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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
301 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
363 Roman Emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would
bring about his own death.[1] ·
1046 Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year
Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama. ·
1279 The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by
the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania. ·
1496 King Henry VII of England issues
letters patent to John Cabot and
his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. ·
1616 Nicolaus Copernicus's
book On
the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to
the Index of
Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. ·
1766 Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor
of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. ·
1770 Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British
troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American
Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of
Independence) five years later. ·
1811 Peninsular War: A French force under the
command of Marshal
Victor is routed while trying to prevent an
Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cαdiz in
the Battle of Barrosa.[2] ·
1824 First
Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. ·
1836 Samuel Colt patents the first
production-model revolver, the
.34-caliber.[3] ·
1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island
of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is
opened.ref>Steve
Skinner (19 July 2014). Hydraulic Fluid Power A Historical Timeline.
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1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. ·
1868 Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere
performance at La Scala. ·
1872 George Westinghouse patents
the air brake. ·
1906 Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops
bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of
Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. ·
1912 Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to
use airships for military purposes,
employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. ·
1931 The British Raj: GandhiIrwin Pact is
signed. ·
1933 Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag
elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and
establish a dictatorship. ·
1936 First flight
of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced
monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom. ·
1940 Six high-ranking
members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the
execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700
Polish POWs, in what
will become known as the Katyn massacre. ·
1942 World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia,
capital of Dutch East Indies,
which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison
and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung. ·
1943 First Flight of
the Gloster Meteor,
Britain's first combat jet aircraft. ·
1944 World War II:
The Red Army begins the UmanBotoșani
Offensive in the western Ukrainian
SSR. ·
1946 Cold War: Winston Churchill coins
the phrase "Iron Curtain"
in his speech at Westminster
College, Missouri. ·
1953 Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of
the Soviet Union,
dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four
days earlier. ·
1960 Indonesian
President Sukarno dismissed
the Dewan Perwakilan
Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced
with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members. ·
1963 American
country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy
Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee. ·
1965 March Intifada: A Leftist uprising
erupts in Bahrain against British colonial
presence. ·
1966 BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in
mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and
crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.[4] ·
1970 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes
into effect after ratification by 43 nations. ·
1974 Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west
bank of the Suez Canal. ·
1978 The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California. ·
1979 Soviet
probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar
satellite Helios II all
are hit by "off the scale"
gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. ·
1981 The ZX81,
a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and
would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million
units around the world. ·
1982 Soviet
probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. ·
2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in
the Haifa bus 37
suicide bombing. ·
2012 Tropical Storm Irina kills
over 75 as it passes through Madagascar. Births[edit]
