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Day of the year
May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 227 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
332 – Emperor
Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in
Constantinople .
[1]
872 –
Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as
Holy Roman Emperor at
Rome , at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father
Lothair I .
[2]
1096 –
First Crusade : Around 800 Jews are
massacred in Worms, Germany .
[3]
1152 – The future
Henry II of England marries
Eleanor of Aquitaine . He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed
King Stephen of England .
1268 – The
Principality of Antioch , a
crusader state , falls to the
Mamluk
Sultan
Baibars in the
Siege of Antioch .
1291 –
Fall of Acre , the end of
Crusader presence in the
Holy Land .
1302 –
Bruges Matins , the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in
Bruges by members of the local
Flemish militia.
1388 – During the
Battle of Buyur Lake , General
Lan Yu leads a
Ming army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of
Tögüs Temür , the Khan of
Northern Yuan .
1499 –
Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from
Cádiz on his voyage to what is now
Venezuela .
1565 – The
Great Siege of Malta begins, in which
Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer
Malta .
1593 – Playwright
Thomas Kyd 's accusations of
heresy lead to an arrest warrant for
Christopher Marlowe .
1601–1900
1631 – In
Dorchester, Massachusetts ,
John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first
Governor of Massachusetts .
1652 –
Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
1695 – The
1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Qing dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people.
[4]
1756 – The
Seven Years' War begins when
Great Britain declares war on
France .
1783 – First
United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called
Saint John, New Brunswick ), Canada, after leaving the United States.
1794 –
Battle of Tourcoing during the
Flanders Campaign of the
War of the First Coalition .
1803 –
Napoleonic Wars : The United Kingdom revokes the
Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1804 –
Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed
Emperor of the French by the
French Senate .
1811 –
Battle of Las Piedras : The first great military triumph of the revolution of the
Río de la Plata in
Uruguay led by
José Artigas .
1812 –
John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the
assassination of
British Prime Minister
Spencer Perceval .
1843 – The
Disruption in
Edinburgh of the
Free Church of Scotland from the
Church of Scotland .
1848 – Opening of the first German
National Assembly (
Nationalversammlung ) in
Frankfurt , Germany.
1860 –
United States presidential election :
Abraham Lincoln wins the
Republican Party
presidential nomination over
William H. Seward , who later becomes the
United States Secretary of State .
1863 –
American Civil War : The
Siege of Vicksburg begins.
1896 – The
United States Supreme Court rules in
Plessy v. Ferguson that the "
separate but equal " doctrine is constitutional.
1896 –
Khodynka Tragedy : A
mass panic on
Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the
coronation of
Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a
protectorate over
Tonga .
[5]
1901–present
1912 – The first
Indian film , Shree Pundalik by
Dadasaheb Torne , is released in
Mumbai .
1917 –
World War I : The
Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the
President of the United States the power of
conscription .
1922 –
Seamus Woods leads an
Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the
Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast.
[6]
1926 –
Evangelist
Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in
Venice, California .
1927 – The
Bath School disaster : Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in
Bath Township ,
Michigan .
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the
Nationalist government approves
Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the
Republic of China .
1933 –
New Deal : President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the
Tennessee Valley Authority .
1944 –
World War II :
Battle of Monte Cassino : Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as
German paratroopers evacuate
Monte Cassino .
1944 –
Deportation of
Crimean Tatars by the
Soviet Union .
1948 – The First
Legislative Yuan of the
Republic of China officially convenes in
Nanking .
1953 –
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the
sound barrier .
[11]
1955 –
Operation Passage to Freedom , the evacuation of 310,000
Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the
French Army from communist
North Vietnam to
South Vietnam following the end of the
First Indochina War , ends.
1965 – Israeli spy
Eli Cohen is hanged in
Damascus, Syria .
1969 –
Apollo program :
Apollo 10 is launched.
1973 –
Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
[12]
1974 –
Nuclear weapons testing : Under project
Smiling Buddha , India successfully detonates its first
nuclear weapon becoming the
sixth nation to do so .
