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Day of the year
January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar ; 349 days remain until the end of the year (350 in
leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
1458 BC –
Hatshepsut dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the
Valley of the Kings .
[1]
27 BC –
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title
Augustus by the
Roman Senate , marking the beginning of the
Roman Empire .
[2]
378 – General
Siyaj K'ak' conquers
Tikal , enlarging the domain of King
Spearthrower Owl of
Teotihuacán .
[3]
550 –
Gothic War : The
Ostrogoths , under King
Totila , conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the
Isaurian garrison.
[4]
929 –
Emir
Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the
Caliphate of Córdoba .
[5]
1120 –
Crusades : The
Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the
Crusader
Kingdom of Jerusalem .
[6]
1362 –
Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the
North Sea .
[7]
1537 –
Bigod's Rebellion , an armed insurrection attempting to resist the
English Reformation , begins.
[8]
1547 – Grand Duke
Ivan IV of
Muscovy becomes the first
Tsar of Russia , replacing the 264-year-old
Grand Duchy of Moscow with the
Tsardom of Russia .
[9]
1556 –
Philip II becomes King of Spain.
[10]
1572 –
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the
Ridolfi plot to restore
Catholicism in England.
[11]
1601–1900
1901–present
1909 –
Ernest Shackleton 's expedition finds the magnetic
South Pole .
[19]
1919 –
Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution . With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment,
Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
[20]
1920 – The
League of Nations holds its first council meeting in
Paris, France .
1921 – The
Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in
Ľubochňa .
1942 –
The Holocaust : Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the
Łódź Ghetto to
Chełmno extermination camp .
[21]
1942 – Crash of
TWA Flight 3 , killing all 22 aboard, including film star
Carole Lombard .
[22]
1945 –
World War II :
Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called
Führerbunker .
1959 –
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near
Astor Piazzolla International Airport in
Mar del Plata , Argentina, killing 51.
[23]
1969 –
Czech student
Jan Palach commits suicide by
self-immolation in
Prague, Czechoslovakia , in protest against the
Soviets ' crushing of the
Prague Spring the year before.
[24]
1969 –
Space Race : Soviet spacecraft
Soyuz 4 and
Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in
orbit , the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a
space walk .
1979 –
Iranian Revolution : The
last Iranian Shah flees
Iran with his family for good and relocates to
Egypt .
[25]
1983 –
Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at
Ankara Esenboğa Airport in
Ankara , Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20.
[26]
1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with
Iraq , beginning the
Gulf War .
1992 –
El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the
Chapultepec Peace Accords in
Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year
Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village
Súðavík , destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
[27]
2001 –
Second Congo War :
Congolese President
Laurent-Désiré Kabila is
assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.
[28]
2001 – US President
Bill Clinton awards former President
Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous
Medal of Honor for his service in the
Spanish–American War .
2002 –
War in Afghanistan : The
UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of
Osama bin Laden ,
al-Qaeda , and the remaining members of the
Taliban .
2003 – The
Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission
STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia
disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry .
2006 –
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as
Liberia 's new
president . She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
[29]
2011 –
Syrian civil war : The
Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing
Syria along the lines of
democratic confederalism .
[30]
[31]
2012 – The
Mali War begins when
Tuareg militias start fighting the Malian government for independence.
[32]
2016 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist
attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
2017 –
Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes into a residential area near
Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 39 people.
[33]
2018 –
Myanmar
police
open fire on a group of ethnic
Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
[34]
2020 – The
first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the
United States Senate .
[35]
2020 – The United States Senate ratifies the
United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for
NAFTA .
