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Day of the year
July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 156 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1635 – In the
Eighty Years' War , the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of
Schenkenschans .
1656 –
Second Northern War :
Battle of Warsaw begins.
1778 – Constitution of the
province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in
Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain .
1794 –
French Revolution :
Maximilien Robespierre and
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by
guillotine in
Paris, France .
1808 –
Mahmud II became
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and
Caliph of Islam .
1809 –
Peninsular War :
Battle of Talavera : Sir
Arthur Wellesley 's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by
Joseph Bonaparte .
[3]
1821 –
José de San Martín declares the independence of
Peru from Spain.
1854 –
USS Constellation (1854) , the last all-sail warship built by the
United States Navy and now a museum ship in
Baltimore Harbor , is commissioned.
[4]
1864 –
American Civil War :
Battle of Ezra Church :
Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive
Union forces from
Atlanta, Georgia .
1866 – At the age of 18,
Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of
Abraham Lincoln ).
1868 – The
14th Amendment to the
United States Constitution is certified, establishing
African American citizenship and guaranteeing
due process of law.
1883 – A
moderate earthquake measuring magnitude 4.3–5.2 strikes the Italian island of
Ischia , killing over 2,300 people.
[5]
1896 – The city of
Miami is incorporated.
1901–present
1911 – The
Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the
SY Aurora departed
London .
[6]
1914 – In the culmination of the
July Crisis ,
Austria-Hungary declares war on
Serbia , igniting
World War I .
1915 – The United States begins a 19-year
occupation of Haiti .
[7]
1917 – The
Silent Parade takes place in
New York City , in protest against murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards
African Americans .
[8]
1932 – U.S. President
Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "
Bonus Army " of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1935 – First flight of the
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress .
1938 –
Hawaii Clipper disappears between
Guam and
Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific
China Clipper service.
1939 – The
Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
1942 –
World War II : Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin issues
Order No. 227 . In response to alarming
German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a
shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a
Gulag , or execution.
1943 – World War II:
Operation Gomorrah : The Royal Air Force bombs
Hamburg, Germany causing a
firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army
B-25 bomber
crashes into the 79th floor of the
Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
[9]
1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in
Isahaya , western
Kyushu, Japan , kills 992.
1960 – The German
Volkswagen Act comes into force.
1962 – Beginning of the
8th World Festival of Youth and Students
[10]
[11]
1965 –
Vietnam War : U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in
South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1973 –
Summer Jam at Watkins Glen : Nearly 600,000 people attend a
rock festival at the
Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1974 –
Spetsgruppa A , Russia's elite special force, was formed.
1976 – The
Tangshan earthquake
[12] measuring between 7.8 and 8.2
moment magnitude flattens
Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1984 –
Olympic Games :
Games of the XXIII Olympiad : The summer Olympics were opened in
Los Angeles .
1996 – The remains of a
prehistoric man are discovered near
Kennewick, Washington . Such remains will be known as the
Kennewick Man .
2001 – Australian
Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
2002 – Nine
coal miners trapped in the flooded
Quecreek Mine in
Somerset County, Pennsylvania , are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2002 –
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from
Sheremetyevo International Airport in
Moscow ,
Russia , killing 14 of the 16 people on board.
[13]
2005 – The
Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in
Northern Ireland .
[14]
[15]
2010 –
Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the
Margalla Hills north of
Islamabad, Pakistan , killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an
Airbus A321 .
2011 – While flying from
Seoul ,
South Korea to
Shanghai ,
China ,
Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The
Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to
Jeju International Airport , but crashes into the sea South-West of
Jeju island , killing both crew members on board.
[16]
2017 –
Prime Minister of Pakistan ,
Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by
Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of
corruption charges .
2018 – Australian
Wendy Tuck becomes the first female
skipper to win the
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race .
