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Day of the year
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 182 days remain until the end of the year.
This date marks the halfway point of the year. In common years, the midpoint of the year occurs at noon on this date, while in leap years, it occurs at midnight (start of the day).
1613 – The first English expedition (from
Virginia ) against
Acadia led by
Samuel Argall takes place.
1644 –
English Civil War :
Battle of Marston Moor .
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1645 –
Battle of Alford :
Wars of the Three Kingdoms .
1698 –
Thomas Savery patents the first
steam engine .
1723 – Bach's
Magnificat is first performed.
[4]
1724 – On the
Feast of the Visitation ,
Bach leads the first performance of his
Meine Seel erhebt den Herren , BWV 10, the fifth cantata of his
chorale cantata cycle .
[5]
1776 –
American Revolution : The
Continental Congress adopts the
Lee Resolution severing ties with the
Kingdom of Great Britain , although the wording of the formal
Declaration of Independence is not adopted until
July 4 .
1816 – The
French frigate Méduse strikes the
Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by
Géricault 's painting
The Raft of the Medusa .
1822 – Thirty-five slaves, including
Denmark Vesey , are hanged in
South Carolina after being accused of organizing a
slave rebellion .
1823 –
Bahia Independence Day: The end of
Portuguese rule in Brazil , with
the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of
Cuba , 53 kidnapped Africans led by
Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship
Amistad .
1840 – A Ms
7.4 earthquake strikes present-day Turkey and Armenia; combined with the effects of an eruption on
Mount Ararat , kills 10,000 people.
[6]
1853 – The Russian Army crosses the Prut river into the
Danubian Principalities (
Moldavia and
Wallachia ), providing the spark that will
set off the Crimean War .
1864 –
Dimitri Atanasescu founds the first Romanian school in the Balkans for the
Aromanians in
Trnovo , in the Ottoman Empire (now in
North Macedonia ).
[7]
1871 –
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the
Papal States .
1881 –
Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President
James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
1890 – The
U.S. Congress passes the
Sherman Antitrust Act .
1897 – British-Italian engineer
Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for
radio in London.
1900 – An
airship designed and constructed by Count
Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany made its first flight on
Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen.
[8]
1900 –
Jean Sibelius '
Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by
Robert Kajanus .
1921 –
World War I : U.S. President
Warren G. Harding signs the
Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and
Germany .
1934 – The
Night of the Long Knives ends after three days of killings.
1937 –
Amelia Earhart and navigator
Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
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1940 – Indian independence leader
Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in
Calcutta .
1940 – The
SS Arandora Star is sunk by
U-47 in the
North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
1962 – The first
Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in
Rogers, Arkansas .
1964 –
Civil rights movement : U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1966 – France conducts its first
nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on
Moruroa Atoll.
1976 – End of
South Vietnam ; Communist
North Vietnam annexes the former
South Vietnam to form the unified
Socialist Republic of Vietnam .
1986 –
Rodrigo Rojas and
Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the
dictatorship of General
Augusto Pinochet in
Chile .
1986 –
Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at
Syktyvkar Airport in
Syktyvkar , in present-day
Komi Republic ,
Russia , killing 54 people.
[10]
1988 –
Marcel Lefebvre and
the four bishops he consecrated were
excommunicated by the
Holy See .
[11]
1990 – In the
1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy , 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of
Mecca .
[12]
1994 –
USAir Flight 1016 crashes near
Charlotte Douglas International Airport , killing 37 of the 57 people on board.
[13]
1997 – The Bank of Thailand floats the
baht , triggering the
Asian financial crisis .
2000 –
Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first
President of México from an opposition party, the
Partido Acción Nacional , after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the
Partido Revolucionario Institucional .
2001 – The
AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2002 –
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
[14]
2005 – The
Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the
G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
2008 –
Colombian conflict :
Íngrid Betancourt , a member of the
Chamber of Representatives of Colombia , is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by
FARC .
2010 – The
South Kivu tank truck explosion in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
2013 – The
International Astronomical Union names
Pluto's fourth and fifth moons ,
Kerberos and
Styx .
2013 – A magnitude 6.1
earthquake strikes
Aceh ,
Indonesia , killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
2024 –
A stampede during a religious event in
Uttar Pradesh , India, leaves at least 121 people dead and 150 others injured.
