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Day of the year
January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar ; 337 days remain until the end of the year (338 in
leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
98 – On the death of
Nerva ,
Trajan is declared Roman emperor in
Cologne , the seat of his government in lower Germany.
[1]
814 – The death of
Charlemagne , the first
Holy Roman Emperor , brings about the accession of his son
Louis the Pious as ruler of the
Frankish Empire .
[2]
1069 –
Robert de Comines , appointed
Earl of Northumbria by
William the Conqueror , rides into
Durham, England , where he is defeated and killed by rebels.
[3] This incident leads to the
Harrying of the North .
1077 –
Walk to Canossa : The
excommunication of
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor , is lifted after he humbles himself before
Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.
[4]
1521 – The
Diet of Worms begins, lasting until
May 25 .
[5]
1547 –
Edward VI , the nine-year-old son of
Henry VIII , becomes King of England on his father's death.
1568 – The
Edict of Torda prohibits the persecution of individuals on religious grounds in
John Sigismund Zápolya 's
Eastern Hungarian Kingdom .
1573 – Articles of the
Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning
freedom of religion in Poland.
1591 – Execution of
Agnes Sampson , accused of
witchcraft in Edinburgh.
[6]
1601–1900
1624 –
Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of
Saint Kitts .
1671 – Original city of
Panama (founded in 1519) is destroyed by a fire when privateer
Henry Morgan
sacks and sets fire to it . The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see
Panama Viejo ).
1724 – The
Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in
St. Petersburg , Russia, by
Peter the Great , and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 – Sir
Horace Walpole coins the word
serendipity in a letter to a friend.
1813 –
Jane Austen 's
Pride and Prejudice is first published in the
United Kingdom .
1846 – The
Battle of Aliwal ,
India , is won by British troops commanded by
Sir Harry Smith .
[7]
1851 –
Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in
Illinois .
1855 – A locomotive on the
Panama Canal Railway runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1871 –
Franco-Prussian War : The
Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
[8]
1878 –
Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily
college newspaper in the
United States .
[9]
1896 – Walter Arnold of
East Peckham , Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of
speeding . He was fined one
shilling , plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1901–present
1902 – The
Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C., with a $10 million gift from
Andrew Carnegie .
1908 – Members of the
Portuguese Republican Party fail in their
attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister
João Franco .
1909 – United States troops leave
Cuba , with the exception of
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , after being there since the
Spanish–American War .
1915 – An act of the
U.S. Congress creates the
United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1916 – The Canadian province of
Manitoba grants women the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections (although still excluding women of Indigenous or Asian heritage), marking the first time
women in Canada are granted voting rights .
[10]
1918 –
Finnish Civil War : The
Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital,
Helsinki ; members of the
Senate of Finland go underground.
1919 – The
Order of the White Rose of Finland is established by Baron
Gustaf Mannerheim , the
regent of the
Kingdom of Finland .
[11]
[12]
1920 – Foundation of the
Spanish Legion .
1922 –
Knickerbocker Storm : Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the
Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people.
[13]
1932 – Japanese forces
attack Shanghai .
1933 – The name
Pakistan is
coined by
Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by
Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the
Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1935 –
Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic
abortion .
1938 – The
World Land Speed Record on a
public road is broken by
Rudolf Caracciola in the
Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 –
Franco-Thai War : Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated
armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 –
World War II : Supplies begin to reach the
Republic of China over the newly reopened
Burma Road .
1956 –
Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
1958 – The
Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1960 – The
National Football League announces expansion teams for
Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and
Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season.
1964 – An unarmed
United States Air Force
T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is
shot down over
Erfurt ,
East Germany , by a
Soviet
MiG-19 .
1965 – The current design of the
Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of
Parliament .
1977 – The first day of the
Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 , which dumps 3 metres (10 ft) of snow in one day in
Upstate New York .
Buffalo ,
Syracuse ,
Watertown , and surrounding areas are most affected.
1980 –
USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving
Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 –
Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States, helping to end the
1979 energy crisis and begin the
1980s oil glut .
1982 –
US Army General
James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-
terrorism forces from captivity by the
Red Brigades .
