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Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1905 – Russo-Japanese War : The Battle of Tsushima begins.1915 – HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness , Kent , with the loss of 352 lives.1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law , the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church .1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight .1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A .1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City , the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.1933 – New Deal : The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission .1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States [8] 1937 – In California , the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California .1940 – World War II : In the Le Paradis massacre , 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.1941 – World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".1941 – World War II: The is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men. 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid , Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague ; he dies of his injuries eight days later.1950 – The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki .[9] [10] 1958 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II .1960 – In Turkey , a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.1965 – Vietnam War : American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam .1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline . 1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster , the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal .1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus , in the Bagbati massacre . 1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington , in North Yorkshire , England, kills 33, the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.1977 – A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana , Cuba, kills 67.[11] 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre : Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.1984 – The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus . It had been under construction since the 1950s.1988 – Somaliland War of Independence : The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao , then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia .[12] [13] 1996 – First Chechen War : Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell .1998 – Oklahoma City bombing : Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96 , the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station .[14] 2001 – Members of Abu Sayyaf , an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines ; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.2006 – The 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging ), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.2014 – The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.[15] 2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha 2017 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada .2018 – Maryland Flood Event : A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley , causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City , and causing cars to overturn.Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1601 – Antoine Daniel , French-Canadian missionary and saint (died 1648)1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (died 1650)1651 – Louis Antoine de Noailles , French cardinal (died 1729)1652 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (died 1722)1738 – Nathaniel Gorham , American merchant and politician, 14th President of the Continental Congress (died 1796)1756 – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (died 1825)1774 – Francis Beaufort , Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (died 1857)1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt , American businessman and philanthropist (died 1877)1812 – George K. Teulon , English-Texian journalist and freemason (died 1846)[18] 1814 – John Rudolph Niernsee , Viennese-born American architect (died 1885)1815 – Henry Parkes , English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (died 1896)1818 – Amelia Bloomer , American journalist and activist (died 1894)1819 – Julia Ward Howe , American poet and songwriter (died 1910)1827 – Samuel F. Miller , American lawyer and politician (died 1892)1832 – Zenas Ferry Moody , American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (died 1917)1836 – Jay Gould , American businessman and financier (died 1892)1837 – Wild Bill Hickok , American police officer (died 1876)1852 – Billy Barnes , English cricketer (died 1899)1857 – Theodor Curtius , German chemist (died 1928)1860 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes , Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal (died 1941)1860 – Margrethe Munthe , Norwegian songwriter (died 1931)[19] 1863 – Arthur Mold , English cricketer (died 1921)1867 – Arnold Bennett , English author and playwright (died 1931)1868 – Aleksa Šantić , Bosnian poet and author (died 1924)1871 – Georges Rouault , French painter and illustrator (died 1958)1875 – Frederick Cuming , English cricketer (died 1942)1875 – Jorge Newbery , Argentine aviator (died 1914)[20] 1876 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski , Polish journalist and author (died 