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Day of the year
February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar ; 312 days remain until the end of the year (313 in
leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1632 –
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany , the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of
Galileo 's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems .
[6]
1651 –
St. Peter's Flood : A storm surge floods the
Frisian coast , drowning 15,000 people.
[7]
1744 –
War of the Austrian Succession : The
Battle of Toulon causes several
Royal Navy captains to be
court-martialed , and the
Articles of War to be amended.
[8]
1770 – British customs officer Ebenezer Richardson fires blindly into a crowd during a protest in
North End ,
Boston , fatally wounding 11-year-old
Christopher Seider ; the first American fatality of the
American Revolution .
[9]
1797 – The
last Invasion of Britain begins near
Fishguard ,
Wales .
[10]
1819 – By the
Adams–Onís Treaty , Spain
sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
[11]
1847 –
Mexican–American War : The
Battle of Buena Vista : Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000
Mexican troops.
[12]
1848 – The
French Revolution of 1848 , which would lead to the establishment of the
French Second Republic , begins.
[13]
1856 – The United States
Republican Party opens its first national convention in
Pittsburgh .
[14]
1862 –
American Civil War :
Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the
President of the Confederate States of America in
Richmond, Virginia . He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
[15]
1872 – The
Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in
Columbus, Ohio , nominating
James Black as its presidential nominee.
[16]
1879 – In
Utica, New York ,
Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime
Woolworth stores.
[17]
1881 –
Cleopatra's Needle , a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in
Central Park , New York.
[18]
1889 –
President
Grover Cleveland
signs a bill admitting
North Dakota ,
South Dakota ,
Montana and
Washington as
U.S. states .
[19]
1899 –
Filipino forces led by General
Antonio Luna
launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the
Philippine–American War . The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
[20]
1901–present
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the
South Orkney Islands to
Argentina ; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
[21]
1909 – The sixteen
battleships of the
Great White Fleet , led by
USS Connecticut , return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
[22]
1921 – After Russian forces under Baron
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the
Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the
emperor of
Mongolia .[
citation needed ]
1942 –
World War II : President
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General
Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
[23]
1943 – World War II: Members of the
White Rose resistance,
Sophie Scholl ,
Hans Scholl , and
Christoph Probst are executed in
Nazi Germany .
[24]
1944 – World War II: American aircraft
mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of
Nijmegen ,
Arnhem ,
Enschede and
Deventer , resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
[25]
1944 – World War II: The Soviet
Red Army recaptures
Krivoi Rog .
[26]
1946 – The "
Long Telegram ", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.
[27]
1957 –
Ngô Đình Diệm of
South Vietnam survives a
communist shooting assassination attempt in
Buôn Ma Thuột .
[28]
1958 – Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day,
Egypt and
Syria join to form the
United Arab Republic .
[29]
1959 –
Lee Petty wins
the first
Daytona 500 .
[30]
1972 – The
Official Irish Republican Army
detonates a car bomb at
Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
[31]
1973 –
Cold War : Following President
Richard Nixon 's
visit to the
People's Republic of China , the two countries agree to establish
liaison offices.
[32]
1974 – The
Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in
Lahore , Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes
Bangladesh .
[33]
1974 –
Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at
Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the
White House to assassinate
Richard Nixon , but commits suicide after being wounded by police.
[34]
1979 –
Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom.
[35]
1980 –
Miracle on Ice : In
Lake Placid, New York , the United States hockey team defeats the
Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
[36]
1983 – The notorious
Broadway flop
Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the
Eugene O'Neill Theatre .
[37]
1986 – Start of the
People Power Revolution in the
Philippines .
[38]
1994 –
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the
United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
[39]
1995 – The
Corona
reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
[40]
1997 – In
Roslin, Midlothian , British scientists announce that an adult sheep named
Dolly has been successfully
cloned .
