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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 6 is the sixth day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
359 days remain until the end of the year (360 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1066 – Following the
death of Edward the Confessor on
the previous day, the Witan meets to
confirm Harold Godwinson as
the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a
succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman
conquest of England.[1] ·
1205 – Philip of Swabia undergoes a second
coronation as King of the Romans.[2] ·
1322 – Stephen Uroš III is
crowned King of
Serbia, having defeated his half-brother Stefan Konstantin in
battle. His son is crowned "young king" in the same ceremony.[3] ·
1355 – Charles IV
of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of
Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.[4] ·
1449 – Constantine XI is
crowned Byzantine
Emperor at Mystras.[5] ·
1492 – The Catholic
Monarchs Ferdinand and
Isabella enter Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War.[6] ·
1536 – The first
European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio
de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, is founded by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and
Bishop Juan de Zumárraga in
Mexico City.[7] ·
1540 – King Henry VIII of
England marries Anne of Cleves.[8] ·
1579 – The Union of Arras unites the southern
Netherlands under the Duke of Parma (Ottavio
Farnese), governor in the name of King Philip II of
Spain.[9] ·
1641 – Arauco War: The first Parliament
of Quillín is celebrated, putting a temporary hold on
hostilities between Mapuches and
Spanish in Chile.[10] ·
1661 – English Restoration:
The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully
attempt to seize control of London, England. The revolt is suppressed
after a few days.[11] ·
1721 – The Committee
of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes
its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt
politicians.[12] ·
1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the
last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.[13] ·
1809 – Combined
British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of
Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.[14] ·
1838 – Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate
a telegraph system using dots and dashes
(this is the forerunner of Morse code).[15] ·
1839 – The Night of the Big
Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland,
damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.[16] ·
1847 – Samuel Colt obtains his first contract
for the sale of revolver pistols
to the United States government.[17] ·
1870 – The
inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.[18] ·
1893 – The Washington
National Cathedral is chartered by Congress.[19] The charter is
signed by President Benjamin Harrison. ·
1900 – Second Boer War: Having already besieged the
fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces
attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.[20] ·
1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school
and daycare center for working class children in Rome,
Italy.[21] ·
1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as
the 47th U.S. state.[22] ·
1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his
theory of continental drift.[23] ·
1929 – King Alexander of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's
constitution (the January 6th
Dictatorship).[24] ·
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among
India's poorest and sick people.[25] ·
1930 – The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed,
from Indianapolis, Indiana,
to New York, New York.[26] ·
1941 – United States
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the
Union address.[27] ·
1946 – The first
general election ever in Vietnam is held.[28] ·
1947 – Pan American
Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer
a round-the-world
ticket.[citation
needed] ·
1950 – The United
Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China.[29] The Republic of China severs
diplomatic relations with the UK in response. ·
1951 – Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an
estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.[30] ·
1960 – National
Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while
en route from New York City to Miami.[31] ·
1960 – The Associations Law comes into force
in Iraq, allowing registration of political
parties.[32] ·
1967 – Vietnam War: United States
Marine Corps and ARVN troops
launch "Operation
Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.[33] ·
1974 – In response to
the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences
nearly four months early in the United States.[34] ·
1989 – Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for
conspiracy in the assassination of
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi;
the two men are executed the same day.[35] ·
1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees
the country as a result of the military coup.[36] ·
1993 – Indian Border Security
Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and
Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.[37] ·
1994 – American figure
skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and
injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships that
they were both taking part in.[38] ·
1995 – A chemical fire
in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines,
leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.[39] ·
2005 – American
Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the
1964 murders
of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.[40] ·
2005 – A train collision in Graniteville,
South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.[41] ·
2012 – Twenty-six
people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows
himself up at a police station in Damascus.[42] ·
2017 – Five people are
killed and six others injured in a mass
shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County,
Florida.[43] ·
2019 – Forty people
are killed in a gold mine collapse
in northern Afghanistan.[44] Births[edit]
·
1256 – Gertrude the Great, German mystic (d. 1302)[45] ·
1367 – Richard II of
England (d. 1400)[46] ·
1384 – Edmund
Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (d. 1408)[47] ·
1412 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (d.
1431)[48] ·
1486 – Martin Agricola, German composer and
theorist (d. 1556)[49] ·
1488 – Helius Eobanus
Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)[50] ·
1493 – Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (d. 1552)[51] ·
1500 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (d.
