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Day of the year
March 22 is the 81st day of the year (82nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 284 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1621 – The
Pilgrims of
Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with
Massasoit of the
Wampanoags .
[6]
1622 –
Jamestown massacre :
Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around
Jamestown, Virginia , a third of the colony's population, during the
Second Anglo-Powhatan War .
1631 – The
Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of
cards ,
dice , and gaming tables.
[7]
1638 –
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from
Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
[8]
1739 –
Nader Shah occupies
Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the
Peacock Throne .
1765 – The
British Parliament passes the
Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its
American colonies .
1784 – The
Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in
Wat Phra Kaew ,
Thailand .
[9]
1792 –
Battle of Croix-des-Bouquets : Black slave insurgents gain a victory in the first major battle of the
Haitian Revolution .
[10]
1794 – The
Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a
ship for the purpose of importing slaves .
[11]
1829 – In the
London Protocol , the three protecting powers (
United Kingdom ,
France and
Russia ) establish the borders of
Greece .
1849 – The
Austrians defeat the
Piedmontese at the
Battle of Novara .
1871 – In
North Carolina ,
William Woods Holden becomes the first
governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by
impeachment .
1873 – The
Spanish National Assembly abolishes
slavery in Puerto Rico .
[12]
1894 – The
Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.
[13]
1895 – Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers
Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie
film technology publicly for the first time.
[14]
1896 –
Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic
marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes.
[15]
1901–present
1906 – The first
England vs
France rugby union match is played at
Parc des Princes in
Paris .
1913 – Mystic
Phan Xích Long , the self-proclaimed
Emperor of Vietnam , is arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of
French Indochina , which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
[16]
[17]
1916 –
Yuan Shikai abdicates as
Emperor of China , restoring the
Republic and returning to the
Presidency .
[18]
1920 –
Azeri and
Turkish army soldiers with participation of
Kurdish gangs
attack the
Armenian inhabitants of
Shushi (
Nagorno Karabakh ).
1933 –
Cullen–Harrison Act : President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the
Volstead Act , legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
[19]
1933 –
Nazi Germany opens its first
concentration camp ,
Dachau .
[20]
1934 – The
first Masters Tournament is held at
Augusta National Golf Club in
Georgia .
[21]
1939 – Germany
takes Memel from Lithuania .
1942 –
World War II : In the Mediterranean Sea, the
Royal Navy confronts Italy's
Regia Marina in the
Second Battle of Sirte .
1943 – World War II: The entire village of
Khatyn (in present-day
Republic of Belarus ) is burnt alive by
Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 .
[22]
1945 – World War II: The city of
Hildesheim ,
Germany , is heavily damaged in a
British air raid , though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.
[23]
[24]
[25]
[26]
1945 – The
Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in
Cairo , Egypt.
[27]
1946 – The United Kingdom grants full independence to
Transjordan .
[28]
1955 – A
United States Navy
Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster
crashes into Hawaii's
Waiʻanae Range , killing 66.
[29]
1960 –
Arthur Leonard Schawlow and
Charles Hard Townes receive the first
patent for a
laser .
1963 –
The Beatles release their debut album
Please Please Me .
[30]
1970 – Chicano residents in
San Diego, California occupy a site under the
Coronado Bridge , leading to the creation of
Chicano Park .
[31]
1972 – The United States Congress sends the
Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1972 – In
Eisenstadt v. Baird , the
United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess
contraceptives .
1975 – A fire at the
Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in
Decatur, Alabama , causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1978 –
Karl Wallenda of
The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in
San Juan, Puerto Rico .
1982 –
NASA 's
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the
Kennedy Space Center on its third mission,
STS-3 .
1988 – The
United States Congress votes to override President
Ronald Reagan 's veto of the
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 .
[32]
1992 –
USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's
LaGuardia Airport , leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
1992 –
Fall of communism in Albania : The
Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the
parliamentary election .
1993 – The
Intel Corporation ships the first
Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60
MHz clock speed, 100+
MIPS , and a 64
bit data path.
1995 –
Cosmonaut
Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in
space .
