Events

2024

A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.

2022

Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.

2020

Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.

2012

A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.

2011

A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.

2006

Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

2004

New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

2004

The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

2002

A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.

2002

Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize money from Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Fields Medal for his work.

2001

Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

2000

Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

1999

The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

1993

A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1992

The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

1982

Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.

1981

Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

1977

A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.

1975

Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

1975

Independence of Angola.

1972

Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

1968

Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

1967

Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

1966

NASA launches Gemini 12.

1965

Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.

1965

United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.

1962

Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

1961

Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.

1960

A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.

1949

The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.

1942

World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

1942

The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy.

1940

World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

1940

World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.

1934

The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.

1930

Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

1926

The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

1923

Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

1921

The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1919

The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.

1919

Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

1918

World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.

1918

Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.

1918

Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

1911

Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

1889

The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

1887

Four convicted anarchists were executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

1880

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

1869

The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

1865

Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

1855

A powerful earthquake occurs in Edo, Japan, causing considerable damage in the Kantō region from the shaking and subsequent fires. It had a death toll of 7,000–10,000 people and destroyed around 14,000 buildings.

1839

The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

1831

In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

1813

War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.

1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.

1778

Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

1750

Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.

1750

The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.

1724

Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

1675

Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

1673

Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.

1634

Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.

1620

The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

1572

Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.

1500

Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.

1215

The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

1100

Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned on the same day.

1028

Constantine VIII dies, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.

308

At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.

Births

2005

Ben Gannon-Doak, Scottish footballer

2004

Oakes Fegley, American actor

1999

X González, American activist

1998

Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player

1996

Tye Sheridan, American actor and producer

1995

Josh Aloiai, New Zealand rugby league player

1995

Yuriko Miyazaki, British tennis player

1995

Shin Seung-ho, South Korean actor and model

1994

Lio Rush, American wrestler

1994

Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer

1994

Ellie Simmonds, English swimmer

1993

Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer

1992

Sofía Luini, Argentine tennis player

1992

Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Canadian ice hockey player

1991

Christa B. Allen, American actress

1991

Kaho Onodera, Japanese curler

1990

Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer

1990

James Segeyaro, Papua New Guinean rugby league player

1990

Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer

1989

Nick Blackman, English-Israeli footballer

1989

Joe Ragland, American basketball player

1989

Adam Rippon, American figure skater

1989

Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer

1989

Lewis Williamson, Scottish race car driver

1988

David Depetris, Argentinian-Slovak footballer

1988

Mikako Komatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer

1988

Kyle Naughton, English footballer

1987

Vinny Guadagnino, American actor

1987

Chanelle Hayes, English model and singer

1986

Jon Batiste, American singer and pianist

1986

Victor Cruz, American football player

1986

Mark Sanchez, American football player

1986

François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player

1985

Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban footballer

1985

Austin Collie, American football player

1985

Tiidrek Nurme, Estonian runner

1985

Jessica Sierra, American singer

1985

Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer

1984

Stephen Hunt, English footballer

1984

Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer

1983

Arouna Koné, Ivorian footballer

1983

Philipp Lahm, German footballer

1983

Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese voice actor and singer

1982

Gonzalo Canale, Argentinian-Italian rugby player

1980

Chris Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player

1980

Nicole Malliotakis, American politician

1980

Edmoore Takaendesa, Zimbabwean-German rugby player

1978

Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer

1977

Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (died 2002)

1977

Jill Vedder, American philanthropist, activist and fashion model

1977

Maniche, Portuguese footballer and manager

1977

Scoot McNairy, American actor and producer

1977

Marsha Mehran, Iranian-American author (died 2014)

1976

Jason Grilli, American baseball player

1976

Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian bass player

1975

Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby player

1974

Jon B., American singer-songwriter and producer

1974

Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer

1974

Static Major, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2008)

1974

Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer

1973

Jason White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1972

Adam Beach, Canadian actor

1971

David DeLuise, American actor and director

1971

Tomas Pačėsas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach

1969

Carson Kressley, American fashion designer, television personality, and actor

1968

Diego Fuser, Italian footballer and manager

1967

Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver (died 2023)

