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February 12
is the 43rd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 322 days remaining until the end of the year (323 in
leap years
).
- 881
-
Pope John VIII
crowns
Charles the Fat
as Emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire
.
- 1354
?
Treaty of Stralsund
settles border disputes between the duchies of
Mecklenburg
and
Pomerania
.
- 1502
-
Vasco da Gama
sets sail from
Lisbon
on his second voyage to
India
.
- 1541
?
Santiago, Chile
is founded by
Pedro de Valdivia
.
- 1554
? A year after claiming the throne of
England
for nine days,
Lady Jane Grey
is beheaded for treason.
- 1593
-
Japanese
invasion of
Korea
: Approximately 3,000
Joseon
defenders led by
General
Kwok Yul
, successfully repel over 30,000
Japanese
in the
Siege of Haengju
.
- 1619
- The
Diego Ramirez Islands
to the southwest of
Cape Horn
and near
Antarctica
are discovered.
- 1689
? The
Convention Parliament
convenes and declares that the flight to
France
in
1688
by
James II
, the last
Catholic
British monarch
, constitutes an
abdication
.
- 1719
? The
Onderlinge van 1719 u.a.
, the oldest existing life insurance company in
the Netherlands
is founded.
- 1733
? Englishman
James Oglethorpe
founds the 13th and final
American
colony of
Georgia
, and its first city at
Savannah
.
- 1737
? The
Teatro di San Carlo
, the oldest working
opera house
in Europe, is inaugurated.
- 1771
?
Gustav III
becomes the
King of Sweden
when his father
Adolf Frederick
"[eats] himself to death".
- 1772
-
Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Tremarec
's expedition discovers the
Kerguelen
Islands in the Southern
Indian Ocean
near
Antarctica
.
- 1817
? The
Chilean
patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops at the
Battle of Chacabuco
.
- 1818
?
Bernardo O'Higgins
signs the Independence of
Chile
near
Concepcion
.
- 1825
? The
Creek
cede the last of their lands in
Georgia
to the
United States
government, and migrate west.
- 1832
?
Ecuador
annexes the
Galapagos Islands
.
- 1851
- The
Australian gold rushes
start, as
Edward Hargreaves
announces finding gold in
Bathurst
,
New South Wales
.
- 1855
-
Michigan State University
is founded.
- 1870
? Women gain the
right to vote
in
Utah Territory
.
- 1879
? At
New York City
's
Madison Square Garden
the first artificial
ice rink
in
North America
opens.
- 1892
? Former
President
Abraham Lincoln
's birthday is declared a national
holiday
in the
United States
.
- 1894
?
Anarchist
Emile Henry
hurls a
bomb
into
Paris
's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
- 1909
- Inter-island
ferry
SS
Penguin
sinks and explodes in
Wellington
Harbour,
New Zealand
.
- 1909
? The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) is founded.
- 1912
?
Xuantong Emperor
of the
Manchu
Qing dynasty
, the last
Emperor of China
,
abdicates
.
- 1912
?
China
adopts the
Gregorian calendar
.
- 1914
? In
Washington, DC
, the first stone of the
Lincoln Memorial
is put into place.
- 1924
? Premiere of
George Gershwin
's
Rhapsody in Blue
with Paul Whiteman's Palais Royal Orchestra in Aeolian Hall in
New York City
.
- 1924
?
Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first
President of the United States
to deliver a political speech on
radio
.
- 1934
? The
Austrian Civil War
begins.
- 1934
? The
Export-Import Bank of the United States
is incorporated.
- 1934
? In
Spain
the national council of
Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista
is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the
Falange Espanola
.
- 1935
- The
helium
-filled
airship
SS
Macon
crashes into the
Pacific Ocean
off
California
.
- 1938
?
Anschluss
:
German
troops enter
Austria
.
- 1941
- A
police
officer in
London
becomes the first person treated by
penicillin
.
- 1944
-
Japanese
U-boat
I-27
sinks British troop transporter
Khedive Ismail
in the
Indian Ocean
, killing 1,297 out of the 1,511 people on board. The Japanese U-boat itself is sunk later that day, killing all but one of the naval personnel on board.
- 1946
?
Operation Deadlight
ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured
U-boats
.
- 1947
- A
meteor
creates an impact
crater
in Sikhote-Alin,
Soviet Union
.
- 1947
-
Christian Dior
unveils a "New Look", helping
Paris
regain its place as capital of the
fashion
world.
