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Events

AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.

193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus.^[1]

364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.

1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

1737 – The Marathas under Baji Rao I attack and defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Delhi.

1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

1794 – Allies under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat French forces at Le Cateau.

1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.

1801 – Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.^[2]

1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.

1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.

1814 – War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels of equal strength.

1842 – First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.

1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.

1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.

1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.

1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.

1883 – Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.

1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.

1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.

1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.

1941 – World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.

1942 – World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.

1946 – Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.

1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.

1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.

1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.

1970 – An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.

1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.

1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.

1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.

1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

1994 – In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.

1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.

2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.

2005 – An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.

2006 – Massive protests are mounted against France's First Employment Contract law, meant to reduce youth unemployment.

Births

931 – Liu Chengyou, emperor of Later Han (d. 951)

1097 – Atsiz, Abbasid caliph (d. 1156)

1416 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)

1468 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1490)

1472 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian painter (d. 1517)

1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)

1515 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1582)

1522 – Albert the Warlike, German prince (d. 1557)

1527 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (d. 1579)

1591 – William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (d. 1668)

1592 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop and educator (d. 1670)

1599 – Witte de With, Dutch captain (d. 1658)

1613 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of China (d. 1688)

1621 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German composer and educator (d. 1696)

1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch botanist and anatomist (d. 1731)

1652 – Samuel Sewall, English judge (d. 1730)

1708 – Hannah Glasse, English cookery writer (d. 1770)

1725 – Andrew Kippis, English minister and author (d. 1795)

1727 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, (d. 1777)

1743 – Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Russian academic and politician (d. 1810)

1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1816)

1760 – Thomas Clarkson, English activist (d. 1846)

1773 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)

1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist (d. 1864)

1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian and author (d. 1876)

1806 – Thomas Hare, English lawyer and political scientist (d. 1891)

1811 – John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (d. 1860)

1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French author and poet (d. 1896)

1818 – Wade Hampton III, American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1902)

1819 – Joseph Bazalgette, English architect and engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge and Battersea Bridge (d. 1891)

1828 – Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (d. 1914)

1832 – Henry D. Washburn, American politician, general and explorer (d. 1871)

1836 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (d. 1904)

1840 – Emin Pasha, German-Jewish Egyptian physician and politician (d. 1892)

1847 – Gyula Farkas, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1930)

1849 – James Darmesteter, French historian and author (d. 1894)

1850 – Kyrle Bellew, English theatre actor (d. 1911)

1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (d. 1944)

1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)

1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)

1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1936)

1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch-Swiss conductor (d. 1951)

1873 – John Geiger, American rower (d. 1956)

1878 – Abraham Walkowitz, Russian-American painter (d. 1965)

1879 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish republican politician and hunger striker; Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920)

1881 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (d. 1918)

1884 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1951)

1886 – Gustave Mesny, French general (d. 1945)

1890 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1967)

1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish general (d. 1993)

1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (d. 1971)

1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain (d. 1941)

1895 – Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, pioneer of the electronic book (d. 1975)

1895 – Christian Herter, American politician, 53rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1966)

1895 – Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (d. 1960)

1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)

1897 – Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager (d. 1977)

1897 – Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975)

1899 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (d. 1989)

1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)

1899 – Buck Shaw, American football player and coach (d. 1977)

1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (d. 2004)

1902 – Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)

1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech fiddler and composer (d. 1988)

1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Czech-American pianist and educator (d. 1991)

1904 – Isabel Cuchí Coll, Puerto Rican author and journalist (d. 1993)

1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American production manager and producer (d. 1996)

1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)

1906 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2002)

1906 – Robert Allen, American actor (d. 1998)

1906 – Dorothy Knowles, South African-English author, fencer and academic (d. 2010)

1907 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)

1907 – Norrey Ford, English author (d. 1985)

1907 – Irving Paul Lazar, American lawyer and talent agent (d. 1993)

1909 – Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1981)

1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian and art collector (d. 2001)

1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 1964)

1910 – Ingrid of Sweden, (d. 2000)

1911 – Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (d. 1998)

1912 – A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian author (d. 1984)

1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian pilot and navigator (d. 1943)

1913 – Kazuo Taoka, Japanese crime boss (d. 1981)

1913 – Toko Shinoda, Japanese artist

1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000)

1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech author (d. 1997)

1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist and academic (d. 2003)

1914 – Edmund Muskie, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 58th United States Secretary of State (d. 1996)

1914 – Everett Ruess, American explorer, poet, and painter (d. 1934)

1915 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)

1915 – Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington, English lawyer (d. 2017)

1917 – Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon and scholar (d. 2014)

1918 – Edward Amy, Canadian soldier (d. 2011)

1919 – Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (d. 2013)

