August 25
Day of the year
August 25 is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 128 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
766 – Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios .1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht .1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos , paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea .1270 – Philip III , although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX , during the Eighth Crusade . His uncle, Charles I of Naples , is forced to begin peace negotiations with Muhammad I al-Mustansir , Hafsid Sultan of Tunis.[ 1] 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company , the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army , and the second most senior, is formed.1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession : Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union .
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.1630 – Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka .1758 – Seven Years' War : Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf .1814 – War of 1812 : On the second day of the Burning of Washington , British troops torch the Library of Congress , United States Treasury , Department of War , and other public buildings.1823 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota .1825 – The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun Moon .1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.[ 2] 1883 – France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế , recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet
1904 – Russo-Japanese War : The Battle of Liaoyang begins.[ 3] 1912 – The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking .[ 4] 1914 – World War I : Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary .1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.1920 – Polish–Soviet War : Battle of Warsaw , which began on August 13 , ends with the Red Army 's defeat.1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County , Sichuan , China and kills 9,000 people.1933 – Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement . The agreement was a major factor in breaking the anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 and facilitated Jewish emigration from Germany and into Palestine .[ 5] [ 6]
1939 – The Irish Republican Army carries out the 1939 Coventry bombing in which five civilians were killed.[ 7] 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.1940 – World War II : The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force .1941 – World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran : The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran .[ 8]
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons ; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.1942 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay : Japanese marines assault Allied airfields at Milne Bay , New Guinea , initiating the Battle of Milne Bay .[ 9]
1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies .1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender , armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch , regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War .1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty .[ 10]
1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss .1950 – To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.[ 11] 1958 – The world's first publicly marketed instant noodles , Chikin Ramen , are introduced by Taiwanese -Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando .[ 12] 1960 – The Games of the XVII Olympiad commence in Rome , Italy .[ 13] 1961 – President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964 .1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell , founder of the American Nazi Party , is assassinated by a former member of his group.1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations .1981 – Voyager 2 Saturn .1985 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn, Maine , killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith .[ 14] 1989 – Voyager 2 Neptune , the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.[ 15] 1989 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 , carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after takeoff from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found.[ 16]
1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union .1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence ).
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux .
1997 – Egon Krenz , the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall .2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her entourage are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport , Bahamas .2003 – NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.[ 17] 2005 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida .[ 18] 2006 – Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.2010 – A Filair Let L-410 Turbolet crashes on approach to Bandundu Airport , killing 20.[ 19] 2011 – Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas .[ 20] 2012 – Voyager 1 interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.[ 21] 2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane , the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004 .2017 – Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present) : One hundred seventy people are killed in at least 26 separate attacks carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army , leading to the governments of Myanmar and Malaysia designating the group as a terrorist organisation.[ 22] [ 23] [ 24]
Births
Pre-1600
1605 – Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg , German noble (d. 1638)1624 – François de la Chaise , French priest (d. 1709)1662 – John Leverett the Younger , American lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1724)1707 – Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)1724 – George Stubbs , English painter and academic (d. 1806)[ 26] 1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German theologian and author (d. 1792)1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder , German poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1803)1758 – Franz Teyber , Austrian organist and composer (d. 1810)1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just , French soldier and politician (d. 1794)[ 27] 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel , English admiral (d. 1853)1786 – Ludwig I of Bavaria , King of Bavaria (d. 1868)1793 – John Neal , American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist (d. 1876)[ 28] 1796 – James Lick , American carpenter and piano builder (d. 1876)1802 – Nikolaus Lenau , Romanian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1850)1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (d. 1880)1812 – Nikolay Zinin , Russian organic chemist (d. 1880)1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus , French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)1819 – Allan Pinkerton , Scottish-American detective and spy (d. 1884)1829 – Carlo Acton , Italian pianist and composer (d. 1909)1836 – Bret Harte , American short story writer and poet (d. 1902)1840 – George C. Magoun , American businessman (d. 1893)1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher , Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)1845 – Ludwig II of Bavaria , King of Bavaria (d. 1886)1850 – Charles Richet , French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)1867 – James W. Gerard , American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (d. 1951)1869 – Tom Kiely , British-Irish decathlete (d. 1951)1875 – Agnes Mowinckel , Norwegian actress (d. 1963)[ 29] 1877 – Joshua Lionel Cowen , American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation (d. 1965)1878 – Ted Birnie , English footballer and manager (d. 1935)1882 – Seán T. O'Kelly , Irish journalist and politician, 2nd President of Ireland (d. 1966)1889 – Alexander Mair , Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1969)1891 – David Shimoni , Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (d. 1956)1893 – Henry Trendley Dean , American dentist (d. 1962)1898 – Helmut Hasse , German mathematician and academic (d. 1975)1898 – Arthur Wood , English cricketer (d. 1973)
1899 – Paul Herman Buck , American historian and author (d. 1978)1900 – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie , Scottish architect (d. 1970) [ 30] 1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs , German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1902 – Stefan Wolpe , German-American composer and educator (d. 1972)1903 – Arpad Elo , Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system (d. 1992)1905 – Faustina Kowalska , Polish nun and saint (d. 1938)1906 – Jim Smith , English cricketer (d. 1979)1909 – Ruby Keeler , Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1993)1909 – Michael Rennie , English actor and producer (d. 1971)
1910 – George Cisar , American baseball player (d. 2010)1910 – Dorothea Tanning , American painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 2012)
1911 – Võ Nguyên Giáp , Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (d. 2013)1912 – Erich Honecker , German politician (d. 1994)1913 – Don DeFore , American actor (d. 1993)1913 – Walt Kelly , American illustrator and animator (d. 1973)
1916 – Van Johnson , American actor (d. 2008)1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins , American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1916 – Saburō Sakai , Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 2000)
1917 – Mel Ferrer , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)1918 – Leonard Bernstein , American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)[ 31] 1918 – Richard Greene , English actor (d. 1985)
