Monday, February 1, 2016

February 2 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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Notable

1208 – James I the Conqueror  (d. 27 Jul 1276)
      King of Aragon, 1213-1276
1455 – John, King of Denmark  (d. 20 Feb 1513)
      King of Denmark, 1481–1513
      King of Norway, 1483–1513
      King of Sweden (as John II), 1497–1501
1457 – Peter Martyr d'Anghiera  (d. 1526)
      Italian-Spanish historian and author
1494 – Bona Sforza   d. 1557
     Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old
1502 – Damião de Góis   (d. 1574)
      Portuguese philosopher and historian
1506 – René de Birague   (d. 1583)
      Italian-French cardinal and politician
1522 – Lodovico Ferrari  (d. 1565)
      Italian mathematician and academic
1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
1613 – Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (d. 1649)
1621 – Johannes Schefferus  (d. 1679)
      Swedish author and hymn-writer
1650Pope Benedict XIII  (d. 21 Feb 1730)
      245th Pope of Rome, 1724-1730
1650 – Nell Gwyn, English actress (d. 1687)
1669 – Louis Marchand  (d. 1732)
      French organist and composer
1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer (d. 1745)
1695 – William Borlase  (d. 1772)
      English geologist and archaeologist
1695 – François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched  (d. 1766)
      German author and critic
1711 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (d. 1794)
1714 – Gottfried August Homilius  (d. 1785)
      German organist and composer
1717 – Ernst Gideon von Laudon  (d. 1790)
      Austrian field marshal
1745:  Hannah More  (d. 7 Sep 1833)
      English religious writer and philanthropist
1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord  (d. 1838)
      French bishop, politician, and diplomat
      1st Prime Minister of France, 1815
1782 – Henri de Rigny  (d. 1835)
      French admiral and politician, French Minister of War
1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet  (d. 1856)
      French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1802 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault  (d. 1887)
      French chemist and academic
1803 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (d. 1862)
1807:  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin  (d. 31 Dec 1974)
      French politician
1829 – Alfred Brehm  (d. 1884)
      German zoologist and illustrator
1829 – William Stanley  (d. 1909)
      English engineer and philanthropist
1841 – François-Alphonse Forel  (d. 1912)
      Swiss limnologist and hydrologist
1842 – Julian Sochocki  (d. 1927)
      Polish-Russian mathematician and academic
1843:  Knute Nelson
      Norwegian-American attorney and politician
      U.S. Senator, R. MN, 1895-1923
      12th Governor of Minnesota, 1893-1895
      U.S. Representative, R. MN, 1883-1889
1849 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav  (d. 1921)
      Slovak poet and playwright
1851 – José Guadalupe Posada  (d. 1913)
      Mexican illustrator and engraver
1859:  Havelock Ellis  (d. 8 Jul 1939)
      English physician, writer, progressive intellectual,
            and social reformer
1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr.  (d. 1915)
      American journalist and politician
      43rd Governor of Massachusetts
1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim  (d. 1949)
      American businessman and philanthropist
      founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1862 – Émile Coste, French fencer (d. 1927)
1864:  Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith
      Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit  (d. 28 Jul 1945)
1866 – Enrique Simonet  (d. 1927)
      Spanish painter and academic
1872 – Clara Butt, English contralto (d. 1936)
1873 – Leo Fall, Austrian composer (d. 1925)
1873 – Konstantin von Neurath  (d. 1956)
      German politician and diplomat
      13th German Minister of Foreign Affairs
1875 – Fritz Kreisler  (d. 1962)
      Austrian-American violinist and composer
1878 – Joe Lydon  (d. 1937)
      American boxer and soccer player
1880 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
1881 – Orval Overall  (d. 1947)
      American baseball player and manager
1882Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944)
      House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
      father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
1882 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (d. 13 Jan 1941)
1882:  James Stephens, Irish novelist and poet  (d. 26 Dec 1950)
1883 – Johnston McCulley  (d. 1958)
      American author and screenwriter, created Zorro
1886 – William Rose Benét  (d. 1950)
      American poet and author
1887 – Ernst Hanfstaengl, German businessman (d. 1975)
1887 – Pat Sullivan  (d. 1933)
      Australian-American animator and producer
1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (d. 1952)
1890 – Charles Correll, American comedian (d. 1972)
1892 – Tochigiyama Moriya  (d. 1959)
      Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna
1893 – Cornelius Lanczos  (d. 1974)
      Hungarian mathematician and physicist
1893 – Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)
1893 – Damdin Sükhbaatar  (d. 1924)
      Mongolian military leader
1895 – George Halas  (d. 1983)
      American football player and coach
1895 – Robert Philipp, American painter (d. 1981)
1895 – George Sutcliffe, Australian public servant (d. 1964)
1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski  (d. 1980)
      Polish mathematician and logician
1897 – Howard Deering Johnson  (d. 1972)
      American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's
1900 – Willie Kamm  (d. 1988)
      American baseball player and manager
1901 – Jascha Heifetz  (d. 1987)
      Lithuanian violinist and educator
1902 – Newbold Morris  (d. 1966)
      American lawyer and politician
1904 – Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist (d. 1997)
1905 – Ayn Rand  (d. 6 Mar 1982)
      born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
      Russian-born American author and philosopher
1906:  Gale Gordon  (d. 30 Jun 1995
      born Charles Thomas Aldrich, Jr.
