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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 21 is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
224 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
293 –
Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the
period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. ·
878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by
the Muslim Aghlabids after a
nine-month siege. ·
879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and
to the Croatian people, considered to be
international recognition of the Croatian state.[1] ·
996 –
Sixteen-year-old Otto III is
crowned Holy Roman Emperor.[2] ·
1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. ·
1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de
Clavijo as ambassador
to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between
Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire. ·
1554 – Queen Mary I grants
a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys
in Derby, England. ·
1659 –
In the Concert of
The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of
England and the Kingdom of France set
out their views on how the Second Northern War should
end. ·
1660 –
The Battle of Long Sault concludes
after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by
the Iroquois Confederacy. ·
1674 –
The nobility elect John Sobieski King
of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. ·
1703 – Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges
of seditious libel.[3] ·
1725 –
The Order of
St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued
and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as
the Order of
Alexander Nevsky. ·
1758 –
Ten-year-old Mary
Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian
War. She is returned six and a half years later. ·
1792 –
A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on
the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that kills nearly 15,000
people.[4] ·
1809 –
The first day of the Battle of
Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke
Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French
attack across the Danube held. ·
1851 – Slavery in Colombia is
abolished. ·
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by
pro-slavery forces. ·
1863 – American Civil War:
The Union Army succeeds in
closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson,
Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. ·
1864 –
Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and
many Circassians are
forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day
of Mourning. ·
1864
– American Civil War: The Battle
of Spotsylvania Court House ends. ·
1864
– The Ionian Islands reunite
with Greece. ·
1871 –
French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents
in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000
arrested. ·
1871
– Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi. ·
1879 – War of the Pacific:
Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor
of Iquique (then belonging to Peru)
battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique. ·
1881 –
The American Red Cross is
established by Clara Barton in
Washington, D.C. ·
1894 –
The Manchester Ship
Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader
Williams.[5] ·
1904 –
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
is founded in Paris. ·
1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the
revolutionary Francisco Madero sign
the Treaty of Ciudad
Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of
both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. ·
1917 –
The Imperial
War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and
maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military
forces.[6] ·
1917
– The Great Atlanta
fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying
some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing
about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). ·
1924 – University of
Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder
14-year-old Bobby Franks in
a "thrill killing". ·
1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches
down at Le Bourget Field in
Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic
Ocean. ·
1932 –
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to
land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes
the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. ·
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first
municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. ·
1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering
the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her
handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. ·
1937 –
A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific
research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. ·
1939 –
The Canadian National
War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ·
1946 –
Physicist Louis Slotin is
fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during
an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. ·
1951 –
The opening of the Ninth Street Show,
otherwise known as the 9th Street Art
Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the
stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. ·
1961 – American
civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm
Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore
order after race riots break
out. ·
1966 –
The Ulster Volunteer
Force declares war on the Irish Republican
Army in Northern Ireland. ·
1969 –
Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina,
known as Rosariazo,
following the death of a 15-year-old student. ·
1972 – Michelangelo's Pietŕ in St. Peter's Basilica in
Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally
disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. ·
1976 –
Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus
disaster in Martinez, California. ·
1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations
of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. ·
1981 –
The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in
numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. ·
1981
– Transamerica
Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for
$380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.[7] ·
1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault
during Operation Sutton leads
to the Battle of San
Carlos. ·
1991 –
Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a
female suicide bomber near Madras. ·
1991
– Mengistu Haile
Mariam, president of the People's
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to
an end. ·
1992 –
After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted
his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show. ·
1994 –
The Democratic
Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from
the Republic of Yemen;
a war breaks out. ·
1996 –
The ferry MV Bukoba sinks
in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. ·
1998 –
In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by
a butyric acid attacker. ·
1998
– President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing
of students from Trisakti University earlier
that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt
rule. ·
2001 –
French Taubira law is
enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against
humanity. ·
2003 –
The 6.8 Mw Boumerdčs
earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were
killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands. ·
2005 –
The tallest roller coaster in
the world, Kingda Ka opens
at Six Flags Great
Adventure in Jackson
Township, New Jersey. ·
2006 –
The Republic of
Montenegro holds a referendum proposing
independence from the State
Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for
independence. ·
2010 –
JAXA, the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a
Venus flyby late in the year. ·
2011 –
Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted
that the world would end on
this date. ·
2012 –
A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and
injures 21 others. ·
2012
– A suicide bombing kills
more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. ·
2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed
their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Births[edit] ·
1471 – Albrecht Dürer,
German painter, engraver, and mathematician (d. 1528) ·
1497 – Al-Hattab, Muslim jurist (d. 1547) ·
1527 – Philip II of Spain (d.
