September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 105 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
Events
456 – Remistus , Roman general (magister militum besieged by a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis , outside the city.1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia ".1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks.1382 – Louis the Great 's daughter, Mary , is crowned "king" of Hungary .1462 – The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War .1577 – The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots .1620 – The Battle of Cecora (1620) is fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Polish–Ottoman War (1620–21) .1630 – The city of Boston , Massachusetts is founded.1631 – Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War .1658 – The Battle of Vilanova is fought between the Portugal and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War .1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules ": the first known description of protozoa .1716 – Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 18, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years.1775 – American Revolutionary War : The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean .1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain .1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia .1793 – The Battle of Peyrestortes is fought.1794 – The Battle of Sprimont is fought.1809 – Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War ; the territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn .1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner ".1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery .1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."1861 – Battle of Pavón is fought.1862 – American Civil War : George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee 's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam , the bloodiest day in American military history.1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
1894 – Battle of the Yalu River , the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War .1900 – Philippine–American War : Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac .1901 – The Battle of Blood River Poort is fought.1901 – The Battle of Elands River is fought.
1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright , with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.1914 – World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte , wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai , France.1920 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio 1924 – The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida , killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake .1930 – The Ararat rebellion is suppressed.1932 – A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident .1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany 's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.1939 – World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous .
1940 – World War II: Following Nazi Germany 's defeat in the Battle of Britain , Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War , is issued.1941 – World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran marking the end of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran .
1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden .1944 – World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro independence Estonian units.
1944 – World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino .
1948 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte , who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel .1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union .
1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.1957 – Malaysia joins the United Nations .1961 – The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena , opens in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .1961 –The Minnesota Vikings play and win their first regular season National Football League game.
1965 – The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.1974 – Bangladesh , Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations .1976 – The first Space Shuttle , Enterprise , is unveiled by NASA .1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt .1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk , Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.1980 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay .
1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America .1988 – The 1988 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad are opened in Seoul , South Korea .1991 – Estonia , North Korea , South Korea , Latvia , Lithuania , the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations .1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet .
1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany .2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks , the longest closure since the Great Depression .2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.2006 – An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election , sparking widespread protests across the country.
