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Day of the year
July 31 is the 212th day of the year (213th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 153 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1618 –
Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in
Utrecht , a pivotal event in the
Remonstrant /
Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
1655 –
Russo-Polish War (1654–67) : The Russian army enters the capital of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania ,
Vilnius , which it holds for six years.
1658 –
Aurangzeb is proclaimed
Mughal emperor of India.
1703 –
Daniel Defoe is placed in a
pillory for the crime of
seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical
pamphlet , but is pelted with flowers.
1715 – Seven days after a
Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left
Havana ,
Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of
Florida . A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1741 –
Charles Albert of Bavaria invades
Upper Austria and
Bohemia .
1763 –
Odawa Chief
Pontiac 's forces defeat British troops at the
Battle of Bloody Run during
Pontiac's War .
1777 – The U.S.
Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1790 – The first U.S.
patent is issued, to inventor
Samuel Hopkins for a
potash process.
1856 –
Christchurch , New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 – The first
narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at
Grandchester, Queensland , Australia.
1874 –
Patrick Francis Healy became the first
African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university,
Georgetown University .
1901–present
1904 –
Russo-Japanese War :
Battle of Hsimucheng : Units of the
Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the
Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
1917 –
World War I :
The Battle of Passchendaele begins near
Ypres in
West Flanders ,
Belgium .
1932 – The NSDAP (
Nazi Party ) wins more than 38% of the vote in
German elections .
1938 –
Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (
Turkey ,
Romania ,
Yugoslavia ).
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved
gold and
silver plates from King
Darius the Great in
Persepolis .
1941 –
The Holocaust : Under instructions from
Adolf Hitler ,
Nazi official
Hermann Göring orders
SS General
Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired
Final Solution of the
Jewish question."
1941 –
World War II : The
Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet
Red Army prisoners.
[2]
1945 –
Pierre Laval , the fugitive former leader of
Vichy France , surrenders to
Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed
John F. Kennedy International Airport ) is dedicated.
1948 –
USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
1964 –
Ranger program :
Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the
moon , with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound
telescopes .
1966 – The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne
disappeared off the
Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard.
[3]
1970 –
Black Tot Day : The last day of the officially sanctioned
rum ration in the
Royal Navy .
[4]
1971 –
Apollo program : the
Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a
lunar rover .
1972 –
The Troubles : In
Operation Motorman , the British Army re-takes the urban
no-go areas of
Northern Ireland . It is the biggest British military operation since the
Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the
Irish War of Independence . Later that day, nine civilians are
killed by car bombs in the village of
Claudy .
1973 – A
Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight
DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at
Logan International Airport , Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1975 – The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen
are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in
Northern Ireland .
1987 – A
tornado occurs in
Edmonton ,
Alberta , killing 27 people.
1988 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a
bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in
Butterworth, Penang ,
Malaysia .
1991 – The United States and
Soviet Union both sign the
START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1992 – The nation of
Georgia joins the
United Nations .
1992 –
Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of
Kathmandu ,
Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
1992 –
China General Aviation Flight 7552 crashes during takeoff from
Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport , killing 108.
[5]
1997 –
FedEx Express Flight 14 crashes at
Newark International Airport , injuring five.
[6]
1999 –
Discovery Program :
Lunar Prospector :
NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
2006 –
Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother,
Raúl .
2007 –
Operation Banner , the presence of the British Army in
Northern Ireland , and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2008 –
East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near
Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in
Owatonna, Minnesota , killing all eight people on board.
[7]
2012 –
Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by
Larisa Latynina for the
most medals won at the Olympics .
