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Day of the year
August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 136 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
310 –
Pope Eusebius dies, possibly from a
hunger strike , shortly after being banished by the Emperor
Maxentius to
Sicily .
682 –
Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
[1]
986 –
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars :
Battle of the Gates of Trajan : The
Bulgarians under the
Comitopuli
Samuel and
Aron defeat the
Byzantine forces at the
Gate of Trajan , with
Byzantine Emperor
Basil II barely escaping.
1186 –
Georgenberg Pact :
Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria and
Leopold V, Duke of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his son
Frederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivided.
1386 –
Karl Topia , the ruler of
Princedom of Albania forges an alliance with the
Republic of Venice , committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the
Ottomans in return.
1424 –
Hundred Years' War :
Battle of Verneuil : An English force under
John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under
Jean II, Duke of Alençon ,
John Stewart , and
Earl Archibald of Douglas .
1488 –
Konrad Bitz , the
Bishop of Turku , marks the date of his preface to
Missale Aboense , the oldest known book of
Finland .
[2]
1498 –
Cesare Borgia , son of
Pope Alexander VI , becomes the first person in history to resign the
cardinalate ; later that same day, King
Louis XII of France names him
Duke of Valentinois .
1549 –
Battle of Sampford Courtenay : The
Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in
England .
1560 – The
Catholic Church is overthrown and
Protestantism is
established as the national religion in
Scotland .
1585 –
Eighty Years' War :
Siege of Antwerp :
Antwerp is captured by
Spanish forces under
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma , who orders
Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the
northern provinces .
1585 – A first group of colonists sent by
Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of
Ralph Lane lands in the
New World to create
Roanoke Colony on
Roanoke Island , off the coast of present-day
North Carolina .
1597 –
Islands Voyage :
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , and Sir
Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the
Azores .
1601–1900
1668 – The magnitude 8.0
North Anatolia earthquake causes 8,000 deaths in northern
Anatolia ,
Ottoman Empire .
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[4]
1717 –
Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18 : The month-long
Siege of Belgrade ends with
Prince Eugene of Savoy 's
Austrian troops capturing the city from the
Ottoman Empire .
1723 –
Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes
Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in
Făgăraș , after being formally confirmed earlier by
Pope Clement XI .
1740 –
Pope Benedict XIV , previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds
Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
1784 – Classical composer
Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000
reals from his employer, the
Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón .
1798 – The
Vietnamese Catholics report a
Marian apparition in
Quảng Trị , an event which is called
Our Lady of La Vang .
1807 –
Robert Fulton 's
North River Steamboat leaves New York City for
Albany, New York , on the
Hudson River , inaugurating the first commercial
steamboat service in the world.
1808 – The
Finnish War : The
Battle of Alavus is fought.
[5]
1827 – Dutch King
William I and
Pope Leo XII sign concord.
1836 –
British parliament
accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths.
1862 –
American Indian Wars : The
Dakota War of 1862 begins in
Minnesota as
Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the
Minnesota River .
1862 –
American Civil War : Major General
J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the
Confederate
Army of Northern Virginia .
1863 – American Civil War: In
Charleston, South Carolina ,
Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held
Fort Sumter .
1864 – American Civil War:
Battle of Gainesville : Confederate forces defeat Union troops near
Gainesville, Florida .
1866 – The
Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the
German Confederation and signs a
treaty of peace and alliance with
Prussia .
1876 –
Richard Wagner 's
Götterdämmerung , the last opera in his
Ring cycle, premieres at the
Bayreuth Festspielhaus .
[6]
1883 – The first public performance of the
Dominican Republic 's
national anthem ,
Himno Nacional .
1896 –
Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
1901–present
1914 –
World War I :
Battle of Stallupönen : The German army of
General
Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by
Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day
Nesterov , Russia.
1915 – Jewish American
Leo Frank is
lynched in
Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor
John Slaton .
1915 – A
Category 4 hurricane hits
Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
1916 – World War I:
Romania signs a
secret treaty with the
Entente Powers . According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
1918 –
Bolshevik revolutionary leader
Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1942 –
World War II :
U.S. Marines
raid the
Japanese -held Pacific island of Makin.
1943 – World War II: The U.S.
Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the
Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission .
1943 – World War II: The
U.S. Seventh Army under General
George S. Patton arrives in
Messina , Italy, followed several hours later by the
British 8th Army under Field Marshal
Bernard Montgomery , thus completing the
Allied
conquest of Sicily .
