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February 5
Date
February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . 329 days remain until the end of the year (330 in leap years ).
Events
AD 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii , Italy.[1]
756 – An Lushan , leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty , declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan .
789 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty , ceding Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion .
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1649 – Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament.[2]
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation .
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca .
1783 – In Calabria , a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1807 – HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues .
1810 – Peninsular War : Siege of Cádiz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin-Madison 's first class meets at Madison Female Academy .
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg , Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza , Prince of Moldavia , is also elected as prince of Wallachia , joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities , an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire , which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.[3]
1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities .[4]
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul, Victoria , Australia.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite , the world's first synthetic plastic .
1913 – Greek military aviators , Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson 's veto.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin , Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks , and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists .
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal .
1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra , Dutch East Indies .
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España ", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II : Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea .
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila .
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic .
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia , never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The European Court of Justice 's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect , one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law .
1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before . The uprising (locally known as the Limazo ) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1985 – Ugo Vetere , then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi , then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers .
1994 – Markale massacres , more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo .
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny , Chechnya .
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves , starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion .
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi .[5]
2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial . [6] Births
976 – Sanj? , emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
1321 – John II , marquess of Montferrat (d. 1372)
1438 – Philip II , duke of Savoy (d. 1497)
1505 – Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss statesman and historian (d. 1572)
1519 – René of Châlon , prince of Orange (d. 1544)
1525 – Juraj Dra?kovi? , Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1587)
1533 – Andreas Dudith , Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat (d. 1589)
1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi , Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612)
1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas , Spanish poet and educator (d. 1669)
1594 – Biagio Marini , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)
1605 – Bernard of Corleone , Italian saint (d. 1667)[7]
1608 – Gaspar Schott , German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666)
1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , French author (d. 1696)
1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles , French general (d. 1708)
1703 – Gilbert Tennent , Irish-American minister (d. 1764)
1723 – John Witherspoon , Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794)
1725 – James Otis, Jr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe , German composer and conductor (d. 1798)
1788 – Robert Peel , English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger , Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg , Finnish poet and hymn-writer (d. 1877)
1808 – Carl Spitzweg , German painter and poet (d. 1885)
1810 – Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880)
1827 – Peter Lalor , Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889)
1837 – Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church , Moody Bible Institute , and Moody Publishers (d. 1899)
1840 – John Boyd Dunlop , Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921)
1840 – Hiram Maxim , American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
1847 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson , Estonian missionary and engraver (d. 1903)
1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author and critic (d. 1907)
1848 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto , Chilean lieutenant (d. 1882)
1852 – Terauchi Masatake , Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919)
1866 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla , Irish politician, 3rd and last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)
1870 – Charles Edmund Brock , British painter and book illustrator (d. 1938)
1876 – Ernie McLea , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1931)
