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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 19 is the 19th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
346 days remain until the end of the year (347 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus,
and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.[1] ·
649 – Conquest of Kucha:
The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er,
establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.[2] ·
1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England,
completing his reconquest of Normandy.[3] ·
1511 – The Italian
city-fortress of Mirandola surrenders
to the French.[4] ·
1520 – Sten Sture the
Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at
the Battle of Bogesund and
dies on February 3.[5] ·
1607 – San Agustin
Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest
church still standing in the Philippines. ·
1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British
House of Commons for seditious libel.[6] ·
1764 – Bolle Willum
Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has
severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Břrglum Abbey.[7] ·
1788 – The second group
of ships of the First Fleet arrive
at Botany Bay. ·
1795 – The Batavian Republic is
proclaimed in the Netherlands, bringing to an end the Republic
of the Seven United Netherlands.[8] ·
1806 – Britain occupies
the Dutch Cape Colony after
the Battle of Blaauwberg. ·
1817 – An army of
5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. ·
1829 – Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust:
The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere
performance.[9] ·
1839 – The British East
India Company captures Aden. ·
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere
performance in Rome. ·
1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States. ·
1862 – American Civil
War: Battle of Mill
Springs: The Confederacy suffers
its first significant defeat in the conflict. ·
1871 – Franco-Prussian War:
In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins
the Battle of
St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in
the Battle of
Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. ·
1883 – The first
electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.[10] ·
1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is
formed. ·
1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for
use in advertising. ·
1915 – German
strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the
towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom
killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a
civilian target. ·
1917 – Silvertown explosion:
A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The
resulting fire causes over Ł2,000,000 worth of damage. ·
1920 – The United States Senate votes
against joining the League of Nations. ·
1920 – The American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded. ·
1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air
record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7
hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. ·
1940 – You Nazty Spy!, the first Hollywood film
of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres,
starring The Three Stooges,
with Moe Howard as
the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler. ·
1941 – World War II: HMS Greyhound and
other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with
all hands 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Falkonera. ·
1942 – World War II:
The Japanese
conquest of Burma begins. ·
1945 – World War
II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź
Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900
had survived the Nazi occupation. ·
1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes
the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in
Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. ·
1953 – Almost 72
percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.[11] ·
1960 – Japan and the
United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty ·
1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself
on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about
the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns
into another major protest. ·
1974 – China gains
control over all the Paracel Islands after a military
engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam ·
1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a.
"Tokyo Rose"). ·
1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made
in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America
continues until 2003. ·
1981 – Iran hostage crisis:
United States and Iranian officials sign
an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. ·
1983 – Nazi war
criminal Klaus Barbie is
arrested in Bolivia.[12] ·
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user
interface and a computer mouse, is announced. ·
1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the
wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain,
it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized
copying of the software they had written. ·
1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires
a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. ·
1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. ·
1995 – After being
struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Flight 56C are
forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued. ·
1996 – The barge North Cape oil
spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore
on Moonstone Beach in South
Kingstown, Rhode Island. ·
1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and
joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. ·
1999 – British Aerospace agrees
to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General
Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. ·
2007 –
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in
front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish
ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. ·
2007 – Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile
(1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for
the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical
assistance.[13] ·
2012 – The Hong
Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.[14] ·
2014 – A bomb attack on
an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani
soldiers and injures 38 others. Births[edit]
·
399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d.
453)[15] ·
1200 – Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (d. 1253)[16] ·
1544 – Francis II of France (d.
