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Day of the year
April 8 is the 98th day of the year (99th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 267 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1904 – The
French Third Republic and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the
Entente cordiale .
[16]
1906 –
Auguste Deter , the first person to be diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease , dies.
1908 –
Harvard University votes to establish the
Harvard Business School .
1911 –
Dutch physicist
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers
superconductivity .
1913 – The
17th Amendment to the United States Constitution , requiring direct
election of
Senators , becomes law.
1918 –
World War I : Actors
Douglas Fairbanks and
Charlie Chaplin sell
war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
1924 –
Sharia courts are abolished in
Turkey , as part of
Atatürk's Reforms .
1929 –
Indian independence movement : At the Delhi Central Assembly,
Bhagat Singh and
Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1935 – The
Works Progress Administration is formed when the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
1940 – The Central Committee of the
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as
General Secretary , marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of
Mongolia .
[17]
1942 –
World War II : The
Japanese take
Bataan in the
Philippines .
1943 – U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt , in an attempt to check
inflation , freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by
common carriers and
public utilities .
1943 –
Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in
Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.
1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000
Nazi concentration camp internees in
Prussian Hanover , the survivors are
massacred by Nazis.
1946 –
Électricité de France , the world's largest
utility company , is formed as a result of the
nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
1950 –
India and
Pakistan sign the
Liaquat–Nehru Pact .
1952 – U.S. President
Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the
1952 steel strike .
1953 –
Mau Mau leader
Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by
British Kenya 's rulers.
1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair
Harvard collides with a
Trans-Canada Airlines
Canadair North Star over
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan , killing 37 people.
1954 –
South African Airways Flight 201 A
de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by
Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new
programming language that would be called
COBOL .
1959 – The
Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the
Inter-American Development Bank .
1960 – The
Netherlands and
West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of
German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million
German marks as
Wiedergutmachung .
1968 –
BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident,
Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous
George Cross , the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
1970 –
Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing : Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
1975 –
Frank Robinson manages the
Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league
baseball 's first
African American manager.
1987 –
Los Angeles Dodgers executive
Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over
racist remarks he had made while on
Nightline .
1992 – Retired
tennis great
Arthur Ashe announces that he has
AIDS , acquired from
blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1993 – The
Republic of North Macedonia joins the
United Nations .
1993 – The
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission
STS-56 .
[18]
2004 –
War in Darfur : The
Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the
Sudanese government, the
Justice and Equality Movement , and the
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army .
2005 – A
solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the
Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as
Costa Rica ,
Panama ,
Colombia and
Venezuela .
[19]
2006 –
Shedden massacre : The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in
Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario . The murders are soon linked to the
Bandidos Motorcycle Club .
2008 – The construction of the
world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in
Bahrain .
2010 – U.S. President
Barack Obama and Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev sign the
New START Treaty .
[20]
2013 – The
Islamic State of Iraq enters the
Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the
Al-Nusra Front under the name
Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham .
2014 –
Windows XP reaches its standard
End Of Life and is no longer supported.
[21]
2020 –
Bernie Sanders ends his
presidential campaign , leaving
Joe Biden as the
Democratic Party 's nominee.
[22]
2024 –
Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 : A total
solar eclipse takes place at the Moon's
ascending node , visible across North America.
