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Day of the year
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 134 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
295 BC – The first temple to
Venus , the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the
Third Samnite War .
[1]
43 BC –
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus , later known as Augustus, compels the
Roman Senate to elect him
Consul .
947 –
Abu Yazid , a
Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the
Hodna Mountains in modern-day
Algeria by
Fatimid forces.
1153 –
Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the
Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother
Melisende , and also
captures Ascalon .
1458 –
Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope.
[2]
1504 – In Ireland, the
Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and
Cambro-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the
Battle of Knockdoe .
[3]
1561 –
Mary, Queen of Scots , aged 18, returns to
Scotland after spending 13 years in
France .
[4]
1601–1900
1604 –
Eighty Years War : a besieging Dutch and English army led by
Maurice of Orange forces the Spanish garrison of
Sluis to capitulate.
[5]
1612 – The "
Samlesbury witches ", three women from the
Lancashire village of
Samlesbury ,
England , are put on trial, accused of practicing
witchcraft , one of the most famous
witch trials in British history.
1666 –
Second Anglo-Dutch War : Rear Admiral
Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of
Terschelling , destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "
Holmes's Bonfire ".
1692 –
Salem witch trials : In
Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay , five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 – Prince
Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in
Glenfinnan : The start of the
Second Jacobite Rebellion , known as "the 45".
1745 –
Ottoman–Persian War : In the
Battle of Kars , the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by
Nader Shah .
1759 –
Battle of Lagos : Naval battle during the
Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
1772 –
Gustav III of Sweden stages
a coup d'état , in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the
Riksdag and the King.
[6]
1782 –
American Revolutionary War :
Battle of Blue Licks : The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British
commander
Charles Cornwallis following the
Siege of Yorktown .
1812 –
War of 1812 : American frigate
USS Constitution
defeats the British frigate
HMS Guerriere off the coast of
Nova Scotia , Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
1813 –
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's
Second Triumvirate .
1839 – The French government announces that
Louis Daguerre 's
photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
1848 –
California Gold Rush : The
New York Herald breaks the news to the
East Coast of the United States of the
gold rush in
California (although the rush started in January).
1854 – The
First Sioux War begins when
United States Army soldiers kill
Lakota chief
Conquering Bear and in return are
massacred .
1861 – First ascent of
Weisshorn , fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 –
Dakota War : During an uprising in
Minnesota ,
Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended
Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of
New Ulm , killing white settlers along the way.
1901–present
1903 – The
Transfiguration Uprising breaks out in
East Thrace , resulting in the establishment of the
Strandzha Commune .
[7]
1909 – The
Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for
automobile racing .
William Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.
[8]
1920 – The
Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the
Bolshevik policy of
Prodrazvyorstka .
[9]
1927 –
Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the
Russian Orthodox Church to the
Soviet Union .
1934 – The first All-American
Soap Box Derby is held in
Dayton, Ohio .
1934 – The
German referendum of 1934 approves
Adolf Hitler 's appointment as head of state with the title of
Führer .
1936 – The
Great Purge of the
Soviet Union begins when the first of the
Moscow Trials is convened.
1940 – First flight of the
B-25 Mitchell
medium bomber .
1941 –
Germany and
Romania sign the
Tiraspol Agreement , rendering the region of
Transnistria under control of the latter.
[10]
1942 –
World War II :
Operation Jubilee : The
2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an
amphibious assault by
allied forces on
Dieppe , France and fails.
1944 – World War II:
Liberation of Paris : Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 –
August Revolution :
Viet Minh led by
Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 –
Cold War : The
CIA and
MI6 help to
overthrow the government of
Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the
Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .
1955 – In the
Northeast United States , severe flooding caused by
Hurricane Diane , claims 200 lives.
1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American
U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for
espionage .
1960 –
Sputnik program :
Korabl-Sputnik 2 : The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the
dogs
Belka and Strelka , 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
1964 –
Syncom 3, the first
geostationary communication satellite , is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the
1964 Summer Olympics .
1965 –
Japanese prime minister
Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit
Okinawa Prefecture .
1978 – In Iran, the
Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths.
1980 –
Saudia Flight 163 , a
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at
Riyadh International Airport in
Riyadh ,
Saudi Arabia , killing 301 people.
1980 –
Otłoczyn railway accident : In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.
