Eerie never-before-seen photos from inside one of Chicago's abandoned malls

Seph Lawless

Chicago's Lincoln Mall shut its doors in January 2015, joining hundreds of now defunct malls in the graveyard of American shopping centers.

In the nearly two years since it closed, the mall has transformed from a vibrant shopping center into an eerie, deserted wasteland. 

Photographer Seph Lawless, who became famous documenting the decline of abandoned malls, theme parks, and other buildings, recently visited the location to capture images of what remains. 

Here's a never-before-seen look at the depressing shell of what was Lincoln Mall. 

Today, the mall is empty, except for garbage, dead trees, and a few stray shopping carts.

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A few remnants of the mall's past remain, like these banners.

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However, Lincoln Mall today is more haunted house than shopping hot spot.

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Lincoln Mall first opened its doors in 1973.

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Source: The Chicago Tribune

The 700,000-square-foot mall had the capacity to host four anchor stores and 100 smaller shops.

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However, in the mall's final months, it was home to just 40 businesses.

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Source: The Chicago Tribune

The closure of Sears in 2012 was a major blow to the mall's business.

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Source: Chicago Now 

In 2013, the mall's owner told The Chicago Tribune that the mall was losing $2 million a year.

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The same year, a court-ordered receiver was appointed to force the location to pay taxes and fines, as well as make necessary repairs.

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The mall's tenants did not generate enough in rent to pay for the improvements or repairs, according to an attorney for the owner.

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Source: The Chicago Tribune

The mall reportedly failed to make these changes, which included creating new exits to comply with fire codes and replacing electrical and air conditioning systems.

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In November 2014, Cook County judge ordered the closure of the mall following the holiday shopping season.

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At the time, the mall's owner owed $10 million in unpaid fines and taxes, according to local officials.

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Now, the mall is in a far worse state of disrepair.

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Roughly two years after the mall was ordered to close, Lawless visited to take these photos.

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The photographer says he visited the mall on November 20, 2016, just days before Black Friday.

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Shops are dark and empty.

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Forget shoppers — there isn't not another person in sight.

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The trip was part of Lawless's project, Autopsy of America, which is intended to document abandoned and forgotten sites across the US.

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Lawless collected the photographs in his book, "Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation," which was released in early 2017.

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In May, demolition began on the vacant mall.

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Source: The Chicago Tribune

The village of Matteson, where the mall is located, requested that the property be destroyed, citing safety concerns.

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It is expected to take about four months to complete the razing of the mall.