1598) ·
1653 – Eleonore
of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1697) ·
1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and
translator (d. 1744) ·
1755 – Alfred Moore, American lawyer and judge (d.
1810) ·
1756 – William Babington,
Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist (d. 1833)[8] ·
1763 – Joseph Fouché, French lawyer and politician
(d. 1820) ·
1775 – Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and
politician (d. 1840) ·
1780 – Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer,
philanthropist and Quaker (d. 1845)[9] ·
1790 – William
Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household (d.
1858) ·
1792 – Gaspard-Gustave
de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1843) ·
1799 – Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d.
1847)[10] ·
1801 – Princess Sophie
of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1865)[11] ·
1806 – Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland,
English duchess (d. 1868)[12] ·
1808 – David de
Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (d. 1890)[13] ·
1827 – William P. Sprague,
American banker and politician (d. 1899)[14] ·
1828 – Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (d. 1905)[15] ·
1835 – František Chvostek,
Czech-Austrian physician and academic (d. 1884) ·
1837 – Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese soldier and
politician (d. 1919) ·
1843 – Charles Albert Gobat,
Swiss lawyer and politician, and Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1914) ·
1843
– Louis Renault,
French jurist, educator, and Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1918) ·
1844 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (d. 1910) ·
1850 – Giuseppe Mercalli,
Italian priest and volcanologist (d. 1914) ·
1851 – Léon Bourgeois,
French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister
of France, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1925) ·
1853 – Jacques
Marie Eugčne Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) ·
1856 – José Batlle y
Ordóńez, Uruguayan journalist and politician, President of Uruguay (d.
1929) ·
1860 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch
physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1927) ·
1861 – Abel Ayerza, Argentinian physician and
academic (d. 1918) ·
1863 – Archduke Eugen
of Austria (d. 1954) ·
1864 – Princess Stéphanie
of Belgium (d. 1945) ·
1873 – Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic
(d. 1941) ·
1878 – Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer
(d. 1930) ·
1880 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author,
and poet (d. 1967) ·
1884 – Manuel Pérez y Curis,
Uruguayan poet and publisher (d. 1920) ·
1885 – Princess
Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) (d.
1936) ·
1893 – Arthur Carr,
English cricketer (d. 1963)[16] ·
1893
– Giles Chippindall,
Australian public servant (d. 1969)[17] ·
1895 – Lázaro Cárdenas,
Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (d.
1970)[18] ·
1898 – Armand Hammer, American physician and
businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (d.
1990) ·
1898
– Charles Léon Hammes,
Luxembourgian lawyer and judge (d. 1967) ·
1898
– Carl Johnson,
American long jumper (d. 1932) ·
1898
– John McLaughlin,
American painter and translator (d. 1976) ·
1901 – Regina M. Anderson,
Multiracial playwright and librarian (d. 1993)[19] ·
1901
– Horace Heidt,
American pianist, bandleader, and radio host (d. 1986) ·
1901
– Sam Jaffe,
American film producer and agent (d. 2000) ·
1901
– Suzanne Lilar,
Belgian author and playwright (d. 1992) ·
1902 – Earl Averill, American baseball player (d.
1983) ·
1902
– Marcel Breuer,
Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower (d. 1981) ·
1902
– Anatole Litvak,
Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1974) ·
1903 – Manly Wade Wellman,
American author (d. 1986) ·
1904 – Robert
Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981) ·
1904
– Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (d. 1943) ·
1907 – John C. Allen, American roller coaster
designer (d. 1979) ·
1912 – Chen Dayu, Chinese painter and calligrapher
(d. 2001) ·
1912
– John Curtis Gowan,
American psychologist and academic (d. 1986) ·
1912
– Monty Stratton,
American baseball player and coach (d. 1982) ·
1913 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer
(d. 1976) ·
1915 – Cathleen Cordell, American actress (d. 1997)[20] ·
1915
– Chakravarthi
V. Narasimhan, Indian Civil Service Officer and former Under
Secretary-General of the UN (d. 2003) ·
1916 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor (d.
