MOYΣΙΚΟ ΥΠΕΡθΕΑΜΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΒΡΑΖΙΛΙΑ

Η αυλαια της παρουσιασης των μουσικων πορτρετων διασημων καλλιτεχνων στο Μεγαρο Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης ανοιγει φετος την Δευτερα 9 Οκτωβριου,8 μμ,στον πεμπτο οροφο του κτιριου(M2),με ελευθερη εισοδο.

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• AD 23 – Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
• 610 – Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
• 1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
• 1302 – A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302).
• 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
• 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
• 1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
• 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
• 1597 – The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
• 1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1693 – Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
• 1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
• 1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
• 1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence by suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
• 1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
• 1830 – The Provisional Government of Belgium secedes from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• 1853 – The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
• 1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
• 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
• 1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 1904 – IFK Göteborg was founded in Café Olivedal in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• 1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
• 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
• 1936 – The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
• 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
• 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1958 – The current constitution of France is adopted.
• 1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people (out of 72 onboard).
• 1963 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
• 1965 – Pope Paul VI arrives in New York City, the first Pope to visit the Americas.
• 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, Hassanal Bolkiah.
• 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
• 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
• 1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
• 1992 – El Al Flight 1862: An El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
• 1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
• 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
• 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
• 2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
• 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
• 2006 – Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange.
• 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.

Births[edit]

