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• 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
• 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
• 920 – Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
• 942 – Assassination of William I of Normandy.
• 1398 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
• 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
• 1583 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
• 1586 – Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
• 1718 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
• 1777 – American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
• 1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
• 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
• 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
• 1819 – Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
• 1835 – The second Great Fire of New York destroys 50 acres (200,000 square meters) of New York City's Financial District.
• 1837 – A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
• 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
• 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
• 1892 – First issue of Vogue is published
• 1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
• 1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
• 1918 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
• 1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1926 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
• 1927 – Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
• 1928 – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
• 1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
• 1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
• 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
• 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
• 1943 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
• 1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
• 1950 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
• 1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
• 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1960 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
• 1960 – Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
• 1961 – Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
• 1967 – Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
• 1969 – The SALT I talks begin.
• 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
• 1970 – 1970 Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
• 1973 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
• 1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
• 1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
• 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
• 1989 – Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
• 2002 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
• 2003 – The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, England, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
• 2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
• 2005 – Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
• 2005 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
• 2009 – MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
• 2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
• 2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1960.

Births[edit]

• 1239 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
• 1267 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
• 1556 – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Pakistani-Indian poet (d. 1627)
• 1619 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine (d. 1682)
• 1632 – Anthony Wood, English historian and author (d. 1695)
• 1685 – Thomas Tickell, English poet (d. 1740)
• 1699 – Charles-Louis Mion, French composer and educator (d. 1775)
• 1706 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
• 1734 – Maria I of Portugal (d. 1816)
• 1749 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (d. 1801)
• 1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
• 1796 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1865)
• 1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878)
• 1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (d. 1892)
• 1812 – Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter (d. 1880)
• 1827 – Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (d. 1893)
• 1830 – Jules de Goncourt, French author and critic (d. 1870)
• 1835 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist and engineer (d. 1910)
• 1840 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (d. 1908)
• 1842 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician and academic (d. 1899)
• 1847 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (d. 1916)
• 1853 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician and immunologist, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933)
• 1859 – Paul César Helleu, French painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
• 1866 – Kazys Grinius, Lithuanian physician and politician, 3rd President of Lithuania (d. 1950)
• 1873 – Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1939)
• 1874 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
• 1881 – Aubrey Faulkner, South African-English cricketer and coach (d. 1930)
• 1887 – Josef Lada, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Prince Joachim of Prussia (d. 1920)
• 1892 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (d. 1950)
• 1893 – Charles C. Banks, English captain and pilot (d. 1971)
• 1893 – Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (d. 1966)
• 1894 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
• 1894 – Patrick Flynn, Irish-American runner and soldier (d. 1969)
• 1894 – Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
• 1895 – Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis player (d. 1967)
• 1898 – Loren Murchison, American sprinter (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
• 1900 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Paul Cadmus, American painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 1905 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper (d. 2002)
• 1905 – Mohammad Hidayatullah, 11th Chief Justice of India, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (d. 1992)
• 1905 – Erico Verissimo, Brazilian author and translator (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Russell C. Newhouse, American pilot and engineer (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
