July 25
Day of the year
July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 159 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1603 – James VI and I and Anne of Denmark are crowned in Westminster Abbey .[ 4]
1609 – The English ship Sea Venture , en route to Virginia , is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1668 – A magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes eastern China, killing over 43,000 people.[ 5]
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León , Mexico.
1718 – At the behest of Tsar Peter the Great , the construction of Kadriorg Palace , dedicated to his wife Catherine , begins in Tallinn .[ 6]
1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine -Massachusetts border.
1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians .
1759 – French and Indian War : In Western New York , British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé .
1783 – American Revolutionary War : The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore , is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir.
1814 – War of 1812 : An American attack on Canada is repulsed.
1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua .
1835 – James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland .[ 7] [ 8]
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone .
1853 – Joaquin Murrieta , the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1861 – American Civil War : The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution , stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery , in the wake of the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run .
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army . Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – The Wyoming Territory is established.
1869 – The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date : June 17, 1869).
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1897 – American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike 's gold rush , from which he wrote his first successful stories.[ 9]
1898 – Spanish–American War : The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica .[ 10]
1901–present
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross .
1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1942 – The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
1943 – World War II : Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism ) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio .
1944 – World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
1946 – The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island , the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1957 – The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba .
1958 – The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou .
1961 – Cold War : In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO .
1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival , signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1969 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine , stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization " of the war.
1971 – The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.[ 11]
1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
1976 – Viking program : Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
1978 – Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders .
1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown , the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation , or IVF.[ 12]
1979 – In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty , Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula .
1983 – Black July : Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk .
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability , and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration , that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 – In a military coup in Burundi , Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya .
2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport , killing 113 people.
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan , one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
2018 – As-Suwayda attacks : Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.[ 13]
2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave .
Births
Pre-1600
975 – Thietmar , bishop of Merseburg (d. 1018)
1016 – Casimir I the Restorer , duke of Poland (d. 1058)[ 14]
1109 – Afonso I , king of Portugal (d. 1185)
1165 – Ibn Arabi , Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (d. 1240)
1261 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1291 – Hawys Gadarn , Welsh noblewoman (d. 1353)
1336 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)[ 15]
1394 – James I , king of Scotland (d. 1437)
1404 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland , English politician (d. 1461)
1450 – Jakob Wimpfeling , Renaissance humanist (d. 1528)
1486 – Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1547)
1498 – Hernando de Aragón , Archbishop of Zaragoza (d. 1575)
1532 – Alphonsus Rodriguez , Jesuit lay brother and saint (d. 1617)
1556 – George Peele , English translator, poet, and dramatist (d. 1596)
