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Day of the year
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 16 days remain until the end of the year.
1651 –
Castle Cornet in
Guernsey , the last stronghold which had supported the King in the
Third English Civil War , surrenders.
1778 –
American Revolutionary War :
British and French fleets clash in the
Battle of St. Lucia .
1791 – The
United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the
Virginia General Assembly .
1836 – The
U.S. Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., nearly
burns to the ground , destroying all 9,957 patents issued by the federal government to that date, as well as 7,000 related
patent models .
[7]
1864 –
American Civil War : The
Battle of Nashville begins at
Nashville, Tennessee , and ends the following day with the destruction of the
Confederate
Army of Tennessee as a fighting force by the
Union
Army of the Cumberland .
[8]
1869 – The short-lived
Republic of Ezo is proclaimed in the
Ezo area of
Japan .
[9] It is the first attempt to establish a
democracy in Japan.
[10]
1871 – Sixteen-year-old
telegraphist
Ella Stewart keys and sends the first telegraphed message from
Arizona Territory at the
Deseret Telegraph Company office in
Pipe Spring .
[11]
[12]
1890 –
Hunkpapa
Lakota leader
Sitting Bull is killed on
Standing Rock Indian Reservation , leading to the
Wounded Knee Massacre .
1893 –
Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World"
a.k.a. the "New World Symphony") by
Antonín Dvořák premieres in a public afternoon rehearsal at
Carnegie Hall in New York City, followed by a concert premiere on the evening of December 16.
[13]
1899 –
British Army forces are defeated at the
Battle of Colenso in
Natal ,
South Africa , the third and final battle fought during the
Black Week of the
Second Boer War .
[14]
1903 –
Italian American food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a
U.S. patent for inventing a machine that makes
ice cream cones .
[15]
1905 – The
Pushkin House is established in
Saint Petersburg , Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of
Alexander Pushkin .
1906 – The
London Underground 's
Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
1914 –
World War I : The
Serbian Army recaptures
Belgrade from the invading
Austro-Hungarian Army .
1914 –
A gas explosion at
Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in
Kyushu , Japan, kills 687.
1917 – World War I: An
armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.
1939 –
Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at
Loew's Grand Theatre in
Atlanta, Georgia , United States.
1941 –
The Holocaust in Ukraine :
German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at
Drobytsky Yar , a ravine southeast of the city of
Kharkiv .
1942 –
World War II : The
Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the
Guadalcanal Campaign .
1943 – World War II: The
Battle of Arawe begins during the
New Britain campaign .
1944 – World War II: a single-engine
UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying
United States Army Air Forces Major
Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.
1945 –
Occupation of Japan /
Shinto Directive : General
Douglas MacArthur orders that
Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
1960 –
Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate
U.S. President-Elect
John F. Kennedy .
1960 – King
Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
1961 –
Eichmann trial :
Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an
Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
1965 –
Project Gemini :
Gemini 6A , crewed by
Wally Schirra and
Thomas Stafford , is launched from
Cape Kennedy ,
Florida . Four orbits later, it achieves the first
space rendezvous , with
Gemini 7 .
1970 – Soviet spacecraft
Venera 7 successfully lands on
Venus . It is the first successful soft
landing on another planet .
1973 –
John Paul Getty III , grandson of American billionaire
J. Paul Getty , is found alive near
Naples , Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
1973 – The
American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove
homosexuality from its official list of
psychiatric disorders , the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders .
1978 – U.S. President
Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will
recognize the People's Republic of China and
sever diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan) .
1981 – A
suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in
Beirut, Lebanon , levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern
suicide bombing .
1989 –
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights relating the
abolition of capital punishment is adopted.
1993 –
The Troubles : The
Downing Street Declaration is issued by British
Prime Minister
John Major and Irish
Taoiseach
Albert Reynolds .
1997 –
Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near
Sharjah ,
United Arab Emirates , killing 85.
2000 – The third reactor at the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2001 – The
Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
2005 – Introduction of the
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into
USAF active service.
2010 – A boat carrying 90
asylum seekers
crashes into rocks off the coast of
Christmas Island , Australia, killing 48 people.
2013 – The
South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr.
Riek Machar ,
Pagan Amum and
Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.
2014 – Gunman
Man Haron Monis takes
18 hostages inside a café in
Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
2017 – A 6.5Mw
earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of
Java in the city of
Tasikmalaya , resulting in four deaths.