1977 –
Likud party wins the
1977 Israeli legislative election , with
Menachem Begin , its founder, as the
sixth Prime Minister of Israel .
[13]
1980 –
Mount St. Helens
erupts in
Washington , United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1980 –
Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
1990 – In France, a modified
TGV train achieves a new
rail world speed record of
515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
1991 – Northern
Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the
Republic of Somaliland .
1993 – Riots in
Nørrebro ,
Copenhagen , caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the
Maastricht Treaty referendum . Police open fire against civilians for the first time since
World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
1994 – Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the
Gaza Strip , ceding the area to the
Palestinian National Authority to govern.
2005 – A second photo from the
Hubble Space Telescope confirms that
Pluto has two additional moons,
Nix and
Hydra .
2006 – The post
Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the
monarchy and making
Nepal a secular country.
2009 – The
LTTE are defeated by the
Sri Lankan government , ending almost
26 years of fighting between the two sides.
2015 – At least 78 people die in a
landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of
Salgar .
2018 –
A school shooting at
Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.
[14]
2018 –
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes in
Santiago de las Vegas after takeoff from
José Martí International Airport in
Havana ,
Cuba , killing 112 of the 113 people on board.
[15]
2019 –
United States presidential election :
Joe Biden announces his
presidential campaign .
[16]
[17]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1631 –
Stanislaus Papczyński , Polish priest and saint (d. 1701)
1662 –
George Smalridge , English bishop (d. 1719)
1692 – (
O.S. )
Joseph Butler , English bishop, theologian, and apologist (d. 1752)
[18]
1711 –
Roger Joseph Boscovich ,
Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1787)
1777 –
John George Children , English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852)
1778 –
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , Irish soldier and diplomat,
British Ambassador to Austria (d. 1854)
1785 –
John Wilson , Scottish author and critic (d. 1854)
1797 –
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
1822 –
Mathew Brady , American photographer and journalist (d. 1896)
1824 –
Wilhelm Hofmeister , German botanist (d. 1877)
[19]
1835 –
Charles N. Sims , American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of
Syracuse University (d. 1908)
1850 –
Oliver Heaviside , English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1925)
1851 –
James Budd , American lawyer and politician, 19th
Governor of California (d. 1908)
1851 –
Simon Kahquados , Potawatomi political activist (d. 1930)
[20]
1852 –
Gertrude Käsebier , American photographer (d. 1934)
1854 –
Bernard Zweers , Dutch composer and educator (d. 1924)
1855 –
Francis Bellamy , American minister and author (d. 1931)
1862 –
Josephus Daniels , American publisher and politician, 41st
United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1948)
1867 –
Minakata Kumagusu , Japanese author, biologist, naturalist and ethnologist (d. 1941)
1868 –
Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
[21]
1869 –
Lucy Beaumont , English-American actress (d. 1937)
[22]
1871 –
Denis Horgan , Irish shot putter and weight thrower (d. 1922)
1872 –
Bertrand Russell , British mathematician, historian, and philosopher,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1876 –
Hermann Müller , German journalist and politician, 12th
Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
1878 –
Johannes Terwogt , Dutch rower (d. 1977)
1882 –
Babe Adams , American baseball player, manager, and journalist (d. 1968)
1883 –
Eurico Gaspar Dutra , Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th
President of Brazil (d. 1974)
1883 –
Walter Gropius , German-American architect, designed the
John F. Kennedy Federal Building (d. 1969)
1886 –
Jeanie MacPherson , American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
1888 –
Hanna Barysiewicz , the oldest female resident of
Belarus not registered by the
Guinness Book of Records . (d. 2007)
[23]
1889 –
Thomas Midgley, Jr. , American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)
1891 –
Rudolf Carnap , German-American philosopher and academic (d. 1970)
1892 –
