March 20
Day of the year
March 20 is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 286 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.1815 – After escaping from Elba , Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days " rule.1848 – German revolutions of 1848–49 : King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin , US.1861 – An earthquake destroys Mendoza , Argentina .1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow , Russia .1890 – Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II .1896 – With the approval of Emperor Guangxu , the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
1903 – The first of a series of auctions of sheep farming land in southern Patagonia takes place impacting established settlers .[ 2] 1913 – Sung Chiao-jen , a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party , is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.1916 – Albert Einstein submits his paper, "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity", which establishes his general theory of relativity , to the journal Annalen der Physik [ 3] 1921 – The Upper Silesia plebiscite , mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland , is held.1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso 's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso , becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.1926 – Chiang Kai-shek initiates a purge of communist elements within the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou .[ 4] 1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.1942 – World War II : General Douglas MacArthur , at Terowie, South Australia , makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines , in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini , are given on CBS and NBC .1951 – Fujiyoshida , a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture , Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.1952 – The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan .1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France.1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency , ESRO (European Space Research Organisation ) is established per an agreement signed on June 14 , 1962 .1969 – A United Arab airlines (now Egyptair ) Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Aswan international Airport , killing 100 people.[ 5] 1972 – The Troubles : The first car bombing by the Provisional IRA in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland .1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race .1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT .1988 – Eritrean War of Independence : Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet , victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet .1990 – Ferdinand Marcos 's widow, Imelda Marcos , goes on trial for bribery , embezzlement , and racketeering .1993 – The Troubles : A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington , England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway , killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.1999 – Legoland California , the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California , US.2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown , is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.2003 – Iraq War : The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland begin an invasion of Iraq .2006 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC . The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby .2010 – Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland begins eruptions that would last for three months, heavily disrupting air travel in Europe .[ 6] 2012 – At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq .2014 – Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel , killing at least nine people.2015 – A Solar eclipse , equinox , and a supermoon all occur on the same day.2015 – Syrian civil war : The Siege of Kobanî is broken by the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Free Syrian Army (FSA), marking a turning point in the Rojava–Islamist conflict .[ 7]
2019 – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is sworn in as acting president of Kazakhstan, following the resignation of long-time president Nursultan Nazarbayev .[ 8]
Births
Pre-1600
1612 – Anne Bradstreet , Puritan American poet (d. 1672)1615 – Dara Shikoh , Indian prince (d. 1659)1639 – Ivan Mazepa , Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1709)1680 – Emanuele d'Astorga , Italian composer (d. 1736)[ 9] 1725 – Abdul Hamid I , Ottoman sultan (d. 1789)1737 – Rama I , Thai king (d. 1809)1771 – Heinrich Clauren , German author (d. 1854)1796 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield , English politician (d. 1862)1799 – Karl August Nicander , Swedish poet and author (d. 1839)1800 – Braulio Carrillo Colina , Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica (d. 1845)1805 – Thomas Cooper , British poet (d. 1892)1811 – Napoleon II , French emperor (d. 1832)1811 – George Caleb Bingham , American painter and politician, State Treasurer of Missouri (d. 1879)
