Δύο νέα πολυτελή ξενοδοχεία σε Μύκονο και Αθήνα

• AD 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor.
• 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.^[1]
• 1438 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
• 1458 – Matthias Corvinus becomes King of Hungary.
• 1624 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
• 1679 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
• 1739 – Peshva warrior Chimnaji Appa defeats Portuguese forces and captures Tarapur Fort, India.
• 1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1758 – During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Königsberg submit to Elizabeth of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763)
• 1817 – Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
• 1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
• 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
• 1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
• 1859 – The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later named Romania) is formed as a personal union under the rule of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
• 1862 – Bucharest is proclaimed the capital of Romania.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
• 1908 – The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
• 1915 – World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
• 1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
• 1918 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS)
• 1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
• 1939 – The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
• 1942 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
• 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
• 1960 – Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
• 1961 – Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa
• 1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
• 1977 – Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy.
• 1978 – Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
• 1984 – Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
• 1989 – Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison
• 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
• 2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
• 2009 – Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
• 2011 – At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.

• AD 76 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)^[2]
• 1287 – Richard de Bury, English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1345)^[3]
• 1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
• 1540 – Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr (d. 1581)
• 1547 – Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Austrian Archduchess (d. 1578)
• 1602 – Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, English politician (d. 1666)
• 1619 – Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1682)
• 1643 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and politician, Lord Chamberlain of Great Britain (d. 1706)
• 1664 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (d. 1726)
• 1670 – William Congreve, English playwright and poet (d. 1729)
• 1672 – Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German Lieutenant General (d. 1731)
• 1674 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
• 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher and academic (d. 1754)
• 1684 – Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, German noble (d. 1737)
• 1705 – Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (d. 1782)
• 1709 – Dom Bédos de Celles, French monk and organist (d. 1779)
• 1712 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (d. 1786)
• 1732 – Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and financier (d. 1799)
• 1739 – Jean Nicolas Houchard, French General of the French Revolution (d. 1793)
• 1746 – Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792)
• 1749 – Charles James Fox, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1806)
• 1754 – Andrew Ellicott, American soldier and surveyor (d. 1820)
• 1761 – Louis Klein, French general (d. 1845)
• 1763 – Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Ukrainian general and politician (d. 1831)
• 1776 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German jurist, author, and composer (d. 1822)
• 1787 – Christian Ludwig Brehm, German pastor and ornithologist (d. 1864)
• 1804 – Delphine de Girardin, French author (d. 1855)
• 1814 – Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, French Crown Princess (d. 1858)
• 1814 – John Colenso, British mathematician (d. 1883)
• 1816 – Wilhelm Henzen, German philologist and epigraphist (d. 1887)
• 1828 – Ferdinand Cohn, German biologist (d. 1898)
• 1829 – Yechiel Michel Epstein, Rabbi and posek (d. 1908)
• 1836 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (d. 1909)
• 1843 – Josip Stadler, Croatian archbishop (d. 1918)
• 1848 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
• 1850 – Hermann Ebbinghaus, German psychologist (d. 1909)
• 1853 – Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser, German psychiatrist (d. 1931)
• 1856 – Friedrich Grünanger, Transylvanian Hungarian-German architect (d. 1929)
• 1858 – Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (d. 1889)
• 1862 – Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1937)
• 1863 – August Adler, Czech and Austrian mathematician (d. 1923)
• 1864 – Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (d. 1936)
• 1864 – Gaetano Giardino, Italian soldier and Marshal of Italy (d. 1935)
• 1866 – Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1920)
• 1870 – Herbert Kilpin, English footballer (d. 1916)
• 1871 – Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Czech poet, writer and literary critic (d. 1951)
• 1871 – Thomas Jaggar, American volcanologist (d. 1953)
• 1872 – Yuly Aykhenvald, Russian literary critic (d. 1928)
• 1872 – Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
• 1872 – Morris Travers, English chemist and academic (d. 1961)
• 1873 – Dmitry Ushakov, Russian philologist and lexicographer (d. 1942)
