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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
348 days remain until the end of the year (349 in leap years). Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
38 BC Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and
marries Livia Drusilla,
ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.[1] ·
1362 Saint Marcellus'
flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North
Sea.[2] ·
1377 Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after
deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.[3] ·
1524 Giovanni da
Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the
Pacific Ocean. ·
1562
France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of
Saint-Germain.[4] ·
1595
During the French Wars of
Religion, Henry IV of France declares
war on Spain. ·
1608
Emperor Susenyos I of
Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly
kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men. ·
1648
England's Long Parliament passes
the "Vote of No Addresses",
breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and
thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.[5] ·
1773
Captain James Cook leads
the first
expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.[6] ·
1781 American
Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens:
Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces
under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at
the battle in South Carolina. ·
1799 Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of
other patriots, is executed. ·
1811 Mexican War
of Independence: In the Battle of
Calderσn Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force
of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries. ·
1852
The United Kingdom signs the Sand River
Convention with the South African
Republic. ·
1873
A group of Modoc warriors
defeats the United States Army in
the First
Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War. ·
1885
A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in
the Sudan. ·
1893 Lorrin A. Thurston,
along with the Citizens'
Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow
of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.[7] ·
1899
The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.[8] ·
1903 El Yunque
National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United
States National Forest
System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve. ·
1904 Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives
its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.[9] ·
1912
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South
Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. ·
1915 Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during
the Caucasus Campaign of World War I. ·
1917
The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin
Islands.[10] ·
1918 Finnish Civil War:
The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and
the White Guard. ·
1920 Alcohol
Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.[11] ·
1929 Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created
by E. C. Segar, first
appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.[12] ·
1941 Franco-Thai War: Vichy French forces inflict a decisive
defeat over the Royal Thai Navy. ·
1943 World War II: Greek
submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing
vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew. ·
1944
World War II: Allied forces
launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of
breaking through the Winter Line and
seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost
105,000 Allied casualties. ·
1945
World War II: The VistulaOder
Offensive forces German troops out of Warsaw. ·
1945
The SS-Totenkopfverbδnde begin
the evacuation of the Auschwitz
concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. ·
1945
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is
never publicly seen again.[13] ·
1946
The UN Security Council holds
its first session. ·
1948
The Renville Agreement between
the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified. ·
1950
The Great Brink's
Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored
car company's offices in Boston.[14] ·
1950
United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating
to arms control is
adopted. ·
1961
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers
a televised farewell
address to the nation three days before leaving office, in
which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "militaryindustrial
complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending,
especially deficit spending. ·
1961
Former Congolese Prime
Minister Patrice Lumumba is
murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the
governments of Belgium and the United States. ·
1966 Palomares
incident: A B-52 bomber
collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over
Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and
another one into the sea. ·
1969 Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a
meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA. ·
1977 Capital
punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year
hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by
firing squad in Utah. ·
1981 President of
the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial
law eight years and five months after declaring it. ·
1991 Gulf War: Operation Desert
Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike
positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C
Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and
is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires
eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to
provoke Israeli retaliation. ·
1991
Crown prince Harald V of Norway becomes
King Harald V, following the death of his father, King Olav V. ·
1992
During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime
Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing
Korean women into sexual slavery during
World War II. ·
1994
The 6.7 Mw Northridge
earthquake shakes the Greater Los
Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and
more than 8,700 injured. ·
1995
The 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin
earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo
Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,5026,434
people dead, and 251,301310,000 displaced. ·
1996
The Czech Republic applies
for membership of the European Union. ·
1997 Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds
after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch
pad. ·
1998 Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of
the Bill ClintonMonica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website. ·
