Day of the year
December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 17 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu .[16] 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer Kitty Hawk, North Carolina .[17] 1907 – The Thomas W. Lawson largest ever ship without a heat engine , runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 , formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory .1911 – Roald Amundsen 's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland , Helmer Hanssen , Sverre Hassel , and Oscar Wisting , becomes the first to reach the South Pole .1913 – Haruna Kongō -classJapanese workhorses during World War I and World War II .1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista , PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires , Argentina.1918 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen , a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King of Finland , renounces the throne.1918 – Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated. 1918 – The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote. In Ireland the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin wins a landslide victory with nearly 47% of the popular vote.[18] 1918 – Giacomo Puccini 's comic opera Gianni Schicchi Metropolitan Opera in New York City .[19] 1925 – Wozzeck Alban Berg 's first opera, is premiered at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Erich Kleiber .[20] 1939 – Winter War : The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238 ) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.1942 – An Aeroflot Tupolev ANT-20 crashes near Tashkent , killing all 36 people on board.[21] 1948 – Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device , the earliest known interactive electronic game .1955 – Albania , Austria , Bulgaria , Cambodia , Ceylon , Finland , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Jordan , Laos , Libya , Nepal , Portugal , Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109 .1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility .1960 – Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.1962 – NASA 's Mariner 2 spacecraft to fly by Venus .1963 – The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California .1964 – American Civil Rights Movement : Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War : Over 200 of East Pakistan ' s intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day .)1972 – Apollo program : Eugene Cernan is the most recent person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.1981 – Arab–Israeli conflict : Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law Golan Heights .1985 – Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation .1986 – Qasba Aligarh massacre : Over 400 Muhajirs killed in revenge killings in Qasba colony after a raid on Pashtun heroin processing and distribution center in Sohrab Goth by the security forces.[22] 1992 – War in Abkhazia : Siege of Tkvarcheli : A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down , resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.1995 – Yugoslav Wars : The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Croatia , and Bosnia and Herzegovina . On the same day, NATO began ground peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina .[23] 1998 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.1999 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela , resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.2003 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.2004 – The Millau Viaduct , the tallest bridge in the world , is formally inaugurated near Millau , France.2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting : Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut .2013 – A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox , including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.2020 – A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean.[24] 2025 – At least 16 people are killed, including one gunman, and 43 injured in a mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in the deadliest terror incident in Australia .[25]
Births
Pre-1600
1607 – János Kemény , Hungarian prince (died 1662)1625 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot , French orientalist and academic (died 1695)1631 – Anne Conway , English philosopher and author (died 1679)1640 – Aphra Behn , English playwright and author (died 1689)1678 – Daniel Neal , English historian and author (died 1743)1720 – Justus Möser , German jurist and theorist (died 1794)1730 – Capel Bond , English organist and composer (died 1790)1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh , Czech composer and educator (died 1814)1775 – Philander Chase , American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (died 1852)1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , Scottish admiral and politician (died 1860) 1777 – Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon , Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (died 1839)1784 – Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (died 1806)1789 – Maria Szymanowska , Polish composer and pianist (died 1831)1791 – Charles Wolfe , Irish priest and poet (died 1823)1794 – Erastus Corning , American businessman and politician (died 1872)1816 – Abraham Hochmuth , Hungarian rabbi and educator (died 1889)1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , French painter and illustrator (died 1898)1832 – Daniel H. Reynolds , American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1902)1851 – Mary Tappan Wright , American novelist and short story writer (died 1916)1852 – Daniel De Leon , Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (died 1914)1856 – Louis Marshall , American lawyer and activist (died 1929)1866 – Roger Fry , English painter and critic (died 1934)1870 – Karl Renner , Austrian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Austria (died 1950)1881 – Katherine MacDonald , American actress and producer (died 1956)1883 – Manolis Kalomiris , Greek pianist and composer (died 1962)1883 – Morihei Ueshiba , Japanese martial artist, developed aikido (died 1969) 1884 – Jane Cowl , American actress and playwright (died 1950)1887 – Xul Solar , Argentinian painter and sculptor (died 1963)1894 – Alexander Nelke , Estonian-American painter and carpenter (died 1974)1895 – George VI of the United Kingdom (died 1952)[27] 1895 – Paul Éluard , French poet and author (died 1952) 1896 – Jimmy Doolittle , American general and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1993)1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg , Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (died 1977)1897 – Margaret Chase Smith , American educator and politician (died 1995) 1899 – DeFord Bailey , American Hall of Fame country and blues musician (died 1982)
1901 – Henri Cochet , French tennis player (died 1987)[28] 1901 – Paul of Greece (died 1964) 1902 – Frances Bavier , American actress (died 1989)1902 – Herbert Feigl , Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1988) 1903 – Walter Rangeley , English sprinter (died 1982)1904 – Virginia Coffey , American civil rights activist (died 2003)1908 – Morey Amsterdam , American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1996)1908 – Claude Davey , Welsh rugby player (died 2001) 1908 – Mária Szepes , Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2007) 1909 – Edward Lawrie Tatum , American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)1911 – Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz , Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (died 1943)1911 – Spike Jones , American singer and bandleader (died 1965) 1911 – Hans von Ohain , German-American physicist and engineer (died 1998) 1914 – Karl Carstens , German lieutenant and politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (died 1992)1914 – Rosalyn Tureck , American pianist and harpsichord player (died 2003) 1915 – Dan Dailey , American dancer and actor (died 1978)1916 – Shirley Jackson , American novelist and short story writer (died 1965)[29] 1917 – C.-H. Hermansson , Swedish author and politician (died 2016)1917 – Elyse Knox , American actress and fashion designer (died 2012) 1917 – June Taylor , American dancer and choreographer (died 2004) 1918 – James T. Aubrey , American broadcaster (died 1994)1918 – Radu Beligan , Romanian actor and director (died 2016) 1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar , Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (died 2014) 1920 – Clark Terry , American trumpet player, composer, and educator (died 2015)1922 – Nikolay Basov , Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001)1922 – Don Hewitt , American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes 1922 – Junior J. Spurrier , American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1984) 1923 – Gerard Reve , Dutch-Belgian author and poet (died 2006)1924 – Raj Kapoor , Indian actor, director, and producer (died 1988)1927 – Richard Cassilly , American tenor and actor (died 1998)1927 – Koos Rietkerk , Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (died 1986) 1929 – Ron Jarden , New Zealand rugby player (died 1977)1930 – Margaret Bakkes , South African author (died 2016)1930 – David R. Harris , English geographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist (died 2013) 1931 – Jon Elia , Pakistani philosopher, poet, and scholar (died 2002)1931 – Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar , Estonian director and politician (died 2015) 1932 – George Furth , American actor and playwright (died 2008)1932 – Abbe Lane , American actress, singer, and dancer 1932 – Charlie Rich , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)[29] 1934 – Shyam Benegal , Indian director and screenwriter (died 2024)[30] 1934 – Charlie Hodge , American guitarist and singer (died 2006) 1935 – Lewis Arquette , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)1935 – Lee Remick , American actress (died 1991)[29] 1938 – Leonardo Boff , Brazilian theologian and author1938 – Charlie Griffith , Barbadian cricketer 1939 – Ann Cryer , English academic and politician1939 – Ernie Davis , American football player (died 1963)[29] 1940 – Lex Gold , Scottish footballer and civil servant1941 – Karan Armstrong , American soprano and actress (died 2021)1941 – Ellen Willis , American journalist, critic, and academic (died 2006) 1942 – Chris Harris , English actor and director (died 2014)1942 – Dick Wagner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014) 1943 – Britt Allcroft , English writer (died 2024)[31] 1943 – Tommy McAvoy , Scottish politician (died 2024) 1943 – Emmett Tyrrell , American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator 1944 – Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham , English businessman, founded DFS 1944 – Denis Thwaites , English