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Day of the year
December 31
is the 365th day of the year (366th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. It is known by a collection of names including:
Saint Sylvester's Day
,
[1]
New Year's Eve
or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is
New Year's Day
. It is the last day of the year; the following day is
January 1
, the first day of the following year.
Events
[
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]
Pre-1600
[
edit
]
- 406
–
Vandals
,
Alans
and
Suebians
cross the Rhine
, beginning an invasion of
Gaul
.
[2]
- 535
–
Byzantine
general
Belisarius
completes the conquest of
Sicily
, defeating the
Gothic
garrison of
Palermo
(Panormos), and ending his
consulship
for the year.
[3]
- 870
–
Battle of Englefield
: The
Vikings
clash with
ealdorman
Æthelwulf of Berkshire
. The invaders are driven back to
Reading
(
East Anglia
); many
Danes
are killed.
[4]
- 1105
–
Holy Roman Emperor
Henry IV
is forced to abdicate in favor of his son,
Henry V
, in
Ingelheim
.
[5]
- 1225
– The
Ly dynasty
of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor
Tr?n Thai Tong
, husband of the last Ly monarch,
Ly Chieu Hoang
, starting the
Tr?n dynasty
.
[
citation needed
]
- 1229
–
James I the Conqueror
,
King of Aragon
, enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as
Palma
, Spain), thus consummating the
Christian reconquest
of the island of
Majorca
.
[6]
- 1501
– The
First Battle of Cannanore
commences, seeing the first use of the naval
line of battle
.
[
citation needed
]
- 1600
– The British
East India Company
is chartered.
[7]
1601?1900
[
edit
]
- 1660
–
James II of England
is named
Duke of Normandy
by
Louis XIV of France
.
- 1670
– The
expedition of John Narborough
leaves
Corral Bay
, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.
[8]
- 1687
– The first
Huguenots
set sail from
France
to the
Cape of Good Hope
.
- 1757
– Empress
Elizabeth I of Russia
issues her
ukase
incorporating
Konigsberg into Russia
.
- 1759
–
Arthur Guinness
signs a 9,000-year lease at
£
45 per annum and starts brewing
Guinness
.
- 1775
–
American Revolutionary War
:
Battle of Quebec
: British forces repulse an attack by
Continental Army
General
Richard Montgomery
.
- 1790
–
Efimeris
, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
- 1796
– The incorporation of
Baltimore
as a city.
- 1831
–
Gramercy Park
is deeded to
New York City
.
- 1844
– The
Philippines
skipped this date in order to align the country with the rest of Asia, as the trading interest switched to China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring territories after Mexico gained independence from Spain on 27 September 1821. In the islands, Monday, 30 December 1844 was immediately followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845.
[9]
[10]
- 1853
– A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an
iguanodon
created by
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
and Sir
Richard Owen
in
south London
, England.
- 1857
–
Queen Victoria
chooses
Ottawa
, then a small
logging
town, as the capital of the
Province of Canada
.
- 1862
–
American Civil War
:
Abraham Lincoln
signs an act that admits
West Virginia
to the
Union
, thus dividing
Virginia
in two.
[11]
- 1862 – American Civil War: The
Battle of Stones River
begins near
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
.
[12]
- 1878
–
Karl Benz
, working in
Mannheim
,
Germany
, files for a
patent
on his first reliable
two-stroke gas engine
. He was granted the patent in 1879.
- 1879
–
Thomas Edison
demonstrates
incandescent lighting
to the public for the first time, in
Menlo Park, New Jersey
.
1901?present
[
edit
]
- 1906
–
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
signs the
Persian Constitution of 1906.
[13]
- 1907
– The first ever
ball drop
in
Times Square.
[14]
- 1942
–
USS
Essex
, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is
commissioned.
[15]
- 1942 –
World War II
: The
Royal Navy
defeats the
Kriegsmarine
at the
Battle of the Barents Sea
. This leads to the resignation of
Grand Admiral
Erich Raeder
a month later.
