January 25
Day of the year
January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 340 days remain until the end of the year (341 in leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate .[ 1] 750 – In the Battle of the Zab , the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate , leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.[ 2] 1327 – Fourteen-year-old Edward III ascends the throne of England after his father the king is forced to abdicate by Queen Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer .[ 3] 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy , causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.[ 4] 1479 – The Treaty of Constantinople ends the 16-year-long First Ottoman–Venetian War .[ 5] 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples .[ 6] 1515 – Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral , where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne .[ 7] 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn .[ 8] 1554 – São Paulo , Brazil , is founded by Jesuit priests.[ 9] 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara : In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu .[ 10] 1576 – Luanda , the capital of Angola , is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais .1585 – Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming North America region "Virginia", in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".[ 11]
1909 – Richard Strauss 's opera Elektra Dresden State Opera .1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.1917 – Sinking of the SS Laurentic after hitting two German mines off the coast of northwest Ireland.[ 13] 1918 – The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia .1918 – The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards ) are established as the official army of independent Finland , and Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.[ 14]
1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix , in the French Alps , inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games .1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War : The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin .1937 – The Guiding Light NBC radio from Chicago . In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese . It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu .1942 – World War II : Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor .1946 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game .[ 15] 1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club .1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "payola " scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.1961 – In Washington, D.C., US President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference .1964 – Blue Ribbon Sports , which would later become Nike , is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes.1967 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fires rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co , while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit.[ 16] 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship , taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.1971 – Charles Manson and four "Family " members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders .1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda 's president.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas , Dominican Republic , and Mexico .1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna .1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda .1990 – Avianca Flight 052 crashes in Cove Neck, New York , killing 73.[ 17] 1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia . Two are killed and three wounded.1994 – The spacecraft Clementine BMDO and NASA is launched.1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident : Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII , a Norwegian research rocket , for a US Trident missile .1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka 's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1999 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.2003 – Invasion of Iraq : A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad , Iraq , to serve as human shields , intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra , India kills at least 258.2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Na'ameh , Lebanon , killing 90.[ 18] 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto , Venezuela .2015 – A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters .2019 – A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho , Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.[ 19]
Births
Pre-1600
1615 – Govert Flinck , Dutch painter (d. 1660)1627 – Robert Boyle , Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1691)[ 23] 1634 – Gaspar Fagel , Dutch politician and diplomat (d. 1688)1635 – Daniel Casper von Lohenstein , German writer, diplomat and lawyer (d. 1683)1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , English soldier and politician, Lord Steward of the Household (d. 1707)1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange , Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813)1739 – Charles François Dumouriez , French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1823)1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , German philosopher and author (d. 1819)1750 – Johann Gottfried Vierling , German organist and composer (d. 1813)1755 – Paolo Mascagni , Italian physician and anatomist (probable;[ 24] 1759 – Robert Burns , Scottish poet and songwriter (d. 1796)[ 25] 1783 – William Colgate , English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (d. 1857)1794 – François-Vincent Raspail , French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer (d. 1878)1796 – William MacGillivray , Scottish ornithologist and biologist (d. 1852)1813 – J. Marion Sims , American gynecologist and physician (d. 1883)1816 – Anna Gardner , American abolitionist and teacher (d. 1901)[ 26] 1822 – Charles Reed Bishop , American businessman, philanthropist, and politician, founded the Bishop Museum (d. 1915)1822 – William McDougall , Canadian lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (d. 1905)
