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• 1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
• 1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in the Kingdom of England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
• 1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
• 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
• 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
• 1667 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
• 1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
• 1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
• 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
• 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
• 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
• 1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
• 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
• 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
• 1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
• 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
• 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
• 1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
• 1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
• 1944 – World War II: American troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster.
• 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
• 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• 1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
• 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
• 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
• 1965 – Some 1 million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
• 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
• 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
• 1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday — British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
• 1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
• 1979 – A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
• 1989 – Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
• 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
• 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• 2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2003 – The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.
• 2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.

Births[edit]

• 58 BC – Livia, Roman wife of Augustus (d. 29)
• 133 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (d. 193)
• 1563 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
• 1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American son of Pocahontas (d. 1675)
• 1661 – Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (d. 1741)
• 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (d. 1773)
• 1703 – François Bigot, French politician (d. 1778)
• 1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist (d. 1778)
• 1754 – John Lansing, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Walter Savage Landor, English poet (d. 1864)
• 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (d. 1838)
• 1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
• 1832 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
• 1841 – Félix Faure, French politician, 7th President of France (d. 1899)
• 1846 – Angela of the Cross, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1932)
• 1852 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian playwright and poet (d. 1912)
• 1859 – Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1944)
• 1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler, French-American violinist and composer (d. 1935)
• 1862 – Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
• 1864 – James Mitchel, Irish-American weight thrower (d. 1921)
• 1866 – Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (d. 1939)
• 1875 – Walter Middelberg, Dutch rower (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
• 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
• 1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1937)
• 1890 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (d. 1932)
• 1894 – Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
• 1899 – Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter (d. 1941)
• 1913 – Percy Thrower, English gardener and television host (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Luc-Marie Bayle, French commander and painter (d. 2000)
• 1914 – John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
• 1914 – David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
• 1915 – John Profumo, English politician (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and journalist (d. 2008)
• 1918 – David Opatoshu, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
• 1919 – Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American activist (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Michael Anderson, English director and producer
• 1920 – Carwood Lipton, American lieutenant (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Delbert Mann, American director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Dick Martin, American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Walt Dropo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Marianne Ferber, American feminist economist (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Sailor Art Thomas, American bodybuilder and wrestler (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Dorothy Malone, American actress
• 1926 – Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Ahmed Abdul-Malik, American bassist and oud player (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
• 1927 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Harold Prince, American director and producer
• 1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Samuel Byck, American criminal (d. 1974)
• 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor and author
• 1930 – Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Magnus Malan, South African general and politician, South African Minister of Defence (d. 2011)
• 1931 – John Crosbie, Canadian politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland
• 1931 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author
• 1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian author
• 1932 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Ted Honderich, Canadian-English philosopher and academic
• 1933 – Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Richard Brautigan, American author and poet (d. 1984)
• 1935 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
• 1936 – F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
• 1936 – Patrick Caulfield, English painter (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (d. 1998)
• 1937 – Ed Hansen, American director and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
• 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
• 1938 – Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan
• 1940 – Mitch Murray, English songwriter and producer
• 1941 – Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and author
• 1941 – Dick Cheney, American politician, 46th Vice President of the United States
• 1941 – Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
• 1942 – Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and KBC Band)
• 1943 – Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 – Lynn Harrell, American cellist
• 1944 – Colin Rimer, English judge
• 1944 – Gad Tsobari, Israeli wrestler
• 1945 – Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
• 1946 – John Bird, English publisher, founded The Big Issue
• 1947 – Les Barker, English poet
