February 22
is the 53rd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year (313 in
leap years
).
- 1281
?
Martin IV
becomes
Pope
.
- 1288
?
Nicholas IV
becomes
Pope
.
- 1371
-
Robert II of Scotland
becomes
King
, starting the
Stuart Dynasty
.
- 1494
? King
Charles VIII of France
enters
Naples
to claim the city's throne.
- 1632
?
Galileo
's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
is published.
- 1651
- St. Peter's
Flood
: A
storm
surge floods the
Frisian
coast
in present-day
Germany
and the
Netherlands
, killing about 15,000 people.
- 1744
? The
Battle of Toulon
begins.
- 1784
-
William Herschel
discovers the spiral
galaxy
NGC 3521
.
- 1797
- The last invasion of the
Great Britain
begins when a force of 4,000 French troops lands in
Fishguard
,
Pembrokeshire
,
Wales
. They surrender two days later.
- 1819
? By the
Adams?Onis Treaty
,
Spain
sold
Florida
to the
United States
for five million
U.S. dollars
.
- 1847
?
Mexican-American War
: The
Battle of Buena Vista
? 5,000
American
troops drive off 15,000
Mexican
.
- 1848
- The French
Revolution
of
1848
begins, later leading to the creation of the
French Second Republic
.
- 1855
? The
Pennsylvania State University
is founded.
- 1856
? The
Republican Party
opens its first national meeting in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
.
- 1857
- The
Bavarian
Weisswurst
sausage
is allegedly invented in
Munich
.
- 1862
-
Jefferson Davis
is inaugurated as
President
of the
Confederate States of America
in
Richmond, Virginia
.
- 1865
?
Tennessee
adopts a new
constitution
that abolishes
slavery
.
- 1872
- The
Prohibition Party
holds its first national convention in
Columbus, Ohio
, with
James Black
as its nominee for
President of the United States
.
- 1876
?
Johns Hopkins University
is founded in
Baltimore, Maryland
.
- 1879
? In
Utica, New York
,
Frank Woolworth
opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
- 1889
?
President
Grover Cleveland
signs a bill admitting
North Dakota
,
South Dakota
,
Montana
and
Washington
as
U.S. states
.
- 1890
- The Walmut Grove
Dam
breaks in
Arizona
, causing a
flood
that kills between 50 and 150 people.
- 1899
-
Filipino
forces led by
General
Antonio Luna
launch counter-attacks for the first time, against American forces in the
Philippine-American War
, though fail to retake
Manila
.
- 1901
- A Pacific
mail
steamer
sinks in Golden Gate Harbor, killing 128 people.
- 1904
?
UK
recognises the
South Orkney Islands
as part of
Argentina
, in
1908
claims them again.
- 1915
?
Germany
institutes
unrestricted submarine warfare
.
- 1920
? In
Emeryville, California
, the first
dog race
track
to employ an imitation
rabbit
opens.
- 1923
? The
United States
begins the first transcontinental
air mail
route.
- 1923
?
Barcelona
(
Catalonia
):
Albert Einstein
visits the city, invited by the scientist
Esteban Terradas i Illa
, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the
Mancomunitat de Catalunya
and conducted by
Rafael de Campalans
.
- 1924
?
Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first
President of the United States
to deliver a
radio
broadcast from the
White House
.
- 1940
- Then-four-year-old
Tenzin Gyatso
is enthroned as the 14th
Dalai Lama
.
- 1942
?
World War II
:
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
orders General
Douglas MacArthur
out of the
Philippines
as American defense collapses.
- 1943
? Members of
White Rose
are executed in
Nazi
Germany.
- 1944
-
World War II
: American
aircraft
mistakenly bomb the Dutch cities of
Nijmegen
,
Arnhem
,
Enschede
and
Deventer
, killing 800 in Nijmegen alone.
- 1948
- The
Communist
Revolution
begins in
Czechoslovakia
.
- 1949
?
Grady the Cow
, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in
Yukon, Oklahoma
and garners national media attention.
- 1956
?
Elvis Presley
enters the music charts for the first time, with "
Heartbreak Hotel
".
- 1957
-
South Vietnamese
leader
Ngo Dinh Diem
survives a Communist shooting assassination attempt in
Ban Me Thuot
.
- 1958
?