·
1133 Henry II of England (d.
1189)[5] ·
1224 Saint Kinga of Poland (d. 1292) ·
1324 David II of Scotland (d.
1371)[6] ·
1326 Louis I of Hungary (d.
1382) ·
1340 Cansignorio della
Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375) ·
1451 William
Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (d. 1491) ·
1512 Gerardus Mercator,
Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594) ·
1523 Rodrigo de
Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (d. 1600) ·
1527 Ulrich, Duke
of Mecklenburg (d. 1603) ·
1539 Christoph Pezel, German theologian (d. 1604) ·
1563 John Coke, English civil servant and
politician (d. 1644) ·
1575 William Oughtred, English minister and
mathematician (d. 1660) ·
1585 John George
I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656) ·
1585 Frederick
I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1638) ·
1637 Jan van der Heyden,
Dutch painter and engineer (d. 1712) ·
1658 Antoine de
la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial
Governor of Louisiana (d. 1730) ·
1693 Johann Jakob
Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (d. 1754) ·
1696 Giovanni
Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770) ·
1703 Vasily Trediakovsky,
Russian poet and playwright (d. 1768) ·
1713 Edward Cornwallis,
English general and politician, Governor of
Gibraltar (d. 1776) ·
1713 Frederick Cornwallis,
English archbishop (d. 1783) ·
1723 Princess
Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773) ·
1733 Vincenzo Galeotti,
Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1816) ·
1739 Benjamin
Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (d. 1819) ·
1748 Jonas Carlsson
Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (d. 1810) ·
1748 William Shield, English violinist and
composer (d. 1829) ·
1750 Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard
d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (d. 1805) ·
1751 Jan
Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator
(d. 1829) ·
1774 Christoph
Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (d. 1842) ·
1779 Benjamin Gompertz,
English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865) ·
1785 Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1841) ·
1794 Jacques Babinet, French physicist,
mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872) ·
1794 Robert Cooper Grier,
American lawyer and jurist (d. 1870) ·
1814 Wilhelm von
Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (d. 1889) ·
1800 Georg Friedrich
Daumer, German poet and philosopher (d. 1875) ·
1815 John Wentworth,
American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1888) ·
1817 Austen Henry Layard,
English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs (d. 1894) ·
1830 Ιtienne-Jules Marey,
French physiologist and chronophotographer (d. 1904) ·
1830 Charles Wyville
Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (d. 1882) ·
1834 Fιlix de Blochausen,
Luxembourgian politician, 6th Prime
Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915) ·
1834 Marietta Piccolomini,
Italian soprano (d. 1899) ·
1853 Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator
(d. 1911) ·
1862 Siegbert Tarrasch,
German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934) ·
1867 Louis-Alexandre
Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (d.
1952) ·
1869 Michael von
Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952) ·
1870 Frank Norris, American journalist and author
(d. 1902) ·
1870 Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer (d.
1953) ·
1871 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and
philosopher (d. 1919) ·
1871 Konstantinos Pallis,
Greek general and politician, Minister
Governor-General of Macedonia (d. 1941) ·
1873 Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer
(d. 1961) ·
1874 Henry Travers, English-American actor (d.
1965) ·
1875 Harry Lawson, Australian politician,
27th Premier of Victoria (d.
1952) ·
1876 Thomas
Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician,
8th Lord Chief
Justice of England (d. 1947) ·
1876 Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player (d.
1959) ·
1879 William Beveridge,
Bangladeshi-English economist and academic (d. 1963) ·
1879 Andres Larka, Estonian general and
politician, 1st Estonian
Minister of War (d. 1943) ·
1880 Sergei
Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1968) ·
1882 Dora Marsden, English author and activist
(d. 1960)[7] ·
1883 Pauline Sperry, American mathematician (d.
1967)[8] ·
1885 Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and
academic (d. 1969) ·
1886 Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and
politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d.
1975) ·
1886 Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer (d. 1927) ·
1887 Heitor Villa-Lobos,
Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959) ·
1894 Henry Daniell, English-American actor (d.
1963) ·
1898 Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier
of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976) ·
1898 Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d.
2015) ·
1900 Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (d. 1944) [9] ·
1900 Johanna Langefeld,
German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) ·
1901 Friedrich
Gόnther, Prince of Schwarzburg (d. 1971) ·
1901 Julian Przyboś,
Polish poet, essayist and translator (d. 1970) ·
1904 Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian
(d. 1984) ·
1905 Lαszlσ Benedek,
Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992) ·
1908 Fritz Fischer, German historian and author
(d. 1999) ·
1908 Irving Fiske, American author and playwright
(d. 1990) ·
1908 Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990) ·
1910 Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese
businessman, founded Nissin Foods (d.
2007) ·
1910 Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter,
and critic (d. 1972) ·
1912 Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer,
and politician, 28th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988) ·
1915 Henry
Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova
Scotia (d. 1990) ·
1915 Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and
academic (d. 2002) ·
1918 Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and manager (d. 2017) ·
1918 Red Storey, Canadian football player,
referee, and sportscaster (d. 2006) ·
1918 James Tobin, American economist and academic
(d. 2002) ·
1920 Josι Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist
(d. 2009) ·
1920 Virginia Christine,
American actress (d. 1996) ·
1920 Rachel Gurney, English actress (d. 2001) ·
1920 Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer (d. 1997) ·
1921 Elmer Valo, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1998) ·
1922 James Noble,
American actor (d. 2016)[10] ·
1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1975) ·
1923 Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and
academic (d. 2014) ·
1923 Laurence Tisch, American businessman,
co-founded the Loews Corporation (d.
