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Day of the year
June 26
is the 177th day of the year (178th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
; 188 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
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Pre-1600
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1601?1900
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1901?present
[
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- 1906
– The first
Grand Prix
motor race is held at
Le Mans
.
[2]
- 1909
– The
Science Museum
in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
- 1917
–
World War I
: The
American Expeditionary Forces
begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat in the Battle of Hamel on the 4th of July.
- 1918
– World War I:
Allied forces
under
John J. Pershing
and
James Harbord
defeat
Imperial German forces
under
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince
in the
Battle of Belleau Wood
.
- 1924
– The
American occupation of the Dominican Republic
ends after eight years.
- 1927
–
The Cyclone
roller coaster opens on
Coney Island
.
- 1934
– United States President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
signs the
Federal Credit Union Act
, which establishes credit unions.
- 1936
– Initial flight of the
Focke-Wulf Fw 61
, the first practical helicopter.
- 1940
–
World War II
: Under the
Molotov?Ribbentrop Pact
, the
Soviet Union
presents an
ultimatum
to
Romania
requiring it to cede
Bessarabia
and the northern part of
Bukovina
.
- 1941
– World War II: Soviet planes
bomb Kassa, Hungary
(now
Ko?ice
,
Slovakia
), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 1942
– The first flight of the
Grumman F6F Hellcat
.
- 1944
– World War II:
San Marino
, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the
RAF
based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
- 1944 – World War II: The
Battle of Osuchy
in
Osuchy
, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and
Polish resistance forces
, ends with the defeat of the latter.
- 1945
– The
United Nations Charter
is signed by
50 Allied nations
in
San Francisco, California
.
- 1948
–
Cold War
: The first supply flights are made in response to the
Berlin Blockade
.
- 1948 –
William Shockley
files the original patent for the
grown-junction transistor
, the first
bipolar junction transistor
.
- 1948 –
Shirley Jackson
's short story
The Lottery
is published in
The New Yorker
magazine.
- 1952
– The
Pan-Malayan Labour Party
is founded in
Malaya
, as a union of statewide labour parties.
- 1953
–
Lavrentiy Beria
, head of
MVD
, is arrested by
Nikita Khrushchev
and other members of the
Politburo
.
- 1955
– The South African Congress Alliance adopts the
Freedom Charter
at the
Congress of the People
in
Kliptown
.
- 1959
– Swedish boxer
Ingemar Johansson
becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American
Floyd Patterson
on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at
Yankee Stadium
.
- 1960
– The former British Protectorate of
British Somaliland
gains its independence as
Somaliland
.
- 1960 –
Madagascar
gains its independence from France.
- 1963
– Cold War: U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
gave his "
Ich bin ein Berliner
" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic
West Germany
shortly after
Soviet
-supported
East Germany
erected the
Berlin Wall
.
- 1967
–
Karol Wojtyła
(later John Paul II) made a cardinal by
Pope Paul VI
.
- 1974
– The
Universal Product Code
is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's
chewing gum
at the Marsh Supermarket in
Troy, Ohio
.
- 1975
– Two
FBI
agents and a member of the
American Indian Movement
are killed in a shootout on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
in
South Dakota
;
Leonard Peltier
is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
- 1977
–
Elvis Presley
held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
- 1978
–
Air Canada Flight 189
, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the
Etobicoke Creek
ravine
. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
- 1981
–
Dan-Air Flight 240
, flying to
East Midlands Airport
, crashes in
Nailstone
,
Leicestershire
. All three crew members perish.
[3]
- 1988
– The first crash of an
Airbus A320
occurs when
Air France Flight 296Q
crashes at
Mulhouse?Habsheim Airfield
in
Habsheim
, France, during an
air show
, killing three of the 136 people on board.
[4]
- 1991
–
Yugoslav Wars
: The
Yugoslav People's Army
begins the
Ten-Day War
in
Slovenia
.
- 1995
–
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
deposes his father
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani
, the
Emir
of
Qatar
, in a bloodless
coup d'etat
.
