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Day of the year
June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 188 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1906 – The first
Grand Prix motor race is held at
Le Mans .
[2]
1909 – The
Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1917 –
World War I : The
American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat in the Battle of Hamel on the 4th of July.
1918 – World War I:
Allied forces under
John J. Pershing and
James Harbord defeat
Imperial German forces under
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the
Battle of Belleau Wood .
1924 – The
American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
1927 –
The Cyclone roller coaster opens on
Coney Island .
1934 – United States President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the
Federal Credit Union Act , which establishes credit unions.
1936 – Initial flight of the
Focke-Wulf Fw 61 , the first practical helicopter.
1940 –
World War II : Under the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , the
Soviet Union presents an
ultimatum to
Romania requiring it to cede
Bessarabia and the northern part of
Bukovina .
1941 – World War II: Soviet planes
bomb Kassa, Hungary (now
Košice ,
Slovakia ), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1942 – The first flight of the
Grumman F6F Hellcat .
1944 – World War II:
San Marino , a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the
RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
1944 – World War II: The
Battle of Osuchy in
Osuchy , Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and
Polish resistance forces , ends with the defeat of the latter.
1945 – The
United Nations Charter is signed by
50 Allied nations in
San Francisco, California .
1948 –
Cold War : The first supply flights are made in response to the
Berlin Blockade .
1948 –
William Shockley files the original patent for the
grown-junction transistor , the first
bipolar junction transistor .
1948 –
Shirley Jackson 's short story
The Lottery is published in
The New Yorker magazine.
1952 – The
Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in
Malaya , as a union of statewide labour parties.
1953 –
Lavrentiy Beria , head of
MVD , is arrested by
Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the
Politburo .
1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the
Freedom Charter at the
Congress of the People in
Kliptown .
1959 – Swedish boxer
Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American
Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at
Yankee Stadium .
1960 – The former British Protectorate of
British Somaliland gains its independence as
Somaliland .
1960 –
Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963 – Cold War: U.S. President
John F. Kennedy gave his "
Ich bin ein Berliner " speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic
West Germany shortly after
Soviet -supported
East Germany erected the
Berlin Wall .
1967 –
Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by
Pope Paul VI .
1974 – The
Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's
chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in
Troy, Ohio .
1975 – Two
FBI agents and a member of the
American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in
South Dakota ;
Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1977 –
Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
1978 –
Air Canada Flight 189 , flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the
Etobicoke Creek
ravine . Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
1981 –
Dan-Air Flight 240 , flying to
East Midlands Airport , crashes in
Nailstone ,
Leicestershire . All three crew members perish.
[3]
1988 – The first crash of an
Airbus A320 occurs when
Air France Flight 296Q crashes at
Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in
Habsheim , France, during an
air show , killing three of the 136 people on board.
[4]
1991 –
Yugoslav Wars : The
Yugoslav People's Army begins the
Ten-Day War in
Slovenia .
1995 –
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani , the
Emir of
Qatar , in a bloodless
coup d'état .
1997 – The
U.S. Supreme Court rules that the
Communications Decency Act violates the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution .
1997 –
J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her
Harry Potter novel series,
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.
[5]
2000 – The
Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
2003 – The
U.S. Supreme Court rules in
Lawrence v. Texas that sex-based
sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2006 –
Mari Alkatiri , the first
Prime Minister of East Timor , resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2007 –
Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2008 – A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest,
killing 25 people .
2012 – The
Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in
Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
2013 –
Riots in China's
Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
2013 – The
U.S. Supreme Court
ruled, 5–4 , that Section 3 of the
Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution .
[6]
2015 – Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed
Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
[7]
[8]
2015 – The
U.S. Supreme Court
ruled, 5–4 , that
same-sex couples have a
constitutional right to
marriage under the
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution .
[9]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1681 –
Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
1689 –
Edward Holyoke , American pastor and academic (d. 1769)
1694 –
Georg Brandt , Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1699 –
Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin , French businesswoman (d. 1777)
1702 –
Philip Doddridge , English hymn-writer and educator (d. 1751)
1703 –
Thomas Clap , American minister and academic (d. 1767)
1726 –
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
1730 –
Charles Messier , French astronomer and academic (d. 1817)
1764 –
Jan Paweł Łuszczewski , Polish politician (d. 1812)
1786 –
Sunthorn Phu , Thai poet (d. 1855)
[11]
1796 –
Jan Paweł Lelewel , Polish painter and engineer (d. 1847)
1798 –
Wolfgang Menzel , German poet and critic (d. 1873)
1817 –
Branwell Brontë , English painter and poet (d. 1848)
1819 –
Abner Doubleday , American general (d. 1893)
1821 –
Bartolomé Mitre , Argentinian soldier, journalist, and politician, 6th
President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1824 –
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
1835 –
Thomas W. Knox , American journalist and author (d. 1896)
1839 –
Sam Watkins , American soldier and author (d. 1901)
1852 –
Daoud Corm , Lebanese painter (d. 1930)
1854 –
Robert Laird Borden , Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
1865 –
Bernard Berenson , Lithuanian-American historian and author (d. 1959)
1866 –
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon , English archaeologist and banker (d. 1923)
1869 –
Martin Andersen Nexø , Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)
1878 –
Leopold Löwenheim , German mathematician and logician (d. 1957)
1880 –
Mitchell Lewis , American actor (d. 1956)
1881 –
Ya'akov Cohen , Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1960)
1892 –
Pearl S. Buck , American novelist, essayist, short story writer
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1893 –
Dorothy Fuldheim , American journalist and news anchor (d. 1989)
1895 –
George Hainsworth , Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1950)
1898 –
Willy Messerschmitt , German engineer and businessman (d. 1978)
1898 –
Chesty Puller , US general (d. 1971)
1899 –
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
[12]
1901–present
1901 –
Stuart Symington , American lieutenant and politician, 1st
United States Secretary of the Air Force (d. 1988)
1902 –
Hugues Cuénod , Swiss tenor and educator (d. 2010)
1903 –
Big Bill Broonzy , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
1904 –
Peter Lorre , Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1905 –
Lynd Ward , American author and illustrator (d. 1985)
[13]
1906 –
Alberto Rabagliati , Italian singer (d. 1974)
1906 –
Viktor Schreckengost , American sculptor and educator (d. 2008)
1907 –
Debs Garms , American baseball player (d. 1984)
1908 –
Salvador Allende , Chilean physician and politician, 29th
President of Chile (d. 1973)
1909 –
Colonel Tom Parker , Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)
1909 –
Wolfgang Reitherman , German-American animator, director, and producer (d. 1985)
1911 –
Babe Didrikson Zaharias , American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956)
1911 –
Bronisław Żurakowski , Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009)
1913 –
Aimé Césaire , French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008)
1913 –
Maurice Wilkes , English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010)
1914 –
Laurie Lee , English author and poet (d. 1997)
1914 –
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri , Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (d. 1997)
[14]
1914 –
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark , European royalty (d. 2001)
1915 –
Paul Castellano , American gangster (d. 1985)
1915 –
George Haigh , English professional footballer (d. 2019)
1915 –
Charlotte Zolotow , American author and poet (d. 2013)
1916 –
Virginia Satir , American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)
1916 –
Giuseppe Taddei , Italian actor and singer (d. 2010)
1917 –
Idriz Ajeti , Albanian albanologist (d. 2019)
1918 –
Leo Rosner , Polish-born Austrian Jewish musician (d. 2008)
1918 –
Raleigh Rhodes , American combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1918 –
J. B. Fuqua , American entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2006)
1919 –
Richard Neustadt , American political scientist and academic (d. 2003)
