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Day of the year
September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 110 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1906 – The
Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in
Newport, South Wales by
Viscount Tredegar .
1910 – Premiere performance of
Gustav Mahler 's
Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant
conductor was
Bruno Walter ).
1915 – French soldiers rescue over 4,000
Armenian genocide survivors stranded on
Musa Dagh .
1923 –
Southern Rhodesia , today called
Zimbabwe , is annexed by the
United Kingdom .
1933 –
Leó Szilárd , waiting for a red light on
Southampton Row in
Bloomsbury , conceives the idea of the
nuclear chain reaction .
1938 –
Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the
Germans of the
Sudetenland region of
Czechoslovakia .
1940 –
Cave paintings are discovered in
Lascaux , France.
1940 – The
Hercules Powder Plant Disaster in the United States kills 51 people and injures over 200.
1942 –
World War II :
RMS Laconia , carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian
POWs is
torpedoed off the coast of
West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
1942 – World War II: First day of the
Battle of Edson's Ridge during the
Guadalcanal Campaign .
U.S. Marines protecting
Henderson Field are attacked by
Imperial Japanese Army troops.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is
rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1944 – World War II: The
liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues.
Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
1948 –
Chinese Civil War : Marshal
Lin Biao , commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist
Northeast Field Army , launched a massive offensive toward
Jinzhou ,
Liaoshen Campaign has begun.
1953 – U.S. Senator and future President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at
St. Mary's Church in
Newport, Rhode Island .
1958 –
Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working
integrated circuit while working at
Texas Instruments .
1959 – The
Soviet Union launches a large rocket,
Lunik II , at the Moon.
1959 –
Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in
color .
1961 – The
African and Malagasy Union is founded.
1961 –
Air France Flight 2005 crashes near
Rabat–Salé Airport , in
Rabat ,
Morocco , killing 77 people.
[2]
1962 – President
John F. Kennedy delivers his "
We choose to go to the Moon " speech at Rice University.
1966 –
Gemini 11 , the penultimate mission of NASA's
Gemini program , and the current human altitude record holder (except for the
Apollo lunar missions ).
1969 –
Philippine Air Lines Flight 158 crashes in
Antipolo , near
Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people.
[3]
1970 –
Dawson's Field hijackings :
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in
Zarqa ,
Jordan , continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in
Amman .
1974 – Emperor
Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia , '
Messiah ' of the
Rastafari movement , is deposed following a
military coup by the
Derg , ending a reign of 58 years.
1977 – South African
anti-apartheid activist
Steve Biko dies in police custody.
1980 – The
43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a
coup d'état led by General
Kenan Evren .
1983 – A
Wells Fargo depot in
West Hartford, Connecticut , United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by
Los Macheteros .
1983 – The
USSR vetoes a
United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 .
1984 –
Dwight Gooden sets the
baseball record for
strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by
Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
1988 –
Hurricane Gilbert devastates
Jamaica ; it turns towards Mexico's
Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
1990 – The two German states and the
Four Powers sign the
Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for
German reunification .
1990 – The
Red Cross organizations of mainland China and
Taiwan sign
Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in
Kinmen ,
Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the
Taiwan Strait .
[4]
1991 – NASA launches
Space Shuttle Discovery on
STS-48 to deploy the
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite .
[5]
1992 –
NASA launches
Space Shuttle Endeavour on
STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are
Mae Carol Jemison , the first
African-American woman in space,
Mamoru Mohri , the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and
Mark Lee and
Jan Davis , the first married couple in space.
1992 –
Abimael Guzmán , leader of the
Shining Path , is captured by
Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of
Shining Path 's leadership fell as well.
1994 –
Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine
Cessna 150 into the
White House 's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
2001 –
Ansett Australia , Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
2003 – The
United Nations lifts
sanctions against
Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the
1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 .
2003 –
Iraq War : In
Fallujah , U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2003 –
Typhoon Maemi , the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near
Busan .
[6]
2005 –
Israeli-Palestinian conflict : the
Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
[7]
2007 – Former Philippine President
Joseph Estrada is convicted of
plunder .
2007 –
Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the
Richter Scale hits the
Indonesian island of
Sumatra , killing 25 people and injuring 161.
[8]
2008 – The
2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a
Metrolink commuter train and a
Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
2011 – The
National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
2012 –
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to
Palana Airport , killing 10 and injuring four.
[9]
2013 –
NASA confirms that its
Voyager 1 probe has become the first
manmade object to enter interstellar space .