[17]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1609 –
Judith Leyster , Dutch painter (d. 1660)
1645 –
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans , French princess (d. 1721)
1659 –
Charles Ancillon , French jurist and diplomat (d. 1715)
1746 –
Thomas Heyward, Jr. , American judge and politician (d. 1809)
1750 –
Fabre d'Églantine , French actor, playwright, and politician (d. 1794)
1783 –
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck , German army officer and writer (d. 1860)
1796 –
Ignaz Bösendorfer , Austrian businessman, founded the
Bösendorfer Company (d. 1859)
1804 –
Ludwig Feuerbach , German anthropologist and philosopher (d. 1872)
1815 –
Stefan Dunjov , Bulgarian colonel (d. 1889)
1844 –
Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (d. 1889)
1849 –
James Edson White , American author and publisher, second son of
Ellen G. White and
James S. White
[19]
1857 –
Ballington Booth , English-American activist, co-founded
Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1860 –
Elias M. Ammons , American businessman and politician, 19th
Governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 –
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 –
Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski , Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 –
Beatrix Potter , English children's book writer and illustrator (d. 1943)
[20]
1866 –
Albertson Van Zo Post , American fencer (d. 1938)
1867 –
Charles Dillon Perrine , American-Argentinian astronomer (d. 1951)
1872 –
Albert Sarraut , French journalist and politician, 106th
Prime Minister of France (d. 1962)
1874 –
Ernst Cassirer , Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945)
1879 –
Lucy Burns , American activist, co-founded the
National Woman's Party (d. 1966)
1879 –
Stefan Filipkiewicz , Polish painter (d. 1944)
1887 –
Marcel Duchamp , French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
[21]
1887 –
Willard Price , Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 1983)
1893 –
Rued Langgaard , Danish organist and composer (d. 1952)
1896 –
Barbara La Marr , American actress and screenwriter (d. 1926)
1898 –
Lawrence Gray , American actor (d. 1970)
1901–present
1901 –
Freddie Fitzsimmons , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979)
1901 –
Rudy Vallée , American actor, singer, and saxophonist (d. 1986)
1902 –
Albert Namatjira , Australian painter (d. 1959)
1902 –
Sir Karl Popper , Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
1907 –
Earl Tupper , American inventor and businessman, founded
Tupperware Brands (d. 1983)
1909 –
Aenne Burda , German publisher (d. 2005)
1909 –
Malcolm Lowry , English novelist and poet (d. 1957)
1914 –
Carmen Dragon , American conductor and composer (d. 1984)
1915 –
Charles Hard Townes , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1915 –
Dick Sprang , American illustrator (d. 2000)
1915 –
Frankie Yankovic , American polka musician (d. 1998)
1916 –
David Brown , American journalist and producer (d. 2010)
1920 –
Andrew V. McLaglen , English-American director and producer (d. 2014)
1922 –
Jacques Piccard , Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (d. 2008)
1923 –
Ray Ellis , American conductor and producer (d. 2008)
1924 –
Luigi Musso , Italian racing driver (d. 1958)
1924 –
C. T. Vivian , American minister, author, and activist
[22] (d. 2020)
1925 –
Baruch Samuel Blumberg , American physician and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1926 –
Charlie Biddle , American-Canadian bassist (d. 2003)
[23]
1927 –
John Ashbery , American poet (d. 2017)
1929 –
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , American journalist and socialite, 37th
First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1929 –
Shirley Ann Grau , American novelist and short story writer (d. 2020)
1930 –
Firoza Begum , Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014)
1930 –
Junior Kimbrough , American singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
1930 –
Jean Roba , Belgian author and illustrator (d. 2006)
1930 –
Ramsey Muir Withers , Canadian general (d. 2014)
1931 –
Alan Brownjohn , English poet and author
1931 –
Johnny Martin , Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
1932 –
Natalie Babbitt , American author and illustrator (d. 2016)
1932 –
Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra , Brazilian colonel (d. 2015)
1933 –
Charlie Hodge , Canadian ice hockey player and scout (d. 2016)
1934 –
Jacques d'Amboise , American dancer and choreographer (d. 2021)
1935 –
Neil McKendrick , English historian and academic
1936 –
Russ Jackson , Canadian football player and coach
1936 –
Garfield Sobers , Barbadian cricketer
1937 –
Francis Veber , French director and screenwriter
1938 –
Luis Aragonés , Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1938 –