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• 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
• 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 – 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 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.
• 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 and 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 over the next three days, at a cost of nine dead and 38 wounded to the Fenians' 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
• 1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City 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 (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
• 1910 – The creation of the Union of South Africa.
• 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 was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
• 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.
• 1935 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
• 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.
• 1958 – Feijenoord Rotterdam wins the first edition of the Benelux Cup
• 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.
• 1970 – The 7.9 Mw Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
• 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 is completed.
• 1981 – The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka, a violent example of ethnic biblioclasm, takes place.
• 1985 – United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• 1989 – A group of six members of the Peruvian guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement shoot dead eight transsexuals in Tarapoto.
• 1991 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
• 2001 The International Law Commission adopts its Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts on second reading.
• 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
• 2010 – Israeli Shayetet 13 commandos boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while still in international waters trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip; nine Turkish civilians on the flotilla were killed in the ensuing violent affray.
• 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)
• 1462 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1504)
• 1469 – Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
• 1535 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
• 1556 – Jerzy Radziwiłł, Catholic cardinal (d. 1600)
• 1557 – Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
• 1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
• 1641 – Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (d. 1707)
• 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 and educator (d. 1817)
• 1773 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet, author, and critic (d. 1853)
• 1801 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1887)
• 1815 – Adye Douglas, English-Australian cricketer and politician, 15th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1906)
• 1818 – John Albion Andrew, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
• 1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (d. 1892)
• 1835 – Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (d. 1869)
• 1838 – Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (d. 1900)
• 1842 – John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (d. 1894)
• 1847 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Canadian-Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (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)
• 1858 – Graham Wallas, English socialist, social psychologist, and educationalist (d. 1932)
• 1860 – Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
• 1863 – Francis Younghusband, Indian-English captain and explorer (d. 1942)
• 1866 – John Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus (d. 1936)
• 1879 – Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano (d. 1952)
• 1882 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (d. 1956)
• 1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
• 1885 – Alois Hudal, Austrian bishop (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (d. 1967)
• 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 lieutenant and politician (d. 1951)
• 1892 – Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian poet and author (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant and politician (d. 1934)
• 1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian, radio host, game show panelist, and author (d. 1956)
• 1898 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (d. 1993)
• 1901 – Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
• 1908 – Don Ameche, American actor (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, French Canadian girl, victim of child abuse (d. 1920)
• 1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• 1912 – Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American experimental physicist (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Bernard Lewis, English-American historian and author
• 1919 – Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist 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 and singer (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Denholm Elliott, English-Spanish actor (d. 1992)
• 1923 – Ellsworth Kelly, American painter and sculptor (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Russell Endean, South African cricketer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Julian Beck, American actor and director (d. 1986)
• 1927 – James Eberle, English admiral
• 1927 – Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg, English lieutenant and banker
• 1928 – Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, musician, and producer
• 1931 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Ed Lincoln, Brazilian pianist, bassist, and composer (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Jay Miner, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 1994)
• 1933 – Henry B. Eyring, American religious leader, educator, and author
• 1934 – Jim Hutton, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1935 – Jim Bolger, New Zealand businessman and politician, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1938 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1938 – John Prescott, British sailor and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1938 – Peter Yarrow, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1939 – Terry Waite, English humanitarian and author
• 1940 – Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach
• 1940 – Augie Meyers, American musician and singer-songwriter
• 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, sportscaster, and actor
• 1944 – Samantha Juste, English singer and television host (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1945 – Laurent Gbagbo, Ivorian academic and politician, 4th President of Côte d'Ivoire
• 1945 – Bernard Goldberg, American journalist and author
• 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
• 1947 – Gabriele Hinzmann, German discus thrower
• 1948 – Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1948 – John Bonham, English musician, songwriter and drummer (d. 1980)
• 1948 – Martin Hannett, English bass player, guitarist, and record producer (d. 1991)
• 1948 – Duncan Hunter, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
• 1949 – Tom Berenger, American actor
• 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
• 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
• 1955 – Susie Essman, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Fritz Hilpert, German drummer and composer
• 1956 – John Young, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1957 – Jim Craig, American ice hockey player
• 1959 – Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (d. 2014)
• 1959 – Phil Wilson, English politician
• 1960 – Greg Adams, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman
• 1960 – Chris Elliott, American actor, comedian, 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
• 1963 – David Leigh, holder of the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry at the University of Manchester