• 1160 – Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. c. 1220)
• 1274 – Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1319)
• 1276 – Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311)
• 1289 – Louis X of France (d. 1316)
• 1331 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (d. 1382)
• 1379 – Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
• 1503 – Isabella of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1539)
• 1507 – Francis Bigod, British noble (d. 1537)
• 1515 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
• 1522 – Gabriele Paleotti, Catholic cardinal (d. 1597)
• 1524 – Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (d. 1592)
• 1532 – Francisco de Toledo, Catholic cardinal (d. 1596)
• 1542 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1621)
• 1550 – Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
• 1562 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
• 1570 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and philosopher (d. 1637)
• 1579 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal (d. 1644)
• 1585 – Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1618)
• 1625 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (d. 1661)
• 1626 – Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1712)
• 1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
• 1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1747)
• 1694 – Lord George Murray, Scottish Jacobite General (d. 1760)
• 1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (d. 1778)
• 1723 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (d. 1798)
• 1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
• 1768 – Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian naturalist, executed by royalists in the war of independence (d. 1816)
• 1787 – François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1874)
• 1793 – Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (d. 1862)
• 1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Canada East (d. 1864)
• 1814 – Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (d. 1875)
• 1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
• 1835 – Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (d. 1921)
• 1836 – Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936)
• 1837 – Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1919)
• 1841 – Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (d. 1912)
• 1841 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925)
• 1843 – Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and Catholic Saint (d. 1927)
• 1858 – Léon Serpollet, French businessman (d. 1903)
• 1861 – Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian (d. 1918)
• 1861 – Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909)
• 1862 – Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher (d. 1930)
• 1868 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 20th President of Argentina (d. 1942)
• 1874 – John Ellis, English executioner (d. 1932)
• 1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
• 1877 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
• 1880 – Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer. (d. 1946)
• 1881 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948)
• 1884 – Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (d. 1941)
• 1888 – Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
• 1890 – Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962)
• 1890 – Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer and journalist (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator (d. 1957)
• 1895 – Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
• 1896 – Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I (died 1964)
• 1900 – August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician (d. 1993)
• 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Pierre Garbay, French general (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician (d. 1996)
• 1907 – Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (d. 1956)
• 1913 – Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006)
• 1916 – George Sidney, American director and producer (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
• 1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group
• 1922 – Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic
• 1928 – Alvin Toffler, German-American journalist and author (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player
• 1929 – Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968)
• 1929 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1931 – Terence Conran, English designer and businessman
• 1931 – Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (d. 2007)
• 1933 – German Moreno, Filipino television host and actor (d. 2016)
• 1933 – Ann Thwaite, English author
• 1934 – Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1934 – Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist and poet
• 1936 – Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager
• 1936 – Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician
• 1937 – Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress (d. 2015)
• 1937 – David Crocker, American philosopher and academic
• 1937 – Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Lloyd Green, American steel guitar player
• 1937 – Jim Sillars, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1938 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 – Norman D. Wilson, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1939 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle racer
• 1940 – Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1940 – Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
• 1940 – Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American humorist and journalist
• 1941 – Karen Cushman, American author
• 1941 – Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver
• 1941 – Anne Rice, American author
• 1941 – Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
• 1942 – Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1967)
• 1942 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1942 – Christopher Stone, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1943 – H. Rap Brown, American activist
• 1943 – Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player
• 1943 – Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
• 1943 – Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 – Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic
• 1944 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Eddie Gómez, Puerto Rican-American bass player
• 1944 – Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 – John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician
• 1945 – Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister
• 1946 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense
• 1946 – Michael Mullen, American admiral
• 1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
• 1947 – Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1947 – Jim Fielder, American bass player
• 1947 – Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
• 1948 – Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
• 1948 – Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Armand Assante, American actor and producer
• 1949 – Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author
• 1952 – Anita DeFrantz, American rower and sports administrator
• 1952 – Jody Stephens, American rock drummer (Big Star; Golden Smog)
• 1953 – Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
• 1953 – Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
• 1955 – John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
• 1955 – Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1956 – Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright
• 1956 – Charlie Leibrandt, American baseball player
• 1956 – Sherri Turner, American golfer
• 1956 – Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
• 1957 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
• 1957 – Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1957 – Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
• 1958 – Barbara Kooyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host
• 1959 – Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player
• 1959 – Tony Meo, English snooker player
• 1959 – Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese author, composer, and director
• 1960 – Joe Boever, American baseball player
• 1960 – Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (d. 2016)
• 1961 – Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh!
• 1962 – Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer
• 1962 – Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
• 1963 – A. C. Green, American basketball player
• 1963 – Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1964 – Tom Jager, American swimmer
• 1964 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2009)
• 1964 – Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner
• 1965 – Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 1965 – Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1965 – Micky Ward, American boxer
• 1967 – Nick Green, Australian rower
• 1967 – Liev Schreiber, American actor and director
• 1968 – Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
• 1968 – Tim Wise, American activist and author
• 1971 – Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 – Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
• 1974 – Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
• 1976 – Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (d. 2017)
• 1977 – Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1978 – Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
• 1978 – Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
• 1979 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
• 1979 – Björn Phau, German tennis player
• 1979 – Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
• 1980 – Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
• 1980 – James Jones, American basketball player
• 1980 – Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
• 1981 – Shaura, Japanese singer
• 1981 – Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Tony Gwynn, Jr., American baseball player
• 1982 – Jered Weaver, American baseball player
• 1983 – Dan Clarke, English race car driver
• 1983 – Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 – Chansi Stuckey, American football player
• 1983 – Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
• 1983 – Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
• 1984 – Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
• 1984 – Karolina Tymińska, Polish heptathlete
• 1985 – Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
• 1987 – Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
• 1987 – Will Puddy, English footballer
• 1987 – Marina Weisband, German politician
• 1988 – Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Caner Erkin, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
• 1988 – Derrick Rose, American basketball player
• 1989 – Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
• 1990 – Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 744 – Yazid III, Umayyad caliph (b. 701)
• 863 – Turpio, Frankish nobleman
• 1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
• 1160 – Constance of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1141)
• 1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• 1221 – William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
• 1226 – Francis of Assisi (b. 1182)
• 1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
• 1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
• 1361 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English baron (b. 1310)
• 1497 – John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (b. 1478)
• 1582 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
• 1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
• 1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1586)
• 1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
• 1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625)
• 1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
• 1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)
• 1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey (b. 1678)
• 1749 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
• 1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761)
• 1827 – Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1851 – Manuel Godoy, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767)
• 1852 – James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
• 1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
• 1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 – Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 – Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1944 – Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 – Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
• 1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 – Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 – Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 – José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
• 1998 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (b. 1969)
• 1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
• 2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
• 2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Günther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2011 – Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944)
• 2013 – John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Jewel Joseph Newman, American sergeant and politician (b. 1921)
• 2015 – William A. Culpepper, American general, lawyer, and judge (b. 1916)
• 2015 – Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Neal Walk, American basketball player (b. 1948)

Five times Clive Davis changed

 the course of music

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If it wasn't for Clive Davis, you might never have heard of Bruce Springsteen.

The singer was still a rookie when he stood in Davis's office in 1972 and played his heart out.

"This was like the biggest days of my life," Springsteen later recalled. 

