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Day of the year
February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar ; 325 days remain until the end of the year (326 in
leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1904 –
Russo-Japanese War :
Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1907 – The
Mud March is the first large procession organised by the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1913 – A group of
meteors
is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the
Americas , leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived
natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 – Under the terms of the
Svalbard Treaty , international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago
Svalbard , and designates it as
demilitarized .
1922 –
Brazil becomes a member of the
Berne Convention
copyright treaty.
1929 – Members of the
Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng
assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin , prompting a crackdown by
French colonial authorities .
[11]
1932 –
Prohibition law is abolished in
Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.
[12]
[13]
1934 – The
Balkan Entente is formed between
Greece ,
Romania ,
Yugoslavia , and
Turkey .
1941 –
World War II :
Bombing of Genoa : The
Cathedral of San Lorenzo in
Genoa , Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
1942 – Year-round
Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
[14]
1943 – World War II:
Pacific War :
Allied authorities declare
Guadalcanal secure after
Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the
Battle of Guadalcanal .
1945 – World War II:
Battle of the Atlantic :
HMS Venturer
sinks
U-864 off the coast of
Fedje , Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 – World War II: A force of
Allied aircraft
unsuccessfully attack a
German destroyer in
Førdefjorden , Norway.
1950 –
Second Red Scare :
US Senator
Joseph McCarthy accuses the
United States Department of State of being filled with
Communists .
1951 –
Korean War : The two-day
Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the
South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in
Geochang , in the
South Gyeongsang district of
South Korea .
1959 – The
R-7 Semyorka , the first
intercontinental ballistic missile , becomes operational at
Plesetsk ,
USSR .
1961 –
The Beatles at The Cavern Club : Lunchtime –
The Beatles perform under this name at
The Cavern Club for the first time following their return to
Liverpool from
Hamburg .
[15]
1964 –
The Beatles make their first appearance on
The Ed Sullivan Show , performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
1965 –
Vietnam War : The
United States Marine Corps sends a
MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to
South Vietnam , the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
1971 – The 6.5–6.7 Mw
Sylmar earthquake hits the
Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme ), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
1971 –
Satchel Paige becomes the first
Negro league player to be voted into the USA's
Baseball Hall of Fame .
1971 –
Apollo program :
Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.
1975 – The
Soyuz 17
Soviet
spacecraft returns to Earth.
1976 –
Aeroflot Flight 3739 , a
Tupolev Tu-104 , crashes during takeoff from
Irkutsk Airport , killing 24.
[16]
1978 – The
Budd Company unveils its first
SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .
1982 –
Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near
Haneda Airport in an attempted
pilot mass murder-suicide , killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
[17]
1986 –
Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner
Solar System .
1991 –
Dissolution of the Soviet Union : Voters in
Lithuania
vote for independence from the
Soviet Union .
1996 – The
Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month
ceasefire and
explodes a large bomb in London's
Canary Wharf , killing two people.
1996 –
Copernicium is discovered by
Sigurd Hofmann ,
Victor Ninov et al.
[18]
2001 – The
Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese
fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru , leaving the
USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with
US $ 2 million in repairs, at
Pearl Harbor .
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
[23]
2016 – Two passenger trains
collide in the German town of
Bad Aibling in the state of
Bavaria . Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.
[24]
2018 –
Winter Olympics :
Opening ceremony is performed in
Pyeongchang County in
South Korea .
[25]
2020 – Salvadoran President
Nayib Bukele has the
army soldiers enter the
Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief
political crisis .
[26]
2021 –
Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.