Ezio Pinza , Italian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)
1895 –
Augusto César Sandino , Nicaraguan rebel leader (d. 1934)
1896 –
Eric Backman , Swedish runner (d. 1965)
1897 –
Frank Capra , Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1898 –
Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel , Turkish poet, author, and playwright (d. 1973)
[24]
1901–present
1901 –
Henri Sauguet , French composer (d. 1989)
1901 –
Vincent du Vigneaud , American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
1902 –
Meredith Willson , American playwright and composer (d. 1984)
1904 –
Jacob K. Javits , American colonel and politician, 58th
New York Attorney General (d. 1986)
[25]
1904 –
Shunryū Suzuki , Japanese-American monk and educator (d. 1971)
1905 –
Ruth Alexander , pioneering American pilot (d. 1930)
[26]
1905 –
Hedley Verity , English cricketer and soldier (d. 1943)
1907 –
Irene Hunt , American author and educator (d. 2001)
1909 –
Fred Perry , English tennis player and academic (d. 1995)
[27]
1910 –
Ester Boserup , Danish economist and author (d. 1999)
1911 –
Big Joe Turner , American blues/R&B singer (d. 1985)
1912 –
Richard Brooks , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1912 –
Perry Como , American singer and television host (d. 2001)
1912 –
Walter Sisulu , South African politician (d. 2003)
1913 –
Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood , Canadian-English publisher and politician (d. 2000)
1914 –
Pierre Balmain , French fashion designer, founded
Balmain (d. 1982)
1914 –
Boris Christoff , Bulgarian-Italian opera singer (d. 1993)
1917 –
Bill Everett , American author and illustrator (d. 1973)
1919 –
Margot Fonteyn , British ballerina (d. 1991)
1920 –
Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1920 –
Anthony Storr , English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author (d. 2001)
[28]
1921 –
Joan Eardley , British artist (d. 1963)
[29]
1921 –
Michael A. Epstein , English pathologist and academic (d. 2024)
1922 –
Bill Macy , American actor (d. 2019)
1922 –
Kai Winding , Danish-American trombonist and composer (d. 1983)
1923 –
Jean-Louis Roux , Canadian actor and politician, 34th
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)
1923 –
Hugh Shearer , Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
1924 –
Priscilla Pointer , American actress
1924 –
Jack Whitaker , American sportscaster (d. 2019)
1925 –
Lillian Hoban , American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
1927 –
Richard Body , English politician (d. 2018)
1927 –
Ray Nagel , American football player and coach (d. 2015)
1928 –
Pernell Roberts , American actor (d. 2010)
1929 –
Jack Sanford , American baseball player and coach (d. 2000)
1929 –
Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley , English lawyer and politician,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 2012)
1930 –
Warren Rudman , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1930 –
Fred Saberhagen , American soldier and author (d. 2007)
1931 –
Don Martin , American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1931 –
Robert Morse , American actor (d. 2022)
[30]
1931 –
Kalju Pitksaar , Estonian chess player (d. 1995)
1931 –
Clément Vincent , Canadian farmer and politician (d. 2018)
1933 –
Bernadette Chirac , French politician,
First Lady of France
1933 –
H. D. Deve Gowda , Indian farmer and politician, 11th
Prime Minister of India
1933 –
Don Whillans , English rock climber and mountaineer (d. 1985)
1934 –
Dwayne Hickman , American actor and director (d. 2022)
[31]
1936 –
Leon Ashley , American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1936 –
Türker İnanoğlu , Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter
1936 –
Michael Sandle , English sculptor and academic
1937 –
Brooks Robinson , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023)
1937 –
Jacques Santer , Luxembourger jurist and politician, 22nd
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1938 –
Janet Fish , American painter and academic
1939 –
Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack , English historian, journalist, and politician
1939 –
Giovanni Falcone , Italian lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
1939 –
Gordon O'Connor , Canadian general and politician, 38th
Canadian Minister of Defence
1940 –
Erico Aumentado , Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1941 –
Gino Brito , Canadian wrestler and promoter
1941 –
Malcolm Longair , Scottish astronomer, physicist, and academic
1941 –
Miriam Margolyes , English-Australian actress and singer