2003) ·
1924 Roger Marche, French footballer (d. 1997) ·
1927 Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (d.
1976) ·
1927 Robert
Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and
politician ·
1928 J. Hillis Miller, American academic and
critic ·
1929 Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (d.
2015) ·
1929 J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1967) ·
1930 John Ashley,
Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2008) ·
1930 Del Crandall, American baseball player and
manager ·
1931 Fred, French
author and illustrator (d. 2013) ·
1931 Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and
educator (d. 2020)[11] ·
1932 Paul Sand, American actor ·
1933 Walter Kasper, German cardinal and
theologian ·
1934 Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist
and psychologist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1935 Letizia Battaglia,
Italian photographer and journalist ·
1935 Philip K. Chapman,
Australian-American astronaut and engineer ·
1936 Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and
politician, 1st President of
Zimbabwe (d. 2003) ·
1936 Dale Douglass, American golfer ·
1936 Dean Stockwell, American actor ·
1937 Olusegun Obasanjo,
Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria ·
1938 Paul Evans,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1938 Lynn Margulis, American biologist and
academic (d. 2011) ·
1938 Fred Williamson, American football player,
actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1939 Samantha Eggar, English actress ·
1939 Tony Rundle, Australian politician,
40th Premier of Tasmania ·
1939 Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian
(d. 1995) ·
1939 Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (d.
2010) ·
1939 Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef ·
1940 Tom Butler,
English bishop ·
1940 Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player
(d. 1990) ·
1940 Graham McRae, New Zealand race car driver ·
1940 Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager ·
1941 Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman
and activist ·
1942 Felipe Gonzαlez,
Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of
Spain ·
1942 Mike Resnick, American author and editor (d.
2020) ·
1942 David Watkins,
Welsh rugby player ·
1943 Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1998) ·
1944 Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor ·
1944 Roy Gutman, American journalist and author ·
1945 Wilf Tranter, English footballer[12] ·
1946 Richard
Bell, Canadian pianist (d. 2007) ·
1946 Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and
painter (d. 2018) ·
1946 Graham Hawkins, English footballer and
manager (d. 2016) ·
1946 Murray Head, English actor and singer ·
1947 Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and
actress ·
1947 Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1948 Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984) ·
1948 Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British
singer-songwriter and musician ·
1948 Richard Hickox, English conductor and
scholar (d. 2008) ·
1948 Elaine Paige, English singer and actress ·
1948 Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach
(d. 2011) ·
1949 Bernard Arnault, French businessman,
philanthropist, and art collector ·
1949 Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and
politician, German
Federal Minister of Defence ·
1949 Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1951 Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach ·
1952 Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach
(d. 2010) ·
1952 Mike Squires, American baseball player and
scout[13] ·
1953 Katarina Frostenson,
Swedish poet and author ·
1953 Michael J. Sandel,
American philosopher and academic ·
1953 Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and
politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng[14] ·
1954 Marsha Warfield, American actress ·
1954 Joγo Lourenηo,
Angolan president[15] ·
1955 Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and
author ·
1956 Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and
producer (d. 2010) ·
1956 Christopher Snowden,
English engineer and academic ·
1957 Mark E. Smith, English singer, songwriter
and musician (d. 2018) ·
1957 Ray Suarez, American journalist and author ·
1958 Volodymyr Bezsonov,
Ukrainian footballer and manager ·
1958 Bob Forward, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1958 Andy Gibb, English-Australian
singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1988) ·
1959 Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and
politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Armenia (d. 1999) ·
1960 Paul Drayson,
Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology ·
1963 Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and
television host ·
1964 Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter ·
1964 Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and
manager ·
1965 Josι
Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach ·
1966 Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer ·
1966 Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1966 Michael Irvin, American football player,
sportscaster, and actor ·
1966 Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1966 Zachery Stevens, American singer-songwriter ·