Arsen Dedić , Croatian singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
1938 –
Alberto Fujimori , Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, 90th
President of Peru
1938 –
Chuan Leekpai , Thai lawyer and politician, 20th
Prime Minister of Thailand
1941 –
Bill Crider , American author (d. 2018)
[24]
1941 –
Riccardo Muti , Italian conductor and educator
[25]
1941 –
Susan Roces , Filipino actress and producer (d. 2022)
[26]
1942 –
Tonia Marketaki , Greek director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1942 –
John Sattler , Australian rugby league player (d. 2023)
[27]
1943 –
Mike Bloomfield , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1981)
1943 –
Bill Bradley , American basketball player and politician
1943 –
Richard Wright , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2008)
[28]
1945 –
Jim Davis , American cartoonist, created
Garfield
1946 –
Jonathan Edwards , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 –
Linda Kelsey , American actress
1946 –
Fahmida Riaz , Pakistani poet and activist (d. 2018)
1947 –
Peter Cosgrove , Australian general and politician, 26th
Governor General of Australia
1947 –
Sally Struthers , American actress
1948 –
Gerald Casale , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director
1948 –
Eiichi Ohtaki , Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1949 –
Vida Blue , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023)
1949 –
Randall Wallace , American screenwriter and producer
1950 –
Shahyar Ghanbari , Iranian singer-songwriter
1950 –
Tapley Seaton , Kittitian politician, 4th
Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 2023)
1951 –
Santiago Calatrava , Spanish architect and engineer, designed the
Athens Olympic Sports Complex
1951 –
Doug Collins , American basketball player and coach
1951 –
Gregg Giuffria , American rock musician and businessman
1951 –
Ray Kennedy , English footballer (d. 2021)
1952 –
Glenn A. Baker , Australian journalist and author
[29]
1952 –
Vajiralongkorn , King of Thailand
1954 –
Hugo Chávez , Venezuelan colonel and politician,
President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
[30]
1954 –
Gerd Faltings , German mathematician and academic
1954 –
Steve Morse , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 –
Mikey Sheehy , Irish footballer
1956 –
John Feinstein , American journalist and author
1956 –
Robert Swan , English explorer
1958 –
Terry Fox , Canadian runner and activist (d. 1981)
1958 –
Michael Hitchcock , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1959 –
William T. Vollmann , American novelist, short story writer and journalist
1960 –
Luiz Fernando Carvalho , Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 –
Jon J. Muth , American author and illustrator
1960 –
Yōichi Takahashi , Japanese illustrator
1961 –
Yannick Dalmas , French racing driver
1962 –
Rachel Sweet , American singer, television writer, and actress
1964 –
Lori Loughlin , American actress
1965 –
Priscilla Chan , Hong Kong singer
1966 –
Sossina M. Haile , Ethiopian American chemist
[31]
1966 –
Miguel Ángel Nadal , Spanish footballer
1966 –
Jimmy Pardo , American stand-up comedian, actor, and host
1966 –
Shikao Suga , Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 –
Taka Hirose , Japanese bass player
1969 –
Alexis Arquette , American actress (d. 2016)
1969 –
Garth Snow , American ice hockey player and manager
1969 –
Dana White , American businessman, president of the
Ultimate Fighting Championship
[32]
1970 –
Michael Amott , Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1970 –
Isabelle Brasseur , Canadian figure skater
1970 –
Paul Strang , Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1971 –
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , Iraqi leader of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (d. 2019)
1971 –
Ludmilla Lacueva Canut , Andorran writer
1971 –
Stephen Lynch , American singer-songwriter and actor
1971 –
Annie Perreault , Canadian speed skater
1972 –
Robert Chapman , English cricketer
1973 –
Marc Dupré , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 –
Steve Staios , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 –
Afroman , American rapper and comedian
[32]
1974 –
Elizabeth Berkley , American actress
1974 –
Alexis Tsipras , Greek engineer and politician, 186th
Prime Minister of Greece
1975 –
Leonor Watling , Spanish actress
1976 –
Jacoby Shaddix , American singer-songwriter
1977 –
Aki Berg , Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player
1977 –
Manu Ginóbili , Argentinian basketball player
1977 –
Miyabiyama Tetsushi , Japanese sumo wrestler
1978 –
Kārlis Vērdiņš , Latvian poet
1978 –
Hitomi Yaida , Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 –
Henrik Hansen , Danish footballer
1979 –
Birgitta Haukdal , Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer
1979 –
Lee Min-woo , South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1979 –