[23]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1605 –
Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)
1605 –
Mary Stuart , English-Scottish princess (d. 1607)
1641 –
Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney , English general and politician,
Secretary of State for the Northern Department (d. 1704)
1692 –
Giuseppe Tartini , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1770)
1726 –
Lewis Morris , American judge and politician (d. 1798)
1732 –
David Rittenhouse , American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1796)
1761 –
William Joseph Chaminade , French priest, founded the
Society of Mary (d. 1850)
1770 –
John Thomas Campbell , Irish-Australian banker and politician (d. 1830)
1798 –
Dionysios Solomos , Greek poet and author (d. 1857)
1818 –
Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
1818 –
August Wilhelm von Hofmann , German chemist and academic (d. 1892)
1826 –
Pancha Carrasco , Costa Rican soldier (d. 1890)
1827 –
Ramón Emeterio Betances , Puerto Rican ophthalmologist, journalist, and politician (d. 1898)
[26]
1842 –
Elizabeth Bacon Custer , American author and educator (d. 1933)
1859 –
Edmund Husserl , German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1938)
1864 –
Carlos Deltour , French rower and rugby player (d. 1920)
1867 –
Allen Butler Talcott , American painter and educator (d. 1908)
1869 –
Harvey Cushing , American surgeon and academic (d. 1939)
1871 –
Clarence Hudson White , American photographer and educator (d. 1925)
1874 –
Manuel Díaz , Cuban fencer (d. 1929)
1874 –
Stanisław Taczak , Polish general (d. 1960)
1875 –
Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
1882 (O.S. 27 March) –
Dmytro Doroshenko , Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1951)
1883 –
R. P. Keigwin , English cricketer and academic (d. 1972)
1883 –
Julius Seljamaa , Estonian journalist and politician,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d. 1936)
1885 –
Dimitrios Levidis , Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator (d. 1951)
1886 –
Margaret Ayer Barnes , American author and playwright (d. 1967)
[27]
1888 –
Dennis Chávez , American journalist and politician (d. 1962)
1889 –
Adrian Boult , English conductor (d. 1983)
1892 –
Richard Neutra , Austrian-American architect, designer of the
Los Angeles County Hall of Records (d. 1970)
1892 –
Mary Pickford , Canadian-American actress, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of
United Artists (d. 1979)
[28]
1896 –
Yip Harburg , American composer (d. 1981)
1900 –
Marie Byles , Australian solicitor (d. 1979)
[29]
1901–present
1902 –
Andrew Irvine , English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1924)
1902 –
Maria Maksakova Sr. , Russian soprano (d. 1974)
1904 –
John Hicks , English economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
1904 –
Hirsch Jacobs , American horse trainer (d. 1970)
1905 –
Joachim Büchner , German sprinter and graphic designer (d. 1978)
1905 –
Helen Joseph , English-South African activist (d. 1992)
1905 –
Erwin Keller , German field hockey player (d. 1971)
1906 –
Raoul Jobin , Canadian tenor and educator (d. 1974)
1908 –
Hugo Fregonese , Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
[30]
1909 –
John Fante , American author and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1910 –
George Musso , American football player and police officer (d. 2000)
1911 –
Melvin Calvin , American chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1911 –
Emil Cioran , Romanian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1995)
1912 –
Alois Brunner , Austrian-German
SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
1912 –
Sonja Henie , Norwegian-American figure skater and actress (d. 1969)
1914 –
María Félix ,
Yaqui /
Basque -Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1915 –
Ivan Supek , Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer (d. 2007)
1917 –
Winifred Asprey , American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007)
1917 –
Lloyd Bott , Australian public servant (d. 2004)
1917 –
Hubertus Ernst , Dutch bishop (d. 2017)
1917 –
Grigori Kuzmin , Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988)
1918 –
Betty Ford , American wife of
Gerald Ford , 40th
First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
1918 –
Glendon Swarthout , American author and academic (d. 1992)
1919 –
