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Day of the year
May 31 is the 151st day of the year (152nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 214 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1610 – The pageant
London's Love to Prince Henry on the
River Thames celebrates the creation of
Prince Henry as
Prince of Wales .
[4]
1669 – Citing poor eyesight as a reason,
Samuel Pepys records the last event in
his diary .
[5]
1775 –
American Revolution : The
Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the
Province of North Carolina .
[6]
1790 –
Manuel Quimper explores the
Strait of Juan de Fuca .
[7]
1790 – The United States enacts its first
copyright statute , the
Copyright Act of 1790 .
1795 –
French Revolution : The
Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1805 – French and Spanish forces begin the
assault against British forces occupying
Diamond Rock ,
Martinique .
1813 – In Australia,
William Lawson ,
Gregory Blaxland and
William Wentworth reach
Mount Blaxland , effectively marking the end of a route across the
Blue Mountains .
1859 – The clock tower at the
Houses of Parliament , which houses
Big Ben , starts keeping time.
1862 –
American Civil War :
Peninsula Campaign : Confederate forces under
Joseph E. Johnston and
G.W. Smith
engage Union forces under
George B. McClellan outside the Confederate capital of
Richmond, Virginia .
1864 – American Civil War:
Overland Campaign :
Battle of Cold Harbor : The
Army of Northern Virginia engages the
Army of the Potomac .
1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed
Madison Square Garden by
William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and
Madison Avenue .
1884 – The arrival at
Plymouth of
Tāwhiao , King of
Maoris , to claim the protection of
Queen Victoria .
1889 –
Johnstown Flood : Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of
Johnstown, Pennsylvania .
1901–present
1902 –
Second Boer War : The
Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
[8]
1909 – The
National Negro Committee , forerunner to the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
1910 – The
South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the
Union of South Africa .
1911 – The
RMS Titanic is launched in
Belfast ,
Northern Ireland .
1911 – The
President of Mexico
Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the
Mexican Revolution .
1916 –
World War I :
Battle of Jutland : The British
Grand Fleet engages the
High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1921 – The
Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
1924 –
Hope Development School fire kills 24 people, mostly disabled children.
[9]
1935 – A 7.7 Mw
earthquake destroys
Quetta in modern-day
Pakistan killing 40,000.
1941 –
Anglo-Iraqi War : The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of
Iraq and returns
'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for
Faisal II .
1942 –
World War II :
Imperial Japanese Navy
midget submarines begin a series of
attacks on Sydney , Australia.
1947 –
Ferenc Nagy , the democratically elected
Prime Minister of Hungary , resigns from office after blackmail from the
Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
[10]
1951 – The
Uniform Code of Military Justice takes effect as the legal system of the
United States Armed Forces .
[11]
1955 – The
U.S. Supreme Court expands on its
Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering
district courts and
school districts to enforce
educational desegregation "at all deliberate speed."
[12]
1961 – The
South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the
Republic of South Africa , which remains outside the
Commonwealth of Nations until 1 June 1994, when South Africa is returned to Commonwealth membership.
1961 – In
Moscow City Court , the
Rokotov–Faibishenko
show trial begins, despite the
Khrushchev Thaw to
reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society .
1962 – The
West Indies Federation dissolves.
1970 – The 7.9 Mw
Ancash earthquake shakes
Peru with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ) and a
landslide buries the town of
Yungay, Peru . Between 66,794 and 70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
1971 – In accordance with the
Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the
U.S. Congress in
1968 , observation of
Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional
Memorial Day of
May 30 .
1973 – The
United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of
Khmer Rouge targets within
Cambodia , hastening the end of the
Cambodian Civil War .
1973 –
Indian Airlines Flight 440 crashes near
Palam Airport in
Delhi , killing 48.
[13]
1977 – The
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
1985 –
United States–Canada tornado outbreak : Forty-one tornadoes hit
Ohio ,
Pennsylvania ,
New York , and
Ontario , leaving 76 dead.
1991 –
Bicesse Accords in
Angola lay out a transition to multi-party
democracy under the supervision of the
United Nations '
UNAVEM II peacekeeping mission.