2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. ·
2007
The Doomsday Clock is
set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing. ·
2010 Rioting begins between Muslim and
Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, results in at
least 200 deaths. Births[edit] ·
1342 Philip II,
Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404) ·
1429 Antonio del
Pollaiolo, Italian artist (d.c. 1498) ·
1463 Frederick
III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525) ·
1463
Antoine Duprat,
French cardinal (d. 1535) ·
1472 Guidobaldo da
Montefeltro, Italian captain (d. 1508) ·
1484 George Spalatin, German priest and reformer
(d. 1545) ·
1501 Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and
botanist (d. 1566) ·
1504 Pope Pius V (d. 1572) ·
1517 Henry
Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English Duke (d. 1554) ·
1560 Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist, physician,
and academic (d. 1624) ·
1574 Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer,
and mathematician (d. 1637) ·
1593 William Backhouse,
English alchemist and astrologer (d. 1662) ·
1600 Pedro Calderσn
de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1681) ·
1612 Thomas Fairfax, English general and
politician (d. 1671) ·
1640 Jonathan
Singletary Dunham, American settler (d. 1724) ·
1659 Antonio Veracini, Italian violinist and
composer (d. 1745) ·
1666 Antonio Maria
Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1723) ·
1686 Archibald Bower, Scottish historian and
author (d. 1766) ·
1706 Benjamin Franklin,
American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President
of Pennsylvania (d. 1790) ·
1712 John Stanley,
English organist and composer (d. 1786) ·
1719 William Vernon, American businessman (d.
1806) ·
1728 Johann Gottfried
Mόthel, German pianist and composer (d. 1788) ·
1732 Stanisław
August Poniatowski, Polish-Lithuanian king (d. 1798) ·
1734 Franηois-Joseph
Gossec, French composer and conductor (d. 1829) ·
1761 Sir James
Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (d. 1832) ·
1789 August Neander, German historian and
theologian (d. 1850) ·
1793 Antonio Josι
Martνnez, Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician (d.
1867) ·
1814 Ellen Wood,
English author (d. 1887) ·
1820 Anne Brontλ, English author and poet (d.
1849) ·
1828 Lewis A. Grant, American lawyer and
general, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1918) ·
1828
Ede Remιnyi,
Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898) ·
1832 Henry Martyn Baird,
American historian and academic (d. 1906) ·
1834 August Weismann, German biologist,
zoologist, and geneticist (d. 1914) ·
1850 Joaquim
Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian cardinal (d. 1930) ·
1850
Alexander Taneyev,
Russian pianist and composer (d. 1918) ·
1851 A. B. Frost, American author and illustrator
(d. 1928) ·
1853 Alva Belmont, American suffragist (d. 1933)[15] ·
1852
T. Alexander
Harrison, American painter and academic (d. 1930) ·
1857 Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian pianist, composer,
and conductor (d. 1941) ·
1857
Eugene Augustin
Lauste, French-American engineer (d. 1935) ·
1858 Tomαs Carrasquilla,
Colombian author (d. 1940) ·
1860 Douglas Hyde, Irish academic and politician,
1st President of Ireland (d.
1949) ·
1863 David Lloyd George,
Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945) ·
1863
Konstantin
Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (d. 1938) ·
1865 Sir
Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, English general and politician,
3rd Governor-General
of New Zealand (d. 1951) ·
1867 Carl Laemmle, German-born American film
producer, co-founded Universal Studios (d.
1939) ·
1867
Sir
Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel, pilot, and polo
player (d. 1934) ·
1871 David
Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, English admiral (d. 1936) ·
1871
Nicolae Iorga,
Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister
of Romania (d. 1940) ·
1875 Florencio Sαnchez,
Uruguayan journalist and playwright (d. 1910) ·
1876 Frank Hague, American lawyer and politician,
30th Mayor of Jersey City (d.
1956) ·
1877 Marie
Zdeňka Baborovα-Čihαkovα, Czech botanist and zoologist
(d. 1937)[16] ·
1877
May Gibbs, English-Australian author and
illustrator (d. 1969) ·
1880 Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor,
director, and producer (d. 1960) ·
1881 Antoni Łomnicki,
Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1941) ·
1881
Harry Price, English psychologist and author
(d. 1948) ·
1882 Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946) ·
1883 Compton Mackenzie,
English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972) ·
1886 Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and
businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin
Company (d. 1955) ·
1887 Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and
philologist (d. 1975) ·
1888 Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author
(d. 1963) ·
1897 Marcel Petiot, French physician and serial
killer (d. 1946) ·
1898 Lela Mevorah, Serbian librarian (d. 1972)[17] ·
1899 Al Capone, American mob boss (d. 1947) ·
1899
Robert Maynard
Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (d. 1977) ·
1899
Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (d.
1960) ·
1901 Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American
philosopher and author (d. 1973) ·
1904 Hem Vejakorn, Thai painter and illustrator
(d. 1969) ·
1905 Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d.
