January 16
Day of the year
January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 349 days remain until the end of the year (350 in leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
1458 BC – Hatshepsut dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the Valley of the Kings .[ 1] 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate , marking the beginning of the Roman Empire .[ 2] 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal , enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán .[ 3] 550 – Gothic War : The Ostrogoths , under King Totila , conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.[ 4] 929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the Caliphate of Córdoba .[ 5] 1120 – Crusades : The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem .[ 6] 1275 – Edward I permits his mother Eleanor of Provence to expel the Jews from the towns Worcester , Marlborough , Cambridge and Gloucester .[ 7] 1362 – Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea .[ 8] 1537 – Bigod's Rebellion , an armed insurrection attempting to resist the English Reformation , begins.[ 9] 1547 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia , replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia .[ 10] 1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.[ 11] 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.[ 12]
1909 – Ernest Shackleton 's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole .[ 20] 1913 – Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan writes his first letter to G. H. Hardy at Cambridge , stating without proof various formulae involving integrals , infinite series , and continued fractions , beginning a long correspondence between the two as well as widespread recognition of Ramanujan's results. [ 21] 1919 – Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution . With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.[ 22] 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France .1921 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa .1942 – The Holocaust : Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to Chełmno extermination camp .[ 23] 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3 , killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard .[ 24]
1945 – World War II : Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker .1959 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Astor Piazzolla International Airport in Mar del Plata , Argentina, killing 51.[ 25] 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia , in protest against the Soviets ' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.[ 26] 1969 – Space Race : Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 Soyuz 5 orbit , the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk .
1979 – Iranian Revolution : The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt .[ 27] 1983 – Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara , Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20.[ 28] 1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq , beginning the Gulf War .1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík , destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.[ 29] 2001 – Second Congo War : Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.[ 30] 2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War .
2002 – War in Afghanistan : The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden , al-Qaeda , and the remaining members of the Taliban .2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry .2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia 's new president . She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.[ 31] 2011 – Syrian civil war : The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism .[ 32] [ 33] 2012 – The Mali War begins when Tuareg militias start fighting the Malian government for independence.[ 34] 2016 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.2017 – Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes into a residential area near Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 39 people.[ 35] 2018 – Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.[ 36] 2020 – The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate .[ 37] 2020 – The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA .[ 38]
Births
Pre-1600
972 – Sheng Zong , emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 1031)1093 – Isaac Komnenos , son of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (d. 1152)1245 – Edmund Crouchback , English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1296)[ 39] 1362 – Robert de Vere , duke of Ireland (d. 1392)1409 – René of Anjou , king of Naples (d. 1480)1477 – Johannes Schöner , German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)1501 – Anthony Denny , confidant of Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)1516 – Bayinnaung , king of Burma (d. 1581)1558 – Jakobea of Baden , Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (d. 1597)
