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Day of the year
August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 135 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1612 – The trial of the
Pendle witches , one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at
Lancaster
Assizes .
1634 –
Urbain Grandier , accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in
Loudun , France.
1721 – The city of
Shamakhi in
Safavid Shirvan
is sacked .
1783 – A
huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1809 – The
Senate of Finland is established in the
Grand Duchy of Finland after the official adoption of the Statute of the Government Council by Tsar
Alexander I of Russia .
[9]
1826 –
Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter
Timbuktu .
[10]
1838 – The
Wilkes Expedition , which would explore the
Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at
Hampton Roads .
1848 –
Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator
Juan Manuel de Rosas .
1864 –
American Civil War :
Battle of Globe Tavern :
Union forces try to cut a vital
Confederate supply-line into
Petersburg, Virginia , by attacking the
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad .
1868 – French
astronomer
Pierre Janssen
discovers
helium .
1870 –
Franco-Prussian War :
Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1877 – American
astronomer
Asaph Hall discovers
Phobos , one of
Mars ’s
moons .
[11]
[12]
[13]
1891 – A
major hurricane strikes
Martinique , leaving 700 dead.
1901–present
1903 – German engineer
Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding
airplane four months before the first flight of the
Wright brothers .
1917 – A
Great Fire in
Thessaloniki , Greece, destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1920 – The
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's
suffrage .
1923 – The
first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain.
1933 – The
Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a
radio exhibition ; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda,
Joseph Goebbels , delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the ‘eighth great power’.
[14]
1937 – A lightning strike starts the
Blackwater Fire of 1937 in
Shoshone National Forest , killing 15 firefighters within three days and prompting the
United States Forest Service to develop their
smokejumper program.
[15]
1938 – The
Thousand Islands Bridge , connecting New York, United States, with
Ontario , Canada, over the
Saint Lawrence River , is dedicated by U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt .
1940 –
World War II :
The Hardest Day air battle, part of the
Battle of Britain , takes place. At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
1945 –
Sukarno takes office as the
first president of Indonesia , following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
1945 –
Soviet-Japanese War :
Battle of Shumshu : Soviet forces land at Takeda Beach on
Shumshu Island and launch the
Battle of Shumshu ; the
Soviet Union ’s
Invasion of the Kuril Islands commences.
[16]
1949 –
Kemi Bloody Thursday : Two protesters die in the scuffle between the police and the strikers' protest procession in
Kemi, Finland .
[17]
1950 –
Julien Lahaut , the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, is assassinated. The Party newspaper blames royalists and
Rexists .
1958 –
Vladimir Nabokov 's controversial novel
Lolita is published in the United States.
1958 –
Brojen Das from
Bangladesh swims across the
English Channel in a competition as the first
Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors.
1963 –
Civil rights movement :
James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the
University of Mississippi .
1965 –
Vietnam War :
Operation Starlite begins:
United States Marines destroy a
Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 – Vietnam War: The
Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a
Viet Cong force in
Phước Tuy Province .
1971 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from
Vietnam .
1973 –
Aeroflot Flight A-13 crashes after takeoff from
Baku-Bina International Airport in Azerbaijan, killing 56 people and injuring eight.
[18]
1976 – The
Korean axe murder incident in Panmunjom results in the deaths of two US Army officers.
1976 – The
Soviet Union ’s robotic probe
Luna 24 successfully lands on the
Moon .
[19]
1977 –
Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in
King William's Town , South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's
apartheid policies.
1983 –
Hurricane Alicia hits the
Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 – Leading presidential hopeful
Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near
Bogotá in
Colombia .
1993 –
American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at
Leeward Point Field at
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in
Guantánamo Bay ,
Cuba , injuring the three crew members.
[20]
2003 – One-year-old
Zachary Turner is murdered in
Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film
Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.
[21]
2005 – A
massive power blackout hits the
Indonesian island of
Java ; affecting almost 100 million people, it is
one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
2008 – The President of Pakistan,
Pervez Musharraf , resigns under
threat of impeachment .