• 1882 – Harold D. Babcock, American astronomer (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Ödön Bodor, Hungarian athlete (d. 1927)
• 1886 – Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1887 – Jean-Henri Humbert, French botanist (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Vicki Baum, Austrian author and screenwriter (d. 1960)
• 1888 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company (d. 1958)
• 1889 – Victor Eftimiu, Romanian poet and playwright (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Charles Hawes, American historian and author (d. 1923)
• 1889 – Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, German general of paratroop forces during World War II (d. 1968)
• 1891 – Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Franz Aigner, Austrian weightlifter (d. 1970)
• 1895 – Eugen Roth, German poet and songwriter (d. 1976)
• 1897 – Paul Fejos, Hungarian-born American director (d. 1963)
• 1899 – Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general (d. 1954)
• 1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
• 1900 – René Guillot, French writer (d. 1969)
• 1901 – Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
• 1901 – Cassandre, French painter (d. 1968)
• 1901 – Edward Turner, English engineer (d. 1973)
• 1905 – J. Howard Marshall, American lawyer and businessman (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Wilfred Jackson, American animator and composer (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1979)
• 1907 – Maurice Couve de Murville, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999)
• 1907 – Jean Daetwyler, Swiss composer and musician (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Martin Lings, English author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Doris Haddock, American political activist (d. 2010)
• 1912 – Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Norman Dello Joio, American organist and composer (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1983)
• 1915 – Vítězslava Kaprálová, Czech composer and conductor (d. 1940)
• 1915 – Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Rafael Caldera, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, 65th President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player and actor (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Wilhelmus Demarteau, Dutch prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Gottfried von Einem, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded Oral Roberts University and Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Coleman Francis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
• 1919 – Leon Kirchner, American composer and educator (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Jimmy Forrest, American saxophonist (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Jerry Maren, American actor (d. 2018)
• 1922 – Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Neil Franklin, English footballer (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Geneviève Asse, French painter
• 1925 – Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Maria Tallchief, American ballerina and actress (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, Scottish lieutenant (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Paula Hawkins, American politician (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Desmond Morris, English zoologist, ethologist, and painter
• 1928 – Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Mahmoud Farshchian, Iranian-Persian painter and academic
• 1930 – John Romita Sr., American soldier and illustrator
• 1931 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Ib Nørholm, Danish composer and organist
• 1932 – Éliane Radigue, French electronic music composer
• 1933 – Kamran Baghirov, the 12th First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Asim Ferhatović, Bosnian footballer (d. 1987)
• 1934 – Leonard Goldberg, American producer
• 1934 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d. 1976)
• 1935 – Eric Ashton, English rugby player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Shivabalayogi, Indian religious leader (d. 1994)
• 1936 – Doug Kershaw, American fiddle player and singer
• 1937 – Trevor Edwards, Welsh footballer
• 1938 – Julius Hemphill, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1995)
• 1939 – Renate Garisch-Culmberger, German shot putter
• 1939 – Ray Stevens, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1940 – Vito Acconci, American designer (d. 2017)
• 1940 – Joachim Gauck, German pastor and politician, 11th President of Germany
• 1942 – Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (d. 2008)
• 1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 – Aaron Neville, American singer
• 1941 – Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Ingo Friedrich, German Member of the European Parliament
• 1943 – Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Sharon Tate, American model and actress (d. 1969)
• 1943 – Tony Trimmer, English race car driver
• 1943 – Manuel Velázquez, Spanish footballer (d. 2016)
• 1944 – David Gerrold, American science fiction screenwriter and author
• 1944 – Gian-Franco Kasper, Swiss ski official
• 1945 – John Garamendi, American football player and politician, 1st United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior
• 1945 – Subhash Ghai, Indian director, producer and screenwriter
• 1945 – Eva Janko, Austrian javelin thrower
• 1946 – Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
• 1947 – Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Michio Kaku, American physicist and academic
• 1947 – Masashi Ozaki, Japanese baseball player and golfer
• 1947 – Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1948 – Elliott Abrams, American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist
• 1948 – Michael Des Barres, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1949 – John Belushi, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1949 – Bart Gordon, American lawyer
• 1949 – Nadezhda Ilyina, Russian athlete and mother of Russian tennis player Nadia Petrova (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Rihoko Yoshida, Japanese voice actress
