March 15
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Date
March 15 is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 291 days remain until the end of the year.
In the Roman calendar , March 15 was known as the Ides of March .
Events
474 BC – Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.[1]
44 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger and his fellow conspirators, Gaius Cassius Longinus , Decimus Junius Brutus , and several other Roman senators , march to the Capitol following the assassination of Julius Caesar , but there is no response to their appeals to the population, who have left the streets in fear. Caesar's body remains in its place
351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar , and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire .
493 – Odoacer , the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire , is slain by Theoderic the Great , king of the Ostrogoths , while the two kings were feasting together.
856 – Michael III , emperor of the Byzantine Empire , overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility .
933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1147 – Conquest of Santarém : The forces of Afonso I of Portugal capture Santarém .
1311 – Battle of Halmyros : The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens , a Crusader state in Greece.
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes "jizya " (per capita tax).
1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence .
1781 – American Revolutionary War : Battle of Guilford Court House : Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina , 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory .
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York , George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy . The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
1819 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel is adjudged the winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences for his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", which verifies the Fresnel integrals , accounts for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishes Newton 's initial objection to the wave theory of light.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state .
1827 – University of Toronto is founded.
1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary . The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1864 – American Civil War : The Red River Campaign : U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana .
1874 – France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon , further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina .
1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1877 – First ever official cricket test match is played : Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium , in Melbourne , Australia.
1878 – Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy , broken off back in 1603.
1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888 .
1895 – Heian Shrine is founded.
1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa .
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
1921 – Talaat Pasha , former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt .
1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford .
1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland , killing 27 of the 147 on board.
1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
1939 – Germany occupies Czechoslovakia .[2]
1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
1941 – Philippine Airlines , the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field ) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov : The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia .
1951 – Iranian oil industry is nationalized .
1952 – In Cilaos , Réunion , 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
1961 – At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference , South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson , responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act .
1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War .
1986 – Collapse of Hotel New World : Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union .
1991 – Cold War : The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany .
2008 – Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec , Albania , killing 26 people.
2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War .
2019 – Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings .
2019 – Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.[3]
Births
270 – Saint Nicholas , Greek bishop and saint (d. 343)
1097 – Fujiwara no Tadamichi , Japanese noble (d. 1164)
1275 – Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant (d. 1333)
1407 – Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1453)
1444 – Francesco Gonzaga , Catholic cardinal (d. 1483)
1493 – Anne de Montmorency , French captain and diplomat (d. 1567)[4]
1513 – Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1573)