2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park , New York City.2016 – Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey , and Manhattan , New York. 31 people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.
Births
879 – Charles the Simple , French king (d. 929)1192 – Minamoto no Sanetomo , Japanese shogun (d. 1219)1550 – Pope Paul V (d. 1621)1605 – Francesco Sacrati , Italian composer (d. 1650)1630 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)1639 – Hans Herr , Swiss bishop (d. 1725)1674 – Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (d. 1728)1677 – Stephen Hales , English physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps (d. 1761)1687 – Durastante Natalucci , Italian historian and scholar (d. 1772)1688 – Maria Luisa of Savoy (d. 1714)1730 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , Prussian-American general (d. 1794)1739 – John Rutledge , American judge and politician, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)1743 – Marquis de Condorcet , French mathematician and political scientist (d. 1794)1771 – Johann August Apel , German jurist and author (d. 1816)1773 – Jonathan Alder , American captain and farmer (d. 1849)1783 – Nadezhda Durova , Russian soldier (d. 1866)1819 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius , South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (d. 1901)1820 – Émile Augier , French playwright (d. 1889)1821 – Arthur Saint-Léon , French playwright (d. 1870)1825 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II , American jurist and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1893)1826 – Bernhard Riemann , German-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)1850 – Guerra Junqueiro , Portuguese journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1923)1854 – David Dunbar Buick , Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick Motor Company (d. 1929)1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , Russian scientist and engineer (d. 1935)1859 – Frank Dawson Adams , Canadian geologist and academic (d. 1942)1859 – Billy the Kid , American gunman (d. 1881)
1859 – I. L. Patterson , American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (d. 1929)
1860 – Mihkel Martna , Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1934)1864 – James Tancred , English admiral (d. 1943)1864 – Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky , Ukrainian writer (d. 1913)
1867 – Vera Yevstafievna Popova , Russian chemist (d. 1896)1868 – James Alexander Calder , Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (d. 1956)1869 – Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian political scientist, historian, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938)1874 – Walter Murdoch , Australian author and academic (d. 1970)1878 – Vincenzo Tommasini , Italian composer (d. 1950)1879 – Rube Foster , American baseball player and manager (d. 1930)1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy , Indian businessman and politician (d. 1973)
1881 – Alfred Carpenter , English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1955)1883 – William Carlos Williams , American poet, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1963)1884 – Charles Griffes , American pianist and composer (d. 1920)1886 – Anton Irv , Estonian captain (d. 1919)1897 – Earl Webb , American baseball player and coach (d. 1965)1900 – Hughie Critz , American baseball player (d. 1980)1900 – J. Willard Marriott , American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)
1901 – Francis Chichester , English pilot and sailor (d. 1972)1902 – Bea Miles , Australian author (d. 1973)1903 – Karel Miljon , Dutch boxer (d. 1984)1903 – Frank O'Connor , Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (d. 1966)
1903 – Minanogawa Tōzō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971)
1906 – J. R. Jayewardene , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)1906 – Edgar Wayburn , American physician and environmentalist (d. 2010)
1907 – Warren E. Burger , American lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)1908 – John Creasey , English author and politician (d. 1973)1908 – Rafael Israelyan , Armenian architect and educator, designed the Sardarapat Memorial and St. Vartan Cathedral (d. 1973)
1909 – Elizabeth Enright , American author and illustrator (d. 1968)1912 – Irena Kwiatkowska , Polish actress (d. 2011)1914 – Thomas J. Bata , Czech-Canadian businessman (d. 2008)1914 – Shin Kanemaru , Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1996)
1915 – M. F. Husain , Indian painter and director (d. 2011)1916 – Mary Stewart , English-Scottish author and poet (d. 2014)1917 – William Grut , Swedish pentathlete (d. 2012)1917 – Ib Melchior , Danish-American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1917 – Isang Yun , South Korean-German composer and educator (d. 1995)
1918 – Lea Gottlieb , Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (d. 2012)1918 – Chaim Herzog , Irish-born Israeli general and politician, 6th President of Israel (d. 1997)
1920 – Dinah Sheridan , English actress (d. 2012)1922 – Agostinho Neto , Angolan poet and politician, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979)1923 – Ralph Sharon , English-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)1923 – Hank Williams , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1953)