[27]
Births
Pre-1600
1060 –
Honorius II , pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1130)
1274 –
Louis of Toulouse , French bishop (d. 1297)
1313 –
Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile , Portuguese infanta (d. 1357)
1344 –
Meinhard III , count of Tyrol (d. 1363)
1441 –
Ali-Shir Nava'i ,
Turkic poet, linguist, and painter (d. 1501)
1533 –
Shimazu Yoshihisa , Japanese daimyō (d. 1611)
1579 –
Johannes Meursius , Dutch classical scholar (d. 1639)
[28]
1601–1900
1651 –
Procopio Cutò , French entrepreneur (d. 1727)
1666 –
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney , Scottish field marshal (d. 1737)
1711 –
Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla , Spanish sailor and commander (d. 1762)
1737 –
Thomas Paine , English-American philosopher, author, and activist (d. 1809)
[29]
1741 –
Henri-Joseph Rigel , German-French composer (d. 1799)
1748 –
Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet , English admiral and politician,
Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1817)
1763 –
Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
[30]
1769 –
George W. Campbell , Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th
United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1848)
1773 –
William Henry Harrison , American general and politician, 9th
President of the United States (d. 1841)
1775 –
Farkas Bolyai , Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856)
1781 –
Johann Baptist von Spix , German biologist and explorer (d. 1826)
1783 –
Vasily Zhukovsky , Russian poet and translator (d. 1852)
1789 –
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger , German engineer, invented
Gabelsberger shorthand (d. 1849)
1800 –
Hyrum Smith , American religious leader (d. 1844)
1814 –
Samuel J. Tilden , American lawyer and politician, 28th
Governor of New York (d. 1886)
1815 –
Federico de Madrazo , Spanish painter (d. 1894)
1830 –
Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire , Turkish emperor (d. 1876)
[31]
1834 –
Felix Dahn , German lawyer, historian, and author (d. 1912)
1826 –
Keʻelikōlani , Hawaiian royal and governor
[32] (d. 1883)
1837 –
José Burgos , Filipino priest and revolutionary (d. 1872)
1839 –
Silas Adams , American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 1896)
1846 –
Wilhelm Maybach , German engineer and businessman, founded
Maybach (d. 1929)
1846 –
Whitaker Wright , English businessman and financier (d. 1904)
1847 –
Hugh Price Hughes , Welsh-English clergyman and theologian (d. 1902)
1854 –
Aletta Jacobs , Dutch physician and suffrage activist (d. 1929)
[33]
1856 –
Hara Takashi , Japanese politician, 10th
Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1921)
1859 –
Akiyama Yoshifuru , Japanese general (d. 1930)
1863 –
Anthony Hope , English author and playwright (d. 1933)
1864 –
Miina Härma , Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)
[34]
1865 –
Mrs. Patrick Campbell , English-French actress (d. 1940)
1865 –
Erich von Drygalski , German geographer and geophysicist (d. 1949)
1867 –
Natsume Sōseki , Japanese author and poet (d. 1916)
1871 –
Howard Taylor Ricketts , American pathologist and physician (d. 1910)
1874 –
Amy Lowell , American poet, critic, and educator (d. 1925)
1876 –
Arthur Edward Moore , New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd
Premier of Queensland (d. 1963)
1878 –
Jack Kirwan , Irish international footballer (d. 1959)
[35]
1880 –
Lipót Fejér , Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)
1883 –
Jules Berry , French actor and director (d. 1951)
1885 –
Alban Berg , Austrian composer and educator (d. 1935)
1885 –
Clarence H. Haring , American historian and author (d. 1960)
1889 –
Larry Semon , American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1928)
1891 –
Ronald Colman , English-American actor (d. 1958)
1891 –
Kristian Krefting , Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (d. 1964)
[36]
1891 –
Pietro Nenni , Italian journalist and politician, Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (d. 1980)
[37]
1892 –
Peggy Wood , American actress (d. 1978)
1893 –
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas , Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)
1895 –
Hermann Brill , German lawyer and politician, 8th
Minister-President of Thuringia (d. 1959)
1896 –
Alberto Vargas , Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1982)
1897 –
Charles Kingsford Smith , Australian captain and pilot (d. 1935)
1898 –
Jūkichi Yagi , Japanese poet and educator (d. 1927)