Davis signed him on the spot, taking a punt that this raw, untested talent could become a household name. 

Seven years, and a lot of hard work, later, Springsteen sold out Madison Square Garden.

For most of us, discovering one superstar would be enough - but over the last four decades, Davis has steered the likes of Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys towards the top 40.

But his biggest artist was always Whitney Houston. Davis discovered her in her teens, nurturing her talent and shaping her into one of the best-selling artists of all time.

He maintained a strong hand in her career, staging an intervention when drugs took over her life, and says her death, in 2012, still feels "startling and unexpected".

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Now aged 85, Davis is the chief creative officer of Sony Music, and revered as one of the dons of the music industry.

And his story is explored in a new documentary, Soundtrack of Our Lives, which premiered this week on Apple Music.

"I think the film captures the fact that I got into the business by accident," he tells the BBC. "I never planned it. And when I got in, I discovered a natural gift that I never would have known I had.

"I don't read music - but [I still get] that visceral feeling when I'm looking for that next great star, or the next hit song."

Along the way, his gut has guided him towards surprising, often tough, decisions. Many of them have changed the course of pop music. Here are just five examples. 

1) He stopped Prince releasing the world's most boring album

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In 1999, Prince licensed his 23rd album, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, to Arista Records. Davis's job was merely to market the record, but he struck up a friendship with the musician, taking him to see Basketball games, and joining him at concerts.

They talked about music a lot "but the subject that really fascinated him, in that electrifying mind of his, was legal stuff. 

"Stuff like, 'I don't believe in the compulsory licensing part of the copyright act,' or, 'I don't believe in sampling'. From everywhere he ever was, he called me once or twice a week for a long period of time to keep discussing this. 

"And eventually he said, 'I've never heard these issues articulated as well as you're articulating them. Let's record this. I think a tape of our dialogue on these subjects would be great'. 

"I said, 'I'm flattered. But you're the only one interested in this.'"

2) He sent back Bruce Springsteen's debut album

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After getting the go-ahead from Davis, Bruce Springsteen set off to record his debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ.

"We went in and we did the record and I sent it over to him… and he sent it back," recalls Springsteen in Soundtrack of our Lives. "He said, 'There's no singles on the record.'"

"Springsteen was a mature guy, even though he was young," says Davis of the incident. "He said, 'OK, if that's the way it works, let me go back and think about it.' 

"And he came back and said, 'That was a good call. I wrote Blinded By The Light and Spirit In The Night.'"

Both songs went on to become singles - and the documentary digs out archive footage of Davis reciting the lyrics in a promotional video that was sent to record distributors and radio stations in 1975.

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"I was shocked to see it," laughs Davis. "Why did I do it? I don't know. 

"But I had a few other artists - Tim Hart and Eric Andersen - who were all called 'the next Bob Dylan,' and that turned out to be the kiss of death. 

"I did not want Springsteen to be categorised as another Bob Dylan. I said, 'His imagery is so different from Dylan [so] I'm going to, into a camera, read the lyrics of every song on this Greetings From Asbury Park album, to show them this is a unique artist coming through.'"

3) He made Bridge Over Troubled Water a hit

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"I was so blown away by Bridge Over Troubled Water," says Davis of Simon & Garfunkel's best-loved composition. "I thought it was a landmark song."

Defying both the band and conventional wisdom, Davis decided the song should be the first single from the duo's fifth and final album.

"Simon and Garfunkel said, 'God, we thought he'd pick Cecelia. It's uptempo, it's the right length, it's an obvious candidate for Top 40 radio. Why has he come up with Bridge Over Troubled Water, which is much too long, a ballad?'"

"But to me it's one of the best songs ever written, and so I said I'd prefer to take on that. 

"That's why to this day Garfunkel will say, 'That's leadership. He knows enough to say, 'Hold on, I'm not going to formulise everything.'" 

4) He insisted on keeping Whitney's spine-tingling intro on I Will Always Love You

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"Whitney had an incredible gift and power as a performer," says Davis. "She was the greatest singer of her era."

The pair formed a creative collaboration when Whitney was just 19 years-old, and Davis helped her choose every song she recorded. 

And it's thanks to him that I Will Always Love You starts with 45 seconds of the star singing alone, unadorned and unaccompanied. 

