April 7
Date in Gregorian calendar
Day of the year
April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 268 days remain until the end of the year.
Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 1724 – Premiere performance of Bach's St John Passion BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig .1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767) .1788 – Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio , the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory .1790 – Greek War of Independence : Greek revolutionary Lambros Katsonis loses three of his ships in the Battle of Andros .[8] 1795 – The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.[9] 1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire . It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition : The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River .1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony , at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna .1824 – The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester , England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to three Universities in the city: the University of Manchester , UMIST and the Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU).[10] [11] [12] 1831 – Pedro II becomes Emperor of Empire of Brazil .[13] 1862 – American Civil War : The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee .1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee , one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation , is assassinated by a Fenian activist.1901–present 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples .1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco .
1922 – Teapot Dome scandal : United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.1926 – Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini .[14] 1927 – AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. , to New York City , displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).[15] 1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution . (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States .)1933 – Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.[16]
1939 – Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.[17] 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp .1943 – The Holocaust in Ukraine : In Terebovlia , Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation .
1943 – The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.[18]
1944 – In the Fragheto massacre , soldiers belonging to the German 356th Infantry Division kill 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans near Casteldelci in central-northern Italy.[19] [20] [21] 1945 – World War II : The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go .1946 – The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic .[22] 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations .1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory " speech during a news conference.1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.1956 – Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco .[23] 1964 – IBM announces the System/360 .1965 – Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C. , against the termination of the Colville tribe.[24] 1968 – Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim .[25] 1969 – The Internet 's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.1971 – Vietnam War : President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization .1972 – Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh .[26] 1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death .1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter .[27] 1980 – During the Iran hostage crisis , the United States severs relations with Iran.1982 – Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.[28] 1983 – During STS-6 , astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.1988 – Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan .[29] 1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star 1990 – John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair .[30]
1994 – Rwandan genocide : Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali , Rwanda , and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana .[17] 1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
1995 – First Chechen War : Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki , Chechnya .1999 – Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.[31] 2001 – NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.2003 – Iraq War : U.S. troops capture Baghdad ; Saddam Hussein 's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
2011 – The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza , marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.[32] 2017 – A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden , killing five people and injuring fifteen others.[33] [34] [35] 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack .[36]
