václav Neumann, Czech violinist and conductor (d. 1995) 1921 – John Ritchie, New Zealand composer and educator (d. 2014) 1921 – Albie Roles, English footballer and manager (d. 2012) 1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (d. 2015) 1923 – Stan Berenstain, American author and illustrator (d. 2005) 1923 – Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (d. 2013) 1925 – Steve Forrest, American actor (d. 2013) 1925 – Paul MacCready, American engineer, founded AeroVironment (d. 2007) 1926 – Pete Elliott, American football player and coach (d. 2013) 1927 – Adhemar da Silva, Brazilian triple jumper and actor (d. 2001) 1927 – Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (d. 2000) 1927 – Pete McCloskey, American colonel and politician 1927 – Barbara Mertz, American historian and author (d. 2013) 1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English lieutenant, engineer, and politician (d. 2016) 1928 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (d. 2012) 1928 – Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2014) 1930 – Richard Bonynge, Australian pianist and conductor 1930 – Colin Dexter, English author and educator (d. 2017) 1931 – James Cronin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress (d. 2015) 1931 – Paul Oestreicher, German-English priest and theologian 1932 – Robert Benton, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1932 – Paul Giel, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002) 1933 – Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (d. 1986) 1934 – Skandor Akbar, American wrestler and manager (d. 2010) 1934 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and academic 1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese cricketer and manager 1934 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009) 1934 – Lindsay Kline, Australian cricketer (d. 2015) 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Italian businessman and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy 1936 – James Fogle, American author (d. 2012) 1936 – Hal Trosky, Jr., American baseball player (d. 2012) 1938 – Dave Harper, English footballer (d. 2013) 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch union leader and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1939 – Fikret Abdić, Bosnian economist and politician 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001) 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000) 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, 2nd First Minister of Wales (d. 2017) 1940 – Brute Force, American singer-songwriter 1940 – Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2014) 1941 – David Steele, English cricketer 1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (d. 1999) 1942 – Ian McShane, English actor 1942 – Bill Nelson, American captain and politician 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French violinist and composer 1942 – Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (d. 2013) 1942 – Steve Tesich, Serbian-American screenwriter and playwright (d. 1996) 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran 1943 – Wolfgang Overath, German footballer 1943 – Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist and author 1943 – Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate 1944 – Mike Post, American composer and producer 1945 – Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer and poet 1946 – Patricia Hodge, English actress 1947 – Ülo Kaevats, Estonian philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 2015) 1947 – S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (d. 2016) 1947 – Gary Wetzel, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient 1948 – Mark Farner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American journalist and sportscaster 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German clarinet player and composer 1948 – Mike Pinera, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1949 – George Dalaras, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist 1950 – Ken Macha, American baseball player and manager 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, Chilean physician and politician, 34th President of Chile 1951 – Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian educator and politician, 6th President of Emilia-Romagna 1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1977) 1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian-New Zealand hurdler 1951 – Mike Enriquez, Filipino journalist and radio commentator 1952 – Roy Campbell, Jr., American trumpet player (d. 2014) 1952 – Gábor Csupó, Hungarian-American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Klasky Csupo 1952 – Richard Hodges, English archaeologist and academic 1952 – Max Sandlin, American lawyer, judge, and politician 1952 – Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 59th Yokozuna (d. 2011) 1953 – Warren Cromartie, American baseball player, coach, and radio host 1953 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1997) 1953 – Lawrence Reed, American economist and author 1954 – Uwe Jahn, German footballer and manager 1954 – Mark Mitchell, Australian actor 1955 – Ann Bancroft, American explorer and author 1955 – Gareth Davies, Welsh rugby player and academic 1955 – Joe Donnelly, American politician and lawyer 1955 – Benoît Ferreux, French actor and director 1955 – Gwen Ifill, American journalist (d. 2016) 1956 – Sebastian Coe, English sprinter and politician 1956 – Jenny Morris, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1956 – Suzzy Roche, American singer-songwriter and actress 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and referee 1957 – Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist 1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sportscaster 1960 – Julian Armour, American-Canadian cellist and educator 1960 – Kenneth Hansen, Swedish race car driver 1960 – Alan McGee, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1960 – Hubert Neuper, Austrian ski jumper 1960 – John Paxson, American basketball player and coach 1960 – David Sammartino, American wrestler and trainer 1960 – Andy Slaughter, English politician 1960 – Carol Welsman, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist 1961 – Jack Dee, English comedian 1961 – Julia Gillard, Welsh-Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia 1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedian and radio host 1962 – Roger Bart, American actor 1963 – Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player 1963 – Les Claypool, American bass player, singer, songwriter, and producer 1964 – Brad Lohaus, American basketball player 1966 – Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player and coach 1966 – Ben Miles, English actor 1967 – Brett Anderson, English singer-songwriter 1968 – Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator 1968 – Luke Goss, English actor 1968 – Matt Goss, English singer-songwriter 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American model and actress 1969 – DeVante Swing, American singer-songwriter, and producer 1969 – Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer 1970 – Russell Peters, Canadian comedian, actor, and producer 1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese wrestler and trainer 1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress 1970 – Kushboo, South Indian actress and producer 1971 – Yitzhak Yedid, Composer & pianist 1971 – Tanoka Beard, American basketball player 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, English actor and screenwriter 1971 – Theodore Shapiro, American composer 1972 – Oliver Gavin, English race car driver 1973 – Foivos Delivorias, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist 1973 – Shannon Larratt, Canadian publisher, founded BMEzine (d. 2013) 1973 – Scout Niblett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1974 – Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer 1974 – Matt Hullum, American actor, director, and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth 1974 – James Lance, British actor 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer and manager 1976 – Darren Byfield, English-Jamaican footballer 1976 – Kelvin Davis, English footballer 1976 – Óscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer and politician 1977 – Eric Barton, American football player 1977 – Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player and scout 1977 – Debelah Morgan, American singer-songwriter 1977 – Jake Westbrook, American baseball player 1978 – Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast and coach 