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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | * [[392]] - [[Arbogast (general)|Arbogast]] has [[Eugenius]] elected [[Western Roman Emperor]]. | ||
| - | * [[476]] - [[Odoacer]] is named ''Rex italiae'' by his troop. | ||
| - | * [[565]] - [[St. Columba]] reports seeing a monster in [[Loch Ness]], [[Scotland]]. | ||
| - | *[[1138]] - [[Battle of the Standard]] between Scotland and England. | ||
| - | *[[1485]] - The [[Battle of Bosworth Field]] death of [[Richard III]] and end of the [[House of Plantagenet]]. | ||
| - | *[[1559]] - [[Bartolomé Carranza]], [[Spain|Spanish]] [[archbishop]], is arrested for [[Christian heresy|heresy]]. | ||
| - | *[[1639]] - [[Madras]] (now [[Chennai]]), [[India]], is founded by the [[British East India Company]] after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers. | ||
| - | *[[1642]] - [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] calls the [[English Parliament]] traitors. Beginning of the [[English Civil War]]. | ||
| - | *[[1654]] - [[Jacob Barsimson]] arrives in [[New Amsterdam]]. He is the first known [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[Immigration|immigrant]] to America. | ||
| - | *[[1717]] - [[Spain|Spanish]] troops land on [[Sardinia]]. | ||
| - | *[[1770]] - [[James Cook]]'s expedition lands on the east coast of [[Australia]]. | ||
| - | *[[1775]] - [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] declares the [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] to be in open rebellion. | ||
| - | *[[1780]] - [[James Cook]]'s ship ''[[HMS Resolution (Cook)|HMS Resolution]]'' returns to [[England]] (Cook having been killed on [[Hawaii]] during the voyage). | ||
| - | *[[1791]] - Beginning of the [[Haiti]]an [[Haitian Revolution|Slave Revolution]] in [[Saint-Domingue]]. | ||
| - | *[[1798]] - [[France|French]] troops land in [[Kilcummin]], [[County Mayo]], [[Ireland]] to aid [[Theobald Wolfe Tone|Wolfe Tone's]] [[Society of the United Irishmen|United Irishmen's]] [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]]. | ||
| - | *[[1827]] - [[José de La Mar]] becomes [[President of Peru]]. | ||
| - | *[[1831]] - [[Nat Turner's slave rebellion]] revolt commences just after midnight in [[Southampton, Virginia]], leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred [[African Americans]] who were killed in retaliation for the uprising. | ||
| - | *[[1848]] - [[United States|The United States]] annexes [[New Mexico]]. | ||
| - | *[[1849]] - First [[Air Raid|air raid]] in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of [[Venice]]. | ||
| - | *[[1851]] - The first [[America's Cup]] is won by the [[yacht]] ''[[America (yacht)|America]]''. | ||
| - | *[[1875]] - The [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)|Treaty of Saint Petersburg]] between [[Japan]] and [[Russia]] is ratified, providing for the exchange of [[Sakhalin]] for the [[Kuril Islands]]. | ||
| - | *[[1864]] - Twelve [[nation]]s sign the First [[Geneva Conventions|Geneva Convention]]. The [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]] is formed. | ||
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Cadillac]] Motor Company founded. | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] became the first [[President of the United States]] to ride in an automobile. | ||
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Japan]] illicitly annexes [[Korea]] with the signing of the [[Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty]]. The name [[Korea]] was abolished and replaced with the ancient name ''[[Joseon]]''. | ||
| *[[1911]] - Theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is discovered. | *[[1911]] - Theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is discovered. | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Briton|British]] and [[Germany|German]] troops clash for the first time in the war. | ||
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[Irish Free State]] Army is shot dead during an [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|Anti-Treaty]] ambush at [[Beal na mBlath]], [[County Cork]], during the [[Irish Civil War]]. | ||
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Gold]] discovered in [[Johannesburg]], [[South Africa]]. | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - The [[BBC]] first experiments with television broadcasting. See also [[Timeline of the BBC#1930s|Timeline of the BBC]] | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany|German]] [[troop]]s reach [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], leading to the [[siege of Leningrad]]. | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[Brazil]] declares [[war]] on the [[Axis powers of World War II|Axis]] powers ([[Germany]], [[Italy]] and [[Japan]]). | ||
