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Day of the year
October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 78 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1908 – The
Chicago Cubs defeat the
Detroit Tigers , 2–0, clinching the
1908 World Series ; this would be their last until winning the
2016 World Series .
1910 – English aviator
Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the
White House in Washington, D.C.
1912 – Former president
Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by
John Flammang Schrank . With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
1913 –
Senghenydd colliery disaster , the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.
1915 –
World War I : Bulgaria
joins the Central Powers .
1920 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the
Treaty of Tartu , exchanging some territories.
1923 – After the
Irish Civil War the
1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of
Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their
internment without trial.
[8]
1930 – The former and first
President of Finland ,
K. J. Ståhlberg , and his wife,
Ester Ståhlberg , are
kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right
Lapua Movement .
[9]
[10]
1933 – Germany withdraws from the
League of Nations and
World Disarmament Conference .
1939 –
World War II : The
German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship
HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 – World War II: The
Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
1943 – World War II: Prisoners at
Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
1943 – World War II: The
United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291
B-17 Flying Fortresses during the
Second Raid on Schweinfurt .
1943 – World War II: The
Second Philippine Republic , a puppet state of
Japan , is inaugurated with
José P. Laurel as its president.
1947 –
Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
1949 – The
Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
1952 –
Korean War : The
Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 – Dr.
B. R. Ambedkar , leader of India's
Untouchable caste , converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see
Neo-Buddhism ).
1957 – The
23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the
Queen of Canada .
1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating
flood in the history of the Spanish city of
Valencia .
1962 – The
Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
1964 –
Martin Luther King Jr. receives the
Nobel Peace Prize for combating
racial inequality through
nonviolence .
1964 – The
Soviet Presidium and the
Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept
Nikita Khrushchev 's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
1966 – The city of
Montreal begins the operation of its underground
Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
1966 – The Dutch
Cals cabinet fell after
Norbert Schmelzer , the leader of the government party, succesfully filed a motion against the budget, in what later became known as the
Night of Schmelzer .
[11]
1968 –
Apollo program : The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the
Apollo 7 crew.
1968 – The 6.5 Mw
Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of
Western Australia with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
1968 –
Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1973 – In the
Thammasat student uprising , over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1975 – An
RAF
Avro Vulcan bomber
explodes and crashes over
Żabbar ,
Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
[12]
1979 – The first
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
1980 – The
6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President
Kim Il Sung 's son
Kim Jong Il as his successor.
[13]
[14]
1981 – Vice President
Hosni Mubarak is elected as the
President of Egypt , one week after the
assassination of Anwar Sadat .
1982 – U.S. President
Ronald Reagan proclaims a
War on Drugs .
1991 – Burmese opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 –
Yasser Arafat ,
Yitzhak Rabin and
Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the
Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
1998 –
Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996
Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 – The
Steve Bartman Incident takes place at
Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
[15]
2004 –
MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from
Halifax Stanfield International Airport , killing all seven people on board.
2004 –
Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in
Jefferson City, Missouri . The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.
[16]
2012 –
Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
2014 – A
snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of
Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
2014 – The
Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
2015 – A
suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
2017 – A
massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others.
2021 – About 10,000 American employees of
John Deere
go on strike .
