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Day of the year
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 132 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1680 –
Pueblo Indians capture
Santa Fe from the Spanish during the
Pueblo Revolt .
1689 – The
Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
[5]
1716 –
Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War : The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the
Battle of Petrovaradin force the
Ottomans to abandon the
Siege of Corfu , thus preserving the
Ionian Islands under
Venetian rule .
[6]
1770 –
James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for
Great Britain , naming it
New South Wales .
1772 – King
Gustav III completes his
coup d'état by adopting a new
Constitution , ending
half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an
enlightened despot .
1778 –
American Revolutionary War : British forces
begin besieging the French outpost at
Pondichéry .
1791 – A
Vodou ceremony , led by
Dutty Boukman , turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the
Haitian Revolution .
1808 –
Battle of Vimeiro :
British and
Portuguese forces led by General
Arthur Wellesley defeat
French force under Major-General
Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of
Vimeiro , Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the
Peninsular War .
1810 –
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ,
Marshal of France , is elected
Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish
Riksdag of the Estates .
1821 –
Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances .
1831 –
Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in
a rebellion in
Southampton County, Virginia , which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.
[7]
1852 –
Tlingit Indians destroy
Fort Selkirk ,
Yukon Territory .
1858 – The first of the
Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in
Ottawa, Illinois .
[8]
1862 – The
Stadtpark , the first public park in
Vienna , opens to the public.
[9]
1863 –
Lawrence, Kansas is
destroyed by
pro-Confederate guerrillas known as
Quantrill's Raiders .
1878 – The
American Bar Association is founded in
Saratoga Springs ,
New York .
[10]
1879 – The locals of
Knock, County Mayo ,
Ireland
report their having seen an apparition of the
Virgin Mary . The apparition is later named
“Our Lady of Knock” and the spot transformed into a
Catholic pilgrimage site.
[11]
1883 –
An F5 tornado strikes
Rochester, Minnesota , leading to the creation of the
Mayo Clinic .
1888 – The first successful
adding machine in the United States is patented by
William Seward Burroughs .
1901–present
1901 – Six hundred American school teachers,
Thomasites , arrived in
Manila on the
USAT Thomas .
1911 – The
Mona Lisa is
stolen by
Vincenzo Peruggia , a
Louvre employee.
[12]
1914 –
World War I : The
Battle of Charleroi , a successful German attack across the River
Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
1918 – World War I: The
Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1942 –
World War II : The
Guadalcanal Campaign : American forces defeat an attack by
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the
Battle of the Tenaru .
1944 –
Dumbarton Oaks Conference , prelude to the
United Nations , begins.
1944 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units
capture the strategically important town of
Falaise, Calvados , France.
1945 – Physicist
Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a
criticality accident during an experiment with the
Demon core at
Los Alamos National Laboratory .
1957 – The
Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the
R-7 Semyorka , the first
intercontinental ballistic missile .
[13]
1959 –
United States President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by
Hawaii Admission Day .
1963 –
Xá Lợi Pagoda raids : The
Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to
Ngô Đình Nhu , brother of President
Ngo Dinh Diem , vandalizes
Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1965 – The
Socialist Republic of Romania is proclaimed, following the adoption of
a new constitution .
[14]
1968 –
Cold War :
Nicolae Ceaușescu , leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemns the
Soviet -led
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia , encouraging the
Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 –
James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first
Medal of Honor to be awarded to an
African American
U.S. Marine .
1971 – A bomb exploded in the
Liberal Party campaign rally in
Plaza Miranda ,
Manila ,
Philippines with several anti-
Marcos political candidates injured.
1982 –
Lebanese Civil War : The first troops of a
multinational force lands in
Beirut to oversee the
Palestine Liberation Organization 's withdrawal from
Lebanon .
1983 – Philippine opposition leader
Benigno Aquino Jr. is
assassinated at Manila International Airport (now renamed
Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from
volcanic
Lake Nyos in
Cameroon , killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometre (12 mi) range.
