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Day of the year
December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 20 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy , and his brother-in-law,
Philip III of Spain , is repelled by the citizens of
Geneva . (Commemorated annually by the
Fête de l'Escalade .)
1640 – The
Root and Branch petition , signed by 15,000 Londoners calling for the abolition of the
episcopacy , is presented to the
Long Parliament .
[8]
1675 –
Antonio de Vea expedition enters
San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.
[9]
1688 –
Glorious Revolution :
James II of England , while trying to flee to France, throws the
Great Seal of the Realm into the
River Thames .
1792 –
French Revolution : King
Louis XVI of France
is put on trial for treason by the
National Convention .
1815 – The
U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the
United States Senate Committee on Finance .
1816 –
Indiana becomes the 19th
U.S. state .
1868 –
Paraguayan War :
Brazilian troops defeat the
Paraguayan Army at the
Battle of Avay .
1899 –
Second Boer War : In the
Battle of Magersfontein the
Boers commanded by general
Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the
British Empire commanded by
Lord Methuen trying to relieve the
Siege of Kimberley .
1901–present
1901 –
Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from
Poldhu, Cornwall , England to
Saint John's ,
Newfoundland .
[10]
1905 – A workers' uprising occurs in
Kyiv , Ukraine (then part of the
Russian Empire ), and establishes the
Shuliavka Republic .
1907 – The
New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
1913 – More than two years after it was stolen from the
Louvre ,
Leonardo da Vinci 's painting
Mona Lisa is recovered in
Florence , Italy. The thief,
Vincenzo Peruggia , is immediately arrested.
[11]
1917 –
World War I : British General
Edmund Allenby enters
Jerusalem on foot and declares
martial law .
1920 –
Irish War of Independence : In retaliation for a recent
IRA ambush, British forces
burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city . Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
1925 –
Roman Catholic
papal
encyclical
Quas primas introduces the
Feast of Christ the King .
1927 –
Guangzhou Uprising :
Communist
Red Guards launch an uprising in
Guangzhou , China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou
Soviet .
1931 –
Statute of Westminster 1931 : The
British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the
Dominions of the
Commonwealth —Australia, Canada,
Newfoundland ,
New Zealand ,
South Africa , and
Ireland .
1934 –
Bill Wilson , co-founder of
Alcoholics Anonymous , takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
1936 –
Abdication Crisis :
Edward VIII 's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the
British Dominions beyond the Seas , and
Emperor of India , becomes effective.
1937 –
Second Italo-Ethiopian War :
Italy leaves the
League of Nations .
1941 –
World War II :
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the
Empire of Japan in the wake of the
attack on Pearl Harbor . The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
1941 – World War II:
Poland declares war on the
Empire of Japan .
1941 – World War II: The
Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the
Battle of Wake Island .
1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (
UNICEF ) is established.
1948 –
Arab–Israeli War : The
United Nations passes
General Assembly Resolution 194 , creating a
Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
1958 –
French Upper Volta and
French Dahomey gain self-government from
France , becoming the
Republic of Upper Volta (now
Burkina Faso ) and the
Republic of Dahomey (now
Benin ), respectively, and joining the
French Community .
1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in
French Algeria during a visit by
French President
Charles de Gaulle .
1962 –
Arthur Lucas , convicted of murder, is the last person to be
executed in Canada .
1964 –
Che Guevara speaks at the
United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
1972 –
Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final
Apollo mission to land on the
Moon .
1978 – The
Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by
Lucchese family associate
Jimmy Burke . It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (
Superfund ) is enacted by the
U.S. Congress .
1981 –
El Mozote massacre : Armed forces in
El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the
Salvadoran Civil War .
1988 – A
Soviet Air Force Il-76 aircraft
crashes while participating in the
Armenian earthquake relief, killing 78 people.
[12]
1990 – Demonstrations by students and workers across
Albania begin, which eventually trigger the
fall of communism in Albania .
