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AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus.[1] 364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor. 1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. 1737 – The Marathas under Baji Rao I attack and defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Delhi. 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco. 1794 – Allies under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat French forces at Le Cateau. 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia. 1801 – Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.[2] 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered. 1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín. 1814 – War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels of equal strength. 1842 – First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai. 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia. 1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins. 1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26. 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris. 1883 – Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc. 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. 1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states. 1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege. 1941 – World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina. 1942 – World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes. 1946 – Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. 1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp. 1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet. 1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. 1970 – An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260. 1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. 1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown. 1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election. 1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. 1994 – In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters. 1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica. 2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier. 2005 – An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured. 2006 – Massive protests are mounted against France's First Employment Contract law, meant to reduce youth unemployment. |
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931 – Liu Chengyou, emperor of Later Han (d. 951) 1097 – Atsiz, Abbasid caliph (d. 1156) 1416 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489) 1468 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1490) 1472 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian painter (d. 1517) 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520) 1515 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1582) 1522 – Albert the Warlike, German prince (d. 1557) 1527 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (d. 1579) 1591 – William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (d. 1668) 1592 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop and educator (d. 1670) 1599 – Witte de With, Dutch captain (d. 1658) 1613 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of China (d. 1688) 1621 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German composer and educator (d. 1696) 1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch botanist and anatomist (d. 1731) 1652 – Samuel Sewall, English judge (d. 1730) 1725 – Andrew Kippis, English minister and author (d. 1795) 1727 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, (d. 1777) 1743 – Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Russian academic and politician (d. 1810) 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1816) 1760 – Thomas Clarkson, English activist (d. 1846) 1773 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (d. 1844) 1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist (d. 1864) 1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian and author (d. 1876) 1806 – Thomas Hare, English lawyer and political scientist (d. 1891) 1811 – John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (d. 1860) 1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French author and poet (d. 1896) 1818 – Wade Hampton III, American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1902) 1819 – Joseph Bazalgette, English architect and engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge and Battersea Bridge (d. 1891) 1828 – Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (d. 1914) 1832 – Henry D. Washburn, American politician, general and explorer (d. 1871) 1836 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (d. 1904) 1840 – Emin Pasha, German-Jewish Egyptian physician and politician (d. 1892) 1847 – Gyula Farkas, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1930) 1849 – James Darmesteter, French historian and author (d. 1894) 1850 – Kyrle Bellew, English theatre actor (d. 1911) 1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (d. 1944) 1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932) 1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902) 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1936) 1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch-Swiss conductor (d. 1951) 1873 – John Geiger, American rower (d. 1956) 1878 – Abraham Walkowitz, Russian-American painter (d. 1965) 1879 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish republican politician and hunger striker; Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920) 1881 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (d. 1918) 1884 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1951) 1886 – Gustave Mesny, French general (d. 1945) 1890 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1967)[3] 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) 1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish general (d. 1993) 1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (d. 1971) 1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain (d. 1941) 1895 – Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, pioneer of the electronic book (d. 1975) 1895 – Christian Herter, American politician, 53rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1966) 1895 – Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (d. 1960) 1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985) 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager (d. 1977) 1897 – Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975) 1899 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (d. 1989) 1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973) 1899 – Buck Shaw, American football player and coach (d. 1977) 1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (d. 2004) 1902 – Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984) 1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech fiddler and composer (d. 1988) 1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Czech-American pianist and educator (d. 1991)[4] 1904 – Isabel Cuchí Coll, Puerto Rican author and journalist (d. 1993) 1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American production manager and producer (d. 1996) 1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986) 1906 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2002) 1906 – Robert Allen, American actor (d. 1998) 1906 – Dorothy Knowles, South African-English author, fencer and academic (d. 2010) 1907 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005) 1907 – Norrey Ford, English author (d. 1985) 1907 – Irving Paul Lazar, American lawyer and talent agent (d. 1993) 1909 – Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1981) 1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian and art collector (d. 2001) 1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 1964) 1910 – Ingrid of Sweden, (d. 2000) 1911 – Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (d. 1998) 1912 – A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian author (d. 1984) 1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian pilot and navigator (d. 1943) 1913 – Kazuo Taoka, Japanese crime boss (d. 1981) 1913 – Toko