Διάσημοι επισκέπτες, απίστευτες ιστορίες 

Ο Φρεντ Αστέρ χόρεψε στη στέγη του, η Μέρλιν Μονρόε έκανε 

την πρώτη συνέντευξη τύπου για την αισθηματική κομεντί 

«Ο πρίγκιπας και η χορεύτρια» και ένας ιδιόρρυθμος επισκέπτης 

έφερε μαζί του μια λεοπάρδαλη και την βάφτισε κατοικίδιο.

 Οι συναρπαστικές στιγμές του θρυλικού ξενοδοχείου «Savoy»

 και η εντυπωσιακή λίστα των καλεσμένων έμειναν αθάνατες 

χάρη στις φωτογραφίες του αρχείου του.  

Το πολυτελές ξενοδοχείο που βρίσκεται στο κεντρικό Λονδίνο και χτίστηκε από

 τον ιμπρεσάριο Richard D'Oyly Carte άνοιξε τις πύλες του στο κοινό στις 6 

Αυγούστου 1889. Το Savoy ήταν το πρώτο πολυτελές ξενοδοχείο στη Βρετανία και 

το πρώτο στο κόσμο που διέθετε ηλεκτρικό και ανελκυστήρες. Ηταν επίσης 

το πρώτο που είχε ζεστό νερό, 24ωρη υπηρεσία δωματίου και κλιματιζόμενες 

ντουλάπες για παπούτσια.  

Ιδιόρρυθμοι, απαιτητικοί και ζάπλουτοι ήταν οι καλεσμένοι του. Η σουίτα της 

Μάρλεν Ντίτριχ έπρεπε να έχει πάντα 12 ροζ τριαντάφυλλα. Μια λίμνη στην μέση 

της σάλας, μια γόνδολα και έναν μωρό ελέφαντας που έφερε την τούρτα 

ζήτησε για το διαβόητο του πάρτι, ο αμερικανικός εκατομμυριούχος George Kessler.

Ο Ουίνστον Τσόρτσιλ, ο Στέφεν Φραί, Φρεντ Ασταίρ,Τζον Γουέιν, 

Ελενα Μπόναμ Κάρτερ και οι Beatles είναι μερικά μόνο διάσημα ονόματα που

 συμπεριλαμβάνονται στο εκτενές βιβλίο επισκεπτών του ξενοδοχείου.

Κατά τη διάρκεια του Α΄Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου το ξενοδοχείο παραμείνει 

αλώβητο με τις δεξιώσεις και τους χορούς να γίνονται υπό το φως των κεριών. 

Στον Β 'Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο, οι επισκέπτες βρήκαν στο ξενοδοχείο καταφύγειο

 από τις αεροπορικές επιδρομές, με τις δεξιώσεις να γίνονται στην σουίτα

 του Αβραάμ Λίνκολν και τους χορούς να συνεχίζονται ακόμα όταν οι βόμβες

 έπεφταν στο Λονδίνο.

Οι πόρτες του έκλεισαν για το κοινό μόνο μια φορά και για 18 μήνες

 λόγω της μεγάλης ανακαίνισης που έγινε το 2010 και κόστισε 220 εκατ. Λίρες.  

• Στη θέση του Αρχηγού ΓΕΕΘΑ παραμένει ο Στρατηγός Μιχαήλ Κωσταράκος.
• Στη θέση του Αρχηγού ΓΕΣ τοποθετείται ο Αντιστράτηγος Βασίλειος Τελλίδης, μέχρι σήμερα Διοικητής της 1ης Στρατιάς.
• Στη θέση του Αρχηγού ΓΕΝ παραμένει ο Αντιναύαρχος Ευάγγελος Αποστολάκης Π.Ν.
• Στη θέση του Αρχηγού ΓΕΑ τοποθετείται ο Αντιπτέραρχος (Ι) Χρήστος Βαϊτσης, μέχρι σήμερα Αρχηγός Τακτικής Αεροπορίας.
• Ο μέχρι τώρα Αρχηγός ΓΕΣ Αντιστράτηγος Χρίστος Μανωλάς κρίθηκε ως ευδοκίμως τερματίσας τη σταδιοδρομία του, προάγεται στο βαθμό του Στρατηγού εν αποστρατεία και του απονέμεται ο τίτλος του Επιτίμου Αρχηγού ΓΕΣ.
• Ο μέχρι τώρα Αρχηγός ΓΕΑ Αντιπτέραρχος (Ι) Ευάγγελος Τουρνάς κρίθηκε ως ευδοκίμως τερματίσας τη σταδιοδρομία του, προάγεται στο βαθμό του Πτεράρχου εν αποστρατεία και του απονέμεται ο τίτλος του Επιτίμου Αρχηγού ΓΕΑ.

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• 747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
• 364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
• 1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
• 1794 – The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
• 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
• 1876 – Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
• 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• 1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
• 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
• 1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
• 1946 – Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
• 1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
• 1960 – A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
• 1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
• 1966 – Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
• 1971 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
• 1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
• 1980 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• 1987 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
• 1991 – Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
• 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
• 1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
• 1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
• 2012 – A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
• 2013 – A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.

Births[edit]

