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Day of the year
July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 159 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1603 –
James VI and I and
Anne of Denmark are
crowned in
Westminster Abbey .
[4]
1609 – The English ship
Sea Venture , en route to
Virginia , is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at
Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1668 – A
magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes eastern China, killing over 43,000 people.
[5]
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as
Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León , Mexico.
1718 – At the behest of Tsar
Peter the Great , the construction of the
Kadriorg Palace , dedicated to his wife
Catherine , begins in
Tallinn .
[6]
1722 –
Dummer's War begins along the
Maine -
Massachusetts border.
1755 –
British governor
Charles Lawrence and the
Nova Scotia Council order the
deportation of the
Acadians .
1759 –
French and Indian War : In
Western New York , British forces capture
Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon
Fort Rouillé .
1783 –
American Revolutionary War : The war's last action, the
Siege of Cuddalore , is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
1788 –
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his
Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1792 – The
Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
1797 –
Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of
Tenerife (Spain).
1799 –
Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under
Mustafa Pasha at the
Battle of Abukir.
1814 –
War of 1812 : An
American attack on Canada is repulsed.
1824 –
Costa Rica annexes
Guanacaste from
Nicaragua .
1837 – The first commercial use of an
electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by
William Cooke and
Charles Wheatstone .
1853 –
Joaquin Murrieta , the famous
Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1861 –
American Civil War : The
United States Congress passes the
Crittenden–Johnson Resolution , stating that the war is being fought to preserve the
Union and not to end
slavery , in the wake of the defeat at the
First Battle of Bull Run .
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the
rank of
General of the Army .
Lieutenant General
Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – The
Wyoming Territory is established.
1869 – The Japanese
daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the
emperor as part of the
Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional
Japanese Date : June 17, 1869).
1894 – The
First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1897 – American author
Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the
Klondike 's
gold rush , from which he wrote his first successful stories.
[7]
1898 –
Spanish–American War : The American invasion of Spanish-held
Puerto Rico begins, as
United States Army troops under General
Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at
Guánica .
[8]
1901–present
1908 –
Ajinomoto is founded.
Kikunae Ikeda of the
Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in
kombu soup stock is
monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 –
Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the
English Channel in a
heavier-than-air machine from
Calais to
Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
1915 –
RFC Captain
Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British
pursuit aviator to earn the
Victoria Cross .
1917 – Sir
Robert Borden introduces the first
income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1925 –
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 – The
Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1940 – General
Henri Guisan orders the
Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1942 – The
Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
1943 –
World War II :
Benito Mussolini
is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the
Grand Council of Fascism ) and is replaced by
Pietro Badoglio .
1944 – World War II:
Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the
First Canadian Army during the war.
1946 – The
Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
1956 – Forty-five miles south of
Nantucket Island , the Italian
ocean liner
SS Andrea Doria collides with the
MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1957 – The Tunisian King
Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President
Habib Bourguiba .
1958 – The
African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in
Cotonou .
1961 –
Cold War : In a speech
John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on
NATO .
1965 –
Bob Dylan
goes electric at the
Newport Folk Festival , signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1969 –
Vietnam War :
U.S. President
Richard Nixon declares the
Nixon Doctrine , stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "
Vietnamization " of the war.
1971 – The
Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.
[9]
1973 –
Soviet
Mars 5 space probe is launched.
1976 –
Viking program :
Viking 1 takes the famous
Face on Mars photo.
1978 –
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the
Cerro Maravilla murders .
1978 – Birth of
Louise Joy Brown , the first human to have been born after conception by
in vitro fertilisation , or IVF.
[10]
1979 – In accord with the
Egypt–Israel peace treaty , Israel begins its withdrawal from the
Sinai Peninsula .
1983 –
Black July : Thirty-seven
Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in
Colombo are
massacred by the fellow
Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 –
Salyut 7
cosmonaut
Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a
space walk .
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against
Lebanon in what the Israelis call
Operation Accountability , and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
1993 – The
Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 – Israel and
Jordan sign the
Washington Declaration , that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
1995 – A gas bottle
explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the
RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 – In a
military coup in Burundi ,
Pierre Buyoya deposes
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya .
2000 –
Concorde
Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at
Charles de Gaulle Airport , killing 113 people.
2007 –
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
2010 –
WikiLeaks publishes
classified documents about the War in Afghanistan , one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
2018 –
As-Suwayda attacks : Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
[11]
2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the
July 2019 European heat wave .
Births
Pre-1600
975 –
Thietmar , bishop of Merseburg (d. 1018)
1016 –
Casimir I the Restorer , duke of Poland (d. 1058)
[12]
1109 –
Afonso I , king of Portugal (d. 1185)
1165 –
Ibn Arabi , Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (d. 1240)
1261 –
Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1291 –
Hawys Gadarn , Welsh noblewoman (d. 1353)
1336 –
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
[13]
1394 –
James I , king of Scotland (d. 1437)
1404 –
Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 –
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland , English politician (d. 1461)
1450 –
Jakob Wimpfeling , Renaissance humanist (d. 1528)
1486 –
Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1547)
1498 –
Hernando de Aragón ,
Archbishop of Zaragoza (d. 1575)
1532 –
Alphonsus Rodriguez , Jesuit lay brother and saint (d. 1617)
1556 –
George Peele , English translator, poet, and dramatist (d. 1596)
1562 –
Katō Kiyomasa , Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1573 –
Christoph Scheiner , German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)
1581 –
Brian Twyne , English archivist (d. 1644)
1601–1900
1605 –
Theodore Haak , German scholar (d. 1690)
1633 –
Joseph Williamson , English politician (d. 1701)
1654 –
Agostino Steffani , Italian composer and diplomat (d. 1728)
1657 –
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach , German composer (d. 1714)
1658 –
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish general (d. 1703)
1683 –
Pieter Langendijk , Dutch playwright and poet (d. 1756)
1750 –
Henry Knox , American general and politician, 1st
United States Secretary of War (d. 1806)
1753 –
Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires , French-Spanish captain and politician, 10th
Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
1797 –
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
1806 –
Maria Weston Chapman , American abolitionist (d. 1885)
1839 –
Francis Garnier , French captain and explorer (d. 1873)
1844 –
Thomas Eakins , American painter, sculptor, and photographer (d. 1916)
1847 –
Paul Langerhans , German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (d. 1888)
1848 –
Arthur Balfour , Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1857 –
Frank J. Sprague , American naval officer and inventor (d. 1934)
1865 –
Jac. P. Thijsse , Dutch botanist and conservationist (d. 1945)
1866 –
Frederick Blackman , English physiologist and academic (d. 1947)
1867 –
Max Dauthendey , German author and painter (d. 1918)
1867 –
Alexander Rummler , American painter (d. 1959)
1869 –
Platon , Estonian bishop and saint (d. 1919)
1870 –
Maxfield Parrish , American painter and illustrator (d. 1966)
1875 –
Jim Corbett , Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (d. 1955)
1878 –
Masaharu Anesaki , Japanese philosopher and scholar (d. 1949)
1882 –
George S. Rentz , American commander (d. 1942)
1883 –
Alfredo Casella , Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1947)
1886 –
Edward Cummins , American golfer (d. 1926)
1894 –
Walter Brennan , American actor (d. 1974)
1894 –
Gavrilo Princip , Bosnian Serb revolutionary (d. 1918)
1895 –
Ingeborg Spangsfeldt , Danish actress (d. 1968)
1896 –
Jack Perrin , American actor and stuntman (d. 1967)
1896 –
Josephine Tey , Scottish author and playwright (d. 1952)
1901–present
1901 –
Ruth Krauss , American author and poet (d. 1993)
1901 –
Mohammed Helmy , Egyptian physician and
Righteous Among the Nations (d. 1982)
1901 –
Lila Lee , American actress and singer (d. 1973)
1902 –
Eric Hoffer , American philosopher and author (d. 1983)
1905 –
Elias Canetti , Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1905 –
Georges Grignard , French race car driver (d. 1977)
1905 –
Denys Watkins-Pitchford , English author and illustrator (d. 1990)
1906 –
Johnny Hodges , American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1970)
1908 –
Bill Bowes , English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 –
