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Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1908 – SMS Blücher , the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy , is launched.1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.[12] 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan .1935 – Stresa Front : Opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald , the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles .[13] 1945 – World War II : American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp .[14] 1951 – Korean War : President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.1951 – The Stone of Scone , the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey . It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey . 1952 – Bolivian National Revolution : Rebels take over Palacio Quemado .[15] 1952 – Pan Am Flight 526A ditches near San Juan-Isla Grande Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico , after experiencing an engine failure, killing 52 people.[16] 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang .1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule .1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem .1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris 1964 – Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress .1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 : Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.[17] 1968 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 , prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.1968 – A failed assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke , leader of the German student movement , leaves Dutschke suffering from brain damage.[18] 1970 – Apollo Program : Apollo 13 is launched.1976 – The Apple I is created.[19] 1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed .1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London , results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.1982 – American-Israeli reservist Alan Harry Goodman carries out a mass shooting at the Dome of the Rock , killing two Palestinians and injuring at least seven others.[20] 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout : A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida, between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan are killed, while five other agents are wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan .1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough , England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq .1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio , and would continue to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions , as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis ) against their religious beliefs.1993 – Guillem Agulló , pro-Catalan independence and anti-fascist Valencian young activist, is assassinated by a group of Spanish nationalists and neo-nazis in Montanejos .[21] 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan , China, after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.2001 – The Australia national men's soccer team sets a world record for the largest victory in an international association football match, winning the game 31–0 against American Samoa at the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers for OFC . Australia's Archie Thompson also breaks the record for most goals scored by a player in an international match by scoring 13 goals.[22] 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia .2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chávez . Nineteen protesters are killed. 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran 's claim to have successfully enriched uranium .[23] 2007 – Algiers bombings : Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.2008 – Kata Air Transport Flight 007 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Chișinău International Airport , killing eight.[24] 2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro , Belarus, kills 15 people and injures 204 others.2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia . The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong ). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias .2017 – The tour bus of the German football team Borussia Dortmund is attacked with roadside bombs in Dortmund , Germany. Three bombs exploded as the bus ferried the team to the Westfalenstadion for the first leg of their quarter-final against Monaco .2018 – An Ilyushin Il-76 owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik , Algeria, killing 257.2021 – Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota , by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer mistakes her pistol for her taser.