- 1997
– The
U.S. Supreme Court
rules that the
Communications Decency Act
violates the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
.
- 1997 –
J. K. Rowling
publishes the first of her
Harry Potter
novel series,
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
in United Kingdom.
[5]
- 2000
– The
Human Genome Project
announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
- 2003
– The
U.S. Supreme Court
rules in
Lawrence v. Texas
that sex-based
sodomy laws
are unconstitutional.
- 2006
–
Mari Alkatiri
, the first
Prime Minister of East Timor
, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
- 2007
–
Pope Benedict XVI
reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
- 2008
– A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest,
killing 25 people
.
- 2012
– The
Waldo Canyon fire
descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in
Colorado Springs
burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
- 2013
–
Riots
in China's
Xinjiang
region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
- 2013 – The
U.S. Supreme Court
ruled, 5?4
, that Section 3 of the
Defense of Marriage Act
is unconstitutional and in violation of the
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
.
[6]
- 2015
– Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed
Bloody Friday
by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
[7]
[8]
- 2015 – The
U.S. Supreme Court
ruled, 5?4
, that
same-sex couples
have a
constitutional right
to
marriage
under the
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution
.
[9]
Births
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Pre-1600
[
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1601?1900
[
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]
- 1681
–
Hedvig Sophia of Sweden
(d. 1708)
- 1689
–
Edward Holyoke
, American pastor and academic (d. 1769)
- 1694
–
Georg Brandt
, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
- 1699
–
Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin
, French businesswoman (d. 1777)
- 1702
–
Philip Doddridge
, English hymn-writer and educator (d. 1751)
- 1703
–
Thomas Clap
, American minister and academic (d. 1767)
- 1726
–
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
(d. 1796)
- 1730
–
Charles Messier
, French astronomer and academic (d. 1817)
- 1764
–
Jan Paweł Łuszczewski
, Polish politician (d. 1812)
- 1786
–
Sunthorn Phu
, Thai poet (d. 1855)
[11]
- 1796
–
Jan Paweł Lelewel
, Polish painter and engineer (d. 1847)
- 1798
–
Wolfgang Menzel
, German poet and critic (d. 1873)
- 1817
–
Branwell Bronte
, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
- 1819
–
Abner Doubleday
, American general (d. 1893)
- 1821
–
Bartolome Mitre
, Argentinian soldier, journalist, and politician, 6th
President of Argentina
(d. 1906)
- 1824
–
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
- 1835
–
Thomas W. Knox
, American journalist and author (d. 1896)
- 1839
–
Sam Watkins
, American soldier and author (d. 1901)
- 1852
–
Daoud Corm
, Lebanese painter (d. 1930)
- 1854
–
Robert Laird Borden
, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Canada
(d. 1937)
- 1865
–
Bernard Berenson
, Lithuanian-American historian and author (d. 1959)
- 1866
–
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
, English archaeologist and banker (d. 1923)
- 1869
–
Martin Andersen Nexø
, Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)
- 1878
–
Leopold Lowenheim
, German mathematician and logician (d. 1957)
- 1880
–
Mitchell Lewis
, American actor (d. 1956)
- 1881
–
Ya'akov Cohen
, Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1960)
- 1892
–
Pearl S. Buck
, American novelist, essayist, short story writer
Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1973)
- 1893
–
Dorothy Fuldheim
, American journalist and news anchor (d. 1989)
- 1895
–
George Hainsworth
, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1950)
- 1898
–
Willy Messerschmitt
, German engineer and businessman (d. 1978)
- 1898 –
Chesty Puller
, US general (d. 1971)
- 1899
–
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
(d. 1918)
[12]
1901?present
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- 1901
–
Stuart Symington
, American lieutenant and politician, 1st
United States Secretary of the Air Force
(d. 1988)
- 1902
–
Hugues Cuenod
, Swiss tenor and educator (d. 2010)
- 1903
–
Big Bill Broonzy
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
- 1904
–
Peter Lorre
, Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964)
- 1905
–
Lynd Ward
, American author and illustrator (d. 1985)
[13]
- 1906
–
Alberto Rabagliati
, Italian singer (d. 1974)
- 1906 –
Viktor Schreckengost
, American sculptor and educator (d. 2008)
- 1907
–
Debs Garms
, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1908
–
Salvador Allende
, Chilean physician and politician, 29th
President of Chile
(d. 1973)