1943 – World War II:
First Québec Conference of
Winston Churchill ,
Franklin D. Roosevelt , and
William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1943 – World War II: The
Royal Air Force begins
Operation Hydra , the first air raid of the
Operation Crossbow
strategic bombing campaign against Germany's
V-weapon program .
1945 –
Sukarno and
Mohammad Hatta
proclaim the independence of
Indonesia , igniting the
Indonesian National Revolution against the
Dutch Empire .
1945 – The novella
Animal Farm by
George Orwell is first published.
1945 –
Evacuation of Manchukuo : At
Talitzou by the
Sino-Korean border ,
Puyi , then the Kangde Emperor of
Manchukuo ,
formally renounces the imperial throne, dissolves the state, and cedes its territory to the
Republic of China .
[7]
1947 – The
Radcliffe Line , the border between the
Dominions of India and
Pakistan , is revealed.
1949 – The 6.7 Ms
Karlıova earthquake shakes eastern
Turkey with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme ), leaving 320–450 dead.
[3]
[8]
[9]
1949 –
Matsukawa derailment : Unknown saboteurs cause a
passenger train to derail and overturn in
Fukushima Prefecture ,
Japan , killing three crew members and igniting a political firestorm between the
Japanese Communist Party and the
government of Occupied Japan that will eventually lead to the
Japanese Red Purge .
[10]
1953 – First meeting of
Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in
Southern California .
1955 –
Hurricane Diane made landfall near
Wilmington, North Carolina , and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
[11]
[12]
1958 –
Pioneer 0 , America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
1959 –
Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.2
1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near
Hebgen Lake in
Montana .
1960 –
Aeroflot Flight 036 crashes in
Soviet Ukraine , killing 34.
[13]
1962 –
Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while
trying to cross the new Berlin Wall .
1969 –
Category 5
Hurricane Camille hits the
U.S. Gulf Coast , killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.
1970 – Soviet Union
Venera program:
Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (
Venus ).
1976 – A
magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of
Mindanao ,
Philippines , triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000-8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.
[14]
[15]
1977 – The Soviet icebreaker
Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the
North Pole .
1978 –
Double Eagle II becomes first
balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in
Miserey , France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving
Presque Isle, Maine .
1985 – The
1985–86 Hormel strike begins in
Austin, Minnesota .
[16]
1988 – President of Pakistan
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador
Arnold Raphel are killed in a
plane crash .
1991 –
Strathfield massacre : In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.
1998 –
Lewinsky scandal : US President
Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with
White House intern
Monica Lewinsky ; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
1999 – The 7.6 Mw
İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern
Turkey with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
2004 – The
National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for
Serbia :
Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the
coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 – The first forced evacuation of
settlers , as part of
Israeli disengagement from Gaza , starts.
2005 – Over 500 bombs are
set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of
Bangladesh .
2008 – American swimmer
Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
2009 –
An accident at the
Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in
Khakassia , Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
2015 – A
bomb explodes near the
Erawan Shrine in
Bangkok , Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.
2017 –
Barcelona attacks : A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.
2019 –
A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.