      American character actor
1906:  Harold Rosenberg  (d. 11 Jul 1978)
      American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic
1908 – Wes Ferrell  (d. 1976)
      American baseball player and manager
1909 – Frank Albertson, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1912 – Millvina Dean  (d. 2009)
      English civil servant and cartographer
      last survivor of the RMS Titanic
1912 – Burton Lane  (d. 1997)
      American songwriter and composer
1913:  Masanobu Fukuoka  (d. 16 Aug 2008)
      Japanese agricultural scientist, farmer, philosopher,
            and author
1913 – Ohn Maung, Burmese martyr (d. 1947)
1913 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer (d. 1985)
1914 – Eric Kierans  (d. 2004)
      Canadian economist and politician
      1st Canadian Minister of Communications
1915 – Abba Eban  (d. 2002)
      South African-Israeli politician and diplomat
      1st Israel Ambassador to the United Nations
1915 – Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (d. 2005)
1915 – Khushwant Singh  (d. 2014)
      Indian journalist and author
1916 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (d. 1985)
1917 – Đỗ Mười
      Vietnamese politician
      5th Prime Minister of Vietnam
1918 – Hella Haasse, Indonesian-Dutch author (d. 2011)
1919 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Georg Gawliczek  (d. 1999)
      German footballer and manager
1921:  John Quinton  (d. 13 Aug 1951)
      British navigator and pilot
1923 – Jean Babilée  (d. 2014)
      French dancer and choreographer
1923 – James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
1923 – Bonita Granville  (d. 1988)
      American actress and producer
1923 – Red Schoendienst
      American baseball player, coach, and manager
1923 – Liz Smith, American journalist and author
1923 – Clem Windsor  (d. 2007)
      Australian rugby player and surgeon
1924 – Elfi von Dassanowsky  (d. 2007)
      Austrian-American singer, pianist, producer
1925 – Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1926 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
      French academic and politician
      20th President of France
1926:  Edmund Rouse  (d. 28 Jul 2002)
      Australian businessman and political figure
1927 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (d. 1991)
1927 – Doris Sams, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1928 – Jay Handlan  (d. 2013)
      American basketball player and engineer
1928 – A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.  (d. 1998)
      American judge, author, and activist
1929 – Sheila Matthews Allen  (d. 2013)
      American actress and producer
1929 – George Band  (d. 2011)
      English engineer and mountaineer
1929 – Věra Chytilová  (d. 2014)
      Czech actress, director, and screenwriter
1929 – John Henry Holland  (d. 2015)
      American computer scientist
1931 – Dries van Agt
      Dutch lawyer, jurist, and politician
      Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1931 – Les Dawson, English comedian and author (d. 1993)
1931 – John Paul Harney, Canadian educator and politician
1931 – Judith Viorst, American journalist and author
1932 – Arthur Lyman, American vibraphone player (d. 2002)
1932 – Robert Mandan, American actor
1933 – M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1933 – Tony Jay, English actor and singer (d. 2006)
1933 – Orlando "Cachaíto" López  (d. 2009)
      Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1933 – Than Shwe, Burmese politician
1934 – Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2014)
1935 – Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist and academic
1936 – Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (d. 1991)
1937 – Don Buford, American baseball player and coach
1937 – Eric Arturo Delvalle  (d. 2015)
      Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama
1937 – Anthony Haden-Guest British journalist, poet, and critic
1937 – Remak Ramsay, American actor
1937 – Tom Smothers
      American comedian, actor, and singer (Smothers Brothers)
1938 – Norman Fowler
      English journalist and politician
      Secretary of State for Transport
1938 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
1939 – Mary-Dell Chilton
      American chemist and inventor and one of the founders
            of modern plant biotechnology
1939 – Dale T. Mortensen  (d. 2014)
      American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Alan Caddy, English guitarist and producer (d. 2000)
1940 – Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (d. 2008)
1940 – Wayne Fontes, American football player and coach
1940 – David Jason, English actor, director, and producer
1941 – Terry Biddlecombe, English jockey (d. 2014)
1941 – Lee Redmond
      American woman with the longest fingernails
1942:  Barry Diller
      American businessman
      Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp
            and Expedia, Inc.