1919 – William P. Foster , American bandleader and educator (d. 2010)1919 – George Wallace , American lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)[ 31]
1919 – Jaap Rijks , Dutch Olympic medalist (d. 2017)
1921 – Monty Hall , Canadian television personality and game show host (d. 2017)[ 32] 1921 – Bryce Mackasey , Canadian businessman and politician, 20th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1999)
1921 – Brian Moore , Northern Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1923 – Álvaro Mutis , Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013)1923 – Allyre Sirois , Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2012)
1924 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy , Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. 2006)1925 – Thea Astley , Australian journalist and author (d. 2004)1925 – Hilmar Hoffmann , German film and culture academic (d. 2018)
1925 – Stepas Butautas , Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2001)
1927 – Althea Gibson , American tennis player and golfer (d. 2003)[ 31] 1927 – Des Renford , Australian swimmer (d. 1999)
1928 – John "Kayo" Dottley , American football player (d. 2018)1928 – Darrell Johnson , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2004)
1928 – Karl Korte , American composer and academic (d. 2022)
1928 – Herbert Kroemer , German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)
1930 – Sean Connery , Scottish actor and producer (d. 2020)[ 33] 1930 – György Enyedi , Hungarian economist and geographer (d. 2012)
1930 – Graham Jarvis , Canadian actor (d. 2003)
1930 – Crispin Tickell , English academic and diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (d. 2022)
1931 – Regis Philbin , American actor and television host (d. 2020)[ 31] 1932 – Anatoly Kartashov , Soviet aviator and cosmonaut (d. 2005)[ 34] 1933 – Patrick F. McManus , American journalist and author (d. 2018)1933 – Wayne Shorter , American saxophonist and composer (d. 2023)[ 35]
1933 – Tom Skerritt , American actor[ 35]
1934 – Lise Bacon , Canadian judge and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec 1934 – Eddie Ilarde , Filipino journalist and politician (d. 2020)
1935 – Charles Wright , American poet1936 – Giridharilal Kedia , Indian businessman, founded the Image Institute of Technology & Management (d. 2009)1937 – Jimmy Hannan , Australian television host and singer (d. 2019)1937 – Virginia Euwer Wolff , American author
1938 – David Canary , American actor (d. 2015)1938 – Frederick Forsyth , English journalist and author[ 31]
1939 – John Badham , English-American actor, director, and producer1940 – Wilhelm von Homburg , German boxer and actor (d. 2004)1941 – Marshall Brickman , Brazilian-American director, producer, and screenwriter1941 – Mario Corso , Italian footballer and coach (d. 2020)
1941 – Ludwig Müller , German footballer (d. 2021)
1942 – Nathan Deal , American lawyer, and politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia 1942 – Ivan Koloff , Canadian wrestler (d. 2017)[ 36]
1944 – Conrad Black , Canadian historian and author1944 – Jacques Demers , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
1944 – Anthony Heald , American actor[ 35]
1944 – Andrew Longmore , British lawyer and judge
1945 – Daniel Hulet , Belgian cartoonist (d. 2011)1945 – Hannah Louise Shearer , American screenwriter and producer
1946 – Rollie Fingers , American baseball player[ 31] 1946 – Charles Ghigna , American poet and author
1946 – Charlie Sanders , American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1947 – Michael Kaluta , American author and illustrator1947 – Keith Tippett , British jazz pianist and composer (d. 2020)
1948 – Ledward Kaapana , American singer and guitarist1948 – Nicholas A. Peppas , Greek chemist and biologist
1949 – Martin Amis , British novelist (d. 2023)[ 31] 1949 – Rijkman Groenink , Dutch banker and academic
1949 – John Savage , American actor and producer[ 35]
1949 – Gene Simmons , Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[ 35]
1950 – Willy DeVille , American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)1950 – Charles Fambrough , American bassist, composer, and producer (d. 2011)
1951 – Rob Halford , English heavy metal singer-songwriter[ 35] 1951 – Bill Handel , Brazilian-American lawyer and radio host
1952 – Kurban Berdyev , Turkmen footballer and manager1952 – Geoff Downes , English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer[ 35]
1952 – Duleep Mendis , Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
1954 – Elvis Costello , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[ 35] 1954 – Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness , Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland
1955 – John McGeoch , Scottish guitarist (d. 2004)1955 – Gerd Müller , German businessman and politician
1956 – Matt Aitken , English songwriter and record producer1956 – Takeshi Okada , Japanese footballer, coach, and manager