• 1950 – Daniel Auteuil, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American comedian and actor
• 1953 – Yuri Bashmet, Russian violinist, viola player, and conductor
• 1953 – Moon Jae-in, 19th President of South Korea
• 1954 – Jo Gartner, Austrian race car driver (d. 1986)
• 1955 – Jim Montgomery, American swimmer
• 1955 – Alan Sokal, American physicist and author
• 1955 – Lynda Weinman, American businesswoman and author
• 1956 – Agus Martowardojo, governor of Bank Indonesia
• 1957 – Mark Eaton, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1957 – Ade Edmondson, English comedian and musician
• 1958 – Kim Eui-kon, Korean wrestler
• 1958 – Jools Holland, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1958 – Frank Ullrich, German biathlete
• 1959 – Akira Maeda, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
• 1959 – Michel Preud'homme, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1961 – Jorge Barrios, Uruguayan footballer
• 1961 – Guido Buchwald, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Christa Kinshofer, German ski racer
• 1961 – Nastassja Kinski, German-American actress and producer
• 1961 – William Van Dijck, Belgian runner
• 1963 – Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
• 1964 – Annika Dahlman, Swedish cross country skier
• 1965 – Robin Dutt, German footballer
• 1965 – Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Pagonis Vakalopoulos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1965 – Kim Sung-moon, South Korean wrestler
• 1966 – Julie Dreyfus, French actress
• 1966 – Karin Viard, French actress
• 1967 – Michael Kiske, German singer
• 1967 – Mark Kozelek, American singer and musician
• 1967 – Phil LaMarr, American actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – John Myung, American bass player and songwriter
• 1968 – Fernando Escartín, Spanish cyclist
• 1968 – Antony Garrett Lisi, American theoretical physicist
• 1968 – Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
• 1968 – Tymerlan Huseynov, Ukrainian footballer
• 1969 – Yoo Ho-jeong, South Korean actress
• 1969 – Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva, bishop of Montenegro
• 1970 – Roberto Bonano, Argentine footballer
• 1970 – Matthew Lillard, American actor
• 1971 – José Carlos Fernandez, Bolivian footballer
• 1972 – Beth Hart, American blues-rock singer and piano player
• 1974 – Cyril Despres, French rally racer
• 1974 – Ed Helms, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Rokia Traoré, Malian singer
• 1975 – Gianluca Basile, Italian former professional basketball player
• 1975 – Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer and manager
• 1975 – Reto Hug, Swiss triathlonist
• 1975 – Henna Raita, Finnish alpine skier
• 1976 – Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer, coach, and choreographer
• 1976 – Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
• 1977 – Andrija Gerić, Serbian volleyball player
• 1977 – Michelle Hunziker, Swiss-Dutch actress, model and singer
• 1978 – Veerle Baetens, Belgian actress and singer
• 1978 – Mark Hildreth, Canadian actor and musician
• 1978 – Kristen Schaal, American actress, voice artist, comedian and writer
• 1979 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
• 1979 – Leandro Desábato, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Busy Signal, Jamaican dancehall reggae artist
• 1979 – Nik Wallenda, American acrobat
• 1980 – Jofre Mateu, Spanish footballer
• 1980 – Suzy, Portuguese singer
• 1981 – Mario Eggimann, Swiss footballer
• 1981 – Zaur Hashimov, Azerbaijani footballer and manager
• 1981 – Elena Kolomina, Kazakhstani cross country skier
• 1982 – Céline Deville, French footballer
• 1982 – Daveed Diggs, American actor, rapper and singer
• 1982 – Claudia Heill, Austrian judoka
• 1982 – Aitor Hernández, Spanish racing cyclist
• 1983 – Davide Biondini, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Wyatt Crockett, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Evgeny Drattsev, Russian swimmer
• 1983 – Craig Horner, Australian actor and musician
• 1983 – Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
• 1983 – Scott Speed, American race car driver
• 1984 – Emerse Faé, French-born Ivorian footballer
• 1984 – Yotam Halperin, Israeli basketball player
• 1984 – Jung Jin-sun, South Korean fencer
• 1984 – Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
• 1984 – Paulo Sérgio Moreira Gonçalves, Portuguese footballer
• 1985 – Fabiana Claudino, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1985 – Trey Gilder, American basketball player
• 1986 – Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1986 – Mohammad Bagheri Motamed, Iranian taekwondo practitioner
• 1986 – Mischa Barton, English-American actress
• 1986 – Vladislav Ivanov, Russian footballer
• 1986 – Michael Kightly, English footballer
• 1986 – Ricky Ullman, Israeli-American actor
• 1987 – Wayne Hennessey, Welsh footballer
• 1987 – Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1987 – Davide Valsecchi, Italian racing driver
• 1987 – Kia Vaughn, American born Czech basketball player
• 1987 – Guan Xin, Chinese basketball player
• 1988 – Jade Ewen, English singer and actress
• 1988 – Selina Jörg, German snowboarder
• 1989 – Serdar Kesimal, Turkish footballer
• 1989 – Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
• 1989 – Ki Sung-yueng, South Korean footballer
• 1990 – Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 – Ryosuke Irie, Japanese swimmer
• 1991 – Zhan Beleniuk, Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler
• 1991 – Tatiana Kashirina, Russian weightlifter
• 1991 – Zé Luís, Cape Verdean footballer
• 1991 – Li Xuerui, Chinese badminton player
• 1992 – Becky Downie, English gymnast
• 1992 – Phiwa Nkambule, South African entrepreneur
• 1992 – Felitciano Zschusschen, Curaçao footballer
• 1994 – Tommie Hoban, English footballer
• 1995 – Dylan Everett, Canadian actor
• 1997 – Nirei Fukuzumi, Japanese racer
• 1999 – Vitalie Damașcan, Moldovan footballer
• 2012 – Princess Athena of Denmark, younger child of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark^[4]