1616 – François de Vendôme , duke of Beaufort (d. 1669)1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck , Belgian painter and educator (d. 1699)1630 – Guru Har Rai , Sikh Guru (d. 1661)1634 – Dorothe Engelbretsdatter , Norwegian author and poet (d. 1716)[ 40] 1653 – Johann Conrad Brunner , Swiss anatomist (d. 1727)[ 41] 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon , French soldier and diplomat (d. 1755)1691 – Peter Scheemakers , Belgian sculptor and educator (d. 1781)1728 – Niccolò Piccinni , Italian composer and educator (d. 1800)1749 – Vittorio Alfieri , Italian poet and playwright (d. 1803)1757 – Richard Goodwin Keats , English admiral and politician, third Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)1807 – Charles Henry Davis , American admiral (d. 1877)1815 – Henry Halleck , American lawyer, general, and scholar (d. 1872)1821 – John C. Breckinridge , American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)1834 – Robert R. Hitt , American lawyer and politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1906)1836 – Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)[ 42] 1838 – Franz Brentano , German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)1844 – Ismail Kemal , Albanian politician and statesman, first prime minister of Albania (d. 1919)[ 43] 1851 – William Hall-Jones , English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1936)1853 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson , English actor and manager (d. 1937)1853 – Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton , Greek-English general (d. 1947)
1853 – André Michelin , French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
1870 – Jüri Jaakson , Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia (d. 1942)1872 – Henri Büsser , French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973)1874 – Robert W. Service , English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)[ 44] 1875 – Leonor Michaelis , German biochemist and physician (d. 1949)1876 – Claude Buckenham , English cricketer and footballer (d. 1937)1878 – Harry Carey , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)1880 – Samuel Jones , American high jumper (d. 1954)1882 – Margaret Wilson , American author (d. 1973)1885 – Zhou Zuoren , Chinese author and translator (d. 1967)1888 – Osip Brik , Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (d. 1945)1892 – Homer Burton Adkins , American chemist (d. 1949)1893 – Daisy Kennedy , Australian-English violinist (d. 1981)1894 – Irving Mills , American publisher (d. 1985)1895 – Evripidis Bakirtzis , Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947)1895 – T. M. Sabaratnam , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
1895 – Nat Schachner , American lawyer, chemist, and author (d. 1955)
1897 – Carlos Pellicer , Mexican poet and academic (d. 1977)1898 – Margaret Booth , American producer and editor (d. 2002)1898 – Irving Rapper , American film director and producer (d. 1999)
1900 – Kiku Amino , Japanese author and translator (d. 1978)[ 45] 1900 – Edith Frank , German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)[ 46]
1901 – Fulgencio Batista , Cuban colonel and politician, ninth President of Cuba (d. 1973)[ 47] 1901 – Frank Zamboni , American businessman and inventor (d. 1988)[ 48]
1902 – Eric Liddell , Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary (d. 1945)[ 49] 1903 – William Grover-Williams , English-French racing driver (d. 1945)[ 50] 1905 – Ernesto Halffter , Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)1906 – Johannes Brenner , Estonian footballer and pilot (d. 1975)1906 – Diana Wynyard , English actress (d. 1964)
1907 – Alexander Knox , Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)[ 51] 1907 – Paul Nitze , American banker and politician, tenth United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004)
1908 – Sammy Crooks , English footballer (d. 1981)1908 – Ethel Merman , American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1908 – Günther Prien , German captain (d. 1941)
1909 – Clement Greenberg , American art critic (d. 1994)1910 – Dizzy Dean , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974)1911 – Ivan Barrow , Jamaican cricketer (d. 1979)1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva , Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982)
1911 – Roger Lapébie , French cyclist (d. 1996)
1914 – Roger Wagner , French-American conductor and educator (d. 1992)1915 – Leslie H. Martinson , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)1916 – Philip Lucock , English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996)1917 – Carl Karcher , American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. (d. 2008)1918 – Nel Benschop , Dutch poet and educator (d. 2005)1918 – Allan Ekelund , Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009)
1918 – Clem Jones , Australian surveyor and politician, eighth Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
1918 – Stirling Silliphant , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)[ 52]
1919 – Jerome Horwitz , American chemist and academic (d. 2012)1920 – Elliott Reid , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)1921 – Francesco Scavullo , American photographer (d. 2004)1923 – Gene Feist , American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company (d. 2014)1923 – Anthony Hecht , American poet (d. 2004)
1924 – Katy Jurado , Mexican actress (d. 2002)1924 – Allen Swift , American actor, writer, playwright, and magician (d. 2010)[ 53]
1925 – Peter Hirsch , German-English metallurgist and academic1925 – James Robinson Risner , American general and pilot (d. 2013)
1928 – William Kennedy , American novelist and journalist1928 – Pilar Lorengar , Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1996)
1929 – Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah , Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)1930 – Mary Ann McMorrow , American lawyer and judge (d. 2013)1930 – Norman Podhoretz , American journalist and author
1930 – Paula Tilbrook , English actress (d. 2019)[ 54]
