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Day of the year
May 20 is the 140th day of the year (141st in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 225 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
325 – The
First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first
ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
[1]
491 – Empress
Ariadne marries
Anastasius I . The widowed
Augusta is able to choose her successor for the
Byzantine throne, after
Zeno (late emperor) dies of
dysentery .
685 – The
Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a
Pictish army under King
Bridei III and the invading
Northumbrians under King
Ecgfrith , who are decisively defeated.
794 – While visiting the royal
Mercian court at
Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess
Ælfthryth , King
Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and
beheaded .
[2]
1217 – The
Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near
Lincoln , England, resulting in the defeat of
Prince Louis of France by
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke .
1293 – King
Sancho IV of Castile creates the
Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in
Alcalá de Henares .
1426 – King
Mohnyin Thado formally ascends to the
throne of Ava .
[note 1]
1449 – The
Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the
House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
1497 –
John Cabot sets sail from
Bristol , England, on his ship
Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a
May 2 date).
1498 – Portuguese explorer
Vasco da Gama
discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at
Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
[3]
1520 –
Hernan Cortés defeats
Pánfilo de Narváez , sent by Spain to punish him for insubordination.
[4]
1521 –
Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the
Battle of Pampeluna .
1570 –
Cartographer
Abraham Ortelius issues
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum , the first modern
atlas .
1601–1900
1609 –
Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher
Thomas Thorpe .
[5]
1631 – The city of
Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the
Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants
massacred , in one of the bloodiest incidents of the
Thirty Years' War .
1645 –
Yangzhou massacre : The ten day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of
Yangzhou , part of the
Transition from Ming to Qing .
[6]
1741 – The
Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a
Spanish victory and the
British begin
withdrawal towards
Jamaica with substantial
losses .
1775 – The
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in
Charlotte, North Carolina .
1802 – By the
Law of 20 May 1802 ,
Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates
slavery in the
French colonies , revoking its abolition in the
French Revolution .
1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the
Battle of Bautzen in
Saxony , Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and
Prussia . The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1861 –
American Civil War : The state of
Kentucky proclaims its
neutrality , which will last until
September 3 when
Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
1862 – U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln signs the
Homestead Act into law, opening eighty-four million acres (340,000 km2 ) of public land to settlers.
[7]
1864 – American Civil War:
Battle of Ware Bottom Church : In the
Virginia
Bermuda Hundred campaign , 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
1873 –
Levi Strauss and
Jacob Davis receive a U.S.
patent for blue
jeans with
copper rivets.
[8]
1875 – Signing of the
Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the
International System of Units .
1882 – The
Triple Alliance between the German Empire,
Austria-Hungary and the
Kingdom of Italy is formed.
1883 –
Krakatoa
begins to erupt ; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
1891 –
History of cinema : The first public display of
Thomas Edison 's prototype
kinetoscope .
1901–present
1902 –
Cuba gains independence from the United States.
Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
1927 –
Treaty of Jeddah : The United Kingdom recognizes the
sovereignty of King
Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of
Hejaz and
Nejd , which later merge to become the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia .
1927 –
Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the
Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landing 33+ 1 ⁄2 hours later.
[9]
1932 –
Amelia Earhart takes off from
Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1940 –
The Holocaust : The first prisoners arrive at a
new concentration camp at Auschwitz .
1941 – World War II:
Battle of Crete :
German
paratroops invade
Crete .
1943 – The
Luttra Woman , a
bog body from the Early
Neolithic period (
radiocarbon-dated
c. 3928–3651 BC ),
[10] was discovered near
Luttra ,
Sweden .
[11]
1948 – Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek wins the
1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first
President of the Republic of China at
Nanjing .
1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the
National Security Agency , is established.
1956 – In
Operation Redwing , the first United States airborne
hydrogen bomb is dropped over
Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1964 –
Discovery of the
cosmic microwave background radiation by
Robert Woodrow Wilson and
Arno Penzias .
1965 – One hundred twenty-one people are killed when
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashes at
Cairo International Airport .
[12]
1967 – The
Popular Movement of the Revolution
political party is established in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
1969 – The
Battle of Hamburger Hill in
Vietnam ends.