- 1909
–
Colonel Tom Parker
, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)
- 1909 –
Wolfgang Reitherman
, German-American animator, director, and producer (d. 1985)
- 1911
–
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
, American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956)
- 1911 –
Bronisław ?urakowski
, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009)
- 1913
–
Aime Cesaire
, French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008)
- 1913 –
Maurice Wilkes
, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010)
- 1914
–
Laurie Lee
, English author and poet (d. 1997)
- 1914 –
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri
, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (d. 1997)
[14]
- 1914 –
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
, European royalty (d. 2001)
- 1915
–
Paul Castellano
, American gangster (d. 1985)
- 1915 –
George Haigh
, English professional footballer (d. 2019)
- 1915 –
Charlotte Zolotow
, American author and poet (d. 2013)
- 1916
–
Virginia Satir
, American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)
- 1916 –
Giuseppe Taddei
, Italian actor and singer (d. 2010)
- 1917
–
Idriz Ajeti
, Albanian albanologist (d. 2019)
- 1918
–
Leo Rosner
, Polish-born Austrian Jewish musician (d. 2008)
- 1918 –
Raleigh Rhodes
, American combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)
- 1918 –
J. B. Fuqua
, American entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2006)
- 1919
–
Richard Neustadt
, American political scientist and academic (d. 2003)
- 1919 –
Jimmy Newberry
, American pitcher (d. 1983)
- 1919 –
George Athan Billias
, American historian (d. 2018)
- 1919 –
Donald M. Ashton
, English art director (d. 2004)
- 1920
–
Jean-Pierre Roy
, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
- 1921
–
Violette Szabo
, French-British secret agent (d. 1945)
- 1921 –
Robert Everett
, American computer scientist (d. 2018)
- 1922
–
Walter Farley
, American author (d. 1989)
- 1922 –
Eleanor Parker
, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1922 –
Enzo Apicella
, English artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur (d. 2018)
- 1923
–
Franz-Paul Decker
, German conductor (d. 2014)
- 1923 –
Ed Bearss
, American military historian and author (d. 2020)
- 1924
–
Kostas Axelos
, Greek-French philosopher and author (d. 2010)
- 1924 –
James W. McCord Jr.
, CIA officer (d. 2017)
- 1925
–
Pavel Belyayev
, Soviet soldier, pilot and cosmonaut (d. 1970)
[15]
- 1925 –
Wolfgang Unzicker
, German chess player (d. 2006)
- 1925 –
Jean Frydman
, French resistant and businessman (d. 2021)
- 1926
–
Kenny Baker
, American fiddler (d. 2011)
- 1926 –
Mahendra Bhatnagar
, Indian poet (d. 2020)
- 1926 –
Fernando Monckeberg Barros
, Chilean surgeon
[16]
- 1926 –
Dinu Zamfirescu
, Romanian politician
- 1927
–
Robert Kroetsch
, Canadian author and poet (d. 2011)
- 1928
–
Jacob Druckman
, American composer and academic (d. 1996)
- 1928 –
Yoshiro Nakamatsu
, Japanese inventor
- 1928 –
Bill Sheffield
, American politician; 5th Governor of Alaska (d. 2022)
- 1928 –
Samuel Belzberg
, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
- 1929
–
June Bronhill
, Australian soprano and actress (d. 2005)
- 1929 –
Fred Bruemmer
, Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (d. 2013)
- 1929 –
Milton Glaser
, American illustrator and graphic designer (d. 2020)
- 1930
–
Jackie Fargo
, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2013)
- 1930 –
Wolfgang Schwanitz
, East German secret police (d. 2022)
- 1931
–
Colin Wilson
, English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
- 1932
– Dame
Marguerite Pindling
, Bahamian politician; Governor-General of the Bahamas
- 1932 –
Don Valentine
, American venture capitalist (d. 2019)
- 1933
–
Claudio Abbado
, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
[17]
- 1933 –
Gene Green
, American baseball player (d. 1981)
- 1933 –
David Winnick
, English politician
- 1934
–
Dave Grusin
, American pianist and composer
- 1934 –
Toru Goto
, Japanese swimmer
- 1935
–
Carlo Facetti
, Italian race car driver
- 1935 –
Sandro Riminucci
, Italian basketball player
- 1936
–
Benjamin Adekunle
, Nigerian general (d. 2014)
- 1936 –
Hal Greer
, American basketball player (d. 2018)
- 1936 –
Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart
, Scottish politician (d. 2020)
- 1936 –
Edith Pearlman
, American short story writer (d. 2023)
- 1936 –
Jean-Claude Turcotte
, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
- 1936 –
Nancy Willard
, American author and poet (d. 2017)
- 1937
–
Robert Coleman Richardson
, American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 2013)
- 1937 –
Reggie Workman
, American bassist and composer
- 1938
–
Neil Abercrombie
, American sociologist and politician, 7th
Governor of Hawaii
- 1938 –
Billy Davis Jr.