1560)[17] ·
1617 – Lucas Faydherbe, Flemish sculptor and
architect (d. 1697)[18] ·
1628 – Charles
Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, English noble (d. 1672) ·
1676 – John Weldon,
English organist and composer (d. 1736) ·
1721 – Jean-Philippe
Baratier, German scholar and author (d. 1740) ·
1736 – James Watt, Scottish-English chemist and
engineer (d. 1819)[19] ·
1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer,
and educator (d. 1802) ·
1739 – Joseph Bonomi the
Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (d. 1808) ·
1752 – James Morris III, American captain (d. 1820) ·
1757 – Countess
Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (d. 1831) ·
1788 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and
politician (d. 1874) ·
1790 – Per Daniel
Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic (d. 1855) ·
1798 – Auguste Comte, French economist,
sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1857) ·
1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general and academic
(d. 1870) ·
1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and
author (d. 1887) ·
1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American short story
writer, poet, and critic (d. 1849) ·
1810 – Talhaiarn, Welsh poet and architect (d.1869) ·
1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and
businessman (d. 1898) ·
1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer
(d. 1875) ·
1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and
academic (d. 1872) ·
1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906) ·
1848 – Arturo Graf, Italian poet, of German
ancestry (d. 1913). ·
1848 – John Fitzwilliam
Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1904) ·
1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d.
1883) ·
1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and
academic (d. 1922) ·
1852 – Thomas
Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1909) ·
1863 – Werner Sombart, German economist and
sociologist (d. 1941) ·
1866 – Harry Davenport,
American stage and film actor (d. 1949) ·
1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist,
co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d.
1906) ·
1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922) ·
1876 – Wakashima
Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943) ·
1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet and author
(d. 1899) ·
1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and
manager (d. 1934) ·
1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian soldier and author
(d. 1925) ·
1882 – John Cain Sr.,
Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (d.
1957) ·
1883 – Hermann Abendroth,
German conductor (d. 1956) ·
1887 – Alexander Woollcott,
American actor, playwright, and critic (d. 1943) ·
1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp,
Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943) ·
1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and
politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Iceland (d. 1964) ·
1893 – Magda Tagliaferro,
Brazilian pianist and educator (d. 1986) ·
1903 – Boris Blacher, German composer and
playwright (d. 1975) ·
1905 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director
and producer (d. 1991) ·
1907 – Briggs Cunningham,
American race car driver, sailor, and businessman (d. 2003) ·
1908 – Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet
player (d. 1994) ·
1908 – Aleksandr
Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1971) ·
1911 – Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and
judge (d. 2009) ·
1912 – Leonid Kantorovich,
Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1986) ·
1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet
(d. 1955) ·
1913 – Rudolf Wanderone, American professional
pocket billiards player (d. 1996) ·
1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded
the Johnson
Publishing Company (d. 2005) ·
1920 – Bernard Dunstan, English painter and
educator (d. 2017) ·
1920 – Javier Pérez de
Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat, 135th Prime Minister of
Peru (d. 2020) ·
1921 – Patricia Highsmith,
American novelist and short story writer (d. 1995) ·
1922 – Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and
journalist (d. 2015) ·
1922 – Miguel Muńoz, Spanish footballer and manager
(d. 1990) ·
1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer
(d. 2013) ·
1924 – Nicholas Colasanto,
American actor and director (d. 1985) ·
1924 – Jean-François Revel,
French philosopher (d. 2006) ·
1925 – Nina Bawden, English author (d. 2012) ·
1926 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist
and author (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor (d. 2016) ·
1930 – Tippi Hedren, American model, actress, and
animal rights-welfare activist ·
1930 – John Waite,
South African cricketer (d. 2011) ·
1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist
and author ·
1932 – Russ Hamilton,
English singer-songwriter (d. 2008) ·
1932 – Richard Lester, American-English director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1932 – Harry Lonsdale, American chemist,
businessman, and politician (d. 2014) ·
1933 – George Coyne, American priest, astronomer,
and theologian ·
1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter
(d. 1978) ·
1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and
politician, 7th President of
Bangladesh (d. 1981) ·
1936 – Willie
"Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and
drummer (d. 2011) ·
1936 – Fred J. Lincoln, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist
and academic (d. 1998) ·
1939 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2014) ·
1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge
(d. 1992) ·
1940 – Mike Reid,
English comedian, actor, and author (d. 2007) ·
1941 – Colin Gunton, English theologian and
academic (d. 2003) ·
1941 – Pat Patterson,
Canadian wrestler, trainer, and referee ·
1942 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer ·
1942 – Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet and
politician ·
1943 – Larry Clark, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (d.
