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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
229 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
946 Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in
favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor
of Japan. ·
1204
Having been elected on May
9, Baldwin IX,
Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.[1] ·
1426
Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes
king of Ava.[2] ·
1527
The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. ·
1532
Sir Thomas More resigns
as Lord Chancellor of England. ·
1568 Mary, Queen of Scots,
flees to England.[3] ·
1584 Santiago de Vera becomes sixth
Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines. ·
1739
The Battle of Vasai concludes
as the Marathas defeat
the Portuguese army. ·
1770
The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries
15-year-old Louis-Auguste,
who later becomes king of France.[4] ·
1771
The Battle of Alamance,
a pre-American
Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called
The "Regulators",
occurs in present-day Alamance
County, North Carolina. ·
1811 Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal
and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera. ·
1812 Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest,
ending the Russo-Turkish
War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia.[5] ·
1822 Greek War of
Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli. ·
1832 Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver
outcrops of Chaρarcillo sparking
the Chilean silver rush.[6][7] ·
1834
The Battle of Asseiceira is
fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal. ·
1842
The first major wagon train heading
for the Pacific Northwest sets
out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri,
with 100 pioneers.[8] ·
1866
The United States
Congress establishes the nickel.[9] ·
1868
The United States Senate fails
to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.[10] ·
1874
A flood on the Mill
River in Massachusetts destroys much of four
villages and kills 139 people. ·
1877
The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs
in France,
ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22
June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution
of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system.
The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as
a formal political movement in France.[11] ·
1888 Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture
describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use
of alternating currents to transmit
electric power over long distances. ·
1891
The International
Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the
world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase
electric current (the most common form today). ·
1916
The United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third
Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot
Agreement partitioning
former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria. ·
1918
The Sedition Act of 1918 is
passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during
wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years
later. ·
1919
A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft
commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland,
for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight. ·
1920
In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes
Joan of Arc. ·
1929
In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place. ·
1943 The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising ends. ·
1951
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic
flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John
F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated
by El Al Israel
Airlines. ·
1959
The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the
first time.[12] ·
1960 Theodore Maiman operates the
first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes
Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. ·
1961 Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'ιtat to
overthrow the Second
Republic of South Korea. ·
1966
The Communist Party
of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning
of the Cultural Revolution. ·
1969 Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. ·
1974 Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. ·
1988
A report by the Surgeon
General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties
of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. ·
1991
Queen Elizabeth II of
the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States
Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S.