• 1910 – Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American educator and author (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Sy Oliver, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, English captain and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 2012)
• 1913 – Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 1967)
• 1914 – Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Lore Berger, German-Swiss author and translator (d. 1943)
• 1922 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and academic (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1926 – John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Stephen Lewis, English actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Richard Long, American actor and director (d. 1974)
• 1927 – Edward Meneeley, American painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Marilyn Beck, American journalist (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Eli Beeding, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Doyle Conner, American farmer and politician, 7th Florida Commissioner of Agriculture (d. 2012)
• 1929 – William Safire, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Bob Guccione, American photographer and publisher, founded Penthouse (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor and painter
• 1930 – Dorothy Rowe, Australian psychologist and author
• 1931 – Gerald Finnerman, American director and cinematographer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (d. 2014)
• 1931 – James McGaugh, American neurobiologist and psychologist
• 1932 – John Bond, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Irving Petlin, American painter and academic
• 1934 – Ray Wilson, English footballer and manager
• 1935 – Brian Langford, English cricketer (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Pope Francis
• 1936 – Tommy Steele, English singer, guitarist, and actor
• 1937 – Brian Hayes, Australian-English radio host
• 1937 – Art Neville, American singer and keyboard player
• 1937 – Kerry Packer, Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket (d. 2005)
• 1937 – John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
• 1937 – Calvin Waller, American general (d. 1996)
• 1938 – Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Peter Snell, New Zealand-American runner
• 1939 – James Booker, American pianist (d. 1983)
• 1939 – Eddie Kendricks, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist (d. 2013)
• 1940 – María Elena Velasco, Mexican actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1941 – Dave Dee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian general and politician, 7th Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
• 1942 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1987)
• 1943 – Ron Geesin, Scottish pianist and composer
• 1944 – Jack L. Chalker, American author and educator (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Carlo M. Croce, Italian-American oncologist and academic
• 1944 – Bernard Hill, English actor
• 1945 – Ernie Hudson, American actor
• 1945 – Chris Matthews, American journalist and author
• 1945 – Jüri Talvet, Estonian poet and critic
• 1945 – Jacqueline Wilson, English author and academic
• 1946 – Simon Bates, English radio host
• 1946 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 – Wes Studi, American actor and producer
• 1948 – Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Jim Bonfanti, American rock drummer
• 1948 – Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkish economist and politician
• 1949 – Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
• 1949 – Paul Rodgers, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1950 – Laurence F. Johnson, American educator and author
• 1950 – Maurice Peoples, American sprinter and coach
• 1951 – Pat Hill, American football player and coach
• 1951 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1951 – Tatyana Kazankina, Russian runner
• 1953 – Barry Livingston, American actor
• 1953 – Bill Pullman, American actor
• 1954 – Sergėjus Jovaiša, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1955 – Brad Davis, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1956 – Peter Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Dominic Lawson, English journalist and author
• 1956 – Totka Petrova, Bulgarian runner
• 1957 – Wendy Hoyte, English sprinter
• 1957 – Bob Ojeda, American baseball player and coach
• 1958 – Mike Mills, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1959 – Bob Stinson, American songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1961 – Mansoor al-Jamri, Bahraini journalist and author
• 1962 – Paul Dobson, English footballer
• 1962 – Galina Malchugina, Russian sprinter
• 1962 – Rocco Mediate, American golfer and journalist
• 1964 – Ginger, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player and coach
• 1964 – Joe Wolf, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Yuko Arimori, Japanese runner
• 1966 – Tracy Byrd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 – Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician, 23rd Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1967 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and producer
• 1967 – Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Karsten Neitzel, German footballer and manager
• 1968 – Claudio Suárez, Mexican footballer
• 1968 – Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1969 – Inna Lasovskaya, Russian triple jumper
• 1969 – Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer
• 1969 – Mick Quinn, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1971 – Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
• 1972 – John Abraham, Indian actor and producer
• 1972 – Iván Pedroso, Cuban long jumper and coach
• 1973 – Eddie Fisher, American drummer and songwriter
• 1973 – Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
• 1973 – Rian Johnson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Paula Radcliffe, English runner
• 1973 – Codrin Țapu, Romanian psychologist and academic
• 1973 – Hasan Vural, German-Turkish footballer
• 1974 – Charl Langeveldt, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Sarah Paulson, American actress
• 1974 – Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
• 1974 – Marissa Ribisi, American actress and screenwriter
• 1975 – Nick Dinsmore, American wrestler and trainer
• 1975 – Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan sprinter
• 1975 – Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