Ian Smith , Zimbabwean lieutenant and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
1921 –
Franco Corelli , Italian tenor and actor (d. 2003)
1920 –
Carmen McRae , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (d. 1994)
1921 –
Jan Novák , Czech composer (d. 1984)
1921 –
Herman van Raalte , Dutch footballer (d. 2013)
1923 –
George Fisher , American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1923 –
Edward Mulhare , Irish-American actor (d. 1997)
1924 –
Frédéric Back , German-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1924 –
Anthony Farrar-Hockley , English general and historian (d. 2006)
1924 –
Kumar Gandharva , Hindustani classical singer (d. 1992)
1924 –
Sara Northrup Hollister , American occultist (d. 1997)
1926 –
Henry N. Cobb , American architect and academic, co-founded
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (d. 2020)
1926 –
Shecky Greene , American comedian (d. 2023)
1926 –
Jürgen Moltmann , German theologian and academic
1927 –
Tilly Armstrong , English author (d. 2010)
1927 –
Ollie Mitchell , American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 2013)
1928 –
Fred Ebb , American lyricist (d. 2004)
1929 –
Jacques Brel , Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1978)
1929 –
Renzo De Felice , Italian historian and author (d. 1996)
1930 –
Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
1931 –
John Gavin , American actor and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 2018)
[31]
1931 –
Jack Le Goff , French equestrian (d. 2009)
[32]
1932 –
Iskandar of Johor (d. 2010)
1933 –
James Lockhart , American scholar of colonial Latin America, especially
Nahua peoples (d. 2014)
1934 –
Kisho Kurokawa , Japanese architect, designed the
Nakagin Capsule Tower and
Singapore Flyer (d. 2007)
1935 –
Oscar Zeta Acosta , American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
1935 –
Albert Bustamante , American soldier, educator, and politician
1937 –
Tony Barton , English footballer and manager (d. 1993)
[33]
1937 –
Seymour Hersh , American journalist and author
1937 –
Momo Kapor , Serbian author and painter (d. 2010)
1938 –
Kofi Annan , Ghanaian economist and diplomat, 7th
Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2018)
1938 –
John Hamm , Canadian physician and politician, 25th
Premier of Nova Scotia
1938 –
Mary W. Gray , American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer
1939 –
Manolis Angelopoulos , Greek singer, composer and songwriter (d. 1989)
[34]
1939 –
John Arbuthnott , Scottish microbiologist and academic
1939 –
Trina Schart Hyman , American author and illustrator (d. 2004)
1939 –
Martin J. Schreiber , American politician, 39th
Governor of Wisconsin
[35]
1940 –
John Havlicek , American basketball player (d. 2019)
1941 –
Vivienne Westwood , English fashion designer (d. 2022)
1942 –
Tony Banks, Baron Stratford , Northern Irish politician,
Minister for Sport and the Olympics (d. 2006)
1942 –
Roger Chapman , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 –
Douglas Trumbull , American director, producer, and special effects artist (d. 2022)
1943 –
Michael Bennett , American dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 1987)
1943 –
Miller Farr , American football player
1943 –
James Herbert , English author and illustrator (d. 2013)
1943 –
Chris Orr , English painter and illustrator
1944 –
Hywel Bennett , Welsh actor (d. 2017)
1944 –
Odd Nerdrum , Swedish-Norwegian painter and illustrator
1945 –
Derrick Walker , Scottish businessman
1945 –
Jang Yong , South Korean actor
1946 –
Catfish Hunter , American baseball player (d. 1999)
1946 –
Tim Thomerson , American actor and producer
1947 –
Tom DeLay , American lawyer and politician
1947 –
Steve Howe , English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1947 –
Pascal Lamy , French businessman and politician,
European Commissioner for Trade
1947 –
Larry Norman , American singer-songwriter, and producer (d. 2008)
1948 –
Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone , Scottish academic and politician
1949 –
K. C. Kamalasabayson , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 39th
Attorney General of Sri Lanka (d. 2007)
1949 –
John Madden , English director and producer
1949 –
Brenda Russell , African-American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1949 –
John Scott , English sociologist and academic
1950 –
Grzegorz Lato , Polish footballer and coach
1951 –