1988) ·
1916
– Tinus Osendarp,
Dutch sprinter and police officer (d. 2002) ·
1916
– Harold Robbins,
American author and screenwriter (d. 1997) ·
1917 – Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and
director (d. 1993) ·
1918 – Anthony Steel,
English actor and singer (d. 2001)[21] ·
1919 – George P. Mitchell,
American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013) ·
1920 – Bill Barber,
American tuba player and educator (d. 2007) ·
1920
– Forrest White,
American businessman, co-founded the Music Man Company (d.
1994)[22] ·
1921 – Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist
and academic, designed OXO (d. 2010) ·
1921
– Andrei Sakharov,
Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1989) ·
1923 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (d.
2010)[23] ·
1923
– Armand Borel,
Swiss-American mathematician and academic (d. 2003) ·
1923
– Ara Parseghian,
American football player and coach (d. 2017) ·
1923
– Dorothy Hewett,
Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright (d. 2002) ·
1923
– Evelyn Ward, American actress (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and
game show panelist (d. 1999)[24] ·
1926 – Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist,
and poet (d. 2005) ·
1927 – Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian
(d. 1959) ·
1927
– Péter Zwack,
Hungarian businessman and diplomat (d. 2012)[25] ·
1928 – Tom Donahue, American radio host and
producer (d. 1975)[26] ·
1928
– Alice Drummond,
American actress (d. 2016) ·
1929 – Larance Marable, American drummer (d. 2012)[27] ·
1929
– Robert Welch,
English silversmith and industrial designer (d. 2000) ·
1930 – Tommy Bryant, American bassist (d. 1982)[28] ·
1930
– Keith Davis,
New Zealand rugby player (d. 2019) ·
1930
– Malcolm Fraser,
Australian politician, 22nd Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 2015) ·
1932 – Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower and
surgeon (d. 2011) ·
1932
– Leonidas
Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)[29] ·
1933 – Maurice André, French trumpet player (d.
2012) ·
1933
– Yevgeny Minayev,
Russian weightlifter (d. 1993) ·
1934 – Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist
and author (d. 2013)[30] ·
1934
– Bob Northern,
American horn player and bandleader ·
1934
– Bengt I. Samuelsson,
Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1935 – Terry Lightfoot, English clarinet player and
bandleader (d. 2013) ·
1936 – Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2018) ·
1938 – Lee
"Shot" Williams, American singer (d. 2011)[31] ·
1939 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer, and
conductor ·
1940 – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2013) ·
1941 – Martin Carthy, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1941
– Bobby Cox, American baseball player and
manager ·
1941
– Ambrose
Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway, English photographer and politician ·
1941
– Ronald Isley,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1942 – David
Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician, Secretary of
State for Wales ·
1942
– John Konrads,
Australian swimmer ·
1942
– Danny Ongais,
American race car driver ·
1943 – Vincent Crane, English pianist and composer
(d. 1989) ·
1943
– John Dalton,
English bass player ·
1943
– Hilton Valentine,
English guitarist and songwriter ·
1944 – Haleh
Afshar, Baroness Afshar, Iranian-English academic and politician ·
1944
– Marcie Blane,
American singer[32] ·
1944
– Janet Dailey,
American author and entrepreneur (d. 2013) ·
1944
– Mary Robinson,
Irish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Ireland ·
1945 – Ernst Messerschmid,
German physicist and astronaut ·
1945
– Richard Hatch,
American actor, writer, and producer (d. 2017) ·
1946 – Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter
and producer (d. 2013)[33] ·
1946
– Wayne Roycroft,
Australian equestrian rider and coach ·
1947 – Bill Champlin, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1947