Congress. ·
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country. ·
2003
In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more
than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca
terrorist attacks. ·
2005 Kuwait permits women's
suffrage in a 3523 National
Assembly vote. ·
2011 STS-134 (ISS assembly flight
ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on
the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. ·
2014
Twelve people are killed in two explosions in
the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya. Births[edit] ·
1418 John II of Cyprus,
King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to
1458 (probable;[13] d. 1458) ·
1455 Wolfgang I of
Oettingen, German count (d. 1522) ·
1542 Anna
Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (d. 1580) ·
1606 John Bulwer, British doctor (d. 1656) ·
1611 Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)[14] ·
1641 Dudley North,
English economist and politician (d. 1691)[15] ·
1710 William
Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord
Steward of the Household (d. 1782) ·
1718 Maria Gaetana Agnesi,
Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1799)[16] ·
1763 Louis Nicolas
Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (d. 1829) ·
1788 Friedrich Rόckert,
German poet and translator (d. 1866) ·
1801 William H. Seward,
American lawyer and politician, 24th United
States Secretary of State (d. 1872) ·
1804 Elizabeth Palmer
Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten
(d. 1894) ·
1819 Johann Voldemar
Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (d. 1890) ·
1821 Pafnuty Chebyshev,
Russian mathematician and statistician (d. 1894) ·
1824 Levi P. Morton, American banker and
politician, 22nd United
States Vice President (d. 1920) ·
1824
Edmund Kirby Smith,
American general (d. 1893) ·
1827 Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed
the Amsterdam
Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (d. 1921) ·
1831 David Edward Hughes,
Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (d. 1900) ·
1859 Horace Hutchinson,
English golfer (d. 1932)[17] ·
1862 Margaret Fountaine,
English lepidopterist and
diarist (d.1940) ·
1876 Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and
endocrinologist (d. 1948)[18] ·
1879 Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic
(d. 1962) ·
1882 Simeon Price, American golfer (d. 1945) ·
1883 Celβl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (d.
1986) ·
1888 Royal Rife, American microbiologist and
instrument maker (d. 1971) ·
1890 Edith Grace White,
American ichthyologist (d. 1975)[19] ·
1892 Osgood Perkins, American actor (d. 1937) ·
1894 Walter Yust, American journalist and writer
(d. 1960) ·
1897 Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and
academic (d. 1994) ·
1898 Tamara de Lempicka,
Polish-American painter (d. 1980) ·
1898
Desanka
Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic (d. 1993) ·
1898
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 1956) ·
1903 Charles F. Brannock,
American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1992) ·
1905 Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982) ·
1906 Ernie McCormick, Australian cricketer (d.
1991) ·
1906
Alfred Pellan,
Canadian painter and educator (d. 1988) ·
1906
Arturo Uslar Pietri,
Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (d. 2001) ·
1906
Margret Rey, German author and illustrator
(d. 1996) ·
1907 Bob Tisdall, Irish hurdler (d. 2004) ·
1909 Margaret Sullavan,
American actress and singer (d. 1960) ·
1909
Luigi Villoresi,
Italian race car driver (d. 1997) ·
1910 Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and author (d.
1975) ·
1910
Higashifushimi
Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (d. 2014) ·
1910
Aleksandr
Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter and educator (d. 1972) ·
1912 Studs Terkel, American historian and author
(d. 2008) ·
1913 Gordon Chalk, Australian politician,
30th Premier of
Queensland (d. 1991)[20] ·
1913 Woody Herman, American singer, saxophonist,
and clarinet player (d. 1987) ·
1914 Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and
author (d. 2009) ·
1915 Mario Monicelli, Italian director and
screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1916 Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and
politician, 4th President of Israel (d.
2009) ·
1917 Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (d.
2015) ·
1917
James C. Murray,
American lawyer and politician (d. 1999) ·
1917
Juan Rulfo, Mexican author and photographer
(d. 1986) ·
1918 Wilf Mannion, English footballer and manager
(d. 2000) ·
1919 Liberace, American pianist and entertainer
(d. 1987) ·
1919
Ramon Margalef,
Spanish ecologist and biologist (d. 2004) ·
1920 Martine Carol, French actress (d. 1967) ·
1921 Harry Carey, Jr., American actor, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1923 Victoria Fromkin, American linguist and
