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Day of the year
May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 232 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1612 – Sword duel between
Miyamoto Musashi and
Sasaki Kojiro on the shores of Ganryū Island. Kojiro dies at the end.
[4]
[5]
1619 – Dutch statesman
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in
The Hague after being convicted of
treason .
1654 – A Venetian fleet under Admiral
Cort Adeler breaks through a line of galleys and defeats the Turkish navy.
[6]
1779 –
War of the Bavarian Succession : Russian and French mediators at the
Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the
Innviertel ).
1780 – The
Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the
Cumberland River area of what would become the
U.S. state of
Tennessee , providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
[7]
1804 – Forces sent by
Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to
retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1830 –
Ecuador gains its independence from
Gran Colombia .
1846 –
Mexican–American War : The
United States declares war on the
Federal Republic of Mexico following a dispute over the American
annexation of the
Republic of Texas and a Mexican military
incursion .
[8]
1861 –
American Civil War : Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "
proclamation of neutrality " which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.
1861 – The
Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by
John Tebbutt of
Windsor, New South Wales , Australia.
1861 –
Pakistan 's (then a part of British India)
first railway line opens, from
Karachi to
Kotri .
1862 – The
USS Planter , a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave,
Robert Smalls , who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
1888 – With the passage of the
Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), the
Empire of Brazil abolishes
slavery .
1901–present
1909 –
The first edition of the
Giro d'Italia , a long-distance multiple-
stage bicycle race, began in
Milan ; the Italian cyclist
Luigi Ganna was the eventual winner.
[9]
1912 – The
Royal Flying Corps , the forerunner of the
Royal Air Force , is established in the United Kingdom.
1917 – Three children report the first apparition of
Our Lady of Fátima in
Fátima, Portugal .
1940 –
World War II :
Germany's conquest of France begins, as the German army crosses the
Meuse .
Winston Churchill makes his "
blood, toil, tears, and sweat " speech to the
House of Commons .
1941 – World War II:
Yugoslav royal colonel
Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting against German occupation troops, beginning the
Serbian resistance.
1943 – World War II:
Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.
1945 – World War II:
Yevgeny Khaldei 's photograph
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is published in
Ogonyok magazine.
[10]
1948 –
Arab–Israeli War : The
Kfar Etzion massacre occurs, a day prior to the
Israeli Declaration of Independence .
1950 – The
inaugural
Formula One World Championship race takes place at
Silverstone Circuit . The race was won by
Giuseppe Farina , who would go on to become the inaugural
champion that year.
[11]
1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the
National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the
first large-capacity stadium in Peru .
1952 – The
Rajya Sabha , the
upper house of the
Parliament of India , holds its first sitting.
1954 – The
anti-National Service Riots , by Chinese middle school students in
Singapore , take place.
1958 – During a visit to
Caracas ,
Venezuela , the US Vice President
Richard Nixon 's car
is attacked by anti-American demonstrators .
1958 –
May 1958 crisis : A group of French military officers lead a coup in
Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with
Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend
French control of Algeria .
1958 –
Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to
circumnavigate the world by
amphibious vehicle , having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
1960 – Hundreds of
University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the
House Committee on Un-American Activities .
1967 – Dr.
Zakir Husain becomes the third
President of India . He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1969 –
May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in
Kuala Lumpur ,
Malaysia .
1971 – Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the
Demra massacre .
1972 – A
fire occurs in the Sennichi Department Store in
Osaka , Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators result in 118 fatalities (many victims leaping to their deaths).
1972 –
The Troubles : A car bombing outside a crowded pub in
Belfast sparks
a two-day gun battle involving the
Provisional IRA ,
Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1980 – An
F3 tornado
hits
Kalamazoo County, Michigan . President
Jimmy Carter declares it a federal
disaster area .
1981 –
Mehmet Ali Ağca
attempts to assassinate
Pope John Paul II in
St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency
surgery and survives.
