September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year.
490 BC – Battle of Marathon : The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.372 – Sixteen Kingdoms : Jin Xiaowudi , age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty .1185 – Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos brutally put to death in Constantinople .1213 – Albigensian Crusade : Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester , defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret .1229 – The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça , Majorca , with the purpose of conquering the island.1309 – The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen 1683 – Austro-Ottoman War : Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire .1814 – Battle of North Point : an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812 .1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning .1847 – Mexican–American War : the Battle of Chapultepec begins.1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras , North Carolina , drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon . The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush .1885 – Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord , a world record scoreline in professional Association football.1890 – Salisbury , Rhodesia , is founded.1897 – Tirah Campaign : Battle of Saragarhi .1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar .1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler 's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter )1919 – Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers' Party (later the Nazi Party ).1930 – In cricket Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians .1933 – Leó Szilárd , waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury , conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction .1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia .1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux , France.1940 – An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
1942 – World War II : RMS Laconia , carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.1942 – World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign . U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini , dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi , by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny .1944 – World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier , American troops enter Germany for the first time.1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah 's death.1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting , take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia .1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island .1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit .1959 – Premiere of Bonanza 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II , at the moon.
1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.1964 – Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.1966 – Gemini 11 , the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program , and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions )1970 – Dawson's Field hijackings : Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan , continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman .1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia , 'Messiah ' of the Rastafari movement , is deposed following a military coup by the Derg , ending a reign of 58 years.1974 – Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral Guinea-Bissau .
1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.1979 – Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale .1980 – Military coup in Turkey .1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut , United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros .1983 – The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica ; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.1990 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification .1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison , the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri , the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.1992 – Abimael Guzmán , leader of the Shining Path , is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path 's leadership fell as well.
1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House 's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.1999 – Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor .2001 – Ansett Australia , Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 .2003 – Iraq War : In Fallujah , U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay , Lantau Island , Hong Kong.2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.2014 – Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp .
1492 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)1494 – Francis I of France (d. 1547)1605 – William Dugdale , English genealogist and historian (d. 1686)1688 – Ferdinand Brokoff , Czech sculptor (d. 1731)1690 – Peter Dens , Flemish theologian and academic (d. 1775)1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil , French astronomer (d. 1792)1736 – Hsinbyushin , Burmese king (d. 1776)1740 – Johann Heinrich Jung , German author and academic (d. 1817)1768 – Benjamin Carr , English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (d. 1831)1797 – Samuel Joseph May , American activist (d. 1871)1812 – Edward Shepherd Creasy , English historian and jurist (d. 1878)1812 – Richard March Hoe , American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (d. 1886)