1562 – Katō Kiyomasa , Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1573 – Christoph Scheiner , German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)
1581 – Brian Twyne , English archivist (d. 1644)
1601–1900
1605 – Theodore Haak , German scholar (d. 1690)
1633 – Joseph Williamson , English politician (d. 1701)
1654 – Agostino Steffani , Italian composer and diplomat (d. 1728)
1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach , German composer (d. 1714)
1658 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish general (d. 1703)
1683 – Pieter Langendijk , Dutch playwright and poet (d. 1756)
1750 – Henry Knox , American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (d. 1806)
1753 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires , French-Spanish captain and politician, 10th Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
1797 – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
1806 – Maria Weston Chapman , American abolitionist (d. 1885)
1839 – Francis Garnier , French captain and explorer (d. 1873)
1844 – Thomas Eakins , American painter, sculptor, and photographer (d. 1916)
1847 – Paul Langerhans , German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (d. 1888)
1848 – Arthur Balfour , Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1857 – Frank J. Sprague , American naval officer and inventor (d. 1934)
1865 – Jac. P. Thijsse , Dutch botanist and conservationist (d. 1945)
1866 – Frederick Blackman , English physiologist and academic (d. 1947)
1867 – Max Dauthendey , German author and painter (d. 1918)
1867 – Alexander Rummler , American painter (d. 1959)
1869 – Platon , Estonian bishop and saint (d. 1919)
1870 – Maxfield Parrish , American painter and illustrator (d. 1966)
1875 – Jim Corbett , Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (d. 1955)
1878 – Masaharu Anesaki , Japanese philosopher and scholar (d. 1949)
1882 – George S. Rentz , American commander (d. 1942)
1883 – Alfredo Casella , Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1947)
1886 – Edward Cummins , American golfer (d. 1926)
1894 – Walter Brennan , American actor (d. 1974)
1894 – Gavrilo Princip , Bosnian Serb revolutionary (d. 1918)
1895 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt , Danish actress (d. 1968)
1896 – Jack Perrin , American actor and stuntman (d. 1967)
1896 – Josephine Tey , Scottish author and playwright (d. 1952)
1901–present
1901 – Ruth Krauss , American author and poet (d. 1993)
1901 – Mohammed Helmy , Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (d. 1982)
1901 – Lila Lee , American actress and singer (d. 1973)
1902 – Eric Hoffer , American philosopher and author (d. 1983)
1905 – Elias Canetti , Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1905 – Georges Grignard , French race car driver (d. 1977)
1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford , English author and illustrator (d. 1990)
1906 – Johnny Hodges , American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1970)
1908 – Bill Bowes , English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 – Ambroise-Marie Carré , French priest and author (d. 2004)
1908 – Jack Gilford , American actor (d. 1990)
1909 – Elizabeth Francis , American centenarian[ 16]
1914 – Woody Strode , American football player and actor (d. 1994)
1915 – S. U. Ethirmanasingham , Sri Lankan businessman and politician
1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. , American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
1916 – Lucien Saulnier , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Fritz Honegger , Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1999)
1918 – Jane Frank , American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
1920 – Rosalind Franklin , English biophysicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1958)[ 17]
1921 – Adolph Herseth , American soldier and trumpet player (d. 2013)
1921 – Lionel Terray , French mountaineer (d. 1965)
1922 – John B. Goodenough , American materials scientist, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)[ 18]
1923 – Estelle Getty , American actress (d. 2008)
1923 – Edgar Gilbert , American mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)
1923 – Maria Gripe , Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)
1924 – Frank Church , American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
1924 – Scotch Taylor , South African cricketer and hockey player (d. 2004)
1925 – Benny Benjamin , American R&B drummer (d. 1969)
1925 – Jerry Paris , American actor and director (d. 1986)
1925 – Dick Passwater , American race car driver (d. 2020)[ 19]
1925 – Jutta Zilliacus , Finnish journalist and politician
1926 – Whitey Lockman , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2009)
1926 – Bernard Thompson , British television producer and director (d. 1998)
1926 – Beatriz Segall , Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1927 – Midge Decter , American journalist and author (d. 2022)
1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi , Pakistani politician, 10th Governor of Punjab (d. 2000)
1927 – Jean-Marie Seroney , Kenyan activist and politician (d. 1982)
1928 – Dolphy , Filipino actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
1928 – Mario Montenegro , Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1928 – Nils Taube , Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)