• 1975 – Bree Sharp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater and coach
• 1976 – Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer and manager
• 1976 – Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
• 1976 – Andrew Simpson, English sailor (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Takeo Spikes, American football player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Arnaud Clément, French tennis player
• 1977 – Oxana Fedorova, Russian model, actress, and singer, Miss Universe 2002
• 1977 – Samuel Påhlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1978 – Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
• 1978 – Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer and songwriter
• 1978 – Chase Utley, American baseball player
• 1979 – Charlotte Edwards, English cricketer
• 1979 – Ryan Key, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Paul Smith, English footballer
• 1980 – Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
• 1980 – Alexandra Papageorgiou, Greek hammer thrower
• 1980 – Eli Pariser, American activist and author, co-founded Avaaz.org
• 1981 – Jerry Hsu, American skateboarder and photographer
• 1981 – Tim Wiese, German footballer
• 1982 – Josh Barfield, American baseball player
• 1982 – Lorenzo Cittadini, Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Benjamin Goldwasser, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1982 – Craig Kielburger, Canadian activist and author, co-founded Free the Children and Me to We
• 1982 – Stéphane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
• 1982 – Ryan Moats, American football player
• 1982 – Onur Özsu, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Erik Christensen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Haron Keitany, Kenyan runner
• 1983 – Kosuke Saito, Japanese DJ and composer
• 1984 – Luis Maria Alfageme, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 – Julian Bennett, English footballer
• 1984 – Andrew Davies, English footballer
• 1984 – Mikky Ekko, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1985 – Łukasz Broź, Polish footballer
• 1985 – Craig Reid, English footballer
• 1987 – Bo Guagua, Chinese businessman
• 1988 – Liisa Ehrberg, Estonian cyclist
• 1988 – Grethe Grünberg, Estonian ice dancer
• 1988 – Kris Joseph, Canadian basketball player
• 1988 – David Rudisha, Kenyan runner
• 1988 – Craig Sutherland, Scottish footballer
• 1991 – James Hurst, American football player
• 1991 – Jordan Rankin, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – Atsedu Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
• 1992 – Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist
• 1992 – Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer
• 1993 – Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player
• 1994 – Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 – Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor
• 1997 – Naiktha Bains, Australian tennis player
• 1998 – Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 779 – Sturm, abbot of Fulda
• 908 – al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier
• 908 – Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day
• 942 – William I of Normandy (b. 900)
• 1187 – Pope Gregory VIII (b. 1100)
• 1195 – Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
• 1273 – Rumi, Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207)
• 1663 – Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
• 1721 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640)
• 1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783)
• 1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812)
• 1847 – Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
• 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 – Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
• 1925 – George Gibb, Scottish businessman (b. 1850)
• 1927 – Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 – Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 – Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 – Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 – Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 – 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
• 1940 – Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1947 – Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1962 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1970 – Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1981 – Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Ada Kramm, Norwegian actress (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889)
• 1986 – Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Linda Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951)
• 1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Günther Anders, German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902)
• 1992 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Grover Washington, Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943)
• 1999 – C. Vann Woodward, American historian and academic (b. 1908)
• 2002 – K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri Lankan Minister of Justice (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Ed Devereaux, Australian-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Otto Graham, American football player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and academic (d. 1936)
• 2006 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (b. 1935)
• 2008 – Ismet Bajramović, Bosnian soldier (b. 1966)
• 2008 – Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Freddy Breck, German singer-songwriter, producer, and journalist (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Dave Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1955)
• 2009 – Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)
• 2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Dan O'Bannon, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Walt Dropo, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Ralph Coates, English footballer (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983)
• 2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (b. 1947)
• 2012 – James Gower, American priest and activist, co-founded the College of the Atlantic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Richard Heffner, American historian and television host (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Tetsurō Kashibuchi, Japanese drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 2014 – Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Ivan Vekić, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928)

