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Day of the year
July 26 is the 207th day of the year (208th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 158 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1703 – During the
Bavarian Rummel the rural population of
Tyrol drove the
Bavarian Prince-Elector
Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the
Bavarian Army , which was allied with
France , from marching as planned on
Vienna during the
War of the Spanish Succession .
1745 – The first recorded
women's cricket match takes place near
Guildford , England.
1758 –
French and Indian War : The
Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the
Gulf of Saint Lawrence .
1775 – The office that would later become the
United States Post Office Department is established by the
Second Continental Congress .
Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
1778 – The
Emigration of Christians from the Crimea in 1778 begins.
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1788 – New York ratifies the
United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 – The
Surrey Iron Railway , arguably the world's first public
railway , opens in south London, United Kingdom.
1814 – The
Swedish–Norwegian War begins.
1822 –
José de San Martín arrives in
Guayaquil ,
Ecuador , to
meet with
Simón Bolívar .
1822 – First day of the three-day
Battle of Dervenakia , between the
Ottoman Empire force led by
Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the
Greek Revolutionary force led by
Theodoros Kolokotronis .
1847 –
Liberia declares its independence from the
United States .
France and
the United Kingdom are the first to recognize the new nation.
1861 –
American Civil War :
George B. McClellan assumes command of the
Army of the Potomac following a disastrous
Union defeat at the
First Battle of Bull Run .
1863 – American Civil War:
Morgan's Raid ends; At
Salineville, Ohio ,
Confederate cavalry leader
John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1882 – Premiere of
Richard Wagner 's opera
Parsifal at
Bayreuth .
1882 – The Republic of
Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 – Publication of the
Unua Libro , founding the Esperanto movement.
1890 – In
Buenos Aires, Argentina the
Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President
Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman 's resignation.
1891 – France annexes
Tahiti .
1892 –
Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian
Member of Parliament in Britain.
[4]
1897 –
Anglo-Afghan War : The
Pashtun
fakir
Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a
siege of the British garrison in the
Malakand Agency of the
North West Frontier Province of India.
1899 –
Ulises Heureaux , the 27th
President of the Dominican Republic , is assassinated.
1901–present
1908 –
United States Attorney General
Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the
Federal Bureau of Investigation ).
1918 –
Emmy Noether 's paper, which became known as
Noether's theorem was presented at
Göttingen , Germany, from which
conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of
angular momentum ,
linear momentum , and
energy .
1936 –
Spanish Civil War :
Germany and
Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for
Francisco Franco and the
Nationalist faction .
1936 – King
Edward VIII , in one of his few official duties before he
abdicates the throne, officially unveils the
Canadian National Vimy Memorial .
1937 – Spanish Civil War: End of the
Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
1941 –
World War II :
Battle of Grand Harbour , British forces on
Malta destroy an attack by the Italian
Decima Flottiglia MAS . Fort
St Elmo Bridge covering the harbour is demolished in the process.
[5]
1941 – World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of
French Indochina , the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and
cut off oil shipments .
1944 – World War II: The
Red Army enters
Lviv , a major city in western
Ukraine , capturing it from the
Nazis . Only 300
Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1945 – The
Labour Party wins the
United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing
Winston Churchill from power.
1945 – World War II: The
Potsdam Declaration is signed in
Potsdam , Germany.
1945 – World War II:
HMS Vestal is the last British
Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.
1945 – World War II: The
USS Indianapolis arrives at
Tinian with components and
enriched uranium for the
Little Boy nuclear bomb.
1946 –
Aloha Airlines begins service from
Honolulu International Airport .
1947 –
Cold War : U.S. President
Harry S. Truman signs the
National Security Act of 1947 into
United States law creating the
Central Intelligence Agency ,
United States Department of Defense ,
United States Air Force ,
Joint Chiefs of Staff , and the
United States National Security Council .
1948 – U.S. President
Harry S. Truman signs
Executive Order 9981 , desegregating the military of the United States.
1951 –
Walt Disney 's 13th
animated film ,
Alice in Wonderland , premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
1952 – King
Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son
Fuad .
1953 – Cold War:
Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the
Moncada Barracks , thus beginning the
Cuban Revolution . The movement took the name of the date:
26th of July Movement
1953 –
Arizona Governor
John Howard Pyle orders an anti-
polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of
Short Creek, Arizona , which becomes known as the
Short Creek raid .
1953 – Soldiers from the
2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the
Battle of the Samichon River , just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the
Korean War .
