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• 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
• 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
• 1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
• 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
• 1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
• 1414 – Council of Constance.
• 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
• 1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• 1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
• 1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
• 1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
• 1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
• 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
• 1807 – Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
• 1852 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
• 1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
• 1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
• 1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• 1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
• 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• 1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• 1903 – In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
• 1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
• 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
• 1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
• 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
• 1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
• 1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
• 1935 – First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
• 1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
• 1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
• 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra record Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the best-selling single in history.
• 1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
• 1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
• 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• 1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
• 1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
• 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
• 1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
• 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• 1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• 1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1989 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
• 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• 1993 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
• 1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
• 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
• 1999 – Charlotte Perrelli representing Sweden wins Eurovision Song Contest 1999 in Jerusalem with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
• 2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
• 2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 2008 – A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
• 2012 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
• 2014 – Ignatius Aphrem II is enthroned as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Births[edit]

• 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1632)
• 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1693)
• 1630 – Charles II of England (d. 1685)
• 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1715)
• 1716 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist (d. 1800)
• 1722 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (d. 1773)
• 1730 – Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer (d. 1803)
• 1736 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
• 1773 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
• 1780 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855)
• 1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
• 1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895)
• 1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1909)
• 1871 – Clark Greenwood Voorhees, American painter (d. 1933)
• 1873 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1918)
• 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1936)
• 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet (d. 1938)
• 1893 – Max Brand, American author (d. 1944)
• 1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-born British singer and actress (d. 1989)
• 1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1969)
• 1897 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American composer (d. 1957)
• 1899 – Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician, 10th Minister of Defence for Canada (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1905 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1994)
• 1906 – T.H. White, Anglo-Indian author (d. 1964)
• 1907 – Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (d. 2002)
• 1908 – Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter (d. 1978)
• 1911 – Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (d. 1986)
• 1915 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
• 1917 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
• 1917 – Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, educator, and author (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic
• 1920 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Clifton James, American actor
• 1922 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Bernard Clavel, French author (d. 2010)
• 1923 – John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon
• 1924 – Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Rune Ericson, Swedish cinematographer
• 1924 – Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Pepper Paire, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Katie Boyle, Italian-British actress and television host
• 1926 – Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese politician, 3rd President of Senegal
• 1927 – Gordon Berg, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
• 1927 – Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic
• 1929 – Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
• 1932 – Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
• 1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
• 1934 – Grandma Lee, American comedian
• 1934 – Nanette Newman, English actress and author
• 1934 – Bill Vander Zalm, Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
• 1935 – André Brink, South African author and playwright (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Fred White, American sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (d. 1989)
• 1937 – Charles W. Pickering, American judge
• 1937 – Irmin Schmidt, German keyboard player and composer (Can)
• 1937 – Alwin Schockemöhle, German horse rider
• 1938 – Christopher Bland, English businessman and politician
• 1938 – Fay Vincent, American lawyer and businessman
• 1939 – Al Unser, American race car driver
• 1940 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
• 1941 – Doug Scott, English mountaineer
• 1941 – Bob Simon, American journalist (d. 2015)
• 1942 – Pierre Bourque, Canadian politician, 40th Mayor of Montreal
• 1942 – Kevin Conway, American actor
• 1943 – Robert W. Edgar, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Bob Benmosche, American businessman (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1945 – Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist (Procol Harum and The Paramounts)
• 1945 – Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Catherine Lara, French singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1945 – Julian Le Grand, English economist and author
• 1945 – Martin Pipe, English horse trainer
• 1945 – Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
• 1945 – Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian scholar and author
• 1946 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (d. 2000)
• 1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor
• 1947 – Joey Levine, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ohio Express and The Third Rail)
• 1947 – Gene Robinson, American bishop
• 1947 – Constantino Romero, Spanish radio host and actor (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
• 1948 – Linda Esther Gray, Scottish operatic soprano and singing teacher
• 1948 – Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
• 1948 – Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor and producer
• 1949 – Robert Axelrod, American actor
• 1949 – Andrew Clements, American author and educator
• 1949 – Brian Kidd, English footballer and coach
• 1949 – Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo)
• 1949 – Cotter Smith, American actor
• 1950 – Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
• 1951 – Peter Chernin, American businessman
• 1952 – Alan Langlands, Scottish academic
• 1952 – Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (d. 2014)
• 1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Giles Clarke, English businessman
• 1953 – Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Oingo Boingo)
• 1954 – Robert Beaser, American composer
• 1954 – Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
• 1955 – Frank Baumgartl, German runner (d. 2010)
• 1955 – John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
• 1955 – David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author
• 1955 – Mike Porcaro, American bass player (Toto) (d. 2015)
• 1955 – Gordon Rintoul, Scottish curator
• 1955 – Ken Schrader, American race car driver
• 1956 – Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1956 – La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1957 – Steven Croft, English bishop and theologian
• 1957 – Jeb Hensarling, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Ted Levine, American actor
• 1958 – Annette Bening, American actress
• 1958 – Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
• 1958 – Karen Maruyama, American actress
• 1958 – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (d. 2011)
• 1958 – Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach
• 1958 – Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1958 – Wayne Duvall, American actor
• 1959 – Rupert Everett, English actor, singer, and producer
• 1959 – Steve Hanley, Irish-born English bass player and songwriter (The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
• 1959 – Adrian Paul, English actor and producer
• 1960 – Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic
• 1960 – Neil Crone, Canadian actor
• 1960 – Mike Freer, English politician
• 1960 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist
• 1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist
• 1961 – John Miceli, American drummer (Neverland Express)
• 1962 – Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach, and manager
• 1962 – Eric Davis, American baseball player
• 1962 – Perry Fenwick, English actor
• 1962 – John D. LeMay, American actor
• 1962 – Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress and singer
• 1963 – Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane)
• 1963 – Tracey E. Bregman, German-American actress
• 1963 – Zhu Jianhua, Chinese high jumper
• 1963 – Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Claude Loiselle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1963 – Lisa Whelchel, American actress and singer
• 1964 – Jestoni Alarcon, Filipino actor and politician
• 1964 – Howard Mills III, American politician
• 1965 – Jestoni Alarcon, Filipino actor and politician
• 1967 – Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Steven Levitt, American economist
• 1967 – Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (d. 2008)
• 1968 – Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
• 1968 – Tate George, American basketball player
• 1968 – Jessica Morden, English politician
• 1969 – Chan Kinchla, Canadian guitarist (Blues Traveler)
• 1970 – Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
• 1971 – Éric Lucas, Canadian boxer
• 1971 – Bernd Mayländer, German race car driver
• 1971 – Rob Womack, English shot putter
• 1972 – Közi, Japanese singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Malice Mizer and Eve of Destiny)
• 1972 – Stanislas, French singer-songwriter (Circus)
• 1972 – Bill Curley, American basketball player
• 1972 – Simon Jones, English singer and bass player (The Verve, The Shining, and Black Submarine)
• 1973 – Anthony Azizi, American actor
• 1973 – Mark Lee, American guitarist and songwriter (Third Day)
• 1973 – Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
• 1974 – Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1974 – Aaron McGruder, American cartoonist
• 1974 – Myf Warhurst, Australian radio and television host
• 1974 – Jenny Willott, English politician
• 1975 – Jason Allison, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Mel B, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Spice Girls)
• 1975 – Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
• 1975 – David Burtka, American actor and chef
• 1975 – Sven Kubis, German footballer
• 1975 – Sarah Millican, English comedian
• 1975 – Daniel Tosh, American comedian and actor
• 1975 – Anthony Wall, English golfer
• 1976 – Caçapa, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Jerry Hairston, Jr., American baseball player
• 1976 – Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese actor
• 1976 – Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
• 1976 – Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
• 1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Danny Gerard, American actor and singer
• 1977 – António Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
• 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player (The Hives)
• 1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
• 1978 – Lorenzo Odone, American Adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
• 1978 – Adam Rickitt, English actor and singer (5th Story)
• 1979 – Arne Friedrich, German footballer
• 1979 – Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
• 1979 – Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin, Singaporean footballer
• 1979 – John Rheinecker, American baseball player
• 1980 – Ernesto Farías, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
• 1981 – Justin Chon, American actor
• 1982 – Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia)
• 1982 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• 1982 – Joanne Borgella, American singer and model (d. 2014)
• 1982 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
• 1982 – Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete
• 1982 – Matt Macri, American baseball player
• 1982 – Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball player
• 1983 – Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
• 1983 – Alberto Medina, Mexican footballer
• 1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
• 1984 – Funmi Jimoh, American long jumper
• 1984 – Andreas Schäffer, German footballer
• 1985 – Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Hornswoggle, American wrestler
• 1986 – Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican-American model
• 1987 – Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian long jumper
• 1987 – Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Noah Reid, Canadian actor
• 1987 – Rui Sampaio, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 – Alessandra Torresani, American actress
• 1988 – Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
• 1988 – Muath al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian Air Force pilot burned alive by ISIL (d. 2015)
• 1988 – Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Riley Keough, American model and actress
• 1989 – Brandon Mychal Smith, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1989 – Mathew Waters, Australian actor
• 1990 – Ramil Guliyev, Azeri-Turkish sprinter
• 1991 – Kristen Alderson, American actress and singer
• 1991 – Saori Hayami, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1991 – Tom Ljungman, Swedish actor
• 1992 – Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player
• 1992 – Gregg Sulkin, English actor
• 1993 – Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
• 1993 – Maika Monroe, American actress
• 1993 – Grete Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
• 1998 – Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress

Deaths[edit]

• 1259 – Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
• 1379 – Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
• 1405 – Philippe de Mézières, French soldier and author (b. 1327)
• 1425 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
• 1453 – Ulubatlı Hasan, Ottoman commander (b. 1428)
• 1453 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
• 1500 – Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. 1451)
• 1546 – David Beaton, Scottish cardinal (b. 1494)
• 1593 – John Penry, Welsh martyr (b. 1559)
• 1660 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1615)
• 1691 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
• 1790 – Israel Putnam, American general (b. 1718)
• 1796 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (b. 1720)
• 1814 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon (b. 1763)
• 1829 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
• 1847 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (b. 1766)
• 1866 – Winfield Scott, American general and politician (b. 1786)
• 1873 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
• 1892 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1903 – Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 – W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 – Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English dramatist and novelist. (b.1871)
• 1914 – Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter and author (b.1853)
• 1917 – Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 – Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 – Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 – May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 – Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1951 – Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French composer (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler (b. 1891)
• 1953 – Morgan Russell, American painter (b. 1886)
• 1958 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1963 – Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)
• 1968 – Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1896)
• 1970 – John Gunther, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
• 1970 – Eva Hesse, German-American sculptor (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Prithviraj Kapoor, Pakistani-Indian actor (b. 1906)
• 1972 – Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1973 – George Harriman, English businessman (b. 1908)
• 1973 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer, and composer (b. 1922)
• 1975 – Kurt Großkurth, German actor and singer (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (b. 1892)
• 1979 – John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
• 1982 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
• 1983 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1946)
• 1989 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Dinosaurs, and Man) (b. 1943)
• 1989 – George C. Homans, American sociologist (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Erich Honecker, German politician (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Tamara Toumanova, Siberian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
• 1997 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (b. 1966)
• 1997 – George Fenneman, Chinese-American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
• 1998 – Barry Goldwater, American general and politician (b. 1909)
• 2003 – David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
• 2004 – Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Samuel Dash, American politician (b. 1925)
• 2005 – John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Hamilton Naki, South African surgeon (b. 1926)
• 2005 – George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
• 2008 – Harvey Korman, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
• 2010 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Bill Clements, American soldier and politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, 14th President of Hungary (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Dick Beals, American voice actor (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Mark Minkov, Russian composer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Jim Unger, English-Canadian illustrator (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Françoise Blanchard, French actress (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Mulgrew Miller, American pianist and composer (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Franca Rame, Italian actress and playwright (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Wali-ur-Rehman, Pakistani commander (b. 1970)
• 2014 – Karlheinz Böhm, German-Austrian actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Peter Glaser, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Miljenko Prohaska, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Herman Rattliff, American politician (b. 1926)
• 2014 – William M. Roth, American businessman (b. 1916)

Το απίθανο ράντσο του Μάικλ Τζάκσον πουλιέται για 100 εκατ. δολάρια

Η «Χώρα του Ποτέ» υπάρχει. Την είχε δημιουργήσει ως άλλος

 Πίτερ Παν πριν χρόνια ο Μάικλ Τζάκσον.

Είναι το εκπληκτικό ράντσο που ανήκε στον βασιλιά της ποπ, η Neverland, και

 πλέον βγήκε στην αγορά. Μπορεί να το αποκτήσει όποιος θέλει, αρκεί να μπορεί 

να διαθέσει 100 εκατ. δολάρια. Τόσα ζητά η ιδιωτική επενδυτική εταιρεία που το

 αγόρασε το 2008 για 23,5 εκατομμύρια και διέθεσε αρκετά ακόμη για να το

 ανακαινίσει, ενώ το ονόμασε «Sycamore Valley Ranch».