[41]
2002 –
Angolan political and rebel leader
Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
[42]
2005 – The 6.4 Mw
Zarand earthquake shakes the
Kerman Province of
Iran with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
[43]
2006 – At approximately 6:44 a.m.
local Iraqi time ,
explosions occurred at the
al-Askari Shrine in
Samarra ,
Iraq . The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in
Shia Islam , caused the escalation of
sectarian tensions in Iraq into a
full-scale civil war .
[44]
2006 – The
Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in
Tonbridge ,
Kent .
[45]
2011 –
New Zealand 's second deadliest
earthquake strikes
Christchurch , killing 185 people.
[46]
2011 –
Bahraini uprising : Tens of thousands of people
march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
[47]
2012 – A
train crash in
Buenos Aires ,
Argentina , kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
[48]
2014 – President
Viktor Yanukovych of
Ukraine is impeached by the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the
Euromaidan rebellion.
[49]
2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers
capsizes in the
Padma River , killing 70 people.
[50]
2018 – A man
throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in
Podgorica ,
Montenegro . He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.
[51]
2022 –
Twosday , the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.
[52]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1631 –
Peder Syv , Danish historian (d. 1702)
1649 –
Bon Boullogne , French painter (d. 1717)
1715 –
Charles-Nicolas Cochin , French artist (d. 1790)
1732 –
George Washington , American general and politician, 1st
President of the United States (d. 1799)
1749 –
Johann Nikolaus Forkel , German musicologist and theorist (d. 1818)
1778 –
Rembrandt Peale , American painter and curator (d. 1860)
1788 –
Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher and author (d. 1860)
1796 –
Alexis Bachelot , French priest and missionary (d. 1837)
1796 –
Adolphe Quetelet , Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist (d. 1874)
1805 –
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams , English poet and hymnwriter (d. 1848)
[56]
1806 –
Józef Kremer , Polish historian and philosopher (d. 1875)
1817 –
Carl Wilhelm Borchardt , German mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
1819 –
James Russell Lowell , American poet and critic (d. 1891)
1824 –
Pierre Janssen , French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1907)
1825 –
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe , French-American archbishop (d. 1898)
1836 –
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya , Indian scholar and academic (d. 1906)
1840 –
August Bebel , German theorist and politician (d. 1913)
1849 –
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1915)
1857 –
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell , English general, co-founded
The Scout Association (d. 1941)
1857 –
Heinrich Hertz , German physicist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1894)
1860 –
Mary W. Bacheler , American physician and Baptist medical missionary (d. 1939)
[57]
1863 –
Charles McLean Andrews , American historian, author, and academic (d. 1943)
1864 –
Jules Renard , French author and playwright (d. 1910)
1874 –
Bill Klem , American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)
1876 –
Zitkala-Sa , American author and activist (d. 1938)
1879 –
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted , Danish chemist and academic (d. 1947)
1880 –
Eric Lemming , Swedish athlete (d. 1930)
[58]
1881 –
Joseph B. Ely , American lawyer and politician, 52nd
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1956)
1881 –
Albin Prepeluh , Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1937)
1882 –
Eric Gill , English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1940)
1883 –
Marguerite Clark , American actress (d. 1940)
1886 –
Hugo Ball , German author and poet (d. 1927)
[59]
1887 –
Savielly Tartakower , Polish journalist, author, and chess player (d. 1956)
1887 –
Pat Sullivan , Australian-American animator and producer (d. 1933)