[16]
- 1944
– World War II:
Operation Nordwind
, the last major
Wehrmacht
offensive on the
Western Front
, begins.
- 1946
– President
Harry S. Truman
officially proclaims the
end of hostilities
in World War II.
- 1951
–
Cold War
: The
Marshall Plan
expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild
Western Europe
.
- 1955
–
General Motors
becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
- 1956
– The
Romanian Television
network begins its first broadcast in
Bucharest
.
- 1961
–
RTE
, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
- 1963
–
The Central African Federation
officially collapses, subsequently becoming
Zambia
,
Malawi
and
Rhodesia
.
- 1965
–
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
, leader of the
Central African Republic
army, and his military officers
begin a coup d'etat
against the government of
President
David Dacko
.
- 1968
– The first flight of the
Tupolev Tu-144
, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
- 1968 –
MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750
crashes near
Port Hedland, Western Australia
, killing all 26 people on board.
[17]
- 1981
– A
coup d'etat
in
Ghana
removes
President
Hilla Limann
's
PNP
government
and replaces it with the
Provisional National Defence Council
led by
Flight lieutenant
Jerry Rawlings
.
- 1983
– The
AT&T
Bell System
is broken up by the
United States Government
.
- 1983 –
Benjamin Ward
is appointed
New York City Police Department
's first ever
African American
police commissioner
.
- 1983 – In
Nigeria
, a
coup d'etat
led by Major General
Muhammadu Buhari
ends the
Second Nigerian Republic
.
- 1991
– All official
Soviet Union
institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is
officially dissolved
.
- 1992
–
Czechoslovakia
is
peacefully dissolved
in what is dubbed by media as the
Velvet Divorce
, resulting in the creation of the
Czech Republic
and the
Slovak Republic
.
- 1994
– This date is skipped altogether in
Kiribati
as the
Phoenix Islands
and
Line Islands
change time zones from
UTC?11:00
to
UTC+13:00
and
UTC?10:00
to
UTC+14:00
, respectively.
- 1994 – The
First Chechen War
: The
Russian Ground Forces
begin a
New Year's storming
of
Grozny
.
- 1995
– The final comic of
Calvin and Hobbes
is published.
[18]
- 1998
– The
European Exchange Rate Mechanism
freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the
Eurozone
, and establishes the value of the
euro
currency.
- 1999
– The first
President of Russia
,
Boris Yeltsin
, resigns from office, leaving
Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin
as the
acting President
and successor.
- 1999 – The U.S. government hands control of the
Panama Canal
(as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the
Panama Canal Zone
) to
Panama
. This act complied with the signing of the 1977
Torrijos?Carter Treaties
.
- 1999 –
Indian Airlines Flight 814
hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at
Kandahar Airport
,
Afghanistan
.
- 2000
– The last day of the
20th Century
and
2nd Millennium
.
- 2004
– The official opening of
Taipei 101
, the
tallest
skyscraper
at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
- 2009
– Both a
blue moon
and a
lunar eclipse
occur.
- 2010
–
Tornadoes
touch down in
midwestern
and
southern United States
, including
Washington County, Arkansas
;
Greater St. Louis
,
Sunset Hills, Missouri
,
Illinois
, and
Oklahoma
, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
- 2011
–
NASA
succeeds in putting the first of two
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
satellites
in orbit around the
Moon
.
- 2014
– A New Year's Eve celebration
stampede
in
Shanghai
kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
- 2015
– A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in
Downtown Dubai
,
United Arab Emirates
, located near the
Burj Khalifa
, two hours before the
fireworks
display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.
- 2018
– Thirty-nine people are killed after
a ten-story building collapses
in the industrial city of
Magnitogorsk
, Russia.
[19]
- 2019
– The
World Health Organization
is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in
Wuhan
.
[20]
This later turned out to be
COVID-19
, the cause of the
COVID-19 pandemic
.
[21]
- 2020
– The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a
COVID-19 vaccine
.