Ambroise-Marie Carré , French priest and author (d. 2004)
1908 –
Jack Gilford , American actor (d. 1990)
1909 –
Elizabeth Francis , American centenarian
[14]
1914 –
Woody Strode , American football player and actor (d. 1994)
1915 –
S. U. Ethirmanasingham , Sri Lankan businessman and politician
1915 –
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. , American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
1916 –
Lucien Saulnier , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1917 –
Fritz Honegger , Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1999)
1918 –
Jane Frank , American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
1920 –
Rosalind Franklin , English biophysicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1958)
1921 –
Adolph Herseth , American soldier and trumpet player (d. 2013)
1921 –
Lionel Terray , French mountaineer (d. 1965)
1922 –
John B. Goodenough , American materials scientist, physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
[15]
1923 –
Estelle Getty , American actress (d. 2008)
1923 –
Edgar Gilbert , American mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)
1923 –
Maria Gripe , Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)
1924 –
Frank Church , American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
1924 –
Scotch Taylor , South African cricketer and hockey player (d. 2004)
1925 –
Benny Benjamin , American R&B drummer (d. 1969)
1925 –
Jerry Paris , American actor and director (d. 1986)
1925 –
Dick Passwater , American race car driver (d. 2020)
[16]
1925 –
Jutta Zilliacus , Finnish journalist and politician
1926 –
Whitey Lockman , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2009)
1926 –
Bernard Thompson , British television producer and director (d. 1998)
1926 –
Beatriz Segall , Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
1927 –
Daniel Ceccaldi , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1927 –
Midge Decter , American journalist and author (d. 2022)
1927 –
Sadiq Hussain Qureshi , Pakistani politician, 10th
Governor of Punjab (d. 2000)
1927 –
Jean-Marie Seroney , Kenyan activist and politician (d. 1982)
1928 –
Dolphy , Filipino actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
1928 –
Mario Montenegro , Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1928 –
Nils Taube , Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)
1929 –
Judd Buchanan , Canadian businessman and politician, 36th
Canadian Minister of Public Works
1929 –
Somnath Chatterjee , Indian lawyer and politician, 14th
Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 2018)
1929 –
Eddie Mazur , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 –
Murray Chapple , New Zealand cricketer and manager (d. 1985)
1930 –
Maureen Forrester , Canadian actress and singer (d. 2010)
1930 –
Alice Parizeau , Polish-Canadian journalist and criminologist (d. 1990)
1930 –
Herbert Scarf , American economist and academic (d. 2015)
1930 –
Annie Ross , Scottish-American singer and actress (d. 2020)
1931 –
James Butler , English sculptor and educator (d. 2022)
1932 –
Paul J. Weitz , American astronaut (d. 2017)
[17]
1934 –
Don Ellis , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
1934 –
Claude Zidi , French director and screenwriter
1935 –
Barbara Harris , American actress and singer (d. 2018)
1935 –
Adnan Khashoggi , Saudi Arabian businessman (d. 2017)
1935 –
Gilbert Parent , Canadian educator and politician, 33rd
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2009)
1935 –
John Robinson , American football player and coach
1935 –
Larry Sherry , American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1935 –
Lars Werner , Swedish lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1936 –
Gerry Ashmore , English race car driver (d. 2021)
1936 –
Glenn Murcutt , English-Australian architect and academic
1937 –
Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn , English archaeologist and academic
1939 –
S. Ramadoss , Indian politician
[18]
1940 –
Richard Ballantine , American-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
1941 –
Manny Charlton , Spanish-born Scottish rock musician and songwriter (d. 2022)
1941 –
Nate Thurmond , American basketball player (d. 2016)
1941 –
Emmett Till , African-American lynching and kidnapping victim (d. 1955)
1942 –
Bruce Woodley , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 –
Jim McCarty , English singer and drummer
1943 –
Erika Steinbach , Polish-German politician
1944 –