1984 –
Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern
Mozambique , eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1985 – Supergroup
USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single
We Are the World , to help raise funds for
Ethiopian
famine relief .
1986 –
Space Shuttle program :
STS-51-L mission:
Space Shuttle Challenger
disintegrates after liftoff , killing all seven astronauts on board.
[14]
1988 – In
R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-
abortion laws .
2002 –
TAME Flight 120 , a
Boeing 727 -100, crashes in the
Andes mountains in southern
Colombia , killing 94.
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the
Katowice International Fair in Poland
collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2021 – A
nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in
Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten.
[15]
2023 –
Protests begin after
police beat and
kill Tyre Nichols .
[16]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1608 –
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli , Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
[25]
1611 –
Johannes Hevelius , Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687)
[26]
1622 –
Adrien Auzout , French astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1691)
1693 –
Gregor Werner , Austrian composer (d. 1766)
1701 –
Charles Marie de La Condamine , French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1706 –
John Baskerville , English printer and typographer (d. 1775)
1712 –
Tokugawa Ieshige , Japanese shōgun (d. 1761)
1717 –
Mustafa III , Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
1719 –
Johann Elias Schlegel , German poet and critic (d. 1749)
1726 –
Christian Felix Weiße , German poet and playwright (d. 1802)
1755 –
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring , Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (d. 1830)
1784 –
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Scottish politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1797 –
Charles Gray Round , English lawyer and politician (d. 1867)
1818 –
George S. Boutwell , American lawyer and politician, 28th
United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)
1822 –
Alexander Mackenzie , Scottish-Canadian politician, 2nd
Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
[27]
1833 –
Charles George Gordon , English general and politician (d. 1885)
1853 –
José Martí , Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (d. 1895)
1853 –
Vladimir Solovyov , Russian philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1900)
1855 –
William Seward Burroughs I , American businessman, founded the
Burroughs Corporation (d. 1898)
1858 –
Tannatt William Edgeworth David , Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934)
1861 –
Julián Felipe , Filipino composer and educator (d. 1944)
1863 –
Ernest William Christmas , Australian-American painter (d. 1918)
1864 –
Charles W. Nash , American businessman, founded
Nash Motors (d. 1948)
1865 –
Lala Lajpat Rai , Indian author and politician (d. 1928)
1865 –
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg , Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st
President of Finland (d. 1952)
1873 –
Colette , French novelist and journalist (d. 1954)
[28]
1873 –
Monty Noble , Australian cricketer (d. 1940)
1874 –
Alex Smith , Scottish golfer (d. 1930)
1875 –
Julián Carrillo , Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1965)
1878 –
Walter Kollo , German composer and conductor (d. 1940)
1880 –
Herbert Strudwick , English cricketer and coach (d. 1970)
1884 –
Auguste Piccard , Swiss physicist and explorer (d. 1962)
1885 –
Vahan Terian , Armenian poet and activist (d. 1920)
1886 –
Marthe Bibesco , Romanian-French author and poet (d. 1973)
[29]
1886 –
Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976)
1887 –
Arthur Rubinstein , Polish-American pianist and educator (d. 1982)
1897 –
Valentin Kataev , Russian author and playwright (d. 1986)