2003 –
Air France retires its fleet of
Concorde aircraft.
[14]
2005 –
Vanity Fair reveals that
Mark Felt was "
Deep Throat ".
2008 –
Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7 m/s) 9.72 seconds
2010 – Israeli
Shayetet 13 commandos
boarded the
Gaza Freedom Flotilla while still in international waters trying to break the
ongoing blockade of the
Gaza Strip ; nine Turkish citizens on the flotilla were killed in the ensuing violent affray.
2013 – The
asteroid
1998 QE2 and its
moon make their
closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
2013 – A record breaking
2.6 mile wide tornado strikes near
El Reno, Oklahoma , United States, causing eight fatalities (including three storm chasers) and over 150 injuries.
2016 –
Syrian civil war : The
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launch the
Manbij offensive , in order to capture the city of
Manbij from the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
2017 – A
car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in
Kabul near the
German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463.
2019 –
A shooting occurs inside a municipal building at
Virginia Beach ,
Virginia , leaving 13 people dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1613 –
John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
1640 –
Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki , King of Poland (d. 1673)
1641 –
Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (d. 1707)
1725 –
Ahilyabai Holkar , Queen of the Malwa Kingdom under the
Maratha Empire (d. 1795)
1732 –
Count Hieronymus von Colloredo , Austrian archbishop (d. 1812)
1753 –
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud , French lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
1754 –
Andrea Appiani , Italian painter and educator (d. 1817)
1773 –
Ludwig Tieck , German poet, author, and critic (d. 1853)
1801 –
Johann Georg Baiter , Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1887)
1812 –
Robert Torrens , Irish-Australian politician, 3rd
Premier of South Australia (d. 1884)
[22]
1815 –
Adye Douglas , English-Australian cricketer and politician, 15th
Premier of Tasmania (d. 1906)
1818 –
John Albion Andrew , American lawyer and politician, 25th
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
1819 –
Walt Whitman , American poet, essayist, and journalist (d. 1892)
1827 –
Kusumoto Ine , first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (d. 1903)
[23]
1835 –
Hijikata Toshizō , Japanese commander (d. 1869)
1838 –
Henry Sidgwick , English economist and philosopher (d. 1900)
1842 –
John Cox Bray , Australian politician, 15th
Premier of South Australia (d. 1894)
1847 –
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie , Canadian-Irish businessman and politician,
Lord Mayor of Belfast (d. 1924)
1852 –
Francisco Moreno , Argentinian explorer and academic (d. 1919)
[24]
1852 –
Julius Richard Petri , German microbiologist, invented the
Petri dish (d. 1921)
1857 –
Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
1858 –
Graham Wallas , English socialist, social psychologist, and educationalist (d. 1932)
1860 –
Walter Sickert , English painter (d. 1942)
1863 –
Francis Younghusband , Indian-English captain and explorer (d. 1942)
1866 –
John Ringling , American entrepreneur; one of the founders of the
Ringling Brothers Circus (d. 1936)
1875 –
Rosa May Billinghurst , British suffragette and women's rights activist (d.1953)
1879 –
Frances Alda , New Zealand-Australian soprano (d. 1952)
1882 –
Sándor Festetics , Hungarian politician,
Hungarian Minister of War (d. 1956)
1883 –
Lauri Kristian Relander , Finnish politician, 2nd
President of Finland (d. 1942)
1885 –
Robert Richards , Australian politician, 32nd
Premier of South Australia (d. 1967)
1887 –
Saint-John Perse , French poet and diplomat,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 –
Michel Kikoine , Belarusian-French painter (d. 1968)
1892 –
Erich Neumann , German lieutenant and politician (d. 1951)
1892 –
Konstantin Paustovsky , Russian poet and author (d. 1968)
1892 –
Gregor Strasser , German lieutenant and politician (d. 1934)
1894 –
Fred Allen , American comedian, radio host, game show panelist, and author (d. 1956)
