May 16
Day of the year
May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 229 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1739 – The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army.1770 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste , who later becomes king of France .[ 5] 1771 – The Battle of Alamance , a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators ", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina .1811 – Peninsular War : The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Albuera .[ 6] [ 7] 1812 – Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest , ending the Russo-Turkish War . The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia.[ 8] 1822 – Greek War of Independence : The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli .1832 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush .[ 9] [ 10] 1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri , with 100 pioneers.[ 11] 1863 – American Civil War : During the Vicksburg campaign , the decisive Union victory by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Champion Hill drives the Confederate army under John C. Pemberton back towards Vicksburg, Mississippi .[ 12] 1866 – The United States Congress establishes the nickel .[ 13] 1868 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.[ 14] 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.1877 – The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France , ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system . The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.[ 15] 1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt , Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria .1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey , Newfoundland , for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight .1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc .1925 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi 's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Paris .[ 16] 1929 – In Hollywood , the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.1943 – The Holocaust : The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.1943 – Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley.[ 17] 1945 – Beginning of the Levant Crisis between Britain and France in Syria. The latter try to quell nationalist protests but backs down after threat of military action by the British.[ 18] 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport ) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines .1954 – Beginning of the Kengir uprising in the Gulag .[ 19] 1959 – The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time.[ 20] 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser ), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California .1961 – Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea .1966 – The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice ", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution .1969 – Venera program : Venera 5 space probe , lands on Venus .1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia .1972 – An Antonov An-24 crashes into a kindergarten building in Svetlogorsk , killing 35.[ 21] 1975 – Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest .[ 22] [ 23] 1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine .1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress . She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko , the President of Zaire , flees the country.2003 – In Morocco , 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks .2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour 2014 – Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya .
Births
Pre-1600
1606 – John Bulwer , British doctor (d. 1656)1611 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)[ 25] 1641 – Dudley North , English economist and politician (d. 1691)[ 26] 1710 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot , English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (d. 1782)1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1799)[ 27] 1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin , French pharmacist and chemist (d. 1829)1788 – Friedrich Rückert , German poet and translator (d. 1866)1801 – William H. Seward , American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (d. 1872)1804 – Elizabeth Palmer Peabody , American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (d. 1894)1819 – Johann Voldemar Jannsen , Estonian journalist and poet (d. 1890)1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev , Russian mathematician and statistician (d. 1894)1824 – Levi P. Morton , American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President (d. 1920)1824 – Edmund Kirby Smith , American general (d. 1893)
1827 – Pierre Cuypers , Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (d. 1921)1831 – David Edward Hughes , Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (d. 1900)1859 – Horace Hutchinson , English golfer (d. 1932)[ 28] 1862 – Margaret Fountaine , English lepidopterist and diarist (d. 1940)1876 – Fred Conrad Koch , American biochemist and endocrinologist (d. 1948)[ 29] 1879 – Pierre Gilliard , Swiss author and academic (d. 1962)1882 – Simeon Price , American golfer (d. 1945)1883 – Celâl Bayar , Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (d. 1986)1887 – Maria Lacerda de Moura , Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (d. 1945)[ 30] 1888 – Royal Rife , American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971)1890 – Edith Grace White , American ichthyologist (d. 1975)[ 31] 1892 – Osgood Perkins , American actor (d. 1937)1894 – Walter Yust , American journalist and writer (d. 1960)1897 – Zvi Sliternik , Israeli entomologist and academic (d. 1994)1898 – Tamara de Lempicka , Polish-American painter (d. 1980)1898 – Desanka Maksimović , Serbian poet and academic (d. 1993)