– Linda Laubenstein,
American physician and academic (d. 1992) ·
1947
– İlber
Ortaylı, Turkish historian and academic ·
1948 – Elizabeth Buchan, English author and critic ·
1948
– Joe Camilleri,
Maltese-Australian singer-songwriter and saxophonist ·
1948
– Jonathan Hyde,
Australian-English actor ·
1948
– Denis MacShane,
Scottish journalist and politician, UK Minister of
State for Europe ·
1948
– Leo Sayer, English-Australian
singer-songwriter and musician ·
1949 – Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and
academic ·
1949
– Denis
O'Connor, British police officer[34] ·
1949
– Rosalind Plowright,
English soprano ·
1950 – Will Hutton, English economist and
journalist ·
1951 – Al Franken, American actor, screenwriter,
and politician ·
1951
– Adrian Hardiman,
Irish lawyer and judge (d. 2016) ·
1952 – Mr. T, American actor and wrestler ·
1953 – Nora Aunor, Filipino actress and recording
artist ·
1954 – D. B. S. Jeyaraj, Sri Lankan-Canadian
journalist and blogger[35] ·
1954
– Janice Karman,
American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice actress[36] ·
1954
– Marc Ribot, American guitarist and composer ·
1955 – Paul Barber,
English field hockey player ·
1955
– Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter,
and producer ·
1957 – James Bailey,
American basketball player ·
1957
– Nadine Dorries,
English nurse and politician ·
1957
– Judge Reinhold,
American actor and producer ·
1957
– Renée Soutendijk,
Dutch actress ·
1958 – Christian Audigier,
French fashion designer (d. 2015) ·
1958
– Muffy Calder,
Canadian-Scottish computer scientist and academic[37] ·
1958
– Michael Crick,
English journalist and author[38] ·
1958
– Naeem Khan, Indian-American fashion designer ·
1958
– Jefery Levy, American director, producer,
and screenwriter[39] ·
1959 – Nick Cassavetes, American actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1959
– Abdulla Yameen,
Maldivian politician, 6th President of
the Maldives[40] ·
1960 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d.
1994) ·
1960
– Kent Hrbek, American baseball player and
sportscaster[41] ·
1960
– Mohanlal, Indian actor ·
1960
– Mark Ridgway,
Australian cricketer ·
1960
– Vladimir Salnikov,
Russian swimmer ·
1962 – David Crumb, American composer and educator ·
1963 – Richard Appel, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1963
– Patrick Grant,
American musician and producer ·
1963
– David Lonsdale,
English actor[42] ·
1964
– Pete Sandoval,
Salvadoran-American drummer[43] ·
1963
– Kevin Shields,
American-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[44] ·
1963
– Dave Specter,
American guitarist ·
1963
– Laurie Spina,
Australian rugby league player and sportscaster ·
1964 – Danny Bailey, English footballer and coach[45] ·
1965 – Josh Richman, American actor and producer[46] ·
1966 – Lisa Edelstein, American actress and
playwright ·
1966
– Tatyana Ledovskaya,
Belarusian hurdler ·
1967 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
(d. 2007) ·
1968 – Ilmar Raag, Estonian director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1968
– Matthias Ungemach,
German-Australian rower ·
1968
– Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (d.
1985) ·
1969 – Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer[47] ·
1969
– Georgiy Gongadze,
Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (d. 2000) ·
1969
– Masayo Kurata,
Japanese voice actress and singer ·
1969
– George LeMieux,
American lawyer and politician ·
1969
– Brian Statham,
Rhodesian born English footballer, defender and manager[48] ·
1970 – Brigita Bukovec, Slovenian hurdler ·
1970
– Dorsey Levens,
American football player and sportscaster ·
1970
– Pauline Menczer,
Australian surfer ·
1970
– Carl Veart, Australian footballer and coach ·
1972 – The Notorious B.I.G.,
American rapper (d. 1997) ·
1973 – Stewart Cink, American golfer ·
1973
– Noel Fielding,
English comedian, musician and television presenter ·
1974 – Brad Arthur, Australian rugby league coach ·
1974
– Fairuza Balk,
American actress ·
