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524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine. 1258 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre. 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. 1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua. 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary. 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. 1788 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1848 – A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism. 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. 1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White. 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. 1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane 1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established. 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. 1940 – World War II: The French armistice with Germany comes into effect. 1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. 1943 – The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein murdered in Auschwitz. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins. 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died. 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published. 1948 – Cold War: The Berlin airlift begins. 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. 1960 – Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. 1975 – Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal. 1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India. 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. 1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. 1984 – American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album, Purple Rain. 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia. 1993 – Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada. 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen. 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir. 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. 2017 – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera. |
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1242 – Beatrice of England (d. 1275) 1328 – William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (d. 1397) 1373 – Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435) 1441 – Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (d. 1484) 1484 – Bartholomeus V. Welser, German banker (d. 1561) 1526 – Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton (d. 1565) 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634) 1568 – Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597) 1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (d. 1634) 1709 – Francesco Araja, Italian composer (d. 1762) 1715 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French soldier and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1789) 1755 – Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776) 1799 – David Douglas, Scottish-English botanist and explorer (d. 1834) 1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and engineer (d. 1896) 1825 – James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888) 1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (d. 1926) 1858 – Georges Courteline, French author and playwright (d. 1929) 1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer and conductor (d. 1956) 1863 – Émile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935) 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) 1874 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (d. 1944) 1884 – Géza Gyóni, Hungarian soldier and poet (d. 1917) 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-French art collector and historian (d. 1979) 1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950) 1887 – George Abbott, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995) 1887 – Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian author, poet, and journalist (d. 1938) 1892 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and general (d. 1959) 1894 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (d. 1989) 1898 – Kay Sage, American painter and poet (d. 1963) 1900 – Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988) 1900 – Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer (d. 1969) 1900 – Georgia Hale, American silent film actress and real estate investor (d. 1985) 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979) 1901 – Harold Roe Bartle, American businessman and politician, 47th Mayor of Kansas City (d. 1974) 1902 – Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953) 1903 – George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 1950) 1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990) 1905 – Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic (d. 1976) 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (d. 2000) 1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980) 1912 – William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996) 1913 – Cyril Fletcher, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005) 1915 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (d. 1990) 1917 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (d. 2012) 1917 – Claude Seignolle, French author 1918 – P. H. Newby, English soldier and author (d. 1997) 1920 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (d. 2018) 1921 – Celia Franca, English-Canadian ballerina and choreographer, founded the National Ballet of Canada (d. 2007) 1922 – Johnny Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2013) 1923 – Sam Francis, American soldier and painter (d. 1994) 1923 – Dorothy Gilman, American author (d. 2012) 1923 – Jamshid Amouzegar, 43rd Prime Minister of Iran (d. 2016) 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011) 1924 – Dimitar Isakov, Bulgarian football player 1924 – Madan Mohan, Iraqi-Indian composer and director (d. 1975) 1924 – William J. Castagna, American lawyer and judge 1925 – Clifton Chenier, American singer-songwriter and accordion player (d. 1987) 1925 – June Lockhart, American actress 1925 – Clay Evans, American Baptist pastor 1925 – Robert Venturi, American architect and academic 1925 – Salihu Ibrahim, Nigerian Army Officer 1925 – Virginia Patton, American actress and businesswoman 1926 – Margaret Anstee, English diplomat (d. 2016) 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (d. 1973) 1926 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (d. 2015) 1926 – Stig Sollander, Swedish Alpine skier 1927 – Antal Róka, Hungarian runner (d. 1970) 1927 – Chuck Smith, American pastor, founded the Calvary Chapel (d. 2013) 1927 – Arnold Wolfendale, English astronomer and academic 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) 1928 – John A. Wickham Jr., United States Army general 1928 – Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013) 1928 – Peyo, Belgian author and illustrator, created The Smurfs (d. 1992) 1928 – Bill Russo, American pianist and composer (d. 2003) 1928 – Alex Toth, American animator and screenwriter (d. 2006) 1929 – Eric Carle, American author and illustrator 1929 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014) 1931 – V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (d. 2008) 1932 – Peter Blake, English painter and illustrator 1932 – Tim Parnell, English race car driver (d. 2017) 1932 – George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014) 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect, designed the Porto School of Architecture 1934 – Jean Geissinger, American baseball player (d. 2014) 1934 – Jack W. Hayford, American minister and author 1934 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006) 1935 – Ray Butt, English television producer and director (d. 2013) 1935 – Taufiq Ismail, Indonesian poet and activist 1935 – Larry Kramer, American author, playwright, and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis 1935 – Don Demeter, American professional baseball player 1935 – Tony Lanfranchi, English race car driver (d. 2004) 1935 – Charles Sheffield, English-American mathematician, physicist, and author (d. 2002) 1936 – B. J. Habibie, Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia 1936 – Bert Hölldobler, German biologist and entomologist 1937 – Eddie Floyd, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter 1937 – Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, English politician 1937 – Doreen Wells, English ballerina and actress 1939 – Allen Fox, American tennis player and coach 1940 – Judy Amoore, Australian runner 1940 – Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer 1940 – A. J. Quinnell, English-Maltese author (d. 2005) 1940 – Clint Warwick, English bass player (d. 2004) 1941 – Denys Arcand, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter 1941 – John Albert Raven, Scottish academic and ecologist 1942 – Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and politician 1942 – Willis Reed, American basketball player, coach, and manager 1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian author and playwright 1944 – Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1944 – Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013) 1945 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter 1945 – Harry Womack, American singer (d. 1974) 1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Dutch-Canadian general and politician 1946 – Allen Lanier, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2013) 1946 – Ian McDonald, English guitarist and saxophonist 1947 – John Hilton, English table tennis player 1947 – John Powell, American discus thrower 1949 – Richard Clarke, Irish archbishop 1949 – Patrick Tambay, French race car driver 1949 – Yoon Joo-sang, South Korean actor 1950 – Marcello Toninelli, Italian author and screenwriter 1951 – Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Swiss mathematician and academic 1952 – Péter Erdő, Hungarian cardinal 1952 – Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter 1952 – Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1952 – Alan Green, Northern Irish sportscaster 1952 – Kristina Abelli Elander, Swedish artist 1953 – Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and educator (d. 2013) 1953 – Ian Davis, Australian cricketer 1954 – Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player 1954 – David Paich, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1954 – Lina Romay, Spanish actress (d. 2012) 1954 – Daryush Shokof, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, American lawyer and judge 1955 – Vic Marks, English cricketer and sportscaster 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author (d. 2018) 1956 – Frank Paschek, German long jumper 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004) 1956 – Craig Young, Australian rugby player and coach 1957 – Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1958 – George Becali, Businessman,politician 1959 – Lutz Dombrowski, German long jumper and educator 1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper 1959 – Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1996) 1960 – Alastair Bruce of Crionaich, English-Scottish journalist and author 1960 – Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1960 – Craig Johnston, South African-Australian footballer and photographer 1960 – Laurent Rodriguez, French rugby player 1961 – Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter 1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director, producer and singer 1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor 1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player and manager 1963 – George Michael, English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2016) 1963 – Mike Stanley, American baseball player 1964 – Dell Curry, American basketball player and coach 1964 – Phil Emery, Australian cricketer 1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver and sportscaster 1964 – John McCrea, American singer-songwriter and musician (Cake) 1964 – Greg Raymer, American poker player and lawyer 1965 – Napole Polutele, French politician 1965 – Kerri Pottharst, Australian beach volleyball player 1965 – Joseph Hii Teck Kwong, Malaysian bishop 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player 1968 – Adrian Garvey, Zimbabwean-South African rugby player 1968 – Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer and manager 1969 – Hunter Foster, American actor and singer 1969 – Zim Zum, American guitarist and songwriter 1970 – Ariel Gore, American journalist and author 1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist 1970 – Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete and politician 1970 – Aaron Sele, American baseball player and scout 1971 – Karen Darke, English cyclist and author 1971 – Jason Gallian, Australian-English cricketer and educator 1971 – Rod Kafer, Australian rugby player and sportscaster 1971 – Neil Lennon, Northern Irish-Scottish footballer and manager 1971 – Michael Tucker, American baseball player 1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach 1972 – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan engineer and politician 1973 – René Corbet, Canadian ice hockey player 1973 – Milan Hnilička, Czech ice hockey player 1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer and coach 1974 – Nisha Ganatra, Canadian director, prouder, and screenwriter 1974 – Glen Metropolit, Canadian ice hockey player 1975 – Kiur Aarma, Estonian journalist and producer 1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress 1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player and coach 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player 1975 – Michele Merkin, American model and television host 1976 – José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer 1976 – Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player and coach 1976 – Carlos Nieto, Argentinian-Italian rugby player 1977 – Layla El, English wrestler, model, and dancer 1977 – Lola Ponce, Argentinian-Italian singer-songwriter and actress 1978 – Aramis Ramírez, Dominican-American baseball player 1978 – Luke Scott, American baseball player 1978 – Marcus Stroud, American football player 1979 – Marko Albert, Estonian swimmer and triathlete 1979 – Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer 1979 – Busy Philipps, American actress 1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper 1982 – Rain, South Korean singer and actor 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player 1983 – Todd Cooper, English swimmer 1983 – Marc Janko, Austrian footballer 1984 – Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer 1985 – Daniel Bard, American baseball player 1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer 1986 – Charlie Davies, American soccer player 1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer and actress 1986 – Seda Tokatlıoğlu, Turkish volleyball player 1987 – Brian Canter, American bull rider 1988 – Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player 1988 – Miguel Layún, Mexican footballer 1988 – Therese Johaug, Norwegian cross-country skier 1989 – Jack Cork, English footballer 1989 – Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1989 – Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director, and screenwriter 1990 – Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress 1991 – Liisi Rist, Estonian cyclist 1991 – Anna Zaja, German tennis player 1996 – Pietro Fittipaldi, Brazilian-American race car driver 1996 – Sione Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player 1996 – Lele Pons, Latina-American Internet personality 1998 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer 2006 – Mckenna Grace, American actress |