1990 – Several fatal collisions in the
1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster result in a total of 12 deaths and 42 being injured
[13]
1993 – A block of the
Highland Towers
condominium complex collapses following a
landslide caused by heavy rain and water flowing from a construction site at
Ampang district in
Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia. 48 of its residents die, including one who died in hospital after being rescued alive, leaving only two survivors.
[14]
1994 –
First Chechen War :
Russian President
Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into
Chechnya .
1994 – A bomb explodes on
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 , en route from
Manila ,
Philippines , to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to land the plane safely.
1997 – The
Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
1998 –
Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near
Surat Thani Airport , killing 101. The pilot flying the
Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered
spatial disorientation .
1999 –
SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into
Pico da Esperança on
São Jorge Island in the
Azores , killing 35.
[15]
2001 – China joins the
World Trade Organization (WTO).
2005 – The
Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in
Hemel Hempstead , England.
2005 –
Cronulla riots : Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be
Lebanese in
Cronulla, New South Wales ; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2006 – The
International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in
Tehran ,
Iran , by then-president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
2006 –
Felipe Calderón , the
President of Mexico , launches a
military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of
Michoacán . This effort is often regarded as the first event in the
Mexican Drug War .
2007 –
Insurgency in the Maghreb :
Two car bombs explode in
Algiers ,
Algeria , one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
2008 –
Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion
Ponzi scheme .
2009 – Finnish game developer
Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game
Angry Birds internationally on
iOS .
[16]
2012 – At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in
bombings in the
Alawite village of
Aqrab ,
Syria .
2017 –
New York City Subway bombing : A pipe bomb partially detonates in the
New York City Subway , in the
Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal . Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.
2019 – The results of the
2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for
Bougainville 's independence.
[17]
2020 – The
Food and Drug Administration issues an
Emergency Use Authorization on the
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine , the first
COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.
[18]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1613 –
Amar Singh Rathore , Rajput nobleman (d. 1644)
1712 –
Francesco Algarotti , Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1764)
1725 –
George Mason , American lawyer and politician (d. 1792)
1758 –
Carl Friedrich Zelter , German composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1832)
1761 –
Gian Domenico Romagnosi , Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (d. 1835)
1781 –
David Brewster , Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1868)
1801 –
Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German poet and playwright (d. 1836)
1803 –
Hector Berlioz , French composer, conductor, and critic (d. 1869)
1810 –
Alfred de Musset , French dramatist, poet, and novelist (d. 1857)
1830 –
Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d. 1872)
1837 –
Webster Paulson , English civil engineer (d. 1887)
1838 –
John Labatt , Canadian brewer and businessman (d. 1915)
1843 –
Robert Koch , German microbiologist and physician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
1856 –
Georgi Plekhanov , Russian philosopher, theorist, and author (d. 1918)
1858 –
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , Russian director, producer, and playwright (d. 1943)
1861 –
Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry , British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer (d. 1923)
1863 –
Annie Jump Cannon , American astronomer and academic (d. 1941)
[20]
1872 –
René Bull , British illustrator and photographer (d. 1942)
1873 –
Josip Plemelj , Slovenian mathematician and academic (d. 1967)
1875 –
Yehuda Leib Maimon , Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (d. 1962)
1880 –
Frank Tarrant , Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1951)
1882 –
Subramania Bharati , Indian journalist and poet (d. 1921)
1882 –