"My radio promotion people all said, 'Cut that out - it's going to be tough,'" recalls Davis. "'Radio doesn't love a capella.'"

"That was another case, like Bridge Over Troubled Water, where it was too unique, it was too special. I said, 'Unless they force us, I want to fight it.'"

It wasn't just radio he had to fight... it was the song's producer, David Foster, who was unhappy that Davis chose to release his first demo of the song, rather than the polished version he submitted later on.

"He unleashed this string of obscenities," says Davis, "but he never came up with a version that was as pure. And so, faced with a decision, of choosing what to release to radio, I chose that first version. 

"And after one day of his invective, he called me literally on the second day, and said, 'Everyone is stopping off the highway. They cannot believe it. This is giving them goose pimples. You were right! Thank you!'"

5) He wants to work out how to break a major artist on streaming

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The explosion in streaming has helped the music industry return to growth after more than a decade of piracy and plummeting profits.

But although the industry has turned a corner, Davis is wary of streaming's impact on artists' longevity. 

"There's an awful lot of cherry-picking hit singles at the moment," he observes. "And the music that's being played is not creating opportunities for certain artists. Where will the next Aretha Franklin or Whitney Houston come from? 

"Big ballad artists are relegated to 'adult' playlists," which don't have the power to break new acts in the mainstream, he explains. A similar thing is happening on radio, where urban stations "are only playing hip-hop".

"So where will the next Luther Vandross come from? What's happening with the great Maxwell? 

"We have to be vigilant, within a healthy industry, to encourage more than one-hit wonders."

He says the success of Adele and Ed Sheeran shows "the principle of buying an album can survive". 

"So now that we're assured that we still have a business, we've got to make sure that artists who are signed today are still headlining in 40 years. 

"That's the goal. That'll always be the goal."

This ex-Pepsi CEO's 17th century Italian castle just underwent a $12 million renovation to become a state-of-the-art cooking school 

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If there's one thing Italians know how to do, it's cook — and now they can do it in one of the most stunning settings imaginable.

A majestic 17th century castle in the heart of southern Puglia, Italy has undergone an $11.7 million transformation to become an art culinary institute.

It's called the Puglia Culinary Centre, and it operates in partnership with The Culinary Institute of America.

Along with the state-of-the-art cooking school, the 4,500 square metre castle — which dates back to the Messapians in 8th century BC — now also houses a luxury boutique hotel, a contemporary art exhibition, an event space, and a museum.

In 1643 Castello di Ugento, named after the historical town of Ugento in which it is situated, was bought by the d’Amore family, and has been under their ownership ever since. The property is now owned by Massimo Fasanella d'Amore di Ruffano, an ex-CEO at Pepsi.

In the 1600s Nicola and Francesco d'Amore transformed what was then a military fort — sat at the top of a hill to protect the land and village below it — into a lavish palace.

It boasted elegant salons on the first floor and ceilings "soaring into the star-shaped vaults typical of Salentine architecture, decorated with a glorious mythological cycle of frescoes." But over the past 100 years the castle has slowly decayed.

Archaeologists, specialist restorers, and art historians were appointed in 2013 to "breathe new life into the dormant Castello" as well as improve its comfort, security, and technology all while respecting its ancient history.

Scroll down for a look at the incredible restoration of the castle that's home to over 1,000 years of history.

This is the Castello di Ugento, a property with over 1,000 years of history that has recently undergone a renovation to become a state-of-the-art cooking school, museum, and boutique hotel.

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Here, you can see the castle before its transformation. It's thought that it was built — and then rebuilt — during Roman times on Messapian remains.

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Its circular Angevin Tower dates back to the Normans, who controlled the region from 1059.

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Here's the Tower from the walled kitchen garden after its year-long restoration...

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...as well as the eastern view of the newly-revamped castle.

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The Puglia Culinary Centre sits in its own separate wing of the castle.

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The ancient Pugliese art of cooking will be taught by House Chef Odette Fada, in brand new, high-tech kitchens with separate bakery and pâtisserie areas.

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Students from the renowned Culinary Institute of America will come here to study Puglia’s gastronomy on a semester abroad from September to April.