Alena Popchanka , Belarusian-French swimmer and coach
1981 –
Michael Carrick , English footballer and coach
1982 –
Cain Velasquez , Mexican-American mixed martial artist and wrestler
[33]
1983 –
Sam Dastyari , Iranian-Australian politician
1983 –
Cody Hay , Canadian figure skater
1983 –
Ilir Latifi , Swedish-Kosovar mixed martial artist
[34]
1984 –
Zach Parise , American ice hockey player
1984 –
John David Washington , American actor and football player
[32]
1985 –
Mathieu Debuchy , French footballer
1985 –
Dustin Milligan , Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1986 –
Alexandra Chando , American actress
1986 –
Lauri Korpikoski , Finnish ice hockey player
[35]
1987 –
Yevhen Khacheridi , Ukrainian-Greek footballer
1987 –
Pedro , Spanish footballer
1990 –
Soulja Boy , American rapper, producer, and actor
1990 –
Simone Pizzuti , Italian footballer
1992 –
Spencer Boldman , American actor
[36]
1993 –
Harry Kane , English footballer
[37]
1993 –
Cher Lloyd , English singer
[38]
1994 –
Choi Hyo-jung , South Korean singer
[39]
1996 –
Harriet Dart , British tennis player
[40]
2000 –
Emile Smith Rowe , English footballer
[41]
Deaths
Pre-1600
450 –
Theodosius II , Roman emperor (b. 401)
631 –
Athanasius I Gammolo , Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
[42]
938 –
Thankmar , half-brother of
Otto I (during Siege of
Eresburg ) (b. c. 908)
942 –
Shi Jingtang , emperor of
Later Jin (b. 892)
1057 –
Victor II , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1018)
[43]
1128 –
William Clito , English son of
Sybilla of Conversano (b. 1102)
1230 –
Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (b. 1176)
1271 –
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)
1285 –
Keran, Queen of Armenia ( b. before 1262)
1333 –
Guy VIII of Viennois , Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)
1345 –
Sancia of Majorca , queen regent of Naples (b. c. 1285)
1458 –
John II , king of Cyprus and Armenia (b. 1418)
1488 –
Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier)
1508 –
Robert Blackadder , bishop of Glasgow
1527 –
Rodrigo de Bastidas , Spanish explorer, founded the city of
Santa Marta (b. 1460)
1540 –
Thomas Cromwell , English lawyer and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1495)
[2]
1585 –
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (b. 1527)
1601–1900
1631 –
Guillén de Castro y Bellvis , Spanish playwright (b. 1569)
[44]
1655 –
Cyrano de Bergerac , French poet and playwright (b. 1619)
1667 –
Abraham Cowley , English poet and author (b. 1618)
1675 –
Bulstrode Whitelocke , English lawyer and politician (b. 1605)
1685 –
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington , English politician and diplomat,
Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1618)
1718 –
Étienne Baluze , French scholar and academic (b. 1630)
1741 –
Antonio Vivaldi , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1678)
[45]
1750 –
Johann Sebastian Bach , German organist and composer (b. 1685)
[46]
1762 –
George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe , English politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1691)
1794 –
Maximilien Robespierre , French politician, (b. 1758)
[47]
1794 –
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just , French soldier and politician (b. 1767)
[48]
1808 –
Selim III , Ottoman sultan (b. 1761)
[49]
1809 –
Richard Beckett , English cricketer and captain (b. 1772)
1818 –
Gaspard Monge , French mathematician and engineer (b. 1746)
1835 –
Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise , French general and politician, 15th
Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)
1836 –
Nathan Mayer Rothschild , German-English banker and financier (b. 1777)
1838 –
Bernhard Crusell , Finnish composer (b. 1775)
[50]
1842 –
Clemens Brentano , German author and poet (b. 1778)
1844 –
Joseph Bonaparte , French diplomat and brother of
Napoleon (b. 1768)
1849 –
Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 –
Jan Evangelista Purkyně , Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
1878 –
George Law Curry , American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
1885 –
Moses Montefiore , British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
1895 –
Edward Beecher , American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
1901–present
1928 –
Édouard-Henri Avril , French painter (b. 1849)
[51]
1930 –
John DeWitt , American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
1930 –
Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish ophthalmologist and optician,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1933 –
Nishinoumi Kajirō III , Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th
yokozuna (b. 1890)
1934 –
Marie Dressler , Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
1934 –
Louis Tancred , South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