1968 Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and
politician, 7th Prime Minister
of Hungary ·
1968 Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and
politician, Secretary
of State for Northern Ireland ·
1969 Paul Blackthorne, English actor and producer ·
1969 Danny King,
English author and playwright ·
1969 Moussa Saοb, Algerian footballer and manager ·
1969 M.C. Solaar, Afro-French rapper ·
1970 Mike
Brown, American basketball player and coach ·
1970 John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1970 Yuu Watase, Japanese illustrator ·
1971 Greg Berry, English footballer and coach ·
1971 Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player
and scout ·
1971 Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1971 Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist ·
1971 Mark Protheroe, Australian rugby league player ·
1973 Yannis Anastasiou,
Greek footballer and manager ·
1973 Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (d. 2009) ·
1973 Juan Esnαider, Argentinian footballer and
manager ·
1973 Ryan Franklin, American baseball player ·
1973 Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1973 pela Pretnar, Slovenian skier ·
1974 Kevin Connolly,
American actor and director ·
1974 Jens Jeremies, German footballer ·
1974 Eva Mendes, American model and actress ·
1975 Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1975 Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer ·
1975 Chris Silverwood, English cricketer and
coach ·
1976 Neil Jackson, English actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1976 arūnas
Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach ·
1976 Paul Konerko, American baseball player ·
1976 Norm Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player ·
1977 Taismary Agόero,
Cuban-Italian volleyball player ·
1978 Jared Crouch, Australian footballer ·
1978 Mike Hessman, American baseball player and
coach ·
1978 Kimberly McCullough,
American actress, singer, and dancer ·
1978 Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer ·
1979 Martin Axenrot, Swedish drummer ·
1979 Lee Mears, English rugby player ·
1980 Shay Carl, American businessman,
co-founded Maker Studios ·
1981 Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1981 Paul Martin,
American ice hockey player ·
1982 Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby player ·
1982 Philipp Haastrup, German footballer ·
1983 Ιdgar Dueρas,
Mexican footballer ·
1984 Branko
Cvetković, Serbian basketball player ·
1984 Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer ·
1985 David
Marshall, Scottish footballer ·
1985 Brad Mills,
American baseball player ·
1985 Kenichi Matsuyama,
Japanese actor ·
1986 Alexandre Barthe, French footballer ·
1986 Matty Fryatt, English footballer ·
1987 Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player ·
1987 Chris Cohen, English footballer ·
1988 Liassine
Cadamuro-Bentaοba, Algerian footballer ·
1990 Danny Drinkwater, English footballer ·
1990 Mason Plumlee, American basketball player[16] ·
1990 Alex Smithies, English footballer ·
1991 Ramiro Funes Mori,
Argentinian footballer ·
1991 Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and
composer ·
1993 El Hadji Ba, French footballer ·
1993 Joshua Coyne, American violinist and
composer ·
1993 Harry Maguire, English footballer ·
1994 Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis
player ·
1994 Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player ·
1996 Taylor Hill,
American model ·
1996 Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player ·
1997 Milena Venega, Cuban rower[17] ·
1998 Bo Bichette, American baseball player ·
2007 Roman Griffin Davis,
British actor, second youngest Golden Globe recipient.[18] Deaths[edit]
·
254 Pope Lucius I (b. 200) ·
824 Suppo I, Frankish nobleman ·
1239 Hermann Balk, German knight ·
1410 Matthew of Krakσw,
Polish reformer (b. 1335) ·
1417 Manuel III Megas
Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b.
1364) ·
1534 Antonio da Correggio,
Italian painter and educator (b. 1489) ·
1539 Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and
politician, Governor
of Portuguese India (b. 1487) ·
1599 Guido Panciroli, Italian historian and
jurist (b. 1523) ·
1611 Shimazu Yoshihisa,
Japanese daimyō (b. 1533) ·
1622 Ranuccio
I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569) ·
1695 Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian
(b. 1664) ·
1726 Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull,
English politician, Lord
President of the Council (b. 1655) ·
1770 Crispus Attucks, American slave (b. 1723) ·
1778 Thomas Arne, English composer and educator
(b. 1710) ·
1815 Franz Mesmer, German physician and
astrologist (b. 1734) ·
1827 Pierre-Simon Laplace,
French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749) ·
1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and
academic (b. 1745) ·
1829 John Adams,
English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766) ·
1849 David Scott,
Scottish historical painter (b. 1806) ·
1876 Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and
author (b. 1805) ·
1889 Mary Louise Booth,
American writer, editor and translator (b. 1831)[19] ·
1893 Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic
(b. 1828) ·
1895 Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright,
and journalist (b. 1831) ·
1895 Sir
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b.
