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Day of the year
October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 69 days remain until the end of the year.
Pre-1600 [ edit ]
1601–1900 [ edit ]
1901–present [ edit ]
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
1911 – The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1927 – The Imatra Cinema was destroyed in a fire in Tampere , Finland , during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue ; 21 people died in the fire and almost 30 were injured.[3]
1940 – Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War .[4]
1942 – World War II : Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein , which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a USAAF bomber near Palm Springs, California.
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1955 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
1955 – The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with Germany instead of France.
1956 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution .
1958 – Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me .
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame , fueled with natural gas.
1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker , a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1973 – Watergate scandal: President Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1982 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
1983 – Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb , killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic .
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine ; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
1989 – An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas , which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale , kills 23 and injures 314.[5]
1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War .
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena .
1998 – Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum .
2002 – Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2007 – A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 – The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia , which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
Pre-1600 [ edit ]
1601–1900 [ edit ]
1634 – Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp , Swedish queen (d. 1715)
1654 – Johann Bernhard Staudt , Austrian composer (d. 1712)
1698 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel , French architect, designed the École Militaire (d. 1782)
1705 – Maximilian Ulysses Browne , Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
1713 – Pieter Burman the Younger , Dutch philologist, poet, and educator (d. 1778)
1762 – Samuel Morey , American engineer (d. 1843)
1766 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy , French general (d. 1847)
1790 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich , American minister, lexicographer, and educator (d. 1860)
1796 – Stefano Franscini , Swiss statistician and politician (d. 1857)[7]
1801 – Albert Lortzing , German singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1851)
1805 – John Russell Bartlett , American linguist and historian (d. 1886)
1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt , German-Australian explorer (d. 1848)
1815 – João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe , Brazilian politician (d. 1889)
1817 – Pierre Larousse , French lexicographer and author (d. 1875)
1822 – Gustav Spörer , German astronomer (d. 1895)
1832 – Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg , Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg , the first President of Finland (d. 1873)[8]
1835 – Adlai Stevenson I , American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
1837 – Moritz Kaposi , Hungarian dermatologist (d. 1902)
1844 – Sarah Bernhardt , French actress (d. 1923)
1844 – Robert Bridges , English poet and playwright (d. 1930)
1857 – Juan Luna , Filipino painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
1863 – Mirko Breyer , Croatian writer, bibliographer, antiquarian, and one of the notable alleged and false victims of the Stara Gradiška concentration camp (d. 1946)
1865 – Neltje Blanchan , American historian and author (d. 1918)
1869 – John Heisman , American football player and coach (d. 1936)
1870 – Francis Kelley , Canadian-American bishop (d. 1948)
1873 – William D. Coolidge , American physicist and engineer (d. 1975)
1874 – Charles Kilpatrick , American runner and educator (d. 1921)
1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis , American chemist and academic (d. 1946)
1876 – Franz Schlegelberger , German judge and politician, Reich Ministry of Justice (d. 1970)
1880 – Dominikus Böhm , German architect (d. 1955)
1880 – Una O'Connor , Irish-American actress and singer (d. 1959)
1883 – Hugo Wast , Argentine writer (d. 1962)
1885 – Lawren Harris , Canadian painter and educator (d. 1970)
1888 – Onésime Gagnon , Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1961)
1892 – Speckled Red , American blues/boogie-woogie piano player and singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
