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Day of the year
July 17
is the 198th day of the year (199th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
; 167 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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]
- 1901
– Liner
Deutschland
sets east to west transatlantic record of five days, eleven hours and five minutes.
[5]
- 1902
–
Willis Carrier
creates the first
air conditioner
in
Buffalo, New York
.
- 1917
– King
George V
issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the
British Royal Family
will bear the surname
Windsor
.
- 1918
–
Tsar Nicholas II
of
Russia
and his immediate family and retainers
are executed
by
Bolshevik
Chekists
at the
Ipatiev House
in
Yekaterinburg
,
Russia
.
[6]
- 1918 – The
RMS
Carpathia
, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the
RMS
Titanic
, is sunk off Ireland by the German
SM
U-55
; five lives are lost.
- 1919
– The form of government in the
Republic of Finland
is officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the
Day of Democracy
(
Kansanvallan paiva
) in Finland.
[7]
- 1932
–
Altona Bloody Sunday
: A riot between the
Nazi Party
paramilitary forces, the
SS
and
SA
, and the
German Communist Party
ensues.
- 1936
–
Spanish Civil War
: An
Armed Forces rebellion
against the recently elected leftist
Popular Front
government of Spain starts the civil war.
- 1938
–
Douglas Corrigan
takes off from
Brooklyn
to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
- 1944
–
Port Chicago disaster
: Near the
San Francisco Bay
, two ships laden with
ammunition
for the war explode in
Port Chicago, California
, killing 320.
- 1944 –
World War II
: At
Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery
in Normandy Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel
is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
[8]
- 1945
– World War II: The main three leaders of the
Allied
nations,
Winston Churchill
,
Harry S. Truman
and
Joseph Stalin
,
meet
in the German city of
Potsdam
to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
- 1953
– The largest number of United States
midshipman
casualties in a single event results from an
aircraft crash
in Florida, killing 44.
- 1955
–
Disneyland
is dedicated and opened by
Walt Disney
in
Anaheim, California
.
- 1962
–
Nuclear weapons testing
: The "Small Boy" test shot
Little Feller I
becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the
Nevada National Security Site
.
- 1968
–
Abdul Rahman Arif
is
overthrown
and the
Ba'ath Party
is installed as the governing power in
Iraq
with
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
as the new Iraqi President.
- 1973
– King
Mohammed Zahir Shah
of
Afghanistan
, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin
Mohammed Daoud Khan
.
- 1975
–
Apollo?Soyuz Test Project
: An American
Apollo
and a Soviet
Soyuz spacecraft
dock with each other in
orbit
marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
- 1976
–
East Timor
is
annexed
and becomes the 27th
province
of
Indonesia
.
- 1976 – The opening of the
Summer Olympics
in
Montreal
is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of
New Zealand
's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the
IOC
had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in
South African
sporting events during
apartheid
.
- 1979
–
Nicaraguan
dictator General
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
resigns and flees to
Miami, Florida
, United States.
- 1981
– A structural failure leads to the collapse of
a walkway at the Hyatt Regency
in
Kansas City, Missouri
, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
- 1984
– The national drinking age in the United States was
changed
from 18 to 21.
- 1985
– Founding of the
EUREKA Network
by former head of states
Francois Mitterrand
(France) and
Helmut Kohl
(Germany).
- 1989
– First flight of the
B-2 Spirit
Stealth Bomber.
- 1989 –
Holy See?Poland relations
are restored.
- 1996
–
TWA Flight 800
: Off the coast of
Long Island
, New York, a Paris-bound TWA
Boeing 747
explodes, killing all 230 on board.
- 1997
– After takeoff from
Husein Sastranegara International Airport
,
Sempati Air Flight 304
crashes into a residential neighborhood in
Bandung
, killing 28 people.
[9]
- 1998
– The 7.0 M
w
Papua New Guinea earthquake
triggers a
tsunami
that destroys ten villages in
Papua New Guinea
, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
- 1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
, establishing the
permanent international court
in
The Hague
, to prosecute individuals for
genocide
,
crimes against humanity
,
war crimes
, and the
crime of aggression
.
- 2000
– During approach to
Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport
,
Alliance Air Flight 7412
suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in
Patna
India
, killing 60 people.
[10]
- 2001
–
Concorde
is brought back into service nearly a year after the
July 2000
crash.
- 2006
– The 7.7 M
w
Pangandaran tsunami earthquake
severely affects the Indonesian island of
Java
, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
- 2007
–
TAM Airlines Flight 3054
, an
Airbus A320
, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the
Sao Paulo?Congonhas Airport
runway, killing 199 people.