2018 – Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro , from the "Car-Wash Operation ".[37] Brazilian Supreme Court .[38] 2018 – Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War .[39]
2020 – COVID-19 pandemic : China ends its lockdown in Wuhan .[40] 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier .[41]
2021 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.[42] 2022 – Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States , becoming the first black female justice.[43] Births Pre-1600 1601–1900 1613 – Gerrit Dou , Dutch painter (d. 1675)1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy , French general (d. 1730)1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby , English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1721)1652 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)[44] 1713 – Nicola Sala , Italian composer and theorist (d. 1801)1718 – Hugh Blair , Scottish minister and author (d. 1800)1727 – Michel Adanson , French botanist, entomologist, and mycologist (d. 1806)1763 – Domenico Dragonetti , Italian bassist and composer (d. 1846)1770 – William Wordsworth , English poet (d. 1850)1772 – Charles Fourier , French philosopher (d. 1837)[45] 1780 – William Ellery Channing , American preacher and theologian (d. 1842)1803 – James Curtiss , American journalist and politician, 11th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)1803 – Flora Tristan , French author and activist (d. 1844)[46]
1811 – Hasan Tahsini , Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1881)1817 – Francesco Selmi , Italian chemist and patriot (d. 1881)1848 – Randall Davidson , Scottish archbishop (d. 1930)1859 – Walter Camp , American football player and coach (d. 1925)1860 – Will Keith Kellogg , American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)1867 – Holger Pedersen , Danish linguist and academic (d. 1953)1870 – Gustav Landauer , German theorist and activist (d. 1919)1871 – Epifanio de los Santos , Filipino jurist, historian, and scholar (d. 1927)1873 – John McGraw , American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)1874 – Frederick Carl Frieseke , German-American painter (d. 1939)1876 – Fay Moulton , American sprinter, football player, coach, and lawyer (d. 1945)1882 – Bert Ironmonger , Australian cricketer (d. 1971)1882 – Kurt von Schleicher , German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
1883 – Gino Severini , Italian-French painter and author (d. 1966)1884 – Clement Smoot , American golfer (d. 1963)1886 – Ed Lafitte , American baseball player and soldier (d. 1971)1889 – Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)[47] 1890 – Paul Berth , Danish footballer (d. 1969)1890 – Victoria Ocampo . Argentine writer (d. 1979)[48]
1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas , American journalist and activist (d. 1998)
1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen , Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (d. 1958)1892 – Julius Hirsch , German footballer (d. 1945)[49] [50] 1893 – José Sobral de Almada Negreiros , Portuguese artist (d. 1970)[citation needed 1893 – Allen Dulles , American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1969)
1895 – John Bernard Flannagan , American soldier and sculptor (d. 1942)1895 – Margarete Schön , German actress (d. 1985)
1896 – Frits Peutz , Dutch architect, designed the Glaspaleis (d. 1974)1897 – Erich Löwenhardt , Polish-German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)1897 – Walter Winchell , American journalist and radio host (d. 1972)
1899 – Robert Casadesus , French pianist and composer (d. 1972)1900 – Adolf Dymsza , Polish actor (d. 1975)1900 – Tebbs Lloyd Johnson , English race walker (d. 1984) 1901–present 1902 – Eduard Eelma , Estonian footballer (d. 1941)1903 – M. Balasundaram , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1965)1903 – Edwin T. Layton , American admiral (d. 1984)
1904 – Roland Wilson , Australian economist and statistician (d. 1996)1908 – Percy Faith , Canadian composer, conductor, and bandleader (d. 1976)1908 – Pete Zaremba , American hammer thrower (d. 1994)
1909 – Robert Charroux , French author and critic (d. 1978)1910 – Melissanthi , Greek poet, teacher and journalist (d. 1990) [51] 1913 – Louise Currie , American actress (d. 2013)1913 – Charles Vanik , American soldier, judge, and politician (d. 2007)
1914 – Ralph Flanagan , American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1995)1914 – Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou , Greek sprinter (d. 2011) [52]
1915 – Stanley Adams , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1977)1915 – Billie Holiday , American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1959)
1915 – Henry Kuttner , American author (d. 1958)
1916 – Anthony Caruso , American actor (d. 2003)1917 – R. G. Armstrong , American actor and playwright (d. 2012)1918 – Bobby Doerr , American baseball player and coach (d. 2017)1919 – Roger Lemelin , Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1992)1919 – Edoardo Mangiarotti , Italian fencer (d. 2012)
