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Day of the year
July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 174 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
138 – Emperor
Hadrian of Rome dies of
heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples,
Baiae ; he is buried at
Rome in the
Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife,
Vibia Sabina .
420 – Having usurped the throne of
Emperor Gong of Jin ,
Liu Yu proclaims himself
Emperor of the
Liu Song dynasty .
[1]
645 –
Isshi Incident : Prince
Naka-no-Ōe and
Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate
Soga no Iruka during a
coup d'état at the imperial palace.
[2]
988 – The Norse King
Glúniairn recognises
Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill , High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept
Brehon Law ; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of
Dublin .
1086 – King
Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
1212 – The most severe of several
early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1290 –
Ladislaus IV ,
King of Hungary , is assassinated at the castle of
Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in
Romania ).
[3]
1460 –
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , defeats the king's
Lancastrian forces and takes
King Henry VI prisoner in the
Battle of Northampton .
1499 – The Portuguese explorer
Nicolau Coelho returns to
Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of
Vasco da Gama .
1512 – The
Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of
Goizueta .
1519 –
Zhu Chenhao declares the
Ming dynasty 's
Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the
Prince of Ning rebellion , and leads his army north in an attempt to capture
Nanjing .
1553 –
Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1584 –
William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in
Delft ,
Holland , by
Balthasar Gérard .
1601–1900
1901–present
1920 –
Arthur Meighen becomes
Prime Minister of Canada .
[7]
1921 –
Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in
Belfast ,
Northern Ireland .
[8]
1924 –
Paavo Nurmi won the 1,500 and 5,000 m races with just an hour between them at the
Paris Olympics .
[9]
1925 –
Scopes Trial : In
Dayton, Tennessee , the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of
John T. Scopes , a young high school science teacher accused of teaching
evolution in violation of the
Butler Act .
1927 –
Kevin O'Higgins
TD , Vice-President of the Executive Council of the
Irish Free State is assassinated by the
IRA .
1938 –
Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour
airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
1940 –
World War II : The
Vichy government is established in France.
1940 – World War II: Six days before
Adolf Hitler issues his
Directive 16 to the combined
Wehrmacht armed forces for
Operation Sea Lion , the
Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the
Battle of Britain .
1941 –
Jedwabne pogrom : Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of
Jedwabne .
1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact
Mitsubishi A6M Zero on
Akutan Island (the "
Akutan Zero ") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1943 – World War II:
Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
[10]
1947 –
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first
Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister,
Clement Attlee .
1951 –
Korean War : Armistice negotiations begin at
Kaesong .
1962 –
Telstar , the world's first
communications satellite , is launched into orbit.
1966 – The
Chicago Freedom Movement , co-founded by
Martin Luther King Jr. , holds a rally at
Soldier Field in Chicago at which as many as 60,000 people attend.
1973 –
The Bahamas gain full independence within the
Commonwealth of Nations .
1974 – An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154
stalls and crashes at
Cairo International Airport , killing all six people on board.
[11]
1976 – Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in
Angola following the
Luanda Trial .
1978 – President
Moktar Ould Daddah of
Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless
coup d'état .
[12]
1985 – The
Greenpeace vessel
Rainbow Warrior is
bombed and sunk in
Auckland harbour by French
DGSE agents, killing
Fernando Pereira .
1985 – An
Aeroflot
Tupolev Tu-154
stalls and crashes near
Uchkuduk ,
Uzbekistan (then part of the
Soviet Union ), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1991 – The
South African cricket team is readmitted into the
International Cricket Council following the end of
Apartheid .
1991 –
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected
President of Russia .
[13]
1991 – A
Beechcraft Model 99
crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now
Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport ) in
Birmingham, Alabama , killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
[14]
1992 – In
Miami , former
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for
drug and
racketeering violations.
[15]
1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the
DNA analysis of a
Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "
out of Africa theory " of
human evolution , placing an "
African Eve " at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 –
Miguel Ángel Blanco , a member of
Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of
Ermua by
ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 –
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases : The
Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were
sexually abused by
Rudolph Kos , a former priest.