1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling , American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (d. 1903)1818 – Theodor Kullak , German pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1882)
1830 – William Sprague , American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915)1837 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892)1852 – H. H. Asquith , English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)1855 – Simon-Napoléon Parent , Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (d. 1920)1856 – Johann Heinrich Beck , American composer and conductor (d. 1924)1857 – Manuel Espinosa Batista , Colombian pharmacist and politician (d. 1919)1862 – Carl Eytel , German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1925)1866 – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon , English cricketer and politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (d. 1941)1875 – Matsunosuke Onoe , Japanese actor and director (d. 1926)1880 – H. L. Mencken , American journalist and author (d. 1956)1884 – Martin Klein , Estonian wrestler (d. 1947)1885 – Heinrich Hoffmann , German photographer (d. 1957)1888 – Maurice Chevalier , French actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1972)1889 – Ugo Pasquale Mifsud , Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)1891 – Pedro Albizu Campos , Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (d. 1965)1891 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger , American publisher (d. 1968)
1892 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. , American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (d. 1984)1894 – Billy Gilbert , American actor and singer (d. 1971)1895 – Freymóður Jóhannsson , Icelandic painter and composer (d. 1973)1897 – Grietje Jansen-Anker , Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2009)1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie , French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
1898 – Salvador Bacarisse , Spanish composer (d. 1963)1898 – Alma Moodie , Australian violinist and educator (d. 1943)
1898 – Ben Shahn , Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (d. 1969)
1901 – Ben Blue , Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1975)1901 – Shmuel Horowitz , Belarusian-Israeli agronomist and academic (d. 1999)
1902 – Juscelino Kubitschek , Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (d. 1976)1902 – Marya Zaturenska , Ukrainian-American poet and author (d. 1982)
1904 – István Horthy , Hungarian admiral (d. 1942)1904 – Lou Moore , American race car driver (d. 1956)
1905 – Linda Agostini , Australian murder victim (d. 1934)1907 – Louis MacNeice , Irish poet and playwright (d. 1963)1909 – Donald MacDonald , Canadian union leader and politician (d. 1986)1913 – Jesse Owens , American sprinter (d. 1980)1913 – Eiji Toyoda , Japanese businessman (d. 2013)
1914 – Rais Amrohvi , Pakistani psychoanalyst, poet, and scholar (d. 1988)1914 – Desmond Llewelyn , Welsh-English actor (d. 1999)
1915 – Billy Daniels , American singer and actor (d. 1988)1915 – Frank McGee , American journalist (d. 1974)
1916 – Tony Bettenhausen , American race car driver (d. 1961)1916 – Edward Binns , American actor (d. 1990)
1917 – Pierre Sévigny , Canadian colonel, academic, and politician (d. 2004)1917 – Han Suyin , Chinese-Swiss physician and author (d. 2012)
1920 – Irene Dailey , American actress and singer (d. 2008)1921 – Stanisław Lem , Ukrainian-Polish philosopher and author (d. 2006)1922 – Antonio Cafiero , Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (d. 2014)1922 – Jackson Mac Low , American poet, playwright, and composer (d. 2004)
1922 – Mark Rosenzweig , American psychologist and academic (d. 2009)
1925 – Stan Lopata , American baseball player (d. 2013)1927 – Mathé Altéry , French soprano and actress1927 – Freddie Jones , English actor
1928 – Muriel Siebert , American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2013)1928 – Ernie Vandeweghe , Canadian-American basketball player and physician (d. 2014)
1929 – Harvey Schmidt , American composer and illustrator1930 – Larry Austin , American composer and educator1931 – Ian Holm , English actor and singer1931 – Kristin Hunter , American author and educator (d. 2008)
1931 – George Jones , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1931 – Bill McKinney , American actor and singer (d. 2011)
1932 – Atli Dam , Faroese politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)1932 – Kim Hamilton , American actress (d. 2013)
1933 – Tatiana Doronina , Russian actress1934 – Glenn Davis , American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (d. 2009)1934 – Jaegwon Kim , South Korean-American philosopher and academic
1935 – Richard Hunt , American sculptor1937 – George Chuvalo , Canadian boxer1937 – Wes Hall , Barbadian cricketer and politician
1938 – Dick Hess , American politician (d. 2013)1938 – Claude Ruel , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1938 – Tatiana Troyanos , American soprano and actress (d. 1993)
1939 – Phillip Ramey , American pianist and composer1939 – Henry Waxman , American lawyer and politician
1940 – Linda Gray , American actress, director, and producer1940 – Skip Hinnant , American actor