- 1951
?
Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
marries the
Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi
at
Golestan Palace
in
Teheran
at age of 17.
- 1961
- The
Soviet
Venera 1
space probe is sent to
Venus
.
- 1963
- Building work on the
Gateway Arch
,
Saint Louis
,
Missouri
, begins.
- 1971
-
Bhutan
's full sovereignty from
India
is gained.
- 1973
?
Ohio
becomes the first
U.S. state
to post distance in
SI units
on signs.
- 1973
?
Vietnam War
: The first American
prisoners of war
are released by the
NLF
.
- 1974
-
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
is
exiled
from the
Soviet Union
.
- 1990
- In
Western Australia
,
Carmen Lawrence
becomes the first female
Premier
of an
Australian
state
.
- 1994
?
1994 Winter Olympics
open in
Lillehammer
,
Norway
.
- 1998
? The presidential
line-item veto
is declared unconstitutional by a
United States
federal judge.
- 1999
?
President
Bill Clinton
is acquitted by the
United States Senate
in his
impeachment
trial.
- 2001
?
NEAR Shoemaker
spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of
433 Eros
, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an
asteroid
.
- 2001
?
Google
obtains
Usenet
, creating
Google Groups
. (
press release
)
- 2002
? The trial of former President of
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milo?evi?
begins at the
United Nations
war crimes
tribunal in
The Hague
.
- 2002
?
Nuclear waste
: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that
Yucca Mountain
is suitable to be the
United States
' nuclear repository.
- 2002
? An
Iran Air
Tupolev Tu-154
crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad,
Iran
, killing 119.
- 2004
?
Mayor
Gavin Newsom
of
San Francisco, California
, on
National Freedom to Marry Day
, orders his
county clerk
to revise
marriage licenses
to allow
gay
and
lesbian
couples to legally wed.
- 2004
?
Mattel Inc.
announces the split of
Barbara Millicent Roberts
and
Ken Carson
(aka Barbie and Ken) after 43 years of
dating
.
- 2005
? Former
Vermont
governor and presidential candidate
Howard Dean
becomes chairman of the
Democratic National Committee
.
- 2009
? A plane crash, of
Colgan Air Flight 3407
, in Clarence Center,
Buffalo
,
New York
, kills all of the people on board and one on the ground.
- 2010
?
Georgian
luge competitor
Nodar Kumaritashvili
dies after an accident that occurred while he was training for the
2010 Winter Olympics
in
Vancouver
, which open on the same day.
- 2012
- The
Zambia national football team
wins the
Africa Cup of Nations
, defeating the
Ivory Coast national football team
in a penalty shoot-out.
- 2013
-
North Korea
announces that it has carried out an underground nuclear test, at around a
kilometer
's depth, despite
criticism
from around the world.
- 2017
-
North Korea
announces that it has launched a rocket, leading to condemnation from the
United States
,
Japan
and
South Korea
.
- 2017
-
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
is chosen to succeed
Joachim Gauck
as
President of Germany
on
March 19
.
- 2017
- People living near the
Oroville Dam
in
California
are told to evacuate over
flooding
fears.
- 41
?
Britannicus
, Roman heir to the throne (d.
55
)
- 712
?
Du Fu
, Chinese
poet
(d.
770
)
- 1074
-
Conrad II of Italy
(d.
1101
)
- 1218
-
Kujo Yoritsune
, Japanese
shogun
(d.
1256
)
- 1322
-
John Henry, Margrave of Moravia
(d.
1375
)
- 1567
?
Thomas Campion
, English composer and poet (d.
1620
)
- 1584
-
Caspar Berlaeus
, Dutch
theologian
,
poet
and
historian
(d.
1648
)
- 1606
-
John Winthrop the Younger
,
Governor
of
Connecticut
(d.
1676
)
- 1637
-
Jan Swammerdam
, Dutch biologist (d.
1680
)
- 1665
-
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
, German
botanist
and
physician
(d.
1721
)
- 1752
-
Josef Reicha
, Czech
cellist
,
composer
and
conductor
(d.
1795
)
- 1761
-
Jan Ladislav Dussek
, Czech composer and conductor (d.
1812
)
- 1768
?
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
(d.
1835
)
- 1773
-
Jacques Dupre
, American
politician
,
Governor
of
Louisiana
(d.
1846
)
- 1775
?
Louisa Adams
,
First Lady of the United States
(d.