1978 – Gunner McGrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1978 – Karen Putzer, Italian skier 1978 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1979 – Orhan Ak, Turkish footballer 1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist and manager 1979 – Artika Sari Devi, Indonesian model and actress 1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player and manager 1979 – Jaime Lozano, Mexican footballer 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer 1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor and singer 1981 – Aris Galanopoulos, Greek footballer 1981 – Shane Smeltz, German-New Zealand footballer 1982 – Matt Giteau, Australian rugby player 1982 – Amy Williams, English skeleton racer 1983 – Lisette Oropesa, American soprano and actress 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer 1985 – Calvin Johnson, American football player 1985 – Niklas Moisander, Finnish footballer 1985 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer 1985 – Magnus Gangstad Jørgensen, Norwegian music producer 1986 – Lisa Foiles, American actress and journalist 1986 – Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player 1986 – Matt Lashoff, American ice hockey player 1986 – Isaac Makwala, Botswanan sprinter 1986 – Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player 1987 – David Del Rio, American actor and director 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player 1988 – Justin Nozuka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1989 – Theo Adams, English photographer and director 1989 – Adore Delano, American drag queen and singer 1989 – Yevhen Konoplyanka, Ukrainian footballer 1989 – Aaron Martin, English footballer 1989 – Andrea Poli, Italian footballer 1989 – Fatima Lodhi, Pakistani social activist 1990 – Doug Brochu, American voice actor 1990 – Gerphil Flores, Filipina classical crossover singer and Asia's Got Talent finalist 1990 – Lena Wermelt, German footballer 1991 – Adem Ljajić, Serbian footballer 1991 – Martin Jensen, Danish musician 1993 – Lee Hong-bin, South Korean singer 1993 – Viktor Romanenkov, Estonian figure skater 1993 – Oleg Vernyayev, Ukrainian artistic gymnast 1994 – Britteny Cox, Australian skier 1994 – Halsey, American singer 1995 – Alice Matteucci, Italian tennis player 1998 – Vera Lapko, Belarusian tennis player |
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722 – Leudwinus, Frankish archbishop and saint (b. 660) 855 – Lothair I, Roman emperor (b. 795) 1186 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130) 1225 – Arnaud Amalric, Papal legate who allegedly promoted mass murder 1298 – Guido I da Montefeltro, Italian military strategist (b. 1223) 1304 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English general (b. 1231) 1360 – Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (b. 1326) 1364 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319) 1382 – 'Izz al-Din ibn Rukn al-Din Mahmud, malik of Sistan 1501 – Andrew Stewart, Scottish bishop (b. 1442) 1560 – Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496) 1622 – Conrad Vorstius, German-Dutch Remonstrant theologian (b. 1569) 1634 – Henry Hyde, English politician and lawyer (b.c. 1563) 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino martyr and saint (b. 1600) 1642 – René Goupil, French missionary and saint (b. 1608) 1642 – William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire (b. 1561) 1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French-English soldier, author, and critic (b. 1610) 1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet and author (b. 1729) 1804 – Michael Hillegas, American politician, 1st Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728) 1833 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784) 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American general (b. 1824) 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and academic (b. 1810) 1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician (b. 1818) 1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (b. 1814) 1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825) 1902 – Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1840) 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839) 1910 – Winslow Homer, American painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1836) 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858) 1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851) 1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858) 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860) 1928 – John Devoy, Irish-American Fenian rebel leader (b. 1842) 1930 – Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1844) 1937 – Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873) 1937 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878) 1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864) 1952 – John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1899) 1967 – Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (b. 1917) 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886) 1973 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1907) 1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890) 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913) 1982 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912) 1986 – Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (b. 1920) 1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917) 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) 1989 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899) 1989 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1919) 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1907) 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) 1998 – Tom Bradley, American lieutenant and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917) 1999 – Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor (b. 1935) 2000 – John Grant, English journalist and politician (b. 1932) 2001 – Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach (b. 1915) 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (b. 1923) 2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle racer (b. 1970) 2004 – Patrick Wormald, English historian (b. 1947) 2005 – Patrick Caulfield, English painter and academic (b. 1936) 2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef and author (b. 1934) 2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer and manager (b. 1915) 2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981) 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912) 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927) 2007 – Yıldırım Aktuna, Turkish psychiatrist and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1930) 2008 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (b. 1921) 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) 2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925) 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1965) 2011 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1936) 2012 – Hathloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1942) 2012 – Neil Smith, Scottish geographer and academic (b. 1954) 2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926) 2012 – Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (b. 1947) 2013 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (b. 1921) 2013 – Anton Benning, German lieutenant (b. 1918) 2013 – Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (b. 1917) 2013 – Carl Joachim Classen, German scholar and academic (b. 1928) 2013 – L. C. Greenwood, American football player (b. 1946) 2013 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player and politician (b. 1924) 2014 – Miguel Boyer, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1939) 2014 – Andreas Fransson, Swedish skier (b. 1983) 2014 – Stan Monteith, American surgeon and author (b. 1929) 2014 – Luis Nishizawa, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1918) 2014 – John Ritchie, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1921) 2014 – George Shuba, American baseball player (b. 1924) 2015 – Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1932) 2015 – Hellmuth Karasek, Czech-German journalist, author, and critic (b. 1934) 2015 – William Kerslake, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1929) 2015 – Jean Ter-Merguerian, French-Armenian violinist (b. 1935) 2015 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931) 2016 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (b. 1945) 2017 – Tom Alter, Indian actor (b. 1950) |
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