2008 – War of Afghanistan: The
Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
2011 – A
terrorist attack on Israel's
Highway 12 near the Egyptian border kills 16 and injures 40.
[22]
2017 – The
first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight.
2019 – One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in
Iceland hold a funeral for
Okjökull glacier , which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2 ).
[23]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1605 –
Henry Hammond , English churchman and theologian (d. 1660)
1606 –
Maria Anna of Spain (d. 1646)
1629 –
Agneta Horn , Swedish writer (d. 1672)
[26]
1657 –
Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena , Italian architect and painter (d. 1743)
[27]
1685 –
Brook Taylor , English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731)
1692 –
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1740)
1700 –
Baji Rao I , first
Peshwa of
Maratha Empire (d. 1740)
1720 –
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers , English politician (d. 1760)
1750 –
Antonio Salieri , Italian composer and conductor (d. 1825)
1754 –
François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat , French general and engineer (d. 1833)
1774 –
Meriwether Lewis , American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809)
1792 –
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , English politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1803 –
Nathan Clifford , American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 19th
United States Attorney General (d. 1881)
1807 –
B. T. Finniss , Australian politician, 1st
Premier of South Australia (d. 1893)
1819 –
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1876)
1822 –
Isaac P. Rodman , American general and politician (d. 1862)
1830 –
Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916)
1831 –
Ernest Noel , Scottish businessman and politician (d. 1931)
1834 –
Marshall Field , American businessman, founded
Marshall Field's (d. 1906)
1841 –
William Halford , English-American lieutenant,
Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1919)
1855 –
Alfred Wallis , English painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
1857 –
Libert H. Boeynaems , Belgian-American bishop and missionary (d. 1926)
1866 –
Mahboob Ali Khan , 6th
Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
[28]
1869 –
Carl Rungius , German-American painter and educator (d. 1959)
1870 –
Lavr Kornilov , Russian general and explorer (d. 1918)
1879 –
Alexander Rodzyanko , Russian general (d. 1970)
1885 –
Nettie Palmer , Australian poet and critic (d. 1964)
1887 –
John Anthony Sydney Ritson , English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining (d. 1957)
1890 –
Walther Funk , German economist and politician,
Reich Minister of Economics (d. 1960)
1893 –
Burleigh Grimes , American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1893 –
Ernest MacMillan , Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1973)
1896 –
Jack Pickford , Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1933)
1898 –
Clemente Biondetti , Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
1900 –
Ruth Bonner , Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during
Joseph Stalin 's
Great Purge (d. 1987)
1900 –
Ruth Norman , American religious leader (d. 1993)
1901–present
1902 –
Adamson-Eric , Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1902 –
Margaret Murie , American environmentalist and author (d. 2003)
[29]
1903 –
Lucienne Boyer , French singer (d. 1983)
1904 –
Max Factor, Jr. , American businessman (d. 1996)
[30]
1905 –
Enoch Light , American bandleader, violinist, and recording engineer (d. 1978)
1906 –
Marcel Carné , French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1906 –
Curtis Jones , American blues pianist and singer (d. 1971)
1908 –
Edgar Faure , French historian and politician, 139th
Prime Minister of France (d. 1988)
1908 –
Olav H. Hauge , Norwegian poet and gardener (d. 1994)
1908 –
Bill Merritt , New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1977)
1909 –
Gérard Filion , Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