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[16]
[17]
419 –
Valentinian III , Roman emperor (d. 455)
1363 –
Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
1478 –
Louis V, Elector Palatine (d. 1544)
1486 –
Jacopo Sansovino , Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1570)
1489 –
Thomas Cranmer , English archbishop, theologian, and saint (d. 1556)
1492 –
Elizabeth Tudor , English daughter of
Henry VII of England (d. 1495)
1500 –
Federico Cesi (cardinal) , Italian cardinal (d. 1565)
1575 –
Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby , English noblewoman and head of state of the Isle of Man (d. 1627)
1597 –
Theodoor Rombouts , Flemish painter (d. 1637)
1647 –
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham , English politician,
Lord President of the Council (d. 1730)
1648 –
Arp Schnitger , German organ builder (d. 1719)
1665 –
Samuel Penhallow , English-American soldier and historian (d. 1726)
1667 –
Pietro Ottoboni , Italian cardinal and art collector (d. 1740)
1714 –
Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (d. 1787)
[18]
1724 –
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , German poet and author (d. 1803)
1797 –
Francisco Javier Echeverría , Mexican businessman and politician. President of Mexico (1841) (d. 1852)
[19]
1819 –
Charles-Louis Hanon , French pianist and composer (d. 1900)
1820 –
George Law Curry , American publisher and politician, 5th
Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878)
1820 –
Juan N. Méndez , Mexican general and interim president, 1876-1877 (d. 1894)
[20]
1821 –
Charles Tupper , Canadian physician and politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
1825 –
Émile Ollivier , French statesman (d. 1913)
1834 –
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack , Dutch economist and historian (d. 1917)
1849 –
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (d. 1919)
1862 –
William Henry Bragg , English physicist, chemist, and mathematician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
1865 –
Lily Braun , German author and publicist (d. 1916)
1869 –
Liane de Pougy , French-Swiss dancer and author (d. 1950)
1876 –
Harriet Brooks , Canadian physicist and academic (d. 1933)
1876 –
Wilhelm Cuno , German businessman and politician,
Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
1877 –
Hermann Hesse , German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1877 –
Rinaldo Cuneo , American artist ("the painter of San Francisco") (d. 1939)
1881 –
Royal Hurlburt Weller , American lawyer and politician (d. 1929)
1884 –
Alfons Maria Jakob , German neurologist and author (d. 1931)
1893 –
Ralph Hancock , Welsh gardener and author (d. 1950)
1900 –
Tyrone Guthrie , English actor and director (d. 1971)
1900 –
Sophie Harris , English costume and scenic designer for theatre and opera (d. 1966)
1902 –
K. Kanapathypillai , Sri Lankan author and academic (d. 1968)
1903 –
Alec Douglas-Home , English cricketer and politician, 66th
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1903 –
Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1904 –
René Lacoste , French tennis player and businessman, created the
polo shirt (d. 1996)
1906 –
Hans Bethe , German-American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1906 –
Károly Kárpáti , Hungarian Jewish wrestler (d. 1996)
1906 –
Séra Martin , French middle-distance runner (d. 1993)
1908 –
Thurgood Marshall , American lawyer and
civil rights activist, 32nd
Solicitor General of the United States , and former
Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1993)
1911 –
Reg Parnell , English race car driver and manager (d. 1964)
1913 –
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff , English historian and academic (d. 1999)
1914 –
Frederick Fennell , American conductor and educator (d. 2004)
1914 –
Ethelreda Leopold , American actress (d. 1988)
1914 –
Mário Schenberg , Brazilian physicist and engineer (d. 1990)
1914 –
Erich Topp , German admiral (d. 2005)
1915 –
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington , British peer, politician and soldier (d. 2014)
1916 –
Ken Curtis , American actor and singer (d. 1991)
1916 –
Hans-Ulrich Rudel , German colonel and pilot (d. 1982)
1916 –
Reino Kangasmäki , Finnish wrestler (d. 2010)
1916 –
Zélia Gattai , Brazilian author and photographer (d. 2008)
1917 –
Leonard J. Arrington , American author and academic, founded the
Mormon History Association (d. 1999)
1918 –
Athos Bulcão , Brazilian painter and sculptor (d. 2008)
1918 –
Indumati Bhattacharya , Indian politician (d. 1990)
1919 –
Jean Craighead George , American author (d. 2012)
1920 –
John Kneubuhl , Samoan-American historian, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 1992)
1922 –
Pierre Cardin , Italian-French fashion designer (d. 2020)
1922 –
Paula Valenska , Czech actress (d. 1994)
