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Day of the year
July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 179 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1915 – The
Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the
Panama–Pacific International Exposition . This is the last trip outside
Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
1934 – "
Bloody Thursday ": The
police open fire on striking
longshoremen in
San Francisco .
1935 – The
National Labor Relations Act , which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt .
1937 –
Spam , the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the
Hormel Foods Corporation .
1940 –
World War II :
Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
1941 – World War II:
Operation Barbarossa :
German troops reach the
Dnieper river.
1943 – World War II: An
Allied invasion fleet sails for
Sicily (
Operation Husky ,
July 10 , 1943).
1943 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the
Soviet Union at the
Battle of Kursk , also known as Operation Citadel.
1945 – The
United Kingdom holds its
first general election in 10 years, which would be won by
Clement Attlee 's
Labour Party .
[3]
1946 –
Micheline Bernardini models the first modern
bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
1948 –
National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
1950 –
Korean War :
Task Force Smith : American and
North Korean forces first clash, in the
Battle of Osan .
1950 – The
Knesset of
Israel passes the
Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
1954 – The
BBC broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.
[4]
1954 –
Elvis Presley records his first single, "
That's All Right ", at
Sun Records in
Memphis, Tennessee .
1962 – The official
independence of
Algeria is proclaimed after an eight-year-long
war with
France .
1970 –
Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in
Brampton ,
Ontario ,
Canada , killing all 109 people on board.
[5]
1971 – The
Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution , lowering the
voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by
President
Richard Nixon .
1973 – A
boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in
Kingman, Arizona , following a fire that broke out as
propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank,
kills eleven firefighters .
1973 –
Juvénal Habyarimana seizes power over
Rwanda in a
coup d'état .
[6]
1975 –
Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the
Wimbledon singles title.
1975 –
Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
1977 – The
Pakistan Armed Forces under
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in
Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial law.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , the first elected
Prime Minister of Pakistan , is overthrown.
[7]
1980 – Swedish tennis player
Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
1984 – The
United States Supreme Court gives its
United States v. Leon decision providing a
good-faith exception from the
Fourth Amendment
exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.
[8]
1987 –
Sri Lankan Civil War : The
LTTE uses suicide attacks on the
Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The
Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
1989 –
Iran–Contra affair :
Oliver North is sentenced by
U.S. District Judge
Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
1994 –
Jeff Bezos founds
Amazon.
[9]
1995 –
Armenia adopts its
constitution , four years after its independence from the
Soviet Union .
1996 –
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
1997 –
Sri Lankan Civil War : Sri Lankan Tamil MP
A. Thangathurai is shot dead at
Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in
Trincomalee .
1999 – U.S. President
Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic
sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan .
2003 – The
World Health Organization announces that the
2002–2004 SARS outbreak has been contained.
[10]
2004 – The first
direct
Indonesian presidential election is held.
2006 –
North Korea
tests four short-range missiles , one medium-range missile and a long-range
Taepodong-2 . The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the
Sea of Japan .
2009 – A series of violent riots
break out in
Ürümqi , the capital city of the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
[11]
2009 – The largest hoard of
Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items,
is found near the village of
Hammerwich , near
Lichfield, Staffordshire .
2012 –
The Shard in London is inaugurated as the
tallest building in Europe , with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
2016 – The
Juno space probe arrives at
Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
2022 – British government ministers
Sajid Javid and
Rishi Sunak resign from the
second Johnson ministry , beginning the
July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis .
[12]
Births
Pre-1600
465 –
Ahkal Mo' Naab' I , Mayan ruler (d. 524)
980 –
Mokjong of Goryeo , Korean king (d. 1009)
1029 –
Al-Mustansir Billah , Fatimid caliph (d. 1094)
[13]
1321 –
Joan of the Tower , English consort of
David II of Scotland (d. 1362)
[14]
1466 –
Giovanni Sforza , Italian nobleman (d. 1510)
1547 –
Garzia de' Medici , Tuscan son of
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1562)
1549 –
Francesco Maria del Monte , Italian cardinal and art collector (d. 1627)
1554 –
Elisabeth of Austria , French queen (d. 1592)
[15]
1580 –
Carlo Contarini , doge of Venice (d. 1656)
1586 –
Thomas Hooker , English-born founder of the
Colony of Connecticut (d. 1647)
1593 –
Achille d'Étampes de Valençay , French military leader (d. 1646)
[16]
1601–1900
1653 –
Thomas Pitt , English businessman and politician (d. 1726)
[17]
1670 –
Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg , countess palatine (d. 1748)
1675 –
Mary Walcott , American accuser and witness at the
Salem witch trials (d. 1719)
1709 –
Étienne de Silhouette , French translator and politician,
Controller-General of Finances (d. 1767)
1717 –
Peter III , Portuguese king (d. 1786)
[18]
1718 –
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford , English politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1794)
1745 –
Carl Arnold Kortum , German physician and poet (d. 1824)
1755 –
Sarah Siddons , English actress (d. 1831)
[19]
1780 –
François Carlo Antommarchi , French physician (d. 1838)
1781 –
Stamford Raffles , English politician, founded
Singapore (d. 1826)
[20]
1793 –
Pavel Pestel , Russian officer (d. 1826)
1794 –
Sylvester Graham , American minister and activist (d. 1851)
1801 –
David Farragut , American admiral (d. 1870)
1802 –
Pavel Nakhimov , Russian admiral (d. 1855)
1803 –
George Borrow , British writer (d. 1881)
1805 –
Robert FitzRoy , English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd
Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865)
1810 –
P. T. Barnum , American businessman, co-founded
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)
1820 –
William John Macquorn Rankine , Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
1829 –
Ignacio Mariscal , Mexican politician and diplomat,
Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico (d. 1910)
1832 –
Pavel Chistyakov , Russian painter and educator (d. 1919)
1841 –
William Collins Whitney , American financier and politician, 31st
United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1904)
1849 –
William Thomas Stead , English journalist (d. 1912)
1853 –
Cecil Rhodes , English-South African businessman and politician, 6th
Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (d. 1902)
1857 –
Clara Zetkin , German theorist and activist (d. 1933)
1857 –
Julien Tiersot , French musicologist and composer (d. 1936)
1860 –
Robert Bacon , American colonel and politician, 39th
United States Secretary of State (d. 1919)
1860 –
Mathieu Jaboulay , French surgeon (d. 1913)
1862 –
George Nuttall , American-British bacteriologist (d. 1937)
1862 –
Horatio Caro , English chess master (d. 1920)
1864 –
Stephan Krehl , German composer (d. 1924)
1867 –
A. E. Douglass , American astronomer (d. 1962)
1872 –
Édouard Herriot , French lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of France (d. 1957)
1874 –
Eugen Fischer , German physician and academic (d. 1967)
1879 –
Dwight F. Davis , American tennis player and politician, 49th
United States Secretary of War (d. 1945)
1879 –
Wanda Landowska , Polish-French
harpsichord player and educator (d. 1959)
1880 –
Jan Kubelík , Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
1880 –
Constantin Tănase , Romanian actor and playwright (d. 1945)
1882 –
Inayat Khan , Indian mystic and educator (d. 1927)
1883 –
Gustave Lanctot , Canadian historian, author, and academic (d. 1975)
1884 –
Enrico Dante , Italian cardinal (d. 1967)
1885 –
Blas Infante , Spanish historian and politician (d. 1936)
1885 –
André Lhote , French sculptor and painter (d. 1962)
1886 –
Willem Drees , Dutch politician and historian,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (d. 1988)
1886 –
Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (d. 1918)
1888 –
Herbert Spencer Gasser , American physiologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963)
1888 –
Louise Freeland Jenkins , American astronomer and academic (d. 1970)
1889 –
Jean Cocteau , French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)
1890 –
Frederick Lewis Allen , American historian and journalist (d. 1954)
1891 –
John Howard Northrop , American chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1891 –
Tin Ujević , Croatian poet and translator (d. 1955)
1893 –
Anthony Berkeley Cox , English writer (d. 1971)
1893 –
Giuseppe Caselli , Italian painter (d. 1976)
1894 –
Ants Lauter , Estonian actor and director (d. 1973)
1896 –
Thomas Playford IV , Australian politician, 33rd
Premier of South Australia (d. 1981)
1898 –
Georgios Grivas , Greek general (d. 1974)
1899 –
Marcel Achard , French playwright, screenwriter, and author (d. 1974)
1900 –
Yoshimaro Yamashina , Japanese ornithologist, founded the
Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (d. 1989)
1900 –
Bernardus Johannes Alfrink , Dutch cardinal (d. 1987)
1901–present
1901 –
Julio Libonatti , Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 1981)
1902 –
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , American colonel and politician, 3rd
United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1985)
1904 –
Harold Acton , English scholar and author (d. 1994)
1904 –
Ernst Mayr , German-American biologist and ornithologist (d. 2005)
1904 –
Milburn Stone , American actor (d. 1980)
1905 –
Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau , Haitian sociologist and educator (d. 1970)
[21]
1908 –
Henri of Orléans , (d. 1999)
1908 –
Lyman S. Ayres II , American businessman (d. 1996)
1910 –
Georges Vedel , French lawyer and academic (d. 2002)
1911 –
Endel Aruja , Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2008)
1911 –
Haydn Bunton, Sr. , Australian footballer and coach (d. 1955)
1911 –
Giorgio Borġ Olivier , Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
1911 –
Georges Pompidou , French banker and politician, 19th
President of France (d. 1974)
1913 –
George Costakis , Russian art collector (d. 1990)
1913 –
Smiley Lewis , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
1914 –
John Thomas Dunlop , American administrator and labor scholar (d. 2003)
1914 –
Annie Fischer , Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1995)
1915 –
Babe Paley , American socialite (d. 1978)
1915 –
John Woodruff , American runner and commander (d. 2007)
1915 –
Al Timothy , Trinidadian musician and songwriter (d. 2000)
1916 –
Lívia Rév , Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)
1916 –
Ivor Powell , Welsh footballer (d. 2012)
[22]
1918 –
K. Karunakaran , Indian lawyer and politician, 7th
Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 2010)
1918 –
Brian James , Australian actor (d. 2009)
1918 –
Zakaria Mohieddin , Egyptian general and politician, 33rd
Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
1918 –
George Rochberg , American composer and educator (d. 2005)
1921 –
Viktor Kulikov , Russian marshal (d. 2013)
1921 –
Nanos Valaoritis , Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 2019)
1923 –
George Moore , Australian jockey (d. 2008)
1923 –
Mitsuye Yamada , Japanese American activist
1924 –
János Starker , Hungarian-American cellist and educator (d. 2013)
1924 –
Edward Cassidy , Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (d. 2021)
1925 –
Fernando de Szyszlo , Peruvian painter and sculptor (d. 2017)
1925 –
Jean Raspail , French author and explorer (d. 2020)
1926 –
Diana Lynn , American actress (d. 1971)
1928 –
Pierre Mauroy , French educator and politician,
Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
1928 –
Warren Oates , American actor (d. 1982)
1929 –
Jimmy Carruthers , Australian boxer (d. 1990)
1929 –
Katherine Helmond , American actress and director (d. 2019)
1929 –
Tony Lock , English cricketer (d. 1995)
1929 –
Jovan Rašković , Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
1929 –
Jiří Reynek , Czech poet and graphic artist (d. 2014)
1931 –