1945)1876 – William Stanier , English engineer (died 1965) 1878 – Anna Cervin , Swedish artist (died 1972)1879 – Karl Bühler , German-American linguist and psychologist (died 1963)1879 – Hans Lammers , German judge and politician (died 1962) 1883 – Jessie Arms Botke , American painter (died 1971)1884 – Max Brod , Czech journalist, author, and composer (died 1968)1887 – Frank Woolley , English cricketer (died 1978)1888 – Louis Durey , French composer (died 1979)1891 – Claude Champagne , Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (died 1965)1891 – Jaan Kärner , Estonian poet and author (died 1958) 1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline , French physician and author (died 1961)1894 – Dashiell Hammett , American detective novelist and screenwriter (died 1961) 1895 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell , Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (died 1995)1897 – John Cockcroft , English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)1897 – Dink Templeton , American rugby player and coach (died 1962) 1898 – David Crosthwait , American engineer, inventor and writer (died 1976)1899 – Johannes Türn , Estonian chess and draughts player (died 1993)1900 – Lotte Toberentz , German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (died 1964)1900 – Uładzimir Žyłka , Belarusian poet and translator (died 1933) 1901–present
1906 – Buddhadasa , Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993)1906 – Harry Hibbs , English footballer (died 1984) 1906 – Antonio Rosario Mennonna , Italian bishop (died 2009) 1907 – Nicolas Calas , Greek-American poet and critic (died 1988)1907 – Rachel Carson , American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964) 1909 – Dolores Hope , American singer and philanthropist (died 2011)1909 – Juan Vicente Pérez , Venezuelan supercentenarian, oldest living man , last man born in 1900s decade (died 2024)[21] 1911 – Hubert Humphrey , American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (died 1978)1911 – Teddy Kollek , Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (died 2007) 1911 – Vincent Price , American actor (died 1993) 1912 – John Cheever , American novelist and short story writer (died 1982)1912 – Sam Snead , American golfer and sportscaster (died 2002) 1912 – Terry Moore , American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1995) 1915 – Ester Soré , Chilean singer-songwriter (died 1996)1915 – Herman Wouk , American novelist (died 2019) 1917 – Harry Webster , English engineer (died 2007)1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone , Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2019)[22] 1921 – Bob Godfrey , Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (died 2013)1922 – Otto Carius , German lieutenant and pharmacist (died 2015)1922 – Christopher Lee , English actor (died 2015) 1922 – John D. Vanderhoof , American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (died 2013) 1923 – Henry Kissinger , German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State , Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)[23] 1923 – Sumner Redstone , American businessman and philanthropist (died 2020) 1924 – Jaime Lusinchi , Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (died 2014)1924 – John Sumner , English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne Theatre Company (died 2013) 1925 – Tony Hillerman , American journalist and author (died 2008)1927 – Jüri Randviir , Estonian chess player and journalist (died 1996)1928 – Thea Musgrave , Scottish-American composer and educator1930 – John Barth , American novelist and short story writer (died 2024)1930 – William S. Sessions , American civil servant and judge, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 2020) 1930 – Eino Tamberg , Estonian composer and educator (died 2010) 1931 – André Barbeau , French-Canadian neurologist (died 1986)1931 – John Chapple , English field marshal and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (died 2022)[24] 1931 – Bernard Fresson , French actor (died 2002) 1931 – Faten Hamama , Egyptian actress and producer (died 2015) 1931 – Philip Kotler , American author and professor 1933 – Edward Samuel Rogers , Canadian businessman (died 2008)1933 – Manfred Sommer , Spanish author and illustrator (died 2007) 1934 – Ray Daviault , Canadian-American baseball player (died 2020)1934 – Harlan Ellison , American author and screenwriter (died 2018) 1935 – Daniel Colchico , American football player and coach (died 2014)1935 – Mal Evans , British road manager of The Beatles (died 1976) 1935 – Jerry Kindall , American baseball player and coach (died 2017) 1935 – Ramsey Lewis , American jazz pianist and composer (died 2022) 1935 – Lee Meriwether , American model and actress, Miss America 1955 1936 – Benjamin Bathurst , English admiral (died 2025)1936 – Louis Gossett Jr. , American actor and producer (died 2024) 1936 – Marcel Masse , Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (died 2014) 1937 – Allan Carr , American playwright and producer (died 1999)1939 – Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns , English courtier and businessman1939 – Yves Duhaime , Canadian captain and politician 1939 – Sokratis Kokkalis , Greek businessman 1939 – Gerald Ronson , English businessman and philanthropist 1939 – Lionel Sosa , Mexican-American advertising and marketing executive[25] 1939 – Don Williams , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017) 