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Pre-1600
33 – Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus , and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius , Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation.[1] 320 – Pappus of Alexandria , Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest 614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii ), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defends the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom .629 – Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks .1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre , a Christian church in Jerusalem , is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock .1016 – The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun .1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium .1166 – Michael the Syrian , one of the most important Syriac historians, is consecrated as Syriac Orthodox Patriarch at the Mor Bar Sauma Monastery .[2] [3] 1281 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon [4] [5] 1356 – Basel earthquake , the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel , Switzerland.1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto 's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama , killing Tuskaloosa .1561 – In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen , resulting in a draw.1565 – Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay , the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.1597 – King Philip II of Spain sends his third and final armada against England , but it ends in failure due to storms. The remaining ships are captured or sunk by the English.[6] 1599 – Michael the Brave , Prince of Wallachia , defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr , leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.1601–1900
1901–present
1912 – First Balkan War : King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.1914 – The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium , to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada Canadian law .1944 – World War II : Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany .1944 – World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany. 1945 – The USSR 's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory .1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud , stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita , who is overthrown by the end of the day. 1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte . 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1 , the first mass-produced transistor radio.1963 – Félicette , a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.1977 – German Autumn : A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.1978 – Based on the world's first children's art museum , the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.[10] [11] [12] 1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.1989 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo space probe.[13] 1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union .1992 – Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java , Indonesia, killing 31.[14] 2003 – Bolivian gas conflict : Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.2007 – Karachi bombing : A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.2019 – NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.[15] 2019 – Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.[16] [17] Births
Pre-1600
1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (died 1192)1130 – Zhu Xi , Chinese philosopher (died 1200)1405 – Pope Pius II (died 1464)[18] 1444 – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (died 1476)1482 – Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1538)1517 – Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (died 1570)1523 – Anna Jagiellon , daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1596)1536 – William Lambarde , English antiquarian and politician (died 1601)1547 – Justus Lipsius , Belgian philologist and scholar (died 1606)1553 – Luca Marenzio , Italian composer (died 1599)1587 – Lady Mary Wroth , English poet (died 1651)1595 – Edward Winslow , American Pilgrim leader (died 1655)1601–1900