• 1361 – Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (d. 1419)
• 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (d. 1593)
• 1584 – Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1666)
• 1587 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer and educator (d. 1639)
• 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English philosopher and politician (d. 1713)
• 1672 – Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (d. 1757)
• 1677 – Nicola Fago, Italian composer and educator (d. 1745)
• 1714 – James Hervey, English clergyman (d. 1758)
• 1720 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (d. 1803)
• 1724 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, German son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
• 1746 – Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria (d. 1806)
• 1777 – Matija Nenadović, Serbian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 1854)
• 1786 – François Arago, French mathematician and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (d. 1853)
• 1799 – Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (d. 1864)
• 1802 – Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1885)
• 1808 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
• 1808 – Nathan Kelley, American architect, designed the Ohio Statehouse (d. 1871)
• 1814 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist and meteorologist (d. 1876)
• 1829 – Levi Strauss, German-American fashion designer, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (d. 1902)
• 1846 – Buffalo Bill, American soldier and hunter (d. 1917)
• 1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes (d. 1943)
• 1857 – Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)
• 1858 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
• 1861 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian politician (d. 1939)
• 1861 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
• 1866 – Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (d. 1930)
• 1875 – Milan Neralić, Croatian fencer (d. 1918)
• 1877 – Rudolph Dirks, Prussian-American illustrator (d. 1968)
• 1879 – Frank Bridge, English violist and composer (d. 1941)
• 1880 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer, economist, and engineer (d. 1972)
• 1882 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
• 1885 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
• 1887 – William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Stefan Grabiński, Polish author (d. 1936)
• 1893 – Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (d. 1934)
• 1893 – I. A. Richards, English educator and critic (d. 1979)
• 1896 – Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician (d. 1994)
• 1900 – Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet (d. 1989)
• 1900 – Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer (d. 1988)
• 1901 – Dwight Wilson, Canadian soldier (d. 2007)
• 1902 – Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1903 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (d. 1944)
• 1906 – Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
• 1907 – Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Tex Avery, American animator, producer, and voice actor (d. 1980)
• 1908 – Leela Majumdar, Indian author (d. 2007)
• 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
• 1909 – Fanny Cradock, English chef, author, and critic (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
• 1910 – Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (d. 1974)
• 1911 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 – George Barker, English author and poet (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
• 1917 – Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (d. 1990)
• 1918 – Otis R. Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Theodore Sturgeon, American author (d. 1985)
• 1919 – Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Tony Randall, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (d. 1976)
• 1922 – Karl Aage Præst, Danish footballer (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Mark Bucci, American playwright and composer (d. 2002)
• 1924 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 74th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Everton Weekes, Barbadian cricketer and referee
• 1925 – Selma Archerd, American actress
• 1926 – Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (d. 1955)
• 1926 – Doris Belack, American actress (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Verne Gagne, American wrestler and football player
• 1926 – Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Mickey Stubblefield, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Tom Kennedy, American game show host
• 1928 – Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1928 – Anatoly Filipchenko, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1928 – Monique Leyrac, Canadian singer and actress
• 1928 – Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Bjørn Skau, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Carl Haas, American businessman
• 1931 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Robert Novak, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Tennessee Three and The Highwaymen) (d. 2003)
• 1933 – James Goldsmith, French businessman and politician (d. 1997)
• 1934 – Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian director
• 1936 – Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician
• 1936 – José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Cliff Osmond, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (d. 1957)
• 1938 – Tony Selby, English actor
• 1939 – Josephine Tewson, English actress
• 1940 – Oldřich Kulhánek, Czech painter (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Paul Levy, American journalist and author
• 1941 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (d. 1972)
• 1942 – Jozef Adamec, Slovak footballer and manager
• 1943 – Bill Duke, American actor and director
• 1943 – Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer
• 1943 – Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
• 1944 – Christopher Hope, South African author and poet
• 1944 – Ronald Lauder, American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Austria
• 1944 – Diana Walford, English physician
• 1945 – Peter Brock, Australian race car driver (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball player, coach, and politician
• 1945 – Marta Kristen, Norwegian-American actress
• 1945 – Mitch Ryder, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Detroit Wheels)
• 1946 – Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer
• 1948 – David Edgar, English playwright
• 1948 – Sharyn McCrumb, American author
• 1948 – Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton, Scottish judge and politician
• 1949 – Simon Crean, Australian politician
• 1949 – Elizabeth George, American author
• 1949 – Emma Kirkby, English soprano
• 1950 – Ott Arder, Estonian poet and author (d. 2004)
• 1950 – Jonathan Cain, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Journey, The Babys, and Bad English)
• 1950 – Helen Clark, New Zealand politician, 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1951 – Steve Bell, English cartoonist
• 1951 – Wayne Goss, Australian lawyer and politician, 34th Premier of Queensland (d. 2014)
• 1951 – Ferhan Şensoy, Turkish playwright, actor and stage director
• 1952 – Jaan Arder, Estonian singer (Apelsin and Hortus Musicus) (d. 2014)
• 1953 – Michael Bolton, American singer-songwriter and actor (Blackjack)
• 1954 – Prince Ernst August of Hanover
• 1954 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish politician, 12th President of Turkey
• 1955 – John Inge, English bishop
• 1955 – Rupert Keegan, English race car driver
• 1955 – Andreas Maislinger, Austrian historian, founded the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
• 1956 – Charlélie Couture, French singer
• 1956 – Michel Houellebecq, French author, poet, screenwriter, and director
• 1956 – Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Southern All Stars)
• 1956 – Jonathan Schmock, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – David Muldrow Beasley, American politician, 113th Governor of South Carolina
• 1957 – Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
• 1958 – Karen Berger, American author
• 1958 – Greg Germann, American actor
• 1958 – Susan J. Helms, American general, engineer, and astronaut
• 1958 – Tim Kaine, American politician, 70th Governor of Virginia
• 1959 – Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
• 1959 – Ahmet Davutoğlu, TTurkish diplomat and politician who has been the Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1959 – Krista Lane, German pornographic actress
• 1960 – Jaz Coleman, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Killing Joke)
• 1960 – Robert Jaspert, German footballer and manager
• 1962 – Ahn Cheol-soo, South Korean physician, academic, and politician
• 1962 – Kelly Gruber, American baseball player
• 1962 – Atiq Rahimi, Afghan-French journalist and director
• 1963 – Mark Garnier, English politician
• 1963 – Chase Masterson, American actress and singer
• 1964 – Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
• 1965 – James Mitchell, American wrestling manager
• 1966 – Garry Conille, Haitian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1966 – Marc Fortier, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1967 – James Allodi, Canadian actor and director
• 1967 – Mark Carroll, Australian rugby player
• 1967 – Currie Graham, Canadian-American actor
• 1968 – Tim Commerford, American bass player and songwriter (Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave)
• 1968 – J. T. Snow, American baseball player
• 1968 – Ed Quinn, American actor
• 1969 – Steve Agee, American actor
• 1969 – Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
• 1970 – Mark Harper, English politician
• 1971 – Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Soulquarians)
• 1971 – Max Martin, Swedish-American singer-songwriter and producer (It's Alive)
• 1971 – Hélène Ségara, French singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Jonny Quinn, Irish drummer (Snow Patrol)
• 1973 – Erinn Bartlett, American actress
• 1973 – Marshall Faulk, American football player
• 1973 – Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
• 1973 – Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
• 1974 – Sébastien Loeb, French race car driver
• 1975 – Frank Busemann, German decathlete
• 1976 – Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
• 1976 – Chad Urmston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dispatch and State Radio)
• 1977 – Calli Cox, American porn actress
• 1977 – Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Greg Rikaart, American actor
• 1977 – Tim Thomas, American basketball player
• 1977 – Josh Towers, American baseball player
• 1977 – Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player
• 1978 – Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
• 1978 – Marc Hynes, English race car driver
• 1979 – Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Mariano Bainotti, Argentinian race car driver
• 1979 – Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 1979 – Pascal Kalemba, Congolese footballer (d. 2012)
• 1979 – Shalim Ortiz, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer
• 1980 – Steve Blake, American basketball player
• 1980 – Alex Fong, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1980 – Gary Majewski, American baseball player
• 1981 – Fatal1ty, American gamer
• 1981 – Märt Avandi, Estonian actor
• 1981 – Kertus Davis, American race car driver
• 1981 – Sharon Van Etten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – Kaori Yoneyama, Japanese wrestler
• 1982 – Li Na, Chinese tennis player
• 1982 – Matt Prior, South African-English cricketer
• 1982 – Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter (Fun and The Format)
• 1983 – Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1983 – Jerome Harrison, American football player
• 1983 – Kara Monaco, American model
• 1984 – Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
• 1984 – Alex de Angelis, Sammarinese motorcycle racer
• 1984 – Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Beren Saat, Turkish actress
• 1985 – Gee Atherton, English cyclist
• 1985 – Miki Fujimoto, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Gomattō, and GAM)
• 1985 – Fernando Llorente, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Carolin Nytra, German hurdler
• 1985 – Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Leandro dos Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Crystal Kay, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1986 – Hannah Kearney, American skier
• 1986 – Leila Lopes, Angolan-American model, Miss Universe 2011
• 1986 – Teresa Palmer, Australian actress
• 1986 – Juliet Simms, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Automatic Loveletter)
• 1987 – Julia Bond, American porn actress
• 1988 – Matteo Ciofani, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Reid Flair, American wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1988 – Danny Mac, English actor
• 1988 – Timo Sild, Estonian orienteer
• 1988 – Charley Webb, English actress
• 1988 – Deniz Yılmaz, Turkish professional footballer
• 1989 – Gabriel Obertan, French footballer
• 1990 – Kateřina Cachová, Czech heptathlete
• 1991 – CL, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer (2NE1)
• 1991 – Jasmina Kajtazovič, Bosnian tennis player
• 1992 – Cecilia Estlander, Finnish tennis player
• 1992 – Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1993 – Jesé, Spanish footballer
• 2000 – Alexa Ilacad, Filipino actress
• 2002 – Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, American conjoined twins

Deaths[edit]

• 420 – Porphyry of Gaza, Greek bishop and saint (b. 347)
• 1154 – Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
• 1266 – Manfred, King of Sicily (b. 1232)
• 1360 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English commander (b. 1328)
• 1552 – Heinrich Faber, German composer (b. 1500)
• 1561 – Jorge de Montemor, Spanish author and poet (b. 1520)
• 1577 – Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
• 1608 – John Still, English bishop (b. 1543)
• 1611 – Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (b. 1533)
• 1630 – William Brade, English violinist and composer (b. 1560)
• 1638 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician and linguist (b. 1581)
• 1723 – Thomas d'Urfey, English poet and playwright (b. 1653)
• 1726 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
• 1770 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1692)
• 1790 – Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1730)
• 1802 – Esek Hopkins, British-American admiral (b. 1718)
• 1813 – Robert R. Livingston, British-American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (b. 1746)
• 1815 – Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1737)
• 1821 – Joseph de Maistre, French lawyer and diplomat (b. 1753)
• 1864 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French-Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 – Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 – Anandi Gopal Joshi, Indian physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 – Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1913 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
• 1921 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
• 1930 – Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1930 – Ahmed Rıza, Young Turk, activist, scientist, and statesman during the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1859)
• 1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
• 1933 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (b. 1853)
• 1943 – Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1947 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician (b. 1868)
• 1950 – Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (b. 1870)
• 1952 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1959 – Selig Suskin, Russian-Israeli agronomist (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1961 – Karl Albiker, German sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1961 – Hasan Âli Yücel, former minister of education of Turkey (b. 1897)
• 1966 – Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (b. 1894)
• 1966 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Levi Eshkol, Israeli politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1969 – Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
• 1971 – Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1981 – Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
• 1984 – Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil, leading Turkish collectivist-realist poet (b. 1927)
• 1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 – Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1990 – Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters, The Platters, and The Flairs) (b. 1938)
• 1993 – Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Bill Hicks, American comedian and singer (b. 1961)
• 1995 – Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Taya Straton, Australian actress (b. 1960)
• 1997 – David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 – James Algar, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1998 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (b. 1923)
• 2000 – George L. Street III American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2003 – George Rice, American racing driver (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
• 2004 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Jef Raskin, American computer scientist, created Macintosh (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Dick Fletcher, American meteorologist (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Buddy Miles, American drummer and songwriter (Band of Gypsys and The Electric Flag) (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Johnny Kerr, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Norm Van Lier, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Nujabes, Japanese DJ and producer (b. 1974)
• 2011 – Arnošt Lustig, Czech author (b. 1926)
• 2011 – James A. McClure, American politician (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Roch Thériault, Canadian religious leader (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Ed Brigadier, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Richard Carpenter, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Don Joyce, American football player and wrestler (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Trayvon Martin, American homicide victim (b. 1995)
• 2012 – George E. Terwilleger, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and educator (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Jan Howard Finder, American author and academic (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Adrian Hollis, English chess player (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Mido Macia, Mozambican–South African taxi driver (b. 1985)
• 2013 – Maya Jackson Randall, American journalist (b. 1979)
• 2013 – Dale Robertson, American actor and singer (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Kaoru Shimamura, Japanese voice actress (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Georges Hamel, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Phyllis Krasilovsky, American author (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Dezső Novák, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Frank Reed, American singer-songwriter (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Frankie Sardo, Italian-American singer, actor, and producer (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Tim Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961)