1852
)
- 1777
?
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
, German poet (d.
1843
)
- 1788
?
Carl Reichenbach
, German
chemist
and
philosopher
(d.
1869
)
- 1791
-
Peter Cooper
, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d.
1883
)
- 1794
-
Alexander Petrov
, Russian
chess
player (d.
1867
)
- 1800
-
John Edward Gray
, English zoologist (d.
1875
)
- 1804
-
Heinrich Lenz
, German
physicist
(d.
1865
)
- 1809
?
Charles Darwin
,
English
naturalist
(d.
1882
)
- 1809
?
Abraham Lincoln
, 16th
President of the United States
(d.
1865
)
- 1813
-
James Dwight Dana
, American
geologist
,
mineralogist
and zoologist (d.
1895
)
- 1813
-
Otto Ludwig
, German writer (d.
1865
)
- 1814
-
Jenny von Westphalen
, German socialist and wife of
Karl Marx
(d.
1881
)
- 1815
-
Edward Forbes
, British naturalist (d.
1854
)
- 1817
-
Conrad Baker
, 15th
Governor
of
Indiana
(d.
1885
)
- 1828
-
George Meredith
, English writer (d.
1909
)
- 1837
-
Thomas Moran
, American painter (d.
1926
)
- 1843
-
John Graham Chambers
, English race walker (d.
1883
)
- 1865
-
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
, Polish
poet
and
writer
(d.
1940
)
- 1869
?
Kien Phuc
,
Emperor
of
Vietnam
(d.
1884
)
- 1870
-
Marie Lloyd
, English music-hall performer (d.
1922
)
- 1876
?
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama
,
Tibetan
spiritual
leader (d.
1933
)
- 1877
?
Louis Renault
, French
industrialist
and
automobile
pioneer (d.
1944
)
- 1881
?
Anna Pavlova
, Russian
ballerina
(d.
1931
)
- 1882
-
Walter Nash
, 27th
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(d.
1968
)
- 1884
?
Max Beckmann
, German artist (d.
1950
)
- 1884
-
Marie Vassilieff
, Russian artist (d.
1957
)
- 1884
-
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
, daughter of
Theodore Roosevelt
(d.
1980
)
- 1885
?
Julius Streicher
, Nazi publisher (d.
1946
)
- 1887
-
Edelmiro Julian Farrell
,
President of Argentina
(d.
1980
)
- 1893
?
Omar Bradley
, American general (d.
1981
)
- 1895
-
Kristian Djurhuus
, 2nd
Prime Minister
of the
Faroe Islands
(d.
1984
)
- 1900
?
Vasily Chuikov
, Soviet marshal and politician (d.
1982
)
- 1905
-
Federica Montseny
, Spanish
anarchist
, intellectual and politician (d.
1994
)
- 1908
-
Jacques Herbrand
, French
mathematician
(d.
1931
)
- 1909
-
Sigmund Rascher
, German
Nazi
physician
(d.
1945
)
- 1910
-
Lee Byung-chull
, Korean
businessman
(d.
1987
)
- 1911
-
Cearbhall O Dalaigh
,
President of Ireland
(d.
1978
)
- 1911
?
Charles Mathiesen
, Norwegian speed skater (d.
1994
)
- 1914
-
Tex Beneke
, American
singer
,
saxophonist
and
bandleader
(d.
2000
)
- 1914
-
Arvid Pardo
, Italian-Maltese
diplomat
(d.
1999
)
- 1915
-
Lorne Greene
, Canadian actor (d.
1987
)
- 1915
-
Olivia Hooker
, African-American sailor
- 1916
?
Joseph Alioto
,
Mayor
of
San Francisco
(d.
1998
)
- 1917
-
Al Cervi
, American
basketball
player (d.
2009
)
- 1917
?
Dom DiMaggio
, American
baseball
player (d.
2009
)
- 1918
?
Julian Schwinger
, American
physicist
(d.
1994
)
- 1918
-
Norman Farberow
, American psychologist (d.
2015
)
- 1919
?
Ferruccio Valcareggi
, Italian
footballer
(d.
2005
)
- 1920
-
Pran
, Indian actor (d.
2013
)
- 1920
-
Yoshiko Otaka
, Japanese
actress
,
singer
and
politician
(d.
2014
)
- 1923
?
Franco Zeffirelli
, Italian movie, opera director and designer (d.
2019
)
- 1924
-
Louis Zorich
, American actor (d.