[11]
1981 –
Gulf of Sidra Incident : United States
F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two
Libyan
Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the
Gulf of Sidra .
1987 –
Hungerford massacre : In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a
semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 – Polish president
Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates
Solidarity activist
Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-
communist
prime minister in 42 years.
1989 – Several hundred
East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the
Pan-European Picnic , part of the events that began the process of the
Fall of the Berlin Wall .
1991 –
Dissolution of the Soviet Union : The
August Coup begins when
Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under
house arrest while on holiday in the town of
Foros, Ukraine .
1991 –
Crown Heights riot begins.
[12]
1999 – In
Belgrade ,
Yugoslavia , tens of thousands of
Serbians rally to demand the resignation of
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President
Slobodan Milošević .
2002 –
Khankala Mi-26 crash : A Russian
Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a
Chechen missile outside
Grozny , killing 118 soldiers.
2003 – A
truck-bomb attack on
United Nations headquarters in
Iraq kills the agency's top envoy
Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
[13]
2003 –
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing : A suicide attack on a bus in
Jerusalem , planned by
Hamas , kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.
[14]
2004 –
Google Inc. has its
initial public offering on
Nasdaq .
[15]
2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called
Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2009 – A
series of bombings in
Baghdad , Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 –
Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States
brigade combat teams crossing the border to
Kuwait .
2013 – The
Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of
Bihar .
2017 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native
Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in
Washington waters in the
2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break .
Births
Pre-1600
232 –
Marcus Aurelius Probus , Roman emperor (d. 282)
[16]
1342 –
Catherine of Bohemia , duchess of Austria (d. 1395)
1398 –
Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana , Spanish poet and politician (d. 1458)
[17]
1570 –
Salamone Rossi , Italian violinist and composer (probable;
[18] d. 1630)
1583 –
Daišan , Chinese prince and statesman (d. 1648)
1590 –
Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland , English soldier and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1649)
1596 –
Elizabeth Stuart , queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)
[19]
1601–1900
1609 –
Jan Fyt , Flemish painter (d. 1661)
[20]
1621 –
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (d. 1674)
1631 –
John Dryden , English poet, literary critic and playwright (d. 1700)
1646 –
John Flamsteed , English astronomer and academic (d. 1719)
1686 –
Eustace Budgell , English journalist and politician (d. 1737)
1689 (baptized) –
Samuel Richardson , English author and publisher (d. 1761)
[21]
1711 –
Edward Boscawen , English admiral and politician (d. 1761)
1719 –
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec , French soldier and diplomat (d. 1781)
1743 –
Madame du Barry , French mistress of
Louis XV of France (d. 1793)
[22]
1777 –
Francis I , king of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
[23]
1815 –
Harriette Newell Woods Baker , American editor and children's book writer (d. 1893)
[24]
1819 –
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt , Luxembourger-Dutch politician,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1894)
1830 –
Julius Lothar Meyer , German chemist (d. 1895)
1835 –
Tom Wills , Australian cricketer and pioneer of
Australian rules football (d. 1880)
1843 –
C. I. Scofield , American minister and theologian (d. 1921)
1846 –
Luis Martín , Spanish religious leader, 24th
Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1848 –
Gustave Caillebotte , French painter and engineer (d. 1894)
1849 –
Joaquim Nabuco , Brazilian politician and diplomat (d. 1910)
1858 –
Ellen Willmott , English horticulturalist (d. 1934)
[25]
1870 –
Bernard Baruch , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1965)
1871 –
Orville Wright , American engineer and pilot, co-founded the
Wright Company (d. 1948)
[26]
1873 –
Fred Stone , American actor and producer (d. 1959)
1878 –
Manuel L. Quezon , Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd
President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
