Day of the year
April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 247 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas , The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War .[ 2] 1758 – The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.[ 3] 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution .1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty : Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift, and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly before setting sail for Pitcairn Island .1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars .1794 – Sardinians , headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy , start a revolution against the Savoy domination , expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari , the capital and largest city of the island.1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III , King of Sardinia , expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.1859 – The sailing clipper ship Pomona wrecked on the coast of Ireland with the loss of 424 of the 448 passengers and crew aboard.[ 4] 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico .1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police , French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor , defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race , the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.1920 – The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.1930 – The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas .1937 – South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York .[ 5] 1941 – The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac , the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia .1944 – World War II : Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger , the rehearsal for the Normandy landings , killing 946.1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio , a member of the Italian resistance movement .1945 – The Holocaust : Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp .[ 6]
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki Polynesia .1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducts the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus New York City Center .1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon , while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and ten others are also killed.1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election .1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II .
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei , Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War .
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic : American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.1967 – Vietnam War : Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France .1970 – Vietnam War : US President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign .1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd , recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart , beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.1975 – General Cao Văn Viên , chief of the South Vietnamese military , departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory .[ 7] 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.1978 – The President of Afghanistan , Mohammed Daoud Khan , is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.[ 8] 1983 – The West German news magazine Stern diaries of Adolf Hitler , later revealed to be forgeries.[ 9] 1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.[ 10] 1988 – Near Maui , Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 , a Boeing 737 , and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.1996 – Whitewater controversy : President Bill Clinton gives a 41 ⁄2 1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania : A gunman, Martin Bryant , opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania , killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
2004 – CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse . The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
Births
Pre-1600
1604 – Joris Jansen Rapelje , Dutch settler in colonial North America (d. 1662)1623 – Wilhelmus Beekman , Dutch politician (d. 1707)1630 – Charles Cotton , English poet and author (d. 1687)1676 – Frederick I , prince consort and king of Sweden (d. 1751)1715 – Franz Sparry , Austrian composer and educator (d. 1767)1758 – James Monroe , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)1761 – Marie Harel , French cheesemaker (d. 1844)1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix , French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)1819 – Ezra Abbot , American scholar and academic (d. 1884)1827 – William Hall , Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1904)1838 – Tobias Asser , Dutch lawyer and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1913)1848 – Ludvig Schytte , Danish pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1909)1854 – Hertha Marks Ayrton , Polish-British engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (d. 1923)[ 11] 1855 – José Malhoa , Portuguese painter (d. 1933)1863 – Josiah Thomas , English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1933)1863 – Nikolai von Meck , Russian engineer (d. 1929)
1865 – Charles W. Woodworth , American entomologist and academic (d. 1940)1868 – Lucy Booth , English composer (d. 1953)1868 – Georgy Voronoy , Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1908)
1874 – Karl Kraus , Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)1874 – Sidney Toler , American actor and director (d. 1947)
1876 – Nicola Romeo , Italian engineer and businessman (d. 1938)1878 – Lionel Barrymore , American actor and director (d. 1954)1886 – Erich Salomon , German-born news photographer (d. 1944)1886 – Art Shaw , American hurdler (d. 1955)