Egypt
and
Syria
join to form the
United Arab Republic
.
- 1959
?
Lee Petty
wins the first
Daytona 500
.
- 1960
- A mining accident in
Zwickau
,
East Germany
kills 123 people.
- 1969
?
Barbara Jo Rubin
wins a
United States
thoroughbred
horse race
making history as the first woman to do so.
- 1972
- The Official
IRA
detonates a car bomb in
Aldershot
Barracks, killing 7 people.
- 1973
?
Cold War
: Following
President
Richard Nixon
's visit to
China
, the
United States
and the
People's Republic of China
agree to establish liaison offices.
- 1974
- The Organisation of the
Islamic
Conference
summit begins in
Lahore
,
Pakistan
and
Bangladesh
is recognized by
Islamabad
Officials.
- 1979
? Independence of
Saint Lucia
from the
United Kingdom
.
- 1980
? The
United States
men's
ice hockey
team defeats the
Soviet Union
team at the
1980 Winter Olympic Games
in an upset dubbed the "
Miracle on Ice
".
- 1986
- The People Power
Revolution
in the
Philippines
begins.
- 1987
- The first
Airbus A320
lifts off.
- 1994
?
Aldrich Ames
and his wife are charged by the
United States Department of Justice
with spying for the
Soviet Union
.
- 1997
? In
Roslin
,
Scotland
, scientists announce that an adult
sheep
named
Dolly
had been successfully
cloned
.
- 2002
? A
MH-47E Chinook
helicopter
crashes into the ocean near the
Philippines
, killing all 10 aboard.
- 2004
?
Ralph Nader
announces his intention to run as an independent candidate for
President of the United States
.
- 2005
- An
earthquake
in Sarand,
Iran
, kills 420 people.
- 2006
- The Al-Askari
Shrine
in
Samarra
,
Iraq
, a
Shi'ite
Holy Site, is badly damaged in a
bomb
attack.
- 2009
-
Slumdog Millionaire
is the most successful movie at the
81st Academy Awards
.
- 2011
?
2011 Canterbury earthquake
: A magnitude 6.3
earthquake
hits
Christchurch, New Zealand
, causing major damage and more than 180 deaths. Among the collapsed buildings is the spire of Christchurch
cathedral
.
- 2012
- A
train
crash in
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
, kills 51 people.
- 2014
-
Matteo Renzi
is sworn in as
Prime Minister of Italy
, making him the youngest holder of this office, at age 39.
- 2014
- In
Ukraine
,
parliament
votes to remove
President
Viktor Yanukovych
from power and to install a caretaker government. Yanukovych is reported to have fled to Eastern Ukraine, while former
Prime Minister
Yulia Tymoshenko
is released from
prison
.
- 2015
- A ferry capsizes in
Bangladesh
, killing at least 70 people.
- 2015
- The 87th
Academy Awards
are held. Among the winners are
Julianne Moore
(Best Actress) and
Eddie Redmayne
(Best Actor), for playing
Stephen Hawking
in
The Theory of Everything
.
- 2017
- Scientists announce the discovery of seven
planets
of similar size to
Earth
orbiting around the dwarf star "TRAPPIST-1".
- 1300 BC
-
Ramesses II
, Egyptian
pharaoh
(d.
1213 BC
)
- 1403
? King
Charles VII of France
(d.
1461
)
- 1440
-
Ladislaus the Posthumous
,
King
of
Hungary
and
Bohemia
(d.
1470
)
- 1500
-
Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
, Italian
cardinal
(d.
1564
)
- 1514
-
Tahmasp I
, Persian
shah
(d.
1576
)
- 1631
-
Peder Syv
, Danish
philologist
, folklorist and priest (d.
1702
)
- 1645
?
Johann Ambrosius Bach
, German composer (d.
1695
)
- 1645
-
Johann Christoph Bach
, German musician (d.
1693
)
- 1705
-
Peter Arbedi
, Swedish
naturalist
(d.
1735
)
- 1732
?
George Washington
, first
President of the United States
(d.
1799
)
- 1756
-
Georg Friedrich von Martens
, German
diplomat
(d.
1821
)
- 1761
-
Erik Tulindberg
, Finnish composer (d.
1814
)
- 1778
-
Rembrandt Peale
, American painter (d.
1860
)
- 1785
-
Jean Peltier
, French
physicist
(d.