• 1963 – Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician, 38th Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1963 – Wesley Willis, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2003)
• 1964 – Leonard Asper, Canadian lawyer and businessman
• 1964 – Stéphane Caristan, French hurdler and coach
• 1964 – Yukio Edano, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1964 – Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, American rapper and producer
• 1965 – Todd McKenney, Australian entertainer
• 1965 – Brooke Shields, American model, actress, and producer
• 1966 – Roshan Mahanama, Sri Lankan cricketer and referee
• 1967 – Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
• 1967 – Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television host and producer
• 1967 – Kenny Lofton, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 – John Connolly, Irish journalist and author
• 1968 – Stéphane E. Roy, Canadian actor and comedian
• 1970 – Paolo Sorrentino, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1971 – Diana Damrau, German operatic soprano
• 1972 – Frode Estil, Norwegian skier
• 1972 – Antti Niemi, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1972 – Archie Panjabi, English actress
• 1972 – Dave Roberts, American baseball player and coach
• 1974 – Hiroiki Ariyoshi, Japanese comedian and singer
• 1974 – Chad Campbell, American golfer
• 1974 – Tristram Hunt, English historian and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Education
• 1975 – Mac Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
• 1976 – Matt Harpring, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 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
• 1977 – Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
• 1977 – Joachim Olsen, Danish shot putter and politician
• 1977 – Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
• 1977 – Petr Tenkrát, Czech ice hockey player
• 1979 – Jean-François Gillet, Belgian footballer
• 1980 – Craig Bolton, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1981 – Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1981 – Daniele Bonera, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Andy Hurley, American musician
• 1981 – Jake Peavy, American baseball player
• 1981 – Kōsaku Satoyama, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1982 – Brett Firman, Australian rugby league player
• 1983 – David Hernandez, American singer and reality television star
• 1983 – Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer
• 1984 – Andrew Bailey, American baseball player
• 1984 – Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
• 1984 – Nate Robinson, American basketball player
• 1985 – Navene Koperweis, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1985 – Ian Vougioukas, Greek basketball player
• 1986 – Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
• 1989 – Lauren Barnes, American soccer player
• 1989 – Bas Dost, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Noah Gundersen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1989 – Marco Reus, German footballer
• 1989 – Chase Stanley, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 – Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 – Azealia Banks, American rapper
• 1992 – Michaël Bournival, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Laura Ikauniece, Latvian heptathlete
• 1993 – Jason Taumalolo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 – Connor Watson, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 – Inês Murta, Portuguese tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 455 – Petronius Maximus, Roman emperor (b. 396)
• 1076 – Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, English politician (b. 1050)
• 1089 – Sigwin von Are, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1162 – Géza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
• 1321 – Birger, King of Sweden (b. 1280)
• 1326 – Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley, English rebel baron (b. 1271)
• 1329 – Albertino Mussato, Italian statesman and writer (b. 1261)
• 1349 – Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell, English politician (b. 1297)
• 1370 – St Vitalis of Assisi (b. 1295)
• 1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
• 1410 – Martin of Aragon (b. 1356)
• 1504 – Engelbert II of Nassau (b. 1451)
• 1558 – Philip Hoby, English general and diplomat (b. 1505)
• 1567 – Guido de Bres, Belgian pastor and theologian (b. 1522)
• 1594 – Tintoretto, Italian painter and educator (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, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1686)
• 1809 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1732)
• 1809 – Jean Lannes, French general (b. 1769)
• 1831 – Samuel Bentham, English architect and engineer (b. 1757)
• 1832 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
• 1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer, (b. 1779)
• 1846 – Philip Marheineke, German pastor and philosopher (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)
• 1909 – Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (b. 1852)
• 1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, English-American physician and educator (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 and philanthropist, founded the Benaki Museum (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Stefanos Sarafis, Greek general and politician (b. 1890)
• 1957 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet and academic (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)
• 1960 – Walther Funk, German economist, journalist, and politician, German Minister of Economics (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (b. 1874)
• 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)
• 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 and lieutenant (b. 1895)
• 1985 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (b. 1918)
• 1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1987 – John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1989 – Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (b. 1900)
• 1994 – Uzay Heparı, Turkish actor, producer, and composer (b. 1969)
• 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)
• 2000 – Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1936)
• 2000 – Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923)
• 2000 – A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Arlene Francis, American actress, talk show host, game show panelist, and television personality (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Aiyathurai Nadesan, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Robert Quine, American guitarist (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)
• 2009 – Danny La Rue, Irish-born British drag queen performer 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 – Andy Robustelli, American football player and manager (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Christopher Challis, English cinematographer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Randall B. Kester, American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Mark Midler, Russian fencer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Paul Pietsch, German race car driver and publisher (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Orlando Woolridge, American basketball player and coach (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Gerald E. Brown, American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Frederic Lindsay, Scottish author and educator (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 (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 and author (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, English author (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Gladys Taylor, Canadian author and publisher (b. 1917)
• 2016 – Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1976–2016) (b. 1947)
• 2016 – Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (b. 1938)
• 2016 – Carla Lane, English television writer (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (b. 1939)