1920 – Ravi Shankar , Indian-American sitar player and composer (d. 2012)1921 – Feza Gürsey , Turkish mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)1922 – Mongo Santamaría , Cuban-American drummer (d. 2003)1924 – Johannes Mario Simmel , Austrian-English author and screenwriter (d. 2009)1925 – Chaturanan Mishra , Indian trade union leader and politician (d. 2011)1925 – Jan van Roessel , Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
1927 – Babatunde Olatunji , Nigerian-American drummer, educator, and activist (d. 2003)1927 – Leonid Shcherbakov , Russian triple jumper (d. 2004)
1928 – James Garner , American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2014)1928 – Alan J. Pakula , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
1928 – James White , Northern Irish author and educator (d. 1999)
1929 – Bob Denard , French soldier (d. 2007)1929 – Joe Gallo , American gangster (d. 1972)
1930 – Jane Priestman , English interior designer (d. 2021)1930 – Yves Rocher , French businessman, founded the Yves Rocher Company (d. 2009)
1930 – Andrew Sachs , German-English actor and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1930 – Roger Vergé , French chef and restaurateur (d. 2015)
1931 – Donald Barthelme , American short story writer and novelist (d. 1989)1931 – Daniel Ellsberg , American activist and author (d. 2023)
1932 – Cal Smith , American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)1933 – Wayne Rogers , American actor, investor, and producer (d. 2015)1933 – Sakıp Sabancı , Turkish businessman and philanthropist (d. 2004)
1934 – Ian Richardson , Scottish-English actor (d. 2007)1935 – Bobby Bare , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1935 – Hodding Carter III , American journalist and politician, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (d. 2023)
1937 – Charlie Thomas , American singer (d. 2023)1938 – Jerry Brown , American lawyer and politician, 34th and 39th Governor of California 1938 – Spencer Dryden , American drummer (d. 2005)
1938 – Freddie Hubbard , American trumpet player and composer (d. 2008)
1938 – Iris Johansen , American author
1939 – Francis Ford Coppola , American director, producer, and screenwriter1939 – David Frost , English journalist and game show host (d. 2013)
1939 – Gary Kellgren , American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (d. 1977)
1939 – Brett Whiteley , Australian painter (d. 1992)
1940 – Marju Lauristin , Estonian academic and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Social Affairs 1941 – James Di Pasquale , American composer1941 – Peter Fluck , English puppet maker and illustrator
1941 – Cornelia Frances , English-Australian actress (d. 2018)
1941 – Gorden Kaye , English actor (d. 2017)
1942 – Jeetendra , Indian actor, TV and film producer1943 – Mick Abrahams , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1943 – Dennis Amiss , English cricketer and manager
1944 – Shel Bachrach , American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2024)1944 – Warner Fusselle , American sportscaster (d. 2012)
1944 – Oshik Levi , Israeli singer and actor
1944 – Julia Phillips , American film producer and author (d. 2002)
1944 – Gerhard Schröder , German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany
1944 – Bill Stoneman , American baseball player and manager
1945 – Megas , Icelandic singer-songwriter1945 – Gerry Cottle , English circus owner (d. 2021)
1945 – Marilyn Friedman , American philosopher and academic
1945 – Martyn Lewis , Welsh journalist and author
1945 – Joël Robuchon , French chef and author (d. 2018)
1945 – Werner Schroeter , German director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1945 – Hans van Hemert , Dutch songwriter and producer
1946 – Zaid Abdul-Aziz , American basketball player1946 – Colette Besson , French runner and educator (d. 2005)
1946 – Herménégilde Chiasson , Canadian poet, playwright, and politician, 29th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
1946 – Dimitrij Rupel , Slovenian politician and diplomate
1946 – Stan Winston , American special effects designer and makeup artist (d. 2008)
1947 – Patricia Bennett , American singer1947 – Florian Schneider , German singer and drummer (d. 2020)
1947 – Michèle Torr , French singer and author
1948 – John Oates , American singer-songwriter guitarist, and producer1948 – Arnie Robinson , American athlete (d. 2020)[53] [54]
1948 – Ecaterina Andronescu , Romanian politician[55]
1949 – Mitch Daniels , American academic and politician, 49th Governor of Indiana 1950 – Brian J. Doyle , American press secretary1950 – Neil Folberg , American-Israeli photographer[56]
1951 – Bruce Gary , American drummer (d. 2006)1951 – Janis Ian , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – David Baulcombe , English geneticist and academic1952 – Jane Frederick , American hurdler and heptathlete
1952 – Gilles Valiquette , Canadian actor, singer, and producer
1952 – Dennis Hayden , American actor