1898 –
Norman Vincent Peale , American minister and author (d. 1993)
1900 –
Lucile Godbold , American athlete (d. 1981)
1901–present
1901 –
Alfredo Antonini , Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1908 –
Don Ameche , American actor (d. 1993)
1909 –
Art Coulter , Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2000)
1911 –
Maurice Allais , French economist and physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
1912 –
Chien-Shiung Wu , Chinese-American experimental physicist (d. 1997)
1914 –
Akira Ifukube , Japanese composer and educator (d. 2006)
1916 –
Bert Haanstra , Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1918 –
Robert Osterloh , American actor (d. 2001)
[25]
1918 –
Lloyd Quarterman , African American chemist (d. 1982)
1919 –
Robie Macauley , American editor, novelist and critic (d. 1995)
1921 –
Edna Doré , English actress (d. 2014)
1921 –
Andrew Grima , Anglo-Italian jewellery designer (d. 2007)
1921 –
Howard Reig , American radio and television announcer (d. 2008)
1921 –
Alida Valli , Austrian-Italian actress and singer (d. 2006)
1922 –
Denholm Elliott , English-Spanish actor (d. 1992)
1923 –
Ellsworth Kelly , American painter and sculptor (d. 2015)
1923 –
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
1923 –
Claudio Matteini , Italian football player (d. 2003)
[26]
1925 –
Julian Beck , American actor and director (d. 1986)
1927 –
James Eberle , English admiral (d. 2018)
1927 –
Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg , English lieutenant and banker (d. 2017)
1928 –
Pankaj Roy , Indian cricketer (d. 2001)
1929 –
Menahem Golan , Israeli director and producer (d. 2014)
1930 –
Clint Eastwood , American actor, director, musician, and producer
1931 –
John Robert Schrieffer , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
1931 –
Shirley Verrett , American soprano and actress (d. 2010)
1932 –
Ed Lincoln , Brazilian pianist, bassist, and composer (d. 2012)
1932 –
Jay Miner , American computer scientist and engineer (d. 1994)
1933 –
Henry B. Eyring , American religious leader, educator, and author
1934 –
Jim Hutton , American actor (d. 1979)
1935 –
Jim Bolger , New Zealand businessman and politician, 35th
Prime Minister of New Zealand
1938 –
Johnny Paycheck , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
1938 –
John Prescott , British sailor and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 –
Peter Yarrow , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1939 –
Terry Waite , English humanitarian and author
1940 –
Anatoliy Bondarchuk , Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach
1940 –
Augie Meyers , American musician and singer-songwriter
1940 –
Gilbert Shelton , American illustrator
1941 –
June Clark , Welsh nurse and educator
1941 –
Louis Ignarro , American pharmacologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1941 –
William Nordhaus , American economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1943 –
Sharon Gless , American actress
1943 –
Joe Namath , American football player, sportscaster, and actor
1945 –
Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
1945 –
Laurent Gbagbo , Ivorian academic and politician, 4th
President of Côte d'Ivoire
1945 –
Bernard Goldberg , American journalist and author
1946 –
Ted Baehr , American publisher and critic
1946 –
Steve Bucknor , Jamaican cricketer and umpire
1946 –
Krista Kilvet , Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 2009)
1946 –
Debbie Moore , English model and businesswoman
1947 –
Junior Campbell , Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 –
Gabriele Hinzmann , German discus thrower
1948 –
Svetlana Alexievich , Belarusian journalist and author,
Nobel Prize laureate
1948 –
John Bonham , English musician, songwriter and drummer (d. 1980)
1948 –
Martin Hannett , English bass player, guitarist, and record producer (d. 1991)
1948 –
Duncan Hunter , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
1949 –
Tom Berenger , American actor, film producer and television writer
1950 –
Jean Chalopin , French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded
DIC Entertainment
1950 –
Gregory Harrison , American actor
[27]
1950 –