, American pop-soul singer
- 1938 –
Gerald North
, American climatologist and academic
- 1939
–
Chuck Robb
, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th
Governor of Virginia
- 1939 –
Zainuddin Maidin
, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
[18]
- 1941
–
Yves Beauchemin
, Canadian author and academic
- 1942
–
J. J. Dillon
, American wrestler and manager
- 1942 –
Gilberto Gil
, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician,
Brazilian Minister of Culture
- 1943
–
Georgie Fame
, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
- 1943 –
Warren Farrell
, American author and educator
- 1944
–
Gennady Zyuganov
, Russian politician
[19]
- 1945 –
Issa al-Haadi al-Mahdi
(Dwight York), American criminal, black supremacist, pedophile, convicted child molester, and musician
- 1946
–
Candace Pert
, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (d. 2013)
- 1949
–
Fredric Brandt
, American dermatologist and author (d. 2015)
- 1949 –
Adrian Gurvitz
, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1949 –
Mary Styles Harris
, American biologist and geneticist
- 1951
–
Gary Gilmour
, Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2014)
- 1952
–
Gordon McQueen
, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2023)
- 1952 –
Olive Morris
, Jamaican-English civil rights activist (d. 1979)
[20]
- 1954
–
Luis Arconada
, Spanish footballer
- 1955
–
Mick Jones
, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1955 –
Gedde Watanabe
, American actor
- 1956
–
Chris Isaak
, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1956 –
Catherine Samba-Panza
, interim president of the
Central African Republic
[21]
- 1956 –
Patrick Mercer
, English colonel and politician
- 1957
–
Al Hunter Ashton
, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1957 –
Philippe Couillard
, Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st
Premier of Quebec
- 1957 –
Patty Smyth
, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1959
–
Mark McKinney
, Canadian actor and screenwriter
- 1960
–
Mark Durkan
, Irish politician
- 1961
–
Greg LeMond
, American cyclist
- 1961 –
Terri Nunn
, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1962
–
Jerome Kersey
, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
- 1963
–
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
, Russian-Swiss businessman and philanthropist
- 1963 –
Mark McClellan
, American economist and politician
- 1963 –
Harriet Wheeler
, English singer-songwriter
- 1964
–
Tommi Makinen
, Finnish race car driver
- 1966
–
Dany Boon
, French actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1966 –
Kirk McLean
, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 –
Jurgen Reil
, American drummer
- 1967
–
Inha Babakova
, Ukrainian high jumper
- 1967 –
Olivier Dahan
, French director and screenwriter
- 1968
–
Guðni Th. Johannesson
, Icelandic lecturer and politician, 6th
President of Iceland
- 1968 –
Paolo Maldini
, Italian footballer
- 1968 –
Shannon Sharpe
, American football player
[22]
- 1969
–
Colin Greenwood
, English bass player and songwriter
- 1969 –
Ingrid Lempereur
, Belgian swimmer
- 1969 –
Geir Moen
, Norwegian sprinter
- 1969 –
Mike Myers
, American baseball player
- 1970
–
Paul Thomas Anderson
, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 –
Paul Bitok
, Kenyan runner
- 1970 –
Irv Gotti
, American record producer, co-founded
Murder Inc Records
- 1970 –
Sean Hayes
, American actor
- 1970 –
Matt Letscher
, American actor and playwright
[23]
- 1970 –
Adam Ndlovu
, Zimbabwean footballer (d. 2012)
- 1970 –
Chris O'Donnell
, American actor
- 1970 –
Nick Offerman
, American actor
- 1971
–
Max Biaggi
, Italian motorcycle racer
- 1972
–
Jai Taurima
, Australian long jumper and police officer
- 1973
–