1898 – Kenji Mizoguchi , Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 1956)
1903 – Charles F. Brannock , American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1992)1905 – Henry Fonda , American actor (d. 1982)1906 – Ernie McCormick , Australian cricketer (d. 1991)1906 – Alfred Pellan , Canadian painter and educator (d. 1988)
1906 – Arturo Uslar Pietri , Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (d. 2001)
1906 – Margret Rey , German author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1907 – Bob Tisdall , Irish hurdler (d. 2004)1909 – Margaret Sullavan , American actress and singer (d. 1960)1909 – Luigi Villoresi , Italian race car driver (d. 1997)
1910 – Olga Bergholz , Russian poet and author (d. 1975)1910 – Higashifushimi Kunihide , Japanese monk and educator (d. 2014)
1910 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov , Russian painter and educator (d. 1972)
1912 – Studs Terkel , American historian and author (d. 2008)1913 – Gordon Chalk , Australian politician, 30th Premier of Queensland (d. 1991)[ 32] 1913 – Woody Herman , American singer, saxophonist, and clarinet player (d. 1987)
1914 – Edward T. Hall , American anthropologist and author (d. 2009)1915 – Mario Monicelli , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2010)1916 – Ephraim Katzir , Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009)1917 – Ben Kuroki , American sergeant and pilot (d. 2015)1917 – James C. Murray , American lawyer and politician (d. 1999)
1917 – Juan Rulfo , Mexican author and photographer (d. 1986)
1918 – Wilf Mannion , English footballer and manager (d. 2000)1919 – Liberace , American pianist and entertainer (d. 1987)1919 – Ramon Margalef , Spanish ecologist and biologist (d. 2004)
1920 – Martine Carol , French actress (d. 1967)1921 – Harry Carey Jr. , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)1923 – Victoria Fromkin , American linguist and academic (d. 2000)1923 – Merton Miller , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1923 – Peter Underwood , English parapsychologist and author (d. 2014)
1924 – Barbara Bachmann , American microbiologist (d. 1999)[ 33] 1924 – Dawda Jawara , 1st President of the Gambia (d. 2019)
1925 – Nancy Roman , American astronomer (d. 2018)1925 – Ola Vincent , Nigerian banker and economist (d. 2012)
1925 – Nílton Santos , Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
1928 – Billy Martin , American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)1929 – Betty Carter , American singer-songwriter (d. 1998)1929 – John Conyers , American lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
1929 – Claude Morin , Canadian academic and politician
1929 – Adrienne Rich , American poet, essayist, and feminist (d. 2012)
1929 – K. Natwar Singh , Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2024)
1930 – Friedrich Gulda , Austrian pianist and composer (d. 2000)1931 – Vujadin Boškov , Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2014)1931 – Hana Brady , Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim (d. 1944)
1931 – Lowell P. Weicker Jr. , American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut (d. 2023)
1934 – Kenneth O. Morgan , Welsh historian and author1934 – Antony Walker , English general (d. 2023)
1935 – Floyd Smith , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1936 – Karl Lehmann , German cardinal (d. 2018)1937 – Yvonne Craig , American ballet dancer and actress (d. 2015)1938 – Stuart Bell , English lawyer and politician (d. 2012)1938 – Ivan Sutherland , American computer scientist and academic
1938 – Marco Aurelio Denegri , Peruvian television host and sexologist (d. 2018)
1939 – Mario Segni , Italian professor and politician1941 – Denis Hart , Australian archbishop1942 – David Penry-Davey , English lawyer and judge (d. 2015)1943 – Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews , English politician1943 – Dan Coats , American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
1943 – Wieteke van Dort , Dutch actress, comedian, singer, writer and artist (d. 2024)
1944 – Billy Cobham , Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader1944 – Antal Nagy , Hungarian footballer
1944 – Friedrich Schorlemmer , German Protestant theologian (d. 2024)[ 34]
1944 – Danny Trejo , American actor
1946 – John Law , English sociologist and academic1946 – Robert Fripp , English guitarist, songwriter and producer
1947 – Cheryl Clarke , American writer[ 35] 1947 – Darrell Sweet , Scottish drummer (d. 1999)
1947 – Roch Thériault , Canadian religious leader (d. 2011)
1948 – Jesper Christensen , Danish actor, director, and producer1948 – Judy Finnigan , English talk show host and author
1948 – Enrico Fumia , Italian automobile and product designer
1948 – Jimmy Hood , Scottish engineer and politician (d. 2017)1948 – Emma Georgina Rothschild , English historian and academic
1948 – Staf Van Roosbroeck , Belgian cyclist
1949 – Rick Reuschel , American baseball player1950 – Georg Bednorz , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate1950 – Ray Condo , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2004)
1950 – Bruce Coville , American author
1951 – Christian Lacroix , French fashion designer1951 – Jonathan Richman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Janet Soskice , Canadian philosopher and theologian
1953 – Pierce Brosnan , Irish-American actor and producer1953 – Peter Onorati , American actor
1953 – Richard Page , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1953 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (d. 2015)
1953 – David Maclean , Scottish politician
1953 – Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman , Scottish judge and academic
1954 – Dafydd Williams , Canadian physician and astronaut1955 – Olga Korbut , Soviet gymnast1955 – Jack Morris , American baseball player and sportscaster