• AD 41 – Caligula, Roman emperor (b. 12)
• 817 – Pope Stephen IV (b. 770)
• 901 – Liu Jishu, general of the Tang Dynasty
• 1046 – Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen (b. c. 985)
• 1125 – David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
• 1336 – Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
• 1376 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1306)
• 1473 – Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (b. 1410)
• 1525 – Franciabigio, Florentine painter (b. 1482)
• 1595 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1529)
• 1626 – Samuel Argall, English captain and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1572)
• 1639 – Jörg Jenatsch, Swiss pastor and politician (b. 1596)
• 1666 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (b. 1588)
• 1709 – George Rooke, English admiral and politician (b. 1650)
• 1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796)
• 1881 – James Collinson, English painter (b. 1825)
• 1883 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
• 1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1849)
• 1920 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1939 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician, created Muesli (b. 1867)
• 1943 – John Burns, English trade union leader and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1858)
• 1948 – Maria Mandl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1912)
• 1960 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 – André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1962 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1965 – Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 – Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)
• 1971 – Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 – J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)
• 1975 – Larry Fine, American comedian (b. 1902)
• 1982 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (b. 1918)
• 1983 – George Cukor, American director and producer (b. 1899)
• 1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American religious leader and author, founded the Church of Scientology (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
• 1988 – Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
• 1990 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Jack Schaefer, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd United States Solicitor General (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Elie Hobeika, Lebanese commander and politician (b. 1956)
• 2003 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Leônidas, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
• 2007 – İsmail Cem İpekçi, Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian academic and politician (b. 1956)
• 2007 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier (b. 1891)
• 2010 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Bernd Eichinger, German director and producer (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Shulamit Aloni, Israeli lawyer and politician, 11th Israeli Minister of Education (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran academic and politician (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Otto Carius, German lieutenant and pharmacist (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Fredrik Barth, German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (b. 1960)
• 2017 – Butch Trucks, American drummer (b. 1947)
• 2018 – Mark E. Smith, British singer-songwriter (b. 1957)