1974
– Aditi Gowitrikar,
Indian model, actress, and physician, Mrs. World 2001[49] ·
1974
– Havoc,
American rapper and producer ·
1975 – Anthony Mundine, Australian rugby league
player and boxer ·
1976 – Stuart Bingham, English snooker player ·
1976
– Abderrahim Goumri,
Moroccan runner (d. 2013)[50] ·
1976
– Deron Miller,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist[51] ·
1977 – Quinton Fortune, South African international
footballer midfielder and coach[52] ·
1977
– Michael Fuß,
German footballer[53] ·
1977
– Ricky Williams,
American football player and coach[54] ·
1978 – Max B, American rapper and songwriter[55] ·
1978
– Briana Banks,
German-American porn actress and model[56] ·
1978
– Jamaal Magloire,
Canadian basketball player and coach ·
1979 – Damián Ariel Álvarez,
Argentinian-Mexican footballer ·
1979
– Jamie Hepburn,
Scottish politician, Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental
Health ·
1979
– James Clancy Phelan,
Australian author and academic ·
1979
– Scott Smith,
American mixed martial artist ·
1979
– Sonja Vectomov,
Czech musician/composer ·
1980 – Gotye, Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter ·
1981 – Craig
Anderson, American ice hockey player ·
1981
– Edson Buddle,
American soccer player ·
1981
– Josh Hamilton,
American baseball player ·
1981
– Maximilian Mutzke,
German singer-songwriter ·
1981
– Anna Rogowska,
Polish pole vaulter ·
1983 – Līga Dekmeijere,
Latvian tennis player[57] ·
1983
– Deidson Araújo Maia,
Brazilian footballer[58] ·
1983
– Kaori
Shimizu, Japanese voice actress and singer[59] ·
1984 – Brandon Fields, American football player[60] ·
1984
– Sara Goller, German volleyball player[61] ·
1984
– Syamsul Yusof,
Malaysian actor, film director, scriptwriter, film producer, rapper and
singer[62] ·
1985 – Mutya Buena, English singer-songwriter[63] ·
1985
– Alison Carroll,
English gymnast, model, and actress [64] ·
1985
– Mark Cavendish,
Manx cyclist ·
1985
– Alexander Dale Oen,
Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012) ·
1985
– Isa Guha, English cricketer ·
1985
– Lucie Hradecká,
Czech tennis player ·
1985
– Kano, English
rapper, producer, and actor ·
1985
– Dušan Kuciak,
Slovak footballer ·
1985
– Heath L'Estrange,
Australian rugby league player ·
1985
– Andrew Miller,
American baseball player ·
1986 – Mario Mandžukić,
Croatian footballer ·
1986
– Myra, American
singer and actress[65] ·
1986
– Eder Sánchez,
Mexican race walker ·
1986
– Park Sojin, South Korean singer-songwriter
and dancer ·
1986
– Greg Stewart,
Canadian ice hockey player[66] ·
1987 – Beau Falloon, Australian rugby league player ·
1988 – Claire Cashmore, English Paralympic swimmer[67] ·
1988
– Park Gyu-ri, South Korean singer ·
1988
– Jonny Howson,
English footballer ·
1988
– Kaire Leibak,
Estonian triple jumper[68] ·
1989 – Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer ·
1989
– Hal Robson-Kanu,
English footballer ·
1990 – Kierre Beckles, Barbadian athlete[69] ·
1990
– Rene Krhin, Slovenian footballer ·
1991 – Guilherme,
Brazilian footballer ·
1992 – Hutch Dano, American actor ·
1992
– Lisa Evans, Scottish footballer[70] ·
1992
– Philipp Grüneberg,
German footballer[71] ·
1992
– Olivia Olson,
American singer and actress ·
1993 – Grete Gaim, Estonian biathlete[72] ·
1993
– Luke Garbutt,
English footballer, left-back[73] ·
1994 – Tom Daley, English diver[74] ·
1995 – Katharina Andresen,
Norwegian heiress and equestrian[75] ·
1995
– Diego Loyzaga,
Filipino actor[76] ·
1996 – Josh Allen,
American footballer ·
1996
– Indy de Vroome,
Dutch tennis player ·
1996
– Karen Khachanov,
Russian tennis player[77] ·
1997 – Ivan De Santis, Italian footballer ·
1997
– Sisca Folkertsma,
Dutch footballer ·
1997
– Viktoria Petryk,
Ukrainian singer-songwriter Deaths[edit] ·
252 – Sun Quan, Chinese emperor of Eastern Wu (b. 182) ·
954 – Feng Dao, Chinese prince and chancellor (b.
882) ·
987 – Louis V,
king of West Francia (b.
c. 966) ·
1075 – Richeza
of Poland, queen of Hungary (b. 1013) ·
1086 – Wang Anshi, Chinese statesman and poet (b.