1956 – Henri Toivonen , Finnish race car driver (d. 1986)
1957 – Sikander Bakht , Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster1957 – Simon McBurney , English actor and director
1957 – Frank Serratore , American ice hockey player and coach
1958 – Tim Burton , American director, producer, and screenwriter[ 35] 1958 – Christian LeBlanc , American actor[ 35]
1959 – Ian Falconer , American author and illustrator (d. 2023)1959 – Steve Levy , American lawyer and politician
1959 – Bernardo Rezende , Brazilian volleyball coach and player
1959 – Lane Smith , American author and illustrator
1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson , American soprano and actress
1960 – Ashley Crow , American actress[ 35] 1960 – Georg Zellhofer , Austrian footballer and manager
1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[ 35] 1961 – Dave Tippett , Canadian ice hockey player and coach[ 37]
1961 – Ally Walker , American actress[ 35]
1961 – Joanne Whalley , English actress[ 35]
1962 – Taslima Nasrin , Bangladeshi author1962 – Theresa Andrews , American competition swimmer and Olympic champion
1962 – Vivian Campbell , Northern Irish rock guitarist and songwriter[ 35]
1962 – Michael Zorc , German footballer
1963 – Miro Cerar , Slovenian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia 1963 – Shock G , American rapper and producer (d. 2021)
1963 – Tiina Intelmann , Estonian lawyer and diplomat
1964 – Azmin Ali , Malaysian mathematician and politician1964 – Maxim Kontsevich , Russian-American mathematician and academic
1964 – Blair Underwood , American actor[ 35]
1965 – Cornelius Bennett , American football player1965 – Tim Cain , American video game designer[ 38]
1965 – Sanjeev Sharma , Indian cricketer and coach
1965 – Mia Zapata , American singer[ 39]
1966 – Albert Belle , American baseball player1966 – Robert Maschio , American actor[ 35]
1966 – Derek Sherinian , American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1966 – Terminator X , American hip-hop DJ[ 35]
1967 – Tom Hollander , English actor[ 31] 1967 – Jeff Tweedy , American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer[ 35]
1968 – David Alan Basche , American actor[ 35] 1968 – Yuri Mitsui , Japanese actress, model, and race car driver
1968 – Stuart Murdoch , Scottish singer-songwriter
1968 – Spider One , American singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – Rachael Ray , American chef, author, and television host[ 35]
1968 – Takeshi Ueda , Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
1969 – Olga Konkova , Norwegian-Russian pianist and composer1969 – Cameron Mathison , Canadian actor and television personality[ 35]
1969 – Catriona Matthew , Scottish golfer
1969 – Vivek Razdan , Indian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
1970 – Doug Glanville , American baseball player and sportscaster1970 – Debbie Graham , American tennis player
1970 – Robert Horry , American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 – Adrian Lam , Papua New Guinean-Australian rugby league player and coach
1970 – Jo Dee Messina , American singer-songwriter[ 35]
1970 – Claudia Schiffer , German model and fashion designer[ 35]
1971 – Jason Death , Australian rugby league player1971 – Nathan Page , Australian actor[ 35]
1972 – Marvin Harrison , American football player[ 40] 1973 – Fatih Akın , German director, producer, and screenwriter1974 – Eric Millegan , American actor[ 35] 1974 – Pablo Ozuna , Dominican baseball player
1975 – Brad Drew , Australian rugby league player1975 – Petria Thomas , Australian swimmer and coach
1976 – Damon Jones , American basketball player and coach[ 41] 1976 – Javed Qadeer , Pakistani cricketer and coach
1976 – Alexander Skarsgård , Swedish actor[ 42]
1977 – Masumi Asano , Japanese voice actress and producer1977 – Andy McDonald , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Jonathan Togo , American actor[ 35]
1978 – Kel Mitchell , American actor, producer, and screenwriter[ 35] 1978 – Robert Mohr , German rugby player
1979 – Marlon Harewood , English footballer1979 – Philipp Mißfelder , German historian and politician (d. 2015)
1979 – Deanna Nolan , American basketball player
1981 – Rachel Bilson , American actress[ 35] 1981 – Jan-Berrie Burger , Namibian cricketer
1981 – Camille Pin , French tennis player
1982 – Jung Jung-suk , South Korean footballer (d. 2011)1982 – Nick Schultz , Canadian ice hockey player[ 43]
1983 – James Rossiter , English race car driver1984 – Florian Mohr , German footballer1984 – Anya Monzikova , Russian-American model and actress
1986 – Rodney Ferguson , American footballer1987 – Stacey Farber , Canadian actress1987 – Velimir Jovanović , Serbian footballer
1987 – Blake Lively , American model and actress[ 35]
1987 – Amy Macdonald , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987 – Justin Upton , American baseball player
1987 – Adam Warren , American baseball player
1987 – James Wesolowski , Australian footballer