Gerd Andres , German politician
1951 –
Geir Haarde , Icelandic economist, journalist, and politician, 23rd
Prime Minister of Iceland
1951 –
Mel Schacher , American bass player
1951 –
Joan Sebastian , Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)
1951 –
Phil Schaap , American jazz disc jockey and historian (d. 2021)
[36]
[37]
1952 –
Ahmet Piriştina , Turkish politician (d. 2004)
1954 –
Gary Carter , American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)
1954 –
Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (d. 2012)
1954 –
G.V. Loganathan , Indian-American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
1955 –
Gerrie Coetzee , South African boxer (d. 2023)
1955 –
Ron Johnson , American businessman and politician
[38]
1955 –
Barbara Kingsolver , American novelist, essayist and poet
[39]
1955 –
David Wu , Taiwanese-American lawyer and politician
[40]
1956 –
Michael Benton , Scottish-English paleontologist and academic
1956 –
Christine Boisson , French actress
1956 –
Roman Dragoun , Czech singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1958 –
Detlef Bruckhoff , German footballer
1958 –
Tom Petranoff , American javelin thrower and coach
1959 –
Alain Bondue , French cyclist
1960 –
John Schneider , American actor and country singer
1961 –
Richard Hatch , American reality contestant
1961 –
Brian McDermott , English footballer and manager
1962 –
Paddy Lowe , English engineer
1962 –
Izzy Stradlin , American guitarist and songwriter
1963 –
Tine Asmundsen , Norwegian bassist
1963 –
Julian Lennon , English singer-songwriter
1963 –
Dean Norris , American actor
[41]
1963 –
Terry Porter , American basketball player and coach
1963 –
Donita Sparks , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 –
Alec Stewart , English cricketer
1963 –
Seth Tobias , American businessman (d. 2007)
1964 –
Biz Markie , American rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2021)
1964 –
John McGinlay , Scottish footballer and manager
1965 –
Steven Blaney , Canadian businessman and politician, 5th
Canadian Minister of Public Safety
1965 –
Michael Jones , New Zealand rugby player and coach
1966 –
Iveta Bartošová , Czech singer and actress (d. 2014)
1966 –
Mark Blundell , English race car driver
1966 –
Andy Currier , English rugby league player
1966 –
Charlotte Dawson , New Zealand-Australian television host (d. 2014)
1966 –
Dalton Grant , English high jumper
1966 –
Mazinho , Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
1966 –
Harri Rovanperä , Finnish race car driver
1966 –
Evripidis Stylianidis , Greek lawyer and politician,
Greek Minister for the Interior
1966 –
Robin Wright , American actress, director, producer
1967 –
Kenny Benjamin , Antiguan cricketer
1968 –
Patricia Arquette , American actress and director
1968 –
Patricia Girard , French runner and hurdler
1968 –
Tracy Grammer , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 –
Darren Jessee , American singer-songwriter and drummer
1972 –
Paul Gray , American bass player and songwriter (d. 2010)
1972 –
Sergei Magnitsky , Russian lawyer and accountant (d. 2009)
1973 –
Khaled Badra , Tunisian footballer
1973 –
Emma Caulfield , American actress
1974 –
Toutai Kefu , Tongan-Australian rugby player
1974 –
Chris Kyle , American sniper and memoirist (d. 2013)
[42]
1974 –
Nnedi Okorafor , Nigerian-American author and educator
1974 –
Nayden Todorov , Bulgarian conductor and culture minister
[43]
1975 –
Anouk , Dutch singer
1975 –
Francesco Flachi , Italian footballer
1975 –
Timo Pérez , Dominican-American baseball player
1975 –
Funda Arar , Turkish singer
1977 –
Ana de la Reguera , Mexican actress
1977 –
Mehran Ghassemi , Iranian journalist and author (d. 2008)
1977 –
Mark Spencer , American computer programmer and engineer
1978 –
Daigo , Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor
1978 –
Bernt Haas , Austrian-Swiss footballer
1978 –
Rachel Roberts , Canadian model and actress
1978 –
Jocelyn Robichaud , Canadian tennis player and coach
1978 –
Evans Rutto , Kenyan runner
1979 –
Alexi Laiho , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
1979 –
Amit Trivedi , Indian singer-songwriter
1980 –
Manuel Ortega , Austrian singer
1980 –
Katee Sackhoff , American actress
1980 –
Mariko Seyama , Japanese announcer, photographer, and model
1981 –
Frédérick Bousquet , French swimmer
1981 –
Taylor Kitsch , Canadian actor and model
[44]
1981 –