| - | * 1944 - [[World War II]]: Thirty-two [[Spaniards]] & four [[French people|French]] [[Maquis (World War II)|Maquis]] tackle a [[Germany|German]] column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at [[La Madeiline]], [[France]]. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 [[Germans]] killed and 200 wounded. | ||
| - | * 1944 - [[World War II]]: [[Romania]] captured by the [[Soviet Union]]. | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Althea Gibson]] becomes the first black [[Competition|competitor]] in international [[tennis]]. | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - The [[penal colony]] on [[Devil's Island]] is permanently closed. | ||
| - | *[[1955]] - 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in [[Spring City, Tennessee]]. | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - An attempt to assassinate [[France|French]] [[president]] [[Charles de Gaulle]] fails. | ||
| - | * 1962 - The [[NS Savannah|NS ''Savannah'']], the world's first [[Nuclear marine propulsion|nuclear-powered]] cargo ship, completes its [[maiden voyage]]. | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Joseph A. Walker|Joe Walker]] in [[X-15]] test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles). | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Match Of The Day]] hits the air on [[BBC Two]]. | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - Labor movements [[NFWA]] and [[AWOC]] merge to become the [[United Farm Workers Organizing Committee]] ([[UFWOC]]), predecessor of the [[United Farm Workers]]. | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] arrives in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]]. It is the first visit of a [[pope]] to [[Latin America]]. | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and [[John Mitchell]] announce the arrest of 20 of the [[Camden 28]]. | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Rhodesia]] is expelled by the [[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] for its racist policies. | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[U.S. President]] [[Richard Nixon]] names [[Henry Kissinger]] as [[Secretary of State]]. | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - The ''[[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Frente Sandinista de Liberacion]]'' or [[FSLN]] occupies national palace in [[Nicaragua]]. | ||
| - | *[[1988]] - The [[Perth Mint]] issues the first [[platinum]] coin, the ''koala''. | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - The first [[planetary ring|ring]] of [[Neptune]] is discovered. | ||
| - | * 1989 - [[Nolan Ryan]] strikes out [[Rickey Henderson]] to become the first [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]] to record 5,000 [[strikeout]]s. | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] [[Hostage Rescue Team|HRT]] [[sniper]] [[Lon Horiuchi]] shoots and kills [[Vicki Weaver]] during an 11-day siege at her home at [[Ruby Ridge]], [[Idaho]]. | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Alabama]] [[Chief Justice]] [[Roy Moore]] was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the [[Ten Commandments]] from the lobby of the [[Alabama Supreme Court]] building. | ||
| *[[2004]] - A version of ''[[The Scream]]'' and ''[[Madonna (Edvard Munch)|Madonna]]'', two paintings by [[Edvard Munch]], are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]. | *[[2004]] - A version of ''[[The Scream]]'' and ''[[Madonna (Edvard Munch)|Madonna]]'', two paintings by [[Edvard Munch]], are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]. | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612]] crashes, killing 170 people. | ||
| - | *[[2007]] - The [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] rout the [[Baltimore Orioles]] 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history. | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list; do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information; do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> | ||
| - | *[[1601]] - [[Georges de Scudéry]], French writer (d. [[1667]]) | ||
| - | *[[1624]] - [[Jean Renaud de Segrais]], French writer (d. [[1701]]) | ||
| - | *[[1647]] - [[Denis Papin]], French physicist and inventor (d. c. [[1712]]) | ||
| - | *[[1679]] - [[Pierre Guérin de Tencin]], French cardinal (d. [[1758]]) | ||
| - | *[[1760]] - [[Pope Leo XII]] (d. [[1829]]) | ||
| - | *[[1764]] - [[Charles Percier]], French architect (d. [[1838]]) | ||
| - | *[[1771]] - [[Henry Maudslay]], English inventor (d. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | *[[1773]] - [[Aimé Bonpland]], French explorer (d. [[1858]]) | ||
| - | *[[1779]] - [[James Kirke Paulding]], American author (d. [[1860]]) | ||
| - | *[[1800]] - [[William S. Harney]], U.S. general (d. [[1889]]) | ||
| - | * 1800 - [[Samuel David Luzzatto]], Italian-Jewish scholar (d. [[1865]]) | ||
| - | *[[1811]] - [[William Kelly (inventor)|William Kelly]], American inventor (d. [[1888]]) | ||