1610 –
David Teniers the Younger , Flemish painter (d. 1690)
1657 –
Michel Richard Delalande , French organist and composer (d. 1726)
1686 –
Jean-Joseph Fiocco , Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1746)
1710 –
Francesco Zahra , Maltese painter (d. 1773)
1789 –
Carlos Soublette , Venezuelan general and politician, 11th
President of Venezuela (d. 1870)
1832 –
Gustave Eiffel , French architect and engineer, co-designed the
Eiffel Tower (d. 1923)
1837 –
E. W. Bullinger , English minister, scholar, and theologian (d. 1913)
1852 –
Henri Becquerel , French physicist and chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
1859 –
L. L. Zamenhof , Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created
Esperanto (d. 1917)
[17]
1860 –
Niels Ryberg Finsen , Faroese-Danish physician and educator,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1904)
1860 –
Abner Powell , American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)
1861 –
Charles Duryea , American engineer and businessman, co-founded the
Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938)
1861 –
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud , Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd
President of Finland (d. 1944)
1863 –
Arthur Dehon Little , American chemist and engineer (d. 1935)
1869 –
Leon Marchlewski , Polish chemist and academic (d. 1946)
1875 –
Emilio Jacinto , Filipino journalist and activist (d. 1899)
1878 –
Hans Carossa , German author and poet (d. 1956)
1885 –
Leonid Pitamic , Slovenian lawyer, philosopher, and academic (d. 1971)
1886 –
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz , Polish politician and resistance fighter (d. 1968)
[18]
1886 –
Florence Jepperson Madsen , American
contralto singer and professor of music (d. 1977)
1888 –
Maxwell Anderson , American journalist and playwright (d. 1959)
1890 –
Harry Babcock , American pole vaulter (d. 1965)
1891 –
A.P. Carter , American country singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1960)
1892 –
J. Paul Getty , American-English businessman and art collector, founded
Getty Oil (d. 1976)
1894 –
Vibert Douglas , Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)
1894 –
Josef Imbach , Swiss sprinter (d. 1964)
1896 –
Betty Smith , American author and playwright (d. 1972)
1899 –
Harold Abrahams , English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (d. 1978)
1902 –
Robert F. Bradford , American lawyer and politician, 57th
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
1903 –
Tamanishiki San'emon , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd
Yokozuna (d. 1938)
1907 –
Gordon Douglas , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1907 –
Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect, designed the
United Nations Headquarters and the
Cathedral of Brasília (d. 2012)
1908 –
Swami Ranganathananda , Indian monk, scholar, and author (d. 2005)
1909 –
Sattar Bahlulzade , Azerbaijani-Russian painter (d. 1974)
1909 –
Eliza Atkins Gleason , American librarian (d. 2009)
[19]
1910 –
John Hammond , American record producer and critic (d. 1987)
1911 –
Nicholas P. Dallis , American psychiatrist and illustrator (d. 1991)
1911 –
Stan Kenton , American pianist and composer (d. 1979)
1913 –
Roger Gaudry , Canadian chemist and businessman (d. 2001)
1913 –
Muriel Rukeyser , American poet, academic, and activist (d. 1980)
1915 –
Eila Campbell , English geographer and cartographer (d. 1994)
[20]
1916 –
Miguel Arraes , Brazilian lawyer and politician,
Governor of Pernambuco (d. 2005)
1916 –
Buddy Cole , American pianist and conductor (d. 1964)
1916 –
Maurice Wilkins , New Zealand-English physicist and biologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1917 –
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee , Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer (d. 2005)
1918 –
Jeff Chandler , American actor (d. 1961)
1918 –
Chihiro Iwasaki , Japanese painter and illustrator (d. 1974)
1919 –
Max Yasgur , American dairy farmer and host of the
Woodstock Music & Art Fair (d. 1973)
1920 –
Gamal al-Banna , Egyptian author and scholar (d. 2013)
1920 –
Kurt Schaffenberger , German-American sergeant and illustrator (d. 2002)
1921 –
Alan Freed , American radio host (d. 1965)
1923 –
Pierre Cossette , American producer and manager (d. 2009)
1923 –
Freeman Dyson , English-American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)
[21]
1923 –
Uziel Gal , German-Israeli engineer, designed the
Uzi gun (d. 2002)
1923 –
Valentin Varennikov , Russian general and politician (d. 2009)
1924 –
Frank W. J. Olver , English-American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
1924 –
Ruhi Sarıalp , Turkish triple jumper and educator (d. 2001)
1925 –
Kasey Rogers , American actress and author (d. 2006)
1926 –
Bill Pitt , Australian race car driver (d. 2017)