[22]
[23]
Births
[
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]
Pre-1600
[
edit
]
- 695
–
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
, Umayyad general (d. 715)
- 1378
–
Pope Callixtus III
(d. 1458)
- 1491
–
Jacques Cartier
, French navigator and explorer (d. 1557)
- 1493
–
Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino
(d. 1570)
- 1504
–
Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy
(d. 1538)
- 1514
–
Andreas Vesalius
, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (d. 1564)
- 1539
–
John Radcliffe
, English politician (d. 1568)
- 1550
–
Henry I, Duke of Guise
(d. 1588)
- 1552
–
Simon Forman
, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
- 1572
–
Emperor Go-Y?zei
of Japan, (d. 1617)
- 1585
–
Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba
, Spanish general and politician, 24th
Governor of the Duchy of Milan
(d. 1645)
1601?1900
[
edit
]
- 1668
–
Herman Boerhaave
, Dutch botanist and physician (d. 1738)
- 1714
–
Arima Yoriyuki
, Japanese mathematician and educator (d. 1783)
- 1720
–
Charles Edward Stuart
, Scottish claimant to the throne of England (d. 1788)
- 1738
–
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
, English general and politician, 3rd
Governor-General of India
(d. 1805)
- 1741
–
Gottfried August Burger
, German poet and academic (d. 1794)
- 1763
–
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
, French admiral (d. 1806)
- 1776
–
Johann Spurzheim
, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832)
- 1798
–
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
, Estonian physician, philologist, and academic (d. 1850)
- 1805
–
Marie d'Agoult
, German-French historian and author (d. 1876)
[24]
- 1815
–
George Meade
, American general and engineer (d. 1872)
- 1830
–
Isma'il Pasha
, Egyptian ruler (d. 1895)
- 1830 –
Alexander Smith
, Scottish poet and critic (d. 1867)
- 1833
–
Hugh Nelson
Scottish-Australian politician, 11th
Premier of Queensland
(d. 1906)
- 1834
–
Queen Kapiolani
of Hawaii (d. 1899)
- 1838
–
Emile Loubet
, French lawyer and politician, 7th
President of France
(d. 1929)
- 1842
–
Giovanni Boldini
, Italian painter (d. 1931)
- 1851
–
Henry Carter Adams
, American economist and academic (d. 1921)
- 1855
–
Giovanni Pascoli
, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1912)
- 1857
–
King Kelly
, American baseball player and manager (d. 1894)
- 1860
–
Joseph S. Cullinan
, American businessman, co-founded
Texaco
(d. 1937)
- 1864
–
Robert Grant Aitken
, American astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
- 1869
–
Henri Matisse
, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954)
- 1872
–
Fred Marriott
, American race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1873
–
Konstantin Konik
, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th
Estonian Minister of Education
(d. 1936)
- 1874
–
Julius Meier
, American businessman and politician, 20th
Governor of Oregon
(d. 1937)
- 1877
–
Lawrence Beesley
, English journalist and author (d. 1967)
- 1878
–
Elizabeth Arden
, Canadian businesswoman, founded
Elizabeth Arden, Inc.