1919 –
Jimmy Newberry , American pitcher (d. 1983)
1919 –
George Athan Billias , American historian (d. 2018)
1919 –
Donald M. Ashton , English art director (d. 2004)
1920 –
Jean-Pierre Roy , Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1921 –
Violette Szabo , French-British secret agent (d. 1945)
1921 –
Robert Everett , American computer scientist (d. 2018)
1922 –
Walter Farley , American author (d. 1989)
1922 –
Eleanor Parker , American actress (d. 2013)
1922 –
Enzo Apicella , English artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur (d. 2018)
1923 –
Franz-Paul Decker , German conductor (d. 2014)
1923 –
Ed Bearss , American military historian and author (d. 2020)
1924 –
Kostas Axelos , Greek-French philosopher and author (d. 2010)
1924 –
James W. McCord Jr. , CIA officer (d. 2017)
1925 –
Pavel Belyayev , Soviet soldier, pilot and cosmonaut (d. 1970)
[15]
1925 –
Wolfgang Unzicker , German chess player (d. 2006)
1925 –
Jean Frydman , French resistant and businessman (d. 2021)
1926 –
Kenny Baker , American fiddler (d. 2011)
1926 –
Mahendra Bhatnagar , Indian poet (d. 2020)
1926 –
Fernando Mönckeberg Barros , Chilean surgeon
[16]
1926 –
Dinu Zamfirescu , Romanian politician
1927 –
Robert Kroetsch , Canadian author and poet (d. 2011)
1928 –
Jacob Druckman , American composer and academic (d. 1996)
1928 –
Yoshiro Nakamatsu , Japanese inventor
1928 –
Bill Sheffield , American politician; 5th Governor of Alaska (d. 2022)
1928 –
Samuel Belzberg , Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
1929 –
June Bronhill , Australian soprano and actress (d. 2005)
1929 –
Fred Bruemmer , Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (d. 2013)
1929 –
Milton Glaser , American illustrator and graphic designer (d. 2020)
1930 –
Jackie Fargo , American wrestler and trainer (d. 2013)
1930 –
Wolfgang Schwanitz , East German secret police (d. 2022)
1931 –
Colin Wilson , English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
1932 – Dame
Marguerite Pindling , Bahamian politician; Governor-General of the Bahamas
1932 –
Don Valentine , American venture capitalist (d. 2019)
1933 –
Claudio Abbado , Italian conductor (d. 2014)
[17]
1933 –
Gene Green , American baseball player (d. 1981)
1933 –
David Winnick , English politician
1934 –
Dave Grusin , American pianist and composer
1934 –
Toru Goto , Japanese swimmer
1935 –
Carlo Facetti , Italian race car driver
1935 –
Sandro Riminucci , Italian basketball player
1936 –
Benjamin Adekunle , Nigerian general (d. 2014)
1936 –
Hal Greer , American basketball player (d. 2018)
1936 –
Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart , Scottish politician (d. 2020)
1936 –
Edith Pearlman , American short story writer
1936 –
Jean-Claude Turcotte , Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
1936 –
Nancy Willard , American author and poet (d. 2017)
1937 –
Robert Coleman Richardson , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1937 –
Reggie Workman , American bassist and composer
1938 –
Neil Abercrombie , American sociologist and politician, 7th
Governor of Hawaii
1938 –
Billy Davis Jr. , American pop-soul singer
1938 –
Gerald North , American climatologist and academic
1939 –
Chuck Robb , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th
Governor of Virginia
1939 –
Zainuddin Maidin , Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
[18]
1941 –
Yves Beauchemin , Canadian author and academic
1942 –
J. J. Dillon , American wrestler and manager
1942 –
Gilberto Gil , Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician,
Brazilian Minister of Culture
1943 –
Georgie Fame , English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
1943 –
Warren Farrell , American author and educator
1944 –
Gennady Zyuganov , Russian politician
[19]
1945 –
Issa al-Haadi al-Mahdi (Dwight York), American criminal, black supremacist, pedophile, convicted child molester, and musician
1946 –
Candace Pert , American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (d. 2013)
1949 –
Fredric Brandt , American dermatologist and author (d. 2015)
1949 –
Adrian Gurvitz , English singer-songwriter and producer
1949 –
Mary Styles Harris , American biologist and geneticist
1951 –
Gary Gilmour , Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2014)
1952 –
Gordon McQueen , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2023)
1952 –
Olive Morris , Jamaican-English civil rights activist (d. 1979)
[20]
1954 –
Luis Arconada , Spanish footballer
1955 –
