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Acontecimientos (40)

1. 538Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
2. 1088Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
3. 1158German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
4. 1391Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).
5. 1579Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.
6. 1622Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
7. 1689James II of England lands at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
8. 1811Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
9. 1862Paddle steamer Brother Jonathan docks in Fort Victoria (now Victoria, British Columbia), carrying smallpox-infected passengers from San Francisco. The ensuing epidemic killed an estimated two-thirds of First Nations in the province of British Columbia.
10. 1912The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
11. 1913The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
12. 1918Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
13. 1920The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
14. 1928In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
15. 1930Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
16. 1933Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
17. 1938Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.
18. 1940Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
19. 1940The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.
20. 1942The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
21. 1947Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
22. 1950The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
23. 1967Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
24. 1968Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.
25. 1971The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
26. 1989Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.
27. 1992Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
28. 1993Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
29. 1993North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
30. 1999Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
31. 2003Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
32. 2003The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
33. 2004President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
34. 2006In Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi is raped and murdered by five American soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, who also murder both of her parents and her sister.
35. 2009Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
36. 2011A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
37. 2014A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
38. 2018US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.
39. 2019In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
40. 2020The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nacimientos (292)

1. 1270Charles, Count of Valois (died 1325)
2. 1515Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (died 1553)
3. 1607Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (died 1676)
4. 1613André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (died 1700)
5. 1626John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (died 1697)
6. 1637Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (died 1671)
7. 1672Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (died 1729)
8. 1685George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (died 1753)
9. 1710Thomas Arne, English composer (died 1778)
10. 1735François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (died 1821)
11. 1753Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (died 1827)
12. 1766Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (died 1815)
13. 1781Frederica of Baden, Queen consort to Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (died 1826)
14. 1784William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (died 1856)
15. 1795William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (died 1861)
16. 1795George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (died 1858)
17. 1806Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (died 1863)
18. 1807James Abbott, Indian Army officer (died 1896)
19. 1815Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (died 1896)
20. 1821John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)
21. 1821Medo Pucić, Croatian writer and politician (died 1882)
22. 1823Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (died 1899)
23. 1824Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (died 1887)
24. 1832Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (died 1897)
25. 1834Hilary A. Herbert, American politician, Secretary of the Navy (died 1919)
26. 1835Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (died 1909)
27. 1835Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (died 1908)
28. 1837Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (died 1911)
29. 1838William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (died 1907)
30. 1843Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (died 1904)
31. 1855Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (died 1920)
32. 1857William V. Ranous, American actor and director (died 1915)
33. 1858Adolph Ochs, American publisher (died 1935)
34. 1859Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (died 1906)
35. 1860Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (died 1895)
36. 1863Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1938)
37. 1863Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist (died 1945)
38. 1864W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (died 1922)
39. 1864Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (died 1943)
40. 1868Mary Karadja, Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (died 1943)
41. 1869George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1947)
42. 1874Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (died 1949)
43. 1877Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (died 1946)
44. 1878Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (died 1903)
45. 1880Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (died 1952)
46. 1881Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (died 1966)
47. 1882Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (died 1943)
48. 1883Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist (died 1961)
49. 1888Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (died 1965)
50. 1888Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (died 1965)
51. 1890Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1976)
52. 1896Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1976)
53. 1898Tian Han, Chinese playwright (died 1968)
54. 1898Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (died 1984)
55. 1899Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (died 1955)
56. 1900Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (died 1972)
57. 1900Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (died 1974)
58. 1900Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (died 1975)
59. 1904Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (died 1976)
60. 1905Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (died 1982)
61. 1907Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (died 2007)
62. 1908Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (died 1970)
63. 1908David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (died 1995)
64. 1909Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (died 1947)
65. 1910László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (died 1986)
66. 1910Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1980)
67. 1911Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (died 1979)
68. 1912Willie Hall, English footballer (died 1967)
69. 1912Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (died 2006)
70. 1913Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1984)
71. 1913Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (died 2010)
72. 1915Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1995)
73. 1915Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist (died 1991)
74. 1917Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (died 1969)
75. 1917Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (died 2009)
76. 1917Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (died 2011)
77. 1918Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (died 1989)
78. 1918Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (died 2012)
79. 1921Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (died 2001)
80. 1921Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (died 1986)
81. 1922Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (died 1969)
82. 1922Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (died 1999)
83. 1923Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (died 2013)
84. 1923Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (died 2005)
85. 1923Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2007)
86. 1923Mae Young, American wrestler (died 2014)
87. 1925Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
88. 1925Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (died 2012)
89. 1926George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii (died 2026)
90. 1926Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (died 2015)
91. 1926John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor (died 1988)
92. 1926David Nadien, American violinist (died 2014)
93. 1927Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (died 2009)
94. 1927Emmett Leith, American professor of electrical engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography (died 2005)
95. 1927Sudharmono, Indonesian politician, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (died 2006)
96. 1928Edward Albee, American director and playwright (died 2016)
97. 1929Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (died 2014)
98. 1930Antony Acland, English former diplomat and Provost of Eton College (died 2021)
99. 1930Vern Law, American baseball player and manager
100. 1931Józef Tischner, Polish priest and philosopher (died 2000)
101. 1932Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (died 2014)
102. 1932Andrew Young, American pastor, civil rights movement activist, politician, and 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
103. 1933Myrna Fahey, American actress (died 1973)
104. 1933Barbara Feldon, American actress
105. 1934Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher (died 2023)
106. 1935Chiam See Tong, Singaporean lawyer and politician
107. 1936Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author (died 2002)
108. 1936Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy
109. 1936Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
110. 1937Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer
111. 1937Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (died 2017)
112. 1938Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor (died 2010)
113. 1938Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster
114. 1938Ken Spears, American writer (died 2020)
115. 1938Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop
116. 1938Ron Tutt, American drummer (died 2021)
117. 1940Al Jarreau, American singer (died 2017)
118. 1941Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer
119. 1942Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player (died 2020)
120. 1943Ratko Mladić, Bosnian Serb military officer and war criminal (died 2026)
121. 1944Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player (died 2018)
122. 1945Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer, editor, publisher and public servant
123. 1946Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director
124. 1946Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
125. 1946Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer
126. 1947Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician
127. 1947Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician
128. 1947David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter
129. 1947Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
130. 1948Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
131. 1948Kent Conrad, American politician
132. 1948James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
133. 1949Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
134. 1949Mary Catherine Lamb, American textile artist
135. 1949David Mellor, British politician
136. 1950Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
137. 1952André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
138. 1952John Mitchell, English footballer
139. 1952Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
140. 1953Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion
141. 1954Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
142. 1956Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier
143. 1956Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (died 2010)
144. 1956Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter
145. 1956Lesley Manville, English actress
146. 1956Dale Murphy, American baseball player
147. 1956Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager (died 2019)
148. 1957Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach
149. 1957Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
150. 1957Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player (died 2022)
151. 1958Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist
152. 1959Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska
153. 1959Luenell, American comedian and actress
154. 1959Michael Walter, German luger (died 2016)
155. 1960Jason Beghe, American actor
156. 1960Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
157. 1962Julia Campbell, American actress
158. 1962Andreas Köpke, German footballer
159. 1962Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor
160. 1962Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister
161. 1962Titus Welliver, American actor
162. 1963John Andretti, American race car driver (died 2020)
163. 1963Candy Costie, American swimmer
164. 1963Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach
165. 1963Reiner Gies, German boxer
166. 1963Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
167. 1963Paul Way, English golfer
168. 1963Jake Weber, English actor
169. 1964Dieter Eckstein, German footballer
170. 1964Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna
171. 1965Steve Finley, American baseball player
172. 1965Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party
173. 1966David Daniels, American countertenor
174. 1966Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster
175. 1967Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
176. 1968Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
177. 1968Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer
178. 1969Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
179. 1969Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
180. 1970Karen Bradley, English politician
181. 1970Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
182. 1970Mathias Grönberg, Swedish golfer
183. 1970Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
184. 1971Raúl Mondesí, Dominican baseball player and politician
185. 1971Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
186. 1971Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper
187. 1972Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player
188. 1974Charles Akonnor, Ghanaian footballer
189. 1974Walid Badir, Israeli footballer
190. 1975Nicolae Grigore, Romanian footballer
191. 1975Edgaras Jankauskas, Lithuanian footballer
192. 1975Valérie Nicolas, French handball player
193. 1975Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer
194. 1976Deron Quint, American ice hockey player
195. 1976Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer
196. 1977Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete
197. 1977Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player
198. 1977Amdy Faye, Senegalese footballer
199. 1977Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player
200. 1978Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
201. 1978Casey Mears, American race car driver
202. 1978Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator
203. 1979Charlie Bell, American basketball player and coach
204. 1979Rhys Coiro, American actor
205. 1979Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist
206. 1979Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
207. 1979Gerard López, Spanish footballer
208. 1979Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer
209. 1979Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
210. 1979Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer
211. 1980Césinha, Brazilian footballer
212. 1980Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter
213. 1980Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist
214. 1980Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
215. 1981Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer
216. 1981Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
217. 1981Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
218. 1982Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress
219. 1982Samm Levine, American actor and comedian
220. 1982Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player
221. 1982Hisato Satō, Japanese footballer
222. 1982Yūto Satō, Japanese footballer
223. 1982Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
224. 1983Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor
225. 1983Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
226. 1984Jaimie Alexander, American actress
227. 1984Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
228. 1985Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
229. 1985Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
230. 1985Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
231. 1986Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
232. 1986Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer
233. 1986Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
234. 1986Ben Offereins, Australian runner
235. 1986František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (died 2017)
236. 1987Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist
237. 1987Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
238. 1987Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player
239. 1987Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
240. 1987Chris Seitz, American soccer player
241. 1987Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player
242. 1987Pablo Velázquez, Paraguayan footballer
243. 1987Kim Seon-tae, South Korean Youtuber
244. 1988Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer
245. 1988Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer
246. 1988Titi, Brazilian footballer
247. 1989Jordan Adéoti, French footballer
248. 1989Vytautas Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer
249. 1989Tyler Clary, American swimmer
250. 1989Evgenii Dadonov, Russian ice hockey player
251. 1989Richard Eckersley, English footballer
252. 1989Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player
253. 1989Dmitry Korobov, Belarusian ice hockey player
254. 1989Siim Luts, Estonian footballer
255. 1990Dont'a Hightower, American football coach and former player
256. 1990Marvin Jones, American football player
257. 1990Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer
258. 1990Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper
259. 1990Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer
260. 1990Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player
261. 1990Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer
262. 1990Milena Raičević, Montenegrin handballer
263. 1990Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer
264. 1991Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer
265. 1991Felix Kroos, German footballer
266. 1992Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer
267. 1992Jordan Ferri, French footballer
268. 1992Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner
269. 1992Jiří Skalák, Czech footballer
270. 1993Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer
271. 1993Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer
272. 1994Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
273. 1994Jerami Grant, American basketball player
274. 1994Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (died 2016)
275. 1994Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
276. 1996Serhou Guirassy, French-Guinean footballer
277. 1996Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
278. 1996Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
279. 1996Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper
280. 1997Dean Henderson, English footballer
281. 1997Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
282. 1997Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
283. 1998Carsen Edwards, American basketball player
284. 1998Mecole Hardman, American football player
285. 1998Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater
286. 1998Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater
287. 2001Max Duggan, American football player
288. 2001Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor
289. 2003Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress and model
290. 2003Malina Weissman, American actress and model
291. 2004DannyLux, American singer-songwriter
292. 2008Emma Kok, Dutch singer