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• 218 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
• 1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
• 1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
• 1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
• 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
• 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
• 1833 – The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
• 1865 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
• 1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
• 1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
• 1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
• 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
• 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
• 1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL Championship Game.
• 1935 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
• 1939 – World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
• 1944 – World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
• 1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
• 1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
• 1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
• 1973 – The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
• 1981 – First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
• 1990 – International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families is adopted.
• 1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
• 2002 – California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
• 2005 – The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
• 2006 – The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
• 2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
• 2015 – Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.

Births[edit]

• 1406 – Richard Olivier de Longueil, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1470)
• 1507 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyo (d. 1551)
• 1602 – Simonds d'Ewes, English historian and politician (d. 1650)
• 1610 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d. 1688)
• 1620 – Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (d. 1668)
• 1626 – Christina, Queen of Sweden (d. 1689)
• 1660 – Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1715)
• 1661 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and inventor (d. 1751)
• 1662 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish colonel and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (d. 1711)
• 1707 – Charles Wesley, English missionary and composer (d. 1788)
• 1725 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and theologian (d. 1791)
• 1734 – Jean-Baptiste Rey, French conductor and composer (d. 1810)
• 1800 – James Watney, English brewer and businessman (d. 1884)
• 1824 – John Hall, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1907)
• 1825 – Charles Griffin, American general (d. 1876)
• 1825 – John S. Harris, American surveyor and politician (d. 1906)
• 1835 – Lyman Abbott, American minister, theologian, and author (d. 1922)
• 1847 – Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (d. 1903)
• 1849 – Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Graciano López Jaena, Filipino journalist (d. 1896)
• 1856 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer (d. 1908)
• 1861 – Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic (d. 1924)
• 1863 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914)
• 1867 – Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder (d. 1941)
• 1869 – Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator (d. 1965)
• 1870 – Saki, British short story writer (d. 1916)
• 1873 – Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (d. 1957)
• 1875 – Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1941)
• 1878 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
• 1879 – Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator (d. 1940)
• 1882 – Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway (d. 1950)
• 1884 – Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Robert Moses, American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (d. 1981)
• 1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954)
• 1896 – Gerald Barry, English colonel and cricketer (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer (d. 1952)
• 1899 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author (d. 1990)
• 1904 – George Stevens, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Bill Holland, American race car driver (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and educator (d. 2009)
• 1908 – Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 1913 – Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic (d. 2008)
• 1916 – Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
• 1917 – Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Robert Leckie, American soldier and author (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Jack Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London
• 1924 – Cicely Tyson, American actress
• 1927 – Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and politician, 66th United States Attorney General
• 1927 – Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph and author (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Gino Cimoli, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Moose Skowron, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Alison Plowden, English historian and author (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Bill Thompson, American television host (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Norm Provan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and businessman
• 1932 – Roger Smith, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1934 – Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman, founded Glencore (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Boris Volynov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 1935 – Rosemary Leach, English actress