[36]
Births
Pre-1600
972 –
Sheng Zong , emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 1031)
1093 –
Isaac Komnenos , son of Byzantine emperor
Alexios I Komnenos (d. 1152)
1245 –
Edmund Crouchback , English politician,
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1296)
[37]
1362 –
Robert de Vere , duke of Ireland (d. 1392)
1409 –
René of Anjou , king of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 –
Johannes Schöner , German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1501 –
Anthony Denny , confidant of
Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
1516 –
Bayinnaung , king of Burma (d. 1581)
1558 –
Jakobea of Baden , Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (d. 1597)
1601–1900
1616 –
François de Vendôme , duke of Beaufort (d. 1669)
1626 –
Lucas Achtschellinck , Belgian painter and educator (d. 1699)
1630 –
Guru Har Rai , Sikh Guru (d. 1661)
1634 –
Dorothe Engelbretsdatter , Norwegian author and poet (d. 1716)
[38]
1653 –
Johann Conrad Brunner , Swiss anatomist (d. 1727)
[39]
1675 –
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon , French soldier and diplomat (d. 1755)
1691 –
Peter Scheemakers , Belgian sculptor and educator (d. 1781)
1728 –
Niccolò Piccinni , Italian composer and educator (d. 1800)
1749 –
Vittorio Alfieri , Italian poet and playwright (d. 1803)
1757 –
Richard Goodwin Keats , English admiral and politician, third
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)
1807 –
Charles Henry Davis , American admiral (d. 1877)
1815 –
Henry Halleck , American lawyer, general, and scholar (d. 1872)
1821 –
John C. Breckinridge , American general and politician, 14th
Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
1834 –
Robert R. Hitt , American lawyer and politician, 13th
United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1906)
1836 –
Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
[40]
1838 –
Franz Brentano , German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
1844 –
Ismail Qemali , Albanian civil servant and politician, first Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
[41]
1851 –
William Hall-Jones , English-New Zealand politician, 16th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1936)
1853 –
Johnston Forbes-Robertson , English actor and manager (d. 1937)
1853 –
Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton , Greek-English general (d. 1947)
1853 –
André Michelin , French businessman, co-founded the
Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
1870 –
Jüri Jaakson , Estonian businessman and politician,
State Elder of Estonia (d. 1942)
1872 –
Henri Büsser , French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973)
1874 –
Robert W. Service , English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)
[42]
1875 –
Leonor Michaelis , German biochemist and physician (d. 1949)
1876 –
Claude Buckenham , English cricketer and footballer (d. 1937)
1878 –
Harry Carey , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
1880 –
Samuel Jones , American high jumper (d. 1954)
1882 –
Margaret Wilson , American author (d. 1973)
1885 –
Zhou Zuoren , Chinese author and translator (d. 1967)
1888 –
Osip Brik , Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (d. 1945)
1892 –
Homer Burton Adkins , American chemist (d. 1949)
1893 –
Daisy Kennedy , Australian-English violinist (d. 1981)
1894 –
Irving Mills , American publisher (d. 1985)
1895 –
Evripidis Bakirtzis , Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947)
1895 –
T. M. Sabaratnam , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
1895 –
Nat Schachner , American lawyer, chemist, and author (d. 1955)
1897 –
Carlos Pellicer , Mexican poet and academic (d. 1977)
1898 –
Margaret Booth , American producer and editor (d. 2002)
1898 –
Irving Rapper , American film director and producer (d. 1999)
1900 –
Kiku Amino , Japanese author and translator (d. 1978)
[43]
1900 –
Edith Frank , German-Dutch mother of
Anne Frank (d. 1945)
[44]
1901–present
1901 –
Fulgencio Batista , Cuban colonel and politician, ninth
President of Cuba (d. 1973)
[45]
1901 –
Frank Zamboni , American businessman and inventor (d. 1988)
[46]
1902 –
Eric Liddell , Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary (d. 1945)
[47]
1903 –
William Grover-Williams , English-French racing driver (d. 1945)
[48]
1905 –
Ernesto Halffter , Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
1906 –
Johannes Brenner , Estonian footballer and pilot (d. 1975)
1906 –
Diana Wynyard , English actress (d. 1964)
1907 –
Alexander Knox , Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
[49]
1907 –
Paul Nitze , American banker and politician, tenth
United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004)
1908 –
Sammy Crooks , English footballer (d. 1981)
1908 –
Ethel Merman , American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1908 –