1925 – Dorothy Loudon , American actress and singer (d. 2003)1926 – Bill Black , American bass player and bandleader (d. 1965)1926 – Curtis Harrington , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1926 – Hovie Lister , American minister and pianist (d. 2001)
1926 – Jean-Marie Lustiger , French cardinal (d. 2007)
1926 – Jack McDuff , American singer and organist (d. 2001)
1927 – George Blanda , American football player (d. 2010)1928 – Park Honan , American author and academic (d. 2014)1928 – Roddy McDowall , English-American actor (d. 1998)
1929 – Sil Austin , American saxophonist (d. 2001)1929 – David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley , Northern Irish air marshal and politician
1929 – Stirling Moss , English race car driver and sportscaster
1930 – David Huddleston , American actor (d. 2016)1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman , Indian violinist and composer (d. 2013)
1930 – Theo Loevendie , Dutch clarinet player and composer
1930 – Edgar Mitchell , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2016)
1930 – Jim Rohn , American philosopher and author (d. 2009)
1930 – Thomas P. Stafford , American general, pilot, and astronaut
1931 – Anne Bancroft , American actress (d. 2005)1931 – Jean-Claude Carrière , French actor and screenwriter
1932 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani , emir of Qatar (d. 2016)1932 – Robert B. Parker , American author and academic (d. 2010)
1932 – Indarjit Singh , Indian-English journalist
1933 – Chuck Grassley , American lawyer and politician1933 – Claude Provost , Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1934 – Maureen Connolly , American tennis player (d. 1969)1935 – Ken Kesey , American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2001)1936 – Gerald Guralnik , American physicist and academic (d. 2014)1936 – Michael Hennagin , American composer and educator (d. 1993)
1937 – Nigel Boocock , English-Australian motorcycle racer (d. 2015)1937 – Orlando Cepeda , Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1937 – Sitakant Mahapatra , Indian poet and literary critic1938 – Paul Benedict , American actor (d. 2008)1938 – Perry Robinson , American clarinet player and composer
1938 – Bobby Wine , American baseball player and coach
1939 – Carl Dennis , American poet and educator1939 – Shelby Flint , American singer-songwriter and voice actress
1939 – David Souter , American lawyer and jurist
1940 – Jan Eliasson , Swedish politician and diplomat, 4th Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations 1940 – Peter Lever , English cricketer
1940 – Gilberto Parlotti , Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1972)
1941 – Bob Matsui , American lawyer and politician (d. 2005)1942 – Robert Graysmith , American author and illustrator1942 – Des Lynam , Irish-English journalist and author
1942 – Lupe Ontiveros , American actress (d. 2012)
1944 – Les Emmerson , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist1944 – Reinhold Messner , Italian mountaineer and explorer
1945 – David Emerson , Canadian economist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada 1945 – Phil Jackson , American basketball player and coach
1945 – Bhakti Charu Swami , Indian religious leader
1946 – Billy Bonds , English footballer and manager1946 – Heimar Lenk , Estonian journalist and politician
1947 – Tessa Jowell , English social worker and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office 1947 – Gail Carson Levine , American author
1947 – Jeff MacNelly , American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1948 – Raphy Leavitt , Puerto Rican-American accordion player and composer (d. 2015)1948 – Kemal Monteno , Bosnian singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1948 – John Ritter , American actor and producer (d. 2003)
1949 – Ron Stevens , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)1950 – Narendra Modi , Chief Minister of Gujarat, India (2001-14) and politician, 15th Prime Minister of India 1950 – Fee Waybill , American singer-songwriter and producer
1951 – Russell Brown , Scottish politician1951 – Piet Kleine , Dutch speed skater and coach
1951 – Cassandra Peterson , American actress, television host, and producer
1952 – Harold Solomon , American tennis player and coach1953 – Luís Amado , Portuguese politician, former minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs1953 – Tamasin Day-Lewis , English chef and author
1953 – Altaf Hussain , Pakistani-English soldier and politician
1953 – Rita Rudner , American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
1954 – Joël-François Durand , French pianist and composer1955 – Scott Simpson , American golfer1956 – Thad Bosley , American baseball player and coach1956 – Mandawuy Yunupingu , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1956 – Almazbek Atambayev , Kyrgyz politician, 4th President of Kyrgyzstan
1957 – David Bintley , English ballet dancer and director1957 – Steve Bryles , American businessman and politician (d. 2012)
1958 – Janez Janša , Slovenian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Slovenia 1958 – Tom Waddell , Scottish-American baseball player