1929 – Judd Buchanan , Canadian businessman and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Public Works
1929 – Somnath Chatterjee , Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 2018)
1929 – Eddie Mazur , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 – Murray Chapple , New Zealand cricketer and manager (d. 1985)
1930 – Maureen Forrester , Canadian actress and singer (d. 2010)
1930 – Alice Parizeau , Polish-Canadian journalist and criminologist (d. 1990)
1930 – Herbert Scarf , American economist and academic (d. 2015)
1930 – Annie Ross , Scottish-American singer and actress (d. 2020)
1931 – James Butler , English sculptor and educator (d. 2022)
1932 – Paul J. Weitz , American astronaut (d. 2017)[ 20]
1934 – Don Ellis , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
1934 – Claude Zidi , French director and screenwriter
1935 – Barbara Harris , American actress and singer (d. 2018)
1935 – Adnan Khashoggi , Saudi Arabian businessman (d. 2017)
1935 – Gilbert Parent , Canadian educator and politician, 33rd Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2009)
1935 – John Robinson , American football player and coach (d. 2024)[ 21]
1935 – Larry Sherry , American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1935 – Lars Werner , Swedish lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1936 – Gerry Ashmore , English race car driver (d. 2021)
1936 – Glenn Murcutt , English-Australian architect and academic
1937 – Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn , English archaeologist and academic
1939 – S. Ramadoss , Indian politician[ 22]
1940 – Richard Ballantine , American-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
1941 – Manny Charlton , Spanish-born Scottish rock musician and songwriter (d. 2022)
1941 – Nate Thurmond , American basketball player (d. 2016)
1941 – Emmett Till , African-American lynching and kidnapping victim (d. 1955)
1942 – Bruce Woodley , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Jim McCarty , English singer and drummer
1943 – Erika Steinbach , Polish-German politician
1944 – Sally Beauman , English journalist and author (d. 2016)
1946 – José Areas , Nicaraguan drummer
1946 – Nicole Farhi , French fashion designer and sculptor
1946 – John Gibson , American radio host
1946 – Rita Marley , Cuban-Jamaican singer
1946 – P. Selvarasa , Sri Lankan politician
1946 – Ljupka Dimitrovska , Macedonian-Croatian pop singer (d. 2016)
1948 – Steve Goodman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
1950 – Mark Clarke , English singer-songwriter and bass player
1951 – Jack Thompson , American lawyer and activist
1951 – Verdine White , American bass player and producer
1952 – Eduardo Souto de Moura , Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
1953 – Walter Payton , American football player and race car driver (d. 1999)
1953 – Joseph A. Tunzi , Chicago based author, foremost expert on Elvis Presley
1953 – Robert Zoellick , American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
1954 – Ken Greer , Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
1954 – Sheena McDonald , Scottish journalist
1954 – Jochem Ziegert , German footballer and manager
1955 – Iman , Somalian-English model and actress
1955 – Randall Bewley , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
1956 – Frances Arnold , American scientist and engineer
1957 – Mark Hunter , English politician
1957 – Steve Podborski , Canadian skier
1958 – Alexei Filippenko , American astrophysicist and academic
1958 – Thurston Moore , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Fyodor Cherenkov , Russian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1959 – Geoffrey Zakarian , American chef and author
1960 – Alain Robidoux , Canadian snooker player
1960 – Justice Howard , American photographer
1960 – Māris Martinsons , Latvian film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
1962 – Carin Bakkum , Dutch tennis player
1962 – Doug Drabek , American baseball player and coach
1963 – Denis Coderre , Canadian politician, 44th Mayor of Montreal
1963 – Julian Hodgson , Welsh chess player
1964 – Anne Applebaum , American journalist and author
1964 – Tony Granato , American ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Breuk Iversen , American designer and journalist
1965 – Marty Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Illeana Douglas , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Torey Lovullo , American baseball player and coach[ 23]
1965 – Dale Shearer , Australian rugby league player
1966 – Daryl Halligan , New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1966 – Maureen Herman , American bass player
1966 – Diana Johnson , English politician
1967 – Matt LeBlanc , American actor and producer
1967 – Ruth Peetoom , Dutch minister and politician
1967 – Tommy Skjerven , Norwegian footballer and referee
1968 – Rudi Bryson , South African cricketer
1968 – Shi Tao , Chinese journalist and poet
1969 – Jon Barry , American basketball player and sportscaster
1969 – Annastacia Palaszczuk , Australian politician, 39th Premier of Queensland
1969 – D. B. Woodside , American actor[ 24]
1971 – Roger Creager , American singer-songwriter
1971 – Tracy Murray , American basketball player