1942 –
Nobby Stiles , English footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2020)
1943 –
Jimmy Snuka , Fijian wrestler (d. 2017)
[32]
1944 –
Albert Hammond , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1944 –
W. G. Sebald , German novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2001)
1946 –
Frank Hsieh , Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 40th
Premier of the Republic of China
1946 –
Reggie Jackson , American baseball player and sportscaster
1946 –
Gerd Langguth , German political scientist and author (d. 2013)
1947 –
John Bruton , Irish politician, 10th
Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2024)
1947 –
Gail Strickland , American actress
1948 –
Joe Bonsall , American country/gospel singer
1948 –
Yi Mun-yol , South Korean author and academic
1948 –
Richard Swedberg , Swedish sociologist and academic
1948 –
Tom Udall , American lawyer and politician, 28th
New Mexico Attorney General ,
United States Senator from New Mexico
1949 –
Walter Hawkins , American gospel music singer and pastor (d. 2010)
1949 –
Rick Wakeman , English progressive rock keyboardist and songwriter
1950 –
Rod Milburn , American hurdler and coach (d. 1997)
1950 –
Mark Mothersbaugh , American singer-songwriter and painter
1951 –
Richard Clapton , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 –
Jim Sundberg , American baseball player and sportscaster
1951 –
Angela Voigt , German long jumper (d. 2013)
1952 –
Diane Duane , American author and screenwriter
1952 –
David Leakey , English general and politician
1952 –
George Strait , American singer, guitarist and producer
1952 –
Jeana Yeager , American pilot
1953 –
Alan Kupperberg , American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
[33]
1954 –
Wreckless Eric , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 –
Eric Gerets , Belgian footballer and manager
1955 –
Chow Yun-fat , Hong Kong actor and screenwriter
1956 –
Catherine Corsini , French director and screenwriter
1956 –
John Godber , English playwright and screenwriter
1957 –
Michael Cretu , Romanian-German keyboard player and producer
1957 –
Henrietta Moore , English anthropologist and academic
1958 –
Rubén Omar Romano , Argentinian-Mexican footballer and coach
1958 –
Toyah Willcox , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1959 –
Graham Dilley , English cricketer and coach (d. 2011)
1959 –
Jay Wells , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 –
Brent Ashton , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 –
Jari Kurri , Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1960 –
Yannick Noah , French tennis player
1961 –
Russell Senior , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 –
Marty McSorley , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 –
Sam Vincent , American basketball player and coach
1964 –
Ignasi Guardans , Spanish academic and politician
1966 –
Renata Nielsen , Polish-Danish long jumper and coach
1966 –
Michael Tait , American singer-songwriter and producer
1967 –
Nina Björk , Swedish journalist and author
1967 –
Heinz-Harald Frentzen , German race car driver
1967 –
Nancy Juvonen , American screenwriter and producer, co-founded
Flower Films
1967 –
Mimi Macpherson , Australian environmentalist, entrepreneur and celebrity
1968 –
Philippe Benetton , French rugby player
1968 –
Ralf Kelleners , German race car driver
1969 –
Troy Cassar-Daley , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 –
Martika , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1969 –
Antônio Carlos Zago , Brazilian footballer and manager
1970 –
Javier Cárdenas , Spanish singer, television and radio presenter
1970 –
Tina Fey , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1970 –
Tim Horan , Australian rugby player and sportscaster
1970 –
Billy Howerdel , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1970 –
Vicky Sunohara , Canadian former ice hockey player
1971 –
Brad Friedel , American international soccer player, manager and sportscaster
[34]
1971 –
Mark Menzies , Scottish politician
1971 –
Nobuteru Taniguchi , Japanese race car driver
1972 –
Turner Stevenson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973 –
Donyell Marshall , American basketball player and coach
1973 –
Aleksandr Olerski , Estonian footballer (d. 2011)
1974 –
Nelson Figueroa , American baseball player and sportscaster
1975 –
Jem , Welsh singer-songwriter and producer
1975 –
John Higgins , Scottish snooker player
1975 –
Jack Johnson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 –
Ingvild Kjerkol , Norwegian politician
[35]