Ismail Mahomed , South African lawyer and politician, 17th
Chief Justice of South Africa (d. 2000)
1932 –
Gyula Horn , Hungarian politician, 37th
Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
1933 –
Paul-Gilbert Langevin , French musicologist, critic and physicist (d. 1986)
1935 –
John Schoenherr , American illustrator (d. 2010)
[23]
1936 –
Shirley Knight , American actress (d. 2020)
1936 –
James Mirrlees , Scottish economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
[24]
1938 –
Ronnie Self , American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
1940 –
Chuck Close , American painter and photographer (d. 2021)
[25]
1941 –
Epeli Nailatikau , Fijian
chief ,
President of Fiji
1942 –
Matthias Bamert , Swiss composer and conductor
1942 –
Hannes Löhr , German footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
1943 –
Curt Blefary , American baseball player and coach (d. 2001)
1943 –
Mark Cox , English tennis player, coach and sportscaster
1943 –
Robbie Robertson , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2023)
[26]
1944 –
Leni Björklund , Swedish politician, 28th
Swedish Minister of Defence for Sweden
1945 –
Michael Blake , American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1945 –
Humberto Benítez Treviño , Mexican lawyer and politician,
Attorney General of Mexico
1946 –
Pierre-Marc Johnson , Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th
Premier of Quebec
1946 –
Paul Smith , English fashion designer
1946 –
Gerard 't Hooft , Dutch physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
[27]
1946 –
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov , Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 2013)
1949 –
Ludwig G. Strauss , German physician and academic (d. 2013)
1950 –
Carlos Caszely , Chilean footballer
1950 –
Huey Lewis , American singer-songwriter and actor
1951 –
Goose Gossage , American baseball player
[28]
1953 –
Caryn Navy , American mathematician and computer scientist
1954 –
Jimmy Crespo , American guitarist and songwriter
1954 –
John Wright , New Zealand cricketer and coach
1955 –
Tony Hadley , English footballer
1955 –
Peter McNamara , Australian tennis player and coach (d. 2019)
1956 –
Horacio Cartes , Paraguayan businessman and politician,
President of Paraguay
1956 –
James Lofton , American football player and coach
1957 –
Carlo Thränhardt , German high jumper
1957 –
Doug Wilson , Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1958 –
Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist (d. 1996)
1958 –
Bill Watterson , American author and illustrator
1959 –
Marc Cohn , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1962 –
Sarina Hülsenbeck , German swimmer
1963 –
Edie Falco , American actress
1964 –
Ronald D. Moore , American screenwriter and producer
1966 –
Susannah Doyle , English actress, director, and playwright
1966 –
Gianfranco Zola , Italian footballer and coach
1967 –
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi , Iraqi politician, 80th
Prime Minister of Iraq
[29]
1968 –
Ken Akamatsu , Japanese illustrator
1968 –
Kenji Ito , Japanese pianist and composer
1968 –
Hedi Slimane , French fashion designer and photographer
1968 –
Alex Zülle , Swiss cyclist
1968 –
Susan Wojcicki , Polish-American technology executive
1969 –
Jenji Kohan , American screenwriter and producer
1969 –
John LeClair , American ice hockey player
1969 –
RZA , American rapper, producer, actor, and director
1970 –
Mac Dre , American rapper and producer, founded
Thizz Entertainment (d. 2004)
1970 –
Valentí Massana , Spanish race walker
1971 –
Derek McInnes , Scottish footballer and manager
1972 –
Matthew Birir , Kenyan runner
1972 –
Robert Esmie , Canadian sprinter
1972 –
Gary Shteyngart , American writer
1973 –
Marcus Allbäck , Swedish footballer and coach
1973 –
Bengt Lagerberg , Swedish drummer
1973 –
Róisín Murphy , Irish singer-songwriter and producer
1974 –
Márcio Amoroso , Brazilian footballer
1974 –
Sarah Taylor , Jersey squash player
[30]
1975 –
Hernán Crespo , Argentinian footballer and coach
1975 –
Ai Sugiyama , Japanese tennis player
1976 –
Bizarre , American rapper
1976 –
Nuno Gomes , Portuguese footballer