Edgar Savisaar , Estonian politician,
Estonian Minister of the Interior (d. 2022)
1951 –
Karl-Hans Riehm , German hammer thrower
1952 –
Carole Achache , French writer, photographer and actress (d. 2016)
[28]
1952 –
Karl Bartos , German singer-songwriter and keyboard player
[29]
1953 –
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius , Finnish actor and screenwriter
1954 –
Thomas Mavros , Greek footballer
1954 –
Vicki Sue Robinson , American actress and singer (d. 2000)
1955 –
Tommy Emmanuel , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 –
Susie Essman , American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
1956 –
Fritz Hilpert , German drummer and composer
1956 –
John Young , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1957 –
Jim Craig , American ice hockey player
1959 –
Andrea de Cesaris , Italian racing driver (d. 2014)
1959 –
Phil Wilson , English politician
1960 –
Greg Adams , Canadian ice hockey player and businessman
1960 –
Chris Elliott , American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1960 –
Peter Winterbottom , English rugby player
1961 –
Ray Cote , Canadian ice hockey player
1961 –
Justin Madden , Australian footballer and politician
1961 –
Lea Thompson , American actress, director, and producer
1962 –
Dina Boluarte , Peruvian politician, 64th
President of Peru
[30]
1962 –
Corey Hart , Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1963 –
David Leigh , holder of the
Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry at the
University of Manchester
1963 –
Viktor Orbán , Hungarian politician, 38th
Prime Minister of Hungary
1963 –
Wesley Willis , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2003)
1964 –
Leonard Asper , Canadian lawyer and businessman
1964 –
Stéphane Caristan , French hurdler and coach
1964 –
Yukio Edano , Japanese politician,
Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
1964 –
Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels , American rapper and producer
1965 –
Brooke Shields , American model, actress, and producer
1966 –
Diesel , American-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
[31]
1966 –
Roshan Mahanama , Sri Lankan cricketer and referee
1967 –
Phil Keoghan , New Zealand television host and producer
1967 –
Kenny Lofton , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1971 –
Arun Luthra , Indo-Anglo-American saxophonist,
konnakol artist, composer, and arranger
1972 –
Frode Estil , Norwegian skier
1972 –
Christian McBride , American bassist and record producer
1972 –
Antti Niemi , Finnish international footballer and coach
[32]
1972 –
Archie Panjabi , British actress
1972 –
Dave Roberts , American baseball player and coach
1974 –
Hiroiki Ariyoshi , Japanese comedian and singer
1975 –
Mac Suzuki , Japanese baseball player
1976 –
Colin Farrell , Irish actor
[33]
1976 –
Matt Harpring , American basketball player and sportscaster
1977 –
Domenico Fioravanti , Italian swimmer
1977 –
Moses Sichone , Zambian footballer
1979 –
Jean-François Gillet , Belgian footballer
1980 –
Andy Hurley , American musician
[34]
1981 –
Mikael Antonsson , Swedish footballer
1981 –
Daniele Bonera , Italian footballer
1981 –
Jake Peavy , American baseball player
[35]
1981 –
Marlies Schild , Austrian skier
1982 –
Brett Firman , Australian rugby league player
[36]
1984 –
Andrew Bailey , American baseball player
1984 –
Milorad Čavić , Serbian swimmer
1984 –
Nate Robinson , American basketball player
1985 –
Jordy Nelson , American football player
1986 –
Waka Flocka Flame , American rapper
[37]
1986 –
Robert Gesink , Dutch cyclist
1989 –
Marco Reus , German footballer
[38]
1990 –
Erik Karlsson , Swedish ice hockey player
1991 –
Azealia Banks , American singer-songwriter and rapper
[39]
1992 –
Michaël Bournival , Canadian ice hockey player
1992 –
Laura Ikauniece , Latvian heptathlete
[40]
1995 –
Shane Bieber , American baseball player
[41]
1995 –
Matthew Lodge , Australian rugby league player
[42]
1996 –
Normani Kordei Hamilton , American singer
[43]
1996 –
Brandon Smith , New Zealand rugby league player
[44]
1997 –
Woo Jin-young , South Korean singer and rapper
[45]
1998 –
Santino Ferrucci , American race car driver
[46]
2000 –
Gable Steveson , American wrestler
