May 8
Day of the year
May 8 is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 237 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
453 BC – Spring and Autumn period : The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang , a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin .413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia , Campania , Picenum , Samnium , Apulia , Lucania and Calabria , which were plundered by the Visigoths .[ 1] 589 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo , marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church .[ 2] 1360 – Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).[ 3] 1373 – Julian of Norwich , a Christian mystic and anchoress , experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of Divine Love [ 4] 1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans , turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.1450 – Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI .1516 – A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.1541 – Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi , and sees the Mississippi River[ 5] Río de Espíritu Santo , the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).[ 6]
1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.1919 – Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.1921 – The creation of the Communist Party of Romania .1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird 1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.1941 – World War II : The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby .1942 – World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington .
1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny . Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
1945 – World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect.1945 – End of the Prague uprising , celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre .
1945 – The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1946 – Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn .1950 – The Tollund Man was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark.[ 10] 1957 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.[ 11] 1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak , killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis .1967 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte , Davao del Sur , and Davao Oriental .1970 – The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be [ 12] 1972 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.1976 – The rollercoaster The New Revolution , the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain .1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler .1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox .[ 13] 1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert , Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour .1984 – The USSR announces a boycott upon the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles , later joined by 14 other countries.[ 14]
1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.[ 15]
1987 – The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall , Northern Ireland.1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell 's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".1997 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.2019 – British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection .[ 16] [ 17] 2021 – A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul , capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.[ 18]
Births
Pre-1600
1622 – Claes Rålamb , Swedish politician (d. 1698)1628 – Angelo Italia , Sicilian Jesuit and architect (d. 1700)1629 – Niels Juel , Norwegian-Danish admiral (d. 1697)1632 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming , German field marshal and politician (d. 1706)1639 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli , Italian artist (d. 1709)1641 – Nicolaes Witsen , Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1717)1653 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars , French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1734)1670 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1726)1698 – Henry Baker , English naturalist (d. 1774)1720 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)1735 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland , English painter and politician (d. 1811)1737 – Edward Gibbon , English historian and politician (d. 1794)1745 – Carl Stamitz , German violinist and composer (d. 1801)1753 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , Mexican priest and rebel leader (d. 1811)1786 – John Vianney , French priest and saint (d. 1859)1815 – Edward Tompkins , American lawyer and politician (d. 1872)1818 – Samuel Leonard Tilley , Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1896)1821 – William Henry Vanderbilt , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1885)1824 – William Walker , American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (d. 1860)1825 – George Bruce Malleson , English-Indian colonel and author (d. 1898)1828 – Henry Dunant , Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)1828 – Charbel Makhluf , Lebanese monk and saint (d. 1898)
1829 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American pianist and composer (d. 1869)1835 – Bertalan Székely , Hungarian painter and academic (d. 1910)1839 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier , Canadian judge, author, and songwriter (d. 1920)1842 – Emil Christian Hansen , Danish physiologist and mycologist (d. 1909)1846 – Oscar Hammerstein I , American businessman and composer (d. 1919)1850 – Ross Barnes , American baseball player and manager (d. 1915)1853 – Dan Brouthers , American baseball player and manager (d. 1932)1856 – Pedro Lascuráin , Mexican politician (d. 1952)[ 20] 1858 – Heinrich Berté , Slovak-Austrian composer (d. 1924)1858 – J. Meade Falkner , English author and poet (d. 1932)