1021) ·
1237 – Olaf the Black, Manx son of Godred II Olafsson[78] ·
1254 – Conrad IV,
king of Germany (b. 1228)[79] ·
1416 – Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b.
1386) ·
1471 – Henry VI,
king of England (b. 1421) ·
1481 – Christian I,
king of Denmark (b. 1426) ·
1512 – Pandolfo Petrucci,
Italian ruler (b. 1452) ·
1524 – Thomas
Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b.
1443) ·
1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish-American explorer
(b. 1496) ·
1563 – Martynas Mažvydas,
Lithuanian writer (b. 1510) ·
1607 – John Rainolds, English scholar and academic
(b. 1549) ·
1619 – Hieronymus Fabricius,
Italian anatomist (b. 1537) ·
1639 – Tommaso Campanella,
Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568) ·
1647 – Pieter
Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581) ·
1650 – James
Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish general and politician
(b. 1612) ·
1664 – Elizabeth Poole, English settler,
founded Taunton,
Massachusetts (b. 1588) ·
1670 – Niccolň Zucchi,
Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586) ·
1686 – Otto von Guericke,
German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg
Hemispheres (b. 1602) ·
1690 – John Eliot,
English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604) ·
1719 – Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher
(b. 1646) ·
1724 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer,
English politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (b. 1661) ·
1742 – Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic
(b. 1664) ·
1762 – Alexander
Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695) ·
1771 – Christopher Smart,
English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722) ·
1786 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele,
German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742) ·
1790 – Thomas Warton, English poet and critic (b.
1728) ·
1810 – Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat and spy (b.
1728) ·
1844 – Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer
(b. 1775) ·
1858 – José de la Riva
Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and
2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)[80] ·
1862 – John Drew,
Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827) ·
1879 – Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander
(b. 1848) ·
1894 – Émile Henry,
French anarchist (b. 1872) ·
1894
– August Kundt,
German physicist and academic (b. 1839) ·
1895 – Franz von Suppé,
Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819) ·
1901 – Joseph
Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874) ·
1911 – Williamina Fleming,
Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857) ·
1915 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer
(b. 1875) ·
1919 – Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician,
crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853) ·
1920 – Venustiano Carranza,
Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b.
1859) ·
1925 – Hidesaburō Ueno,
Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871) ·
1926 – Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b.
1886) ·
1929 – Archibald
Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847) ·
1932 – Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author
(b. 1873) ·
1935 – Jane Addams, American activist and author,
co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1860) ·
1935
– Hugo de Vries,
Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848) ·
1940 – Billy Minter, English footballer and manager
(b. 1888) ·
1949 – Klaus Mann, German-American novelist,
playwright, and critic (b. 1906) ·
1952 – John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913) ·
1956 – Harry Bensley, English businessman and
adventurer (b. 1877) ·
1957 – Alexander Vertinsky,
Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889) ·
1964 – James Franck, German physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1882) ·
1965 – Marguerite Bise, French chef (b. 1898) ·
1965
– Geoffrey de
Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland
Mosquito (b. 1882) ·
1968 – Doris Lloyd, English actress (b. 1896) ·
1970 – E. L. Grant Watson,
English-Australian biologist and author (b. 1885) ·
1973 – Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet
player, bandleader, and actor (b. 1911) ·
1973
– Ivan Konev, Soviet Marshal and general (b.
1897) ·
1981 – Raymond McCreesh, PIRA
volunteer (b. 1957) ·
1981
– Patsy O'Hara, INLA
volunteer (b. 1957) ·
1983 – Kenneth Clark, English historian and author
(b. 1903) ·
1984 – Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)[81] ·
1988 – Sammy Davis Sr., American actor and dancer
(b. 1900) ·
1991 – Lino Brocka, Filipino director and
screenwriter (b. 1939) ·
1991
– Rajiv Gandhi,
Indian politician, 6th Prime Minister of
India (b. 1944) ·
1995 – Les Aspin, American captain and politician,
18th United
States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938) ·
1996 – Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter and
producer (b. 1957) ·
1996
– Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (b.
1917) ·
1996
– Villem Raam, Estonian art historian, art
critic and conservator (b. 1910) ·
1998 – Robert Gist, American actor and director (b.