1900 –
Alice Neel , American painter (d. 1984)
1901–present
1903 –
Aleksander Kamiński , Polish author and educator (d. 1978)
1903 –
Kathleen Lonsdale , Irish crystallographer and 1st female
FRS (d. 1971)
[30]
1906 –
Pat O'Callaghan , Irish athlete (d. 1991)
[31]
1906 –
Markos Vafiadis , Greek general and politician (d. 1992)
1908 –
Paul Misraki , Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998)
1909 –
John Thomson , Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1910 –
John Banner , Austrian actor (d. 1973)
[32]
1911 –
Johan van Hulst , Dutch politician, academic and author,
Yad Vashem recipient (d. 2018)
1912 –
Jackson Pollock , American painter (d. 1956)
[33]
1918 –
Harry Corbett , English puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1918 –
Trevor Skeet , New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
1919 –
Gabby Gabreski , American colonel and pilot (d. 2002)
1920 –
Lewis Wilson , American actor (d. 2000)
[34]
1921 –
Vytautas Norkus , Lithuanian–American basketball player (d. 2014)
1922 –
Anna Gordy Gaye , American songwriter and producer, co-founded
Anna Records (d. 2014)
1922 –
Robert W. Holley , American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1924 –
Marcel Broodthaers , Belgian painter and poet (d. 1976)
1925 –
Raja Ramanna , Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004)
1926 –
Jimmy Bryan , American race car driver (d. 1960)
1927 –
Per Oscarsson , Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1927 –
Ronnie Scott , English saxophonist (d. 1996)
1927 –
Hiroshi Teshigahara , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1927 –
Vera Williams , American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1929 –
Acker Bilk , English singer and clarinet player (d. 2014)
[33]
1929 –
Edith M. Flanigen , American chemist
1929 –
Nikolai Parshin , Russian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1929 –
Claes Oldenburg , Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 2022)
[35]
1930 –
Kurt Biedenkopf , German academic and politician, 54th
President of the German Bundesrat (d. 2021)
1930 –
Roy Clarke , English screenwriter, comedian and soldier
1933 –
Jack Hill , American director and screenwriter
[36]
1934 –
Juan Manuel Bordeu , Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990)
1935 –
David Lodge , English author and critic
1935 –
Nicholas Pryor , American actor
[37]
1936 –
Alan Alda , American actor, director, and writer
[37]
1936 –
Ismail Kadare , Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright
[38]
1937 –
Karel Čáslavský , Czech historian and television host (d. 2013)
1937 –
John Normington , English actor (d. 2007)
[39]
1938 –
Tomas Lindahl , Swedish-English biologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1938 –
Leonid Zhabotinsky , Ukrainian weightlifter and coach (d. 2016)
1939 –
John M. Fabian , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1940 –
Carlos Slim , Mexican businessman and philanthropist, founded
Grupo Carso
1941 –
Joel Crothers , American actor (d. 1985)
[40]
1942 –
Sjoukje Dijkstra , Dutch figure skater
1942 –
Erkki Pohjanheimo , Finnish director and producer
1943 –
Paul Henderson , Canadian ice hockey player and author
[41]
1943 –
Dick Taylor , English guitarist and songwriter
1944 –
Susan Howard , American actress and writer
[33]
1944 –
Rosalía Mera , Spanish businesswoman, co-founded
Inditex and
Zara (d. 2013)
1944 –
John Tavener , English composer (d. 2013)
[42]
1945 –
Marthe Keller , Swiss actress and director
[37]
1947 –
Jeanne Shaheen , American educator and politician, 78th
Governor of New Hampshire
1948 –
Ilkka Kanerva , Finnish politician (d. 2022)
[43]
1948 –
Bob Moses , American drummer
1948 –
Charles Taylor , Liberian politician, 22nd
President of Liberia
[33]
1949 –
Mike Moore , New Zealand union leader and politician, 34th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2020)
[44]
1949 –
Gregg Popovich , American basketball player and coach
[37]
