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Day of the year
September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 106 days remain until the end of the year.
Pre-1600 [ edit ] 1601–1900 [ edit ] 1620 – A determined band of 35 religious dissenters - Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower [1] 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart , sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.1732 – In Campo Maior, Portugal , a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.1776 – American Revolutionary War : The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.1810 – With the Grito de Dolores ,Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain .1863 – Robert College , in Istanbul , the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert , an American philanthropist.1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York . The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma .1901–present [ edit ] 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.1914 – World War I : The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.1920 – The Wall Street bombing : A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.1940 – World War II : Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani .1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno .1945 – World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.1955 – A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile .
1956 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914 , is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther . Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury .1961 – Typhoon Nancy , with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka , Japan, killing 173 people.
1961 – Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya , Singapore , North Borneo (Sabah ) and Sarawak . However, Singapore is soon expelled from this new country.1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization , the conflict came to be known as Black September .1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.1975 – Cape Verde , Mozambique , and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
1975 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.1978 – The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas , Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ). At least 15,000 people are killed.1979 – Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.1982 – Lebanon War : The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion .1990 – The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk , adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge .1992 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.1992 – Black Wednesday : The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane .2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.2007 – Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.2019 – Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash , an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market .2021 – A 6.0 Mw earthquake struck Lu County, China's southwestern province of Sichuan, killing three and injuring more than 88.[2] Pre-1600 [ edit ] 1601–1900 [ edit ] 1615 – Heinrich Bach , German organist and composer (d. 1692)1625 – Gregorio Barbarigo , Roman Catholic saint (d. 1697)1651 – Engelbert Kaempfer , German physician and botanist (d. 1716)1666 – Antoine Parent , French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716)1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke , English philosopher and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1751)1716 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli , Italian tenor and actor (d. 1798)1722 – Gabriel Christie , Scottish-Canadian general (d. 1799)1725 – Nicolas Desmarest , French geologist, zoologist, and author (d. 1815)1745 – Mikhail Kutuzov , Russian field marshal (d. 1813)[6] 1777 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild , German-English banker and financier (d. 1836)1782 – Daoguang Emperor of China (d. 1850)1812 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint , Dutch novelist (d. 1886)[7] 1823 – Francis Parkman , American historian and author (d. 1893)1823 – Ludwik Teichmann , Polish anatomist (d. 1895)[8]
1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry , French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1908)1828 – Per Pålsson , Swedish murderer (d. 1914)1830 – Patrick Francis Moran , Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)1837 – Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)1838 – James J. Hill , Canadian-American railroad executive (d. 1916)1844 – Paul Taffanel , French flute player and conductor (d. 1908)1846 – Anna Kingsford , English author, poet, and activist (d. 1888)1853 – Albrecht Kossel , German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)1858 – Edward Marshall Hall , English lawyer and politician (d. 1927)1858 – Bonar Law , Canadian-Scottish banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
1859 – Yuan Shikai , Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1916)1861 – Miriam Benjamin , African-American educator and inventor (d. 1947)1866 – Georg Voigt , German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1927)1870 – John Pius Boland , Irish tennis player and politician (d. 1958)1875 – James Cash Penney , American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (d. 1971)1876 – Marvin Hart , American boxer (d. 1931)1877 – Jacob Schick , American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (d. 1937)1878 – Karl Albiker , German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (d. 1961)1880 – Clara Ayres , American nurse (d. 1917)1880 – Alfred Noyes , English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1958)