1616 – Nicholas Culpeper , English botanist (died 1654)1630 – Henry Powle , English politician (died 1692)1634 – Luca Giordano , Italian painter and illustrator (died 1705)1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck , South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1713)1662 – Matthew Henry , Welsh minister and scholar (died 1714)1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy (died 1736)1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (died 1694)1701 – Charles le Beau , French historian and author (died 1778)1706 – Baldassare Galuppi , Italian harpsichord player and composer (died 1785)1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French general and author (died 1803)1770 – Thomas Phillips , English artist (died 1845)[19] 1777 – Heinrich von Kleist , German author and poet (died 1811)1785 – Thomas Love Peacock , English author and poet (died 1866)1792 – Lucas Alamán , Mexican politician and historian (died 1853)1804 – Mongkut , Thai king (died 1868)1822 – Midhat Pasha , Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (died 1883)1831 – Frederick III, German Emperor (died 1888)1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz , American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (died 1911)1850 – Basil Hall Chamberlain , English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (died 1935)1854 – Billy Murdoch , Australian cricketer (died 1911)1859 – Henri Bergson , French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)1862 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat , Ottoman general (died 1952)1865 – Arie de Jong , Dutch linguist and author (died 1957)1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith , American-English author and critic (died 1946) 1868 – Ernst Didring , Swedish author (died 1931)1869 – Johannes Linnankoski , Finnish author (died 1913)[20] 1870 – D. T. Suzuki , Japanese author and scholar (died 1966)1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin , Russian poet and author (died 1936)1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi , Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1951)1875 – Len Braund , English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 1955)1878 – James Truslow Adams , American historian and author (died 1949)1880 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (died 1940)1881 – Max Gerson , German-born American physician (died 1959)1882 – Väinö Kivisalo , Finnish politician (died 1953)[21] 1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton , French cyclist (died 1917) 1887 – Takashi Sakai , Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (died 1946)1888 – Paul Vermoyal , French actor (died 1925)1893 – Sidney Holland , New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1961)1893 – George Ohsawa , Japanese philosopher and academic (died 1966) 1894 – H. L. Davis , American author and poet (died 1960)1894 – Tibor Déry , Hungarian author and translator (died 1977) 1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers , American theorist and author (died 1980)1898 – Lotte Lenya , Austrian singer and actress (died 1981)1901–present
1902 – Miriam Hopkins , American actress (died 1972)1902 – Pascual Jordan , German physicist and theorist (died 1980) 1903 – Lina Radke , German runner and coach (died 1983)1904 – Aarne Juutilainen , Finnish army captain (died 1976)[22] 1904 – A. J. Liebling , American journalist and author (died 1963) 1904 – Haim Shirman , Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (died 1981) 1905 – Jan Gies , Dutch activist (died 1993)1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 1993) 1906 – James Brooks , American painter and educator (died 1992)1909 – Norberto Bobbio , Italian philosopher and theorist (died 2004)1914 – Raymond Lambert , Swiss mountaineer (died 1997)1915 – Victor Sen Yung , American actor (died 1980)1918 – Molly Geertsema , Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1991)1918 – Konstantinos Mitsotakis , Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2017) 1918 – Bobby Troup , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1999) 1919 – Ric Nordman , Canadian captain and politician (died 1996)1919 – Anita O'Day , American singer (died 2006)[23] 1919 – Pierre Trudeau , Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2000)[23] 1919 – Camilla Williams , American soprano and educator (died 2012) 1920 – Melina Mercouri , Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (died 1994)[23] 1921 – Jerry Cooke , Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (died 2005)1921 – Jesse Helms , American journalist and politician (died 2008) 1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley , Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (died 1972) 1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)1924 – Buddy MacMaster , Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2014)1925 – Ramiz Alia , Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (died 2011)1926 – Chuck Berry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)[23] 1926 – Klaus Kinski , German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1991) 1927 – Marv Rotblatt , American baseball player (died 2013)1927 – George C. Scott , American actor and director (died 1999) 1928 – Maurice El Mediouni , Algerian pianist and composer (died 2024)1928 – Keith Jackson , American sportscaster and actor (died 