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Day of the year
January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar ; 340 days remain until the end of the year (341 in
leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
41 – After a night of negotiation,
Claudius is accepted as
Roman emperor by the
Senate .
[1]
750 – In the
Battle of the Zab , the
Abbasid rebels defeat the
Umayyad Caliphate , leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.
[2]
1327 – Fourteen-year-old
Edward III ascends the throne of England after
his father the king is forced to abdicate by
Queen Isabella and her lover,
Roger Mortimer .
[3]
1348 – A
strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of
Friuli in modern
Italy , causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
[4]
1494 –
Alfonso II becomes King of
Naples .
[5]
1515 –
Coronation of
Francis I of France takes place at
Reims Cathedral , where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of
Charlemagne .
[6]
1533 –
Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife
Anne Boleyn .
[7]
1554 –
São Paulo ,
Brazil , is founded by
Jesuit priests.
[8]
1573 –
Battle of Mikatagahara : In Japan,
Takeda Shingen defeats
Tokugawa Ieyasu .
[9]
1576 –
Luanda , the capital of
Angola , is founded by the Portuguese navigator
Paulo Dias de Novais .
1585 –
Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming North America region "Virginia", in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
[10]
1601–1900
1901–present
1909 –
Richard Strauss 's opera
Elektra receives its debut performance at the
Dresden State Opera .
1915 –
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to
Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1917 – Sinking of the
SS Laurentic after hitting two German mines off the coast of northwest Ireland.
[12]
1918 – The
Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from
Soviet Russia .
1918 – The
Finnish Defence Forces (The
White Guards ) are established as the official army of
independent Finland , and Baron
C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.
[13]
1924 – The
1924 Winter Olympics opens in
Chamonix , in the
French Alps , inaugurating the
Winter Olympic Games .
1932 –
Second Sino-Japanese War : The
Chinese
National Revolutionary Army begins the
defense of Harbin .
1937 –
The Guiding Light debuts on
NBC radio from
Chicago . In 1952 it moves to
CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
1941 –
Pope Pius XII elevates the
Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a
diocese . It becomes the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu .
1942 –
World War II :
Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1945 – World War II: The
Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 – The
United Mine Workers rejoins the
American Federation of Labor .
1946 –
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to
Military Staff Committee is adopted.
1947 –
Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "
Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever
electronic game .
[14]
1949 – The first
Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the
Hollywood Athletic Club .
1960 – The
National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "
payola " scandal by threatening fines for any
disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
1961 – In Washington, D.C., US President
John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television
news conference .
1964 –
Blue Ribbon Sports , which would later become
Nike , is founded by
University of Oregon track and field athletes.
1967 –
South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister
Nguyen Cao Ky fires rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister
Nguyen Huu Co , while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit.
[15]
1969 –
Brazilian Army captain
Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the
military dictatorship , taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
1971 –
Charles Manson and four "
Family " members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969
Tate–LaBianca murders .
1971 –
Idi Amin leads a
coup deposing
Milton Obote and becomes
Uganda 's president.
1979 –
Pope John Paul II starts his first official
papal visits outside Italy to
The Bahamas ,
Dominican Republic , and
Mexico .
1980 –
Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the
Bharat Ratna .
1986 – The
National Resistance Movement topples the government of
Tito Okello in
Uganda .
1990 –
Avianca Flight 052 crashes in
Cove Neck, New York , killing 73.
[16]
1993 –
Five people are shot outside the
CIA Headquarters in
Langley, Virginia . Two are killed and three wounded.
1994 – The spacecraft
Clementine by
BMDO and
NASA is launched.
1995 – The
Norwegian rocket incident : Russia almost launches a
nuclear attack after it mistakes
Black Brant XII , a
Norwegian
research rocket , for a US
Trident missile .
1996 –
Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.
1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba,
Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 – A suicide attack by the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on
Sri Lanka 's
Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1999 – A 6.0
magnitude
earthquake hits western
Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2003 –
Invasion of Iraq : A group of people leave London, England, for
Baghdad ,
Iraq , to
serve as human shields , intending to prevent the U.S.-led
coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
2005 – A
stampede at the
Mandhradevi temple in
Maharashtra , India kills at least 258.
2006 – Mexican
professional wrestler
Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the
serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
2010 –
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the
Mediterranean Sea off the coast of
Na'ameh ,
Lebanon , killing 90.
[17]
2011 – The
first wave of the
Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a
prison riot in
Barquisimeto ,
Venezuela .
2015 – A
clash in
Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of
Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters .
2019 – A mining company's dam
collapses in
Brumadinho , Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.