1976 –
Ron Mercer , American basketball player
1976 –
Marko Tomasović , Croatian pianist and composer
1976 –
Oleg Tverdovsky , Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1977 –
Lee Hendrie , English footballer
1977 –
Danny Mills , English footballer and sportscaster
1977 –
Li Tie , Chinese footballer and manager
1978 –
Ricardo Carvalho , Portuguese footballer
1978 –
Marcus Giles , American baseball player
1978 –
Charles Kamathi , Kenyan runner
1979 –
Jens Bergensten , Swedish video game designer, co-designed
Minecraft
1979 –
Mariusz Lewandowski , Polish footballer
1979 –
Michal Martikán , Slovak slalom canoeist
[36]
1979 –
Milivoje Novaković , Slovenian footballer
1979 –
Julián Speroni , Argentinian footballer
1980 –
Reggie Evans , American basketball player
1980 –
Michaël Llodra , French tennis player
1980 –
Diego Pérez , Uruguayan footballer
1981 –
Mahamadou Diarra , Malian international footballer
[37]
1981 –
Ashley Harrison , Australian rugby league player
1982 –
Jason Brown , English footballer
1982 –
Marie-Ève Pelletier , Canadian tennis player
1983 –
Gary O'Neil , English footballer
1983 –
Luis Terrero , Dominican baseball player
1983 –
Vince Young , American football player
1984 –
Ivet Lalova , Bulgarian sprinter
1984 –
Simon Pagenaud , French race car driver
1984 –
Darius Šilinskis , Lithuanian basketball player
1984 –
Joakim Soria , Mexican baseball player
1984 –
Niki Terpstra , Dutch cyclist
1985 –
Oliver Sin , Hungarian painter
1985 –
Henrique Sereno , Portuguese footballer
1986 –
Kevin Anderson , South African tennis player
1988 –
Taeyang , South Korean singer
1990 –
Dimitri Daeseleire , Belgian footballer
1990 –
Yuya Osako , Japanese footballer
1990 –
Josh Starling , Australian rugby league player
1992 –
Adwoa Aboah , British fashion model
1993 –
Stuart Percy , Canadian ice hockey player
1993 –
Jessica Watson , Australian sailor
1998 –
Polina Edmunds , American figure skater
1999 –
Laura Omloop , Belgian singer-songwriter
2000 –
Ryan Sessegnon , English footballer
[38]
2000 –
Steven Sessegnon , English footballer
[39]
2001 –
Emma Navarro , American tennis player
[40]
[41]
2002 –
Alina Zagitova , Russian figure skater
2009 –
Hala Finley , American actress
[42]
[43]
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1675 –
Stanisław Lubieniecki , Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623)
1675 –
Jacques Marquette , French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
1692 –
Elias Ashmole , English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
1721 –
Maria Barbara Carillo , victim of the
Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)
1733 –
Georg Böhm , German organist and composer (b. 1761)
1780 –
Charles Hardy , English-American admiral and politician, 29th
Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
1781 –
Túpac Amaru II , Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (b. 1742)
1792 –
Levy Solomons , Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
1795 –
Robert Rogers , English colonel (b. 1731)
1799 –
Pierre Beaumarchais , French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)
1800 –
Alexander Suvorov , Russian general (b. 1729)
1807 –
John Douglas , Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)
1808 –
Elijah Craig , American minister, inventor, and educator, invented
Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)
1844 –
Richard McCarty , American lawyer and politician (b. 1780)
1853 –
Lionel Kieseritzky , Estonian-French chess player (b. 1806)
1867 –
Clarkson Stanfield , English painter (b. 1793)
1889 –
Isabella Glyn , Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
1900 –
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien , French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
1901–present
1908 –
Louis-Napoléon Casault , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
1909 –
Isaac Albéniz , Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1909 –
George Meredith , English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
1910 –
Eliza Orzeszkowa , Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
1910 –
Pauline Viardot , French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
1911 –
Gustav Mahler , Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
1916 –
Chen Qimei , Chinese revolutionary (b. 1878)
[45]
[46]
1922 –
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran , French physician and parasitologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1941 –
Werner Sombart , German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
1943 –