Αυτή η απίστευτη έκταση 2.700 στρεμμάτων στην Καλιφόρνια είχε ότι περνούσε

 από τη φαντασία του Μάικλ Τζάκσον, ο οποίος βέβαια υλοποιούσε κάθε επιθυμία του.

Αυτή ήταν η κρεβατοκάμαρα στην οποία κοιμόταν ο βασιλιάς της ποπ και το μπάνιο του.

Στη Neveland υπάρχουν λίμνες και συντριβάνια, χάλκινα αγάλματα παιδιών που

 παίζουν σε διάφορα σημεία και βέβαια πισίνες. Το καροτσάκι των παγωτών το

 είχε κάνει δώρο στον Τζάκσον η καλή του φίλη, Ελίζαμπεθ Τέιλορ.

Το σπίτι της πισίνας έχει διάφορα επίπεδα και σε εκείνο ζούσε ο Τζάκσον, μέχρι

 να φύγει από τη Neverland το 2005. Όταν έμενε εκεί, το σπίτι ήταν γεμάτο

 ηλεκτρονικά παιχνίδια.

Μεταξύ άλλων το ράντσο διαθέτει το δικό του τρενάκι, σταθμό, αλλά και λούνα

 παρκ το οποίο μετέτρεψε σε «κήπο ζεν» η εταιρεία που αγόρασε την έκταση.

 το “φτωχικό” γνωστού τραγουδιστή

Ένα από τα πιο εκπληκτικά σπίτια της showbiz απέκτησε γνωστός τραγουδιστής. 

Παρακάτω οι φωτογραφίες από το «παλάτι», με κόστος 8 εκατομμύρια ευρώ!

Ο «τυχεράκιας» της υπόθεσης είναι ο Φάρελ Ουίλιαμς, που είδε την καριέρα του να απογειώνεται με το τραγούδι «Happy», ο οποίος απέκτησε ένα διώροφο σπίτι, 410 τετραγωνικών μέτρων, στην περιοχή Λόρελ Κάνιον του Λος Άντζελες.

Πέντε υπνοδωμάτια, δύο μπάνια, τζάκι, μπάρμπεκιου, πισίνα και μια ευρύχωρη βεράντα η οποία έχει ακόμα και τηλεόραση, είναι στη διάθεση του τραγουδιστή.

Το σπίτι είναι διακοσμημένο σε μοντέρνα γραμμή, ενώ τα μεγάλα παράθυρα και οι γυάλινοι τοίχοιεπιτρέπουν στον Φάρελ να έχει το Λος Άντζελες «πιάτο»!

    

Ο Όμιλος Μουζενίδη παρουσίασε τα νέα δρομολόγια της Ellinair για το έτος 2015

 

Σε μία κατάμεστη αίθουσα σε κεντρικό ξενοδοχείο της Θεσσαλονίκης, η διοίκηση παρουσίασε το νέο πρόγραμμα δρομολογίων για το 2015.

Για πρώτη φορά  ανακοινώθηκε το πρόγραμμα των εσωτερικών δρομολογίων της Ellinair. Το δίκτυο αυτό θα περιλαμβάνει 7 προορισμούς, Θεσσαλονίκη, Αθήνα, Σαντορίνη, Μύκονο, Ηράκλειο, Ρόδο και Ζάκυνθο. Από Θεσσαλονίκη θα εκτελούνται απευθείας  δρομολόγια  προς  Σαντορίνη (5 φορές εβδομαδιαία), Μύκονο (4 φορές εβδομαδιαία), Ηράκλειο (4 φορές  εβδομαδιαία), Ρόδο (3 φορές εβδομαδιαία) και Ζάκυνθο (2 φορές εβδομαδιαία).

Από Αθήνα θα εκτελούνται απευθείας πτήσεις προς Σαντορίνη (6 φορές εβδομαδιαία), Μύκονο (4 φορές εβδομαδιαία) και Ηράκλειο (4 φορές εβδομαδιαία).

Συνολικά οι πτήσεις εσωτερικού θα ανέλθουν σε 768 και οι προσφερόμενες  θέσεις στις 75.000.

κ. Μπόρις Μουζενίδης

 κ. Ιωάννης Μουζενίδης

Το πρόγραμμα δρομολογίων εξωτερικού της εταιρείας θα εξυπηρετεί 28 προορισμούς στη Ρωσία, Ουκρανία, Λετονία, Γεωργία, Καζακστάν απευθείας από Θεσσαλονίκη, Κέρκυρα, Αθήνα και Ηράκλειο. Επιπλέον, για πρώτη φορά η Ellinair θα συνδέει τη Μόσχα με την Αθήνα. Το 2015 η Ellinair  προβλέπεται να πραγματοποιήσει συνολικά περίπου 1600 πτήσεις εξωτερικού.

Η εκδήλωση πραγματοποιήθηκε με την παρουσία εκπροσώπου του Παναγιότατου Μητροπολίτη Θεσ/νίκης κ.κ Άνθιμο, του Δημάρχου Θεσσαλονίκης κ. Μπουτάρη Ι., του Περιφερειάρχη Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας κ. Τζιτζικώστα Α. και του Τ. Υπουργού Τουρισμού κ. Λιάσκου Α., οι οποίοι απηύθυναν χαιρετισμό, τονίζοντας την προσφορά του Ομίλου και ιδιαίτερα του ιδρυτή του κ. Μπόρις Μουζενίδη. Την εκδήλωση τίμησαν με την παρουσία τους επίσης η Αντιπεριφερειάρχης ΠΕ Θεσσαλονίκης κα. Πατουλίδου Β., ο Γενικός Πρόξενος Ρωσικής Ομοσπονδίας κ. Popov A., ο Επιτετραμένος Γενικός Πρόξενος Ουκρανίας κ. Voronin O., εκπρόσωποι του διοικητικού συμβουλίου της ΕΤΜΓΘ , της ΥΠΑ, της αστυνομίας και άλλων φορέων.

Στην παρουσίαση αναφορά έγινε στην προσφορά του Ομίλου Μουζενίδη στο χώρο της Β. Ελλάδος και γενικότερα στην εθνική οικονομία της Ελλάδος.