1821 – Ned Buntline , American journalist, author, and publisher (d. 1886)1824 – Theodor von Heuglin , German explorer and ornithologist (d. 1876)1828 – Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906)1831 – Patrick Jennings , Northern Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1897)1831 – Solomon L. Spink , American lawyer and politician (d. 1881)
1834 – Charles William Eliot , American mathematician and academic (d. 1926)1836 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886)1836 – Edward Poynter , English painter, illustrator, and curator (d. 1919)
1840 – Illarion Pryanishnikov , Russian painter (d. 1894)1843 – Ambrosio Flores , Filipino politician (d. 1912)[ 10] 1851 – Ismail Gasprinski , Crimean Tatar educator, publisher, and politician (d. 1914)1856 – John Lavery , Irish painter (d. 1941)1856 – Frederick Winslow Taylor , American tennis player and engineer (d. 1915)
1870 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck , German general (d. 1964)[ 11] 1874 – Börries von Münchhausen , German poet and activist (d. 1945)1876 – Payne Whitney , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1927)1879 – Maud Menten , Canadian physician and biochemist (d. 1960)[ 12] 1882 – René Coty , French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France (d. 1962)1882 – Harold Weber , American golfer (d. 1933)
1884 – Philipp Frank , Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1966)1884 – John Jensen , Australian public servant (d. 1970)
1885 – Vernon Ransford , Australian cricketer (d. 1958)1888 – Amanda Clement , American baseball player, umpire, and educator (d. 1971)1890 – Lauritz Melchior , Danish-American tenor and actor (d. 1973)1894 – Amalie Sara Colquhoun , Australian landscape and portrait painter (d. 1974)1895 – Fredric Wertham , German-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)1897 – Frank Sheed , Australian-British Catholic writer and apologist (d. 1981)[ 13] 1898 – Eduard Wiiralt , Estonian artist (d. 1954)1899 – Vladimír Mandl , Czechoslovak lawyer (d. 1941) [ 14] 1900 – Amelia Chopitea Villa , Bolivia's first female physician (d. 1942)[ 15]
1903 – Edgar Buchanan , American actor (d. 1979)1904 – B. F. Skinner , American psychologist and author (d. 1990)1905 – Jean Galia , French rugby player and boxer (d. 1949)1906 – Abraham Beame , American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (d. 2001)1906 – Ozzie Nelson , American actor and bandleader (d. 1975)[ 16]
1907 – Hugh MacLennan , Canadian author and educator (d. 1990)1908 – Michael Redgrave , English actor and director (d. 1985)[ 16] 1909 – Elisabeth Geleerd , Dutch-American psychoanalyst (d. 1969)[ 17] 1910 – Erwin Blask , German hammer thrower (d. 1999)1911 – Alfonso García Robles , Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)1912 – Ralph Hauenstein , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)1913 – Nikolai Stepulov , Russian-Estonian boxer (d. 1968)1914 – Wendell Corey , American actor and politician (d. 1968)1915 – Rudolf Kirchschläger , Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (d. 2000)1915 – Sviatoslav Richter , Ukrainian pianist and composer (d. 1997)
1915 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1916 – Pierre Messmer , French lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)1917 – Vera Lynn , English singer, songwriter and actress (d. 2020)[ 16] 1917 – Yigael Yadin , Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1984)
1918 – Jack Barry , American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (d. 1984)1918 – Donald Featherstone , English soldier and author (d. 2013)
1918 – Marian McPartland , English-American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1918 – Bernd Alois Zimmermann , German composer (d. 1970)
1919 – Gerhard Barkhorn , German fighter ace (d. 1983)1920 – Pamela Harriman , English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (d. 1997)[ 16] 1920 – Rosemary Timperley , English author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1921 – Usmar Ismail , Indonesian filmmaker (d. 1971)1921 – Dušan Pirjevec , Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977)
1921 – Alfréd Rényi , Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)
1922 – Larry Elgart , American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2017)1922 – Ray Goulding , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1922 – Carl Reiner , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020)[ 16]
1923 – Con Martin , Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)1923 – Shaukat Siddiqui , Pakistani journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1925 – John Ehrlichman , American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)1927 – John Joubert , South African-English composer and academic (d. 2019)1928 – Jerome Biffle , American long jumper and coach (d. 2002)1928 – James P. Gordon , American physicist and engineer (d. 2013)
1928 – Fred Rogers , American television host and producer (d. 2003)[ 16]
1929 – William Andrew MacKay , Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2013)1929 – Germán Robles , Spanish-Mexican actor and director (d. 2015)