- 2014
–
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
, a
Boeing 777
, crashes near the border of
Ukraine
and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
[11]
- 2014 – A French
regional train
on the Pau-Bayonne line
crashes
into a
high-speed train
near the town of
Denguin
, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
- 2014 –
Eric Garner
is
killed
by police officer
Daniel Pantaleo
in New York City, after the latter put him in a prohibited
chokehold
while arresting him.
[12]
- 2015
– At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a
suicide bombing
in
Diyala Governorate
, Iraq.
- 2018
–
Scott S. Sheppard
announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular
moons of Jupiter
.
[13]
Births
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]
Pre-1600
[
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]
1601?1900
[
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]
- 1674
–
Isaac Watts
, English hymnwriter and theologian (d. 1748)
- 1695
–
Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim
(d. 1766)
- 1698
–
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)
- 1708
–
Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
(d. 1769)
- 1714
–
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
, German philosopher and academic (d. 1762)
- 1744
–
Elbridge Gerry
, American merchant and politician, 5th
Vice President of the United States
(d. 1814)
- 1763
–
John Jacob Astor
, German-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1848)
- 1774
–
John Wilbur
, American minister and theologian (d. 1856)
- 1797
–
Paul Delaroche
, French painter and academic (d. 1856)
- 1823
–
Leander Clark
, American businessman, judge, and politician (d. 1910)
- 1831
–
Xianfeng Emperor
of China (d. 1861)
- 1837
–
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th
Secretary of State for Canada
(d. 1886)
- 1839
–
Ephraim Shay
, American engineer, invented the
Shay locomotive
(d. 1916)
- 1853
–
Alexius Meinong
, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1920)
- 1868
–
Henri Nathansen
, Danish director and playwright (d. 1944)
- 1870
–
Charles Davidson Dunbar
, Scottish soldier and
bagpipe
player (d. 1939)
- 1871
–
Lyonel Feininger
, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1956)
- 1873
–
Many Benner
, French painter (d. 1965)
[14]
- 1879
–
Jack Laviolette
, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1960)
- 1882
–
James Somerville
, English admiral and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
(d. 1949)
- 1888
–
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1970)
- 1889
–
Erle Stanley Gardner
, American lawyer and author (d. 1970)
- 1894
–
Georges Lemaitre
, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966)
- 1896
–
Rupert Atkinson
, English RAF officer (d. 1919)
- 1898
–
Berenice Abbott
, American photographer (d. 1991)
[15]
- 1898 –
Osmond Borradaile
, Canadian soldier and cinematographer (d. 1999)
- 1899
–
James Cagney
, American actor and dancer (d. 1986)
1901?present
[
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]
- 1901
–
Luigi Chinetti
, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1994)
[16]
- 1901 –
Bruno Jasie?ski
, Polish poet and author (d. 1938)
- 1901 –
Patrick Smith
, Irish farmer and politician,
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
(d. 1982)
- 1902
–
Christina Stead
, Australian author and academic (d. 1983)
- 1905
–
William Gargan
, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1910
–
James Coyne
, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd
Governor of the Bank of Canada
(d. 2012)
- 1910 –
Frank Olson
, American chemist and microbiologist (d. 1953)
- 1911
–
Lionel Ferbos
, American trumpet player (d. 2014)
- 1911 –
Heinz Lehmann
, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (d. 1999)
- 1912
–
Erwin Bauer
, German race car driver (d. 1958)
- 1912 –
Art Linkletter
, Canadian-American radio and television host (d. 2010)
- 1913
–
Bertrand Goldberg
, American architect, designed the
Marina City Building
(d. 1997)
- 1914
–
Eleanor Steber
, American soprano and educator (d. 1990)
- 1915
–
Bijon Bhattacharya
, Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1978)
- 1915 –
Arthur Rothstein
, American photographer and educator (d. 1985)
- 1916
–
Eleanor Hadley
, American economist and policymaker (d. 2007)
[17]
- 1917
–
Lou Boudreau
, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
- 1917 –
Phyllis Diller
, American actress, comedian, and voice artist (d. 2012)
- 1917 –
Kenan Evren
, Turkish general and politician, 7th
President of Turkey
(d. 2015)
- 1917 –
Christiane Rochefort
, French author (d. 1998)
- 1918
–
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
, Guatemalan soldier and politician,
President of Guatemala
(d. 2003)
- 1919
–
Albert Stubbins
, English footballer (d. 2002)
[18]
- 1920
–
Gordon Gould