1971 – In the
Chuknagar massacre , Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
1980 – In a
referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
1983 – First publications of the discovery of the
HIV
virus that causes
AIDS in the journal
Science by a team of French scientists including
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ,
Jean-Claude Chermann , and
Luc Montagnier .
[13]
1983 –
Church Street bombing : A car bomb planted by
UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital,
Pretoria , killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
1985 –
Radio Martí , part of the
Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to
Cuba .
1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-
democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the
Tiananmen Square massacre .
1990 – The first post-
Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in
Romania .
1996 –
Civil rights : The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in
Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of
Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of
gays and lesbians .
[14]
2002 – The independence of
East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of
Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former
colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
2011 –
Mamata Banerjee is sworn in as the
Chief Minister of West Bengal , the first woman to hold this post.
[15]
2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a
6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
2013 – An
EF5
tornado strikes the
Oklahoma City suburb of
Moore , killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
2016 – The government of
Singapore authorised the controversial
execution of convicted murderer
Kho Jabing for the murder of a Chinese construction worker despite the international pleas for clemency, notably from
Amnesty International and the
United Nations .
[16]
[17]
[18]
2019 – The
International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the
international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.
2022 –
Russo-Ukrainian War : Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of
Mariupol after a nearly
three-month siege .
[19]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1664 –
Andreas Schlüter , German sculptor and architect (d. 1714)
1726 –
Francis Cotes , English painter and academic (d. 1770)
1759 –
William Thornton , Virgin Islander-American architect, designed the
United States Capitol (d. 1828)
1769 –
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis , Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
1772 –
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet , English inventor and politician, developed
Congreve rockets (d. 1828)
1776 –
Simon Fraser , American-Canadian fur trader and explorer (d. 1862)
1795 –
Pedro María de Anaya , Mexican soldier. President (1847–1848) (d. 1854)
[20]
1799 –
Honoré de Balzac , French novelist and playwright (d. 1850)
1806 –
John Stuart Mill , English economist, civil servant, and philosopher (d. 1873)
1811 –
Alfred Domett , English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1887)
1818 –
William Fargo , American businessman and politician, co-founded
Wells Fargo and
American Express (d. 1881)
1822 –
Frédéric Passy , French economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1912)
1824 –
Cadmus M. Wilcox ,
Confederate States Army general (d. 1890)
1825 –
Antoinette Brown Blackwell , the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the U.S. (d. 1921)
1830 –
Hector Malot , French author (d. 1907)
1838 –
Jules Méline , French lawyer and politician, 65th
Prime Minister of France (d. 1925)
1851 –
Emile Berliner , German-American inventor, invented the
Gramophone record (d. 1929)
1854 –
George Prendergast , Australian politician, 28th
Premier of Victoria (d. 1937)
1856 –
Henri-Edmond Cross , French Neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1910)
1860 –
Eduard Buchner , German chemist, zymologist, and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1875 –
Hendrik Offerhaus , Dutch rower (d. 1953)
1877 –
Pat Leahy , Irish-American jumper (d. 1927)
1879 –
Hans Meerwein , German chemist (d. 1965)
1882 –
Sigrid Undset , Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1883 –
Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
1886 –
Ali Sami Yen , Turkish footballer and manager, founded the
Galatasaray Sports Club (d. 1951)
1894 –
Chandrashekarendra Saraswati , Indian guru and scholar (d. 1994)
1895 –
R. J. Mitchell , English engineer, designed the
