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Day of the year
August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 149 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to
Dom Perignon 's invention of
champagne ; it is not clear whether he actually invented
champagne , however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect
sparkling wine .
1701 –
Great Peace of Montreal between
New France and
First Nations is signed.
1704 –
War of the Spanish Succession :
Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by
Admiral Sir
George Rooke and allied with
Archduke Charles .
1783 –
Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (
Tenmei eruption ). The eruption causes a
famine , which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
1789 –
France :
abolition of feudalism by the
National Constituent Assembly .
1790 – A newly passed
tariff act creates the
Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the
United States Coast Guard ).
1791 – The
Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the
Ottoman–Habsburg wars .
1796 –
French Revolutionary Wars :
Napoleon leads the
French Army of Italy to victory in the
Battle of Lonato .
1821 –
The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1854 – The
Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1863 –
Matica slovenská ,
Slovakia 's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the
Slovak nation , is established in
Martin .
1873 –
American Indian Wars : While protecting a railroad survey party in
Montana , the
United States 7th Cavalry , under
Lieutenant Colonel
George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the
Cheyenne and
Lakota people near the
Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.
1889 –
The Great Fire of
Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
1892 – The father and stepmother of
Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their
Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
1901–present
1914 –
World War I : In response to the
German invasion of Belgium , Belgium and the
British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
1915 – World War I: The
German 12th Army occupies
Warsaw during the
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the
Great Retreat of 1915 .
1921 –
Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict :
Mikhail Frunze declares victory over the
Makhnovshchina .
[2]
1924 –
Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1936 –
Prime Minister of Greece
Ioannis Metaxas suspends
parliament and the
Constitution and establishes the
4th of August Regime .
1944 –
The Holocaust : A tip from a Dutch informer leads the
Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an
Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist
Anne Frank , her family, and four others.
1944 – Under the state of emergency law, the
Finnish Parliament elects Marshal
C. G. E. Mannerheim as the
President of Finland to replace the resigned
Risto Ryti .
[3]
[4]
1946 – An
earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern
Dominican Republic . One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1947 – The
Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1964 –
Civil rights movement :
Civil rights workers
Michael Schwerner ,
Andrew Goodman and
James Chaney are found dead in
Mississippi after disappearing on
June 21 .
1964 –
Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident : U.S.
destroyers
USS Maddox and
USS Turner Joy mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 – The
Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the
Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
1969 –
Vietnam War : At the apartment of French intermediary
Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative
Henry Kissinger and
North Vietnamese representative
Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1972 –
Ugandan President
Idi Amin announces that
Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of
Asian origin , beginning the
expulsions of Ugandan Asians .
[5]
1974 – A
bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at
San Benedetto Val di Sambro , Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
1975 – The
Japanese Red Army takes
more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in
Kuala Lumpur ,
Malaysia . The hostages include the U.S.
consul and the Swedish
Chargé d'affaires . The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to
Libya .
1977 –
U.S. President
Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the
United States Department of Energy .
1983 –
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo , president of the military government of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a
coup d'état led by Captain
Thomas Sankara .
[6]
1984 – The
Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to
Burkina Faso .
1987 – The
Federal Communications Commission rescinds the
Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
1995 –
Operation Storm begins in
Croatia .
2006 – A
massacre is carried out by
Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French
INGO
Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
2007 –
NASA 's
Phoenix spacecraft is launched.
2018 –
Syrian civil war : The
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the
Iraq–Syria border , concluding the second phase of the
Deir ez-Zor campaign .
[7]
2019 – Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in
Dayton, Ohio . This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in
El Paso, Texas , where 23 people were killed.
[8]
[9]
2020 –
Beirut Port explosion : At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of
ammonium nitrate explodes in
Beirut, Lebanon .
