March 11

March 11 is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
• 1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
• 1641 – Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit Reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.
• 1649 – The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
• 1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
• 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
• 1784 – The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
• 1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
• 1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• 1845 – The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
• 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
• 1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
• 1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
• 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
• 1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom
• 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• 1916 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned. The first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
• 1917 – World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
• 1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• 1931 – Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
• 1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.
• 1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
• 1945 – World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
• 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
• 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
• 1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
• 1980 India Kamrul Chowdhury (Heritage) economist, Philosopher, Scientist and Poet
• 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
• 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• 1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
• 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
• 1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• 2004 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
• 2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
• 2007 – Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
• 2009 – Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
• 2010 – Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
• 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
• 2012 – A US soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.

Births

• 1544 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)
• 1738 – Benjamin Tupper, American general (d. 1792)
• 1745 – Bodawpaya, Burmese king (d. 1819)
• 1785 – John McLean, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Postmaster General (d. 1861)
• 1787 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
• 1811 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1877)
• 1818 – Marius Petipa, French-Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1910)
• 1819 – Henry Tate, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Tate & Lyle (d. 1899)
• 1822 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900)
• 1836 – Samuel Duvall, American archer (d. 1908)
• 1863 – Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915)
• 1870 – Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946)
• 1872 – Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (d. 1939)
• 1872 – Kathleen Clarice Groom, English author (d. 1954)
• 1873 – David Horsley, English-American businessman, co-founded Universal Studios (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
• 1878 – Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1927)
• 1880 – Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943)
• 1884 – Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister (d. 1974)
• 1885 – Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1948)
• 1887 – Raoul Walsh, American actor and director (d. 1980)
• 1890 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer (d. 1974)
• 1891 – Gertrud Wolle, German actress (d. 1952)
• 1895 – Shemp Howard, American actor (d. 1955)
• 1897 – Henry Cowell, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
• 1898 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1899 – Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972
• 1899 – James H. Douglas, Jr. American politician and army officer, 5th Secretary of the Air Force (d. 1988))
• 1903 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and scholar (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (d. 1992)
• 1907 – Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
• 1911 – Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet, Egyptian-Scottish soldier and politician (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Hans Peter Keller, German poet and author (d. 1988)
• 1915 – J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and psychologist (d. 1990)
• 1916 – Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (d. 1983)
• 1916 – Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
• 1919 – Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 – Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian bandoneón player and composer (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (d. 1997)
• 1922 – José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor and director (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
• 1923 – Louise Brough, American tennis player
• 1926 – Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (d. 1990)
• 1926 – İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American pianist and composer (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Robert Mosbacher, American sailor, businessman, and politician, 25th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1929 – Timothy Carey, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1986)
• 1931 – Janosch, Polish-German author and illustrator
• 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman, founded News Corporation
• 1932 – Leroy Jenkins, American violinist and composer (Revolutionary Ensemble) (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Martin Richards, American film producer (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Sam Donaldson, American journalist
• 1935 – Sandra Milo, Tunisian-Italian actress
• 1936 – Hollis Frampton, American director, screenwriter, photographer and theorist (d. 1984)
• 1936 – Antonin Scalia, American jurist
• 1937 – Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2011)
• 1938 – D. V. J. Harischandra, Sri Lankan psychiatrist and scholar (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Lorraine Hunt, American politician, 32nd Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
• 1939 – Flaco Jiménez, American accordion player (Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven)
• 1939 – Gerard Sithunywa Ndlovu, South African bishop (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Alberto Cortez, Argentinian-Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Joel Steiger, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1945 – Dock Ellis, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Harvey Mandel, American guitarist (Pure Food and Drug Act and Canned Heat)
• 1945 – Tricia O'Neil, American actress
• 1946 – Mark Metcalf, American actor
• 1946 – Patty Waters, American singer
• 1947 – Tristan Murail, French composer
• 1947 – Mark Stein, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Vanilla Fudge)
• 1948 – Roy Barnes, American politician, 80th Governor of Georgia
• 1948 – César Gerónimo, Dominican baseball player
• 1948 – George Kooymans, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (Golden Earring)
• 1950 – Bobby McFerrin, American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor
• 1950 – Jerry Zucker, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1951 – Andres Metspalu, Estonian geneticist and academic
• 1951 – Dominique Sanda, French actress and model