[22]
1928 –
Ernest Ashworth , American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1928 –
Ida Haendel , Polish-English violinist and educator (d. 2020)
1928 –
Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Austrian-New Zealand painter and architect (d. 2000)
1930 –
Edna O'Brien , Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer (d. 2024)
[23]
1931 –
Klaus Rifbjerg , Danish author and poet (d. 2015)
1932 –
Jesse Belvin , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1960)
1932 –
John Meurig Thomas , Welsh chemist and academic
[24] (d. 2020)
1933 –
Bapu , Indian director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1933 –
Tim Conway , American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
[25]
1933 –
Donald Woods , South African journalist and activist (d. 2001)
1936 –
Joe D'Amato , Italian director and producer (d. 1999)
1938 –
Michael Bogdanov , Welsh director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1938 –
Billy Shaw , American football player
1939 –
Cindy Birdsong , American singer-songwriter
[26]
1939 –
Dave Clark , English musician and songwriter
[25]
1940 –
Nick Buoniconti , American football player and sportscaster (d. 2019)
1942 –
Kathleen Blanco , American educator and politician, 54th
Governor of Louisiana (d. 2019)
1943 –
Lucien den Arend , Dutch sculptor
1944 –
Jim Leyland , American baseball player and manager
1944 –
Chico Mendes , Brazilian trade union leader and activist (d. 1988)
1945 –
Heather Booth , American civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist
1945 –
Ivor Crewe , English political scientist and academic
1946 –
Carmine Appice , American drummer and songwriter
[26]
1946 –
Art Howe , American baseball player and manager
1946 –
Genny Lim , American writer
[27]
1946 –
Comunardo Niccolai , Italian footballer (
Torres ,
Cagliari ,
national team ) (d. 2024)
[28]
[29]
1948 –
Cassandra Harris , Australian actress (d. 1991)
1948 –
Charlie Scott , American basketball player
[30]
1949 –
Don Johnson , American actor
[26]
1949 –
Brian Roper , English economist and academic
1950 –
Melanie Chartoff , American actress and comedian
[26]
1950 –
Sylvester James Gates , American theoretical physicist and professor
1951 –
George Donikian , Australian journalist
1951 –
Joe Jordan , Scottish footballer and manager
1951 –
Tim Webster , Australian journalist and sportscaster
1952 –
Rudi Protrudi , American singer-songwriter and producer
1952 –
Allan Simonsen , Danish footballer and manager
1952 –
Julie Taymor , American director, producer, and screenwriter
[26]
1953 –
John R. Allen , American general and diplomat
1953 –
J. M. DeMatteis , American author
1953 –
Robert Charles Wilson , American-Canadian author
1954 –
Alex Cox , English film director, screenwriter, actor, non-fiction author and broadcaster
1954 –
Oliver Heald , English lawyer and politician,
Solicitor General for England and Wales
1954 –
Mark Warner , American businessman and politician, 69th
Governor of Virginia
1955 –
Hector Sants , English banker
1955 –
Paul Simonon , English singer-songwriter and bass player
[26]
1956 –
John Lee Hancock , American screenwriter, film director, and producer
1956 –
Tony Leon , South African lawyer and politician
1957 –
Mario Marois , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1957 –
Mike McAlary , American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1957 –
Tim Reynolds , German-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 –
Carlo J. Caparas , Filipino director and producer
1958 –
Richard Kastle , American classical pianist
1959 –
Greg Matthews , Australian cricketer
1959 –
Alan Whetton , New Zealand rugby player
1959 –
Gary Whetton , New Zealand rugby player
1960 –
Walter Werzowa , Austrian composer and producer
1961 –
Karin Resetarits , Austrian journalist and politician
1962 –
Tim Gaines , American bass player
1962 –
Simon Hodgkinson , English rugby player and coach
1963 –
Ellie Cornell , American actress and producer
1963 –
Norman J. Grossfeld , American screenwriter and producer
1963 –
Helen Slater , American actress
[26]
1963 –
David Wingate , American basketball player
1964 –
Paul Kaye , English actor
[26]
1966 –
Carl Hooper , Guyanese cricketer and coach
1966 –
Molly Price , American actress
1967 –
David Howells , English footballer and coach
1967 –
Mo Vaughn , American baseball player
1968 –
Garrett Wang , American actor
[26]
1969 –
Ralph Ineson , English actor
1969 –
Chantal Petitclerc , Canadian wheelchair racer and senator
1969 –
Adam Setliff , American discus thrower and lawyer
1970 –
Frankie Dettori , Italian jockey
1970 –
Lawrence Funderburke , American basketball player
1970 –
Michael Shanks , Canadian actor, screenwriter and director
[26]
1971 –
Clint Lowery , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1972 –