| *[[1822]] - [[Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe|Virginia Clemm Poe]], wife of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] (d. [[1847]]) | *[[1822]] - [[Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe|Virginia Clemm Poe]], wife of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] (d. [[1847]]) | ||
| - | *[[1827]] - [[Ezra Butler Eddy]], Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | *[[1834]] - [[Samuel Pierpont Langley]], American astronomer (d. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | *[[1836]] - [[Archibald MacNeal Willard]], American artist (d. [[1918]]) | ||
| - | *[[1848]] - [[Melville E. Stone]], American newspaper publisher (d. [[1929]]) | ||
| - | *[[1854]] - [[Milan Obrenović IV|Milan I]], King of Serbia (d. [[1901]]) | ||
| - | *[[1860]] - [[Paul Gottlieb Nipkow]], German inventor (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| *[[1862]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (d. [[1918]]) | *[[1862]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (d. [[1918]]) | ||
| - | *[[1867]] - [[Maximilian Bircher-Benner]], Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. [[1939]]) | ||
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Alexander Bogdanov]], Russian physician and philosopher (d. [[1928]]) | ||
| - | *[[1874]] - [[Max Scheler]], German philosopher (d. [[1928]]) | ||
| - | *[[1880]] - [[George Herriman]], American cartoonist (d. [[1944]]) | ||
| - | * 1880 - [[Gorch Fock (author)|Gorch Fock]], German author and poet (d. [[1916]]) | ||
| - | *[[1887]] - [[Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk]], German minister of finance (d. [[1977]]) | ||
| - | *[[1891]] - [[Jacques Lipchitz]], Lithuanian-born American sculptor (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| *[[1893]] - [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer (d. [[1967]]) | *[[1893]] - [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | * 1893 - [[Wilfred Kitching]], British Salvation Army general (d. [[1977]]) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Paul Comtois]], French Canadian politician (d. [[1966]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Sergei Ozhegov]], Russian lexicographer (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| *[[1902]] - [[Leni Riefenstahl]], German film director (d. [[2003]]) | *[[1902]] - [[Leni Riefenstahl]], German film director (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| - | * 1902 - [[Thomas Pelly]], American politician (d. [[1973]]) | + | *[[1903]] - [[René Wellek]], Czech-German literary theorist (d. [[1995]]) |
| - | *[[1904]] - [[Deng Xiaoping]], Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. [[1997]]) | + | |
| *[[1908]] - [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], French photographer (d. [[2004]]) | *[[1908]] - [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], French photographer (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Julius J. Epstein]], American screenwriter (d. [[2000]]) | + | *[[1917]] - [[John Lee Hooker]], American guitarist and singer (d. 2001) |
| - | * 1909 - [[Mel Hein]], American football player (d. [[1992]]) | + | *[[1928]] - [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer (d. 2007) |
| - | * 1909 - [[Lucille Ricksen]], American actress (d. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Bruno Pontecorvo]], Italian physicist (d. [[1993]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1915]] - [[Hugh Paddick]], British actor (d. [[2000]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1915]] - [[James Hillier]], Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | * 1915 - [[Edward Szczepanik]], former Polish Prime Minister (d. [[2005]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] - [[John Lee Hooker]], American guitarist and singer (d. [[2001]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Mary McGrory]], American journalist (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Ray Bradbury]], American writer | + | |
| - | * 1920 - [[Denton Cooley]], American heart surgeon | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Micheline Presle]], French actress | + | |
| - | *[[1925]] - [[James Kirkwood, Jr.]], American playwright and author (d. [[1989]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer | + | |
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Gilmar]], Brazilian football player | + | |
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Gerald P. Carr]], American astronaut | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.|Norman Schwarzkopf]], U.S. general | + | |
| - | * 1934 - Sir [[Donald McIntyre]], English bass-baritone | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[E. Annie Proulx]], American author | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Dale Hawkins]], American singer and songwriter | + | |