1888 – Walter Tull , English footballer and soldier (d. 1918)1889 – António de Oliveira Salazar , Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1970)1896 – Na Hye-sok , South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)1896 – Tristan Tzara , Romanian-French poet and critic (d. 1963)[ 12]
1897 – Ye Jianying , Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (d. 1986)1900 – Alice Berry , Australian activist (d. 1978)[ 13] 1900 – Heinrich Müller , German SS officer (d. 1945)[ 14]
1900 – Jan Oort , Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992)[ 15]
1901 – H. B. Stallard , English runner and surgeon (d. 1973)1902 – Johan Borgen , Norwegian author and critic (d. 1979)1906 – Kurt Gödel , Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1978)1906 – Paul Sacher , Swiss conductor and philanthropist (d. 1999)
1908 – Ethel Catherwood , American-Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower (d. 1987)1908 – Jack Fingleton , Australian cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster (d. 1981)
1908 – Oskar Schindler , Czech-German businessman (d. 1974)
1909 – Arthur Võõbus , Estonian-American theologist and orientalist (d. 1988)1910 – Sam Merwin, Jr. , American author (d. 1996)1911 – Lee Falk , American director, producer, and playwright (d. 1999)1912 – Odette Hallowes , French soldier and spy (d. 1995)1912 – Kaneto Shindō , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1913 – Rose Murphy , American singer (d. 1989)1914 – Michel Mohrt , French author, historian (d. 2011)1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini , Italian businessman, created Lamborghini (d. 1993)1917 – Robert Cornthwaite , American actor (d. 2006)1921 – Rowland Evans , American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2001)1921 – Simin Daneshvar , Iranian author and academic (d. 2012)
1923 – Carolyn Cassady , American author (d. 2013)1923 – William Guarnere , American sergeant (d. 2014)
1924 – Dick Ayers , American author and illustrator (d. 2014)1924 – Blossom Dearie , American singer and pianist (d. 2009)
1924 – Kenneth Kaunda , Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (d. 2021)[ 16]
1925 – T. John Lesinski , American judge and politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1996)1925 – John Leonard Thorn , English lieutenant, author, and academic (d. 2023)
1926 – James Bama , American artist and illustrator (d. 2022)1926 – Bill Blackbeard , American historian and author (d. 2011)
1926 – Harper Lee , American novelist (d. 2016)[ 17]
1926 – Hulusi Sayın , Turkish general (d. 1991)
1928 – Yves Klein , French painter (d. 1962)1928 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker , American geologist and astronomer (d. 1997)
1930 – James Baker , American lawyer and politician, 61st United States Secretary of State 1930 – Carolyn Jones , American actress (d. 1983)
1933 – Miodrag Radulovacki , Serbian-American neuropharmacologist and academic (d. 2014)1934 – Lois Duncan , American journalist and author (d. 2016)1935 – Pedro Ramos , Cuban baseball player1936 – Tariq Aziz , Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)1937 – Saddam Hussein , Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)1937 – Jean Redpath , Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1937 – John White , Scottish international footballer (d. 1964)[ 18]
1938 – Madge Sinclair , Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)1941 – Ann-Margret , Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer1941 – Lucien Aimar , French cyclist
1941 – John Madejski , English businessman and academic
1941 – Karl Barry Sharpless , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Iryna Zhylenko , Ukrainian poet and author (d. 2013)
1942 – Mike Brearley , English cricketer and psychoanalyst1943 – Aryeh Bibi , Iraqi -born Israeli politician1944 – Elizabeth LeCompte , American director and producer1944 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe , Belgian politician, 10th Minister-President of Wallonia
1944 – Alice Waters , American chef and author
1946 – Nour El-Sherif , Egyptian actor and producer (d. 2015)1946 – Ginette Reno , Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1946 – Larissa Grunig , American theorist and activist
1947 – Steve Khan , American jazz guitarist1948 – Terry Pratchett , English journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2015)1948 – Marcia Strassman , American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1949 – Jeremy Cooke , English lawyer and judge1949 – Paul Guilfoyle , American actor
1949 – Bruno Kirby , American actor and director (d. 2006)
1950 – Willie Colón , Puerto Rican-American trombonist and producer1950 – Jay Leno , American comedian, talk show host, and producer
1950 – Steve Rider , English journalist and sportscaster
1951 – Tim Congdon , English economist and politician1951 – Larry Smith , Canadian football player and politician
1952 – Chuck Leavell , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player1952 – Mary McDonnell , American actress
1953 – Roberto Bolaño , Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (d. 2003)1953 – Kim Gordon , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1953 – Brian Greenhoff , English footballer and coach (d. 2013)
1954 – Timothy Curley , American educator1954 – Michael P. Jackson , American politician, 3rd Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
1954 – Vic Sotto , Filipino actor-producer, singer-songwriter, comedian and television personality
1954 – Ron Zook , American football player and coach
1955 – Saeb Erekat , Chief Palestinian negotiator (d. 2020)[ 19] 1955 – Eddie Jobson , English keyboard player and violinist