1516 – Alqas Mirza , Safavid prince (d. 1550)[5]
1582 – Daniel Featley , English theologian and controversialist (d. 1645)
1584 – Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1663)
1591 – Alexandre de Rhodes , French missionary and lexicographer (d. 1660)
1611 – Jan Fyt , Flemish painter (d. 1661)
1638 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661)
1666 – George Bähr , German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (d. 1738)
1754 – Archibald Menzies , Scottish surgeon and botanist (d. 1842)
1767 – Andrew Jackson , American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1779 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1790 – Ludwig Immanuel Magnus , German mathematician and academic (d. 1861)[6]
1791 – Charles Knight , English author and publisher (d. 1873)
1809 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts , American-Liberian historian and politician, 1st President of Liberia (d. 1876)
1809 – Karl Josef von Hefele , German bishop and theologian (d. 1893)
1813 – John Snow , English physician and epidemiologist (d. 1858)
1818 – Mariano Álvarez , Filipino general and politician (d. 1924)
1821 – Johann Josef Loschmidt , Austrian physicist and chemist (d. 1895)
1821 – William Milligan , Scottish theologian, author, and educator (d. 1892)
1824 – Jules Chevalier , French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (d. 1907)
1830 – Paul Heyse , German author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
1830 – Élisée Reclus , French geographer and academic (d. 1905)
1831 – Saint Daniele Comboni , Italian missionary and saint (d. 1881)
1835 – John Henry Kagi , American lawyer and activist (d. 1859)
1835 – Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1916)
1838 – Karl Davydov , Russian cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1889)
1851 – John Sebastian Little , American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (d. 1916)
1851 – William Mitchell Ramsay , Scottish archaeologist and scholar (d. 1939)
1852 – Augusta, Lady Gregory , Anglo-Irish landowner, playwright, and translator (d. 1932)
1854 – Emil von Behring , German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1857 – Christian Michelsen , Norwegian businessman and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1925)
1858 – Liberty Hyde Bailey , American botanist and academic, co-founded the American Society for Horticultural Science (d. 1954)
1860 – Waldemar Haffkine , Russian-Swiss bacteriologist and microbiologist (d. 1930)
1864 – Johan Halvorsen , Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (Oslo Philharmonic ) (d. 1935)
1865 – Manuk Abeghian , Armenian author and scholar (d. 1944)
1866 – Matthew Charlton , Australian miner and politician (d. 1948)
1866 – Johan Vaaler , Norwegian inventor, often erroneously identified as the inventor of the Paper clip (d. 1910)
1868 – Grace Chisholm Young , English mathematician (d. 1944)[7]
1869 – Stanisław Wojciechowski , Polish scholar and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Poland (d. 1953)
1874 – Eugène Fiset , Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
1874 – Harold L. Ickes , American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1952)
1878 – Reza Shah , Iranian king (d. 1944)
1886 – Wladimir Burliuk , Ukrainian-Greek painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
1887 – Marjorie Merriweather Post , American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods (d. 1973)
1887 – Lütfi Kırdar , Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (d. 1961)
1879 – Benjamin R. Jacobs , American biochemist (d. 1963)[8]
1890 – Boris Delaunay , Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1980)
1892 – James Basevi Ord , Mexican-American colonel (d. 1938)
1897 – Jackson Scholz , American runner (d. 1986)
1900 – Gilberto Freyre , Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer (d. 1987)
1904 – George Brent , Irish-American actor (d. 1979)
1904 – J. Pat O'Malley , English-American actor (d. 1985)
1905 – Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , German lawyer and judge (d. 1944)
1907 – Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
1909 – Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová , Czech painter (d. 1986)
1912 – Lightnin' Hopkins , American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1912 – Louis Paul Boon , Flemish journalist and author (d. 1979)
1913 – Macdonald Carey , American actor (d. 1994)
1913 – Jack Fairman , English race car driver (d. 2002)
1916 – Frank Coghlan, Jr. , American actor and pilot (d. 2009)
1916 – Fadil Hoxha , Kosovar commander and politician, 2nd President of Kosovo (d. 2001)
1916 – Harry James , American trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (d. 1983)
1918 – Richard Ellmann , American author and critic (d. 1987)
1918 – Punch Imlach , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1987)
1919 – Lawrence Tierney , American actor (d. 2002)
1920 – E. Donnall Thomas , American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1921 – Madelyn Pugh , American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