Günther Prien , German captain (d. 1941)
1909 –
Clement Greenberg , American art critic (d. 1994)
1910 –
Dizzy Dean , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974)
1911 –
Ivan Barrow , Jamaican cricketer (d. 1979)
1911 –
Eduardo Frei Montalva , Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th
President of Chile (d. 1982)
1911 –
Roger Lapébie , French cyclist (d. 1996)
1914 –
Roger Wagner , French-American conductor and educator (d. 1992)
1915 –
Leslie H. Martinson , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1916 –
Philip Lucock , English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996)
1917 –
Carl Karcher , American businessman, founded
Carl's Jr. (d. 2008)
1918 –
Nel Benschop , Dutch poet and educator (d. 2005)
1918 –
Allan Ekelund , Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009)
1918 –
Clem Jones , Australian surveyor and politician, eighth
Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
1918 –
Stirling Silliphant , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
[50]
1919 –
Jerome Horwitz , American chemist and academic (d. 2012)
1920 –
Elliott Reid , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1921 –
Francesco Scavullo , American photographer (d. 2004)
1923 –
Gene Feist , American director and playwright, co-founded the
Roundabout Theatre Company (d. 2014)
1923 –
Anthony Hecht , American poet (d. 2004)
1924 –
Katy Jurado , Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1924 –
Allen Swift , American actor, writer, playwright, and magician (d. 2010)
[51]
1925 –
Peter Hirsch , German-English metallurgist and academic
1925 –
James Robinson Risner , American general and pilot (d. 2013)
1928 –
William Kennedy , American novelist and journalist
1928 –
Pilar Lorengar , Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1996)
1929 –
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah , Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)
1930 –
Mary Ann McMorrow , American lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
1930 –
Norman Podhoretz , American journalist and author
1930 –
Paula Tilbrook , English actress (d. 2019)
[52]
1931 –
John Enderby , English physicist and academic (d. 2021)
1931 –
Robert L. Park , American physicist and academic (d. 2020)
1931 –
Johannes Rau , German journalist and politician, eighth
Federal President of Germany (d. 2006)
1932 –
Victor Ciocâltea , Romanian chess player (d. 1983)
1932 –
Dian Fossey , American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)
[46]
1933 –
Susan Sontag , American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 2004)
[46]
1934 –
Bob Bogle , American rock guitarist and bass player (d. 2009)
1934 –
Marilyn Horne , American soprano and actress
[53]
1935 –
A. J. Foyt , American race car driver
[46]
1935 –
Udo Lattek , German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1936 –
Michael White , Scottish actor and producer (d. 2016)
1937 –
Luiz Bueno , Brazilian racing driver (d. 2011)
1937 –
Francis George , American cardinal (d. 2015)
1938 –
Marina Vaizey , American journalist and critic
1939 –
Ralph Gibson , American photographer
1941 –
Claire Gordon , English actress and comedian (d. 2015)
[54]
1941 –
Christine Truman , English tennis player and sportscaster
1942 –
René Angélil , Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)
[46]
1942 –
Barbara Lynn , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[53]
1943 –
Michael Attwell , English actor (d. 2006)
[55]
1943 –
Gavin Bryars , English bassist and composer
1943 –
Brian Ferneyhough , British composer
[56]
1943 –
Ronnie Milsap , American singer and pianist
[53]
1944 –
Dieter Moebius , Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (d. 2015)
1944 –
Jim Stafford , American singer-songwriter and actor
[53]
1944 –
Jill Tarter , American astronomer and biologist
1944 –
Judy Baar Topinka , American journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1945 –
Wim Suurbier , Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2020)
1946 –
Kabir Bedi , Indian actor
1946 –
Katia Ricciarelli , Italian soprano and actress
1947 –
Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy , English academic and politician
1947 –
Harvey Proctor , English politician
1947 –
Laura Schlessinger , American physiologist, talk show host, and author
[53]
1948 –
John Carpenter , American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
[53]
1948 –
Ants Laaneots , Estonian general
1948 –
Ruth Reichl , American journalist and critic
1948 –
Cliff Thorburn , Canadian snooker player
1949 –
Anne F. Beiler , American businesswoman, founded
Auntie Anne's
1949 –
R. F. Foster , Irish historian and academic
1949 –
Andrew Refshauge , Australian physician and politician, 13th
Deputy Premier of New South Wales
1950 –
Debbie Allen , American actress, dancer, and choreographer
