August 12
Day of the year
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 141 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1914 – World War I : The United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary .1914 – World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen , Belgium.
1944 – Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema .1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre , during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque , the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
1948 – Between 15 and 150 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are killed by Pakistani police.1950 – Korean War : Bloody Gulch massacre : Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army .1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets : Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.1953 – First thermonuclear bomb test : The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4 layered " scheme.1953 – The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme ). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
1960 – Echo 1A communications satellite , is launched.[ 6] 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies .1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland , resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside .1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre , one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War .1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise .1977 – The Sri Lanka Riots : Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils , begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.1984 – An infamous brawl takes place at the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium between the Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres .[ 7] 1985 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture , Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.1990 – Sue , the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota .1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike , eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series .2000 – The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise , killing her entire 118-man crew.2015 – At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin , China.2016 – Syrian civil war : The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] 2017 - The Unite the Right rally occurs in Charlottesville, Virginia , leading to the deaths of 3 and injuring nearly 50 more.[ 12] 2018 – Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada , Syria.[ 13] 2021 – Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010 .[ 14]
Births
Pre-1600
1604 – Tokugawa Iemitsu , Japanese shōgun (d. 1651)1626 – Giovanni Legrenzi , Italian composer (d. 1690)1629 – Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria , Austrian archduchess (d. 1685)1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1704)1686 – John Balguy , English philosopher and author (d. 1748)1696 – Maurice Greene , English organist and composer (d. 1755)1762 – George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)1773 – Karl Faber , Prussian historian and academic (d. 1853)1774 – Robert Southey , English poet and author (d. 1843)1831 – Helena Blavatsky , Russian theosophist and scholar (d. 1891)1852 – Michael J. McGivney , American priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus (d. 1890)1856 – Diamond Jim Brady , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1917)1857 – Ernestine von Kirchsberg , Austrian painter and educator (d. 1924)1859 – Katharine Lee Bates , American poet and author (d. 1929)[ 15] 1860 – Klara Hitler , Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1907)1866 – Jacinto Benavente , Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)1866 – Henrik Sillem , Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist (d. 1907)
1867 – Edith Hamilton , German-American author and educator (d. 1963)1870 – Henry Reuterdahl , Swedish-American artist (d. 1925)1871 – Gustavs Zemgals , Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia (d. 1939)1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart , American author and playwright (d. 1958)1877 – Albert Bartha , Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (d. 1960)1880 – Radclyffe Hall , English poet, author, and activist (d. 1943)1880 – Christy Mathewson , American baseball player and manager (d. 1925)
1881 – Cecil B. DeMille , American director and producer (d. 1959)1883 – Martha Hedman , Swedish-American actress and playwright (d. 1974)1883 – Marion Lorne , American actress (d. 1968)
1885 – Jean Cabannes , French physicist and academic (d. 1959)1885 – Keith Murdoch , Australian journalist (d. 1952)
1885 – Juhan Simm , Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1959)
1887 – Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)1889 – Zerna Sharp , American author and educator (d. 1981)1891 – C. E. M. Joad , English philosopher and academic (d. 1953)1891 – John McDermott , American golfer (d. 1971)
1892 – Alfred Lunt , American actor and director (d. 1977)1897 – Maurice Fernandes , Guyanese cricketer (d. 1981)1899 – Ben Sealey , Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1963)