1878 – André Citroën , French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)
1880 – Gabriel Voisin , French pilot and engineer (d. 1973)
1889 – Patsy Hendren , English cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)
1889 – Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (d. 1962)
1889 – Recep Peker , Turkish officer and politician (d. 1950)
1891 – Renato Petronio , Italian rower (d. 1976)
1892 – Elizabeth Ryan , American tennis player (d. 1979)
1897 – Dirk Stikker , Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO (d. 1979)
1900 – Adlai Stevenson II , American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1965)
1903 – Koto Matsudaira , Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1994)[8]
1903 – Joan Whitney Payson , American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)
1906 – John Carradine , American actor (d. 1988)
1907 – Birgit Dalland , Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
1907 – Pierre Pflimlin , French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
1908 – Marie Baron , Dutch swimmer and diver (d. 1948)
1908 – Peg Entwistle , Welsh-American actress (d. 1932)
1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton , English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
1908 – Eugen Weidmann , German criminal (d. 1939)
1909 – Gra?yna Bacewicz , Polish violinist and composer (d. 1969)
1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond , French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007)
1910 – Francisco Varallo , Argentinian footballer (d. 2010)
1911 – Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
1914 – William S. Burroughs , American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1997)
1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin , English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1915 – Robert Hofstadter , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1917 – Edward J. Mortola , American academic and president of Pace University (d. 2002)[9]
1917 – Isuzu Yamada , Japanese actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Red Buttons , American actor (d. 2006)
1919 – Tim Holt , American actor (d. 1973)
1919 – Andreas Papandreou , Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
1921 – Ken Adam , German-born English production designer and art director (d. 2016)[10]
1923 – Claude King , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1923 – James E. Bowman , American physician and academic (d. 2011)
1924 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy , Indian cardinal (d. 2014)
1927 – Robert Allen , American pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten , Dutch captain and pilot (d. 1977)
1928 – Tage Danielsson , Swedish author, actor, and director (d. 1985)
1928 – Andrew Greeley , American priest, sociologist, and author (d. 2013)
1928 – P. J. Vatikiotis , Israeli-American historian and political scientist (d. 1997)
1929 – Hal Blaine , American session drummer (d. 2019)
1929 – Luc Ferrari , French pianist and composer (d. 2005)
1929 – Fred Sinowatz , Austrian politician, 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
1932 – Cesare Maldini , Italian footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1933 – Jörn Donner , Finnish director and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1933 – B. S. Johnson , English author, poet, and critic (d. 1973)
1934 – Hank Aaron , American baseball player
1934 – Don Cherry , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1935 – Alex Harvey , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1935 – Johannes Geldenhuys , South African military commander (d. 2018)
1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed , Indian poet and academic
1937 – Stuart Damon , American actor and singer
1937 – Larry Hillman , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1937 – Gaston Roelants , Belgian runner
1937 – Alar Toomre , Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician
1937 – Wang Xuan , Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1938 – Rafael Nieto Navia , Colombian lawyer, jurist, and diplomat
1939 – Brian Luckhurst , English cricketer (d. 2005)
1940 – H. R. Giger , Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (d. 2014)
1940 – Luke Graham , American wrestler (d. 2006)
1941 – Stephen J. Cannell , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1941 – Henson Cargill , American country music singer (d. 2007)
1941 – David Selby , American actor and playwright
1941 – Barrett Strong , American soul singer-songwriter and pianist
1941 – Kaspar Villiger , Swiss engineer and politician, 85th President of the Swiss Confederation
1941 – Cory Wells , American pop-rock singer (d. 2015)
1942 – Roger Staubach , American football player, sportscaster, and businessman
1943 – Nolan Bushnell , American engineer and businessman, founded Atari, Inc.
1943 – Michael Mann , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1943 – Craig Morton , American football player and sportscaster
1943 – Du?an Uhrin , Czech and Slovak footballer and manager
1944 – J. R. Cobb , American guitarist and songwriter
1944 – Henfil , Brazilian journalist, author, and illustrator (d. 1988)
1944 – Al Kooper , American singer-songwriter and producer
1944 – Tamanoumi Masahiro , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971)
1945 – Douglas Hogg , English lawyer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1946 – Amnon Dankner , Israeli journalist and author (d. 2013)
1946 – Charlotte Rampling , English actress
1947 – Mary L. Cleave , American engineer and astronaut
1947 – Clemente Mastella , Italian politician, Italian Minister of Justice
1947 – Darrell Waltrip , American race car driver and sportscaster
1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson , Swedish footballer and manager
1948 – Christopher Guest , American actor and director
1948 – Barbara Hershey , American actress
1948 – Errol Morris , American director and producer
1948 – Tom Wilkinson , English actor