1901–present
1901 –
Brian Donlevy , American actor (d. 1972)
1901 –
James Murray , American actor (d. 1936)
1905 –
David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter , English hurdler and politician (d. 1981)
1906 –
André Kostolany , Hungarian-French economist and journalist (d. 1999)
1907 –
Trường Chinh , Vietnamese politician, 4th
President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
1907 –
Dit Clapper , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1978)
[38]
1907 –
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter , English-Canadian mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
1909 –
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson , Scottish historian (d. 2002)
[39]
1909 –
Heather Angel , English-American actress (d. 1986)
1909 –
Carmen Miranda , Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1955)
[40]
1909 –
Dean Rusk , American colonel and politician, 54th
United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
[40]
1910 –
Jacques Monod , French biochemist and geneticist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1911 –
William Orlando Darby , American general (d. 1945)
1911 –
Esa Pakarinen , Finnish actor and musician (d. 1989)
[41]
1912 –
Ginette Leclerc , French actress (d. 1992)
1912 –
Futabayama Sadaji , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th
Yokozuna (d. 1968)
1914 –
Ernest Tubb , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
[40]
1916 –
Tex Hughson , American baseball player (d. 1993)
1918 –
Lloyd Noel Ferguson , American chemist (d. 2011)
1919 –
John Abramovic , American basketball player (d. 2000)
[42]
1920 –
Fred Allen , New Zealand rugby player and coach (d. 2012)
1920 –
Enrico Schiavetti , Italian football player (d. 1993)
1922 –
Kathryn Grayson , American actress and soprano (d. 2010)
[40]
1922 –
Jim Laker , English cricketer and broadcaster (d. 1986)
1922 –
C. P. Krishnan Nair , Indian businessman, founded
The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (d. 2014)
1922 –
Robert E. Ogren , American zoologist (d. 2005)
1923 –
Brendan Behan , Irish rebel, poet, and playwright (d. 1964)
[40]
1923 –
Tonie Nathan , American radio host, producer, and politician (d. 2014)
1925 –
John B. Cobb , American philosopher and theologian
1925 –
Burkhard Heim , German physicist and academic (d. 2001)
1926 –
Garret FitzGerald , Irish lawyer and politician, 7th
Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)
1927 –
Richard A. Long , American historian and author (d. 2013)
1928 –
Frank Frazetta , American painter and illustrator (d. 2010)
[44]
1928 –
Rinus Michels , Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2005)
1928 –
Roger Mudd , American journalist (d. 2021)
[45]
1929 –
A. R. Antulay , Indian social worker and politician, 8th
Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2014)
1929 –
Clement Meadmore , Australian-American sculptor (d. 2005)
1930 –
Garner Ted Armstrong , American evangelist and author (d. 2003)
1931 –
Thomas Bernhard , Austrian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1989)
1931 –
Josef Masopust , Czech footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1931 –
Robert Morris , American sculptor and painter (d. 2018)
1932 –
Tatsuro Hirooka , Japanese baseball player and manager
1932 –
Gerhard Richter , German painter and photographer
1935 –
Lionel Fanthorpe , English-Welsh priest, journalist, and author
1936 –
Callistus Ndlovu , Zimbabwean academic and politician (d. 2019)
[46]
1936 –
Clive Swift , English actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
1937 –
Clete Boyer , American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1939 –
Mahala Andrews , English vertebrae palaeontologist (d. 1997)
[47]
1939 –
Barry Mann , American pianist, songwriter, and producer
1939 –
Janet Suzman , South African-British actress and director
[48]
1940 –
Brian Bennett , English drummer and songwriter
1940 –
J. M. Coetzee , South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist,
Nobel Prize laureate
[40]
1941 –
Kermit Gosnell , American abortionist and serial killer
[49]
1941 –
Sheila Kuehl , American actress, lawyer, gay rights activist, and politician
[48]
1942 –
Carole King , American singer-songwriter and pianist
[48]
1943 –
Barbara Lewis , American singer-songwriter
[48]
1943 –
Joe Pesci , American actor
[48]
1943 –
Joseph Stiglitz , American economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
[40]
1944 –
Derryn Hinch , New Zealand-Australian radio and television host and politician