1978 –
Britta Oppelt , German rower
1978 –
Allan Simonsen , Danish race car driver (d. 2013)
1978 –
İsmail YK , German-Turkish singer-songwriter
1979 –
Shane Filan , Irish singer-songwriter
1979 –
Amélie Mauresmo , French-Swiss tennis player
1979 –
Stiliyan Petrov , Bulgarian footballer and manager
1980 –
Pauly D , American television personality
[31]
1980 –
David Rozehnal , Czech footballer
1980 –
Mads Tolling , Danish-American violinist and composer
1982 –
Fabrício de Souza , Brazilian footballer
1982 –
Alexander Dimitrenko , Ukrainian-German boxer
1982 –
Alberto Gilardino , Italian footballer
1982 –
Philippe Gilbert , Belgian cyclist
1982 –
Kate Gynther , Australian water polo player
[32]
1982 –
Dave Haywood , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 –
Paíto , Mozambican footballer
1982 –
Szabolcs Perenyi , Romanian-Hungarian footballer
1982 –
Beno Udrih , Slovenian basketball player
1982 –
Tuba Büyüküstün , Turkish actress
[33]
1982 –
Junri Namigata , Japanese tennis player
[34]
1983 –
Marco Estrada , Mexican baseball player
1983 –
Jonás Gutiérrez , Argentinian footballer
1983 –
Zheng Jie , Chinese tennis player
1983 –
Taavi Peetre , Estonian shot putter (d. 2010)
1984 –
Danay Garcia , Cuban actress
1984 –
Zack Miller , American golfer
1985 –
Alexandre R. Picard , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 –
Megan Rapinoe , American soccer player
[35]
1986 –
Iurii Cheban , Ukrainian canoe sprinter
[36]
1986 –
Piermario Morosini , Italian footballer (d. 2012)
1986 –
Alexander Radulov , Russian ice hockey player
1987 –
Ji Chang-wook , South Korean actor
1987 –
Safiq Rahim , Malaysian footballer
1987 –
Alexander Kristoff , Norwegian cyclist
[37]
1988 –
Samir Ujkani , Albanian footballer
1989 –
Adam Cole , American wrestler
[38]
1989 –
Georgios Efrem , Cypriot footballer
1990 –
Abeba Aregawi , Ethiopian-Swedish runner
[39]
1992 –
Alberto Moreno , Spanish footballer
1992 –
Chiara Scholl , American tennis player
[40]
1993 –
Yaroslav Kosov , Russian ice hockey player
1993 –
Jorge Polanco , Dominican baseball player
[41]
1998 –
Emily Fox , American soccer player
[42]
1999 –
Suzan Lamens , Dutch tennis player
[43]
Deaths
Pre-1600
905 –
Cui Yuan , Chinese
chancellor
905 –
Dugu Sun , Chinese chancellor
905 –
Lu Yi , Chinese chancellor (b. 847)
905 –
Pei Shu , Chinese chancellor (b. 841)
905 –
Wang Pu , Chinese chancellor
936 –
Xu Ji , Chinese official and chancellor
967 –
Murakami , Japanese emperor (b. 926)
1080 –
Ísleifur Gissurarson , Icelandic bishop (b. 1006)
1091 –
William of Hirsau , German abbot
1316 –
Ferdinand , prince of Majorca (b. 1278)
1375 –
Charles III , French nobleman (b. 1337)
1413 –
Musa Çelebi , Ottoman prince and co-ruler
1507 –
Crinitus , Italian scholar and academic (b. 1475)
1539 –
Anthony Maria Zaccaria , Italian saint (b. 1502)
1601–1900
1661 –
Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet
[44]
1666 –
Albert VI , German nobleman (b. 1584)
1676 –
Carl Gustaf Wrangel , Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1613)
1715 –
Charles Ancillon , French jurist and diplomat (b. 1659)
1719 –
Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg , German-English general (b. 1641)
1773 –
Francisco José Freire , Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
1819 –
William Cornwallis , English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
1826 –
Stamford Raffles , English politician, founded
Singapore (b. 1782)
1833 –
Nicéphore Niépce , French inventor, created the first known
photograph (b. 1765)
1859 –
Charles Cagniard de la Tour , French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
1862 –
Heinrich Georg Bronn , German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
1863 –
Lewis Armistead , Confederate general (b. 1817)
1884 –
Victor Massé , French composer (b. 1822)
1901–present
1908 –
Jonas Lie , Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
1920 –
Max Klinger , German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
1927 –
Albrecht Kossel , German physician and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1929 –
Henry Johnson , American sergeant (b. 1897)
1932 –