[53]
1950 –
Robert Schimmel , American comedian, actor, and producer (d. 2010)
1952 –
Fuad II , King of Egypt
[57]
1952 –
Piercarlo Ghinzani , Italian racing driver and manager
1953 –
Robert Jay Mathews , American militant, founded
The Order (d. 1984)
1954 –
Robin Davies , Welsh actor (d. 2010)
[58]
1954 –
Wolfgang Schmidt , German discus thrower
1954 –
Vasili Zhupikov , Russian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1955 –
Jerry M. Linenger , American captain, physician, and astronaut
1956 –
Wayne Daniel , Barbadian cricketer
1956 –
Gerald Henderson , American basketball player
[59]
1956 –
Martin Jol , Dutch footballer and manager
[60]
1956 –
Greedy Smith , Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist (d. 2019)
1957 –
Jurijs Andrejevs , Latvian footballer and manager
1957 –
Ricardo Darín , Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
1958 –
Anatoli Boukreev , Russian mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997)
1958 –
Lena Ek , Swedish lawyer and politician, ninth
Swedish Minister for the Environment
1958 –
Andris Šķēle , Latvian businessman and politician, fourth
Prime Minister of Latvia
1959 –
Lisa Milroy , Canadian painter and educator
1959 –
Sade , Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
[53]
1961 –
Kenneth Sivertsen , Norwegian guitarist and composer (d. 2006)
1962 –
Joel Fitzgibbon , Australian electrician and politician, 51st
Australian Minister of Defence
1962 –
Maxine Jones , American R&B singer–songwriter and actress
1963 –
James May , English journalist and television presenter
[61]
1964 –
Gail Graham , Canadian golfer
1966 –
Jack McDowell , American baseball player
1968 –
David Chokachi , American actor
[53]
1968 –
Rebecca Stead , American author
1969 –
Marinus Bester , German footballer
1969 –
Stevie Jackson , Scottish guitarist and songwriter
1969 –
Roy Jones Jr. , American boxer
1970 –
Don MacLean , American basketball player and sportscaster
[62]
1971 –
Sergi Bruguera , Spanish tennis player and coach
1971 –
Josh Evans , American film producer, screenwriter and actor
1971 –
Jonathan Mangum , American actor
[53]
1972 –
Ruben Bagger , Danish footballer
1972 –
Ang Christou , Australian footballer
1972 –
Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov , Russian footballer and manager
1972 –
Ezra Hendrickson , Vincentian footballer and manager
1972 –
Joe Horn , American football player and coach
1972 –
Richard T. Jones , American actor
[53]
1973 –
Josie Davis , American actress
[53]
1974 –
Kate Moss , English model and fashion designer
[53]
1975 –
Marc Jackson , American basketball player and sportscaster
[63]
1976 –
Viktor Maslov , Russian racing driver
1976 –
Martina Moravcová , Slovak swimmer
1977 –
Jeff Foster , American basketball player
1978 –
Alfredo Amézaga , Mexican baseball player
1979 –
Aaliyah , American singer and actress (d. 2001)
[46]
1979 –
Brenden Morrow , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 –
Jason Ward , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 –
Lin-Manuel Miranda , American actor, playwright, and composer
[53]
1980 –
Albert Pujols , Dominican-American baseball player
[46]
1980 –
Seydou Keïta , Malian footballer
[64]
1981 –
Jamie Lundmark , Canadian ice hockey player
1981 –
Paul Rofe , Australian cricketer
1981 –
Nick Valensi , American musician and songwriter
[53]
1981 –
Bobby Zamora , English footballer
[65]
1982 –
Preston , English singer-songwriter
1982 –
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen , Danish actress
[46]
1982 –
Tuncay , Turkish footballer
1983 –
Emanuel Pogatetz , Austrian footballer
1983 –
Andriy Rusol , Ukrainian footballer
1984 –
Stephan Lichtsteiner , Swiss footballer
1984 –
Miroslav Radović , Serbian footballer
1985 –
Joe Flacco , American football player
[66]
1985 –
Jayde Herrick , Australian cricketer
1985 –
Gintaras Januševičius , Russian-Lithuanian pianist
1985 –
Sidharth Malhotra , Indian actor
1985 –
Jonathan Richter , Danish-Gambian footballer
[67]
1985 –
Simon Richter , Danish-Gambian footballer
[68]
1985 –
Renée Felice Smith , American actress
[53]
1986 –
Johannes Rahn , German footballer
1986 –
Mark Trumbo , American baseball player
1986 –
Reto Ziegler , Swiss footballer
[69]
1987 –
Jake Epstein , Canadian actor
1987 –
Charlotte Henshaw , English swimmer
1987 –
Greivis Vásquez , Venezuelan basketball player
[70]
1988 –
Nicklas Bendtner , Danish footballer
1988 –
Jorge Torres Nilo , Mexican footballer
1988 –
FKA Twigs , English singer-songwriter and actress
[46]
1990 –
Dennis Kelly , American football player
[71]
1991 –
Matt Duchene , Canadian ice hockey player
1992 –
Jason Zucker , American ice hockey player
[72]
1993 –
Hannes Anier , Estonian footballer
1993 –
Amandine Hesse , French tennis player
1994 –
Mikko Lehtonen , Finnish ice hockey player
[73]
1995 –