Shinoda, Japanese artist 1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000) 1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech author (d. 1997) 1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist and academic (d. 2003) 1914 – Edmund Muskie, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 58th United States Secretary of State (d. 1996)[5] 1914 – Everett Ruess, American explorer, poet, and painter (d. 1934) 1915 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001) 1917 – Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon and scholar (d. 2014) 1918 – Edward Amy, Canadian soldier (d. 2011) 1919 – Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (d. 2013) 1919 – Tom Brooks, Australian cricket umpire (d. 2007) 1919 – Eileen Crofton, British physician and author (d. 2010)[6] 1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988) 1921 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic (d. 2013) 1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author (d. 1999) 1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960) 1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator (d. 1992) 1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999) 1922 – Grace Hartigan, American painter and educator (d. 2008) 1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer and actor (d. 2001) 1922 – B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician 1923 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014) 1923 – Thad Jones, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1986) 1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, American actor (d. 1992)[7] 1924 – Fred Flanagan, Australian footballer (d. 2013) 1925 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (d. 1994) 1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (d. 2010) 1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (d. 2014) 1926 – Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer (d. 2006) 1927 – Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (d. 2014) 1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007) 1927 – Vina Mazumdar, Indian academic and activist (d. 2013) 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political activist and analyst; 10th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2017) 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (d. 2014) 1929 – Paul England, Australian race car driver and engineer (d. 2014) 1930 – Robert Ashley, American soldier and composer (d. 2014) 1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English soprano 1933 – Tete Montoliu, Spanish pianist (d. 1997) 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American soldier, banker, and politician, 8th Governor of Alaska 1934 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist, founded the Earth Policy Institute and Worldwatch Institute 1934 – Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (d. 2006) 1935 – Frank Judd, Baron Judd, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development 1935 – Michael Parkinson, English journalist and author 1935 – Józef Szmidt, Polish triple jumper 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, playwright, and essayist Nobel Prize laureate 1938 – Hans-Jürgen Bäsler, German footballer (d. 2002) 1939 – Dov Frohman, Israeli electrical engineer and business executive 1940 – Tony Barber, English-Australian television host 1940 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013) 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and academic 1942 – Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna 1942 – Neil Kinnock, Welsh politician, Vice-President of the European Commission 1942 – Mike Newell, English director and producer 1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer 1942 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998) 1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach 1943 – Richard Eyre, English director, producer, and screenwriter 1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress 1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster 1944 – Ken Howard, American actor (d. 2016) 1945 – Rodrigo Duterte, Filipino politician, 16th President of the Philippines 1945 – Johnny Famechon, French-Australian boxer 1945 – Björn Hamilton, Swedish engineer and politician 1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (d. 2014) 1946 – Henry Paulson, American banker and politician, 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian economist and politician, 48th President of Peru 1947 – Greg Thompson, Canadian educator and politician, 25th Minister of Veterans Affairs 1948 – John Evan, English keyboard player and songwriter 1948 – Janice Lynde, American actress 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress 1948 – Milan Williams, American keyboard player (d. 2006) 1949 – Ronnie Ray Smith, American sprinter (d. 2013) 1952 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician (d. 2018) 1952 – Tony Brise, English race car driver (d. 1975) 1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi (d. 1993) 1953 – Rosemary Ashe, British actress and singer 1954 – Donald Brown, American pianist and educator 1955 – John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Northern Irish psychiatrist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress 1956 – Susan Ershler, American mountaineer and author 1957 – Harvey Glance, American sprinter and coach 1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban composer 1958 – Elisabeth Andreassen, Swedish-Norwegian singer 1958 – Bart Conner, American gymnast and sportscaster 1958 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2003) 1959 – Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica 1959 – Chiaki Morosawa, Japanese anime screenwriter (d. 2016) 1959 – Chris Myers, American journalist and sportscaster 1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor and comedian 1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician, Prime Minister of Cape Verde 1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French-Belgian author and playwright 1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach 1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier 1962 – Simon Bazalgette, English businessman 1963 – Jan Masiel, Polish politician 1964 – Karen Lumley, English politician 1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress 1967 – John Ziegler, German-American radio host and director 1968 – Iris Chang, Chinese-American journalist and author (d. 2004) 1968 – Nasser Hussain, Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster 1968 – Colin Brazier, English journalist 1969 – Rodney Atkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1969 – Brett Ratner, American director and producer 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor 1970 – Jennifer Weiner, American journalist and author 1971 – Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-American journalist and educator 1971 – Orfeh, American singer, songwriter and actress 1972 – Nick Frost, English actor and screenwriter 1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player 1973 – Björn Kuipers, Dutch footballer and referee 1975 – Fabrizio Gollin, Italian race car driver 1975 – Kate Gosselin, American television personality 1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer 1975 – Shanna Moakler, American model 1976 – Dave Keuning, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American author 1978 – Nathan Cayless, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player 1979 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer and media personality[8] 1980 – Cho Seung-woo, South Korean actor 1980 – David Lee, English footballer 1980 – Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter and producer 1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player 1981 – Lindsay Frimodt, American fashion model 1981 – Edwar Ramírez, American baseball player 1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress 1983 – Ladji Doucouré, French sprinter and hurdler 1984 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi actor 1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer 1984 – Nikki Sanderson, English actress 1985 – Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer 1985 – Sauli Koskinen, Finnish TV host and entertainer 1985 – Steve Mandanda, French footballer 1985 – Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player 1986 – Bowe Bergdahl, American sergeant 1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress 1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper 1986 – Amaia Salamanca, Spanish actress 1986 – Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player 1987 – Jean-Paul Adela, Seychellois footballer 1987 – Yohan Benalouane, French-Tunisian footballer 1987 – Simeon Jackson, Canadian soccer player 1987 – Kagney Linn Karter, American pornographic actress 1987 – Yotam Solomon, Israeli/American fashion designer 1987 – Mary Kate Wiles, American actress 1988 – Ryan Kalish, American baseball player 1988 – Lacey Turner, English actress 1989 – Afrikan Boy, English rapper 1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer 1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer 1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater 1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer 1990 – Zac Clarke, Australian footballer 1990 – Zoella (Zoe Sugg), English Youtuber 1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress 1991 – Lisa-Maria Moser, Austrian tennis player 1991 – Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player 1991 – Ondřej Palát, Czech ice hockey player 1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer 1992 – Lucho Ayala, Filipino actor 1994 – Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper 1995 – Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player 1996 – Matt Renshaw, English-Australian cricketer |
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193 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (b. 126) 741 – Hatsusebe, Japanese princess 965 – Arnulf I, count of Flanders 966 – Flodoard, Frankish canon and chronicler 1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony (b. 1022) 1134 – Saint Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180) 1241 – Valdemar II of Denmark (b. 1170) 1254 – William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (b. 1193) 1285 – Pope Martin IV (b. 1220) 1346 – Venturino of Bergamo, Dominican preacher (b. 1304) 1461 – John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford (b. 1435) 1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss poet and theorist (b. 1488) 1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian historian and diplomat (b. 1486) 1583 – Magnus, Duke of Holstein (b. 1540) 1584 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian king (b. 1530) 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596) 1794 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743) 1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1755) 1865 – Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786) 1866 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802) 1868 – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797) 1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816) 1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795) 1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839) 1893 – Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (b. 1824) 1900 – Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (b. 1831 or 1834) 1910 – Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838) 1917 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847) 1923 – Charles Hubbard, American archer (b. 1849) 1927 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian archbishop (b. 1853) 1929 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (b. 1859) 1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Quebec (b. 1861) 1934 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and educator (b. 1891) 1941 – Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883) 1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (b. 1877) 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1882) 1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910) 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873) 1944 – Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869) 1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897) 1949 – Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (b. 1889) 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American football player and coach (b. 1887) 1958 – W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1873) 1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentinian author and screenwriter (b. 1883) 1963 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (b. 1876) 1965 – Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (b. 1888) 1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor (b. 1885) 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890) 1971 – Robert Hunter, American golfer (b. 1886) 1972 – Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner (b. 1887) 1974 – Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1905) 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (b. 1905) 1974 – Françoise Rosay, French actress (b. 1891) 1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898) 1977 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1907) 1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentinian-American actor and singer (b. 1918) 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) 1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor and composer (b. 1914) 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and poet (b. 1887) 1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919) 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1905) 1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1909) 1993 – Scott Cunningham, American author (b. 1956) 1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic (b. 1909) 1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1914) 1999 – Franco Gasparri, Italian actor (b. 1948) 2000 – Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (b. 1905) 2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1928) 2004 – Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) 2005 – Moura Lympany, English-Monacan pianist (b. 1916) 2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939) 2006 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b. 1928) 2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1911) 2006 – Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (b. 1912) 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917) 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1924) 2010 – June Havoc, American actress, dancer, and director (b. 1912) 2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917) 2012 – John Arden, English author and playwright (b. 1930) 2012 – Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian pianist and composer (b. 1920) 2012 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1935) 2012 – Addie L. Wyatt, African American labor leader (b. 1924)[9] 2013 – George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (b. 1919) 2013 – Manuel García Ferré, Spanish-Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929) 2013 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (b. 1947) 2013 – Art Malone, American race car driver (b. 1936) 2013 – Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1942) 2013 – Heinz Patzig, German footballer and manager (b. 1929) 2013 – Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (b. 1929) 2013 – Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (b. 1930) 2013 – Robert Zildjian, American businessman, founded Sabian (b. 1923) 2014 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (b. 1924) 2014 – Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923) 2014 – Avraham Yaski, Israeli architect and academic (b. 1927) 2015 – Chuck Brayton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925) 2015 – Joseph Cassidy, Canadian-English priest and academic (b. 1954) 2015 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934) 2015 – Gene Saks, American actor and director (b. 1921) 2015 – Walter Schuck, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920) 2016 – James Noble, American actor (b. 1922) |
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