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572 – Assassination of Alboin, King of the Lombards. 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. 1461 – Edward IV is crowned King of England. 1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. 1651 – The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts. 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. 1745 – A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style). 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness. 1797 – French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands. 1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals. 1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. 1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier. 1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone. 1855 – Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America. 1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. 1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded. 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan. 1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed. 1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone. 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. 1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent." 1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners. 1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. 1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks. 1911 – The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt. 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I. 1917 – World War I: Greece declares war to the Central Powers. 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I. 1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution. 1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. 1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. 1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China. 1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum. 1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue. 1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day. 1948 – Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. 1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era. 1950 – Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops. 1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between as many as 100,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre. 1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. 1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital massacre. 1956 – in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe. 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity. 1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement. 1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time. 1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. 1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions. 1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party. 1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht. 1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle. 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear. 2001 – Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial. 2004 – Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis. 2016 – A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others. |
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751 – Carloman I, king of the Franks (d. 771) 1243 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304) 1444 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1487) 1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559) 1490 – Albert of Mainz, German archbishop (d. 1545) 1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547) 1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556) 1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599) 1557 – Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595) 1560 – Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1657) 1573 – Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, English noble (d. 1644) 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640) 1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662) 1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651) 1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, consort to King John III Sobieski (d. 1716) 1653 – Muhammad Azam Shah, Mughal emperor (d. 1707) 1703 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791) 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778) 1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785) 1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1794) 1742 – William Hooper, American physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1790) 1824 – Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (d. 1880) 1825 – Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist (d. 1909) 1831 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1907) 1836 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author (d. 1904) 1844 – John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (d. 1890) 1852 – Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (d. 1938) 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936) 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944) 1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941) 1879 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (d. 1949) 1883 – Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (d. 1945) 1884 – Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (d. 1964) 1888 – George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1947) 1888 – Stefi Geyer, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1956) 1891 – Esther Forbes, American historian and author (d. 1968) 1891 – Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (d. 1974) 1892 – Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930) 1893 – August Zamoyski, Polish-French sculptor (d. 1970) 1894 – Francis Hunter, American tennis player (d. 1981) 1902 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (d. 1979) 1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) 1906 – Mazie Ford, American supercentenarian 1907 – Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1983) 1907 – Yvonne Sylvain, First woman Haitian physician (d. 1989)[1] 1909 – Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter (d. 1998) 1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007) 1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer (d. 2007) 1913 – George Lloyd, English soldier and composer (d. 1998) 1913 – Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot (d. 1944) 1914 – Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (d. 1992) 1918 – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish-English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999) 1919 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (d. 1983) 1920 – A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright 1920 – Clarissa Eden, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004) 1922 – Lloyd La Beach, Panamanian sprinter and long jumper (d. 1999) 1922 – Hans Frauenfelder, American physicist and biophysicist 1923 – Pete Candoli, American trumpet player (d. 2008) 1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2012) 1923 – Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010) 1924 – Roy Austen-Smith, Royal Air Force officer 1925 – Ray Boyle, American actor 1926 – George Booth, American cartoonist 1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1926 – Robert Ledley, American academic and inventor (d. 2012) 1927 – Correlli Barnett, English historian and