, American physicist and academic, invented the
laser
(d. 2005)
- 1920 –
Juan Antonio Samaranch
, Spanish businessman, 7th
President of the International Olympic Committee
(d. 2010)
- 1921
–
George Barnes
, American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (d. 1977)
- 1921 –
Louis Lachenal
, French mountaineer (d. 1955)
- 1921 –
Mary Osborne
, American guitarist (d. 1992)
- 1921 –
Toni Stone
, American baseball player (d. 1996)
- 1921 –
Franti?ek Zvarik
, Slovak actor (d. 2008)
- 1923
–
Jeanne Block
, American psychologist (d. 1981)
- 1923 –
John Cooper
, English car designer, co-founded the
Cooper Car Company
(d. 2000)
- 1924
–
Garde Gardom
, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
(d. 2013)
- 1925
–
Jimmy Scott
, American singer and actor (d. 2014)
- 1925 –
Mohammad Hasan Sharq
, Afghan politician
- 1926
–
Edouard Carpentier
, French-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1926 –
Willis Carto
, American activist and theorist (d. 2015)
- 1928
–
Vince Guaraldi
, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)
- 1929
–
Sergei K. Godunov
, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2023)
- 1932
–
Niccolo Castiglioni
, Italian composer (d. 1996)
- 1932 –
Red Kerr
, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
- 1932 –
Wojciech Kilar
, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2013)
- 1932 –
Karla Kuskin
, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
- 1932 –
Slick Leonard
, American basketball player and coach (d. 2021)
- 1932 –
Ian Moir
, Australian rugby league player (d. 1990)
[19]
- 1932 –
Quino
, Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (d. 2020)
- 1932 –
Hal Riney
, American businessman, founded
Publicis & Hal Riney
(d. 2008)
- 1933
–
Keiko Awaji
, Japanese actress (d. 2014)
- 1933 –
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici
, Maltese politician, 9th
Prime Minister of Malta
(d. 2022)
- 1933 –
Tony Pithey
, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 2006)
- 1934
–
Lucio Tan
, Chinese-Filipino billionaire businessman and educator
- 1935
–
Diahann Carroll
, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
- 1935 –
Peter Schickele
, American composer and educator (d. 2024)
- 1935 –
Donald Sutherland
, Canadian actor and producer
- 1938
–
Hermann Huppen
, Belgian author and illustrator
- 1939
–
Andree Champagne
, Canadian actress and politician (d. 2020)
- 1939 –
Spencer Davis
, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
- 1940
–
Tim Brooke-Taylor
, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2020)
- 1941
–
Daryle Lamonica
, American football player (d. 2022)
- 1941 –
Bob Taylor
, English cricketer
- 1941 –
Achim Warmbold
, German race car driver and manager
- 1942
–
Gale Garnett
, New Zealand?born Canadian singer
- 1942 –
Connie Hawkins
, American basketball player (d. 2017)
- 1942 –
Don Kessinger
, American baseball player and manager
- 1942 –
Zoot Money
, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1943
–
LaVyrle Spencer
, American author and educator
- 1944
–
Mark Burgess
, New Zealand cricketer and footballer
- 1944 –
Catherine Schell
, Hungarian-English actress
- 1944 –
Carlos Alberto Torres
, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- 1945
–
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
- 1945 –
John Patten, Baron Patten
, English politician,
Secretary of State for Education
- 1946
–
Chris Crutcher
, American novelist and short story writer
- 1946 –
Ted Sampley
, American POW/MIA activist (d. 2009)
[20]
- 1947
–
Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's
, English educator and politician
- 1947 –
Robert Begerau
, German footballer and manager
- 1947 –
Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom
- 1947 –
Wolfgang Flur
, German musician (
Kraftwerk
)
- 1947 –
Mick Tucker
, English rock drummer (
Sweet
) (d. 2002)
- 1948
–
Ron Asheton
, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
- 1948 –
Luc Bondy
, Swiss director and producer (d. 2015)
- 1949
–
Geezer Butler
, English bass player and songwriter
- 1949 –
Charley Steiner
, American journalist and sportscaster
- 1950
–
Sadhan Chandra Majumder
, Bangladeshi politician
- 1950 –
Tengku Sulaiman Shah
, Malaysian corporate figure
- 1950 –
Phoebe Snow
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
- 1951
–
Lucie Arnaz
, American actress and singer
- 1951 –
Mark Bowden
, American journalist and author
- 1951 –
Andrew Robathan
, English soldier and politician,
Minister of State for the Armed Forces
- 1952
–
David Hasselhoff
, American actor, singer, and producer
[21]
- 1952 –
Nicolette Larson
, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1952 –
The Lau
, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
- 1952 –
Robert R. McCammon
, American author
- 1954
–
Angela Merkel
, German chemist and politician,
Chancellor of Germany
from 2005 to 2021.