(d. 1966)
- 1878 –
Horacio Quiroga
, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937)
- 1880
–
Fred Beebe
, American baseball player and coach (d. 1957)
- 1880 –
George Marshall
, American general and politician, 50th
United States Secretary of State
,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1959)
- 1881
–
Max Pechstein
, German painter and academic (d. 1955)
- 1884
–
Bobby Byrne
, American baseball and soccer player (d. 1964)
- 1884 –
Mihaly Fekete
, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1960)
- 1885
–
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein
(d. 1970)
- 1899
–
Silvestre Revueltas
, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1940)
1901?present
[
edit
]
- 1901
–
Karl-August Fagerholm
, Finnish politician,
valtioneuvos
, the
Speaker of the Parliament
and the
Prime Minister of Finland
(d. 1984)
[25]
- 1901 –
Nikos Ploumpidis
, Greek educator and politician (d. 1954)
- 1902
–
Lionel Daunais
, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
- 1902 –
Roy Goodall
, English footballer (d. 1982)
- 1903
–
William Heynes
, English engineer (d. 1989)
- 1905
–
Helen Dodson Prince
, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)
- 1908
–
Simon Wiesenthal
, Ukrainian-Austrian
Nazi hunter
and author (d. 2005)
- 1909
–
Jonah Jones
, American trumpet player and saxophonist (d. 2000)
- 1910
–
Carl Dudley
, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
- 1910 –
Enrique Maier
, Spanish tennis player (d. 1981)
[26]
- 1911
–
Dal Stivens
, Australian soldier and author (d. 1997)
- 1912
–
John Frost
, Indian-English general (d. 1993)
- 1914
–
Mary Logan Reddick
, American neuroembryologist (d. 1966)
- 1915
–
Sam Ragan
, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996)
- 1917
–
Evelyn Knight
, American singer (d. 2007)
- 1917 –
Wilfrid Noyce
, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962)
- 1918
–
Ray Graves
, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
- 1919
–
Tommy Byrne
, American baseball player, coach, and politician (d. 2007)
- 1919 –
Carmen Contreras-Bozak
, Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2017)
- 1920
–
Rex Allen
, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1922
–
Tomas Balduino
, Brazilian bishop (d. 2014)
- 1922 –
Halina Czerny-Stefa?ska
, Polish pianist and educator (d. 2001)
- 1922 –
Luis Zuloaga
, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1923
–
Giannis Dalianidis
, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1924
–
Taylor Mead
, American actor and poet (d. 2013)
- 1925
–
Irina Korschunow
, German author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1925 –
Sri Lal Sukla
, Indian author (d. 2011)
- 1925 –
Daphne Oram
, British composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)
- 1926
–
Valerie Pearl
, English historian and academic (d. 2016)
- 1926 –
Billy Snedden
, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th
Attorney-General for Australia
(d. 1987)
- 1928
–
Ross Barbour
, American pop singer (d. 2011)
- 1928 –
Hugh McElhenny
, American football player (d. 2022)
[27]
- 1928 –
Veijo Meri
, Finnish author and translator (d. 2015)
- 1928 –
Tatyana Shmyga
, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011)
- 1928 –
Sine
, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
- 1929
–
Mies Bouwman
, Dutch television host (d. 2018)
- 1929 –
Peter May
, English cricketer (d. 1994)
- 1930
–
Jaime Escalante
, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010)
- 1930 –
Odetta
, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (d. 2008)
- 1931
–
Bob Shaw
, Northern Irish journalist and author (d. 1996)
- 1932
–
Don James
, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1932 –
Felix Rexhausen
, German journalist and author (d. 1992)
- 1933
–
Edward Bunker
, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005)
- 1934
–
Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan
, Indian author, poet, and scholar (d. 2017)
- 1937
–
Avram Hershko
, Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician,
Nobel Prize
laureate
- 1937 –
Barry Hughes
, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2019)
- 1937 –
Tess Jaray