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Paul Maguire]], American football commentator | + | |
| - | *[[1939]] - [[George Reinholt]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1939 - [[Carl Yastrzemski]], baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Valerie Harper]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1940 - [[Bill McCartney]], former college football coach | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Bill Parcells]], American football coach | + | |
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Masatoshi Shima]], [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[computer]] [[scientist]] | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Ron Dante]], American songwriter and record producer ([[The Archies]]) | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Erol Gelenbe]], Turkish computer scientist, electrical engineer and applied mathematician | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Cindy Williams]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1947 - [[Donna Godchaux]], singer ([[Grateful Dead]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Eleonora Brown]], Italian actress | + | |
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Diana Nyad]], American swimmer, world record holder | + | |
| - | * 1949 - [[Doug Bair]], baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1949 - [[Þórarinn Eldjárn]], an Icelandic writer | + | |
| - | * 1949 - [[Alfred Musema]], Rwandan [[Rwandan Genocide|genocidaire]] | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Ray Burris]], baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Peter Laughner]], American singer, songwriter and guitarist ([[Rocket From the Tombs]], [[Pere Ubu]]) (d. [[1977]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Paul Ellering]], American wrestling manager | + | |
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Will Shetterly]], writer | + | |
| - | * 1955 - [[Chiranjeevi]], [[Telugu films|Telugu]] film actor | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Paul Molitor]], baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Steve Davis]], English snooker player | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Colm Feore]], American-born actor | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Lane Huffman]], American professional wrestler | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Vernon Reid]], American musician ([[Living Colour]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Juan Croucier]], American musician | + | |
| - | * 1959 - [[Pia Gjellerup]], Danish politician | + | |
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Roland Orzabal]], British musician ([[Tears for Fears]]) | + | |
| - | * 1961 - [[Debbi Peterson]], American singer ([[The Bangles]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Tori Amos]], American singer/songwriter | + | |
| - | * 1963 - [[Terry Catledge]], American basketball player | + | |
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Mats Wilander]], Swedish tennis player | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Tom Gibis]], American voice actor | + | |
| - | *[[1966]] - [[GZA]], American rapper | + | |
| - | * 1966 - [[Eric Andolsek]], American football player (d. [[1992]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Layne Staley]], American musician ([[Alice in Chains]]) (d. [[2002]]) | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje]], British actor | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Ant (comedian)|Ant]], American comedian | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Ty Burrell]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Alfred Gough]], American screenwriter | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Yukiko Okada]], Japanese singer (d. [[1986]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Paul Colman]], Australian guitarist ([[Newsboys]]) | + | |
| - | * 1968 - [[Alexander Mostovoi]], Russian footballer | + | |
| - | * 1968 - [[Horst Skoff]], Austrian tennis player | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Charlie Connelly]], English writer | + | |
| - | * 1970 - [[Giada De Laurentiis]], chef and television host | + | |
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Richard Armitage (actor)|Richard Armitage]], English actor | + | |
| - | * 1971 - [[Rick Yune]], Korean American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Steve Kline (baseball)|Steve Kline]], baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1972 - [[Okkert Brits]], South African pole vaulter | + | |
| - | * 1972 - [[Max Wilson]], Brazilian racing driver | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Howie Dorough]], American singer ([[Backstreet Boys]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Brimstone (wrestler)|William Kucmierowski]], American professional wrestler | + | |
| - | * 1974 - [[Agustín Pichot]], Argentine rugby player | + | |