• 1947 – Małgorzata Braunek, Polish actress (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Humble Pie and The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
• 1948 – Nick Broomfield, English director and producer
• 1948 – Paul Magee, Irish soldier
• 1948 – Miles Reid, English mathematician and academic
• 1949 – Peter Agre, American physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1949 – Jaak Salumets, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1950 – John Cleveland, American politician
• 1950 – Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar, Ghanaian-American scholar and Imam
• 1950 – Leili Pärnpuu, Estonian chess player
• 1950 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1951 – Phil Collins, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Genesis, Brand X, and Flaming Youth)
• 1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor and director
• 1951 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (d. 1995)
• 1952 – Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
• 1953 – Fred Hembeck, American author and illustrator
• 1955 – John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine
• 1955 – Tom Izzo, American basketball player and coach
• 1955 – Curtis Strange, American golfer
• 1955 – Judith Tarr, American author
• 1955 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player
• 1956 – Jeremy Gittins, English actor
• 1956 – Darko Rundek, Croatian-French singer-songwriter and actor (Haustor)
• 1956 – Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese race car driver
• 1957 – Polly Horvath, American-Canadian author
• 1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
• 1958 – Brett Butler, American actress and producer
• 1959 – Cynthia Carter, British media academic
• 1959 – Mark Eitzel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (American Music Club, Toiling Midgets, The Undertow Orchestra, and The Naked Skinnies)
• 1959 – Jody Watley, American singer-songwriter and producer (Shalamar)
• 1960 – Gerald Finley, Canadian opera singer
• 1960 – Tony O'Dell, American actor
• 1961 – Dexter Scott King, American actor
• 1962 – Abdullah II of Jordan
• 1963 – Daphne Ashbrook, American actress
• 1963 – Tina Malone, English actress, director, and producer
• 1964 – Otis Smith, American basketball player
• 1965 – Julie McCullough, American model and actress
• 1966 – Neal Chase, American educator
• 1966 – Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Jay Gordon, American singer-songwriter and producer (Orgy)
• 1968 – Trevor Dunn, American bass player and songwriter (Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Fantômas, and Tomahawk)
• 1968 – Tony Maudsley, English actor
• 1968 – Felipe VI of Spain
• 1969 – Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman
• 1971 – Darren Boyd, English actor
• 1971 – Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
• 1972 – Lupillo Rivera, American singer
• 1972 – Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player
• 1974 – Christian Bale, English actor
• 1974 – Olivia Colman, English actress
• 1974 – Jemima Khan, English journalist and activist
• 1975 – Dark Ozz, Mexican wrestler
• 1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer and actress (Puffy AmiYumi)
• 1976 – Andy Milonakis, American actor and rapper
• 1977 – Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Tom Malchow, American swimmer
• 1977 – Deltha O'Neal, American football player
• 1978 – Carmen Küng, Swiss curler
• 1978 – John Patterson, American baseball player
• 1979 – Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Tarmo Jallai, Estonian hurdler
• 1979 – Wimberg, Estonian writer
• 1980 – João Soares de Almeida Neto, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Leilani Dowding, English model
• 1980 – Josh Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
• 1980 – Georgios Vakouftsis, Greek footballer
• 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor and producer
• 1981 – Jonathan Bender, American basketball player
• 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer
• 1981 – Mathias Lauda, Austrian race car driver
• 1982 – Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
• 1982 – DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player
• 1982 – Mark Nwokeji, English footballer
• 1983 – Ben Maher, English horse rider
• 1983 – Rockstar Spud, English wrestler
• 1984 – Kid Cudi, American rapper, producer, and actor (WZRD)
• 1984 – Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
• 1985 – Torrey Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Trae Williams, American football player
• 1986 – Sam Duckworth, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 – Nick Evans, American baseball player
• 1987 – Lance Franklin, Australian rules footballer
• 1987 – Rebecca Knox, Irish wrestler
• 1987 – Phil Lester, English radio host and blogger
• 1987 – Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Maksim Krychanov, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Rob Pinkston, American actor
• 1989 – Khleo, American actor and rapper
• 1989 – Tomás Mejías, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Baek Sung-hyun, South Korean actor
• 1990 – Joe Colborne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Eiza González, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
• 1990 – Nils Miatke, German footballer
• 1990 – Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor
• 1991 – Stefan Elliott, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 – Misaki Iwasa, Japanese singer (AKB48)
• 1995 – Viktoria Komova, Russian gymnast
• 1995 – Thia Megia, American singer
• 2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah of Jordan

Deaths[edit]

• 680 – Balthild, Frankish queen (b. 626)
• 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
• 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• 1240 – Pelagio Galvani, Leonese cardinal (b. 1165)
• 1314 – Nicholas III of Saint Omer
• 1384 – Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)
• 1574 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
• 1606 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
• 1649 – Charles I of England (b. 1600)
• 1730 – Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress, designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
• 1849 – Jonathan Alder, American farmer (b. 1773)
• 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 – William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1889 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (b. 1858)
• 1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 – La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
• 1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Alfred Grütter, Swiss target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1948 – Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895)
• 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, philosopher, and activist (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche (b. 1875)
• 1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss painter (b. 1878)
• 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
• 1966 – Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (b. 1912)
• 1968 – Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1974 – Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)
• 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)
• 1984 – Lee McCall, South African criminal (b. 1950)
• 1987 – Harold Loeffelmacher, American singer and bandleader (Six Fat Dutchmen) (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (b. 1936)
• 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator (b. 1907)
• 1991 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, author, and television host (b. 1925)
