1930s[edit]

• 1939 in music - Cole Porter's DuBarry Was a Lady; Birth of Judy Collins, Marvin Gaye, Ray Manzarek, Tina Turner, Grace Slick
• 1938 in music - Birth of Peter Yarrow, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben E. King, Death of Robert Johnson, Benny Goodman presents a jazz concert in Carnegie Hall; Death of Dan W. Quinn
• 1937 in music - Death of George Gershwin, Birth of Roberta Flack, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Garth Hudson, Tom Paxton, Philip Glass, Dame Shirley Bassey, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres
• 1936 in music - Birth of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Wyman, Dave Van Ronk, Steve Reich, Billboard publishes first U.S. music chart
• 1935 in music - Birth of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Luciano Pavarotti, Ronnie Hawkins, Johnnie Mathis, John Phillips, Lou Rawls, La Monte Young, Terry Riley; Audiovox produce first electric bass guitar; Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin premieres in New York
• 1934 in music - Cole Porter's Anything Goes; Birth of Leonard Cohen, Jackie Wilson; Tammy Grimes, Bob Shane, King Curtis, Florence Henderson, Renata Scotto, Shirley Jones, Otis Rush, Frankie Valli, Pat Boone, André Prévost, Freddie King, Brian Epstein, Dave Guard, Del Shannon; Deaths of Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst
• 1933 in music - Birth of James Brown, Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Nina Simone, Yoko Ono, Nick Reynolds
• 1932 in music - Night and Day (song) by Cole Porter; Birth of Johnny Cash, Petula Clark, Patsy Cline, Glenn Gould, Loretta Lynn, Miriam Makeba Carl Perkins, Little Richard, and John Williams; Death of John Philip Sousa; Adolph Rickenbacker produces first electric guitar; Bell Labs creates first stereophonic sound recordings
• 1931 in music - Birth of Teresa Brewer, Sam Cooke, João Gilberto, George Jones and Phyllis McGuire; Death of Anna Pavlova
• 1930 in music - Birth of Ray Charles, Herbie Mann, Odetta, Sonny Rollins, Stephen Sondheim, and The Big Bopper

1920s[edit]

• 1929 in music - Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen; Birth of Beverly Sills, Bill Evans, Dick Clark, Berry Gordy, Henri Pousseur
• 1928 in music - Birth of Bo Diddley and Karlheinz Stockhausen; Fats Domino The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (libretto) premieres in Berlin
• 1927 in music - Jerome Kern's Show Boat; Birth of Harry Belafonte, Birth of Tom Jobim,Birth of Patti Page Brazilian composer, Birth of Ralph Stanley
• 1926 in music - Tapiola by Jean Sibelius; Birth of Marilyn Monroe, Joan Sutherland, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, Tony Bennett, Big Mama Thornton; Turandot by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Milan
• 1925 in music - Birth of Celia Cruz, B.B. King and Pierre Boulez; Big record labels begin using electric microphones for recording; 78 RPM adopted as standard for records; BBC makes first radio broadcast in stereo; Wozzeck by Alban Berg premieres in Berlin, Carl Ruggles, Portals. Debut of the Grand Ole Opry.
• 1924 in music - Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York; the Symphony No. 7 by Jean Sibelius; Death of Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, Italian opera composer, Carl Ruggles. Men and Mountains. Debut of the National Barn Dance, the first radio program devoted to country music.
• 1923 in music - Birth of Hank Williams, First recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and many other African-American artists, Carl Ruggles, Vox clamans in deserto
• 1922 in music - Birth of Ali Akbar Khan, The first commercial radio station in the United States begins broadcasting
• 1921 in music - Death of Enrico Caruso, Carl Ruggles Angels
• 1920 in music - Birth of Charlie Parker, Ravi Shankar, Isaac Stern; Death of Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor

1910s[edit]

