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Day of the year
February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar ; 318 days remain until the end of the year (319 in
leap years ).
1630 – Dutch forces led by
Hendrick Lonck
capture
Olinda in what was to become part of
Dutch Brazil .
1646 –
Battle of Torrington , Devon: The last major battle of the
First English Civil War .
1699 – First
Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the
Holy Roman Emperor , recognizing the
Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as
Roman Catholic priests in the
Principality of Transylvania .
1742 –
Spencer Compton ,
Earl of Wilmington , becomes
British Prime Minister .
[1]
1796 –
Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their
invasion of Ceylon .
[2]
1804 –
First Barbary War :
Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the
pirate -held frigate
USS Philadelphia .
1862 –
American Civil War : General
Ulysses S. Grant
captures
Fort Donelson ,
Tennessee .
1866 –
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British
Secretary of State for War .
1881 – The
Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1899 –
Iceland 's first football club,
Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur , is founded.
[3]
1900 – The
Southern Cross expedition led by
Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new
Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the
Great Ice Barrier .
[4]
1918 – The
Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the
Act of Independence , declaring
Lithuania an independent state.
[5]
1923 –
Howard Carter unseals the
burial chamber of
Pharaoh
Tutankhamun .
[6]
1930 – The
Romanian Football Federation joins
FIFA .
1934 – The
Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the
Social Democrats and the
Republikanischer Schutzbund .
1936 – The Popular Front wins the
1936 Spanish general election .
1937 –
Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States
patent for
nylon .
[7]
1940 –
World War II :
Altmark incident : The
German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British
destroyer
HMS Cossack . A total of 299 British prisoners are freed.
1942 – World War II: In
Athens , the
Greek People's Liberation Army is established
[8]
1942 – World War II:
Attack on Aruba , first World War II German shots fired on a land based object in the Americas.
[9]
1943 – World War II: In the early phases of the
Third Battle of Kharkov ,
Red Army troops re-enter the city.
1945 – World War II: American forces
land on
Corregidor Island in the
Philippines .
1945 – The
Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945 , the first
anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.
[10]
1959 –
Fidel Castro becomes Premier of
Cuba after dictator
Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on
January 1 .
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine
USS Triton begins
Operation Sandblast , setting sail from
New London, Connecticut , to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 –
Explorer program :
Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1962 – The
Great Sheffield Gale impacts the
United Kingdom , killing nine people; the city of
Sheffield is devastated, with 150,000 homes damaged.
[11]
1962 –
Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1968 – In
Haleyville, Alabama , the first
9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1968 –
Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near
Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground.
[12]
1978 – The first computer
bulletin board system is created (
CBBS in
Chicago ).
1983 – The
Ash Wednesday bushfires in
Victoria and
South Australia kill 75.
1985 –
Hezbollah is founded.
1986 – The
Soviet liner
MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the
Marlborough Sounds , New Zealand.
1986 –
China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near
Penghu Airport in
Taiwan , killing all 13 aboard.
[13]
1991 –
Nicaraguan
Contras leader
Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in
Managua .
1996 – A Chicago-bound
Amtrak train, the
Capitol Limited ,
collides with a
MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
[14]
1998 –
China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near
Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in
Taiwan , killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.
2000 –
Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near
Sacramento Mather Airport in
Rancho Cordova, California , killing all three aboard.
[15]
2005 – The
Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its
ratification by Russia.
2005 – The
National Hockey League
cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
2006 – The last
Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2013 – A
bomb blast at a market in
Hazara Town ,
Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2021 – Five thousand people gathered in the town of
Kherrata ,
Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the
Hirak protest movement . Demonstrations had been suspended because of the
COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria .
[16]
1222 –
Nichiren , founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)
[17]
1304 –
Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür , Chinese emperor (d. 1332)
1331 –
Coluccio Salutati , Italian political leader (d. 1406)
[18]
1419 –
John I, Duke of Cleves (d. 1481)
1470 –
Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1540)
[19]
1471 –
Krishnadevaraya , emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire (d. 1529)
1497 –
Philip Melanchthon , German astronomer, theologian, and academic (d. 1560)
[20]
1514 –
Georg Joachim Rheticus , Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574)
[21]
1519 –
Gaspard II de Coligny , French admiral (d. 1572)
1543 –
Kanō Eitoku , Japanese painter and educator (d. 1590)
1620 –
Frederick William , Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1688)
1643 –
John Sharp , English archbishop (d. 1714)
1698 –
Pierre Bouguer , French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758)
1727 –
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin , Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist (d. 1817)
1740 –
Giambattista Bodoni , Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
1761 –
Jean-Charles Pichegru , French general (d. 1804)
[22]
1774 –
Pierre Rode , French violinist and composer (d. 1830)
1786 –
Maria Pavlovna , Russian Grand Duchess (d. 1859)
1802 –
Phineas Quimby , American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866)
1804 –
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold , German physiologist and zoologist (d. 1885)
1812 –
Henry Wilson , American colonel and politician, 18th
Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
1821 –
Heinrich Barth , German explorer and scholar (d. 1865)
[23]
1822 –
Francis Galton , English biologist and statistician (d. 1911)
1824 –
Peter Kosler , Slovenian lawyer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1879)
1826 –
Joseph Victor von Scheffel , German poet and author (d. 1886)
1830 –
Lars Hertervig , Norwegian painter (d. 1902)
1831 –
Nikolai Leskov , Russian author, playwright, and journalist (d. 1895)
1834 –
Ernst Haeckel , German biologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1919)
1838 –
Henry Adams , American journalist, historian, and author (d. 1918)
1841 –
Armand Guillaumin , French painter (d. 1927)
1843 –
Henry M. Leland , American engineer and businessman, founded
Cadillac and
Lincoln (d. 1932)
1845 –
George Kennan , American journalist and explorer (d. 1924)
1848 –
Hugo de Vries , Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic (d. 1935)
1848 –
Octave Mirbeau , French journalist, novelist, and playwright (d. 1917)
1856 –
Ossian Everett Mills , American academic, founded
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (d. 1920)
1866 –
Billy Hamilton , American baseball player and manager (d. 1940)
1873 –
Radoje Domanović , Serbian journalist and author (d. 1908)
1876 –
G. M. Trevelyan , English historian and academic (d. 1962)
1877 –
Tom Crean , Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer (d. 1938)
[24]
1878 –
Pamela Colman Smith , English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951)
1878 –
James Colosimo , Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920)
1884 –
Robert J. Flaherty , American director and producer (d. 1951)
1887 –
Kathleen Clifford , American actress (d. 1962)
1891 –
Hans F. K. Günther , German eugenicist and academic (d. 1968)
1893 –
Katharine Cornell , American actress and producer (d. 1974)
1896 –
Eugénie Blanchard , French super-centenarian (d. 2010)
1901 –
Wayne King , American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985)
1901 –
Chester Morris , American actor (d. 1970)
[25]
1902 –
Cyril Vincent , South African cricketer (d. 1968)
1903 –
Edgar Bergen , American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978)
1904 –
James Baskett , American actor and singer (d. 1948)
[26]
1904 –
George F. Kennan , American historian and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (d. 2005)
1905 –
Henrietta Barnett , English
Women's Royal Air Force officer (d. 1985)
[27]
1906 –
Vera Menchik , Russian-Czechoslovak-British chess player (d. 1944)
1909 –
Hugh Beaumont , American actor and director (d. 1982)
[28]
1909 –
Richard McDonald , American businessman, co-founded
McDonald's (d. 1998)
1914 –
Jimmy Wakely , American country music singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1982)
1916 –
Bill Doggett , American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1919 –
Georges Ulmer , Danish-French actor and composer (d. 1989)
1920 –
Anna Mae Hays , American general (d. 2018)
1921 –
Jean Behra , French race car driver (d. 1959)