academic (d. 2000) ·
1923
Merton Miller,
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2000) ·
1923
Peter
Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (d. 2014) ·
1924 Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia
(d. 2019) ·
1925 Nancy Roman, American astronomer (d. 2018) ·
1925
Ola Vincent, Nigerian banker and economist
(d. 2012) ·
1925
Nνlton Santos,
Brazilian footballer (d. 2013) ·
1928 Billy Martin, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1989) ·
1929 Betty Carter, American singer-songwriter (d.
1998) ·
1929
John Conyers,
American lawyer and politician (d. 2019) ·
1929
Claude Morin,
Canadian academic and politician ·
1929
Adrienne Rich,
American poet, essayist, and feminist (d. 2012) ·
1930 Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and
composer (d. 2000) ·
1931 Vujadin Bokov,
Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2014) ·
1931
Hana Brady, Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim
(d.1944) ·
1931
K. Natwar Singh,
Indian scholar and politician, Indian
Minister of External Affairs ·
1931
Lowell P. Weicker,
Jr., American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of
Connecticut ·
1934 Kenneth O. Morgan,
Welsh historian and author ·
1934
Antony Walker,
English general ·
1935 Floyd Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1936 Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (d. 2018) ·
1937 Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and
actress (d. 2015) ·
1938 Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician
(d. 2012) ·
1938
Ivan Sutherland,
American computer scientist and academic ·
1938
Marco Aurelio
Denegri, Peruvian television host and sexologist (d. 2018) ·
1939 Mario Segni, Italian professor and
politician ·
1941 Denis Hart, Australian archbishop ·
1942 David Penry-Davey,
English lawyer and judge (d. 2015) ·
1943 Kay
Andrews, Baroness Andrews, English politician ·
1943
Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat,
29th United
States Ambassador to Germany ·
1943
Wieteke van Dort,
Dutch actress, comedian, singer, writer and artist ·
1944 Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer,
composer, and bandleader ·
1944
Antal
Nagy, Hungarian footballer ·
1944
Danny Trejo, American actor ·
1946 John Law,
English sociologist and academic ·
1946
Robert Fripp,
English guitarist, songwriter and producer ·
1947 Cheryl Clarke, American writer[21] ·
1947
Darrell Sweet,
Scottish drummer (d. 1999) ·
1947
Roch Thιriault,
Canadian religious leader (d. 2011) ·
1948 Jesper Christensen,
Danish actor, director, and producer ·
1948
Judy Finnigan,
English talk show host and author ·
1948
Enrico Fumia,
Italian automobile and product designer ·
1948
Emma Georgina
Rothschild, English historian and academic ·
1948
Staf Van Roosbroeck,
Belgian cyclist ·
1949 Rick Reuschel, American baseball player ·
1950 Georg Bednorz, German physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1950
Ray Condo, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2004) ·
1950
Bruce Coville,
American author ·
1951 Christian Lacroix,
French fashion designer ·
1951
Jonathan Richman,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1951
Janet Soskice,
Canadian philosopher and theologian ·
1952 James
Herndon, American psychologist and academic ·
1953 Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and
producer ·
1953
Peter Onorati,
American actor ·
1953
Richard Page,
American singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1953
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (d. 2015) ·
1953
David Maclean,
Scottish politician ·
1953
Stephen
Woolman, Lord Woolman, Scottish judge and academic ·
1954 Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and
astronaut ·
1955 Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast ·
1955
Jack Morris, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1955
Hazel O'Connor,
English-born Irish singer-songwriter and actress ·
1955
Pαidν Σ Sι, Irish
footballer and manager (d. 2012) ·
1955
Debra Winger,
American actress ·
1956
Loretta Schrijver,
Dutch television host, news anchor ·
1957 Joan Benoit, American runner ·
1957
Benjamin
Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician ·
1957
Yuri Shevchuk,
Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1957
Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English
lawyer and businessman ·
1957
Bob Suter, American ice hockey player and
coach (d. 2014) ·
1959 Mitch Webster, American baseball player ·
1959
Mare Winningham,
American actress and singer-songwriter ·
1960 Landon Deireragea,
Nauruan politician, Nauruan
Speaker of Parliament ·
1960
S.
Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician (d. 1998) ·
1961 Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and
screenwriter ·
1961
Charles Wright,
American wrestler ·
1962 Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician
(d. 2017) ·
1962
Helga Radtke,
German long jumper ·
1963 Rachel Griffith, Anglo-American economist ·
1963
David
Wilkinson, English theologian and academic ·
1964 John Salley, American basketball player and
actor ·