1971 – Billy Wagner , American baseball player and coach
1972 – David Penna , Australian rugby league player and coach
1973 – David Denman , American actor[ 24]
1973 – Dani Filth , English singer-songwriter
1973 – Kevin Phillips , English footballer
1973 – Igli Tare , Albanian footballer
1974 – Lauren Faust , American animator, producer, and screenwriter
1974 – Julia Laffranque , Estonian lawyer and judge
1974 – Kenzo Suzuki , Japanese rugby player and wrestler
1975 – Jody Craddock , English footballer and coach
1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville , Guianan-French footballer
1975 – El Zorro , Mexican wrestler
1975 – Brian Gibson , American bass player
1975 – Evgeni Nabokov , Russian ice hockey player
1976 – Marcos Assunção , Brazilian footballer
1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan , Macedonian poet and critic
1976 – Javier Vázquez , Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1977 – Kenny Thomas , American basketball player
1978 – Gerard Warren , American football player
1979 – Ali Carter , English snooker player
1979 – Tom Lungley , English cricketer and umpire
1979 – Ahmed Tantawi , Egyptian politician and journalist[ 25]
1980 – Shawn Riggans , American baseball player
1980 – Toni Vilander , Finnish race car driver
1980 – David Wachs , American actor and producer
1980 – Scott Waldrom , New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Finn Bálor , Irish wrestler[ 26]
1981 – Conor Casey , American soccer player
1981 – Constantinos Charalambidis , Cypriot footballer
1981 – Yūichi Komano , Japanese footballer
1981 – Mac Lethal , American rapper and producer
1981 – Jani Rita , Finnish ice hockey player
1982 – Jason Dundas , Australian TV host
1982 – Brad Renfro , American actor and musician (d. 2008)
1983 – Nenad Krstić , Serbian basketball player
1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis , Greek basketball player
1985 – James Lafferty , American actor and athlete
1985 – Nelson Piquet Jr. , Brazilian race car driver
1985 – Hugo Rodallega , Colombian footballer
1986 – Abraham Gneki Guié , Ivorian footballer
1986 – Hulk , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Richard Bachman , American ice hockey player
1987 – Mitchell Burgzorg , Dutch footballer and rapper
1987 – Fernando , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Jax Jones , English DJ, singer and songwriter
1987 – Eran Zahavi , Israeli footballer
1988 – Sarah Geronimo , Filipino singer and actress[ 27]
1988 – John Goossens , Dutch footballer
1988 – Tom Hiariej , Dutch footballer
1988 – Stacey Kemp , English skater
1988 – Paulinho , Brazilian footballer
1988 – Anthony Stokes , Irish footballer
1989 – Natalia Vieru , Russian basketball player
1990 – Thodoris Karapetsas , Greek footballer
1991 – Toni Duggan , English footballer
1991 – Hasan Piker , American Twitch streamer
1992 – Sergei Simonov , Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
1994 – Natalija Stevanović , Serbian tennis player[ 28]
1994 – Andrei Vasilevskiy , Russian ice hockey player[ 29]
1995 – Alvin Kamara , American football player[ 30]
1995 – Maria Sakkari , Greek tennis player[ 31]
1997 – Nat Butcher , Australian rugby league player
2000 – Meg Donnelly , American actress[ 24]
2001 – Bryce Young , American football player[ 32]
2002 – Alperen Şengün , Turkish basketball player[ 33]
2002 – Adam Hložek , Czech footballer[ 34]
Deaths
Pre-1600
306 – Constantius Chlorus , Roman emperor (b. 250)
885 – Ragenold , margrave of Neustria
1011 – Ichijō , emperor of Japan (b. 980)
1190 – Sibylla , queen of Jerusalem
1195 – Herrad of Landsberg , abbess, author, and illustrator (b. c. 1130)[ 35]
1409 – Martin I , king of Sicily (b. 1376)
1471 – Thomas à Kempis , German priest and mystic
1472 – Charles of Artois , French nobleman (b. 1394)
1492 – Innocent VIII , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1432)
1564 – Ferdinand I , Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)[ 36]
1572 – Isaac Luria , Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534)
1601–1900
1608 – Pomponio Nenna , Italian composer (b. 1556)
1616 – Andreas Libavius , German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull , English general and politician (b. 1584)
1681 – Urian Oakes , English-American minister and educator (b. 1631)
1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow , German educator and reformer (b. 1723)
1790 – William Livingston , American soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 – Isaac Low , American merchant and politician (b. 1735)
1794 – André Chénier , Greek-French poet and author (b. 1762)
1794 – Jean-Antoine Roucher , French poet and author (b. 1745)
1794 – Friedrich von der Trenck , Prussian adventurer and author (b. 1726)
1826 – Kondraty Ryleyev , Russian poet and publisher (b. 1795)
1831 – Maria Szymanowska , Polish composer and pianist (b. 1789)
1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1772)
1842 – Dominique Jean Larrey , French physician and surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 – Charles Macintosh , Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabric (b. 1766)[ 37]
1861 – Jonas Furrer , Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1805)
1865 – James Barry , English soldier and surgeon (b. 1799)
1887 – John Taylor , American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1808)