1944 –
Alice Walker , American novelist, short story writer, and poet
[48]
1945 –
Mia Farrow , American actress, activist, and model
[48]
1945 –
Yoshinori Ohsumi , Japanese biologist, 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
1945 –
Carol Wood , American mathematician and academic
1946 –
Bob Eastwood , American golfer
1946 –
Vince Papale , American football player and sportscaster
1946 –
Jim Webb , American captain and politician, 18th
United States Secretary of the Navy
1947 –
Carla Del Ponte , Swiss lawyer and diplomat
1947 –
Joe Ely , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[48]
1947 –
Major Harris , American singer (d. 2012)
1947 –
Alexis Smirnoff , Canadian-American wrestler and actor (d. 2019)
1948 –
Guy Standing , English economist and academic
1949 –
Bernard Gallacher , Scottish golfer and journalist
1949 –
Judith Light , American actress
[48]
1950 –
Richard F. Colburn , American sergeant and politician
1951 –
David Pomeranz , American singer, musician, and composer
1952 –
Danny White , American football player and sportscaster
1953 –
Ciarán Hinds , Irish actor
[40]
1953 –
Ezechiele Ramin , Italian missionary, priest, and martyr (d. 1985)
1953 –
Gabriel Rotello , American journalist and author, founded
OutWeek
1954 –
Jo Duffy , American author
1954 –
Chris Gardner , American businessman and philanthropist
1954 –
Kevin Warwick , English scientist
1955 –
Jerry Beck , American historian and author
1955 –
Jimmy Pursey , English singer-songwriter and producer
1955 –
Charles Shaughnessy , English actor
[48]
1956 –
Phil Ford , American basketball player and coach
[50]
1956 –
Mookie Wilson , American baseball player and coach
1957 –
Terry McAuliffe , American businessman and politician, 72nd
Governor of Virginia
1957 –
Gordon Strachan , Scottish footballer and manager
1958 –
Sandy Lyle , Scottish golfer
1958 –
Chris Nilan , American ice hockey player, coach, and radio host
1960 –
Holly Johnson , English singer-songwriter and bass player
1960 –
David Simon , American journalist, author, screenwriter, and television producer
1960 –
Peggy Whitson , American biochemist and astronaut
[40]
1961 –
John Kruk , American baseball player and sportscaster
1962 –
Anik Bissonnette , Canadian ballerina
1963 –
Brian Greene , American physicist
1963 –
Peter Rowsthorn , Australian comedian and actor
1963 –
Travis Tritt , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
[48]
1964 –
Alejandro Ávila , Mexican actor
1964 –
Debrah Miceli , Italian-American wrestler and manager
1964 –
Dewi Morris , English rugby player
1964 –
Ernesto Valverde , Spanish footballer and manager
[51]
1965 –
Dieter Baumann , German runner
1965 –
Julie Warner , American actress
[48]
1966 –
Harald Eia , Norwegian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1967 –
Gaston Browne , Antiguan and Barbudan Prime Minister
[52]
1967 –
Venus Lacy , American basketball player
[53]
1967 –
Todd Pratt , American baseball player and coach
1967 –
Dan Shulman , Canadian sportscaster
1968 –
Alejandra Guzmán , Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
[54]
1968 –
Derek Strong , American basketball player and race car driver
1968 –
Gloria Trevi , Mexican singer and actress
[55]
1969 –
Jimmy Smith , American football player
1970 –
Glenn McGrath , Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1971 –
Sharon Case , American actress and model
[48]
1971 –
Matt Gogel , American golfer
1971 –
Johan Mjällby , Swedish footballer and manager
1972 –
Darren Ferguson , Scottish footballer and manager
1972 –
Jason Winston George , American actor and model
[48]
1973 –
Svetlana Boginskaya , Belarusian gymnast
1973 –
Colin Egglesfield , American actor
1973 –
Makoto Shinkai , Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1974 –
Jordi Cruyff , Dutch footballer and manager
[56]
1974 –
Brad Maynard , American football player
1974 –
Amber Valletta , American model
[48]
1974 –
John Wallace , American basketball player and coach
1975 –
Kurt Asle Arvesen , Norwegian cyclist and coach
1975 –
Clinton Grybas , Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008)
1975 –
Vladimir Guerrero , Dominican-American baseball player
1976 –
Charlie Day , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
[48]
1977 –
A. J. Buckley , Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
[48]
1979 –
Akinori Iwamura , Japanese baseball player
1979 –
Irina Slutskaya , Russian figure skater
[40]
1979 –
Zhang Ziyi , Chinese actress and model
[57]
1980 –