2018)[23] 1928 – Dick Taverne , English lawyer and politician (died 2025) 1929 – Violeta Chamorro , Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua (died 2025)1929 – Hillard Elkins , American producer and manager (died 2010) 1929 – Kees Fens , Dutch author and critic (died 2008) 1929 – Frank Stanmore , Australian rugby league player (died 2005)[24] 1930 – Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun , Scottish politician (died 2024)1930 – Esther Hautzig , Lithuanian-American author (died 2009) 1931 – Chris Albertson , Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer (died 2019)1931 – Ien Dales , Dutch civil servant and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (died 1994) 1932 – Roger Climpson , English-Australian journalist (died 2025)[25] 1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis , Lithuanian musicologist and politician 1933 – Forrest Gregg , American football player and coach (died 2019)1933 – Irwin M. Jacobs , American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur 1933 – Ludovico Scarfiotti , Italian race car driver (died 1968) 1934 – Inger Stevens , Swedish-American actress (died 1970)1935 – Peter Boyle , American actor (died 2006)[23] 1936 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino , Cuban cardinal (died 2019)[26] 1938 – Robert Dove , American lawyer and politician (died 2021)1938 – Dawn Wells , American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959 (died 2020)[23] 1939 – Flavio Cotti , Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2020)1939 – Mike Ditka , American football player, coach, and sportscaster[23] 1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald , American assassin of John F. Kennedy (died 1963)[23] 1939 – Paddy Reilly , Irish folk singer and guitarist[27] 1939 – Jan Erik Vold , Norwegian poet, author, and translator 1940 – Talitha Getty , actress and model of Dutch extraction (died 1971)1940 – Cynthia Weil , American songwriter (died 2023) 1941 – Timothy Bell, Baron Bell , English businessman (died 2019)[28] 1941 – Martha Burk , American psychologist and author 1942 – Gianfranco Ravasi , Italian cardinal and scholar1943 – Christine Charbonneau , Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2014)1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech , Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs 1945 – Huell Howser , American television host and actor (died 2013)1945 – Chris Shays , American politician 1946 – James Robert Baker , American author and screenwriter (died 1997)1946 – Frank Beamer , American football player and coach 1946 – Joe Egan , Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2024)[29] 1946 – Dafydd Elis-Thomas , Welsh academic and politician (died 2025)[30] 1946 – Howard Shore , Canadian composer, conductor, and producer[31] 1947 – Paul Chuckle , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter1947 – Job Cohen , Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam 1947 – John Johnson , American basketball player (died 2016)[32] 1947 – Joe Morton , American actor[31] 1947 – Laura Nyro , American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1997)[23] 1947 – Gary Sullivan , Australian rugby league player 1948 – Hans Köchler , Austrian philosopher, author, and academic1948 – Ntozake Shange , American author, poet, and playwright (died 2018)[33] 1949 – George Hendrick , American baseball player and coach1949 – Gary Richrath , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2015) 1950 – Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright and author (died 2006)[23] 1951 – Mike Antonovich , American ice hockey player and coach1951 – Pam Dawber , American actress and producer[23] 1951 – Terry McMillan , American author and screenwriter[23] 1951 – David Normington , English civil servant and politician 1951 – Nic Potter , English bass player and songwriter (died 2013) 1952 – Roy Dias , Sri Lankan cricketer and coach1952 – Paul Geroski , American-English economist and academic (died 2005) 1952 – Chuck Lorre , American director, producer, and screenwriter[34] [35] 1952 – Patrick Morrow , Canadian mountaineer and photographer 1952 – Bảo Ninh , Vietnamese soldier and author 1952 – Allen Ripley , American baseball player (died 2014) 1952 – Jerry Royster , American baseball player, coach, and manager 1954 – Nick Houghton , English general1954 – Arliss Howard , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1954 – Bob Weinstein , American film executive[36] 1955 – Jean-Pierre Hautier , Belgian journalist and television host (died 2012)1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1955 – Timmy Mallett , English radio and television host 1955 – Stu Mead , American painter and illustrator 1955 – David Twohy , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1955 – Rita Verdonk , Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice 1955 – Denis Watson , Zimbabwean golfer 1955 – Mark Welland , English physicist and academic 1956 – Craig Bartlett , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor1956 – Martina Navratilova , Czech-American tennis player and coach[23] 1956 – Jim Talent , American lawyer and politician 1957 – Jon Lindstrom , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[31] 1957 – Catherine Ringer , French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress 1958 – Thomas Hearns , American boxer1958 – Megumi Ishii , Japanese actress and politician 1958 – Letitia James , American lawyer, activist and politician[37] 1958 – Kjell Samuelsson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach 1959 – Kirby Chambliss , American pilot1959 – Mauricio Funes , Salvadoran politician, former president of El Salvador (died 2025)[38] 1959 – Milcho Manchevski , Macedonian-American director and screenwriter 1959 – John Nord , American wrestler 1960 – Erin Moran , American actress (died 2017)[23] 1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme , Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter[31] 1961 – Wynton Marsalis , American trumpet player, composer, and educator[31] 1961 – Rick Moody , American author and composer 1961 – Gladstone Small , Barbadian-English cricketer 1962 – Min Ko Naing , Burmese activist1962 – Vincent Spano , American actor, director, and producer[31] 1963 – Sigvart Dagsland , Norwegian singer, pianist and composer1964 – Dan Lilker , American singer-songwriter and bass player1964 – Charles Stross , English journalist, author, and programmer 1965 – Zakir Naik , Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)1965 – Curtis Stigers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1966 – Dave Price , American journalist and game show host1967 – Eric Stuart , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor1968 – Rhod Gilbert , Welsh comedian1968 – Stuart Law , Australian cricketer and coach 1968 – Michael Stich , German tennis player and sportscaster 1969 – Volker Neumüller , German talent manager1969 – Nelson Vivas , Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager 1970 – Doug Mirabelli , American baseball player and coach1970 – Mike Starink , Dutch television host and actor 1971 – Nick O'Hern , Australian golfer1972 – Mika Ninagawa , Japanese photographer and director1972 – Alex Tagliani , Canadian race car driver 1973 – Stephen Allan , Australian golfer1973 – James Foley , American photographer and journalist (died 2014) 1973 – Michalis Kapsis , Greek footballer 1973 – Rachel Nichols , American journalist and sportscaster 1973 – Sarah Winckless , English rower 1974 – Robbie Savage , Welsh footballer and sportscaster1974 – Peter Svensson , Swedish guitarist and songwriter[31] 1974 – Amish Tripathi , Indian author 1974 – Zhou Xun , Chinese actress and singer 1975 – Alex Cora , Puerto Rican baseball player and manager1975 – Josh Sawyer , American video game designer 1977 – Flavia Colgan , Brazilian-American journalist1977 – Kunal Kapoor , Indian actor 1977 – Ryan Nelsen , New Zealand-American soccer player and coach 1977 – David Vuillemin , French motorcycle racer 1978 – Mike Tindall , English rugby player1978 – Kenji Wu , Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor 1979 – Jaroslav Drobný , Czech footballer1979 – Ne-Yo , American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor[31] 1979 – Damon Scott , British entertainer 1980 – Birsen Yavuz , Turkish sprinter and hurdler1981 – Nathan Hauritz , Australian cricketer1981 – Tina Hergold , Slovenian tennis player 1981 – Greg Warren , American football player 1982 – Thierry Amiel , French singer-songwriter1982 – Michael Dingsdag , Dutch footballer 1982 – Simon Gotch , American wrestler 1982 – Mark Sampson , Welsh footballer and manager 1983 – Dante , Brazilian footballer1984 – Robert Harting , German discus thrower1984 – Freida Pinto , Indian actress and model[31] 1984 – Esperanza Spalding , American singer-songwriter and bassist[31] 1984 – Lindsey Vonn , American skier[31] 1984 – Milo Yiannopoulos , British journalist and public speaker[23] 1985 – Yoenis Céspedes , Cuban baseball player1985 – Andrew Garcia , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1986 – Wilma Elles , German actress and fashion designer1987 – Zac Efron , American actor and singer[31] 1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen , Danish model 1988 – Tessa Schram , Dutch director and actress1989 – Laci Green , American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist1989 – Joy Lauren , American actress, director, and producer[31] 1989 – Riisa Naka , Japanese model and actress 1990 – Drew Crawford , American basketball player[39] 1990 – Brittney Griner , American basketball player[23] 1990 – Bristol Palin , American public speaker and reality television personality[23] 1991 – Roly Bonevacia , Dutch footballer1991 – Tyler Posey , American actor and musician[31] 1991 – Toby Regbo , English actor[31] 1991 – Zohran Mamdani , American politician, mayor of New York City [40] 1992 – John John Florence , American surfer1992 – Barry Keoghan , Irish actor[23] 1993 – Ivan Cavaleiro , Portuguese footballer1994 – Enhō Akira , Japanese sumo wrestler[41] 1994 – Pascal Wehrlein , German-Mauritian race car driver 1996 – Terance Mann , American basketball player[42] 1998 – Janalynn Castelino , Italian-Indian singer-songwriter[43] 2000 – Sophie Thatcher , American actress[44] Deaths