1949 –
Jim Wong-Chu , Canadian poet (d. 2017)
[45]
1950 –
Barbi Benton , American actress, singer and model
[37]
1950 –
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa , Bahraini king
1950 –
David C. Hilmers , American colonel, physician, and astronaut
1950 –
Naila Kabeer , Bangladeshi-English economist and academic
1951 –
Brian Bilbray , American politician
1951 –
Leonid Kadeniuk , Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2018)
1951 –
Billy Bass Nelson , American R&B/funk bass player
1952 –
Richard Glatzer , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1953 –
Colin Campbell , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1954 –
Peter Lampe , German theologian and historian
1954 –
Bruno Metsu , French footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1954 –
Rick Warren , American pastor and author
1955 –
Vinod Khosla , Indian-American businessman, co-founded
Sun Microsystems
1955 –
Nicolas Sarkozy , French lawyer and politician, 23rd
President of France
[37]
1956 –
Richard Danielpour , American composer and educator
1956 –
Peter Schilling , German singer-songwriter
1957 –
Mark Napier , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1957 –
Nick Price , Zimbabwean-South African golfer
1957 –
Frank Skinner , English comedian, actor, and author
1959 –
Frank Darabont , American director and producer
[37]
1960 –
Loren Legarda , Filipino journalist and politician
1961 –
Mike Holoway , British musician and actor
[46]
1961 –
Normand Rochefort , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 –
Michael Cage , American basketball player and broadcaster
[47]
1962 –
Keith Hamilton Cobb , American actor
[48]
1962 –
Sam Phillips , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[37]
1963 –
Dan Spitz , American musician and songwriter
[37]
1964 –
David Lawrence , English cricketer
1966 –
Seiji Mizushima , Japanese director and producer
1966 –
Michal Pivoňka , Czech ice hockey player
[49]
1967 –
Billy Brownless , Australian footballer and sportscaster
1968 –
Sarah McLachlan , Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
[37]
1968 –
DJ Muggs , American DJ and producer
[37]
1968 –
Rakim , American rapper
[50]
1969 –
Giorgio Lamberti , Italian swimmer
1969 –
Kathryn Morris , American actress
[37]
1969 –
Mo Rocca , American comedian and television journalist
[37]
1969 –
Linda Sánchez , American lawyer and politician
1971 –
Anthony Hamilton , American singer-songwriter and producer
[37]
1972 –
Elena Baranova , Russian basketball player
[51]
1972 –
Amy Coney Barrett , American jurist, academic, attorney, and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
[52]
1972 –
Mark Regan , English rugby player
1972 –
Nicky Southall , English footballer and manager
1972 –
Léon van Bon , Dutch cyclist
1972 –
Gillian Vigman , American actress and comedian
[37]
1974 –
Tony Delk , American basketball player and coach
1974 –
Jermaine Dye , American baseball player
1974 –
Ramsey Nasr , Dutch author and poet
1974 –
Magglio Ordóñez , Venezuelan baseball player and politician
1975 –
Pedro Pinto , Portuguese-American journalist
1975 –
Junior Spivey , American baseball player and coach
1976 –
Sireli Bobo , Fijian rugby player
1976 –
Mark Madsen , American basketball player and coach
1976 –
Rick Ross , American rapper and producer
[37]
1976 –
Miltiadis Sapanis , Greek footballer
1977 –
Sandis Buškevics , Latvian basketball player and coach
1977 –
Daunte Culpepper , American football player
1977 –
Joey Fatone , American singer, dancer, and television personality
[37]
1977 –
Takuma Sato , Japanese race car driver
1978 –
Gianluigi Buffon , Italian footballer
1978 –
Jamie Carragher , English footballer and sportscaster
1978 –
Papa Bouba Diop , Senegalese footballer (d. 2020)
1978 –
Big Freedia , American musician
[53]
1978 –
Sheamus , Irish wrestler
[54]
1979 –
Angelique Cabral , American actress
[37]
1980 –
Nick Carter , American singer-songwriter and actor
[37]
1980 –
Yasuhito Endō , Japanese footballer
1980 –