1894 – Rube Bressler , American baseball player (d. 1966)
1894 – Emma Vyssotsky , American astronomer and academic (d. 1975)
1896 – André Lévêque , French soldier and engineer (d. 1930)
1896 – Lilyan Tashman , American actress (d. 1934)
1897 – John Baker , English air marshal (d. 1978)
1897 – Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena , Spanish writer (d. 1975)
1899 – Bernt Balchen , Norwegian aviator (d. 1973)
1900 – Douglas Jardine , Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1958)
1901–present [ edit ]
1902 – Robert Eberan von Eberhorst , Austrian engineer (d. 1982)
1902 – Luther Evans , American political scientist and politician (d. 1981)
1904 – Harvey Penick , American golfer and coach (d. 1995)
1905 – Felix Bloch , Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
1905 – Yen Chia-kan , Chinese lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1993)
1905 – Gertrude Ederle , American swimmer (d. 2003)
1908 – František Douda , Czech shot putter (d. 1990)
1908 – Ilya Frank , Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1909 – Zellig Harris , American linguist and methodologist (d. 1992)
1910 – Richard Mortensen , Danish painter and educator (d. 1993)
1910 – Hayden Rorke , American actor (d. 1987)
1911 – Jack Keller , American hurdler (d. 1978)
1915 – Simo Puupponen , Finnish writer (d. 1967)
1918 – Augusta Dabney , American actress (d. 2008)
1918 – James Daly , American actor (d. 1978)
1918 – Paul Rudolph , American architect and academic, designed the Lippo Centre (d. 1997)
1919 – Manolis Andronikos , Greek archaeologist and academic (d. 1992)
1920 – Ted Fujita , Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (d. 1998)
1920 – Bob Montana , American illustrator (d. 1975)
1920 – Gianni Rodari , Italian writer (d. 1980)
1920 – Vern Stephens , American baseball player (d. 1968)
1922 – Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington , English politician (d. 2018)
1922 – Coleen Gray , American actress (d. 2015)[9]
1923 – Aslam Farrukhi , Indian-Pakistani linguist, author, and scholar (d. 2016)
1923 – Ned Rorem , American composer and author
1923 – Frank Sutton , American actor (d. 1974)
1924 – Arthur Brittenden , English journalist (d. 2015)
1925 – Johnny Carson , American comedian and talk show host (d. 2005)
1925 – Manos Hatzidakis , Greek composer and theorist (d. 1994)
1925 – Fred Shero , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1990)[10]
1927 – Sonny Criss , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
1927 – Dezső Gyarmati , Hungarian water polo player and coach (d. 2013)
1927 – Leszek Kołakowski , Polish-English historian and philosopher (d. 2009)
1929 – Shamsur Rahman , Bangladeshi poet and journalist (d. 2006)
1930 – Luis Alarcón , Chilean actor
1930 – Unto Mononen , Finnish musician (d. 1968)
1931 – Jim Bunning , American baseball player and politician (d. 2017)
1931 – William P. Clark, Jr. , American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2013)
1931 – Diana Dors , English actress (d. 1984)
1932 – Vasily Belov , Russian novelist, poet and playwright (d. 2012)
1933 – Carol Fran , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1933 – Carlos Lemos Simmonds , sixth Vice President of Columbia (d. 2003)
1934 – Caitro Soto , Afro-Peruvian musician (d. 2004)
1935 – Chi-Chi Rodríguez , Puerto Rican-American golfer
1935 – JacSue Kehoe , American neuroscientist (d. 2019)
1936 – Charles Goodhart , English economist and academic
1936 – Philip Kaufman , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 – Johnny Carroll , American rockabilly musician (d. 1995)
1937 – Carlos Lamarca , Brazilian captain (d. 1971)
1937 – Deven Verma , Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1938 – Alan G`ilzean , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2018)
1939 – Charlie Foxx , American R&B/soul singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
1939 – C. V. Vigneswaran , Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st Chief Minister of the Northern Province
1940 – Ellie Greenwich , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2009)
1940 – Jane Holzer , American model, actress, producer, and art collector
1940 – Pelé , Brazilian footballer and actor
1941 – René Metge , French rally driver
1941 – Colin Milburn , English cricketer (d. 1990)
1941 – Igor Smirnov , Moldovan engineer and politician, 1st President of Transnistria
1942 – Michael Crichton , American author, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1942 – Douglas Dunn , Scottish poet, critic, and academic
1942 – Bernd Erdmann , German footballer and manager
1942 – Anita Roddick , English businesswoman and activist, founded The Body Shop (d. 2007)
1943 – Alida Chelli , Italian actress and singer (d. 2012)
1944 – Mike Harding , English singer-songwriter and comedian
1945 – Maggi Hambling , English sculptor and painter
1945 – Kim Larsen , Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
1945 – Graça Machel , Mozambican politician and humanitarian
1945 – Ernie Watts , American saxophonist
1945 – Maury Yeston , American composer, lyricist, and music theorist