1999 – In women's
association football , the
United States defeated
China in a
penalty shoot-out at the
Rose Bowl near
Los Angeles to win the
final match of the
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup . The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
2000 –
EADS , the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of
Aérospatiale-Matra ,
DASA , and
CASA .
2000 –
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father
Hafez al-Assad as
President of Syria .
[16]
2002 – At a
Sotheby's auction,
Peter Paul Rubens 's painting
The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to
Lord Thomson .
2006 – A
Pakistan International Airlines
Fokker F27 Friendship
crashes near
Multan International Airport , killing all 45 people on board.
[17]
2007 –
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister
Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a
United Nations Tribunal.
2011 – Russian cruise ship
Bulgaria sinks in the
Volga River near
Syukeyevo ,
Tatarstan , causing 122 deaths.
2011 – Amid widespread backlash to revelations of
phone hacking , British weekly
tabloid
News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.
[18]
2012 – The
Episcopal Church USA allows
same-sex marriage .
[19]
2016 –
Portugal defeats
France in the
UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first
European title .
[20]
2017 –
Iraqi Civil War :
Mosul is declared
fully liberated from the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of
Iraq .
2018 – A group of Thai school children and their teacher get stuck in a cave for a few days; they are all rescued but one rescuer doesn't make it. This is known as the
Tham Luang cave rescue .
[21]
[22]
2019 – The last
Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in
Puebla , Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
[23]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1614 –
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey , Irish-English politician (d. 1686)
1625 –
Jean Herauld Gourville , French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 –
David Teniers III , Flemish painter (d. 1685)
1666 –
John Ernest Grabe , German theologian and academic (d. 1711)
1682 –
Roger Cotes , English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716)
1723 –
William Blackstone , English lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1780)
1724 –
Eva Ekeblad , Swedish noble and agronomist (d. 1786)
1752 –
St. George Tucker , United States federal judge (d. 1827)
[26]
[27]
1792 –
George M. Dallas , American lawyer and politician, 11th
Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
1802 –
Robert Chambers , Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded
Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)
1802 –
Alfred Ronalds , British fly fishing author, artisan and Australian pioneer (d. 1860)
[28]
1804 –
Emma Smith , American religious leader (d. 1879)
1809 –
Friedrich August von Quenstedt , German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
1823 –
Louis-Napoléon Casault , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1908)
1830 –
Camille Pissarro , Danish-French painter (d. 1903)
1832 –
Alvan Graham Clark , American astronomer (d. 1897)
1835 –
Henryk Wieniawski , Polish violinist and composer (d. 1880)
1839 –
Adolphus Busch , German brewer, co-founded
Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
1856 –
Nikola Tesla , Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer (d. 1943)
1864 –
Austin Chapman , Australian businessman and politician, 4th
Australian Minister for Defence (d. 1926)
1867 –
Prince Maximilian of Baden (d. 1929)
1871 –
Marcel Proust , French novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1922)
1874 –
Sergey Konenkov , Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 –
Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator and activist (d. 1955)
1875 –
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám , Hungarian politician (d. 1973)
1877 –
Ernst Bresslau , German zoologist (d. 1935)
1878 –
Otto Freundlich , German painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
1882 –
Ima Hogg , American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d. 1975)
1883 –
Johannes Blaskowitz , German general (d. 1948)