1996 – NASA's
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its 16th mission,
STS-76 .
[33]
1997 –
Tara Lipinski , aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's
World Figure Skating Champion .
1997 –
Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
[34]
2004 –
Ahmed Yassin , co-founder and leader of the
Palestinian
Sunni Islamist group
Hamas , two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the
Gaza Strip when hit by
Israeli Air Force
Hellfire missiles .
2006 – Three
Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by
British forces in
Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S.,
Tom Fox .
2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a
fire destroys a camp containing
Burmese refugees near
Ban Mae ,
Thailand .
2016 – Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the
2016 Brussels bombings at the
airport and at the
Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station .
2017 – A
terrorist attack in London near the
Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
2017 –
Syrian civil war : Five hundred members of the
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the
Euphrates by
United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the
Battle of Tabqa .
[35]
[36]
[37]
[38]
2019 – The
Special Counsel investigation on the
2016 United States presidential election concludes when
Robert Mueller submits
his report to the United States Attorney General.
2019 – Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of
Ghana 's capital
Accra , killing at least 50 people.
[39]
2020 – Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of
COVID-19 .
[40]
2020 – Greek Prime Minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of
COVID-19 .
[41]
2021 – Ten people are killed in a
mass shooting in
Boulder, Colorado .
[42]
2024 – At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a
bombing and mass shooting at the
Crocus City Hall in
Krasnogorsk , Russia.
[43]
[44]
Births
Pre-1600
841 –
Bernard Plantapilosa , Frankish son of
Bernard of Septimania (d. 885)
875 –
William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918)
1212 –
Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1367 –
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk , English politician,
Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (probable;
[45] d. 1399)
1394 –
Ulugh Beg , Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449)
1459 –
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
[46]
1499 –
Johann Carion , German astrologer and chronicler (d. 1537)
1503 –
Antonio Francesco Grazzini , Italian author and educator (d. 1583)
1517 –
Gioseffo Zarlino , Italian composer (d. 1590)
1519 –
Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk , English noblewoman (d. 1580)
1582 –
John Williams , Archbishop of York (d. 1650)
1599 –
Anthony van Dyck , Flemish-English painter and etcher (d. 1641)
1601–1900
1609 –
John II Casimir Vasa , Polish king (d. 1672)
1615 –
Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh , British scientist (d. 1691)
[47]
1663 –
August Hermann Francke , German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (d. 1727)
1684 –
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath , English politician,
Secretary at War (d. 1764)
1712 –
Edward Moore , English poet and playwright (d. 1757)
[48]
1720 –
Nicolas-Henri Jardin , French architect, designed the
Yellow Palace and
Bernstorff Palace (d. 1799)
1723 –
Charles Carroll , American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
1728 –
Anton Raphael Mengs , German painter and theorist (d. 1779)
1785 –
Adam Sedgwick , English scientist (d. 1873)
1797 –
William I, German Emperor (d. 1888)
[49]
1808 –
Caroline Norton , English feminist, social reformer, and author (d. 1877)
[50]
1808 –
David Swinson Maynard , American physician and lawyer (d. 1873)
1812 –
Stephen Pearl Andrews , American author and activist (d. 1886)
1814 –
Thomas Crawford , American sculptor, designed the
Statue of Freedom (d. 1857)
1817 –
Braxton Bragg , American general (d. 1876)
1818 –
John Ainsworth Horrocks , English-Australian explorer, founded
Penwortham (d. 1846)
1822 –
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha , Ottoman sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist (d. 1895)