1922 – Eddie Calvert , English trumpeter (d. 1978)
1926 – Ben Johnston , American composer and academic (d. 2019)
1926 – Norm Van Brocklin , American football player and coach (d. 1983)
1927 – Christian Marquand , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1927 – Carl Smith , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
1928 – Bob Wilber , American clarinetist and saxophonist (d. 2019)
1930 – Zhores Alferov , Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)[9]
1932 – Alan Bean , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2018)
1932 – Arif Mardin , Turkish-American record producer (d. 2006)
1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg , American lawyer and judge
1933 – Philippe de Broca , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1934 – Richard Layard, Baron Layard , English economist and academic
1934 – Kanshi Ram , Indian politician (d. 2006)
1935 – David Andrews , Irish politician, 21st Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ireland
1935 – Judd Hirsch , American actor
1935 – Afsar Ahmad Siddiqui , Bangladeshi politician (d. 2001)
1935 – Jimmy Swaggart , American pastor and television host
1935 – Leonid Yengibarov , Russian-Armenian clown and boxer (d. 1972)
1936 – Howard Greenfield , American songwriter (d. 1986)
1937 – Marcus Raichle , American neurologist and physiologist
1937 – Valentin Rasputin , Russian environmentalist and author (d. 2015)
1938 – Charles Lloyd , American saxophonist and flute player
1939 – Ted Kaufman , American engineer and politician
1939 – Robert Nye , English author, poet, and playwright (d. 2016)
1939 – Julie Tullis , English mountaineer (d. 1986)[10]
1940 – Frank Dobson , English politician, Secretary of State for Health (d. 2019)
1940 – Phil Lesh , American bassist
1941 – Mike Love , American singer-songwriter and musician
1941 – Carolyn Hansson , Canadian materials engineer[11]
1943 – David Cronenberg , Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1943 – Lynda La Plante , English actress, screenwriter, and author
1943 – Michael Scott-Joynt , English bishop (d. 2014)
1943 – Sly Stone , American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1943 – The Iron Sheik , Iranian-American wrestler and actor[12]
1944 – Chi Cheng , Taiwanese runner and politician
1944 – Jacques Doillon , French director and screenwriter
1944 – Francis Mankiewicz , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1944 – A. K. Faezul Huq , Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
1945 – Mark J. Green , American lawyer and politician
1946 – Bobby Bonds , American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
1946 – John Dempsey , English born Irish international footballer, centre-back and manager[13]
1947 – Ry Cooder , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Gino Ferrin , German footballer and manager
1947 – Juraj Kukura , Slovak-German actor[14]
1948 – Kate Bornstein , American author and activist[15]
1948 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello , Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
1950 – Jørgen Olsen , Danish singer-songwriter
1950 – Kurt Koch , Swiss cardinal
1951 – David Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool , English educator and politician
1952 – Howard Devoto , English singer-songwriter
1952 – Philip Green , English businessman
1952 – Howard Koh , American physician and politician, 14th United States Assistant Secretary for Health
1953 – Richard Bruton , Irish economist and politician, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
1953 – Heather Graham Pozzessere , American author
1953 – Kumba Ialá , Bissau-Guinean educator and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2014)
1954 – Massimo Bubola , Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Isobel Buchanan , Scottish soprano and actress
1954 – Bob Budiansky , American author and illustrator
1954 – Henry Marsh , American runner and businessman, co-founded MonaVie
1954 – Craig Wasson , American actor[16]
1955 – Mohsin Khan , Pakistani cricketer
1955 – Dee Snider , American singer-songwriter and actor
1956 – Clay Matthews, Jr. , American football player and coach
1957 – Joaquim de Almeida , Portuguese-American actor
1957 – Víctor Muñoz , Spanish footballer and manager
1957 – David Silverman , American animator, director, and screenwriter
1958 – Anne Davies , English television presenter and newsreader
1959 – Harold Baines , American baseball player and coach
1959 – Renny Harlin , Finnish director and producer
1959 – Lisa Holton , American journalist and author
1959 – Ben Okri , Nigerian poet and author[17]
1960 – Mike Pagliarulo , American baseball player and coach
1960 – Phil Walsh , Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1961 – Terry Cummings , American basketball player and singer
1961 – Craig Ludwig , American ice hockey player and coach
1962 – Terence Trent D'Arby , American singer-songwriter
1962 – Jimmy Baio , American actor[18]
1963 – Bret Michaels , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1964 – Davide Pinato , Italian footballer