2014 –
Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of
Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1686 –
Charles of France, Duke of Berry (d. 1714)
1702 –
Jean Denis Attiret , French missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 –
Gabriel Cramer , Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1752)
1718 –
John Canton , English physicist and academic (d. 1772)
1724 –
Noël François de Wailly , French lexicographer and author (d. 1801)
1759 –
Ignaz Anton von Indermauer , Austrian nobleman and government official (d. 1796)
1777 –
Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros , Argentinian priest and politician (d. 1849)
1796 –
Jean-Gaspard Deburau , Czech-French actor and mime (d. 1846)
1800 –
Friedrich Wöhler , German chemist and academic (d. 1882)
1803 –
John Ericsson , Swedish-American engineer, co-designed the
USS Princeton and the
Novelty Locomotive (d. 1889)
1816 –
George Henry Thomas , American general (d. 1870)
1826 –
Juhani Aataminpoika , Finnish serial killer (d. 1854)
[8]
1826 –
William S. Clark , American colonel and politician (d. 1886)
1835 –
Henri Brisson , French lawyer and politician, 50th
Prime Minister of France (d. 1912)
1835 –
Paul Du Chaillu , French-American anthropologist and explorer (d. 1903)
[9]
1836 –
Vasily Sleptsov , Russian author and activist (d. 1878)
1837 –
William Quantrill , American captain (d. 1865)
1839 –
Ignacio Andrade , Venezuelan general and politician, 25th
President of Venezuela (d. 1925)
1843 –
Peter Rosegger , Austrian poet and author (d. 1918)
1847 –
Ignacio Cervantes , Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)
1854 –
José Canalejas , Spanish academic and politician,
Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1912)
1854 –
Arthur Barclay , 15th president of Liberia (d. 1938)
[10]
1858 –
Richard Dixon Oldham , English seismologist and geologist (d. 1936)
1858 –
Marion Talbot , influential American educator (d. 1948)
1860 –
Mary Vaux Walcott , American painter and illustrator (d. 1940)
1867 –
S. S. Kresge , American businessman, founded
Kmart (d. 1966)
1875 –
Jacques Villon , French painter (d. 1963)
1877 –
Louisa Bolus , South African botanist and taxonomist (d. 1970)
[11]
1880 –
Premchand , Indian author and playwright (d. 1936)
1883 –
Ramón Fonst , Cuban fencer (d. 1959)
1884 –
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , Polish-German economist and politician (d. 1945)
1886 –
Salvatore Maranzano , Italian-American mob boss (d. 1931)
1886 –
Fred Quimby , American animation producer (d. 1965)
1887 –
Hans Freyer , German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1969)
1892 –
Herbert W. Armstrong , American evangelist and publisher, founded
Worldwide Church of God (d. 1986)
1892 –
Joseph Charbonneau , Canadian archbishop (d. 1959)
1894 –
Fred Keenor , Welsh footballer (d. 1972)
1901–present
1901 –
Jean Dubuffet , French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1902 –
Gubby Allen , Australian-English cricketer and soldier (d. 1989)
1904 –
Brett Halliday , American engineer, surveyor, and author (d. 1977)
1909 –
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn , Austrian theorist and author (d. 1999)
1911 –
George Liberace , American violinist (d. 1983)
1912 –
Bill Brown , Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
1912 –
Milton Friedman , American economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1912 –
Irv Kupcinet , American football player and journalist (d. 2003)
1913 –
Bryan Hextall , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1914 –
Paul J. Christiansen , American conductor and composer (d. 1997)
1914 –
Mario Bava , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1980)
[12]
1914 –
Louis de Funès , French actor and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1916 –
Sibte Hassan , Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (d. 1986)
1916 –
Billy Hitchcock , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2006)
1916 –
Bill Todman , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1979)
1918 –
Paul D. Boyer , American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1918 –
Hank Jones , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2010)
1918 –
Frank Renouf , New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998)
1919 –
Hemu Adhikari , Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1919 –
Curt Gowdy , American sportscaster and actor (d. 2006)
1919 –
Primo Levi , Italian chemist and author (d. 1987)
1920 –
James E. Faust , American religious leader, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
1921 –
Peter Benenson , English lawyer and activist, founded
Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1921 –
Donald Malarkey , American sergeant and author (d. 2017)
[13]
1921 –
Whitney Young , American activist (d. 1971)
1922 –
Hank Bauer , American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1923 –