[25] 2023 – During the Pazigyi massacre , an airstrike conducted by the Myanmar Air Force kills at least 100 villagers in Pazigyi , Sagaing Region .[26] Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1644 – Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours , Duchess of Savoy (died 1724)1658 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish peer (died 1712)1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret , French composer and conductor (died 1738)1715 – John Alcock , English organist and composer (died 1806)1721 – David Zeisberger , Czech-American clergyman and missionary (died 1808)1722 – Christopher Smart , English actor, playwright, and poet (died 1771)1749 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard , French miniaturist and portrait painter (died 1803)[30] 1755 – James Parkinson , English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (died 1824)1770 – George Canning , Irish-English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1827)1794 – Edward Everett , English-American educator and politician, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1865)1798 – Macedonio Melloni , Italian physicist and academic (died 1854)1819 – Charles Hallé , German-English pianist and conductor (died 1895)1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle , German philosopher and jurist (died 1864)1827 – Jyotirao Phule , Indian scholar, philosopher, and activist (died 1890)1830 – John Douglas , English architect (died 1911)[31] 1837 – Elmer E. Ellsworth , American army officer and law clerk (died 1861)[32] 1854 – Hugh Massie , Australian cricketer (died 1938)1856 – Arthur Shrewsbury , English cricketer and rugby player (died 1903)1859 – Stefanos Thomopoulos , Greek historian and author (died 1939)1862 – William Wallace Campbell , American astronomer and academic (died 1938)1862 – Charles Evans Hughes , American lawyer and politician, 44th United States Secretary of State (died 1948) 1864 – Johanna Elberskirchen , German author and activist (died 1943)1866 – Bernard O'Dowd , Australian journalist, author, and poet (died 1953)1867 – Mark Keppel , American educator (died 1928)1869 – Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (died 1943)1871 – Gyula Kellner , Hungarian runner (died 1940)1872 – Aleksandër Stavre Drenova , Albanian poet, rilindas and author of national anthem of Albania (died 1947)[33] 1873 – Edward Lawson , English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1955)1876 – Paul Henry , Irish painter (died 1958)1876 – Ivane Javakhishvili , Georgian historian and academic (died 1940) 1878 – Percy Lane Oliver , British pioneer of volunteer blood donation (died 1944)[34] 1879 – Bernhard Schmidt , Estonian-German astronomer and optician (died 1935)1887 – Jamini Roy , Indian painter (died 1972)1893 – Dean Acheson , American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (died 1971)1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers , Canadian journalist and author (died 1967)1899 – Percy Lavon Julian , African-American chemist and academic (died 1975)1900 – Sándor Márai , Hungarian journalist and author (died 1989)1901–present
1903 – Misuzu Kaneko , Japanese poet (died 1930)1904 – K. L. Saigal , Indian singer and actor (died 1947)1905 – Attila József , Hungarian poet and educator (died 1937)1906 – Dale Messick , American author and illustrator (died 2005)1907 – Paul Douglas , American actor (died 1959)1908 – Jane Bolin , American lawyer and judge (died 2007)1908 – Masaru Ibuka , Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (died 1997)[35] 1908 – Dan Maskell , English tennis player and sportscaster (died 1992) 1908 – Leo Rosten , Polish-American author and academic (died 1997) 1910 – António de Spínola , Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (died 1996)1912 – John Levy , American bassist and businessman (died 2012)1913 – Oleg Cassini , French-American fashion designer (died 2006)1914 – Norman McLaren , Scottish-Canadian animator, director, and producer (died 1987)1914 – Robert Stanfield , Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2003) 1914 – Dorothy Lewis Bernstein , American mathematician (died 1988)[36] 1916 – Alberto Ginastera , Argentinian pianist and composer (died 1983)[37] 1916 – Howard W. Koch , American director and producer (died 2001) 1917 – David Westheimer , American soldier, journalist, and author (died 2005)[38] [better source