1810) ·
1907 Friedrich Blass, German philologist,
scholar, and academic (b. 1843) ·
1925 Johan Jensen,
Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859) ·
1927 Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician
and academic (b. 1840) ·
1929 David Dunbar Buick,
Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854) ·
1934 Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and
politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b.
1893) ·
1935 Roque Ruaρo, Spanish priest and engineer (b.
1877) ·
1940 Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and
academic (b. 1868) ·
1944 Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876) ·
1945 Lena Baker, African American maid and murderer (b.
1900) ·
1947 Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1883) ·
1950 Edgar Lee Masters,
American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868) ·
1950 Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and
politician (b. 1907) ·
1953 Herman J. Mankiewicz,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897) ·
1953 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1891) ·
1953 Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and
politician of Georgian descent,
2nd leader
of the Soviet Union (b. 1878) ·
1955 Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and
politician, 14th Prime
Minister of Lithuania (b. 1888) ·
1963 Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b.
1932) ·
1963 Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1913) ·
1963 Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1921) ·
1965 Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician,
27th Premier
of the Republic of China (b. 1897) ·
1965 Pepper Martin, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1904) ·
1966 Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet,
author, and translator (b. 1889) ·
1967 Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (b.
1905) ·
1967 Mohammad Mosaddegh,
Iranian political scientist and politician, 60th Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1882) ·
1967 Georges Vanier, Canadian general and
politician, 19th Governor
General of Canada (b. 1888) ·
1971 Allan Nevins, American journalist and author
(b. 1890) ·
1973 Robert C.
O'Brien, American journalist and author (b. 1918) ·
1974 John Samuel Bourque,
Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1894) ·
1974 Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907) ·
1974 Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American businessman
(b. 1888) ·
1976 Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of Estonia (b. 1889) ·
1977 Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (b. 1949) ·
1980 Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (b.
1912) ·
1981 Yip Harburg, American songwriter and
composer (b. 1896) ·
1982 John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949) ·
1984 Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer
(b. 1924) ·
1984 Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (b.
1913) ·
1984 William Powell, American actor (b. 1892) ·
1988 Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor
(b. 1933) ·
1990 Gary Merrill, American actor and director
(b. 1915) ·
1995 Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter
and musician (b. 1943) ·
1996 Whit Bissell, American character actor (b.
1909) ·
1997 Samm Sinclair Baker,
American writer (b. 1909) ·
1997 Jean Drιville, French director and
screenwriter (b. 1906) ·
1999 Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (b.
1922) ·
2000 Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and
singer (b. 1963) ·
2005 David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop
(b. 1929) ·
2008 Joseph Weizenbaum,
German computer scientist and author (b. 1923) ·
2010 Charles B. Pierce,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938) ·
2010 Richard Stapley, British actor and writer
(b. 1923) ·
2011 Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter
(b. 1945) ·
2012 Paul Haines,
New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1970) ·
2012 Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (b. 1934) ·
2012 Robert B. Sherman,
American songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1925) ·
2012 William O.
Wooldridge, American sergeant (b. 1922) ·
2013 Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager
(b. 1954) ·
2013 Hugo Chαvez, Venezuelan colonel and
politician, President
of Venezuela (b. 1954) ·
2013 Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic
(b. 1921) ·
2014 Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show
host (b. 1931) ·
2014 Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic
(b. 1963) ·
2014 Leopoldo Marνa
Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948) ·
2014 Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)[20] ·
2015 Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1958) ·
2015 Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932) ·
2016 Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and
politician (b. 1932) ·
2016 Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer
and engineer (b. 1941) ·
2016 Al Wistert, American football player and
coach (b. 1920) ·
2017 Kurt Moll, German opera singer (b. 1938) |
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