      media executive responsible for the creation of Fox
            Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting
1942 – Bo Hopkins, American actor
1942 – Graham Nash
      English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Jang Sung-taek, North Korean politician (d. 2013)
1944 – Andrew Davis, English organist and conductor
1944 – Karen Foss, American journalist
1944:  E. Gordon Gee
      American academic
1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
1944 – Ursula Oppens, American pianist and educator
1945 – John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell
      English economist and academic
1946 – John Armitt, English engineer and businessman
1946 – Alpha Oumar Konaré
      Malian academic and politician, 3rd President of Mali
1946 – Constantine Papadakis  (d. 2009)
      Greek-American businessman and academic
1947 – Greg Antonacci
      American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1947 – Farrah Fawcett  (d. 25 Jun 2009)
      American actress and producer
1947:  Ellen Malcolm
      American activist
      Founder and Chair of the Board of EMILY's List
1948 – Ina Garten, American chef and author
1948 – Al McKay
      American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
      (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1948 – Roger Williamson, English race car driver (d. 1973)
1949 – Duncan Bannatyne
       Scottish businessman and philanthropist
1949 – Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (d. 1996)
1949 – Brent Spiner, American actor
1950 – Osamu Kido, Japanese wrestler
1950 – Libby Purves, English journalist and author
1950 – Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese wrestler
1951 – Vangelis Alexandris, Greek basketball player and coach
1952 – John Cornyn
      American lawyer and politician
      49th Attorney General of Texas
1952 – Rick Dufay, French-American guitarist and songwriter
1952:  Ralph Merkle, American computer scientist
1952Park Geun-hye
      South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea
1952 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (d. 2014)
1952 – Ralph Merkle, American computer scientist
1953 – Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
1953:  Charles Petzold, American computer programmer
1953 – Jerry Sisk, Jr.  (d. 2013)
      American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television
1954 – Christie Brinkley, American model and actress
1954 – Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian skier, actor, and singer
1954 – John Tudor, American baseball player
1955 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet and author
1955 – Bob Schreck, American author
1955 – Kim Zimmer, American actress
1956 – Adnan Oktar, Turkish theorist and author
1957 – Phil Barney, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
1958 – Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright
1958:  Douglas McGrath
      American screenwriter, film director, and actor
1959:  Mike Tice
      American football player and coach
1960 – Jari Porttila, Finnish journalist
1961 – Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (d. 2013)
1961 – Lauren Lane, American actress
1961 – Steve Penney, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Philippe Claudel
      French author, director, and screenwriter
1962 – Luke Johnson, English businessman
1962 – Paul Kilgus, American baseball player
1963 – Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
1963 – Kjell Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
1963:  Andrej Kiska
      Slovak entrepreneur and philanthropist
      President of Slovakia, 2014-present
1963 – Stephen McGann, English actor
1963 – Vigleik Storaas, Norwegian pianist
1964 – Diane Charlemagne  (d. 2015)
      English singer-songwriter
      (52nd Street and Urban Cookie Collective)
1965 – Carl Airey, English footballer
1965 – Naoki Sano, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1966 – Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player and coach
1966 – Robert DeLeo
      American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1966 – Michael Misick
      Caicos Islander politician
      Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
1966:  Rob Sheffield
      American music journalist and author
1967 – Artūrs Irbe, Latvian ice hockey player and coach
1967 – Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general
1968 – Sean Elliott
      American basketball player and sportscaster
1968 – Scott Erickson, American baseball player and coach
1968 – Thomas Teige, German martial artist and actor
1968 – Simon Wickham-Smith
      English singer, astrologer, and academic
1969 – Valeri Karpin, Estonian-Russian footballer and manager
1969:  Dambisa Moyo
      Zambian-born international economist and author
1970 – C. Ernst Harth, Canadian actor and producer
1970 – Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress, singer and writer
1971 – Rockwilder, American rapper and producer
1971 – Michelle Gayle, English singer-songwriter and actress
1971 – Isaac Kungwane  (d. 2014)
      South African footballer and sportscaster
1971 – Jason Taylor, Australian rugby league player and coach
1972 – Dana International, Israeli pop singer
1972 – Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player
1972 – Aleksey Naumov, Russian footballer
1973 – Andrei Luzgin, Estonian tennis player and coach
1973 – Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
1973 – Marissa Jaret Winokur, American actress and singer
1975 – Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Donald Driver, American football player
1975 – Naomi Grossman, American actress
1975 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