Η Ellinair αποτελεί θυγατρική εταιρεία του Ομίλου και έχει ως κύριο έργο της την μεταφορά των πελατών του Ομίλου, οι οποίοι πέρυσι έφθασαν τους 400.000. Για το καλοκαίρι του 2015, ο στόλος της Ellinair θα αποτελείται από δύο τετρακινητήρια αεροσκάφη τύπου AVRO RJ85 - 96 θέσεων, ένα Airbus A319 -144 θέσεων και 2 Boeing 737 300 - 148 θέσεων.ΡΑΛΛΙΩ ΛΕΠΙΔΟΥ

Apple: Οδηγίες για αντιμετώπιση κακόβουλου γραπτού μηνύματος

• 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
• 1381 – Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
• 1416 – The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
• 1431 – Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
• 1434 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
• 1510 – During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming Dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
• 1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
• 1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
• 1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
• 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
• 1631 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
• 1635 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
• 1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
• 1806 – Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I is exiled to Elba.
• 1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
• 1832 – End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
• 1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
• 1834 – Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders" in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
• 1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
• 1845 – The Fatel Razack land in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first East Indian to the country.
• 1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
• 1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
• 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
• 1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
• 1913 – First Balkan War: The Treaty of London (1913), is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
• 1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York, New York.
• 1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
• 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
• 1925 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
• 1932 – The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
• 1937 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
• 1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
• 1942 – World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• 1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
• 1958 – Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
• 1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• 1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1966 – The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
• 1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
• 1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
• 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
• 1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
• 1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• 1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
• 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
• 1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
• 2003 – Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
• 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappears while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.
• 2012 – Former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 2013 – Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

Births[edit]