Ahmet Ertegun , Turkish-American songwriter and producer, founded
Atlantic Records (d. 2006)
1923 –
Stephanie Kwolek , American chemist and engineer, invented
Kevlar (d. 2014)
1924 –
Jimmy Evert , American tennis player and coach (d. 2015)
1925 –
Carmel Quinn , Irish singer, actress and writer (d. 2021)
1925 –
John Swainson , Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd
Governor of Michigan (d. 1994)
1926 –
Bernard Nathanson , American physician and activist (d. 2011)
1926 –
Hilary Putnam , American mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher (d. 2016)
1927 –
Peter Nichols , English author and playwright (d. 2019)
1928 –
Bill Frenzel , American lieutenant and politician (d. 2014)
1929 –
Lynne Reid Banks , English author (d. 2024)
1929 –
Gilles Carle , Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1929 –
Don Murray , American actor (d. 2024)
1929 –
José Santamaría , Uruguayan footballer and manager
1931 –
Nick Bollettieri , American tennis player and coach (d. 2022)
1931 –
Kenny Burrell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1932 –
Ted Cassidy , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1932 –
John Searle , American philosopher and academic
1933 –
Cees Nooteboom , Dutch journalist, author, and poet
1935 –
Yvon Deschamps , Canadian comedian, actor, and producer
1935 –
Geoffrey Lewis , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1939 –
Steuart Bedford , English pianist and conductor (d. 2021)
1939 –
Susan Flannery , American actress
1939 –
France Nuyen , Vietnamese-French actress
1941 –
Amarsinh Chaudhary , Indian politician, 8th
Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 2004)
1943 –
William Bennett , American journalist and politician, 3rd
United States Secretary of Education
1943 –
Lobo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 –
Geraldine Chaplin , American actress and screenwriter
1944 –
Jonathan Dimbleby , English journalist and author
1944 –
Sherry Lansing , American film producer
1944 –
Robert C. Merton , American economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1944 –
David Norris , Irish scholar and politician
1945 –
William Weld , American lawyer and politician, 68th
Governor of Massachusetts
1946 –
Gary Lewis , American pop-rock musician
1947 –
Karl Green , English bass player and songwriter
1947 –
Richard Griffiths , English actor (d. 2013)
1947 –
Mumtaz , Indian actress
1947 –
Hubert Védrine , French politician,
French Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947 –
Ian Beck , English children's illustrator and author
1948 –
Russell Morris , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 –
Mike Jackson , American basketball player
1949 –
Alan Meale , English journalist and politician
1950 –
Richard Berry , French actor, director, and screenwriter
1951 –
Evonne Goolagong Cawley , Australian tennis player
1952 –
Chris Ahrens , American ice hockey player
1952 –
Alan Autry , American football player, actor, and politician, 23rd
Mayor of Fresno, California
1952 –
Helmuts Balderis , Latvian ice hockey player and coach
1952 –
João Barreiros , Portuguese author and critic
1952 –
Faye Kellerman , American author
1953 –
Ted Baillieu , Australian architect and politician, 46th
Premier of Victoria
1953 –
Jimmy Cook , South African cricketer and coach
1953 –
Hugh McDowell , English cellist (d. 2018)
1954 –
Derek Smith , Canadian ice hockey player
1956 –
Michael Biehn , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 –
Bill Callahan , American football player and coach
1956 –
Ron Kuby , American lawyer and radio host
1956 –
Deval Patrick , American lawyer and politician, 71st
Governor of Massachusetts
1956 –
Lynne Rae Perkins , American author and illustrator
1957 –
Daniel Ash , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 –
Mark Thompson , English business executive
1958 –
Bill Berry , American drummer and songwriter
1958 –
Mark Cuban , American businessman and television personality
1958 –
Suzanne Giraud , French music editor and composer
1959 –
Stanley Jordan , American guitarist, pianist, and songwriter
1959 –
Andrew Marr , Scottish journalist and author
1959 –
Kim Newman , English journalist and author
1960 –
Dale Hunter , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 –
Malcolm Ross , Scottish guitarist and songwriter
1961 –
Frank Gardner , English captain and journalist
1961 –
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi , Nigerian banker, royal
1962 –
John Chiang , American lawyer and politician, 31st
California State Controller
1962 –
Kevin Greene , American football player and coach (d. 2020)
1962 –
Wesley Snipes , American actor and producer
1963 –
Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) , English DJ and musician
1963 –
Fergus Henderson , English chef and author
1963 –
Brian Skrudland , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1964 –
Jim Corr , Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 –