1985 – Police
bombed MOVE headquarters in
Philadelphia , killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 – Large groups of students
occupy
Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1990 – The
Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at
Maksimir Stadium in
Zagreb ,
Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of
Dinamo Zagreb ) and the
Delije (fans of
Red Star Belgrade ).
1992 –
Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on
Falun Gong in
Changchun , People's Republic of China.
1995 –
Alison Hargreaves , a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer
Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1996 – Severe
thunderstorms and a
tornado in
Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 –
Race riots break out in
Jakarta ,
Indonesia , where shops owned by
Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 – India carries out two
nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran , following the three conducted on
May 11 . The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 – A fireworks storage depot
explodes in a residential neighborhood in
Enschede ,
Netherlands , killing 23 people and injuring 950 others.
[12]
2005 –
Andijan uprising ,
Uzbekistan ; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
2006 –
São Paulo violence : Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
2011 –
Two bombs explode in the
Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are
discovered by Mexican authorities on
Mexican Federal Highway 40 .
2013 – American physician
Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in
Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions,
involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
[13]
2014 – An
explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest
Turkey kills 301 miners.
[14]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1638 –
Richard Simon , French priest and scholar (d. 1712)
1699 –
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal , Portuguese politician,
Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
1712 –
Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , Danish politician and diplomat (d. 1772)
1713 –
Alexis Clairaut , French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765)
1717 –
Maria Theresa , Archduchess, Queen, and Empress; Austrian wife of
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1780)
[16]
1730 –
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham , English politician,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1782)
[17]
1735 –
Horace Coignet , French violinist and composer (d. 1821)
1742 –
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1753 –
Lazare Carnot , French general, mathematician, and politician,
French Minister of the Interior (d. 1823)
1792 –
Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
1794 –
Louis Léopold Robert , French painter (d. 1835)
1795 –
Gérard Paul Deshayes , French geologist and chronologist (d. 1875)
1804 –
Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad , Swedo-Finnish treasurer of
Tavastia province , manor host, and paternal grandfather of President
P. E. Svinhufvud (d. 1866)
[18]
[19]
1811 –
Juan Bautista Ceballos , President of Mexico (1853) (d. 1859)
[20]
1822 –
Francis, Duke of Cádiz (d. 1902)
1830 –
Zebulon Baird Vance , American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 37th
Governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
1832 –
Juris Alunāns , Latvian philologist and author (d. 1864)
1840 –
Alphonse Daudet , French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1897)
1842 –
Arthur Sullivan , English composer (d. 1900)
1853 –
Vaiben Louis Solomon , Australian politician, 21st
Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
1856 –
Tom O'Rourke , American boxer and manager (d. 1938)
1857 –
Ronald Ross , Indian-English physician and mathematician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1868 –
Sumner Paine , American target shooter (d. 1904)
1869 –
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul , Turkish writer (d. 1944)
1877 –
Robert Hamilton , Scottish international footballer (d. 1948)
[21]
1881 –
Lima Barreto , Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1922)
1881 –
Joe Forshaw , American runner (d. 1964)
1882 –
Georges Braque , French painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