Gretchen Wilson
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1974
–
Derek Jeter
, American baseball player
- 1974 –
Jason Kendall
, American baseball player
- 1975
–
Chris Armstrong
, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 –
Terry Skiverton
, English footballer and manager
- 1976
–
Ed Jovanovski
, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 –
Pommie Mbangwa
, Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster
- 1976 –
Chad Pennington
, American football player and sportscaster
- 1976 –
Dave Rubin
, American political commentator
- 1977
–
Quincy Lewis
, American basketball player
- 1979
–
Ry? Fukuda
, Japanese race car driver
- 1979 –
Walter Herrmann
, Argentinian basketball player
- 1979 –
Ryan Tedder
, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1980
–
Hamilton Henio Ferreira Calheiros
, Togolese footballer
- 1980 –
Michael Jackson
, English footballer
- 1980 –
Jason Schwartzman
, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
- 1980 –
Chris Shelton
, American baseball player
- 1980 –
Michael Vick
, American football player
- 1981
–
Natalya Antyukh
, Russian sprinter and hurdler
- 1981 –
Paolo Cannavaro
, Italian footballer
- 1981 –
Kanako Kond?
, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1981 –
Takashi Toritani
, Japanese baseball player
- 1982
–
Zuzana Ku?ova
, Slovak tennis player
- 1983
–
Vinicius Rodrigues Almeida
, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 –
Nick Compton
, South African-English cricketer
- 1983 –
Toyonoshima Daiki
, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1983 –
Felipe Melo
, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 –
Antonio Rosati
, Italian footballer
- 1984
–
J. J. Barea
, Puerto Rican-American basketball player
- 1984 –
Yankuba Ceesay
, Gambian footballer
- 1984 –
Elijah Dukes
, American baseball player
- 1984 –
Raymond Felton
, American basketball player
- 1984 –
Indila
, French singer
- 1984 –
Priscah Jeptoo
, Kenyan runner
- 1984 –
Aubrey Plaza
, American actress
[24]
- 1984 –
Preslava
, Bulgarian singer
- 1984 –
J?lija Tepliha
, Latvian figure skater
- 1984 –
Deron Williams
, American basketball player
- 1985
–
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
, Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th
Karmapa
Lama
- 1986
–
Duvier Riascos
, Colombian footballer
- 1987
–
Carlos Iaconelli
, Brazilian race car driver
- 1987 –
Samir Nasri
, French footballer
- 1988
–
Oliver Stang
, German footballer
- 1988 –
Andrew Bachelor
, Canadian-American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer and social media personality
[25]
[26]
- 1990
–
Belaynesh Oljira
, Ethiopian runner
- 1990 –
Iman Shumpert
, American basketball player
[27]
- 1990 –
Igor Subbotin
, Estonian footballer
- 1991
–
Houssem Chemali
, French footballer
- 1991 –
Diego Falcinelli
, Italian footballer
- 1991 –
Dustin Martin
, Australian rules footballer
- 1992
–
Joel Campbell
, Costa Rican footballer
- 1992 –
Rudy Gobert
, French basketball player
- 1992 –
Jennette McCurdy
, American actress and singer-songwriter
- 1993
–
Ariana Grande
, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
[28]
- 1994
–
Hollie Arnold
, English javelin thrower
- 1994 –
Leonard Carow
, German actor
- 1997
–
Baek Ye-rin
, South Korean singer
- 1997 –
Callum Taylor
, English cricketer
- 2000
–
Ann Li
, American tennis player
[29]
- 2002
–
Chandler Smith
, American racing driver
[30]
- 2005
–
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
[31]
Deaths
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Pre-1600
[
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]
- 116 BC
–
Ptolemy VIII
, king of Egypt
- 363
–
Julian the Apostate
, Roman emperor (b. 332)
- 405
–
Vigilius
, bishop of Trent (b. 353)
- 822
–
Saich?
, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 767)
- 969
–
George El Mozahem
, Egyptian martyr (b. 940)
- 985
–
Ramiro III
, king of Leon
- 1090
–
Jaromir
, bishop of Prague
- 1095
–
Robert
, bishop of Hereford
- 1265
–
Anne of Bohemia
, duchess of Silesia (b. 1203 or 1204)
- 1274
–
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
, Persian scientist and writer (b. 1201)
- 1487
–
John Argyropoulos
, Byzantine philosopher and scholar (b. 1415)
- 1541
–
Francisco Pizarro
, Spanish explorer and politician,
Governor of New Castile
(b. c. 1471)
- 1574
–
Gabriel, comte de Montgomery
, captain of the Scottish Guard of
Henry II of France
(b. 1530)
1601?1900
[
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]
- 1677
–
Francesco Buonamici
, Italian architect, painter and engraver (b. 1596)
[32]
- 1688
–
Ralph Cudworth
, English philosopher and academic (b. 1617)
- 1752
–
Giulio Alberoni
, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
- 1757
–
Maximilian Ulysses Browne
, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
- 1784
–
Caesar Rodney
, American lawyer and politician, 4th
Governor of Delaware
(b. 1728)
- 1793
–
Gilbert White
, English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
- 1795
–
Johannes Jahrig
, German linguist and translator (b. 1747)
- 1798
–
James Dickey
, Irish revolutionary (b. 1776)
- 1808
–
Ludwik Tyszkiewicz
, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
- 1810
–
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
, French inventor, co-invented the
hot air balloon
(b. 1740)
- 1830
–
George IV of the United Kingdom
(b. 1762)
- 1836
–
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
, French soldier and composer (b. 1760)
- 1856
–
Max Stirner
, German philosopher and author (b. 1806)
- 1870
–
Armand Barbes
, French lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
- 1878
–
Mercedes of Orleans
(b. 1860)
- 1879
–
Richard H. Anderson
, American general (b. 1821)
[33]
- 1883
–
Edward Sabine
, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)
1901?present
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edit
]
- 1918
–
Peter Rosegger
, Austrian poet and author (b. 1843)
- 1922
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Albert I, Prince of Monaco
(b. 1848)
- 1927
–
Armand Guillaumin
, French painter (b. 1841)
- 1932
–
Adelaide Ames
, American astronomer and academic (b. 1900)
- 1938
–
James Weldon Johnson
, American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
- 1938 –
Daria Pratt
, American golfer (b. 1859)
- 1939
–
Ford Madox Ford
, English novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
- 1943
–
Karl Landsteiner
, Austrian biologist and physician,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1868)
- 1945
–
Emil Hacha
, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd
President of Czechoslovakia
(b. 1872)
- 1946
–
Max Kogel
, German
SS
officer (b. 1895)
- 1946 –
Y?suke Matsuoka
, Japanese politician,
Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs
(b. 1880)
- 1947
–
R. B. Bennett
, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th
Prime Minister of Canada
(b. 1870)
- 1949
–
Kim Koo
, South Korean educator and politician, 13th
President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
(b. 1876)
- 1955
–
Engelbert Zaschka
, German engineer (b. 1895)
- 1956
–
Clifford Brown
, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
- 1956 –
Richie Powell
, American pianist (b. 1931)
- 1957
–
Alfred Doblin
, Polish-German physician and author (b. 1878)
- 1957 –
Malcolm Lowry
, English novelist and poet (b. 1909)
- 1958
–
George Orton
, Canadian runner and hurdler (b. 1873)
- 1958 –
Andrija ?tampar
, Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888)
- 1964
–
Leo Dandurand
, American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
- 1967
–
Francoise Dorleac
, French actress and singer (b. 1942)
- 1975
–
Josemaria Escriva
, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1902)
- 1979
–
Akwasi Afrifa
, Ghanaian soldier and politician, 3rd