2005) ·
1905
Peggy Gilbert,
American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007) ·
1905
Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor,
educator, and critic (d. 1950) ·
1905
Guillermo Stαbile,
Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966) ·
1905
Jan Zahradnνček,
Czech poet and translator (d. 1960) ·
1907 Henk Badings, Indonesian-Dutch composer and
engineer (d. 1987) ·
1907
Alfred Wainwright,
British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator (d. 1991) ·
1908 Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and
trainer (d. 1985) ·
1911 Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 1966) ·
1911
John S. McCain Jr.,
American admiral (d. 1981) ·
1911
George Stigler,
American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1991) ·
1914 Anacleto Angelini,
Italian-Chilean businessman (d. 2007) ·
1914
Irving Brecher,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) ·
1914
Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot
(d. 2015) ·
1914
William Stafford,
American poet and author (d. 1993) ·
1916 Peter
Frelinghuysen Jr., American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011) ·
1917 M. G. Ramachandran,
Indian actor, director, and politician, 5th Chief
Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1987) ·
1918 Keith Joseph, English lawyer and
politician, Secretary
of State for Education (d. 1994) ·
1918
George M. Leader,
American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of
Pennsylvania (d. 2013) ·
1920 Georges Pichard, French author and
illustrator (d. 2003) ·
1921 Asghar Khan, Pakistani general and
politician (d. 2018) ·
1921
Jackie Henderson,
Scottish footballer, forward (d. 2005)[18] ·
1921
Charlie Mitten,
English footballer, outside forward and manager (d. 2002)[19] ·
1921
Antonio Prohνas,
Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998) ·
1922 Luis Echeverrνa,
Mexican academic and politician, 50th President of Mexico ·
1922
Nicholas Katzenbach,
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 65th United
States Attorney General (d. 2012) ·
1922
Betty White, American actress, game show
panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist ·
1923 Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright
(d. 1962) ·
1924 Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and
journalist (d. 2013) ·
1924
Jewel Plummer Cobb,
American biologist, cancer researcher, and academic (d. 2017) ·
1925 Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect
(d. 2017) ·
1925
Robert Cormier,
American author and journalist (d. 2000) ·
1925
Abdul Hafeez Kardar,
Pakistani cricketer and author (d. 1996) ·
1926 Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and
politician ·
1926
Moira Shearer,
Scottish-English ballerina and actress (d. 2006) ·
1926
Clyde Walcott,
Barbadian cricketer (d. 2006) ·
1927 Thomas Anthony
Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961) ·
1927
Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d.
2008) ·
1927
Harlan Mathews,
American lawyer and politician (d. 2014) ·
1927
E. W. Swackhamer,
American director and producer (d. 1994) ·
1928 Jean Barraquι, French composer (d. 1973) ·
1928
Vidal Sassoon,
English-American hairdresser and businessman (d. 2012) ·
1929 Jacques Plante, Canadian-Swiss ice hockey
player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1986) ·
1929
Tan Boon Teik,
Malaysian-Singaporean lawyer and politician, Attorney-General
of Singapore (d. 2012) ·
1931 James Earl Jones, American actor ·
1931
Douglas Wilder,
American sergeant and politician, 66th Governor of Virginia ·
1931
Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach,
and manager (d. 2014) ·
1932 Sheree North, American actress and dancer
(d. 2005) ·
1933 Dalida, Egyptian-French singer and actress
(d. 1987) ·
1933
Prince
Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-Pakistani diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d.
2003) ·
1933
Shari Lewis, American actress,
puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host (d. 1998) ·
1934 Donald Cammell, Scottish-American director
and screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1935 Ruth Ann Minner, American businesswoman and
politician, 72nd Governor of Delaware ·
1936 John Boyd,
English academic and diplomat, British ambassador to Japan ·
1936
A. Thangathurai,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1997) ·
1937 Alain Badiou, French philosopher and academic ·
1938 John Bellairs, American author and academic
(d. 1991) ·
1938
Toini Gustafsson,
Swedish cross country skier ·
1939 Christodoulos of
Athens, Greek archbishop (d. 2008) ·
1939
Maury Povich,
American talk show host and producer ·
1940 Nerses Bedros
XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (d. 2015) ·
1940
Kipchoge Keino,
Kenyan athlete ·
1940
Tabarι Vαzquez,
Uruguayan physician and politician, 39th President of Uruguay ·
1941 Istvαn Horthy, Jr.,
Hungarian physicist and architect ·
1942 Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist
(d. 2016) ·
1942
Ita Buttrose,
Australian journalist and author ·
1942
Ulf Hoelscher,
German violinist and educator ·
1942
Nigel McCulloch,
English bishop ·
1943 Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1943
Renι Prιval,
Haitian agronomist and politician, 52nd President of Haiti (d.