1902 – Mohammad Hatta , Indonesian statesman, 1st Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1980)1904 – Idel Jakobson , Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer (d. 1997)1904 – Tamás Lossonczy , Hungarian painter (d. 2009)
1904 – Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (d. 1918)
1906 – Harry Hopman , Australian tennis player and coach (d. 1985)1906 – Tedd Pierce , American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1972)
1907 – Gladys Bentley , American blues singer (d. 1960)1907 – Joe Besser , American actor (d. 1988)
1907 – Boy Charlton , Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
1907 – Benjamin Sheares , Singaporean physician and politician, 2nd President of Singapore (d. 1981)
1909 – Bruce Matthews , Canadian general and businessman (d. 1991)1910 – Yusof bin Ishak , Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (d. 1970)[ 16] 1910 – Jane Wyatt , American actress (d. 2006)
1911 – Cantinflas , Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1993)1912 – Samuel Fuller , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1997)1913 – Richard L. Bare , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)1914 – Gerd Buchdahl , German-English philosopher and author (d. 2001)1914 – Ruth Lowe , Canadian pianist and songwriter (d. 1981)
1915 – Michael Kidd , American dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)1916 – Ioan Dicezare , Romanian general and pilot (d. 2012)1916 – Edward Pinkowski , American writer, journalist and Polonia historian (d. 2020)
1917 – Oliver Crawford , American screenwriter and author (d. 2008)1917 – Ebba Haslund , Norwegian writer (d. 2009)[ 17]
1918 – Sid Bernstein , American record producer (d. 2013)1918 – Guy Gibson , Anglo-Indian commander and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1944)
1919 – Margaret Burbidge , English-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2020)1919 – Vikram Sarabhai , Indian physicist and academic (d. 1971)
1920 – Charles Gibson , American ethnohistorian (d. 1985)1920 – Percy Mayfield , American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 1984)[ 18]
1922 – Fulton Mackay , Scottish actor and playwright (d. 1987)1922 – Miloš Jakeš , Czech communist politician (d. 2020)
1923 – John Holt , Jamaican cricketer (d. 1997)1924 – Derek Shackleton , English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 2007)1924 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (d. 1988)
1925 – Dale Bumpers , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (d. 2016)1925 – Guillermo Cano Isaza , Colombian journalist (d. 1986)
1925 – Donald Justice , American poet and writing teacher (d. 2004)
1925 – Norris McWhirter , Scottish publisher and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (d. 2004)
1925 – Ross McWhirter , Scottish publisher and activist, co-founded the Guinness World Records (d. 1975)
1925 – George Wetherill , American physicist and academic (d. 2006)
1926 – Douglas Croft , American child actor (d. 1963)[ 19] 1926 – John Derek , American actor, director, and cinematographer (d. 1998)
1926 – Joe Jones , American R&B singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1927 – Porter Wagoner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)1928 – Charles Blackman , Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)1928 – Bob Buhl , American baseball player (d. 2001)
1928 – Dan Curtis , American director and producer (d. 2006)
1929 – Buck Owens , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)1930 – George Soros , Hungarian-American businessman and investor, founded the Soros Fund Management 1930 – Kanagaratnam Sriskandan , Sri Lankan engineer and civil servant (d. 2010)
1930 – Jacques Tits , Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 2021)
1931 – William Goldman , American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2018)1932 – Dallin H. Oaks , American lawyer, jurist, and religious leader1932 – Charlie O'Donnell , American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
1932 – Sirikit , Queen mother of Thailand
1933 – Parnelli Jones , American race car driver and businessman (d. 2024)[ 20] 1933 – Frederic Lindsay , Scottish author and educator (d. 2013)
1934 – Robin Nicholson , English metallurgist and academic1935 – John Cazale , American actor (d. 1978)1936 – Kjell Grede , Swedish director and screenwriter (d. 2017)1937 – Walter Dean Myers , American author and poet (d. 2014)1938 – Jean-Paul L'Allier , Canadian journalist and politician, 38th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2016)1939 – George Hamilton , American actor1939 – David Jacobs , American television writer and producer (d. 2023)[ 21]
1939 – S. Jayakumar , Singaporean politician, 4th Senior Minister of Singapore [ 22]
1939 – Pam Kilborn , Australian track and field athlete
1939 – David King , South African chemist and academic
1939 – Sushil Koirala , Nepalese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2016)
1939 – Roy Romanow , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Saskatchewan
1940 – Eddie Barlow , South African cricketer and coach (d. 2005)1940 – John Waller , English historical European martial arts (HEMA) revival pioneer and fight director (d. 2018)[ 23]
1941 – L. M. Kit Carson , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)1941 – Réjean Ducharme , Canadian author and playwright (d. 2017)