1940 – Mickey Lolich , American baseball player
1940 – Patrick Mower , English actor
1940 – Stephen J. Solarz , American academic and politician (d. 2010)
1941 – Heino Kurvet , Estonian canoe racer1942 – Michel Drucker , French journalist1942 – Tomás Marco , Spanish composer
1942 – François Tavenas , Canadian engineer and academic (d. 2004)
1943 – Maria Muldaur , American singer (Jerry Garcia Band and Even Dozen Jug Band )1943 – Michael Ondaatje , Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet
1944 – Fred Fay , American activist (d. 2011)1944 – Leonard Peltier , American activist
1944 – Vladimir Spivakov , Russian violinist and conductor
1944 – Barry White , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
1944 – Colin Young , Barbadian-English singer (The Foundations )
1945 – Maria Aitken , Irish-English actress, director, and producer1945 – David Garrick , English singer (d. 2013)
1945 – Milo Manara , Italian author and illustrator
1945 – John Mauceri , American conductor and producer
1946 – Tony Bellamy , Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Redbone ) (d. 2009)1947 – Bjørn Floberg , Norwegian actor1947 – David Grant , English engineer and academic
1947 – Gerald Howarth , English soldier, pilot, and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy
1948 – Luis Lima , Argentinian tenor1948 – Steve Turre , American trombonist and educator
1948 – Max Walker , Australian cricketer, sportscaster, and architect
1949 – Charles Burlingame , American soldier and pilot (d. 2001)1949 – Irina Rodnina , Russian figure skater
1950 – Marguerite Blais , Canadian journalist and politician1950 – Gustav Brunner , Austrian engineer
1950 – Bruce Mahler , American actor and screenwriter
1950 – Mike Murphy , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1950 – Cynthia Myers , American model and actress (d. 2011)
1951 – Bertie Ahern , Irish politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland 1951 – Norm Dubé , Canadian ice hockey player
1951 – Ray Gravell , Welsh rugby player and actor (d. 2007)
1951 – Joe Pantoliano , American actor and producer
1951 – Gerald Stano , American serial killer (d. 1998)
1951 – Ali-Ollie Woodson , American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor (The Temptations ) (d. 2010)
1952 – Gerry Beckley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (America )1952 – Neil Peart , Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (Rush )
1953 – Fiona Mactaggart , Scottish educator and politician1954 – Adrian Adonis , American wrestler (d. 1988)1954 – Scott Hamilton , American saxophonist
1954 – Peeter Volkonski , Estonian singer-songwriter and actor (Propeller )
1955 – Peter Scolari , American actor and director1955 – Brian Smith , English footballer (d. 2013)
1956 – Barry Andrews , English singer and keyboard player (XTC , Shriekback , and The League of Gentlemen )1956 – Sam Brownback , American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Kansas
1956 – Leslie Cheung , Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2003)
1956 – David Goodhart , English journalist and author
1956 – Brian Robertson , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thin Lizzy , Motörhead , and Wild Horses )
1956 – Ricky Rudd , American race car driver
1956 – Walter Woon , Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore
1957 – Rachel Ward , English-Australian actress, director, and screenwriter1957 – Hans Zimmer , German composer and producer
1958 – Wilfred Benítez , American boxer1958 – Gregg Edelman , American actor
1959 – Scott Brown , American colonel and politician1959 – Sigmar Gabriel , German politician, 17th Vice-Chancellor of Germany
1960 – Evan Jenkins , American politician1960 – Stefanos Korkolis , Greek pianist and composer
1961 – Kadim Al Sahir , Iraqi singer-songwriter1961 – Mylène Farmer , Canadian-French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1962 – Dino Merlin , Bosnian singer-songwriter and producer1962 – Amy Yasbeck , American actress
1963 – Paul Bellini , Canadian actor and screenwriter1964 – Simon Bowthorpe , English businessman1964 – Greg Gutfeld , American journalist and author
1964 – Dieter Hecking , German footballer and manager
1965 – Einstein Kristiansen , Norwegian animator and producer1965 – Vernon Maxwell , American basketball player
1966 – Darren E. Burrows , American actor and director1966 – Ben Folds , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ben Folds Five , The Bens , Fear of Pop , and 8in8 )
1966 – Vezio Sacratini , Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Louis C.K. , Mexican-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter1967 – Pat Listach , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1968 – Larry LaLonde , American guitarist and songwriter (Primus , Possessed , and Blind Illusion )1968 – Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell , English politician (d. 2014)
1968 – Richard Snell , South African cricketer
1968 – Paul F. Tompkins , American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Max Boot , Russian-American historian and author1969 – Ángel Cabrera , Argentinian golfer
1969 – James Frey , American author
1969 – Shigeki Maruyama , Japanese golfer
1970 – Josh Hopkins , American actor1970 – Nathan Larson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Shudder To Think , Hot One , and A Camp )