1964 – Rockwell , American singer-songwriter and musician
1965 – Sunetra Gupta , Indian epidemiologist, author, and academic
1965 – Robyn Malcolm , New Zealand actress
1967 – Naoko Takeuchi , Japanese manga artist, creator of Sailor Moon
1968 – Kahimi Karie , Japanese singer[19]
1968 – Mark McGrath , American singer-songwriter and television host
1968 – Terje Riis-Johansen , Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy
1968 – Sabrina Salerno , Italian singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
1969 – Rona Ambrose , Canadian journalist and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Health
1969 – Gianluca Festa , Italian footballer and coach
1969 – Yutaka Take , Japanese jockey[20]
1970 – Christine Anu , Australian singer
1970 – Naka Drotske , South African rugby player
1970 – Derek Parra , American speed skater and coach
1971 – Penny Lancaster , English model and photographer
1971 – Joanne Wise , English long jumper
1972 – Mark Hoppus , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1972 – Holger Stromberg , German chef[21]
1972 – Mike Tomlin , American football player and coach
1973 – Robin Hunicke , American video game designer and producer
1973 – Masayuki Naruse , Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1974 – Robert Fick , American baseball player
1975 – Eva Longoria , American actress and producer
1975 – Veselin Topalov , Bulgarian chess player
1975 – Darcy Tucker , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – will.i.am , American rapper, producer, and actor[22]
1976 – Katherine Brooks , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1976 – Abhay Deol , Indian actor
1976 – Cara Pifko , Canadian actress[23]
1977 – Joe Hahn , American DJ, producer, and director
1977 – Brian Tee , Japanese-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – Takeru Kobayashi , Japanese competitive eater
1979 – Kyle Mills , New Zealand cricketer
1979 – Kevin Youkilis , American baseball player and scout
1980 – Freddie Bynum , American baseball player
1980 – Eric Grothe, Jr. Australian rugby league player and guitarist
1980 – Claudiney Ramos , Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
1981 – Young Buck , American rapper, producer, and actor
1981 – Mikael Forssell , German-Finnish footballer
1981 – Veronica Maggio , Swedish singer-songwriter
1981 – Jens Salumäe , Estonian skier[24]
1982 – Tom Budge , Australian actor
1982 – Emily Dunn , American actress and dancer
1982 – Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich , Kenyan runner
1983 – Sean Biggerstaff , Scottish actor
1983 – Umut Bulut , Turkish footballer
1983 – Ben Hilfenhaus , Australian cricketer
1983 – Kostas Kaimakoglou , Greek basketball player
1983 – Golda Marcus , Salvadoran swimmer[25]
1983 – Daryl Murphy , Irish footballer
1983 – Heiko Niidas , Estonian basketball player
1983 – Ricky Sekhon , English actor
1983 – Yo Yo Honey Singh , Indian music producer
1984 – Badradine Belloumou , French-Algerian footballer
1984 – Malin Buska , Swedish actress
1984 – Olivier Jean , Canadian speed skater
1984 – Kostas Vasileiadis , Greek basketball player
1984 – Wilson Aparecido Xavier Júnior , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Eric Decker , American football player
1988 – Éver Guzmán , Mexican footballer
1988 – James Reimer , Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Jolo Revilla , Filipino actor and politician
1988 – Alexander Sims , English race car driver
1989 – Sam Baldock , English footballer
1989 – Bryce Gibbs , Australian footballer
1989 – Sandro , Brazilian international footballer, midfielder[26]
1989 – Gil Roberts , American sprinter[27]
1989 – Adrien Silva , Portuguese footballer
1989 – Caitlin Wachs , American actress
1990 – Siobhan Magnus , American singer-songwriter
1991 – Tavon Austin , American footballer
1991 – Kurt Baptiste , Australian rugby league player
1991 – Xavier Henry , American basketball player
1993 – Alia Bhatt , Actress and singer of Indian origin and British citizenship
1993 – Paul Pogba , French footballer
1996 – Seonaid McIntosh , Scottish sports shooter[28]
2000 – Kristian Kostov , Russian/Bulgarian singer-songwriter
Deaths
44 BC – Julius Caesar , Roman general and statesman (b. 100 BC)
220 – Cao Cao , Chinese general, warlord and statesman (b. 155)
493 – Odoacer , first king of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (b. 433)
752 – Pope Zachary
963 – Romanos II , Byzantine emperor (b. 938)
990 – Siegfried I (the Older), German nobleman [29]
1086 – Richilde, Countess of Hainaut , Flemish consort and regent (b. c. 1018)
1124 – Ernulf , Bishop of Rochester (b. c. 1040)
1190 – Isabella of Hainault , queen of Philip II of France (b. 1170)
1311 – Walter V, Count of Brienne (b. 1275)
1311 – Thomas III d'Autremencourt , Lord of Salona, Marshal of Achaea
1311 – Albert Pallavicini , Margrave of Bodonitza
1311 – George I Ghisi , Triarch of Euboea, Baron of Chalandritsa, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos
1327 – Albert of Schwarzburg , grand preceptor of the Knights Hospitaller
1346 – Shah Jalal , Sufi saint of Bengal (b. 1271).