1881 – Clive Bell , English philosopher and critic (d. 1964)1883 – T. E. Hulme , English poet and critic (d. 1917)1886 – Jean Arp , Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)1887 – Nadia Boulanger , French composer and educator (d. 1979)[9] 1888 – W. O. Bentley , English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (d. 1971)1888 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää , Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
1890 – Avigdor Hameiri , Israeli author (d. 1970)1891 – Karl Dönitz , German admiral and politician, President of Germany (d. 1980)1891 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe , Austrian-German spy (d. 1972)
1893 – Alexander Korda , Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1956)1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi , Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1895 – Zainal Abidin Ahmad , Malaysian author and scholar (d. 1973)1897 – Milt Franklyn , American composer (d. 1962)1898 – H. A. Rey , American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George 1899 – Hans Swarowsky , Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (d. 1975)1901–present [ edit ] 1901 – Josef Schächter , Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1994)1905 – Vladimír Holan , Czech poet and author (d. 1980)1906 – Jack Churchill , Sri Lankan-English colonel (d. 1996)1910 – Erich Kempka , German colonel and chauffeur (d. 1975)1910 – Karl Kling , German race car driver and manager (d. 2003)
1911 – Wilfred Burchett , Australian journalist and author (d. 1983)1911 – Paul Henning , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1914 – Allen Funt , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)1915 – Cy Walter , American pianist (d. 1968)1916 – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw , Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)1916 – Frank Farrell , Australian rugby league player and policeman (d. 1985)
1916 – M. S. Subbulakshmi , Indian Carnatic vocalist (d. 2004)
1916 – Frank Leslie Walcott , Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician (d. 1999)
1916 – Marie Vieux-Chauvet , Haitian writer (d. 1973)[10]
1916 – Raosaheb Gogte , Indian industrialist (d. 2000)[11]
1918 – Władysław Kędra , Polish pianist (d. 1968)1919 – Bill Daley , American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015)1919 – Laurence J. Peter , Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator (d. 1990)
1919 – Andy Russell , American singer and actor (d. 1992)
1920 – Staryl C. Austin , American air force general (d. 2015)1920 – Sheila Quinn , English nurse and educator (d. 2016)
1920 – Art Sansom , American cartoonist (d. 1991)
1921 – Ursula Franklin , German-Canadian metallurgist (d. 2016)1921 – Jon Hendricks , American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
1921 – Korla Pandit , American pianist and composer (d. 1998)
1922 – Guy Hamilton , French-English director and screenwriter (d. 2016)1922 – Janis Paige , American actress and singer
1923 – Lee Kuan Yew , Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2015)1924 – Lauren Bacall , American actress (d. 2014)1925 – Charlie Byrd , American singer and guitarist (d. 1999)1925 – Charles Haughey , Irish accountant, lawyer, and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2006)
1925 – B.B. King , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2015)
1926 – Eric Gross , Austrian-Australian pianist and composer (d. 2011)1926 – John Knowles , American novelist (d. 2001)
1926 – Roger McKee , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1926 – Robert H. Schuller , American pastor and author (d. 2015)
1927 – Peter Falk , American actor (d. 2011)1927 – Jack Kelly , American actor and politician (d. 1992)
1927 – Sadako Ogata , Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2019)
1928 – Rex Trailer , American television host, actor, and singer (d. 2013)1928 – Lady Gwen Thompson , English author and educator (d. 1986)
1928 – Patricia Wald , American judge (d. 2019)
1929 – Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar , last sultan of Zanzibar1929 – Stan Stephens , Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (d. 2021)
1930 – Anne Francis , American actress (d. 2011)1931 – K. D. Arulpragasam , Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (d. 2003)1931 – Little Willie Littlefield , American-Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2013)
1932 – Micky Stewart , English cricketer and coach1933 – Steve Shirley , German-English businesswoman and philanthropist, founded Xansa 1934 – Elgin Baylor , American basketball player and coach (d. 2021)1934 – George Chakiris , American actor, singer, and dancer
1934 – Ronnie Drew , Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
1935 – Carl Andre , American sculptor1935 – Billy Boy Arnold , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1935 – Jules Bass , American director, producer, composer, and author
1935 – Bob Kiley , American-English businessman (d. 2016)
1935 – Esther Vilar , Argentinian-German author and playwright[12]
1937 – Aleksandr Medved , Russian wrestler1937 – Vince Naimoli , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