1923 –
Cyril M. Kornbluth , American soldier and author (d. 1958)
1923 –
Wisława Szymborska , Polish poet and translator,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1924 –
Chia-ying Yeh , Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist
[21]
1925 –
Medgar Evers , American soldier and activist (d. 1963)
1925 –
Patrice Lumumba , Congolese politician, 1st
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
1925 –
Marvin Rainwater , American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1926 –
Octavian Paler , Romanian journalist and politician (d. 2007)
1927 –
Lee Allen , American saxophone player (d. 1994)
1927 –
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern , Scottish lawyer and politician,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1927 –
Brock Peters , American actor (d. 2005)
1929 –
Imelda Marcos , Filipino politician; 10th First Lady of the Philippines
1930 –
Ahmad Jamal , American jazz musician (d. 2023)
[22]
1930 –
Carlos Menem , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 50th
President of Argentina (d. 2021)
1931 –
Mohammad Yazdi , Iranian cleric (d. 2020)
1932 –
Dave Thomas , American businessman and philanthropist, founded
Wendy's (d. 2002)
1933 –
Peter Desbarats , Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2014)
1933 –
Kenny Wharram , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
1934 –
Tom Springfield , English musician (d. 2022)
[23]
1935 –
Gilbert Kalish , American pianist and educator
1936 –
Omar Suleiman , Egyptian general and politician, 16th
Vice President of Egypt (d. 2012)
1937 –
Polly Holliday , American actress
[24]
1937 –
Richard Petty , American race car driver and sportscaster
1938 –
David Owen , English physician and politician,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1939 –
Alexandros Panagoulis , Greek poet and politician (d. 1976)
1939 –
John H. Sununu , American engineer and politician, 14th
White House Chief of Staff
1939 –
Paul Williams , American singer and choreographer (d. 1973)
1940 –
Kenneth Clarke , English politician,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1940 –
Georgi Ivanov , Bulgarian military officer, cosmonaut and politician
[25]
1941 –
William Guest , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
1941 –
Wendell Mottley , Trinidadian sprinter, economist, and politician
1942 –
John Eekelaar , South African-English lawyer and scholar
1942 –
Vicente Fox , Mexican businessman and politician, 35th
President of Mexico
[26]
1943 –
Ivi Eenmaa , Estonian politician, 36th
Mayor of Tallinn
1943 –
Larry Lake , American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (d. 2013)
1946 –
Richard Axel , American neuroscientist and biologist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1946 –
Ron Silver , American actor, director, and political activist (d. 2009)
1947 –
Larry David , American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
[27]
1947 –
Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton , English politician,
Minister for International Security Strategy
1948 –
Mutula Kilonzo , Kenyan lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1949 –
Greg Brown , American musician
[28]
1949 –
Robert Paquette , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
[29]
1950 –
Lynne Brindley , English librarian and academic
1950 –
Jon Trickett , English politician
1952 –
Sylvia Rivera , American transgender rights activist (d. 2002)
[30]
1952 –
Anatoliy Solomin , Ukrainian race walker and coach
1954 –
Chris Huhne , English journalist and politician,
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
1954 –
Wendy Schaal , American actress
[31]
1955 –
Kim Carr , Australian educator and politician, 31st
Australian Minister for Human Services
1956 –
Jerry Hall , American model and actress
[32]
1957 –
Bret Hart , Canadian wrestler
1957 –
Jüri Raidla , Estonian lawyer and politician,
Estonian Minister of Justice
1957 –
Purvis Short , American basketball player
1958 –
Pavan Malhotra , Indian actor
1959 –
Erwin Olaf , Dutch photographer (d. 2023)
[33]
1960 –
Maria Lourdes Sereno , Filipino lawyer and jurist, 24th
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
1961 –
Clark Kellogg , American basketball player and sportscaster
1962 –
Neil Williams , English cricketer (d. 2006)
1964 –
Jose Canseco , Cuban-American baseball player and mixed martial artist
1964 –
Ozzie Canseco , Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager
1964 –
Joe Magrane , American baseball player and sportscaster
1964 –
Alan Tait , English-Scottish rugby player and coach
1965 –
Norbert Röttgen , German lawyer and politician
1969 –
Tim Rodber , English rugby player
1970 –
Derrick Adkins , American hurdler
1970 –
Steve Morrow , Northern Irish footballer and manager
1971 –
Troy Brown , American football player and actor
1971 –
Bryan Redpath , Scottish rugby player and coach
