March 18
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March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 288 days remain until the end of the year.
Events 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula , leaves up to 20,000 dead.1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor , declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade .1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland : Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.1314 – Jacques de Molay , the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar , is burned at the stake.1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor .1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia .1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia .1741 – New York governor George Clarke 's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741 .1766 – American Revolution : The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act .1793 – The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz , is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann .1793 – Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution , Battle of Neerwinden .1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle , Dorset , England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union .1848 – March Revolution : In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo .1865 – American Civil War : The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune ; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers , orders the evacuation of Paris.1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup .1900 – AFC Ajax Amsterdam , The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.1902 – Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic .[1] 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki .1915 – World War I : During the Battle of Gallipoli , three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles .1921 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union .1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience , of which he serves only two.1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri , Illinois , and Indiana , killing 695 people.1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas , kills 300 people, mostly children.1937 – Spanish Civil War : Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara .
1938 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.1940 – World War II : Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.1944 – Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split .1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey , killing 265 people.1959 – The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence , which had begun in 1954.1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov , leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space .1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon 1968 – Gold standard : The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency .1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia , used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam .1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia .1971 – Peru : a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake , killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people .1990 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston .[2]
1994 – Bosnia 's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement , ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina .1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City , Philippines kills 162 people.1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty .2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.Births 1075 – Al-Zamakhshari , Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144)1395 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter , English military commander (d. 1447)[3] 1495 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)[4] 1548 – Cornelis Ketel , Dutch painter (d. 1616)1552 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder , German theologian (d. 1610)1555 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)1578 – Adam Elsheimer , German painter (d. 1610)1590 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa , Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière , French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659)1603 – Simon Bradstreet , English colonial magistrate (d. 1697)
1609 – Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)1634 – Madame de La Fayette , French author (d. 1693)1640 – Philippe de La Hire , French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni , Italian organist and composer (d. 1743)1690 – Christian Goldbach , Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764)1701 – Niclas Sahlgren , Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (d. 1776)1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai , German author and bookseller (d. 1811)1780 – Miloš Obrenović , Serbian prince (d. 1860)1782 – John C. Calhoun , American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)1789 – Charlotte Elliott , English poet, hymn writer, editor (d. 1871)[5] 1798 – Francis Lieber , German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872)1800 – Harriet Smithson , Irish actress, the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz (d. 1854)1813 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel , German poet and playwright (d. 1864)1814 – Jacob Bunn , American businessman (d. 1897)1819 – James McCulloch , Scottish-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Victoria (d. 1893)[6] 1820 – John Plankinton , American businessman and industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (d. 1891)[7] 1823 – Antoine Chanzy , French general (d. 1883)1828 – Randal Cremer , English activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)1837 – Grover Cleveland , American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse , English poet and critic (d. 1901)1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet and critic (d. 1898)1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)1846 – Kicking Bear , Native American tribal leader (d. 1904)1848 – Nathanael Greene Herreshoff , American architect and engineer (d. 1938)1858 – Rudolf Diesel , German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)1862 – Eugène Jansson , Swedish painter (d. 1915)1863 – William Sulzer , American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)1869 – Neville Chamberlain , English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter , Canadian mathematician (d. 1917)1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev , Russian-French philosopher and theologian (d. 1948)1877 – Edgar Cayce , American mystic and psychic (d. 1945)1877 – Clem Hill , Australian cricketer and engineer (d. 1945)