• 1935 – Jacques Pépin, French-American chef and author
• 1936 – Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (d. 1987)
• 1937 – Nancy Ryles, American politician (d. 1990)
• 1938 – Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (d. 1996)
• 1938 – Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005)
• 1939 – Michael Moorcock, English author and songwriter
• 1939 – Harold E. Varmus, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 – John Cooper, English sprinter and hurdler (d. 1974)
• 1941 – Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
• 1941 – Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpet player and composer
• 1941 – Joan Wallach Scott, American historian, author, and academic
• 1943 – Bobby Keys, American saxophone player (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Keith Richards, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1943 – Alan Rudolph, American director and screenwriter
• 1944 – Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator
• 1945 – Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 – Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement (d. 1977)
• 1946 – Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
• 1947 – Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian author and screenwriter
• 1948 – Bill Nelson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 – Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor and painter
• 1948 – Laurent Voulzy, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (d. 1980)
• 1950 – Gillian Armstrong, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Randy Castillo, American drummer and songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1950 – Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan general and politician
• 1950 – Leonard Maltin, American historian, author, and critic
• 1952 – John Leventhal, American songwriter and producer
• 1953 – Elliot Easton, American guitarist and singer
• 1954 – John Booth, English race car driver
• 1954 – Ray Liotta, American actor
• 1954 – Willi Wülbeck, German runner
• 1955 – Vijay Mallya, Indian businessman and politician
• 1955 – Bogusław Mamiński, Polish runner
• 1957 – Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and author
• 1958 – Geordie Walker, English guitarist
• 1958 – Julia Wolfe, American composer and educator
• 1960 – Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist and academic
• 1960 – Naoko Yamano, Japanese singer, guitarist and composer
• 1961 – Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1961 – Leila Steinberg, American singer, producer, author, and poet
• 1961 – Daniel S. Loeb, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Third Point Management
• 1963 – Norman Brown, American singer and guitarist
• 1963 – Greg D'Angelo, American drummer
• 1963 – Karl Dorrell, American football player and coach
• 1963 – Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian soldier and politician, President of Burundi
• 1963 – Charles Oakley, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 – Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
• 1964 – Stone Cold Steve Austin, American wrestler and producer
• 1964 – Don Beebe, American football player and coach
• 1965 – Shawn Christian, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1966 – Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster
• 1966 – Mille Petrozza, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch journalist
• 1968 – Mario Basler, German footballer and manager
• 1968 – Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
• 1968 – Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Casper Van Dien, American actor and producer
• 1969 – Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
• 1969 – Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager
• 1969 – Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver
• 1970 – DMX, American rapper and actor
• 1970 – Lucious Harris, American basketball player
• 1970 – Giannis Ploutarhos, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Rob Van Dam, American wrestler
• 1970 – Jonathan Yeo, English painter
• 1971 – Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
• 1971 – Noriko Matsueda, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1971 – Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Anzhela Balakhonova, Ukrainian pole vaulter
• 1972 – Raymond Herrera, American drummer and songwriter
• 1973 – Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian runner
• 1974 – Peter Boulware, American football player and politician
• 1974 – Knut Schreiner, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 – Sia Furler, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Randy Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress
• 1977 – José Acevedo, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 – Maria Brink, American singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Claudia Gesell, German runner
• 1978 – Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Ali Curtis, American soccer player
• 1978 – Katie Holmes, American actress
• 1980 – Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1980 – Heinz Inniger, Swiss snowboarder
• 1980 – Benjamin Watson, American football player
• 1983 – Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player
• 1984 – Paul Harrison, English footballer
• 1984 – Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and singer
• 1986 – François Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
• 1986 – Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
• 1986 – Bill Stull, American football player
• 1987 – Ayaka, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1987 – Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
• 1987 – Yuki Furukawa, Japanese actor
• 1988 – Lizzie Armitstead, English cyclist
• 1988 – Seth Doege, American football player
• 1988 – Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete
• 1988 – Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
• 1990 – Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter
• 1992 – Ryan Crouser, American shot putter