1967

David Doak, Northern Irish video game designer

1967

Frank John Hughes, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1966

Benedicta Boccoli, Italian model and actress

1966

Vince Colosimo, Australian actor

1966

Alison Doody, Irish model and actress

1966

Peaches, Canadian musician and producer

1965

Max Mutchnick, American screenwriter and producer

1965

Kim Stockwood, Canadian singer-songwriter

1964

Margarete Bagshaw, American painter and potter (died 2015)

1964

Calista Flockhart, American actress

1964

Philip McKeon, American actor (died 2019)

1963

Billy Gunn, American wrestler and actor

1962

Mario Fenech, Maltese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

1962

Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (died 1997)

1962

Demi Moore, American actress, director, and producer

1962

James Morrison, Australian trumpet player and composer

1961

Yuri Milner, Russian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist

1960

Colin Harvey, English author and critic (died 2011)

1960

Chuck Hernandez, American baseball player and coach

1960

Paquito Ochoa, Jr., Filipino lawyer and politician, 37th Executive Secretary of the Philippines

1960

Cristina Odone, Kenyan-Italian journalist and author

1960

Peter Parros, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1960

Stanley Tucci, American actor and director

1959

Lee Haney, American bodybuilder

1959

Richard Rowe, English jockey and trainer

1959

Christian Schwarzenegger, Swiss criminologist and academic

1959

Carl Williams, American boxer (died 2013)

1958

Luz Casal, Spanish singer-songwriter and actress

1958

Kazimieras Černis, Lithuanian astronomer and astrophysicist

1958

Carlos Lacámara, Cuban-American actor and playwright

1958

Kathy Lette, Australian-English author

1956

Talat Aziz, Ghazal singer

1956

Ian Craig Marsh, English guitarist

1955

Dave Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1955

Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan

1955

Teri York, Canadian diver

1954

Steve Brain, English rugby player

1954

Mary Gaitskill, American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

1954

Jim Kabia, English footballer

1954

Roger Slifer, American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (died 2015)

1953

Marshall Crenshaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1953

Andy Partridge, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer

1951

Kim Peek, American megasavant (died 2009)

1951

Marc Summers, American television host and producer

1951

Fuzzy Zoeller, American golfer (died 2025)

1950

Mircea Dinescu, Romanian journalist and poet

1950

Jim Peterik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1949

Ismail Petra of Kelantan (died 2019)

1949

Kathy Postlewait, American golfer

1948

Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (died 1986)

1948

Robert John "Mutt" Lange, British-South African record producer and songwriter

1948

Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (died 2005)

1946

Al Holbert, American race car driver (died 1988)

1945

Chris Dreja, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2025)

1945

Vince Martell, American singer and guitarist

1945

Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua

1943

Doug Frost, Australian swim coach

1942

Jonathan Fenby, English journalist and businessman

1942

Roy Fredericks, Guyanese-American cricketer and politician (died 2000)

1942

K. Connie Kang, Korean American journalist and author (died 2019)

1942

Diane Wolkstein, American author and radio host (died 2013)

1940

Barbara Boxer, American journalist and politician

1940

Dennis Coffey, American guitarist

1939

Denise Alexander, American actress (died 2025)

1937

Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (died 2001)

1937

Rudy LaRusso, American basketball player (died 2004)

1937

Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2026)

1937

Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar

1936

Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer (died 2005)

1935

Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (died 2019)

1933

Martino Finotto, Italian race car driver (died 2014)

1933

Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)

1932

Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (died 2012)

1930

Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and academic (died 2017)

1930

Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (died 1982)

1930

Vernon Handley, English conductor (died 2008)

1929

LaVern Baker, American singer (died 1997)

1929

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author and poet (died 2022)

1929

Martin Jacomb, English lawyer, businessman, and academic (died 2024)

1928

Ernestine Anderson, American singer (died 2016)

1928

Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (died 2012)

1928

Edward Zorinsky, former mayor of Omaha, Nebraska (died 1987)

1927

Mose Allison, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2016)

1927

Martin Špegelj, Croatian general and politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (died 2014)

1926

Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race car driver (died 2016)

1926

Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1998)

1925

John Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

1925

June Whitfield, English actress (died 2018)

1925

Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (died 2013)

1922

Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2007)

1921

Terrel Bell, American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (died 1996)