Workshop γευσιγνωσίας ελαιολάδου και ημερίδα στη Θεσσαλονίκη! 

• AD 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
• 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
• 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
• 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
• 1515 – Coronation of Francis I of France.
• 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• 1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
• 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
• 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
• 1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
• 1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
• 1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
• 1787 – Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
• 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
• 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
• 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
• 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 1918 – The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
• 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
• 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
• 1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
• 1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
• 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
• 1946 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
• 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
• 1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
• 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
• 1961 – In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1961 – 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
• 1964 – Blue Ribbon Sports is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes, which would later become Nike.
• 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
• 1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
• 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
• 1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
• 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• 1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
• 1994 – The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
• 1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
• 1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
• 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
• 1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
• 2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
• 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
• 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
• 2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
• 2015 – A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.

• 750 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (d. 780)
• 1408 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
• 1459 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1537)
• 1477 – Anne of Brittany (d. 1514)
• 1507 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (d. 1568)
• 1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• 1526 – Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1586)
• 1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
• 1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish-English chemist and physicist (d. 1691)
• 1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch politician and diplomat (d. 1688)
• 1635 – Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, German writer, diplomat and lawyer (d. 1683)
• 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Steward of the Household (d. 1707)
• 1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813)
• 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1823)
• 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher and author (d. 1819)
• 1750 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (d. 1813)
• 1755 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (d. 1815)
• 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (d. 1796)
• 1783 – William Colgate, English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (d. 1857)
• 1794 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer (d. 1878)
• 1796 – William MacGillivray, Scottish ornithologist and biologist (d. 1852)
• 1813 – J. Marion Sims, American gynecologist and physician (d. 1883)
• 1816 – Anna Gardner, American abolitionist and teacher (d. 1901)^[1]
• 1822 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician, founded the Bishop Museum (d. 1915)
• 1822 – William McDougall, Canadian lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (d. 1905)
• 1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1873)
• 1841 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, English admiral (d. 1920)
• 1858 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1954)
• 1859 – Digby Denham, English-Australian politician, 18th Premier of Queensland (d. 1944)
• 1860 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
• 1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author (d. 1934)
• 1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894)
• 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1965)
• 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975)
• 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1941)
• 1885 – Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (d. 1954)
• 1895 – Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1927)
• 1899 – Sleepy John Estes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian lawyer and politician, 46th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1972)
• 1900 – István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author and educator (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky Ukrainian geneticist and pioneer of evolutionary biology (d. 1975)^[2]
• 1901 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver and pilot (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Margery Sharp, English author and educator (d. 1991)
• 1906 – Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1976)
• 1908 – Hsieh Tung-min, Taiwanese politicians and Vice President of the Republic of China (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author, and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1984)
• 1913 – Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2010)
• 1913 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994)
• 1913 – Luis Marden, American photographer and journalist (d. 2003)
• 1914 – William Strickland, American conductor and organist (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, actor and producer (d. 1989)
• 1916 – Pop Ivy, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
• 1919 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Raymond Baxter, English television host and pilot (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
• 1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Sally Starr, American actress and television host (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Jean Taittinger, French politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1994)
• 1928 – Jérôme Choquette, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Robert Faurisson, English-French author and academic (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer
• 1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian child diarist (d. 1944)
• 1931 – Dean Jones, American actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Conrad Burns, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2016)
• 1935 – António Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician, 16th President of Portugal^[3]
• 1936 – Colin Greenwood, South African rugby player (d. 1998)
• 1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1936 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)
• 1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African engineer and politician, President of the Central African Republic (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1938 – Etta James, American singer (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese author, illustrator, and animator
• 1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1980)
• 1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1941 – George Taylforth, English-Australian rugby league player
• 1942 – Carl Eller, American football player and sportscaster
• 1942 – Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Tobe Hooper, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
• 1944 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress (d. 2017)
• 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
• 1945 – Dave Walker, English singer and guitarist
• 1946 – Doc Bundy, American race car driver and technician
• 1947 – Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1947 – Tostão, Brazilian footballer, journalist, and physician
• 1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian educator and politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel
• 1948 – Georgy Shishkin, Russian painter and illustrator
• 1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English poet and critic
• 1949 – Paul Nurse, English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Gloria Naylor, American novelist (d. 2016)
• 1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
• 1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-English journalist and activist
• 1952 – Timothy White, American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2002)
• 1954 – Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1954 – Kay Cottee, Australian sailor
• 1954 – Renate Dorrestein, Dutch journalist and author
• 1956 – Andy Cox, English guitarist
• 1956 – Dinah Manoff, American actress
• 1957 – Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish technologist and politician, Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs
• 1957 – Andrew Harris, American politician
• 1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer
• 1958 – Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean ophthalmologist and politician, Singaporean Ministry of National Development
• 1962 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player and manager
• 1963 – Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician, 61st Mayor of São Paulo
• 1963 – Molly Holzschlag, American computer scientist and author
• 1964 – Billy Andrade, American golfer
• 1964 – Stephen Pate, Australian cyclist
• 1965 – Bruce Sinclair, Australian rugby league player
• 1965 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Chet Culver, American educator and politician, 41st Governor of Iowa
• 1966 – Yiannos Ioannou, Cypriot footballer and manager
• 1967 – Nelson Asaytono, Filipino basketball player
• 1967 – David Ginola, French footballer
• 1967 – Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Eric Orie, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1969 – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Stephen Chbosky, American author, screenwriter, and director
• 1970 – Chris Mills, American basketball player
• 1970 – Garrick Morgan, Australian rugby player
• 1970 – Milt Stegall, American football player and sportscaster
• 1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
• 1971 – Philip Coppens, Belgian journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress
• 1972 – Shinji Takehara, Japanese boxer
• 1973 – Geoff Johns, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1974 – Robert Budreau, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Emily Haines, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1974 – Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
• 1976 – Stephanie Bellars, American wrestler and manager
• 1976 – Mário Haberfeld, Brazilian race car driver
• 1976 – Dimitris Nalitzis, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Willie Talau, Samoan-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1978 – Ahmet Dursun, Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
• 1978 – Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
• 1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
• 1980 – Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
• 1980 – Xavi, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
• 1981 – Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1982 – Misi Taulapapa, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
• 1983 – Dayne Neirinckx, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
• 1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Fara Williams, English footballer
• 1985 – Brent Celek, American football player
• 1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player
• 1985 – Hwang Jung-eum, South Korean actress
• 1986 – Chris O'Grady, English footballer
• 1986 – Keith Peters, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
• 1987 – Japeth Aguilar, Filipino basketball player
• 1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
• 1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
• 1988 – Ryota Ozawa, Japanese actor
• 1990 – Apostolos Giannou, Greek-Australian footballer
• 1990 – Lee Jun-ho, South Korean singer and actor (2PM)
• 1991 – Jared Cowen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Nigel Melker, Dutch race car driver
• 1993 – Kasper Larsen, Danish footballer