1845
)
- 1788
?
Arthur Schopenhauer
, German
philosopher
(d.
1860
)
- 1796
-
Alexis Bachelot
, French missionary (d.
1837
)
- 1796
-
Adolphe Quetelet
, Belgian
mathematician
(d.
1874
)
- 1806
-
Jozef Kremer
, Polish
philosopher
(d.
1875
)
- 1817
-
Carl Wilhelm Borchardt
, German
mathematician
(d.
1880
)
- 1819
-
James Russell Lowell
, American
poet
(d.
1891
)
- 1823
-
Robert B. Ogilvie
,
Governor
of
Illinois
(d.
1888
)
- 1824
-
Pierre Janssen
, French
astronomer
(d.
1907
)
- 1836
-
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
, Indian
Sanskrit
scholar and social reformer (d.
1906
)
- 1840
-
August Bebel
, German political activist (d.
1913
)
- 1847
-
Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria
(d.
1897
)
- 1849
-
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
, Russian
mathematician
(d.
1915
)
- 1857
?
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
, German
physicist
(d.
1894
)
- 1857
?
Robert Baden-Powell
, British founder of the
Scout
movement (d.
1941
)
- 1864
-
Jakob Jakobsen
,
Faroese
linguist
(d.
1918
)
- 1878
-
Walter Ritz
, Swiss
physicist
(d.
1909
)
- 1879
-
Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted
, Danish physical chemist (d.
1947
)
- 1880
-
Eric Lemming
, Swedish athlete (d.
1930
)
- 1881
-
Joseph B. Ely
, 52nd
Governor of Massachusetts
(d.
1956
)
- 1882
?
Eric Gill
, British
sculptor
(d.
1940
)
- 1883
-
Marguerite Clark
, American actress (d.
1940
)
- 1887
-
Savielly Tartakower
, Polish
chess
player (d.
1956
)
- 1888
-
Owen Brewster
,
Governor
of
Maine
(d.
1961
)
- 1889
?
Olave Baden-Powell
, British co-founder of the Girl Guides (d.
1977
)
- 1890
-
Beatriz Michelena
,
Latin American
movie actor (d.
1942
)
- 1891
-
Vlas Chubar
, Soviet politician (d.
1937
)
- 1892
?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
, American
poet
(d.
1950
)
- 1895
-
Victor Raul Haya del Torre
,
Peruvian
politician (d.
1979
)
- 1897
-
Karol Swierczewski
, Polish general (d.
1947
)
- 1898
-
Thillaiaadi Valliammai
, South African
activist
(d.
1914
)
- 1899
-
George O'Hara
, American actor (d.
1966
)
- 1900
?
Luis Bunuel
, Spanish movie producer (d.
1983
)
- 1900
-
James Sisnett
,
Barbadian
supercentenarian
(d.
2013
)
- 1903
?
Frank Plumpton Ramsey
, British mathematician (d.
1930
)
- 1906
-
Donald S. Russell
, 107th
Governor
of
South Carolina
(d.
1998
)
- 1907
-
Georg Braun
, Austrian
footballer
(d.
1963
)
- 1907
-
Sheldon Leonard
, American actor (d.
1997
)
- 1907
-
Robert Young
, American actor (d.
1998
)
- 1908
-
Romulo Betancourt
,
President
of
Venezuela
(d.
1981
)
- 1913
-
Buddy Tate
, American jazz musician (d.
2001
)
- 1914
?
Renato Dulbecco
, Italian
virologist
(d.
2012
)
- 1917
-
Jane Bowles
, American
writer
and
playwright
(d.
1973
)
- 1918
-
Sid Abel
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (d.
2000
)
- 1918
?
Robert Wadlow
, tallest person in history (d.
1940
)
- 1918
-
Don Pardo
, American television and radio announcer (d.
2014
)
- 1921
-
Giulietta Masina
, Italian actress (d.
1994
)
- 1921
-
Sune Andersson
, Swedish
footballer
(d.
2002
)
- 1921
-
Wayne C. Booth
, American literary critic (d.
2005
)
- 1921
-
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
, leader of the
Central African Republic
(d.
1996
)
- 1921
-
David Greene
, British director (d.
2003
)
- 1922
-
Joe Wilder
, American
jazz
trumpeter
(d.