[47]
2001 –
Iga Świątek , Polish tennis player
[48]
Deaths
Pre-1600
455 –
Petronius Maximus , Roman emperor (b. 396)
930 –
Liu Hua , princess of Southern Han (b. 896)
960 –
Fujiwara no Morosuke , Japanese statesman (b. 909)
1076 –
Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria , English politician (b. 1050)
1089 –
Sigwin von Are , archbishop of Cologne
1162 –
Géza II , king of Hungary (b. 1130)
1321 –
Birger , king of Sweden (b. 1280)
1326 –
Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (b. 1271)
1329 –
Albertino Mussato , Italian statesman and writer (b. 1261)
1349 –
Thomas Wake , English politician (b. 1297)
1370 –
Vitalis of Assisi , Italian hermit and monk (b. 1295)
1408 –
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , Japanese shōgun (b. 1358)
1410 –
Martin of Aragon , Spanish king (b. 1356)
1504 –
Engelbert II of Nassau (b. 1451)
1558 –
Philip Hoby , English general and diplomat (b. 1505)
1567 –
Guido de Bres , Belgian pastor and theologian (b. 1522)
1594 –
Tintoretto , Italian painter and educator (b. 1518)
1601–1900
1601 –
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg , Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (b. 1547)
[49]
1640 –
Zeynab Begum , Safavid princess (date of birth unknown)
1665 –
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam , Dutch painter (b. 1597)
1680 –
Joachim Neander , German theologian and educator (b. 1650)
1740 –
Frederick William I of Prussia (b. 1688)
1747 –
Andrey Osterman , German-Russian politician,
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1686)
1809 –
Joseph Haydn , Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1732)
1809 –
Jean Lannes , French general (b. 1769)
1831 –
Samuel Bentham , English architect and engineer (b. 1757)
1832 –
Évariste Galois , French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
1837 –
Joseph Grimaldi , English actor, comedian and dancer, (b. 1779)
1846 –
Philip Marheineke , German pastor and philosopher (b. 1780)
1847 –
Thomas Chalmers , Scottish minister and economist (b. 1780)
1848 –
Eugénie de Guérin , French author (b. 1805)
1899 –
Stefanos Koumanoudis , Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer (b. 1818)
1901–present
1908 –
Louis-Honoré Fréchette , Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)
1909 –
Thomas Price , Welsh-Australian politician, 24th
Premier of South Australia (b. 1852)
1910 –
Elizabeth Blackwell , English-American physician and educator (b. 1821)
1931 –
Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau , Canadian cardinal (b. 1866)
1931 –
Willy Stöwer , German author and illustrator (b. 1864)
1945 –
Odilo Globocnik , Italian-Austrian
SS officer (b. 1904)
1954 –
Antonis Benakis , Greek art collector and philanthropist, founded the
Benaki Museum (b. 1873)
1957 –
Stefanos Sarafis , Greek general and politician (b. 1890)
1957 –
Leopold Staff , Polish poet and academic (b. 1878)
1960 –
Willem Elsschot , Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)
1960 –
Walther Funk , German economist, journalist, and politician,
German Minister of Economics (b. 1890)
1962 –
Henry F. Ashurst , American lawyer and politician (b. 1874)
1967 –
Billy Strayhorn , American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
1970 –
Terry Sawchuk , Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1970 –
Clare Sheridan , English sculptor and author (b. 1885)
[51]
1976 –
Jacques Monod , French biologist and geneticist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1977 –
William Castle , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
1978 –
József Bozsik , Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
1981 –
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth , English economist and journalist (b. 1914)
1982 –
Carlo Mauri , Italian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1930)
1983 –
Jack Dempsey , American boxer and lieutenant (b. 1895)
1985 –
Gaston Rébuffat , French mountaineer and author (b. 1921)
1986 –
Jane Frank , American painter and sculptor (b. 1918)
1986 –
James Rainwater , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
1987 –
John Abraham , Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