1941 – Dana Ivey , American actress
1942 – Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt , German physician and author1943 – Javeed Alam , Indian academician[ 24] 1945 – Dorothy E. Denning , American computer scientist and academic1945 – Ron Mael , American keyboard player and songwriter
1946 – Terry Nutkins , English television host and author (d. 2012)1947 – John Nathan-Turner , English author and television director, producer, and writer (d. 2002)[ 25] 1948 – Siddaramaiah , Indian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka 1948 – Graham J. Zellick , English academic and jurist
1949 – Panagiotis Chinofotis , Greek admiral and politician1949 – Mark Knopfler , Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1949 – Lou Martin , Northern Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2012)
1949 – Alex Naumik , Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1949 – Rick Ridgeway , American mountaineer and photographer
1950 – Jim Beaver , American actor, director, and screenwriter1950 – August "Kid Creole" Darnell , American musician, bandleader, singer-songwriter, and record producer
1950 – George McGinnis , American basketball player (d. 2023)[ 26]
1951 – Klaus Toppmöller , German football manager and former player1952 – Daniel Biles , American associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court 1952 – Sitaram Yechury , Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) [ 27] [ 28]
1954 – Rob Borbidge , Australian politician, 35th Premier of Queensland 1954 – Leung Chun-ying , Hong Kong businessman and politician, 3rd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1954 – Ibolya Dávid , Hungarian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice of Hungary
1954 – François Hollande , French lawyer and politician, 24th President of France
1954 – Sam J. Jones , American actor[ 29]
1954 – Pat Metheny , American jazz guitarist and composer
1956 – Lee Freedman , Australian horse trainer1956 – Bruce Greenwood , Canadian actor and producer
1956 – Sidath Wettimuny , Sri Lankan cricketer
1957 – Friedhelm Schütte , German footballer1957 – Amanda Redman , English actress
1958 – Jürgen Dehmel , German bass player and songwriter1959 – Kerry Boustead , Australian rugby league player1960 – Laurent Fignon , French cyclist and sportscaster (d. 2010)1960 – Greg Thomas , Welsh-English cricketer
1961 – Roy Hay , English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer1961 – Mark Priest , New Zealand cricketer
1963 – Kōji Kitao , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 60th Yokozuna (d. 2019)1963 – Campbell Newman , Australian politician, 38th Premier of Queensland
1963 – Sir Mix-a-Lot , American rapper, producer, and actor
1964 – Txiki Begiristain , Spanish footballer1964 – Michael Hagan , Australian rugby league player and coach
1965 – Peter Krause , American actor1966 – Tobias Ellwood , American-English captain and politician1967 – Andy Hui , Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor1967 – Andrey Plotnikov , Russian race walker
1967 – Regilio Tuur , Dutch boxer
1968 – Thorsten Boer , German footballer and manager1969 – Aga Muhlach , Filipino actor and politician1969 – Stuart Williams , Nevisian cricketer
1969 – Tanita Tikaram , British pop/folk singer-songwriter[ 30]
1970 – Aleksandar Đurić , Bosnian footballer1970 – Charles Mesure , English-Australian actor and screenwriter
1970 – Toby Perkins , English businessman and politician
1970 – Jim Schlossnagle , American baseball player and coach
1970 – Anthony Swofford , American soldier and author
1971 – Michael Ian Black , American comedian, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1971 – Yvette Nicole Brown , American actress, comedian, and talk show host[ 31]
1971 – Rebecca Gayheart , American actress
1971 – Pete Sampras , American tennis player
1972 – Demir Demirkan , Turkish singer-songwriter and producer1972 – Mark Kinsella , Irish footballer and manager
1972 – Takanohana Kōji , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 65th Yokozuna
1972 – Gyanendra Pandey , Indian cricketer
1972 – Del the Funky Homosapien , American rapper [ 32]
1973 – Jonathan Coachman , American sportscaster and wrestler1973 – Mark Iuliano , Italian footballer and manager
1973 – Todd Marchant , American ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Matt Clement , American baseball player and coach1974 – Karl Stefanovic , Australian television host
1975 – Casey Affleck , American actor1976 – Pedro Collins , Barbadian cricketer1976 – Mikko Lindström , Finnish guitarist
1976 – Henry Tuilagi , Samoan rugby player
1976 – Antoine Walker , American basketball player
1977 – Plaxico Burress , American football player1977 – Jesper Grønkjær , Danish footballer
1977 – Park Yong-ha , South Korean actor (d. 2010)
1978 – Chris Chambers , American football player1978 – Hayley Wickenheiser , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – D. J. Houlton , American baseball player1979 – Ian Hutchinson , English motorcycle racer
1979 – Cindy Klassen , Canadian speed skater
1979 – Austra Skujytė , Lithuanian pentathlete
1980 – Javier Chevantón , Uruguayan footballer1980 – Maggie Lawson , American actress
1980 – Dominique Swain , American actress