1930 – S. Arasaratnam , Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (d. 1998)1931 – Dinos Christianopoulos , Greek poet (d. 2020)[ 18] 1931 – Rein Raamat , Estonian director and screenwriter
1933 – Lateef Adegbite , Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)1933 – George Altman , American baseball player
1934 – Willie Brown , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San Francisco 1934 – David Malouf , Australian author and playwright
1935 – Ted Bessell , American actor and director (d. 1996)1935 – Bettye Washington Greene , American chemist (d. 1995)
1936 – Lee "Scratch" Perry , Jamaican singer, songwriter, music producer, and inventor (d. 2021)1936 – Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate , English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
1937 – Lois Lowry , American author[ 16] 1937 – Jerry Reed , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2008)
1938 – Sergei Novikov , Russian mathematician and academic, winner of the Fields Medal (d. 2024)1939 – Gerald Curran , American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)1939 – Don Edwards , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2022)
1939 – Walter Jakob Gehring , Swiss biologist and academic (d. 2014)
1939 – Brian Mulroney , Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2024)[ 19]
1940 – Stathis Chaitas , Greek footballer and manager1940 – Mary Ellen Mark , American photographer and journalist (d. 2015)
1940 – Giampiero Moretti , Italian race car driver and businessman, founded the Momo company (d. 2012)
1941 – Pat Corrales , American baseball player and manager (d. 2023)1941 – Kenji Kimihara , Japanese runner
1943 – Gerard Malanga , American poet and photographer1943 – Douglas Tompkins , American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (d. 2015)
1943 – Paul Junger Witt , American director and producer (d. 2018)
1944 – John Cameron , English composer and conductor1944 – Camille Cosby , American author, producer, and philanthropist
1944 – Alan Harper , English-Irish archbishop
1945 – Henry Bartholomay , American soldier and pilot (d. 2015)1945 – Jay Ingram , Canadian television host and author
1945 – Tim Yeo , English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
1946 – Douglas B. Green , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1946 – Malcolm Simmons , English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1947 – John Boswell , American historian, philologist, and academic (d. 1994)1948 – John de Lancie , American actor1948 – Nikos Papazoglou , Greek singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1949 – Richard Dowden , English journalist and educator1952 – Geoff Brabham , Australian race car driver1952 – David Greenaway , English economist and academic
1953 – Phil Judd , New Zealand singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter1954 – Mike Francesa , American radio talk show host and television commentator1954 – Liana Kanelli , Greek journalist and politician
1954 – Paul Mirabella , American baseball player
1955 – Nina Kiriki Hoffman , American author1955 – Ian Moss , Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter
1955 – Mariya Takeuchi , Japanese singer-songwriter
1956 – Catherine Ashton , English politician, Vice-President of the European Commission 1956 – Anne Donahue , American lawyer and politician
1956 – Naoto Takenaka , Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director
1957 – David Foster , Australian woodchopper1957 – Spike Lee , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[ 20]
1957 – Chris Wedge , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1958 – Rickey Jackson , American football player1959 – Dave Beasant , English footballer and coach1959 – Mary Roach , American author
1959 – Sting , American wrestler
1959 – Peter Truscott, Baron Truscott , British Labour Party politician and peer[ 21]
1960 – Norm Magnusson , American painter and sculptor1960 – Norbert Pohlmann , German computer scientist and academic
1960 – Yuri Shargin , Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1961 – Ingrid Arndt-Brauer , German politician1961 – Jesper Olsen , Danish footballer and manager
1961 – Sara Wheeler , English author and journalist
1962 – Stephen Sommers , American director, producer, and screenwriter1963 – Paul Annacone , American tennis player and coach1963 – Yelena Romanova , Russian runner (d. 2007)
1964 – Natacha Atlas , Belgian singer-songwriter1965 – William Dalrymple , Scottish historian and author1967 – Xavier Beauvois , French actor, director, and screenwriter1967 – Mookie Blaylock , American basketball player
1968 – Carlos Almeida , Cape Verdean runner1968 – A. J. Jacobs , American journalist and author
1968 – Paul Merson , English footballer and manager
1968 – Ultra Naté , American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter
1968 – Ken Ono , Japanese-American mathematician[ 22]
1969 – Yvette Cooper , English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1969 – Fabien Galthié , French rugby player