1940 – Mike Gibson , Australian journalist and sportscaster (died 2015)1942 – Lee Baca , American police officer1942 – Piers Courage , English racing driver (died 1970) 1942 – Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman , English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1942 – Robin Widdows , English racing driver 1943 – Cilla Black , English singer and actress (died 2015)1943 – Bruce Weitz , American actor 1944 – Christopher Dodd , American lawyer and politician1944 – Karen Fladset , Norwegian handball player[26] 1944 – Ingrid Roscoe , English historian and politician, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire (died 2020) 1944 – Alain Souchon , French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1945 – Bruce Cockburn , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Danish bassist and composer (died 2005)1946 – John Williams , English motorcycle racer (died 1978) 1947 – Peter DeFazio , American politician1947 – Marty Kristian , German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1947 – Branko Oblak , Slovenian footballer and coach 1947 – Riivo Sinijärv , Estonian politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1948 – Wubbo de Boer , Dutch civil servant (died 2017)1948 – Pete Sears , English bass player 1948 – Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart , American occultist and author (died 2014) 1949 – Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale , English politician (died 2021)1949 – Christa Vahlensieck , German runner 1950 – Dee Dee Bridgewater , American singer-songwriter and actress1950 – Makis Dendrinos , Greek basketball player and coach (died 2015) 1951 – John Conteh , English boxer1954 – Pauline Hanson , Australian businesswoman, activist, and politician1954 – Jackie Slater , American football player and coach 1955 – Eric Bischoff , American wrestler, manager, and producer1955 – Richard Schiff , American actor, director, and producer 1955 – Ian Tracey , English organist and conductor 1956 – Cynthia McFadden , American journalist1956 – Rosemary Squire , English producer and manager, co-founded Ambassador Theatre Group 1956 – Giuseppe Tornatore , Italian director and screenwriter 1957 – Dag Terje Andersen , Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Labour 1957 – Nitin Gadkari , Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Transport 1957 – Eddie Harsch , Canadian-American keyboard player and bass player (died 2016) 1957 – Siouxsie Sioux , English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer 1958 – Nick Anstee , English accountant and politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London 1958 – Neil Finn , New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician 1958 – Jesse Robredo , Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (died 2012) 1960 – Gaston Therrien , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster1961 – José Luíz Barbosa , Brazilian runner and coach1961 – Peri Gilpin , American actress 1962 – Marcelino Bernal , Mexican footballer1962 – Ray Borner , Australian basketball player 1962 – Steven Brill , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1962 – Anthony A. Hyman , Israeli-English biologist and academic 1962 – David Mundell , Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland 1962 – Ravi Shastri , Indian cricketer, coach and sportscaster 1963 – Gonzalo Rubalcaba , Cuban pianist and composer1963 – Maria Walliser , Swiss skier 1964 – Adam Carolla , American actor, producer, and screenwriter1965 – Todd Bridges , American actor[27] 1965 – Pat Cash , Australian-English tennis player and sportscaster 1966 – Heston Blumenthal , English chef and author1967 – Paul Gascoigne , English international footballer, coach, and manager[28] 1967 – Eddie McClintock , American actor 1968 – Jeff Bagwell , American baseball player and coach1968 – Rebekah Brooks , English journalist 1968 – Harun Erdenay , Turkish basketball player and coach 1968 – Frank Thomas , American baseball player and sportscaster 1969 – Todd Hundley , American baseball player1969 – Jeremy Mayfield , American race car driver 1969 – Craig Federighi , American computer scientist and engineer 1970 – Michele Bartoli , Italian cyclist1970 – Tim Farron , English educator and politician 1970 – Joseph Fiennes , English actor 1970 – Alex Archer , American-born Australian musician 1971 – Mathew Batsiua , Nauruan politician1971 – Paul Bettany , English actor 1971 – Wayne Carey , Australian footballer and coach 1971 – Kaur Kender , Estonian author 1971 – Lisa Lopes , American rapper and dancer (died 2002) 1971 – Lee Sharpe , English footballer 1971 – Grant Stafford , South African tennis player 1971 – Sophie Walker , British politician, leader of the Women's Equality Party 1971 – Petroc Trelawny , British radio and television broadcaster 1972 – Todd Demsey , American golfer1972 – Antonio Freeman , American football player 1972 – Maxim Sokolov , Russian ice hockey player 1973 – Jack McBrayer , American actor and comedian1973 – Tana Umaga , New Zealand rugby player and coach 1974 – Skye Edwards , British singer-songwriter1974 – Denise van Outen , English actress, singer, and television host 1974 – Derek Webb , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1974 – Danny Wuerffel , American football player 1975 – André 3000 , American rapper1975 – Michael Hussey , Australian cricketer 1975 – Jadakiss , American rapper[29] 1975 – Jamie Oliver , English chef and author 1975 – Feryal Özel , Turkish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic 1976 – Marcel Fässler , Swiss racing driver1977 – Abderrahmane Hammad , Algerian high jumper1977 – Mahela Jayawardene , Sri Lankan cricketer 1978 – Adin Brown , American soccer player1979 – Michael Buonauro , American author and illustrator (died 2004)1979 – Mile Sterjovski , Australian footballer 1980 – Craig Buntin , Canadian figure skater1981 – Alina Cojocaru , Romanian ballerina1981 – Johan Elmander , Swedish footballer 1982 – Natalya , Canadian professional wrestler[30] 1982 – Mariano Pavone , Argentine footballer[31] 1984 – Blake Ahearn , American basketball player1984 – Miguel González , Mexican baseball pitcher 1985 – Chiang Chien-ming , Taiwanese baseball player1985 – Roberto Soldado , Spanish footballer 1986 – Conor Cummins , Manx motorcycle racer1986 – Bamba Fall , Senegalese basketball player 1986 – Lasse Schöne , Danish footballer 1987 – Gervinho , Ivorian footballer1987 – Bella Heathcote , Australian actress 1987 – Bora Paçun , Turkish basketball player 1987 – Matt Prior , Australian rugby league player 1987 – Martina Sáblíková , Czech speed skater and cyclist 1988 – Celso Borges , Costa Rican footballer[32] 1988 – Vontae Davis , American football player (died 2024) 1988 – Irina Davydova , Russian hurdler[33] 1988 – Garrett Richards , American baseball pitcher 1988 – Tyler Sash , American football player (died 2015) 1989 – Igor Morozov , Estonian footballer1989 – Peakboy , South Korean rapper, record producer, and singer-songwriter[34] 1990 – Yenew Alamirew , Ethiopian runner1990 – Chris Colfer , American actor and singer 1990 – Jonas Hector , German footballer[35] 1990 – Marcus Kruger , Swedish ice hockey player 1991 – Sebastien Dewaest , Belgian footballer1991 – Tim Lafai , Samoan rugby league player 1991 – Ksenia Pervak , Russian tennis player 1991 – Mário Rui , Portuguese footballer[36] 1991 – Armando Sadiku , Albanian footballer[37] 1991 – Eneli Vals , Estonian footballer 1992 – Aaron Brown , Canadian sprinter1992 – Jeison Murillo , Colombian footballer[38] 1992 – Laurence Vincent-Lapointe , Canadian canoer[39] 1994 – Maximilian Arnold , German footballer[40] 1994 – João Cancelo , Portuguese footballer[41] 1994 – Aymeric Laporte , French-Spanish footballer[42] 1995 – Yoán Moncada , Cuban baseball player[43] 1996 – Kim Jae-hwan , South Korean singer[44] 1997 – Anna Bondar , Hungarian tennis player[45] 1997 – Daniel Jones , American football player[46] 1997 – Konrad Laimer , Austrian footballer[47] 1998 – Josep Martínez , Spanish footballer[48] 1999 – Matheus Cunha , Brazilian footballer[49] 1999 – Lily-Rose Depp , French-American actress and model[50] 2000 – Abner Vinícius , Brazilian footballer[51] 2002 – Jérémy Doku , Belgian footballer[52] 2002 – Gabri Veiga , Spanish footballer[53] 2003 – Franco Colapinto , Argentine racing driver[54] Deaths
Pre-1600
366 – Procopius , Roman usurper (born 325)398 – Murong Bao , emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (born 355)475 – Eutropius , bishop of Orange 866 – Ordoño I of Asturias (born 831)927 – Simeon I of Bulgaria first Bulgarian Emperor (born 864)1039 – Dirk III, Count of Holland (born 981)1045 – Bruno of Würzburg , imperial chancellor of Italy (born c. 1005)1178 – Godfrey van Rhenen , bishop of Utrecht1240 – William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (born 1166)1444 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset , English commander (born 1404)1508 – Ludovico Sforza , Duke of Milan (born 1452)1525 – Thomas Müntzer , German mystic and theologian (born 1488)1541 – Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (born 1473)1564 – John Calvin , French pastor and theologian (born 1509)1601–1900
1610 – François Ravaillac , French assassin of Henry IV of France (born 1578)1624 – Diego Ramírez de Arellano , Spanish sailor and cosmographer (born c. 1580)1637 – John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield , English politician (born c. 1566)1661 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll , Scottish general and politician (born 1607)1675 – Gaspard Dughet , Italian-French painter (born 1613)1690 – Giovanni Legrenzi , Italian organist and composer (born 1626)1702 – Dominique Bouhours , French priest and critic (born 1628)1707 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan , French mistress of Louis XIV of France (born 1640)1781 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist and academic (born 1716)1797 – François-Noël Babeuf , French journalist (born 1760)1831 – Jedediah Smith , American hunter, explorer, and author (born 1799)1840 – Niccolò Paganini , Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)1867 – Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (born 1796)1896 – Aleksandr Stoletov , Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1839)1901–present