7 πράγματα που πρέπει να δει ο τουρίστας στη Ελλάδα 

Ελληνικά νησιά, αρχαιολογικοί χώροι, γαλάζιες σπηλιές, σπηλιές

 έως και υποβρύχιες ιαματικές πηγές. Το βρετανικό περιοδικό TNT 

παρουσιάζει τα 7 πράγματα που ένας τουρίστας πρέπει

 οπωσδήποτε να κάνει όταν επισκεφτεί τα ελληνικά νησιά.

Βόλτα στην Ακρόπολη

Μετά από την άφιξη στην Αθήνα και πριν ταξιδέψετε σε οποιοδήποτε νησί της 

Ελλάδας, μαι βόλτα στην Ακρόπολη επιβάλλεται.  Εκμεταλλευτείτε την ευκαιρία 

και εξερευνήστε το πιο διάσημο αρχαίο θαύμα της Αθήνας, την Ακρόπολη. 

Περπατήστε στους δρόμους της αρχαίας πόλης, είναι πραγματικά μια εμπειρία που

 κόβει την ανάσα.

Σπήλαιο Μελισσάνης – Κεφαλονιά

Τα ελληνικά νησιά διαθέτουν πολλές εντυπωσιακές σπηλιές χάρη στη διαβρωτική

 δύναμη της Μεσογείου. Μια σπηλιά ξεχωρίζει από τις υπόλοιπες και είναι το Σπήλαιο 

της Μελισσάνης στην Κεφαλονιά. Με θέα στον ουρανό είναι ένας παράδεισος κάτω

 από την επιφάνεια της γης.

Πεζοπορία στο Φαράγγι της Σαμαριάς

Πιθανώς το πιο εκπληκτικό φυσικό τοπίο σε οποιοδήποτε από τα νησιά, το φαράγγι 

της Σαμαριάς στην Κρήτη είναι η λατρεία των πεζοπόρων.  Μπαίνοντας στο φαράγγι 

από την πάνω είσοδο του, νιώθεις σαν να είσαι σε έναν άλλο κόσμο, ένα κόσμο 

της φαντασίας, που οραματίζονταν οι συγγραφείς κάποιας επικής αναζήτησης. 

Διαθέτει θέα που θα σας αφήσει άφωνους, αλλά και συναρπαστικά μονοπάτια

 πεζοπορίας, διαβάσεις πεζών, παλιά γεφύρια από σχοινί και ήπια ποτάμια.

Εξερευνήστε ένα ακατοίκητο νησί

Από τα χιλιάδες νησιά της Ελλάδας, μόνο περίπου 300 σήμερα κατοικούνται. 

Από τα χιλιάδες νησιά σίγουρα θα βρείτε και κάποιο ακατοίκητο. Συχνά είναι ορεινό

 και καλύπτεται από πυκνή βλάστηση. Αυτά τα ερημονήσια είναι ιδανικά για όσους 

από εσάς επιθυμούν να εξερευνήσουν.

Κάντε κατάδυση και κολύμβηση με αναπνευστήρα στην Μήλο

Ενα πράγμα που πρέπει να κάνετε στην Ελλάδα είναι να κολυμπήσετε με

 αναπνευστήρα ή να κάνετε καταδύσεις εάν αισθάνεστε πραγματικά τολμηροί. 

Για τους κολυμβητές, πολλά νησιά προσφέρουν απίστευτους κοραλλιογενείς 

υφάλους για εξερεύνηση, με έντονη υποβρύχια ζωή. Μπορεί ακόμη και να φανείτε 

τυχεροί και συναντήσετε μερικά από τα πιο εντυπωσιακά πλάσματα της Μεσογείου 

θάλασσας, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των δελφινιών και των χελωνών. Ωστόσο, αν η

 κατάδυση είναι περισσότερο στα γούστα σας, κατευθυνθείτε προς το νησί της 

Μήλου, όπου σχολές καταδύσεων θα σας πάνε για να εξερευνήσετε ναυάγια του

 2ου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου και τις απίστευτες υποβρύχιες θερμές πηγές.

Περίπατος στο ηφαίστειο της Σαντορίνης

Το νησί της Σαντορίνης δημιουργήθηκε από μαι ηφαιστειακή έκρηξη πριν από 

αιώνες, και είναι ιδανικό για τους πεζοπόρους. Με χαμηλά φαράγγια και υψηλά

 βράχια και βουνά, αυτή η εμπειρία υπόσχεται άφθονη, γραφική θέα. Συνιστάμε 

να ξεκινήσετε ή να ολοκληρώσετε την πεζοπορία σας στην Οία, όχι μόνο επειδή

 είναι ένα πολυσύχναστο λιμάνι της πόλης, αλλά και γιατί φημίζεται για τα κομψά 

λευκά πέτρινα σπίτια αλλά και για το ηλιοβασίλεμα.

Ιστιοπλοΐα

Η ιστιοπλοΐα είναι ίσως η απόλυτη εμπειρία που μπορείτε να έχετε στα ελληνικά 

νησιά. Παρέχει τη δυνατότητα για απεριόριστες ευκαιρίες για εξερεύνηση και

 αναψυχή. Με το δικό σας ιστιοπλοϊκό σκάφος, μπορείτε να εξερευνήσετε τα 

ακατοίκητα νησιά, να δέσετε επάνω στην Οία της Σαντορίνης και κατευθυνθείτε

 στη Μήλο για κατάδυση.

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Critics' Choice

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International female solo artist

International group

British producer of the year

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1930s in jazz

In the 1930s in jazz, swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw. Duke Ellington and his band members composed numerous swing era hits that have become standards: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (1932), "Sophisticated Lady" (1933) and "Caravan" (1936), among others. Other influential bandleaders of this period were Benny Goodman and Count Basie.

Trumpeter, bandleader and singerLouis Armstrong was a much-imitated innovator of early jazz.

Swing was also dance music. It was broadcast on the radio 'live' nightly across America for many years especially by Hines and his Grand Terrace Cafe Orchestra broadcasting coast-to-coast from Chicago, well placed for 'live' time-zones. Although it was a collective sound, swing also offered individual musicians a chance to 'solo' and improvise melodic, thematic solos which could at times be very complex and 'important' music. Over time, social structures regarding racial segregation began to relax in America: white bandleaders began to recruit black musicians and black bandleaders. In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodmanhired pianist Teddy Wilson, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, and guitarist Charlie Christian to join small groups. Kansas City Jazz in the 1930s as exemplified by tenor saxophonist Lester Young marked the transition from big bands to the bebop influence of the 1940s.