1883 –
Hugo Raudsepp , Estonian playwright and politician (d. 1952)
1888 –
Giorgio de Chirico , Greek-Italian painter and set designer (d. 1978)
1888 –
Toyohiko Kagawa , Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (d. 1960)
1891 –
Edith Quimby , American medical researcher and physicist (d. 1982)
1894 –
Jimmy McHugh , American composer (d. 1969)
1895 –
Carl Orff , German composer and educator (d. 1982)
1896 –
Thérèse Casgrain , Canadian politician (d. 1981)
1897 –
Legs Diamond , American gangster (d. 1931)
1897 –
Karl Plagge , German general and engineer (d. 1957)
1898 –
Renée Björling , Swedish actress (d. 1975)
1899 –
John Gilbert , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1936)
1899 –
Heiri Suter , Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1900 –
Mitchell Parish , Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993)
1900 –
Sampson Sievers , Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979)
1901–present
1902 –
Kurt Alder , German chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 –
Nicolás Guillén , Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (d. 1989)
1903 –
Werner Best , German
SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)
1903 –
John Wyndham , English author (d. 1969)
[29]
1904 –
Lili Damita , French-American actress (d. 1994)
1905 –
Mildred Benson , American journalist and author (d. 2002)
1905 –
Thomas Gomez , American actor (d. 1971)
1905 –
Wolfram Sievers , German physician (d. 1948)
1907 –
Blind Boy Fuller , American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
1909 –
Donald Sinclair , English lieutenant and businessman (d. 1981)
1911 –
Terry-Thomas , English comedian and character actor (d. 1990)
1911 –
Cootie Williams , American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1913 –
Salvador Espriu , Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1985)
1914 –
Joe Shuster , Canadian-American illustrator, co-created
Superman (d. 1992)
1914 –
Rempo Urip , Indonesian film director (d. 2001)
1916 –
Judith Jasmin , Canadian journalist (d. 1972)
1917 –
Hugh Alexander , American baseball player and scout (d. 2000)
1917 –
Reg Smythe , English cartoonist (d. 1998)
1918 –
James Aldridge , Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2015)
1918 –
Chuck Stevens , American baseball player (d. 2018)
1918 –
Frank L. Lambert , Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
1918 –
Fred Wacker , American race driver and engineer (d. 1998)
1919 –
Pierre Gamarra , French author, poet, and critic (d. 2009)
1919 –
Ian Wallace , English actor and singer (d. 2009)
1920 –
David Brinkley , American journalist (d. 2003)
1920 –
Owen Chamberlain , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1920 –
Cyril Grant , English footballer (d. 2002)
1921 –
Harvey Ball , American illustrator, created the
Smiley (d. 2001)
1921 –
Jeff Donnell , American actress (d. 1988)
1921 –
John K. Singlaub , U.S. Army Major General (d. 2022)
1921 –
Eunice Kennedy Shriver , American activist, co-founded the
Special Olympics (d. 2009)
1922 –
Jean Kerr , American author and playwright (d. 2003)
1922 –
Herb McKenley , Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
1922 –
Jake LaMotta , American boxer and actor (d. 2017)
1923 –
Amalia Mendoza , Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
[30]
1923 –
John Bradley , American soldier (d. 1994)
1923 –
Suzanne Cloutier , Canadian actress and producer (d. 2003)
1923 –
G. A. Kulkarni , Indian author and academic (d. 1987)
1924 –
Johnny Bach , American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1924 –
Bobo Brazil , American wrestler (d. 1998)
1925 –
Mahathir Mohamad , Malaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th
Prime Minister of Malaysia
1925 –
Ernest Bertrand Boland , American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2023)
1926 –
Carleton Carpenter , American actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist (d. 2022)
1926 –
Fred Gwynne , American actor (d. 1993)
1927 –
Grigory Barenblatt , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2018)
1927 –
David Dinkins , American soldier and politician, 106th
Mayor of New York City (d. 2020)
1927 –
William Smithers , American actor
1928 –