[17]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1609 –
Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1689)
1630 –
Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714)
[20]
1633 –
James II of England (d. 1701)
1639 –
Simon van der Stel , Dutch commander and politician, 1st
Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1712)
1643 –
Bahadur Shah I , Mughal emperor (d. 1712)
[21]
1644 –
William Penn , English businessman who founded
Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1687 –
Robert Simson , Scottish mathematician and academic (d. 1768)
1712 –
George Grenville , English lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1770)
[22]
1726 –
Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham , Scottish-English admiral and politician (d. 1813)
1733 –
François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt , Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
1784 –
Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
1791 –
Friedrich Parrot , Baltic German naturalist (d. 1841)
[23]
1801 –
Joseph Plateau , Belgian physicist and academic, created the
Phenakistoscope (d. 1883)
1806 –
Preston King , American lawyer and politician (d. 1865)
1824 –
Adolphe Monticelli , French painter (d. 1886)
[24]
1840 –
Dmitry Pisarev , Russian author and critic (d. 1868)
1842 –
Joe Start , American baseball player and manager (d. 1927)
1844 –
John See , English-Australian politician, 14th
Premier of New South Wales (d. 1907)
1845 –
Laura Askew Haygood , American educator and missionary (d. 1900)
[25]
1848 –
Byron Edmund Walker , Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924)
1853 –
John William Kendrick , American engineer and businessman (d. 1924)
1861 –
Julia A. Ames , American journalist, editor, and reformer (d. 1891)
[26]
1867 –
Masaoka Shiki , Japanese poet, author, and critic (d. 1902)
1869 –
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen , English art dealer (d. 1939)
1871 –
Alexander von Zemlinsky , Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (d. 1942)
[27]
1872 –
Reginald Doherty , English tennis player (d. 1910)
1882 –
Éamon de Valera , American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd
President of Ireland (d. 1975)
1882 –
Charlie Parker , English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1959)
1888 –
Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1923)
[28]
1888 –
Yukio Sakurauchi , Japanese businessman and politician, 27th
Japanese Minister of Finance (d. 1947)
1890 –
Dwight D. Eisenhower , American general and politician, 34th
President of the United States (d. 1969)
1892 –
Sumner Welles , American politician and diplomat, 11th
Under Secretary of State (d. 1961)
1893 –
Lois Lenski , American author and illustrator (d. 1974)
[29]
1893 –
Lillian Gish , American actress (d. 1993)
1894 –
E. E. Cummings , American poet and playwright (d. 1962)
1894 –
Victoria Drummond , British marine engineer (d. 1978)
1897 –
Alicja Dorabialska , Polish chemist (d. 1975)
1898 –
Thomas William Holmes , Canadian sergeant and pilot,
Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1950)
1900 –
W. Edwards Deming , American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993)
1901–present
1902 –
Learco Guerra , Italian cyclist and manager (d. 1963)
1902 –
Arthur Justice , Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (d. 1977)
[30]
1904 –
Christian Pineau , French politician,
French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1995)
1904 –
Mikhail Pervukhin , Soviet politician,
First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1978)
1906 –
Hassan al-Banna , Egyptian religious leader, founded the
Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
1906 –
Hannah Arendt , German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975)
[31]
1907 –
Allan Jones , American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1909 –
Mochitsura Hashimoto , Japanese commander (d. 2000)
1909 –
Dorothy Kingsley , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
[32]
1909 –
Bernd Rosemeyer , German racing driver (d. 1938)
1910 –
John Wooden , American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
[33]
1911 –
Lê Đức Thọ , Vietnamese general and politician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
[34]
1914 –
Harry Brecheen , American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
1914 –
Raymond Davis Jr. , American chemist and physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1914 –
Alexis Rannit , Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985)