1920

Roy Jenkins, British politician, President of the European Commission (died 2003)

1920

Walter Krupinski, German captain and pilot (died 2000)

1919

Kalle Päätalo, Finnish soldier and author (died 2000)

1918

Stubby Kaye, American entertainer (died 1997)

1916

Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Lord President of the Council (died 2012)

1915

William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (died 2005)

1915

Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (died 2012)

1914

James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (died 2005)

1914

Daisy Bates, American activist (died 1999)

1914

Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian academic and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (died 1991)

1914

Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2003)

1914

Henry Wade, American soldier and lawyer (died 2001)

1912

Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (died 1999)

1911

Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (died 2002)

1909

Robert Ryan, American actor (died 1973)

1909

Piero Scotti, Italian race car driver (died 1976)

1907

Orestis Laskos, Greek director, screenwriter, and poet (died 1992)

1906

Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (died 2001)

1904

Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (died 1996)

1904

J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician and academic (died 1960)

1901

Sam Spiegel, American film producer (died 1985)

1901

F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (died 1978)

1900

Maria Babanova, Russian stage and film actress (died 1983)

1899

Pat O'Brien, American actor (died 1983)

1898

René Clair, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)

1896

Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, composer, and activist (died 1977)

1896

Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, Mexican-American historian (died 1958)

1895

Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (died 1990)

1894

Beverly Bayne, American actress (died 1982)

1891

Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (died 1954)

1891

Grunya Sukhareva, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer (died 1981)

1888

Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (died 1958)

1888

J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1982)

1887

Roland Young, English-American actor (died 1953)

1885

George S. Patton, American general (died 1945)

1883

Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor and academic (died 1969)

1882

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (died 1973)

1872

Maude Adams, American actress (died 1953)

1872

David I. Walsh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1947)

1869

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (died 1947)

1869

Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist assassin (died 1901)

1868

Édouard Vuillard, French painter and academic (died 1940)

1867

Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (died 1901)

1866

Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (died 1956)

1864

Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1921)

1863

Paul Signac, French painter and educator (died 1935)

1860

Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (died 1898)

1857

Janet Erskine Stuart, English nun and educator (died 1914)

1855

Stevan Sremac, Serbian author and activist (died 1906)

1852

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (died 1925)

1836

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and author (died 1907)

1821

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (died 1881)

1791

Josef Munzinger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1855)

1768

Sikandar Jah, (died 1829) 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad State

1748

Charles IV of Spain (died 1819)

1743

Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist, entomologist, and psychologist (died 1828)

1696

Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1757)

1668

Johann Albert Fabricius, German author and scholar (died 1736)

1633

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1695)

1599

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (died 1655)

1599

Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (died 1656)

1579

Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (died 1657)

1569

Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (died 1611)

1512

Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (died 1589)

1493

Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (died 1541)

1491

Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (died 1551)

1449

Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian queen (died 1464)

1441

Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (died 1483)

1430

Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau (died 1467)

1220

Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (died 1271)

1155

Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)

1154

Sancho I of Portugal (died 1212)

1050

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1106)

Deaths

2024

Frank Auerbach, German-British painter (born 1931)

2024

John Robinson, American football player and coach (born 1935)

2021

F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

2017

Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish singer, actor and comedian (born 1932)

2016

Victor Bailey, American singer and bass player (born 1960)

2016

Robert Vaughn, American actor (born 1932)

2015

Rita Gross, American theologian and author (born 1943)

2015

Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (born 1975)

2014

John Doar, American lawyer and activist (born 1921)

2014

Big Bank Hank, American rapper (born 1956)

2014

Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (born 1920)

2014

Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (born 1932)

2014

Carol Ann Susi, American actress (born 1952)

2013

John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (born 1938)

2013

Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (born 1917)

2013

Bob Beckham, American singer-songwriter (born 1927)

2013

John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (born 1929)

2013

Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1931)

2012

Lam Adesina, Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (born 1939)

2012

Joe Egan, English rugby player and coach (born 1919)

2012

Rex Hunt, English lieutenant, pilot, and diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (born 1926)

2012

Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (born 1927)

2012

Harry Wayland Randall, American photographer (born 1915)

2011

Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (born 1966)