1988 – The 6.9 Mw
Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
1991 –
Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
[15]
1991 –
Coup attempt against
Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 –
NASA loses contact with the
Mars Observer spacecraft.
1994 –
Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine,
Morocco , killing all 44 people on board.
[16]
1995 –
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 , an
Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia , attempts to divert to
West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in
Carroll County near
Carrollton, Georgia , killing nine of the 29 people on board.
[17]
2000 – American golfer
Tiger Woods wins the 82nd
PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since
Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
2013 – Hundreds of people are reported killed by
chemical attacks in the
Ghouta region of
Syria .
2017 –
A solar eclipse traverses the
continental United States .
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1625 –
John Claypole , English politician (d. 1688)
1643 –
Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 –
Hubert Gautier , French mathematician and engineer (d. 1737)
1665 –
Giacomo F. Maraldi , French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)
1670 –
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , French general and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1734)
1725 –
Jean-Baptiste Greuze , French painter and educator (d. 1805)
1754 –
William Murdoch , Scottish engineer and inventor, created
gas lighting (d. 1839)
1754 –
Banastre Tarleton , English general and politician (d. 1833)
1765 –
William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1789 –
Augustin-Louis Cauchy , French mathematician and academic (d. 1857)
1798 –
Jules Michelet , French historian and philosopher (d. 1874)
1800 –
Hiram Walden , American general and politician (d. 1880)
1801 –
Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer , Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876)
1813 –
Jean Stas , Belgian chemist and physician (d. 1891)
1816 –
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt , French chemist and academic (d. 1856)
1823 –
Nathaniel Everett Green , English painter and astronomer (d. 1899)
1826 –
Carl Gegenbaur , German anatomist and academic (d. 1903)
1829 –
Otto Goldschmidt , German composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1907)
1840 –
Ferdinand Hamer , Dutch bishop and missionary (d. 1900)
1851 –
Charles Barrois , French geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1939)
[18]
1856 –
Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès , American heiress (d. 1921)
1858 –
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (d. 1889)
1862 –
Emilio Salgari , Italian journalist and author (d. 1911)
1869 –
William Henry Ogilvie , Scottish-Australian poet and author (d. 1963)
1872 –
Aubrey Beardsley , English author and illustrator (d. 1898)
[19]
1878 –
Richard Girulatis , German footballer and manager (d. 1963)
1879 –
Claude Grahame-White , English pilot and engineer (d. 1959)
1884 –
Chandler Egan , American golfer and architect (d. 1936)
1885 –
Édouard Fabre , Canadian runner (d. 1939)
1886 –
Ruth Manning-Sanders , Welsh-English author and poet (d. 1988)
1887 –
James Paul Moody , English sailor (d. 1912)
1891 –
Emiliano Mercado del Toro , Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2007)
1892 –
Charles Vanel , French actor and director (d. 1989)
1894 –
Christian Schad , German painter (d. 1982)
1895 –
Blossom Rock , American actress (d. 1978)
1897 –
Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott , Scottish soldier and peer (d. 1966)
1901–present
1902 –
Angel Karaliychev , Bulgarian author (d. 1972)
1903 –
Kostas Giannidis , Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1984)
1904 –
Count Basie , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984)
1905 –
Bipin Gupta , Indian actor and producer (d. 1981)
1906 –
Friz Freleng , American animator, director, and producer (d. 1995)
1907 –
P. Jeevanandham , Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
1909 –
Nikolay Bogolyubov , Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)
1912 –
Toe Blake , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1914 –
Doug Wright , English cricketer and coach (d. 1998)