Fallecimientos (65)

1. 417Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church
2. 604Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 540)
3. 1022Symeon the New Theologian (born 949)
4. 1160Al-Muqtafi, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (born 1096)
5. 1316Stefan Dragutin (born c. 1244)
6. 1322Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1276)
7. 1539Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (born 1477)
8. 1699Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (born 1635)
9. 1898Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (born 1818)
10. 1916Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (born 1830)
11. 1925Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1866)
12. 1929Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (born 1851)
13. 1935Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (born 1858)
14. 1942William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
15. 1943Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (born 1869)
16. 1946Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (born 1897)
17. 1949Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (born 1879)
18. 1954Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (born 1870)
19. 1955Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (born 1920)
20. 1955Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (born 1892)
21. 1957Josephine Hull, American actress (born 1877)
22. 1971Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (born 1873)
23. 1973Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)
24. 1974George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (born 1904)
25. 1985Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (born 1899)
26. 1989Maurice Evans, English-American actor (born 1901)
27. 1991Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
28. 1991William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (born 1900)
29. 1992Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (born 1890)
30. 1998Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (born 1893)
31. 1999Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1916)
32. 1999Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (born 1902)
33. 2000Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (born 1924)
34. 2001Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (born 1933)
35. 2001Robert Ludlum, American author (born 1927)
36. 2001Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (born 1916)
37. 2002Hartini, former wife of Sukarno (born 1924)
38. 2002Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (born 1932)
39. 2002Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1923)
40. 2003Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1952)
41. 2003Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1914)
42. 2003Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (born 1948)
43. 2004Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (born 1917)
44. 2006Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (born 1947)
45. 2008Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (born 1949)
46. 2008Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (born 1897)
47. 2010Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (born 1920)
48. 2011Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (born 1919)
49. 2012Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (born 1930)
50. 2012Michael Hossack, American drummer (born 1946)
51. 2012Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (born 1938)
52. 2013Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (born 1936)
53. 2013Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1937)
54. 2014Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)
55. 2014Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (born 1923)
56. 2014José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (born 1936)
57. 2015Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (born 1924)
58. 2015Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (born 1934)
59. 2015Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (born 1924)
60. 2015Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1948)
61. 2016Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (born 1942)
62. 2016Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (born 1935)
63. 2016Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
64. 2021Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (born 1951)
65. 2022Gertraud Gruber, German beautician and businesswoman (born 1921)

Celebraciones (6)

1. Arbor Day (China)
2. Arbor Day (Taiwan)
3. Aztec New Year
4. National Day (Mauritius)
5. World Day Against Cyber Censorship
6. Youth Day (Zambia)

Santoral (11)

1. Alphege
2. Angela Salawa
3. Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)
4. Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia
5. Mura (McFeredach)
6. Fina
7. Maximilian of Tebessa
8. Paul Aurelian
9. Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion)
10. Theophanes the Confessor
11. March 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)