Pre-1600
31 – Lucius Aelius Sejanus , Roman politician (born 20 BC)325 – Emperor Ming of Jin (born 299)707 – Pope John VII (born 650)815 – Abu'l-Saraya , Zaydi rebel leader[45] 1035 – Sancho III of Pamplona (born 992)1081 – Nikephoros Palaiologos , Byzantine general1101 – Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (born 1053)1141 – Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (born 1108)1214 – John de Gray , bishop of Norwich1366 – Petrus Torkilsson , Archbishop of Uppsala1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond , Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (born 1331)1417 – Pope Gregory XII (born 1326)1442 – Infante João of Portugal (born 1400)1480 – Uhwudong , Korean dancer and poet (born 1440)1503 – Pope Pius III (born 1439)1508 – Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell , Lord High Admiral of Scotland1511 – Philippe de Commines , French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (born 1447)1526 – Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón , Spanish explorer (born 1475)1541 – Margaret Tudor , queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489 )1545 – John Taverner , English organist and composer (born 1490)1558 – Mary of Hungary (born 1505)1561 – Yamamoto Kansuke , Japanese samurai (born 1501)1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius , Dutch physician and mathematician (born 1520)1570 – Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (born 1517)1601–1900
1604 – Igram van Achelen , Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1528)1646 – Isaac Jogues , French priest, missionary, and martyr (born 1607)1667 – Fasilides , Ethiopian emperor (born 1603)1678 – Jacob Jordaens , Belgian painter illustrator (born 1593)1739 – António José da Silva , Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (born 1705)1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (born 1660)1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (born 1721)1775 – Christian August Crusius , German philosopher and theologian (born 1715)1817 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul , French pianist and composer (born 1763)1865 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)1871 – Charles Babbage , English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (born 1791)1876 – Francis Preston Blair , American journalist (born 1791)1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold , German physician and botanist (born 1796)1889 – Antonio Meucci , Italian-American engineer (born 1808)1892 – William W. Chapman , American lawyer and politician (born 1808)1893 – Charles Gounod , French composer and educator (born 1818)1901–present
1908 – Nozu Michitsura , Japanese field marshal (born 1840)1911 – Alfred Binet , French psychologist and author (born 1857)1921 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (born 1845)1931 – Thomas Edison , American engineer and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1847)1931 – Lesser Ury , German painter (born 1861)[46] 1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)1935 – Gaston Lachaise , French-American sculptor (born 1882)1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes , Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (born 1860)1942 – Mikhail Nesterov , Russian painter (born 1862)1947 – Michiaki Kamada , Japanese admiral (born 1890)1948 – Walther von Brauchitsch , German field marshal (born 1881)1956 – Yoshio Markino , Japanese painter and author (born 1869)1959 – Boughera El Ouafi , Algerian-French runner (born 1903)1961 – Tsuru Aoki , Japanese-American actress (born 1892)1962 – Iván Petrovich , Serbian-German actor and singer (born 1894)1965 – Henry Travers , Irish-American actor (born 1874)1966 – Elizabeth Arden , Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (born 1878)1966 – S. S. Kresge , American businessman, founded Kmart (born 1867) 1969 – Gyula Mándi , Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1899)[47] 1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson , American publisher, founded The Little Review 1973 – Walt Kelly , American illustrator and animator (born 1913) 1973 – Leo Strauss , German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1899) 