1910 –
Herman Berlinski , Polish-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2001)
1910 –
Robert Winters , Canadian colonel, engineer, and politician, 26th
Canadian Minister of Public Works (d. 1969)
1911 –
Amelia Boynton Robinson , American activist (d. 2015)
1911 –
Klara Dan von Neumann , Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963)
1911 –
Maria Ulfah Santoso , Indonesian politician and women's rights activist (d. 1988)
[31]
1912 –
Otto Ernst Remer , German general (d. 1997)
1913 –
Romain Maes , Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1914 –
Lucy Ozarin ,
United States Navy
lieutenant commander and psychiatrist (d. 2017)
1915 –
Max Lanier , American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1916 –
Neagu Djuvara , Romanian historian, journalist, and diplomat (d. 2018)
1916 –
Moura Lympany , English pianist (d. 2005)
1917 –
Caspar Weinberger , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th
United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006)
1918 –
Cisco Houston , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1961)
1919 –
Wally Hickel , American businessman and politician, 2nd
Governor of Alaska (d. 2010)
1920 –
Godfrey Evans , English cricketer (d. 1999)
1920 –
Bob Kennedy , American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1920 –
Shelley Winters , American actress (d. 2006)
[30]
1921 –
Lydia Litvyak , Russian lieutenant and pilot (d. 1943)
1921 –
Zdzisław Żygulski , Polish historian and academic (d. 2015)
1922 –
Alain Robbe-Grillet , French director, screenwriter, and novelist (d. 2008)
1923 –
Katherine Victor , American actress (d. 2004)
[32]
1925 –
Brian Aldiss , English author and critic (d. 2017)
1925 –
Pierre Grondin , Canadian surgeon and academic (d. 2006)
1925 –
Anis Mansour , Egyptian journalist and author (d. 2011)
1927 –
Rosalynn Carter , 41st First Lady of the United States (d. 2023)
[33]
1928 –
Marge Schott , American businesswoman (d. 2004)
1928 –
Sonny Til , American R&B singer (d. 1981)
1929 –
Hugues Aufray , French singer-songwriter
1930 –
Liviu Librescu , Romanian-American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
1930 –
Rafael Pineda Ponce , Honduran academic and politician (d. 2014)
1931 –
Bramwell Tillsley , Canadian 14th
General of The Salvation Army (d. 2019)
1931 –
Hans van Mierlo , Dutch journalist and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2010)
1931 –
Grant Williams , American film, theater and television actor (d. 1985)
[34]
1932 –
Luc Montagnier , French virologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
1933 –
Just Fontaine , Moroccan-French footballer and manager (d. 2023)
1933 –
Roman Polanski , French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
[30]
1933 –
Frank Salemme , American gangster and hitman (d. 2022)
[35]
1934 –
Vincent Bugliosi , American lawyer and author (d. 2015)
1934 –
Roberto Clemente , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and soldier (d. 1972)
[30]
1934 –
Gulzar , Indian poet, lyricist and film director
1934 –
Rafer Johnson , American decathlete and actor (d. 2020)
[36]
1934 –
Michael May , German-Swiss race car driver and engineer
1935 –
Gail Fisher , American actress (d. 2000)
1935 –
Hifikepunye Pohamba , Namibian lawyer and politician, 2nd
President of Namibia
1936 –
Robert Redford , American actor, director, and producer
[37]
1937 –
Sheila Cassidy , English physician and author
1939 –
Maxine Brown , American soul/R&B singer-songwriter
1939 –
Robert Horton , English businessman (d. 2011)
1939 –
Johnny Preston , American pop singer (d. 2011)
1940 –
Adam Makowicz , Polish-Canadian pianist and composer
1940 –
Gil Whitney , American journalist (d. 1982)
1942 –
Henry G. Sanders , American actor
[37]
1943 –
Martin Mull , American actor and comedian
[37]
1943 –
Gianni Rivera , Italian footballer and politician
1943 –
Carl Wayne , English singer and actor (d. 2004)
1944 –
Paula Danziger , American author (d. 2004)
1944 –
Robert Hitchcock , Australian sculptor and illustrator
1945 –
Sarah Dash , American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2021)
1945 –