1988 – Angela Park , Brazilian-American golfer1988 – Giga Chikadze , Georgian mixed martial artist and kickboxer[ 44]
1989 – Hiram Mier , Mexican footballer1990 – Max Muncy , American baseball player[ 45] 1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki , Japanese singer and actress1992 – Ricardo Rodriguez , Swiss footballer
1994 – Edmunds Augstkalns , Latvian ice hockey player1994 – Caris LeVert , American basketball player[ 46]
1998 – China Anne McClain , American actress and singer[ 31] 2003 – Rebeka Jančová , Slovak alpine ski racer[ 47] 2004 – Evann Girault , French-Nigerien sabre fencer[ 48]
Deaths
Pre-1600
AD 79 – Pliny the Elder , Roman commander and philosopher (b. 23)274 – Yang Yan , Jin Dynasty empress (b. 238)306 – Saint Maginus , Christian hermit and martyr from Tarragona 383 – Gratian , Roman emperor (b. 359)471 – Gennadius I , patriarch of Constantinople 766 – Constantine Podopagouros , Byzantine official766 – Strategios Podopagouros , Byzantine general
985 – Dietrich of Haldensleben , German margrave [ 49] 1091 – Sisnando Davides , military leader1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)1258 – George Mouzalon , regent of the Empire of Nicaea1270 – Louis IX of France (b. 1214)[ 50] 1270 – Alphonso of Brienne (b. c. 1225)
1271 – Joan, Countess of Toulouse (b. 1220)1282 – Thomas de Cantilupe , English bishop and saint (b. 1218)1322 – Beatrice of Silesia , queen consort of Germany (b. c. 1292)1327 – Demasq Kaja , Chobanid1330 – Sir James Douglas , Scottish guerrilla leader (b. 1286)1339 – Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (b. 1260)1368 – Andrea Orcagna , Italian painter, sculptor, and architect1482 – Margaret of Anjou wife of Henry VI and Queen of England (b. 1429) [ 51] 1485 – William Catesby , supporter of Richard III (b. 1450)1554 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English soldier and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1473)1592 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1532)1600 – Hosokawa Gracia , Japanese aristocrat and Catholic convert (b. 1563)[ 52]
1603 – Ahmad al-Mansur , Sultan of the Saadi dynasty (b. 1549)1631 – Nicholas Hyde , Lord Chief Justice of England (b.c. 1572)1632 – Thomas Dekker , English author and playwright (b. 1572)1688 – Henry Morgan , Welsh admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1635)1699 – Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)1711 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey , English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1656)1742 – Carlos Seixas , Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1704)1774 – Niccolò Jommelli , Italian composer and educator (b. 1714)1776 – David Hume , Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1711)1794 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau , Belgian-Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)1797 – Thomas Chittenden , Governor of the Vermont Republic , and first Governor of the State of Vermont (b. 1730)1815 – Stephen Badlam , American artisan and military officer (b. 1815)[ 53] 1819 – James Watt , Scottish engineer and instrument maker (b. 1736)[ 54] 1822 – William Herschel , German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738)1867 – Michael Faraday , English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)1882 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald , Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)1886 – Zinovios Valvis , Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)1892 – William Champ , English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1808)1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche , German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour , French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)1908 – Henri Becquerel , French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)1916 – Mary Tappan Wright , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov , Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)1924 – Mariano Álvarez , Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)1924 – Velma Caldwell Melville , American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858)
1925 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)1930 – Frankie Campbell , American boxer (b. 1904)1931 – Dorothea Fairbridge , South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (b. 1862)1936 – Juliette Adam , French author (b. 1836)[ 55] 1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin , Russian pilot, explorer, and author (b. 1870)1939 – Babe Siebert , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)1940 – Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)1942 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)1945 – John Birch , American soldier and missionary (b. 1918)1956 – Alfred Kinsey , American biologist and academic (b. 1894)1965 – Moonlight Graham , American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)1966 – Lao She , Chinese novelist and dramatist (b. 1899)[ 56] 1967 – Stanley Bruce , Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)1967 – Oscar Cabalén , Argentine race car driver (b. 1928)
