April 23
Day of the year
April 23 is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 252 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1635 – The first public school in the United States, the Boston Latin School , is founded.1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War , and fails seven days later.1660 – Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.1661 – King Charles II of England , Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey .[3] 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre , BWV 104Good Shepherd in pastoral music .[4] 1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising : A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire , erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.1879 – Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame , which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.1891 – Chilean Civil War : The ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at Caldera Bay by torpedo boats .[5] [6]
1918 – World War I : The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge .1919 – The Estonian Constituent Assembly is held in Estonia , which marks the birth of the Estonian Parliament, the Riigikogu [7] 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara . The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution .1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final , the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi , kills 198 people.1941 – World War II : The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht .1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz : German bombers hit Exeter , Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck .1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler 's designated successor, Hermann Göring , sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of Nazi Germany . Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Göring that the telegram is treasonous.1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines .1949 – Chinese Civil War : Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy .1951 – Cold War : American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia .1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.1966 – Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula , killing 33 people.[8] 1967 – Soviet space program : Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.1968 – Vietnam War : Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university .1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War : The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh ).1979 – SAETA Flight 011 crashes in Pastaza Province , Ecuador, killing all 57 people on board. The wreckage was not discovered until 1984.[9] 1979 – Blair Peach , a British activist, was fatally injured after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall , London.[10]
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke . The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations .1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations -monitored referendum.1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province .
1999 – NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia , as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .2005 – The first YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo ", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim .[11] 2013 – At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija , Iraq .[12] 2018 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills 11 people and injures 15 in Toronto . A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.[13] 2019 – The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers, with at least 50 others missing and presumed dead.[14] 2024 – The 2024 Lumut mid-air collision in Malaysia kills 10 people while rehearsing for the 90th anniversary of the Royal Malaysian Navy.[15] [16]
Births
Pre-1600
1141 (probable)[17] Malcolm IV of Scotland (d. 1165)1185 – Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)[18] 1408 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (d. 1462)[19] 1420 – George of Poděbrady , King of Bohemia (d. 1471)1464 – Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1505)1464 – Robert Fayrfax , English Renaissance composer (d. 1521)
1484 – Julius Caesar Scaliger , Italian physician and scholar (d. 1558)1500 – Alexander Ales , Scottish theologian and academic (d. 1565)1500 – Johann Stumpf , Swiss writer (d. 1576)
1512 – Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel , Chancellor of the University of Oxford (d. 1580)1516 – Georg Fabricius , German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)1564 – William Shakespeare , English playwright and poet (d. 1616)[20] 1598 – Maarten Tromp , Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
1621 – William Penn , English admiral and politician (d. 1670)1628 – Johannes Hudde , Dutch mathematician and politician (d. 1704)1661 – Issachar Berend Lehmann , German-Jewish banker, merchant and diplomat (d. 1730)1715 – Johann Friedrich Doles , German composer and conductor (d. 1797)1720 – Vilna Gaon , Lithuanian rabbi and author (d. 1797)1744 – Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (d. 1770)1748 – Félix Vicq-d'Azyr , French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)1791 – James Buchanan , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)1792 – Thomas Romney Robinson , Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)1794 – Wei Yuan , Chinese scholar and author (d. 1856)1805 – Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz , German philosopher and academic (d. 1879)1812 – Frederick Whitaker , English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)1813 – Stephen A. Douglas , American educator and politician, 7th Illinois Secretary of State (d. 1861)1813 – Frédéric Ozanam , Italian-French historian and scholar (d. 1853)
