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Day of the year
December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 22 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1636 – The
Qing dynasty of China , led by Emperor
Hong Taiji ,
invades
Joseon .
[5]
1688 –
Glorious Revolution : Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at
Battle of Reading , forcing
James II to flee England.
[6] (Date is
Old Style ; the date in the New Style modern calendar is 19 December.)
1775 –
American Revolutionary War : British troops and
Loyalists , misinformed about
Patriot militia strength, lose the
Battle of Great Bridge , ending British rule in
Virginia .
[7]
1822 – French physicist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel , in a memoir read to the
Academy of Sciences , coins the terms
linear polarization ,
circular polarization , and
elliptical polarization , and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that
optical rotation is a form of
birefringence .
[8]
1824 – Patriot forces led by General
Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the
Battle of Ayacucho , putting an end to the
Peruvian War of Independence .
1835 –
Texas Revolution : The
Texian Army captures
San Antonio following the
Siege of Béxar .
1851 – The first
YMCA in North America is established in
Montreal .
1856 – The
Iranian city of
Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 –
American Civil War : The
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by
Congress .
[9]
1868 – The first
traffic lights are installed, outside the
Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling
railway signals , they use
semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green
gas lamps .
1872 – In
Louisiana ,
P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first
African American governor of a U.S. state following the impeachment of
Henry C. Warmoth .
[10]
1901–present
1905 – In France, a
law separating church and state is passed.
1911 – A
mine explosion near
Briceville, Tennessee , kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the
United States Bureau of Mines .
1917 –
World War I : Field Marshal
Allenby captures
Jerusalem from the
Ottoman Empire .
1917 – World War I: The
Kingdom of Romania signs the
Armistice of Focșani with the
Central Powers .
[11]
1922 –
Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1931 – The
Constituent Cortes approves a
constitution which establishes the
Second Spanish Republic .
1935 –
Student protests occur in
Beijing 's
Tiananmen Square , and are subsequently dispersed by
government authorities .
1935 –
Walter Liggett , an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1937 –
Second Sino-Japanese War :
Battle of Nanking :
Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen.
Yasuhiko Asaka launch an assault on the
Chinese city of
Nanking .
1940 –
World War II :
Operation Compass : British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General
Richard O'Connor
attack
Italian forces near
Sidi Barrani in
Egypt .
1941 – World War II:
China ,
Cuba ,
Guatemala , and
the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on
Germany and
Japan .
1941 – World War II: The American
19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of
Vigan ,
Luzon .
1946 – The
subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the
Doctors' Trial , prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in
Nazi human experimentation and
mass murder under the guise of euthanasia .
1946 – The
Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the
Constitution of India .
1948 – The
Genocide Convention is adopted.
1950 –
Cold War :
Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping
Klaus Fuchs pass information about the
Manhattan Project to the
Soviet Union . His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg .
1953 –
Red Scare :
General Electric announces that all
communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1956 –
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9 , a
Canadair North Star , crashes near
Hope, British Columbia , Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1960 – The first episode of
Coronation Street , the world's longest-running television
soap opera , is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1961 –
Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
1965 –
Kecksburg UFO incident : A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
1968 –
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "
The Mother of All Demos ", publicly debuting the
computer mouse ,
hypertext , and the bit-mapped
graphical user interface using the
oN-Line System (NLS) .
1969 – U.S. Secretary of State
William P. Rogers proposes
his plan for a ceasefire in the
War of Attrition ; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the
PLO , which leads to
civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
1971 –
Indo-Pakistani War : The
Indian Air Force executes
an airdrop of
Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the
Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing
Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border
Council of Ireland .
1979 – The eradication of the
smallpox
virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with
rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
1987 –
Israeli–Palestinian conflict : The
First Intifada begins in the
Gaza Strip and
West Bank .
1992 – American troops land in
Somalia for
Operation Restore Hope .
1996 –
Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.
[12]
2003 – A
blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2006 –
Space Shuttle program :
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on
STS-116 carrying the
P5 truss segment of the
International Space Station .
[13]
2008 –
Governor of Illinois
Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the
U.S. Senate seat being vacated by
President-elect
Barack Obama .
2012 –
A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people including singer
Jenni Rivera .
[14]
2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a
train accident near Bintaro,
Indonesia .
2016 – President
Park Geun-hye of South Korea is
impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.
2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in
Madagali ,
Adamawa , Nigeria in the
Madagali suicide bombings .
2017 – The
Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making
Australia the 26th country to legalize
same-sex marriage .