needed] 1918 – Richard Wainwright , English soldier and politician (died 2003)1919 – Raymond Carr , English historian and academic (died 2015)1920 – Emilio Colombo , Italian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (died 2013)[39] 1920 – William Royer , American soldier and politician (died 2013) 1921 – Jim Hearn , American baseball player (died 1998)1921 – Jack Rayner , Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2008) 1922 – Arved Viirlaid , Estonian-Canadian soldier and author (died 2015)1923 – George J. Maloof, Sr. , American businessman (died 1980)1924 – Mohammad Naseem , Pakistani-English activist and politician (died 2014)1925 – Yuriy Lituyev , Russian hurdler and commander (died 2000)1925 – Viola Liuzzo , American civil rights activist (died 1965) 1925 – Viktor Masing , Estonian botanist and ecologist (died 2001) 1925 – Pierre Péladeau , Canadian businessman, founded Quebecor (died 1997) 1926 – David Manker Abshire , American commander and diplomat, United States Permanent Representative to NATO (died 2014)[40] 1926 – Victor Bouchard , Canadian pianist and composer (died 2011) 1926 – Karl Rebane , Estonian physicist and academic (died 2007) 1927 – Lokesh Chandra , Indian historian1928 – Ethel Kennedy , American philanthropist (died 2024)[41] 1928 – Edwin Pope , American journalist and author (died 2017) 1928 – Tommy Tycho , Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2013) 1930 – Nicholas F. Brady , American businessman and politician, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury 1930 – Walter Krüger , German javelin thrower (died 2018) 1930 – Anton LaVey , American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (died 1997)[42] 1931 – Lewis Jones , Welsh rugby player and coach (died 2024)1932 – Joel Grey , American actor, singer, and dancer1933 – Tony Brown , American journalist and academic1934 – Mark Strand , Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (died 2014)1934 – Ron Pember , English actor, director and playwright (died 2022) 1935 – Richard Berry , American singer-songwriter (died 1997)1936 – Brian Noble , English bishop (died 2019)1937 – Jill Gascoine , English actress and author (died 2020)1938 – Gerry Baker , American soccer player and manager (died 2013)1938 – Michael Deaver , American politician, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (died 2007) 1938 – Reatha King , American chemist and businesswoman[43] 1939 – Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson , American singer and guitarist (died 2022)1939 – Louise Lasser , American actress 1940 – Col Firmin , Australian politician (died 2013)1940 – Władysław Komar , Polish shot putter and actor (died 1998) 1941 – Ellen Goodman , American journalist and author1941 – Shirley Stelfox , English actress (died 2015)[44] 1942 – Anatoly Berezovoy , Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2014)1942 – Hattie Gossett , American writer[45] 1942 – James Underwood , English pathologist and academic 1943 – John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich , English businessman and politician1943 – Harley Race , American wrestler and trainer (died 2019) 1944 – Peter Barfuß , German footballer1944 – John Milius , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1945 – John Krebs, Baron Krebs , English zoologist and academic1946 – Chris Burden , American sculptor, illustrator, and academic (died 2015)1946 – Bob Harris , English journalist and radio host 1947 – Lev Bulat , Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (died 2016)1947 – Uli Edel , German director and screenwriter 1947 – Frank Mantooth , American pianist and composer (died 2004) 1947 – Peter Riegert , American actor, screenwriter and film director 1947 – Michael T. Wright , English engineer and academic (died 2015) 1949 – Dorothy Allison , American writer (died 2024)[46] 1949 – Bernd Eichinger , German director and producer (died 2011) 1950 – Bill Irwin , American actor and clown 1951 – Paul Fox , English singer and guitarist (died 2007)1952 – Nancy Honeytree , American singer and guitarist1952 – Indira Samarasekera , Sri Lankan engineer and academic 1952 – Peter Windsor , English-Australian journalist and sportscaster 1953 – Guy Verhofstadt , Belgian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium 1953 – Andrew Wiles , English mathematician and academic 1954 – Abdullah Atalar , Turkish engineer and academic1954 – Aleksandr Averin , Azerbaijani cyclist and coach 1954 – Francis Lickerish , English guitarist and composer 1954 – David Perrett , Scottish psychologist and academic 1954 – Ian Redmond , English biologist and conservationist 1954 – Willie Royster , American baseball player (died 2015) 1955 – Kevin Brady , American lawyer and politician1955 – Michael Callen , American singer-songwriter and AIDS activist (died 1993) 1955 – Micheal Ray Richardson , American basketball player and coach (died 2025) 1957 – Tessa Dahl [47] Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal 1958 – Stuart Adamson , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)1958 – Lyudmila Kondratyeva , Russian sprinter 1958 – Wayne Wigham , Australian rugby league player[48] 1959 – Pierre Lacroix , Canadian ice hockey player1959 – Ana María Polo , Cuban-American lawyer and judge 1959 – Zahid Maleque , Bangladeshi politician 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson , English journalist and television presenter1961 – Vincent Gallo , American actor, director, producer, and musician1961 – Doug Hopkins , American guitarist and songwriter (died 1993) 1961 – Nobuaki Kakuda , Japanese martial artist 1962 – Franck Ducheix , French fencer1962 – Mark Lawson , English journalist and author 1963 – Billy Bowden , New Zealand cricketer and umpire1963 – Waldemar Fornalik , Polish footballer and manager 1963 – Elizabeth Smylie , Australian tennis player 1963 – Eleni Tsaligopoulou , Greek singer[49] 1964 – Steve Azar , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1964 – John Cryer , English journalist and politician 1964 – Johann Sebastian Paetsch , American cellist 1964 – Bret Saberhagen , American baseball player and coach 1964 – Patrick Sang , Kenyan runner 1966 – Steve Scarsone , American baseball player and manager1966 – Shin Seung-hun , South Korean singer-songwriter 1966 – Lisa Stansfield , English singer-songwriter and actress 1968 – Sergei Lukyanenko , Kazakh-Russian journalist and author1969 – Cerys Matthews , Welsh singer-songwriter[50] 1969 – Dustin Rhodes , American wrestler[51] 1969 – Michael von Grünigen , Swiss skier 1970 – Trevor Linden , Canadian ice hockey player and manager1970 – Whigfield , Danish singer and songwriter[52] 1971 – Oliver Riedel , German bass player[53] 1972 – Balls Mahoney , American wrestler (died 2016)[54] 1972 – Allan Théo , French singer 1972 – Jason Varitek , American baseball player and manager 1973 – Olivier Magne , French rugby player1973 – Jennifer Esposito , American actress and writer[55] 1974 – Àlex Corretja , Spanish tennis player and coach1974 – Ashot Danielyan , Armenian weightlifter 1974 – David Jassy , Swedish singer-songwriter and producer 1974 – Tom Thacker , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1974 – Trot Nixon , American baseball player and sportscaster 1976 – Marta Breen , Norwegian journalist, non-fiction writer, and organizational leader[56] 1976 – Kelvim Escobar , Venezuelan baseball player 1976 – Kotomitsuki Keiji , Japanese sumo wrestler[57] 1977 – Ivonne Teichmann , German runner1979 – Malcolm Christie , English footballer1979 – Sebastien Grainger , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1979 – Michel Riesen , Swiss ice hockey player 1980 – Keiji Tamada , Japanese footballer1980 – Mark Teixeira , American baseball player 1981 – Alessandra Ambrosio , Brazilian model[citation needed] 1981 – Alexandre Burrows , Canadian ice hockey player 1981 – Luis Flores , Dominican basketball player[58] 1981 – Veronica Pyke , Australian cricketer 1982 – Ian Bell , English cricketer[citation needed] 1982 – Peeter Kümmel , Estonian skier 1983 – Jennifer Heil , Canadian skier1983 – Rubén Palazuelos , Spanish footballer 1984 – Kelli Garner , American actress1984 – Nikola Karabatić , French handball player 1985 – Pablo Hernández Domínguez , Spanish footballer1986 – Sarodj Bertin , Haitian model and human rights lawyer[59] 1986 – Lena Schöneborn , German pentathlete 1987 – Joss Stone , English singer-songwriter and actress[citation needed] 1987 – Lights , Canadian singer-songwriter[citation needed] 1988 – Milton Casco , Argentine footballer[60] 1988 – Leland Irving , Canadian ice hockey player 1989 – Torrin Lawrence , American sprinter (died 2014) 1990 – Dimitrios Anastasopoulos , Greek footballer1990 – Thulani Serero , South African footballer 1991 – Thiago Alcântara , Spanish footballer1991 – Cédric Bakambu , Congolese footballer[61] 1991 – Brennan Poole , American racing driver[62] 1992 – Sinem Dybvad Demir , Danish politician[63] 1993 – Florin Andone , Romanian footballer[64] 1994 – Brandon Montour , Canadian ice hockey player[65] 1996 – Dele Alli , English international footballer[66] 1996 – Summer Walker , American singer-songwriter[67] 2000 – Calen Addison , Canadian ice hockey player[68] 2000 – Milly Alcock , Australian actress[69] 2000 – Loïc Badé , French footballer[70] 2000 – Ken Carson , American rapper and record producer[71] 2000 – Karina , South Korean singer[72] 2001 – Manuel Ugarte , Uruguayan footballer[73] 2002 – Jake Fraser-McGurk , Australian cricketer[74] 2005 – Jack Hinshelwood , English footballer[75] 2005 – Danielle Marsh , South Korean-Australian singer[76] 2014 – Arabella Stanton , British actress, plays Hermione Granger [77] Deaths