1980 – Matt Thiessen , Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Tony Capaldi , Norwegian–Northern Irish footballer1981 – Djibril Cissé , French footballer
1982 – Boban Grnčarov , Macedonian footballer1982 – Alexandros Tzorvas , Greek footballer
1983 – Klaas-Jan Huntelaar , Dutch footballer1983 – Kléber Giacomance de Souza Freitas , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Manoa Vosawai , Italian rugby player
1984 – Bryan Pata , American football player (d. 2006)1985 – Danny Graham , English footballer1985 – Franck Moutsinga , German rugby player
1986 – Andrei Agius , Maltese footballer1986 – Kyle Arrington , American football player
1987 – Vanessa Watts , West Indian cricketer1988 – Tyson Fury , English boxer1988 – Matt Gillett , Australian rugby league player
1989 – Tom Cleverley , English footballer1989 – Hong Jeong-ho , South Korean footballer
1989 – Sunye , South Korean singer[ 33]
1990 – Mario Balotelli , Italian footballer1990 – Marvin Zeegelaar , Dutch footballer
1990 – Martin Zurawsky , German footballer
1991 – Jesinta Campbell , Australian model1991 – Sam Hoare , Australian rugby league player
1991 – Khris Middleton , American basketball player[ 34]
1991 – LaKeith Stanfield , American actor and musician[ 31]
1992 – Cara Delevingne , English model and actress[ 35] 1992 – Jacob Loko , Australian rugby player
1992 – Teo Gheorghiu , Swiss pianist and actor
1993 – Ewa Farna , Czech singer-songwriter1993 – Luna , South Korean singer, actress and presenter[ 36]
1994 – Ian Happ , American baseball player[ 37] 1996 – Choi Yu-jin , South Korean singer and actress[ 38] 1996 – Julio Urías , Mexican baseball player
1996 – Arthur Melo , Brazilian footballer[ 39]
1996 – Samuel Moutoussamy , Congolese footballer[ 40]
1998 – Stefanos Tsitsipas , Greek tennis player1999 – Matthijs de Ligt , Dutch footballer1999 – Dream , American YouTuber[ 41]
1999 – Jule Niemeier , German tennis player[ 42]
2000 – Tristan Charpentier , French racing driver[ 43] 2001 – Dixie D'Amelio , American social media personality and singer[ 44]
Deaths
Pre-1600
30 BC – Cleopatra , Egyptian queen (b. 69 BC)792 – Jænberht , archbishop of Canterbury875 – Louis II , Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)960 – Li Gu , chancellor of Later Zhou (b. 903)961 – Yuan Zong , emperor of Southern Tang (b. 916)1222 – Vladislaus III , duke of Bohemia1295 – Charles Martel , king of Hungary (b. 1271)1319 – Rudolf I , duke of Bavaria (b. 1274)1315 – Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick , English nobleman1335 – Prince Moriyoshi , Japanese shōgun (b. 1308)1399 – Demetrius I Starshy , Prince of Trubczewsk (in battle) (b. 1327)1424 – Yongle , emperor of the Ming Empire (b. 1360)1484 – Sixtus IV , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1414)[ 45] 1546 – Francisco de Vitoria , Spanish theologian (b. 1492)1577 – Thomas Smith , English scholar and diplomat (b. 1513)1588 – Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder , Italian-English composer (b. 1543)
1602 – Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak , Mughal vizier and historian (b. 1551)1612 – Giovanni Gabrieli , Italian organist and composer (b. 1557)1638 – Johannes Althusius , German jurist and philosopher (b. 1557)1674 – Philippe de Champaigne , Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1602)1689 – Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)1778 – Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (b. 1714)1809 – Mikhail Kamensky , Russian field marshal (b. 1738)1810 – Étienne Louis Geoffroy , French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)1822 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (b. 1769)1827 – William Blake , English poet and painter (b. 1757)[ 46] 1829 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie , French general (b. 1760)1848 – George Stephenson , English engineer and academic (b. 1781)1849 – Albert Gallatin , Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)1861 – Eliphalet Remington , American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)1864 – Sakuma Shōzan , Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)1865 – William Jackson Hooker , English botanist and academic (b. 1785)1891 – James Russell Lowell , American poet and critic (b. 1819)1896 – Thomas Chamberlain , American colonel (b. 1841)1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz , Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
1901 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)1904 – William Renshaw , English tennis player (b. 1861)1914 – John Philip Holland , Irish engineer, designed HMS Holland 1 (b. 1840)1918 – William Thompson , American archer (b. 1848)1921 – Pyotr Boborykin , Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)1922 – Arthur Griffith , Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)1924 – Sándor Bródy , Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)1928 – Leoš Janáček , Czech composer and educator (b. 1854)1934 – Hendrik Petrus Berlage , Dutch architect, designed the Beurs van Berlage (b. 1856)1935 – Friedrich Schottky , German mathematician and academic (b. 1851)1940 – Nikolai Triik , Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884)1941 – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon , English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (b. 1866)1941 – Bobby Peel , English cricketer and umpire (b. 1857)