[10]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1604 –
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac , French cleric and author (d. 1676)
1623 –
Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1641–1680) and Hanau-Münzenberg (1642–1680) (d. 1685)
1701 –
Thomas Blackwell , Scottish historian and scholar (d. 1757)
1704 –
Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (d. 1752)
1719 –
Johann Gottlob Lehmann , German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
1721 –
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford , English politician,
Lord President of the Council (d. 1803)
1755 –
Nicolas-Jacques Conté , French soldier, painter, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1805)
1792 –
Percy Bysshe Shelley , English poet and playwright (d. 1822)
1805 –
William Rowan Hamilton , Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1865)
1821 –
Louis Vuitton , French fashion designer, founded
Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
1821 –
James Springer White , American religious leader, co-founded the
Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1881)
1834 –
John Venn , English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1923)
1836 –
Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup , Danish architect (d. 1907)
1839 –
Walter Pater , English author, critic, and academic (d. 1894)
1844 –
Henri Berger , German composer and bandleader (d. 1929)
1853 –
John Henry Twachtman , American painter, etcher, and academic (d. 1902)
1859 –
Knut Hamsun , Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
1861 –
Daniel Edward Howard , 16th president of Liberia (d. 1935)
[11]
1867 –
Jake Beckley , American baseball player and coach (d. 1918)
1868 –
Master C. V. V. , Indian philosopher, yogi and guru (d. 1922)
1870 –
Harry Lauder , Scottish actor and singer (d. 1950)
1871 –
William Holman , English-Australian politician, 19th
Premier of New South Wales (d. 1934)
1876 –
Giovanni Giuriati , Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1970)
1876 –
John Scaddan , Australian politician, 10th
Premier of Western Australia (d. 1934)
1877 – Dame
Laura Knight , English artist (d. 1970)
[12]
1884 –
Béla Balázs , Hungarian poet and critic (d. 1949)
1884 –
Henri Cornet , French cyclist (d. 1941)
1887 –
Albert M. Greenfield , Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1967)
1888 –
Taher Saifuddin , Indian religious leader, 51st
Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
1890 –
Dolf Luque , Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1957)
1893 –
Fritz Gause , German historian and curator (d. 1973)
1898 –
Ernesto Maserati , Italian race car driver and engineer (d. 1975)
1899 –
Ezra Taft Benson , American religious leader, 13th
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
1900 –
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901–present
1901 –
Louis Armstrong , American trumpet player and singer (d. 1971)
1901 –
Clarence Passailaigue , Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
1902 –
Bill Hallahan , American baseball player (d. 1981)
1904 –
Witold Gombrowicz , Polish author and playwright (d. 1969)
1904 –
Helen Kane , American singer and actress (d. 1966)
1904 –
Joe Tate , English footballer and manager (d. 1973)
1905 –
Abeid Karume , 1st
President of Zanzibar (d. 1972)
[13]
1906 –
Eugen Schuhmacher , German zoologist, director, and producer (d. 1973)
1908 –
Kurt Eichhorn , German conductor (d. 1994)
1909 –
Glenn Cunningham , American runner and academic (d. 1988)
1910 –
Anita Page , American actress (d. 2008)
[14]
1910 –
William Schuman , American composer and educator (d. 1992)
1910 –
Hedda Sterne , Romanian-American painter and photographer (d. 2011)
1912 –
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov , Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912 –
David Raksin , American composer and educator (d. 2004)
[15]
1912 –
Raoul Wallenberg , Swedish architect and diplomat (d. 1947)
1913 –
Wesley Addy , American actor (d. 1996)
1913 –
Robert Hayden , American poet and educator (d. 1980)
1913 –
Johann Niemann , German lieutenant (d. 1943)
1915 –
Warren Avis , American businessman, founded
Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
1917 –
John Fitch , American race car driver and engineer (d. 2012)
1918 –
Brian Crozier , Australian-English historian and journalist (d. 2012)
1919 –
Michel Déon , French novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2016)
1920 –
Helen Thomas , American journalist and author (d. 2013)
[16]
1921 –
Herb Ellis , American guitarist (d. 2010)
1921 –
Maurice Richard , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2000)
1922 –
Mayme Agnew Clayton , American librarian (d. 2006)
[17]
1922 –
Luis Aponte Martínez , Puerto Rican cardinal (d. 2012)
1926 –
George Irving Bell , American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (d. 2000)
1926 –
Perry Moss , American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1928 –
Christian Goethals , Belgian race car driver (d. 2003)
1928 –
Gerard Damiano , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1928 –
Nadežka Mosusova , Serbian composer
1929 –
Kishore Kumar , Indian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1987)
1929 –
Vellore G. Ramabhadran , Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2012)
1930 –
Ali al-Sistani , Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar
1931 –