1955 – Hazel O'Connor , English-born Irish singer-songwriter and actress
1955 – Páidí Ó Sé , Irish footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1955 – Debra Winger , American actress
1956 – Loretta Schrijver , Dutch television host, news anchor1957 – Joan Benoit , American runner1957 – Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft , English politician
1957 – Yuri Shevchuk , Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso , English lawyer and businessman
1957 – Bob Suter , American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
1959 – Mitch Webster , American baseball player1959 – Mare Winningham , American actress and singer-songwriter
1960 – Landon Deireragea , Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament 1960 – Bruce Norris , playwright[ 36]
1960 – S. Shanmuganathan , Sri Lankan commander and politician (d. 1998)
1961 – Kevin McDonald , Canadian actor and screenwriter1961 – Charles Wright , American wrestler
1962 – Helga Radtke , German long jumper1963 – Rachel Griffith , Anglo-American economist1963 – David Wilkinson , English theologian and academic
1964 – John Salley , American basketball player and actor1964 – Boyd Tinsley , American singer-songwriter and violinist
1964 – Milton Jones , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1965 – Krist Novoselic , American bass player, songwriter, author, and activist1965 – Tanel Tammet , Estonian computer scientist, engineer, and academic
1966 – Janet Jackson , American singer-songwriter actress[ 37] 1966 – Scott Reeves , American singer-songwriter and actor
1966 – Thurman Thomas , American football player
1967 – Doug Brocail , American baseball player and coach1967 – Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford , British politician
1968 – Ralph Tresvant , American singer and producer1969 – David Boreanaz , American actor1969 – Tucker Carlson , American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller
1969 – Steve Lewis , American sprinter
1970 – Gabriela Sabatini , Argentinian tennis player1970 – Danielle Spencer , Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1971 – Phil Clarke , English rugby league player and sportscaster1971 – Rachel Goswell , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Christian Califano , French rugby player1972 – Matthew Hart , New Zealand cricketer
1973 – Tori Spelling , American actress, reality television personality, and author1974 – Laura Pausini , Italian singer-songwriter and producer1974 – Sonny Sandoval , American singer-songwriter and rapper
1975 – Tony Kakko , Finnish musician, composer, and vocalist1975 – Simon Whitfield , Canadian triathlete[ 38]
1976 – Dirk Nannes , Australian-Dutch cricketer1977 – Melanie Lynskey , New Zealand actress1977 – Emilíana Torrini , Icelandic singer-songwriter
1978 – Scott Nicholls , English motorcycle racer1978 – Lionel Scaloni , Argentinian footballer
1979 – Michael Oberlechner , Austrian politician[ 39] 1980 – Nuria Llagostera Vives , Spanish tennis player1981 – Ricardo Costa , Portuguese footballer1982 – Łukasz Kubot , Polish tennis player1983 – Daniel Kerr , Australian footballer1983 – Kyle Wellwood , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Darío Cvitanich , Argentinian footballer1984 – Tomáš Fleischmann , Czech ice hockey player
1984 – Jensen Lewis , American baseball player
1984 – Rick Rypien , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1985 – Anja Mittag , German footballer1985 – Rodrigo Peters Marques , Brazilian footballer
1985 – Corey Perry , Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Megan Fox , American actress1986 – Andy Keogh , Irish footballer
1986 – Shamcey Supsup , Filipino model and architect
1987 – Tom Onslow-Cole , English race car driver1988 – Jesús Castillo , Mexican footballer1988 – Martynas Gecevičius , Lithuanian basketball player
1988 – Jaak Põldma , Estonian tennis player
1989 – Behati Prinsloo , Namibian model1990 – Amanda Carreras , Gibraltarian tennis player1990 – Thomas Brodie-Sangster , English actor
1990 – Darko Šarović , Serbian sprinter
1990 – Omar Strong , American basketball player
1991 – Grigor Dimitrov , Bulgarian tennis player1991 – Joey Graceffa , American internet celebrity
1991 – Ashley Wagner , American figure skater
1992 – Jeff Skinner , Canadian ice hockey player1992 – Kirstin Maldonado , American singer and songwriter
1993 – Johannes Thingnes Bø , Norwegian biathlete1993 – Karol Mets , Estonian footballer
1993 – IU , Korean singer-songwriter and actress[ 40] [ 41]
1994 – Kathinka von Deichmann , Liechtenstein tennis player[ 42] [ 43] 1995 – Elizabeth Ralston , Australian footballer1996 – Louisa Chirico , American tennis player[ 44] 2000 – Luis Garcia , Dominican-American baseball player[ 45] 2002 – Ryan Gravenberch , Dutch footballer[ 46]
Deaths
Pre-1600
290 – Emperor Wu of Jin , Chinese emperor (b. 236)895 – Qian Kuan , Chinese nobleman934 – Meng Hanqiong , eunuch official of Later Tang995 – Fujiwara no Michitaka , Japanese nobleman (b. 953)1115 – Lambert of Arras , Flemish bishop[ 47] 1182 – John Komnenos Vatatzes , Byzantine general (b. 1132)1265 – Simon Stock , English-French saint (b. 1165)1375 – Liu Bowen , Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (b. 1311)1412 – Gian Maria Visconti , Duke of Milan (b. 1388)1561 – Jan Tarnowski , Polish noble and statesman (b. 1488)