1956 – Following the
World Bank 's refusal to fund building the
Aswan Dam ,
Egyptian leader
Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the
Suez Canal ,
sparking international condemnation .
1957 –
Carlos Castillo Armas , dictator of
Guatemala , is assassinated.
1958 –
Explorer program :
Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 –
Syncom 2 , the world's first
geosynchronous satellite , is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 – An
earthquake in
Skopje ,
Yugoslavia (present-day
North Macedonia ) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 – The
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit
Japan .
1968 –
Vietnam War :
South Vietnamese opposition leader
Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years
hard labor for advocating the formation of a
coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 –
Apollo program : Launch of
Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "
J-Mission ", and first use of a
Lunar Roving Vehicle .
1974 –
Greek Prime Minister
Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after
seven years of military rule .
1977 – The National Assembly of
Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 – A federal
grand jury indicts
Cornell University student
Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the
Morris worm , thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act .
1990 – The
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President
George H. W. Bush .
1993 –
Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at
Mokpo Airport ,
South Korea . Sixty-eight of the 116 people on board are killed.
1999 –
Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
2005 –
Space Shuttle program :
STS-114 Mission: Launch of
Discovery ,
NASA 's first scheduled flight mission after the
Columbia Disaster in
2003 .
2005 –
Mumbai , India receives
99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the
Ahmedabad bombings in India .
2009 – The militant
Nigerian
Islamist group
Boko Haram attacks a police station in
Bauchi , leading to reprisals by the
Nigeria Police Force and
four days of violence across multiple cities.
2011 – A
Royal Moroccan Air Force
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
crashes near
Guelmim Airport in
Guelmim ,
Morocco . All 80 people on board are killed.
[6]
2016 – The
Sagamihara stabbings occur in
Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
2016 –
Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for
President of the United States by a major political party at the
Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia .
2016 –
Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the
Earth .
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1678 –
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1711 –
Lorenz Christoph Mizler , German physician, mathematician, and historian (d. 1778)
1739 –
George Clinton , American general and politician, 4th
Vice President of the United States (d. 1812)
1782 –
John Field , Irish pianist and composer (d. 1837)
1791 –
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1844)
1796 –
George Catlin , American painter, author, and traveler (d. 1872)
1802 –
Mariano Arista , Mexican general and politician, 42nd
President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1819 –
Justin Holland , American guitarist and educator (d. 1887)
1829 –
Auguste Beernaert , Belgian politician, 14th
Prime Minister of Belgium ,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1912)
1838 –
Silas Soule , American soldier and whistleblower of the
Sand Creek Massacre (d. 1865)
[7]
1841 –
Carl Robert Jakobson , Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1882)
1842 –
Alfred Marshall , English economist and academic (d. 1924)
1844 –
Stefan Drzewiecki , Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938)
1854 –
Philippe Gaucher , French dermatologist and academic (d. 1918)
1855 –
Ferdinand Tönnies , German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1936)
1856 –
George Bernard Shaw , Irish playwright and critic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1858 –
Tom Garrett , Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1943)
1863 –
Jāzeps Vītols , Latvian composer (d. 1948)
1865 –
Philipp Scheidemann , German journalist and politician, 10th
Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939)
1865 –
Rajanikanta Sen , Indian poet and composer (d. 1910)
1874 –
Serge Koussevitzky , Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)
1875 –
Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1961)
1875 –
Ernesta Di Capua , Italian botanist and explorer (d. 1943)
[8]
1875 –
Antonio Machado , Spanish poet and academic (d. 1939)
1877 –
Jesse Lauriston Livermore , American investor and security analyst, "Great Bear of Wall Street" (d. 1940)
1878 –
Ernst Hoppenberg , German swimmer and water polo player (d. 1937)
1879 –
Shunroku Hata , Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th