, Austrian-English painter and educator
- 1938
–
Rosalind Cash
, American singer and actress (d. 1995)
- 1938 –
Atje Keulen-Deelstra
, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013)
- 1939
–
Willye White
, American sprinter and long jumper (d. 2007)
- 1940
–
Mani Neumeier
, German drummer
- 1941 – Sir
Alex Ferguson
, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1944
–
Taylor Hackford
, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1945
–
Connie Willis
, American author
- 1946
–
Roy Greenslade
, English journalist and academic
- 1946 –
Bryan Hamilton
, Northern Irish footballer and coach
- 1946 –
Raphael Kaplinsky
, South African international development academic
- 1946 –
Pius Ncube
, Zimbabwean archbishop
- 1946 –
Lyudmila Pakhomova
, Russian ice dancer (d. 1986)
- 1946 –
Cliff Richey
, American tennis player
[28]
- 1946 –
Eric Robson
, Scottish journalist and author
- 1946 –
Nigel Rudd
, English businessman, founded
Williams Holdings
- 1946 –
Tim Stevens
, English bishop
- 1948
–
Sandy Jardine
, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
- 1949
–
Ellen Datlow
, American anthologist and author
- 1949 –
Flora Gomes
, Bissau-Guinean filmmaker
- 1949 –
Susan Shwartz
, American author
- 1950
–
Bob Gilder
, American golfer
- 1950 –
Inge Helten
, German sprinter
- 1950 –
Cheryl Womack
, American businesswoman
- 1951
–
Kenny Roberts
, American motorcycle racer
- 1952
–
Vaughan Jones
, New Zealand mathematician and academic (d. 2020)
- 1952 –
Jean-Pierre Rives
, French rugby player, painter, and sculptor
- 1953
–
Jane Badler
, American actress
- 1954
–
Alex Salmond
, Scottish economist and politician,
First Minister of Scotland
[29]
- 1954 –
Hermann Tilke
, German racing driver, architect and engineer
- 1956
–
Robert Goodwill
, English farmer and politician
- 1956 –
Helma Knorscheidt
, German shot putter
- 1956 –
Steve Rude
, American author and illustrator
- 1958
–
Geoff Marsh
, Australian cricketer and coach
- 1959
–
Liveris Andritsos
, Greek basketball player
- 1959 –
Phill Kline
, American lawyer and politician,
Kansas Attorney General
- 1959 –
Baron Waqa
, Nauruan composer and politician, 14th
President of Nauru
- 1960
–
Steve Bruce
, English footballer and manager
- 1961
–
Rick Aguilera
, American baseball player and coach
- 1961 –
Jeremy Heywood
, English economist and civil servant (d. 2018)
- 1961 –
Nina Li Chi
, Hong Kong actress
[30]
- 1962
–
Tyrone Corbin
, American basketball player and coach
- 1962 –
Chris Hallam
, English-Welsh swimmer and wheelchair racer (d. 2013)
- 1962 –
Jennifer Higdon
, American composer
[31]
- 1964
–
Winston Benjamin
, Antiguan cricketer
- 1964 –
Michael McDonald
, American comedian, actor, and director
- 1965
–
Tony Dorigo
, Australian-English footballer and sportscaster
- 1965 –
Julie Doucet
, Canadian cartoonist and author
- 1965 –
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
, Indian cricketer
- 1967
–
Paul McGregor
, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1968
–
Gerry Dee
, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1968 –
Junot Diaz
, Dominican-born American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
- 1970
–
Jorjao
, Brazilian footballer
- 1970 –
Danny McNamara
, English singer-songwriter
- 1970 –
Carlos Morales Quintana
, Spanish-Danish architect and sailor
- 1970 –
Bryon Russell
, American basketball player
- 1971
–
Brent Barry
, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1971 –
Esteban Loaiza
, Mexican baseball player
- 1971 –
Heath Shuler
, American football player and politician
[32]
- 1972
–
Gregory Coupet
, French footballer
- 1972 –
Scott Manley
, Scottish YouTube personality
- 1973
–
Shandon Anderson
, American basketball player
- 1973 –
Malcolm Middleton
, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1973 –
Curtis Myden
, Canadian swimmer
- 1974
–
Joe Abercrombie
, English author
- 1974 –
Mario Aerts
, Belgian cyclist
- 1974 –
Tony Kanaan
, Brazilian race car driver
- 1974 –
Ryan Sakoda
, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer
- 1975
–
Rami Alanko
, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1975 –
Toni Kuivasto
, Finnish footballer and coach
- 1975 –
Rob Penders
