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January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 337 days remain until the end of the year (338 in leap years ).
Pre-1600 [ edit ] 0 0 98 – On the death of Nerva , Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne , the seat of his government in lower Germany.[1] 0 814 – The death of Charlemagne , the first Holy Roman Emperor , brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire .[2] 1069 – Robert de Comines , appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the Conqueror , rides into Durham, England , where he is defeated and killed by rebels.[3] Harrying of the North .1077 – Walk to Canossa : The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor , is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.[4] 1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25 .[5] 1547 – Edward VI , the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII , becomes King of England on his father's death.1568 – The Edict of Torda prohibits the persecution of individuals on religious grounds in John Sigismund Zápolya 's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom .1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.1591 – Execution of Agnes Sampson , accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh.[6] 1601–1900 [ edit ] 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts .1671 – Original city of Panama (founded in 1519) is destroyed by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacks and sets fire to it. The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see Panama Viejo ).1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg , Russia, by Peter the Great , and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.1754 – Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity 1813 – Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice United Kingdom .1846 – The Battle of Aliwal , India , is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith .[7] 1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois .1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.1871 – Franco-Prussian War : The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.[8] 1878 – Yale Daily News college newspaper in the United States .[9] 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham , Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding . He was fined one shilling , plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).1901–present [ edit ] 1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie .1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco .1909 – United States troops leave Cuba , with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , after being there since the Spanish–American War .1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.1918 – Finnish Civil War : The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki ; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion .1922 – Knickerbocker Storm : Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people.[10] 1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai .1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion .1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).1941 – Franco-Thai War : Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.1945 – World War II : Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road .1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.1960 – The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season.1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt , East Germany , by a Soviet MiG-19 .1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament .1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 , which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York . Buffalo , Syracuse , Watertown , and surrounding areas are most affected.1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States, helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut .1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades .1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique , eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World Ethiopian famine relief .1986 – Space Shuttle program : STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff , killing all seven astronauts on board.1988 – In R v Morgentaler abortion laws .2002 – TAME Flight 120 , a Boeing 727 -100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia , killing 94.2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.2021 – A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten.[11] Pre-1600 [ edit ] 1601–1900 [ edit ] 1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli , Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)[19] 1611 – Johannes Hevelius , Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687)[20] 1622 – Adrien Auzout , French astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1691)1693 – Gregor Werner , Austrian composer (d. 1766)1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine , French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)1706 – John Baskerville , English printer and typographer (d. 1775)1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige , Japanese shōgun (d. 1761)1717 – Mustafa III , Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel , German poet and critic (d. 1749)1726 – Christian Felix Weiße , German poet and playwright (d. 1802)
1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring , Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (d. 1830)1784 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)1797 – Charles Gray Round , English lawyer and politician (d. 1867)1818 – George S. Boutwell , American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)1822 – Alexander Mackenzie , Scottish-Canadian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)[21] 1833 – Charles George Gordon , English general and politician (d. 1885)1853 – José Martí , Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (d. 1895)1853 – Vladimir Solovyov , Russian philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1900)