Angelos Charisteas , Greek footballer
1980 –
Margarita Levieva , Russian-American actress
1980 –
Manu Raju , American journalist
1981 –
Tom Hiddleston , English actor
[48]
1981 –
John Walker Lindh , American
Taliban member
[40]
1981 –
Daisuke Sekimoto , Japanese wrestler
1981 –
The Rev , American musician (d. 2009)
[58]
1982 –
Domingo Cisma , Spanish footballer
1982 –
Jameer Nelson , American basketball player
1982 –
Ami Suzuki , Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1982 –
Chris Weale , English footballer and manager
1983 –
Mikel Arruabarrena , Spanish footballer
1984 –
Maurice Ager , American basketball player, singer, and producer
1984 –
Dioner Navarro , Venezuelan baseball player
[59]
1984 –
Shōhōzan Yūya , Japanese sumo wrestler
1985 –
Nigel Dawes , Canadian-Kazakhstani ice hockey player
[60]
1985 –
David Gallagher , American actor
[48]
1987 –
Michael B. Jordan , American actor
[48]
1987 –
Davide Lanzafame , Italian footballer
1987 –
Rose Leslie , Scottish actress
[48]
1987 –
Magdalena Neuner , German biathlete
1989 –
Maxime Dufour-Lapointe , Canadian skier
1990 –
Randall Delgado , Panamanian baseball player
[61]
1990 –
Tariq Sims , Australian-Fijian rugby league player
1990 –
Camille Winbush , American actress
[48]
1991 –
Logan Ryan , American football player
[62]
1992 –
Avan Jogia , Canadian actor
[63]
1993 –
Wataru Endō , Japanese footballer
[64]
1993 –
K. J. McDaniels , American basketball player
[65]
1993 –
Despina Papamichail , Greek tennis player
[66]
1993 –
Niclas Füllkrug , German footballer
[67]
1995 –
André Burakovsky , Swedish ice hockey player
[68]
1995 –
Mario Pašalić , Croatian footballer
[69]
1995 –
Sheraldo Becker , Surinamese footballer
[70]
1996 –
Jimmy Bennett , American actor
[48]
1996 –
Kelli Berglund , American actress
[40]
1996 –
Chungha , South Korean singer
[71]
1996 –
Sebastián Driussi , Argentinian footballer
[72]
1997 –
Jaire Alexander , American football player
[73]
1997 –
Saquon Barkley , American football player
[74]
1997 –
Valentini Grammatikopoulou , Greek tennis player
[75]
[76]
1998 –
Cem Bölükbaşı , Turkish racing driver and former sim racer
[77]
1998 –
Isabella Gomez , Colombian-American actress
[40]
2002 –
Jalen Green , American basketball player
[78]
Deaths
Pre-1600
966 –
Ono no Michikaze , Japanese calligrapher (b. 894)
967 –
Sayf al-Dawla , emir of Aleppo (b. 916)
978 –
Luitgarde , duchess consort of
Normandy
1011 –
Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
1014 –
Yang Yanzhao , Chinese general
1135 –
Tai Zong , Chinese emperor (b. 1075)
1199 –
Minamoto no Yoritomo , Japanese shōgun (b. 1147)
1251 –
Matthias II , duke of Lorraine
1407 –
William I , margrave of Meissen (b. 1343)
1450 –
Agnès Sorel , French mistress of
Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1555 –
John Hooper , English bishop and martyr (b. 1495)
1555 –
Rowland Taylor , English priest and martyr (b. 1510)
1588 –
Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz , Spanish admiral (b. 1526)
1600 –
John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1542)
1601–1900
1619 –
Lucilio Vanini , Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1585)
1670 –
Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
1675 –
Gerrit Dou , Dutch painter (b. 1613)
1709 –
François Louis, Prince of Conti (b. 1664)
1777 –
Seth Pomeroy , American general and gunsmith (b. 1706)
1803 –
Jean François de Saint-Lambert , French soldier, poet, and philosopher (b. 1716)
1857 –
Dionysios Solomos , Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)
1874 –
Jules Michelet , French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)
1881 –
Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1821)
1891 –
Johan Jongkind , Dutch painter (b. 1819)
1901–present
1903 –
Charles Gavan Duffy , Irish-Australian politician, 8th
Premier of Victoria (b. 1816)
1906 –
Paul Laurence Dunbar , American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)
1928 –
William Gillies , Australian politician, 21st
Premier of Queensland (b. 1868)
1930 –
Richard With , Norwegian captain and businessman, founded
Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
1932 –
Junnosuke Inoue , Japanese businessman and banker (b. 1869)
1932 –
A.K. Golam Jilani , Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)
1935 –
Bob Diry ,
[79] Austrian-born wrestler and boxer (b. 1884)
1942 –
Lauri Kristian Relander , Finnish politician, 2nd
President of Finland (b. 1883)
[80]
1945 –
Ella D. Barrier , American educator (b. 1852)
1950 –