1931 – John Enderby , English physicist and academic (d. 2021)1931 – Robert L. Park , American physicist and academic (d. 2020)
1931 – Johannes Rau , German journalist and politician, eighth Federal President of Germany (d. 2006)
1932 – Victor Ciocâltea , Romanian chess player (d. 1983)1932 – Dian Fossey , American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)[ 48]
1933 – Susan Sontag , American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 2004)[ 48] 1934 – Bob Bogle , American rock guitarist and bass player (d. 2009)1934 – Marilyn Horne , American soprano and actress[ 55]
1935 – A. J. Foyt , American race car driver[ 48] 1935 – Udo Lattek , German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1936 – Michael White , Scottish actor and producer (d. 2016)1937 – Luiz Bueno , Brazilian racing driver (d. 2011)1937 – Francis George , American cardinal (d. 2015)
1938 – Marina Vaizey , American journalist and critic1939 – Ralph Gibson , American photographer1941 – Claire Gordon , English actress and comedian (d. 2015)[ 56] 1941 – Christine Truman , English tennis player and sportscaster
1942 – René Angélil , Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)[ 48] 1942 – Barbara Lynn , American singer-songwriter and guitarist[ 55]
1943 – Michael Attwell , English actor (d. 2006)[ 57] 1943 – Gavin Bryars , English bassist and composer
1943 – Brian Ferneyhough , British composer[ 58]
1943 – Ronnie Milsap , American singer and pianist[ 55]
1944 – Dieter Moebius , Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (d. 2015)1944 – Jim Stafford , American singer-songwriter and actor[ 55]
1944 – Jill Tarter , American astronomer and biologist
1944 – Judy Baar Topinka , American journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1945 – Wim Suurbier , Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2020)1946 – Kabir Bedi , Indian actor1946 – Katia Ricciarelli , Italian soprano and actress
1947 – Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy , English academic and politician1947 – Harvey Proctor , English politician
1947 – Laura Schlessinger , American physiologist, talk show host, and author[ 55]
1948 – John Carpenter , American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer[ 55] 1948 – Ants Laaneots , Estonian general
1948 – Ruth Reichl , American journalist and critic
1948 – Cliff Thorburn , Canadian snooker player
1949 – Anne F. Beiler , American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's 1949 – R. F. Foster , Irish historian and academic
1949 – Andrew Refshauge , Australian physician and politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
1950 – Debbie Allen , American actress, dancer, and choreographer[ 55] 1950 – Robert Schimmel , American comedian, actor, and producer (d. 2010)
1952 – Fuad II , King of Egypt[ 59] 1952 – Piercarlo Ghinzani , Italian racing driver and manager
1953 – Robert Jay Mathews , American militant, founded The Order (d. 1984)1954 – Robin Davies , Welsh actor (d. 2010)[ 60] 1954 – Wolfgang Schmidt , German discus thrower
1954 – Vasili Zhupikov , Russian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1955 – Jerry M. Linenger , American captain, physician, and astronaut1956 – Wayne Daniel , Barbadian cricketer1956 – Gerald Henderson , American basketball player[ 61]
1956 – Martin Jol , Dutch footballer and manager[ 62]
1956 – Greedy Smith , Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist (d. 2019)
1957 – Jurijs Andrejevs , Latvian footballer and manager1957 – Ricardo Darín , Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
1958 – Anatoli Boukreev , Russian mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997)1958 – Lena Ek , Swedish lawyer and politician, ninth Swedish Minister for the Environment
1958 – Andris Šķēle , Latvian businessman and politician, fourth Prime Minister of Latvia
1959 – Lisa Milroy , Canadian painter and educator1959 – Sade , Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer[ 55]
1961 – Kenneth Sivertsen , Norwegian guitarist and composer (d. 2006)1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon , Australian electrician and politician, 51st Australian Minister of Defence 1962 – Maxine Jones , American R&B singer–songwriter and actress
1963 – James May , English journalist and television presenter[ 63] 1964 – Gail Graham , Canadian golfer1966 – Jack McDowell , American baseball player1968 – David Chokachi , American actor[ 55] 1968 – Rebecca Stead , American author
1969 – Marinus Bester , German footballer1969 – Stevie Jackson , Scottish guitarist and songwriter
1969 – Roy Jones Jr. , American boxer
1970 – Don MacLean , American basketball player and sportscaster[ 64] 1971 – Sergi Bruguera , Spanish tennis player and coach1971 – Josh Evans , American film producer, screenwriter and actor
1971 – Jonathan Mangum , American actor[ 55]
1972 – Ruben Bagger , Danish footballer1972 – Ang Christou , Australian footballer
1972 – Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov , Russian footballer and manager
1972 – Ezra Hendrickson , Vincentian footballer and manager
1972 – Joe Horn , American football player and coach
1972 – Richard T. Jones , American actor[ 55]
1973 – Josie Davis , American actress[ 55] 1974 – Kate Moss , English model and fashion designer[ 55] 1975 – Marc Jackson , American basketball player and sportscaster[ 65] 1976 – Viktor Maslov , Russian racing driver1976 – Martina Moravcová , Slovak swimmer
