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• 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
• 1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
• 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
• 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
• 1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
• 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
• 1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
• 1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario back into the United States.
• 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
• 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
• 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
• 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
• 1940 – Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
• 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.
• 1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
• 1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
• 1950 – The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
• 1962 – At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
• 1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
• 1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
• 1969 – Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
• 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m³) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
• 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $872 million in 2016) worth of damage.
• 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
• 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
• 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
• 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
• 2012 – A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and 10 people on the ground.
• 2012 – The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
• 2013 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
• 2013 – At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

Births[edit]

• 20 BC – Sejanus, Roman soldier and bodyguard (d. 31 AD)
• 1139 – Conon of Naso, Basilian abbot (d. 1236)
• 1454 – Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (d. 1523)
• 1537 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
• 1540 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1590)
• 1554 – Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1604)
• 1635 – Philippe Quinault, French playwright and composer (d. 1688)
• 1636 – John Hale, American minister (d. 1700)
• 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1708)
• 1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician, geologist, and botanist (d. 1788)
• 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (d. 1797)
• 1736 – Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist and composer (d. 1811)
• 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1820)
• 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
• 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician, Governor of Senegal (d. 1889)
• 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
• 1832 – Charles Lecocq, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)
• 1843 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
• 1844 – Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and author (d. 1909)
• 1852 – Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (d. 1896)
• 1853 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1942)
• 1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright (d. 1905)
• 1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American businessman, founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company (d. 1950)
• 1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
• 1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English-American director and manager (d. 1952)
• 1873 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (d. 1953)
• 1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1945)
• 1879 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist and botanist (d. 1940)
• 1879 – Vivian Woodward, English footballer and soldier (d. 1954)
• 1881 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1954)
• 1897 – Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (d. 1932)
• 1900 – Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (d. 1997)
• 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (d. 2001)
• 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1904 – Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (d. 1950)
• 1904 – Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (d. 1984)
• 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (d. 1946)
• 1906 – R. G. D. Allen, English economist, mathematician, and statistician (d. 1983)
• 1906 – Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Walter Robins, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1968)
• 1907 – Paul Rotha, English director and producer (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress and model (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Pedro Mir, Dominican poet and author (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician and orthopedist (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1918 – Patrick Cargill, English actor and producer (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Forbes Carlile, Australian pentathlete and coach (d. 2016)
• 1921 – Jean Dréjac, French singer and composer (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 2017)
• 1924 – Karunanidhi, Indian screenwriter and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
• 1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (d. 1991)
• 1924 – Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Donald Judd, American sculptor and painter (d. 1994)
• 1928 – John Richard Reid, New Zealand cricketer
• 1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (d. 2017)
• 1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author and poet (d. 1999)
• 1930 – George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician, Minister of Defence for India
• 1930 – Dakota Staton, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Ben Wada, Japanese director and producer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-French actress
• 1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba
• 1931 – John Norman, American philosopher and author
• 1931 – Lindy Remigino, American runner and coach
• 1933 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahranian king (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Rolland D. McCune, American minister and theologian