Supermarine Spitfire and
Supermarine S.6B (d. 1937)
1897 –
Diego Abad de Santillán , Spanish economist and author (d. 1983)
1897 –
Malcolm Nokes , English hammer and discus thrower (d. 1986)
1898 –
Eduard Ole , Estonian painter (d. 1995)
1899 –
Aleksandr Deyneka , Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1969)
1899 –
John Marshall Harlan II , American lawyer and jurist (d. 1971)
1900 –
Sumitranandan Pant , Indian poet and author (d. 1977)
1901–present
1901 –
Max Euwe , Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (d. 1981)
1901 –
Doris Fleeson , American journalist (d. 1970)
1904 –
Margery Allingham , English author of detective fiction (d. 1966)
1906 –
Giuseppe Siri , Italian cardinal (d. 1989)
1907 –
Carl Mydans , American photographer and journalist (d. 2004)
1908 –
Henry Bolte , Australian politician, 38th
Premier of Victoria (d. 1990)
1908 –
Louis Daquin , French actor and director (d. 1980)
1908 –
Francis Raymond Fosberg , American botanist and author (d. 1993)
1908 –
James Stewart , American actor (d. 1997)
1911 –
Gardner Fox , American author (d. 1986)
1911 –
Annie M. G. Schmidt , Dutch author and playwright (d. 1995)
1913 –
Teodoro Fernández , Peruvian footballer (d. 1996)
1913 –
William Redington Hewlett , American engineer, co-founded
Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001)
1913 –
Carlos J. Gradin , Argentine Archaeologist (d. 2002)
[21]
[22]
1915 –
Peter Copley , English actor (d. 2008)
1915 –
Moshe Dayan , Israeli general and politician, 5th
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1981)
1915 –
Joff Ellen , Australian comedian and actor (d. 1999)
1916 –
Owen Chadwick , English rugby player, historian, and academic (d. 2015)
1916 –
Alexey Maresyev , Russian soldier and pilot (d. 2001)
1916 –
Ondina Valla , Italian sprinter and hurdler (d. 2006)
1917 –
Tony Cliff , Israeli-English author and activist (d. 2000)
1917 –
Guy Favreau , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th
Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1967)
1918 –
Alexandra Boyko , Russian tank commander (d. 1996)
1918 –
Edward B. Lewis , American biologist, geneticist, and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1919 –
George Gobel , American comedian (d. 1991)
1920 –
John Cruickshank , Scottish lieutenant and banker,
Victoria Cross recipient
1921 –
Wolfgang Borchert , German author and playwright (d. 1947)
1921 –
Hal Newhouser , American baseball player and scout (d. 1998)
1921 –
Hao Wang , Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1995)
1922 –
Ted Hinton , Northern Irish international footballer (d. 1988)
[23]
1923 –
Edith Fellows , American actress (d. 2011)
1923 –
Sam Selvon , Trinidad-born writer (d. 1994)
[24]
1924 –
David Chavchavadze , English-American
CIA officer and author (d. 2014)
1924 –
Zelmar Michelini , Uruguayan journalist and politician (d. 1976)
1925 –
Alexei Tupolev , Russian engineer, designed the
Tupolev Tu-144 (d. 2001)
1926 –
Bob Sweikert , American race car driver (d. 1956)
1927 –
Bud Grant , American football player and coach (d. 2023)
1927 –
David Hedison , American actor (d. 2019)
1927 –
Franciszek Macharski , Polish cardinal (d. 2016)
1929 –
Pedro Trebbau , German-born Venezuelan zoologist (d. 2021)
[25]
1929 –
Gilles Loiselle , Canadian politician and diplomat, 33rd
Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2022)
1930 –
Sam Etcheverry , American football player and coach (d. 2009)
1931 –
Ken Boyer , American baseball player and manager (d. 1982)
1931 –
Louis Smith , American trumpeter (d. 2016)
1933 –
Constance Towers , American actress and singer
1935 –
José Mujica , Uruguayan
guerrilla leader and politician, 40th
President of Uruguay
1936 –
Anthony Zerbe , American actor
1937 –
Dave Hill , American golfer (d. 2011)
1937 –
Derek Lampe , English footballer
[26]
1939 –
Balu Mahendra , Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1940 –
Shorty Long , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1969)
1940 –
Stan Mikita , Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2018)
1940 –
Sadaharu Oh , Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager
1941 –
Goh Chok Tong , Singaporean politician, 2nd
Prime Minister of Singapore
1941 –
John Strasberg , American actor and teacher
1942 –
Raymond Chrétien , Canadian lawyer and diplomat,
Canadian Ambassador to the United States
1942 –
Lynn Davies , Welsh sprinter and long jumper
1942 –
Carlos Hathcock , American sergeant and sniper (d. 1999)
1942 –
Frew McMillan , South African tennis player
1943 –
Albano Carrisi , Italian singer, actor, and winemaker