1910 – Robert Koch , German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)1918 – Ōzutsu Man'emon , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (born 1869)1919 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam , Indian author and activist (born 1848)1933 – Achille Paroche , French target shooter (born 1868)1939 – Joseph Roth , Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)1941 – Ernst Lindemann , German captain (born 1894)1941 – Günther Lütjens , German admiral (born 1889) 1942 – Muhammed Hamdi Yazır , Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (born 1878)1943 – Gordon Coates , New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1878)1945 – Enno Lolling , German physician (born 1888)1947 – Ed Konetchy , American baseball player and manager (born 1885)1949 – Robert Ripley , American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! 1953 – Jesse Burkett , American baseball player and manager (born 1868)1960 – James Montgomery Flagg , American painter and illustrator (born 1877)1963 – Grigoris Lambrakis , Greek physician and politician (born 1912)1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru , Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)1965 – John Rinehart Blue , American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (born 1905)[55] 1967 – W. Otto Miessner , American composer and educator (born 1880)1967 – Ernst Niekisch , German academic and politician (born 1889) 1969 – Jeffrey Hunter , American actor and producer (born 1926)1971 – Béla Juhos , Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1901)1971 – Armando Picchi , Italian footballer and coach (born 1935) 1980 – Gün Sazak , Turkish agronomist and politician (born 1932)1984 – Vasilije Mokranjac , Serbian composer (born 1923)1986 – Murder of the Faruqis :[56] [57] 1986 – Ajoy Mukherjee , Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1901) 1986 – Giorgos Tzifos , Greek actor and cinematographer (born 1918) 1987 – John Howard Northrop , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)1988 – Hjördis Petterson , Swedish actress (born 1908)1988 – Ernst Ruska , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906) 1989 – Arseny Tarkovsky , Russian poet and translator (born 1907)1990 – Robert B. Meyner , American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (born 1908)1991 – Leopold Nowak , Austrian musicologist and theorist (born 1904)1992 – Uncle Charlie Osborne , American fiddler (born 1890)1998 – Minoo Masani , Indian lawyer and politician (born 1905)2000 – Kazimierz Leski , Polish engineer and pilot (born 1912)2000 – Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch , Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (born 1917) 2000 – Maurice Richard , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1921) 2002 – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson , Scottish historian (born 1909)[58] 2003 – Luciano Berio , Italian composer and educator (born 1925)2006 – Rob Borsellino , American journalist (born 1949)2006 – Paul Gleason , American actor (born 1939) 2006 – Craig Heyward , American football player (born 1966) 2007 – Izumi Sakai , Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1967)2007 – Gretchen Wyler , American actress and dancer (born 1932) 2007 – Ed Yost , American inventor, created the modern hot air balloon (born 1919) 2008 – Franz Künstler , Hungarian soldier (born 1900)2009 – Thomas M. Franck , American lawyer and academic (born 1931)2009 – Clive Granger , Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934) 2009 – Mona Grey , British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (born 1910) 2009 – Abram Hoffer , Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (born 1917) 2009 – Gérard Jean-Juste , Haitian-American priest and theologian (born 1946) 2009 – Carol Anne O'Marie , American nun and author (born 1933) 2009 – William Refshauge , Australian soldier and physician (born 1913) 2009 – Paul Sharratt , English-American television host (born 1933) 2010 – Payut Ngaokrachang , Thai animator and director (born 1929)2011 – Jeff Conaway , American actor and singer (born 1950)2011 – Margo Dydek , Polish-American basketball player (born 1974) 2011 – Gil Scott-Heron , American singer-songwriter and poet (born 1949) 2012 – Simeon Daniel , Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (born 1934)2012 – Friedrich Hirzebruch , German mathematician and academic (born 1927) 2012 – Anahit Perikhanian , Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (born 1928)[59] 2012 – David Rimoin , Canadian-American geneticist and academic (born 1936) 2013 – Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri , Indian politician (born 1917)2013 – Bill Pertwee , English actor (born 1926) 2013 – Abdoulaye Sékou Sow , Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1931) 2014 – Robert Genn , Canadian painter and author (born 1936)2014 – Helma Sanders-Brahms , German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1940) 2014 – Roberto Vargas , Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929) 2014 – Massimo Vignelli , Italian-American graphic designer (born 1931) 2015 – Erik Carlsson , Swedish rally driver (born 1929)[60] 2015 – Nils Christie , Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (born 1928) 2015 – Andy King , English footballer and manager (born 1956)[61] 2015 – Michael Martin , American philosopher and academic (born 1932) 2017 – Gregg Allman , American musician, singer and songwriter (born 1947)[62] 2018 – Gardner Dozois , American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)[63] 2020 – Larry Kramer , American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (born 1935)[64] 2021 – Poul Schlüter , former Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1929)[65] 2024 – Elizabeth MacRae , American actress (born 1936)[66] 2024 – Bill Walton , American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1952)[67] 2025 – Freddie Aguilar , Filipino musician and singer-songwriter (born 1953)[68] Holidays and observances
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