Urmas Hepner , Estonian footballer and coach
1965 –
Scott Brooks , American basketball player and coach
1965 –
John Laurinaitis , American wrestler and producer
1965 –
Ian Roberts , English-Australian rugby league player and actor
1965 –
J. K. Rowling , English author and film producer
1966 –
Dean Cain , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1967 –
Tony Massenburg , American basketball player
1967 –
Tim Wright , Welsh composer
1968 –
Saeed-Al-Saffar , Emirati cricketer
1968 –
Julian Richards , Welsh director and producer
1969 –
Antonio Conte , Italian footballer and manager
1969 –
Loren Dean , American actor
1969 –
Kenneth D. Schisler , American lawyer and politician
1970 –
Ahmad Akbarpour , Iranian author and poet
1970 –
Ben Chaplin , English actor
1970 –
Andrzej Kobylański , Polish footballer and manager
1970 –
Giorgos Sigalas , Greek basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1971 –
Gus Frerotte , American football player and coach
1973 –
Nathan Brown , Australian rugby league player and coach
1974 –
Emilia Fox , English actress
[14]
1974 –
Leona Naess , American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 –
Jonathan Ogden , American football player
1975 –
Randy Flores , American baseball player and coach
1975 –
Andrew Hall , South African cricketer
1975 –
Gabe Kapler , American baseball player and manager
1976 –
Joshua Cain , American guitarist and producer
1976 –
Paulo Wanchope , Costa Rican footballer and manager
1978 –
Zac Brown , American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 –
Will Champion , English drummer (
Coldplay )
[15]
1978 –
Nick Sorensen , American football player and sportscaster
1978 –
Justin Wilson , English race car driver (d. 2015)
1979 –
Jaco Erasmus , South African-Italian rugby player
1979 –
J. J. Furmaniak , American baseball player
1979 –
Per Krøldrup , Danish footballer
1979 –
Carlos Marchena , Spanish footballer
1979 –
B. J. Novak , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 –
Mikko Hirvonen , Finnish race car driver
1980 –
Mils Muliaina , New Zealand rugby player
1981 –
Titus Bramble , English footballer
1981 –
Vernon Carey , American football player
1981 –
Paul Whatuira , New Zealand rugby league player
1982 –
Anabel Medina Garrigues , Spanish tennis player
1982 –
DeMarcus Ware , American football player
1985 –
Daniel Ciofani , Italian footballer
1985 –
Rémy Di Gregorio , French cyclist
1986 –
Evgeni Malkin , Russian ice hockey player
1986 –
Brian Orakpo , American football player
1987 –
Michael Bradley , American soccer player
1988 –
Alex Glenn , New Zealand rugby league player
1988 –
A. J. Green , American football player
[16]
1989 –
Victoria Azarenka , Belorussian tennis player
1991 –
Réka Luca Jani , Hungarian tennis player
1992 –
José Fernández , Cuban-American baseball player (d. 2016)
1992 –
Ryan Johansen , Canadian ice hockey player
1992 –
Kyle Larson , American race car driver
1993 –
Linus Ullmark , Swedish professional hockey player
[17]
1995 –
Lil Uzi Vert , American hip hop artist
1998 –
Rico Rodriguez , American actor
[18]
2002 –
João Gomes , Brazilian singer
[19]
2002 –
Will Penisini , Australian-Tongan rugby league player
[20]
2003 –
Calvin Ramsay , Scottish footballer
[21]
Deaths
Pre-1600
54 BC –
Aurelia Cotta , Roman mother of
Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
450 –
Peter Chrysologus , Italian bishop and saint (b. 380)
910 –
Feng Xingxi , Chinese warlord
975 –
Fu Yanqing , Chinese general (b. 898)
1098 –
Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
1358 –
Étienne Marcel , French rebel leader (b. 1302)
1396 –
William Courtenay , English archbishop and politician,
Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1342)
1508 –
Na'od , Ethiopian emperor
1556 –
Ignatius of Loyola , Spanish priest and theologian, founded the
Society of Jesus (b. 1491)
1601–1900
1616 –
Roger Wilbraham , Solicitor-General for Ireland (b. 1553)
1638 –
Sibylla Schwarz , German poet (b. 1621)
1653 –
Thomas Dudley , English soldier and politician, 3rd
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1693 –
Willem Kalf , Dutch still life painter (b. 1619)
1726 –
Nicolaus II Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1695)
1750 –
John V , king of Portugal (b. 1689)
1762 –
Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla , Spanish sailor and commander (b. 1711)
1781 –
John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley , British parliamentarian (b. 1719)
1784 –
Denis Diderot , French philosopher and critic (b. 1713)
1805 –
Dheeran Chinnamalai , Indian soldier (b. 1756)
1864 –
Louis Christophe François Hachette , French publisher (b. 1800)
1875 –
Andrew Johnson , American general and politician, 17th
President of the United States (b. 1808)
1884 –
Kiến Phúc , Vietnamese emperor (b. 1869)
1886 –
Franz Liszt , Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1811)
1891 –