[22]
1883 –
Georgios Papanikolaou , Greek-American pathologist, invented the
pap smear (d. 1962)
1884 –
Oskar Rosenfeld , Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
1885 –
Mikiel Gonzi , Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1887 –
Lorna Hodgkinson , Australian educator and
educational psychologist (d. 1951)
1888 –
Inge Lehmann , Danish seismologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
1894 –
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson , Icelandic politician, 2nd
President of Iceland (d. 1972)
[23]
1895 –
Nandor Fodor , Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author (d. 1964)
1901–present
1901 –
Murilo Mendes , Brazilian poet and telegrapher (d. 1975)
1904 –
Louis Duffus , Australian-South African cricketer and journalist (d. 1984)
1905 –
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed , Indian lawyer and politician, 5th
President of India (d. 1977)
1907 –
Daphne du Maurier , English novelist and playwright (d. 1989)
[24]
1908 –
Eugen Kapp , Estonian composer and educator (d. 1996)
1909 –
Ken Darby , American composer and conductor (d. 1992)
1911 –
Robert Middleton , American actor (d. 1977)
1911 –
Maxine Sullivan , American singer and actress (d. 1987)
1912 –
Gil Evans , Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1988)
1912 –
Judah Nadich , American colonel and rabbi (d. 2007)
1913 –
Robert Dorning , English actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1989)
1913 –
Theo Helfrich , German racing driver (d. 1978)
1913 –
William R. Tolbert, Jr. , Liberian politician, 20th
President of Liberia (d. 1980)
1914 –
Joe Louis , American boxer (d. 1981)
[25]
1914 –
Johnnie Wright , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
1914 –
Antonia Ferrín Moreiras , Spanish mathematician, academic, and astronomer (d. 2009)
1916 –
Sachidananda Routray , Indian Oriya-language poet (d. 2004)
1918 –
Balasaraswati , Indian dancer and instructor (d. 1984)
1918 –
Gwyn Howells , Australian public servant (d. 1997)
1920 –
Gareth Morris , English flute player (d. 2007)
1922 –
Michael Ainsworth , English cricketer (d. 1978)
1922 –
Otl Aicher , German graphic designer and typographer (d. 1991)
1922 –
Bea Arthur , American actress and singer (d. 2009)
[26]
1923 –
Ruth Adler Schnee , German-American textile designer and interior designer (d. 2023)
1924 –
Theodore Mann , American director and producer (d. 2012)
1924 –
Harry Schwarz , South African anti-apartheid leader, lawyer, and Ambassador (d. 2010)
1927 –
Archie Scott Brown , Scottish race car driver (d. 1958)
1927 –
Fred Hellerman , American folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2016)
1927 –
Herbert Ross , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2001)
1928 –
Enrique Bolaños , Nicaraguan politician,
President of Nicaragua (d. 2021)
1928 –
Édouard Molinaro , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 –
John Galvin , American general (d. 2015)
1930 –
Mike Gravel , American lieutenant and politician (d. 2021)
1930 –
José Jiménez Lozano , Spanish journalist and author (d. 2020)
1930 –
Vernon Shaw , Dominican politician, 5th
President of Dominica (d. 2013)
1931 –
Jim Jones , American cult leader, founder of the
Peoples Temple (d. 1978)
[27]
1931 –
Sydney Lipworth , South African-English lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist
1933 –
John Roseboro , American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
1934 –
Ehud Netzer , Israeli archaeologist, architect, and academic (d. 2010)
1934 –
Leon Wagner , American baseball player and actor (d. 2004)
1935 –
Dominic Cossa , American opera singer
1935 –
Jan Saudek , Czech photographer and painter
1935 –
Kája Saudek , Czech author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1936 –
Bill Rompkey , Canadian educator and politician (d. 2017)
1937 –
Trevor Baylis , English inventor, invented the
wind-up radio (d. 2018)
1937 –
Roch Carrier , Canadian librarian and author
1937 –
Zohra Lampert , American actress
1937 –
Beverley Owen , American actress (d. 2019)
1937 –
Roger Zelazny , American author and poet (d. 1995)
[28]
1938 –
Giuliano Amato , Italian academic and politician, 48th
Prime Minister of Italy
1938 –
Laurent Beaudoin , Canadian businessman
1938 –
Anna Cropper , British actress (d. 2007)
1938 –
Francine Pascal , American author and playwright