author 1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012) 1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat, 33rd Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1928 – Patrick Hemingway, American writer 1928 – Harold Evans, English-American historian and journalist 1928 – Peter Heine, South African cricketer (d. 2005) 1928 – Cyril Smith, English politician (d. 2010) 1929 – Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician 1930 – William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1930 – Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (d. 2011) 1930 – Jack Gold, English director and producer (d. 2015) 1931 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter 1931 – Junior Johnson, American race car driver 1931 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995) 1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005) 1933 – Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist and politician (d. 2011) 1934 – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, Northern Irish lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1934 – Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2001) 1934 – Bette Greene, American journalist and author 1934 – Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician 1934 – Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015) 1935 – John Inman, English actor (d. 2007) 1936 – Chuck Howley, American football player 1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989) 1937 – Fernand Labrie, Canadian endocrinologist and academic 1937 – Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1995) 1938 – John Byner, American actor and comedian 1938 – Leon Panetta, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense 1938 – S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (d. 2006) 1938 – Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn, British baron 1939 – Klaus Schmiegel, German chemist 1940 – Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (d. 2014) 1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1941 – Al Downing, American baseball player and sportscaster 1941 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language (d. 2006) 1941 – David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor-General of Canada 1942 – Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993) 1942 – Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete (d. 2013) 1942 – Frank Zane, American professional bodybuilder and author 1943 – Jens Birkemose, Danish painter 1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1945 – Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer 1945 – David Knights, English bass player and producer (Procol Harum) 1945 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1989) 1945 – Türkan Şoray, Turkish actress, director, and screenwriter 1946 – Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (d. 2008) 1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor and director 1946 – David Duckham, English rugby player 1946 – Robert Xavier Rodríguez, American classical composer 1946 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 1991) 1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (d. 1989) 1947 – Mark Helprin, American novelist and journalist 1947 – Laura Tyson, American economist and academic 1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress 1948 – Sergei Bodrov, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1948 – Deborah Moggach, English author and screenwriter 1948 – Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American psychologist and academic (d. 2013) 1949 – Don Baylor, American baseball player and coach (d. 2017) 1950 – Philip Fowke, English pianist and educator 1950 – Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish economist and politician 1950 – Chris Speier, American baseball player and coach 1951 – Mick Cronin, Australian rugby league player and coach 1951 – Mark Shand, English conservationist and author (d. 2014) 1951 – Lalla Ward, English actress and author 1952 – Enis Batur, Turkish poet and author 1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (d. 2013) 1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, French physician and author 1954 – A. A. Gill, Scottish author and critic (d. 2016) 1954 – Alice Krige, South African actress 1955 – Shirley Cheriton, British actress 1956 – Amira Hass, Israeli journalist and author 1956 – Noel Mugavin, Australian footballer and coach 1957 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1957 – Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria 1957 – Mike Skinner, American race car driver 1957 – Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and sportscaster 1958 – Donna Edwards, American lawyer and politician 1958 – Félix Gray, Tunisian-French singer-songwriter 1959 – Clint Boon, English singer and keyboard player 1959 – John Shelley, British illustrator 1960 – John Elway, American football player and manager 1960 – Roland Melanson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1961 – Jeff Malone, American basketball player and coach 1962 – Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu, Romanian long jumper 1962 – Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (d. 2013) 1962 – Ann-Louise Skoglund, Swedish hurdler 1963 – Peter Baynham, Welsh actor, producer, and screenwriter 1963 – Charlie Clouser, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1964 – Mark Grace, American baseball player and sportscaster 1964 – Bernie McCahill, New Zealand rugby player 1964 – Dan Stains, Australian rugby league player and coach 1964 – Steve Williamson, English saxophonist and composer 1965 – Jessica Hecht, American actress 1965 – Tiaan Strauss, South African rugby player 1966 – Peeter Allik, Estonian painter and illustrator 1966 – Bobby Bare Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1966 – John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter 1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress 1967 – Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician, 7th Canadian Minister of Health 1967 – Gil Bellows, Canadian actor and producer 1967 – Zhong Huandi, Chinese runner 1967 – Lars Riedel, German discus thrower 1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor 1969 – Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer 1969 – Stéphane Chapuisat, Swiss footballer 1969 – Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler 1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach 1970 – Tom Merritt, American journalist 1970 – Mike White, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1971 – Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer 1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer 1971 – Bobby Hurley, American basketball player and coach 1971 – Ron Mahay, American baseball player and scout 1971 – Elon Musk, South African-born American businessman 1971 – Aileen Quinn, American actress and singer 1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic 1972 – Christopher Leslie, English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor 1973 – Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower 1973 – Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player 1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer-songwriter, and guitarist (d. 2006) 1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player 1977 – Chris Spurling, American baseball player 1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Killers) 1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist 1978 – Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player 