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier , Belgian stained glass painter (b. 1814)
1901–present
1913 –
John Milne , British geologist and mining engineer. (b. 1850)
1914 –
Jean Jaurès , French journalist and politician (b. 1859)
1917 –
Francis Ledwidge , Irish soldier and poet (b. 1881)
1917 –
Hedd Wyn , Welsh language poet (b. 1887)
1920 –
Ion Dragoumis , Greek philosopher and diplomat (b. 1878)
1940 –
Udham Singh , Indian activist (b. 1899)
[22]
1942 –
Francis Younghusband ,
British Army Officer,
explorer and spiritual writer (b. 1863)
1943 –
Hedley Verity , English cricketer and soldier (b. 1905)
1944 –
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French pilot and poet (b. 1900)
1951 –
Cho Ki-chon , North Korean poet (b. 1913)
[23]
1953 –
Robert A. Taft , American soldier and politician (b. 1889)
1954 –
Onofre Marimón , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1923)
1958 –
Eino Kaila , Finnish philosopher and psychologist, attendant of the Vienna circle (b. 1890)
1964 –
Jim Reeves , American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
1966 –
Bud Powell , American pianist (b. 1924)
1968 –
Jack Pizzey , Australian politician, 29th
Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
1971 –
Walter P. Carter , American soldier and activist (b. 1923)
1972 –
Paul-Henri Spaak , Belgian politician, 40th
Prime Minister of Belgium , 1st
President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1899)
[24]
1973 –
Azumafuji Kin'ichi , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th
Yokozuna (b. 1921)
1979 –
Beatrix Lehmann , English actress and director (b. 1903)
1980 –
Pascual Jordan , German physicist, author, and academic (b. 1902)
1980 –
Mohammed Rafi , Indian
playback singer (b. 1924)
[25]
1981 –
Omar Torrijos , Panamanian general and politician,
Military Leader of Panama (b. 1929)
1985 –
Eugene Carson Blake , American religious leader (b. 1906)
1986 –
Chiune Sugihara , Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1987 –
Joseph E. Levine , American film producer (b, 1905)
1990 –
Albert Leduc , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1992 –
Leonard Cheshire , English captain and pilot (b. 1917)
1993 –
Baudouin , King of Belgium (b. 1930)
[26]
2000 –
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. , American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1908)
2001 –
Francisco da Costa Gomes , Portuguese general and politician, 15th
President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 –
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 –
Guido Crepax , Italian author and illustrator (b. 1933)
2004 –
Virginia Grey , American actress (b. 1917)
2005 –
Wim Duisenberg , Dutch economist and politician, 1st
President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)
2009 –
Bobby Robson , English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2009 –
Harry Alan Towers , English-Canadian screenwriter and producer (b. 1920)
2012 –
Mollie Hunter , Scottish author and playwright (b. 1922)
2012 –
Alfredo Ramos , Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1924)
2012 –
Gore Vidal , American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1925)
2012 –
Tony Sly , American musician, singer-songwriter (b. 1970)
2013 –
Michael Ansara , Syrian-American actor (b. 1922)
2013 –
Michel Donnet , English-Belgian general and pilot (b. 1917)
2013 –
John Graves , American captain and author (b. 1920)
2013 –
Trevor Storer , English businessman, founded
Pukka Pies (b. 1930)
2014 –
Warren Bennis , American scholar, author, and academic (b. 1925)
2014 –
Nabarun Bhattacharya , Indian journalist and author (b. 1948)
2014 –
Jeff Bourne , English footballer (b. 1948)
2014 –
Wilfred Feinberg , American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
2015 –
Alan Cheuse , American writer and critic (b. 1940)
2015 –
Howard W. Jones , American surgeon and academic (b. 1910)
2015 –
Billy Pierce , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927)
2015 –
Roddy Piper , Canadian wrestler and actor (b. 1954)
2015 –
Richard Schweiker , American soldier and politician, 14th
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1926)
2016 –
Chiyonofuji Mitsugu , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th
Yokozuna (b. 1955)
[27]
[28]
2016 –
Seymour Papert , South African mathematician (b. 1928)
[29]
2017 –
Jeanne Moreau , French actress (b. 1928)
2018 –
Tony Bullimore , British sailor & businessman (b. 1939)
[30]
2019 –
Harold Prince , Broadway producer and director, who received more
Tony awards than anyone else in history (b. 1928)
[31]
2020 –
Alan Parker , English filmmaker (b. 1944)
[32]
2022 –
Fidel V. Ramos , 12th
President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
[33]
2022 –
Bill Russell ,
NBA Hall of Fame Player and Coach (b. 1934)
[34]
2023 –
Angus Cloud , American actor (b. 1998)
[35]
[36]
Holidays and observances
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