Jonathan Allen , American football player
[74]
1995 –
Mikaela Turik , Australian-Canadian cricketer
1995 –
Tre'Davious White , American football player
[75]
1996 –
Jennie , South Korean singer
[46]
1996 –
Zhou Qi , Chinese basketball player
[76]
1998 –
Boo Seung-kwan , South Korean singer
[77]
2000 –
Andrew Nembhard , Canadian basketball player
[78]
Deaths
Pre-1600
654 –
Gao Jifu , Chinese politician and chancellor (b. 596)
957 –
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i , Tulunid vizier (b. 871)
970 –
Polyeuctus of Constantinople , Byzantine patriarch (b. 956)
1263 –
Shinran Shonin , Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 1173)
1289 –
Buqa , Mongol minister
1327 –
Nikephoros Choumnos , Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician (b. 1250)
1354 –
Joanna of Châtillon , duchess of Athens (b. c.1285)
1373 –
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
1391 –
Muhammed V of Granada , Nasrid emir (b. 1338)
1400 –
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter , English politician,
Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1352)
1443 –
Erasmo of Narni , Italian mercenary (b. 1370)
1545 –
George Spalatin , German priest and reformer (b. 1484)
1547 –
Johannes Schöner , German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1554 –
Christiern Pedersen , Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480)
1585 –
Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln , English admiral and politician (b. 1512)
1595 –
Murad III , Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
1601–1900
1635 –
Mariana de Jesús Torres , Spanish nun and mystic (b. 1563)
[79]
1659 –
Charles Annibal Fabrot , French lawyer (b. 1580)
1710 –
Higashiyama , Japanese emperor (b. 1675)
1711 –
Joseph Vaz , Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
1747 –
Barthold Heinrich Brockes , German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
1748 –
Arnold Drakenborch , Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
1750 –
Ivan Trubetskoy , Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)
1752 –
Francis Blomefield , English historian and author (b. 1705)
1794 –
Edward Gibbon , English historian and politician (b. 1737)
1809 –
John Moore , Scottish general and politician (b. 1761)
1817 –
Alexander J. Dallas , Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, sixth
United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
1834 –
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette , French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
1856 –
Thaddeus William Harris , American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
1864 –
Anton Schindler , Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)
1865 –
Edmond François Valentin About , French journalist and author (b. 1828)
1879 –
Octave Crémazie , Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
1886 –
Amilcare Ponchielli , Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
1891 –
Léo Delibes , French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
1898 –
Charles Pelham Villiers , English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
1901–present
1901 –
Jules Barbier , French poet and playwright (b. 1825)
1901 –
Arnold Böcklin , Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
1901 –
Hiram Rhodes Revels , American soldier, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
1901 –
Mahadev Govind Ranade , Indian scholar, social reformer, judge and author (b. 1842)
[80]
1906 –
Marshall Field , American businessman and philanthropist, founded
Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
1917 –
George Dewey , American admiral (b. 1837)
1919 –
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves , Brazilian lawyer and politician, fifth
President of Brazil (b. 1848)
1933 –
Bekir Sami Kunduh , Turkish politician (b. 1867)
1936 –
Albert Fish , American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870)
1938 –
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)
1942 –
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)
1942 –
Villem Grünthal-Ridala , Estonian poet and linguist (b. 1885)
1942 –
Carole Lombard , American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
1942 –
Ernst Scheller , German lawyer and politician,
Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
1957 –
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone , English general and politician, 16th
Governor General of Canada (b. 1874)
1957 –
Arturo Toscanini , Italian cellist and conductor (b. 1867)
1959 –
Phan Khôi , Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887)
1961 –
Max Schöne , German swimmer (b. 1880)
1962 –
Frank Hurley , Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885)
1962 –
Ivan Meštrović , Croatian sculptor and architect, designed the
Monument to the Unknown Hero (b. 1883)