1939 – Breyten Breytenbach , South African-French poet and painter1939 – Bill McGill , American basketball player (d. 2014)
1940 – Hamiet Bluiett , American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2018)1940 – Butch Buchholz , American tennis player
1941 – Joe Butler , American singer, autoharp player, and drummer1941 – Richard Perle , American political scientist and politician
1942 – Bernie Calvert , English bass player and keyboard player1942 – Susan L. Graham , American computer scientist and academic
1943 – Wang Houjun , Chinese footballer and manager (d. 2012)1943 – James Alan McPherson , American short story writer and essayist (d. 2016)
1944 – Linda Kaye Henning , American actress1944 – Betty Kelly , American soul/R&B singer
1946 – Sonny LeMaire , American country music singer-songwriter and bass player1946 – Mike Reynolds , Australian lawyer and politician
1946 – Camilo Sesto , Spanish singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2019)
1947 – Dusty Hughes , English director and playwright1948 – Ron Blair , American bass player1948 – Rosemary Casals , American tennis player and sportscaster
1948 – Julia Donaldson , English author and playwright
1948 – Kenney Jones , English drummer
1948 – Susan Ruttan , American actress
1949 – Ed Begley Jr. , American actor and environmental activist1950 – David Bellamy , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1950 – Henry Louis Gates Jr. , American historian, scholar, and journalist
1950 – Loyd Grossman , American-English singer, guitarist, and television host
1951 – Vince Bell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1951 – Andy Irvine , Scottish rugby player and coach
1952 – Tony Cunningham , English educator and politician1952 – Česlovas Laurinavičius , Lithuanian historian
1952 – Karen Muir , South African swimmer and physician (d. 2013)
1952 – Mickey Rourke , American boxer and actor
1953 – Kurt Fuller , American character actor
1953 – Alan Barton , English singer and guitarist (d. 1995)1953 – Nancy Huston , Canadian-American author and translator
1953 – Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown , English journalist and politician, 2nd Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
1953 – Jerry Pate , American golfer and sportscaster
1953 – Manuel Pellegrini , Chilean footballer and manager
1953 – Eric Vail , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1954 – Sanjoy Bandopadhyay , Indian sitar player and composer1954 – Earl Klugh , American guitarist and composer
1954 – William McKeen , American author and academic
1954 – Colin Newman , English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1954 – Frank Reed , American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1954 – Roger Woolley , Australian cricketer
1955 – Ron Brewer , American basketball player1955 – Robin Yount , American baseball player and coach
1956 – Maggie Atkinson , English educator and civil servant1956 – David Copperfield , American magician and actor
1956 – Ross Greenberg , American journalist and antivirus pioneer (d. 2017)
1956 – Dave Schulthise , American bass player (d. 2004)
1956 – Kazuharu Sonoda , Japanese wrestler (d. 1987)
1957 – DC Drake , American wrestler1957 – Clara Furse , English businesswoman
1957 – Norman Lamb , English lawyer and politician
1957 – David McCreery , Northern Irish footballer and manager
1957 – Anca Parghel , Romanian singer and pianist (d. 2008)
1958 – Orel Hershiser , American baseball player and coach1958 – Neville Southall , Welsh footballer and manager
1958 – Jennifer Tilly , American actress and poker player
1959 – Peter Keleghan , Canadian actor and screenwriter1959 – Tim Raines , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1959 – Dave Richardson , South African cricketer, manager, and lawyer
1959 – Victory Tischler-Blue , American bass player, director, and producer
1960 – Graham Haynes , American trumpet player and composer1960 – Mike Mignola , American author and illustrator
1961 – Bilinda Butcher , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1961 – Philip Lafon , Canadian wrestler
1961 – Annamária Szalai , Hungarian journalist, economist, and politician (d. 2013)
1962 – Seth , Canadian author and illustrator1963 – Richard Marx , American singer-songwriter and producer1964 – Mary Coustas , Australian actress and screenwriter1964 – Rossy de Palma , Spanish-French model and actress
1964 – Dave Sabo , American guitarist and songwriter
1964 – Molly Shannon , American actress, comedian and producer
1965 – Katy Kurtzman , American actress and producer1965 – Karl-Heinz Riedle , German footballer and manager
1965 – Stephen Shareaux , American singer-songwriter
1966 – John Bel Edwards , American attorney and politician1966 – Wil McCarthy , American author and playwright
1966 – Kevin Young , American hurdler
1967 – Hiroya Oku , Japanese author and illustrator1967 – Damon Thayer , Kentucky State Senate Majority Leader[13] 1968 – Marc Anthony , American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer1968 – Walt Becker , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Tommy Keane , Irish footballer (d. 2012)
1969 – Justine Frischmann , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1969 – Janno Gibbs , Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
1970 – Mark Schultz , American singer-songwriter1971 – Joel Heyman , American actor, producer, and screenwriter1971 – Amy Poehler , American actress, comedian, and producer