1823 – José María Iglesias , Mexican politician and interim President (d. 1891)[ 27] 1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt , Indian poet and playwright (d. 1873)1841 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , English admiral (d. 1920)1858 – Mikimoto Kōkichi , Japanese businessman (d. 1954)1860 – Charles Curtis , American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)1864 – Julije Kempf , Croatian historian and author (d. 1934)1868 – Juventino Rosas , Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894)1874 – W. Somerset Maugham , British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1965)1878 – Ernst Alexanderson , Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975)1882 – Virginia Woolf , English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1941)1885 – Kitahara Hakushū , Japanese poet and author (d. 1942)1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler , German conductor and composer (d. 1954)1894 – Aino Aalto , Finnish architect and designer (d. 1949)[ 28] 1895 – Florence Mills , American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1927)1899 – Sleepy John Estes , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak , Belgian lawyer and politician, 46th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1972)
1900 – István Fekete , Hungarian author (d. 1970)1900 – Yōjirō Ishizaka , Japanese author and educator (d. 1986)
1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky , Russian-American geneticist and pioneer of evolutionary biology (d. 1975)[ 29]
1901 – Mildred Dunnock , American actress (d. 1991)1905 – Maurice Roy , Canadian cardinal (d. 1985)1905 – Margery Sharp , English author and educator (d. 1991)
1905 – Sava Kovačević , Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (d. 1943)[ 30] 1906 – Toni Ulmen , German racing driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1976)1908 – Hsieh Tung-min , Taiwanese politicians and Vice President of the Republic of China (d. 2001)1910 – Edgar V. Saks , Estonian historian, author, and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1984)1913 – Huang Hua , Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2010)1913 – Witold Lutosławski , Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994)
1913 – Luis Marden , American photographer and journalist (d. 2003)
1914 – William Strickland , American conductor and organist (d. 1991)1915 – Ewan MacColl , English singer-songwriter, actor and producer (d. 1989)1916 – Pop Ivy , American football player and coach (d. 2003)1917 – Ilya Prigogine , Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)1917 – Jânio Quadros , Brazilian lawyer and politician, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
1919 – Edwin Newman , American journalist and author (d. 2010)1921 – Samuel T. Cohen , American physicist and academic (d. 2010)1921 – Josef Holeček , Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2005)[ 31]
1922 – Raymond Baxter , English television host and pilot (d. 2006)1923 – Arvid Carlsson , Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason , American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
1923 – Sally Starr , American actress and television host (d. 2013)
1923 – Jean Taittinger , French politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 2012)
1924 – Lou Groza , American football player and coach (d. 2000)[ 32] 1924 – Husein Mehmedov , Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
1924 – Speedy West , American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)
1925 – Gordy Soltau , American football player and sportscaster (d. 2014)1925 – Giorgos Zampetas , Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1992)
1926 – Dick McGuire , American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)[ 33] 1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1994)1928 – Jérôme Choquette , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2017)1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze , Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014)
1928 – Cor van der Hart , Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2006)
1929 – Elizabeth Allen , American actress and singer (d. 2006)1929 – Robert Faurisson , English-French author and academic (d. 2018)
1929 – Benny Golson , American saxophonist and composer (d. 2024)[ 34]
1931 – Dean Jones , American actor and singer (d. 2015)1933 – Corazon Aquino , Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)[ 32] 1935 – Conrad Burns , American journalist, and politician (d. 2016)1935 – António Ramalho Eanes , Portuguese general and politician, 16th President of Portugal [ 35]
1935 – Don Maynard , American football player (d. 2022)
1936 – Diana Hyland , American actress (d. 1977)1936 – Onat Kutlar , Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)
1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé , Central African engineer and politician, 5th President of the Central African Republic (d. 2011)1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori , Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998)1938 – Etta James , American singer (d. 2012)[ 32]
1938 – Leiji Matsumoto , Japanese author, illustrator, and animator (d. 2023)
1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky , Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1980)
1941 – Buddy Baker , American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2015)1942 – Carl Eller , American football player and sportscaster[ 32] 1942 – Eusébio , Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
1943 – Tobe Hooper , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)[ 36] 1945 – Byron Beck , American basketball player[ 37] 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young , American actress[ 38]
1947 – Ángel Nieto , Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2017)1947 – Tostão , Brazilian footballer, journalist, and physician