Sally Beauman , English journalist and author (d. 2016)
1946 –
José Areas , Nicaraguan drummer
1946 –
Nicole Farhi , French fashion designer and sculptor
1946 –
John Gibson , American radio host
1946 –
Rita Marley , Cuban-Jamaican singer
1946 –
P. Selvarasa , Sri Lankan politician
1946 –
Ljupka Dimitrovska , Macedonian-Croatian pop singer (d. 2016)
1948 –
Steve Goodman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
1950 –
Mark Clarke , English singer-songwriter and bass player
1951 –
Jack Thompson , American lawyer and activist
1951 –
Verdine White , American bass player and producer
1952 –
Eduardo Souto de Moura , Portuguese architect, designed the
Estádio Municipal de Braga
1953 –
Walter Payton , American football player and race car driver (d. 1999)
1953 –
Joseph A. Tunzi ,
Chicago based author, foremost expert on
Elvis Presley
1953 –
Robert Zoellick , American banker and politician, 14th
United States Deputy Secretary of State
1954 –
Ken Greer , Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
1954 –
Sheena McDonald , Scottish journalist
1954 –
Jochem Ziegert , German footballer and manager
1955 –
Iman , Somalian-English model and actress
1955 –
Randall Bewley , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
1956 –
Frances Arnold , American scientist and engineer
1957 –
Mark Hunter , English politician
1957 –
Steve Podborski , Canadian skier
1958 –
Alexei Filippenko , American astrophysicist and academic
1958 –
Thurston Moore , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 –
Fyodor Cherenkov , Russian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1959 –
Geoffrey Zakarian , American chef and author
1960 –
Alain Robidoux , Canadian snooker player
1960 –
Justice Howard , American photographer
1960 –
Māris Martinsons , Latvian film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
1962 –
Carin Bakkum , Dutch tennis player
1962 –
Doug Drabek , American baseball player and coach
1963 –
Denis Coderre , Canadian politician, 44th
Mayor of Montreal
1963 –
Julian Hodgson , Welsh chess player
1964 –
Anne Applebaum , American journalist and author
1964 –
Tony Granato , American ice hockey player and coach
1964 –
Breuk Iversen , American designer and journalist
1965 –
Marty Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 –
Illeana Douglas , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965 –
Dale Shearer , Australian rugby league player
1966 –
Daryl Halligan , New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1966 –
Maureen Herman , American bass player
1966 –
Diana Johnson , English politician
1967 –
Matt LeBlanc , American actor and producer
1967 –
Ruth Peetoom , Dutch minister and politician
1967 –
Tommy Skjerven , Norwegian footballer and referee
1968 –
Rudi Bryson , South African cricketer
1968 –
Shi Tao , Chinese journalist and poet
1969 –
Jon Barry , American basketball player and sportscaster
1969 –
Annastacia Palaszczuk , Australian politician, 39th
Premier of Queensland
1969 –
D. B. Woodside , American actor
[19]
1971 –
Roger Creager , American singer-songwriter
1971 –
Tracy Murray , American basketball player
1971 –
Billy Wagner , American baseball player and coach
1972 –
David Penna , Australian rugby league player and coach
1973 –
David Denman , American actor
[19]
1973 –
Dani Filth , English singer-songwriter
1973 –
Kevin Phillips , English footballer
1973 –
Igli Tare , Albanian footballer
1974 –
Lauren Faust , American animator, producer, and screenwriter
1974 –
Julia Laffranque , Estonian lawyer and judge
1974 –
Kenzo Suzuki , Japanese rugby player and wrestler
1975 –
Jody Craddock , English footballer and coach
1975 –
Jean-Claude Darcheville , Guianan-French footballer
1975 –
El Zorro , Mexican wrestler
1975 –
Brian Gibson , American bass player
1975 –
Evgeni Nabokov , Russian ice hockey player
1976 –
Marcos Assunção , Brazilian footballer
1976 –
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan , Macedonian poet and critic
1976 –
Javier Vázquez , Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1977 –
Kenny Thomas , American basketball player
1978 –
Gerard Warren , American football player
1979 –
Ali Carter , English snooker player
1979 –
Tom Lungley , English cricketer and umpire
1979 –
Ahmed Tantawi , Egyptian politician and journalist
[20]
1980 –
Shawn Riggans , American baseball player
1980 –
Toni Vilander , Finnish race car driver
1980 –
David Wachs , American actor and producer
1980 –
Scott Waldrom , New Zealand rugby player
1981 –
Finn Bálor , Irish wrestler
[21]