Värner Lootsmann , Estonian lawyer and politician
1945 –
Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. , American soldier, lawyer, and author (d. 1994)
1948 –
James Jones , English bishop
1948 –
John Scarlett , English intelligence officer
1949 –
Nigel Griggs , English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1950 –
Dennis Elliott , English drummer and sculptor
1952 –
Elayne Boosler , American actress, director, and screenwriter
[37]
1952 –
Patrick Swayze , American actor and dancer (d. 2009)
1952 –
Ricardo Villa , Argentinian footballer and coach
1953 –
Louie Gohmert , American captain, lawyer, and politician
1953 –
Marvin Isley , American R&B bass player and songwriter (d. 2010)
1954 –
Umberto Guidoni , Italian astrophysicist, astronaut, and politician
1955 –
Bruce Benedict , American baseball player and coach
1955 –
Taher Elgamal , Egyptian-American cryptographer
1956 –
John Debney , American composer and conductor
1956 –
Sandeep Patil , Indian cricketer and coach
1956 –
Jon Schwartz , American drummer and producer
1956 –
Kelly Willard , American singer-songwriter
1956 –
Rainer Woelki , German cardinal
1957 –
Tan Dun , Chinese composer
1957 –
Denis Leary , American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
[37]
1957 –
Ron Strykert , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1958 –
Didier Auriol , French race car driver
1958 –
Madeleine Stowe , American actress
[37]
1959 –
Tom Prichard , American wrestler and trainer
1960 –
Mike LaValliere , American baseball player
1960 –
Fat Lever , American basketball player and sportscaster
1961 –
Huw Edwards , Welsh-English journalist and author
1961 –
Timothy Geithner , American banker and politician, 75th
United States Secretary of the Treasury
1961 –
Bob Woodruff , American journalist and author
[37]
1962 –
Felipe Calderón , Mexican lawyer and politician, 56th
President of Mexico
[38]
1962 –
Geoff Courtnall , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 –
Adam Storke , American actor
[37]
1964 –
Craig Bierko , American actor and singer
[39]
1964 –
Andi Deris , German singer and songwriter
1964 –
Mark Sargent , Australian rugby league player
1964 –
Kenny Walker , American basketball player and sportscaster
1965 –
Ikue Ōtani , Japanese voice actress
1966 –
Gustavo Charif , Argentinian director and producer
1967 –
Daler Mehndi , Indian Punjabi singer, songwriter and record producer
1967 –
Brian Michael Bendis , American author and illustrator
1969 –
Everlast , American singer, rapper, and musician
[37]
1969 –
Masta Killa , American rapper
[37]
1969 –
Mark Kuhlmann , German rugby player and coach
1969 –
Edward Norton , American actor
[40]
1969 –
Christian Slater , American actor and producer
[37]
1970 –
Jason Furman , American economist and politician
1970 –
Malcolm-Jamal Warner , American actor and producer
[37]
1971 –
Patrik Andersson , Swedish footballer
1971 –
Richard David James , English musician composer
[41]
1974 –
Nicole Krauss , American novelist and critic
1975 –
Kaitlin Olson , American actress and comedian
[37]
1977 –
Paraskevas Antzas , Greek footballer
1977 –
Even Kruse Skatrud , Norwegian musician and educator
[42]
1978 –
Andy Samberg , American actor and comedian
[37]
1979 –
Stuart Dew , Australian footballer
1980 –
Esteban Cambiasso , Argentinian footballer
1980 –
Rob Nguyen , Australian race car driver
1980 –
Ryan O'Hara , Australian rugby league player
1980 –
Bart Scott , American football player
1980 –
Jeremy Shockey , American football player
1981 –
César Delgado , Argentinian footballer
1981 –
Dimitris Salpingidis , Greek footballer
1983 –
Mika , Lebanese-born English recording artist and singer-songwriter
[43]
1983 –
Cameron White , Australian cricketer
1984 –
Sigourney Bandjar , Dutch footballer
1984 –
Robert Huth , German footballer
1985 –
Inge Dekker , Dutch swimmer
1985 –
Bryan Ruiz , Costa Rican footballer
1986 –
Evan Gattis , American baseball player
1986 –
Ross McCormack , Scottish footballer
1987 –
Joanna Jędrzejczyk , Polish mixed martial artist
1987 –
Justin Wilson , American baseball player
[44]
1988 –
Jack Hobbs , English footballer
1988 –
Eggert Jónsson , Icelandic footballer