Don Bolles , American investigative reporter (d. 1976)
1928 –
Bernard Buffet , French painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1928 –
Alejandro de Tomaso , Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded
De Tomaso (d. 2003)
1928 –
Moshe Greenberg , American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2010)
1928 –
John Glenn , American baseball player (d. 2023)
1929 –
Winnie Ewing , Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2023)
[31]
1929 –
George Clayton Johnson , American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1929 –
Moe Norman , Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
1929 –
José Vicente Rangel , Venezuelan politician; 21st Vice President of Venezuela (d. 2020)
1930 –
Bruce Boa , Canadian actor (d. 2004)
1930 –
Janette Sherman , American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (d. 2019)
[32]
1930 –
Josephine Veasey , English soprano and actress (d. 2022)
1931 –
Nick Adams , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1931 –
Jerry Herman , American composer and songwriter (d. 2019)
1931 –
Julian May , American author (d. 2017)
1931 –
Alice Munro , Canadian short story writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)
[33]
1932 –
Carlo Maria Abate , Italian race car driver (d. 2019)
1932 –
Neile Adams , Filipino-American actress, singer and dancer
1932 –
Manfred Preußger , German athlete
1933 –
Jumpin' Gene Simmons , American rockabilly singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1933 –
C.K. Yang , Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (d. 2007)
1934 –
Marshall Brodien , American actor (d. 2019)
[34]
1934 –
Jerry Nelson , American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
1935 –
Margaret McEntee , American Catholic religious sister and educator
1935 –
Wilson Tuckey , Australian politician
1935 –
Wilson Whineray , New Zealand rugby player and businessman (d. 2012)
1936 –
Herbert Boyer , American businessman, co-founded
Genentech
1936 –
Tunne Kelam , Estonian journalist and politician
1937 –
Edwards Barham , American farmer and politician (d. 2014)
1937 –
Gun Svensson , Swedish politician
1938 –
Paul Andreu , French architect (d. 2018)
1938 –
Lee Morgan , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
1939 –
Phil Kelly , Irish-English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1939 –
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı , Turkish political scientist, journalist and educator (d. 1999)
1939 –
Mavis Staples , American singer
1940 –
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai , Indian-English economist and politician
1940 –
Helen Donath , American soprano and actress
1940 –
Brian Priestley , English pianist and composer
1940 –
Keith Stackpole , Australian cricketer
1941 –
Jake Eberts , Canadian film producer (d. 2012)
1941 –
David G. Hartwell , American anthologist, author, and critic (d. 2016)
1941 –
Robert Pine , American actor and director
1941 –
Ian Whitcomb , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2020)
1942 –
Ronnie James Dio , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
1942 –
Pyotr Klimuk , Belarusian general, pilot, and astronaut
1942 –
Sixto Rodriguez , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2023)
[35]
1942 –
Lopo do Nascimento , Angolan politician; 1st Prime Minister of Angola
1943 –
Arthur Ashe , American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993)
1943 –
Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika , Zambian politician
1943 –
Jerry Miller , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 –
Mick Grant , English motorcycle racer
1944 –
Norman Hammond , English archaeologist and academic
1945 –
Ron Glass , American actor (d. 2016)
1945 –
Hal McRae , American baseball player and manager
1945 –
John Motson , English sportscaster (d. 2023)
1945 –
Jean-Marie Poiré , French director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 –
Virginia Wade , English tennis player and sportscaster
1946 –
Jean-Pierre Jarier , French race car driver
1946 –
Chin Han , Taiwanese actor
1947 –
Arlo Guthrie , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1948 –
Ronnie Cutrone , American painter (d. 2013)
1948 –
Chico Resch , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1948 –