1971 – Richard Slinger , American wrestler
1971 – Shawntel Smith , American beauty pageant contestant
1971 – Charlie Jacobs , chief executive officer of Delaware North's Boston Holdings
1972 – Mark Bruener , American football player1972 – Mike Doyle , American actor and producer
1972 – Alessandro Nunziati , Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1973 – George Corrie , English footballer1973 – Camiel Eurlings , Dutch businessman and member of the International Olympic Committee
1973 – Justin Haythe , American author and screenwriter
1973 – Alexander Vinokourov , Kazakh cyclist and manager
1974 – Loona , Dutch singer-songwriter and dancer1974 – Monique Brumby , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1974 – Joaquin Castro , American lawyer and politician
1974 – Julian Castro , American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1975 – Jason Leffler , American race car driver (d. 2013)1975 – Shannon Noll , Australian singer-songwriter
1976 – Elīna Garanča , Latvian soprano1976 – Tina Barrett , English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1976 – Greg Buckner , American basketball player and coach
1977 – Gregory Ball , American captain and politician1977 – Musiq Soulchild , American singer-songwriter
1978 – Dan Dickau , American basketball player and coach1978 – Claudia Marx , German runner
1978 – Sensei , Mexican wrestler
1978 – Brian Sims , American lawyer, politician, and LGBT activist
1979 – Fanny , French singer1979 – Bobby Korecky , American baseball player
1980 – Patrik Štefan , Czech ice hockey player1980 – Kenny van Weeghel , Dutch wheelchair racer
1981 – Fan Bingbing , Chinese actress, singer, and producer1981 – Alexis Bledel , American actress
1981 – LaVerne Jones-Ferrette , Virgin Islander sprinter
1982 – Leon Knight , English footballer1982 – Michele Rizzo , Italian rugby player
1982 – Fiete Sykora , German footballer
1982 – Ryan Thomson , Scottish footballer
1983 – John Afoa , New Zealand rugby player1983 – Katerine Avgoustakis , Belgian singer and pianist
1983 – Jennifer Blake , Canadian wrestler
1983 – Kirsty Coventry , Zimbabwean swimmer
1983 – Brandon Moss , American baseball player
1983 – Legedu Naanee , American football player
1984 – Sabrina Bryan , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress1984 – Serginho Catarinense , Brazilian footballer
1984 – Katie Melua , Georgian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Max Minghella , English actor1986 – Gordon Beckham , American baseball player1986 – Kyla Pratt , American actress and singer
1987 – Merve Boluğur , Turkish actress1987 – Kyle Lafferty , Irish footballer
1987 – Louis Ngwat-Mahop , Cameroonian footballer
1987 – Burry Stander , South African cyclist (d. 2013)
1987 – Travis Wall , American dancer and choreographer
1988 – Teddy Geiger , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress1989 – Lancelot Bravado , American wrestler1989 – Braden Holtby , Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – José Salomón Rondón , Venezuelan footballer
1989 – Dustin Tokarski , Canadian ice hockey player
1991 – Diāna Bukājeva , Latvian tennis player1991 – Alexandra Paul , Canadian figure skater
1991 – Kyle Smith , English motorcycle racer
1992 – Vytenis Čižauskas , Lithuanian basketball player1992 – Nick Jonas , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1992 – Jake Roche , English singer-songwriter and actor
1993 – Sam Byram , English footballer1994 – Mitchell Moses , Australian rugby league playerPre-1600 [ edit ] 307 – Flavius Valerius Severus , Roman emperor655 – Pope Martin I 1087 – Pope Victor III (b. 1026)1100 – Bernold of Constance , German priest and historian (b. 1054)1226 – Pandulf Verraccio , Roman ecclesiastical politician1343 – Philip III of Navarre (b. 1306)1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)1360 – William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (b. 1319)1380 – Charles V of France (b. 1338)1394 – Antipope Clement VII (b. 1342)1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)1498 – Tomás de Torquemada , Spanish friar (b. 1420)1581 – Peter Niers , notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)1583 – Catherine Jagiellon , queen of John II of Sweden (b. 1526)1589 – Michael Baius , Belgian theologian and academic (b. 1513)1601–1900 [ edit ] 1607 – Mary Stuart , English-Scottish princess (b. 1605)1672 – Anne Bradstreet , English poet (b. 1612)1701 – James II of England (b. 1633)1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit , Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (b. 1686)1792 – Nguyễn Huệ , Vietnamese emperor (b. 1753)1803 – Nicolas Baudin , French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754)1819 – John Jeffries , American physician and surgeon (b. 1744)1824 – Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)1843 – Ezekiel Hart , Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1770)1845 – Thomas Davis , Irish poet and publisher (b. 1814)1865 – Christian de Meza , Danish general (b. 1792)1887 – Sakaigawa Namiemon , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomes , Brazilian composer (b. 1836)1896 – Pavlos Kalligas , Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances , Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)1901–present [ edit ] 1911 – Edward Whymper , English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)1914 – C. X. Larrabee , American businessman (b. 1843)1925 – Leo Fall , Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)1925 – Alexander Friedmann , Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