1967 – Paul Muni , Ukrainian-born American actor (b. 1895)
1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell , American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
1968 – Stan McCabe , Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910)1969 – Robert Cosgrove , Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1884)1970 – Tachū Naitō , Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)1971 – Ted Lewis , American singer and clarinet player (b. 1890)1973 – Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám , Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)1976 – Eyvind Johnson , Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)1977 – Károly Kós , Hungarian architect, ethnologist, and politician (b. 1883)1979 – Stan Kenton , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1911)1980 – Gower Champion , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)1981 – Nassos Kedrakas , Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1915)1982 – Anna German , Polish singer (b. 1936)1984 – Truman Capote , American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1924)1984 – Viktor Chukarin , Ukrainian gymnast and coach (b. 1921)
1984 – Waite Hoyt , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1899)
1988 – Art Rooney , American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (b. 1901)1990 – Morley Callaghan , Canadian author and playwright (b. 1903)1995 – Doug Stegmeyer , American bass player and producer (b. 1951)1998 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr. , American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (b. 1907)1999 – Rob Fisher , English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1956)2000 – Carl Barks , American author and illustrator (b. 1901)[ 57] 2000 – Frederick C. Bock , American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
2000 – Jack Nitzsche , American pianist, composer, and producer (b. 1937)
2000 – Allen Woody , American bass player and songwriter (b. 1955)
2001 – Aaliyah , American singer and actress (b. 1979)2001 – Carl Brewer , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2001 – Üzeyir Garih , Turkish engineer and businessman, co-founded Alarko Holding (b. 1929)
2001 – Ken Tyrrell , English race car driver and businessman, founded Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924)
2002 – Dorothy Hewett , Australian author and poet (b. 1923)2003 – Tom Feelings , American author and illustrator (b. 1933)2005 – Peter Glotz , Czech-German academic and politician (b. 1939)2006 – Noor Hassanali , Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)2007 – Benjamin Aaron , American lawyer and scholar (b. 1915)2007 – Ray Jones , English footballer (b. 1988)
2008 – Ahmad Faraz , Pakistani poet (b. 1931)2008 – Kevin Duckworth , American basketball player (b. 1964)
2009 – Ted Kennedy , American politician (b. 1932)2009 – Mandé Sidibé , Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1940)
2011 – Lazar Mojsov , Macedonian politician (b. 1920)2012 – Florencio Amarilla , Paraguayan footballer, coach, and actor (b. 1935)2012 – Neil Armstrong , American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
2012 – Roberto González Barrera , Mexican banker and businessman (b. 1930)
2012 – Donald Gorrie , Scottish politician (b. 1933)[ 58]
2013 – Ciril Bergles , Slovene poet and translator (b. 1934)2013 – António Borges , Portuguese economist and banker (b. 1949)
2013 – William Froug , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
2013 – Liu Fuzhi , Chinese academic and politician, 3rd Minister of Justice for China (b. 1917)
2013 – Raghunath Panigrahi , Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
2013 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves , Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
2014 – William Greaves , American director and producer (b. 1926)2014 – Marcel Masse , Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1936)
2014 – Nico M. M. Nibbering , Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1938)
2014 – Uziah Thompson , Jamaican-American drummer and producer (b. 1936)
2014 – Enrique Zileri , Peruvian journalist and publisher (b. 1931)
2015 – José María Benegas , Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1948)2015 – Francis Sejersted , Norwegian historian and academic (b. 1936)
2016 – Marvin Kaplan , American actor (b. 1927)2017 – Rich Piana , American bodybuilder (b. 1971)2018 – John McCain , American politician (b. 1936)2019 – Ferdinand Piëch , Austrian business magnate and engineer (b. 1937) [ 59] 2022 – Mable John , American blues vocalist (b. 1930)[ 60] 2024 – Salim Al-Huss , Lebanese statesman, 34th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1929)[ 61]
Holidays and observances
References
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