• 1935 – Raoul Franklin, English physicist and academic
• 1936 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter
• 1936 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1937 – Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French race car driver
• 1939 – Frank Blevins, English-Australian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Steve Dalkowski, American baseball player
• 1939 – Ian Hunter, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Jon Tolaas, Norwegian poet and author (d. 2012)
• 1940 – Connie Saylor, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1999)
• 1943 – Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and coach
• 1944 – Thomas Burns, British bishop
• 1944 – Edith McGuire, American sprinter and educator
• 1944 – Eddy Ottoz, Italian hurdler and coach
• 1944 – Mary Thom, American journalist and author
• 1945 – Brian Barnes, English golfer
• 1945 – Hale Irwin, American golfer and architect
• 1945 – Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist, and businessman, founded the Rajah Broadcasting Network
• 1945 – Roger Lane-Nott, English admiral
• 1945 – Bill Paterson, Scottish-English actor
• 1946 – Michael Clarke, American drummer (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Eddie Holman, American pop/R&B/gospel singer
• 1946 – Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
• 1946 – Penelope Wilton, English actress
• 1947 – Mike Burgmann, Australian race car driver and accountant (d. 1986)
• 1947 – John Dykstra, American special effects artist and producer
• 1947 – Mickey Finn, English drummer (d. 2003)
• 1948 – Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1950 – Frédéric François, Belgian-Italian singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2015)
• 1950 – Juan José Muñoz, Argentinian businessman (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Larry Probst, American businessman
• 1950 – Suzi Quatro, American-English singer-songwriter, bass player, producer, and actress
• 1950 – Christos Verelis, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Transport and Communications
• 1950 – Deniece Williams, American singer-songwriter
• 1952 – Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
• 1954 – Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Susan Landau, American mathematician and engineer
• 1954 – Wally Weir, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1956 – Brad Nessler, American sportscaster
• 1956 – Danny Wilde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1958 – Simon Fraser, English diplomat
• 1958 – Cameron Sharp, Scottish sprinter
• 1959 – John Carlson, American radio host
• 1959 – Imbi Paju, Estonian-Finnish journalist and author
• 1959 – Sam Mills, American football player
• 1960 – Don Brown, American novelist, author and attorney.
• 1960 – Tracy Grimshaw, Australian television host and journalist
• 1960 – Kim Hyun-jun, South Korean basketball player
• 1960 – Carl Rackemann, Australian cricketer
• 1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons
• 1961 – Peter Vidmar, American gymnast
• 1961 – Ed Wynne, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1962 – David Cole, American DJ, producer, and songwriter (d. 1995)
• 1962 – Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author
• 1962 – Dagmar Neubauer, German sprinter
• 1963 – Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, 8th Minister-President of the Walloon Region
• 1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
• 1964 – André Bellavance, Canadian politician
• 1964 – Kerry King, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1964 – James Purefoy, English actor
• 1965 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American actor and composer
• 1965 – Jonathan Djanogly, English lawyer and politician
• 1965 – Mike Gordon, American singer, bass player, and director
• 1965 – Hans Kroes, Dutch swimmer
• 1965 – Michael Moore, British accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author
• 1969 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Dean Pay, Australian rugby league player
• 1970 – Jamie Durie, Australian television host, author, and landscaper
• 1970 – Greg Hancock, American motorcycle racer
• 1970 – Julie Masse, Canadian singer
• 1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
• 1971 – Julian Sturdy, English politician
• 1972 – Steve Crane, English footballer
• 1972 – Julie Gayet, French actress
• 1972 – Matt Pike, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Jason Jones, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
• 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1975 – Jeff Soto, American painter and illustrator
• 1976 – Nikos Chatzis, Greek basketball player
• 1976 – Enda Markey, Irish-Australian actor and producer
• 1976 – Gregg McClymont, Scottish historian and politician
• 1976 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
• 1977 – Cris, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player
• 1977 – Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
• 1978 – Lyfe Jennings, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 – Luis Fernando López, Colombian race walker
• 1979 – Christian Malcolm, Welsh sprinter
• 1979 – Pierre Poilievre, Canadian politician
• 1980 – Amauri, Brazilian-Italian footballer
• 1980 – Tjerk Smeets, Dutch baseball player
• 1981 – Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 – Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
• 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• 1982 – Manfred Mölgg, Italian skier
• 1982 – Dihan Slabbert, South African singer-songwriter and producer
• 1983 – Pasquale Foggia, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
• 1985 – Łukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
• 1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
• 1986 – Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
• 1986 – Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner
• 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish race car driver
• 1986 – Tomáš Verner, Czech ice skater
• 1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
• 1989 – Anthony Taugourdeau, French footballer
• 1990 – Fabian Götze, German footballer
• 1991 – Ava Seumanufagai, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1991 – Lukasz Teodorczyk, Polish Footballer
• 1991 – Sami Vatanen, Finnish ice hockey defenceman
• 1991 – Yordano Ventura, Dominican baseball player (d. 2017)
• 1992 – Mario Götze, German footballer
• 1995 – Triin Tobi, Estonian skier
• 1995 – Dani Cameranesi, American ice hockey player