1964
Boyd Tinsley,
American singer-songwriter and violinist ·
1964
Milton Jones,
English comedian, actor, and screenwriter ·
1965 Krist Novoselic, American bass player,
songwriter, author, and activist ·
1965
Tanel Tammet,
Estonian computer scientist, engineer, and academic ·
1966 Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter,
producer, dancer, and actress ·
1966
Scott Reeves,
American singer-songwriter and actor ·
1966
Thurman Thomas,
American football player ·
1967 Doug Brocail, American baseball player and
coach ·
1967
Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford, British
politician ·
1968 Ralph Tresvant, American singer and producer ·
1969 David Boreanaz, American actor ·
1969
Tucker Carlson,
American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller ·
1969
Steve Lewis,
American sprinter ·
1970 Gabriela Sabatini,
Argentinian tennis player ·
1970
Danielle
Spencer, Australian singer-songwriter and actress ·
1971 Phil Clarke, English rugby league player and
sportscaster ·
1971
Rachel Goswell,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1972 Christian Califano,
French rugby player ·
1972
Matthew Hart, New
Zealand cricketer ·
1973 Tori Spelling, American actress, reality
television personality, and author ·
1974 Laura Pausini, Italian singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1974
Sonny Sandoval,
American singer-songwriter and rapper ·
1975 Tony Kakko, Finnish musician, composer, and
vocalist ·
1975
Simon Whitfield,
Canadian triathlete[22] ·
1976 Dirk Nannes, Australian-Dutch cricketer ·
1977 Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress ·
1977
Emilνana Torrini,
Icelandic singer-songwriter ·
1978 Scott Nicholls, English motorcycle racer ·
1978
Lionel Scaloni,
Argentinian footballer ·
1980 Nuria Llagostera
Vives, Spanish tennis player ·
1981 Ricardo
Costa, Portuguese footballer ·
1982 Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player ·
1983 Daniel Kerr, Australian footballer ·
1983
Kyle Wellwood,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984 Darνo Cvitanich,
Argentinian footballer ·
1984
Tomα Fleischmann,
Czech ice hockey player ·
1984
Jensen Lewis,
American baseball player ·
1984
Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
2011) ·
1985 Anja Mittag, German footballer ·
1985
Rodrigo Peters
Marques, Brazilian footballer ·
1985
Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1986 Megan Fox, American actress ·
1986
Andy Keogh, Irish footballer ·
1986
Shamcey Supsup,
Filipino model and architect ·
1987 Tom Onslow-Cole, English race car driver ·
1988 Jesϊs
Castillo, Mexican footballer ·
1988
Martynas
Gecevičius, Lithuanian basketball player ·
1988
Jaak Pυldma,
Estonian tennis player ·
1989 Behati Prinsloo, Namibian model ·
1990 Amanda Carreras, Gibraltarian tennis player ·
1990
Thomas
Brodie-Sangster, English actor ·
1990
Darko arović,
Serbian sprinter ·
1990
Omar Strong, American basketball player ·
1991 Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player ·
1991
Joey Graceffa,
American internet celebrity ·
1991
Ashley Wagner,
American figure skater ·
1992 Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1992
Kirstin Maldonado,
American singer and songwriter ·
1993 Johannes Thingnes Bψ,
Norwegian biathlete ·
1993
Karol Mets, Estonian footballer ·
1993
IU, Korean singer-songwriter and actress[23][24] ·
1995 Elizabeth Ralston,
Australian footballer ·
1996 Louisa Chirico, American tennis player Deaths[edit] ·
290 Emperor Wu of Jin,
Chinese emperor (b. 236) ·
895 Qian Kuan, Chinese nobleman ·
934 Meng Hanqiong, eunuch official of Later Tang ·
995 Fujiwara no
Michitaka, Japanese nobleman (b. 953) ·
1182 John Komnenos
Vatatzes, Byzantine general (b. 1132) ·
1265 Simon Stock, English-French saint (b. 1165) ·
1375 Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist,
officer, statesman and poet (b. 1311) ·
1412 Gian Maria Visconti,
Duke of Milan (b. 1388) ·
1561 Jan Tarnowski, Polish noble and statesman
(b. 1488) ·
1620 William
Adams, English sailor and navigator (b. 1564) ·
1657 Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary and martyr
(b. 1591) ·
1667 Thomas
Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b.
1607) ·
1669 Pietro da Cortona,
Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b.
1596) ·
1691 Jacob Leisler, German-American politician,
8th Colonial
Governor of New York (b. 1640) ·
1696 Mariana of Austria,
Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634) ·
1703 Charles Perrault, French author and academic
(b. 1628) ·
1778 Robert
Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b.
1718) ·
1790 Philip
Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720) ·
1818 Matthew Lewis,
English author and playwright (b. 1775) ·
1823 Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy
(b. c.1754)[25] ·
1830 Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and
physicist (b. 1768) ·
1862 Edward Gibbon
Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796) ·
1882 Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and
politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b.