• 1998 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy, American journalist (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Johnnie Johnson, English pilot and air marshal (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Edward Jewesbury, English actor (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Wes Wehmiller, American bass player (Missing Persons) (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American author and activist (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host and producer (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican priest, founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
• 2009 – John Gordy, American football player (b. 1935)
• 2009 – H. Guy Hunt, American politician, 49th Governor of Alabama (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Neiliezhü Üsou, Indian preacher and theologian (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Fadil Ferati, Kosovar politician, Vice-President of Democratic League of Kosovo and Mayor of Istog (b. 1960)
• 2010 – Aaron Ruben, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2011 – John Barry, English composer and conductor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Don Blenkarn, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Helmi Höhle, German fencer (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Abdelhamid Mehri, Algerian soldier and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch author (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Al Rio, Brazilian illustrator (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Frederick Treves, English actor (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bill Wallace, American author and educator (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1918)
• 2013 – José Cardona, Honduran footballer (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Diane Marleau, Canadian accountant and politician (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Ann Rabson, American singer, pianist, and guitarist (Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women) (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Roger Raveel, Belgian painter (b. 1921)
• 2013 – George Witt, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Jean Babilée, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Stefan Bałuk, Polish general (b. 1914)
• 2014 – Danielle Downey, American golfer and coach (b. 1980)
• 2014 – The Mighty Hannibal, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Campbell Lane, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
• 2014 – William Motzing, American composer and conductor (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Arthur Rankin, Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Suzanne Scotchmer, American economist and academic (b. 1950)

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• 314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
• 1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
• 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
• 1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
• 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 1848 – John C. Frémont is Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
• 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
• 1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
• 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
• 1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
• 1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
• 1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
• 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
• 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
• 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
• 1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
• 1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
• 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
• 1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
• 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
• 1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
• 1945 – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
• 1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
• 1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
• 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
• 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
• 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1: The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
• 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
• 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
• 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
• 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
• 1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
• 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
• 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
• 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
• 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
• 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
• 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
• 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
• 2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
• 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
• 2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
• 2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
• 2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.

Births[edit]

• 36BC – Antonia Minor, Greek daughter of Mark Antony (d. 38 AD)
• 877 – Taejo of Goryeo (d. 943)
• 1512 – Henry, King of Portugal (d. 1580)
• 1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1616)
• 1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588)
• 1597 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (d. 1640)
• 1624 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
• 1673 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (d. 1716)
• 1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian missionary (d. 1758)
• 1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American politician (d. 1816)
• 1759 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (d. 1803)
• 1797 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
• 1820 – William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
• 1825 – Miska Magyarics, Hungarian-Slovenian poet (d. 1883)
• 1835 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (d. 1874)
• 1854 – David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician (d. 1941)
• 1857 – George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (d. 1933)
• 1865 – Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist (d. 1940)
• 1865 – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS (d. 1951)
• 1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
• 1872 – Zane Grey, American author (d. 1939)
• 1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
• 1884 – Theodor Heuss, German politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Nathaniel Moore, American golfer (d. 1910)
• 1889 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1892 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer (d. 1964)
• 1894 – Isham Jones, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)
• 1902 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded White Spot (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Diana Napier, English actress (d. 1982)
• 1905 – John O'Hara, American author (d. 1970)
• 1909 – Miron Grindea, Romanian journalist (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (d. 1981)
• 1913 – Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Daya Mata, American spiritual leader (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)