Naren Tamhane , Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
1932 –
Frances E. Allen , American computer scientist and academic (d. 2020)
1932 –
Liang Congjie , Chinese environmentalist, founded
Friends of Nature (d. 2010)
1934 –
Dallas Green , American baseball player and manager (d. 2017)
1935 –
Carol Arthur , American actress and producer (d. 2020)
1935 –
Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt , German footballer and coach (d. 1997)
1935 –
Michael J. Noonan , Irish farmer and politician, 25th
Minister of Defence for Ireland (d. 2013)
1936 –
Giorgos Zographos , Greek singer and actor (d. 2005)
1937 –
David Bedford , English keyboard player, composer, and conductor (d. 2011)
1938 –
Ellen Schrecker , American historian and academic
1939 –
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling , English politician,
Minister for the Cabinet Office
1939 –
Frankie Ford , American R&B/rock and roll singer (d. 2015)
1940 –
Coriún Aharonián , Uruguayan composer and musicologist (d. 2017)
[18]
1940 –
Robin Harper , Scottish academic and politician
1940 –
Larry Knechtel , American bass player and pianist (d. 2009)
1940 –
Frances Stewart , English economist and academic
1940 –
Timi Yuro , American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1941 –
Martin Jarvis , English actor
1941 –
Andy Smillie , English footballer
1941 –
Cliff Nobles , American musician (d. 2008)
[19]
1941 –
Ted Strickland , American psychologist and politician, 68th
Governor of Ohio
1942 –
Don S. Davis , American actor (d. 2008)
[20]
1942 –
Cleon Jones , American baseball player
1942 –
David Lange , New Zealand lawyer and politician, 32nd
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
1943 –
Vicente Álvarez Areces , Spanish politician, 6th
President of the Principality of Asturias (d. 2019)
1943 –
Barbara Saß-Viehweger , German politician, lawyer and civil law notary
1943 –
Bjørn Wirkola , Norwegian ski jumper and footballer
1944 –
Richard Belzer , American actor (d. 2023)
1944 –
Doudou Ndoye , Senegalese lawyer and politician
1945 –
Paul McCarthy , American painter and sculptor
1945 –
Alan Mulally , American engineer and businessman
1946 –
Aleksei Turovski , Estonian zoologist and ethologist
1947 –
Klaus Schulze , German keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2022)
1948 –
Johnny Grubb , American baseball player and coach
1949 –
John Riggins , American football player, sportscaster, and actor
1950 –
Caldwell Jones , American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
1950 –
N. Rangaswamy , Indian lawyer and politician, 9th
Chief Minister of Puducherry
1951 –
Peter Goodfellow , English geneticist and academic
[21]
1952 –
James Arbuthnot , English lawyer and politician,
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1952 –
Moya Brennan , Irish singer-songwriter and harp player
1952 –
Gábor Demszky , Hungarian sociologist, lawyer, and politician
1953 –
Hiroyuki Usui , Japanese footballer and manager
1954 –
Anatoliy Kinakh , Ukrainian engineer and politician, 11th
Prime Minister of Ukraine
1954 –
Steve Phillips , English footballer
1954 –
François Valéry , Algerian-French singer-songwriter
1955 –
Alberto Gonzales , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 80th
United States Attorney General
1955 –
Billy Bob Thornton , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1957 –
Rupert Farley , British actor and voice actor
1957 –
Brooks D. Simpson , American historian and author
1957 –
Valdis Valters , Latvian basketball player and coach
1957 –
John Wark , Scottish footballer and sportscaster
1958 –
Allison Hedge Coke , American-Canadian poet and academic
1958 –
Mary Decker , American runner
1958 –
Silvan Shalom , Tunisian-Israeli sergeant and politician, 30th
Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
1959 –
Robbin Crosby , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2002)
1959 –
John Gormley , Irish politician,
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government
1960 –
Chuck C. Lopez , American jockey
1960 –
Dean Malenko , American wrestler
[22]
1960 –
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero , Spanish academic and politician, 5th
Prime Minister of Spain
1960 –
Bernard Rose , English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1960 –
Tim Winton , Australian author and playwright
1961 –
Barack Obama , American lawyer and politician, 44th
President of the United States ,
Nobel Prize laureate
[23]
1962 –
Roger Clemens , American baseball player and actor
1962 –
Paul Reynolds , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 –
Keith Maurice Ellison , 30th Attorney General of Minnesota
1964 –
Andrew Bartlett , Australian social worker and politician
1965 –
Vishal Bhardwaj , Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer
[24]
[25]
1965 –
Adam Afriyie , English businessman and politician
1965 –
Dennis Lehane , American author, screenwriter, and producer
1965 –
Fredrik Reinfeldt , Swedish soldier and politician, 42nd
Prime Minister of Sweden
[26]
1965 –
Michael Skibbe , German footballer and manager
1967 –
Michael Marsh , American sprinter
1968 –
Daniel Dae Kim , South Korean-American actor
1968 –
Lee Mack , English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1969 –
Mark Bickley , Australian footballer and coach
1969 –
Max Cavalera , Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 –
Troy O'Leary , American baseball player
1970 –