ονειρική βίλα στην Πελοπόννησο -καμουφλαρισμένη, σαν να είναι κάτω από τη γη 

Μία βίλα στην Πελοπόννησο έχει κλέψει το ενδιαφέρον του

 διεθνούς Τύπου, με τους λάτρεις της αρχιτεκτονικής να 

κάνουν διθυραμβικά σχόλια για την κατασκευή της και τις

 πολυτελείς παροχές της.

Η βίλα Ypsilon είναι κτισμένη σε ένα απόμακρο σημείο κάπου στην Πελοπόννησο,

 ιδανικό για όσους θέλουν να απολαμβάνουν και βουνό και θάλασσα

Έχοντας έκταση 150 τετραγωνικά μέτρα, το οίκημα σχεδιάστηκε από την εταιρία

 LASSA με έδρα το Λονδίνο και τις Βρυξέλλες και υπεύθυνους αρχιτέκτονες 

τον Tεο Σαραντόγλου Λάλι και την Ντόρα Σβέιτζντ.

Με μία πρώτη ματιά, κάποιον καταλαβαίνει πως η βίλα είναι λες και έχει χτιστεί 

κάτω από την γη μιας και η οροφή της είναι ουσιαστικά συνέχεια του χωμάτινου 

δρόμου που την περικλείει, ξεγελώντας έτσι στο μάτι.

«Ο άξονας των σκεπασμένων στεγών ευθυγραμμίζεται τέλεια με το νησί Σχίζα 

προς το νότο και ένα χωριό προς τα ανατολικά. Μια άλλη απαίτηση ήταν να

 σχεδιάσουμε τη διαρρύθμιση που να ενεργοποιεί όλη την περιφέρεια του κτιρίου,

 αντί να ευνοεί μόνο την πανοραμική θέα στη θάλασσα», δήλωσε ο Lalis στο Dezeen.

Σύμφωνα με Dezeen, οι προσόψεις της βίλας έχουν κλίση προς τα μέσα για να

 δώσουν στις τρεις αυλές το πλεονέκτημα της σκιάς. Η μια από αυτές έχει πισίνα σε 

σχήμα ματιού, η άλλη μπορεί να λειτουργήσει ως καθιστικό και η τρίτη έχει

 χαλίκι στο πάτωμα.

Μάλιστα, καθεμία αυλή είναι σχεδιασμένη έτσι ώστε να προσφέρει στον κάτοικο

 ξεκούραση και χαλάρωση σε διαφορετικές φάσεις της ημέρας.

Συγκεκριμένα, η δυτική αυλή με την πισίνα είναι σχεδιασμένη για το πρωί και 

μεσημέρι, η ανατολική είναι καλύτερη για να καθίσει κάποιος το μεσημέρι και η

 νότια με το χαλίκι για χρήση από αργά το απόγευμα και μετά.

Η βίλα περιλαμβάνει τρία υπνοδωμάτια και μπάνια, τα οποία βρίσκονται στην

 ανατολική πλευρά, ενώ το μοναδικό design με τους λευκούς τοίχους με τις τρύπες,

 τα μίνιμαλ καθιστικά και την τζαμαρία σε ημικύκλιο σχήμα είναι μερικοί λόγοι που 

το κάνουν ακόμη πιο πολυτελές και ιδιαίτερο.

Οι αρχιτέκτονες μάλιστα ανέφεραν πως λόγω της απομακρυσμένης τοποθεσίας

 της κατοικίας, χρειάστηκε να προκατασκευαστεί ένα μεγάλο μέρος της εξωτερικής 

κατασκευής. Αυτό βοήθησε και στη μείωση των εξόδων συναρμολόγησης και 

του χρόνου κατασκευής σε μόλις επτά μήνες.

June is New York Music Month--the first-ever citywide celebration of New York’s diverse and thriving music sector. Featuring 30 days of converts, walking tours, panel discussions and free rehearsal space for musicians, New York Music Month is brought to you by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in partnership with NY is Music.     Some highlights of New York Music Month:   • Free concerts: New comprehensive website listing free and ticketed music events all over the city including concerts at SummerStage, Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, Lincoln Center Presents, Northside Festival, Make Music New York and more. • Free walking tours of iconic music sites as well as a digital map produced in partnership with Foursquare. • 2,000+ hours of free rehearsal space for NYC-based musicians through community development organization Spaceworks  • Online toolkit for musicians: MOME is putting out an RFP to create a first-of-its kind on-line resource to help musicians with the business side of their careers, with contracts templates, guides for registering music and ways to generate revenue. • Music, tech and real estate conference: A day-long event at NYU Steinhardt, “Sound Development NYC” will explore what comes next at the intersection of New York City’s music, tech and real estate industries with panels on venue preservation, music tech innovations, and more.   To get all the details and find events near you, visit www.nymusicmonth.nyc and follow @nymusicmonth on Twitter.