1976 – Ryan Farquhar, Northern Irish motorcycle racer
1976 – James Hickman, English swimmer
1976 – Ana Roces, Filipino actress
1977 – Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (bka Shakira)
      Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1977 – Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
1978 – Eden Espinosa, American actress and singer
1978 – Annabel Ellwood, Australian tennis player
1978 – Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
1978 – Rich Sommer, American actor
1978 – Faye White, English footballer
1979 – Urmo Aava, Estonian race car driver
1979:  Andrew Mayer Cohen (bka Mayer Hawthorne)
      American singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio
            engineer, DJ, rapper, and multi-instrumentalist
1979 – Klaus Mainzer, German rugby player
1979 – Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
1980 – Angela Finger-Erben, German journalist
1980 – Teddy Hart, Canadian wrestler
1980 – Gucci Mane, American rapper, producer, and actor
1980 – Oleguer Presas, Spanish footballer
1981 – Salem al-Hazmi  (d. 2001)
      Saudi Arabian terrorist
      hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77
1981 – Emre Aydın, Turkish singer-songwriter
1981 – Michelle Bass, English model and singer
1981 – Gemma Collins, English television personality
1981:  Emily Rose, American actress
1982 – Sergio Castaño Ortega, Spanish footballer
1982 – Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
1983 – Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
1983:  Nathan Fielder, Canadian writer and comedian
1983 – Carolina Klüft, Swedish heptathlete and jumper
1983 – Jordin Tootoo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Vladimir Voskoboinikov, Estonian footballer
1984 – Brian Cage, American wrestler
1984 – Mao Miyaji, Japanese actress
1984 – Rudi Wulf, New Zealand rugby player
1985 – Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
1985 – Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor
1985 – Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player
1985 – Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
1986 – Gemma Arterton, English actress
1986 – Miwa Asao, Japanese volleyball player
1987 – Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
1987 – Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
1987 – Athena Imperial
      Filipino journalist; Miss Earth-Water 2011
1987 – Mimi Page, American singer-songwriter and producer
1987 – Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer
1987 – Javon Ringer, American football player
1987 – Jill Scott, English footballer
1988 – Zosia Mamet, American actress and singer
1991 – Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer
1991 – Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1991 – Shohei Nanba, Japanese actor
1992 – Joonas Tamm, Estonian footballer
1992 – Danielle White, American singer-songwriter and actress
1993 – Jake Cassidy, Welsh footballer
1993 – Ravel Morrison, English footballer
1995 – Paul Digby, English footballer
1995 – Aleksander Jagiełło, Polish footballer


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619 – Laurence of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint
1124 – Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1064)
1218 – Konstantin of Rostov (b. 1186)
1250 – Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1294 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229)
1448 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1372)
1512 – Hatuey, Caribbean tribal chief
1529 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian soldier and diplomat (b. 1478)
1580 – Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese daimyo (b. 1558)
1594 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer and educator (b. 1525)
1648 – George Abbot, English author and politician (b. 1603)
1660 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans (b. 1608)
1660 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1661 – Lucas Holstenius, German geographer and historian (b. 1596)
1675 – Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
1688 – Abraham Duquesne, French admiral (b. 1610)
1704 – Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
1712 – Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
1714 – John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
1723 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
1768 – Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
1769 – Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
1802 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip  (b. 1713)
      English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies
1804 – George Walton  (b. 1749)
      American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
1904 – William Collins Whitney  (b. 1841)
      American financier and politician
      31st United States Secretary of the Navy
1904 – Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
1905 – Henri Germain  (b. 1824)
      French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais
1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
1909 – Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1913 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
1918 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
1919 – Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
1925 – Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
1925 – Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
1926 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1932 – Agha Petros, Assyrian general and politician (b. 1880)
1939 – Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1879)
1942 – Ado Birk  (b. 1883)
      Estonian lawyer and politician; 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia
1942 – Daniil Kharms, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1905)
1942 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (b. 1876)
1945 – Alfred Delp, German priest and philosopher (b. 1907)
1945 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German economist and politician (b. 1884)
1945 – Johannes Popitz, Prussian politician (b. 1884)
1948 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)
1948 – Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (b. 1894)
1950 – Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
1952 – Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian patriarch (b. 1866)
1954 – Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author and politician (b. 1886)
1956 – Charley Grapewin, American actor and singer (b. 1869)
1956 – Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (b. 1878)
1956 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1957 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)
1960 – André Alerme, French actor (b. 1877)
1962 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
1966 – Hacı Ömer Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b. 1906)
1968 – Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (b. 1878)
1969 – Boris Karloff, English actor and singer (b. 1887)
1970 – Lawrence Gray, American actor and singer (b. 1898)
1970 – Bertrand Russell  (b. 1872)
      English mathematician and philosopher; Nobel Prize laureate
1972 – Natalie Clifford Barney, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1973 – Hendrik Elias
      Belgian academic and politician  (b. 1902)
      9th Mayor of Ghent
1974 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1922)
1975 – Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian and academic (b. 1883)
1979 – Jim Burke, Australian cricketer (b. 1930)
1979 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (b. 1957)
1980 – William Howard Stein  (b. 1911)
      American biochemist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate
1982 – Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
1983 – Sam Chatmon, American singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
1986 – Anita Cobby, Australian murder victim (b. 1959)
1986 – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
1987 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
1987 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish-German author and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1988 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1989 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach (b. 1951)
1989 – Arnold Nordmeyer  (b. 1901)
      New Zealand minister and politician
      30th New Zealand Minister of Finance
1990 – Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic (b. 1905)
1990 – Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1992 – Bert Parks, American actor, singer and television host (b. 1914)
1993 – François Reichenbach, French director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1995 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (b. 1917)
1995 – Fred Perry, English-Australian tennis player (b. 1909)
1995 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
1996 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1912)
1997 – Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 – Sanford Meisner, American actor and acting coach (b. 1904)
1998 – Haroun Tazieff, German-French geologist and cinematographer (b. 1914)
1999 – David McComb, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
2002 – Paul Baloff, American singer-songwriter (Exodus) (b. 1960)
2002 – Claude Brown, American author (b. 1937)
2003 – Lou Harrison, American composer and educator (b. 1917)
2004 – Bernard McEveety, American film director and producer (b. 1924)
2005 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 – Vijay Arora, Indian actor (b. 1944)
2007 – Billy Henderson, American singer (b. 1939)
2007 – Joe Hunter, American pianist (b. 1927)
2007 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 – Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2008 – Barry Morse, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2008 – Katoucha Niane, Guinean model and author (b. 1960)
2011 – Edward Amy, Canadian soldier (b. 1918)
2011 – Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
2012 – Joyce Barkhouse, Canadian author (b. 1913)
2012 – Frederick William Danker, American lexicographer and scholar (b. 1920)
2012 – George Esper, American journalist and academic (b. 1932)
2012 – Dorothy Gilman, American author (b. 1923)
2012 – James F. Lloyd, American pilot and politician (b. 1922)
2013 – Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (b. 1961)
2013 – John Kerr, American actor and lawyer (b. 1931)
2013 – Chris Kyle, American soldier and sniper (b. 1974)
2013 – Lino Oviedo, Paraguayan general and politician (b. 1943)
2013 – Pepper Paire, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2014 – Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)
2014 – Nicholas Brooks, English historian (b. 1941)
2014 – Eduardo Coutinho  (b. 1933)
      Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
2014 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1967)
2014 – Werner Husemann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
2015 – Joseph Alfidi, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1949)
2015 – Dave Bergman, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2015 – The Jacka, American rapper and producer (Mob Figaz) (b. 1977)
2015 – Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
2015 – Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (b. 1922)


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