• 1919 in music - Birth of Pete Seeger, Merce Cunningham, Carl Ruggles, Toys
• 1918 in music - Phonograph cylinders become obsolete; the Society for Private Musical Performances is founded in Vienna by Arnold Schoenberg; Death of Claude Debussy
• 1917 in music - Birth of Lou Harrison, Ella Fitzgerald, John Lee Hooker, Dinu Lipatti, Isang Yun; First hit jazz recordings by Original Dixieland Jass Band, Death of Scott Joplin
• 1916 in music -Birth of Milton Babbitt, Henri Dutilleux, Alberto Ginastera, Betty Grable, Harry James, Dinah Shore,
• 1915 in music - An Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss; Birth of Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, John Serry, Sr.; Tom Brown starts billing his group as a "Jass Band"
• 1914 in music - "St. Louis Blues" published; first calypso music recordings
• 1913 in music - Birth of Muddy Waters, Vinicius de Moraes; Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
• 1912 in music - Birth of Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Cage
• 1911 in music - Birth of Robert Johnson, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden, Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
• 1910 in music - Birth of Howlin' Wolf, Artie Shaw, John H. Hammond, Django Reinhardt

Events[edit]

• March–December - The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
• May 15 - Tom Brown's band from New Orleans begin performing in Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band".^[1]
• Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).^[2]

Published popular music[edit]

"The Jelly Roll Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton

• "Alabama Jubilee" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
• "All For You" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "America, I Love You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
• "Araby" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Are You From Dixie?" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
• "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett
• "The Army Of Today's All Right" w.m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh
• "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Sigmund Romberg, from the musical The Blue Paradise
• "Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern
• "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi
• "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, & James V. Monaco
• "Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" w.m. Mark Sheridan
• "Blame It On The Blues" Doc Cooke
• "Canadian Capers" w. Earl Burnett m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan
• "Close To My Heart" by A.B. Sterling
• "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer
• "Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You" w. Thomas Hoier m. James Morgan
• "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg
• "Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" Gay, Brown
• "Georgia Grind" w.m. Spencer Williams
• "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Hello Frisco!" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch
• "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Jean Schwartz
• "The Hesitating Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
• "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi
• "I Love A Piano" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" Hermann Darewski
• "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. Joe McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
• "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz
• "In A Monastery Garden" m. Albert William Ketèlbey
• "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. Fiske O'Hara & J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• "It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m. Richard A. Whiting
• "I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River" w. Bert Kalmar m. Joe Cooper
• "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" Irving Berlin
• "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" w. William Jerome m. Walter Donaldson
• "The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m. Raymond Hubbell
• "The Little House Upon The Hill" w. Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck
• "Love Is The Best Of All" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "Love, Here Is My Heart" w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu
• "The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
• "Memories" w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Molly Dear It's You I'm After" w. Frank Wood m. Henry E. Pether
• "M-O-T-H-E-R" w. Howard Johnson m. Theodore F. Morse
• "My Little Girl" w. Sam M. Lewis & William Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "My Mother's Rosary" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "My Sweet Adair" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
• "Neapolitan Love Song" w. Henry Blossom Jr m. Victor Herbert
• "Nola" m.Felix Arndt
• "Norway" by Joe McCarthy
• "On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. Henry Kailimai
• "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag" w. George Asaf m. Felix Powell
• "Paper Doll" w.m. Johnny S. Black
• "The Perfect Song" w. Clarence Lucas m. Joseph Carl Breil
• "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m. Elsa Maxwell
• "Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. Claypole
• "Ragtime Pipe of Pan" w. Harold J. Atteridge m. Sigmund Romberg from the revue A World of Pleasure
• "Railroad Jim" by Nat H. Vincent
• "Ritual Fire Dance" m. Manuel de Falla
• "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen m. Ernest R. Ball
• "Siam" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
• "So Long Letty" by Earl Carroll
• "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell m. Silvio Hein. Introduced by Roy Atwell in the musical Alone at Last.
• "Some Sort Of Somebody" w. Elsie Janis m. Jerome Kern
• "Song Of The Islands" w.m. Charles E. King
• "That Hula Hula" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" Jack Foley
• "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
• "There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "Underneath The Stars" w. Fleta Jan Brown m. Herbert Spencer
• "We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m. Walter Donaldson
• "When I Get Back To The USA" w.m Irving Berlin
• "When I Leave The World Behind" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukulele" w.m. Charles McCarron & Nat Vincent
• "When You're In Love With Someone" w.m. Grant Clarke & Al Piantadosi
• "Which Switch Is The Switch, Miss, For Ipswich?" David, Barnett & Darewski
• "You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" by Shelton Brooks
• "You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
• "You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer

Hit recordings[edit]

• "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" by Alma Gluck
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" by John McCormack
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey

Classical music[edit]

• Claude Debussy - En blanc et noir
• Claude Debussy - Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
• Claude Debussy - "Etudes" Books One and Two for solo Piano
• Manuel de Falla - "Noches en los jaridines de Espana"
• Jesús Guridi - Así cantan los chicos
• Federico Mompou - L'Hora Gris (Grey Hour)
• Manuel Ponce - Balada Mexicana
• Max Reger - String Trio No. 2 in D minor Op. 141b
• Max Reger - Requiem, Op. 144b
• Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - String Quartets 1 & 2
• Siegfried Wagner - Violin Concerto

Opera[edit]

• Rutland Boughton - Bethlehem
• Umberto Giordano - Madame Sans-Gene
• Scott Joplin - Treemonisha (the only performance during his lifetime)

Musical theater[edit]

• Alone at Last Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 14 and ran for 180 performances
• Betty London production opened at Daly's Theatre on April 24 and ran for 391 performances
• Bric-A-Brac London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 18.
• 5064 Gerrard London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on March 19.
• Hip-Hip-Hooray Broadway revue opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 30 and ran for 425 performances.
• Maid in America Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 18 and ran for 108 performances.
• The Blue Paradise Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on August 5 and ran for 356 performances.
• The Only Girl London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on September 25 and ran for 107 performances.
• The Passing Show Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on May 29 and ran for 145 performances.
• Shell Out London production opened at the Comedy Theatre on August 24 and ran for 315 performances.
• Stop! Look! Listen! Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on December 25 and ran for 105 performances.
• Tonight's The Night London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 18 and ran for 460 performances.
• Very Good Eddie Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on December 23 and ran for 341 performances
• A World of Pleasure Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 14 and ran for 116 performances.
• Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 21 and ran for 104 performances

Births[edit]