1946 – Graeme Barker , English archaeologist and academic
1946 – Alicia Borinsky , Argentine writer
1946 – Mel Martínez , American lawyer and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1946 – Miklós Németh , Hungarian javelin thrower
1947 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi , co-founder of the Palestinian movement Hamas (d. 2004)
1947 – Kazimierz Deyna , Polish footballer (d. 1989)
1947 – Greg Ridley , English bass player (d. 2003)
1948 – Hermann Hauser , Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory
1948 – Gerry Robinson , Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality
1948 – Brian Ross , American journalist
1948 – Jordi Sabatés , Spanish musician
1949 – Krešimir Ćosić , Croatian soldier and politician
1949 – Oscar Martínez , Argentine theater actor
1949 – Nick Tosches , American journalist, author, and poet (d. 2019)
1949 – Würzel , English singer and guitarist (d. 2011)
1950 – Maths O. Sundqvist , Swedish businessman (d. 2012)
1951 – Charly García , Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1951 – Ángel de Andrés López , Spanish actor (d. 2016)
1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu , Kosovan academic and politician, 2nd President of Kosovo
1951 – David Wills , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Pierre Moerlen , French drummer (d. 2005)
1952 – Ken Tipton , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 – Taner Akçam , Turkish sociologist and historian
1953 – Joaquín Lavín , Chilean politician and economist
1954 – Ang Lee , Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Adam Nawałka , Polish football player and manager
1956 – Darrell Pace , American archer[11]
1956 – Dianne Reeves , American singer
1956 – Dwight Yoakam , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1957 – Paul Kagame , Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
1957 – Graham Rix , English footballer and coach
1958 – Michael Eric Dyson , American activist, author, and academic
1958 – Rose Nabinger , German singer
1958 – Frank Schaffer , German sprinter
1959 – Nancy Grace , American lawyer and journalist
1959 – Sam Raimi , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic , American singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor
1960 – Mirwais Ahmadzaï , Swiss-French keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1960 – Katoucha Niane , French model and actress (d. 2008)
1960 – Randy Pausch , American author and academic (d. 2008)
1960 – Wayne Rainey , American motorcycle racer
1961 – Laurie Halse Anderson , American author
1961 – Vinicio Gómez , Guatemalan politician (d. 2008)
1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta , Spanish footballer and sportscaster
1962 – Doug Flutie , American football player, sportscaster, and drummer
1963 – Gordon Korman , Canadian-American author
1963 – Rashidi Yekini , Nigerian footballer (d. 2012)
1964 – Anabell López , Cuban singer
1964 – Robert Trujillo , American bass player and songwriter
1964 – Eddy Cue , American computer scientist and businessman
1965 – Augusten Burroughs , American author and screenwriter
1965 – Al Leiter , American baseball player and sportscaster
1966 – Alex Zanardi , Italian racing driver and cyclist
1967 – Dale Crover , American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
1967 – Omar Linares , Cuban baseball player
1967 – Walt Flanagan , American actor and illustrator
1967 – Jaime Yzaga , Peruvian tennis player
1969 – Dolly Buster , Czech film producer and director, actress and author
1969 – Trudi Canavan , Australian author and illustrator
1969 – Bill O'Brien , American football player and coach
1969 – Brooke Theiss , American actress
1970 – Matthew Barzun , American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1970 – Grant Imahara , American television presenter and engineer (d. 2020)
1970 – Kenji Nomura , Japanese voice actor
1970 – Zoe Wiseman , American model and photographer
1971 – Carlo Forlivesi , Italian-Japanese composer and scholar
1971 – Chris Horner , American cyclist
1972 – Kate del Castillo , Mexican actress
1972 – Tiffeny Milbrett , American soccer player
1972 – Dominika Paleta , Polish-Mexican actress
1972 – Eduardo Paret , Cuban baseball player
1972 – Bryan Pratt , American lawyer and politician
1972 – Jasmin St. Claire , Virgin Islander-American actress
1972 – Jimmy Wayne , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Christian Dailly , Scottish footballer
1974 – Aravind Adiga , Indian journalist and author
1974 – Beatrice Faumuina , New Zealand discus thrower
1974 – Sander Westerveld , Dutch footballer
1974 – Christine Yoshikawa , Canadian pianist
1975 – Jessicka , American singer-songwriter
1975 – Michelle Beadle , American sportscaster
1975 – Odalys García , Cuban actress
1975 – Phillip Gillespie , Australian cricket umpire
1975 – Yoon Son-ha , South Korean actress and singer
1975 – Keith Van Horn , American basketball player
1975 – Manuela Velasco , Spanish actress
1976 – Cat Deeley , English model, actress, and television host
1976 – Sergio Diduch , Argentine footballer
1976 – Ryan Reynolds , Canadian-American actor and producer
1977 – Brad Haddin , Australian cricketer