[60]
1888 –
Owen Brewster , American captain and politician, 54th
Governor of Maine (d. 1961)
1889 –
Olave Baden-Powell , English scout leader, first
World Chief Guide (d. 1977)
1889 –
R. G. Collingwood , English historian and philosopher (d. 1943)
1891 –
Vlas Chubar , Russian economist and politician (d. 1939)
1892 –
Edna St. Vincent Millay , American poet and playwright (d. 1950)
1895 –
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre , Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
1897 –
Karol Świerczewski , Polish general (d. 1947)
1899 –
George O'Hara , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1966)
1900 –
Luis Buñuel , Spanish-Mexican director and producer (d. 1983)
1901–present
1903 –
Morley Callaghan , Canadian author and playwright (d. 1990)
[61]
1903 –
Frank P. Ramsey , English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1930)
[62]
1906 –
Constance Stokes , Australian painter (d. 1991)
1907 –
Sheldon Leonard , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1997)
[63]
1907 –
Robert Young , American actor (d. 1998)
[63]
1908 –
Rómulo Betancourt , Venezuelan politician, 56th
President of Venezuela (d. 1981)
1908 –
John Mills , English actor (d. 2005)
[64]
1910 –
George Hunt , English footballer (d. 1996)
[65]
1914 –
Renato Dulbecco , Italian-American virologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1915 –
Gus Lesnevich , American boxer (d. 1964)
1918 –
Sid Abel , Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2000)
1918 –
Don Pardo , American radio and television announcer (d. 2014)
[63]
1918 –
Robert Wadlow , American man, the tallest person in recorded history (d. 1940)
1921 –
Jean-Bédel Bokassa , Central African general and politician, 2nd
President of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
1921 –
Giulietta Masina , Italian actress (d. 1994)
1921 –
Marshall Teague , American race car driver (d. 1959)
1922 –
Zenaida Manfugás , Cuban pianist (d. 2012)
[66]
1922 –
Joe Wilder , American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2014)
1923 –
François Cavanna , French author and editor (d. 2014)
1923 –
Bleddyn Williams , Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1925 –
Edward Gorey , American illustrator and poet (d. 2000)
1925 –
Gerald Stern , American poet and academic (d. 2022)
1926 –
Kenneth Williams , English actor and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1927 –
Florencio Campomanes , Filipino political scientist and chess player (d. 2010)
1927 –
Guy Mitchell , American singer (d. 1999)
1928 –
Clarence 13X , American religious leader, founded the
Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
1928 –
Texas Johnny Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1928 –
Paul Dooley , American actor
[67]
1928 –
Bruce Forsyth , English singer and television host (d. 2017)
1929 –
James Hong , American actor and director
1929 –
Rebecca Schull , American stage, film, and television actress
1930 –
Marni Nixon , American soprano and actress (d. 2016)
1932 –
Ted Kennedy , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2009)
[63]
1932 –
Zenaida Manfugás , Cuban-born American-naturalized pianist (d. 2012)
1933 –
Sheila Hancock , English actress and author
1933 –
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 –
Ernie K-Doe , American R&B singer (d. 2001)
1933 –
Bobby Smith , English footballer (d. 2010)
[68]
1934 –
Sparky Anderson , American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
1936 –
J. Michael Bishop , American microbiologist and immunologist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1937 –
Tommy Aaron , American golfer
1937 –
Joanna Russ , American author and activist (d. 2011)
1938 –
Steve Barber , American baseball player (d. 2007)
1938 –
Tony Macedo , Gibraltarian born English footballer
[69]
1938 –
Ishmael Reed , American poet, novelist, essayist
1940 –
Judy Cornwell , English actress
1940 –
Chet Walker , American basketball player
1941 –
Hipólito Mejía , Dominican politician, 52nd
President of the Dominican Republic
1942 –
Christine Keeler , English model and dancer (d. 2017)
1943 –
Terry Eagleton , English philosopher and critic