1953 – Santa Barraza , American mixed media artist[57] 1953 – Douglas Kell , English biochemist and academic
1954 – Jackie Chan , Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter1954 – Tony Dorsett , American football player
1955 – Tim Cochran , American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)1955 – Gregg Jarrett , American lawyer and journalist
1956 – Annika Billström , Swedish businesswoman and politician, 16th Mayor of Stockholm 1956 – Christopher Darden , American lawyer and author
1956 – Georg Werthner , Austrian decathlete
1957 – Kim Kap-soo , South Korean actor1957 – Thelma Walker , British politician
1958 – Brian Haner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1958 – Hindrek Kesler , Estonian architect
1960 – Buster Douglas , American boxer and actor1960 – Sandy Powell , English costume designer
1961 – Thurl Bailey , American basketball player and actor1961 – Pascal Olmeta , French footballer
1961 – Brigitte van der Burg , Tanzanian-Dutch geographer and politician
1962 – Jon Cruddas , English lawyer and politician1962 – Andrew Hampsten , American cyclist
1963 – Jaime de Marichalar , Spanish businessman1963 – Nick Herbert , English businessman and politician, Minister for Policing
1963 – Dave Johnson , American decathlete and educator
1964 – Jace Alexander , American actor and director1964 – Russell Crowe , New Zealand-Australian actor
1964 – Steve Graves , Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Bill Bellamy , American comedian, actor, and producer1965 – Rozalie Hirs , Dutch composer and poet
1965 – Alison Lapper , English painter and photographer
1965 – Nenad Vučinić , Serbian-New Zealand basketball player and coach
1966 – Richard Gomez , Filipino actor and politician1966 – Zvika Hadar , Israeli entertainer
1966 – Béla Mavrák , Hungarian tenor singer
1966 – Gary Wilkinson , English snooker player
1967 – Artemis Gounaki , Greek-German singer-songwriter1967 – Bodo Illgner , German footballer
1967 – Simone Schilder , Dutch tennis player
1968 – Duncan Armstrong , Australian swimmer and sportscaster1968 – Jennifer Lynch , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Jože Možina , Slovenian historian, sociologist and journalist
1968 – Vasiliy Sokov , Russian triple jumper
1969 – Ricky Watters , American football player1970 – Leif Ove Andsnes , Norwegian pianist and educator1970 – Alexander Karpovtsev , Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)[58]
1971 – Guillaume Depardieu , French actor (d. 2008)1971 – Victor Kraatz , German-Canadian figure skater
1972 – Tim Peake , British astronaut1973 – Marco Delvecchio , Italian footballer1973 – Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert , Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence
1973 – Carole Montillet , French skier
1973 – Christian O'Connell , British radio DJ and presenter
1973 – Brett Tomko , American baseball player
1975 – Karin Dreijer Andersson , Swedish singer-songwriter and producer1975 – Ronde Barber , American football player and sportscaster
1975 – Tiki Barber , American football player and journalist
1975 – Ronnie Belliard , American baseball player
1975 – John Cooper , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1975 – Simon Woolford , Australian rugby league player
1976 – Kevin Alejandro , American actor and producer1976 – Martin Buß , German high jumper
1976 – Jessica Lee , English lawyer and politician
1976 – Aaron Lohr , American actor
1976 – Barbara Jane Reams , American actress
1976 – Gang Qiang , Chinese anchor
1977 – Tama Canning , Australian-New Zealand cricketer[59] 1977 – Karin Haydu , Slovak actress[60]
1978 – Jo Appleby , English soprano1978 – Duncan James , English singer-songwriter and actor
1978 – Lilia Osterloh , American tennis player
1979 – Adrián Beltré , Dominican-American baseball player1979 – Patrick Crayton , American football player
1979 – Pascal Dupuis , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Danny Sandoval , Venezuelan-American baseball player
1980 – Dragan Bogavac , Montenegrin footballer1980 – Bruno Covas , Brazilian lawyer, politician (d. 2021)
1980 – Tetsuji Tamayama , Japanese actor
1981 – Hitoe Arakaki , Japanese singer1981 – Kazuki Watanabe , Japanese songwriter and guitarist (d. 2000)
1981 – Vanessa Olivarez , American singer-songwriter, and actress
1981 – Suzann Pettersen , Norwegian golfer
1982 – Silvana Arias , Peruvian actress1982 – Sonjay Dutt , American wrestler
1982 – Kelli Young , English singer
1983 – Hamish Davidson , Australian musician1983 – Franck Ribéry , French footballer
1983 – Jon Stead , English footballer
1983 – Jakub Smrž , Czech motorcycle rider
1983 – Janar Talts , Estonian basketball player
1984 – Hiroko Shimabukuro , Japanese singer1985 – KC Concepcion , Filipino actress and singer1985 – Humza Yousaf , Scottish politician
1986 – Brooke Brodack , American comedian1986 – Jack Duarte , Mexican actor, singer, and guitarist
1986 – Andi Fraggs , English singer-songwriter and producer
1986 – Christian Fuchs , Austrian footballer