[17]
Births
Pre-1600
1153 –
William IX, Count of Poitiers (d. 1156)
1465 –
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482)
1473 –
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. 1483)
1501 –
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1529)
1556 –
Alexander Briant , English martyr and saint (d. 1581)
1578 –
Francesco Albani , Italian painter (d. 1660)
1578 –
Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 1638)
1582 –
John Matthew Rispoli , Maltese philosopher (d. 1639)
1586 –
Johann Valentin Andrea , German theologian (d. 1654)
1601–1900
1603 –
Lennart Torstensson , Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (d. 1651)
1629 –
John III Sobieski , Polish–Lithuanian king (d. 1696)
1686 –
Nicola Porpora , Italian composer and educator (d. 1768)
1753 –
Josef Dobrovský , Bohemian philologist and historian (d. 1828)
1768 –
Louis Desaix , French general (d. 1800)
1786 –
Davy Crockett , American soldier and politician (d. 1836)
1786 –
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861)
1801 –
Fredrika Bremer , Swedish writer and feminist (d. 1865)
[18]
1828 –
Jules Bernard Luys , French neurologist and physician (d. 1897)
1840 –
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , English poet and activist (d. 1922)
1845 –
Henry Cadwalader Chapman , American physician and naturalist (d. 1909)
1849 –
William Kidston , Scottish-Australian politician, 17th
Premier of Queensland (d. 1919)
1863 –
Gene Stratton-Porter , American author and photographer (d. 1924)
1865 –
Julia Marlowe , English-American actress (d. 1950)
1866 –
Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI , Indian 6th
Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1873 –
John A. Sampson , American gynecologist and academic (d. 1946)
1877 –
Ralph McKittrick , American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923)
1878 –
Reggie Duff , Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1880 –
Percy Sherwell , South African cricketer and tennis player (d. 1948)
1887 –
Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1887 –
Marcus Garvey , Jamaican journalist and activist, founded
Black Star Line (d. 1940)
1888 –
Monty Woolley , American actor, raconteur, and pundit (d. 1963)
1889 –
Lalla Carlsen , Norwegian singer and actress (d. 1967)
[19]
1890 –
Stefan Bastyr , Polish soldier and pilot (d. 1920)
1890 –
Harry Hopkins , American politician and diplomat, 8th
United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)
1893 –
John Brahm , German-American director and production manager (d. 1982)
1893 –
Mae West , American stage and film actress (d. 1980)
[20]
1894 –
William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes , English businessman, founded
Rootes Group (d. 1964)
1896 –
Leslie Groves , American general and engineer (d. 1970)
1896 –
Tõnis Kint , Estonian lieutenant and politician,
Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1991)
1896 –
Oliver Waterman Larkin , American historian and author (d. 1970)
1899 –
Janet Lewis , American poet and novelist (d. 1998)
[21]
[22]
1900 –
Vivienne de Watteville , British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957)
1900 –
Pauline A. Young , American teacher, historian, aviator and activist (d. 1991)
1901–present
1904 –
Mary Cain , American journalist and politician (d. 1984)
1904 –
Leopold Nowak , Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991)
1909 –
Larry Clinton , American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1985)
1909 –
Wilf Copping , English footballer (d. 1980)
1911 –
Mikhail Botvinnik , Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995)
1911 –
Martin Sandberger , German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010)
1913 –
Mark Felt (aka 'Deep Throat'), American lawyer and agent, 2nd
Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2008)
1913 –
Oscar Alfredo Gálvez , Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989)
1913 –
Rudy York , American baseball player and manager (d. 1970)
1914 –
Bill Downs , American journalist (d. 1978)
1914 –
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1988)
1916 –
Moses Majekodunmi , Nigerian physician and politician (d. 2012)
1918 –
Evelyn Ankers , British-American actress (d. 1985)
1918 –
Ike Quebec , American saxophonist and pianist (d. 1963)
1918 –
Michael John Wise , English geographer and academic (d. 2015)
1919 –
Georgia Gibbs , American singer (d. 2006)
1920 –
Maureen O'Hara , Irish-American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1920 –
Lida Moser , American photographer and author (d. 2014)
1921 –
Geoffrey Elton , German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)
1922 –
Roy Tattersall , English cricketer (d. 2011)
1923 –
Carlos Cruz-Diez , Venezuelan artist (d. 2019)
1923 –
Larry Rivers , American painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
1924 –
Evan S. Connell , American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 2013)
1926 –
Valerie Eliot , English businesswoman (d. 2012)
1926 –
Jiang Zemin , Chinese engineer and politician, former
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (
paramount leader ) and 5th
President of China (d. 2022)
1927 –
Sam Butera , American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2009)
1927 –
F. Ray Keyser Jr. , American lawyer and politician, 72nd
Governor of Vermont (d. 2015)
1928 –
T. J. Anderson , American composer, conductor, and educator
1928 –
Willem Duys , Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (d. 2011)
1929 –
Francis Gary Powers , American captain and pilot (d. 1977)
1930 –
Harve Bennett , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2015)
1930 –
Ted Hughes , English poet and playwright (d. 1998)
1931 –
Tony Wrigley , English historian, demographer, and academic (d. 2022)
[23]
1932 –
V. S. Naipaul , Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1932 –
Duke Pearson , American pianist and composer (d. 1980)
1932 –
Jean-Jacques Sempé , French cartoonist (d. 2022)
[24]
1933 –
Mark Dinning , American pop singer (d. 1986)
1934 –
João Donato , Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 2023)
1934 –
Ron Henry , English footballer (d. 2014)
1936 –
Seamus Mallon , Irish educator and politician,
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 2020)
1936 –
Margaret Heafield Hamilton , American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner.