1977 – Jeff Foster , American basketball player1978 – Alfredo Amézaga , Mexican baseball player1979 – Aaliyah , American singer and actress (d. 2001)[ 48] 1979 – Brenden Morrow , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Jason Ward , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Lin-Manuel Miranda , American actor, playwright, and composer[ 55] 1980 – Albert Pujols , Dominican-American baseball player[ 48]
1980 – Seydou Keita , Malian footballer[ 66]
1981 – Jamie Lundmark , Canadian ice hockey player1981 – Paul Rofe , Australian cricketer
1981 – Nick Valensi , American musician and songwriter[ 55]
1981 – Bobby Zamora , English footballer[ 67]
1982 – Preston , English singer-songwriter1982 – Birgitte Hjort Sørensen , Danish actress[ 48]
1982 – Tuncay , Turkish footballer
1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz , Austrian footballer1983 – Andriy Rusol , Ukrainian footballer
1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner , Swiss footballer1984 – Miroslav Radović , Serbian footballer
1985 – Joe Flacco , American football player[ 68] 1985 – Jayde Herrick , Australian cricketer
1985 – Gintaras Januševičius , Russian-Lithuanian pianist
1985 – Sidharth Malhotra , Indian actor
1985 – Jonathan Richter , Danish-Gambian footballer[ 69]
1985 – Simon Richter , Danish-Gambian footballer[ 70]
1985 – Renée Felice Smith , American actress[ 55]
1986 – Johannes Rahn , German footballer1986 – Mark Trumbo , American baseball player
1986 – Reto Ziegler , Swiss footballer[ 71]
1987 – Jake Epstein , Canadian actor1987 – Charlotte Henshaw , English swimmer
1987 – Greivis Vásquez , Venezuelan basketball player[ 72]
1988 – Nicklas Bendtner , Danish footballer1988 – Jorge Torres Nilo , Mexican footballer
1988 – FKA Twigs , English singer-songwriter and actress[ 48]
1990 – Dennis Kelly , American football player[ 73] 1991 – Matt Duchene , Canadian ice hockey player1992 – Jason Zucker , American ice hockey player[ 74] 1993 – Hannes Anier , Estonian footballer1993 – Amandine Hesse , French tennis player
1994 – Mikko Lehtonen , Finnish ice hockey player[ 75] 1995 – Jonathan Allen , American football player[ 76] 1995 – Mikaela Turik , Australian-Canadian cricketer
1995 – Tre'Davious White , American football player[ 77]
1996 – Jennie , South Korean singer[ 48] 1996 – Zhou Qi , Chinese basketball player[ 78]
1998 – Boo Seung-kwan , South Korean singer[ 79] 2000 – Andrew Nembhard , Canadian basketball player[ 80]
Deaths
Pre-1600
654 – Gao Jifu , Chinese politician and chancellor (b. 596)957 – Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i , Tulunid vizier (b. 871)970 – Polyeuctus of Constantinople , Byzantine patriarch (b. 956)1263 – Shinran Shonin , Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 1173)1289 – Buqa , Mongol minister1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos , Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician (b. 1250)1354 – Joanna of Châtillon , duchess of Athens (b. c.1285)1373 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)1391 – Muhammed V of Granada , Nasrid emir (b. 1338)1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter , English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1352)1443 – Erasmo of Narni , Italian mercenary (b. 1370)1545 – George Spalatin , German priest and reformer (b. 1484)1547 – Johannes Schöner , German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)1554 – Christiern Pedersen , Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480)1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln , English admiral and politician (b. 1512)1595 – Murad III , Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
1635 – Mariana de Jesús Torres , Spanish nun and mystic (b. 1563)[ 81] 1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot , French lawyer (b. 1580)1710 – Higashiyama , Japanese emperor (b. 1675)1711 – Joseph Vaz , Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes , German poet and playwright (b. 1680)1748 – Arnold Drakenborch , Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)1750 – Ivan Trubetskoy , Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)1752 – Francis Blomefield , English historian and author (b. 1705)1794 – Edward Gibbon , English historian and politician (b. 1737)1809 – John Moore , Scottish general and politician (b. 1761)1817 – Alexander J. Dallas , Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, sixth United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette , French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)1856 – Thaddeus William Harris , American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)1864 – Anton Schindler , Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)1865 – Edmond François Valentin About , French journalist and author (b. 1828)1879 – Octave Crémazie , Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli , Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)1891 – Léo Delibes , French pianist and composer (b. 1836)1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers , English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
1901 – Jules Barbier , French poet and playwright (b. 1825)1901 – Arnold Böcklin , Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
1901 – Hiram Rhodes Revels , American soldier, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
1901 – Mahadev Govind Ranade , Indian scholar, social reformer, judge and author (b. 1842)[ 82]