1987 – Martín Cáceres , Uruguayan footballer1987 – Eelco Sintnicolaas , Dutch decathlete
1987 – Jamar Smith , American football player
1988 – Antonio Piccolo , Italian footballer1988 – Ed Speleers , English actor and producer
1989 – Franco Di Santo , Argentinian footballer1989 – Mitchell Pearce , Australian rugby league player
1989 – Teddy Riner , French judoka
1990 – Nickel Ashmeade , Jamaican sprinter[61] 1990 – Anna Bogomazova , Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler
1990 – Sorana Cîrstea , Romanian tennis player
1990 – Trent Cotchin , Australian footballer
1991 – Luka Milivojević , Serbian footballer1991 – Anne-Marie , English singer-songwriter
1992 – Andreea Acatrinei , Romanian gymnast1992 – Guilherme Negueba , Brazilian footballer
1993 – Ichinojō Takashi , Mongolian sumo wrestler1994 – Johanna Allik , Estonian figure skater1994 – Aaron Gray , Australian rugby league player
1994 – Josh Hader , American baseball player[62]
1996 – Emerson Hyndman , American international soccer player[63] 1997 – Rafaela Gómez , Ecuadorian tennis playerDeaths Pre-1600 1601–1900 1606 – Edward Oldcorne , English martyr (b. 1561)1614 – El Greco , Greek-Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1541)1638 – Shimazu Tadatsune , Japanese daimyō (b. 1576)1651 – Lennart Torstensson , Swedish field marshal and engineer (b. 1603)1658 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg , Spanish mystic and philosopher (b. 1595)1661 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet , English commander and politician (b. 1604)1663 – Francis Cooke , English-American settler (b. 1583)1668 – William Davenant , English poet and playwright (b. 1606)1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle , French priest and saint, founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (b. 1651)1739 – Dick Turpin , English criminal (b. 1705)1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1676)1761 – Thomas Bayes , English minister and mathematician (b. 1701)1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)1767 – Franz Sparry , Austrian composer and director (b. 1715)1779 – Martha Ray , English singer (b. 1746)[70] [71] 1782 – Taksin , Thai king (b. 1734)1789 – Abdul Hamid I , Ottoman sultan (b. 1725)1789 – Petrus Camper , Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (b. 1722)
1801 – Noël François de Wailly , French lexicographer and author (b. 1724)1804 – Toussaint Louverture , Haitian general (b. 1743)1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze , Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)1823 – Jacques Charles , French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746)1833 – Antoni Radziwiłł , Lithuanian composer and politician (b. 1775)1836 – William Godwin , English journalist and author (b. 1756)1849 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros , Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777)1850 – William Lisle Bowles , English poet and critic (b. 1762)1858 – Anton Diabelli , Austrian composer and publisher (b. 1781)1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee , Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician (b. 1825)1879 – Begum Hazrat Mahal , Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (b. 1820)1884 – Maria Doolaeghe , Flemish novelist (b. 1803)[72] 1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold , German physiologist and zoologist (b. 1804)1889 – Youssef Bey Karam ,[73] 1889 – Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876 (b. 1823)[74]
1891 – P. T. Barnum , American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1810)1901–present 1917 – Spyridon Samaras , Greek composer and playwright (b. 1861)1918 – David Kolehmainen , Finnish wrestler (b. 1885)1918 – George E. Ohr , American potter (b. 1857)
1920 – Karl Binding , German lawyer and jurist (b. 1841)1922 – James McGowen , Australian politician, 18th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1855)1928 – Alexander Bogdanov , Russian physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1873)1932 – Grigore Constantinescu , Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)1938 – Suzanne Valadon , French painter (b. 1865)1939 – Joseph Lyons , Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)1943 – Jovan Dučić , Serbian-American poet and diplomat (b. 1871)1943 – Alexandre Millerand , French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (b. 1859)
1947 – Henry Ford , American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)[75] 1949 – John Gourlay , Canadian soccer player (b. 1872)1950 – Walter Huston , Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1883)1955 – Theda Bara , American actress (b. 1885)1956 – Fred Appleby , English runner (b. 1879)1960 – Henri Guisan , Swiss general (b. 1874)1965 – Roger Leger , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)1966 – Walt Hansgen , American race car driver (b. 1919)1968 – Edwin Baker , Canadian co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) (b. 1893)1968 – Jim Clark , Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)