Rodney Harrison , American football player and sportscaster
1972 –
Lee Jung-jae , South Korean actor
[31]
1972 –
Stuart Townsend , Irish actor
[26]
1972 –
Alexandra Tydings , American actress, director, writer and producer
1973 –
Surya Bonaly , French figure skater
1973 –
Ryoo Seung-wan , South Korean actor, director, and screenwriter
1974 –
Garath Archer , English rugby player
1974 –
P. J. Byrne , American actor
1975 –
Samira Saraya , Palestinian actor, filmmaker, poet and rapper
1976 –
Baichung Bhutia , Indian footballer and manager
1976 –
Kim Eagles , Canadian sport shooter
[32]
1976 –
Aaron Miles , American baseball player and coach
1976 –
Todd Tichenor , American baseball player and umpire
1977 –
Mehmet Aurélio , Brazilian-Turkish footballer and manager
1977 –
Geoff Stults , American actor and producer
1978 –
Ned Brower , American drummer
1978 –
Mark Jansen , Dutch guitarist and songwriter
1978 –
Jerome McDougle , American football player
1979 –
Adam Brody , American actor
[26]
1979 –
Eric Young , Canadian-American wrestler
1980 –
Élodie Gossuin , French beauty pageant titleholder and model
1980 –
Sergio Pizzorno , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 –
Manuel Wilhelm , German rugby player
1981 –
Michelle Dockery , English actress
[26]
1981 –
Brendan Fletcher , Canadian actor and screenwriter
1981 –
Andy González , Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1981 –
Thomas Herrion , American football player (d. 2005)
1981 –
Roman Pavlyuchenko , Russian footballer
1982 –
Charlie Cox , English actor
[26]
1982 –
Borja García , Spanish race car driver
1982 –
George O. Gore II , American actor and comedian
[26]
1982 –
Tatiana Perebiynis , Ukrainian tennis player
[33]
1983 –
Delon Armitage , Trinidadian-English rugby player
1983 –
René Duprée , Canadian professional wrestler
1983 –
Camilla Luddington , English actress
[26]
1983 –
Ronnie Radke , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1983 –
Sophia Young , Vincentian-American basketball player
[34]
1984 –
Martyn Bernard , English high jumper
1984 –
Martin Škrtel , Slovak footballer
[35]
1985 –
Diogo Fernandes , Brazilian footballer
1986 –
Kim Junsu , South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1986 –
Iveta Mazáčová , Czech sprinter
1986 –
Keylor Navas , Costa Rican footballer
1986 –
Snejana Onopka , Ukrainian model
1987 –
Josh Norman , American football player
1988 –
Erik Gustafsson , Swedish ice hockey player
[36]
1988 –
Emily Head , English actress
1988 –
Steven Nzonzi , French footballer
1989 –
Nichole Bloom , American actress and model
1991 –
Conor Daly , American race car driver
1991 –
Yanni Gourde , Canadian ice hockey player
[37]
1991 –
Alana Haim , American musician and actress
[26]
1992 –
Daiamami Genki , Japanese sumo wrestler
1992 –
Jesse Lingard , English footballer
1992 –
Alex Telles , Brazilian footballer
[38]
1993 –
Daniel Ochefu , American basketball player
[39]
1995 –
Jahlil Okafor , American basketball player
[40]
1996 –
Jenifer Brening , German singer
1996 –
Oleksandr Zinchenko , Ukrainian footballer
1997 –
Maude Apatow , American actress
[26]
1997 –
Zach Banks , American race car driver
1997 –
Magdalena Fręch , Polish tennis player
[41]
1997 –
Stefania LaVie Owen , New Zealand-American actress
1998 –
Chandler Canterbury , American actor
2000 –
Kayvon Thibodeaux , American football player
[42]
933 –
Li Siyuan , Chinese emperor (b. 867)
1025 –
Basil II , Byzantine emperor (b. 958)
1072 –
Alp Arslan , Turkish sultan (b. 1029)
1161 –
Wanyan Liang , Chinese emperor (b. 1122)
1230 –
Ottokar I , duke of Bohemia (b. 1155)
1283 –
Philip I , Latin emperor (b. 1243)
1343 –
Hasan Kucek , Chopanid prince (b. c. 1319)
1467 –
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna , archbishop and regent of Sweden (b. 1417)
1574 –
Selim II , Ottoman sultan (b. 1524)
1598 –
Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde , Dutch nobleman (b. 1540)
1621 –
Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes , French courtier,
Constable of France (b. 1578)
1673 –
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , English noblewoman (b. 1623)
1675 –
Johannes Vermeer , Dutch painter and educator (b. 1632)
1683 –
Izaak Walton , English author (b. 1593)
1688 –
Gaspar Fagel , Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1634)
1698 –
Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart , French nobleman (b. 1636)
1715 –
George Hickes , English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
1753 –
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington , English architect and politician, designed
Chiswick House (b. 1694)
1792 –
Joseph Martin Kraus , Swedish pianist, violinist, and composer (b. 1756)
1812 –
Shneur Zalman , Russian rabbi, author and founder of
Chabad (b. 1745)
1817 –
Federigo Zuccari , astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (b.