2018
)
- 1925
-
Joan Finney
,
Governor
of
Kansas
(d.
2001
)
- 1926
-
Rolf Brem
, Swiss
sculptor
, illustrator and graphic artist (d.
2014
)
- 1926
-
Joe Garagiola, Sr.
, American
baseball
player (d.
2016
)
- 1926
-
Buddy Childers
, American
jazz
trumpeter
(d.
2007
)
- 1926
-
Charles Van Doren
, American
quiz
show contestant
- 1930
-
Arlen Specter
,
United States
Senator
for
Pennsylvania
(d.
2012
)
- 1932
-
Maurice Filion
, Canadian
ice hockey
coach
- 1932
-
Julian Simon
, American
economist
(d.
1998
)
- 1933
-
Costa-Gravas
, Greek-French
movie director
and
producer
- 1934
?
Annette Crosbie
, Scottish actress
- 1934
?
Bill Russell
, American
basketball
player
- 1934
-
Anne Osborn Krueger
, American
professor
and former deputy director of the
International Monetary Fund
- 1936
-
Fang Lizhi
, Chinese
activist
(d.
2012
)
- 1936
-
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
, Iraqi-Israeli politician (d.
2016
)
- 1936
-
Joe Don Baker
, American actor
- 1939
?
Ray Manzarek
, American musician (
The Doors
) (d.
2013
)
- 1941
?
Naomi Uemura
, Japanese adventurer (d.
1984
)
- 1941
-
Dominguinhos
, Brazilian
singer-songwriter
and
accordion
player (d.
2013
)
- 1942
-
Lionel Grigson
, English
pianist
,
composer
and educator (d.
1994
)
- 1942
-
Norma Major
, English writer and charity worker, wife of
John Major
- 1942
?
Ehud Barak
, former
Prime Minister of Israel
- 1945
?
Thilo Sarrazin
, German politician
- 1945
-
David D. Friedman
, American
economist
- 1946
?
Ajda Pekkan
, Turkish singer
- 1946
?
Jean Eyeghe Ndong
,
Prime Minister
of
Gabon
- 1948
?
Bernd Franke
, German footballer
- 1948
?
Raymond Kurzweil
, American inventor and writer
- 1948
-
Mike Robitaille
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1949
-
Fergus Slattery
, Irish
rugby
player
- 1950
-
Angelo Branduardi
, Italian
singer-songwriter
and
guitarist
- 1950
-
Michael Ironside
, Canadian
actor
,
screenwriter
and
director
- 1950
?
Steve Hackett
, English
guitarist
- 1951
?
Steven Parent
, American murder victim (d.
1969
)
- 1952
?
Simon MacCorkindale
, British actor (d.
2010
)
- 1952
?
Michael McDonald
, American singer and musician
- 1956
?
Arsenio Hall
, American television host
- 1956
-
Ad Melkert
, Dutch politician
- 1956
-
Brian Robertson
, Scottish
guitarist
and
songwriter
- 1961
?
Michel Martelly
, Haitian musician, businessman, politician and
President
of
Haiti
- 1964
-
Michel Petit
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1965
-
John Michael Higgins
, American actor
- 1968
?
Josh Brolin
, American actor
- 1968
?
Christopher McCandless
, American nomad (d.
1992
)
- 1968
-
Gregory Charles
, Canadian
singer
,
dancer
,
pianist
and
actor
- 1969
?
Meja
, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1969
-
Steve Backley
, British
javelin
thrower
- 1969
-
Alemayehu Atomsa
, Ethiopian politician (d.
2014
)
- 1971
- Scott Menville, American actor, voice actor and musician
- 1973
?
Tara Strong
, Canadian-
American
actress
- 1973
-
Gianni Romme
, Dutch speed skater
- 1975
-
Scott Pollard
, American
basketball
player
- 1976
?
Christian Cullen
, New Zealand
rugby
player
- 1977
?
Jimmy Conrad
, American
soccer
player
- 1978
?
Gethin Jones
, Welsh television presenter
- 1980
?
Juan Carlos Ferrero
, Spanish
tennis
player
- 1980
?
Christina Ricci
,
American
actress
- 1980
-
Sarah Lancaster
, American actress
- 1981
-
Lisa Hannigan
, Irish singer
- 1982
?
Anthony Tuitavake
, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984
?
Brad Keselowski
, American racing driver
- 1984
?