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635 – Gao Zu, Chinese emperor (b. 566) 841 – Gerard of Auvergne, Frankish nobleman 841 – Ricwin of Nantes, Frankish nobleman 891 – Sunderolt, archbishop of Mainz 931 – An Chonghui, general of Later Tang 1014 – Æthelstan Ætheling, eldest son of Æthelred the Unready 1134 – Niels, king of Denmark (b. 1064) 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French politician, Lord High Steward (b. 1160) 1291 – Eleanor of Provence (b. 1223) 1337 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272) 1394 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess (b. 1347)[1] 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English courtier and translator(b. 1440) 1483 – Richard Grey, half brother of Edward V of England (b. 1458) 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1451) 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496) 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1541) 1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and archaeologist (b. 1541) 1634 – John Marston, English poet and playwright (b. 1576) 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1602) 1665 – Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (b. 1630) 1669 – François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort (b. 1616) 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (b. 1598) 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French captain (b. 1611) 1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1626) 1715 – Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and politician (b. 1646) 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (b. 1681) 1798 – Thomas Sandby, English cartographer, painter, and architect (b. 1721) 1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German composer, critic, and jurist (b. 1776) 1838 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (b. 1774) 1861 – Abdülmecid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1823) 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (b. 1803) 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (b. 1811) 1870 – David Heaton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1823) 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796) 1876 – James Calhoun, American lieutenant (b. 1845) 1876 – Boston Custer, American civilian army contractor (b. 1848) 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American general (b. 1839) 1876 – Thomas Custer, American officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845) 1876 – Myles Keogh, Irish-American officer (b. 1840) 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806) 1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (b. 1858) 1886 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian businessman and politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1809) 1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (b. 1837) 1906 – Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch (b. 1853) 1912 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-British painter (b. 1836) 1916 – Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1844) 1917 – Géza Gyóni, Hungarian soldier and poet (b. 1884) 1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (b. 1867) 1922 – Satyendranath Dutta, Indian poet and author (b. 1882) 1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900) 1939 – Richard Seaman, English race car driver (b. 1913) 1943 – Arthur Goldstein, German Jewish left-wing activist (c. 1887) 1944 – Dénes Berinkey, Hungarian jurist and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871) 1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer and actress (b. 1906) 1947 – Jimmy Doyle, American boxer (b. 1924) 1948 – William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895) 1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871) 1949 – James Steen, American water polo player (b. 1876) 1950 – Maurice O'Sullivan, Irish police officer and author (b. 1904) 1958 – Alfred Noyes, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880) 1959 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938) 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869) 1968 – Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924) 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880) 1972 – Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator (b. 1890) 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893) 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter, co-founded Capitol Records (b. 1909) 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, British Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting leader (b. 1889) 1977 – Endre Szervánszky, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1911) 1979 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1894) 1979 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-American photographer (b. 1906) 1981 – Felipe Cossío del Pomar, Peruvian painter and political activist (b. 1888) 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1916) 1984 – Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (b. 1926) 1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920) 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1962) 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and murderer (b. 1940) 1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965) 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) 1996 – Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1914) 1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910) 2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1934) 2003 – Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (b. 1915) 2004 – Morton W. Coutts, New Zealand inventor (b. 1904) 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor and voice artist (b. 1925) 2005 – Kâzım Koyuncu, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1971) 2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch-American humanitarian (b. 1918) 2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American journalist and educator (b. 1933) 2007 – Jeeva, Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1963) 2008 – Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and ethologist (b. 1939) 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress and producer (b. 1947) 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (b. 1958) 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937) 2010 – Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1935) 2010 – Richard B. Sellars, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1915) 2011 – Annie Easley, American computer scientist and mathematician (b. 1933) 2011 – Goff Richards, English composer and conductor (b. 1944) 2011 – Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931) 2012 – Shigemitsu Dandō, Japanese academic and jurist (b. 1913) 2012 – Campbell Gillies, Scottish jockey (b. 1990) 2012 – George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1927) 2012 – Lucella MacLean, American baseball player (b. 1921) 2012 – Edgar Ross, American boxer (b. 1949) 2013 – George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923) 2013 – Catherine Gibson, Scottish swimmer (b. 1931) 2013 – Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916) 2013 – Harry Parker, American rower and coach (b. 1935) 2013 – Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist (b. 1918) 2013 – Green Wix Unthank, American soldier and judge (b. 1923) 2014 – Nigel Calder, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1931) 2014 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author and academic (b. 1925) 2014 – Paul Patterson, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1943) 2014 – Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian agronomist and politician (b. 1941) 2015 – Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922) 2015 – Alejandro Romay, Argentinian businessman (b. 1927) 2015 – Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1940) |
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