Outside of the United States the beginnings of a distinct European style of jazz emerged in France with the Quintette du Hot Club de France which began in 1934. Belgian guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt popularized gypsy jazz, a mix of 1930s American swing, French dance hall "musette" and Eastern European folk with a languid, seductive feel. The main instruments are steel stringed guitar, violin, and double bass. Solos pass from one player to another as the guitar and bass play the role of the rhythm section. Some music researchers hold that it was Philadelphia's Eddie Lang (guitar) and Joe Venuti (violin) who pioneered the gypsy jazz form,^[1] which was brought to France after they had been heard live or on Okeh Records in the late 1920s.^[2]

Broadway theatre contributed some of the most popular standards of the 1930s, including George and Ira Gershwin's "Summertime" (1935), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "My Funny Valentine" (1937) and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "All the Things You Are" (1939). These songs still rank among the most recorded standards.^[3] Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" was introduced in Broadway and became a hit after Coleman Hawkins's 1939 recording. It is the most recorded jazz standard of all time.^[4]

Standards[edit]

George Gershwin's songs have endured lasting popularity among both jazz and pop audiences. Among standards composed by him are "The Man I Love" (1924), "Embraceable You" (1930), "I Got Rhythm" (1930) and "Summertime" (1935).

	Rhythm changes in the key of C The chord progression from Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm". Sequenced stride piano version, with elaboration. No melody line.
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• "Body and Soul"^[5][6][7][8] is a song composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Frank Eyton, Edward Heyman and Robert Sour. The song was used in the successful Broadway revue Three's a Crowd and became an instant hit, despite being banned from the radio for almost a year for its sexually suggestive lyrics.^[4]The first jazz recording was by Louis Armstrong in 1930. Coleman Hawkins's 1939 recording consisted of three minutes of improvisation over the song's chord progression with only passing references to the melody. Hawkins's rendition was the first purely jazz recording that became a commercial hit^[9] and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973.^[10] The song is the most recorded jazz standard of all time.^[4]
• "But Not for Me"^[11] is a song from the Broadway musical Girl Crazy, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Ginger Rogers. The song failed to achieve significant pop success, charting only once in 1942. However, it became popular in the jazz world, especially for female vocalists.^[12]
• "Confessin'"^[8][13] is a song composed by Ellis Reynolds and Doc Daugherty, with lyrics by Al Neiburg. Louis Armstrong recorded it in 1930, and Rudy Vallée and Guy Lombardo both made the charts with their versions the same year.^[14] Saxophonist Lester Young recorded it several times during his career.^[14]Country singer Frank Ifield had a number one hit with the song in the United Kingdom in 1963.^[14] The song is also known as "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)".^[14]
• "Embraceable You"^[15] is a song from the Broadway musical Girl Crazy, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Originally written for an unfinished operetta East to West in 1928, it was introduced by Ginger Rogers and became a big hit. Billie Holiday's 1944 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.^[10]
• "Exactly Like You"^[16][17][18] is a song from the Broadway show Lew Leslie's International Revue, composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It was introduced by Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence on stage. Louis Armstrong recorded the first jazz version in 1930. Benny Goodman's 1936 recording, sung by Lionel Hampton, revived interest in the song; the following year it was recorded by Count Basie and Quintette du Hot Club de France.^[16]
• "Georgia on My Mind"^[8][11][19] is a song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Stuart Gorrell. Bix Beiderbecke played cornet on the original 1930 recording by Hoagy Carmichael. Frankie Trumbauer recorded the first hit version of the song in 1931. Ray Charles's version on The Genius Hits the Road (1960) was a number one hit, won two Grammy Awards and is considered to be the definitive version of the song.^[20] The song was designated as the state song of Georgia in 1979.^[20]
• "I Got Rhythm"^[11] is a song from the Broadway musical Girl Crazy, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. First-timer Ethel Merman's performance on Girl Crazy stole the limelight from leading lady Ginger Rogers. The song's chord progression has been used in countless jazz compositions, and is commonly known as "rhythm changes".^[21] George Gershwin's last concert composition, Variations on "I Got Rhythm" was based on this song.^[22]
• "Love for Sale"^[11] is a song from the Broadway musical The New Yorkers, written by Cole Porter. Porter's prostitution-themed lyrics were considered bad taste at the time, and the song was banned from the radio. The ban, however, only increased the song's popularity.^[23] Porter himself was actually pleased that it could not be sung over the air.^[24] In the original musical the song was first sung by Kathryn Crawford and later by Elizabeth Welch.^[23] The song took time to catch on as a jazz standard, possibly because it was 72 measures long. When Sidney Bechet recorded it in 1947, the song was not yet a regular jazz number.^[23]
• "Memories of You"^[8][25][26] is a song from the musical revue Blackbirds of 1930, composed by Eubie Blake with lyrics by Andy Razaf. It was introduced by Minto Cato on Broadway^[27] and the first recording was made by Ethel Waters in 1930.^[28] Louis Armstrong's 1930 recording was Lionel Hampton's debut performance as a vibraphonist and rose to number 18 on the charts.^[27] Hampton later recorded the tune again with Benny Goodman's orchestra; this version has made the song a popular clarinet number.^[27]
• "Mood Indigo"^{[8][11][29][30]} is a jazz song composed by Barney Bigard and Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Irving Mills. Bigard has admitted borrowing parts of the song from a composition called "Dreamy Blues" by his teacher Lorenzo Tio.^[31] The lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish, who then sold them to Mills's publishing company for a fixed price.^[32][33] When the song became a hit, Parish was therefore left without royalties.^[34] Ellington's 1930 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975.^[10]
• "On the Sunny Side of the Street"^{[8][11][35][36][37]} is a song from the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue, composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Harry Richman sang it in the original revue.^[38] Although the musical was a flop, "On the Sunny Side of the Street" became instantly popular. Richman and Ted Lewis charted with it in 1930,^[38] and Louis Armstrong recorded his version in 1934. The song is readily associated with Armstrong today.^[39] Tommy Dorsey and Jo Stafford both brought the song to the charts in 1945.^[38] Jeremy Wilson of JazzStandards.com argues that the song may actually have been composed by Fats Waller, who then sold the rights for it.^[38]

Births[edit]

• April 16 - Herbie Mann

1931[edit]

Main article: 1931 in jazz

Standards[edit]

• "All of Me"^{[8][11][40][41]} is a song by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons. It was introduced on the radio by vaudeville performer Belle Baker. Baker also performed the song on stage in Detroit's Fisher Theatre, reportedly breaking into tears in mid-performance.^[42] The first hit recording was made by Mildred Bailey with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, and by February 1932 both Louis Armstrong and Ben Selvin had risen to the charts with the song in addition to Whiteman.^[42] The song was rarely performed after 1932 until Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1948 and performed it in the 1952 film Meet Danny Wilson.^[42]
• "Beautiful Love"^[41][43][44] is a song composed by Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne and Victor Young with lyrics by Haven Gillespie.
• "I Surrender Dear" is a song from the film of the same name, composed by Harry Barris with lyrics by Gordon Clifford. Bing Crosby performed the song in the film, and his recording with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra became his first solo hit and helped him get a contract for his first radio show.^[45] The first jazz vocalist to record the song was Louis Armstrong in 1931.^[45] Thelonious Monk recorded it as the sole standard on his 1956 album Brilliant Corners.^[45]
• "Just Friends"^[11][46] is a ballad composed by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis. It was introduced by Red McKenzie and His Orchestra and popularized in modern jazz by Charlie Parker's 1950 recording. Chet Baker's 1955 version is considered the definitive vocal performance.^[47]
• "Lazy River"^[8][48] is a song by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin.^[49] Online music guide Allmusic describes it as "[e]asily one of the true pop classics of all time".^[50] It is also known as "Up a Lazy River" or "Up the Lazy River".
• "Out of Nowhere"^[8][11][51] is a song composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman. It was introduced by Bing Crosby and became his first number one hit as a solo artist. Coleman Hawkins's 1937 recording with Benny Carter and Django Reinhardt was the definitive version for years. The song's harmony has been reused in multiple jazz compositions, such as Tadd Dameron's "Casbah" and Fats Navarro's "Nostalgia".^[52]
• "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"^[53] is a song by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René. Louis Armstrong used it as his theme song.^[54] It is also known as "Sleepy Time Down South".
• "When Your Lover Has Gone" is a song from the film Blonde Crazy, written by Einar Aaron Swan. Gene Austin, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Benny Goodman all recorded the song in 1931, and Austin's rendition was the first to hit the charts.^[55]

1932[edit]

Main article: 1932 in jazz

Standards[edit]

Virtuoso pianist Art Tatum mostly played Broadway and popular standards. He usually radically reworked the songs and had the ability to make standards sound like new compositions. Tatum's influential piano solos include "Tiger Rag", "Willow Weep for Me" and "Over the Rainbow".