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They will also learn about Puglia's local wines, with wine tasting and pairing in what used to be the underground cistern, originally built in the late 17th century. Hotel guests can also sign up for cookery classes where they will visit nearby markets to source fresh, seasonal ingredients every day.

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Castello di Ugento’s restaurant, Il Tempo Nuovo, celebrates local, seasonal cuisine, using recipes passed down through families over the centuries. You can eat in an antique paved courtyard, a vaulted room known as La Torre Scoperta...

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...or you can ask to sit at the Chef’s Table in the state-of-the-art open kitchen where you can watch your meal being prepared.

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It's pretty close to the action.

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The Puglia Culinary Centre will use fruit, vegetables, and herbs grown in the castle’s restored 18th-century kitchen garden.

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This was the orchard before the renovation.

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Now it includes lemon, orange, persimmon, figs, and almond trees laden with fruit, while raised beds are planted with fennel, basil, and fava beans during spring.

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In summer the crops include peppers, prunes, and peaches, in autumn there are cauliflowers, pomegranates, and persimmons to pick while in winter melons, tangerines, artichokes, and cabbages are in season.

Guests can enjoy sunset cocktails, relax with a book during the day, or take a botanical stroll with the head gardener to learn about its 100 aromatic and medicinal local plants.

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Guests can stay at one of the nine unique suites in the castle's luxury boutique hotel, or at the nearby restored farmhouse Masseria Le Mandorle, which has a pool, tennis court, and fruit garden.

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This is what one of the bedrooms looked like before.

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The frescoes in the grand salons on the first floor were commissioned by Francesco and Nicola d’Amore in 1694 to celebrate the family history...

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...and they have been restored to a remarkable scale.

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The original majestic staircase or “Scalone” leads up to the grand first floor salons.

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It's adorned with the d’Amore family coat of arms and intricate stucco work.

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The elegant first floor apartments now house the museum, which will host the work of Italian and international artists and photographers showcased against a glorious backdrop of golden stone.

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Here's what they looked like before...

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...and after.

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There's also an event space.

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Castello di Ugento was bought by the d’Amore family in 1643 and has been with them ever since.

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However, over the last 100 years the castle has slowly decayed.

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The property is owned by Massimo Fasanella d'Amore di Ruffano, an ex-CEO at Pepsi. He inherited a small area of it from his mother, and over the span of 20 years until 2008 acquired the rest of it from family members and third parties.

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Archaeologists, specialist restorers, and art historians were brought in to "breathe new life into the dormant Castello" as well as improve its comfort, security, and technology all while respecting its ancient history.

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• 539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon (Gregorian calendar)
• 456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
• 610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
• 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Stephen IV at Reims.
• 869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
• 1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
• 1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
• 1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1607 – Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.
• 1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
• 1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
• 1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
• 1813 – Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
• 1857 – The City of Anaheim, California is founded.
• 1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
• 1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had reportedly been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
• 1869 – During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed.
• 1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
• 1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
• 1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
• 1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
• 1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
• 1914 – World War I: First aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
• 1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
• 1921 – The 1921 World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
• 1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
• 1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
• 1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated; those who needed a passport for emigration purposes are given one marked with the letter "J" (for "Jude", or Jew).
• 1943 – Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
• 1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France.
• 1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
• 1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
• 1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
• 1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
• 1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
• 1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
• 1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
• 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
• 1970 – British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
• 1974 – Guildford pub bombings: Bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
• 1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
• 1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
• 1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
• 1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
• 1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
• 1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
• 2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
• 2001 – Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
• 2011 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.

Births[edit]