1938 –
Buck Taylor , American actor
1939 –
Hildrun Claus , German long jumper
1939 –
Peter Frenkel , German race walker and coach
1939 –
Harvey Keitel , American actor
1940 –
Bruce Chatwin , English author (d. 1989)
1940 –
Kōkichi Tsuburaya , Japanese runner (d. 1968)
1941 –
Senta Berger , Austrian actress
1941 –
Joe Brown , English singer and musician
1941 –
Jody Conradt , American basketball player and coach
1941 –
Rolf Skår , Norwegian engineer (d. 2023)
[29]
1941 –
Ritchie Valens , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
1942 –
Leighton Gage , American author (d. 2013)
1942 –
Roger Young , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1943 –
Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony , English lawyer and judge
1943 –
Kurt Trampedach , Danish painter and sculptor (d. 2013)
1943 –
Mary Wells , American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1944 –
Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet , Scottish explorer, lawyer, and judge
1944 –
Robert L. Crawford Jr. , American actor
1944 –
Carolyn Franklin , American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
1944 –
Armistead Maupin , American author, screenwriter, and actor
1945 –
Lasse Berghagen , Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2023)
1945 –
Magic Dick , American blues-rock harmonica, trumpet, and saxophone player
1945 –
Lou Marini , American saxophonist and composer
1946 –
Tim Pigott-Smith , English actor and author (d. 2017)
1946 –
Jean Rondeau , French race car driver and constructor (d. 1985)
1946 –
Marv Wolfman , American author
1947 –
Charles Baxter , American novelist, essayist, and poet
1947 –
Edgar Burcksen , Dutch-American film editor
1948 –
Sheila Jeffreys , English-Australian political scientist, author, and academic
1948 –
Dean Meminger , American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1949 –
Jane Glover , English conductor and scholar
1949 –
Dale Snodgrass , United States Naval Aviator and air show performer (d. 2021)
[30]
1949 –
Zoë Wanamaker , American-British actress
1949 –
Philip Kruse , Norwegian trumpeter and orchestra leader
1950 –
Andy Cunningham , English actor (d. 2011)
1950 –
Danny Kirwan , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
1950 –
Joe Johnston , American film director and effects artist
1950 –
Manning Marable , American author and academic (d. 2011)
1950 –
Bobby Valentine , American baseball player and manager
1950 –
Stevie Wonder , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1951 –
Rosie Boycott , English journalist and author
1951 –
Sharon Sayles Belton , American politician, 45th
Mayor of Minneapolis
1951 –
Anand Modak , Indian composer and director (d. 2014)
1951 –
Herman Philipse , Dutch philosopher and academic
1951 –
Selina Scott , English journalist, producer, and author
1951 –
Paul Thompson , English drummer
1952 –
John Kasich , American politician, 69th
Governor of Ohio
1952 –
Mary Walsh , Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
1952 –
Londa Schiebinger , American academic and author
1953 –
Zlatko Burić , Croat-Danish actor
1953 –
Gerry Sutcliffe , English politician,
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
1953 –
Harm Wiersma , Dutch
draughts player and politician
1953 –
Ruth A. David , American electrical engineer
1954 –
Johnny Logan , Australian-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 –
Richard Madeley , English journalist and author
1956 –
Fred Melamed , American actor
1956 –
Kailash Vijayvargiya , National General Secretary of
Bhartiya Janta Party
1957 –
Alan Ball , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 –
David Hill , English organist and conductor
1957 –
Mar Roxas , Filipino economist and politician, 24th
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government
1958 –
Anthony Ray Parker , American actor
1961 –
Siobhan Fallon Hogan , American actress
1961 –
Dennis Rodman , American basketball player, wrestler, and actor
1962 –
Paul Burstow , English politician
1962 –
Nick Hurd , English businessman and politician,
Minister for Civil Society
1963 –
Andrea Leadsom , English politician
1963 –
Wally Masur , Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
1964 –
Stephen Colbert , American comedian and talk show host
1964 –
Chris Maitland , English drummer
1964 –
Tom Verica , American actor, television director, and producer