Ofer Shechter , Israeli model, actor, and screenwriter
1982 –
Gennady Golovkin , Kazakhstani boxer
1982 –
Brett White , Australian rugby league player
1982 –
Allu Arjun , Indian actor
1983 –
Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova , Russian runner
1984 –
Michelle Donelan , British politician
1984 –
Ezra Koenig , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 –
Pablo Portillo , Mexican singer and actor
1984 –
Taran Noah Smith , American actor
1985 –
Patrick Schliwa , German rugby player
1985 –
Yemane Tsegay , Ethiopian runner
1986 –
Igor Akinfeev , Russian footballer
1986 –
Félix Hernández , Venezuelan baseball player
1986 –
Carlos Santana , Dominican baseball player
[45]
1987 –
Royston Drenthe , Dutch footballer
1987 –
Jeremy Hellickson , American baseball player
1987 –
Elton John , Trinidadian footballer
[46]
1987 –
Sam Rapira , New Zealand rugby league player
1988 –
Jenni Asserholt , Swedish ice hockey player
1990 –
Kim Jong-hyun , South Korean singer (d. 2017)
[47]
[48]
1992 –
Jeff McNeil , American baseball player
[49]
1993 –
Viktor Arvidsson , Swedish ice hockey player
1994 –
Josh Chudleigh , Australian rugby league player
1995 –
Cedi Osman , Turkish professional basketball player
1996 –
Anna Korakaki , Greek Olympic shooter
[50]
1997 –
Kim Woo-jin , South Korean singer
[51]
1997 –
Saygrace , Australian singer and songwriter
[52]
1997 –
Roquan Smith , American football player
[53]
1997 –
Arno Verschueren , Belgian footballer
1998 –
Lavinia Valbonesi , Ecuadorian nutritionist, businesswoman and
First Lady-designate of Ecuador
[54]
1999 –
CeeDee Lamb , American football player
[55]
2002 –
Viktória Forster , Slovak track and field athlete
[56]
2002 –
Skai Jackson , American actress
Deaths
Pre-1600
217 –
Caracalla , Roman emperor (b. 188)
[57]
622 –
Shōtoku , Japanese prince (b. 572)
632 –
Charibert II , Frankish king (b. 607)
894 –
Adalelm , Frankish nobleman
944 –
Wang Yanxi , Chinese emperor
956 –
Gilbert , Frankish nobleman
967 –
Mu'izz al-Dawla , Buyid emir (b. 915)
1143 –
John II Komnenos , Byzantine emperor (b. 1087)
1150 –
Gertrude of Babenberg , duchess of Bohemia (b. 1118)
1321 –
Thomas of Tolentino , Italian-Franciscan missionary (b. c. 1255)
1338 –
Stephen Gravesend , bishop of London
1364 –
John II , French king (b. 1319)
1450 –
Sejong the Great , Korean king (b. 1397)
1461 –
Georg von Peuerbach , German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1492 –
Lorenzo de' Medici , Italian ruler (b. 1449)
1551 –
Oda Nobuhide , Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1586 –
Martin Chemnitz , Lutheran theologian and reformer (b. 1522)
1601–1900
1608 –
Magdalen Dacre , English noble (b. 1538)
1612 –
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575)
1691 –
Carlo Rainaldi , Italian architect, designed the
Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto (b. 1611)
1697 –
Niels Juel , Norwegian-Danish admiral (b. 1629)
1704 –
Hiob Ludolf , German orientalist and philologist (b. 1624)
1704 –
Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney , English colonel and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1641)
1709 –
Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen , German nobleman (b. 1641)
1725 –
John Wise , American minister (b. 1652)
1735 –
Francis II Rákóczi , Hungarian prince (b. 1676)
1848 –
Gaetano Donizetti , Italian composer (b. 1797)
1860 –
István Széchenyi , Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
[58]
1861 –
Elisha Otis , American businessman, founded the
Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
1870 –
Charles Auguste de Bériot , Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
1877 –
Bernardino António Gomes , Portuguese physician and naturalist (b. 1806)
[59]
1894 –
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay , Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
1901–present
1906 –
Auguste Deter , German woman, first person diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
1919 –
Loránd Eötvös , Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician,
Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
1920 –
Charles Griffes , American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
1931 –
Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1936 –
Róbert Bárány , Austrian physician and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1936 –
Božena Benešová , Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