Pre-1600
618 – Yang Guang , Chinese emperor of the Sui Dynasty (born 569)678 – Donus , pope of the Catholic Church (born 610)924 – Herman I , chancellor and archbishop of Cologne1034 – Romanos III Argyros , Byzantine emperor (born 968)1077 – Anawrahta , king of Burma and founder of the Pagan Empire (born 1014)1079 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów , bishop of Kraków (born 1030)1165 – Stephen IV , king of Hungary and Croatia[78] 1240 – Llywelyn the Great , Welsh prince (born 1172)[79] 1349 – Ramadan ibn Alauddin , first known Muslim from Korea[80] 1447 – Henry Beaufort , Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1377)1512 – Gaston de Foix , French military commander (born 1489)1554 – Thomas Wyatt the Younger , English rebel leader (born 1521)[81] 1587 – Thomas Bromley , English lord chancellor (born 1530)1601–1900
1609 – John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley , English noble (born 1533)1612 – Emanuel van Meteren , Flemish historian and author (born 1535)[82] 1612 – Edward Wightman , English minister and martyr (born 1566) 1626 – Marino Ghetaldi , Ragusan mathematician and physicist (born 1568)[citation needed] 1712 – Richard Simon , French priest and critic (born 1638)[83] 1723 – John Robinson , English bishop and diplomat (born 1650)[84] 1783 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin , Polish-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1718)1798 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler , German poet and academic (born 1725)1856 – Juan Santamaría , Costa Rican soldier (born 1831)1861 – Francisco González Bocanegra , Mexican poet and composer (born 1824)1870 – Justo José de Urquiza , Argentine general, politician and first constitutional president of Argentina (born 1801)[85] 1873 – Edward Canby , American general (born 1817)1890 – David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo , Dutch Talmudist (born 1808)1890 – Joseph Merrick , English man with severe deformities (born 1862)[86] 1894 – Constantin Lipsius , German architect and theorist (born 1832)1895 – Julius Lothar Meyer , German chemist (born 1830)1901–present
1902 – Wade Hampton III , Confederate general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (born 1818)[87] 1903 – Gemma Galgani , Italian mystic and saint (born 1878)1906 – James Anthony Bailey , American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (born 1847)1906 – Francis Pharcellus Church , American journalist and publisher, co-founded Armed Forces Journal The Galaxy Magazine 1908 – Henry Bird , English chess player and author (born 1829)1916 – Richard Harding Davis , American journalist and author (born 1864)1918 – Otto Wagner , Austrian architect and urban planner (born 1841)1926 – Luther Burbank , American botanist and academic (born 1849)1939 – Kurtdereli Mehmet , Turkish wrestler (born 1864)1953 – Kid Nichols , American baseball player and manager (born 1869)1954 – Paul Specht , American violinist and bandleader (born 1895)1958 – Konstantin Yuon , Russian painter and educator (born 1875)1960 – Rosa Grünberg , Swedish actress (born 1878)1962 – Ukichiro Nakaya , Japanese physicist and academic (born 1900)1962 – George Poage , American hurdler and educator (born 1880) 1962 – Axel Revold , Norwegian painter (born 1887)[88] 1967 – Thomas Farrell , American general (born 1891)1967 – Donald Sangster , Jamaican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (born 1911) 1970 – Cathy O'Donnell , American actress (born 1923)1970 – John O'Hara , American novelist and short story writer (born 1905) 1974 – Ernst Ziegler , German actor (born 1894)1977 – Jacques Prévert , French poet and screenwriter (born 1900)1977 – Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' , Indian author and activist (born 1921) 1980 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu , Turkish journalist and producer (born 1935)1981 – Caroline Gordon , American author and critic (born 1895)1983 – Dolores del Río , Mexican actress (born 1904)[89] 1984 – Edgar V. Saks , Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (born 