1881 –
George Enescu , Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1955)
[27]
1881 –
George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (d. 1954)
1883 –
Coco Chanel , French fashion designer, founded the
Chanel Company (d. 1971)
[28]
1883 –
José Mendes Cabeçadas , Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th
President of Portugal (d. 1965)
1885 –
Grace Hutchins , American labor reformer and researcher (d. 1969)
[29]
1887 –
S. Satyamurti , Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1943)
1895 –
C. Suntharalingam , Sri Lankan lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1985)
1899 –
Colleen Moore , American actress (d. 1988)
1900 –
Gontran de Poncins , French author and adventurer (d. 1962)
1900 –
Gilbert Ryle , English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976)
1900 –
Dorothy Burr Thompson , American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001)
1901–present
1902 –
Ogden Nash , American poet (d. 1971)
[30]
1903 –
James Gould Cozzens , American novelist and short story writer (d. 1978)
[31]
1904 –
Maurice Wilks , English engineer and businessman (d. 1963)
1906 –
Philo Farnsworth , American inventor, invented the
Fusor (d. 1971)
[32]
1907 –
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi , Indian historian, author, and scholar (d. 1979)
1909 –
Ronald King , New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988)
1910 –
Saint Alphonsa , first woman of Indian origin to be
canonized as a saint by the
Catholic Church (d. 1946)
[33]
1911 –
Anna Terruwe , Dutch psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
1912 –
Herb Narvo , Australian rugby league player, coach, and boxer (d. 1958)
[34]
1913 –
John Argyris , Greek engineer and academic (d. 2004)
1913 –
Peter Kemp , Indian-English soldier and author (d. 1993)
1913 –
Richard Simmons , American actor (d. 2003)
1914 –
Lajos Baróti , Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2005)
1914 –
Fumio Hayasaka , Japanese composer (d. 1955)
[35]
1914 –
Rose Heilbron , British barrister and judge (d. 2005)
[36]
1915 –
Ring Lardner, Jr. , American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1915 –
Alfred Rouleau , Canadian businessman (d. 1985)
1916 –
Dennis Poore , English racing driver and businessman (d. 1987)
1918 –
Jimmy Rowles , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1996)
1919 –
Malcolm Forbes , American publisher and politician (d. 1990)
[37]
1921 –
Gene Roddenberry , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
[37]
1922 –
Jack Holland , Australian rugby league player (d. 1994)
[38]
1923 –
Edgar F. Codd , English computer scientist, inventor of
relational model of data (d. 2003)
[39]
1924 –
Willard Boyle , Canadian physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1924 –
William Marshall , American actor, director, and opera singer (d. 2003)
[40]
1925 –
Claude Gauvreau , Canadian poet and playwright (d. 1971)
1926 –
Angus Scrimm , American actor and author (d. 2016)
1928 –
Shiv Prasaad Singh , Indian Hindi writer (d. 1998)
1928 –
Bernard Levin , English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
1929 –
Bill Foster , American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1929 –
Ion N. Petrovici , Romanian-German neurologist and academic (d. 2021)
1930 –
Frank McCourt , American author and educator (d. 2009)
[37]
1931 –
Bill Shoemaker , American jockey and author (d. 2003)
[41]
1932 –
Thomas P. Salmon , American lawyer and politician, 75th
Governor of Vermont
1932 –
Banharn Silpa-archa , Thai politician,
Prime Minister (1995–1996) (d. 2016)
1933 –
Bettina Cirone , American model and photographer
1933 –
David Hopwood , English microbiologist and geneticist
1933 –
Debra Paget , American actress
[42]
1934 –
David Durenberger , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2023)
1934 –
Renée Richards , American tennis player and ophthalmologist
1935 –
Bobby Richardson , American baseball player and coach
1936 –
Richard McBrien , American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015)
1937 –
Richard Ingrams , English journalist, founded
The Oldie
1937 –
William Motzing , American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1938 –
Diana Muldaur , American actress
[42]
1938 –
Nelly Vuksic , Argentine conductor and musician
1939 –
Ginger Baker , English drummer and songwriter (d. 2019)
[43]
1940 –
Roger Cook , English songwriter, singer, and producer
1940 –
Johnny Nash , American singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
[37]
1940 –
Jill St. John , American model and actress
[42]
1941 –
John Cootes , Australian rugby league player, priest, and businessman
[44]
1941 –
Mihalis Papagiannakis , Greek educator and politician (d. 2009)
1942 –
Fred Thompson , American actor, lawyer, and politician (d. 2015)