1965 –
José Antonio Delgado , Venezuelan mountaineer (d. 2006)
1965 –
Tasmin Little , English violinist and educator
1965 –
János Marozsán , Hungarian footballer
1965 –
Hikari Ōta , Japanese comedian and actor
1965 –
José Rijo , Dominican baseball player
1965 –
Lari White , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (d. 2018)
1966 –
Alison Goldfrapp , English singer-songwriter and producer
1966 –
Darius Rucker , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 –
Tish Cyrus , American actress and film producer
1967 –
Shon Greenblatt , American actor
1967 –
Tommy Gunn , pornographic actor
1967 –
Chuck Schuldiner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
1967 –
Melanie Thornton , American-German singer (d. 2001)
1968 –
Miguel Ángel Blanco , Spanish politician (d. 1997)
1968 –
Susan Floyd , American actress
1968 –
Scott Morrison , Australian politician, 30th
Prime Minister of Australia
1968 –
PMD , American rapper
1968 –
Dmitriy Shevchenko , Russian discus thrower and coach
1969 –
Buckethead , American guitarist and songwriter
1969 –
Nikos Aliagas , French-Greek journalist and television host
1970 –
Doug Evans , American football player
1970 –
Robert Maćkowiak , Polish sprinter
1971 –
Imogen Boorman , English actress and martial artist
1971 –
Rob Fredrickson , American football player
1971 –
Espen Lind , Norwegian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1971 –
Tom Nalen , American football player and sportscaster
1972 –
Stefaan Maene , Belgian swimmer
1972 –
Darryl Sydor , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1972 –
Pieta van Dishoeck , Dutch rower
1973 –
Eric Lewis , American pianist
1973 –
Bridgett Riley , American boxer and stuntwoman
1975 –
Jamie Allison , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 –
Cristian Bezzi , Italian rugby player and coach
1975 –
Brian Geraghty , American actor
1976 –
Mark Delaney , Welsh footballer and manager
1976 –
Trajan Langdon , American basketball player and scout
1976 –
Ana Popović , Serbian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 –
Magdalena Walach , Polish actress
1977 –
Ilse DeLange , Dutch singer-songwriter
1977 –
Anthony Q. Farrell , Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
1977 –
Robby Hammock , American baseball player and coach
1977 –
Neil Hopkins , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 –
James Middlebrook , English cricketer
1977 –
Samantha Morton , English actress and director
1977 –
Brian Thomas Smith , American actor and producer
1977 –
Pusha T , American rapper
1978 –
Brooke Anderson , American journalist
1978 –
Mike Bibby , American basketball player and coach
1978 –
Ryan Bukvich , American baseball player
1978 –
Germán Magariños , Argentinian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 –
Dilshan Vitharana , Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 –
Barry Zito , American baseball player
1978 –
Nuwan Zoysa , Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 –
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
[31]
1979 –
Steve Mildenhall , English footballer
1979 –
Vyacheslav Shevchuk , Ukrainian footballer
1980 –
L. J. Smith , American football player
1981 –
Luciana Berger , English politician
1981 –
Nicolas Jeanjean , French rugby player
1981 –
Sunny Leone , Canadian American actress, model, and pornstar
1981 –
Michael Mantenuto , American actor (d. 2017)
1981 –
Shaun Phillips , American football player
1981 –
Ryan Piers Williams , American actor and film director
1982 –
Albert Crusat , Spanish footballer
1982 –
Larry Fonacier , Filipino basketball player
1982 –
Oguchi Onyewu , American soccer player
1983 –
Natalie Cassidy , English actress and singer
1983 –
Anita Görbicz , Hungarian handball player
1983 –
Johnny Hoogerland , Dutch cyclist
1983 –
Grégory Lemarchal , French singer (d. 2007)
1983 –
Jacob Reynolds , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1983 –
Yaya Touré , Ivorian footballer
1984 –
J. B. Cox , American baseball player
1984 –
Benny Dayal , Indian singer
1984 –
Dawn Harper , American hurdler
1984 –
Caroline Rotich , Kenyan runner
1985 –
Javier Balboa , Spanish-Equatoguinean footballer
1985 –
Jaroslav Halák , Slovak ice hockey player
1985 –
David Hernandez , American baseball player
1985 –
Carolina Luján , Argentine chess player
1985 –
Iwan Rheon , Welsh actor and singer
1985 –