1970) ·
1943 – Princess
Margriet of the Netherlands ·
1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer ·
1944 – Thom Mayne, American architect and academic,
designed the San
Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower ·
1944 – Dan Reeves, American football player and
coach ·
1945 – Trevor Williams,
English singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1946 – Julian Barnes, English novelist, short story
writer, essayist, and critic ·
1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1947 – Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political
scientist and academic (d. 2017) ·
1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and author ·
1947 – Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter ·
1948 – Nancy Lynch, American computer scientist and
academic ·
1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and
diplomat, 27th Premier of New
Brunswick ·
1948 – Mal Reilly, English rugby league player and
coach ·
1949 – Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and
radio host (d. 2012) ·
1949 – Robert Palmer,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003) ·
1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas,
Canadian actor ·
1951 – Martha Davis,
American singer ·
1952 – Dewey Bunnell, British-American
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1952 – Nadiuska, German television actress ·
1952 – Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer
scientist (d. 1999) ·
1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor and singer ·
1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and
politician ·
1953 – Wayne Schimmelbusch,
Australian footballer and coach ·
1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress and singer ·
1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer and
director ·
1954 – Esther Shkalim, Israeli poet and Mizrahi
feminist[20] ·
1955 – Paul Rodriguez,
Mexican-American comedian and actor ·
1956 – Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor,
and television host ·
1956 – Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist[21][22] ·
1957 – Ottis Anderson, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1957 – Roger
Ashton-Griffiths, English actor, screenwriter and film director ·
1957 – Kenneth McClintock,
Puerto Rican public servant and politician, 22nd Secretary
of State of Puerto Rico ·
1958 – Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012) ·
1959 – Danese Cooper, American computer scientist
and programmer ·
1959 – Jeff Pilson, American bass player,
songwriter, and actor ·
1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor ·
1961 – Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer,
co-founded Red or Dead ·
1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist ·
1962 – Chris Sabo, American baseball player and
coach ·
1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player
and coach ·
1963 – Michael Adams,
American basketball player and coach ·
1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist ·
1963 – John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons ·
1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and
photographer ·
1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter
and basketball player ·
1966 – Sylvain Côté,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player and
coach ·
1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer-songwriter ·
1968 – David Bartlett, Australian politician,
43rd Premier of Tasmania[23] ·
1968 – Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter ·
1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist
and short story writer[24] ·
1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
and coach ·
1969 – Predrag
Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer and manager ·
1969 – Junior Seau, American football player (d.
2012) ·
1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer and manager ·
1970 – Steffen Freund, German footballer defensive
midfielder and manager[25] ·
1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete ·
1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer ·
1971 – Phil Nevin, American baseball player ·
1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1971 – John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1972 – Ron Killings, American wrestler and rapper ·
1972 – Troy
Wilson, Australian footballer and race car driver ·
1972 – Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player and
coach ·
1972 – Yoon Hae-young, South Korean actress ·
1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist ·
1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer and coach ·
1974 – Dainius Adomaitis,
Lithuanian basketball player and coach ·
1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor,
and screenwriter ·
1974 – Ian Laperričre,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1974 – Jaime
Moreno, Bolivian footballer and manager ·
1975 – Natalie Cook, Australian volleyball player ·
1975 – Zdeňka Málková,
Czech tennis player ·
1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer ·
1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian race car driver ·
1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor, director,
and photographer ·
1979 – Svetlana Khorkina,
Russian gymnast and sportscaster ·
1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer ·
1979 – Wiley, English rapper and producer ·
1980 – Jenson Button, English race car driver ·
1980 – Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer and
choreographer ·
1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian-American actor and