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• 193 – The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
• 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
• 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
• 1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
• 1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
• 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
• 1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
• 1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
• 1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
• 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
• 1773 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
• 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
• 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
• 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
• 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
• 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
• 1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
• 1831 – James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.
• 1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
• 1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
• 1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
• 1879 – Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
• 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
• 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
• 1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
• 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
• 1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
• 1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
• 1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
• 1941 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
• 1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
• 1943 – BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
• 1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
• 1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
• 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
• 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
• 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
• 1988 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
• 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
• 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
• 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
• 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
• 2001 – Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
• 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
• 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
• 2012 – United States President Barack Obama orders Stuxnet cyber attacks against Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, code-named "Operation Olympic Games".
• 2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

Births[edit]

• 1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
• 1134 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
• 1300 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English politician, Lord Marshal of England (d. 1338)
• 1451 – Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (d. 1508)
• 1455 – Anne of Savoy (d. 1480)
• 1460 – Enno I, Count of East Frisia, German noble (d. 1491)
• 1480 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
• 1498 – Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (d. 1574)
• 1522 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590)
• 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Secretary of State for England (d. 1612)
• 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1687)
• 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
• 1653 – Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (d. 1704)
• 1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright (d. 1755)
• 1762 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish priest and missionary, founded the Irish Christian Brothers (d. 1844)
• 1770 – Friedrich Laun, German author (d. 1849)
• 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1836)
• 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (d. 1832)
• 1800 – Edward Deas Thomson, Australian educator and politician, Chief Secretary of New South Wales (d. 1879)
• 1801 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1877)
• 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
• 1808 – Henry Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1881)
• 1815 – Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
• 1819 – Francis V, Duke of Modena (d. 1875)
• 1825 – John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)
• 1831 – John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879)
• 1833 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General of Kentucky (d. 1911)
• 1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish physician and missionary, developed fingerprinting (d. 1930)
• 1844 – John J. Toffey, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1911)
• 1878 – John Masefield, English author and poet (d. 1967)
• 1879 – Max Emmerich, American triathlete and gymnast (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan businessman and politician, Mayor of Chișinău (d. 1940)
• 1889 – James Daugherty, American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1974)
• 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
• 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager (d. 1990)
• 1901 – John Van Druten, English-American playwright and director (d. 1957)
• 1903 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Robert Newton, English-American actor (d. 1956)
• 1907 – Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher (d. 1977)
• 1907 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, developed the jet engine (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (d. 1999)
• 1909 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-Israeli philologist and linguist (d. 1971)
• 1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Johnny Bond, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
• 1915 – John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1917 – William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Robert Clarke, American actor and producer (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (d. 1991)
• 1922 – Joan Copeland, American actress
• 1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Barry Till, English priest, author, and academic (d. 2013)
• 1924 – William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (d. 1962)
• 1926 – Richard Schweiker, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1928 – Steve Dodd, Australian actor and composer (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
• 1929 – James H. Billington, American librarian and academic
• 1930 – John Lemmon, English logician and philosopher (d. 1966)
• 1930 – Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Matt Poore, New Zealand cricketer
• 1930 – Edward Woodward, English actor (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Frank Cameron, New Zealand cricketer
• 1932 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (d. 1994)
• 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
• 1933 – Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1934 – Peter Masterson, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• 1934 – Doris Buchanan Smith, American author (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect, founded Foster and Partners