• 1274 – Al-Dhahabi, Syrian scholar and historian (d. 1348)
• 1338 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
• 1377 – Louis II of Naples (d. 1417)
• 1487 – Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German nobleman (d. 1553)
• 1520 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1589)
• 1524 – Rani Durgavati, Queen of Gond (d. 1564)
• 1609 – Paul Fleming, German physician and poet (d. 1640)
• 1641 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• 1658 – Mary of Modena (d. 1718)
• 1687 – Maria Maddalena Martinengo, Italian nun (d. 1737)
• 1695 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
• 1703 – Jonathan Edwards, American pastor and theologian (d. 1758)
• 1712 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
• 1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (d. 1784)
• 1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and educator (d. 1789)
• 1728 – Chevalier d'Éon, French diplomat and spy (d. 1810)
• 1743 – Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator (d. 1818)
• 1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
• 1792 – Joseph Crosfield, English businessman (d. 1844)
• 1795 – Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax (d. 1873)
• 1803 – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (d. 1844)
• 1816 – Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (d. 1885)
• 1820 – David Wilber, American lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
• 1824 – Henry Chadwick, English-American historian and author (d. 1908)
• 1829 – Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
• 1844 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
• 1848 – Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist and poet (d. 1919)
• 1850 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910)
• 1857 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish author and playwright (d. 1942)
• 1858 – Helen Churchill Candee, American journalist and author (d. 1949)
• 1864 – Louis Lumière, French director and producer (d. 1948)
• 1873 – Lucien Mérignac, French fencer (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1959)
• 1878 – Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (d. 1951)
• 1885 – Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (d. 1969)
• 1885 – Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1960)
• 1887 – René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Manny Ziener, German actress (d. 1972)
• 1888 – Mary Fuller, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1973)
• 1889 – Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author and educator (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (d. 1969)
• 1894 – Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (d. 1948)
• 1898 – Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
• 1899 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (d. 1961)
• 1901 – John Alton, Austrian-American director and cinematographer (d. 1996)
• 1902 – Larry Fine, American comedian (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Ray Kroc, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1984)
• 1903 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist and academic (d. 1989)
• 1905 – John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1907 – Mrs. Miller, American novelty singer (d. 1997)
• 1907 – Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (d. 1959)
• 1908 – Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1909 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player and soldier (d. 2011)
• 1911 – Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist and academic (d. 2011)
• 1911 – Brian O'Nolan, Irish author and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1912 – Fritz Fischer, German physician (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Eugene B. Fluckey American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (d. 2015)
• 1916 – Stetson Kennedy, American author and activist (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Allen Ludden, American television personality and game show host (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian author and poet (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Bill Willis, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Jim Godbolt, English historian and journalist (d. 2013)
• 1922 – José Froilán González, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Bil Keane, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
• 1923 – Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Stig Dagerman, Swedish journalist and author (d. 1954)
• 1923 – Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Glynis Johns, South African-born British actress and singer
• 1923 – Kailashpati Mishra, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Bill Dana, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
• 1924 – José Donoso, Chilean author (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Barbara Kelly, Canadian actress and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Frederic Morton, Austrian-American banker, journalist, and author (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1925 – Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter
• 1925 – Walter Dale Miller, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Avraham Adan, Israeli general (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator (d. 1979)
• 1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (d. 1974)
• 1929 – Richard F. Gordon Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1929 – Bill Wirtz, American businessman (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
• 1931 – Rosalie Gower, Canadian nurse and politician (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and author
• 1932 – Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1932 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist and police officer (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Doug Bailey, American political consultant, founded The Hotline (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Billy Lee Riley, American rockabilly musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Carlo Mastrangelo, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts) (d. 2016)
• 1937 – Barry Switzer, American football player and coach
• 1938 – Johnny Duncan, American country singer (d. 2006)
• 1938 – Teresa Heinz, Mozambican-American businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian author and playwright
• 1939 – A. R. Penck, German painter and sculptor
• 1939 – Walter Wolf, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Walter Wolf Racing
• 1939 – Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino lawyer and jurist
• 1940 – Rein Aun, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1995)
• 1940 – John Byrne Cooke, American author and photographer
• 1940 – Bob Cowper, Australian cricketer
• 1941 – Roy Book Binder, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 – Stephanie Cole, English actress
• 1941 – Eduardo Duhalde, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 50th President of Argentina
• 1942 – Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Ben Cardin, American lawyer and politician
• 1943 – Steve Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Michael Morpurgo, English author, poet, and playwright
• 1944 – Richard Rosser, Baron Rosser, English union leader and politician
• 1945 – Brian Connolly, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1945 – Geoff Leigh, English saxophonist and flute player