1859 – Johan Jensen , Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925)1867 – Margarete Böhme , German novelist (d. 1939)1876 – Ludvig Karsten , Norwegian painter (d. 1926)[ 21] 1879 – Wesley Coe , American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (d. 1926)1884 – Harry S. Truman , American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972)1885 – Thomas B. Costain , Canadian journalist and author (d. 1965)1892 – Adriaan Pelt , Dutch journalist and diplomat (d. 1981)1893 – Francis Ouimet , American golfer (d. 1967)1893 – Edd Roush , American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
1893 – Teddy Wakelam , English rugby player and sportscaster (d. 1963)
1895 – James H. Kindelberger , American businessman (d. 1962)1895 – Fulton J. Sheen , American archbishop (d. 1979)
1895 – Edmund Wilson , American critic, essayist, and editor (d. 1972)
1898 – Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian cardinal (d. 1960)1899 – Arthur Q. Bryan , American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality (d. 1959)1899 – Friedrich Hayek , Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
1899 – Jacques Heim , French fashion designer (d. 1967)
1901 – Turkey Stearnes , American baseball player (d. 1979)[ 22] 1902 – André Michel Lwoff , French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)[ 23] 1903 – Fernandel , French actor and singer (d. 1971)1904 – John Snagge , English journalist (d. 1996)1905 – Red Nichols , American cornet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1965)1906 – Roberto Rossellini , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1977)1910 – Mary Lou Williams , American pianist and composer (d. 1981)[ 24] 1911 – Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman , Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of The Interior (d. 1997)1911 – Robert Johnson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1938)
1912 – George Woodcock , Canadian author and poet (d. 1995)1913 – Bob Clampett , American animator, director, and producer (d. 1984)1913 – Sid James , South African-English actor and singer (d. 1976)
1916 – João Havelange , Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman (d. 2016)1916 – Chinmayananda Saraswati , Indian spiritual leader and educator (d. 1993)
1919 – Lex Barker , American actor (d. 1973)1920 – Saul Bass , American graphic designer and director (d. 1996)1920 – Barbara Howard , Canadian sprinter and educator (d. 2017)[ 25]
1920 – Tom of Finland , Finnish illustrator (d. 1991)
1920 – Gordon McClymont , Australian ecologist and academic (d. 2000)
1925 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi , Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania (d. 2024)1926 – David Attenborough , English environmentalist and television host1926 – David Hurst , German actor (d. 2019)
1926 – Don Rickles , American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
1928 – Ted Sorensen , American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (d. 2010)1929 – John C. Bogle , American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (d. 2019)[ 26] 1929 – Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1930 – Heather Harper , Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)1930 – Doug Atkins , American football player (d. 2015)
1930 – Gary Snyder , American poet, essayist, and translator
1932 – Phyllida Law , Scottish actress1934 – Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann , South African-English lawyer and judge1935 – Jack Charlton , English footballer and manager (d. 2020)1937 – Mike Cuellar , Cuban-American baseball player (d. 2010)1937 – Thomas Pynchon , American novelist
1938 – Jean Giraud , French author and illustrator (d. 2012)1940 – Peter Benchley , American author and screenwriter (d. 2006)1940 – Irwin Cotler , Canadian lawyer and politician, 47th Canadian Minister of Justice
1940 – Emilio Delgado , Mexican-American actor (d. 2022)
1940 – Ricky Nelson , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1985)
1940 – Toni Tennille , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1940 – William B. Jordan , American art historian (d. 2018)[ 27]
1941 – Bill Lockyer , American academic and politician, 30th Attorney General of California 1941 – James Traficant , American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1942 – Norman Lamont , Scottish banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1942 – Terry Neill , Irish footballer and manager (d. 2022)
1943 – Pat Barker , English author1944 – Gary Glitter , English singer-songwriter1945 – Keith Jarrett , American pianist and composer1947 – H. Robert Horvitz , American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate1947 – John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan , Scottish historian and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1951 – Philip Bailey , American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor1951 – Mike D'Antoni , American basketball player and coach
1951 – Chris Frantz , American drummer and producer
1952 – Peter McNab , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2022)[ 28] 1953 – Alex Van Halen , Dutch-American drummer1954 – David Keith , American actor and director1955 – Mladen Markač , Croatian general1956 – Jeff Wincott , Canadian actor and martial artist1957 – Bill Cowher , American football player, coach, and analyst1958 – Roddy Doyle , Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter1958 – Brooks Newmark , American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury
1959 – Ronnie Lott , American football player and sportscaster1960 – Franco Baresi , Italian footballer and coach1961 – Bill de Blasio , American politician, 109th Mayor of New York City 1961 – David Winning , Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Anthony Field , Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor1963 – Michel Gondry , French director and screenwriter
1964 – Melissa Gilbert , American actress and director1966 – Cláudio Taffarel , Brazilian footballer and coach1967 – Viviana Durante , Italian ballerina and actress1969 – Akebono Tarō , American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna (d. 2024)[ 29] 1970 – Michael Bevan , Australian cricketer and coach1970 – Naomi Klein , Canadian author and activist[ 30]
1970 – Luis Enrique , Spanish footballer and manager
1971 – Candice Night , American singer-songwriter1972 – Darren Hayes , Australian singer-songwriter1972 – Ray Whitney , Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Jesús Arellano , Mexican footballer1973 – Marcus Brigstocke , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1974 – Korey Stringer , American football player (d. 2001)1975 – Enrique Iglesias , Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor1976 – Martha Wainwright , Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist1977 – Joe Bonamassa , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1977 – Bad News Brown , Canadian rapper, harmonica player, and actor (d. 2011)
1977 – Theodoros Papaloukas , Greek basketball player
1978 – Lúcio , Brazilian footballer1980 – Evgeny Lebedev , Russian-English publisher and philanthropist1980 – Michelle McManus , Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
1981 – Stephen Amell , Canadian actor[ 31] 1981 – Andrea Barzagli , Italian footballer
1982 – Buakaw Banchamek , Thai kick-boxer1982 – Adrián González , American baseball player
1985 – Tommaso Ciampa , American wrestler1986 – Galen Rupp , American runner1987 – Felix Jones , American football player1987 – Mark Noble , English footballer
1987 – Kurt Tippett , Australian footballer
1989 – Lars Eller , Danish ice hockey player1990 – Iyo Sky , Japanese wrestler[ 32] 1990 – Kemba Walker , American basketball player
1992 – Olivia Culpo , American model and actress[ 33] 1992 – Kevin Hayes , American ice hockey player
1993 – Pat Cummins , Australian cricketer1996 – 6ix9ine , American rapper[ 34] 2001 – Jordyn Huitema , Canadian soccer player2003 – Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco [ 35]
Deaths
Pre-1600
535 – Pope John II [ 36] 615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)[ 37] 685 – Pope Benedict II [ 38] 997 – Tai Zong , Chinese emperor (b. 939)1157 – Ahmed Sanjar , Seljuk sultan (b. 1086)1192 – Ottokar IV , duke of Styria (b. 1163)1220 – Rikissa of Denmark , queen of Sweden1278 – Duan Zong , Chinese emperor (b. 1269)1319 – Haakon V , king of Norway (b. 1270)1473 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire , English politician (b. 1420)1538 – Edward Foxe , English bishop and academic (b. 1496)1551 – Barbara Radziwiłł , queen of Poland (b. 1520)
1668 – Catherine of St. Augustine , French-Canadian nun and saint (b. 1632)1766 – Samuel Chandler , English minister and author (b. 1693)1773 – Ali Bey al-Kabir , Egyptian sultan (b. 1728)1781 – Richard Jago , English priest and poet (b. 1715)1782 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal , Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)1785 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul , French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1719)1785 – Pietro Longhi , Italian painter (b. 1701)
1788 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian physician and botanist (b. 1723)1794 – Antoine Lavoisier , French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)1819 – Kamehameha I , king of the Hawaiian Islands (b. 1738)1822 – John Stark , American general (b. 1728)[ 39] 1828 – Mauro Giuliani , Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer (b. 1781)1837 – Alexander Balashov , Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (b. 1770)1842 – Jules Dumont d'Urville , French admiral and explorer (b. 1790)1853 – Jan Roothaan , Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1785)1880 – Gustave Flaubert , French novelist (b. 1821)1891 – Helena Blavatsky , Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)1891 – John Robertson , English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816)
1893 – Manuel González Flores , Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (b. 1833)[ 40]
1903 – Paul Gauguin , French painter and sculptor (b. 1848)1907 – Edmund G. Ross , American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1826)1925 – John Beresford , Irish polo player (b. 1847)1936 – Oswald Spengler , German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)1941 – Natalie , queen consort of Serbia (b. 1859)1941 – Tore Svennberg , Swedish actor and director (b. 1858)
1942 – Nikolai Reek , Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1890)1943 – Mordechai Anielewicz , Polish commander (b. 1919)1944 – Themistoklis Diakidis , Greek high jumper (b. 1882)1945 – Frank Bourne , British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)1945 – Julius Hirsch , German footballer (b. 1892)[ 41] [ 42]
1945 – Wilhelm Rediess , German SS officer (b. 1900)
1945 – Bernhard Rust , German lieutenant and politician (b. 1883)
1945 – Josef Terboven , German lieutenant and politician (b. 1898)