1916 –
Bill Lee , American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1916 –
Consuelo Velázquez , Mexican pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)
1917 –
Leonid Hurwicz , Russian economist and mathematician (d. 2008)
1918 –
Billy Reay , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)
1921 –
Reuven Feuerstein , Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)
1922 –
Albert Irvin , English soldier and painter (d. 2015)
1923 –
Keith Allen , Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1924 –
Jack Buck , American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1924 –
Jack Weston , American actor (d. 1996)
1926 –
Can Yücel , Turkish poet and translator (d. 1999)
1927 –
Thomas S. Monson , American religious leader, 16th
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2018)
1928 –
Addison Farmer , American bassist (d. 1963)
1928 –
Art Farmer , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1999)
1928 –
Bud McFadin , American football player (d. 2006)
1929 –
Herman Badillo , Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1929 –
X. J. Kennedy , American poet, translator, anthologist, editor
1929 –
Ahmed Kathrada , South African politician and political prisoner (d. 2017)
1930 –
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
[20]
1930 –
Frank Perry , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1932 –
Menashe Kadishman , Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2015)
1932 –
Melvin Van Peebles , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2021)
[20]
1933 –
Janet Baker , English soprano and educator
1933 –
Michael Dacher , German mountaineer (d. 1994)
1933 –
Barry Norman , English author and critic (d. 2017)
1933 –
Erik Paaske , Danish actor and singer (d. 1992)
1934 –
Sudhakarrao Naik , Indian lawyer and politician, 13th
Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2001)
1934 –
Paul Panhuysen , Dutch composer (d. 2015)
1936 –
Wilt Chamberlain , American basketball player and coach (d. 1999)
[20]
1936 –
Radish Tordia , Georgian painter and educator
1937 –
Donald Dewar , Scottish politician, first
First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
[21]
1937 –
Gustavo Noboa , Ecuadorian academic and politician, 51st
President of Ecuador (d. 2021)
1937 –
Robert Stone , American novelist and short story writer (d. 2015)
1938 –
Steve Cowper , American politician, 6th
Governor of Alaska
[22]
1938 –
Kenny Rogers , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2020)
[20]
1938 –
Mike Weston , English rugby player (d. 2023)
1939 –
James Burton , American
Hall of Fame guitarist
[23]
1939 –
Festus Mogae , Botswana economist and politician, third
President of Botswana
1939 –
Clarence Williams III , American actor (d. 2021)
[20]
1940 –
Dominick Harrod , English journalist, historian, and author (d. 2013)
1940 –
Endre Szemerédi , Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist
1941 –
Jackie DeShannon , American singer-songwriter
[23]
1943 –
Patrick Demarchelier , French photographer (d. 2022)
1943 –
Jonathan Schell , American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1943 –
Lucius Shepard , American author and critic (d. 2014)
1943 –
Hugh Wilson , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1944 –
Perry Christie , Bahamian politician, third
Prime Minister of the Bahamas
1944 –
Peter Weir , Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
[20]
1945 –
Basil Poledouris , Greek-American composer, conductor
[24] (d. 2006)
1945 –
Celia Brayfield , English journalist and author
1945 –
Jerry DaVanon , American baseball player
1945 –
Willie Lanier , American football player
1945 –
Patty McCormack , American actress
[23]
1947 –
Carl Giammarese , American singer-songwriter and musician
[23]
1949 –
Loretta Devine , American actress and singer
[23]
1949 –
Daniel Sivan , Israeli scholar and academic
1950 –
Patrick Juvet , Swiss singer-songwriter and model (d. 2021)
1950 –
Arthur Bremer , American attempted assassin of
George Wallace
[25]
1951 –
Eric Goles , Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 –
Glenn Hughes , English musician
[20]
1951 –
Yana Mintoff , Maltese politician, economist and educator
1951 –
Chesley V. Morton , American businessman and politician
1952 –
Keith Hart , Canadian firefighter, wrestler, and trainer
1952 –
Jiří Paroubek , Czech soldier and politician, sixth