1818 – James Anthony Froude , English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (d. 1894)1819 – Edward Stafford , Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1901)1853 – Winthrop M. Crane , American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)1856 – Granville Woods , American inventor and engineer (d. 1910)1857 – Ruggero Leoncavallo , Italian composer (d. 1919)1858 – Max Planck , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)1860 – Justinian Oxenham , Australian public servant (d. 1932)1861 – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby , English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (d. 1936)1861 – John Peltz , American baseball player and manager (d. 1906)
1865 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski , Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)1867 – Johannes Fibiger , Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)1876 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck , German historian and author (d. 1925)1880 – Michel Fokine , Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1942)1882 – Albert Coates , English composer and conductor (d. 1953)1888 – Georges Vanier , Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (d. 1967)1889 – Karel Doorman , Dutch admiral (d. 1942)1893 – Frank Borzage , American actor and director (d. 1952)1895 – Ngaio Marsh , New Zealand author and director (d. 1982)[21] 1897 – Folke Jansson , Swedish athlete (d. 1965)1897 – Lester B. Pearson , Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1898 – Lucius D. Clay , American general (d. 1978)1899 – Bertil Ohlin , Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)1899 – Minoru Shirota , Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (d. 1982)
1900 – Jim Bottomley , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959)[22] 1900 – Joseph Green , Polish-American actor and director (d. 1996)
1901 – E. B. Ford , English biologist and geneticist (d. 1988)1902 – Halldór Laxness , Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)1903 – Guy Simonds , English-Canadian general (d. 1974)1904 – Clifford Bricker , Canadian long-distance runner (d. 1980)1904 – Louis Muhlstock , Polish-Canadian painter (d. 2001)
1904 – Duncan Renaldo , American actor (d. 1985)
1907 – Lee Miller , American model and photographer (d. 1977)1907 – Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor, designed the Wotruba Church (d. 1975)
1908 – Myron Waldman , American animator and director (d. 2006)1910 – Sheila Scott Macintyre , Scottish mathematician (d. 1960)[23] 1910 – Simone Simon , French actress (d. 2005)[24]
1911 – Ronald Neame , English-American director, cinematographer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)1913 – Diosa Costello , Puerto Rican-American entertainer, producer, and club owner (d. 2013)1915 – Arnold Alexander Hall , English engineer, academic, and businessman (d. 2000)1916 – Ivo Lola Ribar , Yugoslav communist politician, military leader, and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (d. 1943)[25] 1916 – Yiannis Moralis , Greek painter and educator (d. 2009)
1916 – Sinah Estelle Kelley , American chemist (d. 1982)
1917 – Dorian Leigh , American model (d. 2008)1917 – Tony Lupien , American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
1918 – Maurice Druon , French author and screenwriter (d. 2009)[26] 1919 – Oleg Penkovsky , Russian colonel (d. 1963)1920 – Eric Grant Yarrow, 3rd Baronet , English businessman (d. 2018)1921 – Judy Agnew , Second Lady of the United States (d. 2012)[27] 1921 – Cleto Bellucci , Italian archbishop (d. 2013)
1921 – Janet Blair , American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1921 – Warren Spahn , American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
1923 – Dolph Briscoe , American lieutenant and politician, 41st Governor of Texas (d. 2010)1923 – Avram Davidson , American soldier and author (d. 1993)
1924 – Chuck Harmon , American baseball player and scout (d. 2019)1924 – Bobby Rosengarden , American drummer and bandleader (d. 2007)
1926 – J.P. Donleavy , American-Irish novelist and playwright (d. 2017)1926 – Rifaat el-Mahgoub , Egyptian politician (d. 1990)
1928 – Shirley Temple , American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (d. 2014)[28] 1929 – George Steiner , French-American philosopher, author, and critic (d. 2020)[29] 1932 – Halston , American fashion designer (d. 1990)1932 – Jim Fixx , American runner and author (d. 1984)
1933 – Annie Easley , American computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 2011)1934 – George Canseco , Filipino composer and producer (d. 2004)1936 – Roy Orbison , American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)1937 – Victoria Glendinning , English author and critic1937 – David Mills , English cricketer (d. 2013)
1937 – Barry Shepherd , Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