1799) ·
1890 Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist
(b. 1843) ·
1891 Ion C. Brătianu,
Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1821) ·
1910 Henri-Edmond Cross,
French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856) ·
1913 Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician
(b. 1849) ·
1920 Levi P. Morton, American politician,
22nd United
States Vice President (b. 1824) ·
1926 Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861) ·
1936 Leonidas
Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860) ·
1938 Joseph Strauss,
American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b.
1870) ·
1943 Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and
academic (b. 1865) ·
1944 George Ade, American journalist, author, and
playwright (b. 1866) ·
1946 Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman
(b. 1890) ·
1947 Frederick
Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1861) ·
1947
Zhang Lingfu,
Chinese general (b. 1903) ·
1953 Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and
composer (b. 1910) ·
1954 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and
manager (b. 1893) ·
1955 James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter,
and critic(b. 1909) ·
1955
Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b.
1921) ·
1956 H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman,
created Reese's Peanut
Butter Cups (b. 1876) ·
1957 Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903) ·
1961 George A. Malcolm,
American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881) ·
1973 Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American
sculptor (b. 1891) ·
1977 Modibo Keοta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b.
1915) ·
1979 A. Philip Randolph,
American union leader and activist (b. 1889) ·
1981 Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer,
and bandleader (b. 1922) ·
1981
Willy Hartner,
German physician and academic (b. 1905) ·
1984 Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and
screenwriter (b. 1949) ·
1984
Irwin Shaw, American playwright,
screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1913) ·
1985 Margaret
Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902) ·
1989 Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and songwriter (b.
1939) ·
1990 Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer,
and actor (b. 1925) ·
1990
Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director,
producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets (b. 1936) ·
1993 Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (b. 1938) ·
1994 Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908) ·
1996 Jeremy Michael
Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939) ·
1997 Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b.
1903) ·
2002 Alec Campbell, Australian soldier (b. 1899) ·
2003 Mark McCormack, American lawyer and sports
agent, founded IMG (b.
1930) ·
2005 Andrew Goodpaster,
American general (b. 1915) ·
2008 Robert Mondavi, American winemaker,
co-founded the Opus One Winery (b.
1913) ·
2010 Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter
and producer (b. 1942) ·
2010
Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and
bandleader (b. 1918) ·
2011 Ralph Barker, English author (b. 1917) ·
2011
Bob
Davis, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1928) ·
2011
Edward Hardwicke,
English actor (b. 1932) ·
2011
Kiyoshi Kodama,
Japanese actor (b. 1934) ·
2012 Patricia Aakhus, American author and
academic (b. 1952) ·
2012
James Abdnor,
American soldier and politician, 30th Lieutenant
Governor of South Dakota (b. 1923) ·
2012
Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (b. 1936) ·
2012
Ernie Chan, Filipino-American illustrator
(b. 1940) ·
2012
Kevin Hickey,
American baseball player (b. 1956) ·
2013 Angelo Errichetti,
American politician (b. 1928) ·
2013
Bryan Illerbrun,
Canadian football player (b. 1957) ·
2013
Frankie Librαn,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1948) ·
2013
Heinrich Rohrer,
Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1933) ·
2013
Dick Trickle,
American race car driver (b. 1941) ·
2013
Bernard Waber,
American author and illustrator (b. 1921) ·
2014 Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African
cricketer (b. 1933) ·
2014
Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (b. 1932) ·
2014
Bud Hollowell,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1943) ·
2014
Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and
author (b. 1928) ·
2015 Prashant Bhargava,
American director and producer (b. 1973) ·
2015
Moshe Levinger,
Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1935) ·
2015
Flora MacNeil,
Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1928) ·
2019 Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (b. 1937) ·
2019
Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1929) ·
2019
I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b.
1917) [26] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Aaron (Coptic
Church) o Abda and Abdjesus,
and companions: o Brendan the Navigator (Roman Catholic
Church, Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodox
Church) o Caroline Chisholm (Church of England) o Gemma Galgani (Passionists Calendar) o Ubald (see Saint Ubaldo Day) ·
Martyrs of Sudan (Episcopal Church
(USA)) ·
Mass Graves Day (Iraq) ·
National Day, declared by Salva Kiir Mayardit (South Sudan) |
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