[37]
1943 –
Don Fardon , English pop singer
1943 –
Sid Going , New Zealand rugby player
1943 –
Billy J. Kramer , English pop singer
[42]
1944 –
Jack Canfield , American author
1944 –
Stew Johnson , American basketball player
[45]
1944 –
Bodil Malmsten , Swedish author and poet (d. 2016)
1944 –
Eddy Raven , American country music singer-songwriter
[42]
1944 –
Charles Wang , Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded
Computer Associates International (d. 2018)
1945 –
Dennis Eichhorn , American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1945 –
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington , English politician
1945 –
Ian Gillan , English singer-songwriter
[42]
1946 –
Charles Bolden , American general and astronaut
1946 –
Bill Clinton , American lawyer and politician, 42nd
President of the United States
[46]
1946 –
Dawn Steel , American film producer (d. 1997)
1947 –
Dave Dutton , English actor and screenwriter
1947 –
Terry Hoeppner , American football player and coach (d. 2007)
1947 –
Gerald McRaney , American actor
[42]
1947 –
Gerard Schwarz , American conductor and director
1947 –
Anuška Ferligoj , Slovenian mathematician
1948 –
Jim Carter , English actor
[42]
1948 –
Tipper Gore , American activist and author, former
Second Lady of the United States
[37]
1948 –
Robert Hughes , Australian actor
1948 –
Christy O'Connor Jnr , Irish golfer and architect (d. 2016)
1949 –
Michael Nazir-Ali , Pakistani-English bishop
1950 –
Jennie Bond , English journalist and author
1950 –
Sudha Murty , Indian author and teacher, head of
Infosys Foundation
[47]
1951 –
John Deacon , English bass player and songwriter
[42]
1951 –
Gustavo Santaolalla , Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1952 –
Jonathan Frakes , American actor and director
[42]
1952 –
Gabriela Grillo , German equestrian (d. 2024)
[48]
[49]
1952 –
Jimmy Watson , Canadian ice hockey player
[50]
1954 –
Oscar Larrauri , Argentinian racing driver
1955 –
Mary-Anne Fahey , Australian actress
1955 –
Peter Gallagher , American actor
[42]
1955 –
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal ,
Dominica -born English lawyer and politician,
Attorney General for England and Wales
1955 –
Ned Yost , American baseball player and manager
1956 –
Adam Arkin , American actor, director, and producer
[42]
1956 –
José Rubén Zamora , Guatemalan journalist
1957 –
Paul-Jan Bakker , Dutch cricketer
1957 –
Gary Chapman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[42]
1957 –
Martin Donovan , American actor and director
[42]
1957 –
Ian Gould , English cricketer and umpire
1957 –
Cesare Prandelli , Italian footballer and manager
1957 –
Christine Soetewey , Belgian high jumper
1957 –
Gerda Verburg , Dutch trade union leader and politician,
Dutch Minister of Agriculture
1958 –
Gary Gaetti , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1958 –
Anthony Muñoz , American football player and sportscaster
1958 –
Brendan Nelson , Australian physician and politician, 47th
Minister for Defence for Australia
1958 –
Rick Snyder , American politician and businessman, 48th
Governor of Michigan
1958 –
Darryl Sutter , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
[51]
1959 –
Chris Mortimer , Australian rugby league player
[52]
1959 –
Ivan Neville , American singer-songwriter
[42]
1959 –
Ricky Pierce , American basketball player
1960 –
Morten Andersen , Danish-American football player
1960 –
Ron Darling , American baseball player and commentator
[53]
1961 –
Jonathan Coe , English author and academic
[54]
1963 –
John Stamos , American actor
[55]
1965 –
Kevin Dillon , American actor
[42]
1965 –
Kyra Sedgwick , American actress and producer
[42]
1965 –
James Tomkins , Australian rower
[56]
1966 –
Lee Ann Womack , American singer-songwriter
[42]
1967 –
Khandro Rinpoche , Indian spiritual leader
1967 –
Satya Nadella , Indian-American business executive, Chairman and CEO of
Microsoft
[57]
1969 –
Douglas Allen Tunstall Jr. , American professional wrestler and politician
[58]
1969 –
Nate Dogg , American rapper (d. 2011)
1969 –
Matthew Perry , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
[59]
1969 –
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami , Japanese baseball player and coach
1969 –
Clay Walker , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[60]
1970 –
Fat Joe , American rapper
[42]
1971 –
Mary Joe Fernández , Dominican-American tennis player and coach
1971 –
João Vieira Pinto , Portuguese footballer
1972 –
Roberto Abbondanzieri , Argentinian footballer and manager
1972 –
Chihiro Yonekura , Japanese singer-songwriter
1973 –
Marco Materazzi , Italian footballer and manager
1973 –
Roy Rogers , American basketball player and coach
[61]
1973 –
Tasma Walton , Australian actress
[62]
1975 –