Brian Fallon , American singer-songwriter
1980 –
Michael Hastings , American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1981 –
Elijah Wood , American actor and producer
[55]
1982 –
Chad Aull , American politician
[56]
1982 –
Omar Cook , American-Montenegrin basketball player and coach
[57]
1984 –
Ben Clucas , English race car driver
1984 –
Stephen Gostkowski , American football player
1984 –
Andre Iguodala , American basketball player
1984 –
Anne Panter , English field hockey player
1985 –
Daniel Carcillo , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 –
J. Cole , American rapper
[37]
1985 –
Lauris Dārziņš , Latvian ice hockey player
1985 –
Tom Hopper , English actor
[37]
1985 –
Arnold Mvuemba , French footballer
1985 –
Libby Trickett , Australian swimmer
1986 –
Jessica Ennis-Hill , English heptathlete and hurdler
[58]
1986 –
Nathan Outteridge , Australian sailor
1986 –
Asad Shafiq , Pakistani cricketer
1988 –
Paul Henry , English footballer
1988 –
Alexandra Krosney , American actress
[37]
1988 –
Sanada , Japanese wrestler
1989 –
Siem de Jong , Dutch footballer
[59]
1991 –
Carl Klingberg , Swedish ice hockey player
[60]
1992 –
Sergio Araujo , Argentinian footballer
[61]
1993 –
Will Poulter , English actor
[37]
1993 –
Alan Williams , American basketball player
[62]
1994 –
Joel Bolomboy , Russian-American basketball player
[63]
1994 –
Lin Zhu , Chinese tennis player
[64]
1994 –
Maluma , Colombian singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor
[37]
1995 –
Mimi-Isabella Cesar , British rhythmic gymnast
[65]
1998 –
Payton Pritchard , American basketball player
[66]
1998 –
Ariel Winter , American actress
[67]
2000 –
Dušan Vlahović , Serbian footballer
[68]
2004 –
Emoni Bates , American basketball player
[69]
2004 –
Liam Öhgren , Swedish ice hockey player
[70]
Deaths
Pre-1600
724 –
Yazid II ,
Umayyad caliph (b. 687)
[71]
814 –
Charlemagne ,
Holy Roman emperor (b. 742)
[72]
919 –
Zhou Dewei , Chinese general
929 –
Gao Jixing , founder of Chinese
Jingnan (b. 858)
947 –
Jing Yanguang , Chinese general (b. 892)
1061 –
Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1142 –
Yue Fei , Chinese general (b. 1103)
[73]
1256 –
William II, Count of Holland ,
King of Germany (b. 1227)
1271 –
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)
[74]
1290 –
Dervorguilla of Galloway , Scottish noble, mother of king
John Balliol of Scotland (b. c. 1210)
[75]
1443 –
Robert le Maçon , French diplomat (b. 1365)
1501 –
John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham , English baron and Lord High Treasurer (b. 1433)
[76]
1547 –
Henry VIII , king of England (b. 1491)
[77]
1601–1900
1613 –
Thomas Bodley , English diplomat and scholar, founded the
Bodleian Library (b. 1545)
1621 –
Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1666 –
Tommaso Dingli , Maltese architect and sculptor (b. 1591)
1672 –
Pierre Séguier , French politician,
Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1681 –
Richard Allestree , English priest and academic (b. 1619)
1687 –
Johannes Hevelius , Polish astronomer and politician (b. 1611)
1688 –
Ferdinand Verbiest , Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623)
1697 –
Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet , English general and politician (b. 1645)
1754 –
Ludvig Holberg , Norwegian-Danish historian and philosopher (b. 1684)
1782 –
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville , French geographer and cartographer (b. 1697)
1832 –
Augustin Daniel Belliard , French general (b. 1769)
1859 –
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich , English politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
1864 –
Émile Clapeyron , French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)
1873 –
John Hart , English-Australian politician, 10th
Premier of South Australia (b. 1809)
[78]
1901–present
1903 –
Augusta Holmès , French pianist and composer (b. 1847)
1912 –
Gustave de Molinari , Belgian economist and theorist (b. 1819).