[10]
2014 –
Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by
Nigeria 's,
T. B. Joshua .
[11]
2015 – A series of
explosions involving
propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of
Petlawad in the state of
Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured.
2021 –
Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at
Kazachinskoye Airport , killing four.
[12]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1605 –
William Dugdale , English genealogist and historian (d. 1686)
1690 –
Peter Dens , Flemish theologian and academic (d. 1775)
[16]
1725 –
Guillaume Le Gentil , French astronomer (d. 1792)
[17]
1736 –
Hsinbyushin , Burmese king (d. 1776)
1739 –
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher ,
Methodist preacher and philanthropist (d. 1815)
1740 –
Johann Heinrich Jung , German author and academic (d. 1817)
1768 –
Benjamin Carr , English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (d. 1831)
1797 –
Samuel Joseph May , American activist (d. 1871)
1812 –
Edward Shepherd Creasy , English historian and jurist (d. 1878)
1812 –
Richard March Hoe , American engineer and businessman, invented the
Rotary printing press (d. 1886)
1818 –
Richard Jordan Gatling , American inventor, invented the
Gatling gun (d. 1903)
1818 –
Theodor Kullak , German pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1882)
1828 –
William Morgan , English-Australian politician, 14th
Premier of South Australia (d. 1883)
1829 –
Anselm Feuerbach , German painter (d. 1880)
1829 –
Charles Dudley Warner , American essayist and novelist (d. 1900)
[18]
1830 –
William Sprague , American businessman and politician, 27th
Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1837 –
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892)
1852 –
H. H. Asquith , English lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
[19]
1855 –
Simon-Napoléon Parent , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th
Premier of Quebec (d. 1920)
1856 –
Johann Heinrich Beck , American composer and conductor (d. 1924)
1857 –
Manuel Espinosa Batista , Colombian pharmacist and politician (d. 1919)
1862 –
Carl Eytel , German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1925)
1866 –
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon , English cricketer and politician, 13th
Governor General of Canada (d. 1941)
1869 –
Paweł Owerłło , Polish actor (d. 1957)
1875 –
Matsunosuke Onoe , Japanese actor and director (d. 1926)
1880 –
H. L. Mencken , American journalist and critic (d. 1956)
1882 –
Ion Agârbiceanu , Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop (d. 1963)
1884 –
Martin Klein , Estonian wrestler and coach (d. 1947)
1885 –
Heinrich Hoffmann , German photographer and art dealer (d. 1957)
1888 –
Maurice Chevalier , French actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1972)
[20]
1889 –
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud , Maltese politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)
1891 –
Pedro Albizu Campos , Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (d. 1965)
1891 –
Jean-François Martial , Belgian actor (d. 1977)
1891 –
Arthur Hays Sulzberger , American publisher (d. 1968)
1892 –
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. , American publisher, founded
Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (d. 1984)
1894 –
Kyuichi Tokuda , Japanese lawyer and politician (d. 1953)
1894 –
Dorothy Maud Wrinch , Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (d. 1976)
[21]
1895 –
Freymóður Jóhannsson , Icelandic painter and composer (d. 1973)
1897 –
Irène Joliot-Curie , French chemist and physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
[22]
1897 –
Walter B. Gibson , American magician and author (d. 1985)
1898 –
Salvador Bacarisse , Spanish composer (d. 1963)
1898 –
Alma Moodie , Australian violinist and educator (d. 1943)
1898 –
Ben Shahn , Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (d. 1969)
1900 –
Martha Atwell , American radio director (d. 1949)
[23]
1900 –
Haskell Curry , American mathematician, logician, and academic (d. 1982)
1901–present
1901 –
Shmuel Horowitz , Israeli agronomist and academic (d. 1999)
1902 –
Juscelino Kubitschek , Brazilian physician and politician, 21st
President of Brazil (d. 1976)
1902 –
Marya Zaturenska , Ukrainian-American poet and author (d. 1982)
[24]
1904 –
István Horthy , Hungarian fighter pilot and deputy regent (d. 1942)
1904 –
John Courtney Murray , American priest and theologian (d. 1967)
1904 –
Lou Moore , American race car driver (d. 1956)
1905 –
Linda Agostini , English-Australian murder victim (d. 1934)
[25]
1907 –
Louis MacNeice , Irish poet and playwright (d. 1963)
1908 –
Werner Flume , German jurist (d. 2009)
[26]
1909 –
Donald MacDonald , Canadian trade union leader and politician (d. 1986)
1913 –
Jesse Owens , American sprinter and long jumper (d. 1980)
[27]
1914 –
Rais Amrohvi , Pakistani psychoanalyst, poet, and scholar (d. 1988)
1914 –
Desmond Llewelyn , Welsh-English soldier and actor (d. 1999)
1916 –
Tony Bettenhausen , American race car driver (d. 1961)
1917 –