Tracie Thoms , American actress
[42]
1976 –
Régine Chassagne , Canadian singer-songwriter
1977 –
Iban Mayo , Spanish cyclist
1978 –
Chris Capuano , American baseball player
1978 –
Jakub Dvorský , Czech game designer
[63]
1978 –
Thomas Jones , American football player
[64]
1979 –
Oumar Kondé , Swiss footballer
1980 –
Darius Campbell , Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2022)
1980 –
Craig Frawley , Australian rugby league player
[65]
1980 –
Jun Jin , South Korean singer
1980 –
Paul Parry , Welsh footballer
1980 –
Michael Todd , American bass player
1981 –
Nick Kennedy , English rugby player
1981 –
Taylor Pyatt , Canadian ice hockey player
[66]
1981 –
Percy Watson , American football player and wrestler
1982 –
Erika Christensen , American actress
[42]
1982 –
Melissa Fumero , American actress
[42]
1982 –
J. J. Hardy , American baseball player
1982 –
Kevin Rans , Belgian pole vaulter
1982 –
Stipe Miocic , American professional mixed martial artist
1982 –
Steve Ott , Canadian ice hockey player
[67]
1983 –
Mike Conway , English racing driver
1983 –
Missy Higgins , Australian singer-songwriter
1983 –
Tammin Sursok , South African-Australian actress and singer
[42]
1984 –
Simon Bird , English actor and screenwriter
1984 –
Alessandro Matri , Italian footballer
1984 –
Ryan Taylor , English footballer
1985 –
David A. Gregory , American actor
1985 –
Lindsey Jacobellis , American snowboarder
1986 –
Sotiris Balafas , Greek footballer
1986 –
Saori Kimura , Japanese volleyball player
1986 –
Christina Perri , American singer and songwriter
[37]
1987 –
Patrick Chung , Jamaican-American football player
[68]
1987 –
Nick Driebergen , Dutch swimmer
1987 –
Nico Hülkenberg , German racing driver
1988 –
Kirk Cousins , American football player
[69]
1988 –
Veronica Roth , American author
[70]
1989 –
Romeo Miller , American basketball player, rapper, actor
[71]
1990 –
Danny Galbraith , Scottish footballer
1991 –
Salem Al-Dawsari , Saudi Arabian footballer
[72]
1992 –
David Rittich , Czech ice hockey player
[73]
1994 –
Nafissatou Thiam , Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
[74]
1994 –
Fernando Gaviria , Colombian cyclist
[75]
1996 –
Jung Ye-rin , South Korean singer and actress
[76]
1996 –
Lachlan Lewis , Australian rugby league player
[77]
1999 –
Ethan Cutkosky , American actor and musician
[42]
1999 –
Thomas Flegler , Australian rugby league player
[78]
2000 –
Keegan Murray , American basketball player
[79]
2001 –
Awak Kuier , Finnish basketball player
[80]
[81]
Deaths
Pre-1600
607 BC –
Duke Ling of Jin , Chinese monarch
[82]
AD 14 –
Augustus , Roman emperor (b. 63 BC)
[83]
780 –
Credan , English abbot and saint
947 –
Abu Yazid , Kharijite rebel leader (b. 873)
998 –
Fujiwara no Sukemasa , Japanese noble, statesman and calligrapher (b. 944)
1072 –
Hawise, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1037)
1085 –
Al-Juwayni , Muslim scholar and imam (b. 1028)
1186 –
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 –
Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 –
Alphonso, Earl of Chester (b. 1273)
1297 –
Louis of Toulouse , French bishop and saint (b. 1274)
1457 –
Andrea del Castagno , Italian painter (b. 1421)
1470 –
Richard Olivier de Longueil , French
cardinal (b. 1406)
1493 –
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
1506 – King
Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (b. 1461)
1541 –
Vincenzo Cappello , Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1469)
[84]
1580 –
Andrea Palladio , Italian architect, designed the
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and
Il Redentore (b. 1508)
1601–1900
1646 –
Alexander Henderson , Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1583)
1654 –
Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller , Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
1662 –
Blaise Pascal , French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 –
Jean Eudes , French priest, founded the
Congregation of Jesus and Mary (b. 1601)
1691 –
Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha , Ottoman commander and politician, 117th
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1637)
1702 –
Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent , English politician (b. 1645)
1753 –
Johann Balthasar Neumann , German engineer and architect, designed
Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
1808 –
Fredrik Henrik af Chapman , Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721)
1822 –
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre , French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
1883 –
Jeremiah S. Black , American lawyer and politician, 24th
United States Attorney General (b. 1810)
1889 –
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1838)
1895 –