[22]
[23]
- 1954 –
Edward Natapei
, Vanuatuan politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Vanuatu
(d. 2015)
- 1954 –
J. Michael Straczynski
, American author, screenwriter, and producer
- 1955
–
Sylvie Leonard
, Canadian actress and screenwriter
- 1955 –
Paul Stamets
, American mycologist and author
- 1956
–
Julie Bishop
, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
- 1956 –
Bryan Trottier
, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
- 1957
–
Bruce Crump
, American drummer and songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1957 –
Wendy Freedman
, Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer
- 1958
–
Wong Kar-wai
, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1958 –
Suzanne Moore
, English journalist
- 1958 –
Therese Rein
, Australian businesswoman, founded
Ingeus
- 1958 –
Susan Silver
, American music manager
- 1959
–
Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin
, Bangladeshi-English politician
- 1960
–
Kim Barnett
, English cricketer and coach
- 1960 –
Mark Burnett
, English-American screenwriter and producer
- 1960 –
Nancy Giles
, American journalist and actress
- 1960 –
Robin Shou
, Hong Kong martial artist and actor
- 1960 –
Dawn Upshaw
, American soprano
- 1960 –
Jan Wouters
, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1961
–
Antonio Costa
, Portuguese politician, 119th
Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1961 –
Jeremy Hardy
, English comedian and actor (d. 2019)
- 1963
–
Regina Belle
, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1963 –
Letsie III of Lesotho
- 1963 –
Matti Nykanen
, Finnish ski jumper and singer (d. 2019)
- 1964
–
Heather Langenkamp
, American actress and producer
[24]
- 1965
–
Craig Morgan
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965 –
Alex Winter
, English-American actor, film director and screenwriter
- 1966
–
Lou Barlow
, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1966 –
Sten Tolgfors
, Swedish lawyer and politician, 30th
Swedish Minister of Defence
- 1969
–
Jason Clarke
, Australian actor
[25]
- 1969 –
Scott Johnson
, American cartoonist
- 1969 –
Jaan Kirsipuu
, Estonian cyclist
- 1971
–
Calbert Cheaney
, American basketball player and coach
- 1971 –
Cory Doctorow
, Canadian author and activist
- 1971 –
Nico Mattan
, Belgian cyclist
- 1972
–
Elizabeth Cook
, American singer and guitarist
- 1972 –
Donny Marshall
, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1972 –
Jason Rullo
, American drummer
- 1972 –
Jaap Stam
, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1972 –
Eric Williams
, American basketball player
- 1973
–
Eric Moulds
, American football player
- 1974
–
Claudio Lopez
, Argentine footballer
- 1975
–
Andre Adams
, New Zealand cricketer
- 1975 –
Elena Anaya
, Spanish actress
- 1975 –
Darude
, Finnish DJ and producer
- 1975 –
Harlette
, Australian-English fashion designer
- 1975 –
Loretta Harrop
, Australian triathlete
- 1975 –
Konnie Huq
, English television presenter
[26]
- 1975 –
Terence Tao
, Australian-American mathematician
[27]
- 1976
–
Luke Bryan
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1976 –
Gino D'Acampo
, Italian chef and author
[28]
- 1976 –
Dagmara Domi?czyk
, Polish-American actress
- 1976 –
Marcos Senna
, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
- 1976 –
Anders Svensson
, Swedish footballer and sportscaster
- 1976 –
Eric Winter
, American actor
[29]
- 1977
–
Andrew Downton
, Australian cricketer
- 1977 –
Leif Hoste
, Belgian cyclist
- 1977 –
Marc Savard
, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978
–
Ricardo Arona
, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1978 –
Panda Bear
, American musician and songwriter
- 1978 –
Jason Jennings
, American baseball player
[30]
- 1978 –
Justine Triet
, French film director and screenwriter
[31]
- 1979
–
Mike Vogel
, American actor
[32]
- 1980
–
Javier Camunas
, Spanish footballer
[33]
- 1980 –
Brett Goldstein
, British actor, comedian and writer
[34]
- 1980 –
Ryan Miller
, American ice hockey player
[35]
- 1981
–
Hely Ollarves
, Venezuelan runner
[36]
- 1982
–
Omari Banks
, Anguillan cricketer
[37]
- 1983
–
Adam Lind
, American baseball player
[38]
- 1985
–
Loui Eriksson
, Swedish ice hockey player
[39]
- 1985 –
Neil McGregor
, Scottish footballer
[40]
- 1986
–
DeAngelo Smith
, American football player
[41]
- 1987
–
Darius Boyd