1943 –
Horst Köhler , Polish-German economist and politician, 9th
President of Germany
1943 –
Dick Van Arsdale , American basketball player
1943 –
Tom Van Arsdale , American basketball player
1943 –
Otoya Yamaguchi , Japanese assassin of
Inejiro Asanuma (d. 1960)
1944 –
Jonathan Demme , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
[63]
1944 –
Mick Green , English guitarist (d. 2010)
1944 –
Robert Kardashian , American lawyer and businessman (d. 2003)
1944 –
Christopher Meyer , English diplomat,
British Ambassador to the United States (d. 2022)
1944 –
Tom Okker , Dutch tennis player and painter
[70]
1945 –
Oliver , American pop singer (d. 2000)
1946 –
Kresten Bjerre , Danish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1947 –
Pirjo Honkasalo , Finnish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
1947 –
Harvey Mason , American drummer
1947 –
John Radford , English footballer and manager
1947 –
Frank Van Dun , Belgian philosopher and theorist
1948 –
John Ashton , American actor
[67]
1948 –
Dennis Awtrey , American basketball player
[71]
1949 –
John Duncan , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2022)
[72]
1949 –
Niki Lauda , Austrian racing driver (d. 2019)
[73]
1949 –
Olga Morozova , Russian tennis player and coach
1950 –
Julius Erving , American basketball player and sportscaster
[74]
1950 –
Lenny Kuhr , Dutch singer-songwriter
1950 –
Miou-Miou , French actress
1950 –
Genesis P-Orridge , English singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
[75]
1950 –
Julie Walters , English actress and author
[76]
1951 –
Ellen Greene , American singer and actress
[67]
1952 –
Bill Frist , American physician and politician
[77]
1952 –
Joaquim Pina Moura , Portuguese
Minister of Economy and Treasury and
MP (d. 2020)
[78]
1952 –
Saufatu Sopoanga , Tuvaluan politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2020)
[79]
1953 –
Nigel Planer , English actor and screenwriter
1955 –
David Axelrod , American journalist and political adviser
1955 –
Tim Young , Canadian ice hockey player
1957 –
Willie Smits , Dutch microbiologist and engineer
1958 –
Dave Spitz , American bass player and songwriter
1959 –
Jiří Čunek , Czech politician
1959 –
Kyle MacLachlan , American actor
[67]
1959 –
Bronwyn Oliver , Australian sculptor (d. 2006)
1960 –
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde , Scottish politician,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1961 –
Akira Takasaki , Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1962 –
Steve Irwin , Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006)
[63]
1963 –
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis , English journalist and politician,
Secretary of State for Transport
[80]
1963 –
Devon Malcolm , Jamaican-English cricketer
1963 –
Vijay Singh , Fijian-American golfer
[63]
1964 –
Diane Charlemagne , English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1964 –
Andy Gray , English footballer and manager
[81]
1965 –
Chris Dudley , American basketball player
[82]
1965 –
Kieren Fallon , Irish jockey
1965 –
Pat LaFontaine , American ice hockey player
[83]
1966 –
Rachel Dratch , American actress and comedian
[84]
1967 –
Paul Lieberstein , American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
[67]
1967 –
Psicosis II , Mexican wrestler
1968 –
Shawn Graham , Canadian politician, 31st
Premier of New Brunswick
1968 –
Jeri Ryan , American model and actress
1968 –
Kazuhiro Sasaki , Japanese baseball player
[85]
1968 –
Jayson Williams , American basketball player and sportscaster
1969 –
Thomas Jane , American actor
[86]
1969 –
Brian Laudrup , Danish footballer and sportscaster
[87]
1969 –
Marc Wilmots , Belgian footballer and manager
[88]
1971 –
Lea Salonga , Filipino actress and singer
[89]
1972 –
Michael Chang , American tennis player and coach
1972 –
Claudia Pechstein , German speed skater
[90]
1972 –
Haim Revivo , Israeli footballer
[91]
1972 –
Ben Sasse , American politician and college administrator
[92]
1973 –
Philippe Gaumont , French cyclist (d. 2013)
1973 –
Juninho Paulista , Brazilian footballer
1973 –
Scott Phillips , American musician and songwriter
[67]
1974 –