1536 – Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha , Ottoman politician, 35th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1493)
1575 – Annibale Padovano , Italian organist and composer (b. 1527)
1644 – Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (b. 1576)
1657 – David Pardo , Dutch rabbi and scholar (b. 1591)
1673 – Salvator Rosa , Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
1711 – Eusebio Kino , Italian priest and missionary (b. 1645)
1820 – Clement Mary Hofbauer , Austrian priest and saint (b. 1751)
1832 – Otto Wilhelm Masing , Estonian linguist and clergyman (b. 1763)
1842 – Luigi Cherubini , Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760)
1849 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti , Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1891 – Joseph Bazalgette , English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
1897 – James Joseph Sylvester , English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
1898 – Henry Bessemer , English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
1921 – Talaat Pasha , Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
1927 – Hector Rason , English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)[30]
1933 – Gustavo Jiménez , Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
1937 – H. P. Lovecraft , American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
1938 – Nikolai Bukharin , Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)
1939 – Luis Barceló , Spanish colonel (b. 1896)
1941 – Alexej von Jawlensky , Russian-German painter (b. 1864)
1944 – Otto von Below , Prussian general (b. 1857)
1951 – John S. Paraskevopoulos , Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
1957 – Ernst Nobs , Swiss politician (b. 1886)
1959 – Lester Young , American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
1962 – Charles Bartliff , American soccer player (b. 1886)
1962 – Arthur Compton , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1966 – Abe Saperstein , American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
1969 – Miles Malleson , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
1969 – Musashiyama Takeshi , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
1970 – Tarjei Vesaas , Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)
1971 – Jean-Pierre Monseré , Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov , Russian painter and educator (b. 1910)
1975 – Aristotle Onassis , Greek-Argentinian businessman (b. 1906)
1977 – Hubert Aquin , Canadian author and activist (b. 1929)
1977 – Antonino Rocca , Italian-American wrestler and referee (b. 1921)
1981 – René Clair , French director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
1983 – Coloman Braun-Bogdan , Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
1983 – Rebecca West , English author and critic (b. 1892)
1985 – Radha Krishna Choudhary , Indian historian and author (b. 1921)
1986 – Alexandru Giugaru , Romanian actor (b. 1897)
1987 – Douglas Abbott , Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1899)
1988 – Dmitri Polyakov , Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1926)
1989 – Muhammad Jameel Didi , Maldivian poet and politician (b. 1915)
1990 – Farzad Bazoft , Iranian-English journalist (b. 1958)
1990 – Tom Harmon , American football player and sportscaster (b. 1919)
1991 – Bud Freeman , American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1906)
1992 – Rahi Masoom Raza , Indian Urdu poet (b.1927)
1997 – Gail Davis , American actress (b. 1925)
1997 – Victor Vasarely , Hungarian-French painter (b. 1906)
1998 – Tim Maia , Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
1998 – Benjamin Spock , American pediatrician and author (b. 1903)
1999 – Guy D'Artois , Canadian soldier (b. 1917)
2001 – Gaetano Cozzi , Italian historian and academic (b. 1922)
2001 – Ann Sothern , American actress and singer (b. 1909)