Ōnishiki Daigorō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th
Yokozuna (b. 1883)
1947 –
Hal Chase , American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
1955 –
Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator and activist (b. 1875)
1956 –
Maurice Tate , English cricketer (b. 1895)
1958 –
Jacob Fichman , Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)
1963 –
Ernie Davis , American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
1968 –
Frank Walsh , Australian politician, 34th
Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
1971 –
Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh , Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
1973 –
Jeannette Rankin , American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
1974 –
Harry Ricardo , English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
1975 –
Leroy Anderson , American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
1980 – Victims of
Mount St. Helens eruption :
1980 –
Ian Curtis , English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
1981 –
Arthur O'Connell , American actor (b. 1908)
1981 –
William Saroyan , American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
1987 –
Mahdi Amel , Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
1989 –
Dorothy Ruth , American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
1990 –
Jill Ireland , English actress (b. 1936)
1995 –
Elisha Cook, Jr. , American actor (b. 1903)
1995 –
Alexander Godunov , Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
1995 –
Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty , Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911)
1995 –
Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress (b. 1933)
1998 –
Obaidullah Aleem , Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1939)
1999 –
Augustus Pablo , Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)
1999 –
Betty Robinson , American runner (b. 1911)
2000 –
Stephen M. Wolownik , Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)
2001 –
Irene Hunt , American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
2004 –
Elvin Jones , American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
2006 –
Jaan Eilart , Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933)
2007 –
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , French physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2008 –
Joseph Pevney , American actor and director (b. 1911)
2008 –
Roberto García-Calvo Montiel , Spanish judge (b. 1942)
2009 –
Dolla , American rapper (b. 1987)
[47]
2009 –
Wayne Allwine , American voice actor, sound effects editor and Foley artist (b. 1947)
[48]
2009 –
Velupillai Prabhakaran , Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
2012 –
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925)
2012 –
Peter Jones , English-Australian drummer and songwriter (b. 1967)
2012 –
Alan Oakley , English bicycle designer, designed the
Raleigh Chopper (b. 1927)
2013 –
Aleksei Balabanov , Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
2013 –
Jo Benkow , Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1924)
2013 –
Steve Forrest , American actor (b. 1925)
2013 –
David McMillan , American football player (b. 1981)
2013 –
Lothar Schmid , German chess player (b. 1928)
2014 –
Dobrica Ćosić , Serbian politician, 1st
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
2014 –
Hans-Peter Dürr , German physicist and academic (b. 1929)
2014 –
Kaiketsu Masateru , Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948)
2014 –
Chukwuedu Nwokolo , Nigerian physician and academic (b. 1921)
2014 –
Wubbo Ockels , Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946)
2015 –
Halldór Ásgrímsson , Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd
Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)
2015 –
Raymond Gosling , English physicist and academic (b. 1926)
2015 –
Jean-François Théodore , French businessman (b. 1946)
2017 –
Roger Ailes , American businessman (b. 1940)
2017 –
Chris Cornell , American singer (b. 1964)
2017 –
Jacque Fresco , American engineer and academic (b. 1916)
2019 –
Austin Eubanks , American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the
Columbine shooting (b. 1981)
[49]
2020 –
Ken Osmond , American actor and police officer (b. 1943)
[50]
2021 –
Charles Grodin , American actor and talk show host (b. 1935)
[51]
2021 –
Yolanda Tortolero , Venezuelan politician
[52]
2023 –
Jim Brown , American football player, civil rights activist, and actor (b. 1936)
[53]
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