Pierre Sévigny , Canadian colonel, academic, and politician (d. 2004)
1917 –
Han Suyin , Chinese-Swiss physician and author (d. 2012)
1920 –
Irene Dailey , American actress (d. 2008)
1921 –
Frank McGee , American journalist (d. 1974)
1921 –
Stanisław Lem , Polish philosopher and author (d. 2006)
1921 –
Turgut Cansever , Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (d. 2009)
1922 –
Antonio Cafiero , Argentinian accountant and politician,
Governor of Buenos Aires Province (d. 2014)
1922 –
Jackson Mac Low , American poet, playwright, and composer (d. 2004)
1922 –
Mark Rosenzweig , American psychologist and academic (d. 2009)
1924 –
Amílcar Cabral , Guinea-Bissauan political leader (d. 1973)
1925 –
Stan Lopata , American baseball player (d. 2013)
1925 –
Dickie Moore , American actor (d. 2015)
1927 –
Mathé Altéry , French soprano and actress
1928 –
Robert Irwin , American painter and gardener
1928 –
Muriel Siebert , American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1928 –
Ernie Vandeweghe , Canadian-American basketball player and physician (d. 2014)
1928 –
Joseph John Gerry , American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2023)
[28]
1929 –
Harvey Schmidt , American composer and illustrator (d. 2018)
1930 –
Larry Austin , American composer and educator
1931 –
Ian Holm , English actor (d. 2020)
[29]
1931 –
George Jones , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
[29]
1932 –
Atli Dam , Faroese engineer and politician, 5th
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
1934 –
Glenn Davis , American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (d. 2009)
1934 –
Jaegwon Kim , South Korean-American philosopher and academic (d. 2019)
1934 –
Nellie Wong , Chinese American poet and activist
[30]
1935 –
Richard Hunt , American sculptor (d. 2023)
1937 –
George Chuvalo , Canadian boxer
1937 –
Wes Hall , Barbadian cricketer and politician
1938 –
Judy Clay , American soul and gospel singer (d. 2001)
[31]
1938 –
Claude Ruel , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
1938 –
Tatiana Troyanos , American operatic soprano (d. 1993)
1939 –
Pablo McNeil , Jamaican track and field sprinter and sprinting coach (d. 2011)
1939 –
Phillip Ramey , American pianist and composer
1939 –
Henry Waxman , American lawyer and politician
1940 –
Linda Gray , American model and actress
[32]
1942 –
Michel Drucker , French journalist
1942 –
Tomás Marco , Spanish composer
1942 –
Maria Muldaur , American folk and blues singer
[32]
1942 –
François Tavenas , Canadian engineer and academic (d. 2004)
1943 –
Ralph Neely , American football player (d. 2022)
[33]
1943 –
Michael Ondaatje , Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet
[29]
1943 –
Leonard Peltier , American political activist and convicted criminal
1944 –
Lonnie Mayne , American wrestler (d. 1978)
1944 –
Vladimir Spivakov , Russian violinist and conductor
1944 –
Barry White , American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
[29]
1945 –
Russell "Jungle Jim" Liberman , American
drag racer (d. 1977)
[34]
1945 –
Milo Manara , Italian author and illustrator
1945 –
John Mauceri , American conductor and producer
1946 –
Tony Bellamy , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)
1946 –
Neil Lyndon , British journalist and writer
1947 –
David Grant , English engineer and academic
1947 –
Gerald Howarth , English soldier, pilot, and politician,
Minister for International Security Strategy
1947 –
Christopher Neame , English actor
[35]
1948 –
Steve Turre , American trombonist and educator
1948 –
Max Walker , Australian footballer, cricketer, sportscaster, and architect (d. 2016)
1948 –
Caio Fernando Abreu , Brazilian writer (d. 1996)
1949 –
Charles Burlingame , American captain and pilot (d. 2001)
1949 –
Irina Rodnina , Russian figure skater and politician
1949 –
Tony Stevens , English rock bassist and songwriter
1950 –
Marguerite Blais , Canadian journalist and politician
1950 –
Gustav Brunner , Austrian engineer
1950 –
Bruce Mahler , American actor and screenwriter
1950 –
Mike Murphy , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1951 –
Bertie Ahern , Irish accountant and politician, 11th
Taoiseach of Ireland
1951 –
Norm Dubé , Canadian ice hockey player
1951 –
Ray Gravell , Welsh rugby player and actor (d. 2007)
1951 –
Joe Pantoliano , American actor and producer
[32]
1951 –
Ali-Ollie Woodson , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2010)
1952 –
Gerry Beckley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[32]
1952 –
Neil Peart , Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 2020)
[36]
1953 –
Nan Goldin , American photographer
1954 –
Robert Gober , American sculptor
1954 –
Scott Hamilton , American saxophonist
1954 –
Peeter Volkonski , Estonian singer-songwriter and actor
1955 –
Peter Scolari , American actor (d. 2021)
[29]
1955 –
Brian Smith , English footballer (d. 2013)
1956 –
Barry Andrews , English singer and keyboard player
1956 –
Leslie Cheung , Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2003)
1956 –
David Goodhart , English journalist and author
1956 –
BA Robertson , Scottish songwriter.