Travis Zajac , Canadian ice hockey player
1986 –
Lena Dunham , American actress, director, and screenwriter
1986 –
Eun-Hee Ji , South Korean golfer
1986 –
Robert Pattinson , English actor
1986 –
Alexander Rybak , Belarusian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, violinist, and actor
1986 –
Scott Sutter , English footballer
1986 –
Nino Schurter , Swiss cyclist
1986 –
Kris Versteeg , Canadian ice hockey player
1987 –
Antonio Adán , Spanish footballer
1987 –
Hugo Becker , French actor
1987 –
Matt Doyle , American actor and singer
1987 –
Laura Izibor , Irish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1987 –
Candice King , American singer-songwriter and actress
1987 –
Sandro Mareco , Argentine chess player
1987 –
Hunter Parrish , American actor and singer
1987 –
Marianne Vos , Dutch cyclist
1987 –
Charlotte Wessels , Dutch singer-songwriter
1987 –
Bobby Shuttleworth , American soccer player
1988 –
Paulo Avelino , Filipino actor and singer
1988 –
Casey Donovan , Australian singer-songwriter
1989 –
P. K. Subban , Canadian ice hockey player
1990 –
Mychal Givens , American baseball player
1991 –
Jen Beattie , Scottish footballer
[32]
1991 –
Anders Fannemel , Norwegian ski jumper
1992 –
Bill Arnold , American ice hockey player
1992 –
Willson Contreras , Venezuelan baseball player
1992 –
Josh Papalii , New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
1992 –
Georgina García Pérez , Spanish tennis player
1993 –
Stefan Kraft , Austrian ski jumper
1993 –
Debby Ryan , American actress and singer
[33]
1993 –
Romelu Lukaku , Belgian footballer
1993 –
Siim-Tanel Sammelselg , Estonian ski jumper
1993 –
Tones and I , Australian singer-songwriter
1993 –
Morgan Wallen , American singer-songwriter
[34]
1994 –
Łukasz Moneta , Polish footballer
1994 –
Percy Tau , South African footballer
[35]
1997 –
Reimis Smith , Australian rugby league player
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1612 –
Sasaki Kojirō , Japanese master
swordsman (b. 1575)
[4]
[5]
1619 –
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , Dutch politician (b. 1547)
1704 –
Louis Bourdaloue , French preacher and author (b. 1632)
[36]
1726 –
Francesco Antonio Pistocchi , Italian singer (b. 1659)
1782 –
Daniel Solander , Swedish-English botanist and phycologist (b. 1736)
1807 –
Eliphalet Dyer , American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1721)
1809 –
Beilby Porteus , English bishop (b. 1731)
1832 –
Georges Cuvier , French zoologist and academic (b. 1769)
1835 –
John Nash , English architect, designed the
Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
1836 –
John Littlejohn , American sheriff and
Methodist preacher (b. 1756)
[37]
1866 –
Nikolai Brashman , Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
1878 –
Joseph Henry , American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
1884 –
Cyrus McCormick , American businessman, co-founded the
International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
1885 –
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle , German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
1901–present
1903 –
Apolinario Mabini , Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
1916 –
Sholem Aleichem , Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
1921 –
Jean Aicard , French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
1926 –
Libert H. Boeynaems , Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
1929 –
Arthur Scherbius , German electrical engineer, invented the
Enigma machine (b. 1878)
[38]
1930 –
Fridtjof Nansen , Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1938 –
Charles Édouard Guillaume , Swiss-French physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1941 –
Frederick Christian , English cricketer (b. 1877)
1941 –
Ōnishiki Uichirō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th
Yokozuna (b. 1891)
1945 –
Tubby Hall , American drummer (b. 1895)
1946 –
Zara DuPont , American suffragist (b. 1869)
[39]
1947 –
Sukanta Bhattacharya , Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
1948 –
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
1957 –
Michael Fekete , Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
1961 –
Gary Cooper , American actor (b. 1901)
1962 –
Henry Trendley Dean , American dentist (b. 1893)
1962 –
Franz Kline , American painter and academic (b. 1910)
1963 –