1939 – Jorge Fons , Mexican director and screenwriter (d. 2022)1939 – Bill Hagerty , English journalist
1939 – Lee Majors , American actor
1939 – Ray Peterson , American pop singer (d. 2005)
1940 – Michael Copps , American academic and politician1940 – Dale Houston , American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1940 – Michael Kadosh , Israeli footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1941 – Jacqueline Boyer , French singer and actress1941 – Arie den Hartog , Dutch road bicycle racer (d. 2018)
1941 – Paavo Lipponen , Finnish journalist and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Finland
1941 – Michael Lynne , American film producer, co-founded New Line Cinema (d. 2019)
1941 – Ed Stewart , English radio and television host (d. 2016)
1941 – Ray Tomlinson , American computer programmer and engineer (d. 2016)
1942 – Sandra Dee , American model and actress (d. 2005)1943 – Gail Goodrich , American basketball player and coach1943 – Tony Esposito , Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2021)
1943 – Frans Koppelaar , Dutch painter
1943 – Hervé Villechaize , French actor (d. 1993)
1944 – Jean-François Stévenin , French actor and director (d. 2021)1946 – Blair Brown , American actress1946 – Carlton Sherwood , American soldier and journalist (d. 2014)
1947 – Robert Burgess , English sociologist and academic (d. 2022)1947 – Glenn Cornick , English bass player (d. 2014)
1947 – Bernadette Devlin McAliskey , Irish civil rights leader and politician
1948 – Pascal Quignard , French author and screenwriter1948 – Serge Thériault , Canadian actor
1949 – Paul Collier , English economist and academic1949 – David Cross , English violinist
1949 – John Miles , British rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (d. 2021)
1950 – Rowley Leigh , English chef and journalist1950 – Barbara McIlvaine Smith , Sac and Fox Nation Native American politician
1951 – Martin Bayerle , American treasure hunter1952 – Narada Michael Walden , American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer1953 – James Russo , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1954 – Stephen Dalton , English air marshal1954 – Michael Moore , American director, producer, and activist
1955 – Judy Davis , Australian actress1955 – Tony Miles , English chess player (d. 2001)
1955 – Urmas Ott , Estonian journalist and author (d. 2008)
1957 – Neville Brody , English graphic designer, typographer, and art director1957 – Jan Hooks , American actress and comedian (d. 2014)
1958 – Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson , Icelandic composer and producer1958 – Ryan Walter , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1959 – Unity Dow , Botswanan judge, author, and rights activist[30] 1960 – Valerie Bertinelli , American actress1960 – Steve Clark , English guitarist and songwriter (d. 1991)
1960 – Barry Douglas , Irish pianist and conductor
1960 – Léo Jaime , Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1960 – Claude Julien , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 – George Lopez , American comedian, actor, and talk show host1961 – Pierluigi Martini , Italian race car driver
1962 – John Hannah , Scottish actor and producer1962 – Shaun Spiers , English businessman and politician
1963 – Paul Belmondo , French race car driver1963 – Robby Naish , American windsurfer
1964 – Gianandrea Noseda , Italian pianist and conductor1965 – Leni Robredo , Filipina human rights lawyer, 14th Vice President of the Philippines 1966 – Jörg Deisinger , German bass player1966 – Matt Freeman , American bass player
1966 – Lembit Oll , Estonian chess Grandmaster (d. 1999)
1967 – Rhéal Cormier , Canadian baseball player (d. 2021)1967 – Melina Kanakaredes , American actress
1968 – Bas Haring , Dutch philosopher, writer, television presenter and professor.1968 – Ken McRae , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1968 – Timothy McVeigh , American terrorist, Oklahoma City bombing co-perpetrator (d. 2001)
1969 – Martín López-Zubero , American-Spanish swimmer and coach1969 – Yelena Shushunova , Russian gymnast (d. 2018)
1970 – Egemen Bağış , Turkish politician, 1st Minister of European Union Affairs 1970 – Dennis Culp , American singer-songwriter and trombonist
1970 – Andrew Gee , Australian rugby league player and manager
1970 – Hans Välimäki , Finnish chef and author
1970 – Tayfur Havutçu , Turkish international footballer and manager
1971 – Uli Herzner , German-American fashion designer1972 – Pierre Labrie , Canadian poet and playwright1972 – Peter Dench , English photographer and journalist
1972 – Amira Medunjanin , Bosnian singer
1973 – Patrick Poulin , Canadian ice hockey player1974 – Carlos Dengler , American bass player1974 – Michael Kerr , New Zealand-German rugby player
1975 – Bobby Shaw , American football player1976 – Gabriel Damon , American actor[31] 1976 – Aaron Dessner , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1977 – John Cena , American professional wrestler and actor1977 – Andruw Jones , Curaçaoan baseball player[32]
1977 – David Kidwell , New Zealand rugby league player and coach
1977 – Willie Mitchell , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – John Oliver , English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Kal Penn , Indian-American actor
1977 – Bram Schmitz , Dutch cyclist
1977 – Lee Young-pyo , South Korean international footballer[33]