2019 – A volcano on
Whakaari / White Island ,
New Zealand , kills 22 people after it
erupts .
[15]
[16]
2021 – Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from
Central America overturned in
Chiapas ,
Mexico .
[17]
[18]
[19]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1608 –
John Milton , English poet and philosopher (d. 1674)
1610 –
Baldassare Ferri , Italian singer and actor (d. 1680)
1617 –
Richard Lovelace , English poet (d. 1657)
1652 –
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus , German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
1667 –
William Whiston , English mathematician, historian, and theologian (d. 1752)
1717 –
Johann Joachim Winckelmann , German archaeologist and historian (d. 1768)
1721 –
Peter Pelham , English-American organist and composer (d. 1805)
1728 –
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , Italian composer (d. 1804)
1742 –
Carl Wilhelm Scheele , Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist (d. 1786)
1745 –
Maddalena Laura Sirmen , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1818)
1748 –
Claude Louis Berthollet , French chemist and academic (d. 1822)
1752 –
Antoine Étienne de Tousard , French general and engineer (d. 1813)
1768 –
Joseph Desha , American politician (d. 1842)
[21]
1787 –
John Dobson , English architect, designed
Eldon Square and
Lilburn Tower (d. 1865)
1779 –
Tabitha Babbitt , American tool maker and inventor (d. 1853)
1806 –
Jean-Olivier Chénier , Canadian physician (d. 1838)
1813 –
Thomas Andrews , Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1885)
1837 –
Émile Waldteufel , French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1915)
1842 –
Peter Kropotkin , Russian zoologist, economist, geographer, and philosopher (d. 1921)
1845 –
Joel Chandler Harris , American journalist and author (d. 1908)
1850 –
Emma Abbott , American soprano and actress (d. 1891)
1861 –
Hélène Smith , French psychic and occultist (d. 1929)
1867 –
Gregorios Xenopoulos , Greek journalist and author (d. 1951)
1868 –
Fritz Haber , Polish-German chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
[22]
1870 –
Ida S. Scudder , Indian physician and missionary (d. 1960)
1870 –
Francisco S. Carvajal , Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (d. 1932)
[23]
1871 –
Joe Kelley , American baseball player and manager (d. 1943)
1873 –
George Blewett , Canadian philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1912)
1875 –
Harry Miller , American engineer (d. 1943)
1876 –
Berton Churchill , Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1940)
1882 –
Elmer Booth , American actor (d. 1915)
1882 –
Joaquín Turina , Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator (d. 1949)
1883 –
Nikolai Luzin , Russian mathematician, theorist, and academic (d. 1950)
1883 –
Alexander Papagos , Greek general and politician, 152nd
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)
1883 –
Joseph Pilates , German-American fitness expert, developed
Pilates (d. 1967)
1886 –
Clarence Birdseye , American businessman, founded
Birds Eye (d. 1956)
1887 –
Tim Moore , American actor (d. 1958)
1889 –
Hannes Kolehmainen , Finnish-American runner (d. 1966)
1890 –
Laura Salverson , Canadian author (d. 1970)
1891 –
Maksim Bahdanovič , Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917)
1892 –
André Randall , French actor (d. 1974)
1895 –
Dolores Ibárruri , Spanish activist, journalist and politician (d. 1989)
1895 –
Conchita Supervía , Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1936)
1897 –
Hermione Gingold , English actress and singer (d. 1987)
1898 –
Irene Greenwood , Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (d. 1992)
[24]
1898 –
Emmett Kelly , American clown and actor (d. 1979)
1899 –
Jean de Brunhoff , French author and illustrator (d. 1937)
1900 –
Margaret Brundage , American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine
Weird Tales (d. 1976)
1900 –
Albert Weisbord , American activist, founded the
Communist League of Struggle (d. 1977)
1901–present
1901 –
Jean Mermoz , French pilot and politician (d. 1936)
1901 –
Ödön von Horváth , Hungarian-German author and playwright (d. 1938)
1902 –
Margaret Hamilton , American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (d. 1985)
[25]
1904 –
Robert Livingston , American actor and singer (d. 1988)
1905 –
Dalton Trumbo , American author, screenwriter, and
blacklistee (d. 1976)
[25]
1906 –
Grace Hopper , American admiral and computer scientist, designed
COBOL (d. 1992)
[26]
1906 –
Freddy Martin , American bandleader and tenor saxophonist (d. 1983)
1909 –
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , American captain, actor, and producer (d. 2000)
1910 –
Vere Bird , first
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (d. 1999)
[27]
[28]
1911 –
Broderick Crawford , American actor (d. 1986)
1911 –
Ryūzō Sejima , Japanese colonel and businessman (d. 2007)
1912 –
Tip O'Neill , American lawyer and politician, 55th
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
[25]
1912 –
Jim Turnesa , American golfer (d. 1971)
1914 –
Max Manus , Norwegian lieutenant (d. 1996)
1914 –