2014
)
- 1923
-
Bleddyn Williams
, Welsh
rugby
player (d.
2009
)
- 1925
-
Kenneth Williams
, English
actor
(d.
1988
)
- 1925
-
Cyril Leonoff
, Canadian civil engineer and historian (d.
2016
)
- 1925
-
Gerald Stern
, American
poet
- 1927
?
Florencio Campomanes
,
Filipino
chess
player and official (d.
2010
)
- 1927
-
Gus Douglass
, American politician (d.
2015
)
- 1928
?
Bruce Forsyth
, British entertainer (d.
2017
)
- 1928
-
Paul Dooley
, American actor
- 1929
-
James Hong
, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- 1930
-
Giuliano Montaldo
, Italian
movie director
- 1930
-
Bill Mitchell
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (d.
2014
)
- 1930
-
Marni Nixon
, American singer (d.
2016
)
- 1932
?
Ted Kennedy
,
United States
Senator
from
Massachusetts
(d.
2009
)
- 1933
?
Sheila Hancock
, British actress
- 1933
-
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
- 1934
-
Sparky Anderson
, American
baseball
player and manager (d.
2010
)
- 1936
-
J. Michael Bishop
, American
biologist
- 1940
-
Judy Cornwell
, English actress
- 1940
-
Billy Name
, American
photographer
and filmmaker (d.
2016
)
- 1940
-
Chet Walker
, American
basketball
player
- 1941
-
Hipolito Mejia
, former
President
of the
Dominican Republic
- 1942
-
Christine Keeler
, English model and showgirl (d.
2017
)
- 1943
?
Horst Koehler
, former
President of Germany
- 1944
-
Robert Kardashian
, American
lawyer
(d.
2003
)
- 1944
-
Jonathan Demme
, American
movie producer
and
screenwriter
(d.
2017
)
- 1944
-
Tom Okker
, Dutch
tennis
player
- 1945
-
Leslie Charleson
, English actress
- 1946
-
Kresten Bjerre
, Danish
footballer
(d.
2014
)
- 1947
-
Maurizio De Angelis
, Italian singer
- 1949
-
Olga Morozova
, Russian
tennis
player
- 1949
?
Niki Lauda
, Austrian racing driver
- 1950
?
Julie Walters
, British actress
- 1950
-
Julius Erving
, American
basketball
player
- 1950
-
Miou-Miou
, French
actress
- 1951
-
Ellen Greene
, American singer and actress
- 1952
-
Bill Frist
,
United States
Senator
- 1952
-
Bernard Silverman
, English minister, statistician and academic
- 1953
-
Nigel Planer
, English actor
- 1955
-
David Axelrod
, American political advisor
- 1956
-
Philip Kerr
, British author (d.
2018
)
- 1958
-
Dave Spitz
, American musician
- 1959
?
Kyle MacLachlan
, American actor
- 1961
-
Akira Takahashi
, Japanese
guitarist
- 1962
?
Steve Irwin
, Australian wildlife expert and TV personality (d.
2006
)
- 1963
?
Vijay Singh
,
Fijian
golfer
- 1963
-
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
, British politician
- 1963
-
Devon Malcolm
, English
cricketer
- 1964
-
Gigi Fernandez
, Puerto Rican
tennis
player
- 1965
-
Chris Dudley
, American
basketball
player
- 1965
-
Pat Lafontaine
, American
ice hockey
player
- 1965
-
Kieren Fallon
, Irish
jockey
- 1968
-
Shawn Graham
, Canadian politician, 31st
Premier
of
New Brunswick
- 1968
-
Jayson Williams
, American
basketball
player
- 1969
?
Brian Laudrup
, Danish footballer
- 1969
?
Marc Wilmots
, Belgian footballer
- 1969
-
Clinton Kelly
, American
television
personality
- 1972
?
Claudia Pechstein
, German speed skater
- 1973
-
Philippe Gaumont
, French cyclist (d.
2013
)
- 1973
-
Claus Lundekvam
, Norwegian
footballer
- 1973
?
Juninho Paulista
, Brazilian footballer
- 1973
?
Archil Arveladze
,
Georgian
footballer
- 1973
-
Shota Arveladze
,
Georgian
footballer
- 1974
?
Chris Moyles
, British radio presenter
- 1974
?