1915 –
Loris Francesco Capovilla , Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
1916 –
C. Everett Koop , American admiral and surgeon, 13th
United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)
[34]
1918 –
Marcel Chaput , Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (d. 1991)
1918 –
Thelma Coyne Long , Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015)
1918 –
Doug Ring , Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2003)
1921 –
José Arraño Acevedo , Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)
1923 –
Joel Barnett , English accountant and politician,
Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014)
1926 –
Willy Alberti , Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985)
1927 –
Roger Moore , English actor and producer (d. 2017)
[34]
1928 –
Joyce Bryant , American actress and singer (d. 2022)
[35]
1928 –
Frank E. Resnik , American chemist and businessman (d. 1995)
1929 –
Yvon Durelle , Canadian boxer and wrestler (d. 2007)
1930 –
Robert Parker , American singer and saxophonist (d. 2020)
1930 –
Mobutu Sese Seko , Congolese soldier and politician,
President of Zaire (d. 1997)
1930 –
Alan Williams , Welsh journalist and politician,
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2014)
1932 –
Enrico Di Giuseppe , American tenor and actor (d. 2005)
1932 –
Anatoly Larkin , Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005)
1936 –
Hans Kraay Sr. , Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2017)
1936 –
Jürg Schubiger , Swiss psychotherapist and author (d. 2014)
1938 –
John Dean , American lawyer and author, 13th
White House Counsel
[34]
1938 –
Elizabeth Esteve-Coll , English curator and academic
1938 –
Ron Lancaster , American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
1938 –
Shula Marks , South African historian and academic
1938 –
Melba Montgomery , American country music singer
1938 –
Farah Pahlavi , Empress of Iran
1939 –
Ralph Lauren , American fashion designer, founded the
Ralph Lauren Corporation
[34]
1939 –
Rocky Thompson , American golfer and politician (d. 2021)
1940 –
Perrie Mans , South African snooker player (d. 2023)
1940 –
Cliff Richard , Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor
[36]
1940 –
J. C. Snead , American golfer
1940 –
Christopher Timothy , Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter
1941 –
Jerry Glanville , American football player and coach
1941 –
Eddie Keher , Irish sportsman
1941 –
Laurie Lawrence , Australian rugby player and coach
1941 –
Art Shamsky , American baseball player and manager
1941 –
Roger Taylor , English tennis player
1942 –
Bob Hiller , English rugby player
1942 –
Evelio Javier , Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1986)
1942 –
Péter Nádas , Hungarian author and playwright
1942 –
Suzzanna , Indonesian actress (d. 2008)
1943 –
Mohammad Khatami , Iranian scholar and politician, 5th
President of Iran
[37]
1944 –
Udo Kier , German-American actor and director
1945 –
Colin Hodgkinson , English bass player
1945 –
Daan Jippes , Dutch author and illustrator
1945 –
Lesley Joseph , English actress
1946 –
François Bozizé , Gabonese general and politician,
President of the Central African Republic
1946 –
Joey de Leon , Filipino comedian, actor and television host
1946 –
Justin Hayward , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
[36]
1946 –
Dan McCafferty , Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2022)
1946 –
Al Oliver , American baseball player
1946 –
Craig Venter , American biologist, geneticist, and academic
1947 –
Norman Harris , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987)
1947 –
Charlie Joiner , American football player
1947 –
Nikolai Volkoff , Croatian-American wrestler (d. 2018)
1948 –
Marcia Barrett , Jamaican-English singer
1948 –
Norman Ornstein , American political scientist and scholar
1949 –
Damian Lau , Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
1949 –
Katha Pollitt , American poet and author
1949 –
Dave Schultz , Canadian ice hockey player and referee
1950 –
Joey Travolta , American actor, director, and producer
1951 –
Aad van den Hoek , Dutch cyclist
1952 –
Harry Anderson , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2018)
[38]
1952 –
Nikolai Andrianov , Russian gymnast and coach (d. 2011)
1952 –
Rick Aviles , American comedian and actor (d. 1995)
1953 –
Greg Evigan , American actor
[36]
1953 –
Kazumi Watanabe , Japanese guitarist and composer
1954 –
Mordechai Vanunu , Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic
1955 –
Iwona Blazwick , English curator and critic
1955 –
Arleen Sorkin , American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
[36]
1956 –
Chris Bangle , American automotive designer
[39]
1956 –
Ümit Besen , Turkish singer-songwriter
1956 –
Beth Daniel , American golfer
[34]
1956 –
Jennell Jaquays , American game designer (d. 2024)
1957 –
Michel Després , Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 –
Gen Nakatani , Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th
Japanese Minister of Defense
1958 –
Thomas Dolby , English singer-songwriter and producer
[36]
1959 –
Alexei Kasatonov , Russian ice hockey player
[40]
1959 –
A. J. Pero , American drummer (d. 2015)
1960 –
Steve Cram , English runner and coach
1960 –
Zbigniew Kruszyński , Polish footballer and coach
1961 –
Isaac Mizrahi , American fashion designer
1962 –
Jaan Ehlvest , Estonian chess player
1962 –
Trevor Goddard , English-American actor (d. 2003)
1962 –
Chris Thomas King , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1962 –
Shahar Perkiss , Israeli tennis player
[41]
1963 –
Lori Petty , American actress
[36]
1964 –
Joe Girardi , American baseball player and manager
1965 –
Steve Coogan , English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
[36]
1965 –
Jüri Jaanson , Estonian rower and politician
[42]
1965 –
Constantine Koukias , Greek-Australian flute player and composer
1965 –
Karyn White , American singer-songwriter
[36]
1967 –
Pat Kelly , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1967 –
Sylvain Lefebvre , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 –
Werner Daehn , German actor
1967 –
Jason Plato , British racing driver
[43]
1967 –
Stephen A. Smith , American sports television personality
[44]
[45]
1968 –
Jay Ferguson , Canadian guitarist and songwriter
1968 –
Johnny Goudie , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1968 –
Matthew Le Tissier , English footballer and journalist
1968 –
Dwayne Schintzius , American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1969 –
P. J. Brown , American basketball player
1969 –
Viktor Onopko , Russian footballer and manager
1969 –
David Strickland , American actor (d. 1999)
1970 –
Martin Barbarič , Czech footballer and coach (d. 2013)
1970 –
Jim Jackson , American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 –
Meelis Lindmaa , Estonian footballer
1970 –
Hiromi Nagasaku , Japanese actress and singer
1970 –
Jon Seda , American actor
[36]
1970 –
Vasko Vassilev , Bulgarian violinist
1970 –
Pär Zetterberg , Swedish footballer
1971 –
Jorge Costa , Portuguese footballer and manager
1971 –
Robert Jaworski Jr. , Filipino basketball player and politician
1972 –
Erika deLone , American tennis player
1972 –
Julian O'Neill , Australian rugby league player
1973 –
Thom Brooks , American-British political philosopher and legal scholar
1973 –
George Floyd , American police brutality victim (d. 2020)
[46]
1973 –
Lasha Zhvania , Georgian businessman and politician
1974 –
Jessica Drake , American porn actress and director
1974 –
Natalie Maines , American singer-songwriter
[36]
1974 –
Tümer Metin , Turkish footballer
1974 –
Viktor Röthlin , Swiss runner
1974 –
Samuel , Brazilian footballer
1975 –
Michael Duberry , English footballer
1975 –
Floyd Landis , American cyclist
1975 –
Shaznay Lewis , English singer and songwriter
[36]
1975 –
Carlos Spencer , New Zealand rugby player
1976 –
Tillakaratne Dilshan , Sri Lankan cricketer
1976 –
Daniel Tjärnqvist , Swedish ice hockey player
[47]
1977 –
Saeed Ajmal , Pakistani cricketer
1977 –
Barry Ditewig , Dutch footballer
1977 –
Kelly Schumacher , American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player
1978 –
Justin Lee Brannan , American guitarist and songwriter, and politician
1978 –
Paul Hunter , English snooker player (d. 2006)
1978 –
Jana Macurová , Czech tennis player
1978 –
Steven Thompson , Scottish footballer
1978 –
Usher , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
[36]
1979 –
Stacy Keibler , American wrestler and actress
[36]
1979 –
Liina-Grete Lilender , Estonian figure skater and coach
1980 –
Paúl Ambrosi , Ecuadorian footballer
1980 –
Amjad Khan , Danish-English cricketer
1980 –
Scott Kooistra , American football player
1980 –
Niels Lodberg , Danish footballer
1980 –
Terrence McGee , American football player
1980 –
Ben Whishaw , English actor
[48]
1981 –
Gautam Gambhir , Indian cricketer
1982 –
Ryan Hall , American runner
1982 –
Carlos Mármol , Dominican baseball player
[49]
1982 –
Matt Roth , American football player
1983 –