Natalya Sedykh , Russian figure skater, ballet dancer, actor
1948 –
John Whitehead , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004)
1949 –
Anna Czerwińska , Polish mountaineer and author (d. 2023)
1949 –
Sunil Gavaskar , Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1949 –
Greg Kihn , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 –
Tony Baldry , English colonel, lawyer, and politician,
British Minister of State for Agriculture
1950 –
Prokopis Pavlopoulos ,
President of Greece , Greek lawyer and politician,
Greek Minister for the Interior
1951 –
Cheryl Wheeler , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 –
Rajnath Singh , Indian Politician and Union Home Minister of India
1952 –
Kim Mitchell , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 –
Peter van Heemst , Dutch politician
1953 –
Rik Emmett , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1953 –
Zoogz Rift , American musician and wrestler (d. 2011)
1954 –
Tommy Bowden , American football player and coach
1954 –
Andre Dawson , American baseball player
1954 –
Neil Tennant , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1955 –
Nic Dakin , English educator and politician
1955 –
Geoff Gerard , Australian rugby league player
1956 –
Tom McClintock , American lawyer and politician
1956 –
K. Rajagopal , Malaysian football manager
1957 –
Derry Grehan , Canadian rock guitarist and songwriter
1958 –
Béla Fleck , American banjo player and songwriter
1958 –
Fiona Shaw , Irish actress and director
1959 –
Ellen Kuras , American director and cinematographer
1959 –
Sandy West , American singer, drummer and songwriter (d. 2006)
1960 –
Ariel Castro , Puerto Rican-American convicted kidnapper and rapist (d. 2013)
[36]
1961 –
Jacky Cheung , Hong Kong singer and film actor
1961 –
Marc Riley , English guitarist and radio DJ
1963 –
Ian Lougher , Welsh motorcycle racer
1964 –
Martin Laurendeau , Canadian tennis player and coach
1964 –
Urban Meyer , American football player and coach
1964 –
Wilfried Peeters , Belgian cyclist
1965 –
Scott McCarron , American golfer
1965 –
Ken Mellons , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 –
Clive Efford , English politician
1966 –
Johnny Grunge , American wrestler (d. 2006)
1966 –
Christian Stangl , Austrian skier and mountaineer
1966 –
Anna Bråkenhielm , Swedish business executive
1967 –
Tom Meents , American professional monster truck driver
1967 –
Rebekah Del Rio , American singer-songwriter
1967 –
Gillian Tett , English journalist and author
1967 –
Ikki Sawamura , Japanese model, actor and television presenter
1967 –
John Yoo , South Korean-American lawyer, author, and educator
1969 –
Marty Cordova , American baseball player
1969 –
Gale Harold , American actor
1970 –
Gary LeVox , American singer-songwriter
1970 –
Jason Orange , English singer-songwriter and dancer
1970 –
John Simm , English actor
1971 –
Adam Foote , Canadian ice hockey player
[37]
1971 –
Gregory Goodridge , Barbadian footballer and coach
1972 –
Peter Serafinowicz , English actor
1972 –
Sofía Vergara , Colombian-American actress and producer
1972 –
Tilo Wolff , German-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1974 –
Imelda May , Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1975 –
Andrew Firestone , American businessman
1975 –
Brendan Gaughan , American race car driver
1975 –
Alain Nasreddine , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1975 –
Stefán Karl Stefánsson , Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
1975 –
Richard Westbrook , English race car driver
1976 –
Edmílson , Brazilian footballer
1976 –
Elijah Blue Allman , American singer and guitarist
1976 –
Ludovic Giuly , French footballer
1976 –
Adrian Grenier , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976 –
Brendon Lade , Australian footballer and coach
1976 –
Lars Ricken , German footballer
1977 –
Chiwetel Ejiofor , English actor
1979 –
Mvondo Atangana , Cameroon footballer
1979 –
Gong Yoo , Korean actor
1980 –
Alejandro Millán , Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1980 –
Adam Petty , American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 –
Claudia Leitte , Brazilian singer-songwriter
1980 –
James Rolfe , American actor, director, and producer