1935 –
Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
1942 –
Flinders Petrie , English archaeologist and academic (b. 1853)
1946 –
Saint Alphonsa , first woman of Indian origin to be
canonized as a saint by the
Catholic Church (b. 1910)
[52]
1957 –
Edith Abbott , American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
[53]
1957 –
Isaac Heinemann , German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)
1963 –
Carl Borgward , German engineer, founder of Borgward Group
[54]
1965 –
Edogawa Ranpo , Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
1965 –
Attallah Suheimat , Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
1967 –
Karl W. Richter , American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942)
1968 –
Otto Hahn , German chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1969 –
Ramón Grau , Cuban physician and politician, 6th
President of Cuba (b. 1882)
1969 –
Frank Loesser , American composer (b. 1910)
1971 –
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave , Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890)
1971 –
Myril Hoag , American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 –
Charles E. Pont , French-American minister and painter (b. 1898)
1972 –
Helen Traubel , American soprano and actress (b. 1903)
1976 –
Maggie Gripenberg , Finnish dancer and choreographer (b. 1881)
[55]
1979 –
Don Miller , American football player and coach (b. 1902)
1979 –
Charles Shadwell , English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1980 –
Rose Rand , Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)
1981 –
Stanley Rother , American priest and missionary (b. 1935)
1982 –
Keith Green , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1953)
1987 –
Jack Renshaw , Australian politician, 31st
Premier of New South Wales (b. 1909)
1990 –
Jill Esmond , English actress (b. 1908)
1992 –
Sulev Nõmmik , Estonian actor and director (b. 1931)
1993 –
Stanley Woods , Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1903)
1996 –
Roger Tory Peterson , American ornithologist and academic (b. 1908)
1997 –
Rosalie Crutchley , English actress (b. 1920)
1997 –
Seni Pramoj , Thai lawyer and politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
1998 –
Zbigniew Herbert , Polish poet and author (b. 1924)
1998 –
Lenny McLean , English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949)
1998 –
Consalvo Sanesi , Italian racing driver (b. 1911)
1999 –
Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist and mathematician,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2000 –
Abraham Pais , Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2001 –
Ahmed Sofa , Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
2002 –
Archer John Porter Martin , English chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
2003 –
Valerie Goulding , Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
2004 –
Francis Crick , English biologist and biophysicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
[56]
2004 –
Tiziano Terzani , Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)
2006 –
David Gemmell , English author (b. 1948)
2007 –
Karl Gotch , Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
2007 –
Jim LeRoy , American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
2009 –
Jim Johnson , American football player and coach (b. 1941)
2011 –
Abdul Fatah Younis , Libyan general (b. 1944)
2012 –
Colin Horsley , New Zealand-English pianist and educator (b. 1920)
2012 –
Sepp Mayerl , Austrian mountaineer (b. 1937)
2012 –
William F. Milliken Jr. , American race car driver and engineer (b. 1911)
2013 –
Mustafa Adrisi , Ugandan general and politician, 3rd
Vice President of Uganda (b. 1922)
2013 –
Eileen Brennan , American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2013 –
Rita Reys , Dutch jazz singer
[57] (b. 1924)
2013 –
William Scranton , American captain and politician, 13th
United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1917)
2013 –
Ersilio Tonini , Italian cardinal (b. 1914)
2014 –
Alex Forbes , Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1925)
2014 –
Alakbar Mammadov , Azerbaijani footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2015 –
Jan Kulczyk , Polish businessman (b. 1950)
2015 –
Edward Natapei , Vanuatuan politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
2015 –
Clive Rice , South African cricketer and coach (b. 1949)
[58]
2016 –
Émile Derlin Zinsou , Beninese politician (b. 1918)
2016 –
Mahasweta Devi , Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (b. 1926)
2018 –
Wanny van Gils , Dutch footballer
[59] (b. 1959)
2020 –
Junrey Balawing , Filipino record holder
[60] (b. 1993)
2021 –
Dusty Hill , American musician (b. 1949)
[61]
2022 –
Bernard Cribbins , British actor (b. 1928)
[62]
Holidays and observances
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