1569)[52] ·
1525 – Caspar Peucer, German physician and scholar
(d. 1602)[53] ·
1538 – Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (d. 1612)[54] ·
1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and
physicist (d. 1656)[55] ·
1587 – Gaspar
de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (d. 1645)[56] ·
1595 – Claude Favre de
Vaugelas, French educator and courtier (d. 1650)[57] ·
1617 – Christoffer Gabel,
Danish politician (d. 1673)[58] ·
1632 – Anne
Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, Scottish peeress (d. 1716)[59] ·
1655 – Eleonor
Magdalene of Neuburg (d. 1720)[60] ·
1673 – James
Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Radnorshire (d. 1744)[61] ·
1695 – Giuseppe Sammartini,
Italian oboe player and composer (d. 1750)[62] ·
1702 – José de Nebra, Spanish composer (d. 1768)[63] ·
1714 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (d. 1788)[64] ·
1745 – Jacques-Etienne
Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (d. 1799)[65] ·
1766 – José
Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician,
first dictator of Paraguay (d. 1840)[66] ·
1785 – Andreas Moustoxydis,
Greek historian and philologist (d. 1860)[citation
needed] ·
1793 – James Madison Porter,
American lawyer and politician, 18th United
States Secretary of War (d. 1862)[67] ·
1795 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic
(d. 1871)[68] ·
1799 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer,
and author (d. 1831)[69] ·
1803 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer
(d. 1888)[70] ·
1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian
mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)[71] ·
1808 – Joseph Pitty
Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist (d. 1864)[72] ·
1811 – Charles Sumner, American lawyer and
politician (d. 1874)[73] ·
1822 – Heinrich Schliemann,
German archaeologist and businessman (d. 1890)[74] ·
1832 – Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor
(d. 1883)[75] ·
1838 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (d.
1920)[76] ·
1842 – Clarence King, American geologist,
mountaineer, and critic (d. 1901)[77] ·
1856 – Giuseppe Martucci,
Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1909)[78] ·
1857 – Hugh Mahon, Irish-Australian publisher and
politician, 10th Australian
Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1931)[79] ·
1857 – William
Russell, American lawyer and politician, 37th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1896) ·
1859 – Samuel Alexander, Australian-English
philosopher and academic (d. 1938)[80] ·
1861 – Victor Horta, Belgian architect,
designed Hôtel van Eetvelde (d.
1947)[81] ·
1861 – George
Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (d. 1940)[82] ·
1870 – Gustav Bauer, German journalist and
politician, 11th Chancellor
of Germany (d. 1944)[83] ·
1872 – Alexander Scriabin,
Russian pianist and composer (d. 1915)[84] ·
1874 – Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and
producer (d. 1948)[85] ·
1878 – Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina
(d. 1970)[86] ·
1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian
(d. 1967)[87] ·
1880 – Tom Mix, American cowboy and actor (d. 1940)[88] ·
1881 – Ion Minulescu, Romanian author, poet, and
critic (d. 1944)[89] ·
1882 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and
politician, 13th Prime Minister
of Albania (d. 1965)[90] ·
1882 – Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician,
48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
1961)[91] ·
1883 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet,
painter, and philosopher (d. 1931)[92] ·
1898 – James
Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot (d. 1965)[93] ·
1899 – Heinrich Nordhoff,
German engineer (d. 1968)[94] ·
1900 – Maria of Yugoslavia,
Queen of Yugoslavia from 1922 to 1934 (d. 1961) [95] ·
1903 – Maurice Abravanel,
Greek-American pianist and conductor (d. 1993)[96] ·
1910 – Wright Morris, American author and
photographer (d. 1998)[97] ·
1910 – Yiannis Papaioannou,
Greek composer and educator (d. 1989) ·
1912 – Jacques Ellul, French philosopher and critic
(d. 1994)[98] ·
1912 – Danny Thomas, American actor, comedian,
producer and humanitarian (d. 1991)[99] ·
1913 – Edward Gierek, Polish lawyer and politician
(d. 2001)[100] ·
1913 – Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)[101] ·
1914 – Godfrey Edward
Arnold, Austrian-American physician and academic (d. 1989)[102] ·
1915 – Don Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician (d. 2015)[103] ·
1915 – John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst,
physician, and philosopher (d. 2001)[104] ·
1915 – Alan Watts, English-American philosopher and
author (d. 1973)[105] ·
1916 – Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and
academic (d. 1978)[citation
needed] ·
1917 – Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and
diplomat (d. 2005)[106] ·
1920 – John Maynard Smith,
English biologist and geneticist (d. 2004)[107] ·
1920 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader;
founder of the Unification Church (d.