, Australian rugby league player
[42]
- 1987 –
Jeremih
, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
[43]
- 1992
–
Billie Lourd
, American actress
[44]
- 1992 –
Tatu Sinisalo
, Finnish actor
[45]
- 1994
–
Kali Uchis
, American singer-songwriter
[46]
- 1998
–
Rosana Serrano
, Cuban rower
[47]
- 2005
–
Connor Bedard
, Canadian ice hockey player
[48]
Deaths
[
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]
Pre-1600
[
edit
]
- 521
–
Magnus Felix Ennodius
, Gallo-Roman bishop
- 855
–
Leo IV
, pope of the
Catholic Church
(b. 790)
- 952
–
Wu Hanyue
, Chinese noblewoman (b. 913)
- 961
–
Du
, empress dowager of the
Song Dynasty
- 1070
–
Baldwin VI
, count of
Flanders
(b. 1030)
- 1085
–
Robert Guiscard
, Norman adventurer
- 1119
–
Baldwin VII
, count of Flanders (b. 1093)
- 1210
–
Sverker II
, king of
Sweden
(b. 1210)
- 1304
–
Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer
(b. 1251)
- 1399
–
Jadwiga
, queen of
Poland
(b. 1374)
- 1453
–
Dmitry Shemyaka
, Grand Prince of
Moscow
- 1453 –
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
, English commander and politician (b. 1387)
- 1531
–
Hosokawa Takakuni
, Japanese commander (b. 1484)
- 1571
–
Georg Fabricius
, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
- 1588
–
Mimar Sinan
, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the
Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque
and
Suleymaniye Mosque
(b. 1489)
1601?1900
[
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]
- 1603
–
Mozes Szekely
, Hungarian noble (b. 1553)
- 1642
–
William, Count of Nassau-Siegen
, German count, field marshal of the Dutch State Army (b. 1592)
[49]
- 1645
–
Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
, English-Scottish politician,
Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom
(b. 1587)
- 1704
–
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur
, French fur trader and explorer (b. 1657)
- 1709
–
Robert Bolling
, English planter and merchant (b. 1646)
- 1725
–
Thomas King
, English and British soldier, MP for Queenborough, lieutenant-governor of Sheerness (b. before 1660?).
[50]
- 1762
–
Peter III of Russia
(b. 1728)
- 1790
–
Adam Smith
, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1791
–
Martin Dobrizhoffer
, Austrian missionary and author (b. 1717)
- 1793
–
Charlotte Corday
, French murderer (b. 1768)
- 1794
–
John Roebuck
, English chemist and businessman (b. 1718)
- 1845
–
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
, English politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(b. 1764)
- 1871
–
Karl Tausig
, Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer (b. 1841)
- 1878
–
Aleardo Aleardi
, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)
- 1879
–
Maurycy Gottlieb
, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)
- 1881
–
Jim Bridger
, American scout and explorer (b. 1804)
- 1883
–
T? đ?c
, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
- 1885
–
Jean-Charles Chapais
, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st
Canadian Minister of Agriculture
(b. 1811)
- 1893
–
Frederick A. Johnson
, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
- 1894
–
Leconte de Lisle
, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
- 1894 –
Josef Hyrtl
, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
- 1900
–
Thomas McIlwraith
, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th
Premier of Queensland
(b. 1835)
1901?present
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edit
]
- 1907
–
Hector Malot
, French author and critic (b. 1830)
- 1912
–
Henri Poincare
, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
- 1918
– Victims of the
Shooting of the Romanov family
:
- 1925
–
Lovis Corinth
, German painter (b. 1858)
- 1928
–
Giovanni Giolitti
, Italian politician, 13th
Prime Minister of Italy
(b. 1842)
- 1928 –
Alvaro Obregon
, Mexican general and politician, 39th
President of Mexico
(b. 1880)
- 1932
–
Rasmus Rasmussen
, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862)
- 1935
–
George William Russell
, Irish poet and painter (b. 1867)
- 1942
–
Robina Nicol
, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (b. 1861)
[53]
- 1944
–
William James Sidis
, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)
- 1945
–
Ernst Busch
, German field marshal (b. 1885)
- 1946
–
Florence Fuller
, South African-born Australian artist (b. 1867)
- 1946 –
Dra?a Mihailovi?