• 1935 – Reverend Ike, American minister and television host (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Jack Kralick, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1935 – John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1936 – André Bourbeau, Canadian politician
• 1936 – Bekim Fehmiu, Bosnian actor (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Gerald Scarfe, English illustrator and animator
• 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer
• 1937 – Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
• 1937 – Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist and author. (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (d. 1981)
• 1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor and comedian (d. 1992)
• 1940 – René Auberjonois, American actor
• 1940 – Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1941 – Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
• 1941 – Edo de Waart, Dutch conductor and director
• 1941 – Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira
• 1941 – Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
• 1942 – Bruce George, Welsh politician
• 1942 – Parveen Kumar, Pakistani-English physician and academic
• 1943 – Richard Goode, American pianist
• 1943 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Robert Powell, English actor
• 1945 – Jim McCarty, American blues rock guitarist
• 1945 – Brian Oldfield, American shot putter (d. 2017)
• 1945 – Linda Scott, American singer
• 1945 – Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Kerry Vincent, Australian chef and author
• 1945 – Frederica von Stade, American soprano and actress
• 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• 1947 – Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded the McLaren Group
• 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor and singer
• 1947 – Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1948 – Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017)
• 1948 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Tom Sneva, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1948 – Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor (d. 1995)
• 1950 – Perrin Beatty, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1950 – Charlene, American singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Jean Lambert, English educator and politician
• 1950 – Michael McDowell, American author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Wayne Nelson, American singer and bass player
• 1950 – Tom Robinson, English singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1951 – Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, English actress and author
• 1952 – Şenol Güneş, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1952 – David Lan, South African-English director and playwright
• 1952 – Mihaela Loghin, Romanian shot putter
• 1953 – Ronnie Dunn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Ted Field, American entrepreneur and racing driver
• 1954 – Jill Black, English lawyer and judge
• 1955 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2016)
• 1955 – Lorraine Moller, New Zealand runner
• 1955 – Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (d. 2008)
• 1956 – Lisa Hartman Black, American actress
• 1956 – Robin Mattson, American actress
• 1957 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish director and screenwriter
• 1958 – Ahron Bregman, Israeli-English political scientist and journalist
• 1958 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
• 1958 – Gennadiy Valyukevich, Belarusian triple jumper
• 1959 – Martin Brundle, English race car driver and sportscaster
• 1959 – John Pullinger, English statistician and librarian
• 1959 – Alan Wilder, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1960 – Simon Gallup, English musician (The Cure)
• 1960 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1960 – Sergey Kuznetsov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1960 – Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician, 8th Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Mark Curry, American actor
• 1961 – Werner Günthör, Swiss shot putter and bobsledder
• 1961 – John Huston, American golfer
• 1961 – Peter Machajdík, Slovakian-German pianist and composer
• 1963 – Mike Joyce, English drummer
• 1963 – Miles J. Padgett, Scottish physicist and academic
• 1963 – David Westhead, English actor and producer
• 1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian skier
• 1965 – Olga Nazarova, Russian sprinter
• 1965 – Nigel Short, English chess player and journalist
• 1966 – Greg Schiano, American football player and coach
• 1967 – Bill Shorten, Australian lawyer and politician, 21st Minister for Education and Training
• 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
• 1968 – Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Susan Jones, Welsh politician
• 1969 – Teri Polo, American actress
• 1969 – Richard Murrian, American photographer
• 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1971 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor and singer
• 1973 – Frédérik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
• 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
• 1973 – Derek Lowe, American baseball player
• 1973 – Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer
• 1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
• 1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
• 1974 – Sarah Teather, English politician
• 1974 – Akis Zikos, Greek footballer and coach
• 1975 – Michal Grošek, Czech-Swiss ice hockey player and coach
• 1975 – Ēriks Rags, Latvian javelin thrower
• 1976 – Marlon Devonish, English sprinter and coach
• 1976 – Kōhei Murakami, Japanese actor
• 1977 – Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 – Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high jumper
• 1978 – Matthew Hittinger, American poet and author
• 1979 – Santana Moss, American football player
• 1979 – Markus Persson, Swedish game designer, founded Mojang
• 1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – Smush Parker, American basketball player
• 1981 – Amy Schumer, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
• 1983 – Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko, Ukrainian runner
• 1983 – Tõnis Sahk, Estonian long jumper
• 1984 – David Neville, American sprinter
• 1984 – Olivier Tielemans, Dutch race car driver
• 1985 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
• 1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
• 1985 – Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer
• 1985 – Nick Young, American basketball player
• 1985 – Sam Young, American basketball player
• 1986 – Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner
• 1986 – Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
• 1986 – Skream, English DJ and producer
• 1986 – Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
• 1987 – Jerel McNeal, American basketball player
• 1987 – Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1988 – Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer
• 1989 – Sammy Alex Mutahi, Kenyan runner
• 1990 – Kennie Chopart, Danish footballer
• 1990 – Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer
• 1990 – Martin Pembleton, English footballer
• 1990 – Bianca Perie, Romanian hammer thrower
• 1991 – Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 – Kira Plastinina, Russian fashion designer
• 1995 – Carlos Castro García, Spanish footballer
• 1996 – Tom Holland, English actor