• 1010 – Emperor Renzong of Song (d. 1063)
• 1220 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (d. 1263)
• 1423 – Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
• 1623 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1686)
• 1653 – Claudia Felicitas of Austria (d. 1676)
• 1686 – Antonina Houbraken, Dutch draughtswoman (d. 1736)
• 1718 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1793)
• 1719 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
• 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
• 1768 – Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French general (d. 1815)
• 1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
• 1800 – Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose, French cardinal (d. 1883)
• 1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian philosopher and theorist (d. 1876)
• 1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
• 1819 – William McMurdo, English general (d. 1894)
• 1820 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (d. 1890)
• 1835 – Alfred Austin, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1913)
• 1844 – Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer (d. 1921)
• 1845 – Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
• 1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
• 1862 – Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Azerbaijani philosopher and poet (d. 1911)
• 1871 – Nándor Dáni, Hungarian runner (d. 1949)
• 1871 – Olga Engl, Austrian-German actress (d. 1946)
• 1874 – Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912)
• 1875 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player and actor (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
• 1879 – Konstantin Ramul, Estonian psychologist an academic (d. 1975)
• 1881 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Wyndham Halswelle, English runner (d. 1915)
• 1884 – Siegmund Glücksmann, German-Jewish politician (d. 1942)
• 1885 – Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Laurent Barré, Canadian politician (d. 1964)
• 1886 – Randolph Bourne, American theorist (d. 1918)
• 1887 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor (d. 1964)
• 1887 – Paulette Noizeux, French actress (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Emil Reesen, Danish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Roger Salengro, French politician (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
• 1894 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1965)
• 1895 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Howard Hawks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1936)
• 1901 – Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (d. 1969)
• 1901 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Countee Cullen, American poet and author (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Bruno Gröning, Polish-German mystic (d. 1959)
• 1907 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
• 1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist (d. 2008)
• 1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor and singer (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Jacques Canetti, French talent agent (d. 1997)
• 1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986)
• 1910 – Harry Bernstein, English-American author (d. 2011)
• 1910 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh-English actor (d. 1980)
• 1912 – Millicent Selsam, American author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (d. 1979)
• 1916 – Justin Catayée, French politician (d. 1962)
• 1916 – Mort Meskin, American illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Pita Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007)
• 1919 – René Barrientos, Bolivian general and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Franklin J. Schaffner, Japanese-American director and producer (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Hal Clement, American author (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Anna Proclemer, Italian actress (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Marv Diemer, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Armando Peraza, Cuban-American drummer (Santana) (d. 2014)
• 1925 – John Henry Marks, English physician
• 1926 – Johnny Gimble, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Christine Jorgensen, American transgender (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Clint Walker, American actor and singer
• 1928 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1929 – Georges Gilson, French bishop
• 1930 – Mark Birley, English businessman, founded Annabel's (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Robert Ryman, American painter
• 1931 – Larry Silverstein, American businessman
• 1932 – Ray Cooney, English actor and playwright
• 1932 – Pauline Oliveros, American accordion player and composer (Deep Listening Band)
• 1932 – Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, Welsh politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1934 – Alexey Leonov, Russian general and astronaut
• 1934 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Lee Gunther, American production manager and producer (d. 1998)
• 1935 – Guy Tardif, Canadian politician (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor
• 1936 – Stanislav Hurenko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
• 1937 – Christopher Haskins, Irish businessman
• 1937 – Rick Mather, American-English architect (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Harry Statham, American basketball player and coach
• 1938 – David Early, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Billie Letts, American author and educator (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football defensive lineman
• 1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor
• 1939 – Dieter Quester, Austrian race car driver
• 1939 – Tim Waterstone, Scottish businessman, founded Waterstones
• 1940 – Gilles Villemure, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1942 – John Gladwin, English bishop
• 1942 – Carole Stone, English journalist and author
• 1943 – James Chaney, American activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Charles Collingwood, Canadian-English actor
• 1943 – Anders Michanek Swedish motorcycle racer
• 1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
• 1944 – Peter E. Berger, American film editor (d. 2011)
• 1944 – Lenny Davidson, English guitarist and songwriter (The Dave Clark Five)
• 1944 – Meredith MacRae, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1944 – Stav Prodromou, Greek-American businessman
• 1945 – Norman Eshley, English actor
• 1945 – Richard Hannon, Sr., English horse trainer
• 1946 – Allan Chapman, English historian and author
• 1947 – Jocelyne Bourassa, Canadian golfer
• 1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 1949 – P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball player and coach
• 1949 – Paul Coleridge, English judge
• 1949 – Klaus Flouride, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Dead Kennedys)
• 1949 – Bob Willis, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1950 – Bertrand Delanoë, French politician, Mayor of Paris
• 1950 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
• 1950 – Joshua Rozenberg, English lawyer, journalist, and author
• 1951 – Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian-Serbian singer-songwriter (Ambasadori and Korni Grupa)
• 1951 – Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan bishop and politician, President of Paraguay
• 1951 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor, singer, and director
• 1952 – Daniel Grodnik, American film producer and screenwriter
• 1952 – Kerry Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and sportscaster
• 1952 – Scott Holmes, American actor
• 1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
• 1955 – Topper Headon, English drummer and songwriter (The Clash and Mirkwood)
• 1955 – Jacqueline McGlade, British-born Canadian marine biologist, ecologist and academic
• 1955 – Jake Roberts, American wrestler
• 1955 – Michael Spencer, Malaysian-English businessman
• 1955 – Caroline Swift, English lawyer and judge
• 1955 – Colm Tóibín, Irish author, poet, playwright, and critic
• 1956 – Tim Lucas, American novelist and critic
• 1958 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (Roxette)
• 1958 – Steve Israel, American politician
• 1958 – Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1958 – Ted McGinley, American actor
• 1959 – Phil Brown, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1959 – Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler
• 1959 – Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
• 1960 – Stephen Duffy, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Duran Duran)
• 1961 – Ralph Carter, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Harry Enfield, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Bob Yari, Iranian-American director and producer
• 1962 – Kevin Eastman, American author and illustrator, co-created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 1962 – Richard Fuller, English politician
• 1962 – Tim Loughton, English politician
• 1962 – Tonya Pinkins, American actress and singer
• 1963 – Shauna Grant, American porn actress and model (d. 1984)
• 1963 – Michel Langevin, Canadian drummer and songwriter (Voivod)
• 1963 – Élise Lucet, French journalist
• 1963 – Helen Sharman, English chemist and astronaut
• 1964 – Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver
• 1964 – Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and activist (Rage Against the Machine, Axis of Justice)
• 1965 – Billy Donovan, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Abderraouf Jdey, Tunisian terrorist
• 1965 – Iginio Straffi, Italian animator and producer, founded Rainbow S.r.l.
• 1966 – Thomas Häßler, German footballer and manager
• 1966 – Stephen Malkmus, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pavement, Silver Jews, and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks)
• 1967 – Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter (The Charlatans and The Chavs)
• 1967 – Sven Pipien, German-American bass player (The Black Crowes)
• 1968 – Jason Kenney, Canadian politician
• 1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist
• 1969 – Naomi Kawase, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Ryuhei Kitamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Flora Chan, Hong Kong actress
• 1970 – Ness Wadia, Indian businessman
• 1971 – Paul Grayson, English rugby player and coach
• 1971 – Duncan Jones, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Idina Menzel, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 – Jiří Šlégr, Czech ice hockey player and politician
• 1971 – Kyle Vander Kuyp, Australian hurdler
• 1972 – Sōichirō Hoshi, Japanese voice actor
• 1972 – Manny Ramirez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1973 – Leigh Francis, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Kostas Chalkias, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley)
• 1974 – Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
• 1974 – Big L, American rapper (Children of the Corn and Diggin' in the Crates Crew) (d. 1999)
• 1974 – David Wilkie, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1975 – Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player
• 1975 – Brian Fair, American singer-songwriter (Shadows Fall and Overcast)
• 1975 – Andy Farrell, English rugby player and coach
• 1975 – Marissa Mayer, American computer scientist and businesswoman
• 1976 – Leonel Grave de Peralta, Cuban-American activist
• 1976 – Radoslav Nesterović, Slovenian-Greek basketball player
• 1976 – Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
• 1976 – Margaret Okayo, Kenyan runner
• 1977 – Akwá, Angolan footballer
• 1977 – Marc Dos Santos, Canadian soccer player, coach, and manager
• 1977 – Nathan Robertson, English badminton player
• 1977 – Rachael Stirling, English actress
• 1977 – Federico Vilar, Argentinian-Italian footballer
• 1978 – Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Clint Bowyer, American race car driver
• 1979 – Fabian Ernst, German footballer
• 1979 – Rie Kugimiya, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1979 – Francis Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
• 1980 – Ilona Korstin, Russian basketball player
• 1980 – Ryohgo Narita, Japanese author
• 1981 – Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Megapuss)
• 1981 – Blake Bashoff, American actor
• 1981 – Gianmaria Bruni, Italian race car driver
• 1981 – Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Remy Ma, American rapper (Terror Squad)
• 1981 – Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
• 1981 – Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
• 1982 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1982 – James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player
• 1983 – Jennifer Ellison, English actress, singer, and dancer
• 1984 – Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer
• 1984 – Matt Maguire, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Jordan Palmer, American football player
• 1984 – Alexander Sulzer, German ice hockey player
• 1985 – Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (d. 2013)
• 1985 – Vladimir Latin, Estonian rower
• 1985 – Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jennifer Winget, Indian actress
• 1986 – Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 – Joyce Cheng, Canadian-Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1988 – Kelvin Etuhu, Nigerian-English footballer
• 1988 – Antonio Winterstein, Australian rugby player
• 1989 – Ailee, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
• 1989 – Hyomin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
• 1989 – Kevin Covais, American singer and actor
• 1989 – Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1990 – Dean Collins, American actor
• 1990 – Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Im Yoona, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
• 1990 – Han Xinyun, Chinese tennis player
• 1991 – Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
• 1992 – Danielle Harold, English actress
• 1992 – Liam Mower, English actor and dancer
• 1994 – Madeon, French DJ and producer
• 1994 – Ivars Punnenovs, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1996 – Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player
• 1997 – Jake Short, American actor
• 2000 – Jared S. Gilmore, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 1159 – Władysław II the Exile, Polish husband of Agnes of Babenberg (b. 1105)
• 1252 – Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
• 1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech martyr and theologian (b. 1379)
• 1431 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (b. 1412)
• 1434 – Prokop the Great, Czech general (b. 1380)
• 1574 – Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
• 1576 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai
• 1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)
• 1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
• 1696 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1638)
• 1670 – John Davenport, English-American minister, co-founded the New Haven Colony (b. 1597)
• 1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
• 1718 – Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch-English general (b. 1670)
• 1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
• 1744 – Alexander Pope, English poet (b. 1688)
• 1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
• 1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
• 1829 – Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (b. 1774)
• 1832 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian, jurist, and politician (b. 1765)
• 1865 – John Catron, American jurist (b. 1786)
• 1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Wilbur Wright, American pilot and businessman, co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1867)
• 1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author (b. 1876)
• 1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864)
• 1934 – Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
• 1939 – Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1941 – Prajadhipok, Thai king (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist (b. 1910)
• 1947 – Georg Johannes von Trapp, Croatian-Austrian captain (b. 1880)
• 1948 – József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1955 – Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1957 – Piero Carini, Italian racing driver (b. 1921)
• 1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
• 1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1964 – Dave MacDonald, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1965 – Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Claude Rains, English-American actor (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
• 1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Michel Simon, Swiss-French actor (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942)
• 1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
• 1982 – Albert Norden, German politician (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Rudolf Loo, Estonian-Swedish wrestler (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded Perry Ellis (b. 1940)
• 1993 – Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Marcel Bich, Italian-French businessman, co-founded Société Bic (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
• 1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Lofty England, English-Austrian engineer (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 1996 – Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (b. 1961)
• 1999 – Kalju Lepik, Estonian poet (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian general (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Mickie Most, English singer and producer, founded Rak Records (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Fazal Mahmood, Indian-Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish author (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2006 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy, Algerian-French actor and director (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Noel Moore, English civil servant (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American adrenoleukodystrophy patient (b. 1978)
• 2009 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Yuri Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Peter Orlovsky, American poet and actor (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Joan Rhodes, English wrestler and stuntwoman (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Ricky Bruch, Swedish discus thrower and actor (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Isikia Savua, Fijian diplomat (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ and producer (b. 1967)
• 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Pete Cosey, American guitarist (b. 1943)
• 2012 – John Fox, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Charles Lemmond, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Gerhard Pohl, German politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Dean Brooks, American physician and actor (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Güzin Dino, Turkish-French linguist and scholar (b. 1910)
• 2013 – Rituparno Ghosh, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1963)
• 2013 – Helen Hanft, American stage actress (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Larry Jones, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Vina Mazumdar, Indian academic and activist (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Hienadz Buraukin, Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Joan Lorring, Hong Kong-American actress (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Hanna Maron, German-Israeli actress (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral (b. 1932)