• 1946 – Zahida Hina, Pakistani journalist and author
• 1946 – Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
• 1946 – Heather MacRae, American actress
• 1946 – Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1946 – David Watson, English footballer
• 1947 – Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Michèle Pierre-Louis, Haitian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1948 – Carter Cornelius, American singer (d. 1991)
• 1948 – Russell Mael, American vocalist
• 1948 – Tawl Ross, American guitarist
• 1948 – Zoran Živković, Serbian author and academic
• 1949 – Peter Ackroyd, English biographer, novelist and critic
• 1949 – Ralph Goodale, Canadian lawyer and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Finance
• 1949 – Bill James, American historian and author
• 1949 – B. W. Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1988)
• 1949 – Yashiki Takajin, Japanese singer and television host (d. 2014)
• 1950 – "Fast" Eddie Clarke, English rock guitarist
• 1950 – Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (d. 2011)
• 1950 – Edward P. Jones, American novelist and short story writer
• 1950 – James Rizzi, American painter and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Karen Allen, American actress
• 1951 – Bob Geldof, Irish singer-songwriter and actor
• 1952 – Clive Barker, English author, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Harold Faltermeyer, German keyboard player, composer, and producer
• 1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician
• 1953 – Philip Hampton, English-Scottish accountant and businessman
• 1953 – Roy Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player
• 1955 – John Alexander, English footballer
• 1955 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, English academic and businessman
• 1957 – Mark Geragos, American lawyer
• 1957 – Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist
• 1957 – Bernie Mac, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1958 – André Kuipers, Dutch physician and astronaut
• 1958 – Neil Peart, Australian footballer
• 1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
• 1959 – Maya Lin, American architect and sculptor, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Civil Rights Memorial
• 1959 – Kelly Joe Phelps, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 – David Shannon, American author and illustrator
• 1959 – Kenan İpek, Turkish lawyer and judge
• 1960 – Careca, Brazilian footballer
• 1960 – Daniel Baldwin, American actor, director, and producer
• 1960 – David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1961 – Pato Banton, English singer-songwriter
• 1961 – David Bryson American guitarist and singer-songwriter (Counting Crows)
• 1961 – Sharon Cheslow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 – Michael Andretti, American race car driver
• 1962 – Thomas Herbst, German footballer and manager
• 1962 – Caron Keating, British television host (d. 2004)
• 1963 – Laura Davies, English golfer and sportscaster
• 1963 – Tony Dodemaide, Australian cricketer
• 1963 – Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater
• 1963 – Nick Robinson, English journalist and blogger
• 1964 – Dave Dederer, American guitarist and singer
• 1964 – Philip A. Haigh, English historian and author
• 1964 – Malik Saidullaev, Russian businessman
• 1964 – Korina Sanchez, Filipino journalist
• 1965 – Trace Armstrong, American football player and agent
• 1965 – Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Dennis Byrd, American football player
• 1966 – Sean M. Carroll, American physicist, cosmologist, and academic
• 1966 – Terri Runnels, American wrestler and manager
• 1966 – Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker player and referee
• 1967 – Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Guy Pearce, English-Australian actor
• 1967 – Dorian West, Welsh-English rugby player
• 1970 – Josie Bissett, American actress
• 1970 – Matthew Knights, Australian footballer and coach
• 1970 – Audie Pitre, American singer and bass player (d. 1997)
• 1970 – Tord Gustavsen, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1970 – Cal Wilson, New Zealand comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Tonia Antoniazzi, British politician
• 1971 – Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1972 – Annely Akkermann, Estonian banker and politician
• 1972 – Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball player
• 1972 – Grant Hill, American basketball player and actor
• 1972 – Thomas Roberts, American journalist and actor
• 1973 – Cédric Villani, French mathematician and academic
• 1974 – Rich Franklin, American mixed martial artist and actor
• 1974 – Colin Meloy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Anousjka van Exel, Dutch tennis player
• 1975 – Bobo Baldé, French-Guinean footballer
• 1975 – Carson Ellis, American painter and illustrator
• 1975 – Parminder Nagra, English actress
• 1975 – Monica Rial American voice actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Kate Winslet, English actress
• 1976 – Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic
• 1976 – Royston Tan, Singaporean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 – J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
• 1977 – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic author, illustrator, and critic
• 1977 – Vinnie Paz, Italian-American rapper and producer
• 1978 – Mark Gower, English footballer
• 1978 – Jesse Palmer, Canadian football player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Shane Ryan, Irish footballer and hurler
• 1978 – James Valentine, American guitarist
• 1978 – Steinar Nickelsen, Norwegian organist and composer
• 1978 – Morgan Webb, Canadian-American television host and producer
• 1979 – Vince Grella, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Paul Thomas, American bass player
• 1980 – James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
• 1981 – Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer
• 1981 – Andy Nägelein, German footballer
• 1982 – Michael Roos, Estonian-American football player
• 1982 – Steve Williams, Australian-German rugby player
• 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg, American actor and writer
• 1983 – Florian Mayer, German tennis player
• 1983 – Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1984 – Naima Adedapo, American singer and dancer
• 1984 – Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
• 1985 – Nicola Roberts, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1986 – Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
• 1987 – Dillon Francis, American DJ and record producer
• 1987 – Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Tim Ream, American soccer player
• 1987 – Park So-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
• 1987 – Javier Villa, Spanish race car driver
• 1987 – Luigi Vitale, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Benny Howell, English cricketer
• 1988 – Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Kevin Olusola, American musician, beatboxer, singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer (Pentatonix)
• 1988 – Maja Salvador, Filipino actress, dancer, singer, and host
• 1989 – Kelsey Adrian, Canadian basketball player
• 1989 – Marcel Baude, German footballer
• 1989 – Ify Ibekwe, American basketball player
• 1990 – Nathan Peats, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 – Jayden Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player