1977 – Alex Tudor , English cricketer and coach
1978 – Jimmy Bullard , English footballer
1978 – Steve Harmison , English cricketer and sportscaster
1978 – John Lackey , American baseball player
1978 – Archie Thompson , New Zealand-Australian footballer
1979 – Ramón Castro , Venezuelan baseball player
1979 – Simon Davies , Welsh footballer
1979 – Prabhas , Telugu film actor
1979 – Jorge Solís , Mexican boxer
1979 – Bud Smith , American baseball player
1980 – Mate Bilić , Croatian footballer
1980 – Pedro Liriano , Dominican baseball player
1981 – Daniela Alvarado , Venezuelan actress
1981 – Jeroen Bleekemolen , Dutch racing driver
1981 – Leticia Dolera , Spanish actress
1981 – Ben Francisco , American baseball player
1981 – Lee Ki-woo , South Korean actor
1981 – Jackie Long , American actor and producer
1981 – Mirel Rădoi , Romanian footballer
1981 – Huo Siyan , Chinese actress
1982 – Valentin Badea , Romanian footballer
1982 – Rickey Paulding , American basketball player
1982 – Kristjan Kangur , Estonian basketball player
1982 – Aleksandar Luković , Serbian footballer
1982 – Rodolfo Dantas Bispo , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Filippos Darlas , Greek footballer
1983 – Valentin Demyanenko , Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani canoeist[12]
1983 – Goldie Harvey , Nigerian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1984 – Izabel Goulart , Brazilian model
1984 – Jeffrey Hoogervorst , Dutch footballer
1984 – Simone Masini , Italian footballer
1984 – Meghan McCain , American journalist and author
1984 – Michael Sim , Australian golfer
1984 – Keiren Westwood , English footballer
1985 – Miguel , American singer-songwriter and producer
1985 – Mohammed Abdellaoue , Norwegian footballer
1985 – Masiela Lusha , Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
1985 – Chris Neal , English footballer
1985 – Luca Spinetti , Italian footballer
1985 – Panagiotis Vouis , Greek footballer
1986 – Emilia Clarke , English actress
1986 – Briana Evigan , American actress and dancer
1986 – Jovanka Radičević , Montenegrin handball player[13]
1986 – Jake Robinson , English footballer
1986 – Jessica Stroup , American actress
1987 – Faye , Swedish singer-songwriter
1987 – Robin Copeland , Irish rugby player
1987 – Félix Doubront , Venezuelan baseball player
1987 – Kyle Gibson , American baseball player[14]
1987 – Seo In-guk , South Korean singer and actor
1987 – Miyuu Sawai , Japanese model and actress
1987 – Naomi Watanabe , Japanese actress
1988 – Jordan Crawford , American basketball player
1988 – Aleksandr Salugin , Russian footballer
1988 – Carolin Schiewe , German footballer
1989 – Viktor Agardius , Swedish footballer
1989 – Alain Broja , Venezuelan footballer
1989 – Jonita Gandhi , Indo-Canadian singer
1989 – Anisya Kirdyapkina , Russian race walker
1989 – Andriy Yarmolenko , Ukrainian footballer
1990 – Paradise Oskar , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1991 – Emil Forsberg , Swedish footballer[15]
1991 – Jorge Taufua , Australian rugby league player[16]
1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino , member of the Japanese Imperial Family [17]
1993 – Josh Ruffels , English footballer[18]
1997 – Jaydn Su'A , New Zealand rugby league player[19]
1998 – Amandla Stenberg , American actress[20]
1999 – Yui Kobayashi , Japanese idol[21]
2002 – Shin Eun-soo , South Korean actress
Pre-1600 [ edit ]
42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger , Roman general and politician (b. 85 BC)
877 – Ignatios of Constantinople , Byzantine patriarch (b. 797)
891 – Yazaman al-Khadim , Abbasid general and politician
902 – Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya , Aghlabid emir (b. 850)
930 – Daigo , Japanese emperor (b. 885)
945 – Hyejong of Goryeo , Korean king (b. 912)
949 – Yōzei , Japanese emperor (b. 869)
1134 – Abu al-Salt , Andalusian polymath
1157 – Sweyn III , Danish king (b. c. 1125)
1456 – John of Capistrano , Italian priest and saint (b. 1386)
1550 – Tiedemann Giese , Polish bishop (b. 1480)
1581 – Michael Neander , German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1601–1900 [ edit ]
1616 – Leonhard Hutter , German theologian and academic (b. 1563)
1688 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange , French philologist and historian (b. 1610)
1730 – Anne Oldfield , English actress (b. 1683)
1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte , French admiral (b. 1683)
1774 – Michel Benoist , French missionary and astronomer (b. 1715)
1867 – Franz Bopp , German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
1869 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
1872 – Théophile Gautier , French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
1885 – Charles S. West , American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
1893 – Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
1901–present [ edit ]
1910 – Chulalongkorn , Thai king (b. 1853)
1915 – W. G. Grace , English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
1916 – Richard McFadden , Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
1917 – Eugène Grasset , Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