• January 1 - Fulgencio Aquino, Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994)
• January 6 - Bob Copper, folk singer (d. 2004)
• January 25 - Ewan MacColl, folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
• January 27 - Jack Brymer, clarinettist (d. 2003)
• January 29 - John Serry, Sr., concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003)
• January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress and singer (d. 1934)
• February 4 - Ray Evans, songwriter (d. 2007)
• February 18 - Marcel Landowski, French composer, biographer and arts administrator (d. 1999)
• March 10 - Sir Charles Groves, conductor (d. 1992)
• March 20
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer (d. 1973)
  • Sviatoslav Richter, pianist (d. 1997)
• March 25 - Dorothy Squires, singer (d. 1998)
• March 28 - Jay Livingston, songwriter (d. 2001)
• March 29 - George Chisholm, jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997)
• April 4 - Muddy Waters (d. 1983)
• April 7 - Billie Holiday, blues singer (d. 1959)
• April 12 - Hound Dog Taylor, blues musician (d. 1975)
• April 29 - Donald Mills, US singer of the Mills Brothers (d. 1999)
• May 5 - Alice Faye, US actress and singer (d. 1998)
• May 8 - Nan Wynn, US singer (d. 1971)
• May 25 - Ginny Simms, US singer (d. 1994)
• May 27 - Midge Williams, jazz singer (d. 1952)
• June 1 - Bart Howard, composer and pianist (d. 2004)
• June 9 - Les Paul, musician, inventor of the solid body electric guitar (d. 2009)
• June 12 - Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress (d. 1995)
• June 17 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician (d. 1973)
• June 18 - Vic Legley, Dutch composer (d. 1994)
• June 28 - David Honeyboy Edwards, blues musician (d. 2011)
• July 9 - David Diamond, classical composer (d. 2005)
• July 15 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician (d. 1998)
• July 23 - Emmett Berry, jazz trumpeter (d. 1993)
• July 31 - George Forrest, musical theatre writer (d. 1999)
• August 6 - Jacques Abram, pianist (d. 1998)
• August 24 - Wynonie Harris, US singer (d. 1969)
• August 26 - Humphrey Searle, composer (d. 1982)
• September 3 - Memphis Slim, blues musician (d. 1988)
• September 5 - Florencio Morales Ramos, singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989)
• September 12 - Billy Daniels, US singer (d. 1988)
• September 23 - Julius Baker, flautist (d. 2003)
• September 24 - Ettore Gracis, conductor (d. 1992)
• October 10 - Sweets Edison, jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
• October 31 - Jane Jarvis, jazz pianist and composer
• November 5 – Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
• November 9 - Hanka Bielicka, Polish singer and actress (d. 2006)
• November 14 - Billy Bauer, jazz guitarist (d. 2005)
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra, US singer and actor (d. 1998)
• December 16 - Georgy Sviridov, Russian/Soviet composer (d. 1998)
• December 17 - André Claveau, singer (d. 2003)
• December 19 - Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
• December 25 - Pete Rugolo, Italian-born US pianist and bandleader (d 2011)
• December 30 - Brownie McGhee, folk-blues singer and guitarist (d. 1996)

Deaths[edit]

• January 2 - Karl Goldmark, composer (b. 1830)
• January 5 - Jeanne Gerville-Réache, operatic contralto (b. 1882)
• January 21 - Louis Gregh, composer and publisher (b. 1843)
• January 22 - Anna Bartlett Warner, songwriter (b. 1827)
• January 25 - Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, pedagogue and composer (b. 1847)
• February 12
  • Fanny Crosby, hymn-writer (b. 1820)
  • Emile Waldteufel, composer (b. 1837)
• March 12 - Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen, composer (b. 1838)
• March 19 - Franz Xaver Neruda, cellist and composer (b. 1843)
• April 27 - Alexander Scriabin, composer (b. 1872)
• May 7 - Charles Frohman, Broadway producer (b. 1856) (drowned in sinking of Lusitania)
• June 9 - Enrico Rocca, violin maker (b. 1847)
• June 10 - William Hayman Cummings, organist and singer (b. 1831)
• June 19 - Sergei Taneyev, pianist and composer (b. 1856)
• June 25 - Rafael Joseffy, pianist and composer (b. 1852)
• September 15 - Isidor Bajić, composer (b. 1878)
• September 29 - Rudi Stephan, composer (b. 1887) (killed in action)
• October 2 - Russell Alexander, entertainer and composer (b. 1877)
• October 5 - Otto Malling, organist and composer (b. 1848)
• October 22 - Adèle Isaac, operatic soprano (b. 1854)
• October 26 - August Bungert, composer and poet (b. 1845)
• November 14 - Teodor Leszetycki, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
• November 27 - Sigismund Zaremba, composer (b. 1861)
• December 10 - David Jenkins, composer (b. 1848)
• date unknown
  • Henry Hart, entertainer and composer (b. 1839)
  • Billy Kersands, dancer (b. c. 1842)
  • Bertha Tammelin, mezzo-soprano singer and actress (b. 1836)
  • José María Usandizaga, composer (b. 1887)