1943 –
Deryck Murray , Trinidadian cricketer
1944 –
Joe Cocker , English singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1944 –
Boudewijn de Groot , Indonesian-Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 –
Keith Fletcher , English cricketer and manager
1944 –
Dietrich Mateschitz , Austrian businessman, co-founder of
Red Bull GmbH (d. 2022)
[27]
1945 –
Vladimiro Montesinos , Peruvian intelligence officer
1946 –
Cher , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1946 –
Bobby Murcer , American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
1947 –
Steve Currie , English bass player (d. 1981)
1947 –
Greg Dyke , English journalist and academic
1949 –
Robert Morin , Canadian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
1949 –
Michèle Roberts , English author and poet
1949 –
Dave Thomas , Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1950 –
Andy Johns , English-American engineer and producer (d. 2013)
1950 –
Reinaldo Merlo , Argentinian footballer and coach
1950 –
Jane Parker-Smith , English organist (d. 2020)
[28]
1951 –
Thomas Akers , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1951 –
Christie Blatchford , Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (d. 2020)
[29]
1951 –
Mike Crapo , American lawyer and politician
1952 –
Roger Milla , Cameroonian footballer and manager
1952 –
Michael Wills , English politician,
British Minister of Justice
1953 –
Robert Doyle , Australian educator and politician, 103rd
Lord Mayor of Melbourne
1954 –
David Paterson , American lawyer and politician, 55th
Governor of New York
1954 –
Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway , Scottish lawyer and judge
1955 –
Steve George , American keyboard player and songwriter
1955 –
Zbigniew Preisner , Polish composer and producer
1956 –
Ingvar Ambjørnsen , Norwegian-German author and critic
1956 –
Gerry Peyton , English born Irish international footballer and coach
[30]
1956 –
Douglas Preston , American journalist and author
1957 –
Yoshihiko Noda , Japanese lawyer and politician, 62nd
Prime Minister of Japan
1958 –
Ron Reagan , American journalist and radio host
1958 –
Jane Wiedlin , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1959 –
Susan Cowsill , American singer-songwriter
1960 –
Tony Goldwyn , American actor and director
1961 –
Clive Allen , English international footballer and manager
[31]
1961 –
Nick Heyward , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 –
David Wells , American baseball player and sportscaster
1964 –
Kōichirō Genba , Japanese politician, 80th
Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
1964 –
Edin Osmanović , Slovenian footballer, coach, and manager
1964 –
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer , English journalist and author
1965 –
Ted Allen , American television host and author
1965 –
Stu Grimson , Canadian ice hockey player, sportscaster, and lawyer
1966 –
Dan Abrams , American journalist and author
1967 –
Graham Brady , English politician
1967 –
Gabriele Muccino , Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 –
Timothy Olyphant , American actor and producer
1969 –
Road Dogg , American wrestler, producer, and soldier
1970 –
Terrell Brandon , American basketball player
1970 –
Louis Theroux , Singaporean-English journalist and producer
1971 –
Šárka Kašpárková , Czech triple jumper and coach
1971 –
Tony Stewart , American race car driver
1972 –
Michael Diamond , Australian shooter
1972 –
Christophe Dominici , French rugby player (d. 2020)
1972 –
Busta Rhymes , American rapper, producer, and actor
1973 –
Nathan Long , Australian rugby league player
1974 –
Allison Amend , American novelist and short story writer
1974 –
Shiboprosad Mukherjee , Indian film director, writer and actor
1975 –
Juan Minujín , Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
1976 –
Ramón Hernández , Venezuelan-American baseball player
1976 –
Tomoya Satozaki , Japanese baseball player
1977 –
Matt Czuchry , American actor
1977 –
Leo Franco , Argentinian footballer
1977 –
Angela Goethals , American actress
1977 –
Stirling Mortlock , Australian rugby player
1977 –
Vesa Toskala , Finnish ice hockey player
1978 –
Hristos Banikas , Greek chess player
1978 –
Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová , Czech pole vaulter
1978 –
Nils Schumann , German runner
1979 –
Andrew Scheer , Canadian politician, 28th
Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
1979 –
Jayson Werth , American baseball player
1980 –
Austin Kearns , American baseball player
1980 –
Kassim Osgood , American football player
1981 –