1878 – Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry , English businessman (d. 1956)1882 – Gian Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer and educator (d. 1973)1884 – Bernard Cronin , English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968)1886 – Edward Everett Horton , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970)1890 – Henri Decoin , French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)1893 – Costante Girardengo , Italian cyclist (d. 1978)1893 – Wilfred Owen , English soldier and poet (d. 1918)
1901 – Manly Palmer Hall , Canadian mystic, author and philosopher (d. 1990)1901 – William Johnson , American painter (d. 1970)
1903 – Galeazzo Ciano , Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944)1903 – E. O. Plauen , German cartoonist (d. 1944)
1904 – Srečko Kosovel , Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926)1904 – Margaret Tucker , Australian author and activist (d. 1996)
1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown , American physicist and engineer (d. 1985)1905 – Robert Donat , English actor (d. 1958)
1907 – John Zachary Young , English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997)1908 – Loulou Gasté , French composer (d. 1995)1909 – Ernest Gallo , American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (d. 2007)1909 – C. Walter Hodges , English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
1911 – Smiley Burnette , American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1967)1912 – Art Gilmore , American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)1913 – René Clément , French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)1913 – Werner Mölders , German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
1915 – Richard Condon , American author and screenwriter (d. 1996)1922 – Egon Bahr , German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d. 2015)1922 – Seymour Martin Lipset , American sociologist and academic (d. 2006)
1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth , American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011)
1923 – Andy Granatelli , American race car driver and businessman (d. 2013)1925 – Alessandro Alessandroni , Italian musician (d. 2017)1925 – James Pickles , English journalist, lawyer, and judge (d. 2010)
1926 – Peter Graves , American actor and director (d. 2010)1927 – John Kander , American pianist and composer1927 – George Plimpton , American journalist and actor (d. 2003)
1927 – Lillian Vernon , German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
1928 – Miguel Poblet , Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)1928 – Fidel V. Ramos , Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines
1929 – Samuel Pisar , Polish-American lawyer and author (d. 2015)1930 – James J. Andrews , American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)1931 – John Fraser , Scottish actor1932 – John Updike , American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 2009)1933 – Unita Blackwell , American civil rights activist and politician (d. 2019)1934 – Roy Chapman , English footballer and manager (d. 1983)1934 – Charley Pride , American country music singer and musician
1935 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen , Danish mathematician and statistician1935 – Frances Cress Welsing , American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016)
1936 – F. W. de Klerk , South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa , Nobel Prize laureate1937 – Rudi Altig , German cyclist and sportscaster (d. 2016)1937 – Mark Donohue , American race car driver (d. 1975)
1938 – Carl Gottlieb , American actor and screenwriter1938 – Shashi Kapoor , Indian actor and producer (d. 2017)
1938 – Kenny Lynch , English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2019)
1938 – Timo Mäkinen , Finnish race car driver (d. 2017)
1938 – Machiko Soga , Japanese actress (d. 2006)
1939 – Ron Atkinson , English footballer and manager1939 – Jean-Pierre Wallez , French violinist and conductor
1941 – Wilson Pickett , American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)1942 – Kathleen Collins , African-American filmmaker and playwright (d. 1988)1943 – Dennis Linde , American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)1944 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (d. 2012)1944 – Frank McRae , American football player and actor
1944 – Dick Smith , Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic
1945 – Hiroh Kikai , Japanese photographer1945 – Michael Reagan , American journalist and radio host
1945 – Susan Tyrrell , American actress (d. 2012)
1945 – Eric Woolfson , Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2009)
1946 – Michel Leclère , French race car driver1947 – Patrick Barlow , English actor and playwright1947 – Patrick Chesnais , French actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 – David Lloyd , English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster
1947 – B. J. Wilson , English rock drummer (d. 1990)
1948 – Guy Lapointe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1948 – Brian Lloyd , Welsh footballer
1948 – Eknath Solkar , Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1949 – Åse Kleveland , Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture 1950 – James Conlon , American conductor and educator1950 – Brad Dourif , American actor
1950 – Linda Partridge , English geneticist and academic
1950 – Larry Perkins , Australian race car driver