singer ·
1980 – Arvydas Macijauskas,
Lithuanian basketball player ·
1980 – Michael Vandort, Sri Lankan cricketer ·
1981 – Paolo Bugia, Filipino basketball player ·
1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer ·
1981 – Lucho González,
Argentinian footballer ·
1982 – Pete Buttigieg, American politician[26] ·
1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player ·
1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress and singer ·
1982 – Shane Tronc, Australian rugby league player ·
1982 – Kim Yoo-suk, South Korean pole vaulter ·
1982 – Robin tom Rink, German singer-songwriter ·
1983 – Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese
singer-songwriter and producer ·
1984 – Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer ·
1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian race car driver ·
1984 – Jimmy Kébé, Malian footballer ·
1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player ·
1985 – Jake Allen,
American football player ·
1985 – Pascal Behrenbruch,
German decathlete ·
1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player ·
1985 – Esteban Guerrieri,
Argentinian race car driver ·
1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress ·
1985 – Elliott Ward, English footballer ·
1985 – Aleksandr
Yevgenyevich Nikulin, Russian footballer ·
1986 – Claudio Marchisio,
Italian footballer ·
1986 – Oleksandr
Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer ·
1986 – Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer ·
1987 – Edgar Manucharyan,
Armenian footballer ·
1988 – JaVale McGee, American basketball player ·
1988 – Tyler Breeze, Canadian wrestler ·
1990 – Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player ·
1991 – Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player ·
1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress[27] ·
1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast ·
1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor ·
1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper (d. 2018) ·
1993 – Erick Torres Padilla,
Mexican footballer[28] ·
1994 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer[29] ·
1994 – Alfie Mawson, English footballer, centre back[30] Deaths[edit]
·
520 – John of Cappadocia,
patriarch of Constantinople ·
639 – Dagobert I, Frankish king (b. 603) ·
914 – García I,
king of León ·
1003 – Kilian of Cologne,
Irish abbot ·
1302 – Al-Hakim I, caliph of Cairo ·
1401 – Robert Bealknap, British justice ·
1526 – Isabella of Austria,
Danish queen (b. 1501) ·
1547 – Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1516) ·
1565 – Diego Laynez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b.
1512) ·
1571 – Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (b. 1495) ·
1576 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (b.
1494) ·
1636 – Marcus
Gheeraerts the Younger, Flemish painter (b.1561) ·
1661 – Thomas Venner, English rebel leader (b.
1599) ·
1729 – William Congreve, English playwright and
poet (b. 1670) ·
1755 – Jean-Pierre Christin,
French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1683) ·
1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar and
academic (b. 1674) ·
1766 – Giovanni
Niccolň Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (b. 1695) ·
1785 – Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic
(b. 1713) ·
1833 – Ferdinand Hérold,
French pianist and composer (b. 1791) ·
1847 – Charles Bent, American soldier and
politician, 1st Governor of New
Mexico (b. 1799) ·
1847 – Athanasios
Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772) ·
1851 – Esteban Echeverría,
Argentinian poet and author (b. 1805) ·
1853 – Karl Faber, German historian and academic
(b. 1773) ·
1865 – Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (b. 1809) ·
1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and
philosopher (b. 1788) ·
1874 – August
Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b.
1798) ·
1878 – Henri Victor
Regnault, French physicist and chemist (b. 1810) ·
1895 – António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra,
Portuguese magistrate and politician (b. 1798)[31] ·
1905 – Debendranath Tagore,
Indian philosopher and author (b. 1817) ·
1906 – Bartolomé Mitre,
Argentinian historian and politician, 6th President of
Argentina (b. 1821) ·
1908 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and
sculptor (b. 1821) ·
1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist,
philosopher, and scholar (b. 1873) ·
1930 – Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician,
philosopher and economist (b. 1903) ·
1938 – Branislav Nušić,
Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864) ·
1945 – Gustave Mesny, French general (b. 1886) ·
1948 – Tony Garnier,
French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869) ·
1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and
physicist (b. 1885) ·
1957 – József Dudás,
Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (b. 1912) ·
1963 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884) ·
1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886) ·
1965 – Arnold Luhaäär,
Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905) ·
1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver and
engineer (b. 1879) ·
1972 – Michael Rabin,
American violinist (b. 1936) ·
1973 – Max Adrian, Irish-English actor (b. 1903) ·
1975 – Thomas Hart
Benton, American painter and educator (b. 1889) ·
1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and
academic (b. 1886) ·
1979 – Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (b.