1910)1985 – Bunny Ahearne , Irish-born English businessman (born 1900)1985 – John Gilroy , English artist and illustrator (born 1898) 1985 – Enver Hoxha , Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (born 1908) 1987 – Erskine Caldwell , American novelist and short story writer (born 1903)1987 – Primo Levi , Italian chemist and author (born 1919) 1990 – Harold Ballard , Canadian businessman (born 1903)1991 – Walker Cooper , American baseball player and manager (born 1915)1991 – Bruno Hoffmann . German glass harp player (born 1913) 1992 – James Brown , American actor and singer (born 1920)1992 – Eve Merriam , American author and poet (born 1916) 1992 – Alejandro Obregón , Colombian painter, sculptor, and engraver (born 1920) 1996 – Jessica Dubroff , American pilot (born 1988)1997 – Muriel McQueen Fergusson , Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (born 1899)1997 – Wang Xiaobo , contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist (born 1952) 1999 – William H. Armstrong , American author and educator (born 1911)2000 – Diana Darvey , English actress, singer and dancer (born 1945)2001 – Harry Secombe , Welsh-English actor (born 1921)2003 – Cecil Howard Green , English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (born 1900)2005 – André François , Romanian-French cartoonist, painter, and sculptor (born 1915)2005 – Lucien Laurent , French footballer and coach (born 1907) 2006 – June Pointer , American singer (born 1953)2006 – DeShaun Holton , American rapper and actor (born 1973) 2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne , American actor and director (born 1922)2007 – Loïc Leferme , French diver (born 1970) 2007 – Janet McDonald , American lawyer and author (born 1954) 2007 – Ronald Speirs , Scottish-American colonel (born 1920) 2007 – Kurt Vonnegut , American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1922)[90] 2008 – Merlin German , American sergeant (born 1985)2009 – Gerda Gilboe , Danish actress and singer (born 1914)2009 – Vishnu Prabhakar , Indian author and playwright (born 1912) 2009 – Corín Tellado , Spanish author (born 1927) 2010 – Julia Tsenova , Bulgarian pianist and composer (born 1948)2011 – Larry Sweeney , American wrestler and manager (born 1981)2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella , Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (born 1916)2012 – Roger Caron , Canadian criminal and author (born 1938) 2012 – Tippy Dye , American basketball player and coach (born 1915) 2012 – Hal McKusick , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player (born 1924) 2012 – Agustin Roman , American bishop (born 1928) 2013 – Don Blackman , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1953)2013 – Sue Draheim , American fiddler (born1949)[91] 2013 – Grady Hatton , American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1922) 2013 – Thomas Hemsley , English actor and singer (born 1927) 2013 – Hilary Koprowski , Polish-American virologist and immunologist (born 1916) 2013 – Gilles Marchal , French singer-songwriter (born 1944) 2013 – Maria Tallchief , American ballerina (born 1925) 2013 – Clorindo Testa , Italian-Argentinian architect (born 1923) 2013 – Jonathan Winters , American comedian, actor and screenwriter (born 1925) 2014 – Rolf Brem , Swiss sculptor and illustrator (born 1926)2014 – Edna Doré , English actress (born 1921) 2014 – Bill Henry , American baseball player (born 1927) 2014 – Lou Hudson , American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1944) 2014 – Myer S. Kripke , American rabbi and scholar (born 1914) 2014 – Sergey Nepobedimy , Russian engineer (born 1921) 2014 – Jesse Winchester , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1944) 2015 – Jimmy Gunn , American football player (born 1948)2015 – Muhammad Kamaruzzaman , Bangladeshi journalist and politician (born 1952) 2015 – François Maspero , French journalist and author (born 1932) 2015 – Hanut Singh , Indian general (born 1933) 2015 – Tekena Tamuno , Nigerian historian and academic (born 1932) 2017 – J. Geils , American singer and guitarist (born 1946)2017 – Mark Wainberg , Canadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (born 1945) 2020 – John Horton Conway , English mathematician (born 1937)[92] 2021 – Mauro Viale , Argentine journalist (born 1947)[93] 2024 – Park Bo-ram , South Korean singer (born 1994)[94] 2025 – Mike Berry , British singer and actor (born 1942)[95] 2026 – Phil Garner , American baseball player and manager (born 1949)[96] Holidays and observances
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