Iker Casillas , Spanish footballer
1981 –
Rachel Platten , American singer and songwriter
1981 –
Lindsay Taylor , American basketball player
1981 –
Mark Winterbottom , Australian race car driver
1982 –
Petr Čech , Czech footballer
1982 –
Imran Farhat , Pakistani cricketer
1982 –
Jessica Raine , English actress
1982 –
Daniel Ribeiro , Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 –
Óscar Cardozo , Paraguayan footballer
1983 –
Matt Langridge , English rower
1984 –
Mauro Rafael da Silva , Brazilian footballer
1984 –
Patrick Ewing Jr. , American basketball player
1984 –
Keith Grennan , American football player
1985 –
Chris Froome , Kenyan-English cyclist
1985 –
Brendon Goddard , Australian footballer
[32]
1986 –
Dexter Blackstock , English footballer
[33]
1986 –
Stéphane Mbia , Cameroonian footballer
1986 –
Jiřina Svobodová , Czech pole vaulter
1987 –
Mike Havenaar , Japanese footballer
1987 –
Julian Wright , American basketball player
1988 –
Joel Moon , Australian rugby league player
[34]
1989 –
Siosia Vave , Australian-Tongan rugby league player
1991 –
Bastian Baker , Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
1991 –
Emre Colak , Turkish footballer
1992 –
Cate Campbell , Malawian-Australian swimmer
1992 –
Jack Gleeson , Irish actor
1992 –
Enes Kanter , Turkish basketball player
1992 –
Fanny Smith , Swiss freestyle skier
[35]
1993 –
Ramy Rabia , Egyptian footballer
[36]
1993 –
Caroline Zhang , American figure skater
[37]
1996 –
Brian Kelly , Australian rugby league player
1998 –
Jamie Chadwick , English race car driver
1998 –
Nam Nguyen , Canadian figure skater
Deaths
Pre-1600
685 –
Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
794 –
Æthelberht II , king of
East Anglia
965 –
Gero the Great , Saxon ruler (b.c.
900 )
1062 –
Bao Zheng , Chinese magistrate and mayor of
Kaifeng (b. 999)
1277 –
Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
1285 –
John I of Cyprus (b. 1259)
1291 – Sufi Saint
Sayyid Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari
1366 –
Maria of Calabria , Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
1444 –
Bernardino of Siena , Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1380)
1449 –
Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
1449 –
Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
1501 –
Columba of Rieti , Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister (b. 1467)
1503 –
Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici , Italian banker and politician (b. 1463)
1506 –
Christopher Columbus , Italian explorer, early European explorer of the
Americas (b. 1451)
[38]
1550 –
Ashikaga Yoshiharu , Japanese shōgun (b. 1510)
1579 –
Isabella Markham , English courtier (b. 1527)
1601–1900
1622 –
Osman II , Ottoman sultan (b. 1604)
1645 –
Shi Kefa , Chinese general and calligrapher (b. 1601)
1648 –
Władysław IV Vasa , Polish son of
Sigismund III Vasa (b. 1595)
1677 –
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol , Spanish-English politician,
English Secretary of State (b. 1612)
1713 –
Thomas Sprat , English bishop (b. 1635)
1717 –
John Trevor , Welsh lawyer and politician, 102nd
Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1637)
1722 –
Sébastien Vaillant , French botanist and mycologist (b. 1669)
1732 –
Thomas Boston , Scottish author and educator (b. 1676)
1782 –
William Emerson , English mathematician and academic (b. 1701)
1793 –
Charles Bonnet , Swiss botanist and biologist (b. 1720)
1812 –
Count Hieronymus von Colloredo , Austrian archbishop (b. 1732)
1834 –
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette , French general (b. 1757)
1841 –
Joseph Blanco White , Spanish poet and theologian (b. 1775)
1864 –
John Clare , English poet (b. 1793)
1873 –
George-Étienne Cartier , Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 9th
Premier of East Canada (b. 1814)
1880 –
Ana Néri , Brazilian nurse and philanthropist (b. 1814)
[39]
1896 –
Clara Schumann , German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
1901–present
1909 –
Ernest Hogan , American actor and composer (b. 1859)
1917 –
Valentine Fleming , Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1887)
1917 –
Philipp von Ferrary , Italian stamp collector (b. 1850)
1924 –
Bogd Khan , Mongolian ruler (c. 1869)
1925 –
Joseph Howard , Maltese politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
1931 –
Ernest Noel , Scottish businessman and politician (b. 1831)
1940 –
Verner von Heidenstam , Swedish author and poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1942 –
Hector Guimard , French Architect (b. 1867)
1946 –