1912 –
Eloy Alfaro , former president of Ecuador (b. 1842)
1918 –
John McCrae , Canadian soldier, physician, and author (b. 1872)
1921 –
Mustafa Suphi , Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)
1930 –
Emmy Destinn , Czech soprano and poet (b. 1878)
1935 –
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov , Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)
1937 –
Anastasios Metaxas , Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)
1938 –
Bernd Rosemeyer , German race car driver (b. 1909)
1939 –
W. B. Yeats , Irish poet and playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1942 –
Edward Siegler , American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)
1945 –
Roza Shanina , Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1924)
1947 –
Reynaldo Hahn , Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)
1948 –
Hans Aumeier , German
SS officer (b. 1906)
1949 –
Jean-Pierre Wimille , French race car driver (b. 1908)
1950 –
Nikolai Luzin , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
1953 –
James Scullin , Australian journalist and politician, 9th
Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1953 –
Neyzen Tevfik , Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
1959 –
Walter Beall , American baseball player (b. 1899)
1960 –
Zora Neale Hurston , American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (b. 1891)
1963 –
Gustave Garrigou , French cyclist (b. 1884)
1965 –
Tich Freeman , English cricketer (b. 1888)
1965 –
Maxime Weygand , Belgian-French general (b. 1867)
1971 –
Donald Winnicott , English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1973 –
John Banner , Austrian actor (b. 1910)
1976 –
Marcel Broodthaers , Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
1978 –
Ward Moore , American author (b. 1903)
1983 –
Billy Fury . English pop star (b. 1940)
1983 –
Frank Forde , Australian educator and politician, 15th
Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1986 –
Space Shuttle Challenger crew
Gregory Jarvis , American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1944)
[14]
Christa McAuliffe , American educator and astronaut (b. 1948)
[14]
Ronald McNair , American physicist and astronaut (b. 1950)
[14]
Ellison Onizuka , American engineer and astronaut (b. 1946)
[14]
Judith Resnik , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1949)
[14]
Dick Scobee , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
[14]
Michael J. Smith , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1945)
[14]
1988 –
Klaus Fuchs , German physicist and politician (b. 1911)
1989 –
Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)
1993 –
Helen Sawyer Hogg , Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)
[79]
1996 –
Joseph Brodsky , Russian-American poet and essayist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
1996 –
Burne Hogarth , American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
1996 –
Jerry Siegel , American author and illustrator, co-created
Superman (b. 1914)
1998 –
Shotaro Ishinomori , Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
1999 –
Valery Gavrilin , Russian composer (b. 1939)
2001 –
Ranko Marinković , Croatian author and playwright (b. 1913)
2002 –
Gustaaf Deloor , Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913)
2002 –
Astrid Lindgren , Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
2002 –
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu , Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
2003 –
Mieke Pullen , Dutch runner (b. 1957)
2004 –
Lloyd M. Bucher , American captain (b. 1927)
2005 –
Jim Capaldi , English singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)
2007 –
Carlo Clerici , Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 –
Robert Drinan , American priest, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
2007 –
Yelena Romanova , Russian runner (b. 1963)
2007 –
Karel Svoboda , Czech composer (b. 1938)
2009 –
Werner Flume , German jurist (b. 1908)
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2009 –
Billy Powell , American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1952)
2012 –
Roman Juszkiewicz , Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
2012 –
Don Starkell , Canadian adventurer and author (b. 1932)
2013 –
Florentino Fernández , Cuban-American boxer and coach (b. 1936)
2013 –
Hattie N. Harrison , American educator and politician (b. 1928)
2013 –
Oldřich Kulhánek , Czech painter, illustrator, and stage designer (b. 1940)
2014 –
John Cacavas , American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
2014 –
Harry Gamble , American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1930)
2014 –
Dwight Gustafson , American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
2014 –
Nigel Jenkins , Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer (b. 1949)
2014 –
Jorge Obeid , Argentinian engineer and politician,
Governor of Santa Fe (b. 1947)
2015 –
Suraj Abdurrahman , Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954)
2015 –
Yves Chauvin , French chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
2015 –
Lionel Gilbert , Australian historian, author, and academic (b. 1924)
2016 –
Signe Toly Anderson , American singer (b. 1941)
2016 –
Paul Kantner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
2016 –
Franklin Gene Bissell , American football player and coach (b. 1926)
2016 –
Buddy Cianci , American lawyer and politician, 32nd
Mayor of Providence (b. 1941)
2016 –
Bob Tizard , New Zealand lawyer and politician, 6th
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1924)
2017 –
Alexander Chancellor , British journalist (b. 1940)
2017 –
Geoff Nicholls , British musician (b. 1948)
2019 –
Pepe Smith , Filipino rock musician (b. 1947)
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2021 –
Cicely Tyson , American actress (b. 1924)
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