1948 – Ros Kelly , Australian educator and politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel 1948 – Georgy Shishkin , Russian painter and illustrator
1949 – John Cooper Clarke , English poet and critic1949 – Paul Nurse , English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 – Gloria Naylor , American novelist (d. 2016)1951 – Steve Prefontaine , American runner (d. 1975)[ 32] 1952 – Peter Tatchell , Australian-English journalist and activist1952 – Timothy White , American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2002)
1953 – The Honky Tonk Man , American wrestler[ 39] 1954 – Ricardo Bochini , Argentinian footballer and manager1954 – Kay Cottee , Australian sailor
1954 – Renate Dorrestein , Dutch journalist and author (d. 2018)
1956 – Andy Cox , English guitarist1956 – Dinah Manoff , American actress[ 38]
1957 – Eskil Erlandsson , Swedish technologist and politician, Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs 1957 – Andrew Harris , American politician
1957 – Jenifer Lewis , American actress and singer[ 38]
1958 – Franco Pancheri , Italian footballer and manager1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan , Singaporean ophthalmologist and politician, Singaporean Ministry of National Development 1961 – Tim Dorsey , American novelist (d. 2023)[ 40]
1962 – Chris Chelios , American ice hockey player and manager1963 – Fernando Haddad , Brazilian academic and politician, 61st Mayor of São Paulo 1963 – Molly Holzschlag , American computer scientist and author (d. 2023)
1964 – Stephen Pate , Australian cyclist1965 – Esa Tikkanen , Finnish ice hockey player and coach1966 – Chet Culver , American educator and politician, 41st Governor of Iowa 1966 – Yiannos Ioannou , Cypriot footballer and manager
1966 – Mark Schlereth , American football player and sportscaster[ 41]
1967 – Nelson Asaytono , Filipino basketball player1967 – David Ginola , French footballer
1967 – Randy McKay , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 – Nicole Uphoff , German equestrian[ 42]
1968 – Eric Orie , Dutch footballer and manager1969 – Sergei Ovchinnikov , Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)1970 – Stephen Chbosky , American author, screenwriter, and director1970 – Chris Mills , American basketball player
1970 – Milt Stegall , American football player and sportscaster[ 43]
1971 – Luca Badoer , Italian racing driver1971 – Philip Coppens , Belgian journalist and author (d. 2012)
1971 – Ana Ortiz , American actress[ 38]
1972 – Shinji Takehara , Japanese boxer1973 – Geoff Johns , American author, screenwriter, and producer1974 – Robert Budreau , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter1974 – Emily Haines , Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1974 – Attilio Nicodemo , Italian footballer
1975 – Duncan Jupp , Anglo-Scottish footballer[ 44] 1975 – Mia Kirshner , Canadian actress[ 38]
1976 – Stephanie Bellars , American wrestler and manager1976 – Mário Haberfeld , Brazilian racing driver
1976 – Dimitris Nalitzis , Greek footballer
1977 – Michael Brown , English footballer, manager and pundit[ 45] 1978 – Charlene, Princess of Monaco [ 32] 1978 – Ahmet Dursun , Turkish footballer
1978 – Denis Menchov , Russian cyclist
1978 – Derrick Turnbow , American baseball player
1978 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy , Ukrainian actor, comedian, and politician, 6th President of Ukraine [ 46]
1979 – Christine Lakin , American actress and director[ 38] 1979 – David Mutendera , Zimbabwean cricketer[ 47]
1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro , Brazilian racing driver
1980 – Alayna Burns , Australian track cyclist[ 48] 1980 – Michelle McCool , American wrestler[ 39]
1980 – Xavi , Spanish footballer
1981 – Francis Jeffers , English footballer1981 – Alicia Keys , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress[ 49]
1981 – Toše Proeski , Macedonian singer (d. 2007)[ 50]
1983 – Josh Powell , American basketball player[ 51] 1984 – Jay Briscoe , American wrestler (d. 2023)[ 52] 1984 – Stefan Kießling , German footballer
1984 – Robinho , Brazilian footballer
1984 – Fara Williams , English footballer[ 53]
1985 – Brent Celek , American football player[ 54] 1985 – Hwang Jung-eum , South Korean actress
1985 – Acie Law , American basketball player[ 55]
1985 – Hartley Sawyer , American actor[ 32]
1985 – Michael Trevino , American actor[ 38]
1985 – Patrick Willis , American football player
1986 – Chris O'Grady , English footballer1987 – Maria Kirilenko , Russian tennis player[ 56] 1988 – Tatiana Golovin , French tennis player[ 57] 1988 – Ryota Ozawa , Japanese actor
1990 – Apostolos Giannou , Greek-Australian footballer1990 – Lee Jun-ho , South Korean singer and actor
1991 – Ariana DeBose , American actress, singer, and dancer[ 32] 1991 – Ahmed Hegazi , Egyptian footballer[ 58]
1996 – Mohamed Hany , Egyptian footballer[ 59] 1996 – Seunghee , South Korean singer and television personality[ 60]
1997 – Noah Hanifin , American ice hockey player[ 61] 2001 – Elisabetta Cocciaretto , Italian tennis player[ 62] 2002 – Lil Mosey , American rapper[ 63]
Deaths
Pre-1600
390 – Gregory Nazianzus , theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)477 – Gaiseric , king of the Vandals (b. 389)750 – Ibrahim ibn al-Walid , Umayyad caliph 844 – Pope Gregory IV (b. 795)863 – Charles of Provence , Frankish king (b. 845)951 – Ma Xiguang , ruler of Chu (Ten Kingdoms )1003 – Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark 1067 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. 1032)1138 – Antipope Anacletus II 1139 – Godfrey I, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VI)1366 – Henry Suso , German priest and mystic (b. 1300)1413 – Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (b. 1345)1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)1492 – Ygo Gales Galama , Frisian warlord and rebel (b. 1443)1494 – Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)1559 – Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)1578 – Mihrimah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1522)1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger , German painter (b. 1515)