Jacob Ellehammer , Danish pilot and engineer (b. 1871)
1947 –
Philipp Lenard , Slovak-German physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1947 –
Georgios Siantos , Greek sergeant and politician (b. 1890)
1949 –
Damaskinos of Athens , Greek archbishop and politician, 137th
Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1891)
1956 –
Max Beerbohm , English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
1956 –
Zoltán Halmay , Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881)
1961 –
Josef Priller , German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
1962 –
Timothy (Szretter) , a Polish
Orthodox
clergyman , the third Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland (b. 1901)
[40]
1964 –
Rudy Lewis , American singer (b. 1936)
1971 –
Waldo Williams , Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
1973 –
Renzo Pasolini , Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
1973 –
Jarno Saarinen , Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1975 –
Barbara Hepworth , English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
1976 –
Syd Howe , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 –
Zelmar Michelini , Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
1976 –
Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz , Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
1989 –
John Hicks , English economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1989 –
Gilda Radner , American actress and comedian (b. 1946)
1995 –
Les Cowie , Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
1996 –
Jon Pertwee , English actor, portrayed the
Third Doctor (b. 1919)
1998 –
Robert Normann , Norwegian guitarist (b. 1916)
2000 –
Jean-Pierre Rampal , French flute player (b. 1922)
2000 –
Malik Sealy , American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
2000 –
Yevgeny Khrunov , Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
2001 –
Renato Carosone , Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1920)
2002 –
Stephen Jay Gould , American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1941)
2005 –
Paul Ricœur , French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
2005 –
William Seawell , American general (b. 1918)
2007 –
Norman Von Nida , Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 –
Hamilton Jordan , American politician, 8th
White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
2009 –
Arthur Erickson , Canadian architect and urban planner, designed
Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
2009 –
Lucy Gordon , American actress and model (b. 1980)
[41]
2009 –
Pierre Gamarra , French author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
2011 –
Randy Savage , American wrestler and actor (b. 1952)
2012 –
Leela Dube , Indian anthropologist and scholar (b. 1923)
2012 –
Robin Gibb , Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
2012 –
David Littman , English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1933)
2012 –
Ken Lyons , American bass guitarist (b. 1953)
2012 –
Eugene Polley , American engineer, invented the
remote control (b. 1915)
2012 –
Andrew B. Steinberg , American lawyer (b. 1958)
2013 –
Flavio Costantini , Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
2013 –
Billie Dawe , Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1924)
2013 –
Anders Eliasson , Swedish composer (b. 1947)
2013 –
Miloslav Kříž , Czech basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
2013 –
Ray Manzarek , American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1939)
2013 –
Denys Roberts , English judge and politician (b. 1923)
2013 –
Zach Sobiech , American singer-songwriter (b. 1995)
2014 –
Sandra Bem , American psychologist and academic (b. 1944)
2014 –
Ross Brown , New Zealand rugby player (b. 1934)
2014 –
Robyn Denny , English-French painter (b. 1930)
2014 –
Arthur Gelb , American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1924)
2014 –
Prince Rupert Loewenstein , Spanish-English businessman (b. 1933)
2014 –
Barbara Murray , English actress (b. 1929)
[42]
2015 –
Bob Belden , American saxophonist, composer, and producer (b. 1956)
2015 –
Femi Robinson , Nigerian actor and playwright (b. 1940)
2016 –
Kho Jabing , Malaysian convicted murderer who was executed by hanging in Singapore (b. 1984)
[43]
2019 –
Niki Lauda , Austrian race car driver (b. 1949)
[44]
2021 –
Gary Wilson , American anti-pornography activist (b.
1956 )
[45]
2022 –
Roger Angell , American sportswriter and author (b. 1920)
[46]
2022 –
Susan Roces , Filipino actress (b. 1941)
[47]
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