2012)[108] ·
1920 – Early Wynn, American baseball player, coach,
and sportscaster (d. 1999)[109] ·
1921 – Marianne
Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013)[110] ·
1921 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and
sportscaster (d. 1998)[111] ·
1923 – Vladimir
Kazantsev, Russian runner (d. 2007) ·
1923 – Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and
politician, 29th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)[112] ·
1923 – Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and
author (d. 1999)[113] ·
1924 – Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and
politician, 8th President of
South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2009)[114] ·
1924 – Earl Scruggs, American banjo player (d. 2012)[115] ·
1925 – John DeLorean, American engineer and
businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor
Company (d. 2005)[115] ·
1926 – Ralph Branca, American baseball player (d.
2016)[116] ·
1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor
and bodybuilder (d. 2006)[117] ·
1927 – Jesse Leonard
Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon
General of the United States (d. 2014)[118] ·
1928 – Capucine, French actress and model (d. 1990)[119] ·
1931 – E. L. Doctorow, American novelist,
playwright, and short story writer (d. 2015)[120] ·
1931 – Graeme Hole, Australian cricketer (d. 1990) ·
1931 – Dickie Moore,
Canadian ice hockey player and businessman (d. 2015) ·
1932 – Stuart A. Rice, American chemist and academic[121] ·
1933 – Oleg
Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2003)[122] ·
1934 – Sylvia Syms, English actress[123] ·
1935 – Nino Tempo, American musician, singer, and
actor[124] ·
1936 – Darlene Hard, American tennis player[125] ·
1936 – Julio María
Sanguinetti, Uruguayan journalist, lawyer and politician,
29th President of Uruguay[126] ·
1937 – Ludvík Daněk,
Czech discus thrower (d. 1998)[127] ·
1937 – Lou Holtz, American football player, coach,
and sportscaster[128] ·
1937 – Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (d.
2004)[129] ·
1938 – Adriano Celentano,
Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and director[130] ·
1938 – Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist and
academic[131] ·
1938 – Larisa Shepitko, Soviet film director,
screenwriter, and actress (d. 1979)[132] ·
1939 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi,
Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2002)[133] ·
1939 – Murray Rose, English-Australian swimmer and
sportscaster (d. 2012)[134] ·
1940 – Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and
producer (d. 1979)[135] ·
1943 – Terry Venables, English footballer and
manager[136] ·
1944 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress and singer
(d. 2013) ·
1944 – Alan Stivell, French singer-songwriter and
harp player[137] ·
1944 – Rolf M. Zinkernagel,
Swiss immunologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate[138] ·
1945 – Barry John, Welsh rugby player[139] ·
1946 – Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2006)[140] ·
1947 – Sandy Denny, English folk-rock
singer-songwriter (d 1978)[141] ·
1948 – Guy Gardner,
American colonel and astronaut[142] ·
1948 – Dayle Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer[143] ·
1949 – Mike Boit, Kenyan runner and academic (estimated
date)[144] ·
1949 – Carolyn D. Wright,
American poet and academic (d. 2016) ·
1950 – Louis Freeh, American lawyer and jurist,
10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation[145] ·
1951 – Don Gullett, American baseball player and
coach[146] ·
1951 – Kim Wilson, American singer-songwriter and
harmonica player[147] ·
1953 – Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2017)[148] ·
1954 – Anthony Minghella,
English director and screenwriter (d. 2008)[149] ·
1955 – Rowan Atkinson, English actor, producer, and
screenwriter[150] ·
1956 – Elizabeth Strout, American novelist and
short story writer ·
1956 – Justin Welby, English archbishop[151] ·
1956 – Clive Woodward, English rugby player and
coach[152] ·
1957 – Michael Foale, British-American
astrophysicist and astronaut[153] ·
1957 – Nancy Lopez, American golfer and sportscaster[115] ·
1958 – Shlomo Glickstein,
Israeli tennis player[154] ·
1959 – Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer[155] ·
1960 – Paul Azinger, American golfer and
sportscaster[156] ·
1960 – Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player and
coach[157] ·
1960 – Nigella Lawson, English chef and author[158] ·
1960 – Howie Long, American football player and
sports commentator ·
1961 – Georges Jobé, Belgian motocross racer (d.