1620 – William Adams , English sailor and navigator (b. 1564)1657 – Andrew Bobola , Polish missionary and martyr (b. 1591)1667 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1607)1669 – Pietro da Cortona , Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)1691 – Jacob Leisler , German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)1696 – Mariana of Austria , Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)1703 – Charles Perrault , French author and academic (b. 1628)1778 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness , English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)1790 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)1818 – Matthew Lewis , English author and playwright (b. 1775)1823 – Grace Elliott , Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c. 1754 )[ 48] 1830 – Joseph Fourier , French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)1861 – John Stevens Henslow , British priest, geologist and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (b. 1796)[ 49] 1862 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield , English politician (b. 1796)1882 – Reuben Chapman , American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)1890 – Mihkel Veske , Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)1891 – Ion C. Brătianu , Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
1910 – Henri-Edmond Cross , French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)1913 – Louis Perrier , Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)1920 – Levi P. Morton , American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)1926 – Mehmed VI , the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1861)1936 – Leonidas Paraskevopoulos , Greek general and politician (b. 1860)1938 – Joseph Strauss , American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)1943 – Alfred Hoche , German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)1943 – Nigger , black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron.[ 50] 1944 – George Ade , American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)1944 – Filip Mișea , Aromanian activist, physician and politician (b. 1873)[ 51]
1946 – Bruno Tesch , German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins , English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)1947 – Kalle Hakala , Finnish politician (b. 1880)[ 52]
1947 – Zhang Lingfu , Chinese general (b. 1903)
1953 – Django Reinhardt , Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)1954 – Clemens Krauss , Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)1955 – James Agee , American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)1955 – Manny Ayulo , American race car driver (b. 1921)
1956 – H. B. Reese , American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)1957 – Eliot Ness , American federal agent (b. 1903)1961 – George A. Malcolm , American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)1977 – Modibo Keïta , Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)1979 – A. Philip Randolph , American union leader and activist (b. 1889)1981 – Ernie Freeman , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)1981 – Willy Hartner , German physician and academic (b. 1905)
1984 – Andy Kaufman , American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)1984 – Irwin Shaw , American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1913)
1985 – Margaret Hamilton , American actress (b. 1902)1989 – Leila Kasra , Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1939)1990 – Sammy Davis Jr. , American singer, dancer, and actor (b. 1925)1990 – Jim Henson , American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, creator of The Muppets (b. 1936)
1993 – Marv Johnson , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1938)1994 – Alain Cuny , French actor (b. 1908)1996 – Jeremy Michael Boorda , American admiral (b. 1939)1997 – Elbridge Durbrow , American diplomat (b. 1903)2002 – Alec Campbell , Australian soldier (b. 1899)2003 – Mark McCormack , American lawyer and sports agent, founded IMG (b. 1930)2005 – Andrew Goodpaster , American general (b. 1915)2008 – Robert Mondavi , American winemaker, co-founded the Opus One Winery (b. 1913)2010 – Ronnie James Dio , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)2010 – Hank Jones , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1918)
2011 – Ralph Barker , English author (b. 1917)2011 – Bob Davis , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1928)
2011 – Edward Hardwicke , English actor (b. 1932)
2011 – Kiyoshi Kodama , Japanese actor (b. 1934)
2012 – Patricia Aakhus , American author and academic (b. 1952)2012 – James Abdnor , American soldier and politician (b. 1923)
2012 – Chuck Brown , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1936)
2012 – Ernie Chan , Filipino-American illustrator (b. 1940)
2012 – Kevin Hickey , American baseball player (b. 1956)
2013 – Angelo Errichetti , American politician (b. 1928)2013 – Bryan Illerbrun , Canadian football player (b. 1957)
2013 – Frankie Librán , Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1948)
2013 – Heinrich Rohrer , Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)
2013 – Paul Shane , British actor and comedian (b. 1940)[ 53]
2013 – Dick Trickle , American race car driver (b. 1941)
2013 – Bernard Waber , American author and illustrator (b. 1921)
2014 – Chris Duckworth , Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (b. 1933)2014 – Vito Favero , Italian cyclist (b. 1932)
2014 – Bud Hollowell , American baseball player and manager (b. 1943)
2014 – Clyde Snow , American anthropologist and author (b. 1928)
2015 – Prashant Bhargava , American director and producer (b. 1973)2015 – Moshe Levinger , Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1935)
2015 – Flora MacNeil , Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1928)
2019 – Piet Blauw , Dutch politician (b. 1937)2019 – Bob Hawke , Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929)[ 54]
2019 – I. M. Pei , Chinese-American architect (b. 1917) [ 55]
2021 – Bruno Covas , Brazilian lawyer, politician (b. 1980) [ 56] 2023 – Norm Green , American long-distance runner (b. 1932)[ 57] 2024 – Dabney Coleman , American actor (b. 1932)[ 58] 2024 – Eddie Gossage , American public speaker and businessman (b. 1958)[ 59]
Holidays and observances
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