1943 – Vittorio Sella , Italian photographer and mountaineer (b. 1859)1944 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. , American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)1944 – Jacques Pellegrin , French zoologist (b. 1873)[ 47]
1952 – David Bergelson , Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)1955 – Thomas Mann , German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)1955 – James B. Sumner , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1959 – Mike O'Neill , Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)1964 – Ian Fleming , English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)[ 48] 1966 – Artur Alliksaar , Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)1967 – Esther Forbes , American historian and author (b. 1891)[ 49] 1973 – Walter Rudolf Hess , Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)1973 – Karl Ziegler , German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1976 – Tom Driberg , British politician/journalist (b. 1905)[ 50] 1978 – John Williams , English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)1979 – Ernst Boris Chain , German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)1982 – Henry Fonda , American actor (b. 1905)1982 – Salvador Sánchez , Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
1983 – Theodor Burchardi , German admiral (b. 1892)1984 – Ladi Kwali , Nigerian potter (b. 1925)[ 51] 1985 – Kyu Sakamoto , Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1941)1985 – Manfred Winkelhock , German race car driver (b. 1951)
1986 – Evaline Ness , American author and illustrator (b. 1911)1988 – Jean-Michel Basquiat , American painter (b. 1960)1989 – Aimo Koivunen , Finnish soldier and corporal (b. 1917)[ 52] 1989 – William Shockley , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1990 – Dorothy Mackaill , English-American actress (b. 1903)1992 – John Cage , American composer and theorist (b. 1912)1996 – Victor Ambartsumian , Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908)1996 – Mark Gruenwald , American author and illustrator (b. 1953)
1997 – Jack Delano , American photographer and composer (b. 1914)1999 – Jean Drapeau , Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)2000 – Gennady Lyachin , Russian captain (b. 1955)2000 – Loretta Young , American actress (b. 1913)[ 53]
2002 – Enos Slaughter , American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)2004 – Godfrey Hounsfield , English biophysicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)2005 – John Loder , English sound engineer and producer, founded Southern Studios (b. 1946)2006 – Victoria Gray Adams , American civil rights activist (b. 1926)2007 – Merv Griffin , American actor, singer, and producer, created Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune 2007 – Mike Wieringo , American author and illustrator (b. 1963)
2008 – Christie Allen , English-Australian singer (b. 1954)2008 – Helge Hagerup , Norwegian playwright, poet and novelist (b. 1933)
2009 – Les Paul , American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1915)2010 – Isaac Bonewits , American Druid , author, and activist; founded Ár nDraíocht Féin (b. 1949)2010 – Guido de Marco , Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931)
2010 – Richie Hayward , American drummer and songwriter (b. 1946)
2010 – André Kim , South Korean fashion designer (b. 1935)
2011 – Robert Robinson , English journalist and author (b. 1927)2012 – Jimmy Carr , American football player and coach (b. 1933)2012 – Jerry Grant , American race car driver (b. 1935)
2012 – Joe Kubert , Polish-American illustrator, founded The Kubert School (b. 1926)
2012 – Édgar Morales Pérez , Mexican engineer and politician
2012 – Alf Morris , English politician and activist (b. 1928)[ 54]
2013 – Tereza de Arriaga , Portuguese painter (b. 1915)2013 – Hans-Ekkehard Bob , German soldier and pilot (b. 1917)
2013 – Pauline Maier , American historian and academic (b. 1938)
2013 – David McLetchie , Scottish lawyer and politician (b. 1952)
2013 – Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov , Russian ecologist and journalist (b. 1930)
2014 – Lauren Bacall , American model, actress, and singer (b. 1924)2014 – Futatsuryū Jun'ichi , Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1950)
2014 – Kongō Masahiro , Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948)
2015 – Jaakko Hintikka , Finnish philosopher and academic (b. 1929)2015 – Stephen Lewis , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2015 – Meshulim Feish Lowy , Hungarian-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1921)
2015 – John Scott , English organist and conductor (b. 1956)
2016 – Juan Pedro de Miguel , Spanish handball player (b. 1958)2017 – Bryan Murray , Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1942)2019 – DJ Arafat , Ivorian DJ and singer (b. 1986)2020 – Bill Yeoman , American college football player and coach (b. 1927)[ 55] 2021 – Una Stubbs , English actress, TV personality, and dancer (b. 1937)[ 56] 2024 – Kim Kahana , American actor and stunt performer (b. 1929)[ 57]
Holidays and observances
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