1956 – Jimmy Barnes , Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist1958 – Hal Sutton , American golfer1960 – Tom Browning , American baseball player (d. 2022)1960 – Elena Kagan , American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1960 – Phil King , English bass player
1960 – Ian Rankin , Scottish author
1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson , Icelandic strongman and weightlifter (d. 1993)
1960 – Walter Zenga , Italian footballer and manager
1963 – Lloyd Eisler , Canadian figure skater and coach1963 – Marc Lacroix , Belgian biochemist and academic
1964 – Stephen Ames , Trinidadian golfer1964 – Noriyuki Iwadare , Japanese composer
1964 – Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar , English surgeon and academic
1964 – Barry Larkin , American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
1964 – L'Wren Scott , American model and fashion designer (d. 2014)
1966 – John Daly , American golfer1966 – Too Short , American rapper, producer and actor
1967 – Chris White , English engineer and politician1968 – Petra Bayr , Austrian politician[ 20] 1968 – Howard Donald , English singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – Andy Flower , South-African-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1969 – LeRon Perry Ellis , American basketball player1970 – Richard Fromberg , Australian tennis player1970 – Nicklas Lidström , Swedish ice hockey player and scout
1970 – Diego Simeone , Argentinian footballer and manager
1971 – Bridget Moynahan , American actress[ 21] 1972 – Violent J , American rapper1972 – Jean-Paul van Gastel , Dutch footballer and manager
1973 – Jorge Garcia , American actor and producer1973 – Andrew Mehrtens , South African-New Zealand rugby player
1974 – Penélope Cruz , Spanish actress and producer1974 – Margo Dydek , Polish basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
1974 – Vernon Kay , English radio and television host
1974 – Dominic Matteo , Scottish footballer and journalist
1975 – Michael Walchhofer , Austrian skier1977 – Titus O'Neil , American wrestler and football player[ 22] 1978 – Lauren Laverne , English singer and television and radio host1979 – Scott Fujita , American football player and sportscaster1980 – Bradley Wiggins , English cyclist1981 – Jessica Alba , American model and actress1982 – Nikki Grahame , English model and journalist (d. 2021)1982 – Chris Kaman , American basketball player
1983 – Josh Brookes , Australian motorcycle racer1983 – David Freese , American baseball player
1983 – Roger Johnson , English footballer
1983 – Thomas Waldrom , New Zealand-English rugby player
1984 – Dmitri Torbinski , Russian footballer1985 – Lucas Jakubczyk , German sprinter and long jumper1985 – Deividas Stagniūnas , Lithuanian ice dancer
1986 – Roman Polák , Czech ice hockey player1986 – Jenna Ushkowitz , Korean-American actress, singer, and dancer
1987 – Daequan Cook , American basketball player[ 23] 1987 – Drew Gulak , American wrestler[ 24]
1987 – Samantha Ruth Prabhu , Indian actress and model
1987 – Bradley Johnson , English footballer
1987 – Zoran Tošić , Serbian footballer
1988 – Jonathan Biabiany , French footballer1988 – Juan Mata , Spanish footballer
1989 – Emil Salomonsson , Swedish footballer1989 – Kim Sung-kyu , South Korean singer
1992 – Blake Bortles , American football player1992 – DeMarcus Lawrence , American football player
1993 – Matt Chapman , American baseball player[ 25] 1993 – Eva Samková , Czech snowboarder
1994 – Jakob Butturff , American bowler[ 26] 1995 – Connor Clifton , American ice hockey player[ 27] 1995 – Melanie Martinez , American singer
1997 – Shane McClanahan , American baseball player[ 28] 1997 – Denzel Ward , American football player[ 29]
1998 – Song Yu-bin , South Korean singer and actor[ 30] 2000 – Victoria De Angelis , Italian musician[ 31] 2001 – Anthony Volpe , American baseball player[ 32]
Deaths
Pre-1600
224 – Artabanus IV of Parthia (b. 191)948 – Hu Jinsi , Chinese general and prefect988 – Adaldag , archbishop of Bremen [ 33] 992 – Jawhar as-Siqilli , Fatimid statesman[ 34] 1109 – Abbot Hugh of Cluny (b. 1024)[ 35] 1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (b. 1140)1197 – Rhys ap Gruffydd , prince of Deheubarth (b. 1132)1257 – Shajar al-Durr , sovereign sultana of Egypt1260 – Luchesius Modestini , founding member of the Third Order of St. Francis 1400 – Baldus de Ubaldis , Italian jurist (b. 1327)1489 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland , English politician (b. 1449)1533 – Nicholas West , English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
1643 – Francisco de Lucena , Portuguese politician (b. 1578)1710 – Thomas Betterton , English actor and manager (b. 1630)1716 – Louis de Montfort , French priest and saint (b. 1673)1726 – Thomas Pitt , English merchant and politician (b. 1653)1741 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie , Swedish general and politician (b. 1668)1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee , German physician and politician (b. 1737)1781 – Cornelius Harnett , American merchant, farmer, and politician (b. 1723)1813 – Mikhail Kutuzov , Russian field marshal (b. 1745)1816 – Johann Heinrich Abicht , German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1762)1841 – Peter Chanel , French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1803)1853 – Ludwig Tieck , German author and poet (b. 1773)1858 – Johannes Peter Müller , German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)1865 – Samuel Cunard , Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (b. 1787)1881 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon , French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)1883 – John Russell , English hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