2017) ·
1944 Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and
academic ·
1945 Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and
composer ·
1945
Anne Cutler, Australian psychologist and
academic ·
1948 Davνπ Oddsson,
Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister
of Iceland ·
1949 Anita Borg, American computer scientist and
academic (d. 2003) ·
1949
Gyude Bryant,
Liberian businessman and politician (d. 2014) ·
1949
Augustin Dumay,
French violinist and conductor ·
1949
Andy Kaufman,
American actor and comedian (d. 1984) ·
1949
Mick Taylor, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1950 Luis Lσpez Nieves,
Puerto Rican-American author and academic ·
1952 Tom Deitz, American author (d. 2009) ·
1952
Darrell Porter,
American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002) ·
1952
Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Japanese pianist, composer, and producer ·
1953 Jeff Berlin, American bass player and
educator ·
1953
Carlos
Johnson, American singer and guitarist ·
1954 Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., American lawyer, radio host, activist, and environmentalist ·
1955 Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter,
musician, record producer, author and actor ·
1955
Pietro Parolin,
Italian cardinal ·
1955
Steve Javie, American basketball player and
referee ·
1956 Damian Green, English journalist and
politician ·
1956
Paul Young, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1957 Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian,
television personality and game show host ·
1957
Ann Nocenti, American journalist and author ·
1958 Tony Kouzarides, English biologist, cancer
researcher ·
1959 Susanna Hoffs, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actress ·
1960 John Crawford,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1960
Chili Davis, Jamaican-American baseball
player and coach ·
1961 Brian Helgeland, American director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1962 Jun Azumi, Japanese broadcaster and
politician, 46th Japanese
Minister of Finance ·
1962
Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and producer ·
1962
Sebastian Junger,
American journalist and author ·
1963 Kai Hansen, German singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1963
Colin Gordon,
English footballer, striker, agent, manager, chief executive[20] ·
1964 Michelle Obama, American lawyer and
activist, 46th First
Lady of the United States ·
1964
John Schuster,
Samoan-New Zealand rugby player ·
1965 Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1966 Trish Johnson, English golfer ·
1966
Joshua Malina,
American actor ·
1967 Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1968 Rowan Pelling, English journalist and author ·
1968
Ilja Leonard
Pfeijffer, Dutch author, poet, and scholar ·
1969 Naveen Andrews, English actor ·
1969
Lukas Moodysson,
Swedish director, screenwriter, and author ·
1969
Tiλsto, Dutch DJ and producer ·
1970 Cαssio Alves de
Barros, Brazilian footballer ·
1970
Jeremy Roenick,
American ice hockey player and actor ·
1970
Genndy Tartakovsky,
Russian-American animator, director, and producer ·
1971 Giorgos Balogiannis,
Greek basketball player ·
1971
Richard Burns,
English race car driver (d. 2005) ·
1971
Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actor ·
1971
Sylvie Testud,
French actress, director, and screenwriter ·
1973 Cuauhtιmoc Blanco,
Mexican footballer and actor ·
1973
Chris Bowen, Australian politician,
37th Treasurer of
Australia ·
1973
Liz Ellis, Australian netball player and
sportscaster ·
1973
Aaron Ward,
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster ·
1974 Yang
Chen, Chinese footballer and manager ·
1974
Vesko Kountchev,
Bulgarian viola player, composer, and producer ·
1974
Derrick Mason,
American football player ·
1975 Freddy Rodriguez,
American actor ·
1978 Lisa Llorens, Australian Paralympian[21] ·
1978
Ricky
Wilson, English singer-songwriter ·
1980 Maksim Chmerkovskiy,
Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer ·
1980
Zooey Deschanel,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1980
Modestas Stonys,
Lithuanian footballer ·
1981 Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer and
manager ·
1982 Dwyane Wade, American basketball player ·
1982
Amanda Wilkinson,
Canadian singer ·
1983 Αlvaro Arbeloa,
Spanish footballer ·
1983
Johannes Herber,
German basketball player ·
1983
Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver ·
1983
Marcelo Garcia,
Brazilian martial artist ·
1984 Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter,
DJ, and producer ·
1985 Pablo Barrientos, Argentinian footballer ·
1985
Betsy Ruth, American wrestler and manager ·
1985
Simone Simons,
Dutch singer-songwriter ·
1987 Cody Decker, American baseball player ·
1988 Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer
(d. 2013) ·
1988
Will Genia, Australian rugby player ·
1988
Hιctor Moreno,
Mexican footballer ·
1989 Taylor Jordan, American baseball player ·
1989
Kelly Marie Tran,
American actress ·
1990 Santiago Trιllez,
Colombian footballer ·
1991 Trevor Bauer, American baseball player ·
1991
Esapekka Lappi,
Finnish Rally Driver ·
1991
Slade Griffin,
Australian rugby league player ·
1991
Alise Post, American BMX rider ·
1993 Frankie Cocozza, British singer ·
1994 Mark Steketee, Australian cricketer ·
1998 Jeff Reine-Adelaide,
French footballer ·
1998
Sophie Molineux,
Australian cricketer ·
2000 Devlin DeFrancesco,
Canadian race car driver[22] Deaths[edit] ·
395 Theodosius I, Roman emperor (b. 347) ·
644 Sulpitius the Pious,
French bishop and saint ·
764 Joseph of Freising,
German bishop ·
1040 Mas'ud I of Ghazni,
Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire (b.