, Dutch footballer
- 1975 –
Sander Schutgens
, Dutch runner
- 1976
–
Luis Carreira
, Portuguese motorcycle racer (d. 2012)
- 1976 –
Matthew Hoggard
, English cricketer
- 1977
–
Wardy Alfaro
, Costa Rican footballer and coach
- 1979
–
Paul O'Neill
, English racing driver
- 1979 –
Jeff Waldstreicher
, American lawyer and politician
- 1980
–
Jesse Carlson
, American baseball player
- 1980 –
Matt Cross
, American wrestler
- 1980 –
Richie McCaw
, New Zealand rugby player
- 1980 –
Carsten Schlangen
, German runner
- 1981
–
Jason Campbell
, American football player
- 1981 –
Francisco Garcia
, Dominican basketball player
[33]
- 1981 –
Matthew Pavlich
, Australian footballer
- 1981 –
Margaret Simpson
, Ghanaian heptathlete
- 1981 –
Ricky Whittle
, English actor
- 1982
–
Julio DePaula
, Dominican baseball player
- 1982 –
Craig Gordon
, Scottish footballer
- 1982 –
Luke Schenscher
, Australian basketball player
- 1982 –
The Rocket Summer
, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1983
–
Jana Vesela
, Czech basketball player
[34]
- 1984
–
Corey Crawford
, Canadian ice hockey player
[35]
- 1984 –
Ben Hannant
, Australian rugby league player
- 1984 –
Edgar Lugo
, Mexican footballer
- 1984 –
Calvin Zola
, Congolese footballer
- 1985
–
Jonathan Horton
, American gymnast
- 1985 –
Jan Smit
, Dutch singer and television host
- 1986
–
Nate Freiman
, American baseball player
- 1986 –
Kade Snowden
, Australian rugby league player
- 1987
–
Javaris Crittenton
, American basketball player
- 1987 –
Danny Holla
, Dutch footballer
- 1987 –
Nemanja Nikoli?
, Hungarian footballer
- 1988
–
Michal ?epik
, Czech ice hockey player
[36]
- 1989
–
Ryo Aitaka
, Japanese kickboxer and professional wrestler
[37]
- 1989 –
Kelvin Herrera
, Dominican baseball player
[38]
- 1991
–
Dennis Everberg
, Swedish ice hockey player
[39]
- 1991 –
ND Stevenson
, American cartoonist
- 1992
–
Amy Cure
, Australian track cyclist
- 1992 –
Karl Kruuda
, Estonian racing driver
- 1995
–
Gabby Douglas
, American gymnast
[40]
- 1995 –
Edmond Sumner
, American basketball player
[41]
- 1996
–
J. J. Arcega-Whiteside
, Spanish-American football player
[42]
- 1997
–
Cameron Carter-Vickers
, English-American soccer player
[43]
- 2000
–
Alycia Parks
, American tennis player
[44]
- 2001
–
Katie Volynets
, American tennis player
[45]
- 2002
–
Joe Scally
, American soccer player
[46]
Deaths
[
edit
]
Pre-1600
[
edit
]
- 45 BC
–
Quintus Fabius Maximus
, consul suffectus
- 192
–
Commodus
, Roman emperor (b. 161)
[47]
- 335
–
Pope Sylvester I
- 669
–
Li Shiji
, Chinese general (b. 594)
- 914
–
Ibn Hawshab
, founder of the
Isma'ili
community in Yemen
[48]
- 1032
–
Ahmad Maymandi
, Persian statesman, vizier of the
Ghaznavid Empire
[49]
- 1164
–
Ottokar III of Styria
(b. 1124)
- 1194
–
Leopold V, Duke of Austria
(b. 1157)
- 1298
–
Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford
, English politician,
Lord High Constable of England
(b. 1249)
- 1299
–
Margaret, Countess of Anjou
(b. 1273)
- 1302
–
Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine
(b. 1238)
- 1384
–
John Wycliffe
, English philosopher, theologian, and translator (b. 1331)
- 1386
–
Johanna of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia
(b. c. 1362)
- 1426
–
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
(b. 1377)
- 1439
–
Margaret Holland
, English noblewoman (b. 1385)
- 1460
–
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
, English politician,
Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
(b. 1400)
- 1510
–
Bianca Maria Sforza
, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1472)
- 1535
–
William Skeffington
, English-Irish politician,
Lord Deputy of Ireland
(b. 1465)
- 1568
–
Shimazu Tadayoshi
, Japanese daimy? (b. 1493)
- 1575
–
Pierino Belli
, Italian commander and jurist (b. 1502)
- 1583
–
Thomas Erastus
, Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524)
1601?1900
[
edit
]
- 1610
–
Ludolph van Ceulen
, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1540)
- 1637
–
Christian, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen
, German count (b. 1585)
[50]
- 1650
–
Dorgon
, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)
- 1655
–
Janusz Radziwiłł