Giorgio Moroder working on disco stage musical

Musician and composer Giorgio Moroder has revealed he is working on a new disco-themed stage musical.

The project "is in the style of disco, using about five of my songs and some new ones," he told Radio 4's Front Row.

"I don't know the story yet. My friend Harald Kloser, a great producer who is currently doing Independence Day 2, is really an expert in writing scripts, directing and music. 

"I think he's coming up with a great idea," he added.

Moroder, one of the forefathers of electronic dance music, produced huge hits for Donna Summer during the late-1970s disco era, including I Feel Love and Love to Love You Baby.

He has since collaborated with dozens of artists including David Bowie, Kylie Minogue and Daft Punk.

The 75-year-old has also won three Oscars, including one for best original score for Midnight Express.

He told Front Row presenter John Wilson that he was choosing which of his many hits to use on the production.

"Definitely Call Me (recorded by Blondie in 1980 ) but Flashdance is too typical. Maybe Take My Breath Away (from the film Top Gun)." 

Moroder said there were no plans to debut the jukebox-style musical in a Broadway theatre. 

"The idea is to have it in the smaller theatres in America," he explained. "The company which is investing has thousands of smaller theatres. Maybe someday we would head for Broadway but [it will be] smaller for now."

With no title or storyline, it is too early to discuss casting but Moroder insisted "we're not going to have big stars".

"We are going to use the original singers and tracks. This is all pre-recorded. Even the new songs we do will be pre-recorded. The show is more like the story behind them."

• 400 γραμμάρια κρέας black angus
• 4 φέτες μπέικον ψημμένο σε τηγάνι
• 4 φέτες τυρί τσένταρ κίτρινο
• 1 μέτριο κρεμμύδι ψιλοκομμένο
• 1 κουταλιά σάλτσα κέτσαπ
• Λίγες σταγόνες ξύδι
• Φέτες κρεμμυδιού ροδισμένες σε τηγάνι
• Φύλλα μαρουλιού
• Φέτες ντομάτας
• Τουρσί αγγουράκι
• 4 ψωμάκια για hamburger (πάρτε αυτά με σουσάμι)

• Σε ένα μπολ βάζουμε τον κιμά, το ψιλοκομμένο κρεμμύδι, τις σταγόνες ξύδι και το αλάτι
• Μοιράζουμε σε 4 μέρη και πλάθουμε 4 μπιφτέκια
• Ψήνουμε τα μπιφτέκια σε γκριλ για 5 λεπτά (ή 7 λεπτά) από κάθε μεριά
• Μην το ψήνετε πολύ, θα χάσει τους ζωμούς του το υπέροχο κρέας
• Τοποθετούμε πάνω σε κάθε μπιφτέκι 1 φέτα τυρί
• Ψήνουμε για 1 λεπτό ώσπου να αρχίσει να λιώνει
• Ανοίγουμε τα ψωμάκια του burger στη μέση και γαρνίρουμε
• Κρεμμύδι, μαρούλι, ντομάτα, τουρσί αγγουράκι, μπέικον

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• 1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
• 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
• 526 – A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch killing 250,000.
• 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
• 1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich in England to Frobisher Bay in Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
• 1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
• 1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
• 1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
• 1790 – Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
• 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
• 1795 – French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
• 1805 – French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock.
• 1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
• 1854 – The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
• 1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
• 1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks): Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
• 1864 – American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade.
• 1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of nine dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
• 1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York, New York, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
• 1884 – The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria
• 1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
• 1902 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
• 1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
• 1910 – The creation of the Union of South Africa.
• 1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
• 1911 – The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
• 1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
• 1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
• 1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
• 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
• 1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
• 1935 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
• 1941 – A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
• 1941 – Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
• 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
• 1961 – The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
• 1961 – In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
• 1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
• 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
• 1970 – The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
• 1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
• 1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
• 1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
• 1981 – The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
• 1985 – United States–Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• 1989 – A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
• 1991 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
• 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
• 2010 – In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
• 2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.