Mick Jones , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 –
Gedde Watanabe , American actor
1956 –
Chris Isaak , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1956 –
Catherine Samba-Panza , interim president of the
Central African Republic
[21]
1956 –
Patrick Mercer , English colonel and politician
1957 –
Al Hunter Ashton , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1957 –
Philippe Couillard , Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st
Premier of Quebec
1957 –
Patty Smyth , American singer-songwriter and musician
1959 –
Mark McKinney , Canadian actor and screenwriter
1960 –
Mark Durkan , Irish politician
1961 –
Greg LeMond , American cyclist
1961 –
Terri Nunn , American singer-songwriter and actress
1962 –
Jerome Kersey , American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1963 –
Mikhail Khodorkovsky , Russian-Swiss businessman and philanthropist
1963 –
Mark McClellan , American economist and politician
1963 –
Harriet Wheeler , English singer-songwriter
1964 –
Tommi Mäkinen , Finnish race car driver
1966 –
Dany Boon , French actor, director, and screenwriter
1966 –
Kirk McLean , Canadian ice hockey player
1966 –
Jürgen Reil , American drummer
1967 –
Inha Babakova , Ukrainian high jumper
1967 –
Olivier Dahan , French director and screenwriter
1968 –
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson , Icelandic lecturer and politician, 6th
President of Iceland
1968 –
Paolo Maldini , Italian footballer
1968 –
Shannon Sharpe , American football player
[22]
1969 –
Colin Greenwood , English bass player and songwriter
1969 –
Ingrid Lempereur , Belgian swimmer
1969 –
Geir Moen , Norwegian sprinter
1969 –
Mike Myers , American baseball player
1970 –
Paul Thomas Anderson , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1970 –
Paul Bitok , Kenyan runner
1970 –
Irv Gotti , American record producer, co-founded
Murder Inc Records
1970 –
Sean Hayes , American actor
1970 –
Matt Letscher , American actor and playwright
[23]
1970 –
Adam Ndlovu , Zimbabwean footballer (d. 2012)
1970 –
Chris O'Donnell , American actor
1970 –
Nick Offerman , American actor
1971 –
Max Biaggi , Italian motorcycle racer
1972 –
Jai Taurima , Australian long jumper and police officer
1973 –
Gretchen Wilson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 –
Derek Jeter , American baseball player
1974 –
Jason Kendall , American baseball player
1975 –
Chris Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 –
Terry Skiverton , English footballer and manager
1976 –
Ed Jovanovski , Canadian ice hockey player
1976 –
Pommie Mbangwa , Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster
1976 –
Chad Pennington , American football player and sportscaster
1976 –
Dave Rubin , American political commentator
1977 –
Quincy Lewis , American basketball player
1979 –
Ryō Fukuda , Japanese race car driver
1979 –
Walter Herrmann , Argentinian basketball player
1979 –
Ryan Tedder , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1980 –
Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros , Togolese footballer
1980 –
Michael Jackson , English footballer
1980 –
Jason Schwartzman , American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
1980 –
Chris Shelton , American baseball player
1980 –
Michael Vick , American football player
1981 –
Natalya Antyukh , Russian sprinter and hurdler
1981 –
Paolo Cannavaro , Italian footballer
1981 –
Kanako Kondō , Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 –
Takashi Toritani , Japanese baseball player
1982 –
Zuzana Kučová , Slovak tennis player
1983 –
Vinícius Rodrigues Almeida , Brazilian footballer
1983 –
Nick Compton , South African-English cricketer
1983 –
Toyonoshima Daiki , Japanese sumo wrestler
1983 –
Felipe Melo , Brazilian footballer
1983 –
Antonio Rosati , Italian footballer
1984 –
J. J. Barea , Puerto Rican-American basketball player
1984 –
Yankuba Ceesay , Gambian footballer
1984 –
Elijah Dukes , American baseball player
1984 –
Raymond Felton , American basketball player
1984 –
Indila , French singer
1984 –
Priscah Jeptoo , Kenyan runner
1984 –
Aubrey Plaza , American actress
[24]
1984 –
Preslava , Bulgarian singer
1984 –
Jūlija Tepliha , Latvian figure skater
1984 –
Deron Williams , American basketball player
1985 –
Ogyen Trinley Dorje , Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th
Karmapa Lama
1986 –
Duvier Riascos , Colombian footballer
1987 –
Carlos Iaconelli , Brazilian race car driver
1987 –
Samir Nasri , French footballer
1988 –
Oliver Stang , German footballer