1841 –
Anastassios Christomanos , Greek scientist (d. 1906)
[51]
1842 –
Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1912)
1846 –
Randolph Caldecott , English illustrator and painter (d. 1886)
1846 –
James Timberlake , American lieutenant, police officer, and farmer (d. 1891)
1852 –
Otakar Ševčík , Czech violinist and educator (d. 1934)
1852 –
Hector Sévin , French cardinal (d. 1916)
1855 –
Dorothy Tennant , British painter (d. 1926)
1857 –
Paul Doumer , French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th
President of France (d. 1932)
1866 –
Jack Boyle , American baseball player and umpire (d. 1913)
1868 –
Robert Andrews Millikan , American colonel and physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1869 –
Emilio Aguinaldo , Filipino general and politician, 1st
President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
[52]
1869 –
Tom McInnes , Scottish-English footballer (d. 1939)
1873 –
Ernest Lawson , Canadian-American painter (d. 1939)
1880 –
Ernest C. Quigley , Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 1960)
1884 –
Arthur H. Vandenberg , American journalist and politician (d. 1951)
1884 –
Lyda Borelli , Italian actress (d. 1959)
1885 –
Aryeh Levin , Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator (d. 1969)
1886 –
August Rei , Estonian lawyer and politician,
Head of State of Estonia (d. 1963)
1887 –
Chico Marx , American actor (d. 1961)
1890 –
George Clark , American race car driver (d. 1978)
1892 –
Charlie Poole , American country banjo player (d. 1931)
1892 –
Johannes Semper , Estonian poet and scholar (d. 1970)
1896 –
He Long , Chinese general and politician, 1st
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1969)
1896 –
Joseph Schildkraut , Austrian-American actor (d. 1964)
1899 –
Ruth Page , American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1991)
1901–present
1901 –
Greta Kempton , Austrian-American painter (d. 1991)
1902 –
Johannes Brinkman , Dutch architect, designed the
Van Nelle Factory (d. 1949)
1902 –
Madeleine Milhaud , French actress and composer (d. 2008)
1903 –
Bill Holman , American cartoonist (d. 1987)
1907 –
James M. Gavin , American general and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to France (d. 1990)
1908 –
Jack Crawford , Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
1908 –
Louis L'Amour , American novelist and short story writer (d. 1988)
[53]
1909 –
Gabrielle Roy , Canadian author and educator (d. 1983)
1910 –
Nicholas Monsarrat , English sailor and author (d. 1979)
1912 –
Wilfrid Brambell , Irish actor and performer (d. 1985)
1912 –
Leslie Johnson , English race car driver (d. 1959)
1912 –
Karl Malden , American actor (d. 2009)
[53]
1912 –
Agnes Martin , Canadian-American painter and educator (d. 2004)
1913 –
Tom McCall , American journalist and politician, 30th
Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1913 –
Lew Wasserman , American businessman and talent agent (d. 2002)
1913 –
James Westerfield , American actor (d. 1971)
1914 –
John Stanley , American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
1914 –
Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes , English businessman (d. 2008)
1917 –
Virginia Grey , American actress (d. 2004)
1917 –
Irving Kaplansky , Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006)
1917 –
Paul Rogers , English actor (d. 2013)
1918 –
Cheddi Jagan , Guyanese politician, 4th
President of Guyana (d. 1997)
1919 –
Bernard Krigstein , American illustrator (d. 1990)
1920 –
James Brown , American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1920 –
Werner Klemperer , German-American actor (d. 2000)
1920 –
Lloyd MacPhail , Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (d. 1995)
1920 –
Ross Martin , American actor (d. 1981)
1920 –
Katsuko Saruhashi , Japanese geochemist (d. 2007)
1920 –
Fanny Waterman , English pianist and educator, founded the
Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (d. 2020)
1921 –
Nino Manfredi , Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1922 –
John J. Gilligan , American politician, 62nd
Governor of Ohio (d. 2013)
1922 –
Stewart Stern , American screenwriter (d. 2015)
1923 –
Marcel Marceau , French
mime and actor (d. 2007)
[53]
1924 –
Al Neuharth , American journalist and author, founded