1972 –
Darren Shan , Irish author
[34]
1974 –
Sean Casey , American baseball player and sportscaster
1975 –
Éric Dazé , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 –
Kristen Michal , Estonian lawyer and politician
[35]
1975 –
Erik Ohlsson , Swedish singer and guitarist
1975 –
Elizabeth Reaser , American actress
[36]
[37]
1975 –
Stefan Terblanche , South African rugby player
1976 –
Krisztián Lisztes , Hungarian footballer
1976 –
Tomáš Vokoun , Czech-American ice hockey player
1976 –
Ľudovít Ódor , Prime minister of Slovakia
[38]
1977 –
Deniz Barış , Turkish footballer
1978 –
Jüri Ratas , Estonian politician, 42nd
Mayor of Tallinn
1979 –
Walter Davis , American triple jumper
1979 –
Ahmed al-Ghamdi , Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of
United Airlines Flight 175 (d. 2001)
1979 –
Sam Hornish Jr. , American race car driver
1979 –
Joe Thornton , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 –
Nyjer Morgan , American baseball player
1981 –
Nathan Ellington , English footballer
1981 –
Carlos Rogers , American football player
1983 –
Michelle Branch , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983 –
Kyle Hogg , English cricketer
1984 –
Thomas Kortegaard , Danish footballer
1984 –
Johnny Weir , American figure skater
1985 –
Rhett Bomar , American football player
1985 –
Chad Henne , American football player
1985 –
Ashley Tisdale , American actress, singer, and producer
[39]
1986 –
Brett Cecil , American baseball player
1986 –
Lindsay Lohan , American actress and singer
[40]
1987 –
Esteban Granero , Spanish footballer
1988 –
Lee Chung-yong , South Korean footballer
1989 –
Nadezhda Grishaeva , Russian basketball player
1989 –
Alex Morgan , American soccer player
1990 –
Kayla Harrison , American judoka
[41]
1990 –
Merritt Mathias , American soccer player
1990 –
Morag McLellan , Scottish field hockey player
[42]
1990 –
Margot Robbie , Australian actress and producer
[43]
1990 –
Danny Rose , English footballer
1990 –
Bill Tupou , New Zealand rugby league player
1992 –
Madison Chock , American ice dancer
[44]
1993 –
Vince Staples , American rapper and actor
[45]
1993 –
Saweetie , American rapper
[46]
1994 –
Henrik Kristoffersen , Norwegian skier
1994 –
Derrick White , American basketball player
[47]
1995 –
Ryan Murphy , American swimmer
1996 –
Julia Grabher , Austrian tennis player
[48]
626 –
Li Jiancheng , Chinese prince (b. 589)
626 –
Li Yuanji , Chinese prince (b. 603)
649 –
Li Jing , Chinese general (b. 571)
862 –
Swithun , English bishop and saint (b. 789)
866 –
Robert the Strong , Frankish
nobleman
936 –
Henry the Fowler , German king (b. 876)
1298 –
Adolf, King of the Romans (b. 1220)
1504 –
Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1434)
1566 –
Nostradamus , French astrologer and author (b. 1503)
1578 –
Thomas Doughty , English explorer
1582 –
Akechi Mitsuhide , Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1528)
1591 –
Vincenzo Galilei , Italian
lute player and composer (b. 1520)
1619 –
Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1547)
1621 –
Thomas Harriot , English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560)
1656 –
François-Marie, comte de Broglie , Italian-French general (b. 1611)
1674 –
Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1743 –
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington , English politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1673)
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1746 –
Thomas Baker , English antiquarian and author (b. 1656)
1778 –
Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Swiss philosopher and composer (b. 1712)
1833 –
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 1st
Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (b. 1757)
1843 –
Samuel Hahnemann , German physician and academic (b. 1755)
1850 –
Robert Peel , English lieutenant and politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
1857 –
Carlo Pisacane , Italian soldier and philosopher (b. 1818)
1903 –
Ed Delahanty , American baseball player (b. 1867)
1912 –
Tom Richardson , English cricketer (b. 1870)
1914 –
Joseph Chamberlain , English businessman and politician,
Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
1915 –
Porfirio Díaz , Mexican general and politician, 29th
President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1920 –
William Louis Marshall , American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1926 –
Émile Coué , French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
1929 –
Gladys Brockwell , American actress (b. 1894)
1932 –
Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1950 –
Thomas William Burgess , English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)
1955 –
Edward Lawson , English soldier,
Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)
1961 –