1988 –
Andrew Bachelor , Canadian-American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer and social media personality
[25]
[26]
1990 –
Belaynesh Oljira , Ethiopian runner
1990 –
Iman Shumpert , American basketball player
[27]
1990 –
Igor Subbotin , Estonian footballer
1991 –
Houssem Chemali , French footballer
1991 –
Diego Falcinelli , Italian footballer
1991 –
Dustin Martin , Australian rules footballer
1992 –
Joel Campbell , Costa Rican footballer
1992 –
Rudy Gobert , French basketball player
1992 –
Jennette McCurdy , American actress and singer-songwriter
1993 –
Ariana Grande , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
[28]
1994 –
Hollie Arnold , English javelin thrower
1994 –
Leonard Carow , German actor
1997 –
Baek Ye-rin , South Korean singer
1997 –
Callum Taylor , English cricketer
2000 –
Ann Li , American tennis player
[29]
2002 –
Chandler Smith , American racing driver
[30]
2005 –
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
[31]
Deaths
Pre-1600
116 BC –
Ptolemy VIII , king of Egypt
363 –
Julian the Apostate , Roman emperor (b. 332)
405 –
Vigilius , bishop of Trent (b. 353)
822 –
Saichō , Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 767)
969 –
George El Mozahem , Egyptian martyr (b. 940)
985 –
Ramiro III , king of León
1090 –
Jaromír , bishop of Prague
1095 –
Robert , bishop of Hereford
1265 –
Anne of Bohemia , duchess of Silesia (b. 1203 or 1204)
1274 –
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi , Persian scientist and writer (b. 1201)
1487 –
John Argyropoulos , Byzantine philosopher and scholar (b. 1415)
1541 –
Francisco Pizarro , Spanish explorer and politician,
Governor of New Castile (b. c. 1471)
1574 –
Gabriel, comte de Montgomery , captain of the Scottish Guard of
Henry II of France (b. 1530)
1601–1900
1677 –
Francesco Buonamici , Italian architect, painter and engraver (b. 1596)
[32]
1688 –
Ralph Cudworth , English philosopher and academic (b. 1617)
1752 –
Giulio Alberoni , Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1757 –
Maximilian Ulysses Browne , Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1784 –
Caesar Rodney , American lawyer and politician, 4th
Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
1793 –
Gilbert White , English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
1795 –
Johannes Jährig , German linguist and translator (b. 1747)
1798 –
James Dickey , Irish revolutionary (b. 1776)
1808 –
Ludwik Tyszkiewicz , Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
1810 –
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier , French inventor, co-invented the
hot air balloon (b. 1740)
1830 –
George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
1836 –
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , French soldier and composer (b. 1760)
1856 –
Max Stirner , German philosopher and author (b. 1806)
1870 –
Armand Barbès , French lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
1878 –
Mercedes of Orléans (b. 1860)
1879 –
Richard H. Anderson , American general (b. 1821)
[33]
1883 –
Edward Sabine , Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)
1901–present
1918 –
Peter Rosegger , Austrian poet and author (b. 1843)
1922 –
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
1927 –
Armand Guillaumin , French painter (b. 1841)
1932 –
Adelaide Ames , American astronomer and academic (b. 1900)
1938 –
James Weldon Johnson , American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
1938 –
Daria Pratt , American golfer (b. 1859)
1939 –
Ford Madox Ford , English novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
1943 –
Karl Landsteiner , Austrian biologist and physician,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
1945 –
Emil Hácha , Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd
President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
1946 –
Max Kögel , German
SS officer (b. 1895)
1946 –
Yōsuke Matsuoka , Japanese politician,
Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1880)
1947 –
R. B. Bennett , Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th
Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1949 –
Kim Koo , South Korean educator and politician, 13th
President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1955 –
Engelbert Zaschka , German engineer (b. 1895)
1956 –
Clifford Brown , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
1956 –
Richie Powell , American pianist (b. 1931)
1957 –
Alfred Döblin , Polish-German physician and author (b. 1878)
1957 –