1921 – John Boyd Dunlop , Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
1935 – Charles Demuth , American painter and educator (b. 1883)
1939 – Zane Grey , American dentist and author (b. 1872)
1942 – Ralph Rainger , American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
1943 – Wakashima Gonshirō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
1944 – Charles Glover Barkla , English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1944 – Hana Brady , Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)
1950 – Al Jolson , Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
1953 – Adrien de Noailles , French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
1959 – George Bouzianis , Greek painter (b. 1885)
1959 – Gerda Lundequist , Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1964 – Frank Luther Mott , American historian and journalist (b. 1886)
1975 – Marjorie Maynard British artist and farmer (b. 1891)
1978 – Maybelle Carter , American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family ) (b. 1909)
1980 – Tibor Rosenbaum , Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (b. 1923)[22]
1983 – Jessica Savitch , American journalist (b. 1947)
1984 – Oskar Werner , Austrian-German actor (b. 1922)
1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
1988 – Asashio Tarō III , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
1989 – Armida , Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
1990 – Thomas Williams , American author and academic (b. 1926)
1994 – Robert Lansing , American actor (b. 1928)
1996 – Bob Grim , American baseball player (b. 1930)
1997 – Bert Haanstra , Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1998 – Barnett Slepian , American physician (b. 1946)
1999 – Eric Reece , Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1909)
2000 – Yokozuna , American wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 – Josh Kirby , English illustrator (b. 1928)
2001 – Daniel Wildenstein , French art dealer and historian (b. 1917)
2002 – Adolph Green , American playwright and songwriter (b. 1915)
2003 – Tony Capstick , English actor and singer (b. 1944)
2003 – Soong Mei-ling , Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek , 2nd First Lady of the Republic of China (b. 1898)
2004 – Robert Merrill , American actor and singer (b. 1919)
2004 – Bill Nicholson , English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1919)
2005 – William Hootkins , American actor (b. 1948)
2005 – John Muth , American economist and academic (b. 1930)
2005 – Stella Obasanjo , Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo , 10th First Lady of Nigeria (b. 1945)
2006 – Lebo Mathosa , South African singer (Boom Shaka ) (b. 1977)
2007 – John Ilhan , Turkish-Australian businessman, founded Crazy John's (b. 1965)
2007 – Lim Goh Tong , Malaysian-Chinese businessman (b. 1918)
2008 – Kevin Finnegan , English boxer (b. 1948)
2009 – Lou Jacobi , Canadian-American actor (b. 1913)
2010 – Fran Crippen , American swimmer (b. 1984)
2010 – Stanley Tanger , American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (b. 1923)
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman , American chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2011 – Marco Simoncelli , Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
2012 – William Joel Blass , American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
2012 – Wilhelm Brasse , Polish photographer (b. 1917)
2012 – Roland de la Poype , French soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
2012 – Sunil Gangopadhyay , Indian author and poet (b. 1934)
2012 – Michael Marra , Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2013 – Wes Bialosuknia , American basketball player (b. 1945)
2013 – Anthony Caro , English sculptor and academic (b. 1924)
2013 – Niall Donohue , Irish hurler (b. 1990)
2013 – Gypie Mayo , English guitarist and songwriter (Dr. Feelgood and The Yardbirds ) (b. 1951)
2013 – Bill Mazer , Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920)
2014 – Ghulam Azam , Bangladeshi politician (b. 1922)
2014 – John Bramlett , American football player (b. 1941)
2014 – Bernard Mayes , English-American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
2014 – Joan Quigley , American astrologer and author (b. 1927)
2014 – Tullio Regge , Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931)
2014 – Alvin Stardust , English singer and actor (b. 1942)
2015 – Leon Bibb , American-Canadian singer (b. 1922)
2015 – Roger De Clerck , Belgian businessman (b. 1924)
2015 – Jim Roberts , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1940)
2015 – Fred Sands , American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art (b. 1938)
2016 – Jack Chick , American cartoonist and publisher (b. 1924)
2016 – Wim van der Voort , Dutch speed skater (b. 1923)
2016 – Pete Burns , English singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2017 – Walter Lassally , German cinematographer (b. 1926)
2018 – Todd Reid , Australian tennis player (b. 1984)
Holidays and observances [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
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