, Polish?Lithuanian politician (b. 1612)
- 1655 –
Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet
, English politicians and Roundheads supporter (b. 1586)
[51]
- 1673
–
Oliver St John
, English judge and politician,
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
(b. 1598)
- 1679
–
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
- 1691
–
Robert Boyle
, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
[52]
- 1691 –
Dudley North
, English merchant and economist (b. 1641)
- 1705
–
Catherine of Braganza
(b. 1638)
- 1719
–
John Flamsteed
, English astronomer and academic (b. 1646)
- 1730
–
Carlo Gimach
, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (b. 1651)
- 1742
–
Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine
(b. 1661)
- 1775
–
Richard Montgomery
, American general (b. 1738)
- 1799
–
Jean-Francois Marmontel
, French historian and author (b. 1723)
- 1818
–
Jean-Pierre Duport
, French cellist (b. 1741)
- 1872
–
Aleksis Kivi
, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)
- 1876
–
Catherine Laboure
, French nun and saint (b. 1806)
- 1877
–
Gustave Courbet
, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819)
- 1888
–
Samson Raphael Hirsch
, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)
- 1889
–
Ion Creang?
, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
- 1889 –
George Kerferd
, English-Australian politician, 10th
Premier of Victoria
(b. 1831)
- 1890
–
Pancha Carrasco
, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
- 1891
–
Samuel Ajayi Crowther
, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
- 1894
–
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
1901?present
[
edit
]
- 1909
–
Spencer Trask
, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
- 1910
–
Archibald Hoxsey
, American pilot (b. 1884)
- 1910 –
John Moisant
, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868)
- 1921
–
Boies Penrose
, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
- 1934
–
Cornelia Clapp
, American marine biologist (b. 1849)
[53]
- 1936
–
Miguel de Unamuno
, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)
- 1948
–
Malcolm Campbell
, English racing driver and journalist (b. 1885)
- 1949
–
Rıza Tevfik Bolukba?ı
, Turkish philosopher, poet, and politician (b. 1869)
- 1949 –
Raimond Valgre
, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
- 1950
–
Charles Koechlin
, French composer and educator (b. 1867)
- 1951
–
Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri
, Indian Muslim scholar (b. 1868)
- 1953
–
Albert Plesman
, Dutch businessman, founded
KLM
(b. 1889)
- 1964
–
Bobby Byrne
, American baseball and soccer player (b. 1884)
- 1964 –
Olafur Thors
, Icelandic lawyer and politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Iceland
(b. 1892)
- 1964 –
Henry Maitland Wilson
, English field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1968
–
George Lewis
, American clarinet player and composer (b. 1900)
- 1970
–
Cyril Scott
, English composer, writer, and poet (b. 1879)
- 1972
–
Roberto Clemente
, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and Marine (b. 1934)
- 1972 –
Henry Gerber
, German-American activist, founded the
Society for Human Rights
(b. 1892)
- 1978
–
Basil Wolverton
, American illustrator (b. 1909)
- 1980
–
Marshall McLuhan
, Canadian philosopher and theorist (b. 1911)
- 1980 –
Raoul Walsh
, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
- 1983
–
Sevim Burak
, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1931)
- 1985
–
Ricky Nelson
, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1940)
- 1987
–
Jerry Turner
, American journalist (b. 1929)
- 1988
–
Nicolas Calas
, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
- 1990
–
George Allen
, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
- 1990 –
Vasily Lazarev
, Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut (b. 1928)
- 1990 –
Giovanni Michelucci
, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the
Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station
(b. 1891)
- 1993
–
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st
President of Georgia
(b. 1939)
- 1993 –
Brandon Teena
, American murder victim (b. 1972)