2012)[159] ·
1961 – Peter Whittle,
British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster[160] ·
1963 – Norm Charlton, American baseball player and
coach[161] ·
1963 – Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan runner (d. 1995)[162] ·
1964 – Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler and
manager[163] ·
1965 – Bjřrn Lomborg, Danish author and academic[164] ·
1966 – Sharon Cuneta, Filipino singer and actress[165] ·
1966 – Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1967 – A. R. Rahman, Indian composer,
singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist[166] ·
1968 – John Singleton, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2019[167]) ·
1969 – Norman Reedus, American actor and model ·
1970 – Julie Chen, American television journalist,
presenter, and producer ·
1970 – Radoslav Látal,
Czech footballer and manager[168] ·
1973 – Vasso Karantasiou,
Greek beach volleyball player[169] ·
1976 – Richard Zedník,
Slovak ice hockey player[170] ·
1981 – Asante Samuel, American football player[171] ·
1982 – Eddie Redmayne, English actor and model[172] ·
1984 – Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian[173] ·
1986 – Paul McShane,
Irish footballer[174] ·
1986 – Petter Northug, Norwegian skier[175] ·
1989 – Andy Carroll, English footballer[176] ·
1991 – Will Barton, American basketball player[177] ·
1994 – Lim Jae-beom,
South Korean singer and actor (Got7) Deaths[edit]
·
786 – Abo of Tiflis, Iraqi martyr and saint (b.
756)[178] ·
1088 – Berengar of Tours,
French scholar and theologian (b. 999)[179] ·
1148 – Gilbert
de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1100)[180] ·
1233 – Matilda
of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon, Anglo-Norman noblewoman (b.
1171)[181] ·
1275 – Raymond of Penyafort,
Catalan archbishop and saint (b. 1175)[182] ·
1350 – Giovanni I di Murta,
second doge of the Republic of Genoa ·
1358 – Gertrude van der
Oosten, Beguine mystic ·
1406 – Roger Walden, English bishop[183] ·
1448 – Christopher of
Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1418)[184] ·
1477 – Jean VIII,
Count of Vendôme ·
1481 – Ahmed Khan bin
Küchük, Mongolian ruler ·
1537 – Alessandro
de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510) ·
1537 – Baldassare Peruzzi,
Italian architect and painter, designed the Palazzo
Massimo alle Colonne (b. 1481)[185] ·
1616 – Philip Henslowe, English impresario (b. 1550)[186] ·
1646 – Elias Holl, German architect, designed
the Augsburg Town Hall (b.
1573) ·
1689 – Seth Ward,
English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617) ·
1693 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)[187] ·
1711 – Philips van Almonde,
Dutch admiral (b. 1646) ·
1718 – Giovanni
Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664) ·
1725 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon,
Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653) ·
1731 – Étienne
François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)[188] ·
1734 – John Dennis,
English playwright and critic (b. 1657) ·
1813 – Louis Baraguey
d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764) ·
1829 – Josef Dobrovský,
Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)[189] ·
1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer,
French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)[190] ·
1840 – Frances Burney, English author and
playwright (b. 1752)[191] ·
1852 – Louis Braille, French educator,
invented Braille (b. 1809)[192] ·
1855 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer,
and author (b. 1779) ·
1882 – Richard Henry
Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815) ·
1884 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist
(b. 1822)[193] ·
1885 – Bharatendu
Harishchandra, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)[194] ·
1896 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author
(b. 1835) ·
1902 – Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830) ·
1913 – Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856) ·
1917 – Hendrick
Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834) ·
1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician and
philosopher (b. 1845)[195] ·
1919 – Theodore Roosevelt,
American colonel and politician, 26th President
of the United States (b. 1858)[196] ·
1921 – Devil Anse Hatfield,
American guerrilla leader
(b. 1839) ·
1922 – Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German
mathematician and chess player (b. 1842) ·
1928 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and long
jumper (b. 1876)[197] ·
1933 – Vladimir de Pachmann,
Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848) ·
1934 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and
manager (b. 1878) ·
1937 – André Bessette,
Canadian saint (b. 1845)[198] ·
1939 – Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian journalist and
politician, 2nd President of Latvia (b.