professional footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks (died 2015)[32] 1946 – Antony Beevor , English historian and author1946 – Jane Birkin , English-French actress and singer (died 2023)[33] 1946 – John Du Prez , English conductor and composer 1946 – Patty Duke , American actress (died 2016)[29] 1946 – Ruth Fuchs , German javelin thrower and politician (died 2023) 1946 – Peter Lorimer , Scottish footballer (died 2021) 1946 – Michael Ovitz , American talent agent, co-founded Creative Artists Agency 1946 – Stan Smith , American tennis player and coach[34] 1946 – Lynne Marie Stewart , American actress (died 2025)[35] 1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson , American singer[33] 1947 – Christopher Parkening , American guitarist and educator1947 – Dilma Rousseff , Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil [29] 1948 – Lester Bangs , American journalist and author (died 1982)1948 – Kim Beazley , Australian politician and diplomat, 9th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia 1948 – Boudewijn Büch , Dutch author, poet, and television host (died 2002) 1948 – Peeter Kreitzberg , Estonian lawyer and politician (died 2011) 1948 – Dee Wallace , American actress[33] 1949 – Bill Buckner , American baseball player and manager (died 2019)1949 – David A. Cherry , American artist and illustrator[36] 1949 – Cliff Williams , Australian bass player[33] 1951 – John Brown , American basketball player[37] 1951 – Jan Timman , Dutch chess player and author 1952 – John Lurie , American actor, saxophonist, painter, director, and producer1953 – Vijay Amritraj , Indian tennis player and sportscaster[38] 1953 – Wade Davis , Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer 1953 – René Eespere , Estonian composer 1953 – Vangelis Meimarakis , Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defence 1953 – Mikael Odenberg , Swedish soldier and politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defence 1954 – Alan Kulwicki , American race car driver (died 1993)1954 – Steve MacLean , Canadian physicist and astronaut 1955 – Jane Crafter , Australian golfer1955 – Jill Pipher , American mathematician and academic 1956 – T. K. Carter , American actor[33] 1956 – Linda Fabiani , Scottish politician 1956 – Hanni Wenzel , German skier 1958 – Mike Scott , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist[33] 1958 – Spider Stacy , English singer-songwriter and guitarist[33] 1959 – Bob Paris , American-Canadian bodybuilder and actor1959 – Jorge Vaca , Mexican boxer 1960 – James Comey , American lawyer, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [29] 1960 – Don Franklin , American actor 1960 – Chris Waddle , English footballer, manager, and sportscaster 1960 – Diane Williams , American sprinter 1961 – Patrik Sundström , Swedish ice hockey player1963 – Greg Abbott , English footballer and manager1963 – William Bedford , American basketball player[39] 1963 – Diana Gansky , German discus thrower 1963 – Cynthia Gibb , American actress and model[33] 1964 – Dino Stamatopoulos , American writer, producer, and actor[40] 1965 – Craig Biggio , American baseball player and coach1965 – Ken Hill , American baseball player 1965 – Ted Raimi , American actor, director, and screenwriter[33] 1966 – Fabrizio Giovanardi , Italian race car driver1966 – Carl Herrera , Trinidadian-Venezuelan basketball player[41] 1966 – Anthony Mason , American basketball player (died 2015) 1966 – Bill Ranford , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1966 – Tim Sköld , Swedish bass player and producer 1966 – Helle Thorning-Schmidt , Danish academic and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Denmark 1967 – Ewa Białołęcka , Polish author1967 – Hanne Haugland , Norwegian high jumper and coach 1968 – Kelley Armstrong , Canadian author1968 – Mohamed Saad , Egyptian actor[42] 1969 – Scott Hatteberg , American baseball player and sportscaster1969 – Archie Kao , American actor and producer[33] 1969 – Natascha McElhone , English-Irish actress[33] 1969 – Dave Nilsson , Australian baseball player and manager[43] 1969 – Arthur Numan , Dutch footballer and manager 1970 – Anna Maria Jopek , Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer1970 – Beth Orton , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1971 – Michaela Watkins , American actor and comedian[33] 1972 – Miranda Hart , English actress[33] 1972 – Marcus Jensen , American baseball player and coach 1973 – Falk Balzer , German hurdler1973 – Pat Burke , Irish basketball player 1973 – Tomasz Radzinski , Canadian soccer player 1973 – Saulius Štombergas , Lithuanian basketball player and coach 1974 – Billy Koch , American baseball player1975 – Justin Furstenfeld , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1975 – Ben Kay , English rugby player 1975 – KaDee Strickland , American actress[33] 1976 – Tammy Blanchard , American actress and singer1976 – Leland Chapman , American bounty hunter 1976 – Sebastien Chaule , French-German rugby player 1976 – André Couto , Portuguese race car driver 1976 – Santiago Ezquerro , Spanish footballer 1977 – Brendan Nash , Australian-Jamaican cricketer1977 – Jamie Peacock , English rugby player and manager 1978 – Dean Brogan , Australian footballer and coach1978 – Shedrack Kibet Korir , Kenyan runner 1978 – Zdeněk Pospěch , Czech footballer 1978 – Patty Schnyder , Swiss tennis player[44] 1978 – Kim St-Pierre , Canadian ice hockey player 