• 1915 – Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Fred Bassetti, American architect, founded Bassetti Architects (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972)
• 1920 – Stewart Udall, American politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Bert Williams, English footballer (d. 2014)
• 1921 – John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Carol Channing, American actress and singer
• 1921 – E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)
• 1922 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1925 – August Englas, Estonian wrestler
• 1925 – Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Eric Ash, German-English engineer and academic
• 1928 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1958)
• 1928 – Irma Wyman, American computer engineer
• 1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Jean Simmons, English-American actress (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972)
• 1930 – Lynn Carlin, American actress
• 1931 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Miron Babiak, Polish captain (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Bernardo Provenzano, Italian gangster
• 1934 – Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver
• 1934 – James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1934 – Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
• 1937 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2007)
• 1937 – Philip Glass, American composer
• 1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Beatrix of the Netherlands
• 1938 – James G. Watt, American politician, 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1939 – Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1940 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby player and coach (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Dick Gephardt, American politician
• 1941 – Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Jessica Walter, American actress
• 1942 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
• 1942 – Derek Jarman, English director, stage designer, and author (d. 1994)
• 1944 – Connie Booth, American-English actress and psychotherapist
• 1944 – Charlie Musselwhite, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
• 1945 – Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, lawyer, judge, and academic
• 1945 – Rynn Berry, American book author and historian of vegetarianism (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Joseph Kosuth, American photographer and illustrator
• 1946 – Terry Kath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chicago) (d. 1978)
• 1946 – Glynn Turman, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 – Jonathan Banks, American actor
• 1947 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
• 1948 – Volkmar Groß, German footballer
• 1948 – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
• 1949 – Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and journalist
• 1949 – Norris Church Mailer, American model (d. 2010)
• 1949 – Ken Wilber, American author
• 1950 – Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator
• 1950 – Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard
• 1951 – Dave Benton, Aruban-Estonian singer
• 1951 – Harry Wayne Casey, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (KC and the Sunshine Band)
• 1951 – Phil Manzanera, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, and 801)
• 1951 – Won Sei-hoon, South Korean intelligence officer
• 1952 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
• 1953 – Ovidiu Lipan, Romanian drummer (Transsylvania Phoenix)
• 1954 – Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (d. 1972)
• 1954 – Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch guitarist (Whitesnake, Vandenberg, and Manic Eden)
• 1955 – Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player
• 1956 – John Lydon, English singer-songwriter (Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd)
• 1957 – Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer
• 1958 – Armin Reichel, German footballer
• 1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor
• 1959 – Kelly Lynch, American actress
• 1959 – Kelly Moore, American race car driver
• 1959 – Mickey Simmonds, English keyboard player and songwriter (Renaissance and Camel)
• 1960 – Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist
• 1960 – Grant Morrison, Scottish author and screenwriter
• 1960 – Željko Šturanović, Montenegrian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker, English politician
• 1961 – Lloyd Cole, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
• 1961 – Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and judge
• 1962 – Sophie Muller, English director
• 1963 – John Dye, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1963 – Madis Eek, Estonian architect
• 1964 – Sylvie Bernier, Canadian diver
• 1964 – Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist and songwriter (Slayer) (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Martha MacCallum, American journalist
• 1964 – Dawn Prince-Hughes, American anthropologist, primatologist, and ethologist
• 1964 – Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer-songwriter and actor
• 1965 – Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1966 – Umar Alisha, Indian journalist and philanthropist
• 1966 – Dexter Fletcher, English actor
• 1966 – Jorge González, Argentinian basketball player and wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1966 – JJ Lehto, Finnish race car driver
• 1967 – Chad Channing, American singer and drummer (Nirvana and Child's Play)
• 1967 – Jason Cooper, English drummer (The Cure)
• 1967 – Fat Mike, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and False Alarm)
• 1967 – Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
• 1967 – Michelle Ruff, American voice actress
• 1967 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress
• 1968 – Matt King, English comedian and actor
• 1968 – Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
• 1968 – Patrick Stevens, Belgian sprinter
• 1970 – Minnie Driver, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1970 – Danny Michel, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1971 – Patrick Kielty, Irish comedian and television host
• 1971 – Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
• 1971 – Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan actress and model
• 1971 – Lee Young-ae, South Korean actress
• 1973 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress
• 1974 – Wil Anderson, Australian comedian and radio host
• 1974 – Othella Harrington, American basketball player
• 1974 – Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
• 1975 – Fred Coleman, American football player
• 1975 – Jackie O, Australian radio and television host
• 1975 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress
• 1976 – Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Buddy Rice, American race car driver
• 1976 – Paul Scheer, American comedian and actor
• 1977 – Mark Dutiaume, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Shingo Katori, Japanese singer and actor (SMAP)
• 1977 – Jim Kleinsasser, American football player
• 1977 – Bobby Moynihan, American actor
• 1977 – Sergei Pareiko, Estonian footballer
• 1977 – Anthony Rosano, American porn actor
• 1977 – Katherine Shindle, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1977 – Kerry Washington, American actress
• 1978 – Fabián Caballero, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Brad Rutter, American game show contestant on Jeopardy!