, Serbian general (b. 1893)
- 1950
–
Evangeline Booth
, English 4th
General of The Salvation Army
(b. 1865)
- 1950 –
Antonie Nedo?inska
, Czech actress (b. 1885)
- 1959
–
Billie Holiday
, American singer (b. 1915)
- 1959 –
Eugene Meyer
, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)
- 1960
–
Maud Menten
, Canadian physician and biochemist (b. 1879)
[54]
- 1961
–
Ty Cobb
, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
- 1961 –
Emin Halid Onat
, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)
- 1967
–
John Coltrane
, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1926)
- 1974
–
Dizzy Dean
, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
- 1975
–
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
, Georgian author (b. 1893)
- 1980
–
Don "Red" Barry
, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 1980 –
Boris Delaunay
, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
- 1988
–
Bruiser Brody
, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)
- 1989
–
Itubwa Amram
, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
- 1991
–
John Patrick Spiegel
, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)
- 1994
–
Jean Borotra
, French tennis player (b. 1898)
- 1995
–
Juan Manuel Fangio
, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
- 1996
– Victims of
TWA Flight 800
:
- 1996 –
Chas Chandler
, English bass player and producer (b. 1938)
- 1998
–
Lillian Hoban
, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
- 2001
–
Katharine Graham
, American publisher (b. 1917)
[55]
- 2002
–
Joseph Luns
, Dutch politician and
Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
(b. 1911)
- 2003
–
David Kelly
, Welsh weapons inspector (b. 1944)
- 2003 –
Rosalyn Tureck
, American pianist and
harpsichord
player (b. 1914)
- 2003 –
Walter Zapp
, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the
Minox
(b. 1905)
- 2005
–
Geraldine Fitzgerald
, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
- 2005 –
Edward Heath
, English colonel and politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(b. 1916)
- 2005 –
Joe Vialls
, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)
- 2006
–
Sam Myers
, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2006 –
Mickey Spillane
, American crime novelist (b. 1918)
[56]
- 2007
–
Grant Forsberg
, American actor and businessman (b. 1959)
- 2007 –
Julio Redecker
, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
- 2007 –
Paulo Rogerio Amoretty Souza
, Brazilian lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)
- 2009
–
Walter Cronkite
, American journalist and actor (b. 1916)
- 2009 –
Leszek Kołakowski
, Polish historian and philosopher (b. 1927)
- 2010
–
Larry Keith
, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2011
–
David Ngoombujarra
, Australian actor (b. 1967)
- 2012
–
Richard Evatt
, English boxer (b. 1973)
- 2012 –
Forrest S. McCartney
, American general (b. 1931)
- 2012 –
?lhan Mimaro?lu
, Turkish-American composer and producer (b. 1926)
- 2012 –
William Raspberry
, American journalist and academic (b. 1935)
- 2012 –
Marsha Singh
, Indian-English politician (b. 1954)
- 2013
–
Henri Alleg
, English-French journalist and author (b. 1921)
- 2013 –
Peter Appleyard
, English-Canadian
vibraphone
player and composer (b. 1928)
- 2013 –
Vincenzo Cerami
, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 2013 –
Don Flye
, American tennis player (b. 1933)
- 2013 –
Ian Gourlay
, English general (b. 1920)
- 2013 –
David White
, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1933)
[57]
- 2014
–
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
victims:
- 2014 –
Henry Hartsfield
, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933)
- 2014 –
Otto Piene
, German sculptor and academic (b. 1928)
- 2014 –
Elaine Stritch
, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
- 2015
–
Bill Arnsparger
, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
- 2015 –
Jules Bianchi
, French race car driver (b. 1989)
- 2015 –
Owen Chadwick
, English rugby player, historian, and academic (b. 1916)
- 2015 –
Van Miller
, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
- 2015 –
John Taylor
, English pianist and educator (b. 1942)
- 2019
–
Marie Sophie Hingst
, German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from
Holocaust survivors
[58]
- 2020
–
John Lewis
, American Politician and Civil Rights Leader. (b. 1940)
[59]
- 2020 –
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya
, Russian-Australian pair skater (b. 2000)
[60]
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