[18]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1615 –
Govert Flinck , Dutch painter (d. 1660)
1627 –
Robert Boyle , Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1691)
[22]
1634 –
Gaspar Fagel , Dutch politician and diplomat (d. 1688)
1635 –
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein , German writer, diplomat and lawyer (d. 1683)
1640 –
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , English soldier and politician,
Lord Steward of the Household (d. 1707)
1736 –
Joseph-Louis Lagrange , Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813)
1739 –
Charles François Dumouriez , French general and politician,
French Minister of Defence (d. 1823)
1743 –
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , German philosopher and author (d. 1819)
1750 –
Johann Gottfried Vierling , German organist and composer (d. 1813)
1755 –
Paolo Mascagni , Italian physician and anatomist (probable;
[23] d. 1815)
1759 –
Robert Burns , Scottish poet and songwriter (d. 1796)
[24]
1783 –
William Colgate , English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded
Colgate-Palmolive (d. 1857)
1794 –
François-Vincent Raspail , French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer (d. 1878)
1796 –
William MacGillivray , Scottish ornithologist and biologist (d. 1852)
1813 –
J. Marion Sims , American gynecologist and physician (d. 1883)
1816 –
Anna Gardner , American abolitionist and teacher (d. 1901)
[25]
1822 –
Charles Reed Bishop , American businessman, philanthropist, and politician, founded the
Bishop Museum (d. 1915)
1822 –
William McDougall , Canadian lawyer and politician,
Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (d. 1905)
1823 –
José María Iglesias , Mexican politician and interim President (d. 1891)
[26]
1824 –
Michael Madhusudan Dutt , Indian poet and playwright (d. 1873)
1841 –
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , English admiral (d. 1920)
1858 –
Mikimoto Kōkichi , Japanese businessman (d. 1954)
1860 –
Charles Curtis , American lawyer and politician, 31st
Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
1864 –
Julije Kempf , Croatian historian and author (d. 1934)
1868 –
Juventino Rosas , Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894)
1874 –
W. Somerset Maugham , British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1965)
1878 –
Ernst Alexanderson , Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975)
1882 –
Virginia Woolf , English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1941)
1885 –
Kitahara Hakushū , Japanese poet and author (d. 1942)
1886 –
Wilhelm Furtwängler , German conductor and composer (d. 1954)
1894 –
Aino Aalto , Finnish architect and designer (d. 1949)
[27]
1895 –
Florence Mills , American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1927)
1899 –
Sleepy John Estes , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
1899 –
Paul-Henri Spaak , Belgian lawyer and politician, 46th
Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1972)
1900 –
István Fekete , Hungarian author (d. 1970)
1900 –
Yōjirō Ishizaka , Japanese author and educator (d. 1986)
1900 –
Theodosius Dobzhansky , Russian-American geneticist and pioneer of evolutionary biology (d. 1975)
[28]
1901–present
1901 –
Mildred Dunnock , American actress (d. 1991)
1905 –
Maurice Roy , Canadian cardinal (d. 1985)
1905 –
Margery Sharp , English author and educator (d. 1991)
1905 –
Sava Kovačević , Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and
People's Hero of Yugoslavia (d. 1943)
[29]
1906 –
Toni Ulmen , German racing driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1976)
1908 –
Hsieh Tung-min , Taiwanese politicians and
Vice President of the Republic of China (d. 2001)
1910 –
Edgar V. Saks , Estonian historian, author, and politician,
Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1984)
1913 –
Huang Hua , Chinese translator and politician, 5th
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2010)
1913 –
Witold Lutosławski , Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994)
1913 –
Luis Marden , American photographer and journalist (d. 2003)
1914 –
William Strickland , American conductor and organist (d. 1991)
1915 –
Ewan MacColl , English singer-songwriter, actor and producer (d. 1989)
1916 –
Pop Ivy , American football player and coach (d. 2003)
1917 –
Ilya Prigogine , Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1917 –
Jânio Quadros , Brazilian lawyer and politician, 22nd
President of Brazil (d. 1992)
1919 –
Edwin Newman , American journalist and author (d. 2010)
1921 –
Samuel T. Cohen , American physicist and academic (d. 2010)
1921 –
Josef Holeček , Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2005)
[30]
1922 –
Raymond Baxter , English television host and pilot (d. 2006)
1923 –
Arvid Carlsson , Swedish pharmacologist and physician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1923 –
Shirley Ardell Mason , American
psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
1923 –
Sally Starr , American actress and television host (d. 2013)
1923 –