[37]
1956 –
Walter Woon , Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th
Attorney-General of Singapore
1957 –
Paul M. Sharp , British academic and educator
1957 –
Jan Egeland , Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian
1957 –
Rachel Ward , English-Australian actress
[32]
1957 –
Hans Zimmer , German composer and producer
[29]
1958 –
Wilfred Benítez , American boxer
1958 –
Gregg Edelman , American actor and singer
1959 –
Scott Brown , American colonel and politician
1959 –
Deron Cherry , American football player and sportscaster
1959 –
Sigmar Gabriel , German educator and politician, 17th
Vice-Chancellor of Germany
1960 –
Road Warrior Animal , American wrestler (d. 2020)
[38]
1960 –
Evan Jenkins , American academic and politician
1960 –
Stefanos Korkolis , Greek pianist and composer
1961 –
Mylène Farmer , Canadian-French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1962 –
Sunay Akın , Turkish poet, journalist, and philanthropist
1962 –
Amy Yasbeck , American actress
[32]
1964 –
Greg Gutfeld , American television journalist and author
1964 –
Dieter Hecking , German footballer and manager
1965 –
Einstein Kristiansen , Norwegian animator and producer
1965 –
Vernon Maxwell , American basketball player
1965 –
Midnight , Jamaican wrestler
1966 –
Darren E. Burrows , American actor
[32]
1966 –
Ben Folds , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[32]
1966 –
Vezio Sacratini , Canadian ice hockey player
1967 –
Louis C.K. , American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
[32]
1967 –
Pat Listach , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1968 –
Larry LaLonde , American guitarist and songwriter
[32]
1968 –
Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell , English politician (d. 2014)
1968 –
Richard Snell , South African cricketer and physiotherapist
1968 –
Paul F. Tompkins , American comedian, actor, and writer
1969 –
Max Boot , Russian-American historian and author
1969 –
Ángel Cabrera , Argentinian golfer
1969 –
James Frey , American author and screenwriter
1969 –
Shigeki Maruyama , Japanese golfer
1970 –
Will Chase , American actor, director, and singer
[32]
1970 –
Nathan Larson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 –
Younes El Aynaoui , Moroccan tennis player
1971 –
Shocker , Mexican wrestler
1972 –
Gideon Emery , English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1972 –
Paul Green , Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2022)
[39]
1972 –
Sidney Souza , Brazilian footballer
1973 –
Tarana Burke , American civil rights activist
1973 –
Kara David , Filipino journalist and documentarian
1973 –
Martina Ertl-Renz , German skier
1973 –
Martin Lapointe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973 –
Paul Walker , American actor (d. 2013)
[40]
1974 –
Caroline Aigle , French soldier and pilot (d. 2007)
1974 –
Jennifer Nettles , American singer-songwriter
[32]
1974 –
Guy Smith , English race car driver
1974 –
Kenichi Suzumura , Japanese voice actor and singer-songwriter
1974 –
Nuno Valente , Portuguese footballer and coach
1975 –
Luis Castillo , Dominican baseball player
1975 –
Bill Kirby , Australian swimmer and coach
1976 –
Lauren Stamile , American actress
[32]
1976 –
Maciej Żurawski , Polish footballer
1977 –
Nathan Bracken , Australian cricketer
1977 –
2 Chainz , American rapper
[32]
1977 –
Grant Denyer , Australian race car driver and journalist
1977 –
Jeff Irwin , American singer-songwriter and producer
1977 –
David Thompson , English footballer
1978 –
Elisabetta Canalis , Italian model and actress
1978 –
Benjamin McKenzie , American actor
[32]
1978 –
Ruben Studdard , American R&B, pop, and gospel singer
[32]
1980 –
Sean Burroughs , American baseball player
1980 –
Fernando César de Souza , Brazilian footballer
1980 –
Yao Ming , Chinese basketball player
[29]
1980 –
Hiroyuki Sawano , Japanese composer
1980 –
Kevin Sinfield , English rugby player
1980 –
Josef Vašíček , Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
[41]
1981 –
Marty Adams , Canadian actor and screenwriter
1981 –
Alan Arruda , Brazilian footballer
1981 –
Jennifer Hudson , American singer and actress
[32]
1981 –
Staciana Stitts , American swimmer
1982 –
Zoran Planinić , Croatian basketball player
1982 –
Sal Rinauro , American wrestler
1983 –
Tom Geißler , German footballer
1983 –
Rami Haikal , Jordanian guitarist
1983 –
Sebastian Hofmann , German footballer
1983 –
Daniel Muir , American football player
1983 –