USA Today (d. 2013)
[53]
1924 –
Yevgeny Ostashev , Russian test pilot, participant in the launch of the first artificial
Earth
satellite (d. 1960)
[54]
1924 –
Osman F. Seden , Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
1924 –
Bill Wendell , American television announcer (d. 1999)
1927 –
Marty Blake , American basketball player and manager (d. 2013)
1927 –
Nicolas Tikhomiroff , Russian photographer (d. 2016)
1928 –
Carrie Donovan , American journalist (d. 2001)
1928 –
E. D. Hirsch , American author, critic, and academic
1928 –
Ed Macauley , American basketball player, coach, and priest (d. 2011)
1929 –
Yayoi Kusama , Japanese artist
[53]
1929 –
P. Ramlee , Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer (d. 1973)
1930 –
Derek Bok , American lawyer and academic
1930 –
Pat Robertson , American minister and broadcaster, founded the
Christian Broadcasting Network (d. 2023)
[55]
1930 –
Stephen Sondheim , American composer and songwriter (d. 2021)
[53]
1931 –
Burton Richter , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1931 –
William Shatner , Canadian actor
[55]
1931 –
Leslie Thomas , Welsh journalist and author (d. 2014)
1932 –
Els Borst , Dutch physician and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2014)
1932 –
Larry Evans , American chess player and journalist (d. 2010)
1933 –
Abolhassan Banisadr , Iranian economist and politician, 1st
President of Iran (d. 2021)
1934 –
May Britt , Swedish actress
1934 –
Sheila Cameron , English lawyer and judge
1934 –
Orrin Hatch , American lawyer and politician (d. 2022)
[53]
1935 –
Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova , Russian-born Soviet test pilot and
aerobatics champion (d. 2004)
[56]
1935 –
Lea Pericoli , Italian tennis player and journalist
1935 –
Frank Pulli , American baseball player and umpire (d. 2013)
1935 –
M. Emmet Walsh , American actor (d. 2024)
[55]
1936 –
Erol Büyükburç , Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor (d. 2015)
1936 –
Ron Carey , American trade union leader (d. 2008)
1936 –
Roger Whittaker , Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2023)
1937 –
Angelo Badalamenti , American pianist and composer (d. 2022)
1937 –
Armin Hary , German sprinter
1937 –
Jon Hassell , American trumpet player and composer (d. 2021)
1937 –
Foo Foo Lammar , British drag queen (d. 2003)
[57]
[58]
1938 –
Rein Etruk , Estonian chess player (d. 2012)
1940 –
George Edward Alcorn, Jr. , American physicist and inventor
[59]
1940 –
Dave Keon , Canadian ice hockey player
[60]
1940 –
Haing S. Ngor , Cambodian-American physician and author (d. 1996)
1941 –
Billy Collins , American poet
1941 –
Jeremy Clyde , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
[55]
1941 –
Bruno Ganz , Swiss actor (d. 2019)
1941 –
Cassam Uteem , Mauritian politician, 2nd
President of Mauritius
1942 –
Jorge Ben Jor , Brazilian singer-songwriter
1942 –
Dick Pound , Canadian lawyer and academic
1943 –
George Benson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[61]
1943 –
Nazem Ganjapour , Iranian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1943 –
Keith Relf , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1976)
1945 –
Eric Roth , American screenwriter and producer
1946 –
Don Chaney , American basketball player and coach
1946 –
Rivka Golani , Israeli viola player and composer
1946 –
Rudy Rucker , American mathematician, computer scientist, and author
1946 –
Harry Vanda , Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 –
George Ferguson , English architect and politician, 1st
Mayor of Bristol
1947 –
James Patterson , American author and producer
[55]
1947 –
Maarten van Gent , Dutch basketball player and coach
1948 –
Wolf Blitzer , American journalist
[62]
1948 –
Andrew Lloyd Webber , English composer and director
[63]
1949 –
Fanny Ardant , French actress, director, and screenwriter
[55]
1949 –
Brian Hanrahan , English journalist (d. 2010)
1952 –
Des Browne , Scottish lawyer and politician,
Secretary of State for Scotland
1952 –
Bob Costas , American sportscaster
[64]
1953 –
Kenneth Rogoff , American economist and chess grandmaster
1955 –
Lena Olin , Swedish actress
[55]
1955 –
Valdis Zatlers , Latvian physician and politician, 7th
President of Latvia
1956 –
Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