Jean Taittinger , French politician,
French Minister of Justice (d. 2012)
1924 –
Lou Groza , American football player and coach (d. 2000)
[31]
1924 –
Husein Mehmedov , Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
1924 –
Speedy West , American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)
1925 –
Gordy Soltau , American football player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1925 –
Giorgos Zampetas , Greek
bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1992)
1926 –
Dick McGuire , American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
[32]
1927 –
Antônio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1994)
1928 –
Jérôme Choquette , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
1928 –
Eduard Shevardnadze , Georgian general and politician, 2nd
President of Georgia (d. 2014)
1928 –
Cor van der Hart , Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2006)
1929 –
Elizabeth Allen , American actress and singer (d. 2006)
1929 –
Robert Faurisson , English-French author and academic (d. 2018)
1929 –
Benny Golson , American saxophonist and composer
1930 –
Tanya Savicheva , Russian child diarist (d. 1944)
1931 –
Dean Jones , American actor and singer (d. 2015)
1933 –
Corazon Aquino , Filipino politician, 11th
President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
[31]
1935 –
Conrad Burns , American journalist, and politician (d. 2016)
1935 –
António Ramalho Eanes , Portuguese general and politician, 16th
President of Portugal
[33]
1935 –
Don Maynard , American football player (d. 2022)
1936 –
Diana Hyland , American actress (d. 1977)
1936 –
Onat Kutlar , Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)
1937 –
Ange-Félix Patassé , Central African engineer and politician, 5th
President of the Central African Republic (d. 2011)
1938 –
Shotaro Ishinomori , Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998)
1938 –
Etta James , American singer (d. 2012)
[31]
1938 –
Leiji Matsumoto , Japanese author, illustrator, and animator (d. 2023)
1938 –
Vladimir Vysotsky , Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1980)
1941 –
Buddy Baker , American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1942 –
Carl Eller , American football player and sportscaster
[31]
1942 –
Eusébio , Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
1943 –
Tobe Hooper , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
[34]
1945 –
Byron Beck , American basketball player
[35]
1945 –
Leigh Taylor-Young , American actress
[36]
1947 –
Ángel Nieto , Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2017)
1947 –
Tostão , Brazilian footballer, journalist, and physician
1948 –
Ros Kelly , Australian educator and politician, 1st
Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel
1948 –
Georgy Shishkin , Russian painter and illustrator
1949 –
John Cooper Clarke , English poet and critic
1949 –
Paul Nurse , English geneticist and biologist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1950 –
Gloria Naylor , American novelist (d. 2016)
1951 –
Steve Prefontaine , American runner (d. 1975)
[31]
1952 –
Peter Tatchell , Australian-English journalist and activist
1952 –
Timothy White , American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2002)
1953 –
The Honky Tonk Man , American wrestler
[37]
1954 –
Ricardo Bochini , Argentinian footballer and manager
1954 –
Kay Cottee , Australian sailor
1954 –
Renate Dorrestein , Dutch journalist and author (d. 2018)
1956 –
Andy Cox , English guitarist
1956 –
Dinah Manoff , American actress
[36]
1957 –
Eskil Erlandsson , Swedish technologist and politician,
Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs
1957 –
Andrew Harris , American politician
1957 –
Jenifer Lewis , American actress and singer
[36]
1958 –
Franco Pancheri , Italian footballer and manager
1961 –
Vivian Balakrishnan , Singaporean ophthalmologist and politician,
Singaporean Ministry of National Development
1961 –
Tim Dorsey , American novelist (d. 2023)
[38]
1962 –
Chris Chelios , American ice hockey player and manager
1963 –
Fernando Haddad , Brazilian academic and politician, 61st
Mayor of São Paulo
1963 –
Molly Holzschlag , American computer scientist and author (d. 2023)
1964 –
Stephen Pate , Australian cyclist
1965 –
Esa Tikkanen , Finnish ice hockey player and coach
1966 –
Chet Culver , American educator and politician, 41st
Governor of Iowa
1966 –
Yiannos Ioannou , Cypriot footballer and manager
1966 –
Mark Schlereth , American football player and sportscaster
[39]
1967 –
Nelson Asaytono , Filipino basketball player
1967 –
David Ginola , French footballer
1967 –
Randy McKay , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 –
Nicole Uphoff , German equestrian
[40]
1968 –
Eric Orie , Dutch footballer and manager
1969 –
Sergei Ovchinnikov , Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
1970 –
Stephen Chbosky , American author, screenwriter, and director
1970 –
Chris Mills , American basketball player
1970 –
Milt Stegall , American football player and sportscaster
[41]
1971 –
Luca Badoer , Italian racing driver