2010

Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (born 1911)

2008

Herb Score, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1933)

2008

Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, Turkish colonel (born 1903)

2007

Delbert Mann, American director and producer (born 1920)

2006

Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (born 1974)

2005

Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (born 1930)

2005

Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (born 1939)

2005

Peter Drucker, Austrian-American author, theorist, and educator (born 1909)

2004

Dayton Allen, American comedian and voice actor (born 1919)

2004

Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)

2004

Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (born 1948)

2003

Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (born 1929)

2002

Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (born 1920)

2001

Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (born 1920)

2000

Sandra Schmitt, German skier (born 1981)

1999

Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (born 1961)

1999

Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (born 1923)

1998

Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player and soldier (born 1913)

1998

Paddy Clancy, Irish singer and actor (born 1922)

1997

Rod Milburn, American hurdler and coach (born 1950)

1997

William Alland, American film producer and writer (born 1916)

1994

John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (born 1908)

1994

Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, historian, and publicist (born 1922)

1993

Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1914)

1993

John Stanley, American author and illustrator (born 1914)

1990

Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (born 1909)

1990

Sadi Irmak, Turkish physician and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1904)

1990

Alexis Minotis, Greek actor and director (born 1900)

1990

Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet and playwright (born 1909)

1988

Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician (born 1897)

1988

William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (born 1900)

1985

Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1959)

1985

Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (born 1915)

1984

Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (born 1899)

1982

Marcel Paul, French communist politician and Holocaust survivor (born 1900)

1980

Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (born 1901)

1979

Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (born 1894)

1977

Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (born 1950)

1976

Alexander Calder, American sculptor (born 1898)

1974

Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (born 1894)

1973

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)

1973

Richard von Frankenberg, German race car driver and journalist (born 1922)

1972

Berry Oakley, American bass player (born 1948)

1968

Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (born 1921)

1965

Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (born 1900)

1962

Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (born 1878)

1961

Behiç Erkin, Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (born 1876)

1953

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1866)

1950

Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1875)

1949

Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Minister (born 1878)

1945

Jerome Kern, American composer (born 1885)

1944

Munir Ertegun, Turkish diplomat (born 1883)

1940

Muhittin Akyüz, Turkish general and diplomat (born 1870)

1939

Bob Marshall, American author and activist (born 1901)

1931

Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (born 1840)

1921

Léon Moreaux, French target shooter (born 1852)

1919

Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (born 1832)

1918

Henry Gunther, American soldier, believed to be the last man killed in World War I (born 1895)

1918

George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last casualty of the British Empire of World War I (born 1892)

1917

Liliuokalani of Hawaii (born 1838)

1888

Pedro Ñancúpel, Chilean pirate active in the fjords and channels of Patagonia. He was executed.

1887

Haymarket affair defendants:

1887

George Engel, German-American businessman and activist (born 1836)

1887

Adolph Fischer, German-American printer and activist (born 1858)

1887

Albert Parsons, American journalist and activist (born 1848)

1887

August Spies, American journalist and activist (born 1855)

1884

Alfred Brehm, German zoologist, author, and illustrator (born 1827)

1880

Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (born 1855)

1880

Lucretia Mott, American activist (born 1793)

1862

James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (born 1793)

1861

Pedro V of Portugal (born 1837)

1855

Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1813)

1831

Nat Turner, American slave and rebel leader (born 1800)

1812

Platon Levshin, Russian metropolitan (born 1737)

1724

Joseph Blake, English criminal (born 1700)

1638

Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1562)

1623

Philippe de Mornay, French theorist and author (born 1549)

1583

Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel

1561

Hans Tausen, Danish reformer (born 1494)

1331

Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (born c. 1285)

1285

King Peter III of Aragon (born 1239)

1189

King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (born 1153)

1130

Teresa of León, Countess of Portugal, Portuguese regent (born 1080)

1089

Peter Igneus, Italian Benedictine monk

1078

Udo of Nellenburg, Archbishop of Trier (during the siege of Tübingen)

1028

Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (born 960)

875

Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia

865

Petronas, Byzantine general

865

Antony the Younger, Byzantine monk and saint (born 785)

683

Yazid I, Muslim caliph (born 647)

405

Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian archbishop (born 324)

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