1640 – Robert Burton , English physician and scholar (b. 1577)1670 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)1726 – Guillaume Delisle , French cartographer (b. 1675)1733 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet , English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1652)1742 – Edmond Halley , English astronomer (b. 1656)[ 64] 1751 – Paul Dudley , American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675)1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen , Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)1856 – John Doubleday , British craftsperson, restorer, and dealer[ 65]
1907 – René Pottier , French cyclist (b. 1879)1908 – Ouida , English-Italian author (b. 1839)1908 – Mikhail Chigorin , Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
1910 – W. G. Read Mullan , American Jesuit and academic (1860)1914 – Frank Avery Hutchins , American librarian and educator (b. 1851)[ 67] 1912 – Dmitry Milyutin , Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)1925 – Juan Vucetich , Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858)1939 – Charles Davidson Dunbar , Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)1947 – Al Capone , American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)1949 – Makino Nobuaki , Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)1957 – Ichizō Kobayashi , Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga , Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1958 – Cemil Topuzlu , Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)1958 – Robert R. Young , American businessman and financier (b. 1897)
1960 – Diana Barrymore , American actress (b. 1921)1966 – Saul Adler , Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895)1968 – Louie Myfanwy Thomas , Welsh writer (b. 1908)1968 – Yvor Winters , American poet and literary critic (b. 1900)[ 68]
1970 – Jane Bathori , French soprano (b. 1877)1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya , Japanese director and producer (b. 1901)
1971 – Barry III , Guinean lawyer and politician (b. 1923)1972 – Erhard Milch , German field marshal (b. 1892)1975 – Charlotte Whitton , Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)[ 69] 1978 – Skender Kulenović , Bosnian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)1981 – Adele Astaire , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1896)1982 – Mikhail Suslov , Russian economist and politician (b. 1902)1985 – Ilias Iliou , Greek jurist and politician (b. 1904)1987 – Frank J. Lynch , American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1922)1988 – Colleen Moore , American actress (b. 1899)1990 – Ava Gardner , American actress (b. 1922)1991 – Frank Soo , English footballer and manager (b. 1914)1992 – Mir Khalil ur Rehman , Founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers (b. 1927)1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909)1996 – Jonathan Larson , American playwright and composer (b. 1960)[ 70] 1997 – Dan Barry , American author and illustrator (b. 1923)1999 – Sarah Louise Delany , American author and educator (b. 1889)1999 – Robert Shaw , American conductor (b. 1916)
2001 – Alice Ambrose , American philosopher and logician (b. 1906)2002 – Cliff Baxter , employee at Enron (b. 1958)2003 – Sheldon Reynolds , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)2003 – Samuel Weems , American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen , Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918)2004 – Miklós Fehér , Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2005 – Stanisław Albinowski , Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)2005 – William Augustus Bootle , American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
2005 – Philip Johnson , American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906)
2005 – Manuel Lopes , Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
2005 – Netti Witziers-Timmer , Dutch runner (b. 1923)
2009 – Eleanor F. Helin , American astronomer (b. 1932)2009 – Ewald Kooiman , Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938)
2009 – Kim Manners , American director and producer (b. 1951)
2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid , Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister of Defence (b. 1941)2011 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935)2011 – Vincent Cronin , Welsh historian and author (b. 1924)
2012 – Paavo Berglund , Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)2012 – Jacques Maisonrouge , French businessman (b. 1924)
2012 – Franco Pacini , Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
2012 – Robert Sheran , American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
2013 – Martial Asselin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1924)2013 – Kevin Heffernan , Irish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
2013 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg , Norwegian soprano and actress (b. 1923)
2014 – Arthur Doyle , American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944)2014 – Heini Halberstam , Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
2014 – Dave Strack , American basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
2014 – Morrie Turner , American cartoonist (b. 1923)[ 71]
2015 – John Leggett , American author and academic (b. 1917)2015 – Richard McBrien , American priest, theologian, and academic (b. 1936)
2015 – Bill Monbouquette , American baseball player and coach (b. 1936)
2015 – Demis Roussos , Egyptian-Greek singer (b. 1946)
2017 – Stephen P. Cohen , Canadian academic (b. 1945)2017 – Robert Garcia , American politician (b. 1933)
2017 – John Hurt , English actor (b. 1940)[ 72]
2017 – Harry Mathews , American novelist and poet (b. 1930)
2017 – Marcel Prud'homme , Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2017 – Mary Tyler Moore , American actress and producer (b. 1936)[ 73]
2018 – Neagu Djuvara , Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat (b. 1916)2024 – Sanath Nishantha , Sri Lankan politician (b. 1975)[ 74]
Holidays and observances
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