| - | * 1974 - [[Stefano Verderi]], Italian guitarman | + | |
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Clint Bolton]], Australian footballer | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Sheree Murphy]], British actress | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Rodrigo Santoro]], Brazilian actor | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Heiðar Helguson]], Icelandic footballer | + | |
| - | * 1977 - [[Keren Cytter]], artist, filmmaker, and writer | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Jeff Stinco]], Canadian musician ([[Simple Plan]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Christi Shake]], American model and actress | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Roland Benschneider]], German footballer | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Nicolas Macrozonaris]], Quebec 100m sprinter | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Alex Holmes]], American football player | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Theo Bos]], Dutch cyclist | + | |
| - | * 1983 - [[Laura Breckenridge]], American actress | + | |
| - | <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list; do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information; do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> | + | |
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list; do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information; do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> | ||
| - | * [[408]] - [[Stilicho]], Roman general (b. [[359]]) | ||
| - | *[[1155]] - [[Emperor Konoe|Konoe]], Emperor of Japan (b. [[1139]]) | ||
| - | *[[1188]] - [[Ferdinand II of Leon|Ferdinand II]], King of Leon (b. [[1137]]) | ||
| - | *[[1241]] - [[Pope Gregory IX|Gregory IX]], Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. [[1143]]) | ||
| - | *[[1280]] - [[Pope Nicholas III|Nicholas III]], Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. [[1216]]) | ||
| - | *[[1304]] - [[John II, Count of Hainaut]] (b. [[1247]]) | ||
| - | *[[1350]] - [[Philip VI of France|Philip VI]], King of France (b. [[1293]]) | ||
| - | *[[1485]] - [[Richard III of England|Richard III]], King of England (b. [[1452]]) | ||
| - | *[[1553]] - [[John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland|John Dudley]], English admiral and politician (b. [[1501]]) | ||
| - | *[[1572]] - [[Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland|Thomas Percy]], Earl of Northumberland (b. [[1528]]) | ||
| - | *[[1584]] - [[Jan Kochanowski]], Polish writer (b. [[1530]]) | ||
| - | *[[1599]] - [[Beatrice Cenci]], Italian noblewoman (b. [[1577]]) | ||
| - | * 1599 - [[Luca Marenzio]], Italian composer (b. c. [[1553]]) | ||
| - | *[[1607]] - [[Bartholomew Gosnold]], English explorer and privateer (b. [[1572]]) | ||
| - | *[[1609]] - [[Judah Loew ben Bezalel|Maharal of Prague]], Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. [[1525]]) | ||
| - | *[[1652]] - [[Jacob De la Gardie]], Swedish soldier and statesman (b. [[1583]]) | ||
| - | *[[1680]] - [[John George II, Elector of Saxony]] (b. [[1613]]) | ||
| - | *[[1701]] - [[John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath]], English royalist statesman (b. [[1628]]) | ||
| - | *[[1711]] - [[Louis François, duc de Boufflers]], French marshal (b. [[1644]]) | ||
| - | *[[1752]] - [[William Whiston]], English mathematician (b. [[1667]]) | ||
| - | *[[1773]] - [[George Lyttelton]], English writer and politician (b. [[1709]]) | ||
| - | *[[1793]] - [[Louis, 4th duc de Noailles]], Marshal of France (b. [[1713]]) | ||
| - | *[[1797]] - [[Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser]], Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. [[1724]]) | ||
| *[[1806]] - [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], French artist (b. [[1732]]) | *[[1806]] - [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], French artist (b. [[1732]]) | ||
| - | *[[1818]] - [[Warren Hastings]], British Governor-General of India (b. [[1732]]) | + | *[[1860]] - [[Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps]], French painter (''The Monkey Connoisseurs'') (b. [[1803]]) |
| - | *[[1828]] - [[Franz Joseph Gall]], Austrian neuroscientist (b. [[1758]]) | + | *[[1904]] - [[Kate Chopin]], American author (b. [[1850]]) |
| - | *[[1850]] - [[Nikolaus Lenau]], Austrian poet (b. [[1802]]) | + | *[[1920]] - [[Anders Zorn]], Swedish painter (b. [[1860]]) |
| - | *[[1861]] - [[Xianfeng Emperor|Xianfeng]], Emperor of China (b. [[1831]]) | + | *[[1970]] - [[Vladimir Propp]], Russian structuralist scholar (b. [[1895]]) |
| - | *[[1891]] - [[Jan Neruda]], Czech author (b. [[1834]]) | + | *[[1981]] - [[Glauber Rocha]], Brazilian filmmaker (''Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol'') (b. [[1938]]) |