- 1993 –
Big Bertha
, Irish
cattle
and twice
Guinness World Record
holder (oldest cow, cow with most offspring) (b. 1945)
[54]
- 1994
–
Woody Strode
, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1914)
- 1996
–
Wesley Addy
, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1997
–
Floyd Cramer
, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)
- 1997 –
Billie Dove
, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1998
–
Ted Glossop
, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1934)
- 1999
–
Elliot Richardson
, American lawyer and politician, 69th
United States Attorney General
(b. 1920)
- 1999 –
Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
, Indian Muslim scholar and author (b. 1914)
- 2000
–
Alan Cranston
, American journalist and politician (b. 1914)
- 2000 –
Jose Greco
, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
- 2000 –
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966)
- 2001
–
Eileen Heckart
, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2002
–
Kevin MacMichael
, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1951)
[55]
- 2003
–
Arthur R. von Hippel
German-American physicist and author (b. 1898)
- 2004
–
Gerard Debreu
, French economist and mathematician,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1921)
- 2005
–
Enrico Di Giuseppe
, American tenor and educator (b. 1932)
- 2005 –
Phillip Whitehead
, English screenwriter, producer, and politician (b. 1937)
- 2006
–
Ya'akov Hodorov
, Israeli footballer (b. 1927)
[56]
- 2006 –
Seymour Martin Lipset
, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1922)
- 2006 –
George Sisler, Jr.
, American businessman (b. 1917)
- 2007
–
Roy Amara
, American scientific researcher (b. 1925)
- 2007 –
Michael Goldberg
, American painter and educator (b. 1924)
- 2007 –
Bill Idelson
, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
- 2007 –
Milton L. Klein
, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
- 2007 –
Ettore Sottsass
, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
- 2008
–
Donald E. Westlake
, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
- 2009
–
Cahal Daly
, Irish cardinal and philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2009 –
Justin Keating
, Irish surgeon, journalist, and politician,
Minister for Industry and Commerce
(b. 1930)
- 2010
–
Raymond Impanis
, Belgian cyclist (b. 1925)
- 2010 –
Per Oscarsson
, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2012
–
Peter Ebert
, English director and producer (b. 1918)
- 2012 –
Tarak Mekki
, Tunisian businessman and politician (b. 1958)
- 2012 –
Jovette Marchessault
, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1938)
- 2012 –
Gunter Rossler
, German photographer and journalist (b. 1926)
- 2013
–
James Avery
, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2013 –
Roberto Ciotti
, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1953)
- 2013 –
Bob Grant
, American radio host (b. 1929)
- 2013 –
Irina Korschunow
, German author and screenwriter (b. 1925)
- 2014
–
Edward Herrmann
, American actor (b. 1943)
- 2014 –
Abdullah Hussain
, Malaysian author (b. 1920)
- 2014 –
Norm Phelps
, American author and activist (b. 1939)
- 2014 –
S. Arthur Spiegel
, American captain, lawyer, and judge (b. 1920)
- 2014 –
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
, British soldier and politician (b. 1915)
- 2015
–
Natalie Cole
, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1950)
[57]
- 2015 –
Wayne Rogers
, American actor and investor (b. 1933)
[58]
[59]
- 2016
–
William Christopher
, American actor (b. 1932)
[60]
- 2018
–
Kader Khan
, Indian actor (b. 1937)
[61]
- 2021
–
Betty White
, American actress, comedian and producer (b. 1922)
[62]
- 2022
–
Pope Benedict XVI
, German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian, pope (2005?2013) and archbishop of Munich and Freising (1977?1982) (b. 1927)
[63]
- 2022 –
Barry Lane
, English golfer (b. 1960)
[64]
- 2023
–
Cale Yarborough
, American
Hall of Fame
racing driver and founder of
Cale Yarborough Motorsports
,
NASCAR Cup Series
champion (
1976
,
1977
,
1978
) (b. 1939)
[65]
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