Frances Reid , American actress (d. 2010)
1914 –
Ljubica Sokić , Serbian painter and illustrator (d. 2009)
1915 –
Eloise Jarvis McGraw , American author (d. 2000)
1915 –
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , German-Austrian soprano and actress (d. 2006)
1916 –
Jerome Beatty Jr. , American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002)
1916 –
Kirk Douglas , American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2020)
[25]
1916 –
Colin McCool , Australian cricketer (d. 1986)
1917 –
James Jesus Angleton , American
CIA agent (d. 1987)
1917 –
James Rainwater , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1919 –
V. Dakshinamoorthy , Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1919 –
William Lipscomb , American chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1920 –
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , Italian economist and politician, 10th
President of Italy (d. 2016)
1920 –
Bruno Ruffo , Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (d. 2007)
1922 –
Redd Foxx , American actor (d. 1991)
[25]
1925 –
Roy Rubin , American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1926 –
Henry Way Kendall , American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1926 –
Jan Křesadlo , Czech-English psychologist and author (d. 1995)
1926 –
David Nathan , British journalist (d. 2001)
1926 –
Lorenzo Wright , American sprinter and coach (d. 1972)
1927 –
Pierre Henry , French composer (d. 2017)
1928 –
Joan Blos , American author and educator (d. 2017)
1928 –
André Milhoux , Belgian race car driver
1928 –
Dick Van Patten , American actor (d. 2015)
[25]
1929 –
John Cassavetes , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
[25]
1929 –
Bob Hawke , Australian union leader and politician, 23rd
Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
1930 –
Buck Henry , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
[25]
1930 –
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores , Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th
President of Guatemala (d. 2016)
1931 –
Cliff Hagan , American basketball player-coach
[29]
1931 –
William Reynolds , American actor (d. 2022)
1931 –
Ladislav Smoljak , Czech actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1932 –
Donald Byrd , American trumpet player and academic (d. 2013)
1932 –
Bill Hartack , American jockey (d. 2007)
1932 –
Billy Edd Wheeler , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwright
1933 –
Ashleigh Brilliant , English-American author and illustrator
1933 –
Milt Campbell , American decathlete and football player (d. 2012)
1933 –
Morton Downey Jr. , American actor and talk show host (d. 2001)
1933 –
Orville Moody , American golfer (d. 2008)
1934 –
Judi Dench , English actress
[30]
1934 –
Alan Ridout , English composer and teacher (d. 1996)
[31]
1934 –
Junior Wells , American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1998)
1938 –
David Houston , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1938 –
Deacon Jones , American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013)
[25]
1938 –
Dimitrios Trichopoulos , Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (d. 2014)
1940 –
Clancy Eccles , Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1941 –
Mehmet Ali Birand , Turkish journalist and author (d. 2013)
1941 –
Beau Bridges , American actor, director, and producer
[30]
1941 –
Dan Hicks , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1942 –
Billy Bremner , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1997)
1942 –
Dick Butkus , American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2023)
[30]
1942 –
Germain Gagnon , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1942 –
Fred Jones , Australian rugby league player (d. 2021)
1942 –
Joe McGinniss , American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1942 –
William Turnage , American conservationist (d. 2017)
[32]
1943 –
Pit Martin , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1943 –
Joanna Trollope , English author, playwright, and director
1943 –
Kenny Vance , American singer-songwriter and music producer
1944 –
Neil Innes , English singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
1944 –
Ki Longfellow , American author, playwright, and producer (d. 2022)
1944 –
Bob O'Connor , American businessman and politician, 57th
Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 2006)
1945 –
Michael Nouri , American actor
[30]
1946 –
David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone , English economist and academic
1946 –
Dennis Dunaway , American bass player and songwriter
1946 –
Sonia Gandhi , Italian-Indian politician
1946 –
Nicholas Reade , English bishop
1947 –
Tom Daschle , American soldier, academic, and politician
1947 –
Jaak Jõerüüt , Estonian politician, 24th
Estonian Minister of Defense
1947 –
Allan Jones , English cricketer and umpire
1948 –
Marleen Gorris , Dutch director and screenwriter
1948 –
Jonathan Sumption , English historian, author, and judge
1949 –
Tom Kite , American golfer and architect
[25]
1950 –
Joan Armatrading , Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
[30]