1921 –
John Galbraith Graham , English priest and academic (d. 2013)
1921 –
Vera-Ellen , German-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
[26]
1922 –
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer , German soldier and pilot (d. 1950)
1923 –
Samuel Willenberg , Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2016)
1925 –
Ed Emshwiller , American illustrator and experiment film maker (d. 1990)
[29]
1926 –
Margot Frank , German-Dutch
holocaust victim (d. 1945)
1926 –
John Schlesinger , English actor and director (d. 2003)
1927 –
June Brown , English actress (d. 2022)
[30]
1929 –
Gerhard Hanappi , Austrian footballer and architect (d. 1980)
1929 –
Peter Porter , Australian-English poet and educator (d. 2010)
1931 –
Otis Blackwell , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2002)
1931 –
Bernie Geoffrion , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2006)
[31]
1931 –
Ken Takakura , Japanese actor and singer (d. 2014)
1932 –
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah , Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd
President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
1932 –
Gretchen Wyler , American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2007)
1934 –
August Coppola , American author and academic (d. 2009)
1934 –
Marlene Hagge , American golfer (d. 2023)
1935 –
Brian Bedford , English-American actor and director (d. 2016)
1934 –
Ken Brown , English footballer and manager
1935 –
Sonny Bono , American actor, singer, and politician (d. 1998)
[26]
1935 –
Stephen Gaskin , American activist, co-founded
The Farm (d. 2014)
1935 –
Bradford Parkinson , American colonel and engineer
1935 –
Kenneth Price , American painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
1936 –
Carl Icahn , American businessman and investor
[26]
1937 –
Paul Bailey , British novelist, critic, and biographer
1937 –
Valentin Bondarenko , Soviet aviator and cosmonaut (d. 1961)
[32]
1937 –
Yuri Manin , Russian-German mathematician and academic (d. 2023)
1938 –
John Corigliano , American composer and academic
1939 –
Adolfo Azcuna , Filipino lawyer and judge
1940 –
Hannelore Schmatz , German mountaineer (d. 1979)
1941 –
Kim Jong Il , North Korean commander and politician, 2nd
Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 2011)
[26]
1944 –
Glyn Davies , Welsh farmer and politician
1944 –
Richard Ford , American novelist and short story writer
[26]
1944 –
António Mascarenhas Monteiro , Cape Verdean politician, 2nd
President of Cape Verde (d. 2016)
1947 –
Jaroslav Kubera , Czech politician (d. 2020)
[33]
1948 –
Kaiketsu Masateru , Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
1950 –
Peter Hain , Welsh politician,
Secretary of State for Wales
1951 –
William Katt , American actor
[34]
1952 –
James Ingram , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2019)
1952 –
Peter Kitchen , English footballer
[35]
1953 –
John Bradbury , English musician, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
1953 –
Lanny McDonald , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1953 –
Roberta Williams , American video game designer, co-founded
Sierra Entertainment
1954 –
Iain Banks , Scottish author and playwright (d. 2013)
[36]
1954 –
Margaux Hemingway , American model and actress (d. 1996)
[26]
1954 –
Michael Holding , Jamaican cricketer and sportscaster
[37]
1956 –
Vincent Ward , New Zealand director and screenwriter
1957 –
LeVar Burton , American actor, director, and producer
[34]
1958 –
Natalie Angier , American author
1958 –
Ice-T , American rapper and actor
[34]
1958 –
Oscar Schmidt , Brazilian basketball player
1958 –
Herb Williams , American basketball player and coach
1959 –
John McEnroe , American tennis player and sportscaster
[26]
1959 –
Kelly Tripucka , American basketball player and sportscaster
1960 –
Pete Willis , English guitarist and songwriter
1961 –
Liu Kang , Chinese footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1961 –
Niko Nirvi , Finnish journalist
[38]
1961 –
Andy Taylor , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[34]
1962 –
John Balance , English singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1964 –
Bebeto , Brazilian footballer and manager
1964 –
Christopher Eccleston , English actor
[26]
1965 –
Dave Lombardo , Cuban-American musician and songwriter
[34]
1967 –
Keith Gretzky , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1968 –
Warren Ellis , English author and screenwriter
1970 –
Angelo Peruzzi , Italian footballer and manager
1971 –
Michael Avenatti , American attorney and pundit
[39]
1971 –
Craig Laundy , Australian politician
1972 –
Jerome Bettis , American football player
[40]