Sergio Parisse , Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1983 –
Clayton Richard , American baseball player
1983 –
Carly Smithson , Irish singer-songwriter
1984 –
Nashat Akram , Iraqi footballer
1984 –
Chelsea Carey , Canadian curler
1984 –
Petra Marklund , Swedish singer
[42]
1986 –
Alfie Allen , English actor
[43]
1986 –
Kamila Chudzik , Polish heptathlete
1986 –
Akwasi Fobi-Edusei , English footballer
1986 –
Joanne Jackson , English swimmer
1986 –
Yuto Nagatomo , Japanese footballer
1986 –
Dimitrios Regas , Greek sprinter
1986 –
Emmy Rossum , American singer and actress
[32]
1988 –
Amanda Jenssen , Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 –
Freddie Freeman , American-Canadian baseball player
1989 –
Andrew Luck , American football player
1991 –
Thomas Meunier , Belgian footballer
1991 –
Mike Towell , Scottish professional boxer (d. 2016)
[44]
1991 –
Scott Wootton , English footballer
1992 –
Sviatlana Pirazhenka , Belarusian tennis player
1993 –
Kelsea Ballerini , American country pop singer
[45]
1994 –
Gideon Jung , German footballer
1994 –
RM , South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer
[46]
1994 –
Elina Svitolina , Ukrainian tennis player
[47]
1995 –
Steven Gardiner , Bahamian sprinter
[48]
1996 –
Colin Ford , American actor
[32]
1997 –
Sydney Sweeney , American actress
[49]
1997 –
Almida de Val , Swedish curler
[50]
2001 –
Ziaire Williams , American basketball player
[51]
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1612 –
Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1642 –
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars , French conspirator (b. 1620)
1660 –
Jacob Cats , Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
1665 –
Jean Bolland , Belgian priest and hagiographer (b. 1596)
1672 –
Tanneguy Le Fèvre , French scholar and author (b. 1615)
1674 –
Nicolaes Tulp , Dutch anatomist and politician (b. 1593)
1683 –
Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
1712 –
Jan van der Heyden , Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1637)
1764 –
Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer and theorist (b. 1683)
1779 –
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple , English politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1711)
1810 –
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet , English banker and politician (b. 1740)
1814 –
Robert Ross , Irish general (b. 1766)
1819 –
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , Prussian general (b. 1742)
1836 –
Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German playwright (b. 1801)
1869 –
Peter Mark Roget , English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779)
1870 –
Eleanora Atherton , English philanthropist (b. 1782)
[53]
1870 –
Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American journalist, explorer, and author (b. 1836)
1874 –
François Guizot , French historian and politician, 22nd
Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
1901–present
1903 –
Duncan Gillies , Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th
Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
1907 –
Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)
1912 –
Pierre-Hector Coullié , French cardinal (b. 1829)
1918 –
George Reid , Australian accountant and politician, 4th
Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919 –
Leonid Andreyev , Russian author and playwright (b. 1871)
1923 –
Jules Violle , French physicist and academic (b. 1841)
1927 –
Sarah Frances Whiting , American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1942 –
Valentine Baker , Welsh co-founder of the
Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
1945 –
Hajime Sugiyama , Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th
Japanese Minister of War (b. 1880)
1949 –
Erik Adolf von Willebrand , Finnish physician (b. 1870)
1953 –
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn , English politician,
Governor of Northern Ireland (b. 1869)
1953 –
Hugo Schmeisser , German engineer (b. 1884)
1953 –
Lewis Stone , American actor (b. 1879)
1956 –
Sándor Festetics , Hungarian politician,
Hungarian Minister of War (b. 1882)
1961 –
Carl Hermann , German physicist and academic (b. 1898)
1962 –
Spot Poles , American baseball player and soldier (b. 1887)
1962 –
Rangeya Raghav , Indian author and playwright (b. 1923)
1967 –
Vladimir Bartol , Italian-Slovene author and playwright (b. 1903)
1968 –
Tommy Armour , Scottish-American golfer and journalist (b. 1894)
1971 –