Betty Heidler , German hammer thrower
1983 –
Lin Dan , Chinese badminton player
[50]
1984 –
LaRon Landry , American football player
1984 –
Alex Scott , English footballer
1985 –
Alexandre Sarnes Negrão , Brazilian racing driver
1985 –
Alanna Nihell , Irish boxer
[51]
1985 –
Ivan Pernar , Croatian Member of Parliament
1986 –
Tom Craddock , English footballer
1986 –
Wesley Matthews , American basketball player
[52]
1986 –
Skyler Shaye , American actress
[36]
1987 –
Jay Pharoah , American actor and comedian
[36]
1988 –
Glenn Maxwell , Australian cricketer
1988 –
Max Thieriot , American actor
[36]
1989 –
Arca , Venezuelan musician
[53]
1990 –
Jordan Clark , English cricketer
1992 –
Ahmed Musa , Nigerian footballer
1993 –
Ashton Agar , Australian cricketer
1994 –
Joe Burgess , English rugby league player
1994 –
Jaelen Feeney , Australian rugby league player
1994 –
Jared Goff , American football player
1998 –
Ariela Barer , American actress
[34]
1999 –
Quinn Hughes , American ice hockey player
[54]
2001 –
Rowan Blanchard , American actress
[55]
Deaths
Pre-1600
530 –
Antipope Dioscorus
841 –
Shi Yuanzhong , Chinese governor
869 –
Pang Xun , Chinese rebel leader
962 –
Gerloc , Frankish noblewoman
996 –
Al-Aziz Billah , Fatimid caliph (b. 955)
1066 –
Battle of Hastings :
1077 –
Andronicus Ducas , Byzantine courtier (b. 1022)
1092 –
Nizam al-Mulk , Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018)
1184 –
Yusuf I , Almohad caliph (b. 1135)
1213 –
Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex , English sheriff and Chief Justiciar
1217 –
Isabella , English noblewoman and wife of
John of England (b. c. 1173)
1240 –
Razia Sultana , Only female sultan of Delhi (b. c. 1205)
[56]
1256 –
Kujō Yoritsugu , Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 –
Edward Bruce , High King of Ireland (b. 1275)
1366 –
Ibn Nubata , Arab poet (b. 1287)
[57]
1416 –
Henry the Mild , duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1536 –
Garcilaso de la Vega , Spanish poet (b. 1503)
1552 –
Oswald Myconius , Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1488)
1565 –
Thomas Chaloner , English poet and politician (b. 1521)
1568 –
Jacques Arcadelt , Dutch singer and composer (b. 1507)
1601–1900
1610 –
Amago Yoshihisa , Japanese daimyō (b. 1540)
1618 –
Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton , English nobleman (b.c. 1570)
1619 –
Samuel Daniel , English poet and historian (b. 1562)
1631 –
Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , queen of Denmark and Norway (b. 1557)
1637 –
Gabriello Chiabrera , Italian poet (b. 1552)
1669 –
Antonio Cesti , Italian organist and composer (b. 1623)
1703 –
Thomas Kingo , Danish bishop and poet (b. 1634)
1711 –
Tewoflos , Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708)
1758 –
James Francis Edward Keith , Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1831 –
Jean-Louis Pons , French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)
1901–present
1911 –
John Marshall Harlan , American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
1923 –
Marcellus Emants , Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
1929 –
Henri Berger , German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
1930 –
Samuel van Houten , Dutch lawyer and politician,
Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837)
1942 –
Noboru Yamaguchi , Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
1943 –
Sobibór uprising :
1944 –
Erwin Rommel , German field marshal (b. 1891)
1953 –
Émile Sarrade , French rugby player and
tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
1953 –
Kyuichi Tokuda , Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
1958 –
Douglas Mawson , Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)
1958 –
Nikolay Zabolotsky , Russian-Soviet poet and translator (b. 1903)
[58]
1959 –
Jack Davey , New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (b. 1907)
1959 –
Errol Flynn , Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1909)
1960 –
Abram Ioffe , Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880)
1961 –
Paul Ramadier , French politician, 129th
Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
1961 –
Harriet Shaw Weaver , English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
1965 –
William Hogenson , American sprinter (b. 1884)
1965 –
Randall Jarrell , American poet and author (b. 1914)
1966 –
George Carstairs , Australian rugby league player (b. 1900)
[59]
1966 –
Arthur Folwell , English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (b. 1904)
[60]