1947 – Harry Gordon Selfridge , American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (b. 1858)1948 – U Saw , Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)1950 – Vital Brazil , Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)1952 – William Fox , Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (b. 1879)1959 – John Fraser , Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead , Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)1965 – Wally Hardinge , English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)1969 – Remington Kellogg , American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)1972 – Pandurang Vaman Kane , Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)1972 – Beatrice Helen Worsley , Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
1975 – Avery Brundage , American businessman and art collector (b. 1887)1980 – Geoffrey Baker , English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)1981 – Uri Zvi Greenberg , Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)1982 – Neil Bogart , American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)1982 – Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
1983 – John Fante , American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)1984 – Lila Bell Wallace , American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest 1984 – Gino Bianco , Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916)
1985 – Robert Halperin , American yachtsman (b. 1908)[ 43] 1985 – Karl Marx , German conductor and composer (b. 1897)
1985 – Theodore Sturgeon , American author and critic (b. 1918)
1985 – Dolph Sweet , American actor (b. 1920)
1986 – Ernle Bradford , English historian and author (b. 1922)1987 – Doris Stokes , English psychic and author (b. 1920)1988 – Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction writer and screenwriter (b. 1907)[ 44] 1990 – Luigi Nono , Italian composer and educator (b. 1924)1991 – Jean Langlais , French pianist and composer (b. 1907)1991 – Rudolf Serkin , Czech-Austrian pianist and educator (b. 1903)
1992 – Joyce Ricketts , American baseball player (b. 1933)1993 – Avram Davidson , American soldier and author (b. 1923)1994 – George Peppard , American actor and producer (b. 1928)1995 – Teresa Teng , Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)1996 – Beryl Burton , English cyclist (b. 1937)1996 – Luis Miguel Dominguín , Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926)
1996 – Larry Levis , American poet, author, and critic (b. 1946)
1996 – Garth Williams , American illustrator (b. 1912)
1998 – Johannes Kotkas , Estonian wrestler (b. 1915)1998 – Charles Rebozo , American banker and businessman (b. 1912)
1999 – Dirk Bogarde , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)1999 – Ed Gilbert , American actor (b. 1931)
1999 – Dana Plato , American actress (b. 1964)
1999 – Soeman Hs , Indonesian author and educator (b. 1904)
2000 – Pita Amor , Mexican poet and author (b. 1918)2000 – Dédé Fortin , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
2000 – Henry Nicols , American activist (b. 1973)
2003 – Elvira Pagã , Brazilian vedette , singer, and artist (b. 1920)2005 – Jean Carrière , French author (b. 1928)2005 – Nicolás Vuyovich , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1981)
2006 – Iain Macmillan , Scottish photographer and author (b. 1938)2007 – Philip R. Craig , American author and poet (b. 1933)2007 – Carson Whitsett , American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (b. 1945)
2008 – Eddy Arnold , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1918)2008 – François Sterchele , Belgian footballer (b. 1982)
2009 – Dom DiMaggio , American baseball player (b. 1917)2011 – Lionel Rose , Australian boxer (b. 1948)2012 – Maurice Sendak , American author and illustrator (b. 1928)[ 45] 2012 – Ampon Tangnoppakul , Thai criminal (b. 1948)
2012 – Roman Totenberg , Polish-American violinist and educator (b. 1911)
2013 – Jeanne Cooper , American actress (b. 1928)2013 – Bryan Forbes , English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013 – Juan José Muñoz , Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
2013 – Hugh J. Silverman , American philosopher and theorist (b. 1945)
2014 – Roger L. Easton , American scientist, co-invented the GPS (b. 1921)2014 – Nancy Malone , American actress, director, and producer (b. 1935)
2014 – Jair Rodrigues , Brazilian singer (b. 1939)
2014 – Joseph P. Teasdale , American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (b. 1936)
2015 – Zeki Alasya , Turkish actor and director (b. 1943)2015 – Mwepu Ilunga , Congolese footballer (b. 1949)
2015 – Juan Schwanner , Hungarian-Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1921)
2015 – Atanas Semerdzhiev , Bulgarian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Bulgaria (b. 1924)
2016 – William Schallert , American actor; president (1979–81) of the Screen Actors Guild (b. 1922)2018 – Big Bully Busick , American professional wrestler (b. 1954)[ 46] 2018 – Anne V. Coates , British film editor (Lawrence of Arabia The Elephant Man Erin Brockovich Oscar winner (1963 ) (b. 1925)[ 47]
2019 – Sprent Dabwido , President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013 (b. 1972)[ 48] 2021 – Helmut Jahn , German-American architect (b. 1940)[ 49] 2022 – Robert Gillmor , British wildlife artist and illustrator (b. 1936)[ 50] 2022 – Dennis Waterman , English actor and singer (b. 1948)[ 51]
2024 – Chris Cannon , American politician (b. 1950)[ 52] 2024 – Jimmy Johnson , American football player (b. 1938)[ 53]
2024 – Pete McCloskey , American politician (b. 1927)[ 54]
2024 – Ramón Fonseca Mora , Panamanian novelist and lawyer (b. 1952)[ 55]
Holidays and observances
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