Ernest Hemingway , American novelist, short story writer, and journalist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1963 –
Alicia Patterson , American publisher, co-founded
Newsday (b. 1906)
1964 –
Fireball Roberts , American race car driver (b. 1929)
1966 –
Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
1970 –
Jessie Street , Australian suffragette and feminist (b. 1889)
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1972 –
Joseph Fielding Smith , American religious leader, 10th
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
1973 –
Betty Grable , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1916)
1973 –
George McBride , American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
1973 –
Ferdinand Schörner , German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 –
James Robertson Justice , English actor (b. 1907)
1977 –
Vladimir Nabokov , Russian-born novelist and critic (b. 1899)
1978 –
Aris Alexandrou , Greek author and poet (b. 1922)
1986 –
Peanuts Lowrey , American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1988 –
Vibert Douglas , Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
1989 –
Andrei Gromyko , Soviet economist and politician,
Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
1990 –
Snooky Lanson , American singer (b. 1914)
1991 –
Lee Remick , American actress (b. 1935)
1993 –
Fred Gwynne , American actor (b. 1926)
1994 –
Andrés Escobar , Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
1995 –
Lloyd MacPhail , Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. 1920)
1997 –
James Stewart , American actor (b. 1908)
1999 –
Mario Puzo , American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2000 –
Joey Dunlop , Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2002 –
Ray Brown , American bassist and composer (b. 1926)
2003 –
Briggs Cunningham , American race car driver and businessman (b. 1907)
2004 –
Mochtar Lubis , Indonesian journalist and author (b. 1922)
2005 –
Ernest Lehman , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2005 –
Norm Prescott , American actor, composer, and producer, co-founded
Filmation Studios (b. 1927)
2006 –
Jan Murray , American comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1916)
2007 –
Beverly Sills , American operatic soprano and television personality (b. 1929)
2008 –
Natasha Shneider , Russian-American singer, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1956)
2008 –
Elizabeth Spriggs , English actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2010 –
Beryl Bainbridge , English screenwriter and author (b. 1932)
2011 –
Itamar Franco , Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd
President of Brazil (b. 1930)
2012 –
Maurice Chevit , French actor and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2012 –
Julian Goodman , American journalist (b. 1922)
2012 –
Angelo Mangiarotti , Italian architect and academic (b. 1921)
2012 –
Betty Meggers , American archaeologist and academic (b. 1921)
2012 –
Ed Stroud , American baseball player (b. 1939)
2013 –
Anthony G. Bosco , American bishop (b. 1927)
2013 –
Douglas Engelbart , American computer scientist, invented the
computer mouse (b. 1925)
2013 –
Armand Gaudreault , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2013 –
Anthony Llewellyn , Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (b. 1933)
2014 –
Emilio Álvarez Montalván , Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and politician (b. 1919)
2014 –
Manuel Cardona , Spanish physicist and academic (b. 1934)
2014 –
Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (b. 1915)
2014 –
Harold W. Kuhn , American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
2014 –
Louis Zamperini , American runner and World War II
US Army Air Forces captain (b. 1917)
2015 –
Ronald Davison , New Zealand lawyer and judge, 10th
Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1920)
2015 –
Charlie Sanders , American football player and sportscaster (b. 1946)
2015 –
Jim Weaver , American football player and coach (b. 1945)
2015 –
Jacobo Zabludovsky , Mexican journalist (b. 1928)
2016 –
Caroline Aherne , English actress and comedian (b. 1963)
2016 –
Michael Cimino , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
2016 –
Patrick Manning , 4th & 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
2016 –
Elie Wiesel , Holocaust survivor, activist, and author (b. 1928)
2017 –
Vladislav Rastorotsky , a Russian (and former Soviet) artistic gymnastics coach, (b. 1933)
[51]
2017 –
Smith Hart , American-born Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1948)
[52]
2018 –
Alan Longmuir , Scottish musician (b. 1948)
[53]
2019 –
Lee Iacocca , American automotive executive (b. 1924)
[54]
2020 –
Ángela Jeria , Chilean archaeologist (b. 1926)
2020 –
Byron Bernstein , American Twitch streamer (b. 1989)
[55]
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