1902 – Cyprien Tanguay , Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819)1903 – Josiah Willard Gibbs , American scientist (b. 1839)[ 36] 1905 – Fitzhugh Lee , American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (b. 1835)1921 – Maurice Moore (Irish republican) , executed member of the Irish Republican Army (b. 1894)[ 37] 1925 – Richard Butler , English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)1928 – May Jordan McConnel , Australian trade unionist and suffragist (b. 1860)[ 38] 1929 – Hendrik van Heuckelum , Dutch footballer (b. 1879)1936 – Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)1939 – Anne Walter Fearn , American physician (b. 1867)[ 39] 1944 – Mohammed Alim Khan , Manghud ruler (b. 1880)1944 – Frank Knox , American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874)
1945 – Roberto Farinacci , Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)1945 – Hermann Fegelein , German general (b. 1906)
1945 – Benito Mussolini , Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1883)
1946 – Louis Bachelier , French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)1954 – Léon Jouhaux , French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)1956 – Fred Marriott , American race car driver (b. 1872)1957 – Heinrich Bär , German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)1962 – Bennie Osler , South African rugby player (b. 1901)1963 – Wilhelm Weber , German gymnast (b. 1880)1970 – Ed Begley , American actor (b. 1901)1973 – Clas Thunberg , Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)1976 – Richard Hughes , American author and poet (b. 1900)1977 – Ricardo Cortez , American actor (b. 1900)1977 – Sepp Herberger , German footballer and coach (b. 1897)
1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan , Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)[ 8] 1980 – Tommy Caldwell , American bass player (b. 1949)1987 – Ben Linder , American engineer and activist (b. 1959)1989 – Esa Pakarinen , Finnish actor and musician (b. 1911)[ 40] 1991 – Steve Broidy , American film producer (b. 1905)1992 – Francis Bacon , Irish painter (b. 1909)1993 – Diva Diniz Corrêa , Brazilian zoologist (b. 1918)1993 – Jim Valvano , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
1994 – Berton Roueché , American journalist and author (b. 1910)1996 – Lester Sumrall , American minister, founded LeSEA (b. 1913)1997 – Ann Petry , American novelist (b. 1908)1998 – Jerome Bixby , American author and screenwriter (b. 1923)1999 – Rory Calhoun , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)1999 – Rolf Landauer , German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
1999 – Alf Ramsey , English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
2000 – Jerzy Einhorn , Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)2000 – Penelope Fitzgerald , English author and poet (b. 1916)
2002 – Alexander Lebed , Russian general and politician (b. 1950)2002 – Lou Thesz , American wrestler and trainer (b. 1916)
2005 – Percy Heath , American bassist (b. 1923)2005 – Chris Candido , American wrestler (b. 1971)
2005 – Taraki Sivaram , Sri Lankan journalist and author (b. 1959)
2006 – Steve Howe , American baseball player (b. 1958)2007 – Dabbs Greer , American actor (b. 1917)2007 – René Mailhot , Canadian journalist (b. 1942)
2007 – Tommy Newsom , American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1929)
2007 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
2007 – Bertha Wilson , Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist (b. 1923)
2009 – Ekaterina Maximova , Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1939)2009 – Richard Pratt , Polish-Australian businessman (b. 1934)
2011 – Erhard Loretan , Swiss mountaineer (b. 1959)2012 – Fred Allen , New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1920)2012 – Matilde Camus , Spanish poet and author (b. 1919)
2012 – Al Ecuyer , American football player (b. 1937)
2012 – Patricia Medina , English actress (b. 1919)
2012 – Milan N. Popović , Serbian psychiatrist and author (b. 1924)
2012 – Aberdeen Shikoyi , Kenyan rugby player (b. 1985)
2013 – Brad Lesley , American baseball player (b. 1958)2013 – Fredrick McKissack , American author (b. 1939)
2013 – John C. Reynolds , American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
2013 – Jack Shea , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 – János Starker , Hungarian-American cellist and educator (b. 1924)
2013 – Paulo Vanzolini , Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (b. 1924)
2013 – Bernie Wood , New Zealand journalist and author (b. 1939)
2014 – Barbara Fiske Calhoun , American cartoonist and painter (b. 1919)2014 – William Honan , American journalist and author (b. 1930)
2014 – Dennis Kamakahi , American guitarist and composer (b. 1953)
2014 – Edgar Laprade , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
2014 – Jack Ramsay , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1925)
2014 – Idris Sardi , Indonesian violinist and composer (b. 1938)
2014 – Frederic Schwartz , American architect, co-designed Empty Sky
2014 – Ryan Tandy , Australian rugby player (b. 1981)
2015 – Antônio Abujamra , Brazilian actor and director (b. 1932)2015 – Marcia Brown , American author and illustrator (b. 1918)
2015 – Michael J. Ingelido , American general (b. 1916)
2016 – Jenny Diski , English author and screenwriter (b. 1947)2017 – Mariano Gagnon , American Catholic priest and author (b. 1929)2018 – James Hylton , American race car driver (b. 1934)2019 – Richard Lugar , American politician (b. 1932)[ 41] 2019 – John Singleton , American film director (b. 1968)[ 42]
2021 – Michael Collins , American astronaut (b. 1930)[ 43] 2021 – El Risitas , Spanish comedian (b. 1956)[ 44]
2024 – Brian McCardie , Scottish actor and writer (b. 1965)[ 45]
Holidays and observances
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