Φάλαινα 200 ετών αποκαλύπτει μυστικά μακροζωίας

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• 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
• 1566 – Pope Pius V is elected.
• 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
• 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
• 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
• 1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
• 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• 1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
• 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
• 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
• 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
• 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
• 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
• 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
• 1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
• 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
• 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
• 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• 1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
• 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
• 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• 1970 – The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
• 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
• 1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
• 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
• 1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
• 1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
• 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
• 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
• 1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
• 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
• 2005 – The St Lawrence Lime is blown over in high winds.
• 2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
• 2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

Births[edit]

• 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (d. 1397)
• 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
• 1634 – Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1647 – William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
• 1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (d. 1761)
• 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
• 1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian director (d. 1785)
• 1718 – Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790)
• 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral (d. 1823)
• 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, Italian brother of Napoleon (d. 1844)
• 1786 – John Catron, American jurist (d. 1865)
• 1796 – Princess Charlotte of Wales (d. 1817)
• 1800 – Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
• 1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
• 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
• 1832 – James Munro, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
• 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
• 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (d. 1879)
• 1845 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
• 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer (d. 1922)
• 1860 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
• 1864 – Seo Jae-pil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (d. 1951)
• 1870 – Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, English judge and politician, 7th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1943)
• 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
• 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet (d. 1914)
• 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976)
• 1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
• 1875 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
• 1876 – William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
• 1877 – William Clarence Matthews, American athlete and lawyer (d. 1928)
• 1879 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (d. 1941)
• 1880 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Edwin Swatek, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1953)
• 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian-American dancer (d. 1982)
• 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and author (d. 1960)
• 1895 – Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (d. 1974)
• 1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
• 1896 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (d. 1984)
• 1898 – Robert LeGendre, American athlete (d. 1931)
• 1899 – Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (d. 1941)
• 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
• 1900 – John Brownlee, Australian opera singer (d. 1969)
• 1900 – Robert Le Vigan, French actor (d. 1972)
• 1903 – Ioannis Despotopoulos, Greek architect (d. 1992)
• 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Bobbi Trout, American pilot (d. 2003)
• 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harp player (d. 1993)
• 1908 – Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967)
• 1910 – Orval Faubus, American politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor and composer (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1916 – W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989)
• 1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
• 1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Chester Kallman, American poet (d. 1975)
• 1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor
• 1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1966)
• 1924 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973)
• 1925 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist, and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea
• 1928 – William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter
• 1929 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Terry Moore, American actress
• 1930 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
• 1933 – Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Phil Mulkey, American decathlete
• 1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter
• 1934 – Joseph Naso, American serial killer
• 1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Kenny Davern, American clarinet player (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tuba player (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Ducky Schofield, American baseball player
• 1936 – G. Robert Blakey, American lawyer
• 1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian hunter and photographer
• 1936 – Hunter Davies, Scottish author and journalist
• 1936 – Ian La Frenais, English screenwriter
• 1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
• 1938 – Lena Granhagen, Swedish actress
• 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, and actor (d. 1997)
• 1938 – Fred Whitfield, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Tom Kiernan, Irish rugby player and coach
• 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
• 1940 – Anton Norris, Barbadian high jumper
• 1941 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, American astronaut
• 1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German-American soccer player and coach
• 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
• 1942 – Danny Steinmann, American director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
• 1943 – Richard Armstrong, English conductor