1960 – John Bottomley , Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)1960 – John Franco , American baseball player
1960 – Damon Hill , English race car driver and guitarist
1960 – Alan Krueger , American economist and academic
1961 – Jim Cornette , American wrestling manager and sportscaster1961 – Giorgos Koumoutsakos , Greek politician
1962 – Baz Luhrmann , Australian director, producer, and screenwriter1962 – Dustin Nguyen , Vietnamese-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Hesham Qandil , Egyptian engineer and politician, 51st Prime Minister of Egypt
1962 – Wayne Riley , Australian golfer
1962 – BeBe Winans , American singer-songwriter and producer
1963 – Masahiro Chono , American-Japanese wrestler and manager1963 – William Shockley , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – James Urbaniak , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Kyle Chandler , American actor1965 – Yuji Naka , Japanese video game designer, created Sonic the Hedgehog
1965 – Guy Picciotto , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965 – Bryan Singer , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Doug E. Fresh , American rapper and producer1967 – Michael Carbajal , American boxer1968 – Tito Vilanova , Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2014)1969 – Adam Devlin , English guitarist and songwriter1969 – Keith Flint , English singer-songwriter
1969 – Greg King , New Zealand lawyer and television host (d. 2012)
1969 – Tarvo Seeman , Estonian chess player
1970 – Mark Brunell , American football player and coach1971 – Nate Berkus , American interior designer and television host1971 – Mike Catt , South African-English rugby player and coach
1971 – Steve Kerrigan , American businessman and politician
1971 – Mauro Milanese , Italian footballer and manager
1971 – Andy Edwards , English footballer
1972 – Bobby Lee , American comedian, actor, and screenwriter1973 – Diego Albanese , Argentine rugby player1973 – Demis Nikolaidis , Greek footballer
1974 – Mirah , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1974 – Tormod Granheim , Norwegian skier and explorer
1974 – Craig Spence , Australian golfer
1974 – Rasheed Wallace , American basketball player and coach
1975 – Wilko de Vogt , Dutch footballer1975 – Jade Esteban Estrada , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1975 – Jimmie Johnson , American race car driver
1975 – Pumpkinhead , American rapper (d. 2015)
1977 – Sam Esmail , American screenwriter1977 – Simone Perrotta , Italian footballer
1978 – Sheeri Cabral , American computer scientist and blogger1978 – Shawn Horcoff , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Steffen Algreen , Danish footballer1979 – Akin Ayodele , American football player
1980 – Dan Haren , American baseball player1980 – Shabana Mahmood , English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
1980 – Oliver Risser , Namibian footballer
1981 – Casey Janssen , American baseball player1981 – Bakari Koné , Ivorian footballer
1981 – Francis Manioru , Solomon sprinter
1982 – Hope Larson , American illustrator1982 – Garth Murray , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Domenico Citro , Italian footballer1984 – Mary DeScenza , American swimmer
1984 – John Kucera , Canadian skier
1984 – Patrick van Luijk , Dutch sprinter
1984 – Eugenia Volodina , Russian model
1985 – Tomáš Berdych , Czech tennis player1985 – Brendan Clarke , Irish footballer
1985 – José Gonçalves , Portuguese footballer
1985 – Alexander Ovechkin , Russian ice hockey player
1985 – Mason Raymond , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Jon Walker , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 – Ravichandran Ashwin , Indian cricketer1986 – Paolo De Ceglie , Italian footballer
1986 – Yussef Suleiman , Syrian footballer (d. 2013)
1987 – Paul Huntington , English footballer1989 – Kate Deines , American soccer player1990 – Sean Scannell , English footballer1991 – Ryo Ishikawa , Japanese golfer1991 – Justyna Jegiołka , Polish tennis player
1991 – Sanne Wevers , Dutch gymnast
1997 – Auston Matthews , American ice hockey player
Deaths
456 – Remistus , Roman general1179 – Hildegard of Bingen , German mystic, composer, and saint (b. 1098)1322 – Robert III, Count of Flanders (b. 1249)1422 – Constantine II of Bulgaria (b. 1370)1563 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland , English soldier (b. 1526)1574 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , Spanish admiral and explorer, founded St. Augustine, Florida (b. 1519)1575 – Heinrich Bullinger , Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1504)1609 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel , Bohemian rabbi, mystic and philosopher (b. 1520)1621 – Robert Bellarmine , Italian cardinal and saint (b. 1542)1626 – Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg , German cleric and politician, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (b. 1553)1630 – Thomas Lake , English politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1567)1665 – Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)1676 – Sabbatai Zevi , Turkish rabbi and scholar (b. 1626)1679 – John of Austria the Younger , Spanish general and politician, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (b. 1629)1762 – Francesco Geminiani , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687)1771 – Tobias Smollett , Scottish-Italian author and poet (b. 1721)1803 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr , Austrian composer and director (b. 1766)1808 – Benjamin Bourne , American judge and politician (b. 1755)1817 – Jacques Bernard d'Anselme , French general (b. 1740)1836 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu , French botanist and author (b. 1748)1858 – Dred Scott , American slave (b. 1795)1863 – Charles Robert Cockerell , English archaeologist and architect (b. 1788)1863 – Alfred de Vigny , French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1797)