1971 –
Philip Coppens , Belgian journalist and author (d. 2012)
1971 –
Ana Ortiz , American actress
[36]
1972 –
Shinji Takehara , Japanese boxer
1973 –
Geoff Johns , American author, screenwriter, and producer
1974 –
Robert Budreau , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1974 –
Emily Haines , Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1974 –
Attilio Nicodemo , Italian footballer
1975 –
Duncan Jupp , Anglo-Scottish footballer
[42]
1975 –
Mia Kirshner , Canadian actress
[36]
1976 –
Stephanie Bellars , American wrestler and manager
1976 –
Mário Haberfeld , Brazilian racing driver
1976 –
Dimitris Nalitzis , Greek footballer
1977 –
Michael Brown , English footballer, manager and pundit
[43]
1978 –
Charlene, Princess of Monaco
[31]
1978 –
Ahmet Dursun , Turkish footballer
1978 –
Denis Menchov , Russian cyclist
1978 –
Derrick Turnbow , American baseball player
1978 –
Volodymyr Zelenskyy , Ukrainian actor, comedian, and politician, 6th
President of Ukraine
[44]
1979 –
Christine Lakin , American actress and director
[36]
1979 –
David Mutendera , Zimbabwean cricketer
[45]
1979 –
Rodrigo Ribeiro , Brazilian racing driver
1980 –
Alayna Burns , Australian track cyclist
[46]
1980 –
Michelle McCool , American wrestler
[37]
1980 –
Xavi , Spanish footballer
1981 –
Francis Jeffers , English footballer
1981 –
Alicia Keys , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
[47]
1981 –
Toše Proeski , Macedonian singer (d. 2007)
[48]
1983 –
Josh Powell , American basketball player
[49]
1984 –
Jay Briscoe , American wrestler (d. 2023)
[50]
1984 –
Stefan Kießling , German footballer
1984 –
Robinho , Brazilian footballer
1984 –
Fara Williams , English footballer
[51]
1985 –
Brent Celek , American football player
[52]
1985 –
Hwang Jung-eum , South Korean actress
1985 –
Acie Law , American basketball player
[53]
1985 –
Hartley Sawyer , American actor
[31]
1985 –
Michael Trevino , American actor
[36]
1985 –
Patrick Willis , American football player
1986 –
Chris O'Grady , English footballer
1987 –
Maria Kirilenko , Russian tennis player
[54]
1988 –
Tatiana Golovin , French tennis player
[55]
1988 –
Ryota Ozawa , Japanese actor
1990 –
Apostolos Giannou , Greek-Australian footballer
1990 –
Lee Jun-ho , South Korean singer and actor
1991 –
Ariana DeBose , American actress, singer, and dancer
[31]
1991 –
Ahmed Hegazi , Egyptian footballer
[56]
1996 –
Mohamed Hany , Egyptian footballer
[57]
1996 –
Seunghee , South Korean singer and television personality
[58]
1997 –
Noah Hanifin , American ice hockey player
[59]
2001 –
Elisabetta Cocciaretto , Italian tennis player
[60]
2002 –
Lil Mosey , American rapper
[61]
Deaths
Pre-1600
390 –
Gregory Nazianzus ,
theologian and
Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 –
Gaiseric , king of the Vandals (b. 389)
750 –
Ibrahim ibn al-Walid , Umayyad
caliph
844 –
Pope Gregory IV (b. 795)
863 –
Charles of Provence , Frankish king (b. 845)
951 –
Ma Xiguang , ruler of
Chu (
Ten Kingdoms )
1003 –
Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark
1067 –
Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. 1032)
1138 –
Antipope Anacletus II
1139 –
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VI)
1366 –
Henry Suso , German priest and mystic (b. 1300)
1413 –
Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (b. 1345)
1431 –
Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1492 –
Ygo Gales Galama , Frisian warlord and rebel (b. 1443)
1494 –
Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 –
Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
1578 –
Mihrimah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1522)
1586 –
Lucas Cranach the Younger , German painter (b. 1515)
1601–1900
1640 –
Robert Burton , English physician and scholar (b. 1577)
1670 –
Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 –
Guillaume Delisle , French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 –
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet , English banker and politician,
Lord Mayor of London (b. 1652)
1742 –
Edmond Halley , English astronomer (b. 1656)
[62]
1751 –
Paul Dudley , American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675)
1852 –
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen , Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
1856 –
John Doubleday , British craftsperson, restorer, and dealer
[63]
1901–present
1907 –
René Pottier , French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 –
Ouida , English-Italian author (b. 1839)
1908 –
Mikhail Chigorin , Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
1910 –
W. G. Read Mullan , American Jesuit and academic (1860)
1914 –
Frank Avery Hutchins , American librarian and educator (b. 1851)
[65]
1912 –
Dmitry Milyutin , Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)
1925 –
Juan Vucetich , Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858)
1939 –
Charles Davidson Dunbar , Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)
1947 –
Al Capone , American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
1949 –