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong , French footballer1979 – Andrei Makrov , Estonian ice hockey player 1979 – Kyle Shanahan , American football coach[45] 1979 – Sophie Monk , English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress 1979 – Michael Owen , English footballer and sportscaster 1980 – Thed Björk , Swedish race car driver1980 – Gordon Greer , Scottish footballer 1980 – Didier Zokora , Ivorian footballer 1981 – Amber Chia , Malaysian model[46] 1981 – Johnny Jeter , American wrestler 1981 – Liam Lawrence , Irish footballer 1981 – Shaun Marcum , American baseball player 1982 – Josh Fields , American baseball player1982 – Steve Sidwell , English footballer 1982 – Anthony Way , English singer and actor 1983 – Leanne Mitchell , English singer-songwriter1984 – Chris Brunt , Northern Irish footballer1984 – Rana Daggubati , Indian actor and producer 1984 – Ed Rainsford , Zimbabwean cricketer 1984 – Jackson Rathbone , American actor, singer, and musician[33] 1985 – Jakub Błaszczykowski , Polish footballer1985 – Alex Pennie , Welsh keyboard player 1985 – Tom Smith , English-Welsh rugby player 1985 – Nonami Takizawa , Japanese actress and singer 1987 – Kenneth Medwood , Belizean-American hurdler1988 – Nicolas Batum , French basketball player1988 – Nate Ebner , American football player 1988 – Vanessa Hudgens , American actress and singer[33] 1988 – Hayato Sakamoto , Japanese baseball player 1989 – Pedro Botelho , Brazilian footballer1989 – Sam Burgess , English rugby league player 1989 – Onew , South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer 1990 – Robert Covington , American basketball player[47] 1991 – Ben Henry , New Zealand rugby league player1991 – Offset , American rapper[29] 1992 – Tori Kelly , American singer-songwriter[33] 1992 – Ryo Miyaichi , Japanese footballer 1993 – Antonio Giovinazzi , Italian race car driver1994 – Kuldeep Yadav , Indian cricketer[48] 1995 – Ivan Barbashev , Russian ice hockey player[49] 1995 – Calvyn Justus , South African swimmer 1995 – Álvaro Odriozola , Spanish footballer[50] 1996 – Barbie Ferreira , American actress and model[51] 1996 – Raphinha , Brazilian footballer[52] 1996 – Li Zijun , Chinese figure skater 1997 – DK Metcalf , American football player[53] 1998 – Lonnie Walker IV , American basketball player[54] 1998 – Kim Ji-woong , South Korean singer and actor[55] 2001 – Joshua Rush , American actor and activist[29] 2002 – Francisco Conceição , Portuguese footballer[56]
Deaths
Pre-1600 618 – Xue Rengao , emperor of Qin648 – John III of the Sedre , Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch[57] 704 – Aldfrith , king of Northumbria (or 705 )872 – Pope Adrian II (born 792)1077 – Agnes of Poitou , Holy Roman Empress and regent (born c. 1025)1293 – Al-Ashraf Khalil , Mamluk sultan of Egypt1311 – Margaret of Brabant , German queen consort (born 1276)1332 – Rinchinbal Khan , Mongolian emperor (born 1326)1359 – Cangrande II della Scala , Lord of Verona (born 1332)1417 – John Oldcastle , English Lollard leader1460 – Guarino da Verona , Italian scholar and translator (born 1370)1480 – Niccolò Perotti , humanist scholar (born 1429)1503 – Sten Sture the Elder , regent of Sweden (born 1440)1510 – Friedrich of Saxony (born 1473)1542 – James V of Scotland (born 1512)1591 – John of the Cross , Spanish priest and saint (born 1542)1595 – Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , English politician, Lord High Admiral of England (born 1536)1651 – Pierre Dupuy , French historian and scholar (born 1582)1715 – Thomas Tenison , English archbishop (born 1636)1735 – Thomas Tanner , English bishop and historian (born 1674)1741 – Charles Rollin , French historian and educator (born 1661)1785 – Giovanni Battista Cipriani , Italian painter and engraver (born 1727)1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , German pianist and composer (born 1714)1788 – Charles III of Spain (born 1716) 1799 – George Washington , American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (born 1732)1831 – Martin Baum , American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (born 1765)1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier , Canadian physician (born 1806)1842 – Ben Crack-O , king of several tribes around Cape Palmas 1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)1861 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (born 1819)[58] 1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer , Danish geologist and mineralogist (born 1794)1873 – Louis Agassiz , Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (born 1807)1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (born 1843)
1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis , English lieutenant and explorer (born 1887)1915 – Eva Gouel , French choreographer and girlfriend of Pablo Picasso [59] 1917 – Phil Waller , Welsh rugby player (born 1889)1920 – George Gipp , American football player (born 1895)1927 – Julian Sochocki , Russian mathematician and academic (born 1842)1929 – Henry B. Jackson , British admiral (born 1855)1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum , American author (born 1902)1937 – Fabián de la Rosa , Filipino painter and educator (born 1869)1940 – Anton Korošec , Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1872)1943 – John Harvey Kellogg , American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (born 1852)1944 – Lupe Vélez , Mexican actress (born 1908)[60] 1947 – Stanley Baldwin , English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1867)1947 – Edward Higgins , English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army (born 1864) 1953 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , American author and academic (born 1896)1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi , Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (born 1870)1963 – Dinah Washington , American singer and pianist (born 1924)1964 – William Bendix , American actor (born 1906)1970 – Franz Schlegelberger , German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (born 1876)1971 – Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury , Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (born 1926)1971 – Munier Choudhury , Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (born 1925) 1971 – Shahidullah Kaiser , Bangladeshi journalist and author (born 1927) 1974 – Walter Lippmann , American journalist and author (born 1889)1975 – Arthur Treacher , English-American entertainer (born 1894)1978 – Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (born 1886)1980 – Elston Howard , American baseball player and coach (born 1929)1984 – Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)1985 – Catherine Doherty , Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (born 1896)1985 – Roger Maris , American baseball player and coach (born 1934) 1988 – Jean Schramme , Belgian mercenary, farmer, and convicted murderer (born 1929)[61] 1989 – Jock Mahoney , American actor and stuntman (born 1919)1989 – Andrei Sakharov , Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921) 1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss author and playwright (born 1921)1990 – Paula Nenette Pepin , French composer, pianist and lyricist (born 1908 )[62] 1991 – Robert Eddison , Japanese-English actor (born 1908)1993 – Jeff Alm , American football player (born 1968)1993 – Myrna Loy , American actress (born 1905) 1994 – Orval Faubus , American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (born 1910)1995 – G. C. Edmondson , American soldier and author (born 1922)1996 – Gaston Miron , Canadian poet and author (born 1928)1997 – Stubby Kaye , American actor and comedian (born 1918)1997 – Emily Cheney Neville , American author (born 1919) 1997 – Kurt Winter , Canadian guitarist and songwriter (born 1946) 1998 – Norman Fell , American actor and comedian (born 1924)1998 – A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. , American lawyer, judge, and activist (born 1928) 1998 – Annette Strauss , American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1924) 2001 – W. G. Sebald , German novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1944)2003 – Jeanne Crain , American actress (born 1925)2003 – Blas Ople , Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1927) 2003 – Frank Sheeran , American union leader and mobster (born 1920) 2004 – Rod Kanehl , American baseball player (born 1934)2004 – Fernando Poe Jr. , Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1939) 2006 – Anton Balasingham , Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (born 1938)2006 – Ahmet Ertegun , Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (born 1923) 2006 – Mike Evans , American actor and screenwriter (born 1949) 2009 – Alan A'Court , English footballer and manager (born 1934)2010 – Timothy Davlin , American politician, Mayor of Springfield (born 1957)2010 – Neva Patterson , American actress (born 1920) 2010 – Dale Roberts , English footballer (born 1986) 2011 – Joe Simon , American author and illustrator (born 1913)2011 – Billie Jo Spears , American singer-songwriter (born 1937) 2012 – John Graham , English general (born 1923)2012 – Edward Jones , American police officer and politician (born 1950) 2012 – Victoria Leigh Soto , American educator (born 1985) 2013 – Janet Dailey , American author (born 1944)2013 – C. N. Karunakaran , Indian painter and illustrator (born 1940) 2013 – Dennis Lindley , English statistician and academic (born 1923) 2013 – Peter O'Toole , British-Irish actor (born 1932) 2013 – George Rodrigue , American painter (born 1944) 2014 – Theo Colborn , American zoologist and academic (born 1927)2014 – Irene Dalis , American soprano and pianist (born 1925) 2014 – Louis Alphonse Koyagialo , Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1947) 2014 – Bess Myerson , American model, activist, game show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945 (born 1924) 2014 – Fred Thurston , American football player (born 1933) 2015 – Terry Backer , American soldier and politician (born 1954)2015 – Glen Sonmor , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1929) 2015 – Vadym Tyshchenko , Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1963) 2015 – Lillian Vernon , German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (born 1927) 2016 – Paulo Evaristo Arns , Brazilian cardinal (born 1921)2016 – Bernard Fox , Welsh actor (born 1927) 2017 – Yu Kwang-chung , Chinese writer (born 1928)2019 – Chuy Bravo , Mexican-American comedian and actor (born 1956)[63] 2020 – Gérard Houllier , French Football manager (born 1947)[64] 2022 – Jean Franco , American academic and literary critic (born 1924)[65] 2023 – Tomáš Janovic , Slovak writer (born 1937)[66] 2024 – Isak Andic , Turkish-Spanish billionaire businessman (born 1953)[67] 2025 – Rob Reiner , American filmmaker and actor (born 1947)[68]
Holidays and observances
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