James Blunt , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
[67]
1974 –
Chris Moyles , English radio and television host
1975 –
Drew Barrymore , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
[93]
1977 –
Hakan Yakin , Swiss footballer
1979 –
Brett Emerton , Australian footballer
[94]
1979 –
Lee Na-young , South Korean actress
1980 –
Jeanette Biedermann , German singer-songwriter and actress
1983 –
Brian Duensing , American baseball player
[95]
1983 –
Shaun Tait , Australian cricketer
1984 –
Tommy Bowe , Irish rugby player
[96]
1984 –
Branislav Ivanović , Serbian footballer
1985 –
Hamer Bouazza , Algerian footballer
[97]
1985 –
Georgios Printezis , Greek basketball player
[98]
1985 –
Zach Roerig , American actor
[67]
1986 –
Rajon Rondo , American basketball player
[99]
1987 –
Han Hyo-joo , South Korean actress and model
1987 –
Sergio Romero , Argentine footballer
[100]
1988 –
Jonathan Borlée , Belgian sprinter
[101]
1989 –
Franco Vázquez , Argentine footballer
[102]
1991 –
Khalil Mack , American football player
[103]
1992 –
Dixon Machado , Venezuelan baseball player
[104]
1994 –
Nam Joo-hyuk , South Korean model and actor
[105]
1994 –
Elfrid Payton , American basketball player
[106]
1995 –
Devonte' Graham , American basketball player
[107]
1996 –
Kia Nurse , Canadian basketball player
[108]
1997 –
Jerome Robinson , American basketball player
[109]
1997 –
Ilya Samsonov , Russian ice hockey player
[110]
Deaths
Pre-1600
556 –
Maximianus , bishop of Ravenna (b. 499)
606 –
Sabinian , pope of the Catholic Church
793 –
Sicga , Anglo-Saxon nobleman and regicide
845 –
Wang , Chinese empress dowager
954 –
Guo Wei , Chinese emperor (b. 904)
965 –
Otto , duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
970 –
García I , king of
Pamplona
978 –
Lambert , count of Chalon (b. 930)
1071 –
Arnulf III , count of Flanders
1072 –
Peter Damian , Italian cardinal
1079 –
John of Fécamp , Italian Benedictine abbot
1111 –
Roger Borsa , king of Sicily (b. 1078)
1297 –
Margaret of Cortona , Italian penitent (b. 1247)
1371 –
David II , king of Scotland (b. 1324)
1452 –
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (b. 1425)
1500 –
Gerhard VI , German nobleman (b. 1430)
1511 –
Henry , duke of Cornwall (b. 1511)
1512 –
Amerigo Vespucci , Italian cartographer and explorer (b. 1454)
[111]
1601–1900
1627 –
Olivier van Noort , Dutch explorer (b. 1558)
1674 –
Jean Chapelain , French poet and critic (b. 1595)
1680 –
La Voisin , French occultist (b. 1640)
1690 –
Charles Le Brun , French painter and theorist (b. 1619)
1731 –
Frederik Ruysch , Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 –
Francis Atterbury , English bishop (b. 1663)
1770 –
Christopher Seider , first American killed in the
American Revolution (b. 1758)
[9]
1799 –
Heshen , Chinese politician (b. 1750)
1816 –
Adam Ferguson , Scottish historian and philosopher (b. 1723)
1875 –
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , French painter and illustrator (b. 1796)
1875 –
Charles Lyell , Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
[112]
1888 –
Anna Kingsford , English physician and activist (b. 1846)
1890 –
John Jacob Astor III , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
1890 –
Carl Bloch , Danish painter and academic (b. 1834)
1897 –
Charles Blondin , French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
1898 –
Heungseon Daewongun , Korean king (b. 1820)
1901–present
1903 –
Hugo Wolf , Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1904 –
Leslie Stephen , English historian, author, and critic (b. 1832)
1913 –
Ferdinand de Saussure , Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)
1913 –
Francisco I. Madero , Mexican president and author (b. 1873)
1923 –
Théophile Delcassé , French politician,
French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1852)
1939 –
Antonio Machado , Spanish-French poet and author (b. 1875)
1942 –
Stefan Zweig , Austrian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1881)
1943 –
Christoph Probst , German activist (b. 1919)
1943 –
Hans Scholl , German activist (b. 1918)
1943 –
Sophie Scholl , German activist (b. 1921)
1944 –
Kasturba Gandhi , Indian activist (b. 1869)