1978 – Gezahegne Abera , Ethiopian runner1979 – Barry Hawkins , English snooker player1979 – Jaime King , American actress and model
1979 – Joanna Krupa , Polish-American model and television personality
1979 – Samppa Lajunen , Finnish skier
1980 – Nicole den Dulk , Dutch Paralympic equestrian[34] 1982 – Kyle Beckerman , American footballer[35] 1982 – Tony Sunshine , American singer-songwriter
1983 – Leon Andreasen , Danish international footballer[36] 1983 – Daniela Hantuchová , Slovak tennis player
1983 – Ian Henderson , English rugby league player
1984 – Alexandra Kosteniuk , Russian chess player1984 – Moose , American professional wrestler and football player[37]
1984 – Jesse Lee Soffer , American actor
1985 – Angel Locsin , Filipino actress, producer, and fashion designer1986 – Sven Kramer , Dutch speed skater1986 – Alysia Montaño , American runner
1986 – Rafael Fernandes , Brazilian baseball player
1987 – Michael Arroyo , Ecuadorian footballer1987 – John Boye , Ghanaian footballer
1987 – Emily Fox , American basketball player
1988 – Victor Anichebe , Nigerian footballer1988 – Sandra Borch , Norwegian politician[38]
1988 – Alistair Brownlee , English triathlete
1988 – Signe Ronka , Canadian figure skater
1988 – Lenka Wienerová , Slovak tennis player
1989 – Nicole Vaidišová , Czech tennis player1990 – Rui Fonte , Portuguese footballer[39] 1990 – Dev Patel , English actor
1991 – Britt Baker , American professional wrestler[40] 1991 – Nathan Baker , English footballer
1991 – Caleb Johnson , American singer-songwriter
1991 – Paul Vaughan , Australian-Italian rugby league player
1994 – Patrick Olsen , Danish footballer1994 – Song Kang , South Korean actor
1995 – Gigi Hadid , American fashion model and television personality1995 – Jamie Hayter , English professional wrestler[41]
1996 – Carolina Alves , Brazilian tennis player[42] 1997 – Zach Apple , American swimmer[43] 1999 – Son Chaeyoung , South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter[44] 2000 – Chloe Kim , American snowboarder[45] 2000 – Lee Jeno , South Korean rapper, vocalist and dancer[46]
2018 – Prince Louis of Wales
Deaths
Pre-1600
AD 303 – Saint George , Roman soldier and martyr[47] 711 – Childebert III , Frankish king (b. 670)725 – Wihtred of Kent [48] 871 – Æthelred of Wessex (b. 837)915 – Yang Shihou , Chinese general944 – Wichmann the Elder , Saxon nobleman990 – Ekkehard II , Swiss monk and abbot [49] 997 – Adalbert of Prague , Czech bishop, missionary, and saint (b. 956)1014 – Brian Boru , Irish king (b. 941)1014 – Domnall mac Eimín , Mormaer of Mar
1016 – Æthelred the Unready , English son of Edgar the Peaceful (b. 968)1124 – Alexander I of Scotland (b. 1078)1151 – Adeliza of Louvain (b. 1103)1170 – Minamoto no Tametomo , Japanese samurai (b. 1139)1196 – Béla III of Hungary (b. c. 1148 )1200 – Zhu Xi , Chinese philosopher (b. 1130)1217 – Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)1262 – Aegidius of Assisi , companion of Saint Francis of Assisi 1307 – Joan of Acre (b. 1272)1400 – Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford , English politician and nobleman (b. c. 1338)1407 – Olivier de Clisson , French soldier (b. 1326)1501 – Domenico della Rovere , Catholic cardinal (b. 1442)1554 – Gaspara Stampa , Italian poet (b. 1523)
1605 – Boris Godunov , Russian ruler (b. 1551)1616 – William Shakespeare , English playwright and poet (b. 1564)[50] 1616 – Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , Spanish writer and historian (b. 1539)[51]
1625 – Maurice, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)1695 – Henry Vaughan , Welsh poet and author (b. 1621)1702 – Margaret Fell , English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (b. 1614)1781 – James Abercrombie , Scottish general and politician (b. 1706)1784 – Solomon I of Imereti (b. 1735)1792 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German theologian and author (b. 1741)1794 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes , French lawyer and politician (b. 1721)1827 – Georgios Karaiskakis , Greek general (b. 1780)1839 – Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin , French admiral and explorer (b. 1768)1850 – William Wordsworth , English poet and author (b. 1770)1865 – Silas Soule , American soldier and whistleblower of the Sand Creek Massacre (b. 1838)[52] 1889 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly , French author and critic (b. 1808)1895 – Carl Ludwig , German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)
1905 – Gédéon Ouimet , Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1823)1907 – Alferd Packer , American prospector (b. 1842)1915 – Rupert Brooke , English poet (b. 1887)1936 – Teresa de la Parra , French-Venezuelan author (b. 1889)1951 – Jules Berry , French actor and director (b. 1883)1951 – Charles G. Dawes , American banker and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States , Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1959 – Bak Jungyang , Korean politician (b. 1872)1965 – George Adamski , Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891)1966 – George Ohsawa , Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (b. 1893)1981 – Josep Pla , Catalan journalist and author (b. 1897)1983 – Buster Crabbe , American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)1984 – Red Garland , American pianist (b. 1923)1985 – Sam Ervin , American lawyer and politician (b. 1896)1985 – Frank Farrell , Australian rugby league player and policeman (b. 1916)