Japanese Minister of War (d. 1962)
1880 –
Volodymyr Vynnychenko , Ukrainian playwright and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic (d. 1951)
1882 –
Albert Dunstan , Australian politician, 33rd
Premier of Victoria (d. 1950)
1885 –
Roy Castleton , American baseball player (d. 1967)
[9]
1885 –
André Maurois , French soldier and author (d. 1967)
1886 –
Lars Hanson , Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 –
Reginald Hands , South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1918)
1890 –
Daniel J. Callaghan , American admiral,
Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)
1892 –
Sad Sam Jones , American baseball player and manager (d. 1966)
1893 –
George Grosz , German painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
1894 –
Aldous Huxley , English novelist and philosopher (d. 1963)
1895 –
Gracie Allen , American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
1896 –
Tim Birkin , English soldier and race car driver (d. 1933)
1897 –
Harold D. Cooley , American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
1897 –
Paul Gallico , American journalist and author (d. 1976)
1900 –
Sarah Kafrit , Israeli politician and teacher (d. 1983)
1901–present
1903 –
Estes Kefauver , American lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
1904 –
Frank Scott Hogg , Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
[10]
1904 –
Edwin Albert Link , American industrialist and entrepreneur, invented the
flight simulator (d. 1981)
1906 –
Irena Iłłakowicz , German-Polish lieutenant (d. 1943)
1908 –
Lucien Wercollier , Luxembourger sculptor (d. 2002)
1909 –
Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft , English lawyer and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1994)
1909 –
Vivian Vance , American actress and singer (d. 1979)
1913 –
Kan Yuet-keung , Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1914 –
C. Farris Bryant , American soldier, lawyer, and politician,
34th Governor of Florida (d. 2002)
1914 –
Erskine Hawkins , American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 –
Ellis Kinder , American baseball player (d. 1968)
1916 –
Dean Brooks , American physician and actor (d. 2013)
1916 –
Jaime Luiz Coelho , Brazilian archbishop (d. 2013)
1918 –
Marjorie Lord , American actress (d. 2015)
1919 –
Virginia Gilmore , American actress (d. 1986)
1919 –
James Lovelock , English biologist and chemist (d. 2022)
1920 –
Bob Waterfield , American football player and coach (d. 1983)
1921 –
Tom Saffell , American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
1921 –
Jean Shepherd , American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1922 –
Blake Edwards , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1922 –
Jim Foglesong , American record producer (d. 2013)
1922 –
Jason Robards , American actor (d. 2000)
1923 –
Jan Berenstain , American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1923 –
Bernice Rubens , Welsh author (d. 2004)
1923 –
Hoyt Wilhelm , American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
1925 –
Jerzy Einhorn , Polish-Swedish physician and politician (d. 2000)
1925 –
Joseph Engelberger , American physicist and engineer (d. 2015)
1925 –
Gene Gutowski , Polish-American film producer (d. 2016)
1925 –
Ana María Matute , Spanish author and academic (d. 2014)
1926 –
James Best , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1927 –
Gulabrai Ramchand , Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1928 –
Don Beauman , English race car driver (d. 1955)
1928 –
Francesco Cossiga , Italian academic and politician, 8th
President of Italy (d. 2010)
1928 –
Elliott Erwitt , French-American photographer and director (d. 2023)
1928 –
Ibn-e-Safi , Indian-Pakistani author and poet (d. 1980)
1928 –
Joe Jackson , American talent manager, father of
Michael Jackson (d. 2018)
1928 –
Stanley Kubrick , American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1999)
1928 –
Peter Lougheed , Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th
Premier of Alberta (d. 2012)
1928 –
Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes , Irish-born English politician
1929 –
Marc Lalonde , Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th
Canadian Minister of Justice
1929 –
Alexis Weissenberg , Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (d. 2012)
1930 –
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio , Brazilian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1930 –
Barbara Jefford , English actress (d. 2020)
1931 –
Telê Santana , Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
1934 –
Tommy McDonald , American football player (d. 2018)
1936 –
Tsutomu Koyama , Japanese volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
1936 –
Lawrie McMenemy , English footballer and manager
1937 –
Ercole Spada , Italian automotive designer
[11]
1938 –
Bobby Hebb , American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1938 –
Keith Peters , Welsh physician and academic
1939 –
Jun Henmi , Japanese author and poet (d. 2011)