1919 – Tom Brooks, Australian cricket umpire (d. 2007)

1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)

1921 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)

1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author (d. 1999)

1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960)

1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator (d. 1992)

1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)

1922 – Grace Hartigan, American painter and educator (d. 2008)

1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer and actor (d. 2001)

1922 – B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician

1923 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)

1923 – Thad Jones, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1986)

1923 – René Vuaillat, French engineer and inventor

1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, American actor (d. 1992)

1924 – Fred Flanagan, Australian footballer (d. 2013)

1924 – Byrd Baylor, American author

1925 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (d. 1994)

1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (d. 2010)

1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (d. 2014)

1926 – Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)

1927 – Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (d. 2014)

1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)

1927 – Vina Mazumdar, Indian academic and activist (d. 2013)

1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political activist and analyst; 10th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2017)

1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)

1929 – Paul England, Australian race car driver and engineer (d. 2014)

1930 – Robert Ashley, American soldier and composer (d. 2014)

1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English soprano

1933 – Tete Montoliu, Spanish pianist (d. 1997)

1933 – Frank Murkowski, American soldier, banker, and politician, 8th Governor of Alaska

1934 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist, founded the Earth Policy Institute and Worldwatch Institute

1934 – Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (d. 2006)

1935 – Frank Judd, Baron Judd, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development

1935 – Michael Parkinson, English journalist and author

1935 – Józef Szmidt, Polish triple jumper

1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, playwright, and essayist Nobel Prize laureate

1938 – Hans-Jürgen Bäsler, German footballer (d. 2002)

1939 – Dov Frohman, Israeli electrical engineer and business executive

1940 – Tony Barber, English-Australian television host

1940 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013)

1941 – Alf Clausen, American composer and producer

1941 – Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous interpretation specialist, United Nations official (d. 2013)

1941 – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author and academic

1941 – Jack Simmons, English cricketer

1941 – Jim Turner, American football player and sportscaster

1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and academic

1942 – Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna

1942 – Neil Kinnock, Welsh politician, Vice-President of the European Commission

1942 – Mike Newell, English director and producer

1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer

1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach

1943 – Richard Eyre, English director, producer, and screenwriter

1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress

1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster

1944 – Ken Howard, American actor (d. 2016)

1945 – Rodrigo Duterte, Filipino politician, 16th President of the Philippines

1945 – Johnny Famechon, French-Australian boxer

1945 – Björn Hamilton, Swedish engineer and politician

1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (d. 2014)

1946 – Henry Paulson, American banker and politician, 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury

1946 – Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian economist and politician, 48th President of Peru

1947 – Greg Thompson, Canadian educator and politician, 25th Minister of Veterans Affairs

1948 – John Evan, English keyboard player and songwriter (Jethro Tull)

1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress

1948 – Milan Williams, American keyboard player (d. 2006)

1949 – Ronnie Ray Smith, American sprinter (d. 2013)

1952 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician (d. 2018)

1952 – Tony Brise, English race car driver (d. 1975)

1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi (d. 1993)

1953 – Rosemary Ashe, British actress and singer

1954 – Donald Brown, American pianist and educator

1955 – John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Northern Irish psychiatrist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly

1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1956 – Susan Ershler, American mountaineer and author

1957 – Harvey Glance, American sprinter and coach

1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban composer

1958 – Elisabeth Andreassen, Swedish-Norwegian singer

1958 – Bart Conner, American gymnast and sportscaster

1958 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2003)

1959 – Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica

1959 – Chris Myers, American journalist and sportscaster

1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor and comedian

1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician, Prime Minister of Cape Verde

1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French-Belgian author and playwright

1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach

1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier

1962 – Simon Bazalgette, English businessman

1963 – Jan Masiel, Polish politician

1964 – Karen Lumley, English politician

1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress

1967 – John Ziegler, German-American radio host and director

1968 – Iris Chang, Chinese-American journalist and author (d. 2004)

1968 – Nasser Hussain, Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster

1968 – Colin Brazier, English journalist

1969 – Rodney Atkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1969 – Brett Ratner, American director and producer

1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor

1970 – Jennifer Weiner, American journalist and author

1971 – Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-American journalist and educator

1971 – Orfeh, American singer, songwriter and actress

1972 – Nick Frost, English actor and screenwriter

1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player

1973 – Björn Kuipers, Dutch footballer and referee

1975 – Fabrizio Gollin, Italian race car driver

1975 – Kate Gosselin, American television personality

1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer

1976 – Dave Keuning, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American author