1981 –
Conor Casey , American soccer player
1981 –
Constantinos Charalambidis , Cypriot footballer
1981 –
Yūichi Komano , Japanese footballer
1981 –
Mac Lethal , American rapper and producer
1981 –
Jani Rita , Finnish ice hockey player
1982 –
Jason Dundas , Australian TV host
1982 –
Brad Renfro , American actor and musician (d. 2008)
1983 –
Nenad Krstić , Serbian basketball player
1984 –
Loukas Mavrokefalidis , Greek basketball player
1985 –
James Lafferty , American actor and athlete
1985 –
Nelson Piquet Jr. , Brazilian race car driver
1985 –
Hugo Rodallega , Colombian footballer
1986 –
Abraham Gneki Guié , Ivorian footballer
1986 –
Hulk , Brazilian footballer
1987 –
Richard Bachman , American ice hockey player
1987 –
Mitchell Burgzorg , Dutch footballer and rapper
1987 –
Fernando , Brazilian footballer
1987 –
Jax Jones , English DJ, singer and songwriter
1987 –
Eran Zahavi , Israeli footballer
1988 –
Sarah Geronimo , Filipino singer and actress
[22]
1988 –
John Goossens , Dutch footballer
1988 –
Tom Hiariej , Dutch footballer
1988 –
Stacey Kemp , English skater
1988 –
Paulinho , Brazilian footballer
1988 –
Anthony Stokes , Irish footballer
1989 –
Natalia Vieru , Russian basketball player
1990 –
Thodoris Karapetsas , Greek footballer
1991 –
Toni Duggan , English footballer
1991 –
Hasan Piker , American
Twitch streamer
1992 –
Sergei Simonov , Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
1994 –
Natalija Stevanović , Serbian tennis player
[23]
1995 –
Alvin Kamara , American football player
[24]
1995 –
Maria Sakkari , Greek tennis player
[25]
1997 –
Nat Butcher , Australian rugby league player
2000 –
Meg Donnelly , American actress
[19]
2001 –
Bryce Young , American football player
[26]
Deaths
Pre-1600
306 –
Constantius Chlorus , Roman emperor (b. 250)
885 –
Ragenold , margrave of Neustria
1011 –
Ichijō , emperor of Japan (b. 980)
1190 –
Sibylla , queen of Jerusalem
1195 –
Herrad of Landsberg , abbess, author, and illustrator (b. c. 1130)
[27]
1409 –
Martin I , king of Sicily (b. 1376)
1471 –
Thomas à Kempis , German priest and mystic
1472 –
Charles of Artois , French nobleman (b. 1394)
1492 –
Innocent VIII , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1432)
1564 –
Ferdinand I , Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)
[28]
1572 –
Isaac Luria , Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534)
1601–1900
1608 –
Pomponio Nenna , Italian composer (b. 1556)
1616 –
Andreas Libavius , German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 –
Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull , English general and politician (b. 1584)
1681 –
Urian Oakes , English-American minister and educator (b. 1631)
1790 –
Johann Bernhard Basedow , German educator and reformer (b. 1723)
1790 –
William Livingston , American soldier and politician, 1st
Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 –
Isaac Low , American merchant and politician (b. 1735)
1794 –
André Chénier , Greek-French poet and author (b. 1762)
1794 –
Jean-Antoine Roucher , French poet and author (b. 1745)
1794 –
Friedrich von der Trenck , Prussian adventurer and author (b. 1726)
1826 –
Kondraty Ryleyev , Russian poet and publisher (b. 1795)
1831 –
Maria Szymanowska , Polish composer and pianist (b. 1789)
1834 –
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1772)
1842 –
Dominique Jean Larrey , French physician and surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 –
Charles Macintosh , Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabric (b. 1766)
[29]
1861 –
Jonas Furrer , Swiss lawyer and politician,
President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1805)
1865 –
James Barry , English soldier and surgeon (b. 1799)
1887 –
John Taylor , American religious leader, 3rd
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1808)
1901–present
1934 –
François Coty , French businessman, founded
Coty (b. 1874)
1934 –
Engelbert Dollfuss , Austrian politician, 14th
Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
1934 –
Nestor Makhno , Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (b. 1888)
[30]
[31]
[32]
1942 –
Fred Englehardt , American triple jumper (b. 1879)
1947 –
Kathleen Scott , English sculptor (b. 1878)
[33]
1952 –
Herbert Murrill , English organist and composer (b. 1909)
1958 –
Otto Lasanen , Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
1959 –
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (b. 1888)
1962 –
Thibaudeau Rinfret , Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th
Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
1963 –
Ugo Cerletti , Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877)
1966 –
Frank O'Hara , American poet and critic (b. 1926)
1967 –
Konstantinos Parthenis , Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
1971 –
John Meyers , American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
1971 –
Leroy Robertson , American composer and educator (b. 1896)
1973 –
Amy Jacques Garvey , Jamaican-American journalist and activist (b. 1895)
1973 –
Louis St. Laurent , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th
Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1977 –
Shivrampant Damle , Indian educationist (b. 1900)
[34]
1980 –
Vladimir Vysotsky , Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 –
Rosa A. González , Puerto Rican nurse, author, feminist, and activist (b. 1889)
1982 –
Hal Foster , Canadian-American author and illustrator (b. 1892)
1984 –
Bryan Hextall , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 –
Big Mama Thornton , American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
1986 –
Vincente Minnelli , American director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1988 –
Judith Barsi , American child actress (b. 1978)
1989 –
Steve Rubell , American businessman, co-owner of
Studio 54 (b. 1943)
1991 –
Lazar Kaganovich , Soviet politician (b. 1893)
1992 –
Alfred Drake , American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 –
Charlie Rich , American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
1997 –
Ben Hogan , American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 –
Evangelos Papastratos , Greek businessman, co-founded
Papastratos (b. 1910)
2000 –
Rudi Faßnacht , German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
2002 –
Abdel Rahman Badawi , Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
2003 –
Ludwig Bölkow , German engineer (b. 1912)
2003 –
John Schlesinger , English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2004 –
John Passmore , Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1914)
2005 –
Albert Mangelsdorff , German trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 –
Ezra Fleischer , Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928)
2007 –
Bernd Jakubowski , German footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2008 –
Jeff Fehring , Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2008 –
Tracy Hall , American chemist and academic (b. 1919)
2008 –
Randy Pausch , American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960)
2009 –
Vernon Forrest , American boxer (b. 1971)
2009 –
Stanley Middleton , English author (b. 1919)
2009 –
Harry Patch , English soldier (b. 1898)
2009 –
Yasmin Ahmad , Malaysian film director (b. 1958)
[35]
2011 –
Michael Cacoyannis , Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2012 –
B. R. Ishara , Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2012 –
Barry Langford , English director and producer (b. 1926)
2012 –
Greg Mohns , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1950)
2012 –
Franz West , Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
2013 –
Walter De Maria , American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (b. 1935)
2013 –
William J. Guste , American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2013 –
Hugh Huxley , English-American biologist and academic (b. 1924)
2014 –
Bel Kaufman , German-American author and academic (b. 1911)
2014 –
Richard Larter , Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929)
2015 –
Jacques Andreani , French diplomat,
French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929)
2015 –
R. S. Gavai , Indian lawyer and politician, 18th
Governor of Kerala (b. 1929)
2015 –
Bob Kauffman , American basketball player and coach (b. 1946)
2016 –
Tim LaHaye , American Christian minister and author (b. 1926)
[36]
2016 –
Tom Peterson , American television personality (b. 1930)
[37]
2017 –
Michael Johnson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
2018 –
Sergio Marchionne , Italian-Canadian businessman
[38] (b. 1952)
2019 –
Beji Caid Essebsi , 4th
President and 9th
Prime Minister of
Tunisia (b. 1926)
[39]
2020 –
Peter Green , English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of
Fleetwood Mac (b. 1946)
[40]
2020 –
Lou Henson , American
college basketball coach (b. 1932)
[41]
2022 –
Paul Sorvino , American actor (b. 1939)
[42]
Holidays and observances
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