Ted Theodore , Australian politician, 20th
Premier of Queensland (b. 1884)
1951 –
Eddy Duchin , American pianist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1910)
1957 –
Miklós Horthy , Hungarian admiral and politician,
Regent of Hungary (b. 1868)
1960 –
Alexandre Benois , Russian painter and critic (b. 1870)
1960 –
Ernő Dohnányi , Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1877)
1965 –
Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah , Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874)
1966 –
Sophie Tucker , Russian-born American singer (b. 1884)
1969 –
George "Gabby" Hayes , American actor and singer (b. 1885)
1976 –
Percy Faith , Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
1977 –
Sergey Ilyushin , Russian engineer and businessman, founded the
Ilyushin Design Bureau (b. 1894)
1978 –
Costante Girardengo , Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
1979 –
Allen Tate , American poet and academic (b. 1899)
1980 –
Tom Macdonald , Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
1981 –
M. C. Chagla , Indian jurist and politician,
Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
1981 –
Bill Haley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
1984 –
Yuri Andropov , Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
1989 –
Osamu Tezuka , Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)
1994 –
Howard Martin Temin , American geneticist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
1995 –
J. William Fulbright , American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
1995 –
Kalevi Keihänen , Finnish entrepreneur (b. 1924)
[81]
1995 –
David Wayne , American actor (b. 1914)
1998 –
Maurice Schumann , French journalist and politician,
French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
2001 –
Herbert A. Simon , American political scientist, economist, and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2002 –
Isabelle Holland , Swiss-American author (b. 1920)
2002 –
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
2003 –
Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda , Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
2004 –
Claude Ryan , Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1925)
2005 –
Robert Kearns , American engineer, invented the intermittent
windscreen wiper (b. 1927)
2006 –
Freddie Laker , English pilot and businessman, founded
Laker Airways (b. 1922)
2007 –
Hank Bauer , American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)
2007 –
Ian Richardson , Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2008 –
Christopher Hyatt , American occultist and author (b. 1943)
2008 –
Carm Lino Spiteri , Maltese architect and politician (b. 1932)
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2008 –
Jazeh Tabatabai , Iranian painter, poet, and sculptor (b. 1931)
2009 –
Orlando "Cachaíto" López , Cuban bassist and composer (b. 1933)
2010 –
Walter Frederick Morrison , American businessman, invented the
Frisbee (b. 1920)
2011 –
Miltiadis Evert , Greek lawyer and politician, 69th
Mayor of Athens (b. 1939)
2012 –
O. P. Dutta , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2012 –
John Hick , English philosopher and academic (b. 1922)
2012 –
Joe Moretti , Scottish-South African guitarist and songwriter (b. 1938)
2013 –
Richard Artschwager , American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (b. 1923)
2013 –
Keiko Fukuda , Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (b. 1913)
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2013 –
Jimmy Smyth , Irish hurler (b. 1931)
2014 –
Gabriel Axel , Danish actor, director, and producer (b. 1918)
2014 –
Hal Herring , American football player and coach (b. 1924)
2014 –
Logan Scott-Bowden , English general (b. 1920)
2015 –
Liu Han , Chinese businessman and philanthropist (b. 1965)
2015 –
Ed Sabol , American film producer, co-founded
NFL Films (b. 1916)
2016 –
Sushil Koirala , Nepalese politician, 37th
Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
2016 –
Zdravko Tolimir , Bosnian Serb military commander (b. 1948)
2017 –
André Salvat , French Army colonel (b. 1920)
2018 –
Reg E. Cathey , American actor of stage, film, and television (b. 1958)
[84]
2018 –
Jóhann Jóhannsson , Icelandic composer (b. 1969)
2018 –
John Gavin , American actor and
United States ambassador to Mexico (b. 1931)
2021 –
Chick Corea , American jazz composer (b. 1941)
[85]
2022 –
Johnny Raper , Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1939)
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