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August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 139 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 29 BCOctavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.[1]
  • 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.[2]
  • 1183Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth day of the seventh month of the second year of the Juei (寿永) era).
  • 1264 – After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.[3]
  • 1288 – Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
  • 1352War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
  • 1370Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
  • 1385Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
  • 1457 – Publication of the Mainz Psalter, the first book to feature a printed date of publication and printed colophon.
  • 1480Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church.
  • 1592 – The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
  • 1598Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
  • 1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
  • 1791 – Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
  • 1814 – A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the Swedish–Norwegian War.
  • 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
  • 1842American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
  • 1848Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
  • 1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
  • 1885Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
  • 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
  • 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
  • 1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • 1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • 1911United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
  • 1912U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
  • 1914World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • 1916Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • 1921Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
  • 1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; it is not fully extinguished until September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
  • 1935Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
  • 1936Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
  • 1937 – The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
  • 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
  • 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
  • 1945 – The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
  • 1947Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
  • 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
  • 1969The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
  • 1971Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
  • 1972 – An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, due to an in-flight fire, killing 156.
  • 1973 – The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
  • 1980Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
  • 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
  • 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
  • 2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
  • 2003 – Project Thread, an operation launched by CSIS and other Canadian law enforcement agencies, saw the arrest and incarceration of 24 innocent Muslim men, most of them young Pakistani students.
  • 2005Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
  • 2006 – Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
  • 2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 334 people.
  • 2013Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
  • 2013 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.[4]
  • 2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.

Births[]