• "Alone Together" is a ballad from the Broadway musical Flying Colors, composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced by Jean Sargent on stage, and Artie Shaw made the first jazz recording in 1939.^[56]
• "April in Paris"^[8][11][57] is a Broadway show tune from Walk a Little Faster, composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by Yip Harburg. Count Basie's 1955 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1985.^[10]
• "How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky)"^[58] is a song by Irving Berlin. It was first made a hit by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra with vocalist Jack Fulton. The song's jazz popularity was established by the recordings of Benny Goodman (1941) and Coleman Hawkins (1943).^[59]
• "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You"^{[8][60][61][62]} is a song composed by Victor Young with lyrics by Bing Crosby and Ned Washington. The first recording by Crosby became an immediate hit, reaching no. 5 on the pop singles chart. It is also known as "Ghost of a Chance".
• "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"^{[8][11][63][64]} is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills. The recordings of Ivie Anderson (with the Duke Ellington Band) and the Mills Brothers popularized the song. Its title introduced the term "swing" into common usage and gave name to the swing era.^[65]
• "New Orleans"^[66] is a song by Hoagy Carmichael. First recorded by Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra and the Casa Loma Orchestra as an up-tempo number, the song only achieved success after Carmichael recorded a slower version with vocalist Ella Logan. The song was based on the chord progressions of "You Took Advantage of Me" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams".^[67]
• "Night and Day"^[11] is a song from the musical Gay Divorce, written by Cole Porter. It was introduced on stage by Fred Astaire, who also sung it in the 1934 film The Gay Divorcee, based on the musical. The song became Frank Sinatra's first hit under his own name.^[68]
• "Willow Weep for Me"^[8][41][69] is a song by Ann Ronell. It was first recorded by Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra and, two weeks later, by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The definitive instrumental version was Art Tatum's 1949 piano solo recording.^[70][71] Count Basie's "Taxi War Dance" was based on the song's harmony.^[70] Ronell dedicated the song to George Gershwin.

1933[edit]

Main article: 1933 in jazz

Standards[edit]

• "Don't Blame Me"^{[8][11][72][73]} is a song composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It was introduced in the musical revue Clowns in Clover and included in the 1933 film Dinner at Eight. The film is often mistakenly given as the song's origin. The first hit recordings were by Guy Lombardo and Ethel Waters in 1933.^[74]
• "Drop Me Off in Harlem"^[75][76] is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Nick Kenny.
• "I Cover the Waterfront"^[77] is a song composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman. It was included in the score of the film of the same name.
• "It's Only a Paper Moon"^[8][78][79] is a song from the Broadway show The Great Magoo, composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg and Billy Rose. Originally titled "If You Believed in Me", the current title was introduced in the 1933 film Take a Chance.^[80]
• "One Morning in May"^[8][81] is a song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Mitchell Parish.
• "Sophisticated Lady"^{[8][11][82][83]} is a jazz composition by Duke Ellington. Lyrics were later added by Irving Mills and Mitchell Parish. Lawrence Brown and Toby Hardwick have claimed to have written parts of the tune.^[84]
• "Yesterdays"^[8][41][85] is a song from the Broadway musical Roberta, composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. It was introduced by Irene Dunne. Not as popular in the pop world as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from the same musical, it has enjoyed much more success in jazz circles. The song is often associated with Billie Holiday, who recorded it in 1944.^[86]

1934[edit]

Standards[edit]

• "Autumn in New York"^[8][87] is a song from the Broadway musical Thumbs Up!, written by Vernon Duke. Introduced on stage by J. Harold Murray, it was not until 1947 that the song became a hit with Jo Stafford's and Frank Sinatra's recordings.^[88]
• "Blue Moon"^[11][89] is a song composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Originally named "Prayer" and meant for the musical film Hollywood Party, the lyrics were rewritten two times for Manhattan Melodrama; eventually it was sung by Shirley Ross as "The Bad in Every Man". The song was later released commercially as "Blue Moon", with yet another set of lyrics. The final version was disliked by Hart but eventually became his most popular song.^[90] Apart from pop and jazz popularity, the song crossed over to rock and roll with the recordings by Elvis Presley and The Marcels.
• "Solitude"^{[8][11][91][92]} is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Eddie DeLange. Irving Mills received co-credit for the lyrics as Ellington's agent. Ellington claimed to have composed the song in 20 minutes.^[93] It is also known as "In My Solitude".
• "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"^[8][11][94] is a song from the Broadway musical Roberta, composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra's recording reached number one on the pop charts in 1934. A million-selling, Billboard Hot 100 number one version was recorded by doo-wop group The Platters in 1958.^[95]
• "Stars Fell on Alabama"^[11][96] is a song composed by Frank Perkins with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. The first jazz recording was made by Benny Goodman in 1934.^[97]
• "Stompin' at the Savoy"^{[8][11][98][99]} is a jazz song composed by Edgar Sampson with lyrics by Andy Razaf.^[100] Originally recorded by Chick Webb in 1934, it was popularized by Benny Goodman's 1936 recording.^[101] Both Webb and Goodman received composer co-credit for the song.^[100]

1935[edit]

Main article: 1935 in jazz

Standards[edit]

Many 1930s standards were popularized by jazz singer Billie Holiday's recordings, including "These Foolish Things", "Embraceable You", "Yesterdays".

• "Begin the Beguine is a show tune from the Broadway musical Jubilee, written by Cole Porter. It was popularized by Artie Shaw in 1938. It is considerably longer than the average song of the time (104 bars instead of the usual 32 bar AABA form). Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell's tap dance to the tune in the 1940 film Broadway Melody of 1940 became one of the most popular dance scenes on film.^[102]
• "In a Sentimental Mood"^{[8][11][103][104]} is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Manny Kurtz and Irving Mills. Ellington's biographer James Lincoln Collier argues that the melody was originally composed by Toby Hardwick.^[105] The song is among Ellington's most popular compositions, and has been described "Simply the most beautiful song ever written" and "The perfect soundtrack for falling in love."^[105]
• "Just One of Those Things"^[106] is a show tune from the Broadway musical Jubilee written by Cole Porter. It is also known as "It Was Just One of Those Things".
• "My Romance"^[8][41][107] is a song from the Broadway musical Jumbo, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Ben Webster has recorded the song several times as a ballad, and the definitive medium-tempo version is the 1961 recording by Bill Evans Trio on Waltz for Debby.^[108]
• "Summertime"^[11] is a song from the musical Porgy and Bess, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics from a poem by DuBose Heyward. Sidney Bechet's 1939 hit record helped establish the Blue Note record label. One of the best-known renditions is by Miles Davis and Gil Evans on Porgy and Bess (1958).^[109]
• "These Foolish Things"^[8][41][110] is a song from the British musical comedy Spread it Abroad, written by Harry Link, Holt Marvell and Jack Strachey. Billie Holiday's 1936 recording with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra is considered the definitive version of the song.^[111] It is also known as "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You".
• "What a Little Moonlight Can Do"^[112] is a song by Harry M. Woods. It was originally recorded by Billie Holiday.

Births[edit]

• April 16 -Dudley Moore, English jazz and classical musician and actor
• June 6-Grant Green, American jazz guitarist and composer

1936[edit]

Main article: 1936 in jazz

Standards[edit]

• "Caravan"^{[11][113][114][115]} is a jazz song with Middle Eastern influences, composed by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol with lyrics by Irving Mills.
• "I Can't Get Started"^[8][11][116] is a song from the Broadway musical Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Bob Hope. Bunny Berigan's 1937 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975.^[117] It is also known as "I Can't Get Started with You".
• "Pennies from Heaven"^[8][11][118] is a song from the film of the same name, composed by Arthur Johnston with lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby. Lester Young recorded several versions of the song in the 1940s and 1950s.^[119]
• "Sing, Sing, Sing"^[120] is a song written by Louis Prima. It is often associated with swing jazz bands, especially Benny Goodman, who recorded it in 1936. It is also known as "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)".
• "There Is No Greater Love"^{[8][121][122]} is a song composed by Isham Jones with lyrics by Marty Symes. It was the Isham Jones Orchestra's last hit before Woody Herman took over as bandleader.^[123]
• "The Way You Look Tonight"^[8][41][124] is a song from the film Swing Time, composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Introduced by Fred Astaire, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Johnny Griffin's 1957 performance with John Coltrane and Hank Mobley on A Blowin' Session has been called Griffin's "defining moment".^[125]
• "Why Don't You Do Right?"^[126] is a blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy. Originally titled "The Weed Smoker's Dream", McCoy rewrote the lyrics for Lil Green, who recorded it with Big Bill Broonzy in 1941. Peggy Lee recorded a hit version with Benny Goodman in 1945; this version was performed in Who Framed Roger Rabbit by Jessica Rabbit at the Ink and Paint Club.^[127]