1971 – Ahn Jae-wook , South Korean actor and singer1972 – Gideon Emery , English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter1972 – Sidney Souza , Brazilian footballer
1973 – Said Ali al-Shihri , Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2013)1973 – Darren Campbell , English sprinter
1973 – Ki-Jana Carter , American football player
1973 – Martin Lapointe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973 – Paul Walker , American actor and producer (d. 2013)
1974 – Caroline Aigle , French soldier and pilot (d. 2007)1974 – Jennifer Nettles , American singer-songwriter (Sugarland )
1974 – Guy Smith , English race car driver
1974 – Nuno Valente , Portuguese footballer
1975 – Luis Castillo , Dominican baseball player1976 – Bizzy Bone , American rapper (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Bone Brothers )1976 – 2 Chainz , American rapper (Playaz Circle )
1976 – Lauren Stamile , American actress
1976 – Maciej Żurawski , Polish footballer
1977 – Nathan Bracken , Australian cricketer1977 – Grant Denyer , Australian race car driver and journalist
1977 – Jeff Irwin , American singer-songwriter and producer
1977 – James McCartney , English singer-songwriter
1977 – Idan Raichel , Israeli singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1977 – David Thompson , English footballer
1978 – Elisabetta Canalis , Italian model and actress1978 – Benjamin McKenzie , American actor
1978 – Ruben Studdard , German-American singer and actor
1980 – Roda Antar , Sierra Leonean-Lebanese footballer1980 – Sean Burroughs , American baseball player
1980 – Fernando César de Souza , Brazilian footballer
1980 – Gus G , Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (Firewind , Dream Evil , and Mystic Prophecy )
1980 – Yao Ming , Chinese basketball player
1980 – Kevin Sinfield , English rugby player
1980 – Josef Vašíček , Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1981 – Marty Adams , Canadian actor1981 – Alan Arruda , Brazilian footballer
1981 – Jennifer Hudson , American singer and actress
1981 – Staciana Stitts , American swimmer
1981 – Hosea Chanchez , American actor
1982 – Nana Ozaki , Japanese model1982 – Zoran Planinić , Croatian basketball player
1983 – Tom Geißler , German footballer1983 – Rami Haikal , Jordanian guitarist (Bilocate )
1983 – Sebastian Hofmann , German footballer
1983 – Daniel Muir , American football player
1983 – Sergio Parisse , Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1983 – Clayton Richard , American baseball player
1983 – Carly Smithson , Irish singer-songwriter and actress (We Are the Fallen )
1984 – Nashat Akram , Iraqi footballer1984 – Chelsea Carey , Canadian curler
1984 – Petra Marklund , Swedish singer-songwriter
1985 – Jonatan Cerrada , Belgian singer1986 – Kamila Chudzik , Polish heptathlete1986 – Joanne Jackson , English swimmer
1986 – Yang Mi , Chinese actress and singer
1986 – Yuto Nagatomo , Japanese footballer
1986 – Dimitrios Regas , Greek sprinter
1986 – Emmy Rossum , American singer-songwriter and actress
1987 – Yaroslava Shvedova , Kazakhstani tennis player1988 – Amanda Jenssen , Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist1989 – Freddie Freeman , American baseball player1989 – Andrew Luck , American football player
1991 – Scott Wootton , English footballer1992 – Sviatlana Pirazhenka , Belarusian tennis player1994 – Elina Svitolina , Ukrainian tennis player1996 – Colin Ford , American actor
640 – Sak K'uk' , Mayan queen1185 – Andronikos I Komnenos , Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)1213 – Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)1362 – Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295)1369 – Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345)1500 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)1612 – Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)1642 – Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars , French conspirator (b. 1620)1660 – Jacob Cats , Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)1665 – Jean Bolland , Belgian priest and hagiographer (b. 1596)1672 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre , French scholar (b. 1615)1683 – Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)1691 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)1695 – Jacob Abendana , Spanish-English rabbi and scholar (b. 1630)1712 – Jan van der Heyden , Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1637)1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer and theorist (b. 1683)1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1711)1810 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet , English banker and politician (b. 1740)1814 – Robert Ross , Irish general (b. 1766)1819 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , Prussian general (b. 1742)1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German playwright (b. 1801)1869 – Peter Mark Roget , English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779)1870 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American journalist, explorer, and author (b. 1836)1874 – François Guizot , French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)1903 – Duncan Gillies , Scottish-Australia politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)1907 – Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)1912 – Pierre-Hector Coullié , French cardinal (b. 1829)1918 – George Reid , Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)1919 – Leonid Andreyev , Russian author and playwright (b. 1871)1923 – Jules Violle , French physicist and academic (b. 1841)1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting , American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)1929 – Rainis , Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)1938 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)1944 – William Stickney , American golfer (b. 1879)1945 – Hajime Sugiyama , Japanese general (b. 1880)1953 – Hugo Schmeisser , German engineer (b. 1884)1953 – Lewis Stone , American actor (b. 1879)