1901–present
1934 – François Coty , French businessman, founded Coty (b. 1874)
1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss , Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
1934 – Nestor Makhno , Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (b. 1888)[ 38] [ 39] [ 40]
1942 – Fred Englehardt , American triple jumper (b. 1879)
1947 – Kathleen Scott , English sculptor (b. 1878)[ 41]
1952 – Herbert Murrill , English organist and composer (b. 1909)
1958 – Otto Lasanen , Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
1959 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (b. 1888)
1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret , Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
1963 – Ugo Cerletti , Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877)
1966 – Frank O'Hara , American poet and critic (b. 1926)
1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis , Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
1971 – John Meyers , American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
1971 – Leroy Robertson , American composer and educator (b. 1896)
1973 – Amy Jacques Garvey , Jamaican-American journalist and activist (b. 1895)
1973 – Louis St. Laurent , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1977 – Shivrampant Damle , Indian educationist (b. 1900)[ 42]
1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky , Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 – Rosa A. González , Puerto Rican nurse, author, feminist, and activist (b. 1889)
1982 – Hal Foster , Canadian-American author and illustrator (b. 1892)
1984 – Bryan Hextall , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 – Big Mama Thornton , American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
1986 – Vincente Minnelli , American director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1988 – Judith Barsi , American child actress (b. 1978)
1989 – Steve Rubell , American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943)
1991 – Lazar Kaganovich , Soviet politician (b. 1893)
1992 – Alfred Drake , American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 – Charlie Rich , American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
1997 – Ben Hogan , American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 – Evangelos Papastratos , Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
2000 – Rudi Faßnacht , German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
2002 – Abdel Rahman Badawi , Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow , German engineer (b. 1912)
2003 – John Schlesinger , English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2004 – John Passmore , Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1914)
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff , German trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Ezra Fleischer , Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928)
2007 – Bernd Jakubowski , German footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2008 – Jeff Fehring , Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2008 – Tracy Hall , American chemist and academic (b. 1919)
2008 – Randy Pausch , American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960)
2009 – Vernon Forrest , American boxer (b. 1971)
2009 – Stanley Middleton , English author (b. 1919)
2009 – Harry Patch , English soldier (b. 1898)
2009 – Yasmin Ahmad , Malaysian film director (b. 1958)[ 43]
2011 – Michael Cacoyannis , Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2012 – B. R. Ishara , Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2012 – Barry Langford , English director and producer (b. 1926)
2012 – Greg Mohns , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1950)
2012 – Franz West , Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
2013 – Walter De Maria , American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (b. 1935)
2013 – William J. Guste , American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2013 – Hugh Huxley , English-American biologist and academic (b. 1924)
2014 – Bel Kaufman , German-American author and academic (b. 1911)
2014 – Richard Larter , Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929)
2015 – Jacques Andreani , French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929)
2015 – R. S. Gavai , Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (b. 1929)
2015 – Bob Kauffman , American basketball player and coach (b. 1946)
2016 – Tim LaHaye , American Christian minister and author (b. 1926)[ 44]
2016 – Tom Peterson , American television personality (b. 1930)[ 45]
2017 – Michael Johnson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
2018 – Sergio Marchionne , Italian-Canadian businessman[ 46] (b. 1952)
2019 – Beji Caid Essebsi , 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)[ 47]
2020 – Peter Green , English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac (b. 1946)[ 48]
2020 – Lou Henson , American college basketball coach (b. 1932)[ 49]
2022 – Paul Sorvino , American actor (b. 1939)[ 50]
2024 – Shafin Ahmed , Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (b. 1961)[ 51]
2024 – Martin Indyk , American diplomat (b. 1951)[ 52]
Holidays and observances
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