1967 –
Robert J. Van de Graaff , American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
1968 –
Bob Jones Sr. , American evangelist, founded
Bob Jones University (b. 1883)
1968 –
Panagiotis Poulitsas , Greek archaeologist and judge (b. 1881)
1969 –
Vernon Duke , Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
1971 –
Philippe Thys , Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
1972 –
Teller Ammons , American soldier and politician, 28th
Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
1972 –
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. , American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created
Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919)
1973 –
Edgar Sampson , American musician and composer (b. 1907)
1975 –
Israel Abramofsky , Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
1978 –
A. V. Kulasingham , Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)
1981 –
Bernard Lee , English actor (b. 1908)
[81]
1983 –
Virginia Mauret , American musician and dancer
1986 –
Herbert W. Armstrong , American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
1987 –
Bertram Wainer , Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
1988 –
Andrija Artuković , Croatian politician, war criminal, and
Porajmos perpetrator , first
Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899)
1990 –
Lady Eve Balfour , British farmer, educator, and founding figure in the organic movement (b. 1898)
[82]
1995 –
Eric Mottram , English poet and critic (b. 1924)
1996 –
Marcia Davenport , American author and critic (b. 1903)
1996 –
Kaye Webb , English journalist and publisher (b. 1914)
1999 –
Jim McClelland , Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th
Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915)
2000 –
Robert R. Wilson , American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
2001 –
Auberon Waugh , English author and journalist (b. 1939)
2002 –
Robert Hanbury Brown , English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2003 –
Richard Wainwright , English politician (b. 1918)
2004 –
Kalevi Sorsa , Finnish politician 34th
Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
2005 –
Marjorie Williams , American journalist and author (b. 1958)
2006 –
Stanley Biber , American soldier and physician (b. 1923)
2009 –
Joe Erskine , American boxer and runner (b. 1930)
2009 –
John Mortimer , English lawyer and author (b. 1923)
[83]
2009 –
Andrew Wyeth , American painter (b. 1917)
[84]
2010 –
Glen Bell , American businessman, founded
Taco Bell (b. 1923)
2010 –
Takumi Shibano , Japanese author and translator (b. 1926)
2012 –
Joe Bygraves , Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)
2012 –
Jimmy Castor , American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1940)
2012 –
Sigursteinn Gíslason , Icelandic footballer and manager (b. 1968)
2012 –
Lorna Kesterson , American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
2012 –
Gustav Leonhardt , Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
2013 –
Wayne D. Anderson , American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
2013 –
André Cassagnes , French technician and toy maker, created the
Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
2013 –
Gussie Moran , American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
2013 –
Pauline Phillips , American journalist and radio host, created
Dear Abby (b. 1918)
2013 –
Glen P. Robinson , American businessman, founded
Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923)
2014 –
Gary Arlington , American author and illustrator (b. 1938)
2014 –
Ruth Duccini , American actress (b. 1918)
2014 –
Dave Madden , Canadian-American actor (b. 1931)
2014 –
Hiroo Onoda , Japanese lieutenant (b. 1922)
2015 –
Miriam Akavia , Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927)
2015 –
Yao Beina , Chinese singer (b. 1981)
2016 –
Joannis Avramidis , Greek sculptor (b. 1922)
2016 –
Ted Marchibroda , American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2017 –
Eugene Cernan , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)
2018 –
Ed Doolan , British radio presenter (b. 1941)
[85]
2018 –
Oliver Ivanović , Kosovo Serb politician (b. 1953)
[86]
2019 –
John C. Bogle , American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1929)
[87]
2019 –
Lorna Doom , American musician (b. 1958)
[88]
2019 –
Chris Wilson , Australian musician (b. 1956)
[89]
2020 –
Christopher Tolkien , British academic and editor (b. 1924)
[90]
2021 –
Pedro Trebbau , German-born Venezuelan zoologist (b. 1929)
[91]
2021 –
Chris Cramer , British journalist (b. 1948)
[92]
2021 –
Phil Spector , American record producer, songwriter (b. 1939)
[93]
2022 –
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita , Former Malian President (b. 1945)
[94]
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