Sasha Chorny , Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
1935 –
Bernard de Pourtalès , Swiss captain and sailor (b. 1870)
1937 –
Daniel Sawyer , American golfer (b. 1884)
1943 –
Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski , Polish actor (b. 1880)
1943 –
Karin Swanström , Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
1945 –
John Curtin , Australian journalist and politician, 14th
Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1948 –
Georges Bernanos , French soldier and author (b. 1888)
1948 –
Carole Landis , American actress (b. 1919)
1948 –
Piet Aalberse , Dutch politician (b. 1871)
1957 –
Anugrah Narayan Sinha , Indian lawyer and politician, 1st
Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
1965 –
Porfirio Rubirosa , Dominican race car driver, polo player, and diplomat (b. 1909)
1966 –
George de Hevesy , Hungarian-German chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1969 –
Wilhelm Backhaus , German pianist and educator (b. 1884)
1969 –
Walter Gropius , German architect, designed the
John F. Kennedy Federal Building and
Werkbund Exhibition (b. 1883)
1969 –
Tom Mboya , Kenyan politician, 1st
Kenyan Minister of Justice (b. 1930)
1969 –
Leo McCarey , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
1975 –
Gilda dalla Rizza , Italian soprano and actress (b. 1892)
1976 –
Walter Giesler , American soccer player and referee (born 1910)
[45]
1983 –
Harry James , American trumpet player and actor (b. 1916)
1984 –
Chic Murray , Canadian politician, 2nd
Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1914)
1991 –
Howard Nemerov , American poet and essayist (b. 1920)
1995 –
Jüri Järvet , Estonian actor and screenwriter (b. 1919)
1997 –
A. Thangathurai , Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
1998 –
Sid Luckman , American football player (b. 1916)
2002 –
Katy Jurado , Mexican actress (b. 1924)
2002 –
Ted Williams , American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
2004 –
Hugh Shearer , Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
2004 –
Rodger Ward , American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1921)
2005 –
James Stockdale , American admiral (b. 1923)
2006 –
Gert Fredriksson , Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
2006 –
Thirunalloor Karunakaran , Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)
2006 –
Kenneth Lay , American businessman (b. 1942)
2006 –
Amzie Strickland , American actress (b. 1919)
2007 –
Régine Crespin , French soprano (b. 1927)
2007 –
George Melly , English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
2008 –
Hasan Doğan , Turkish businessman (b. 1956)
2010 –
Bob Probert , Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (b. 1965)
2011 –
Cy Twombly , American-Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer (b. 1928)
2012 –
Rob Goris , Belgian cyclist (b. 1982)
2012 –
Gerrit Komrij , Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1944)
2012 –
Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge , English businessman and politician (b. 1933)
2012 –
Ruud van Hemert , Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2013 –
Bud Asher , American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2013 –
David Cargo , American politician, 22nd
Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929)
2013 –
Lambert Jackson Woodburne , South African admiral (b. 1939)
2014 –
Rosemary Murphy , American actress (b. 1925)
2014 –
Volodymyr Sabodan , Ukrainian metropolitan (b. 1935)
2014 –
Hans-Ulrich Wehler , German historian and academic (b. 1931)
2014 –
Brett Wiesner , American soccer player (b. 1983)
2015 –
Uffe Haagerup , Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949)
2015 –
Yoichiro Nambu , Japanese-American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
2020 –
Nick Cordero , Canadian actor and singer (b. 1978)
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[47]
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Raffaella Carrà , Italian singer, dancer, television presenter and actress (b. 1943)
2021 –
Richard Donner , American film director (b. 1930)
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