1855 – William Seward Burroughs I , American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (d. 1898)1858 – Tannatt William Edgeworth David , Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934)1861 – Julián Felipe , Filipino composer and educator (d. 1944)1863 – Ernest William Christmas , Australian-American painter (d. 1918)1864 – Charles W. Nash , American businessman, founded Nash Motors (d. 1948)1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai , Indian author and politician (d. 1928)1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg , Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (d. 1952)
1873 – Colette , French novelist and journalist (d. 1954)1873 – Monty Noble , Australian cricketer (d. 1940)
1874 – Alex Smith , Scottish golfer (d. 1930)1875 – Julián Carrillo , Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1965)1878 – Walter Kollo , German composer and conductor (d. 1940)1880 – Herbert Strudwick , English cricketer and coach (d. 1970)1884 – Auguste Piccard , Swiss physicist and explorer (d. 1962)1885 – Vahan Terian , Armenian poet and activist (d. 1920)1886 – Marthe Bibesco , Romanian-French author and poet (d. 1973)[22] 1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976)
1887 – Arthur Rubinstein , Polish-American pianist and educator (d. 1982)1897 – Valentin Kataev , Russian author and playwright (d. 1986)1900 – Alice Neel , American painter (d. 1984)1901–present [ edit ] 1903 – Aleksander Kamiński , Polish author and educator (d. 1978)1903 – Kathleen Lonsdale , Irish crystallographer and 1st female FRS (d. 1971)[23]
1906 – Pat O'Callaghan , Irish athlete (d. 1991)[24] 1906 – Markos Vafiadis , Greek general and politician (d. 1992)
1908 – Paul Misraki , Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998)1909 – John Thomson , Scottish footballer (d. 1931)1910 – John Banner , Austrian actor (d. 1973)1911 – Johan van Hulst , Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (d. 2018)1912 – Jackson Pollock , American painter (d. 1956)1918 – Harry Corbett , English puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1989)1918 – Trevor Skeet , New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
1919 – Gabby Gabreski , American colonel and pilot (d. 2002)1921 – Vytautas Norkus , Lithuanian–American basketball player (d. 2014)1922 – Anna Gordy Gaye , American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (d. 2014)1922 – Robert W. Holley , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1924 – Marcel Broodthaers , Belgian painter and poet (d. 1976)1925 – Raja Ramanna , Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004)1926 – Jimmy Bryan , American race car driver (d. 1960)1927 – Per Oscarsson , Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)1927 – Ronnie Scott , English saxophonist (d. 1996)
1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1927 – Vera Williams , American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1929 – Acker Bilk , English singer and clarinet player (d. 2014)1929 – Nikolai Parshin , Russian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1929 – Claes Oldenburg , Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator
1929 – Edith M. Flanigen , American chemist
1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf , German academic and politician, 54th President of the German Bundesrat (d. 2021)1930 – Roy Clarke , English screenwriter, comedian and soldier
1933 – Jack Hill , American director and screenwriter1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu , Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990)1935 – David Lodge , English author and critic1936 – Alan Alda , American actor, director, and writer1936 – Ismail Kadare , Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright[25]
1937 – Karel Čáslavský , Czech historian and television host (d. 2013)1938 – Tomas Lindahl , Swedish-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate1938 – Leonid Zhabotinsky , Ukrainian weightlifter and coach (d. 2016)
1939 – John M. Fabian , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut1940 – Carlos Slim , Mexican businessman and philanthropist, founded Grupo Carso 1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra , Dutch figure skater1942 – Erkki Pohjanheimo , Finnish director and producer
1943 – Dick Taylor , English guitarist and songwriter1944 – Rosalía Mera , Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (d. 2013)1944 – John Tavener , English composer (d. 2013)[26]
1945 – Marthe Keller , Swiss actress and director1947 – Jeanne Shaheen , American educator and politician, 78th Governor of New Hampshire 1948 – Bob Moses , American drummer1948 – Charles Taylor , Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia
1949 – Mike Moore , New Zealand union leader and politician, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2020)[27] 1949 – Jim Wong-Chu , Canadian poet (d.2017)[28]
1949 – Gregg Popovich , American basketball player and coach
1950 – Barbi Benton , American actress, singer and model1950 – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa , Bahraini king
1950 – David C. Hilmers , American colonel, physician, and astronaut
1950 – Naila Kabeer , Bangladeshi-English economist and academic
1951 – Brian Bilbray , American politician1951 – Leonid Kadeniuk , Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2018)
1951 – Billy Bass Nelson , American R&B/funk bass player