Births[edit]

• 1443 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (d. 1509)
• 1469 – Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
• 1527 – Agnes of Hesse (d. 1555)
• 1535 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
• 1557 – Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
• 1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
• 1640 – Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Ukrainian husband of Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1673)
• 1641 – Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (d. 1707)
• 1656 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (d. 1728)
• 1683 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, invented the Celsius thermometer (d. 1755)
• 1732 – Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (d. 1812)
• 1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
• 1754 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
• 1773 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet, author, and critic (d. 1853)
• 1801 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
• 1818 – John Albion Andrew, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
• 1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet and author (d. 1892)
• 1835 – Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (d. 1869)
• 1838 – Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (d. 1900)
• 1847 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Canadian-Irish shipbuilder and businessman (d. 1924)
• 1852 – Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (d. 1919)
• 1852 – Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist, invented the Petri dish (d. 1921)
• 1857 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
• 1860 – Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
• 1863 – Francis Younghusband, Pakistani-English captain and explorer (d. 1942)
• 1872 – W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator (d. 1944)
• 1879 – Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano (d. 1952)
• 1882 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (d. 1956)
• 1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
• 1885 – Alois Hudal, Austrian bishop (d. 1963)
• 1887 – Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Erich Neumann, German politician (d. 1951)
• 1892 – Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian poet and author (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Gregor Strasser, German politician (d. 1934)
• 1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian, actor, and radio host (d. 1956)
• 1898 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (d. 1993)
• 1901 – Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
• 1902 – Billy Mayerl, English pianist and composer (d. 1959)
• 1905 – Florence Desmond, English actress (d. 1993)
• 1908 – Don Ameche, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 1908 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Aurore Gagnon, Canadian child abuse victim (d. 1920)
• 1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• 1912 – Alfred Deller, English singer (d. 1979)
• 1914 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Bernard Lewis, English-American historian and author
• 1918 – Sadie Corré, English actress and dancer (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Huy Cận, Vietnamese poet (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Robie Macauley, American author and critic (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Edna Doré, English actress (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Alida Valli, Austrian-Italian actress (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
• 1923 – Ellsworth Kelly, American painter and sculptor
• 1923 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Julian Beck, American actor and director (d. 1986)
• 1927 – James Eberle, English admiral
• 1927 – Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg, English banker
• 1927 – Lloyd Thaxton, American television host and producer (d. 2008)
• 1928 – Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer, and political officeholder
• 1931 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Ed Lincoln, Brazilian pianist, bassist, and composer (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Jay Miner, American computer scientist (d. 1994)
• 1932 – Hanno Selg, Estonian pentathlete
• 1933 – Henry B. Eyring, American religious leader, educator, and author
• 1934 – Jim Hutton, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1935 – Jim Bolger, New Zealand politician, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1938 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1938 – John Prescott, Welsh politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1938 – Peter Yarrow, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
• 1939 – Terry Waite, English humanitarian and author
• 1940 – Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach
• 1940 – Gilbert Shelton, American illustrator
• 1941 – June Clark, Welsh nurse and educator
• 1941 – Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Sharon Gless, American actress
• 1943 – Joe Namath, American football player and actor
• 1944 – Samantha Juste, English-American singer and television host (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1945 – Laurent Gbagbo, Ivorian politician, 4th President of Côte d'Ivoire
• 1945 – Bernard Goldberg, American journalist
• 1946 – Ted Baehr, American publisher and critic
• 1946 – Steve Bucknor, Jamaican cricketer and umpire
• 1946 – Krista Kilvet, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Debbie Moore, English model and businesswoman
• 1947 – Junior Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Marmalade)
• 1947 – Gabriele Hinzmann, German discus thrower
• 1947 – David Rowlands, English civil servant (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-English actress and television host (d. 2014)
• 1948 – John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (Led Zeppelin and Band of Joy) (d. 1980)
• 1948 – Duncan Hunter, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
• 1949 – Tom Berenger, American actor and producer
• 1949 – Tapio Kantanen, Finnish runner
• 1949 – Nancy Shade, American soprano and actress
• 1950 – Jean Chalopin, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded DIC Entertainment
• 1950 – Gregory Harrison, American actor
• 1950 – Edgar Savisaar, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior
• 1951 – Karl-Hans Riehm, German hammer thrower
• 1952 – Karl Bartos, German singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Kraftwerk and Electronic)
• 1953 – Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor and screenwriter
• 1953 – Linda Riordan, English politician
• 1953 – Lynne Truss, English journalist and author
• 1954 – Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer
• 1954 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1955 – Bruce Adolphe, American pianist, composer, and scholar
• 1955 – Ben de Lisi, American fashion designer
• 1955 – Tommy Emmanuel, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dragon)
• 1955 – Susie Essman, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Fritz Hilpert, German drummer (Kraftwerk)
• 1956 – John Young, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Qango and Strawbs)
• 1957 – Jim Craig, American ice hockey player
• 1957 – Kyle Secor, American actor and director
• 1958 – Roma Maffia, American actress
• 1959 – Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (d. 2014)
• 1959 – Phil Wilson, English politician
• 1960 – Greg Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Chris Elliott, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Peter Winterbottom, English rugby player
• 1961 – Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Justin Madden, Australian footballer and politician
• 1961 – Lea Thompson, American actress, director, and producer
• 1962 – Corey Hart, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1962 – Sebastian Koch, German actor
• 1962 – Noriko Hidaka, Japanese voice actress
• 1963 – Hugh Dillon, Canadian singer, producer, and actor (Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir)
• 1963 – Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician, 38th Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1963 – Wesley Willis, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Wesley Willis Fiasco) (d. 2003)
• 1964 – Leonard Asper, Canadian lawyer and businessman
• 1964 – Stéphane Caristan, French hurdler
• 1964 – Yukio Edano, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1964 – Scotti Hill, American guitarist and songwriter (Skid Row)
• 1964 – Darryl McDaniels, American rapper and producer (Run–D.M.C.)
• 1965 – Brooke Shields, American model, actress, and producer
• 1965 – Yoko Soumi, Japanese voice actress
• 1966 – Jeremy Hotz, Canadian-American comedian and actor
• 1966 – Roshan Mahanama, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1966 – Nick Scotti, American model, actor, and singer
• 1967 – Vampiro, Canadian-Mexican wrestler
• 1967 – Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress and director
• 1967 – Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-American television host and producer
• 1967 – Kenny Lofton, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 – John Connolly, Irish author
• 1968 – Stéphane E. Roy, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1971 – Diana Damrau, German soprano
• 1972 – Frode Estil, Norwegian skier
• 1972 – Karl Geary, Irish-American actor and pub owner
• 1972 – John Godina, American shot putter and discus thrower
• 1972 – Sarah Murdoch, English-Australian model and actress
• 1972 – Antti Niemi, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1972 – Archie Panjabi, English actress
• 1972 – Dave Roberts, American baseball player and coach
• 1973 – Chris Harmse, South African hammer thrower
• 1973 – Kate Howey, English martial artist
• 1973 – Dominique Monami, Belgian tennis player
• 1974 – Chad Campbell, American golfer