1952 –
Liaqat Baloch , Pakistani politician
1952 –
Michael Dorn , American actor and voice artist
[30]
1953 –
Cornelis de Bondt , Dutch composer and educator
1953 –
World B. Free , American basketball player
1953 –
John Malkovich , American actor and producer
[30]
1954 –
Jean-Claude Juncker , Luxembourger lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1954 –
Henk ten Cate , Dutch footballer and manager
1955 –
Otis Birdsong , American basketball player and radio host
1955 –
Chamras Saewataporn , Thai singer-songwriter
1956 –
Sylvia , American country singer-songwriter
[30]
1956 –
Jean-Pierre Thiollet , French journalist and author
1957 –
Peter O'Mara , Australian guitarist and composer
1957 –
Donny Osmond , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
[30]
1957 –
Steve Taylor , American singer-songwriter and producer
1959 –
Susan Bullock , English soprano
1959 –
Mario Cantone , American comedian, actor, and writer
[30]
1960 –
Stefen Fangmeier , American visual effects designer and director
1960 –
Caroline Lucas , English activist and politician
1960 –
Dobroslav Paraga , Croatian politician
1960 –
Juan Samuel , Dominican baseball player and manager
1961 –
David Anthony Higgins , American actor and screenwriter
[30]
1961 –
Joe Lando , American actor
[30]
1962 –
Felicity Huffman , American actress and producer
[30]
1962 –
Roxanne Swentzell ,
Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) ceramic sculptor
1963 –
Dave Hilton Jr. , Canadian boxer
1963 –
Empress Masako , Japanese consort of
Emperor Naruhito
[33]
1964 –
Michael Foster , American drummer
1964 –
Ross Harrington , Australian rugby league player
1964 –
Hape Kerkeling , German actor and singer
1964 –
Johannes B. Kerner , German journalist and sportscaster
1964 –
Les Kiss , Australian rugby league player
1964 –
Paul Landers , German guitarist
1965 –
Joe Ausanio , American baseball player and coach
1966 –
Kirsten Gillibrand , American lawyer and politician
1966 –
Dave Harold , English snooker player
1966 –
Gideon Sa'ar , Israeli lawyer and politician, 24th
Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs
1966 –
Martin Taylor , English footballer and coach
1967 –
Joshua Bell , American violinist and conductor
1967 –
Jason Dozzell , English footballer and manager
1968 –
Kurt Angle , American freestyle and professional wrestler
[34]
1968 –
Brian Bell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[30]
1968 –
Brent Price , American basketball player
1969 –
Jakob Dylan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[30]
1969 –
Saskia Garel , Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwriter
1969 –
Lori Greiner , American businesswoman and television personality
[30]
1969 –
Bixente Lizarazu , French footballer
1969 –
Raphaël Rouquier , French mathematician and academic
1969 –
Allison Smith , American actress
[30]
1970 –
Kara DioGuardi , American singer-songwriter and producer
[30]
1970 –
Lance Krall , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 –
Geoff Barrow , English drummer, DJ, composer, and producer
1971 –
Nick Hysong , American pole vaulter and coach
1971 –
Petr Nedvěd , Czech-Canadian ice hockey player
1972 –
Reiko Aylesworth , American actress
[30]
1972 –
Tré Cool , German-American drummer and songwriter
[30]
1972 –
Michael Corcoran , American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 –
Fabrice Santoro , Tahitian-French tennis player and sportscaster
1972 –
Saima Wazed , Bangladeshi psychologist
[35]
1973 –
Stacey Abrams , American politician and activist
[36]
1973 –
Fabio Artico , Italian footballer
1973 –
Vénuste Niyongabo , Burundian runner
1973 –
Bárbara Padilla , Mexican-American soprano
1974 –
David Akers , American football player
[37]
1974 –
Canibus , Jamaican-American rapper
[30]
1974 –
Aloísio da Silva Filho , Brazilian footballer
1974 –
Wendy Dillinger , American soccer player, coach, and manager
1974 –
Fiona MacDonald , Scottish curler
[38]
1976 –
Mona Hanna-Attisha , American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate
[39]
1977 –
Shayne Graham , American football player
1977 –
Imogen Heap , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
[30]
1978 –
Gastón Gaudio , Argentinian tennis player
1978 –
Jesse Metcalfe , American actor and musician
[30]
1979 –
Olivia Lufkin , Japanese-American singer-songwriter
1979 –
Stephen McPhail , Irish footballer
1979 –
Aiko Uemura , Japanese skier
1980 –
Simon Helberg , American actor, comedian, and musician
[30]
1980 –
Ryder Hesjedal , Canadian cyclist
1980 –
Mark Riddell , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1981 –
Mardy Fish , American tennis player
1982 –
Tamilla Abassova , Russian cyclist
1982 –
Nathalie De Vos , Belgian runner
1982 –
Ryan Grant , American football player
1982 –
Jim Slater , American ice hockey player
[40]
1982 –
Bastian Swillims , German sprinter
1983 –
Jermaine Beckford , English-Jamaican footballer
1983 –
Neslihan Demir Darnel , Turkish volleyball player
1983 –
Dariusz Dudka , Polish footballer
1983 –
Jolene Purdy , American actress
[30]
1984 –
Ángel Guirado , Spanish–Filipino footballer
1984 –
Leon Hall , American football player