998) ·
1156 Andrι de Montbard,
fifth Grand
Master of the Knights Templar ·
1168 Thierry, Count
of Flanders (b. 1099) ·
1229 Albert of Riga, German bishop (b. 1165) ·
1329 Saint Roseline, Carthusian nun (b. 1263) ·
1334 John
of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. 1266) ·
1345 Henry of Asti, Greek patriarch ·
1345
Martino Zaccaria,
Genoese Lord of Chios ·
1369 Peter I of Cyprus (b.
1328) ·
1456 Elisabeth
of Lorraine-Vaudιmont, French translator (b. 1395) ·
1468 Skanderbeg, Albanian soldier and politician
(b. 1405) ·
1588 Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528) ·
1598 Feodor I of Russia (b.
1557) ·
1617 Fausto Veranzio, Croatian bishop and
lexicographer (b. 1551) ·
1705 John Ray, English botanist and historian (b.
1627) ·
1718 Benjamin Church,
American colonel (b. 1639) ·
1737 Matthδus
Daniel Pφppelmann, German architect (b. 1662) ·
1738 Jean-Franηois
Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682) ·
1751 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and
composer (b. 1671) ·
1826 Juan Crisσstomo
Arriaga, Spanish-French composer (b. 1806) ·
1834 Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and
academic (b. 1762) ·
1861 Lola Montez, Irish actress and dancer (b.
1821) ·
1863 Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789) ·
1869 Alexander
Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813) ·
1878 Edward Shepherd
Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812) ·
1884 Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and
herpetologist (b. 1804) ·
1887 William Giblin, Australian lawyer and
politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b.
1840) ·
1888 Big Bear, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1825) ·
1891 George Bancroft, American historian and
politician, 17th United
States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800) ·
1893 Rutherford B. Hayes,
American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President
of the United States (b. 1822) ·
1903 Ignaz Wechselmann,
Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828) ·
1908 Ferdinand
IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835) ·
1909 Francis
Smith, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b.
1819) ·
1911 Francis Galton, English polymath,
anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822) ·
1927 Juliette Gordon Low,
American founder of the Girl Scouts of the
USA (b. 1860) ·
1930 Gauhar Jaan, One of the first performers to
record music on 78 rpm records in India. (b. 1873) ·
1931 Grand
Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864) ·
1932 Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881) ·
1932
Albert Jacka,
Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893) ·
1933 Louis Comfort
Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848) ·
1936 Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author,
and poet (b. 1885) ·
1942 Walther von
Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884) ·
1947 Pyotr Krasnov, Russian historian and general
(b. 1869) ·
1947
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue
Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (b. 1883) ·
1951 Jyoti Prasad
Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (b. 1903) ·
1952 Walter Briggs Sr.,
American businessman (b. 1877) ·
1961 Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician,
1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b.
1925) ·
1970 Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (b. 1890) ·
1972 Betty Smith, American author and playwright
(b. 1896) ·
1977 Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b.