1967 –
Marcel Aymé , French author and playwright (b. 1902)
1969 –
Haguroyama Masaji , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th
Yokozuna (b. 1914)
1969 –
August Sang , Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
1973 –
Edmund A. Chester , American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897)
1973 –
Ahmed Hamdi , Egyptian general and engineer (b. 1929)
1976 –
Edith Evans , English actress (b. 1888)
1977 –
Bing Crosby , American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1903)
1982 –
Louis Rougier , French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889)
1983 –
Willard Price , Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
1984 –
Martin Ryle , English astronomer and physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1985 –
Emil Gilels , Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 –
Keenan Wynn , American actor (b. 1916)
1986 –
Takahiko Yamanouchi , Japanese physicist (b. 1902)
1990 –
Leonard Bernstein , American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
1997 –
Harold Robbins , American author (b. 1915)
1998 –
Cleveland Amory , American author and activist (b. 1917)
1998 –
Frankie Yankovic , American accordion player (b. 1916)
1999 –
Julius Nyerere , Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st
President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
2000 –
Art Coulter , Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
2000 –
Tony Roper , American race car driver (b. 1964)
2002 –
Norbert Schultze , German composer and conductor (b. 1911)
2003 –
Patrick Dalzel-Job , English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913)
2006 –
Freddy Fender , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
2006 –
Klaas Runia , Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926)
2006 –
Gerry Studds , American educator and politician (b. 1937)
2008 –
Robert Furman , American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915)
2008 –
Kazys Petkevičius , Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2009 –
Martyn Sanderson , New Zealand actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2009 –
Collin Wilcox , American actress (b. 1935)
2009 –
Lou Albano , American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
2010 –
Simon MacCorkindale , English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
2010 –
Benoit Mandelbrot , Polish-American mathematician and economist (b. 1924)
2011 –
Reg Alcock , Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1948)
2011 –
Ashawna Hailey , American computer scientist and philanthropist (b. 1949)
2012 –
John Clive , English actor and author (b. 1933)
2012 –
Max Fatchen , Australian journalist and author (b. 1920)
2012 –
James R. Grover Jr. , American lawyer and politician (b. 1919)
2012 –
Larry Sloan , American publisher, co-founded
Price Stern Sloan (b. 1922)
2012 –
Arlen Specter , American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930)
2012 –
Dody Weston Thompson , American photographer (b. 1923)
2012 –
Gart Westerhout , Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
2013 –
Wally Bell , American baseball player and umpire (b. 1965)
2013 –
Max Cahner , German-Catalan historian and politician (b. 1936)
2013 –
Kōichi Iijima , Japanese author and poet (b. 1930)
2013 –
Bruno Metsu , French footballer and manager (b. 1954)
2013 –
Frank Moore , American painter and poet (b. 1946)
2013 –
Käty van der Mije-Nicolau , Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940)
2014 –
A. H. Halsey , English sociologist and academic (b. 1923)
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Leonard Liggio , American author and academic (b. 1933)
2014 –
Elizabeth Peña , American actress (b. 1959)
2015 –
Nurlan Balgimbayev , Kazakh politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947)
2015 –
Mathieu Kérékou , Beninese soldier and politician,
President of Benin (b. 1933)
2015 –
Margaret Keyes , American historian and academic (b. 1918)
2015 –
Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani , Indian admiral (b. 1930)
2016 –
Helen Kelly , New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1964)
2019 –
Harold Bloom , American literary critic (b. 1930)
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2019 –
Sulli , South Korean actress, singer, and model (b. 1994)
[63]
2021 –
Lee Wan-koo , South Korean politician, 39th
Prime Minister of South Korea
[64]
2022 –
Robbie Coltrane , Scottish actor, comedian and writer (b. 1950)
[65]
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