Peter Utaka
, Nigerian
footballer
- 1984
-
Andrei Sidorenkov
,
Estonian
footballer
- 1985
?
Saskia Burmeister
, Australian swimmer
- 1987
-
Jeremy Chardy
, French
tennis
player
- 1988
?
Mike Posner
, American singer
- 1988
?
Nicolas Otamendi
, Argentine
footballer
- 1989
-
Ron-Robert Zieler
, German
footballer
- 1990
-
Moussa Kone
,
Ivory Coast
footballer
- 1991
-
Patrick Herrmann
, German
footballer
- 1991
-
Casey Abrams
, American singer
- 1993
?
Jennifer Stone
, American actress
- 1994
-
Alex Galchenyuk
, American
ice hockey
player
- 821
-
Benedict of Ariane
, French
monk
and
saint
(b.
747
)
- 991
-
Emperor En'yu
of
Japan
(b.
959
)
- 1242
-
Henry (VII) of Germany
(b.
1211
)
- 1538
-
Albrecht Altdorfer
, German painter (b.
1480
)
- 1554
?
Lady Jane Grey
,
Queen
of
England
for nine days (b.
1537
)
- 1571
-
Nicholas Throckmorton
, English
diplomat
and politician (b.
1515
)
- 1612
-
Christopher Clavius
, German
astronomer
(b.
1538
)
- 1692
-
Hendrick Hamel
, Dutch sailor and bookkeeper (b.
1630
)
- 1700
-
Aleksei Shein
, Russian general and
statesman
(b.
1662
)
- 1724
-
Elkanah Settle
, English writer (b.
1648
)
- 1763
?
Pierre Carlet de Marivaut
, French writer (b.
1688
)
- 1771
? King
Adolf Frederick of Sweden
(b.
1710
)
- 1787
?
Rugjer Josip Boskovic
,
mathematician
and
physicist
(b.
1711
)
- 1789
?
Ethan Allen
, American patriot (b.
1738
)
- 1799
-
Lazzaro Spallanzani
, Italian biologist (b.
1729
)
- 1804
?
Immanuel Kant
, German philosopher (b.
1724
)
- 1834
?
Friedrich Schleiermacher
, German philosopher (b.
1768
)
- 1886
-
Horatio Seymour
, American politician,
Governor
of
New York
(b.
1810
)
- 1896
?
Ambroise Thomas
, French composer (b.
1811
)
- 1912
?
Gerhard Armauer Hansen
,
Norwegian
doctor and scientist (b.
1841
)
- 1916
?
Richard Dedekind
, mathematician (b.
1831
)
- 1929
?
Lillie Langtry
,
singer
and
actress
(b.
1853
)
- 1933
?
Henri Duparc
, French composer (b.
1848
)
- 1935
?
Auguste Escoffier
, French
chef
(b.
1846
)
- 1936
-
Ibra Charles Blackwood
,
Governor
of
South Carolina
(b.
1878
)
- 1942
?
Grant Wood
, American painter (b.
1891
)
- 1949
?
Imam Hassan al Banna
, founder of the Muslim brotherhood (b.
1906
)
- 1951
?
Choudhary Rahmat Ali
, founding father of Pakistan (b.
1897
)
- 1954
?
Dziga Vertov
, Russian movie maker (b.
1896
)
- 1960
-
Jean-Michel Atlan
, French painter (b.
1913
)
- 1968
-
Maria Caspar-Filser
, German artist (b.
1878
)
- 1970
-
Ishman Bracey
, American
blues
musician (b.
1901
)
- 1971
?
James C. Penney
,
American
department store founder (b.
1875
)
- 1976
?
Sal Mineo
, actor (b.
1939
)
- 1979
?
Jean Renoir
, director (b.
1894
)
- 1982
?
Victor Jory
, Canadian actor (b.
1902
)
- 1983
?
Eubie Blake
, American musician and songwriter (b.
1883
or
1887
)
- 1984
?
Anna Anderson
, claimant to the Russian throne (b.
1896
)
- 1984
?
Julio Cortazar
,
writer
,
intellectual
(b.
1914
)
- 1985
?
Nicholas Colasanto
,
American
actor
(b.
1924
)
- 1985
-
Leslie Sarony
, English entertainer and songwriter (b.
1897
)
- 1992
?
Maria Elena Moyano
, Peruvian activist (b.
1960
)
- 1993
?
James Bulger
, murder victim (b.
1990
)
- 1995
?
Robert Bolt
, writer (b.