1972 –
Zoran Čampara , Bosnian football player
1972 –
Sarah Clarke , American actress
1972 –
Naomi Nishida , Japanese actress
1973 –
Cathy Freeman , Australian sprinter
1974 –
Mahershala Ali , American actor
[34]
1974 –
José Dominguez , Portuguese footballer and manager
[41]
1976 –
Eric Byrnes , American baseball player and sportscaster
1976 –
Kyo , Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1977 –
Ian Clarke , Irish-American computer scientist, founded
Freenet
1977 –
Ahman Green , American football player
1977 –
Alexei Morozov , Russian ice hockey player and executive
[42]
1978 –
Tia Hellebaut , Belgian high jumper and chemist
1978 –
Wasim Jaffer , Indian cricketer
1978 –
John Tartaglia , American actor, singer, and puppeteer
1979 –
Stéphane Dalmat , French footballer
[43]
1979 –
Eric Mun , American-South Korean singer and actor
1979 –
Valentino Rossi , Italian motorcycle racer
1980 –
Longineu W. Parsons III , French-American musician and songwriter
1981 –
Jay Howard , English race car driver
1981 –
Susanna Kallur , Swedish sprint hurdler
[44]
1981 –
Jerry Owens , American baseball player
1981 –
Qyntel Woods , American basketball player
1982 –
Manny Delcarmen , American baseball player
[45]
1982 –
Aleksandr Dmitrijev , Estonian footballer
1982 –
Lupe Fiasco , American rapper
[34]
1982 –
Rickie Lambert , English footballer
1983 –
Agyness Deyn , English model, actress, and singer
1983 –
Tuomo Ruutu , Finnish ice hockey player and coach
[46]
1984 –
Sofia Arvidsson , Swedish tennis player
1984 –
Oussama Mellouli , Tunisian swimmer
[47]
1985 –
Simon Francis , English footballer
[48]
1985 –
Stacy Lewis , American golfer
[49]
1985 –
Ron Vlaar , Dutch footballer
1986 –
Diego Godín , Uruguayan footballer
1986 –
Shawne Williams , American basketball player
[50]
1987 –
Luc Bourdon , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1987 –
Theresa Goh , Singaporean swimmer
1987 –
Tommy Milone , American baseball player
[51]
1987 –
Jon Ossoff , American politician and filmmaker
[52]
1987 –
Hasheem Thabeet , Tanzanian basketball player
1988 –
Diego Capel , Spanish footballer
1988 –
Denílson , Brazilian footballer
1988 –
Korbinian Holzer , German ice hockey player
[53]
1988 –
Zhang Jike , Chinese table tennis player
1988 –
Andrea Ranocchia , Italian footballer
1988 –
Kim Soo-hyun , South Korean actor and singer
1989 –
Elizabeth Olsen , American actress
[34]
1990 –
The Weeknd , Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
[54]
1991 –
Sergio Canales , Spanish footballer
1992 –
Nicolai Boilesen , Danish footballer
1992 –
Zsófia Susányi , Hungarian tennis player
[55]
[56]
1994 –
Annika Beck , German tennis player
[57]
1994 –
Federico Bernardeschi , Italian footballer
[58]
1994 –
Ava Max , American singer and songwriter
[59]
1995 –
Katy Dunne , English tennis player
[60]
1995 –
Carina Witthöft , German tennis player
[61]
1997 –
Jordan Greenway , American ice hockey player
[62]
1999 –
Ignatius Ganago , Cameroonian footballer
[63]
1999 –
Marie Ulven Ringheim , Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer
[64]
2000 –
Koffee , Jamaican singer, songwriter and rapper
[65]
2000 –
Coby White , American basketball player
[66]
2001 –
Yuki Naito , Japanese tennis player
[67]
549 –
Zhu Yi , Chinese general (b. 483)
902 –
Mary the Younger , Byzantine saint (b. 875)
1184 –
Richard of Dover , Archbishop of Canterbury
1247 –
Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
1279 –
Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
1281 –
Gertrude of Hohenberg , queen consort of Germany (b. c. 1225)
1390 –
Rupert I, Elector Palatine (b. 1309)
1391 –
John V Palaiologos , Byzantine emperor (b. 1332)
1531 –
Johannes Stöffler , German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
1560 –
Jean du Bellay , French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1493)
1579 –
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada , Spanish explorer (b. 1509)
1645 –
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba , Spanish general and politician, 24th
Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1585)
1710 –
Esprit Fléchier , French bishop and author (b. 1632)
1721 –
James Craggs the Younger , English politician,
Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1686)
1754 –
Richard Mead , English physician (b. 1673)
1820 –
Georg Carl von Döbeln , Swedish general (b. 1758)
1862 –
William Pennington , American lawyer and politician, 13th
Governor of New Jersey , 23rd
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
1898 –
Thomas Bracken , Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
1899 –
Félix Faure , French merchant and politician, 7th
President of France (b. 1841)