1957 –
Jürgen Bucher , German footballer
1957 –
Stephanie Mills , American actress and singer
[55]
1959 –
Matthew Modine , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
[55]
1960 –
Jim Covert , American football player
[65]
1961 –
Simon Furman , British comic book writer
[66]
1962 –
Nikos Kourbanas , Greek footballer
[67]
1963 –
Deborah Bull , English ballerina
1963 –
Pelle Eklund , Swedish ice hockey player
[68]
1963 –
Susan Ann Sulley , English pop singer
1963 –
Hannu Virta , Finnish ice hockey player and coach
[69]
1963 –
Martín Vizcarra , Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th
President of Peru
[70]
1965 –
Ice MC , British rapper
[71]
1966 –
Todd Ewen , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
1966 –
Artis Pabriks , Latvian academic and politician, 11th
Minister for Defence of Latvia
1966 –
António Pinto , Portuguese runner
[72]
1966 –
Brian Shaw , American basketball player and coach
1967 –
Mario Cipollini , Italian cyclist
1967 –
Bernie Gallacher , Scottish-English footballer (d. 2011)
1969 –
Russell Maryland , American football player
[73]
1970 –
Andreas Johnson , Swedish singer-songwriter
1970 –
Leontien van Moorsel , Dutch cyclist
1970 –
Hwang Young-cho , South Korean runner
1971 –
Keegan-Michael Key , American actor, comedian, and writer
[55]
1971 –
Will Yun Lee , American actor and martial artist
[55]
1972 –
Shawn Bradley , German-American basketball player, coach, and actor
1972 –
Cory Lidle , American baseball player (d. 2006)
1972 –
Elvis Stojko , Canadian figure skater and sportscaster
[53]
1973 –
Beverley Knight , English singer-songwriter and producer
1974 –
Marcus Camby , American basketball player
1974 –
Philippe Clement , Belgian footballer
1974 –
Grigoria Golia , Greek handball player
[74]
1974 –
Tuomas Grönman , Finnish ice hockey player
[75]
1974 –
Geo Meneses , Mexican producer and singer
1975 –
Guillermo Díaz , American actor
[55]
1975 –
Anne Dudek , American actress
[55]
1975 –
Cole Hauser , American actor and producer
[55]
1975 –
Jiří Novák , Czech-Monegasque tennis player
1976 –
Teun de Nooijer , Dutch field hockey player
1976 –
Asako Toki , Japanese singer-songwriter
1976 –
Reese Witherspoon , American actress and producer
[55]
1977 –
John Otto , American musician and songwriter
[55]
1977 –
Joey Porter , American football player and coach
[76]
1977 –
Tom Poti , American ice hockey player
[77]
1977 –
Anabel Rodríguez Ríos , Venezuelan film director and screenwriter
[78]
1979 –
Michalis Kouinelis , Greek hip hop singer
[79]
1979 –
Aaron North , American guitarist
1979 –
Juan Uribe , Dominican baseball player
1981 –
Tiffany Dupont , American actress
[55]
1981 –
Arne Gabius , German runner
1981 –
Mims , American rapper
[80]
1982 –
Deng Gai , South Sudanese basketball player
[81]
1982 –
Enrico Gasparotto , Italian cyclist
1982 –
Michael Janyk , Canadian skier
1982 –
Michael Morse , American baseball player
[82]
1982 –
Piá , Brazilian footballer
1982 –
Mike Smith , Canadian ice hockey player
[83]
1982 –
Constance Wu , American actress
[84]
1983 –
Thomas Davis Sr. , American football player
[85]
1984 –
Piotr Trochowski , German footballer
1985 –
Mayola Biboko , Belgian footballer
1985 –
Jakob Fuglsang , Danish cyclist
[86]
1985 –
Justin Masterson , American baseball player
[87]
1985 –
Kelli Waite , Australian swimmer
[88]
1986 –
Dexter Fowler , American baseball player
[89]
1987 –
Ike Davis , American baseball player
1987 –
Liam Doran , British rallycross driver
[90]
1987 –
Jairo Mora Sandoval , Costa Rican environmentalist (d. 2013)
1988 –
Chris Ivory , American football player
[91]
1989 –
Ruben Popa , Romanian footballer
1989 –
J. J. Watt , American football player
[92]
1991 –
Dominique Fishback , American actress
[53]
1992 –
Roston Chase , Barbadian cricketer
[93]
1992 –
Edy Tavares , Cape Verdean basketball player
[94]
1994 –
Edwin Díaz , Puerto Rican baseball player
[95]
1994 –
Taurean Prince , American basketball player
[96]
1994 –
Aliaksandra Sasnovich , Belarusian tennis player
[97]
1995 –
Nick Robinson , American actor
[53]
1997 –
Alex Meret , Italian footballer
[98]
1997 –
Chimezie Metu , Nigerian-American basketball player
[99]
2000 –
Dimitrios Meliopoulos , Greek footballer
[100]
2001 –
Artūrs Šilovs , Latvian ice hockey player