• 1952 – Douglas Adams, English-American author and playwright (d. 2001)
• 1952 – Vince Giordano, American saxophonist and composer (Nighthawks Orchestra)
• 1952 – Susan Richardson, American actress
• 1953 – László Bölöni, Romanian-Hungarian footballer and manager
• 1953 – Derek Daly, Irish-American race car driver
• 1953 – Jimmy Iovine, American record producer and businessman, co-founded Interscope Records and Beats Electronics
• 1953 – Bernie LaBarge, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 – David Newman, American composer and conductor
• 1954 – Gale Norton, American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1955 – Leslie Cliff, Canadian swimmer
• 1955 – Jimmy Fortune, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Statler Brothers)
• 1955 – Nina Hagen, German singer-songwriter and actress
• 1955 – D. J. MacHale, American author, director, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Henk van Gerven, Dutch politician
• 1955 – Yehuda Weisenstein, Israeli fencer
• 1956 – Curtis Brown, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1956 – Joey Buttafuoco, American businessman and criminal
• 1956 – Rob Paulsen, American voice actor and singer
• 1956 – Helen Rollason, English sportscaster (d. 1999)
• 1957 – The Lady Chablis, American drag queen performer
• 1957 – Cheryl Lynn, American singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
• 1958 – Eddie Lawson, American motorcycle racer
• 1958 – Tetsurō Oda, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1958 – James Pinkerton, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Flemming Rose, Danish journalist and author
• 1959 – Nina Hartley, American porn actress, director, and author
• 1959 – Fred M'membe, Zambian journalist
• 1959 – Manuel Negrete Arias, Mexican footballer and coach
• 1959 – Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American journalist and poet
• 1960 – Christophe Gans, French director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1960 – Junichi Sato, Japanese director
• 1961 – Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Claudine Mercier, Canadian singer and actress
• 1962 – Peter Berg, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1962 – Mary Gauthier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 – Matt Mead, American politician, 32nd Governor of Wyoming
• 1962 – Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
• 1963 – Raoul Heertje, Dutch comedian and actor
• 1963 – Alex Kingston, English actress
• 1963 – David LaChapelle, American photographer and director
• 1964 – Libba Bray, American author
• 1964 – Emma Chambers, English actress
• 1964 – Vinnie Paul, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah, and Gasoline)
• 1964 – Shane Richie, English actor and singer
• 1965 – Nigel Adkins, English footballer and manager
• 1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
• 1965 – Wallace Langham, American actor
• 1965 – Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, English interior designer
• 1965 – Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
• 1965 – Andy Sturmer, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Beatnik Beatch and Jellyfish)
• 1966 – Robbie Brookside, English wrestler
• 1966 – Joe Hachem, Lebanese-Australian poker player
• 1966 – John Thompson III, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 – Ilias Zouros, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1967 – John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1967 – Brad Carson, American lawyer and politician
• 1967 – Renzo Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1967 – Gary Wolfe, American wrestler
• 1968 – Stéphane Bédard, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1968 – Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Liz and Lisa)
• 1968 – Takao Osawa, Japanese actor
• 1969 – Soraya, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2006)
• 1969 – Pete Droge, American singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Terrence Howard, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1970 – Delia Gallagher, American journalist
• 1970 – Andre Nickatina, American rapper and producer
• 1971 – Johnny Knoxville, American actor and producer
• 1971 – Martin Ručinský, Czech ice hockey player
• 1972 – Ua, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Ajico)
• 1972 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1973 – Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
• 1973 – Wataru Sakata, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1974 – Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1974 – Jon Dalton, American actor
• 1974 – Kieran Scott, American author
• 1975 – Shawn Springs, American football player
• 1975 – Eric the Midget, American radio host
• 1976 – Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
• 1977 – Becky Hammon, American-Russian basketball player
• 1978 – Scott Calderwood, English-Scottish footballer and manager
• 1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
• 1978 – Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Andrés Velencoso, Spanish model
• 1978 – Paulo Musse, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – Christopher Rice, American author
• 1979 – Elton Brand, American basketball player
• 1979 – Fred Jones, American basketball player
• 1979 – Benji Madden, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Good Charlotte, Dead Executives, and Taintstick)
• 1979 – Joel Madden, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Good Charlotte and Dead Executives)
• 1980 – Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
• 1980 – Dan Uggla, American baseball player
• 1981 – David Anders, American actor
• 1981 – Heidi Cortez, American businesswoman and author
• 1981 – Lee Evans, American football player
• 1981 – Luke Johnson, English drummer and songwriter (Lostprophets, Beat Union, and Amen)
• 1981 – Russell Lissack, English guitarist (Bloc Party, Pin Me Down, and Ash)
• 1981 – LeToya Luckett, American singer-songwriter and actress (Destiny's Child)
• 1981 – Paul Wall, American rapper (Expensive Taste and The Color Changin' Click)
• 1982 – Brian Anderson, American baseball player
• 1982 – Thora Birch, American actress
• 1982 – Lindsey McKeon, American actress
• 1983 – Marietta Chrousala, Greek model and television host
• 1983 – Bianca Gonzalez, Filipino model and television host
• 1983 – Adil Mezgour, Moroccan-Italian footballer
• 1983 – Melissa Rycroft, American cheerleader and television host
• 1984 – Rob Brown, American actor
• 1984 – Marc-André Grondin, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Tom James, Welsh rower
• 1984 – Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress, and singer (Spin Aqua)
• 1985 – Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Luis Hernández, Mexican figure skater
• 1985 – Stelios Malezas, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1985 – Sonia Radeva, Bulgarian figure skater
• 1985 – Kai Reus, Dutch cyclist
• 1985 – Derek Schouman, American football player
• 1985 – Hakuhō Shō, Mongolian sumo wrestler
• 1985 – Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Dario Cologna, Swiss skier
• 1986 – Mariko Shinoda, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
• 1987 – Marc-André Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer
• 1988 – Katsuhiko Nakajima, Japanese wrestler
• 1989 – Shin Soohyun, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
• 1989 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor
• 1990 – Janna Dominguez, Filipino actress
• 1990 – Reiley McClendon, American actor
• 1990 – Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player
• 1991 – Linlin, Chinese-Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Minimoni)
• 1991 – Kamohelo Mokotjo, South African footballer
• 1991 – Jack Rodwell, English footballer
• 1991 – Mayumi Roller, Virgin Islander sailor
• 1992 – Sacha Parkinson, English actress
• 1993 – Anthony Davis, American basketball player
• 1993 – Demi Harman, Australian actress