• 390 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
• 477 – Gaiseric, king of the Vandals (b. 389)
• 750 – Ibrahim ibn al-Walid, Umayyad caliph
• 844 – Pope Gregory IV (b. 795)
• 863 – Charles of Provence, Frankish king (b. 845)
• 951 – Ma Xiguang, ruler of Chu (Ten Kingdoms)
• 1003 – Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark
• 1067 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. 1032)
• 1138 – Antipope Anacletus II
• 1139 – Godfrey I, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VI)
• 1366 – Henry Suso, German priest and mystic (b. 1300)
• 1413 – Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (b. 1345)
• 1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
• 1492 – Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and rebel (b. 1443)
• 1494 – Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
• 1559 – Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
• 1578 – Mihrimah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1522)
• 1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
• 1640 – Robert Burton, English physician and scholar (b. 1577)
• 1670 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
• 1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
• 1733 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1652)
• 1751 – Paul Dudley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675)
• 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
• 1872 – Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817)
• 1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
• 1884 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
• 1900 – Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)^[4]
• 1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 – Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
• 1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
• 1910 – W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860)
• 1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)
• 1925 – Juan Vucetich, Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858)
• 1939 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)
• 1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
• 1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)
• 1957 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
• 1958 – Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)
• 1958 – Robert R. Young, American businessman and financier (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Saul Adler, Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Louie Myfanwy Thomas, Welsh writer (b. 1908)
• 1970 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (b. 1877)
• 1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and producer (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Barry III, Guinean lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
• 1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Keith Froome, Australian rugby league player (b. 1920)
• 1978 – Skender Kulenović, Bosnian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Adele Astaire, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1896)
• 1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Russian economist and politician (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek jurist and politician (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Frank J. Lynch, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1991 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Mir Khalil ur Rehman, Founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Jonathan Larson, American playwright and composer (b. 1960)
• 1997 – Dan Barry, American author and illustrator (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Sarah Louise Delany, American author and educator (b. 1889)
• 1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Cliff Baxter, employee at Enron (b. 1958)
• 2003 – Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2005 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2005 – William Augustus Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
• 2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch runner (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Kim Manners, American director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister of Defence (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Vincent Cronin, Welsh historian and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Jacques Maisonrouge, French businessman (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Robert Sheran, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian soprano and actress (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Dave Strack, American basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2015 – John Leggett, American author and academic (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Richard McBrien, American priest, theologian, and academic (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player and coach (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Demis Roussos, Egyptian-Greek singer (b. 1946)
• 2017 – Stephen P. Cohen, Canadian academic (b. 1945)
• 2017 – Robert Garcia, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2017 – John Hurt, English actor (b. 1940)
• 2017 – Harry Mathews, American novelist and poet (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Marcel Prud'homme, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, dancer, and producer (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat (b. 1916)

Fiddler on the Roof heads to the West End

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Fiddler on the Roof continues to have an impact on popular culture today in ways you might not even realise.