1944 –
Fritz Schmenkel , anti-Nazi German who joined Soviet partisans (b. 1916)
[113]
[114]
1945 –
Osip Brik , Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (b. 1888)
1958 –
Abul Kalam Azad , Indian scholar and politician,
Indian Minister of Education (b. 1888)
1960 –
Paul-Émile Borduas , Canadian-French painter and critic (b. 1905)
1961 –
Nick LaRocca , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1889)
1965 –
Felix Frankfurter , Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
1971 –
Frédéric Mariotti , French actor (b. 1883)
1973 –
Jean-Jacques Bertrand , Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st
Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 –
Elizabeth Bowen , Anglo-Irish author (b. 1899)
1973 –
Katina Paxinou , Greek actress (b. 1900)
1973 –
Winthrop Rockefeller , American colonel and politician, 37th
Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
1976 –
Angela Baddeley , English actress (b. 1904)
1976 –
Florence Ballard , American singer (b. 1943)
1980 –
Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
1982 –
Josh Malihabadi , Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)
1983 –
Adrian Boult , English conductor (b. 1889)
1983 –
Romain Maes , Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1985 –
Salvador Espriu , Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
1985 –
Efrem Zimbalist , Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
1986 –
John Donnelly , Australian rugby league player (b. 1955)
1987 –
David Susskind , American talk show host and producer (b. 1920)
1987 –
Andy Warhol , American painter and photographer (b. 1928)
1992 –
Markos Vafiadis , Greek general and politician (b. 1906)
1994 –
Papa John Creach , American violinist (b. 1917)
1995 –
Ed Flanders , American actor (b. 1934)
1997 –
Joseph Aiuppa , American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 –
Abraham A. Ribicoff , American lawyer and politician, 4th
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1910)
1999 –
William Bronk , American poet and academic (b. 1918)
1999 –
Menno Oosting , Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2002 –
Chuck Jones , American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
2002 –
Jonas Savimbi , Angolan general, founded
UNITA (b. 1934)
2004 –
Andy Seminick , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
2005 –
Lee Eun-ju , South Korean actress and singer (b. 1980)
2005 –
Simone Simon , French actress (b. 1910)
2006 –
S. Rajaratnam , Singaporean politician, 1st
Senior Minister of Singapore (b. 1915)
[115]
2007 –
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe , English politician,
Leader of the House of Lords (b. 1918)
2007 –
Dennis Johnson , American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
2012 –
Sukhbir , Indian author and poet (b. 1925)
2012 –
Frank Carson , Irish-English comedian and actor (b. 1926)
2012 –
Marie Colvin , American journalist (b. 1956)
2012 –
Rémi Ochlik , French photographer and journalist (b. 1983)
2013 –
Atje Keulen-Deelstra , Dutch speed skater (b. 1938)
2013 –
Jean-Louis Michon , French-Swiss scholar and translator (b. 1924)
2013 –
Wolfgang Sawallisch , German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
2014 –
Charlotte Dawson , New Zealand–Australian television host (b. 1966)
2014 –
Trebor Jay Tichenor , American pianist and composer (b. 1940)
2014 –
Leo Vroman , Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915)
2015 –
Chris Rainbow , Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1946)
2016 –
Yolande Fox , American model and singer,
Miss America 1951 (b. 1928)
2016 –
Sonny James , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
2018 –
Forges , Spanish cartoonist (b. 1942)
2019 –
Brody Stevens , American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
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Morgan Woodward , American actor (b. 1925)
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti , American poet, painter (b. 1919)
[118]
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John Lowe , English musician, pianist for
The Quarrymen (b. 1942)
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