• 1974 – Zsolt Erdei, Hungarian boxer
• 1974 – Tristram Hunt, English historian and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Education
• 1974 – Adrian Tomine, American illustrator
• 1975 – Yiasoumis Yiasoumi, Cypriot footballer
• 1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
• 1976 – Matt Harpring, American basketball player
• 1976 – Tonka Tomicic, Chilean model and television host, Miss World Chile 1995
• 1976 – Mashona Washington, American tennis player
• 1977 – Theodoros Baev, Bulgarian-Greek volleyball player
• 1977 – Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player
• 1977 – Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
• 1977 – Scott Klopfenstein, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (Reel Big Fish, The Littlest Man Band, The Scholars, and Nuckle Brothers)
• 1977 – Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
• 1977 – Joachim Olsen, Danish shot putter
• 1977 – Joel Ross, English radio and television host
• 1977 – June Sarpong, English television host
• 1977 – Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
• 1977 – Petr Tenkrát, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 – Aleksey Zagornyi, Russian hammer thrower
• 1979 – Jean-François Gillet, Belgian footballer
• 1980 – Craig Bolton, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1980 – Andy Hurley, American drummer (Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things, Project Rocket, and Racetraitor)
• 1981 – Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1981 – Yoon Mi-rae, American-South Korean singer (Uptown)
• 1981 – Jake Peavy, American baseball player
• 1981 – Daniele Bonera,Italian footballer
• 1982 – Jonathan Tucker, American actor
• 1983 – David Hernandez, American model and singer
• 1983 – Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer
• 1983 – Reggie Yates, English actor and television host
• 1984 – Andrew Bailey, American baseball player
• 1984 – Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
• 1984 – Nate Robinson, American basketball player
• 1984 – Jason Smith, Australian actor and singer
• 1985 – Navene Koperweis, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Animals as Leaders, The Faceless, and Animosity)
• 1985 – Ian Vougioukas, Greek basketball player
• 1986 – Waka Flocka Flame, American rapper
• 1986 – Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
• 1986 – Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
• 1987 – Shaun Fleming, American actor and singer (Foxygen and Diane Coffee)
• 1987 – Meredith Hagner, American actress
• 1987 – Curtis Williams, American actor
• 1987 – Nagi Yanagi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Lisa Bund, German singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Hope Partlow, American singer
• 1989 – Pablo Alborán, Spanish singer
• 1989 – Lauren Barnes, American soccer player
• 1989 – Katherine Connors, American model, Miss Iowa USA 2010
• 1989 – Bas Dost, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Sean Johnson, American soccer player
• 1989 – Daul Kim, South Korean model (d. 2009)
• 1989 – Tanner Mayes, American porn actress
• 1989 – Marco Reus, German footballer
• 1989 – Noah Gundersen, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Chase Stanley, Australian rugby player
• 1990 – Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 – Azealia Banks, American rapper
• 1992 – Laura Ikauniece, Latvian heptathlete
• 1997 – Inês Murta, Portuguese tennis player
• 1997 – Milka-Emilia Pasanen, Finnish tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 455 – Petronius Maximus, Roman emperor (b. 396)
• 1076 – Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, English politician (b. 1050)
• 1162 – Géza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
• 1349 – Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell, English politician (b. 1297)
• 1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
• 1495 – Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (b. 1415)
• 1558 – Philip Hoby, English general and diplomat (b. 1505)
• 1567 – Guido de Bres, Belgian pastor and theologian (b. 1522)
• 1594 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
• 1680 – Joachim Neander, German theologian and educator (b. 1650)
• 1740 – Frederick William I of Prussia (b. 1688)
• 1747 – Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1686)
• 1809 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
• 1809 – Jean Lannes, French general (b. 1769)
• 1831 – Samuel Bentham, English engineer and architect (b. 1757)
• 1832 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
• 1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, English comedian and actor, created the clown (b. 1779)
• 1846 – Philip Marheineke, German pastor (b. 1780)
• 1847 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister and economist (b. 1780)
• 1848 – Eugénie de Guérin, French author (b. 1805)
• 1908 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)
• 1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, English-American physician (b. 1821)
• 1931 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (b. 1864)
• 1945 – Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1954 – Antonis Benakis, Greek art collector (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Stefanos Sarafis, Greek general and politician (b. 1890)
• 1957 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)
• 1960 – Walther Funk, German economist, journalist, and politician (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
• 1962 – Henry F. Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874)
• 1962 – Adolf Eichmann, German colonel (b. 1906)
• 1962 – Erik von Holst, Estonian-German sailor (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator (b. 1867)
• 1967 – Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
• 1970 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1977 – William Castle, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1978 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 1981 – Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist and journalist (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1930)
• 1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
• 1985 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (b. 1918)
• 1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1987 – John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1989 – Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (b. 1900)
• 1992 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Francis Lynch, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Herva Nelli, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930)
• 1996 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Charles Van Acker, Belgian-American race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Neil Shanahan, Irish race car driver (b. 1979)
• 2000 – Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2000 – A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Arlene Francis, American actress and television personality (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Aiyathurai Nadesan, Sri Lankan journalist
• 2004 – Robert Quine, American guitarist (Richard Hell and the Voidoids) (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French screenwriter and composer (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Ryan Bennett, American sportscaster (b. 1970)
• 2006 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter (b. 1930)
• 2008 – John Ambler, English businessman (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer; Titanic survivor (b. 1912)
• 2009 – Danny La Rue, Irish-born English drag entertainer and singer (b. 1927)
• 2009 – George Tiller, American physician (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1911)
• 2010 – Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (b. 1933)
• 2010 – William A. Fraker, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneón player (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Merata Mita, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Jonas Bevacqua, American fashion designer, co-founded the Lifted Research Group (b. 1977)
• 2011 – Derek Hodge, Virgin Islander lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Hans Keilson, German-Dutch psychoanalyst and author (b. 1909)
• 2011 – John Martin, English admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (b. 1918)
• 2011 – Adolfas Mekas, Lithuanian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Andy Robustelli, American football player and manager (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Grant Sullivan, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Sølvi Wang, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Christopher Challis, English cinematographer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Farid Habib, Lebanese politician (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Randall B. Kester, American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Mark Midler, Russian fencer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Paul Pietsch, German race car driver (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Orlando Woolridge, American basketball player and coach (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Gerald E. Brown, American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Abir Goswami, Indian actor (b. 1976)
• 2013 – Frederic Lindsay, Scottish author (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Miguel Méndez, American author and poet (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Tim Samaras, American engineer and storm chaser (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist (b. 1987)
• 2013 – Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Marilyn Beck, American journalist (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Hoss Ellington, American race car driver (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Martha Hyer, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Lewis Katz, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, English aristocrat (b. 1922)