Head of State of Ghana
(b. 1936)
- 1989
–
Howard Charles Green
, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th
Canadian Minister of Public Works
(b. 1895)
- 1990
–
Anni Blomqvist
, Finnish author (b. 1909)
- 1992
–
Buddy Rogers
, American wrestler (b. 1921)
- 1993
–
Roy Campanella
, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
- 1993 –
William H. Riker
, American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
- 1994
–
Jahanara Imam
, Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
- 1996
–
Veronica Guerin
, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
- 1996 –
Necmettin Hacıemino?lu
, Turkish linguist and academic (b. 1932)
- 1997
–
Don Hutson
, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
- 1998
–
Hacı Sabancı
, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
- 2001
–
Gina Cigna
, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
[34]
- 2002
–
Jay Berwanger
, American football player (b. 1914)
- 2002 –
Arnold Brown
, English-Canadian 11th
General of The Salvation Army
(b. 1913)
- 2003
–
Marc-Vivien Foe
, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
- 2003 –
Denis Thatcher
, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
- 2003 –
Strom Thurmond
, American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd
Governor of South Carolina
(b. 1902)
- 2004
–
Ott Arder
, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1950)
- 2004 –
Yash Johar
, Indian film producer, founded
Dharma Productions
(b. 1929)
- 2004 –
Naomi Shemer
, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
- 2005
–
Tonno Lepmets
, Estonian basketball player (b. 1938)
- 2005 –
Richard Whiteley
, English journalist and game show host (b. 1943)
- 2006
–
Tommy Wonder
, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
- 2007
–
Liz Claiborne
, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded
Liz Claiborne
(b. 1929)
- 2007 –
Joey Sadler
, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
- 2010
–
Algirdas Brazauskas
, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 4th
President of Lithuania
(b. 1932)
- 2010 –
Harald Keres
, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1912)
- 2011
–
Edith Fellows
, American actress (b. 1923)
- 2011 –
Jan van Beveren
, Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1948)
- 2012
–
Sverker Astrom
, Swedish diplomat,
Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations
(b. 1915)
- 2012 –
Pat Cummings
, American basketball player (b. 1956)
- 2012 –
Nora Ephron
, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
- 2012 –
Mario O'Hara
, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
- 2012 –
Doris Singleton
, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2013
–
Henrik Otto Donner
, Finnish trumpet player and composer (b. 1939)
- 2013 –
Edward Huggins Johnstone
, Brazilian-American sergeant and judge (b. 1922)
- 2013 –
Byron Looper
, American politician (b. 1964)
- 2013 –
Justin Miller
, American baseball player (b. 1977)
- 2013 –
Marc Rich
, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
- 2014
–
Howard Baker
, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th
White House Chief of Staff
(b. 1925)
- 2014 –
Bill Frank
, American-Canadian football player (b. 1938)
- 2014 –
Rollin King
, American businessman, co-founded
Southwest Airlines
(b. 1931)
- 2014 –
Bob Mischak
, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
- 2014 –
Julius Rudel
, Austrian-American conductor (b. 1921)
- 2014 –
Mary Rodgers
, American composer and author (b. 1931)
- 2015
–
Yevgeny Primakov
, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd
Prime Minister of Russia
(b. 1929)
- 2015 –
Chris Thompson
, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1952)
- 2019
–
Beth Chapman
, American reality Television star, Bounty Hunter (b. 1967)
[35]
- 2020
–
Milton Glaser
, American graphic designer (b. 1929)
[36]
- 2021
–
Mike Gravel
, American politician (b. 1930)
[37]
- 2022
–
Margaret Keane
, American artist (b. 1927)
[38]
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