[101]
Deaths
Pre-1600
235 –
Severus Alexander , Roman emperor (b. 208)
880 –
Carloman of Bavaria , Frankish king
1144 –
William of Norwich , child murder victim
1322 –
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster , English politician,
Lord High Steward of England (b. 1278)
1418 –
Dietrich of Nieheim , German bishop and historian (b. 1345)
1421 –
Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence , English soldier and politician,
Lord High Steward of England (b. 1388)
1454 –
John Kemp ,
Archbishop of Canterbury
1471 –
George of Poděbrady (b. 1420)
1601–1900
1544 –
Johannes Magnus , Swedish archbishop and theologian (b. 1488)
1602 –
Agostino Carracci , Italian painter and educator (b. 1557)
1685 –
Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1687 –
Jean-Baptiste Lully , Italian-French composer and conductor (b. 1632)
1758 –
Jonathan Edwards , English minister, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1703)
1772 –
John Canton , English physicist and academic (b. 1718)
1820 –
Stephen Decatur , American commander (b. 1779)
1832 –
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
1840 –
Étienne Bobillier , French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
1864 –
Konstanty Kalinowski , writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
1881 –
Samuel Courtauld , English businessman (b. 1793)
1896 –
Thomas Hughes , English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
1901–present
1913 –
Song Jiaoren , Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
1913 –
Ruggero Oddi , Italian physiologist and anatomist (b. 1864)
1924 –
William Macewen , Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
1931 –
James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy , Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)
1942 –
Frederick Cuming , English cricketer (b. 1875)
1942 –
William Donne , English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
1945 –
John Hessin Clarke , American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
1952 –
D. S. Senanayake , 1st
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883)
1955 –
Ivan Šubašić , Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd
Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
1958 –
Mike Todd , American film producer (b. 1909)
1960 –
José Antonio Aguirre , Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st
President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
1966 –
John Harlin , American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)
1971 –
Johannes Villemson , Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
1971 –
Nella Walker , American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)
1974 –
Peter Revson , American race car driver (b. 1939)
1974 –
Orazio Satta Puliga , Italian automobile designer (b. 1910)
1976 –
John Dwyer McLaughlin , American painter (b. 1898)
1977 –
A. K. Gopalan , Indian educator and politician (b. 1904)
1978 –
Karl Wallenda , German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded
The Flying Wallendas (b. 1905)
1979 –
Ben Lyon , American actor and studio executive (b. 1901)
1981 –
James Elliott , American runner and coach (b. 1915)
1981 –
Gil Puyat , Filipino businessman and politician, 13th
President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1907)
1985 –
Raoul Ubac , French painter, sculptor, photographer, and engraver (b. 1910)
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1985 –
Spyros Vassiliou , Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer (b. 1903)
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1986 –
Olive Deering , American actress (b. 1918)
1986 –
Mark Dinning , American singer (b. 1933)
1987 –
Odysseas Angelis , Greek general and politician (b. 1912)
1989 –
Peta Taylor , English cricketer (b. 1912)
1990 –
Gerald Bull , Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1928)
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1991 –
Léon Balcer , Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th
Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1917)
1991 –
Paul Engle , American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1908)
1991 –
Dave Guard , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
1991 –
Gloria Holden , English-American actress (b. 1908)