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
1952 –
Bernadette Porter , English nun and educator
1952 –
Joe Strummer , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
[20]
1953 –
Ivan Stang , American author, publisher, and director
1954 –
Archie Griffin , American football player
[20]
1954 –
Steve Smith , American drummer
1954 –
Mark Williams , New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
1956 –
Kim Cattrall , English-Canadian actress
[23]
1956 –
Jon Tester , American farmer and politician
1957 –
Frank Pastore , American baseball player and radio host (d. 2012)
1958 –
Steve Case , American businessman, co-founder of
America Online (AOL)
[20]
1958 –
Mark Williams , Australian footballer and coach
1959 –
Anne Hobbs , English tennis player and coach
1959 –
Jim McMahon , American football player and coach
1961 –
Gerardo Barbero , Argentinian chess player and coach (d. 2001)
1961 –
V. B. Chandrasekhar , Indian cricketer and coach (d. 2019)
1961 –
Stephen Hillenburg , American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator and creator of
SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018)
1962 –
Cleo King , American actress
[23]
1962 –
John Korfas , Greek-American basketball player and coach
1962 –
Gilberto Santa Rosa , Puerto Rican bandleader and singer of salsa and bolero
[26]
1962 –
Pete Weber , American bowler
1963 –
Mohammed VI of Morocco , King of
Morocco
[20]
1963 –
Nigel Pearson , English footballer and manager
1964 –
Gary Elkerton , Australian surfer
1965 –
Jim Bullinger , American baseball player
1966 –
John Wetteland , American baseball player and coach
1967 –
Darren Bewick , Australian footballer
1967 –
Charb , French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
[20]
1967 –
Carrie-Anne Moss , Canadian actress
[20]
1967 –
Serj Tankian , Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
[23]
1968 –
Dina Carroll , English singer-songwriter
1968 –
Goran Ćurko , Serbian footballer
1968 –
Laura Trevelyan , English journalist and author
1969 –
Bruce Anstey , New Zealand motorcycle racer
1969 –
Josée Chouinard , Canadian figure skater
1970 –
Craig Counsell , American baseball player and coach
1970 –
Erik Dekker , Dutch cyclist and manager
1970 –
Cathy Weseluck , Canadian actress
1971 –
Mamadou Diallo , Senegalese footballer
1971 –
Robert Harvey , Australian footballer and coach
1971 –
Liam Howlett , English keyboard player, DJ, and producer
[23]
1973 –
Sergey Brin , Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded
Google
1973 –
Steve McKenna , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 –
Martin Andanar , Filipino journalist and radio host
1974 –
Paul Mellor , Australian rugby league player and referee
1975 –
Simon Katich , Australian cricketer and manager
1975 –
Alicia Witt , American actress and musician
[23]
1976 –
Alex Brooks , American ice hockey player and scout
1976 –
Jeff Cunningham , Jamaican-American soccer player
1976 –
Robert Miles , Australian rugby league player
1976 –
Ramón Vázquez , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
1978 –
Peter Buxton , English rugby player and manager
1978 –
Reuben Droughns , American football player and coach
1978 –
Lee Gronkiewicz , American baseball player and coach
1978 –
Alan Lee , Irish footballer and coach
1978 –
Jason Marquis , American baseball player
1979 –
Kelis , American singer-songwriter, producer, chef and author
[23]
1979 –
Diego Klattenhoff , Canadian actor
[23]
1980 –
Bryan Allen , Canadian ice hockey player
[27]
1980 –
Burney Lamar , American race car driver
1980 –
Paul Menard , American race car driver
1980 –
Jasmin Wöhr , German tennis player
1981 –
Jarrod Lyle , Australian golfer (d. 2018)
1981 –
Cameron Winklevoss , American rower and businessman, co-founded
ConnectU
1981 –
Tyler Winklevoss , American rower and businessman, co-founded
ConnectU
1981 –
Ross Thomas , American actor
1982 –
Jason Eaton , New Zealand rugby player
1982 –
Omar Sachedina , Canadian television journalist, correspondent, and news anchor
1983 –
Brody Jenner , American television personality and model
[23]
1983 –
Scott McDonald , Australian footballer
1984 –
Neil Dexter , South African cricketer
1984 –
Melvin Upton, Jr. , American baseball player
1985 –
Nicolás Almagro , Spanish tennis player
1985 –
Aleksandra Kiryashova , Russian pole vaulter
1985 –
Alizée , French singer
[28]
1986 –