1952 – Richard Glatzer , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)1953 – Colin Campbell , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1954 – Peter Lampe , German theologian and historian1954 – Bruno Metsu , French footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1954 – Rick Warren , American pastor and author
1955 – Vinod Khosla , Indian-American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems 1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy , French lawyer and politician, 23rd President of France
1956 – Richard Danielpour , American composer and educator1956 – Peter Schilling , German singer-songwriter
1957 – Mark Napier , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster1957 – Nick Price , Zimbabwean-South African golfer
1957 – Frank Skinner , English comedian, actor, and author
1959 – Frank Darabont , American director and producer1960 – Loren Legarda , Filipino journalist and politician1961 – Normand Rochefort , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1962 – Sam Phillips , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1964 – David Lawrence , English cricketer1966 – Seiji Mizushima , Japanese director and producer1967 – Billy Brownless , Australian footballer and sportscaster1968 – Sarah McLachlan , Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer1968 – Rakim , American rapper[29]
1969 – Giorgio Lamberti , Italian swimmer1969 – Mo Rocca , American comedian and television journalist
1969 – Linda Sánchez , American lawyer and politician
1972 – Amy Coney Barrett , American jurist, academic, attorney, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [30] 1972 – Mark Regan , English rugby player
1972 – Nicky Southall , English footballer and manager
1972 – Léon van Bon , Dutch cyclist
1974 – Tony Delk , American basketball player and coach1974 – Jermaine Dye , American baseball player
1974 – Ramsey Nasr , Dutch author and poet
1974 – Magglio Ordóñez , Venezuelan baseball player and politician
1975 – Pedro Pinto , Portuguese-American journalist1975 – Junior Spivey , American baseball player and coach
1976 – Sireli Bobo , Fijian rugby player1976 – Mark Madsen , American basketball player and coach
1976 – Rick Ross , American rapper and producer
1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis , Greek footballer
1977 – Sandis Buškevics , Latvian basketball player and coach1977 – Daunte Culpepper , American football player
1977 – Joey Fatone , American singer, dancer, and television personality
1977 – Takuma Sato , Japanese race car driver
1978 – Gianluigi Buffon , Italian footballer1978 – Jamie Carragher , English footballer and sportscaster
1978 – Papa Bouba Diop , Senegalese footballer (d. 2020)
1978 – Sheamus , Irish wrestler[31]
1978 – Big Freedia , American musician[32]
1980 – Nick Carter , American singer-songwriter and actor1980 – Yasuhito Endō , Japanese footballer
1980 – Michael Hastings , American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1980 – Brian Fallon , American singer-songwriter
1981 – Elijah Wood , American actor and producer1984 – Ben Clucas , English race car driver1984 – Stephen Gostkowski , American football player
1984 – Andre Iguodala , American basketball player
1984 – Anne Panter , English field hockey player
1985 – J. Cole , American singer1985 – Daniel Carcillo , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Lauris Dārziņš , Latvian ice hockey player
1985 – Arnold Mvuemba , French footballer
1985 – Libby Trickett , Australian swimmer
1986 – Jessica Ennis-Hill , English heptathlete and hurdler1986 – Nathan Outteridge , Australian sailor
1986 – Asad Shafiq , Pakistani cricketer
1988 – Paul Henry , English footballer1988 – Seiya Sanada , Japanese wrestler
1989 – Siem de Jong , Dutch footballer[33] 1991 – Carl Klingberg , Swedish ice hockey player[34] 1992 – Sergio Araujo , Argentinian footballer[35] 1995 – Mimi-Isabella Cesar , British rhythmic gymnast[36] Pre-1600 [ edit ] 0 724 – Yazid II , Umayyad caliph (b. 687)[37] 0 814 – Charlemagne , Holy Roman emperor (pleurisy ;[38] 0 919 – Zhou Dewei , Chinese general0 929 – Gao Jixing , founder of Chinese Jingnan (b. 858)0 947 – Jing Yanguang , Chinese general (b. 892)1061 – Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)1142 – Yue Fei , Chinese general (b. 1103)[39] 1256 – William II, Count of Holland , King of Germany (b. 1227)1271 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)[40] 1290 – Dervorguilla of Galloway , Scottish noble, mother of king John Balliol of Scotland (b. c. 1210)[41] 1443 – Robert le Maçon , French diplomat (b. 1365)1501 – John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham , English baron and Lord High Treasurer (b. 1433)[42] 1547 – Henry VIII , king of England (b. 1491)[43] 1601–1900 [ edit ] 1613 – Thomas Bodley , English diplomat and scholar, founded the Bodleian Library (b. 1545)1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)1666 – Tommaso Dingli , Maltese architect and sculptor (b. 1591)1672 – Pierre Séguier , French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1588)1681 – Richard Allestree , English priest and academic (b. 1619)1687 – Johannes Hevelius , Polish astronomer and politician (b. 1611)1688 – Ferdinand Verbiest , Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623)1697 – Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet , English general and politician (b. 1645)1754 – Ludvig Holberg , Norwegian-Danish historian and philosopher (b. 1684)1782 – Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville , French geographer and cartographer (b. 1697)1832 – Augustin Daniel Belliard , French general (b. 1769)1859 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)1864 – Émile Clapeyron , French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)1873 – John Hart , English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of South Australia (b. 1809)[44] 1901–present [ edit ] 1903 – Augusta Holmès , French pianist and composer (b. 1847)1912 – Gustave de Molinari , Belgian economist and theorist (b. 1819).1912 – Eloy Alfaro , former president of Ecuador (b. 1906)