1917) ·
2000 – Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901) ·
2000
– John Gielgud,
English actor (b. 1904) ·
2000
– Mark R. Hughes,
American businessman, founded Herbalife (b. 1956) ·
2002 – Niki de Saint Phalle,
French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1930) ·
2003 – Alejandro de Tomaso,
Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (b. 1928) ·
2003
– Frank D. White,
American captain, banker, and politician, 41st Governor of Arkansas (b.
1933) ·
2005 – Deborah Berger, American outsider artist (b. 1956)[82] ·
2005
– Stephen Elliott,
American actor (b. 1918) ·
2005
– Howard Morris,
American actor and director (b. 1919) ·
2006 – Spencer
Clark, American race car driver (b. 1987) ·
2006
– Katherine Dunham,
American dancer, choreographer, and author (b. 1909) ·
2006
– Cherd Songsri,
Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
2006
– Billy Walker,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929) ·
2012 – Eddie Blazonczyk, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1941)[83] ·
2012
– Otis Clark, American butler and preacher,
survivor of the Tulsa race riot (b.
1903)[84] ·
2012
– Constantine of
Irinoupolis, Metropolitan of Irinoupolis and Primate of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (b. 1936) ·
2012
– Roman Dumbadze,
Georgian commander (b. 1964)[85] ·
2012
– Douglas
Rodríguez, Cuban boxer (b. 1950)[86] ·
2012
– Bill
Stewart, American football player and coach (b. 1952) ·
2012
– Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist and
academic (b. 1939) ·
2013 – Count
Christian of Rosenborg, member of the Danish royal family (b.
1942)[87] ·
2013
– Frank Comstock,
American trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1922) ·
2013
– Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach
(b. 1923) ·
2013
– Mohammad Khaled
Hossain, Bangladeshi mountaineer (b. 1979)[88] ·
2013
– Leonard Marsh,
American businessman, co-founded Snapple (b. 1933) ·
2013
– Bob Thompson,
American pianist and composer (b. 1924) ·
2013
– Dominique Venner,
French journalist and historian (b. 1935) ·
2013
– David Voelker,
American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1953) ·
2014 – Tunku Annuar, Malaysian son of Badlishah of Kedah (b.
1939) ·
2014
– Evelyn Blackmon,
American businesswoman and politician (b. 1924) ·
2014
– Johnny Gray,
American baseball player (b. 1926) ·
2014
– Jaime Lusinchi,
Venezuelan physician and politician, President of
Venezuela (b. 1924) ·
2014
– Alireza Soleimani,
Iranian wrestler (b. 1956)[89] ·
2015 – Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b.
1969)[90] ·
2015
– Twinkle,
English singer-songwriter (b. 1948) ·
2015
– Jassem Al-Kharafi,
Kuwaiti businessman and politician, 8th Kuwaiti
Speaker of the National Assembly (b. 1940) ·
2015
– Fred Gladding,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1936) ·
2015
– Louis Johnson,
American bass player and producer (b. 1955) ·
2016 – Nick Menza, American drummer and songwriter
(b. 1964) ·
2019 – Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director (b. 1925)[91] ·
2019
– Binyavanga Wainaina,
Kenyan writer (b. 1971)[92] ·
2020 – Alan Merten, fifth President of George Mason
University (b. 1941) [93] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia) ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Adílio Daronch and Manuel Gómez
González o Blessed Franz Jägerstätter o Earliest day on which Corpus Christi can
fall, while June 24 is the latest; held on Thursday after Trinity Sunday (often locally moved to
Sunday). (Roman Catholic
Church) o Helena of
Constantinople, also known as "Feast of the Holy Great
Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles."
(Eastern Orthodox
Church, Anglican Communion) o John Elliot (Episcopal
Church) o Saints of the
Cristero War, including Christopher
Magallanes o May
21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Circassian Day
of Mourning (Circassians) ·
Day of Patriots and
Military (Hungary) ·
Independence Day, celebrates the Montenegrin
independence referendum in 2006, celebrated until the next
day. (Montenegro) ·
Saint Helena Day, celebrates the discovery
of Saint Helena in
1502. (Saint
Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) ·
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and
Development (International) ·
International Tea
Day (International) |
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