1988 –
G-Dragon , South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
1989 –
Anna Akana , American actress, comedian, musician, and YouTuber
[30]
1989 –
Yu Mengyu , Singaporean table tennis player
[45]
1991 –
Liz Cambage , Australian basketball player
[46]
1991 –
Richard Harmon , Canadian actor
[30]
1992 –
Elizabeth Beisel , American swimmer
1992 –
Bogdan Bogdanović , Serbian basketball player
1992 –
Frances Bean Cobain , American visual artist and model
[47]
1993 –
Jung Eun-ji , South Korean singer-songwriter
[48]
[49]
1993 –
Maia Mitchell , Australian actress and singer
[50]
1994 –
Madelaine Petsch , American actress and YouTuber
1994 –
Morgan Sanson , French footballer
1994 –
Seiya Suzuki , Japanese baseball player
[52]
1995 –
Alīna Fjodorova , Latvian figure skater
1995 –
Parker McKenna Posey , American actress
[37]
1997 –
Josephine Langford , Australian actress
[30]
1997 –
Renato Sanches , Portuguese footballer
1998 –
Brian To'o , Australian-Samoan rugby league player
[53]
1998 –
Clairo , American singer-songwriter
[54]
1999 –
Cassius Stanley , American basketball player
[55]
Deaths
Pre-1600
353 –
Decentius , Roman usurper
440 –
Pope Sixtus III
[56]
472 –
Ricimer , Roman general and politician (b. 405)
670 –
Fiacre , Irish
hermit
673 –
Kim Yu-shin , general of
Silla (b. 595)
849 –
Walafrid Strabo , German monk and theologian (b. 808)
911 –
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya , first
Zaydi
Imam of Yemen (b. 859)
[57]
1095 – King
Olaf I of Denmark
1211 –
Narapatisithu , king of Burma (b. 1150)
1258 –
Theodore II Laskaris , emperor of Nicea (
Byzantine emperor in exile)
1276 –
Pope Adrian V (b. 1220)
1318 –
Clare of Montefalco , Italian nun and saint (b. 1268)
1430 –
Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros , English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
1500 –
Alfonso of Aragon , Spanish prince (b. 1481)
1502 –
Knut Alvsson , Norwegian nobleman and politician (b. 1455)
1503 –
Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1550 –
Antonio Ferramolino , Italian architect and military engineer
1559 –
Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
[58]
1563 –
Étienne de La Boétie , French judge and philosopher (b. 1530)
1600 –
Sebastiano Montelupi , Italian businessman (b. 1516)
1601–1900
1613 –
Giovanni Artusi , Italian composer and theorist (b. 1540)
1620 –
Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1625 –
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche , English diplomat (b. 1556)
1634 –
Urbain Grandier , French priest (b. 1590)
1642 –
Guido Reni , Italian painter and educator (b. 1575)
1648 –
Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
1683 –
Charles Hart , English actor (b. 1625)
1707 –
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , English soldier and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1640)
1712 –
Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers , English general and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)
1765 –
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1815 –
Chauncey Goodrich , American lawyer and politician, 8th
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
1823 –
André-Jacques Garnerin , French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
1842 –
Louis de Freycinet , French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
1850 –
Honoré de Balzac , French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
1852 –
James Finlayson , Scottish
Quaker (b. 1772)
[59]
1886 –
Eli Whitney Blake , American inventor, invented the
Mortise lock (b. 1795)
1901–present
1919 –
Joseph E. Seagram , Canadian businessman and politician, founded the
Seagram Company (b. 1841)
1940 –
Walter Chrysler , American businessman, founded
Chrysler (b. 1875)
1942 –
Erwin Schulhoff , Austro-Czech composer and pianist (b. 1894)
[60]
1943 –
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski , Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1944 –
Ernst Thälmann , German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
1945 –
Subhas Chandra Bose , Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