1985 –
Wil Besseling , Dutch golfer
1986 –
Aron Baynes , Australian basketball player
[41]
1987 –
Kostas Giannoulis , Greek footballer
1987 –
Gerald Henderson Jr. , American basketball player
[42]
1987 –
Mat Latos , American baseball player
1987 –
Hikaru Nakamura , Japanese-American chess player
1987 –
Jeff Petry , American ice hockey player
[43]
1987 –
Joshua Sasse , English actor
[30]
1988 –
Kwadwo Asamoah , Ghanaian footballer
1989 –
Eric Bledsoe , American basketball player
[44]
1990 –
Ashleigh Brewer , Australian actress
[30]
1990 –
Denise Hannema , Dutch cricketer
1991 –
Langston Galloway , American basketball player
[45]
1991 –
Choi Min-ho , South Korean singer and actor
1993 –
Mark McMorris , Canadian snowboarder
1993 –
Laura Smulders , Dutch cyclist
1995 –
Simone Fontecchio , Italian basketball player
[46]
1995 –
McKayla Maroney , American gymnast
[25]
1995 –
Kelly Oubre Jr. , American basketball player
[47]
1996 –
Mackenzie Blackwood , Canadian ice hockey player
[48]
1996 –
Kyle Connor , American ice hockey player
[49]
1996 –
MyKayla Skinner , American gymnast
[25]
2000 –
Diāna Ņikitina , Latvian figure skater
Deaths
Pre-1600
638 –
Sergius I of Constantinople
730 –
Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah , Arab general
748 –
Nasr ibn Sayyar , Umayyad general and politician (b. 663)
933 –
Li Congrong , prince of
Later Tang
1117 –
Gertrude of Brunswick , Markgräfin of
Meißen
1165 –
Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
1242 –
Richard le Gras , Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham
1268 –
Vaišvilkas , Prince of Black Ruthenia,
Grand Duke of Lithuania
1299 –
Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
1437 –
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
1544 –
Teofilo Folengo , Italian poet (b. 1491)
1565 –
Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
[50]
1601–1900
1603 –
William Watson , English priest (b. 1559)
1625 –
Ubbo Emmius , Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
1636 –
Fabian Birkowski , Polish preacher and author (b. 1566)
1641 –
Anthony van Dyck , Belgian-English painter and illustrator (b. 1599)
1669 –
Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
1674 –
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon , English historian and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609)
1706 –
Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
1718 –
Vincenzo Coronelli , Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650)
1761 –
Tarabai , Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (b. 1675)
[51]
1793 –
Yolande de Polastron , French-Austrian educator (b. 1749)
1798 –
Johann Reinhold Forster , German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729)
1830 –
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757)
1854 –
Almeida Garrett , Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799)
1858 –
Robert Baldwin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd
Premier of Canada West (b. 1804)
1887 –
Mahmadu Lamine , Senegalese religious leader
1901–present
1906 –
Ferdinand Brunetière , French author and critic (b. 1849)
1907 –
Eva Nansen , Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer and pioneer on women's skiing (b. 1858)
[52]
1916 –
Natsume Sōseki , Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
1924 –
Bernard Zweers , Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
1930 –
Rube Foster , American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1932 –
Karl Blossfeldt , German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
1932 –
Begum Rokeya , Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
1935 –
Walter Liggett , American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
1937 –
Lilias Armstrong , English phonetician (b. 1882)
1937 –
Gustaf Dalén , Swedish physicist and engineer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1941 –
Dmitry Merezhkovsky , Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
1943 –
Georges Dufrénoy , French painter (b. 1870)
1944 –
Laird Cregar , American actor (b. 1913)
1945 –
Yun Chi-ho , South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)
1957 –
Ali İhsan Sâbis , Turkish general (b. 1882)
1963 –
Daniel O. Fagunwa , Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903)
1963 –
Perry Miller , American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905)
1964 –
Edith Sitwell , English poet and critic (b. 1887)
1965 –
Branch Rickey , American baseball player and manager (b. 1884)
1967 –
Charles Léon Hammes , Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd
President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
1968 –
Enoch L. Johnson , American mob boss (b. 1883)
1970 –
Artem Mikoyan , Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the
Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (b. 1905)
1970 –
Feroz Khan Noon , Pakistani politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 –
Ralph Bunche , American political scientist, academic, and diplomat,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1971 –
Sergey Konenkov , Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)
1971 – Rev.