1941 –
Marcel Prévost , French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
1942 –
Kostas Skarvelis , Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
1947 –
Olaf Frydenlund , Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
1950 –
Vaslav Nijinsky , Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
1959 –
Marios Makrionitis , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
1961 –
Joseph Carrodus , Australian public servant (b. 1885)
1962 –
Juan Belmonte , Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
1965 –
Lars Hanson , Swedish actor (b. 1886)
1969 –
Zinaida Aksentyeva , Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
1973 –
Pablo Picasso , Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
1974 –
James Charles McGuigan , Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
1979 –
Breece D'J Pancake , American short story writer (b. 1952)
1981 –
Omar Bradley , American general (b. 1893)
1983 –
Isamu Kosugi , Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
1984 –
Pyotr Kapitsa , Russian physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
1985 –
John Frederick Coots , American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
1990 –
Ryan White , American activist, inspired the
Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
1991 –
Per Ohlin , Swedish musician (b. 1969)
1992 –
Daniel Bovet , Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1993 –
Marian Anderson , American operatic singer (b. 1897)
1994 –
François Rozet , French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)
1996 –
Ben Johnson , American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
1996 –
León Klimovsky , Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1996 –
Mick Young , Australian politician (b. 1936)
1997 –
Laura Nyro , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1947)
2000 –
František Šťastný , Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)
2000 –
Claire Trevor , American actress (b. 1910)
2002 –
María Félix , Mexican actress (b. 1914)
2002 –
Harvey Quaytman , American painter (b. 1937)
2004 –
Werner Schumacher , German actor (b. 1921)
2005 –
Onna White , Canadian choreographer and dancer (b. 1922)
2006 –
Gerard Reve , Dutch author and poet (b. 1923)
2007 –
Sol LeWitt , American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
2008 –
Kazuo Shiraga , Japanese painter (b. 1924)
2009 –
Richard de Mille , American Scientologist, author, investigative journalist, and psychologist (b. 1922)
2009 –
Piotr Morawski , Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
2010 –
Malcolm McLaren , English singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2010 –
Teddy Scholten , Dutch singer (b. 1926)
2011 –
Hedda Sterne , Romanian-American painter and photographer (b. 1910)
2012 –
Blair Kiel , American football player and coach (b. 1961)
2012 –
Jack Tramiel , Polish-American businessman, founded
Commodore International (b. 1928)
2012 –
Janusz K. Zawodny , Polish-American soldier, historian, and political scientist (b. 1921)
2013 –
Mikhail Beketov , Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2013 –
Annette Funicello , American actress and singer (b. 1942)
2013 –
Sara Montiel , Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928)
2013 –
José Luis Sampedro , Spanish economist and author (b. 1917)
2013 –
Margaret Thatcher , English politician, first female
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
[60]
2014 –
Emmanuel III Delly , Iraqi patriarch (b. 1927)
2014 –
Karlheinz Deschner , German author and activist (b. 1924)
2014 –
Ivan Mercep , New Zealand architect, designed the
Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (b. 1930)
2015 –
Jayakanthan , Indian journalist and author (b. 1934)
2015 –
Rayson Huang , Hong Kong chemist and academic (b. 1920)
2015 –
Sergei Lashchenko , Ukrainian kick-boxer (b. 1987)
2015 –
David Laventhol , American journalist and publisher (b. 1933)
2015 –
Jean-Claude Turcotte , Canadian cardinal (b. 1936)
2019 –
Josine Ianco-Starrels , Romanian-born American art curator (b. 1926)
[61]
2020 –
Rick May , American-Canadian voice actor (b. 1940)
[62]
2020 –
Abdul Momin Imambari , Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1930)
[63]
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Mimi Reinhardt , Austrian Jewish secretary (b. 1915)
[64]
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