1993 –
Steve Olin , American baseball player (b. 1965)
1994 –
Dan Hartman , American singer-songwriter, and producer (b. 1950)
1994 –
Walter Lantz , American animator, director, and producer (b. 1899)
1996 –
Don Murray , American drummer (b. 1945)
1996 –
Robert F. Overmyer , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1936)
1996 –
Billy Williamson , American guitarist (b. 1925)
1999 –
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff , English historian and academic (b. 1913)
1999 –
David Strickland , American actor (b. 1969)
2000 –
Carlo Parola , Italian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
2001 –
Stepas Butautas , Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
2001 –
Sabiha Gökçen , Turkish soldier and pilot (b. 1913)
2001 –
William Hanna , American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded
Hanna-Barbera (b. 1910)
2001 –
Robert Fletcher Shaw , Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (b. 1910)
2002 –
Rudolf Baumgartner , Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1917)
2003 –
Terry Lloyd , English journalist (b. 1952)
2004 –
Janet Akyüz Mattei , Turkish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1943)
2004 –
Ahmed Yassin , Co-founded
Hamas (b. 1937)
2004 –
V. M. Tarkunde , Indian lawyer and civil rights activist (b. 1909)
2005 –
Rod Price , English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
2005 –
Gemini Ganesan , Indian film actor (b. 1920)
2005 –
Kenzō Tange , Japanese architect, designed the
Yoyogi National Gymnasium and
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (b. 1913)
2006 –
Pierre Clostermann , French soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1921)
2006 –
Pío Leyva , Cuban singer and author (b. 1917)
2006 –
Kurt von Trojan , Austrian-Australian journalist and author (b. 1937)
2007 –
U. G. Krishnamurti , Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (b. 1918)
2008 –
Cachao López , Cuban-American bassist and composer (b. 1918)
2010 –
James Black , Scottish biologist and pharmacologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
2010 –
Özhan Canaydın , Turkish basketball player and businessman (b. 1943)
2011 –
Artur Agostinho , Portuguese journalist (b. 1920)
2011 –
Victor Bouchard , Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1926)
2012 –
Joe Blanchard , American football player and wrestler (b. 1928)
2012 –
John Payton , American lawyer and activist (b. 1946)
2012 –
Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley , English academic and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (b. 1925)
2012 –
Mickey Sullivan , American baseball player and coach (b. 1932)
2012 –
David Waltz , American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
2012 –
Neil L. Whitehead , English anthropologist and author (b. 1956)
2013 –
Vladimír Čech , Czech actor and politician (b. 1951)
2013 –
James Nabrit , American lawyer and academic (b. 1932)
2013 –
Bebo Valdés , Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (b. 1918)
2013 –
Derek Watkins , English trumpet player and composer (b. 1945)
2013 –
Ray Williams , American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
2014 –
Yashwant Vithoba Chittal , Indian author (b. 1928)
2014 –
Mickey Duff , Polish-English boxer and manager (b. 1929)
2014 –
Thor Listau , Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1938)
2014 –
Tasos Mitsopoulos , Cypriot politician,
Cypriot Minister of Defence (b. 1965)
2015 –
Arkady Arkanov , Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (b. 1933)
2015 –
Horst Buhtz , German footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2015 –
Norman Scribner , American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936)
2016 –
Phife Dawg , American rapper (b. 1970)
2016 –
Rob Ford , Canadian businessman and politician, 64th
Mayor of Toronto (b. 1969)
2016 –
Rita Gam , American actress (b. 1927)
2018 –
Johan van Hulst , Dutch politician, academic and author,
Yad Vashem recipient (b. 1911)
2019 –
Scott Walker , British-American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
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2024 –
Laurent de Brunhoff , French author and illustrator (b. 1925)
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