1975 – K. C. Douglas , American rural blues singer (born 1913)1975 – Al Lettieri , American actor (born 1928) 1975 – Graham Haberfield , English actor (born 1941) 1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana , Indian poet and author (born 1895)1977 – Andreas Baader , German militant (born 1943)1977 – Gudrun Ensslin , German militant leader, founded the Red Army Faction (born 1940) 1978 – Ramón Mercader , Spanish journalist, assassin of Leon Trotsky (born 1914)1980 – Edwin Way Teale , American photographer and author (born 1899)1982 – Dwain Esper , American director and producer (born 1892)1982 – Pierre Mendès France , French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister of France (born 1907) 1982 – John Robarts , Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (born 1917) 1982 – Bess Truman , American wife of Harry S. Truman , 40th First Lady of the United States (born 1885) 1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán , Spanish economist and author (born 1897)1983 – Willie Jones , American baseball player (born 1925) 1984 – Henri Michaux , French painter and poet (born 1899)1987 – Adriaan Ditvoorst , Dutch director and screenwriter (born 1940)2000 – Julie London , American singer and actress (born 1926)2000 – Gwen Verdon , American actress and dancer (born 1925) 2003 – Preston Smith , American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (born 1912)2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán , Spanish journalist, author, and critic (born 1939) 2005 – Johnny Haynes , English-Scottish footballer (born 1934)2005 – Bill King , American sportscaster (born 1927) 2006 – Mario Francesco Pompedda , Italian cardinal (born 1929)2006 – Anna Russell , English-Canadian singer and actress (born 1911) 2006 – Laurie Taitt , Guyanese-English hurdler (born 1934) 2007 – Alan Coren , English journalist and author (born 1938)2007 – William J. Crowe , American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (born 1925) 2007 – Vincent DeDomenico , American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (born 1915) 2007 – Lucky Dube , South African singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1964) 2008 – Dee Dee Warwick , American singer (born 1945)2009 – Adriaan Kortlandt , Dutch ethologist and biologist (born 1918)2009 – Nancy Spero , American painter and academic (born 1926) 2010 – Marion Brown , American saxophonist and musicologist (born 1931)2010 – Billy Raimondi , American baseball player (born 1912)[48] 2012 – Brain Damage , American wrestler (born 1977)2012 – Sylvia Kristel , Dutch model and actress (born 1952) 2012 – Slater Martin , American basketball player and coach (born 1925) 2012 – George Mattos , American pole vaulter (born 1929) 2012 – Albert Lee Ueltschi , American pilot and businessman, founded FlightSafety International (born 1917) 2012 – David S. Ware , American saxophonist and composer (born 1949) 2013 – Tom Foley , American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1929)2013 – Bum Phillips , American football player and coach (born 1923) 2013 – Allan Stanley , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1926) 2013 – Bill Young , American sergeant and politician (born 1930) 2014 – Mariano Lebrón Saviñón , Dominican author and academic (born 1922)2014 – Edward Regan , American academic and politician (born 1930) 2014 – Sidney Shapiro , American-Chinese author and translator (born 1915) 2015 – Robert Dickerson , Australian painter (born 1924)2015 – Gamal El-Ghitani , Egyptian journalist and author (born 1945) 2015 – Robert W. Farquhar , American engineer (born 1932) 2015 – Frank Watkins , American bass player (born 1968) 2015 – Paul West , English-American author, poet, and academic (born 1930) 2017 – Marino Perani , Italian football player and manager (born 1939)[49] 2018 – Lisbeth Palme , Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (born 1931)[50] 2018 – Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab , 5th President of the Sudan (born 1934)[51] 2019 – Rui Jordão , Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (born 1952)[52] 2020 – René Felber , 81st President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1933)[53] 2021 – Colin Powell , American military leader and statesman, 65th Secretary of State (born 1937)[54] 2022 – Harvey Wollman , American politician, 26th Governor of South Dakota (born 1935)[55] 2024 – Yehuda Bauer , Israeli historian of the Holocaust (born 1926)[56] 2024 – Ginés González García , Argentine politician and physician (born 1945)[57] 2025 – Sam Rivers , American bassist (born 1977)[58] 2025 – Yang Chen-Ning , Chinese theoretical physicist (born 1922)[59] 2025 – Lia Smith , American diver and transgender rights advocate.[60] Holidays and observances
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