Max Born , German physicist and mathematician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1882 –
Fiorello H. La Guardia , American lawyer and politician, 99th
Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)
1884 –
Piet Ooms , Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1961)
1889 –
Walter Knott , American farmer and businessman, founded
Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981)
1890 –
Carlos Gardel , French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935)
1890 –
Mark Tobey , American-Swiss painter and educator (d. 1976)
1892 –
Arnold Majewski , Finnish military hero of Polish descent (d. 1942)
[21]
1893 –
Leo Ornstein , Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 2002)
1897 –
Ronald Skirth , English soldier (d. 1977)
1899 –
Julio de Caro , Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1980)
1900 –
Hermína Týrlová , Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993)
1900 –
Gerd Arntz , German Modernist artist, co-creator of
Isotype (d. 1988)
[22]
1901–present
1904 –
Marge , American cartoonist (d. 1993)
1905 –
Robert Henriques , English farmer, author, and broadcaster (d. 1967)
1905 –
Gilbert Roland , Mexican-American actor and singer (d. 1994)
1908 –
Elliott Carter , American composer and academic (d. 2012)
1908 –
Manoel de Oliveira , Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1908 –
Hákun Djurhuus , Faroese educator and politician, fourth
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
1908 –
Amon Göth , Austrian Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
1909 –
Ronald McKie , Australian soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1991)
1910 –
Mildred Cleghorn , Native American chairwoman and educator (d. 1997)
[23]
1911 –
Val Guest , English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006)
1911 –
Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1911 –
Qian Xuesen , Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (d. 2009)
1912 –
Carlo Ponti , Italian-Swiss film producer (d. 2007)
1913 –
Jean Marais , French actor and director (d. 1998)
1916 –
Elena Garro , Mexican author and playwright (d. 1998)
1916 –
Pérez Prado , Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989)
1918 –
Clinton Adams , American painter and historian (d. 2002)
1918 –
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1919 –
Cliff Michelmore , English television host and producer (d. 2016)
1919 –
Marie Windsor , American actress (d. 2000)
1920 –
Mary Ivy Burks , American environmental activist (d. 2007)
[24]
1920 –
Denis Jenkinson , English motorcycle racer and journalist (d. 1996)
1921 –
Ilmar Laaban , Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000)
1921 –
Liz Smith , English actress (d. 2016)
1922 –
Grigoris Bithikotsis , Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1922 –
Dilip Kumar , Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2021
[25] )
1922 –
Maila Nurmi , Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
[26]
1922 –
Grace Paley , American short story writer and poet (d. 2007)
1923 –
Betsy Blair , American actress and dancer (d. 2009)
1923 –
Lillian Cahn , Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded
Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
1923 –
Morrie Turner , American comics creator (d. 2014)
1924 –
Doc Blanchard , American football player and colonel (d. 2009)
[26]
1925 –
Aaron Feuerstein , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2021)
1925 –
Paul Greengard , American neuroscientist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
1925 –
James Sullivan , American politician (d. 2012)
1926 –
Big Mama Thornton , American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
[26]
1927 –
John Buscema , American illustrator (d. 2002)
1929 –
Axel Anderson , German actor and production manager (d. 2012)
1929 –
Subhash Gupte , Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
1930 –
Chus Lampreave , Spanish actress (d. 2016)
1930 –
Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1931 –
Ernie Beck , American basketball player
[27]
1931 –
Ronald Dworkin , American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013)
1931 –
Rita Moreno , Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer
[28]
1931 –
Pierre Pilote , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
[29]
1931 –
Rajneesh , Indian guru, mystic, and educator (d. 1990)
1932 –
Enrique Bermúdez , Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991)
1932 –
Keith Waldrop , American author and poet (d. 2023)
1933 –
Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. , Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd
President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2019)
1934 –
Salim Durani , Afghan-Indian cricketer (d. 2023)
1935 –
Pranab Mukherjee , Indian journalist and politician, 13th
President of India (d. 2020)
1935 –