Deaths[edit]

• 578 – Justin II, Byzantine emperor (b. 520)
• 610 – Phocas, Byzantine emperor
• 1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
• 1111 – Robert II, Count of Flanders (b. 1065)
• 1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian, and author (b. 1030)
• 1214 – Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
• 1225 – Al-Nasir, Abbasid caliph in Baghdad
• 1285 – Philip III of France (b. 1245)
• 1398 – Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France (b. 1333)
• 1399 – Raymond of Capua, Italian Dominican friar and venerated Christian (b. 1330)
• 1524 – Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter (b. c. 1480)
• 1528 – Richard Foxe, English bishop and academic (b. 1448)
• 1540 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet and educator (b. 1488)
• 1564 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1510)
• 1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1522)
• 1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet and author (b. 1546)
• 1629 – Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (b. 1569)
• 1714 – Kaibara Ekken, Japanese botanist and philosopher (b. 1630)
• 1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
• 1805 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1738)
• 1813 – Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
• 1848 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1895 – Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 – Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 – Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 – Roland Georges Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 – John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
• 1927 – Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)
• 1929 – Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (b. 1876)
• 1930 – Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Air (b. 1875)
• 1933 – Renée Adorée, French-American actress (b. 1898)
• 1933 – Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
• 1936 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author (b. 1898)
• 1938 – Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun and saint (b. 1905)
• 1938 – Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (b. 1858)
• 1940 – Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded the Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
• 1940 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American rancher and politician (b. 1859)
• 1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
• 1941 – Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1856)
• 1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (b. 1861)
• 1943 – Leon Roppolo, American clarinet player and composer (b. 1902)
• 1950 – Frederic Lewy, German-American neurologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1952 – Joe Jagersberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1884)
• 1976 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1983 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (b. 1907)
• 1985 – Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Mike Burgmann, Australian race car driver and accountant (b. 1947)
• 1986 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
• 1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2000 – Johanna Döbereiner, Brazilian agronomist (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
• 2001 – Mike Mansfield, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1903)
• 2002 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Dan Snyder, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1978)
• 2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist, director, and producer (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biologist and academic (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Antonio Peña, Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (b. 1953)
• 2009 – Mike Alexander, English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1977)
• 2010 – Bernard Clavel, French journalist and author (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Mary Leona Gage, American model and actress, Miss USA 1957 (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Steve Lee, Swiss singer-songwriter (b. 1963)
• 2011 – Derrick Bell, American academic and scholar (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar (b. 1955)
• 2011 – Charles Napier, American actor and singer (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Gökşin Sipahioğlu, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Keith Campbell, English biologist and academic (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Vojin Dimitrijević, Croatian-Serbian lawyer and activist (b. 1932)
• 2012 – James W. Holley, III, American dentist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Edvard Mirzoyan, Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Claude Pinoteau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and academic (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Yakkun Sakurazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer (b. 1976)
• 2014 – David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Joker Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright (b. 1948)
• 2016 – Brock Yates, American journalist and author (b. 1933)