• 1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (d. 1955)
• 1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sportscaster
• 1944 – Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist
• 1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician
• 1945 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician
• 1945 – Raila Odinga, Kenyan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya
• 1946 – Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist and author
• 1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone
• 1946 – Mike Wilds, English race car driver
• 1947 – Shobhaa De, Indian journalist and author
• 1947 – Tony Elliott, English publisher
• 1947 – Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Iranian setar player (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter (Loggins and Messina)
• 1948 – Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (JAM Project)
• 1949 – Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Chavo Guerrero, Sr., Mexican-American wrestler
• 1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
• 1949 – Steven Williams, American actor
• 1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Erin Gray, American actress
• 1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
• 1950 – Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
• 1951 – Massimo Sigala, Italian race car driver
• 1951 – Helen Worth, English actress
• 1951 – Judith Belushi-Pisano, American actress, producer and writer
• 1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
• 1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 – Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
• 1954 – Jodi Long, American actress
• 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban pianist and composer
• 1956 – David Caruso, American actor and producer
• 1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
• 1956 – Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1957 – Nicholson Baker, American author
• 1957 – Katie Couric, American journalist and author
• 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress
• 1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
• 1958 – Donna Rice Hughes, American actress and activist
• 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress
• 1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (Hot Club de Norvège)
• 1959 – Ross Norman, New Zealand squash player
• 1959 – Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English politician
• 1959 – Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter (The Go-Go's)
• 1960 – David Marciano, American actor
• 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician
• 1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
• 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
• 1961 – John Thune, American politician
• 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian sociologist
• 1962 – Hallie Todd, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Clint Mansell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pop Will Eat Itself)
• 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician
• 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director
• 1965 – Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter
• 1965 – Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian steeplechase runner
• 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
• 1966 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (d. 2012)
• 1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Nick Clegg, English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1967 – Tim Donaghy, American basketball player and referee
• 1967 – Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
• 1967 – Mark Lamarr, English radio and television host
• 1969 – David Yost, American actor and producer
• 1970 – Andy Burnham, English politician
• 1970 – Todd Day, American basketball player
• 1970 – Doug E. Doug, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
• 1970 – Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
• 1971 – C. W. Anderson, American wrestler
• 1971 – David Longoria, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer
• 1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
• 1972 – Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
• 1972 – Vladimir Dubrovshchik, Belarusian discus thrower
• 1973 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
• 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter
• 1974 – Svetlana Metkina, Russian actress
• 1974 – John Rich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Big & Rich)
• 1975 – Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian-Canadian blogger
• 1975 – Shawn Phelan, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1976 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
• 1976 – Tomas Ražanauskas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Kierston Wareing, English actress
• 1976 – Harish Raghavendra, Indian playback singer
• 1977 – Michelle Behennah, Singaporean-English model
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond, American actor
• 1977 – John Gidding, American architect and television host
• 1977 – Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author
• 1977 – Marco Storari, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
• 1978 – Kevin Mench, American baseball player
• 1978 – Emilio Palma, Argentinian citizen, first person to be born on Antarctica
• 1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
• 1979 – Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian race car driver
• 1979 – Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
• 1980 – Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand rugby player
• 1980 – Zöe Salmon, Irish model and television host, Miss Northern Ireland 1999
• 1980 – Merritt Wever, American actress
• 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
• 1981 – Jinxx, American guitarist (Black Veil Brides, The Dreaming, and Amen)
• 1982 – Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1982 – Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
• 1982 – Priit Viks, Estonian biathlete
• 1982 – Ianina Zanazzi, Argentinian race car driver
• 1983 – Marc Burns, Trinidadian sprinter
• 1983 – Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
• 1983 – Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian volleyball player
• 1983 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor
• 1984 – Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player
• 1984 – Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English race car driver
• 1985 – Wayne Routledge, English footballer
• 1986 – Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
• 1987 – Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
• 1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• 1987 – Jimmy Smith, English footballer
• 1988 – Hardwell, Dutch DJ and producer
• 1988 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Sergei Mošnikov, Estonian footballer
• 1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
• 1989 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentinian footballer
• 1990 – Liam Aiken, American actor
• 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
• 1990 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
• 1990 – Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
• 1991 – Max Morrow, Canadian actor
• 1991 – Caster Semenya, South African middle-distance runner
• 1993 – Varunya Wongteanchai, Thai tennis player
• 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy)

Deaths[edit]