1970 – Edoardo Ballerini , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1970 – Josephine Medina , Filipino Paralympic table tennis player (d. 2021)[ 23]
1971 – Manny Alexander , Dominican baseball player1971 – Touré , American journalist and author
1972 – Chilly Gonzales , Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer1972 – Alex Kapranos , English-Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1972 – Greg Searle , English rower
1972 – Marco Sejna , German footballer
1972 – Cristel Vahtra , Estonian skier
1973 – Nicky Boje , South African cricketer1973 – Natalya Khrushcheleva , Russian runner
1973 – Talal Khalifa Aljeri , Kuwaiti businessman
1974 – Carsten Ramelow , German footballer1975 – Ramin Bahrani , American director, producer, and screenwriter1975 – Isolde Kostner , Italian skier
1976 – Chester Bennington , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2017)[ 16] 1978 – Kevin Betsy , English-Seychelles footballer and manager[ 24] 1979 – Shinnosuke Abe , Japanese baseball player1979 – Freema Agyeman , English actress[ 16]
1979 – Daniel Cormier , American mixed martial artist[ 25]
1979 – Keven Mealamu , New Zealand rugby player
1980 – Jamal Crawford , American basketball player1980 – Robertas Javtokas , Lithuanian basketball player
1980 – Michelle Snow , American basketball player[ 26]
1981 – Ian Murray , Scottish footballer1982 – Terrence Duffin , Zimbabwean cricketer1982 – Tomasz Kuszczak , Polish footballer
1982 – José Moreira , Portuguese footballer
1983 – Carolina Padrón , Venezuelan journalist1983 – Jenni Vartiainen , Finnish singer
1984 – Vikram Banerjee , English cricketer1984 – Valtteri Filppula , Finnish ice hockey player[ 27]
1984 – IJustine , American YouTuber[ 28]
1984 – Fernando Torres , Spanish footballer
1985 – Morgan Amalfitano , French footballer1985 – Ronnie Brewer , American basketball player
1985 – Nicolas Lombaerts , Belgian footballer
1986 – Dean Geyer , South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor1986 – Julián Magallanes , Argentinian footballer
1986 – Román Torres , Panamanian footballer
1987 – Daniel Maa Boumsong , Cameroonian footballer1987 – Jon Brockman , American basketball player[ 29]
1987 – Jô , Brazilian footballer[ 30]
1987 – Pedro Ken , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Sergei Kostitsyn , Belarusian ice hockey player
1989 – Xavier Dolan , Canadian actor and director1989 – Tamim Iqbal , Bangladeshi cricketer
1990 – Blake Ferguson , Australian rugby league player1990 – Brad Hand , American baseball player[ 31]
1990 – Marcos Rojo , Argentine footballer
1991 – Mattia Destro , Italian footballer1991 – Michał Kucharczyk , Polish footballer
1991 – Nick Leddy , American ice hockey player[ 32]
1992 – Justin Faulk , American ice hockey player[ 33] 1993 – JaKarr Sampson , American basketball player[ 34] 1995 – Kei , South Korean singer1995 – Nick Paul , Canadian ice hockey player[ 35]
2000 – Hyunjin , South Korean rapper[ 36] 2001 – Trevor Zegras , American ice hockey player[ 37] 2002 – Jahmyr Gibbs , American football player[ 38] 2003 – Cooper Hoffman , American actor[ 39]
Deaths
Pre-1600
687 – Cuthbert , Northumbrian (English) monk, bishop, and saint (b. 634)703 – Wulfram , archbishop of Sens 842 – Alfonso II , king of Asturias (Spain ) (b. 759)851 – Ebbo , archbishop of Reims 1181 – Taira no Kiyomori , Japanese general (b. 1118)1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)1239 – Hermann von Salza , German knight and diplomat (b. 1179)1302 – Ralph Walpole , Bishop of Norwich1336 – Maurice Csák , Hungarian Dominican friar (b. 1270)[ 40] 1351 – Muhammad bin Tughluq , Sultan of Delhi1390 – Alexios III Megas Komnenos , Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1338)1413 – Henry IV of England (b. 1367)1440 – Sigismund I of Lithuania 1475 – Georges Chastellain , Burgundian chronicler and poet1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley , English general and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1508)1568 – Albert, Duke of Prussia (b. 1490)
1619 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)1673 – Augustyn Kordecki , Polish monk (b. 1603)1688 – Maria of Orange-Nassau , Dutch princess (b. 1642)1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur , French actress (b. 1692)[ 41] 1746 – Nicolas de Largillière , French painter and academic (b. 1656)1780 – Benjamin Truman , English brewer and businessman (b. 1699)1793 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield , Scottish judge and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1705)1835 – Louis Léopold Robert , French painter (b. 1794)1849 – James Justinian Morier , Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)1855 – Joseph Aspdin , English businessman (b. 1788)1865 – Yamanami Keisuke , Japanese samurai (b. 1833)1874 – Hans Christian Lumbye , Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer , German physician and physicist (b. 1814)1894 – Lajos Kossuth , Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)1897 – Apollon Maykov , Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)1899 – Franz Ritter von Hauer , Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