Alois Hudal , Austrian-Italian bishop (b. 1885)
1972 –
Dan Blocker , American actor (b. 1928)
1974 –
Jaime Torres Bodet , Mexican poet and diplomat (b. 1902)
1974 –
Arthur J. Burks , American colonel and author (b. 1898)
1975 –
Bob Wills , American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1905)
1977 –
Mickey Spillane , American mobster (b. 1934)
1985 –
Leatrice Joy , American actress (b. 1893)
1985 –
Richard Ellmann , American literary critic and biographer (b. 1918)
1988 –
Chet Baker , American singer and trumpet player (b. 1929)
1992 –
F. E. McWilliam , Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
1994 –
Duncan Hamilton , Irish-English race car driver (b. 1920)
1994 –
John Swainson , Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd
Governor of Michigan (b. 1925)
1995 –
Hao Wang , Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (b. 1921)
1999 –
Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz , Saudi Arabian scholar and academic (b. 1910)
1999 –
Gene Sarazen , American golfer and journalist (b. 1902)
2000 –
Paul Bartel , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2000 –
Jumbo Tsuruta , Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
2001 –
Jason Miller , American actor and playwright (b. 1939)
2002 –
Ruth Cracknell , Australian actress and author (b. 1925)
2002 –
Valeriy Lobanovskyi , Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2005 –
Eddie Barclay , French record producer, founded
Barclay Records (b. 1921)
2005 –
George Dantzig , American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
2006 –
Jaroslav Pelikan , American historian and scholar (b. 1923)
2006 –
Johnnie Wilder, Jr. , American singer (b. 1949)
2008 –
Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah , Kuwaiti ruler,
Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2008 –
Ron Stone , American journalist and author (b. 1936)
2009 –
Frank Aletter , American actor (b. 1926)
2009 –
Meir Brandsdorfer , Belgian rabbi (b. 1934)
2009 –
Achille Compagnoni , Italian skier and mountaineer (b. 1914)
2011 –
Derek Boogaard , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 –
Stephen De Staebler , American sculptor and educator (b. 1933)
2011 –
Wallace McCain , Canadian businessman, co-founded
McCain Foods (b. 1930)
2011 –
Bruce Ricker , American director and producer (b. 1942)
2012 –
Arsala Rahmani Daulat , Afghan politician (b. 1937)
2012 –
Donald "Duck" Dunn , American bass player, songwriter, and producer (b. 1941)
2012 –
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz , Cuban-American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1943)
2012 –
Lee Richardson , English speedway rider (b. 1979)
2012 –
Don Ritchie , Australian humanitarian (b. 1925)
2012 –
Nguyễn Văn Thiện , Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)
2013 –
Joyce Brothers , American psychologist, author, and actress (b. 1927)
2013 –
Otto Herrigel , Namibian lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
2013 –
Jagdish Mali , Indian photographer (b. 1954)
2013 –
Chuck Muncie , American football player (b. 1953)
2013 –
Fyodor Tuvin , Russian footballer (b. 1973)
2013 –
Lynne Woolstencroft , Canadian politician (b. 1943)
2014 –
David Malet Armstrong , Australian philosopher and author (b. 1926)
2014 –
Malik Bendjelloul , Swedish director and producer (b. 1977)
2014 –
J. F. Coleman , American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
2014 –
Ron Stevens , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2014 –
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart , American occultist and author (b. 1948)
2015 –
Earl Averill, Jr. , American baseball player (b. 1931)
2015 –
Robert Drasnin , American clarinet player and composer (b. 1927)
2015 –
Nina Otkalenko , Russian runner (b. 1928)
2015 –
David Sackett , American-Canadian physician and academic (b. 1934)
2015 –
Gainan Saidkhuzhin , Russian cyclist (b. 1937)
2016 –
Murray A. Straus , American sociologist and academic (b. 1926)
[40]
2018 –
Margot Kidder , Canadian-American actress (b. 1948)
2019 –
Doris Day , American singer and actress (b. 1922)
[41]
2019 –
Unita Blackwell , American civil rights activist and politician (b. 1933)
[42]
2022 –
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan , 2nd
President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1948)
[43]
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