1951 – Paul Barber , English actor1951 – Ben Cohen , American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben and Jerry's
1951 – Bill Frisell , American guitarist and composer
1951 – Timothy N. Philpot , American lawyer, author, and judge
1952 – Will Durst , American journalist and actor1952 – Pat Eddery , Irish jockey and trainer (d. 2015)
1952 – Bernie Tormé , Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
1952 – Mike Webster , American football player (d. 2002)
1953 – Franz Wright , Austrian-American poet and translator (d. 2015)1953 – Takashi Yoshimatsu , Japanese composer
1955 – Francis G. Slay , American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis 1955 – Jeff Stelling , English journalist and game show host
1956 – Rick Martel , Canadian wrestler1956 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey , American madam (d. 2008)
1956 – Ingemar Stenmark , Swedish skier
1957 – Christer Fuglesang , Swedish physicist and astronaut1958 – Richard de Zoysa , Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 1990)1959 – Luc Besson , French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp 1960 – Richard Biggs , American actor (d. 2004)1960 – Guy Carbonneau , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – James Plaskett , Cypriot-English chess player
1961 – Grant Hart , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)1962 – Michael Andrews , Australian rugby league player1962 – Irene Cara , American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
1962 – Brian Fisher , American baseball player
1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith , American actor and martial artist
1962 – James McMurtry , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1962 – Etsushi Toyokawa , Japanese actor and director
1962 – Volker Weidler , German race car driver and engineer
1963 – Jeff LaBar , American guitarist1963 – Vanessa L. Williams , American model, actress, and singer
1964 – Bonnie Blair , American speed skater1964 – Alex Caffi , Italian race car driver
1964 – Jo Churchill , British politician
1964 – Courtney Pine , English saxophonist and clarinet player
1964 – Isabel Noronha , Mozambican film director[8]
1966 – Jerry Cantrell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1966 – Peter Jones , English businessman
1966 – Brian Watts , Canadian golfer
1967 – Miki Berenyi , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1968 – Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême 1968 – Miguel Herrera , Mexican footballer and manager
1968 – Temur Ketsbaia , Georgian footballer and manager
1968 – Paul Marsden , English businessman and politician
1969 – Andy Cutting , English accordion player and composer1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk , Ukrainian chess player
1969 – Shaun Udal , English cricketer
1970 – Queen Latifah , American rapper, producer, and actress1971 – Wayne Arthurs , Australian tennis player1971 – Mike Bell , American wrestler (d. 2008)
1971 – Mariaan de Swardt , South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
1971 – Kitty Ussher , English economist and politician
1972 – Dane Cook , American comedian, actor, director, and producer1972 – Reince Priebus , American lawyer and politician
1973 – Luci Christian , American voice actress and screenwriter1974 – Laure Savasta , French basketball player, coach, and sportscaster1974 – Stuart Zender , English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1975 – Sutton Foster , American actress, singer, and dancer1975 – Brian Griese , American football player and sportscaster
1975 – Kimmo Timonen , Finnish ice hockey player
1975 – Tomas Žvirgždauskas , Lithuanian footballer
1976 – Giovanna Antonelli , Brazilian actress and producer1976 – Tomo Ohka , Japanese baseball player
1976 – Scott Podsednik , American baseball player
1976 – Mike Quackenbush , American wrestler, trainer, and author, founded Chikara wrestling promotion
1977 – Zdeno Chára , Slovak ice hockey player1977 – Danny Murphy , English international footballer, midfielder and sportscaster[9]
1977 – Fernando Rodney , Dominican-American baseball player
1977 – Willy Sagnol , French footballer and manager
1977 – Terrmel Sledge , American baseball player and coach
1978 – Fernandão , Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)1978 – Brooke Hanson , Australian swimmer
1978 – Brian Scalabrine , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt , Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
1979 – Adam Levine , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality1980 – Sébastien Frey , French footballer1980 – Sophia Myles , English actress
1980 – Alexei Yagudin , Russian figure skater
1981 – Tora Berger , Norwegian biathlete1981 – Fabian Cancellara , Swiss cyclist
1981 – Leslie Djhone , French sprinter
1981 – Jang Na-ra , South Korean singer and actress
1981 – Kasib Powell , American basketball player
1981 – Tom Starke , German footballer
1981 – Doug Warren , American soccer player
1981 – Lovro Zovko , Croatian tennis player
1982 – Mantorras , Angolan footballer1982 – Chad Cordero , American baseball player
1982 – Timo Glock , German race car driver
1982 – Adam Pally , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Ethan Carter III , American wrestler1983 – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro , French tennis player
1983 – Andy Sonnanstine , American baseball player
1983 – Tomasz Stolpa , Polish footballer
1984 – Simone Padoin , Italian footballer1984 – Rajeev Ram , American tennis player[10]
1984 – Vonzell Solomon , American singer and actress
1985 – Ana Beatriz , Brazilian race car driver1985 – Marvin Humes , English singer
1985 – Vince Lia , Australian footballer
1986 – Lykke Li , Swedish singer-songwriter1986 – Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani , Algerian footballer
1987 – Rebecca Soni , American swimmer1989 – Francesco Checcucci , Italian footballer1989 – Lily Collins , English-American actress
1989 – Shreevats Goswami , Indian cricketer
1989 – Kana Nishino , Japanese singer-songwriter
1989 – Paul Marc Rousseau , Canadian guitarist and producer
1989 – Ming Xi , Chinese model