Markus Schopp
, Austrian footballer
- 1974
?
James Blunt
, British singer
- 1975
?
Drew Barrymore
, American actress
- 1977
?
Hakan Yakin
, Swiss footballer
- 1978
?
Jenny Frost
, British singer (
Atomic Kitten
), TV presenter (
Snog Marry Avoid?
) and model
- 1979
?
Brett Emerton
, Australian footballer
- 1979
-
Lee Na-young
, South Korean actress
- 1980
-
Jeanette Biedermann
, German
singer
and
actress
- 1983
-
Shaun Tait
, Australian
cricketer
- 1983
-
Ragna Ingolfsdottir
,
Icelandic
badminton
player
- 1984
-
Tommy Bowe
, Irish
rugby
player
- 1984
-
Branislav Ivanovic
, Serbian
footballer
- 1985
?
Hameur Bouazza
, Algerian footballer
- 1985
-
Ross Hutchins
, British
tennis
player
- 1985
-
Larissa Riquelme
,
Paraguayan
model
- 1986
-
Rajon Rondo
, American
basketball
player
- 1987
-
Han Hyo-joo
, South Korean actress and model
- 1987
-
Sergio Romero
, Argentine footballer
- 1987
-
Enzo Perez
, Argentine footballer
- 1988
-
Efrain Juarez
, Mexican footballer
- 1988
-
Ximena Navarrete
, Mexican model and actress
- 1989
-
Anna Sundstrand
, Swedish singer
- 1991
-
Robin Stjernberg
, Swedish singer
- 556
-
Maximilianus of Ravenna
, Italian
bishop
(b.
499
)
- 606
-
Pope Sabinian
- 965
-
Otto, Duke of Burgundy
(b.
944
)
- 1071
-
Arnulf III, Count of Flanders
(b.
1055
)
- 1111
-
Roger Borsa
,
King
of
Sicily
- 1371
? King
David II of Scotland
(b.
1324
)
- 1512
?
Amerigo Vespucci
, Italian explorer (b.
1451
)
- 1627
-
Olivier van Noort
, Dutch navigator (b.
1558
)
- 1674
-
Jean Chapelain
, French writer (b.
1595
)
- 1690
-
Charles Le Brun
, French painter (b.
1619
)
- 1727
-
Francesco Gasparini
, Italian composer (b.
1661
)
- 1731
-
Frederik Ruysch
, Dutch
physician
and
anatomist
(b.
1638
)
- 1732
-
Francis Atterbury
, English bishop and man of letters (b.
1663
)
- 1750
-
Pietro Filippo Scarlatti
, Italian composer (b.
1679
)
- 1797
-
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen
, German officer and adventurer (b.
1720
)
- 1799
-
Heshen
, Chinese official (b.
1750
)
- 1816
?
Adam Ferguson
, Scottish philosopher (b.
1723
)
- 1819
-
Thomas Johnson
,
Governor
of
Maryland
(b.
1752
)
- 1875
?
Charles Lyell
, British geologist (b.
1797
)
- 1875
?
Jean-Baptiste Corot
, French painter (b.
1796
)
- 1890
?
John Jacob Astor III
, American businessman (b.
1822
)
- 1897
-
Charles Blondin
, French
tightrope
walker (b.
1824
)
- 1898
-
Haungseon Daewongun
, Korean king (b.
1820
)
- 1903
-
Hugo Wolf
, Austrian composer (b.
1860
)
- 1913
?
Francisco I. Madero
,
President
of
Mexico
(b.
1873
)
- 1914
-
Thillaiaadi Valliammai
, South African
activist
(b.
1898
)
- 1919
?
Perito Moreno
, Argentine geographer and explorer (b.
1852
)
- 1921
-
Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
,
Emir
of
Kuwait
(b.
1864
)
- 1923
-
Theophile Delcasse
, French
statesman
(b.
1852
)
- 1927
-
Judson Harmon
,
Governor
of
Ohio
(b.
1846
)
- 1930
-
William Jeremiah Tuttle
, American freestyle swimmer and
water polo
(b.
1882
)
- 1934
-
Willem Kes
, Dutch
conductor
(b.
1856
)
- 1939
?
Antonio Machado
, Spanish writer (b.
1875
)
- 1942
?
Stefan Zweig
, Austrian writer (b.