1937[edit]

Main article: 1937 in jazz

Standards[edit]

• "Azure"^{[8][128][129]} is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills.
• "Easy Living"^[8][130] is a ballad from a film of the same name, composed by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin. The first hit version was recorded by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson's Orchestra.^[131]
• "A Foggy Day"^[11][132] is a song from the musical film A Damsel in Distress, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire and originally called "A Foggy Day in London Town".
• "Have You Met Miss Jones?"^[8][11][133] is a ballad from the Broadway comedy I'd Rather Be Right, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It was introduced on stage by Joy Hodges and Austin Marshall.^[134] The song's bridge may have served as an inspiration to John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" (1959).^[135] Female singers sometimes change the title to "Have You Met Sir Jones?".
• "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues"^[136][137] is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Don George.
• "Minor Swing"^[138] is a Gypsy jazz composition by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.
• "My Funny Valentine"^[8][11][139] is a show tune from the Broadway musical Babes in Arms, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Frank Sinatra recorded a hit version in 1955, and the song became later readily associated with his live performances. Other influential versions were recorded by Chet Baker (on My Funny Valentine, 1954) and Miles Davis (on Cookin', 1956).^[140]
• "Once in a While"^[11][141] is a song composed by Michael Edwards with lyrics by Bud Green. It became a number one hit for Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra and later for The Chimes and Patti Page.^[142] Rahsaan Roland Kirk is credited with reviving interest in the song among jazz musicians with his 1960s recording.^[142]
• "Some Day My Prince Will Come"^[8][41][143] is a song from Walt Disney's animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, composed by Frank Churchill with lyrics by Larry Morey. The first jazz recordings were by Donald Byrd and The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1957. Bill Evans has recorded the song several times. Miles Davis's rendition on Someday My Prince Will Come (1961) is notable for John Coltrane's memorable solo.^[144]
• "They Can't Take That Away from Me"^[11] is a song from the musical film Shall We Dance, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire, whose recording with the Johnny Green Orchestra stayed at number one for ten weeks. A famous version was recorded by Charlie Parker in 1950 and released on Charlie Parker with Strings.^[145]

1938[edit]

Standards[edit]

• "Cherokee"^[146][147] is a jazz song written by Ray Noble. Originally a part of a larger Indian Suite, it became a hit for Charlie Barnet in 1939 as an instrumental. Charlie Parker used the song's chord progression in his 1945 song "Ko-Ko".^[148] The song is also known as "Indian Love Song".
• "Heart and Soul"^[149][150] is a song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Frank Loesser. It was first performed by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra featuring Bea Wain.
• "Love Is Here to Stay" is a song from the musical film The Goldwyn Follies, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It gained little attention from The Goldwyn Follies and is better known for the 1952 film An American in Paris. It was the last song George Gershwin composed.^[151] The song was originally titled "Our Love Is Here to Stay"; Ira Gershwin later said that he would have wanted to change the title back to the original one if the song hadn't already become popular under its new name.^[152]
• "The Nearness of You"^[8][153] is a song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Ned Washington. It was meant to be included in the film Romance in the Rough, which was never produced. The first hit version was made by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in 1940. Sarah Vaughan recorded the song in 1949 and several times afterwards.^[154]
• "One O'Clock Jump" is an instrumental twelve-bar blues composition by Count Basie. It was used as the theme song of Basie's band. The song was partly written by saxophonist Buster Smith, but co-credit was denied by Basie.^[155][156] An influential performance was by Benny Goodman in his 1938 Carnegie Hall concert.^[157]
• "Prelude to a Kiss"^{[11][158][159]} is a jazz ballad composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills and Mack Gordon. It was first recorded as an instrumental by the Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring Johnny Hodges, and later by Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra with vocalist Mary McHugh.^[160]
• "September Song"^{[8][161][162]} is a song from the Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday, composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. It was introduced by Walter Huston, and later hit recordings were made by Frank Sinatra in 1946 and Sarah Vaughan in 1954.^[163]
• "You Go to My Head" is a song composed by J. Fred Coots with lyrics by Haven Gillespie. It was introduced by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra. The song's harmonic sophistication has been praised by critics, who often describe Coots as a "one-hit wonder" despite his "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" being even more popular in terms of mass appeal.^[164]

1939[edit]

Main article: 1939 in jazz

Standards[edit]

Clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman popularized many of the 1930s standards, including "Darn That Dream", How Deep Is the Ocean, and "Stompin' at the Savoy".

• "All the Things You Are"^{[8][11][41][165]} is a song from the Broadway musical Very Warm for May, composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Kern first felt the song, with its constantly shifting tonal centers, was too complex for mass appeal. However, it has enjoyed lasting popularity since then and is now one of the most recorded standards. It has been described as "the most perfectly constructed of all popular standards".^[166] The song's chord progression has been used for such tunes as "Bird of Paradise" by Charlie Parker and "Prince Albert" by Kenny Dorham.
• "Darn That Dream"^[41][167] is a song from the Broadway musical Swingin' the Dream, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Eddie DeLange. Although the musical was a disappointment, Benny Goodman's version of the song featuring vocalist Mildred Bailey was a number one hit.^[168]
• "Frenesi"^{[8][169][170]} is a Latin jazz composition by Alberto Dominguez. Originally composed for the marimba, jazz arrangements were later made by Leonard Whitcup and others. A 1940 hit version recorded by Artie Shaw with an arrangement by William Grant Still was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Famein 2000.^[10]
• "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"^[171] is a song from the musical Too Many Girls, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It was introduced on stage by Richard Kollmar and Marcy Westcott. Benny Goodman recorded the first jazz version in 1939 with vocalist Louise Tobin.^[172]
• "I Thought About You"^{[8][41][173][174]} is a song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Mildred Bailey recorded the first hit version with the Benny Goodman Orchestra.^[175]
• "In the Mood"^[176][177] is a jazz song composed by Joe Garland with lyrics by Andy Razaf. It was popularized by Glenn Miller. The composition was based on a tune called "Tar Paper Stomp" by Wingy Manone.^[178]
• Moonlight Serenade was composed by Glenn Miller with lyrics added later by Mitchell Parish. The recording reached no. 3 on Billboard and was the no. 5 record on the 1939 Billboard year-end list of the top recordings of 1939.
• "Over the Rainbow"^[11][179] is a ballad from the film The Wizard of Oz, composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. Introduced by Judy Garland on screen, the song was an immediate hit: four different versions, including Garland's, rose to top ten within a month after the film's release. An influential piano solo recording was made by Art Tatum in 1955, and a live solo piano recording was released by singer-songwriter Tori Amos in 1996. The song is also known as "Somewhere over the Rainbow".^[180]
• "Something to Live For"^[181] is a jazz ballad written by Billy Strayhorn. Strayhorn was Duke Ellington's pianist, and Ellington was co-credited with the song. Ella Fitzgerald has called it her favourite song.^[182]
• "What's New?"^{[8][11][41][183]} is a song composed by Bob Haggart with lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was originally an instrumental titled "I'm Free", written when Haggart was playing in Bob Crosby's Orchestra. The song was introduced by Crosby, and other hit versions from 1939 include Bing Crosby's and Benny Goodman's renditions.^[184] Australian singer Catherine O'Hara recorded the song in 1966 with her own lyrics, also titled "I'm Free".^[184]
• "Woodchopper's Ball"^[185] is a jazz composition by Joe Bishop and Woody Herman. Introduced by the Woody Herman Orchestra, it was the band's biggest hit.^[186] The original recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002.^[10]