1939 –
John Howard , Australian lawyer and politician, 25th
Prime Minister of Australia
1939 –
Bob Lilly , American football player and photographer
1939 –
Richard Marlow , English organist and conductor (d. 2013)
1940 –
Dobie Gray , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1940 –
Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney , Northern Irish-British academic and politician,
Secretary of State for Transport (d. 2019)
1940 –
Bobby Rousseau , Canadian ice hockey player
1941 –
Jean Baubérot , French historian and sociologist
1941 –
Darlene Love , American singer and actress
1941 –
Brenton Wood , American R&B singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1942 –
Vladimír Mečiar , Slovak politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Slovakia
1942 –
Teddy Pilette , Belgian race car driver
1943 –
Peter Hyams , American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1943 –
Mick Jagger , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1944 –
Betty Davis , American singer-songwriter (d. 2022)
1945 –
Helen Mirren , English actress
[12]
1946 –
Emilio de Villota , Spanish race car driver
1948 –
Luboš Andršt , Czech guitarist and songwriter
1948 –
Herbert Wiesinger , German figure skater
1949 –
Thaksin Shinawatra , Thai businessman and politician, 23rd
Prime Minister of Thailand
1949 –
Roger Taylor , English singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
1950 –
Nelinho , Brazilian footballer and manager
1950 –
Nicholas Evans , English journalist, screenwriter, and producer
1950 –
Susan George , English actress and producer
1950 –
Anne Rafferty , English lawyer and judge
1950 –
Rich Vogler , American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 –
Rick Martin , Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1952 –
Glynis Breakwell , English psychologist and academic
1953 –
Felix Magath , German footballer and manager
1953 –
Robert Phillips , American guitarist
1953 –
Henk Bleker , Dutch politician
1953 –
Earl Tatum , American professional basketball player
1954 –
Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player and coach (d. 1994)
1955 –
Aleksandrs Starkovs , Latvian footballer and coach
1955 –
Asif Ali Zardari , Pakistani businessman and politician, 11th
President of Pakistan
1955 –
Joseph Christopher , American serial killer (d. 1993)
[13]
1956 –
Peter Fincham , English screenwriter and producer
1956 –
Dorothy Hamill , American figure skater
1956 –
Tommy Rich , American wrestler
1956 –
Tim Tremlett , English cricketer and coach
1957 –
Norman Baker , Scottish politician
1957 –
Nana Visitor , American actress
1958 –
Monti Davis , American basketball player (d. 2013)
1958 –
Angela Hewitt , Canadian-English pianist
1959 –
Rick Bragg , American author and journalist
1959 –
Kevin Spacey , American actor and director
1961 –
Gary Cherone , American singer-songwriter
1961 –
Andy Connell , English keyboard player and songwriter
1961 –
Felix Dexter , Caribbean-English comedian and actor (d. 2013)
1963 –
Jeff Stoughton , Canadian curler
1964 –
Sandra Bullock , American actress and producer
1964 –
Ralf Metzenmacher , German painter and designer (d. 2020)
1964 –
Anne Provoost , Belgian author
1965 –
Jeremy Piven , American actor and producer
1965 –
Jim Lindberg , American singer and guitarist
1966 –
Angelo di Livio , Italian footballer
1967 –
Martin Baker , English organist and conductor
1967 –
Tim Schafer , American video game designer, founded
Double Fine Productions
1967 –
Jason Statham , English actor
1968 –
Frédéric Diefenthal , French actor and director
1968 –
Jim Naismith , Scottish biologist and academic
1968 –
Olivia Williams , English actress
1969 –
Greg Colbrunn , American baseball player and coach
1969 –
Tanni Grey-Thompson , Welsh baroness and wheelchair racer
1971 –
Khaled Mahmud , Bangladeshi cricketer and coach
1971 –
Chris Harrison , American television personality
1972 –
Nathan Buckley , Australian footballer and coach
1973 –
Kate Beckinsale , English actress
1973 –
Mariano Raffo , Argentinian director and producer
1974 –
Iron & Wine , American singer-songwriter
1974 –
Kees Meeuws , New Zealand rugby player and coach
1974 –
Dean Sturridge , English footballer and sportscaster
1975 –
Ingo Schultz , German sprinter
1975 –
Joe Smith , American basketball player
1975 –
Liz Truss , former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1976 –
Elena Kustarova , Russian ice dancer and coach
1977 –
Joaquín Benoit , Dominican baseball player
1977 –
Martin Laursen , Danish footballer and manager
1977 –
Tanja Szewczenko , German figure skater
1979 –
Friedrich Michau , German rugby player
1979 –
Derek Paravicini , English pianist
1979 –
Peter Sarno , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 –
Erik Westrum , American ice hockey player
1979 –
Juliet Rylance , English actress
1980 –
Jacinda Ardern , 40th
Prime Minister of New Zealand
[14]
1980 –
Dave Baksh , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1980 –