Deaths

• 1425 BC – Thutmose III, Egyptian pharaoh (b. 1481 BC)
• 222 – Elagabalus, Roman emperor (b. 203)
• 222 – Julia Soaemias, Roman wife of Sextus Varius Marcellus (b. 180)
• 859 – Eulogius of Córdoba, Spanish martyr (b. 819)
• 1198 – Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (b. 1145)
• 1486 – Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
• 1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect, designed the San Pietro in Montorio (b. 1444)
• 1575 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian reformer (b. 1520)
• 1602 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian organist and composer (b. 1550)
• 1607 – Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (b. 1543)
• 1722 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
• 1759 – John Forbes, Scottish general (b. 1710)
• 1786 – Charles Humphreys, American politician (b. 1714)
• 1820 – Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)
• 1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
• 1851 – George McDuffie, American politician, 55th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
• 1854 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
• 1856 – James Beatty, Irish engineer (b. 1820)
• 1863 – Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
• 1866 – Ulysses F. Doubleday, American politician (b. 1792)
• 1869 – Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
• 1870 – Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (b. 1786)
• 1874 – Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
• 1898 – William Rosecrans, American general and politician (b. 1819)
• 1898 – Dikran Tchouhadjian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1907 – Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
• 1908 – Edmondo De Amicis, Italian journalist and author (b. 1846)
• 1908 – Benjamin Waugh, American minister and activist (b. 1839)
• 1915 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian author (b. 1826)
• 1920 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
• 1931 – F. W. Murnau, German-American director (b. 1888)
• 1937 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (b. 1860)
• 1944 – Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American journalist and historian (b. 1882)
• 1949 – Anastasios Charalambis, Greek general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1862)
• 1949 – Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
• 1951 – János Zsupánek, Slovene poet and author (b. 1861)
• 1952 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (b. 1885)
• 1955 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1955 – Oscar F. Mayer, German-American businessman, founded Oscar Mayer (b. 1859)
• 1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and explorer (b. 1888)
• 1958 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded The Lego Group (b. 1891)
• 1959 – Lester Dent, American author (b. 1904)
• 1960 – Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress (b. 1882)
• 1969 – John Daly, Irish runner (b. 1880)
• 1969 – John Wyndham, English author (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American author (b. 1889)
• 1970 – Russell van Horn, American boxer (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
• 1971 – Whitney Young, American activist (b. 1921)
• 1977 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)
• 1977 – Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1934)
• 1978 – Claude François, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1939)
• 1978 – Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Edmund Cooper, English author (b. 1926)
• 1982 – Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
• 1984 – Kostas Roukounas, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1911)
• 1987 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906)
• 1989 – James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
• 1989 – John J. McCloy, American lawyer and banker (b. 1895)
• 1990 – Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
• 1992 – Richard Brooks, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Vince Edwards, American actor and director (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
• 2002 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Ivar Hansen, Danish politician (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Slobodan Milošević, Yugoslav politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Nils Taube, Estonian-English fund manager (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, co-founded Tapout Clothing (b. 1963)
• 2010 – John Hill, Canadian wrestler (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish geneticist (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Sandy Scott, Canadian wrestler (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch journalist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Jack Hardy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 2011 – Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Ian Turpie, Australian actor and game show host (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Erica Andrews, Mexican-American drag queen performer
• 2013 – Martin Adolf Bormann, German theologian (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Ignatius Anthony Catanello, American bishop (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Doug Christie, Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Simón Alberto Consalvi, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela
• 2013 – Tony Gubba, English journalist (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Mitchell Melton, American politician (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Ramankutty Nair, Indian actor (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Sripada Pinakapani, Indian singer and doctor (b. 1913)
• 2013 – Florian Siwicki, Polish general and politician (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aengus the Culdee
  • Alberta of Agen
  • Aurea of San Millán
  • Constantine
  • Blessed John Righi
  • Sophronius of Jerusalem
  • Vindician
• Johnny Appleseed Day (United States)
• Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)
• Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence from the Soviet Union in 1990 (Lithuania)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada
• Tajik Press Day - Asia Plus

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