• Προβλέπεται η επιστροφή στην εργασία των απολυμένων της 11ης Ιουνίου 2013 που το επιθυμούν.
• Διασφαλίζεται η λειτουργία της ΕΡΤ πάνω σε θεμέλιο δημοκρατίας με σκοπό την ποιοτική αναβάθμιση του παρεχόμενου ενημερωτικού, πολιτιστικού και ψυχαγωγικού προγράμματος.
• Δεν δημιουργείται δημοσιονομική επιβάρυνση στον κρατικό Προϋπολογισμό και συνεπώς δεν καθίσταται αντικείμενο της υπό εξέλιξη διαπραγμάτευσης. Αντίθετα, την τροφοδοτεί με το επιχείρημα της ουσιαστικής ριζοσπαστικής μεταρρύθμισης και της καλής νομοθέτησης.  
• Η ντροπή ΔΤ-ΝΕΡΙΤ εξέθεσε τη χώρα διεθνώς. Τα όσα σχολιάζονται και φημολογούνται αποτελούν μέρος της γενικότερης προσπάθειας διαστρέβλωσης του κυβερνητικού έργου, κυρίως όσων επιθυμούν, με προσωπική ιδιοτέλεια, να παραμένουν εραστές του ΔΤ και της ΝΕΡΙΤ που η κοινωνία τελικά ουδέποτε εμπιστεύθηκε. Το ίδιο το σχέδιο νόμου θα δώσει την απάντηση της αλήθειας σε όσους συνεχίζουν να μετατρέπουν το δημόσιο διάλογο σε πολιτικά άναρθρη σπέκουλα.   
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• Δημιουργείται το αναγκαίο πλαίσιο επίλυσης των ζητημάτων διαδοχής, αλλά και ελέγχου των οικονομικών στοιχείων και πεπραγμένων με σκοπό την εύρυθμη και ταυτόχρονα εξορθολογισμένη λειτουργία της ΕΡΤ.
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• 202 BC – coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China.
• 628 – Khosrau II is executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II.
• 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
• 1246 – The Siege of Jaén ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen.
• 1525 – The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés's forces.
• 1638 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
• 1700 – Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
• 1710 – In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
• 1784 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
• 1811 – Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence
• 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• 1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
• 1844 – A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
• 1847 – The Battle of the Sacramento River during the Mexican–American War is a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua.
• 1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
• 1867 – Seventy years of Holy See-United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
• 1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1874 – One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
• 1883 – The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston
• 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
• 1893 – The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
• 1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• 1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
• 1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
• 1922 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
• 1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
• 1928 – C.V. Raman discovers the Raman effect.
• 1933 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
• 1935 – DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
• 1939 – The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
• 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
• 1942 – The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men.
• 1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
• 1948 – Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra.
• 1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
• 1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
• 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
• 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit.
• 1972 – Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
• 1975 – In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
• 1980 – Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
• 1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
• 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
• 1986 – Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
• 1991 – The first Gulf War ends.
• 1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
• 1995 – Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993.
• 1997 – An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
• 1997 – The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
• 1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
• 1997 – Military Coup in Turkey
• 1998 – First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
• 1998 – Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
• 2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
• 2001 – Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
• 2002 – During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• 2004 – Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
• 2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
• 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.

Births[edit]

• 1155 – Henry the Young King, English son of Henry II of England (d. 1183)
• 1261 – Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (d. 1283)
• 1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher (d. 1592)
• 1552 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss mathematician and clockmaker (d. 1632)
• 1573 – Elias Holl, German architect (d. 1646)
• 1612 – John Pearson, English bishop, theologian, and scholar (d. 1686)
• 1616 – Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer (d. 1673)
• 1619 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1693)
• 1670 – Benjamin Wadsworth, English-American clergyman and academic (d. 1737)
• 1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
• 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist (d. 1757)
• 1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
• 1712 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (d. 1759)
• 1714 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian soprano (d. 1761)
• 1724 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal (d. 1807)
• 1792 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist, meteorologist, and geographer (d. 1876)
• 1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882)
• 1820 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
• 1823 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)
• 1824 – Charles Blondin, French acrobat (d. 1897)
• 1827 – Édouard-Charles Fabre, Canadian archbishop (d. 1896)
• 1833 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
• 1838 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1910)
• 1840 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
• 1848 – Arthur Giry, French historian (d. 1899)
• 1851 – Samuel W. McCall, American politician, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
• 1858 – Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (d. 1941)
• 1860 – Basil Spalding de Garmendia, American tennis player (d. 1932)
• 1865 – Wilfred Grenfell, English missionary (d. 1940)
• 1866 – Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1949)
• 1873 – William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor (d. 1912)
• 1876 – John Alden Carpenter, American composer (d. 1951)
• 1878 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1929)
• 1878 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
• 1881 – Fernand Sanz, French cyclist (d. 1925)
• 1882 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress (d. 1967)
• 1882 – Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish journalist and author (d. 1928)
• 1882 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican philosopher and politician (d. 1959)
• 1883 – Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish political activist and revolutionary (d. 1916)
• 1884 – Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
• 1887 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-born American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer (d. 1966)
• 1893 – Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (d. 1979)
• 1894 – Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1964)
• 1895 – Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1900 – Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth (d. 1959)
• 1901 – Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 1903 – Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
• 1907 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1908 – Alexander Golitzen, Russian-American production designer (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Stephen Spender, English poet (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Otakar Vávra, Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 1912 – Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
• 1915 – Ketti Frings, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1915 – Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1916 – Svend Asmussen, Danish violinist
• 1916 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Zamboanga City (d. 1984)
• 1917 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Odette Laure, French actress and singer (d. 2004)
• 1918 – Alfred Burke, English actor (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Brian Urquhart, English soldier and diplomat
• 1920 – Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Saul Zaentz, American film producer (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Pierre Clostermann, French pilot, engineer, and author (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Joyce Howard, English actress (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (d. 1993)
• 1923 – Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Robert A. Roe, American politician (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Harry H. Corbett, Burmese-English actor (d. 1982)
• 1926 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian daughter of Joseph Stalin (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (d. 1976)
• 1929 – Hayden Fry, American football player and coach
• 1929 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect, designed 8 Spruce Street and Walt Disney Concert Hall
• 1929 – John Montague, American-Irish poet and academic
• 1929 – Joseph Rouleau, Canadian opera singer
• 1930 – Leon Cooper, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Peter Alliss, German-English golfer and sportscaster
• 1931 – Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and politician, 14th President of Bangladesh (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor
• 1931 – Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Don Francks, Canadian actor and singer
• 1933 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (d. 1989)
• 1933 – Miro Steržaj, Slovenian bowler
• 1933 – Rein Taagepera, Estonian political scientist and politician
• 1934 – Willie Bobo, American drummer (d. 1983)
• 1938 – Foge Fazio, American football player and coach (d. 2009)
• 1938 – Mike Wofford, American pianist and composer
• 1939 – John Fahey, American guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1939 – The Missing Link, Canadian wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan philosopher and scholar (d. 1987)
• 1939 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 – Tommy Tune, American actor, singer, dancer, and director
• 1940 – Mario Andretti, Italian-American race car driver
• 1940 – Aldo Andretti, Italian-American race car driver
• 1940 – Barry Fantoni, English astrologer, author, and illustrator
• 1940 – Joe South, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Tristan Garel-Jones, Baron Garel Jones, English politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1941 – Suzanne Mubarak, Egyptian wife of Hosni Mubarak, 5th First Lady of Egypt
• 1941 – T. Thangavadivel, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician
• 1942 – Frank Bonner, American actor
• 1942 – Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
• 1942 – Dino Zoff, Italian footballer and manager
• 1943 – Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
• 1943 – Charles Bernstein, American composer and educator
• 1943 – Hans Dijkstal, Egyptian-Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Donnie Iris, American singer and guitarist (The Jaggerz and Wild Cherry)
• 1943 – Ronnie Wells, American jazz vocalist. (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Kelly Bishop, American actress and dancer
• 1944 – Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Sepp Maier, German footballer
• 1944 – Storm Thorgerson, English graphic designer (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Mimsy Farmer, American actress
• 1945 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Philip Bailhache, English lawyer and politician
• 1946 – Robin Cook, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 2005)
• 1946 – Don Francisco, American singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
• 1948 – Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet and author (d. 2000)
• 1948 – Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1948 – Mike Figgis, English director, screenwriter, and composer
• 1948 – Seppo Harjanne, Finnish race car driver
• 1948 – Johnny Delgado, Filipino actor (d. 2009)
• 1948 – Geoff Nicholls, English keyboard player (Black Sabbath and Quartz)
• 1948 – Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer, and author
• 1948 – Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
• 1948 – Alfred Sant, Maltese politician, 11th Prime Minister of Malta
• 1949 – Ilene Graff, American actress and singer
• 1949 – Susan Hekman, American political scientist and feminist
• 1950 – Futatsuryū Jun'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Frankie Kao, Taiwanese singer (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Jaime Fabregas, Filipino actor
• 1951 – Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
• 1951 – Karsan Ghavri, Indian cricketer
• 1951 – Peter Stothard, English journalist
• 1951 – Roseanna Vitro, American singer and educator
• 1951 – Jim Wohlford, American baseball player
• 1952 – William Finn, American composer and songwriter
• 1952 – Frank Warren, English boxing manager and promoter
• 1953 – Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian race car driver
• 1953 – Paul Krugman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1953 – Ricky Steamboat, American wrestler
• 1954 – Brian Billick, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1954 – Manuel Torres Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (d. 2012)
• 1955 – Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian and actor
• 1955 – Bob Kerslake, English civil servant
• 1956 – Adrian Dantley, American basketball player
• 1956 – Francis Hughes, IRA Volunteer and hunger striker (d. 1981)
• 1956 – Terry Leahy, English businessman
• 1956 – Guy Maddin, Canadian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
• 1956 – Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-Irish footballer and manager
• 1956 – Mike Tenay, American sportscaster
• 1957 – Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Zahara) (d. 1996)
• 1957 – Ainsley Harriott, English chef and author
• 1957 – John Turturro, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Cindy Wilson, American singer-songwriter and actress (The B-52's)
• 1958 – Jack Abramoff, American businessman
• 1958 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian journalist and activist (d. 2009)
• 1958 – Ginette Harrison, English mountaineer (d. 1999)
• 1958 – Jeanne Mas, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1958 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (d. 2010)
• 1959 – Megan McDonald, American author
• 1960 – Tōru Ōkawa, Japanese voice actor
• 1960 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (d. 1980)
• 1961 – Eric Bachelart, Belgian race car driver
• 1961 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress
• 1961 – Mark Latham, Australian politician
• 1961 – Barry McGuigan, Irish boxer
• 1961 – René Simard, Canadian singer and television host
• 1963 – Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
• 1964 – Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist
• 1964 – Fernando del Valle, American tenor
• 1964 – Lotta Lotass, Swedish author
• 1965 – Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor
• 1965 – Colum McCann, Irish author
• 1965 – Norman Smiley, English-American wrestler
• 1966 – Vincent Askew, American basketball player
• 1966 – Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
• 1966 – Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid
• 1966 – Edita Mildažytė, Lithuanian journalist
• 1967 – Colin Cooper, English footballer and manager
• 1967 – Martin Tielli, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rheostatics and Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle)
• 1968 – Stéphan Lebeau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver
• 1969 – Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
• 1969 – Patrick Monahan, American singer-songwriter (Train)
• 1969 – Tor Øivind Ødegård, Norwegian runner
• 1969 – U. Srinivas, Indian mandolin player and composer (d. 2014)
• 1970 – Daniel Handler, American author and screenwriter
• 1970 – Noureddine Morceli, Algerian runner
• 1971 – Maxine Bahns, American actress
• 1971 – Tristan Louis, French-American author and blogger
• 1971 – Junya Nakano, Japanese composer
• 1971 – Peter Stebbings, Canadian actor
• 1972 – Rory Cochrane, American actor
• 1972 – Ville Haapasalo, Finnish actor
• 1973 – Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Nicolas Minassian, French race car driver
• 1973 – Masato Tanaka, Japanese wrestler
• 1974 – Lee Carsley, Irish footballer
• 1974 – Moana Mackey, New Zealand biologist and politician
• 1974 – Tangi Miller, American actress and dancer
• 1974 – Alexander Zickler, German footballer
• 1975 – Mike Rucker, American football player
• 1975 – Greg Simkins, American painter
• 1976 – Kaido Külaots, Estonian chess player
• 1976 – Ali Larter, American actress
• 1976 – Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor and producer
• 1976 – Adam Pine, Australian swimmer
• 1977 – Jason Aldean, American singer and guitarist
• 1977 – Lance Hoyt, American wrestler
• 1978 – Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 – Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer
• 1978 – Rei Kikukawa, Japanese actress
• 1978 – Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier
• 1978 – Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
• 1978 – Mariano Zabaleta, Argentinian tennis player
• 1979 – Srikanth, Indian actor
• 1979 – Michael Bisping, Cypriot-English mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Sébastien Bourdais, French race car driver
• 1979 – Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player
• 1979 – Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper
• 1980 – Bada, South Korean singer (S.E.S.)
• 1980 – Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
• 1980 – Lucian Bute, Romanian-Canadian boxer
• 1980 – Glasner da Silva Albuquerque, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
• 1980 – Christian Poulsen, Danish footballer
• 1980 – Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
• 1981 – Brian Bannister, American baseball player
• 1981 – Florent Serra, French tennis player
• 1982 – Natalia Vodianova, Russian-French model
• 1983 – Terry Bywater, English basketball player
• 1984 – Noureen DeWulf, American actress
• 1984 – Ben Fagan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 – Karolína Kurková, Czech model and actress
• 1984 – Christian Müller, German footballer
• 1985 – Tim Bresnan, English cricketer
• 1985 – Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1985 – Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
• 1985 – Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Mark Sztyndera, German rugby player
• 1986 – Min Hyo-rin, South Korean singer and actress
• 1986 – Tendai Mzungu, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player
• 1988 – Steeve Gerard Fankà, Cameroonian footballer
• 1988 – Jorge Gastélum, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Markéta Irglová, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1988 – Yevgeni Kabayev, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Maikol Negro, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Charles Jenkins, American basketball player
• 1989 – Zhang Liyin, Chinese singer
• 1990 – Naomi Broady, English tennis player
• 1991 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
• 1993 – Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer-songwriter
• 1994 – Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1995 – Quinn Shephard, American actress
• 2007 – Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco

Deaths[edit]

• 468 – Pope Hilarius
• 1261 – Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1230)
• 1326 – Leopold I, Duke of Austria (b. 1290)
• 1453 – Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
• 1485 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German knight (b. 1441)
• 1510 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (b, 1450)
• 1525 – Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler (b. 1495)
• 1572 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
• 1621 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
• 1648 – Christian IV of Denmark (b. 1577)
• 1746 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
• 1786 – John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
• 1788 – Thomas Cushing, British-American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1725)
• 1836 – Friedrich August Grotefend, German philologist (b. 1798)
• 1857 – André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
• 1869 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1891 – George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1913 – George Finnegan, American boxer (b. 1881)
• 1916 – Henry James, American-English author (b. 1843)
• 1925 – Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 – Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
• 1935 – Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Kamala Nehru, Indian wife of Jawaharlal Nehru (b. 1899)
• 1936 – Charles Nicolle, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1941 – Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
• 1942 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
• 1956 – Émile Buisson, French gangster (b. 1902)
• 1959 – Maxwell Anderson, American journalist, author and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1963 – Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Jonathan Hale, Canadian-American actor (b. 1891)
• 1967 – Henry Luce, Chinese-American publisher, co-founded Time Magazine (b. 1898)
• 1974 – Bobby Bloom, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Eddie Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1978 – Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1978 – Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1985 – David Byron, English singer-songwriter (Uriah Heep and Spice) (b. 1947)
• 1985 – Alberts Ozoliņš, Latvian weightlifter (b. 1896)
• 1986 – Laura Z. Hobson, American author (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Olof Palme, Swedish politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
• 1987 – Stephen Tennant, English author (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Wassily Hoeffding, Finnish-American statistician and theorist (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1993 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor (b. 1952)
• 1998 – Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Rudolf Kingslake, English engineer and academic (b. 1903)
• 2003 – Roger Needham, English computer scientist (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian general and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian sergeant (b. 1982)
• 2005 – Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2006 – John S. Lesmeister, American politician (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-English businessman, founded the Forte Group (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and critic (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Billy Thorpe, English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
• 2008 – Joseph M. Juran, Romanian-American engineer and businessman (b. 1904)
• 2008 – Mike Smith, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Paul Harvey, American radio host (b. 1918)
• 2011 – Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Peter J. Gomes, American preacher and theologian (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Frisner Augustin, Haitian drummer and composer (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Jaime Graça, Portuguese footballer and coach (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Jim Green, American-Canadian educator and politician (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Bai Jing, Chinese actress (b. 1983)
• 2012 – Hal Roach, Irish comedian and author (b. 1927)
• 2013 – DJ Ajax, Australian DJ and producer (b. 1971)
• 2013 – Theo Bos, Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Daniel Darc, French singer-songwriter (Taxi Girl) (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Jean Marcel Honoré, French cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Neil McCorkell, English cricketer (b. 1912)
• 2013 – Bruce Reynolds, English criminal (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Armando Trovajoli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Kevon Carter, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2014 – Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Ophelia DeVore, American model and businesswoman (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Lee Lorch, American mathematician and activist (b. 1915)
• 2014 – C. R. Simha, Indian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Gib Singleton, American sculptor (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Randy Trautman, American football player (b. 1960)