Malcolm Lowry , English novelist and poet (b. 1909)
1958 –
George Orton , Canadian runner and hurdler (b. 1873)
1958 –
Andrija Štampar , Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888)
1964 –
Léo Dandurand , American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
1967 –
Françoise Dorléac , French actress and singer (b. 1942)
1975 –
Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish priest and saint (b. 1902)
1979 –
Akwasi Afrifa , Ghanaian soldier and politician, 3rd
Head of State of Ghana (b. 1936)
1989 –
Howard Charles Green , Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th
Canadian Minister of Public Works (b. 1895)
1990 –
Anni Blomqvist , Finnish author (b. 1909)
1992 –
Buddy Rogers , American wrestler (b. 1921)
1993 –
Roy Campanella , American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
1993 –
William H. Riker , American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
1994 –
Jahanara Imam , Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
1996 –
Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist (b. 1958)
1996 –
Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu , Turkish linguist and academic (b. 1932)
1997 –
Don Hutson , American football player and coach (b. 1913)
1998 –
Hacı Sabancı , Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
2001 –
Gina Cigna , French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
[34]
2002 –
Jay Berwanger , American football player (b. 1914)
2002 –
Arnold Brown , English-Canadian 11th
General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2003 –
Marc-Vivien Foé , Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 –
Denis Thatcher , English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
2003 –
Strom Thurmond , American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd
Governor of South Carolina (b. 1902)
2004 –
Ott Arder , Estonian poet and translator (b. 1950)
2004 –
Yash Johar , Indian film producer, founded
Dharma Productions (b. 1929)
2004 –
Naomi Shemer , Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
2005 –
Tõnno Lepmets , Estonian basketball player (b. 1938)
2005 –
Richard Whiteley , English journalist and game show host (b. 1943)
2006 –
Tommy Wonder , Dutch magician (b. 1953)
2007 –
Liz Claiborne , Belgian-American fashion designer, founded
Liz Claiborne (b. 1929)
2007 –
Joey Sadler , New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
2010 –
Algirdas Brazauskas , Lithuanian engineer and politician, 4th
President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
2010 –
Harald Keres , Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1912)
2011 –
Edith Fellows , American actress (b. 1923)
2011 –
Jan van Beveren , Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1948)
2012 –
Sverker Åström , Swedish diplomat,
Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations (b. 1915)
2012 –
Pat Cummings , American basketball player (b. 1956)
2012 –
Nora Ephron , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2012 –
Mario O'Hara , Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
2012 –
Doris Singleton , American actress (b. 1919)
2013 –
Henrik Otto Donner , Finnish trumpet player and composer (b. 1939)
2013 –
Edward Huggins Johnstone , Brazilian-American sergeant and judge (b. 1922)
2013 –
Byron Looper , American politician (b. 1964)
2013 –
Justin Miller , American baseball player (b. 1977)
2013 –
Marc Rich , Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
2014 –
Howard Baker , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th
White House Chief of Staff (b. 1925)
2014 –
Bill Frank , American-Canadian football player (b. 1938)
2014 –
Rollin King , American businessman, co-founded
Southwest Airlines (b. 1931)
2014 –
Bob Mischak , American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2014 –
Julius Rudel , Austrian-American conductor (b. 1921)
2014 –
Mary Rodgers , American composer and author (b. 1931)
2015 –
Yevgeny Primakov , Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd
Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1929)
2015 –
Chris Thompson , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1952)
2019 –
Beth Chapman , American reality Television star, Bounty Hunter (b. 1967)
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2020 –
Milton Glaser , American graphic designer (b. 1929)
[36]
2021 –
Mike Gravel , American politician (b. 1930)
[37]
2022 –
Margaret Keane , American artist (b. 1927)
[38]
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