  • 928Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue (d. 947)
  • 1297Emperor Hanazono of Japan (d. 1348)
  • 1473Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
  • 1479Catherine of York (d. 1527)
  • 1499John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (d. 1526)
  • 1502Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (d. 1550)
  • 1530Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1590)
  • 1552Paolo Sarpi, Italian writer (d. 1623)
  • 1561Christopher Heydon, English politician (d. 1623)
  • 1575Robert Hayman, English-Canadian poet and politician (d. 1629)
  • 1586William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (d. 1642)
  • 1599Méric Casaubon, Swiss-English scholar and author (d. 1671)
  • 1625François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (d. 1695)
  • 1642Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
  • 1645Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican secular priest, scientist, and savant (d. 1700)
  • 1653Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (d. 1688)
  • 1688Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
  • 1714Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
  • 1738Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1793)
  • 1742Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)[5]
  • 1758Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (d. 1835)
  • 1777Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851)[6]
  • 1814Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (d. 1901)[7]
  • 1817Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1874)
  • 1840Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychologist and author (d. 1902)
  • 1847Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1922)
  • 1848Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (d. 1915)
  • 1851Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor (d. 1938)
  • 1851 – Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler (d. 1887)
  • 1857Max Wagenknecht, German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1922)
  • 1863Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (d. 1940)
  • 1865Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1952)
  • 1866Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (d. 1962)
  • 1867Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
  • 1867 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)
  • 1870Nelson McDowell, American actor (d. 1947)
  • 1871Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
  • 1875Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
  • 1876Alexander I of Serbia (d. 1903)
  • 1880Fred Alexander, American tennis player (d. 1969)
  • 1881Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1953)
  • 1883Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic (d. 1941)
  • 1886Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (d. 1950)
  • 1887Marija Leiko, Latvian actress (d. 1937)
  • 1889Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1976)
  • 1890Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (d. 1946)
  • 1892Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (d. 1988)
  • 1893Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (d. 1975)
  • 1894Frank Burge, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1958)[8]
  • 1895Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
  • 1895 – Amaza Lee Meredith, American architect (d. 1984)[9]
  • 1896Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (d. 1917)
  • 1896 – Theodor Luts, Estonian director and cinematographer (d. 1980)
  • 1900Margret Boveri, German journalist, recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1975)
  • 1901Alice Rivaz, Swiss pianist and author (d. 1998)
  • 1903Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 1995)
  • 1910Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
  • 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and producer (d. 1995)
  • 1911Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 2006)
  • 1911 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian spiritual leader, philosopher, and author (d. 2006)
  • 1912Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)
  • 1913Hector Crawford, Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
  • 1913 – Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
  • 1914Herman Branson, American physicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1995)
  • 1915B. A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and publisher (d. 1998)
  • 1916Frank and John Craighead, American naturalists (twins, Frank d. 2001, John d. 2016)
  • 1916 – Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 1992)
  • 1916 – Wellington Mara, American businessman (d. 2005)
  • 1918Patsy Smart, English actress (d. 1996)
  • 1922Leslie Marr, English race car driver
  • 1923Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem (d. 2000)
  • 1923 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (d. 2007)
  • 1924Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (d. 2009)
  • 1924 – Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor (d. 2013)
  • 1924 – Georges Prêtre, French conductor (d. 2017)
  • 1924 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (d. 1981)
  • 1925Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (d. 2019)
  • 1926René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (d. 1977)
  • 1926 – Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist (d. 2017)
  • 1928Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter
  • 1929Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (d. 2013)
  • 1929 – Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster (d. 2005)
  • 1929 – Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
  • 1930Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
  • 1931Frederic Raphael, American journalist, author, and screenwriter
  • 1932Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
  • 1933Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1935John Brodie, American football player and golfer
  • 1940Darrell "Dash" Crofts, American singer-songwriter and musician
  • 1940 – Galen Hall, American football player and coach
  • 1941David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1941 – Connie Smith, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1942Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
  • 1942 – Lionel Morton, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and television presenter
  • 1943Ronnie Campbell, English miner and politician
  • 1943 – Ben Sidran, American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer
  • 1944John Dunt, English admiral
  • 1945Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1945 – Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1946Larry Graham, American soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter
  • 1946 – Susan Saint James, American actress
  • 1946 – Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and businessman (d. 2010)
  • 1947Bruce Nash, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1947 – Maddy Prior, English folk singer
  • 1947 – Danielle Steel, American author
  • 1947 – Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese author and illustrator
  • 1947 – Joop van Daele, Dutch footballer and manager
  • 1948Terry Adams, American pianist and composer
  • 1948 – Bruce Thomas, English bass player and author
  • 1949Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and coach
  • 1950Gary Larson, American cartoonist
  • 1951Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1951 – Norbert Hofmann, German footballer and manager
  • 1952John McCutcheon, American folksinger
  • 1952 – Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
  • 1953James Horner, American composer and conductor (d. 2015)
  • 1954Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
  • 1954 – Stanley A. McChrystal, American general
  • 1956Sharon Bryant, American R&B singer
  • 1956 – Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
  • 1956 – Andy King, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
  • 1956 – Rusty Wallace, American race car driver and sportscaster
  • 1956 – Erica Flapan, American mathematician
  • 1957Peter Costello, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Treasurer of Australia
  • 1958Philip Dunne, English farmer and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
  • 1958 – Bobby Eaton, American wrestler and trainer
  • 1959Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
  • 1959 – Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
  • 1959 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
  • 1960Sarah Brightman, English singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1960 – Fred Roberts, American basketball player and educator
  • 1961Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler and manager (d. 1995)
  • 1962Mark Gubicza, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 1962 – Kevin Harris, Canadian skateboarder
  • 1962 – Andres Herkel, Estonian academic and politician
  • 1962 – Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
  • 1963Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
  • 1963 – José Cóceres, Argentinian golfer
  • 1964Neal Anderson, American football player and coach
  • 1964 – Jason Dunstall, Australian footballer and sportscaster
  • 1965Brannon Braga, American producer, director, and screenwriter
  • 1965 – Paul Broadhurst, English golfer
  • 1965 – Terry Richardson, American photographer and director
  • 1966Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986
  • 1966 – Karl Petter Løken, Swedish-Norwegian footballer and sportscaster
  • 1966 – Tuncay Özkan, Turkish journalist and politician
  • 1967Erik Gandini, Italian-Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1968Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer and coach
  • 1968 – Catherine Bell, English-American actress and producer
  • 1968 – Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
  • 1968 – Jason Leonard, English rugby player
  • 1968 – Medy van der Laan, Dutch politician
  • 1969Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut
  • 1969 – Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer and manager
  • 1970Kevin Cadogan, American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1971Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1971 – Mark Loretta, American baseball player and coach
  • 1971 – Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • 1972Tamer El Said, Egyptian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1972 – Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Haiti
  • 1973Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
  • 1973 – Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
  • 1973 – Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer and sportscaster
  • 1973 – Paddy McGuinness, English comedian and television presenter
  • 1974Chucky Atkins, American basketball player and coach
  • 1975Mike Vrabel, American football player and coach
  • 1976Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
  • 1977Ed Harcourt, English singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1977 – Juan Pierre, American baseball player
  • 1978Randika Galhenage, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • 1978 – Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
  • 1978 – Greg Rawlinson, South African-New Zealand rugby player
  • 1978 – Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
  • 1979Jérémie Bréchet, French footballer
  • 1979 – Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter
  • 1979 – Yōichirō Morikawa, Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 1980Aydın Toscalı, Turkish footballer
  • 1980 – Roy Williams, American football player
  • 1981Earl Barron, American basketball player
  • 1981 – Matthew Etherington, English footballer
  • 1981 – Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league player
  • 1981 – Julius Jones, American football player
  • 1981 – Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian-American wrestler
  • 1982Simon Andrews, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
  • 1983Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
  • 1983 – Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
  • 1983 – Juan Oviedo, Dominican baseball player
  • 1983 – Spencer Pratt, American television personality
  • 1983 – Sunidhi Chauhan, Indian playback singer
  • 1984Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player
  • 1984 – Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
  • 1984 – Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
  • 1984 – Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1984 – Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host
  • 1984 – Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player
  • 1984 – Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
  • 1985Christian Gentner, German footballer
  • 1985 – Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1986Cameron Jerome, English footballer
  • 1986 – Sam Moa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1986 – Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
  • 1987Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
  • 1989Florian Abel, German footballer
  • 1989 – Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
  • 1989 – Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1991Richard Freitag, German ski jumper