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1830]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi]] bishop of Bergamo | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Korbinian Brodmann]], German neurologist (b. [[1868]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], Irish revolutionary (b. [[1890]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Charles William Eliot|Charles W. Eliot]], American President of Harvard University (b. [[1834]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge]], English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. [[1851]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Michel Fokine]], Russian choreographer and dancer (b. [[1880]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Kirk Bryan (American Geologist)|Kirk Bryan]], American geologist (b. [[1888]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Jim Tabor]], baseball player (b. [[1916]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Roger Martin du Gard]], French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1881]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Ellen Church]], First American airline [[stewardess]] (b. [[1904]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Gregory Goodwin Pincus]], American endocrinologist (b. [[1903]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Vladimir Propp]], [[Russian Formalists|Russian structuralist]] scholar (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Jacob Bronowski]], Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. [[1908]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira]], President of Brazil (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Gina Bachauer]], Greek pianist (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]], English-born actor (b. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Jomo Kenyatta]], first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. [[1892]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - [[James T. Farrell]], American novelist (b. [[1904]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[James Smith McDonnell]], American aircraft manufacturer (b. [[1899]]) | + | |
| *[[1989]] - [[Huey P. Newton]], American activist (b. [[1942]]) | *[[1989]] - [[Huey P. Newton]], American activist (b. [[1942]]) | ||
| - | *[[1991]] - [[Colleen Dewhurst]], Canadian actress (b. [[1924]]) | ||
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Gilles Groulx]], French Canadian film director (b. [[1931]]) | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Arnold Gerschwiler]], Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Generosa Ammon]], widow of [[Ted Ammon]] (b. [[1956]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Imperio Argentina]], Argentinian singer and actress (b. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Konstantin Aseev]], Russian chess player (b. [[1960]]) | ||
| - | * 2004 - [[Daniel Petrie]], Canadian-born television and movie director (b. [[1920]]) | ||
| - | * 2004 - [[Al Dvorin]], American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.[[1923]]) | ||
| *[[2005]] - [[Luc Ferrari]], French composer (b. [[1929]]) | *[[2005]] - [[Luc Ferrari]], French composer (b. [[1929]]) | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Bruce Gary]], American rock drummer, producer ([[The Knack]]) (b. [[1951]]) | ||
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| - | == Notes == | ||
| - | # David Reimer | ||
| - | # Kate Chopin | ||
| - | # Karlheinz Stockhausen | ||
| - | # Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe | ||
| - | # Claude Debussy | ||
| - | # Jean-Honoré Fragonard | ||
| - | # Henri Cartier-Bresson | ||
| - | # Glauber Rocha | ||
| - | # Leni Riefenstahl | ||
| - | * Vladimir Propp | ||
| - | # René Wellek | ||
| - | # Huey P. Newton | ||
| - | # Nikolaus Lenau | ||
| - | # Anders Zorn | ||
| - | # Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps | ||
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Art and culture
- 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
- 2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Births
- 1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
- 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
- 1903 - René Wellek, Czech-German literary theorist (d. 1995)
- 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
- 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
Deaths
- 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
- 1860 - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, French painter (The Monkey Connoisseurs) (b. 1803)
- 1904 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1850)
- 1920 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
- 1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
- 1981 - Glauber Rocha, Brazilian filmmaker (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) (b. 1938)
- 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
- 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
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