1978 – Nathan Cayless, Australian-NewZealand rugby league player

1980 – David Lee, English footballer

1980 – Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter and producer

1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player

1981 – Edwar Ramírez, American baseball player

1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress

1983 – Ladji Doucouré, French sprinter and hurdler

1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer

1985 – Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer

1985 – Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player

1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress

1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper

1986 – Bowe Bergdahl, American sergeant

1986 – Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, Czech tennis player

1987 – Yohan Benalouane, French-Tunisian footballer

1987 – Simeon Jackson, Canadian soccer player

1987 – Kagney Linn Karter, American pornographic actress

1988 – Ryan Kalish, American baseball player

1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer

1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer

1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer

1990 – Joe Bennett, English footballer

1990 – Zac Clarke, Australian footballer

1990 – Zoella (Zoe Sugg), English Youtuber

1991 – Lisa-Maria Moser, Austrian tennis player

1991 – Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player

1991 – Ondřej Palát, Czech ice hockey player

1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer

1992 – Lucho Ayala, Filipino actor

1994 – Jackson Wang, member of South Korean boy band GOT7

1995 – Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player

1996 – Matt Renshaw, English-Australian cricketer

Deaths

193 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (b. 126)

741 – Hatsusebe, Japanese princess

965 – Arnulf I, count of Flanders

966 – Flodoard, Frankish canon and chronicler

1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony (b. 1022)

1134 – Saint Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order

1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)

1241 – Valdemar II of Denmark (b. 1170)

1254 – William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (b. 1193)

1285 – Pope Martin IV (b. 1220)

1346 – Venturino of Bergamo, Dominican preacher (b. 1304)

1461 – John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford (b. 1435)

1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss poet and theorist (b. 1488)

1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian historian and diplomat (b. 1486)

1583 – Magnus, Duke of Holstein (b. 1540)

1584 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian king (b. 1530)

1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)

1794 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)

1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1755)

1865 – Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)

1866 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)

1868 – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)

1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)

1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795)

1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)

1893 – Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (b. 1824)

1900 – Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (b. 1831 or 1834)

1910 – Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838)

1917 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)

1923 – Charles Hubbard, American archer (b. 1849)

1927 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian archbishop (b. 1853)

1929 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (b. 1859)

1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Quebec (b. 1861)

1934 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and educator (b. 1891)

1941 – Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883)

1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (b. 1877)

1941 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1882)

1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910)

1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)

1944 – Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869)

1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)

1949 – Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (b. 1889)

1953 – Jim Thorpe, American football player and coach (b. 1887)

1958 – W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1873)

1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentinian author and screenwriter (b. 1883)

1963 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (b. 1876)

1965 – Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (b. 1888)

1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor (b. 1885)

1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)

1971 – Robert Hunter, American golfer (b. 1886)

1972 – Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner (b. 1887)

1974 – Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1905)

1974 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (b. 1905)

1974 – Françoise Rosay, French actress (b. 1891)

1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)

1977 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1907)

1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentinian-American actor and singer (b. 1918)

1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor and composer (b. 1914)

1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and poet (b. 1887)

1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)

1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1905)

1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1909)

1993 – Scott Cunningham, American author (b. 1956)

1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic (b. 1909)

1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1914)

1999 – Franco Gasparri, Italian actor (b. 1948)

2000 – Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (b. 1905)

2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1928)

2004 – Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)

2005 – Moura Lympany, English-Monacan pianist (b. 1916)

2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)

2006 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b. 1928)

2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1911)

2006 – Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (b. 1912)

2006 – Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)

2009 – Maurice Jarre, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1924)

2010 – June Havoc, American actress, dancer, and director (b. 1912)

2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)

2012 – John Arden, English author and playwright (b. 1930)

2012 – Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian pianist and composer (b. 1920)

2012 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1935)

2013 – George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (b. 1919)

2013 – Manuel García Ferré, Spanish-Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)

2013 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (b. 1947)

2013 – Art Malone, American race car driver (b. 1936)

2013 – Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1942)

2013 – Heinz Patzig, German footballer and manager (b. 1929)

2013 – Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (b. 1929)

2013 – Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (b. 1930)

2013 – Robert Zildjian, American businessman, founded Sabian (b. 1923)

2014 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (b. 1924)

2014 – Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)

2014 – Avraham Yaski, Israeli architect and academic (b. 1927)

2015 – Chuck Brayton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)

2015 – Joseph Cassidy, Canadian-English priest and academic (b. 1954)

2015 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)

2015 – Gene Saks, American actor and director (b. 1921)

2015 – Walter Schuck, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920)

2016 – James Noble, American actor (b. 1922)

References

1. ^Herodian, Roman History, ii.6–13
2. ^{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Desmond|title=Sicily: The Insecure Base: A History of the British Occupation of Sicily, 1806-1815|location=Rutherford, N.J.|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|date=1987|isbn=9780838633069|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bE4NecYyJicC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|pages=24-25}}

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