Usain Bolt , Jamaican sprinter
[20]
1986 –
Wout Brama , Dutch footballer
1986 –
Koki Sakamoto , Japanese gymnast
1986 –
Brooks Wheelan , American comedian and actor
[23]
1987 –
DeWanna Bonner , American-Macedonian basketball player
[29]
1987 –
Cody Kasch , American actor
[23]
1987 –
J. D. Martinez , American baseball player
[30]
1987 –
Jodie Meeks , American basketball player and coach
[31]
1988 –
Robert Lewandowski , Polish footballer
1988 –
Kacey Musgraves , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[23]
1989 –
Charlison Benschop , Dutch footballer
1989 –
James Davey , English rugby league player
1989 –
Matteo Gentili , Italian footballer
1989 –
Hayden Panettiere , American actress
[23]
1989 –
Aleix Vidal , Spanish footballer
1990 –
Bo Burnham , American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
[20]
1990 –
Christian Vázquez , Puerto Rican baseball player
[32]
1991 –
Leandro Bacuna , Dutch footballer
1992 –
Brandon Drury , American baseball player
[33]
1992 –
RJ Mitte , American actor
[23]
1992 –
Felipe Nasr , Brazilian race car driver
1993 –
Millie Bright , English footballer
[34]
1993 –
Mike Evans , American football player
[35]
1995 –
Dominik Kubalík , Czech ice hockey player
[36]
1996 –
Karolína Muchová , Czech tennis player
[37]
1999 –
Maxim Knight , American actor
[23]
2000 –
Corbin Carroll , American baseball player
[38]
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1614 –
Elizabeth Báthory , Hungarian countess and purported serial killer (b. 1560)
[39]
1622 –
Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana , Spanish poet and politician (b. 1582)
1627 –
Jacques Mauduit , French composer and academic (b. 1557)
1673 –
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford , English soldier (b. 1599)
1689 –
William Cleland , Scottish poet and soldier (b. 1661)
[5]
1762 –
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1689)
1763 –
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont , English politician,
Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1710)
1775 –
Zahir al-Umar , Arabian ruler (b. 1690)
1796 –
John McKinly , American physician and politician, first
Governor of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 –
Benjamin Thompson , American-English physicist and colonel (b. 1753)
1835 –
John MacCulloch , Scottish geologist and academic (b. 1773)
1836 –
Claude-Louis Navier , French physicist and engineer (b. 1785)
1838 –
Adelbert von Chamisso , German botanist and poet (b. 1781)
1853 –
Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon , French general (b. 1783)
1854 –
Thomas Clayton , American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1867 –
Juan Álvarez , Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790)
[40]
1870 –
Ma Xinyi , Chinese general and politician,
Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1821)
1888 –
James Farnell , Australian politician, eighth
Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
1901–present
1905 –
Alexander von Oettingen , Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
1910 –
Bertalan Székely , Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
1911 –
Mahboob Ali Khan , sixth
Nizam of
Hyderabad State (b. 1866)
[41]
1919 –
Laurence Doherty , English tennis player (b. 1875)
1935 –
John Hartley , English tennis player (b. 1849)
1940 –
Hermann Obrecht , Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
1940 –
Ernest Thayer , American poet and author (b. 1863)
1940 –
Leon Trotsky , Russian theorist and politician, founded the
Red Army (b. 1879)
1943 –
Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish journalist and author,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
1947 –
Ettore Bugatti , Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded
Bugatti (b. 1881)
1951 –
Constant Lambert , English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 –
Mait Metsanurk , Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
1957 –
Nels Stewart , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1957 –
Harald Sverdrup , Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1960 –
David B. Steinman , American engineer, designed the
Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
1964 –
Palmiro Togliatti , Italian journalist and politician,
Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
1968 –
Germaine Guèvremont , Canadian journalist and author (b. 1893)