John August , American director and screenwriter
1970 –
Bret Baier , American journalist
1970 –
Steve House , American mountaineer
1970 –
Steven Jack , South African cricketer
1970 –
Kate Silverton , English journalist
1971 –
Bethan Benwell , English linguist, author, and academic
1971 –
Jeff Gordon , American race car driver and actor
1972 –
Stefan Brogren , Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 –
Eva Amaral , Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 –
Xavier Marchand , French swimmer
1973 –
Marek Penksa , Slovak footballer
1973 –
Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis , Brazilian footballer
1974 –
Kily González , Argentine footballer
1975 –
Andy Hallett , American actor and singer (d. 2009)
[27]
1975 –
Nikos Liberopoulos , Greek footballer
1975 –
Jutta Urpilainen , Finnish politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
1975 –
Daniella van Graas , Dutch model and actress
1976 –
Paul Goldstein , American tennis player
[28]
1976 –
Andrew McLeod , Australian footballer
1976 –
Trevor Woodman , English rugby player and coach
1977 –
Frankie Kazarian , American wrestler
1977 –
Luís Boa Morte , Portuguese footballer and manager
1978 –
Jeremy Adduono , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1978 –
Luke Allen , American baseball player (d. 2022)
1978 –
Kurt Busch , American race car driver
1978 –
Agnė Eggerth , Lithuanian sprinter
1978 –
Ibán Espadas , Spanish footballer
1978 –
Jon Knott , American baseball player
1978 –
Karine Legault , Canadian swimmer
1978 –
Sandeep Naik , Indian politician
1978 –
Siri Nordby , Norwegian footballer
1978 –
Ricardo Serrano , Spanish cyclist
1978 –
Per-Åge Skrøder , Norwegian ice hockey player
1978 –
Satoshi Hino , Japanese voice actor
1979 –
Robin Peterson , South African cricketer
1980 –
Richard Dawson , English cricketer and coach
1981 –
Marques Houston , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1981 –
Benjamin Lauth , German footballer
1981 –
Abigail Spencer , American actress
1981 –
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex , American actress and humanitarian, and member of
British Royal Family
1983 –
Greta Gerwig , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1984 –
Terry Campese , Australian rugby league player
1984 –
Mardy Collins , American basketball player
1985 –
Crystal Bowersox , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 –
Robbie Findley , American soccer player
1985 –
Mark Milligan , Australian footballer
1985 –
Ha Seung-jin , South Korean basketball player
1985 –
Antonio Valencia , Ecuadorean footballer
1986 –
Nick Augusto , American drummer
1986 –
Leon Camier , English motorcycle racer
1986 –
Cicinho , Brazilian footballer
1986 –
Iosia Soliola , New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
1986 –
David Williams , Australian rugby league player
1987 –
Jang Keun-suk , South Korean actor and singer
1987 –
Marreese Speights American basketball player
1987 –
Tomoya Warabino , Japanese actor
1988 –
Carly Foulkes , Canadian model and actress
1988 –
Kelley O'Hara , American soccer player
[29]
1989 –
Tomasz Kaczor , Polish sprint canoeist
[30]
1989 –
Jessica Mauboy , Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1989 –
Wang Hao , Chinese chess player
1990 –
Hikmet Balioğlu , Turkish footballer
1990 –
Siim Tenno , Estonian footballer
1991 –
Thiago Cardoso , Brazilian footballer
1991 –
Izet Hajrović , Bosnian footballer
1992 –
Daniele Garozzo , Italian fencer
1992 –
Domingo Germán , Dominican baseball player
[31]
1992 –
Cole Sprouse , American actor
[32]
1992 –
Dylan Sprouse , American actor
[32]
1995 –
Bruna Marquezine , Brazilian actress
Deaths
Pre-1600
221 –
Lady Zhen , Chinese empress (b. 183)
966 –
Berengar II of Italy (b. 900)
1060 –
Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1113 –
Gertrude of Saxony , countess and regent of Holland (b. c. 1030)
[33]
1265 –
Peter de Montfort , English politician (b. 1215)
1265 –
Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
1265 –
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester , French-English soldier and politician,
Lord High Steward (b. 1208)
1265 –
Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer , English politician (b. 1223)
1266 –
Eudes of Burgundy ,
Count of Nevers (b. 1230)
1306 –
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
[34]
1345 –
As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1326)
1378 –
Galeazzo II Visconti , Lord of Milan (b. c. 1320)
1430 –
Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1526 –
Juan Sebastián Elcano , Spanish explorer and navigator (b. 1476)
1578 –
Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
1598 –
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , English academic and politician,
Lord High Treasurer (b. 1520)
1601–1900
1612 –
Hugh Broughton , English scholar and theologian (b. 1549)
1639 –
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón , Mexican actor and playwright (b. 1581)
1718 –
René Lepage de Sainte-Claire , French-Canadian founder of
Rimouski (b. 1656)
1727 –
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie , French general (b. 1647)
1741 –
Andrew Hamilton , Scottish-American lawyer and politician (b. 1676)
[35]
1778 –
Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial , Canadian-French politician,
Governor General of New France (b. 1698)
1792 –
John Burgoyne , English general and politician (b. 1723)
1795 –