1956 – Hans Carossa , German author and poet (b. 1878)1956 – Noëlle, Countess of Rothes (b. 1878)
1956 – Sándor Festetics , Hungarian politician, Minister of War of Hungary (b. 1882)
1960 – Dino Borgioli , Italian tenor (b. 1891)1961 – Carl Hermann , German physicist and academic (b. 1898)1962 – Spot Poles , American baseball player and soldier (b. 1887)1962 – Rangeya Raghav , Indian author and playwright (b. 1923)1967 – Vladimir Bartol , Italian-Slovene author and playwright (b. 1903)1968 – Tommy Armour , Scottish-American golfer and journalist (b. 1894)1971 – Walter Egan , American golfer (b. 1881)1972 – William Boyd , American actor and producer (b. 1895)1977 – Steve Biko , South African activist (b. 1946)1977 – Les Haylen , Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898)
1977 – Robert Lowell , American poet and academic (b. 1917)
1978 – Frank Ferguson , American actor (b. 1899)1978 – William Hudson , New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896)
1981 – Eugenio Montale , Italian poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)1982 – Federico Moreno Torroba , Spanish composer (b. 1891)1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue , French painter and photographer (b. 1894)1987 – John Qualen , Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1899)1990 – Athene Seyler , English actress (b. 1889)1991 – Bruce Matthews , Canadian general and businessman (b. 1909)1992 – Anthony Perkins , American actor, singer, and director (b. 1932)1992 – Ed Peck , American actor (b. 1917)
1993 – Raymond Burr , Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1917)1994 – Tom Ewell , American actor and singer (b. 1909)1994 – Boris Yegorov , Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937)
1995 – Jeremy Brett , English actor (b. 1933)1995 – Katherine Locke , American actress and singer (b. 1910)
1995 – Yasutomo Nagai , Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
1996 – Ernesto Geisel , Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)1997 – Idel Jakobson , Latvian NKVD officer (b. 1904)1999 – Bill Quackenbush , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)2000 – Konrad Kujau , German illustrator (b. 1938)2000 – Stanley Turrentine , American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
2001 – Victor Wong , American actor (b. 1927)2003 – Johnny Cash , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Tennessee Three and The Highwaymen ) (b. 1932)2004 – Kenny Buttrey , American drummer (Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615 ) (b. 1945)2007 – Bobby Byrd , American singer-songwriter (The Famous Flames ) (b. 1934)2008 – Bob Quinn , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)2008 – David Foster Wallace , American author and educator (b. 1962)
2009 – Norman Borlaug , American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)2009 – Jack Kramer , American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1921)
2009 – Willy Ronis , French photographer (b. 1910)
2010 – Claude Chabrol , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)2010 – Giulio Zignoli , Italian footballer (b. 1946)
2011 – Alexander Galimov , Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)2012 – Whobegotyou , Australian race horse (b. 2005)2012 – Radoslav Brzobohatý , Czech actor (b. 1932)
2012 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko , Russian poet and author (b. 1946)
2012 – Jon Finlayson , Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2012 – Derek Jameson , English journalist (b. 1929)
2012 – Tom Sims , American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (b. 1950)
2012 – Sid Watkins , English surgeon and academic (b. 1928)
2013 – Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki , American-Somali terrorist (b. 1984)2013 – Ray Dolby , American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (b. 1933)
2013 – Warren Giese , American football player, coach, and politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Erich Loest , German author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013 – Rod Masterson , American actor (b. 1945)
2013 – Candace Pert , American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (b. 1946)
2013 – Joan Regan , English singer and actress (b. 1928)
2013 – Otto Sander , German actor (b. 1941)
2014 – John Bardon , English actor (b. 1939)2014 – Atef Ebeid , Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932)
2014 – Theodore J. Flicker , actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2014 – John Gustafson , English singer-songwriter and bass player (Roxy Music , Ian Gillan Band , The Big Three , Quatermass , and Episode Six ) (b. 1942)
2014 – Ian Paisley , Irish minister and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926)
2014 – Joe Sample , American pianist and composer (The Crusaders ) (b. 1939)
2014 – Hugh Royer, Jr. , American professional golfer (b. 1936)
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