1949 – Kurt Beck , German politician
1949 – Yvon Vallières , Canadian educator and politician
1950 – Jonathan Freeman , American actor and singer
1950 – Rafael Puente , Mexican footballer
1951 – Nikolay Merkushkin , Mordovian engineer and politician, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia
1952 – Daniel Balavoine , French singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
1952 – Vladimir Moskovkin , Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic
1953 – Freddie Aguilar , Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – John Beilein , American basketball player and coach
1953 – Gustavo Benítez , Paraguayan footballer and manager
1954 – Cliff Martinez , American drummer and songwriter
1954 – Frank Walker , Australian journalist and author
1955 – Mike Heath , American baseball player and manager
1956 – Vinnie Colaiuta , American drummer
1956 – Héctor Rebaque , Mexican race car driver
1956 – David Wiesner , American author and illustrator
1956 – Mao Daichi , Japanese actress
1957 – Jüri Tamm , Estonian hammer thrower and politician
1959 – Jennifer Granholm , Canadian-American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Michigan
1960 – Aris Christofellis , Greek soprano and musicologist
1960 – Bonnie Crombie , Canadian businesswoman and politician, 6th Mayor of Mississauga
1960 – Micky Hazard , English footballer, central midfielder[11]
1961 – Savvas Kofidis , Greek footballer and manager
1961 – Tim Meadows , American actor and screenwriter
1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress, screenwriter, producer and director
1963 – Steven Shainberg , American film director and producer
1964 – Laura Linney , American actress
1964 – Ha Seungmoo , Korean Poet, Pastor, Historical theologian
1964 – Duff McKagan , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1965 – Tarik Benhabiles , Algerian-French tennis player and coach
1965 – Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian footballer and manager
1965 – Keith Moseley , American bass player and songwriter
1965 – Quique Sánchez Flores , Spanish footballer and manager
1966 – José María Olazábal , Spanish golfer
1966 – Rok Petrovi? , Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
1967 – Chris Parnell , American actor and comedian
1968 – Roberto Alomar , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
1968 – Marcus Grönholm , Finnish race car driver
1969 – Bobby Brown , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1969 – Michael Sheen , Welsh actor and director
1969 – Derek Stephen Prince , American voice actor
1970 – Jean-Marc Jaumin , Belgian basketball player and coach
1970 – Darren Lehmann , Australian cricketer and coach
1971 – Michel Breistroff , French ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1971 – Sara Evans , American country singer
1972 – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
1972 – Brad Fittler , Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1973 – Richard Matvichuk , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973 – Trijntje Oosterhuis , Dutch singer-songwriter
1973 – Luke Ricketson , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1974 – Michael Maguire , Australian rugby league player and coach
1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst , Dutch footballer and manager
1976 – John Aloisi , Australian footballer and manager
1976 – Abhishek Bachchan , Indian actor
1977 – Ben Ainslie , English sailor
1977 – Adam Dykes , Australian rugby league player
1977 – Adam Everett , American baseball player and coach
1978 – Brian Russell , American football player
1978 – Samuel Sánchez , Spanish cyclist
1979 – Nate Holzapfel , American entrepreneur and television personality
1980 – Brad Fitzpatrick , American programmer, created LiveJournal
1980 – Jo Swinson , Scottish politician
1981 – Mia Hansen-Løve , French director and screenwriter
1981 – Loukas Vyntra , Czech-Greek footballer
1982 – Laura del Rio , Spanish footballer
1982 – Kevin Everett , American football player
1982 – Tomá? Kopecký , Slovak ice hockey player
1982 – Rodrigo Palacio , Argentinian footballer
1983 – Anja Hammerseng-Edin , Norwegian handball player
1984 – Carlos Tevez , Argentinian footballer
1985 – Lloyd Johansson , Australian rugby player
1985 – Laurence Maroney , American football player
1985 – Paul Vandervort , American actor, film producer, and former model
1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese footballer
1986 – Vedran ?orluka , Croatian footballer, centre back[12]
1986 – Marcos Díaz , Argentinian footballer
1986 – Kevin Gates , American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur[13] [14] [15]
1986 – Sekope Kepu , Australian rugby player
1986 – Billy Sharp , English footballer
1986 – Reed Sorenson , American race car driver
1986 – Carlos Villanueva , Chilean footballer
1987 – Darren Criss , American actor, singer, and entrepreneur
1987 – Curtis Jerrells , American basketball player
1987 – Alex Kuznetsov , Ukrainian-American tennis player
1987 – Linus Omark , Swedish ice hockey player
1987 – Donald Sanford , American-Israeli sprinter
1988 – Karin Ontiveros , Mexican model
1989 – Marina Melnikova , Russian tennis player
1990 – Dmitry Andreikin , Russian chess player
1990 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar , Indian cricketer
1990 – Jordan Rhodes , Scottish footballer
1991 – Nabil Bahoui , Swedish footballer
1991 – Gerald Tusha , Albanian footballer
1992 – Stefan de Vrij , Dutch footballer
1992 – Neymar , Brazilian footballer
1993 – Leilani Latu , Australian rugby league player
1993 – Ty Rattie , Canadian ice hockey player
1995 – Adnan Januzaj , Belgian-Albanian footballer
1996 – Stina Blackstenius , Swedish footballer
1997 – Patrick Roberts , English footballer
2016 – Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck , Bhutanese princeDeaths
523 – Avitus of Vienne , Gallo-Roman bishop
806 – Kanmu , emperor of Japan (b. 736)
994 – William IV , duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
1015 – Adelaide , German abbess and saint