1931 – Omar Mukhtar , Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)1932 – Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle , British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)1932 – Ronald Ross , Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
1933 – George Gore , American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)1936 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot , French physician and explorer (b. 1867)1940 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington , English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)1944 – Gustav Bauer , German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)1945 – John McCormack , Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884)1946 – James Hopwood Jeans , English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)1950 – Pedro de Cordoba , American actor (b. 1881)1955 – Leo Amery , Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1873)1961 – Hasan Polatkan , Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (b. 1915)1961 – Fatin Rüştü Zorlu , Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1910)
1965 – Ahn Eak-tai , North Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)1965 – Fred Quimby , American animator and producer (b. 1886)
1973 – Víctor Jara , Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (b. 1932)1976 – Bertha Lutz , Brazilian feminist and scientist (b. 1894)1977 – Marc Bolan , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)1977 – Maria Callas , Greek operatic soprano (b. 1923)
1980 – Jean Piaget , Swiss psychologist and philosopher (b. 1896)1984 – Louis Réard , French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)1984 – Richard Brautigan , American novelist, poet, and short story writer (b. 1935)
1987 – Christopher Soames , English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1920)
1991 – Olga Spessivtseva , Russian-American ballerina (b. 1895)1992 – Millicent Fenwick , American journalist and politician (b. 1910)1993 – František Jílek , Czech conductor (b. 1913)1993 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal , Australian poet and activist (b. 1920)
1996 – McGeorge Bundy , American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1919)1996 – Gene Nelson , American actor, dancer, and director (b. 1920)
2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff , American producer (b. 1918)2002 – James Gregory , American actor (b. 1911)2003 – Sheb Wooley , American singer-songwriter (b. 1921)2004 – Michael Donaghy , American-English poet and author (b. 1954)2005 – Harry Freedman , Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (b. 1922)2005 – Gordon Gould , American physicist and academic, invented the laser (b. 1920)
2006 – Floyd Curry , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)2006 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy , Hungarian tennis player and coach (b. 1924)[14]
2007 – Robert Jordan , American engineer and author (b. 1948)2008 – Norman Whitfield , American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)2009 – Myles Brand , American philosopher and academic (b. 1942)2009 – Ernst Märzendorfer , Austrian conductor (b. 1921)
2009 – Mary Travers , American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2010 – George N. Parks , American educator and bandleader (b. 1953)2010 – Jim Towers , English footballer (b. 1933)
2011 – Willie "Big Eyes" Smith , American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and drummer (b. 1936)2011 – Enamul Haque Chowdhury , Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)2012 – Roman Kroitor , Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (b. 1926)2012 – Julien J. LeBourgeois , American admiral (b. 1923)
2012 – Friedrich Zimmermann , German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (b. 1925)
2013 – Scott Adams , American football player (b. 1966)2013 – Ratiba El-Hefny , Egyptian soprano and director (b. 1931)
2013 – Patsy Swayze , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1927)
2015 – Guy Béart , Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (b. 1930)2015 – Julio Brady , Virgin Islander lawyer, judge, and politician, 5th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1942)
2015 – Kurt Oppelt , Austrian figure skater and coach (b. 1932)
2015 – Allan Wright , English captain and pilot (b. 1920)
2016 – Edward Albee , American director and playwright (b. 1928)2016 – Gabriele Amorth , Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925)
2016 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
2016 – W. P. Kinsella , American novelist (b. 1935)
2016 – António Mascarenhas Monteiro , Cabo Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (b. 1944)
2016 – Gérard Louis-Dreyfus , French-born American businessman (b. 1932)
2017 – Marcelo Rezende , Brazilian journalist (b. 1951)2017 – Arjan Singh , Marshal of the Indian Air Force (b. 1919)
2018 – James Burdette Thayer , American brigadier general (b. 1920)2019 – H. S. Dillon , Indonesian politician and human rights defender (b. 1945)2020 – Maxim Martsinkevich , Russian social activist and media personality (b. 1984) [15] 2021 – Jane Powell , American actress (b. 1929)[16] 2021 – Clive Sinclair , English entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1940)[17] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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