1991 – Dylan Mattingly , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1991 – Sam Williams , Australian rugby league player
1992 – Ryan Truex , American race car driver1992 – Takuya Terada , Japanese singer, actor, and model1997 – Ciara Bravo , American actress1997 – Rieko Ioane , New Zealand rugby union player
Deaths 978 – Edward the Martyr , English king (b. 962)1076 – Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1018)1086 – Anselm of Lucca , Italian bishop (b. 1036)1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)1272 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)1308 – Yuri I of Galicia 1314 – Jacques de Molay , Frankish knight (b. 1244)1314 – Geoffroy de Charney , Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar
1321 – Matthew III Csák , Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)1582 – Juan Jauregui , attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall , Irish soldier (b. 1606)1689 – John Dixwell , English soldier and politician (b. 1607)1745 – Robert Walpole , English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)1768 – Laurence Sterne , Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713)1781 – Anne Robert Jacques Turgot , French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727)1823 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval , French cellist and composer (b. 1753)1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff , Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769)1845 – Johnny Appleseed , American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)1871 – Augustus De Morgan , Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage , American author and activist (b. 1826)1900 – Hjalmar Kiærskou , Danish botanist (b. 1835)1907 – Marcellin Berthelot , French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)1913 – George I of Greece (b. 1845)1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh , American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)1930 – Jean Leon Gerome Ferris , American painter (b. 1863)[11] 1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos , Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn , English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)1941 – Henri Cornet , French cyclist (b. 1884)1947 – William C. Durant , American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)1954 – Walter Mead , English cricketer (b. 1868)
1956 – Louis Bromfield , American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)1962 – Walter W. Bacon , American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)1964 – Sigfrid Edström , Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)1973 – Johannes Aavik , Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)1977 – Marien Ngouabi , Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)1977 – Carlos Pace , Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
1978 – Leigh Brackett , American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)1978 – Peggy Wood , American actress (b. 1892)
1980 – Erich Fromm , German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)1982 – Patrick Smith , Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)1983 – Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)1984 – Charley Lau , American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)1986 – Bernard Malamud , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)1988 – Billy Butterfield , American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)1990 – Robin Harris , American comedian (b. 1953)1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding , English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)1996 – Odysseas Elytis , Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)2000 – Eberhard Bethge , German theologian and academic (b. 1909)2001 – John Phillips , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas ) (b. 1935)2002 – R. A. Lafferty , American soldier and author (b. 1914)2003 – Karl Kling , German race car driver (b. 1910)2003 – Adam Osborne , Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)
2004 – Harrison McCain , Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927)2006 – Dan Gibson , Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922)2007 – Bob Woolmer , Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948)2008 – Anthony Minghella , English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi , Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980)2009 – Natasha Richardson , English-American actress (b. 1963)
2010 – Fess Parker , American actor and businessman (b. 1924)2011 – Warren Christopher , American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (b. 1925)2012 – Furman Bisher , American journalist and author (b. 1918)2012 – William R. Charette , American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2012 – William G. Moore Jr. , American general (b. 1920)
2012 – George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)
2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam , Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935)2013 – Henry Bromell , American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947)
2013 – Clay Ford , American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2014 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu , Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951)2014 – Kaiser Kalambo , Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953)
2014 – Lucius Shepard , American author and critic (b. 1943)
2015 – Zhao Dayu , Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)2015 – Thomas Hopko , American priest and theologian (b. 1939)
2015 – Grace Ogot , Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930)
2016 – Barry Hines , English author and screenwriter (b. 1939)2016 – Jan Němec , Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2016 – Tray Walker , American football player (b. 1992)
2016 – Guido Westerwelle , German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
2017 – Chuck Berry , American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926)2020 – Alfred Worden , Apollo 15 command module pilot (b. 1932)[12] Holidays and observances References
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