1907 –
Giosuè Carducci , Italian poet and educator,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
1912 –
Nicholas of Japan , Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
1917 –
Octave Mirbeau , French journalist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1848)
1919 –
Vera Kholodnaya , Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
1928 –
Eddie Foy Sr. , American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
[68]
1932 –
Ferdinand Buisson , French academic and politician,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
1932 –
Edgar Speyer , American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
1944 –
Dadasaheb Phalke , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)
1957 –
Josef Hofmann , Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1876)
1961 –
Dazzy Vance , American baseball player (b. 1891)
1964 –
James M. Canty , American educator, school administrator, and businessperson (b. 1865)
[69]
[70]
1967 –
Smiley Burnette , American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1911)
1974 –
John Garand , Canadian-American engineer, designed the
M1 Garand Rifle (b. 1888)
1975 –
Morgan Taylor , American hurdler and coach (b. 1903)
1977 –
Janani Luwum , bishop, Church of Uganda, martyr (b. c.1922)
1977 –
Rózsa Péter , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
1980 –
Erich Hückel , German physicist and chemist (b. 1895)
1984 –
M. A. G. Osmani , Bangladeshi general (b. 1918)
1988 –
Ye Shengtao , Chinese writer, educator, and politician (b. 1894)
[71]
1990 –
Keith Haring , American painter and activist (b. 1958)
1991 –
Enrique Bermúdez , Nicaraguan lieutenant and engineer (b. 1932)
1992 –
Angela Carter , English novelist, short story writer (b. 1940)
1992 –
Jânio Quadros , Brazilian politician, 22nd
President of Brazil (b. 1917)
1992 –
Herman Wold , Norwegian-Swedish economist and statistician (b. 1908)
1996 –
Roberto Aizenberg , Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
1996 –
Roger Bowen , American actor and author (b. 1932)
1996 –
Pat Brown , American lawyer and politician, 32nd
Governor of California (b. 1905)
1996 –
Brownie McGhee , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
1997 –
Chien-Shiung Wu , Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
1998 –
Mary Amdur , American
toxicologist and
public health researcher (b. 1908)
1998 –
Sheu Yuan-dong , Taiwanese politician (b. 1927)
[72]
2000 –
Marceline Day , American actress (b. 1908)
2000 –
Lila Kedrova , Russian-French actress and singer
2000 –
Karsten Solheim , Norwegian-American businessman, founded
PING (b. 1911)
2001 –
Howard W. Koch , American director and producer (b. 1916)
2001 –
William Masters , American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
2002 –
Walter Winterbottom , English footballer and manager (b. 1913)
2003 –
Rusty Magee , American actor and composer (b. 1955)
2004 –
Doris Troy , American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2006 –
Johnny Grunge , American wrestler (b. 1966)
2006 –
Ernie Stautner , German-American football player and coach (b. 1925)
2009 –
Stephen Kim Sou-hwan , South Korean cardinal (b. 1921)
2011 –
Len Lesser , American actor (b. 1922)
2011 –
Justinas Marcinkevičius , Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
2012 –
Gary Carter , American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
2012 –
Elyse Knox , American model, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1917)
2012 –
John Macionis , American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916)
2012 –
Anthony Shadid , American journalist (b. 1968)
2013 –
Colin Edwards , Guyanese footballer (b. 1991)
2013 –
Grigory Pomerants , Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918)
2013 –
Tony Sheridan , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
2014 –
Ken Farragut , American football player (b. 1928)
2014 –
Kralle Krawinkel , German guitarist (b. 1947)
2014 –
Michael Shea , American author (b. 1946)
2015 –
Lasse Braun , Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2015 –
Lesley Gore , American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2015 –
R. R. Patil , Indian lawyer and politician,
Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957)
2015 –
Lorena Rojas , Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971)
2016 –
Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th
Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922)
2019 –
Bruno Ganz , Swiss actor (b. 1941)
[73]
2021 –
Gustavo Noboa , Ecuadorian politician, 42nd
President of Ecuador (b. 1937)
[74]
2024 –
Alexei Navalny , Russian activist (b. 1976)
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