1871) ·
1941 – Charley O'Leary, American baseball player
and coach (b. 1882) ·
1942 – Emma Calvé, French soprano and actress (b.
1858) ·
1942 – Henri de
Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman, 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee (b.
1876) ·
1944 – Jacques Rosenbaum,
Estonian-German architect (b. 1878) ·
1944 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, reformer,
and educator (b. 1857)[199] ·
1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky,
Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)[200] ·
1949 – Victor Fleming, American director, producer,
and cinematographer (b. 1883)[201] ·
1966 – Jean Lurçat, French painter (b. 1892)[202] ·
1972 – Chen Yi,
Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b.
1901) ·
1974 – David Alfaro
Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896) ·
1978 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b.
1899)[203] ·
1981 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author
(b. 1896)[204] ·
1984 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American
cinematographer (b. 1898)[205] ·
1990 – Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b.
1949)[206] ·
1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904)[207] ·
1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter
and trumpet player (b. 1917)[208] ·
1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and
choreographer (b. 1938)[209] ·
1995 – Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African lawyer
and politician (b. 1926)[210] ·
1999 – Michel Petrucciani,
French-American pianist (b. 1962)[211] ·
2000 – Don Martin,
American cartoonist (b. 1931) ·
2004 – Pierre
Charles, Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister
of Dominica (b. 1954) ·
2004 – Francesco Scavullo,
American photographer (b. 1921) ·
2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish civil servant and
politician, 12th Irish Minister
for Health (b. 1932)[212] ·
2005 – Lois Hole, Canadian academic and politician,
15th Lieutenant
Governor of Alberta (b. 1929)[213] ·
2005 – Tarquinio Provini,
Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1933)[214] ·
2005 – Louis Robichaud, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 25th Premier of New
Brunswick (b. 1925) ·
2006 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter (b.
1933)[215] ·
2007 – Roberta Wohlstetter,
American political scientist, historian, and academic (b. 1912)[216] ·
2008 – Shmuel Berenbaum, Rabbi of Mir Yeshiva
(Brooklyn)[217] ·
2009 – Ron Asheton, American guitarist, songwriter,
and actor (probable;[218] b. 1948) ·
2011 – Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer, coach, and
sportscaster (b. 1967)[219] ·
2012 – Bob Holness, South African-English radio and
television host (b. 1928)[220] ·
2012 – Spike Pola, Australian footballer and
soldier (b. 1914) ·
2013 – Qazi Hussain Ahmad,
Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1938) ·
2013 – Ruth Carter
Stevenson, American art collector, founded the Amon
Carter Museum of American Art (b. 1923)[221] ·
2013 – Gerard Helders, Dutch jurist and politician
(b. 1905) ·
2013 – Cho Sung-min, South Korean baseball player
(b. 1973) ·
2014 – Marina Ginestŕ,
French Resistance soldier and photographer (b. 1919)[222] ·
2014 – Nelson Ned, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b.
1947)[223] ·
2014 – Julian Rotter, American psychologist and
academic (b. 1916)[224] ·
2015 – Arthur
Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (b. 1918) ·
2015 – Basil John Mason, English meteorologist and
academic (b. 1923)[225] ·
2016 – Pat Harrington, Jr.,
American actor and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
2016 – Florence King, American journalist and
author (b. 1936)[226] ·
2016 – Christy O'Connor Jnr,
Irish golfer and architect (b. 1948)[227] ·
2016 – Silvana Pampanini,
Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (b. 1925)[228] ·
2017 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, President of
Venezuela (b. 1923)[229] ·
2017 – Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)[230] ·
2019 – José Ramón Fernández,
Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)[231] ·
2019 – Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American
professor (b. 1942)[232] ·
2019 – W. Morgan Sheppard,
British actor (b. 1932)[233] ·
2019 – Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British
economics professor (b. 1917)[234] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian Feast day: o André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church)[235] o January
6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Epiphany or
Three Kings' Day (Western Christianity)
or Theophany (Eastern Christianity),
and its related observances: o Befana Day (Italy) o Christmas (Armenian
Apostolic Church) o Christmas Eve (Russia) o Christmas Eve (Ukraine) o Christmas
Eve (Bosnia and
Herzegovina) o Christmas
Eve (North Macedonia) o Ţrettándinn (Iceland) ·
Pathet Lao Day (Laos) |
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