[42]
1971 –
George Jackson , American activist and author, co-founded the
Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
1974 –
Buford Pusser , American police officer (b. 1937)
1974 –
Kirpal Singh , Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
1978 –
Charles Eames , American architect, co-designed the
Eames House (b. 1907)
1979 –
Giuseppe Meazza , Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
1981 –
Kaka Kalelkar , Indian Hindi Writer(b. 1885)
1983 –
Benigno Aquino Jr. , Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
1988 –
Teodoro de Villa Diaz , Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
1988 –
Ray Eames , American architect, co-designed the
Eames House (b. 1912)
1989 –
Raul Seixas , Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
1993 –
Tatiana Troyanos , American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
1995 –
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1995 –
Chuck Stevenson , American race car driver (b. 1919)
1996 –
Mary Two-Axe Earley , Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (b. 1911)
[43]
2000 –
Tomata du Plenty , American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948)
2000 –
Daniel Lisulo , Zambian politician, third
Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2000 –
Andrzej Zawada , Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)
2001 –
Calum MacKay , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 –
John Coplans , British artist (b. 1920)
2003 –
Kathy Wilkes , English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)
2004 –
Sachidananda Routray , Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916)
2005 –
Martin Dillon , American tenor and educator (b. 1957)
2005 –
Robert Moog , American businessman, founded
Moog Music (b. 1934)
2005 –
Dahlia Ravikovitch , Israeli poet and translator (b. 1936)
2005 –
Marcus Schmuck , Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2006 –
Bismillah Khan , Indian musician,
Bharat Ratna recipient (b. 1916)
2006 –
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen , Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2007 –
Frank Bowe , American academic (b. 1947)
[44]
2007 –
Siobhan Dowd , British author (b. 1960)
2007 –
Elizabeth P. Hoisington , American general (b. 1918)
2008 –
Jerry Finn , American engineer and producer (b. 1969)
2009 –
Rex Shelley , Singaporean engineer and author (b. 1930)
2010 –
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill , Argentinean sociologist and author (b. 1941)
2012 –
Georg Leber , German soldier and politician,
Federal Minister of Defence for Germany (b. 1920)
2012 –
J. Frank Raley Jr. , American soldier and politician (b. 1926)
2012 –
Don Raleigh , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
2012 –
Guy Spitaels , Belgian academic and politician, seventh
Minister-President of Wallonia (b. 1931)
2012 –
William Thurston , American mathematician and academic (b. 1946)
2013 –
Jean Berkey , American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2013 –
Sid Bernstein , American record producer (b. 1918)
2013 –
C. Gordon Fullerton , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1936)
[45]
2013 –
Fred Martin , Scottish footballer (b. 1929)
2013 –
Enos Nkala , Zimbabwean politician,
Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (b. 1932)
2014 –
Gerry Anderson , Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)
2014 –
Helen Bamber , English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925)
2014 –
Steven R. Nagel , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1946)
2014 –
Jean Redpath , Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2014 –
Albert Reynolds , Irish businessman and politician, ninth
Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1932)
2015 –
Colin Beyer , New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)
2015 –
Wang Dongxing , Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916)
2015 –
Jimmy Evert , American tennis player and coach (b. 1924)
2017 –
Bajram Rexhepi , First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo (b. 1954)
2018 –
Stefán Karl Stefánsson , Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975)
[46]
2019 –
Celso Piña , Mexican singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist (b. 1953)
[47]
Holidays and observances
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