• 312 – Lucian of Antioch, Turkish martyr, saint, and theologian (b. 240)
• 672 – Tenji, Japanese emperor (b. 626)
• 1285 – Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
• 1325 – Denis of Portugal (b. 1261)
• 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
• 1451 – Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
• 1536 – Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485)
• 1566 – Louis de Blois, Flemish monk (b. 1506)
• 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. 1547)
• 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. 1560)
• 1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
• 1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician (b. 1590)
• 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. 1618)
• 1700 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian scholar and author (b. 1618)
• 1715 – François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)
• 1758 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
• 1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic (b. 1703)
• 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
• 1783 – William Tans'ur, English composer (b. 1700)
• 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and mineralogist (b. 1715)
• 1812 – Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (b. 1768)
• 1830 – John Thomas Campbell, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
• 1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
• 1858 – Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman statesman and diplomat (b. 1779)
• 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
• 1876 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
• 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
• 1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1852)
• 1893 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1904 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author (b. 1836)
• 1913 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
• 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
• 1920 – Edmund Barton, Australian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• 1927 – Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1931 – Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
• 1932 – André Maginot, French soldier and politician (b. 1877)
• 1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
• 1941 – Charles Finger, British author (b. 1869)
• 1942 – Alfred Asikainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1888)
• 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1944 – Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
• 1946 – Adamo Didur, Polish opera singer (b. 1874)
• 1951 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Jalmari Eskola, Finnish runner (b. 1886)
• 1960 – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (b. 1878)
• 1963 – Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1964 – Cyril Davies, English singer and harmonica player (Blues Incorporated) (b. 1932)
• 1964 – Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager (b. 1911)
• 1966 – Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
• 1967 – David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1967 – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
• 1968 – J.L.B. Smith, South African chemist (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1972 – John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
• 1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek songwriter (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1935)
• 1981 – Alvar Lidell, English journalist (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
• 1983 – Eliza Amy Hodgson, New Zealand botanist (b. 1888)
• 1984 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Mary Hardy, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1931)
• 1986 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (b. 1917)
• 1988 – Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Trevor Howard,English actor (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Horace Stoneham, American businessman (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)
• 1994 – Llewellyn Rees, English actor (b. 1901)
• 1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
• 1996 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 – Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2001 – James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Jon Lee, English drummer (Feeder, The Darling Buds, and Raindancer) (b. 1968)
• 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Alwyn Schlebusch, South African politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Derek Gardner, English engineer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Tony Blankley, English-American journalist and actor (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Milburn E. Calhoun, American physician, philanthropist, and publisher (b. 1930)
• 2012 – George Livingston, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Hideaki Nitani, Japanese actor (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Herbert Wilf, American mathematician and academic (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Carl Berner, German-American super-centenarian (b. 1902)
• 2013 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Jim Cosman, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Richard Ben Cramer, American journalist and author (b. 1950)
• 2013 – David R. Ellis, American director, actor, and stuntman (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Huell Howser, American television host (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American curator and critic (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Louise Laurin, Canadian educator and activist (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Harvey Shapiro, American poet and journalist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Fred L. Turner, American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Croatian director and cinematographer (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Paul Goggins, English politician (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Sunshine Forever, American race horse (b. 1985)
• 2014 – Thomas V. Jones, American businessman (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (b. 1907)
• 2014 – Roy Warhurst, English footballer (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Canute Lavard
  • Charles of Sezze
  • St. André Bessette (Canada)
  • Lucian of Antioch
  • Raymond of Peñafort
  • January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar)
• Distaff Day (medieval Europe)
• Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japan)
• Pioneer's Day (Liberia (controversial))
• Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian Calendar)
• Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)
• Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)

Μεταλλαγμένο βασικό στέλεχος του ιού της γρίπης. 

Οι χρονίως πάσχοντες και οι ηλικιωμένοι πρέπει να τηρούν σχολαστικά τις οδηγίες πρόληψης της γρίπης, προκειμένου να αποφύγουν, όσο το δυνατό περισσότερο, την έκθεση στον ιό.