Deaths[edit]

• 821 – Theodulf of Orléans, Spanish bishop and poet (b. 750)
• 1075 – Edith of Wessex (b. 1025)
• 1111 – Al-Ghazali, Persian jurist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic (b. 1058)
• 1133 – Hildebert, French poet and scholar (b. 1055)
• 1495 – Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
• 1651 – William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath, English lawyer and politician (b. 1580)
• 1692 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician (b. 1626)
• 1737 – Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (b. 1644)
• 1787 – Soame Jenyns, English poet and politician (b. 1704)
• 1799 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and historian (b. 1725)
• 1803 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1744)
• 1829 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744)
• 1843 – Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
• 1848 – Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1869 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 – Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 – John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 – Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 – Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 – Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 – Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1969 – Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
• 1971 – Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
• 1971 – Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 – Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1974 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887)
• 1975 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1977 – Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
• 1980 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)
• 1980 – Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1985 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916)
• 1987 – Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (b. 1940)
• 1988 – Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1991 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress (b. 1896)
• 1995 – Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Ross Thomas, American author (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1996 – Irving Caesar, American composer (b. 1895)
• 1997 – Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (b. 1964)
• 1998 – Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 2000 – Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
• 2000 – Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
• 2001 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1927)
• 2001 – Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator (b. 1901)
• 2002 – Necip Hablemitoğlu, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1954)
• 2002 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Wayne Owens, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Ruth Bernhard, German-American photographer (b. 1905)
• 2006 – Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and activist (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Hans Billian, Polish-German actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Gerald Le Dain, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1924)
• 2007 – William Strauss, American author and playwright (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Alan Wagner, American businessman and critic (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Mark Felt, American FBI agent and informant (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist, author, and scholar (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Economy and Finances (b. 1940)
• 2010 – James Pickles, English judge and journalist (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Frank Macchiarola, American lawyer and academic (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Mustafa Ould Salek, Mauritanian colonel and politician, President of Mauritania (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Jim Whalen, American football player (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Ken Hutcherson, American football player (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Graham Mackay, South African-English businessman (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Donald J. Albosta, American soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Gideon Ben-Yisrael, Israeli soldier and politician (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Mandy Rice-Davies, English model and actress (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (b. 1912)
• 2015 – Luc Brewaeys, Belgian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Helge Solum Larsen, Norwegian businessman and politician (b. 1969)

Οι 9 ξενόγλωσσες ταινίες που περνούν στην επόμενη φάση για τις υποψηφιότητες για Οσκαρ 

Τη λίστα των εννέα ταινιών που προκρίθηκαν στον επόμενο

 γύρο ψηφοφορίας και θα διεκδικήσουν μία θέση στην

 τελική πεντάδα των υποψηφίων για Καλύτερο Ξενόγλωσσο

 Φιλμ ανακοίνωσε η Αμερικανική Ακαδημία

 Κινηματογραφικών Τεχνών και Επιστημών.

Από τις συνολικά 85 υποψηφιότητες, επιλέχθηκαν εννέα ταινίες:

• Αυστραλία, «Tanna» - Μπέντλεϊ Ντιν, Μάρτιν Μπάτλερ
• Καναδάς «It's Only the End of the World» Ξαβιέ Ντολάν
• Δανία «Land of Mine» Μάρτιν Ζέντβλιε
• Γερμανία «Τόνι Έρντμαν» Μάρεν 'Αντε
• Ιράν «The Salesman» Ασγκάρ Φαρχαντί
• Νορβηγία «The King's Choice» Έρικ Πόπε
• Ρωσία «Paradise» Αντρέι Κοντσαλόφσκι
• Σουηδία «A Man Called Ove» Χάνες Χολμ
• Ελβετία "My Life as a Zucchini"Κλοντ Μπαράς

Η γερμανική κωμωδία «Τόνι Έρντμαν» ήταν ο μεγάλος νικητής στα Ευρωπαϊκά

 Βραβεία Κινηματογράφου κέρδισε τα περισσότερα βραβεία στις βασικές κατηγορίες, 

Καλύτερης Ευρωπαϊκής Ταινίας, Σκηνοθεσίας, Α'Ανδρικού Ρόλου, Α'Γυναικείου

 Ρόλου και Σεναρίου.

Το οικογενειακό δράμα του Ντολάν «It's Only the End of the World"κέρδισε

 το Μεγάλο Βραβείο της Επιτροπής στο 69ο Διεθνές Κινηματογραφικό Φεστιβάλ

 των Καννών και η ταινία «The Salesman» (Ο Εμποράκος) απέσπασε στις Κάννες 

το Βραβείο Καλύτερης Ανδρικής Ερμηνείας και Καλύτερου Σεναρίου.

Το «Tanna» μία ρομαντική ταινία που διαδραματίζεται σε ένα νησί στο νότιο

 Ειρηνικό διακρίθηκε με το βραβείο Κοινού Pietro Barzisa στο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ

 Κινηματογράφου της Βενετίας το 2015.