1972 – Joe Gallo , American gangster (b. 1929)1972 – Abeid Karume , Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Zanzibar (b. 1905)
1981 – Kit Lambert , English record producer and manager (b. 1935)1981 – Norman Taurog , American director and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1982 – Harald Ertl , Austrian race car driver and journalist (b. 1948)1984 – Frank Church , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1924)1985 – Carl Schmitt , German philosopher and jurist (b. 1888)1986 – Leonid Kantorovich , Russian mathematician and economist (b. 1912)1990 – Ronald Evans , American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)1991 – Memduh Ünlütürk , Turkish general (b. 1913)1992 – Ace Bailey , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1903)1992 – Antonis Tritsis , Greek high jumper and politician, 71st Mayor of Athens (b. 1937)
1994 – Lee Brilleaux , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)1994 – Albert Guðmundsson , Icelandic footballer, manager, and politician (b. 1923)
1994 – Golo Mann , German historian and author (b. 1909)
1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana , Rwandan chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
1995 – Philip Jebb , English architect and politician (b. 1927)1997 – Luis Aloma , Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1923)1997 – Georgy Shonin , Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
1998 – Alex Schomburg , Puerto Rican painter and illustrator (b. 1905)1999 – Heinz Lehmann , German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)2001 – David Graf , American actor (b. 1950)2001 – Beatrice Straight , American actress (b. 1914)
2002 – John Agar , American actor (b. 1921)2003 – Cecile de Brunhoff , French pianist and author (b. 1903)2003 – David Greene , English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2004 – Victor Argo , American actor (b. 1934)2004 – Konstantinos Kallias , Greek politician (b. 1901)
2005 – Cliff Allison , English race car driver (b. 1932)2005 – Grigoris Bithikotsis , Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
2005 – Bob Kennedy , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
2005 – Melih Kibar , Turkish composer and educator (b. 1951)
2007 – Johnny Hart , American author and illustrator (b. 1931)2007 – Barry Nelson , American actor (b. 1917)
2008 – Ludu Daw Amar , Burmese journalist and author (b. 1915)2009 – Dave Arneson , American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons 2011 – Pierre Gauvreau , Canadian painter (b. 1922)2012 – Steven Kanumba , Tanzanian actor and director (b. 1984)2012 – Satsue Mito , Japanese zoologist and academic (b. 1914)
2012 – Ignatius Moses I Daoud , Syrian cardinal (b. 1930)
2012 – David E. Pergrin , American colonel and engineer (b. 1917)
2012 – Bashir Ahmed Qureshi , Pakistani politician (b. 1959)
2012 – Mike Wallace , American television news journalist (b. 1918)
2013 – Marty Blake , American businessman (b. 1927)2013 – Les Blank , American director and producer (b. 1935)
2013 – Andy Johns , English-American record producer (b. 1950)
2013 – Lilly Pulitzer , American fashion designer (b. 1931)
2013 – Irma Ravinale , Italian composer and educator (b. 1937)
2013 – Mickey Rose , American screenwriter (b. 1935)
2013 – Carl Williams , American boxer (b. 1959)
2014 – George Dureau , American painter and photographer (b. 1930)2014 – James Alexander Green , American-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
2014 – V. K. Murthy , Indian cinematographer (b. 1923)
2014 – Zeituni Onyango , Kenyan-American computer programmer (b. 1952)
2014 – John Shirley-Quirk , English opera singer (b. 1931)
2014 – George Shuffler , American guitarist (b. 1925)
2014 – Josep Maria Subirachs , Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1927)
2014 – Royce Waltman , American basketball player and coach (b. 1942)
2015 – Tim Babcock , American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (b. 1919)2015 – José Capellán , Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1981)
2015 – Stan Freberg , American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (b. 1926)
2015 – Richard Henyekane , South African footballer (b. 1983)
2015 – Geoffrey Lewis , American actor (b. 1935)
2016 – Blackjack Mulligan , American professional wrestler (b. 1942)2017 – Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca , Romanian historian and philologist (b. 1941)[76] 2019 – Seymour Cassel , American actor (b. 1935)[77] 2020 – John Prine , American country folk singer-songwriter (b. 1946)2020 – Herb Stempel , American television personality (b. 1926)[78]
2021 – Tommy Raudonikis , Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1950)[79] 2023 – Ben Ferencz , American lawyer (b. 1920)[80] 2024 – Jerry Grote , American baseball player (b. 1942)[81] 2024 – Joe Kinnear , Irish football player and manager (b. 1946)[82] Holidays and observances References
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