1980 –
Jessica Simpson , American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
1981 –
Aleksandar Tunchev , Bulgarian footballer
1982 –
Alex Arrowsmith , American guitarist and producer
1982 –
Juliya Chernetsky , Ukrainian-American television host
1982 –
Sebastian Mila , Polish footballer
1982 –
Jeffrey Walker , Australian actor and director
1983 –
Giuseppe De Feudis , Italian footballer
1983 –
Matthew Egan , Australian footballer
1983 –
Gabi , Spanish footballer
1983 –
Kim Hee-chul , Korean entertainer and singer
1983 –
Joelson José Inácio , Brazilian footballer
1983 –
Doug Kramer , Filipino basketball player
1983 –
Anthony Watmough , Australian rugby league player
1983 –
Sherif Ekramy , Egyptian footballer
[38]
1984 –
Nikolaos Mitrou , Greek footballer
1985 –
Park Chu-young , South Korean footballer
1985 –
B. J. Crombeen , American ice hockey player
1985 –
Mario Gómez , German footballer
1988 –
Antonio Brown , American football player
1988 –
Heather Hemmens , American actress, director, and producer
1988 –
Sarah Walker , New Zealand BMX rider
1990 –
Adam Reynolds , Australian rugby league player
1990 –
Trent Richardson , American footballer
1990 –
Chiyonokuni Toshiki , Japanese sumo wrestler
1991 –
Daishōmaru Shōgo , Japanese sumo wrestler
1999 –
April Ivy , Portuguese composer and singer
2001 –
Isabela Merced , American actress
2002 –
Reece Walsh , Australian rugby league player
[39]
Deaths
Pre-1600
138 –
Hadrian , Roman emperor (b. 76)
645 –
Soga no Iruka , Japanese politician
649 –
Tai Zong , Chinese emperor (b. 598)
772 –
Amalberga of Temse , Frankish noblewoman
831 –
Zubaidah bint Ja`far , Abbasid Princess
983 –
Benedict VII , pope of the
Catholic Church
[40]
994 –
Leopold I , margrave of Austria
1086 –
Canute IV , king of Denmark (b. 1043)
1103 –
Eric I , king of Denmark (b. 1060)
1290 –
Ladislaus IV , king of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 –
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham , English commander and politician,
Lord High Constable of England (b. 1402)
1460 –
John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury , English nobleman (b. c. 1413)
1461 –
Thomas , king of Bosnia (b. 1411)
1473 –
James II , king of Cyprus
1480 –
René of Anjou , French nobleman (b. 1400)
1510 –
Catherine Cornaro , queen of Cyprus (b. 1454)
[41]
1576 –
Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo , Italian noble (b. 1553)
[42]
1559 –
Henry II , king of France (b. 1519)
[43]
1584 –
William I , Dutch nobleman (b. 1533)
1590 –
Charles II , archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 –
Paolo Bellasio , Italian organist and composer (b. 1554)
1601–1900
1603 –
Joan Terès i Borrull , Spanish archbishop and academic (b. 1538)
1621 –
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval , French commander (b. 1571)
1653 –
Gabriel Naudé , French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 –
Louis Moréri , French priest and scholar (b. 1643)
1683 –
François Eudes de Mézeray , French historian and author (b. 1610)
1686 –
John Fell , English bishop and academic (b. 1625)
1776 –
Richard Peters , English lawyer and minister (b. 1704)
1794 –
Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny , French general (b. 1754)
1806 –
George Stubbs , English painter and academic (b. 1724)
1851 –
Louis Daguerre , French photographer and physicist, invented the
daguerreotype (b. 1787)
1863 –
Clement Clarke Moore , American author and educator (b. 1779)
1881 –
Georg Hermann Nicolai , German architect and academic (b. 1812)
1884 –
Paul Morphy , American chess player (b. 1837)
1901–present
1908 –
Phoebe Knapp , American organist and composer (b. 1839)
1915 –
Hendrik Willem Mesdag , Dutch painter (b. 1831)
1920 –
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , British admiral (b. 1841)
1929 –
Ève Lavallière , French actress (b. 1866)
1938 –
Arthur Barclay , 15th president of Liberia (b. 1854)
[44]
1941 –
Jelly Roll Morton , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)
1941 –
Huntley Wright , English actor (b. 1868)
1950 –
Richard Maury , American-Argentinian engineer (b. 1882)
1952 –
Rued Langgaard , Danish organist and composer (b. 1893)
1954 –
Calogero Vizzini , Italian mob boss (b. 1877)
1956 –