1918 – John McCrae , Canadian soldier, physician, and author (b. 1872)1921 – Mustafa Suphi , Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)1930 – Emmy Destinn , Czech soprano and poet (b. 1878)1935 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov , Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)1937 – Anastasios Metaxas , Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer , German race car driver (b. 1909)1939 – W. B. Yeats , Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)1942 – Edward Siegler , American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)1945 – Roza Shanina , Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1924)1947 – Reynaldo Hahn , Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)1948 – Hans Aumeier , German SS officer (b. 1906)1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille , French race car driver (b. 1908)1950 – Nikolai Luzin , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)1953 – James Scullin , Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)1953 – Neyzen Tevfik , Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
1959 – Walter Beall , American baseball player (b. 1899)1960 – Zora Neale Hurston , American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (b. 1891)1963 – Gustave Garrigou , French cyclist (b. 1884)1965 – Tich Freeman , English cricketer (b. 1888)1965 – Maxime Weygand , Belgian-French general (b. 1867)
1971 – Donald Winnicott , English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)1973 – John Banner , Austrian actor (b. 1910)1976 – Marcel Broodthaers , Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)1978 – Ward Moore , American author (b. 1903)1983 – Billy Fury . English pop star (b. 1940)1983 – Frank Forde , Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1986 – Space Shuttle Challenger crew
Gregory Jarvis , American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1944)Christa McAuliffe , American educator and astronaut (b. 1948)Ronald McNair , American physicist and astronaut (b. 1950)Ellison Onizuka , American engineer and astronaut (b. 1946)Judith Resnik , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1949)Dick Scobee , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)Michael J. Smith , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1945)1988 – Klaus Fuchs , German physicist and politician (b. 1911)1989 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg , Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)[45] 1996 – Joseph Brodsky , Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)1996 – Burne Hogarth , American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
1996 – Jerry Siegel , American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
1998 – Shotaro Ishinomori , Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)1999 – Valery Gavrilin , Russian composer (b. 1939)2001 – Ranko Marinković , Croatian author and playwright (b. 1913)2002 – Gustaaf Deloor , Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913)2002 – Astrid Lindgren , Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
2002 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu , Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
2003 – Mieke Pullen , Dutch runner (b. 1957)2004 – Lloyd M. Bucher , American captain (b. 1927)2004 – Mel Pritchard , English drummer (b. 1948)
2005 – Jim Capaldi , English singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)2007 – Carlo Clerici , Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)2007 – Robert Drinan , American priest, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
2007 – Yelena Romanova , Russian runner (b. 1963)
2007 – Karel Svoboda , Czech composer (b. 1938)
2009 – Billy Powell , American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1952)2012 – Roman Juszkiewicz , Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)2012 – Don Starkell , Canadian adventurer and author (b. 1932)
2013 – Florentino Fernández , Cuban-American boxer and coach (b. 1936)2013 – Hattie N. Harrison , American educator and politician (b. 1928)
2013 – Oldřich Kulhánek , Czech painter, illustrator, and stage designer (b. 1940)
2014 – John Cacavas , American composer and conductor (b. 1930)2014 – Harry Gamble , American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1930)
2014 – Dwight Gustafson , American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
2014 – Nigel Jenkins , Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer (b. 1949)
2014 – Jorge Obeid , Argentinian engineer and politician, Governor of Santa Fe (b. 1947)
2015 – Suraj Abdurrahman , Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954)2015 – Yves Chauvin , French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
2015 – Lionel Gilbert , Australian historian, author, and academic (b. 1924)
2016 – Signe Toly Anderson , American singer (b. 1941)2016 – Paul Kantner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
2016 – Franklin Gene Bissell , American football player and coach (b. 1926)
2016 – Buddy Cianci , American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Providence (b. 1941)
2016 – Bob Tizard , New Zealand lawyer and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1924)
2017 – Alexander Chancellor , British journalist (b. 1940)2017 – Geoff Nicholls , British musician (b. 1948)
2019 – Pepe Smith , Filipino rock musician (b. 1947)[46] 2021 – Cicely Tyson , American actress (b. 1924)[47] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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