1938 –
Theodoros Pangalos , Greek lawyer and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2023)
1939 –
Luther Allison , American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1997)
1940 –
Eduardo Mignogna , Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1940 –
Barry Sheerman , English academic and politician
1941 –
Lothar Bisky , German businessman and politician (d. 2013)
1941 –
Jean Pierre Lefebvre , Canadian director and screenwriter
1941 –
Boog Powell , American baseball player
[25]
1942 –
Shane Porteous , Australian actor, animator, and screenwriter
1943 –
Edward Cowie , English composer, painter, and author
1943 –
Robert De Niro , American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer
[26]
[27]
1943 –
John Humphrys , Welsh journalist and author
1943 –
Dave "Snaker" Ray , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1944 –
Larry Ellison , American businessman, co-founded the
Oracle Corporation
1944 –
Jean-Bernard Pommier , French pianist and conductor
1945 –
Rachel Pollack , American author, poet, and educator
1946 –
Hugh Baiocchi , South African golfer
1946 –
Martha Coolidge , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 –
Patrick Manning , Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 4th
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2016)
1947 –
Mohamed Abdelaziz ,
President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (d. 2016)
1947 –
Gary Talley , American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and author
[28]
1948 –
Alexander Ivashkin , Russian-English cellist and conductor (d. 2014)
1949 –
Norm Coleman , American lawyer and politician, 52nd
Mayor of St. Paul
1949 –
Sue Draheim , American fiddler and composer (d. 2013)
1949 –
Julian Fellowes , English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician
[28]
1949 –
Sib Hashian , American rock drummer (d. 2017)
1951 –
Richard Hunt , American Muppet performer (d. 1992)
1951 –
Robert Joy , Canadian actor
[28]
1952 –
Aleksandr Maksimenkov , Russian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1952 –
Nelson Piquet , Brazilian race car driver and businessman
1952 –
Mario Theissen , German engineer and businessman
1952 –
Guillermo Vilas , Argentinian tennis player
1953 –
Mick Malthouse , Australian footballer and coach
1953 –
Herta Müller , Romanian-German poet and author,
Nobel Prize laureate
1953 –
Korrie Layun Rampan , Indonesian author, poet, and critic (d. 2015)
1953 –
Kevin Rowland , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
[28]
1954 –
Eric Johnson , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 –
Andrés Pastrana Arango , Colombian lawyer and politician, 38th
President of Colombia
1955 –
Colin Moulding , English singer-songwriter and bassist
[28]
1956 –
Gail Berman , American businessman, co-founded
BermanBraun
1956 –
Álvaro Pino , Spanish cyclist
1957 –
Ken Kwapis , American director and screenwriter
1957 –
Laurence Overmire , American poet, author, and actor
1957 –
Robin Cousins , British competitive figure skater
1958 –
Belinda Carlisle , American singer-songwriter
[28]
1958 –
Fred Goodwin , Scottish banker and accountant
1958 –
Maurizio Sandro Sala , Brazilian race car driver
1959 –
Jonathan Franzen , American novelist and essayist
1959 –
Jacek Kazimierski , Polish footballer
1959 –
Eric Schlosser , American journalist and author
1959 –
David Koresh , American cult leader
[29] (d. 1993)
1960 –
Stephan Eicher , Swiss singer-songwriter
1960 –
Sean Penn , American actor, director, and political activist
[30]
1962 –
Gilby Clarke , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[28]
1962 –
Dan Dakich , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1963 –
Jon Gruden , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1963 –
Jackie Walorski , American politician (d. 2022)
[31]
1964 –
Colin James , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1964 –
Maria McKee , American singer-songwriter
[28]
1964 –
Dave Penney , English footballer and manager
1965 –
Steve Gorman , American drummer
[28]
1965 –
Dottie Pepper , American golfer
1966 –
Jüri Luik , Estonian politician and diplomat, 18th
Estonian Minister of Defense
1966 –
Rodney Mullen , American skateboarder and stuntman
1966 –
Don Sweeney , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1967 –
David Conrad , American actor
[28]
1967 –
Michael Preetz , German footballer and manager
1968 –
Andriy Kuzmenko , Ukrainian singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1968 –
Ed McCaffrey , American football player and sportscaster
1968 –
Helen McCrory , English actress (d. 2021)
1969 –
Christian Laettner , American basketball player and coach
1969 –
Kelvin Mercer , American rapper, songwriter and producer
[28]
1969 –
Donnie Wahlberg , American singer-songwriter, actor and producer
[28]
1970 –
Jim Courier , American tennis player and sportscaster