Elmer Vasko , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1936 –
Hans van den Broek , Dutch lawyer and politician,
Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
1936 –
Taku Yamasaki , Japanese politician
1937 –
Jim Harrison , American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2016)
1938 –
Enrico Macias , Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 –
McCoy Tyner , American jazz musician (d. 2020)
1939 –
Tom Hayden , American activist and politician (d. 2016)
1939 –
Thomas McGuane , American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
1940 –
David Gates , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[28]
1940 –
Donna Mills , American actress and producer
[28]
1941 –
Max Baucus , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th
United States Ambassador to China
1941 –
J. P. Parisé , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2015)
1941 –
Rogier van Otterloo , Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)
1941 –
J. Frank Wilson , American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
1942 –
Anna Carteret , English actress
1943 –
John Kerry , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th
United States Secretary of State
[26]
1944 –
Teri Garr , American actress and comedian
[26]
1944 –
Jon Garrison , American tenor and educator
1944 –
Lynda Day George , American actress
[28]
1944 –
Michael Lang , American concert promoter and producer (d. 2022)
[30]
1944 –
Brenda Lee , American singer-songwriter
[28]
1946 –
Rhoma Irama , Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1946 –
Rick McCosker , Australian cricketer
1946 –
Diana Palmer , American journalist and author
1948 –
Stamatis Spanoudakis , Greek guitarist and composer
1948 –
Shinji Tanimura , Japanese singer-songwriter (d. 2023)
[31]
1949 –
Christina Onassis , Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (d. 1988)
1951 –
Mazlan Othman , Malaysian astrophysicist and astronomer
1951 –
Ria Stalman , Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
1953 –
Bess Armstrong , American actress
[28]
1954 –
Brad Bryant , American golfer
1954 –
Sylvester Clarke , Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
1954 –
Santiago Creel , Mexican lawyer and politician,
Mexican Secretary of the Interior
1954 –
Jermaine Jackson , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
[28]
1954 –
Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson , Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer
1955 –
Gene Grossman , American economist and academic
1955 –
Stu Jackson , American basketball player, coach, and manager
1955 –
Ray Kelvin , British fashion designer
1955 –
Christian Sackewitz , German footballer and manager
1956 –
Lani Brockman , American actress and director
1956 –
Andrew Lansley , English politician,
Secretary of State for Health
1957 –
Peter Bagge , American author and illustrator
1958 –
Chris Hughton , English-born Irish footballer and manager
1958 –
Tom Shadyac , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 –
Nikki Sixx , American bass player, songwriter, and producer
[28]
1960 –
Anders Eldebrink , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
[32]
1961 –
Dave King , Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 –
Steve Nicol , Scottish footballer and manager
1961 –
Macky Sall , Senegalese engineer and politician, fourth
President of Senegal
1961 –
Marco Pierre White , English chef and mentor
1962 –
Ben Browder , American actor
[28]
1963 –
Mario Been , Dutch footballer and manager
1963 –
Mark Greatbatch , New Zealand cricketer
1963 –
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch , German tennis player
[33]
1963 –
John Lammers , Dutch footballer and manager
1963 –
Nigel Winterburn , English footballer and coach
1964 –
Justin Currie , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
[28]
1964 –
Dave Schools , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
[28]
1964 –
Carolyn Waldo , Canadian swimmer and sportscaster
1965 –
Jay Bell , American baseball player and coach
1965 –
Gavin Hill , New Zealand rugby player
1965 –
Glenn Lazarus , Australian rugby league player and politician
1965 –
Giannis Ragousis , Greek economist and politician,
Greek Minister for National Defence
1966 –
Gary Dourdan , American actor
[28]
1966 –
Erik Honoré , Norwegian guitarist and producer
1966 –
Göran Kropp , Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (d. 2002)
1966 –
Leon Lai , Hong Kong singer and actor
1967 –
Peter Kelamis , Australian voice actor
1967 –
Mo'Nique , American comedian, actress, and producer
[28]
1967 –
Chris Shepherd , English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 –
Katy Steding , American basketball player and coach
[34]
1968 –
Emmanuelle Charpentier , French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, and Nobel laureate