Deaths[edit]

• 195 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han (b. 256 BC)
• 193 – Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
• 352 – Ran Min, "Heavenly Prince" (Tian Wang) during the Sixteen Kingdoms
• 654 – Pyrrhus, patriarch of Constantinople
• 829 – Li Tongjie, general of the Tang Dynasty
• 847 – Xiao, empress of the Tang Dynasty
• 896 – Theodosius Romanus, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch
• 1186 – Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord
• 1220 – Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (b. 1176)
• 1310 – Marguerite Porete, French mystic
• 1432 – Dan II of Wallachia
• 1434 – King Wladislaus II of Poland
• 1571 – John Story, English martyr (b. 1504)
• 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
• 1625 – Honoré d'Urfé, French author and poet (b. 1568)
• 1639 – Melchior Franck, German composer (b. 1579)
• 1660 – Mary Dyer, English-American martyr (b. 1611)
• 1662 – Zhu Youlang, Chinese emperor (b. 1623)
• 1710 – David Mitchell, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1642)
• 1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
• 1769 – Edward Holyoke, American pastor and academic (b. 1689)
• 1773 – Wolraad Woltemade, South African folk hero (b. 1708)
• 1795 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744)
• 1815 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1753)
• 1823 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1770)
• 1826 – J. F. Oberlin, French pastor and philanthropist (b. 1740)
• 1830 – Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (b. 1781)
• 1833 – Oliver Wolcott Jr., American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1760)
• 1841 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter and academic (b. 1785)
• 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
• 1861 – John Quincy Marr, American captain (b. 1825)
• 1864 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel, led the Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)
• 1868 – James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
• 1872 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (b. 1795)
• 1873 – Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and journalist (b. 1848)
• 1879 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
• 1908 – Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
• 1927 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
• 1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist, and scholar (b. 1861)
• 1934 – Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b. 1867)
• 1935 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general (d. 1857)
• 1938 – Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)
• 1941 – Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (b. 1873)
• 1941 – Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (b. 1884)
• 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1943 – Wilfrid Israel, English-German businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
• 1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• 1952 – John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1953 – Emanuel Vidović, Croatian painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1954 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish-German journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1883)
• 1960 – Paula Hitler, German-Austrian sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
• 1965 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach, founded the Green Bay Packers (b. 1898)
• 1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1873)
• 1968 – Helen Keller, American author and activist (b. 1880)
• 1968 – André Laurendeau, Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1904)
• 1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Arthur Nielsen, American businessman, founded the ACNielsen company (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Carl Vinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1883)
• 1983 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Richard Greene, English actor and soldier (b. 1918)
• 1986 – Jo Gartner, Austrian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1987 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
• 1988 – Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer, designed the Ferrari Lampredi engine (b. 1917)
• 1991 – David Ruffin, American singer and drummer (b. 1941)
• 1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Aishwarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
• 2001 – Dhirendra of Nepal (b. 1950)
• 2001 – Prince Nirajan of Nepal (b. 1978)
• 2001 – Princess Shruti of Nepal (b. 1976)
• 2004 – William Manchester, American historian and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Hilda Crosby Standish, American physician (b. 1902)
• 2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Tony Thompson, American singer and songwriter (Hi-Five) (b. 1975)
• 2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician, 17th Justice Minister of Israel (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, founded Saint Laurent Paris (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Bob Christie, American racing driver (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Vincent O'Brien, Irish horse trainer (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
• 2010 – Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Haleh Sahabi, Iranian humanitarian and activist (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Faruq Z. Bey, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Milan Gaľa, Slovak politician (b. 1953)
• 2013 – James Kelleher, Canadian lawyer and politician, 33rd Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian sailor (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and politician (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Jacques Parizeau, Canadian economist and politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)