1881
)
- 1943
-
White Rose
Resistance Activists executed:
- 1944
?
Kasturba Gandhi
, wife of
Mahatma Gandhi
(b.
1869
)
- 1945
-
Osip Brik
, Russian author and critic (b.
1888
)
- 1958
-
Abul Kalam Azad
, Indian independence movement leader (b.
1888
)
- 1961
-
Nick LaRocca
, American
jazz
musician (b.
1889
)
- 1970
-
Edward Selzer
, American
movie producer
(b.
1893
)
- 1973
-
Jean-Jacques Bertrand
,
Premier
of
Quebec
(b.
1916
)
- 1973
-
Winthrop Rockefeller
, American politician, 37th
Governor
of
Arkansas
(b.
1912
)
- 1974
-
Samuel Byck
, American attempted assassin of
Richard Nixon
(b.
1930
)
- 1976
-
Florence Ballard
, American singer (b.
1943
)
- 1980
?
Oskar Kokoschka
, Austrian painter (b.
1886
)
- 1985
?
Efrem Zimbalist
, American violinist and composer (b.
1889
)
- 1987
?
Andy Warhol
, American artist, director, and writer (b.
1928
)
- 1989
-
Moises da Costa Amaral
,
East Timorese
politician (b.
1938
)
- 1994
?
Papa John Creach
, American musician (b.
1917
)
- 1995
?
Ed Flanders
, American actor (b.
1934
)
- 1998
-
Donald S. Russell
, 107th
Governor
of
South Carolina
(b.
1906
)
- 1998
-
Abraham A. Ribicoff
, 80th
Governor
of
Connecticut
(b.
1910
)
- 2002
-
Roden Cutler
, 32nd
Governor
of
New South Wales
(b.
1916
)
- 2002
?
Chuck Jones
, American cartoonist (b.
1912
)
- 2002
?
Jonas Savimbi
, Angolan politician and rebel leader (b.
1934
)
- 2002
-
Daniel Pearl
, American
journalist
(b.
1963
)
- 2004
-
Roque Maspoli
,
Uruguayan
footballer (b.
1917
)
- 2005
?
Simone Simon
, French actress (b.
1910
)
- 2012
?
Marie Colvin
, American journalist (b.
1956
)
- 2012
?
Remi Ochlik
, French photojournalist (b.
1983
)
- 2013
-
Hasse Jeppson
, Swedish
footballer
(b.
1925
)
- 2013
-
Wolfgang Sawallisch
, German
pianist
and
conductor
(b.
1923
)
- 2014
-
Charlotte Dawson
, New Zealand-born Australian
television
personality (b.
1966
)
- 2014
-
Leo Vroman
, Dutch-American hematologist,
poet
and illustrator (b.
1915
)
- 2015
-
Kim Kyung-roul
, South Korean
billiards
player (b.
1980
)
- 2016
-
Wesley A. Clark
, American
computer
engineer (b.
1927
)
- 2016
-
Sonny James
, American country
singer-songwriter
(b.
1929
)
- 2016
-
Hans Reffert
, German musician (b.
1946
)
- 2016
-
Douglas Slocombe
, English
cinematographer
(b.
1913
)
- 2016
-
Yochanan Sofer
, Hungarian-Israeli
rabbi
(b.
1922
)
- 2016
-
Cara McCollum
, American
journalist
and beauty queen (b.
1992
)
- 2016
-
Cristiana Corsi
, Italian
taekwondo
martial artist (b.
1976
)
- 2016
-
Yolande Fox
, American beauty queen, singer and activist (b.
1928
)
- 2017
-
Frank Delaney
, Irish author (b.
1942
)
- 2017
-
Ricardo Dominguez
, Mexican boxer (b.
1985
)
- 2017
-
Eni Faleomavaega
,
American Samoan
politician (b.
1943
)
- 2017
-
Aleksei Petrenko
, Russian actor (b.
1938
)
- 2017
-
Ed Garvey
, American lawyer and politician (b.
1940
)
- 2017
-
John McCormack
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1925
)
- 2018
-
Nanette Fabray
, American actress and dancer (b.
1920
)
- 2018
-
Forges
, Spanish cartoonist (b.
1942
)
- 2018
-
Richard E. Taylor
, Canadian
physicist
(b.
1929
)
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