[35]
1968 –
Fabrizio Ravanelli , Italian footballer and manager
1969 –
Viswanathan Anand , Indian chess player
1969 –
Stig Inge Bjørnebye , Norwegian footballer and manager
1969 –
Max Martini , American actor, director, and screenwriter
[28]
1969 –
Alessandro Melli , Italian footballer and manager
1970 –
Victoria Fuller , American model and actress
1971 –
Willie McGinest , American football player and sportscaster
1972 –
Daniel Alfredsson , Swedish ice hockey player
1972 –
Sami Al-Jaber , Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
1972 –
Murray Goodwin , Zimbabwean cricketer
1972 –
Andriy Husin , Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1973 –
Mos Def , American rapper
[28]
1974 –
Maarten Lafeber , Dutch golfer
1974 –
Rey Mysterio , American wrestler
1974 –
Lisa Ortiz , American theatre and voice actress
1974 –
Ben Shephard , English journalist and television host
1974 –
Gete Wami , Ethiopian runner
1975 –
Gerben de Knegt , Dutch cyclist
1976 –
Shareef Abdur-Rahim , American basketball player, coach, and manager
1976 –
Yujiro Shirakawa , Japanese actor
1977 –
Mark Streit , Swiss ice hockey player
1978 –
Roy Wood, Jr. , American comedian, actor, and radio host
1979 –
Colleen Hoover , American author
[26]
1979 –
Valdis Mintals , Estonian figure skater
1979 –
Rider Strong , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
[28]
1980 –
Adi Keissar , Israeli poet
1980 –
Kristjan Kitsing , Estonian basketball player
1981 –
Rebekkah Brunson , American basketball player and coach
[36]
1981 –
Jason Kennedy , American journalist
1981 –
Jeff McComsey , American author and illustrator
1981 –
Paul Medhurst , Australian footballer
1981 –
Javier Saviola , Argentine footballer
1982 –
Roman Harper , American football player
[37]
1982 –
Pablo Pérez Companc , Argentine race car driver
1984 –
Leighton Baines , English footballer
1984 –
Sandra Echeverría , Mexican actress and singer
1984 –
James Ellsworth , American wrestler
1984 –
Xosha Roquemore , American actress
[28]
1985 –
Karla Souza , Mexican actress
[26]
1986 –
Roy Hibbert , American basketball player
1987 –
Clifton Geathers , American football player
1987 –
Alex Russell , Australian actor
[38]
1987 –
Miranda Tapsell , Australian actress
1988 –
Tim Southee , New Zealand cricketer
1989 –
Kellie Harrington , Irish boxer
[39]
1990 –
Alexa Demie , American actress and singer
[26]
1992 –
Tiffany Alvord , American singer-songwriter
1992 –
Malcolm Brogdon , American basketball player
[40]
1993 –
Yalitza Aparicio , Mexican actress
[41]
1995 –
Abbi Grant , Scottish footballer
[42]
1996 –
Hailee Steinfeld , American actress, singer and songwriter
[28]
1997 –
Matthew Tkachuk , American ice hockey player
[43]
2000 –
Onyeka Okongwu , American basketball player
[44]
Deaths
Pre-1600
384 –
Pope Damasus I (b. c.304)
[45]
861 –
Al-Fath ibn Khaqan , chief confidant and councillor to al-Mutawakkil
969 –
Nikephoros II Phokas , Byzantine emperor (b. 912)
1121 –
Al-Afdal Shahanshah , Egyptian political adviser (b. 1066)
1198 –
Averroes , Spanish astronomer, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1126)
[46]
1241 –
Ögedei Khan , Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)
1282 –
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , Welsh prince (b. 1223)
1282 –
Michael VIII Palaiologos , Byzantine emperor (b. 1225)
1474 –
Henry IV of Castile , King of the
Crown of Castile (b. 1425)
1532 –
Pietro Accolti , Italian cardinal (b. 1455)
1582 –
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba , Spanish general and politician, 12th
Constable of Portugal (b. 1508)
1601–1900
1610 –
Adam Elsheimer , German artist working in Rome (b. 1578)
1686 –
Louis, Grand Condé , French general (b. 1621)
[47]
1694 –
Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1737 –
John Strype , English priest, historian, and author (b. 1643)
1747 –
Edmund Curll , English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
1797 –
Richard Brocklesby , English physician (b. 1722)
1826 –
Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
1840 –
Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1872 –
Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
1880 –
Oliver Winchester , American businessman, founded the
Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
1892 –
William Milligan , Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)
1901–present
1906 –
Charles Townsend , American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)
1909 –
Ludwig Mond , German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the
metal carbonyls (b. 1839)
1913 –
Carl von In der Maur , Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852)
1918 –
Ivan Cankar , Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1920 –
Olive Schreiner , South African author and activist (b. 1855)
1936 –