John Wesley Hardin , American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (b. 1853)
[85]
1900 –
Jean-Baptiste Accolay , Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)
1901–present
1914 –
Franz Xavier Wernz , German religious leader, 25th
Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1915 –
Tevfik Fikret , Turkish poet and educator (b. 1867)
1923 –
Vilfredo Pareto , Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1928 –
Stephanos Skouloudis , Greek banker and diplomat, 97th
Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
1929 –
Sergei Diaghilev , Russian critic and producer, founded
Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
1932 –
Louis Anquetin , French painter (b. 1861)
1936 –
Federico García Lorca , Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
1942 –
Harald Kaarmann , Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
1942 –
Heinrich Rauchinger , Kraków-born painter (b. 1858)
[86]
1944 –
Henry Wood , English conductor (b. 1869)
[87]
1945 –
Tomás Burgos , Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
1950 –
Giovanni Giorgi , Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1871)
1954 –
Alcide De Gasperi , Italian journalist and politician, 30th
Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
1957 –
David Bomberg , English soldier and painter (b. 1890)
1967 –
Hugo Gernsback , Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
1967 –
Isaac Deutscher , Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
1968 –
George Gamow , Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
1970 –
Paweł Jasienica , Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
1975 –
Mark Donohue , American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
1976 –
Alastair Sim , Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
1976 –
Ken Wadsworth , New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
1977 –
Aleksander Kreek , Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
1977 –
Groucho Marx , American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
1980 –
Otto Frank , German-Swiss businessman, father of
Anne Frank (b. 1889)
1981 –
Jessie Matthews , English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
1982 –
August Neo , Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 –
Hermione Baddeley , English actress (b. 1906)
1986 –
Viv Thicknesse , Australian rugby player (b. 1910)
[88]
1993 –
Utpal Dutt , Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
1994 –
Linus Pauling , American chemist and biologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1995 –
Pierre Schaeffer , French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
2000 –
Bineshwar Brahma , Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
2001 –
Donald Woods , South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
2003 –
Carlos Roberto Reina , Honduran lawyer and politician,
President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 –
Sérgio Vieira de Mello , Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 –
Mo Mowlam , English academic and politician,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)
2008 –
Levy Mwanawasa , Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd
President of Zambia (b. 1948)
2009 –
Don Hewitt , American television producer, created
60 Minutes (b. 1922)
2011 –
Raúl Ruiz , Chilean director and producer (b. 1941)
2012 –
Donal Henahan , American journalist and critic (b. 1921)
2012 –
Ivar Iversen , Norwegian canoe racer (b. 1914)
[89]
2012 –
Tony Scott , English-American director and producer (b. 1944)
2012 –
Edmund Skellings , American poet and academic (b. 1932)
2013 –
Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud , Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1923)
2013 –
Russell S. Doughten , American director and producer (b. 1927)
2013 –
Abdul Rahim Hatif , Afghan politician, 8th
President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
2013 –
Donna Hightower , American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2014 –
Samih al-Qasim , Palestinian poet and journalist (b. 1939)
2014 –
Simin Behbahani , Iranian poet and activist (b. 1927)
2014 –
James Foley , American photographer and journalist (b. 1973)
2014 –
Candida Lycett Green , Anglo-Irish journalist and author (b. 1942)
2015 –
George Houser , American minister and activist (b. 1916)
2015 –
Sanat Mehta , Indian activist and politician (b. 1935)
2016 –
Jack Riley , American actor and voice artist (b. 1935)
2017 –
Dick Gregory , American comedian, author and activist (b. 1932)
[90]
2019 –
Lars Larsen , Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain
JYSK (b. 1948)
[91]
2021 –
Sonny Chiba , Japanese actor (b. 1939)
[92]
2023 –
Václav Patejdl , Slovak musician (b. 1954)
[93]
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