Deaths[edit]

• 628 – Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
• 800 – Staurakios, Byzantine general
• 1052 – Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno
• 1395 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1350)
• 1397 – William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1328)
• 1411 – Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1371)
• 1453 – Loukas Notaras, last megas doux of the Byzantine Empire
• 1548 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish-Mexican archbishop (b. 1468)
• 1553 – Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker and architect (b. 1485)
• 1594 – John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (b. 1521)
• 1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• 1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1584)
• 1657 – William Harvey, English physician and academic (b. 1578)
• 1649 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
• 1659 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh minister and poet (b. 1619)
• 1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, American businessman and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1711)
• 1826 – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (b. 1766)
• 1858 – Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary of State of Illinois (b. 1813)
• 1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 – Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1825)
• 1900 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)
• 1902 – Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1829)
• 1906 – John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
• 1921 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (b. 1879)
• 1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (b. 1883)
• 1928 – Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1864)
• 1933 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)
• 1938 – John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower and tug of war competitor (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1875)
• 1963 – Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1963 – Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1964 – Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1969 – George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 – Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and painter (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (b. 1927)
• 1991 – Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
• 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Puig Aubert, German-French rugby player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
• 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and manager (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
• 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Koko Taylor, American singer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – John Hedgecoe, English photographer and author (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2011 – James Arness, American actor and producer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Andrew Gold, American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger (b. 1951)
• 2011 – Bhajan Lal, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Haryana (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and activist (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Andy Hamilton, Jamaican-English saxophonist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Rajsoomer Lallah, Mauritian lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Roy Salvadori, English race car driver and manager (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand journalist and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Will D. Campbell, American minister, author, and activist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (b. 1962)
• 2013 – Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Arnold Eidus, American violinist and producer (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Deacon Jones, American football player and actor (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Elodie Lauten, French-American composer and educator (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Gopinath Munde, Indian politician, 3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1949)
• 2015 – Avi Beker, Israeli political scientist and academic (b. 1951)
• 2015 – Bevo Francis, American basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Eugene Kennedy, American psychologist and academic (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer (b. 1942)

Manchester attack: Ariana Grande 

visits injured fans

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US singer Ariana Grande has visited fans injured in last month's terror attack at her Manchester concert.

The star spent time with youngsters at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital in a surprise appearance ahead of a benefit concert on Sunday.

Following the singer's visit, the father of one of the injured said he had never seen his daughter so happy.

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people and injured dozens more at Grande's 22 May Manchester Arena gig.

Grande arrived back in the UK on Friday morning ahead of the One Love Manchester concert at Old Trafford cricket ground.

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Stars including Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Take That and Miley Cyrus will join her for the event which is raising funds for victims and their families.

Peter Mann, whose daughter Jaden was injured in the attack, wrote of Grande's hospital visit: "This means more to us than all the amazing things people have done this week. 

"So happy she came I could burst. Never seen Jaden so happy; even cried again myself."

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Another girl, 14-year-old Evie Mills, was visited by Grande who also spoke to nurses and staff during her time at the Manchester hospital.

Evie was one of the youngsters who met the Queen when she paid her respects on 25 May to those injured in the bombing.

Abedi blew himself up in the attack at Manchester Arena, but police have made a number of arrests as investigations continue.

Ten men, aged between 18 and 44, remain in custody on suspicion of terrorism offences in connection with the attack, police have said.

A 15-year-old boy, a 34-year-old woman, and four men have been released without charge.

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• 1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
• 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
• 1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
• 1745 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
• 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
• 1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
• 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1802 – King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
• 1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
• 1825 – General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
• 1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
• 1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• 1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
• 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• 1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
• 1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
• 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
• 1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
• 1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
• 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• 1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
• 1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
• 1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• 1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
• 1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
• 1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
• 1961 – In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
• 1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
• 1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
• 1982 – Four Iranian diplomats were kidnapped in Lebanon after they were stopped at a check point in northern Lebanon by Lebanese Phalange forces. None of them has been seen since.
• 1983 – Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
• 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
• 1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• 1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead.
• 1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
• 1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
• 1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
• 1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• 2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
• 2015 – An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.