Myron Grimshaw , American baseball player (b. 1875)
[48]
1937 –
Jaan Anvelt , Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
1937 –
Hugh Thackeray Turner , English architect and painter (b. 1853)
1938 –
Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian historian and educator,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1941 –
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. , American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
1941 –
Émile Picard , French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
1945 –
Charles Fabry , French physicist and academic (b. 1867)
1950 –
Leslie Comrie , New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)
1951 –
Mustafa Muğlalı , Turkish general (b. 1882)
1951 –
Hijri Dede , Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (b. 1881)
1953 –
Sedat Simavi , Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896)
1957 –
Musidora , French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1959 –
Jim Bottomley , American baseball player and manager (b. 1900)
[49]
1964 –
Sam Cooke , American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
1964 –
Percy Kilbride , American actor (b. 1888)
1966 –
Augusta Fox Bronner , American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (b. 1881)
1968 –
Richard Sagrits , Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)
1968 –
Arthur Hays Sulzberger , American publisher (b. 1891)
1971 –
Maurice McDonald , American businessman, co-founded
McDonald's (b. 1902)
1975 –
Lee Wiley , American singer (b. 1908)
1975 –
Nihal Atsız , Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905)
1978 –
Vincent du Vigneaud , American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1978 –
Paul O'Dea , American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
1979 –
James J. Gibson , American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
1983 –
Neil Ritchie , Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
1984 –
Oskar Seidlin , German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
1984 –
George Waggner , American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
1987 –
G. A. Kulkarni , Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
1989 –
Louise Dahl-Wolfe , American photographer (b. 1895)
1991 –
Robert Q. Lewis , American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)
1991 –
Artur Lundkvist , Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
1994 –
Philip Phillips , American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
1995 –
Greg Bahnsen , American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)
1996 –
Willie Rushton , English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded
Private Eye (b. 1937)
1997 –
Eddie Chapman , English spy (b. 1914)
1997 –
Simon Jeffes , English guitarist and composer (b. 1949)
1998 –
André Lichnerowicz , French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915)
1998 –
Lynn Strait , American singer-songwriter (b. 1968)
2000 –
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah , Pakistani politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
2000 –
David Lewis , American actor (b. 1916)
2001 –
Mainza Chona , Zambian lawyer and politician, first
Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2003 –
Ahmadou Kourouma , Ivorian author and playwright (b. 1927)
2004 –
José Luis Cuciuffo , Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2004 –
Arthur Lydiard , New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917)
2008 –
Bettie Page , American model (b. 1923)
2010 –
Dick Hoerner , American football player (b. 1922)
2011 –
John Patrick Foley , American cardinal (b. 1935)
2012 –
Galina Vishnevskaya , Russian soprano and actress (b. 1926)
2012 –
Mendel Weinbach , Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1933)
2012 –
Ravi Shankar , Indian-American
sitar player and composer (b. 1920)
2013 –
Nadir Afonso , Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920)
2013 –
Barbara Branden , Canadian-American author and academic (b. 1929)
2013 –
Javier Jáuregui (boxer) , Mexican boxer (b. 1973)
2013 –
Sheikh Mussa Shariefi , Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942)
2014 –
Hans Wallat , German conductor and director (b. 1929)
2015 –
Abish Kekilbayev , Kazakh academic and politician (b. 1939)
2015 –
H. Arnold Steinberg , Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1933)
2015 –
Hema Upadhyay , Indian painter and sculptor (b. 1972)
2015 –
John "Hot Rod" Williams , American basketball player (b. 1962)
2015 –
Ken Woolley , Australian architect (b. 1933)
2017 –
Keith Chegwin , British TV presenter (b. 1957)
[50]
2020 –
James Flynn , New Zealand intelligence researcher. (b. 1934)
[51]
2021 –
Anne Rice , American author (b. 1941)
[52]
2023 –
Andre Braugher , American actor (b. 1962)
[53]
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