Walter Egan , American golfer (b. 1881)
1972 –
William Boyd , American actor and producer (b. 1895)
1977 –
Steve Biko , South African activist (b. 1946)
1977 –
Les Haylen , Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898)
1977 –
Robert Lowell , American poet (b. 1917)
1978 –
William Hudson , New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896)
1981 –
Eugenio Montale , Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
[54]
1982 –
Federico Moreno Torroba , Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)
1986 –
Jacques Henri Lartigue , French painter and photographer (b. 1894)
1986 –
Charlotte Wolff , German-English psychotherapist and physician (b. 1897)
1987 –
John Qualen , Canadian-American actor (b. 1899)
1990 –
Athene Seyler , English actress (b. 1889)
1991 –
Bruce Matthews , Canadian general and businessman (b. 1909)
1992 –
Ruth Nelson , American actress
[55]
1992 –
Anthony Perkins , American actor, singer, and director (b. 1932)
1993 –
Raymond Burr , Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1917)
1994 –
Tom Ewell , American actor (b. 1909)
1994 –
Boris Yegorov , Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937)
1995 –
Jeremy Brett , English actor (b. 1933)
1995 –
Yasutomo Nagai , Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
1996 –
Ernesto Geisel , Brazilian general and politician, 29th
President of Brazil (b. 1907)
1997 –
Judith Merril , American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (b. 1923)
1999 –
Bill Quackenbush , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2000 –
Stanley Turrentine , American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
2003 –
Johnny Cash , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932)
2005 –
Serge Lang , French-American mathematician, author and academic (b. 1927)
2007 –
Bobby Byrd , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1934)
2008 –
Bob Quinn , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2008 –
David Foster Wallace , American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1962)
2009 –
Norman Borlaug , American agronomist and humanitarian,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2009 –
Jack Kramer , American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1921)
2009 –
Willy Ronis , French photographer and author (b. 1910)
2010 –
Claude Chabrol , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2010 –
Giulio Zignoli , Italian footballer (b. 1946)
2011 –
Alexander Galimov , Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
2012 –
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko , Russian poet and author (b. 1946)
2012 –
Jon Finlayson , Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2012 –
Derek Jameson , English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
2012 –
Tom Sims , American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded
Sims Snowboards (b. 1950)
2013 –
Ray Dolby , American engineer and businessman, founded
Dolby Laboratories (b. 1933)
2013 –
Warren Giese , American football player, coach, and politician (b. 1924)
2013 –
Erich Loest , German author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013 –
Candace Pert , American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (b. 1946)
2014 –
Atef Ebeid , Egyptian academic and politician, 47th
Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932)
2014 –
John Gustafson , English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1942)
2014 –
Ian Paisley , Northern Irish evangelical pastor (
Free Presbyterian Church ) and politician, 2nd
First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926)
2014 –
Joe Sample , American pianist and composer (b. 1939)
2014 –
Hugh Royer, Jr. , American golfer (b. 1936)
2015 –
Claudia Card , American philosopher and academic (b. 1940)
2015 –
Frank D. Gilroy , American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2015 –
Al Monchak , American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
2015 –
Aronda Nyakairima , Ugandan general and politician (b. 1959)
2017 –
Allan MacEachen , Canadian economist and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1921)
[56]
2017 –
Edith Windsor , American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (b. 1929)
[57]
2018 –
Shen Chun-shan , Taiwanese academic (b. 1932)
[58]
2019 –
ʻAkilisi Pōhiva , Tongan politician and activist,
Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)
[59]
Holidays and observances
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