1940) ·
1977
Gary Gilmore,
American murderer (b. 1940) ·
1981 Loukas Panourgias,
Greek footballer and lawyer (b. 1899) ·
1984 Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1903) ·
1987 Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and
screenwriter (b. 1908) ·
1988 Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and
author (b. 1938) ·
1991 Olav V of Norway (b. 1903) ·
1992 Frank Pullen, English soldier and
businessman (b. 1915) ·
1993 Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian
and academic (b. 1915) ·
1994 Yevgeni Ivanov,
Russian spy (b. 1926) ·
1994
Helen Stephens,
American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1918) ·
1996 Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1936) ·
1996
Sylvia Lawler,
English geneticist (b. 1922)) ·
1997 Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and
politician, 20th Australian
Minister for the Navy (b. 1912) ·
1997
Clyde Tombaugh,
American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906) ·
2000 Philip Jones,
English trumpet player and educator (b. 1928) ·
2000
Ion Rațiu,
Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917) ·
2002 Camilo Josι Cela,
Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1916) ·
2002
Roman Personov,
Russian physicist and academic (b. 1932) ·
2003 Richard Crenna, American actor and director
(b. 1926) ·
2004 Raymond Bonham
Carter, English banker (b. 1929) ·
2004
Harry Brecheen,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1914) ·
2004
Ray Stark, American film producer (b. 1915) ·
2004
Noble Willingham,
American actor (b. 1931) ·
2005 Charlie Bell,
Australian businessman (b. 1960) ·
2005
Virginia Mayo,
American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1920) ·
2005
Albert Schatz,
American microbiologist and academic (b. 1920) ·
2005
Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician, 3rd Premier
of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919) ·
2006 Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon (b. 1925) ·
2007 Art Buchwald, American journalist and author
(b. 1925) ·
2007
Yevhen Kushnaryov,
Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1951) ·
2008 Bobby Fischer, American chess player and
author (b. 1943)[23] ·
2008
Ernie Holmes,
American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1948) ·
2009 Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and
historian (b. 1943) ·
2010 Gaines Adams, American football player (b.
1983) ·
2010
Jyoti Basu, Indian politician and CM of West
Bengal for 23 years (b. 1914) ·
2010
Michalis
Papakonstantinou, Greek journalist and politician, Foreign
Minister of Greece (b. 1919) ·
2010
Erich Segal, American author and
screenwriter (b. 1937) ·
2011 Don Kirshner, American songwriter and
producer (b. 1934) ·
2012 Ernie Alexander, American educator and
politician (b. 1933) ·
2012
Julius Meimberg,
German soldier and pilot (b. 1917) ·
2012
Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and
producer (b. 1921) ·
2012
Marty Springstead,
American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937) ·
2013 Mehmet Ali Birand,
Turkish journalist and author (b. 1941) ·
2013
Jakob Arjouni,
German author (b. 1964) ·
2013
Yves Debay, Belgian journalist (b. 1954) ·
2013
John Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President
of Zimbabwe (b. 1934) ·
2013
Lizbeth Webb,
English soprano and actress (b. 1926) ·
2014 Syedna
Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1915) ·
2014
Francine Lalonde,
Canadian educator and politician (b. 1940) ·
2014
Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green,
English businessman and politician (b. 1942) ·
2014
John J. McGinty III,
American captain, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1940) ·
2014
Sunanda Pushkar,
Indian-Canadian businesswoman (b. 1962) ·
2014
Suchitra Sen,
Indian film actress (b. 1931) [24] ·
2015 Ken Furphy, English footballer and manager
(b. 1931) ·
2015
Faten Hamama,
Egyptian actress and producer (b. 1931) ·
2015
Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter
(b. 1924) ·
2016 Blowfly,
American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939) ·
2016
Melvin Day, New Zealand painter and
historian (b. 1923) ·
2016
V. Rama Rao, Indian lawyer and politician,
12th Governor of Sikkim (b.
1935) ·
2016
Sudhindra
Thirtha, Indian religious leader (b. 1926) ·
2017 Tirrel Burton, American football player and
coach (b. 1929) ·
2018 Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress (b.
1988) ·
2019 S.
Balakrishnan, Malayalam movie composer (b. 1948)[25] ·
2020 Derek Fowlds, British actor (b.1937) [26] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Gamelbert of
Michaelsbuch o Charles Gore (Church
of England) o Jenaro Sαnchez
Delgadillo (one of Saints of the
Cristero War) o Mildgyth o January
17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
National Day (Menorca, Spain) ·
The
opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras) |
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