1909 – Friedrich Amelung , Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)1918 – Lewis A. Grant , American general and lawyer (b. 1828)1925 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston , English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)1929 – Ferdinand Foch , French field marshal (b. 1851)1930 – Arthur F. Andrews , American cyclist (b. 1876)1931 – Hermann Müller , German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)1933 – Giuseppe Zangara , Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900; executed)[ 42] 1940 – Alfred Ploetz , German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)1941 – Oskar Baum , Bohemian writer (b. 1883)[ 43] 1945 – Dorothy Campbell , Scottish-American golfer (b. 1883)1945 – Maria Lacerda de Moura , Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (b. 1887)[ 44]
1946 – Amadeus William Grabau , American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)1947 – Sigurd Wallén , Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)1952 – Hjalmar Väre , Finnish cyclist (b. 1892)1958 – Adegoke Adelabu , Nigerian merchant, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)1964 – Brendan Behan , Irish republican and playwright (b. 1923)1965 – Daniel Frank , American long jumper (b. 1882)1966 – Demetrios Galanis , Greek artist (b. 1879) [ 45] 1966 – Johnny Morrison , American baseball player (b. 1895)
1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer , Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)1969 – Henri Longchambon , French politician (b. 1896)1971 – Falih Rıfkı Atay , Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)1972 – Marilyn Maxwell , American actress (b. 1921)1974 – Chet Huntley , American journalist (b. 1911)1977 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham , English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)1977 – Terukuni Manzō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
1978 – Jacques Brugnon , French tennis player (b. 1895)1981 – Gerry Bertier , American football player (b. 1953)1983 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)1990 – Maurice Cloche , French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)1990 – Lev Yashin , Russian footballer (b. 1929)
1992 – Georges Delerue , French composer (b. 1925)1993 – Polykarp Kusch , German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)1994 – Lewis Grizzard , American writer and humorist (b. 1946)1997 – V. S. Pritchett , English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)1999 – Patrick Heron , British painter (b. 1920)2000 – Gene Eugene , Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)2001 – Luis Alvarado , Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)2004 – Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)2004 – Pierre Sévigny , Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
2005 – Armand Lohikoski , American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)2007 – Raynald Fréchette , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933)2007 – Taha Yassin Ramadan , Iraqi politician, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
2007 – Hawa Yakubu , Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
2010 – Ai , American poet and academic (b. 1947)2010 – Girija Prasad Koirala , Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
2010 – Stewart Udall , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1920)
2011 – Johnny Pearson , English pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1925)2012 – Lincoln Hall , Australian mountaineer and author (b. 1955)2012 – Noboru Ishiguro , Japanese animator and director (b. 1938)
2012 – Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg , Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)
2012 – Jim Stynes , Irish-Australian footballer (b. 1966)
2013 – James Herbert , English author (b. 1943)2013 – George Lowe , New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1924)[ 46]
2013 – Zillur Rahman , Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)[ 47]
2014 – Hennie Aucamp , South African poet, author, and academic (b. 1934)[ 48] 2014 – Hilderaldo Bellini , Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)[ 49]
2014 – Tonie Nathan , American politician (b. 1923)[ 50]
2014 – Khushwant Singh , Indian journalist and author (b. 1915)[ 51]
2015 – Eva Burrows , Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1929)[ 52] 2015 – Malcolm Fraser , Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1930)[ 53]
2016 – Anker Jørgensen , Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)[ 54] 2017 – David Rockefeller , American billionaire and philanthropist (b. 1915)[ 55] 2018 – C. K. Mann , a Ghanaian Highlife musician and producer (b. 1936)[ 56] 2019 – Mary Warnock , English philosopher and writer (b. 1924) [ 57] 2020 – Kenny Rogers , American singer (b. 1938)[ 58] 2023 – John Sattler , Australian rugby league player (b. 1942)[ 59] 2023 – Kyle White , Australian rugby league player (b. 1970)[ 60]
Holidays and observances
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