1989 –
C. L. R. James , Trinidadian journalist and historian (b. 1901)
[52]
1989 –
Owen Lattimore , American author and academic (b. 1900)
1993 – Honey Tree Evil Eye, or,
Spuds MacKenzie ,
Bud Light
Bull Terrier mascot (b. 1983)
[53]
1994 –
Uzay Heparı , Turkish actor, producer, and composer (b. 1969)
1994 –
Herva Nelli , Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
1995 –
Stanley Elkin , American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930)
1996 –
Timothy Leary , American psychologist and author (b. 1920)
1998 –
Charles Van Acker , Belgian-American race car driver (b. 1912)
2000 –
Petar Mladenov , Bulgarian diplomat, 1st
President of Bulgaria (b. 1936)
2000 –
A. Jeyaratnam Wilson , Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (b. 1928)
2001 –
Arlene Francis , American actress, talk show host, game show panelist, and television personality (b. 1907)
2002 –
Subhash Gupte , Indian cricketer (b. 1929)
2004 –
Aiyathurai Nadesan , Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1954)
2004 –
Robert Quine , American guitarist (b. 1941)
2004 –
Étienne Roda-Gil , French screenwriter and composer (b. 1941)
2006 –
Miguel Ortiz Berrocal , Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
2006 –
Raymond Davis, Jr. , American physicist and chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2009 –
Danny La Rue , Irish-British
drag queen performer and singer (b. 1927)
2009 –
George Tiller , American physician (b. 1941)
2010 –
Louise Bourgeois , French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1911)
2010 –
Brian Duffy , English photographer and producer (b. 1933)
2010 –
William A. Fraker , American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1923)
2010 –
Rubén Juárez , Argentinian singer-songwriter and
bandoneón player (b. 1947)
2010 –
Merata Mita , New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
2011 –
Pauline Betz , American tennis player (b. 1919)
2011 –
Jonas Bevacqua , American fashion designer, co-founded the
Lifted Research Group (b. 1977)
2011 –
Derek Hodge , Virgin Islander lawyer and politician,
Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1941)
2011 –
Hans Keilson , German-Dutch psychoanalyst and author (b. 1909)
2011 –
John Martin , English admiral and politician,
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (b. 1918)
2011 –
Andy Robustelli , American football player and manager (b. 1925)
2012 –
Christopher Challis , English cinematographer (b. 1919)
2012 –
Randall B. Kester , American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
2012 –
Paul Pietsch , German racing driver and publisher (b. 1911)
2012 –
Orlando Woolridge , American basketball player and coach (b. 1959)
2013 –
Gerald E. Brown , American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
2013 –
Frederic Lindsay , Scottish author and educator (b. 1933)
2013 –
Miguel Méndez , American author and poet (b. 1930)
2013 –
Tim Samaras , American engineer and storm chaser (b. 1957)
2013 –
Jairo Mora Sandoval , Costa Rican environmentalist (b. 1987)
2013 –
Jean Stapleton , American actress (b. 1923)
2014 –
Marilyn Beck , American journalist (b. 1928)
2014 –
Marinho Chagas , Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
2014 –
Hoss Ellington , American race car driver (b. 1935)
2014 –
Martha Hyer , American actress (b. 1924)
2014 –
Lewis Katz , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1942)
2014 –
Mary Soames, Baroness Soames , English author (b. 1922)
2015 –
Gladys Taylor , Canadian author and publisher (b. 1917)
2016 –
Mohamed Abdelaziz ,
President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1976–2016) (b. 1947)
2016 –
Jan Crouch , American televangelist, co-founder of the
Trinity Broadcasting Network (b. 1938)
2016 –
Carla Lane , English television writer (b. 1928)
2016 –
Rupert Neudeck , German journalist and humanitarian (b. 1939)
2022 –
Colin Cantwell , American concept artist and director (b.1932)
[54]
2022 –
Krishnakumar Kunnath , Indian singer (b. 1968)
[55]
2022 –
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela , Colombian
drug lord (b.1939)
[56]
2022 –
Jim Parks , English cricketer (b. 1931)
[57]
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