Timothy Ruggles , American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1711)
1804 –
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan , Scottish admiral (b. 1731)
1822 –
Kristjan Jaak Peterson , Estonian poet and author (b. 1801)
1844 –
Jacob Aall , Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (b. 1773)
1859 –
John Vianney , French priest and saint (b. 1786)
1873 –
Viktor Hartmann , Russian architect and painter (b. 1834)
1875 –
Hans Christian Andersen , Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1805)
1886 –
Samuel J. Tilden , American lawyer and politician, 25th
Governor of New York (b. 1814)
[36]
1900 –
Isaac Levitan , Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
1901–present
1914 –
Jules Lemaître , French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
1919 –
Dave Gregory , Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
1922 –
Enver Pasha , Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)
1932 –
Alfred Henry Maurer , American painter (b. 1868)
1938 –
Pearl White , American actress (b. 1889)
1940 –
Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
1941 –
Mihály Babits , Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
1942 –
Alberto Franchetti , Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)
1944 –
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński , Polish soldier and poet (b. 1921)
1957 –
John Cain Sr. , Australian politician, 34th
Premier of Victoria (b. 1882)
1957 –
Washington Luís , Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th
President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 –
Ethel Anderson , Australian poet, author, and painter (b. 1883)
[37]
1959 –
József Révai , Hungarian politician,
Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1898)
1961 –
Margarito Bautista , Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (b. 1878)
[38]
1962 –
Marilyn Monroe , American model and actress (b. 1926)
1964 –
Nätti-Jussi , Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (b. 1890)
[39]
1967 –
Peter Smith , English cricketer (b. 1908)
1976 –
Enrique Angelelli , Argentinian bishop and martyr (b. 1923)
1976 –
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet , Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
1977 –
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian , English physiologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1981 –
Melvyn Douglas , American actor (b. 1901)
1982 –
Bruce Goff , American architect, designed the
Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
1985 –
Don Whillans , English rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1933)
1990 –
Ettore Maserati , Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1894)
1992 –
Seichō Matsumoto , Japanese author (b. 1909)
1996 –
Geoff Hamilton , English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
1997 –
Jeanne Calment , French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
1998 –
Yury Artyukhin , Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
1999 –
Victor Mature , American actor (b. 1913)
2003 –
Frederick Chapman Robbins , American pediatrician and virologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2004 –
Mary Sherman Morgan , American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
2004 –
Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
2005 –
Anatoly Larkin , Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)
2005 –
Iván Szabó , Hungarian economist and politician,
Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
2007 –
Lee Hazlewood , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2007 –
Raul Hilberg , Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
2008 –
Craig Jones , English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
2009 –
Blake Snyder , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1957)
2011 –
Naoki Matsuda , Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
2012 –
Johnnie Bassett , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
2012 –
Brian Crozier , Australian-English journalist and historian (b. 1918)
2012 –
Bud Riley , American football player and coach (b. 1925)
2013 –
Keith H. Basso , American anthropologist and academic (b. 1940)
2013 –
Art Donovan , American football player and radio host (b. 1925)
2013 –
Olavi J. Mattila , Finnish engineer and politician,
Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1918)
2013 –
Renato Ruggiero , Italian lawyer and politician,
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1930)
[40]
2013 –
Tony Snell , English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1922)
[41]
2013 –
Sandy Woodward , English admiral (b. 1932)
[42]
2014 –
James Brady , American activist and politician, 15th
White House Press Secretary (b. 1940)
[43]
2014 –
Chester Crandell , American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
[44]
2014 –
Jake Hooker , Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1953)
[45]
2015 –
Elsie Hillman , American philanthropist and politician (b. 1925)
[46]
2015 –
Les Munro , New Zealand soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
[47]
2015 –
John Rudometkin , American basketball player (b. 1940)
[48]
2015 –
Billy Sherrill , American songwriter and producer (b. 1936)
[49]
2019 –
Nuon Chea ,
Cambodian politician and theorist for the
Khmer Rouge (b. 1926)
[50]
2023 –
Dalia Fadila , Israeli educator (b. 1971/1972)
[51]
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