Deaths[]

  • 582Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor (b. 535)
  • 902Badr al-Mu'tadidi, commander-in-chief of the Abbasid Caliphate under al-Mu'tadid
  • 1040Duncan I of Scotland (b. 1001)
  • 1167Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop (b. 1120)
  • 1204Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shōgun (b. 1182)
  • 1297Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg (b. c. 1220)
  • 1319Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (b. c. 1280)
  • 1388James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (b. c. 1358)
  • 1390John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
  • 1433John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
  • 1464Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
  • 1573Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1548)
  • 1657Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
  • 1691Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)
  • 1727William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
  • 1774Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
  • 1784Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
  • 1854Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)[10]
  • 1856Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
  • 1860André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
  • 1870David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
  • 1874Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)
  • 1890Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
  • 1905Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
  • 1909William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1829)
  • 1926John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
  • 1928Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
  • 1938Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)
  • 1941Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
  • 1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
  • 1943Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
  • 1943 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
  • 1951William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
  • 1954Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
  • 1954 – Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
  • 1955Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
  • 1956Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
  • 1958Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
  • 1958 – Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
  • 1963Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
  • 1964Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
  • 1965Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
  • 1966Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
  • 1967Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)
  • 1972Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
  • 1972 – Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
  • 1973Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
  • 1978Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)
  • 1980Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)
  • 1981Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1894)
  • 1981 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
  • 1982Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (b. 1904)
  • 1984Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904)
  • 1984 – J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
  • 1985Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
  • 1988Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
  • 1988 – Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1945)[11]
  • 1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898)
  • 1989Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
  • 1991Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1920)
  • 1992John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
  • 1994Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
  • 1994 – Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)
  • 1996Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
  • 1999Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
  • 2000Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
  • 2002Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
  • 2003Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
  • 2004Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  • 2004 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
  • 2006Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)
  • 2006 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 2007Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
  • 2007 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
  • 2007 – Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)
  • 2010Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter and author (b. 1929)
  • 2010 – Herman Leonard, American soldier and photographer (b. 1923)
  • 2011Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
  • 2012Maja Bošković-Stulli, Croatian historian and academic (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)
  • 2012 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player and theoretician (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
  • 2013Jack Garfinkel, American basketball player and coach (b. 1918)
  • 2013 – Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928)
  • 2013 – Paddy Power, Irish educator and politician, 22nd Irish Minister for Defence (b. 1928)
  • 2014Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934)
  • 2014 – George V. Hansen, American soldier and politician (b. 1930)
  • 2015Agustín Cejas, Argentinian footballer (b. 1945)
  • 2015 – Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (b. 1927)
  • 2015 – Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932)
  • 2016Philip "Fyvush" Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
  • 2018Jill Janus, American singer (b. 1975)[12]
  • 2019Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1935)[13]
  • 2020James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (1977-91) (b. 1936) [14]
  • 2020 – Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (b. 1933) [15]

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Arnold of Soissons
    • Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
    • Eusebius of Rome
    • Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
  • Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.[16]

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