1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player 1979 – Neil Shanahan, Irish race car driver (d. 1999) 1979 – Florian Zeller, French author and playwright 1980 – Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer 1981 – Savage, New Zealand rapper 1981 – Michael Crafter, Australian singer-songwriter 1981 – Guillermo Martínez, Cuban javelin thrower 1981 – Brandon Phillips, American baseball player 1982 – Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper 1985 – Phil Bardsley, English footballer 1985 – Colt Hynes, American baseball player 1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter 1987 – Sonata Tamošaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler 1987 – Terrence Williams, American basketball player 1989 – Jason Clark, Australian rugby league player 1989 – Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league player 1989 – David Fifita, Australian rugby league player 1989 – Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater 1989 – Markiplier, American internet personality 1989 – Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player 1991 – Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress 1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer 1991 – Charlie Clapham, English actor 1991 – Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, drummer, and actor 1992 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer 1993 – Bradley Beal, American basketball player 1994 – Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan 1995 – Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, South African model, Miss Universe 2017 1996 – Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player 1999 – Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player 2002 – Marta Kostyuk, Ukrainian tennis player 2003 – Hannah Alligood, American actress |
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202 – Yuan Shao, Chinese warlord 548 – Theodora I, Byzantine wife of Justinian I (b. 500) 572 – Alboin, Lombard king (b. 530) 683 – Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 611) 767 – Pope Paul I (b. 700) 928 – Louis the Blind, Roman emperor (b. 880) 975 – Cyneweard, bishop of Wells (Somerset) 1061 – Floris I, Count of Holland (b. 1020) 1175 – Andrey Bogolyubsky, Russian saint (b. 1111) 1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156) 1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song (b. 1127) 1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1348) 1497 – James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (b. c. 1463) 1575 – Yonekura Shigetsugu, Japanese samurai 1586 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (b. 1508) 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527) 1607 – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543) 1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1665) 1757 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (b. 1687)[2] 1798 – John Henry Colclough, Irish revolutionary (b. ca. 1769) 1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (b. 1755) 1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (b. 1784) 1836 – James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751) 1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846) 1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798) 1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (b. 1818) 1892 – Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Greek Foreign Minister (b. 1810) 1913 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841) 1914 – Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868) 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1863) 1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877) 1917 – Ștefan Luchian, Romanian painter and educator (b. 1868) 1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885) 1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844) 1936 – Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (d. 1870) 1939 – Douglas H. Johnston, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation (b. 1856) 1940 – Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and politician (b. 1896) 1944 – Friedrich Dollmann, German general (b. 1882) 1945 – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist (b. 1879) 1947 – Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (b. 1875) 1960 – Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898) 1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903) 1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878) 1965 – Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (b. 1905) 1966 – Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1890) 1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908) 1975 – Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913) 1975 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924) 1978 – Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905) 1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895) 1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958) 1983 – Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (b. 1918) 1984 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (b. 1917) 1985 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (b. 1905) 1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898) 1992 – Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver (b. 1955) 1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936) 1995 – Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969) 2000 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (b. 1913) 2000 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908) 2001 – Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (b. 1902) 2003 – Joan Lowery Nixon, American journalist and author (b. 1927) 2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912) 2005 – Brenda Howard, American activist (b. 1946) 2005 – Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1976) 2006 – Jim Baen, American publisher, founded Baen Books (b. 1943) 2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1919) 2006 – George Unwin, English pilot and commander (b. 1913) 2007 – Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913) 2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919) 2009 – A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955) 2009 – Billy Mays American TV Personality (b. 1958) 2010 – Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917) 2012 – Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1934) 2012 – Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (b. 1920) 2012 – Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (b. 1923) 2012 – Doris Sams, American baseball player (b. 1927) 2013 – Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (b. 1927) 2013 – Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (b. 1932) 2013 – Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (b. 1930) 2013 – F. D. Reeve, American author and academic (b. 1928) 2013 – David Rubitsky, American sergeant (b. 1917) 2014 – Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (b. 1921) 2014 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (b. 1929) 2014 – On Kawara, Japanese painter (b. 1933) 2014 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947) 2015 – Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (b. 1922) 2015 – Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (b. 1939) 2015 – Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919) 2016 – Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931) 2016 – Pat Summitt, American women's college basketball head coach (b. 1952) 2016 – Buddy Ryan, American football coach (b. 1931) |
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