1906 – Marshall Field , American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)1917 – George Dewey , American admiral (b. 1837)1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves , Brazilian lawyer and politician, fifth President of Brazil (b. 1848)1933 – Bekir Sami Kunduh , Turkish politician (b. 1867)1936 – Albert Fish , American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870)1938 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)1942 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)1942 – Villem Grünthal-Ridala , Estonian poet and linguist (b. 1885)
1942 – Carole Lombard , American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
1942 – Ernst Scheller , German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
1957 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone , English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada (b. 1874)1957 – Arturo Toscanini , Italian cellist and conductor (b. 1867)
1959 – Phan Khôi , Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887)1961 – Max Schöne , German swimmer (b. 1880)1962 – Frank Hurley , Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885)1962 – Ivan Meštrović , Croatian sculptor and architect, designed the Monument to the Unknown Hero (b. 1883)
1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff , American physicist and academic (b. 1901)1968 – Bob Jones Sr. , American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883)1968 – Panagiotis Poulitsas , Greek archaeologist and judge (b. 1881)
1969 – Vernon Duke , Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)1971 – Philippe Thys , Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)1972 – Teller Ammons , American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. , American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks
1973 – Edgar Sampson , American musician and composer (b. 1907)1975 – Israel Abramofsky , Russian-American painter (b. 1888)1978 – A. V. Kulasingham , Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)1981 – Bernard Lee , English actor (b. 1908)[ 83] 1983 – Virginia Mauret , American musician and dancer1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong , American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)1987 – Bertram Wainer , Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)1988 – Andrija Artuković , Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator , first Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899)1990 – Lady Eve Balfour , British farmer, educator, and founding figure in the organic movement (b. 1898)[ 84] 1995 – Eric Mottram , English poet and critic (b. 1924)1996 – Marcia Davenport , American author and critic (b. 1903)1996 – Kaye Webb , English journalist and publisher (b. 1914)
1999 – Jim McClelland , Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915)2000 – Robert R. Wilson , American physicist and academic (b. 1914)2001 – Auberon Waugh , English author and journalist (b. 1939)2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown , English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)2003 – Richard Wainwright , English politician (b. 1918)2004 – Kalevi Sorsa , Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)2005 – Marjorie Williams , American journalist and author (b. 1958)2006 – Stanley Biber , American soldier and physician (b. 1923)2009 – Joe Erskine , American boxer and runner (b. 1930)2009 – John Mortimer , English lawyer and author (b. 1923)[ 85]
2009 – Andrew Wyeth , American painter (b. 1917)[ 86]
2010 – Glen Bell , American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b. 1923)2010 – Takumi Shibano , Japanese author and translator (b. 1926)
2012 – Joe Bygraves , Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)2012 – Jimmy Castor , American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1940)
2012 – Sigursteinn Gíslason , Icelandic footballer and manager (b. 1968)
2012 – Lorna Kesterson , American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
2012 – Gustav Leonhardt , Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
2013 – Wayne D. Anderson , American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)2013 – André Cassagnes , French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
2013 – Gussie Moran , American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
2013 – Pauline Phillips , American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (b. 1918)
2013 – Glen P. Robinson , American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923)
2014 – Gary Arlington , American author and illustrator (b. 1938)2014 – Ruth Duccini , American actress (b. 1918)
2014 – Dave Madden , Canadian-American actor (b. 1931)
2014 – Hiroo Onoda , Japanese lieutenant (b. 1922)
2015 – Miriam Akavia , Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927)2015 – Yao Beina , Chinese singer (b. 1981)
2016 – Joannis Avramidis , Greek sculptor (b. 1922)2016 – Ted Marchibroda , American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2017 – Eugene Cernan , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)2018 – Ed Doolan , British radio presenter (b. 1941)[ 87] 2018 – Oliver Ivanović , Kosovo Serb politician (b. 1953)[ 88]
2019 – John C. Bogle , American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1929)[ 89] 2019 – Lorna Doom , American musician (b. 1958)[ 90]
2019 – Chris Wilson , Australian musician (b. 1956)[ 91]
2020 – Christopher Tolkien , British academic and editor (b. 1924)[ 92] 2021 – Pedro Trebbau , German-born Venezuelan zoologist (b. 1929)[ 93] 2021 – Chris Cramer , British journalist (b. 1948)[ 94]
2021 – Phil Spector , American record producer, songwriter (b. 1939)[ 95]
2022 – Ibrahim Boubacar Keita , Former Malian President (b. 1945)[ 96]
Holidays and observances
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