Aeneas Francon Williams ,
Church of Scotland
Minister ,
Missionary in
India and
China ,
writer and
poet (b.
1886 )
1972 –
Louella Parsons , American writer and columnist (b. 1881)
1975 –
William A. Wellman , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1979 –
Fulton J. Sheen , American archbishop (b. 1895)
1982 –
Leon Jaworski , American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
1991 –
Berenice Abbott , American photographer (b. 1898)
1992 –
Vincent Gardenia , American actor (b. 1922)
1993 –
Danny Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
1995 –
Toni Cade Bambara , American author and academic (b. 1939)
1995 –
Douglas Corrigan , American pilot (b. 1907)
1996 –
Patty Donahue , American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
1996 –
Mary Leakey , English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 –
Alain Poher , French lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
1996 –
Diana Morgan , Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1998 –
Shaughnessy Cohen , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
1998 –
Archie Moore , American boxer and actor (b. 1913)
2001 –
Michael Carver, Baron Carver , English field marshal (b. 1915)
2002 –
Mary Hansen , Australian singer and guitarist (b. 1966)
2002 –
Ian Hornak , American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
2002 –
Stan Rice , American painter and poet (b. 1942)
2003 –
Norm Sloan , American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2003 –
Paul Simon , American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (b. 1928)
2005 –
György Sándor , Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912)
2005 –
Robert Sheckley , American author (b. 1928)
2006 –
Georgia Gibbs , American singer (b. 1919)
2007 –
Rafael Sperafico , Brazilian race car driver (b. 1981)
2007 –
Gordon Zahn , American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1918)
2008 –
Ibrahim Dossey , Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
2008 –
Yury Glazkov , Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
2009 –
Gene Barry , American actor (b. 1919)
2010 –
James Moody , American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1925)
2010 –
Dov Shilansky , Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th
Speaker of the Knesset (b. 1924)
2012 –
Béla Nagy Abodi , Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1918)
2012 –
Patrick Moore , English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (b. 1923)
2012 –
Alex Moulton , English engineer and businessman, founded the
Moulton Bicycle Company (b. 1920)
2012 –
Jenni Rivera , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (b. 1969)
2012 –
Charles Rosen , American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)
2012 –
Riccardo Schicchi , Italian director and producer, co-founded
Diva Futura (b. 1953)
2012 –
Norman Joseph Woodland , American inventor, co-created the
bar code (b. 1921)
2013 –
Hristu Cândroveanu , Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (b. 1928)
[53]
2013 –
John Gabbert , American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909)
2013 –
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska , Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930)
2013 –
Eleanor Parker , American actress (b. 1922)
2013 –
John Wilbur , American football player (b. 1943)
2014 –
Sacvan Bercovitch , Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933)
2014 –
Jane Freilicher , American painter and poet (b. 1924)
2014 –
Jorge María Mejía , Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923)
2014 –
Mary Ann Mobley , American model and actress,
Miss America 1959 (b. 1937)
2014 –
Blagoje Paunović , Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
2014 –
Jože Toporišič , Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926)
2015 –
Soshana Afroyim , Austrian painter (b. 1927)
2015 –
Norman Breslow , American statistician and academic (b. 1941)
2015 –
Juvenal Juvêncio , Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2015 –
Julio Terrazas Sandoval , Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)
2021 –
Speedy Duncan , American football player (b. 1942)
[54]
2021 –
Demaryius Thomas , American football player (b. 1987)
2022 –
Jovit Baldivino , Filipino singer and actor (b. 1993)
[55]
Holidays and observances
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