1949 –
Paul Mares , American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1900)
1950 –
Julien Lahaut , Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
1952 –
Alberto Hurtado , Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
1961 –
Learned Hand , American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (b. 1872)
[61]
1964 –
Hildegard Trabant ,
Berlin Wall
victim (b. 1927)
1968 –
Arthur Marshall , American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
1975 –
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen , Norwegian Army general and war historian (b. 1897)
[62]
1979 –
Vasantrao Naik , Indian politician (b. 1913)
1981 –
Anita Loos , American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1983 –
Nikolaus Pevsner , German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
1986 –
Harun Babunagari , Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (b. 1902)
[63]
1990 –
B. F. Skinner , American psychologist and philosopher, invented the
Skinner box (b. 1904)
1994 –
Francis Raymond Shea , American bishop (b. 1913)
1998 –
Persis Khambatta , Indian model and actress,
Femina Miss India 1965 (b. 1948)
[64]
2001 –
David Peakall , English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)
2002 –
Dean Riesner , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2003 –
Tony Jackson , English singer and bassist (b. 1938)
2004 –
Elmer Bernstein , American composer and conductor (b. 1922)
2004 –
Hiram Fong , American soldier and politician (b. 1906)
2005 –
Chri$ Ca$h , American wrestler (b. 1982)
2006 –
Ken Kearney , Australian rugby player (b. 1924)
2007 –
Michael Deaver , American soldier and politician,
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
2007 –
Magdalen Nabb , English author (b. 1947)
2009 –
Kim Dae-jung , South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th
President of South Korea ,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2009 –
Rose Friedman , Ukrainian-American economist and author (b. 1910)
2009 –
Robert Novak , American journalist and author (b. 1931)
2010 –
Hal Connolly , American hammer thrower and coach (b. 1931)
2010 –
Benjamin Kaplan , American scholar and jurist (b. 1911)
2012 –
Harrison Begay , American painter (b. 1917)
2012 –
John Kovatch , American football player (b. 1920)
2012 –
Scott McKenzie , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
2012 –
Ra. Ki. Rangarajan , Indian journalist and author (b. 1927)
2012 –
Jesse Robredo , Filipino public servant and politician, 23rd
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (b. 1958)
2013 –
Josephine D'Angelo , American baseball player (b. 1924)
2013 –
Jean Kahn , French lawyer and activist (b. 1929)
2013 –
Albert Murray , American author and critic (b. 1916)
2014 –
Gordon Faber , American soldier and politician, 39th
Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (b. 1930)
2014 –
Jim Jeffords , American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934)
2014 –
Levente Lengyel , Hungarian chess player (b. 1933)
2014 –
Don Pardo , American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)
2015 –
Khaled al-Asaad , Syrian archaeologist and author (b. 1932)
2015 –
Roger Smalley , English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1943)
2015 –
Suvra Mukherjee , Wife of former Indian president
Pranab Mukherjee (b. 1940)
2015 –
Louis Stokes , American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2015 –
Bud Yorkin , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2016 –
Ernst Nolte , German historian (b. 1923)
2017 –
Bruce Forsyth , English television presenter and entertainer (b. 1928)
2017 –
Zoe Laskari , Greek actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1944)
2018 –
Denis Edozie , Nigerian Supreme Court judge (b. 1935)
[65]
2018 –
Kofi Annan , Ghanaian diplomat and seventh
Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1938)
[66]
2020 –
Ben Cross , English stage and film actor (b. 1947)
2023 –
Lolita , the second-oldest
orca in captivity (b. ca. 1966)
[67]
2023 –
Al Quie , American politician, 35th
Governor of Minnesota (b. 1923)
[68]
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