1924
)
- 1996
?
Bob Shaw
, writer (b.
1931
)
- 1998
-
Gardner Ackley
, American
economist
and
diplomat
(b.
1915
)
- 2000
?
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
, American musician (b.
1929
)
- 2000
?
Tom Landry
, American football coach (b.
1924
)
- 2000
?
Charles Schulz
, American comics writer (b.
1922
)
- 2001
?
Kristina Soderbaum
, German actress and photographer (b.
1912
)
- 2002
-
John Eriksen
, Danish
footballer
(b.
1957
)
- 2005
-
Rafael Vidal
, Venezuelan athlete (b.
1964
)
- 2007
?
Georg Buschner
, East German footballer and manager (b.
1925
)
- 2008
?
Badri Patarkatsishvili
, Georgian businessman (b.
1955
)
- 2009
?
Giacomo Bulgarelli
, Italian
footballer
(b.
1940
)
- 2010
?
Nodar Kumaritashvili
,
Georgian
luger (b.
1988
)
- 2010
?
Leroy Nash
, American death row inmate (b.
1915
)
- 2011
?
Peter Alexander
, Austrian singer and actor (b.
1926
)
- 2011
?
Betty Garrett
, American actress (b.
1919
)
- 2011
-
Kenneth Mars
, American actor (b.
1935
)
- 2012
-
David Kelly
, Irish actor (b.
1929
)
- 2013
-
Christopher Dorner
, American former police officer, and
spree killer
(b.
1979
)
- 2014
-
Sid Caesar
, American actor and writer (b.
1922
)
- 2014
-
John Pickstone
, English
historian
and
writer
(b.
1944
)
- 2015
-
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat
,
Malaysian
politician (b.
1931
)
- 2015
-
David Carr
, American
journalist
(b.
1956
)
- 2015
-
Tomie Ohtake
, Japanese-Brazilian
artist
(b.
1913
)
- 2015
-
Steve Strange
, British musician (b.
1959
)
- 2015
-
Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek
, Dutch resistance fighter (b.
1921
)
- 2015
-
Oliver Rackham
, English landscape ecologist (b.
1939
)
- 2015
-
Gary Owens
, American actor and television announcer (b.
1934
)
- 2015
-
Movita Castaneda
, American actress (b.
1916
)
- 2015
-
Richie Pratt
, American
jazz
drummer (b.
1943
)
- 2015
-
Ernest J. Sternglass
, American
physicist
and
professor
(b.
1923
)
- 2016
-
Dominique D'Onofrio
, Italian-Belgian football coach (b.
1953
)
- 2016
-
Eddie Barry
, American
ice hockey
player (b.
1919
)
- 2016
-
Robert Frederick Froehlke
, American lawyer (b.
1922
)
- 2016
-
Johnny Lattner
, American football player (b.
1932
)
- 2017
-
Sione Lauaki
, Tongan-New Zealand
rugby
player (b.
1981
)
- 2017
-
Dave Adolph
, American football coach (b.
1937
)
- 2017
-
Damian
, British pop singer (b.
1964
)
- 2017
-
Al Jarreau
, American
jazz
and
R&B
singer (b.
1940
)
- 2017
-
Yitzhak Livni
, Polish-born Israeli
media
executive and writer (b.
1924
)
- 2017
-
Quentin Moses
, American football player (b.
1983
)
- 2017
-
Bobby Murdoch
, English
footballer
(b.
1936
)
- 2017
-
Ren Xinmin
, Chinese rocket scientist and engineer (b.
1915
)
- 2017
-
Clint Roberts
, American politician (b.
1935
)
- 2017
-
Krystyna Sienkiewicz
, Polish
actress
and
singer
(b.
1935
)
- 2018
-
Marty Allen
, American actor and comedian (b.
1923
)
- 2018
-
Martin van der Borgh
, Dutch racing cyclist (b.
1934
)
- 2018
-
Giuseppe Galasso
, Italian historian and politician (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Luo Haocai
, Chinese politician (b.
1934
)
- 2018
-
Grant McBride
, Australian politician (b.
1949
)
- 2018
-
Fethia Mzali
, Tunisian educator and politician (b.
1927
)
- 2018
-
Daryle Singletary
, American country music singer (b.
1971
)
- Charles Darwin
and
Abraham Lincoln
were both born on this date in
1809
, in a very rare occasion of two highly influential and famous people being born on exactly the same day as each other.