Makino Nobuaki , Japanese politician, 15th
Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)
1957 –
Ichizō Kobayashi , Japanese businessman, founded
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)
1957 –
Kiyoshi Shiga , Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1958 –
Cemil Topuzlu , Turkish surgeon and politician,
Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)
1958 –
Robert R. Young , American businessman and financier (b. 1897)
1960 –
Diana Barrymore , American actress (b. 1921)
1966 –
Saul Adler , Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895)
1968 –
Louie Myfanwy Thomas , Welsh writer (b. 1908)
1968 –
Yvor Winters , American poet and literary critic (b. 1900)
[66]
1970 –
Jane Bathori , French soprano (b. 1877)
1970 –
Eiji Tsuburaya , Japanese director and producer (b. 1901)
1971 –
Barry III , Guinean lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
1972 –
Erhard Milch , German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 –
Charlotte Whitton , Canadian journalist and politician, 46th
Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
[67]
1978 –
Skender Kulenović , Bosnian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
1981 –
Adele Astaire , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1896)
1982 –
Mikhail Suslov , Russian economist and politician (b. 1902)
1985 –
Ilias Iliou , Greek jurist and politician (b. 1904)
1987 –
Frank J. Lynch , American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1922)
1988 –
Colleen Moore , American actress (b. 1899)
1990 –
Ava Gardner , American actress (b. 1922)
1991 –
Frank Soo , English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
1992 –
Mir Khalil ur Rehman , Founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers (b. 1927)
1994 –
Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909)
1996 –
Jonathan Larson , American playwright and composer (b. 1960)
[68]
1997 –
Dan Barry , American author and illustrator (b. 1923)
1999 –
Sarah Louise Delany , American author and educator (b. 1889)
1999 –
Robert Shaw , American conductor (b. 1916)
2001 –
Alice Ambrose , American philosopher and logician (b. 1906)
2002 –
Cliff Baxter , employee at
Enron (b. 1958)
2003 –
Sheldon Reynolds , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2003 –
Samuel Weems , American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
2004 –
Fanny Blankers-Koen , Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918)
2004 –
Miklós Fehér , Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2005 –
Stanisław Albinowski , Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 –
William Augustus Bootle , American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
2005 –
Philip Johnson , American architect, designed the
PPG Place and
Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906)
2005 –
Manuel Lopes , Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
2005 –
Netti Witziers-Timmer , Dutch runner (b. 1923)
2009 –
Eleanor F. Helin , American astronomer (b. 1932)
2009 –
Ewald Kooiman , Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938)
2009 –
Kim Manners , American director and producer (b. 1951)
2010 –
Ali Hassan al-Majid , Iraqi general and politician,
Iraqi Minister of Defence (b. 1941)
2011 –
Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935)
2011 –
Vincent Cronin , Welsh historian and author (b. 1924)
2012 –
Paavo Berglund , Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)
2012 –
Jacques Maisonrouge , French businessman (b. 1924)
2012 –
Franco Pacini , Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
2012 –
Robert Sheran , American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
2013 –
Martial Asselin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1924)
2013 –
Kevin Heffernan , Irish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
2013 –
Aase Nordmo Løvberg , Norwegian soprano and actress (b. 1923)
2014 –
Arthur Doyle , American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944)
2014 –
Heini Halberstam , Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
2014 –
Dave Strack , American basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
2015 –
John Leggett , American author and academic (b. 1917)
2015 –
Richard McBrien , American priest, theologian, and academic (b. 1936)
2015 –
Bill Monbouquette , American baseball player and coach (b. 1936)
2015 –
Demis Roussos , Egyptian-Greek singer (b. 1946)
2017 –
Stephen P. Cohen , Canadian academic (b. 1945)
2017 –
Robert Garcia , American politician (b. 1933)
2017 –
John Hurt , English actor (b. 1940)
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Harry Mathews , American novelist and poet (b. 1930)
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Marcel Prud'homme , Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2017 –
Mary Tyler Moore , American actress and producer (b. 1936)
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Neagu Djuvara , Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat (b. 1916)
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