Robert Gallery , American football player
1981 –
Abe Forsythe , Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
1981 –
Maicon Sisenando , Brazilian footballer
1982 –
Gilad Hochman , Israeli composer
1982 –
Christopher Kane , Scottish fashion designer
1983 –
Kelly Clark , American snowboarder
1983 –
Stephen Makinwa , Nigerian footballer
1983 –
Roderick Strong , American wrestler
1983 –
Naomi van As , Dutch field hockey player
1983 –
Ken Wallace , Australian kayaker
[15]
1983 –
Delonte West , American basketball player
1984 –
Kyriakos Ioannou , Cypriot high jumper
1984 –
Benjamin Kayser , French rugby player
1984 –
Sabri Sarıoğlu , Turkish footballer
1985 –
Marcus Benard , American football player
1985 –
Gaël Clichy , French footballer
1985 –
Audrey De Montigny , Canadian singer-songwriter
1985 –
Mat Gamel , American baseball player
1986 –
Monica Raymund , American actress
[16]
1986 –
Leonardo Ulloa , Argentinian footballer
1986 –
John White , English footballer
1987 –
Panagiotis Kone , Greek footballer
1987 –
Jordie Benn , Canadian ice hockey player
1987 –
Fredy Montero , Colombian footballer
1988 –
Yurie Omi , Japanese announcer and news anchor
1988 –
Sayaka Akimoto , Filipino–Japanese actress and singer
1991 –
Tyson Barrie , Canadian ice hockey player
[17]
1991 –
Chinami Yoshida , Japanese curler
[18]
1992 –
Marika Koroibete , Fijian rugby player
[19]
1993 –
Raymond Faitala-Mariner , New Zealand rugby league player
[20]
1993 –
Taylor Momsen , American singer-songwriter, model, and actress
[16]
1994 –
Ella Leivo , Finnish tennis player
[21]
1996 –
Olivia Breen , British Paralympic athlete
[22]
2000 –
Thomasin McKenzie , New Zealand actress
[23]
Deaths
Pre-1600
342 –
Cheng of Jin , emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 321)
811 –
Nikephoros I , Byzantine emperor
899 –
Li Hanzhi , Chinese warlord (b. 842)
943 –
Motoyoshi , Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)
990 –
Fujiwara no Kaneie , Japanese statesman (b. 929)
1380 –
Kōmyō , emperor of Japan (b. 1322)
1450 –
Cecily Neville , duchess of Warwick (b. 1424)
1471 –
Paul II , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1417)
[24]
1533 –
Atahualpa , Inca emperor abducted and murdered by
Francisco Pizarro (b. ca. 1500)
1592 –
Armand de Gontant , French marshal (b. 1524)
1601–1900
1605 –
Miguel de Benavides , Spanish archbishop and sinologist (b. 1552)
1611 –
Horio Yoshiharu , Japanese daimyō (b. 1542)
1630 –
Charles Emmanuel I , duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
[25]
1659 –
Mary Frith , English criminal (b. 1584)
1680 –
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , English poet and courtier (b. 1647)
1684 –
Elena Cornaro Piscopia , Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
1693 –
Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark , queen of Sweden (b. 1656)
1712 –
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds , English politician,
Lord High Treasurer (b. 1631)
1723 –
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , English politician,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1660)
1801 –
Maximilian Francis , archduke of Austria (b. 1756)
1863 –
Sam Houston , American general and politician, 7th
Governor of Texas , and 6th
Governor of Tennessee (b. 1793)
1867 –
Otto , king of Greece (b. 1815)
1899 –
Ulises Heureaux , 22nd, 26th, and 27th
President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1845)
1901–present
1915 –
James Murray , Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)
1919 –
Edward Poynter , English painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
1921 –
Howard Vernon , Australian actor (b. 1848)
1925 –
Antonio Ascari , Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
1925 –
Gottlob Frege , German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
1925 –
William Jennings Bryan , American lawyer and politician, 41st
United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
1926 –
Robert Todd Lincoln , American lawyer and politician, 35th
United States Secretary of War , son of
Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)
1930 –
Pavlos Karolidis , Greek historian and academic (b. 1849)
1932 –
Fred Duesenberg , German-American businessman, co-founded the
Duesenberg Company (b. 1876)
1934 –
Winsor McCay , American cartoonist, animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1871)
1941 –
Henri Lebesgue , French mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
1942 –
Roberto Arlt , Argentinian author and playwright (b. 1900)
1951 –
James Mitchell , Australian politician, 13th
Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
1952 –
Eva Perón , Argentinian politician, 25th
First Lady of Argentina (b. 1919)
1953 –
Nikolaos Plastiras , Greek general and politician, 135th
Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
1957 –
Carlos Castillo Armas , Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957)
1960 –
Cedric Gibbons , British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