Joe Giard , American baseball player (b. 1898)
1960 –
Sæbjørn Buttedahl , Norwegian actor and sculptor (b. 1876)
1962 –
Yehuda Leib Maimon , Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
1963 –
Teddy Wakelam , English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
1970 –
Bjarni Benediktsson , Icelandic academic and politician, 13th
Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
1971 –
Laurent Dauthuille , French boxer (b. 1924)
1972 –
Lovie Austin , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1887)
1978 –
John D. Rockefeller III , American businessman and philanthropist, founded the
Asia Society (b. 1906)
1979 –
Arthur Fiedler , American conductor (b. 1894)
1980 –
Joseph Krumgold , American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1985 –
Fernando Pereira , Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
1986 –
Tadeusz Piotrowski , Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
1987 –
John Hammond , American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)
1989 –
Mel Blanc , American voice actor (b. 1908)
[45]
1993 –
Ruth Krauss , American author and poet (b. 1901)
1993 –
Sam Rolfe , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1995 –
Mehmet Ali Aybar , Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
1996 –
Eno Raud , Estonian author (b. 1928)
2000 –
Vakkom Majeed , Indian journalist and politician (b. 1909)
2002 –
Jean-Pierre Côté , Canadian politician, 23rd
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2002 –
Evangelos Florakis , Greek general (b. 1943)
2002 –
Laurence Janifer , American author (b. 1933)
2003 –
Winston Graham , English author (b. 1908)
2003 –
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross , German-English lawyer and politician,
Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1902)
2004 –
Pati Behrs , Russian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1922)
2005 –
A. J. Quinnell , English author (b. 1940)
2006 –
Shamil Basayev , Chechen terrorist rebel leader (b. 1965)
2006 –
Lennart Bladh , Swedish politician (b. 1920)
[46]
2007 –
Doug Marlette , American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
2008 –
Hiroaki Aoki , Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded
Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 –
Mike Souchak , American golfer (b. 1927)
2009 –
Ebba Haslund , Norwegian writer (b. 1917)
[47]
2011 –
Pierrette Alarie , Canadian soprano and educator (b. 1921)
2011 –
Roland Petit , French dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
2012 –
Dolphy , Filipino actor, singer, and producer (b. 1928)
2012 –
Peter Kyros , American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2012 –
Berthe Meijer , German-Dutch journalist and author (b. 1938)
2012 –
Fritz Langanke , German lieutenant (b. 1919)
2012 –
Viktor Suslin , Russian-German composer (b. 1942)
2013 –
Philip Caldwell , American businessman (b. 1920)
2013 –
Józef Gara , Polish poet and linguist (b. 1929)
2013 –
Concha García Campoy , Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
2013 –
Caroline Duby Glassman , American lawyer and jurist (b. 1922)
2013 –
Ku Ok-hee , South Korean golfer (b. 1956)
2013 –
Gokulananda Mahapatra , Indian author and academic (b. 1922)
2014 –
Robert C. Broomfield , American lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
2014 –
Juozas Kazickas , Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1918)
2014 –
Paul G. Risser , American ecologist and academic (b. 1939)
2014 –
Zohra Sehgal , Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1912)
2014 –
Gloria Schweigerdt , American baseball player (b. 1934)
2015 –
Roger Rees , Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1944)
[48]
2015 –
Omar Sharif , Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
2015 –
Jon Vickers , Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2016 –
Katharina Focke , German politician (b. 1922)
2018 –
Henry Morgenthau III , American author and television producer (b. 1917)
[49]
2020 –
Lara van Ruijven , Dutch short track speed skater (b. 1992)
[50]
2020 –
Jack Charlton , English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
[51]
2022 –
Maurice Boucher , Canadian outlaw biker (b. 1953)
[52]
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