• 1978 – Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington
• 1979 – Daniel Tammet, English author and educator
• 1979 – Emmett J. Scanlan, Irish actor
• 1980 – James Adomian, American comedian and actor
• 1980 – Tiffany Limos, American actress
• 1981 – Julio Arca, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Amrita Arora, Indian actress
• 1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor ('N Sync)
• 1982 – Maret Ani, Estonian tennis player
• 1982 – Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player
• 1982 – Andreas Görlitz, German footballer
• 1982 – Salvatore Masiello, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Allan McGregor, Scottish footballer
• 1982 – Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese comedian and actor
• 1982 – Elena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer-songwriter (Antique)
• 1982 – Jānis Sprukts, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Brad Thompson, American baseball player
• 1983 – James Sutton, English actor
• 1983 – Fabio Quagliarella, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer
• 1984 – Vernon Davis, American football player
• 1984 – Josh Johnson, American baseball player
• 1984 – Jeremy Wariner, American runner
• 1984 – Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player
• 1985 – Kalomira, American-Greek singer
• 1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Mario Williams, American football player
• 1986 – Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded Annapurna Pictures
• 1986 – George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer
• 1986 – Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player
• 1987 – Sargon Duran, Austrian footballer
• 1987 – Kenny McKinley, American football player (d. 2010)
• 1987 – Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter (Mumford & Sons)
• 1987 – Raúl Richter, German actor
• 1988 – Justine Ozga, German tennis player
• 1988 – Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer
• 1990 – Nicolò De Cesare, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Kati Ojaloo, Estonian hammer thrower
• 1990 – Kota Yabu, Japanese singer and actor (Hey! Say! JUMP)
• 1992 – Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 – Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer
• 1995 – Sten Olmre, Estonian basketball player
• 1996 – Joel Courtney, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 632 – Máedóc, Irish bishop (b. 550)
• 1216 – Patriarch Theodore II of Constantinople
• 1398 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)
• 1418 – Mircea I of Wallachia (b. 1355)
• 1435 – Xuande Emperor of China (b. 1398)
• 1561 – Bairam Khan, Mughalan general (b. 1501)
• 1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1496)
• 1580 – Henry, King of Portugal (b. 1512)
• 1606 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1570)
• 1606 – Ambrose Rookwood, English conspirator (b. 1578)
• 1606 – Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (b. 1571)
• 1615 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543)
• 1632 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
• 1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1622)
• 1686 – Jean Mairet, French playwright (b. 1604)
• 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English politician (b. 1654)
• 1729 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
• 1736 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (b. 1678)
• 1788 – Charles Edward Stuart, Italian husband of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (b. 1720)
• 1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-American lawyer and surveyor (b. 1718)
• 1794 – Mariot Arbuthnot, English admiral (b. 1711)
• 1811 – Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (b. 1763)
• 1815 – José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan soldier (b. 1775)
• 1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)
• 1836 – John Cheyne, English physician and author (b. 1777)
• 1844 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
• 1856 – 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838)
• 1870 – Cilibi Moise, Moldavian-Romanian journalist (b. 1812)
• 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
• 1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
• 1907 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 – John Galsworthy, English author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
• 1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1945 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
• 1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Vivian Woodward, English footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 – A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Karl Selter, Estonian politician (b. 1898)
• 1961 – Krishna Sinha, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Meher Baba, Indian guru and mystic (b. 1894)
• 1970 – Slim Harpo, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1924)
• 1971 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)
• 1973 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)
• 1974 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (b. 1912)
• 1974 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler (b. 1885)
• 1976 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal, inspired the Miranda rights (b. 1941)
• 1976 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
• 1987 – Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1989 – William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American chemist (b. 1935)
• 1991 – Kostas Mountakis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 1995 – George Abbott, American director and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)
• 1998 – Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Shohei Baba, Japanese wrestler, co-founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer-songwriter (Moğollar and Kurtalan Ekspres) (b. 1943)
• 1999 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Kirka, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Olevi Kull, Estonian ecologist and academic (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Adelaide Tambo, South African activist (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Zeltim Odie Peterson, American dog (b. 1997)
• 2009 – Nagesh, Indian comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Bartolomeu Anania, Romanian bishop and poet (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Mark Ryan, English guitarist (Adam and the Ants) (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, Dutch-South African bishop (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Mani Ram Bagri, Indian politician (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Leslie Carter, American singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
• 2012 – Tristram Potter Coffin, American author, scholar, and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Ayelet Galena, American child born with Dyskeratosis congenita (b. 2009)
• 2012 – Siddika Kabir, Bangladeshi nutritionist, academic, and author (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Sid Ottewell, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Antonio Segura, Spanish author (b. 1947)
• 2012 – King Stitt, Jamaican DJ and producer (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter and sculptor (b. 1910)
• 2013 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Amina Cachalia, South African activist and politician (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Joseph Cassidy, Irish archbishop (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Nolan Frizzelle, American politician (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Ron Hadfield, English police officer (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (b. 1987)
• 2013 – Tony Pierce, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Timir Pinegin, Russian sailor (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Fred Whitfield, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Diane Wolkstein, American author (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Nina Andrycz, Belarusian-Polish actress (b. 1912)
• 2014 – Sebastian Barker, English poet (b. 1945)
• 2014 – Gundi Busch, German figure skater and coach (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Alexander Ivashkin, Russian-English cellist and conductor (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Giorgio Stracquadanio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1959)

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