2003 – Thora Hird , English actress (b. 1911)
2003 – Paul Stojanovich , American television producer, created World's Wildest Police Videos (b. 1956)
2004 – Philippe Lemaire , French actor (b. 1927)
2004 – Bill Pickering , New Zealand-American scientist and engineer (b. 1910)
2004 – John Pople , English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2005 – Bob Bellear , Australian engineer and judge (b. 1944)
2005 – Otar Korkia , Georgian basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
2005 – Shoji Nishio , Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2006 – Georgios Rallis , Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006 – Red Storey , Canadian football player and referee (b. 1918)
2007 – Charles Harrelson , American murderer (b. 1938)
2007 – Bowie Kuhn , American lawyer and businessman (b. 1926)
2007 – Stuart Rosenberg , American director and producer (b. 1927)
2008 – Mikey Dread , Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1954)
2008 – Vytautas Kernagis , Lithuanian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1951)
2008 – G. David Low , American astronaut and engineer (b. 1956)
2008 – Ken Reardon , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2008 – Sarla Thakral , First Indian woman to earn a pilot's license. (b. 1914)[31]
2009 – Ron Silver , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1946)
2011 – Nate Dogg , American rapper (b. 1969)
2011 – Smiley Culture , English singer and DJ (b. 1963)
2012 – Mervyn Davies , Welsh rugby player (b. 1946)
2012 – Eb Gaines , American businessman and diplomat (b. 1927)
2012 – Luis Gonzales , Filipino actor (b. 1928)
2012 – Bernardino González Ruíz , Panamanian physician and politician, President of Panama (b. 1911)
2012 – Fran Matera , American illustrator (b. 1924)
2012 – Dave Philley , American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2013 – James Bonk , American chemist and academic (b. 1931)
2013 – Booth Gardner , American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Washington (b. 1936)
2013 – Hardrock Gunter , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
2013 – Shannon Larratt , Canadian publisher, founded BMEzine (b. 1973)
2013 – Terry Lightfoot , English clarinet player (b. 1935)
2013 – Leverne McDonnell , Australian actress (b. 1963).
2013 – Masamichi Noro , Japanese-French martial artist, founded Kinomichi (b. 1935)
2013 – Kallam Anji Reddy , Indian engineer and businessman, founded Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (b. 1940)
2013 – Peter Worsley , English sociologist (b. 1924)
2013 – Felipe Zetter , Mexican footballer (b. 1923)
2014 – Scott Asheton , American drummer (b. 1949).
2014 – David Brenner , American comedian, actor, and author (b. 1936)
2014 – Bo Callaway , American soldier and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Army (b. 1927)
2014 – Clarissa Dickson Wright , English chef, author, and television personality (b. 1947)
2014 – Everett L. Fullam , American priest and scholar (b. 1930)
2014 – Cees Veerman , Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
2015 – Collins Chabane , South African politician (b. 1960)
2015 – Robert Clatworthy , English sculptor and educator (b. 1928)
2015 – Narayan Desai , Indian author and activist (b. 1924)
2015 – Sally Forrest , American actress and dancer (b. 1928)
2015 – Curtis Gans , American political scientist and author (b. 1937)
2015 – Mike Porcaro , American bass player (b. 1955)
2016 – Sylvia Anderson , English voice actress and television and film producer (b. 1927)
2016 – Asa Briggs , English historian and academic (b. 1921)
2016 – Daryl Coley , American singer and pastor (b. 1955)
2016 – Seru Rabeni , Fijian rugby player (b. 1978)
2019 – Larry DiTillio , American film and TV series writer (b. 1948)[32]
2020 – Vittorio Gregotti , Italian architect (b. 1927)[33]
Holidays and observances
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