Η άρνηση του βασιλιά της Νορβηγίας Χάακον VII να παραδώσει τη Νορβηγία στη

 ναζιστική Γερμανία είναι το θέμα της ταινίας «The King's Choice».
Μεγάλη εμπορική επιτυχία αναδείχθηκε στη Σουηδία η ταινία «A Man Called Ove»

 για έναν καταθλιπτικό μισάνθρωπο η ζωή του οποίου αλλάζει, όταν μία

 οικογένεια μεταναστών μετακομίζει στο διπλανό διαμέρισμα.

Στην ταινία «Land of Mine» με την οποία άνοιξε το διαγωνιστικό τμήμα του

 Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου του Τορόντο, το 1945 λίγες μόλις ημέρες μετά το τέλος

 του Β΄ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου μια ομάδα Γερμανών αιχμαλώτων πολέμου 

μεταφέρονται στη Δανία ώστε να εξουδετερώσουν τις νάρκες στις ακτές μετά την

 ήττα του 'Αξονα. Η ταινία κέρδισε το βραβείο Φωτογραφίας (Camilla Hjelm

 Knudsen) στα Ευρωπαϊκά Βραβεία Κινηματογράφου.

Η ταινία κινουμένων σχεδίων «My Life as a Zucchini» προβλήθηκε στις Κάννες 

στο τμήμα «Δεκαπενθήμερο των Σκηνοθετών» και είναι υποψήφια για τρία 

βραβεία Annie (βραβεία για ταινίες animation). Κέρδισε το βραβείο Καλύτερης

 Ταινίας Κινουμένων Σχεδίων στα Ευρωπαϊκά Βραβεία Κινηματογράφου και

 είναι υποψήφια για Χρυσή Σφαίρα στην κατηγορία καλύτερη ταινία animation.

Η ρωσική υποψηφιότητα, η ταινία «Paradise» κέρδισε τον Αργυρό Λέοντα στη 

Βενετία. Η ταινία εκτυλίσσεται σε ένα γερμανικό στρατόπεδο και εξερευνά τη

 σχέση μίας Ρωσίδας εμιγκρέ, ενός Γάλλου συνεργάτη των κατακτητών και του

 υψηλόβαθμού αξιωματικού των SS.

Εκτός λίστας έμειναν η γαλλική ταινία «Elle» του Πολ Βερχόφεν, η οποία όμως

 είναι υποψήφια και σε άλλες κατηγορίες, με κυριότερη την υποψηφιότητα της

 Ιζαμπέλ Ιπέρ στον Α'Γυναικείο Ρόλο, η ταινία «Julieta» του Πέδρο Αλμοδόβαρ,

 η ιταλική υποψηφιότητα «Fire by the Sea"του Τζιανφράνκο Ρόζι και η

 υποψηφιότητα της Χιλής, η ταινία «Neruda» του Πάμπλο Λαρέν με 

πρωταγωνιστή τον Γκαέλ Γκαρσία Μπενάλ.

Και η ελληνική πρόταση, η ταινία «Chevalier» της Αθηνάς Ραχήλ Τσαγγάρη

 δεν κατάφερε να περάσει στη λίστα των εννέα ταινιών από τις οποίες θα

 προκύψει και η τελική πεντάδα για το Όσκαρ Καλύτερης Ξενόγλωσσης Ταινίας.

Ειδικές επιτροπές στη Νέα Υόρκη, το Λος 'Αντζελες και το Λονδίνο από 13 έως

 15 Ιανουαρίου θα παρακολουθούν τρεις υποψήφιες ταινίες κάθε μέρα και στη 

συνέχεια θα ψηφίσουν την τελική πεντάδα.

Οι υποψηφιότητες για τα 89α Βραβεία Όσκαρ θα ανακοινωθούν στις 24 Ιανουαρίου.

Η τελετή απονομής θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 26 Φεβρουαρίου στο

 Dolby Theatre στο Χόλιγουντ.