1986 – Harold Arlen , American composer (b. 1905)1986 – Jim Laker , English international cricketer and sportscaster; holder of world record for most wickets taken in a match (b. 1922)
1986 – Otto Preminger , Ukrainian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1906)
1990 – Paulette Goddard , American actress (b. 1910)1991 – Johnny Thunders , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)1992 – Satyajit Ray , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)1992 – Tanka Prasad Acharya , Nepalese politician, 27th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912)
1993 – Cesar Chavez , American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers (b. 1927)1995 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell , Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1895)1995 – Howard Cosell , American lawyer and journalist (b. 1918)
1995 – Riho Lahi , Estonian journalist (b. 1904)
1995 – John C. Stennis , American lawyer and politician (b. 1904)
1996 – Jean Victor Allard , Canadian general (b. 1913)1996 – P. L. Travers , Australian-English author and actress (b. 1899)
1997 – Denis Compton , English cricketer and footballer (b. 1918)1998 – Konstantinos Karamanlis , Greek lawyer and politician, 172nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907)1998 – James Earl Ray , American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1928)
1998 – Thanassis Skordalos , Greek singer-songwriter and lyra player (b. 1920)
2003 – Fernand Fonssagrives , French-American photographer (b. 1910)2004 – Herman Veenstra , Dutch water polo player (b. 1911)2005 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen , New Zealand-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)2005 – Robert Farnon , Canadian-English trumpet player, composer and conductor (b. 1917)
2005 – Al Grassby , Australian journalist and politician (b. 1928)
2005 – John Mills , English actor (b. 1908)[54]
2005 – Romano Scarpa , Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2005 – Earl Wilson , American baseball player, coach and educator (b. 1934)
2006 – Phil Walden , American record producer and manager, co-founder of Capricorn Records (b. 1940)2007 – Paul Erdman , Canadian-American economist and author (b. 1932)2007 – David Halberstam , American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934)
2007 – Peter Randall , English sergeant (b. 1930)
2007 – Boris Yeltsin , Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (b. 1931)
2010 – Peter Porter , Australian-born British poet (b. 1929)2011 – James Casey , English comedian, radio scriptwriter and producer (b. 1922)2011 – Tom King , American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
2011 – Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill , English businessman and politician (b. 1921)
2011 – Max van der Stoel , Dutch politician and Minister of State (b. 1924)
2011 – John Sullivan , English screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)
2012 – Lillemor Arvidsson , Swedish trade union leader and politician, 34th Governor of Gotland (b. 1943)2012 – Billy Bryans , Canadian drummer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
2012 – Chris Ethridge , American bass player and songwriter (b. 1947)
2012 – Raymond Thorsteinsson , Canadian geologist and paleontologist (b. 1921)
2012 – LeRoy T. Walker , American football player and coach (b. 1918)
2013 – Bob Brozman , American guitarist (b. 1954)2013 – Robert W. Edgar , American educator and politician (b. 1943)
2013 – Tony Grealish , English footballer (b. 1956)
2013 – Antonio Maccanico , Italian banker and politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Frank W. J. Olver , English-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
2013 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis , American philanthropist and scholar (b. 1907)
2014 – Benjamín Brea , Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (b. 1946)2014 – Michael Glawogger , Austrian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1959)
2014 – Jaap Havekotte , Dutch speed skater and producer of ice skates (b. 1912)
2014 – Connie Marrero , Cuban baseball player and coach (b. 1911)
2014 – F. Michael Rogers , American general (b. 1921)
2014 – Mark Shand , English conservationist and author (b. 1951)
2014 – Patric Standford , English composer and educator (b. 1939)
2015 – Richard Corliss , American journalist and critic (b. 1944)2015 – Ray Jackson , Australian activist (b. 1941)
2015 – Pierre Claude Nolin , Canadian lawyer and politician, Speaker of the Canadian Senate (b. 1950)
2015 – Jim Steffen , American football player (b. 1936)
2015 – Francis Tsai , American author and illustrator (b. 1967)
2016 – Inge King , German-born Australian sculptor (b. 1915)2016 – Banharn Silpa-archa , Thai politician, Prime Minister from 1995 to 1996 (b. 1932)
2019 – Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick , American soprano singer and presenter (b. 1983)[55] 2019 – Jean , Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)[56]
2021 – Dan Kaminsky , American internet security researcher (b. 1979)[57] 2022 – Orrin Hatch , American politician, President pro tempore of the United States Senate (b. 1934)[58] 2024 – Frank Field , British politician (b. 1942)[59] 2024 – Helen Vendler , American Literary Critic (b. 1933)[60]
Holidays and observances
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