1970 –
Andrus Kivirähk , Estonian author
1970 –
Øyvind Leonhardsen , Norwegian footballer and coach
1971 –
Uhm Jung-hwa , South Korean singer and actress
1971 –
Jorge Posada , Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1971 –
Shaun Rehn , Australian footballer and coach
1972 –
Habibul Bashar , Bangladeshi cricketer
1974 –
Giuliana Rancic , Italian-American journalist and television personality
[28]
1974 –
Johannes Maria Staud , Austrian composer
1976 –
Eric Boulton , Canadian ice hockey player
1976 –
Geertjan Lassche , Dutch journalist and director
1976 –
Serhiy Zakarlyuka , Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1977 –
Nathan Deakes , Australian race walker
1977 –
William Gallas , French footballer
1977 –
Thierry Henry , French footballer
1977 –
Mike Lewis , Welsh guitarist
1977 –
Tarja Turunen , Finnish singer-songwriter and producer
1979 –
Antwaan Randle El , American football player and journalist
1980 –
Keith Dabengwa , Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 –
Daniel Güiza , Spanish footballer
1980 –
Jan Kromkamp , Dutch footballer
1980 –
Lene Marlin , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1982 –
Phil Jagielka , English footballer
1982 –
Cheerleader Melissa , American wrestler and manager
1982 –
Mark Salling , American actor and musician (d. 2018)
1983 –
Dustin Pedroia , American baseball player
1984 –
Dee Brown , American basketball player
1984 –
Oksana Domnina , Russian ice dancer
1984 –
Liam Heath , British sprint canoeist
[32]
1984 –
Garrett Wolfe , American football player
1985 –
Yū Aoi , Japanese actress and model
1986 –
Rudy Gay , American basketball player
1986 –
Tyrus Thomas , American basketball player
1988 –
Brady Corbet , American actor and director
[28]
1988 –
Jihadi John , Kuwaiti-British member of
ISIS (d. 2015)
1988 –
Natalie Sandtorv , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1988 –
Erika Toda , Japanese actress
1989 –
Lil B , American rapper
[33]
1989 –
Rachel Corsie , Scottish footballer
[34]
1990 –
Rachel Hurd-Wood , English actress
[35]
1991 –
Austin Butler , American actor
[28]
1992 –
Saraya Bevis , English wrestler
1992 –
Alex Elisala , New Zealand-Australian rugby player (d. 2013)
1992 –
Chanel Mata'utia , Australian rugby league player
1992 –
Maru Teferi , Israeli marathon runner
[36]
1993 –
Ederson Moraes , Brazilian footballer
1993 –
Sarah Sjöström , Swedish swimmer
1993 –
Xie Zhenye , Chinese athlete
[37]
1994 –
Phoebe Bridgers , American singer/songwriter
1994 –
Jack Conklin , American football player
[38]
1994 –
Taissa Farmiga , American actress
[28]
1995 –
Gracie Gold , American figure skater
1995 –
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak , New Zealand rugby league player
1996 –
Jake Virtanen , Canadian ice hockey player
2000 –
Lil Pump , American rapper and songwriter
2003 –
Nastasja Schunk , German tennis player
[39]
2003 –
The Kid Laroi , Australian rapper and songwriter
[40]
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1673 –
Regnier de Graaf , Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 –
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen , German author (b. 1621)
1720 –
Anne Dacier , French scholar and translator (b. 1654)
1723 –
Joseph Bingham , English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
1768 –
Vasily Trediakovsky , Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
1785 –
Jonathan Trumbull , English-American merchant and politician, 16th
Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 –
Frederick the Great , Prussian king (b. 1712)
1809 –
Matthew Boulton , English businessman and engineer, co-founded
Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
[42]
1814 –
John Johnson , English architect and surveyor (b. 1732)
1834 –
Husein Gradaščević , Ottoman general (b. 1802)
1838 –
Lorenzo Da Ponte , Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
1850 –
José de San Martín , Argentinian general and politician, 1st
President of Peru (b. 1778)
1861 –
Alcée Louis la Branche , American politician and diplomat, 1st
United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)
1870 –
Perucho Figueredo , Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818)
1875 –
Wilhelm Bleek , German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827)
1897 –
William Jervois , English engineer and diplomat, 10th
Governor of South Australia (b. 1821)
1901–present
1901 –
Edmond Audran , French organist and composer (b. 1842)
[43]
1903 –
Hans Gude , Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825)
1908 –
Radoje Domanović , Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)
1909 –
Madan Lal Dhingra , Indian activist (b. 1883)
1918 –
Moisei Uritsky , Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
1920 –
Ray Chapman , American baseball player (b. 1891)
1924 –
Tom Kendall , English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