Births[edit]

• 1394 – Philippa of England (d. 1430)
• 1489 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
• 1563 – George Heriot, Scottish artist (d. 1624)
• 1604 – Claudia de' Medici, Italian daughter of Christina of Lorraine (d. 1648)
• 1665 – Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian captain (d. 1733)
• 1694 – François Quesnay, French economist and physician (d. 1774)
• 1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (d. 1776)
• 1738 – George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
• 1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (d. 1780)
• 1754 – Miguel de Azcuénaga, Argentinian soldier (d. 1833)
• 1754 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Slovak astronomer and academic (d. 1832)
• 1787 – Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (d. 1856)
• 1801 – James Pennethorne, English architect, designed Victoria Park (d. 1871)
• 1821 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1897)
• 1829 – Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (d. 1903)
• 1854 – Solko van den Bergh, Dutch target shooter (d. 1916)
• 1860 – Alexis Lapointe, Canadian runner (d. 1924)
• 1861 – William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1937)
• 1866 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish journalist and politician (d. 1952)
• 1867 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland (d. 1951)
• 1877 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
• 1879 – Mabel Lucie Attwell, English author and illustrator (d. 1964)
• 1880 – Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1885 – Arturo Rawson, Argentinian general and politician, 26th President of Argentina (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Tom Longboat, Canadian runner and soldier (d. 1949)
• 1903 – Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor (d. 1988)
• 1904 – Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist (d. 1992)
• 1907 – Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician (d. 1944)
• 1907 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
• 1907 – Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (d. 1993)
• 1915 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Modibo Keïta, Malian educator and politician, 1st President of Mali (d. 1977)
• 1915 – Nils Kihlberg, Swedish actor, singer, and director (d. 1965)
• 1916 – Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (d. 2014)
• 1917 – Robert Merrill, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Milan Komar, Slovenian-Argentinian philosopher and academic (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Dennis Weaver, American actor and director (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (d. 1958)
• 1926 – Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic
• 1926 – Judith Malina, German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Geoffrey Palmer, English actor
• 1928 – Ruth Westheimer, German-American therapist and author
• 1929 – Karolos Papoulias, Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece
• 1930 – George Chesworth, English air marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Moray
• 1930 – Morgana King, American singer and actress
• 1930 – Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Gustav Nossal, Austrian-Australian biologist and academic
• 1932 – John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1975)
• 1932 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Monica Dacon, Vincentian educator and politician, 6th Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• 1934 – Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan-British conservationist and author
• 1935 – Colette Boky, Canadian soprano and actress
• 1935 – Berhanu Dinka, Ethiopian economist and diplomat (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Vince Camuto, American fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Nine West (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Bruce Dern, American actor
• 1937 – Freddy Fender, American singer and guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Mortimer Zuckerman, Canadian-American businessman and publisher, founded Boston Properties
• 1938 – John Harvard, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 2016)
• 1938 – Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
• 1939 – Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, Anglo-Irish peer (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Denis de Belleval, Canadian civil servant and politician
• 1939 – Henri Pachard, American director and producer (d. 2008)
• 1939 – George Reid, Scottish journalist and politician, 2nd Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
• 1940 – Ludwig Schwarz, Slovak-Austrian bishop
• 1941 – Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright and screenwriter
• 1942 – Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer
• 1942 – Bill Rowe, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1943 – John Burgess, Australian radio and television host
• 1943 – Sandra Haynie, American golfer
• 1943 – Tom Jaine, English author
• 1944 – Roger Ball, Scottish saxophonist and songwriter
• 1944 – Michelle Phillips, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1945 – Anthony Braxton, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer
• 1945 – Daniel Topolski, English rower and coach (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Gordon Waller, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Viktor Klima, Austrian businessman and politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria
• 1948 – Bob Champion, English jockey
• 1948 – Sandra Post, Canadian golfer and sportscaster
• 1948 – Jürgen Sparwasser, German footballer and manager
• 1949 – Gabriel Arcand, Canadian actor
• 1949 – Mark B. Cohen, American lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Raymond Dumais, Canadian bishop (d. 2012)
• 1951 – Bronisław Malinowski, Polish runner (d. 1981)
• 1951 – Melanie Phillips, English journalist and author