1964 –
Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
1968 –
Cemal Tollu , Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
1970 –
Robert Taschereau , Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th
Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1971 –
Diane Arbus , American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
1984 –
George Gallup , American mathematician and statistician, founded the
Gallup Company (b. 1901)
1984 –
Ed Gein , American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 –
W. Averell Harriman , American politician and diplomat, 11th
United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1891)
1988 –
Fazlur Rahman Malik , Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
1992 –
Mary Wells , American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1993 –
Matthew Ridgway , American general (b. 1895)
1994 –
James Luther Adams , American theologian and academic (b. 1901)
1995 –
Laurindo Almeida , Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (b. 1917)
1995 –
Raymond Mailloux , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
1995 –
George W. Romney , American businessman and politician, 43rd
Governor of Michigan (b. 1907)
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Max Winter , American businessman and sports executive (b. 1903)
1999 –
Walter Jackson Bate , American author and critic (b. 1918)
1999 –
Phaedon Gizikis , Greek general and politician,
President of Greece (b. 1917)
2000 –
John Tukey , American mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
2001 –
Rex T. Barber , American colonel and pilot (b. 1917)
2001 –
Peter von Zahn , German journalist and author (b. 1913)
2004 –
William A. Mitchell , American chemist, created
Pop Rocks and
Cool Whip (b. 1911)
2005 –
Alexander Golitzen , Russian-born American production designer and art director (b. 1908)
2005 –
Jack Hirshleifer , American economist and academic (b. 1925)
2005 –
Gilles Marotte , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 –
Lars Forssell , Swedish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
2007 –
Skip Prosser , American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
2009 –
Merce Cunningham , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
2010 –
Sivakant Tiwari , Indian-Singaporean politician (b. 1945)
2011 –
Joe Arroyo , Colombian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1955)
2011 –
Tom Borton , American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer (b. 1956)
[27]
2011 –
Richard Harris , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1948)
2011 –
Sakyo Komatsu , Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2011 –
Margaret Olley , Australian painter and philanthropist (b. 1923)
2012 –
Don Bagley , American bassist and composer (b. 1927)
2012 –
Karl Benjamin , American painter and educator (b. 1925)
2012 –
Miriam Ben-Porat , Russian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (b. 1918)
2012 –
Lupe Ontiveros , American actress (b. 1942)
2012 –
James D. Watkins , American admiral and politician, 6th
United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
2013 –
Luther F. Cole , American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2013 –
Harley Flanders , American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
2013 –
Sung Jae-gi , South Korean philosopher and activist (b. 1967)
2013 –
George P. Mitchell , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1919)
2014 –
Oleh Babayev , Ukrainian businessman and politician (b. 1965)
2014 –
Charles R. Larson , American admiral (b. 1936)
2014 –
Richard MacCormac , English architect, founded
MJP Architects (b. 1938)
2014 –
Sergei O. Prokofieff , Russian anthropologist and author (b. 1954)
2014 –
Roland Verhavert , Belgian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2015 –
Bijoy Krishna Handique , Indian lawyer and politician,
Indian Minister of Mines (b. 1934)
2015 –
Flora MacDonald , Canadian banker and politician, 10th
Canadian Minister of Communications (b. 1926)
2015 –
Leo Reise, Jr. , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
2015 –
Ann Rule , American police officer and author (b. 1931)
2017 –
June Foray , American voice actress (b. 1917)
2017 –
Patti Deutsch , American voice artist and comedic actress (b. 1943)
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2017 –
Ronald Phillips , American criminal (b. 1973)
[29]
2018 –
Adem Demaçi ,
Kosovo Albanian politician and writer (b. 1936)
[30]
2018 –
John Kline , American basketball player (b. 1931)
[31]
2019 –
Russi Taylor , American voice actress (b. 1944)
[32]
2019 –
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino , Cuban Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)
[33]
2020 –
Olivia de Havilland , American actress (b. 1916)
[34]
2021 –
Joey Jordison , American musician (b. 1975)
[35]
2023 –
Sinéad O'Connor , Irish singer and musician (b. 1966)
[36]
Holidays and observances
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