1925 –
Ioan Slavici , Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
1935 –
Adam Gunn , American decathlete (b. 1872)
1935 –
Charlotte Perkins Gilman , American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
[44]
1936 –
José María of Manila , Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
1940 –
Billy Fiske , American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
[45]
1945 –
Reidar Haaland , Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
1949 –
Gregorio Perfecto , Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891)
1958 –
Arthur Fox , English-American fencer (b. 1878)
1966 –
Ken Miles , English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
1969 –
Otto Stern , German physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1970 –
Rattana Pestonji , Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
1971 –
Maedayama Eigorō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th
Yokozuna (b. 1914)
1971 –
Wilhelm List , German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 –
Conrad Aiken , American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
1973 –
Jean Barraqué , French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
1973 –
Paul Williams , American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)
1977 –
Delmer Daves , American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)
1979 –
John C. Allen , American
roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
1979 –
Vivian Vance , American actress and singer (b. 1909)
1983 –
Ira Gershwin , American songwriter (b. 1896)
1987 –
Gary Chester , Italian drummer and educator (b. 1924)
1987 –
Rudolf Hess , German soldier and politician (b. 1894)
1987 –
Shaike Ophir , Israeli actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1988 –
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , Pakistani general and politician, 6th
President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 –
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. , American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
1988 –
Victoria Shaw , Australian-American actress (b. 1935)
1990 –
Pearl Bailey , American actress and singer (b. 1918)
[46]
1993 –
Feng Kang , Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
1994 –
Luigi Chinetti , Italian-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1901)
1994 –
Jack Sharkey , American boxer and referee (b. 1902)
1995 –
Howard E. Koch , American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1995 –
Ted Whitten , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
1998 –
Władysław Komar , Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940)
1998 –
Tadeusz Ślusarski , Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
2000 –
Jack Walker , English businessman (b. 1929)
2004 –
Thea Astley , Australian author and educator (b. 1925)
2005 –
John N. Bahcall , American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934)
2006 –
Shamsur Rahman , Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929)
2007 –
Bill Deedes , English journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 –
Eddie Griffin , American basketball player (b. 1982)
2008 –
Franco Sensi , Italian businessman and politician (b. 1926)
2010 –
Francesco Cossiga , Italian lawyer and politician, 8th
President of Italy (b. 1928)
2012 –
Aase Bjerkholt , Norwegian politician,
Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (b. 1915)
2012 –
Victor Poor , American engineer, developed the
Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933)
2012 –
Patrick Ricard , French businessman (b. 1945)
2012 –
John Lynch-Staunton , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
2013 –
Odilia Dank , American educator and politician (b. 1938)
2013 –
Jack Harshman , American baseball player (b. 1927)
2013 –
John Hollander , American poet and critic (b. 1929)
2013 –
David Landes , Jewish-American historian and economist (b. 1924)
[47]
2013 –
Frank Martínez , American painter (b. 1924)
2013 –
Gus Winckel , Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912)
2014 –
Børre Knudsen , Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937)
2014 –
Wolfgang Leonhard , German historian and author (b. 1921)
2014 –
Sophie Masloff , American civil servant and politician, 56th
Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917)
2014 –
Miodrag Pavlović , Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928)
2014 –
Pierre Vassiliu , French singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2015 –
Yvonne Craig , American ballet dancer and actress (b. 1937)
2015 –
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder , German businessman (b. 1933)
2015 –
László Paskai , Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)
2016 –
Arthur Hiller , Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
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