1036 – Alfred Aetheling , Anglo-Saxon prince
1146 – Zafadola , Arab emir of Zaragoza
1578 – Giovanni Battista Moroni , Italian painter (b. 1520)
1661 – Shunzhi , Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1638)
1705 – Philipp Spener , German theologian and author (b. 1635)
1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau , French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
1754 – Nicolaas Kruik , Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
1766 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun , Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1775 – Eusebius Amort , German theologian and academic (b. 1692)
1790 – William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)[16]
1807 – Pasquale Paoli , Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
1818 – Charles XIII , king of Sweden (b. 1748)
1881 – Thomas Carlyle , Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra , Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)
1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish author (b. 1807)
1915 – Ross Barnes , American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah , Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
1922 – Christiaan de Wet , South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
1927 – Inayat Khan , Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias , Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
1933 – Josiah Thomas , English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)
1937 – Lou Andreas-Salomé , Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861)[17]
1938 – Hans Litten , German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
1941 – Banjo Paterson , Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)
1941 – Otto Strandman , Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875)
1946 – George Arliss , English actor and playwright (b. 1868)
1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz , German general (b. 1883)
1952 – Adela Verne , English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
1954 – Hossein Sami'i , Iranian politician, diplomat, writer and poet (b. 1876)
1955 – Victor Houteff , Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad , Lebanese surgeon and author (b. 1890)
1962 – Jacques Ibert , French-Swiss composer (b. 1890)
1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean , American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)
1969 – Thelma Ritter , American actress (b. 1902)
1970 – Rudy York , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1913)
1971 – Lew "Sneaky Pete" Robinson , drag racer (b. 1933)[18]
1972 – Marianne Moore , American poet, author, critic, and translator (b. 1887)
1976 – Rudy Pompilli , American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets ) (b. 1926)
1977 – Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)
1981 – Ella T. Grasso , American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1982 – Neil Aggett , Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953)
1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff , American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
1987 – William Collier, Jr. , American actor and producer (b. 1902)
1989 – Joe Raposo , American pianist and composer (b. 1937)
1991 – Dean Jagger , American actor (b. 1903)
1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian , Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)
1993 – Seán Flanagan , Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922)
1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
1993 – William Pène du Bois , American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
1995 – Doug McClure , American actor (b. 1935)
1997 – Pamela Harriman , English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
1997 – René Huyghe , French historian and author (b. 1906)
1998 – Tim Kelly , American guitarist (b. 1963)
1999 – Wassily Leontief , Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2000 – Claude Autant-Lara , French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
2004 – John Hench , American animator (b. 1908)
2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma , Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2005 – Michalina Wis?ocka , Polish gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1921)
2006 – Norma Candal , Puerto Rican-American actress (b. 1927)
2007 – Leo T. McCarthy , New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930)
2007 – Alfred Worm , Austrian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1945)
2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918)
2010 – Brendan Burke , Canadian ice hockey player and activist (b. 1988)
2010 – Harry Schwarz , South African lawyer, anti-apartheid leader, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (b. 1924)
2011 – Brian Jacques , English author and radio host (b. 1939)
2011 – Peggy Rea , American actress and casting director (b. 1921)
2012 – Sam Coppola , American actor (b. 1932)
2012 – Al De Lory , American keyboard player, conductor, and producer (b. 1930)
2012 – John Turner Sargent, Sr. , American publisher (b. 1924)
2012 – Jo Zwaan , Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)
2013 – Reinaldo Gargano , Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (b. 1934)
2013 – Egil Hovland , Norwegian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
2013 – Tom McGuigan , New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (b. 1921)
2014 – Robert A. Dahl , American political scientist and academic (b. 1915)
2015 – K. N. Choksy , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)
2015 – Marisa Del Frate , Italian actress and singer (b. 1931)
2015 – Val Logsdon Fitch , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
2015 – Herman Rosenblat , Polish-American author (b. 1929)
2016 – Ciriaco Cañete , Filipino martial artist (b. 1919)
2020 – Kirk Douglas , American actor (b. 1916)[19] Holidays and observances
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