• 1951 – Wendy Pini, American author and illustrator
• 1951 – David Yip, English actor and playwright
• 1952 – Bronisław Komorowski, Polish historian and politician, 5th President of Poland
• 1952 – Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean author and poet
• 1953 – Linda Lingle, American journalist and politician, 6th Governor of Hawaii
• 1953 – Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish musician and songwriter (Wings) (d. 1979)
• 1953 – Susumu Ojima, Japanese businessman, founded Huser
• 1953 – Paul Samson, English guitarist and producer (d. 2002)
• 1954 – Raphael Ravenscroft, English saxophonist and composer (d. 2014)
• 1954 – Kazuhiro Yamaji, Japanese actor and voice actor
• 1955 – Val McDermid, Scottish author
• 1955 – Mary Testa, American singer and actress
• 1956 – Keith David, American actor
• 1956 – John Hockenberry, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Terry Kennedy, American baseball player and manager
• 1956 – Joyce Sidman, American author and poet
• 1958 – Eddie Velez, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Juan Camacho, Bolivian runner
• 1959 – Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician, 21st Greek Minister for Culture
• 1960 – Miloš Đelmaš, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1960 – Paul Taylor, American guitarist and keyboard player
• 1960 – Bradley Walsh, English television presenter, comedian, singer and former footballer
• 1961 – El DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1961 – Ferenc Gyurcsány, Hungarian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1962 – Krzysztof Hołowczyc, Polish race car driver
• 1962 – Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
• 1962 – John P. Kee, American singer-songwriter and pastor
• 1963 – Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1963 – Jim Lachey, American football player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player and coach
• 1964 – Sean Pertwee, English actor
• 1964 – Kōji Yamamura, Japanese animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1965 – Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player and preacher (Anglican Order of Preachers)
• 1966 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian soprano and actress
• 1966 – Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1966 – Bill Wiggin, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
• 1967 – Robert S. Kimbrough, American colonel and astronaut
• 1968 – Roger Lim, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Niurka Montalvo, Cuban-Spanish long jumper
• 1968 – Al B. Sure!, American R&B singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1968 – Scott Wolf, American actor
• 1969 – Horatio Sanz, Chilean-American actor and comedian
• 1970 – Deborah Compagnoni, Italian skier
• 1970 – Richie Hawtin, English-Canadian DJ and producer
• 1970 – Dave Pybus, English bass player and songwriter
• 1970 – Izabella Scorupco, Polish-Swedish actress and model
• 1971 – Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 1971 – Mike Lee, American lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Shoji Meguro, Japanese director and composer
• 1971 – Karl Martin Sinijärv, Estonian journalist and poet
• 1971 – Noah Wyle, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey defenseman
• 1972 – Rob Huebel, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Mikey Whipwreck, American wrestler and trainer
• 1974 – Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, Indian chef (d. 2012)
• 1974 – Darin Erstad, American baseball player and coach
• 1974 – Andrew Gwynne, English lawyer and politician
• 1974 – Janette Husárová, Slovak tennis player
• 1974 – Buddy Wakefield, American poet and author
• 1975 – Russell Brand, English comedian and actor
• 1975 – Henry Burris, American football player
• 1975 – Angelina Jolie, American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian, and activist
• 1975 – Dinanath Ramnarine, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1975 – Alex Wharf, English cricketer
• 1976 – Kasey Chambers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and politician
• 1976 – Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player
• 1977 – Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
• 1977 – Roman Miroshnichenko, Ukrainian guitarist and composer
• 1978 – Robin Lord Taylor, American actor
• 1979 – Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
• 1979 – Daniel Vickerman, South African-Australian rugby player (d. 2017)
• 1980 – François Beauchemin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Jennifer Carroll, Canadian swimmer
• 1981 – Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Natalia Vodopyanova, Russian basketball player
• 1982 – Abel Kirui, Kenyan runner
• 1982 – Ronnie Prude, American-Canadian football player
• 1983 – Romaric, Ivorian footballer
• 1983 – Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
• 1983 – Olha Saladuha, Ukrainian triple jumper
• 1984 – Enrico Rossi Chauvenet, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Rainie Yang, Taiwanese actress
• 1984 – Ian White, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (d. 2011)
• 1985 – Anna-Lena Grönefeld, German tennis player
• 1985 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
• 1985 – Lukas Podolski, German footballer
• 1985 – Oddvar Reiakvam, Norwegian politician
• 1987 – Luisa Zissman, English businesswoman
• 1988 – Matt Bartkowski, American ice hockey defenseman
• 1988 – Kimberley Busteed, Australian model
• 1989 – Federico Erba, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Paweł Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower
• 1990 – Zac Farro, American singer and drummer
• 1991 – Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Matt McIlwrick, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 – Jonathan Huberdeau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 – Shiori Tamai, Japanese singer
• 1999 – Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress

Deaths[edit]

• 756 – Shōmu, Japanese emperor (b. 701)
• 863 – Charles, archbishop of Mainz
• 895 – Li Xi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• 1039 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 990)
• 1134 – Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1106)
• 1135 – Emperor Huizong of Song (b. 1082)
• 1206 – Adela of Champagne (b. 1140)
• 1246 – Isabella of Angoulême (b. 1188)
• 1257 – Przemysł I of Greater Poland (b. 1221)
• 1394 – Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b.c. 1368)
• 1453 – Andronikos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, Byzantine commander
• 1463 – Flavio Biondo, Italian historian and author (b. 1392)
• 1472 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (b. 1402)
• 1585 – Muretus, French philosopher and author (b. 1526)
• 1622 – Péter Révay, Hungarian soldier and historian (b. 1568)
• 1647 – Canonicus, Grand Chief Sachem of the Narragansett (b. 1565)
• 1663 – William Juxon, English archbishop and academic (b. 1582)
• 1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and author (b. 1725)
• 1801 – Frederick Muhlenberg, American minister and politician, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1750)
• 1809 – Nicolai Abildgaard, Danish neoclassical and history painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1743)
• 1830 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (b. 1795)
• 1872 – Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch historian, jurist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1798)
• 1875 – Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (b. 1804)
• 1876 – Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1830)
• 1922 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
• 1926 – Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (b. 1853)
• 1928 – Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• 1929 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (b. 1881)
• 1931 – Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (b. 1853/54)
• 1933 – Ahmet Haşim, Turkish poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1939 – Tommy Ladnier, American trumpet player (b. 1900)
• 1941 – Wilhelm II, German Emperor (b. 1859)
• 1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer and politician (b. 1904)
• 1951 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (b. 1874)
• 1956 – Katherine MacDonald, American actress and producer (b. 1881)
• 1962 – Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Linda Eenpalu, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1970 – Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1971 – György Lukács, Hungarian historian and philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
• 1973 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer, and manager (b. 1917)
• 1981 – Leslie Averill, New Zealand doctor and soldier (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
• 1992 – Carl Stotz, American businessman, founded Little League Baseball (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Bernard Evslin, American writer (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Derek Leckenby, English musician (b. 1943)
• 1997 – Vladimir Hütt, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1997 – Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (b. 1903)
• 2002 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 42nd President of Peru (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Steve Lacy, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Bill France, Jr., American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Craig L. Thomas, American captain and politician (b. 1933)
• 2010 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Juan Francisco Luis, Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect, designed the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Herb Reed, American violinist (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Walt Arfons, American race car driver (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Joey Covington, American drummer (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Will Wynn, American football player (b. 1949)
• 2014 – George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman, English lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Jabe Thomas, American race car driver (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Anne Warburton, British academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Denmark (b. 1927)
• 2016 – Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937)