1884) ·
1980 – William O. Douglas,
American lawyer and jurist (b. 1898) ·
1981 – Francesca Woodman,
American photographer (b. 1958) ·
1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (b. 1945) ·
1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1920) ·
1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg,
American psychologist and academic (b. 1927) ·
1990 – Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh, Indian guru and mystic (b. 1931) ·
1990 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1908) ·
1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician, 6th Minister
of Intra-German Relations (b. 1906) ·
1991 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and
journalist (b. 1918) ·
1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter
(b. 1938) ·
1996 – Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1943) ·
1997 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (b.
1923) ·
1998 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1932) ·
1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (b.
1967) ·
2000 – Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih
Khánum, Bahá’í Hand of the Cause of
God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (b. 1910) ·
2000 – Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and
politician, 45th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1934) ·
2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress,
singer, and mathematician (b. 1913) ·
2001 – Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and
producer (b. 1921) ·
2002 – Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (b.
1934) ·
2003 – Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974) ·
2003 – Françoise Giroud,
French journalist, screenwriter, and politician, French
Minister of Culture (b. 1916) ·
2004 – Harry E. Claiborne,
American lawyer and judge (b. 1917) ·
2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach
(b. 1955) ·
2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African author and
screenwriter (b. 1974) ·
2006 – Anthony Franciosa,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1941) ·
2006 – Awn Alsharif Qasim,
Sudanese author and scholar (b. 1933) ·
2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer and
pilot (b. 1921) ·
2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and
activist (b. 1954) ·
2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter
(b. 1940) ·
2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (b.
1969) ·
2008 – Suzanne Pleshette,
American actress (b. 1937) ·
2008 – John Stewart,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) ·
2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1936) ·
2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and
sportscaster (b. 1923) ·
2012 – Peter Ĺslin, Swedish ice hockey player (b.
1962) ·
2012 – Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (b. 1982) ·
2012 – Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter
and producer (b. 1943) ·
2012 – Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and
choreographer (b. 1933) ·
2013 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo
wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (b. 1940) ·
2013 – Stan Musial, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1920)[32] ·
2013 – Frank Pooler, American conductor and
composer (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1930)[33] ·
2013 – Toktamış
Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist
and writer (b. 1944) ·
2014 – Azaria Alon, Ukrainian-Israeli
environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (b.
1918) ·
2014 – Christopher Chataway,
English runner, journalist, and politician (b. 1931) ·
2015 – Justin Capră, Romanian engineer and
academic (b. 1933) ·
2015 – Michel Guimond, Canadian lawyer and
politician (b. 1953) ·
2015 – Ward Swingle, American-French
singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1927) ·
2016 – Richard Levins, American ecologist and
geneticist (b. 1930) ·
2016 – Ettore Scola, Italian director and
screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
2016 – Sheila Sim, English actress (b. 1922) ·
2017 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (commemorated by
the Poe Toaster at
his grave in Baltimore) ·
Christian feast day: o Marius,
Martha, Audifax, and Abachum o Mark of Ephesus (Eastern Orthodox
Church) o Wulfstan, Bishop of
Worcester o January
19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Confederate
Heroes Day (Texas), and its related
observance: o Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi) ·
Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty), first day of
the 17th month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
(only if Nowruz falls on March 21, otherwise the
dates shifts) ·
Husband's Day (Iceland) ·
Kokborok Day (Tripura, India) ·
Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy),
and its related observances: o Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian Orthodox) o Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (North Macedonia) |
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