1783 )
1819 –
Daniel Rutherford , Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
[43]
1855 –
Jacques Charles François Sturm , French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
1878 –
Alfred Bird , English chemist and businessman, invented
baking powder (b. 1811)
1890 –
Sitting Bull ,
Hunkpapa
Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
1943 –
Fats Waller , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
1944 –
Glenn Miller , American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
[44]
1947 –
Arthur Machen , Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
1947 –
Crawford Vaughan , Australian politician, 27th
Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
1950 –
Vallabhbhai Patel , Indian lawyer and politician, 1st
Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
1958 –
Wolfgang Pauli , Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1962 –
Charles Laughton , English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
1965 –
M. Balasundaram , Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)
1966 –
Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott , Indian-Scottish general and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
1966 –
Walt Disney , American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded
The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)
[45]
1968 –
Antonio Barrette , Canadian politician, 18th
Premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
1968 –
Jess Willard , American boxer and actor (b. 1881)
1969 –
Karl Theodor Bleek , German lawyer and politician, 12th
Mayor of Marburg (b. 1898)
1971 –
Paul Lévy , French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)
1974 –
Anatole Litvak , Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1977 –
Wilfred Kitching , English 7th
General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1978 –
Chill Wills , American actor (b. 1903)
1980 –
Peter Gregg , American race car driver (b. 1940)
[46]
1984 –
Jan Peerce , American tenor and actor (b. 1904)
1985 –
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam , Mauritian physician and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
1986 –
Serge Lifar , Russian-French ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
1989 –
Edward Underdown , English actor and jockey (b. 1908)
1991 –
Vasily Zaytsev , Russian captain (b. 1915)
1993 –
William Dale Phillips , American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
2000 –
Haris Brkić , Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)
2003 –
Vincent Apap , Maltese sculptor (b. 1909)
2003 –
George Fisher , American cartoonist (b. 1923)
2003 –
Keith Magnuson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1947)
2004 –
Vassal Gadoengin , Nauruan educator and politician,
Speaker of the Nauru Parliament (b. 1943)
2005 –
Heinrich Gross , Austrian physician and psychiatrist (b. 1914)
2005 –
Stan Leonard , Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
2005 –
William Proxmire , American soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)
2005 –
Darrell Russell , American football player (b. 1976)
2006 –
Clay Regazzoni , Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
2006 –
Mary Stolz , American journalist and author (b. 1920)
2007 –
Julia Carson , American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2008 –
León Febres Cordero , Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th
President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
2009 –
Eliza Atkins Gleason , American librarian (b. 1909)
[19]
2009 –
Oral Roberts , American evangelist, founded the
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (b. 1918)
2010 –
Blake Edwards , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 –
Bob Feller , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
2010 –
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein , American psychoanalyst and theorist (b. 1940)
2011 –
Bob Brookmeyer , American trombone player and composer (b. 1929)
2011 –
Christopher Hitchens , English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (b. 1949)
2012 –
Owoye Andrew Azazi , Nigerian general (b. 1952)
2012 –
Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa , Nigerian politician, 18th
Governor of Kaduna State (b. 1948)
2012 –
Olga Zubarry , Argentinian actress (b. 1929)
2013 –
Harold Camping , American evangelist, author, radio host (b. 1921)
2013 –
Joan Fontaine , British-American actress (b. 1917)
2013 –
Dyron Nix , American basketball player (b. 1967)
2014 –
Donald Metcalf , Australian physiologist and immunologist (b. 1929)
2014 –
Fausto Zapata , Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician,
Governor of San Luis Potosí (b. 1940)
2015 –
Harry Zvi Tabor , English-Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1917)
2016 –
Craig Sager , American sports journalist (b. 1951)
2017 –
Heinz Wolff , scientist and TV presenter (b. 1928)
[47]
2017 –
Calestous Juma , academic (b. 1953)
2018 –
Eryue He , Chinese historical fiction writer (b.1945)
[48]
2018 –
Girma Wolde-Giorgis , President of
Ethiopia (b. 1924)
2020 –
Saufatu Sopoanga , Tuvaluan politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1952)
[49]
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