Take, for example, Lin-Manuel Miranda - the man behind In The Heights and the hugely successful Hamilton.

Miranda has repeatedly said his writing has been heavily influenced by Fiddler, which was first staged in 1964.

The classic musical tells the story of a poor milkman, Tevye, who wants to find good husbands for his five daughters, and struggles to accept that modern life is changing.

It may be set in the Jewish community of a pre-revolutionary Russian village, but its fans argue the themes and principles of the show are universal.

"We realised we could learn an enormous amount from Fiddler," Miranda said in 2012 about the process of developing In The Heights.

"That opening number of Fiddler [Tradition] is a masterpiece... Tevye takes you through the world.

"He's like, 'This is my family, these are my daughters, these are the other special people in our village, and then these are the outsiders in the village, and that's exactly the set-up of the opening number of In the Heights."

And Miranda took his love for Fiddler to another level when he performed one of the numbers, To Life, at his own wedding.

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More widely, the show remains highly popular with audiences - and now a recent London production of the musical which has been warmly welcomed by critics is to transfer to the West End.

From April, Fiddler on the Roof will move from its current home at Menier Chocolate Factory to the Playhouse Theatre.

"It's a really extraordinary piece of writing, both as a play and a musical," the show's star Andy Nyman tells BBC News.

"You've got some of the greatest songs ever written in there, which people know and love even if they don't know they're from the show."

The music has been reversioned and reimagined several times over the years - one of the best-known examples is by Gwen Stefani, who took If I Were A Rich Man and flipped the genders for her 2005 smash Rich Girl.

And the show itself seems to be one that directors and producers just can't leave alone.

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It has has been revived on Broadway five times over since its debut, and its last West End revival was just over a decade ago. A film adaptation, released in 1971, won three of the eight Oscars it was nominated for.

The Menier's new production has received glowing reviews from critics, including those in The Guardian, WhatsOnStage, The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard.

Writing in Gay Times, Chris Selman described it as a "magnificent revival", adding: "This fiddler raises the roof."

But, pointed out John Nathan in Metro: "If the show gets the West End transfer it deserves, the challenge will be to preserve the Menier's intimacy."

Nyman responds: "That's a challenge that everybody is aware of, so one of the really exciting things is the theatre we're going to is being reconfigured, 

"So you're not going to be seeing a traditional proscenium arch Fiddler where you sit in the audience and watch the action going on 40 feet away from you.

"The theatre will instead be similar to what the Chocolate Factory is, so we'll be right in the middle of the audience."

Nyman's raw and rugged performance in the show has been praised by critics, with Andrzej Lukowski writing in Time Out: "He's not really a quintessential musical theatre actor, but being a bit rough around the edges helps his cause here." 

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"With a magnificent beard and a stack of charisma, he puts in a hugely dedicated performance as a wearily loving father trying to do his best to bend with the tides of history."

Nyman says he feels "honoured" to have been given the role and to now be taking the show to the West End.

"The play is incredibly funny... and it's a very honest look at the Jewish immigration situation in Poland, but what's remarkable about it is it's absolutely universal," he says.

"I mean, one of the places Fiddler has proved most popular in the world is Japan, because you have this notion of how families survive without tradition."

This is true - the show's success in the country has been remarkable given the absence of a significant Jewish history in Japan.

But according to Koji Aoshika, the vice president of Musical Theatre International in Asia, the show has particular resonance in the country.

Speaking to Tablet last year, he said: "The show is about tradition, father-daughter relationships, Japan was the same; you had to follow what the father said - arranged marriage, for instance. 

"So, the story of a Jewish father losing power in the family and girls starting to make their own decisions resonates. As the majority of musical theatre-goers in Japan is 20-to-40-something female, I believe the show makes them think of their own relationships with their fathers."

Although the show might not sound relatable to all audiences on paper, Nyman argues its themes have wide appeal.

"If you have kids, it makes you think of your relationship with them, and if you don't, it makes you think about your relationship with your parents, and what it was like when you left them and moved home. It is such a profound piece of writing."

Fiddler on the Roof opens at the London Playhouse on 21 March, running until 15 June,