1864 – Walter Savage Landor , English author and poet (b. 1775)1868 – Roman Nose , Native American warrior (b. circa 1823)1877 – Henry Fox Talbot , English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800)1878 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens , French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825)1879 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , French architect and theorist (b. 1814)1894 – Deng Shichang , Chinese captain (b. 1849)1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury , American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842)1907 – Ignaz Brüll , Czech-Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1846)1908 – Henri Julien , Canadian cartoonist (b. 1852)1908 – Thomas Selfridge , American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1882)
1909 – Thomas Bent , Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1838)1923 – Stefanos Dragoumis , Greek judge and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842)1925 – Carl Eytel , German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1862)1933 – Joseph De Piro , Maltese priest and missionary (b. 1877)1936 – Ettie Annie Rout , New Zealand author and activist (b. 1877)1937 – Walter Dubislav , German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (b. 1895)1938 – Bruno Jasieński , Polish poet and author (b. 1901)1943 – Friedrich Zickwolff , German general (b. 1893)1948 – Ruth Benedict , American anthropologist and academic (b. 1887)1948 – Folke Bernadotte , Swedish soldier and diplomat (b. 1895)
1951 – Jimmy Yancey , American pianist and composer (b. 1898)1953 – David Munson , American runner (b. 1884)1953 – Hans Feige , German general (Wehrmacht) (b. 1880)
1961 – Adnan Menderes , Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899)1965 – Alejandro Casona , Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)1966 – Fritz Wunderlich , German tenor and actor (b. 1930)1971 – Carlos Lamarca , Brazilian captain (b. 1937)1972 – Akim Tamiroff , American actor (b. 1899)1973 – Hugo Winterhalter , American bandleader and composer (b. 1909)1975 – Nicola Moscona , Greek-American singer-songwriter (b. 1907)1980 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle , Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)1982 – Manos Loïzos , Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937)1983 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros , Portuguese-American cardinal (b. 1915)1984 – Richard Basehart , American actor and director (b. 1914)1985 – Laura Ashley , Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1925)1987 – Harry Locke , English actor (b. 1913)1991 – Zino Francescatti , French violinist and composer (b. 1902)1992 – Roger Wagner , American conductor and educator (b. 1914)1993 – Willie Mosconi , American pool player and actor (b. 1913)1993 – Christian Nyby , American director and producer (b. 1913)
1994 – John Delafose , American accordion player (b. 1939)1994 – Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player and coach (b. 1954)
1994 – Karl Popper , Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1902)
1995 – Isadore Epstein , Estonian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1919)1995 – Lucien Victor , Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
1996 – Spiro Agnew , American soldier and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)1997 – Red Skelton , American actor and comedian (b. 1913)1998 – Ted Binion , American poker player and businessman (b. 1943)1998 – Geoffrey Dutton , Australian historian and author (b. 1922)
1999 – Frankie Vaughan , English singer and actor (b. 1928)2000 – Georgiy Gongadze , Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969)2003 – Erich Hallhuber , German actor (b. 1951)2005 – Jacques Lacarrière , French journalist and critic (b. 1925)2005 – Alfred Reed , American composer and educator (b. 1921)
2009 – Dick Durock , American stuntman and actor (b. 1937)2009 – Noordin Mohammad Top , Malaysian terrorist (b. 1968)
2011 – Colin Madigan , Australian architect and author, designed the National Gallery of Australia (b. 1921)2012 – Melvin Charney , Canadian sculptor and architect (b. 1935)2012 – Lou Kenton , English soldier and potter (b. 1908)
2012 – Russell E. Train , American soldier and civil servant (b. 1920)
2013 – Kristian Gidlund , Swedish drummer and journalist (b. 1983)2013 – Larry Lake , American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (b. 1943)
2013 – Bernie McGann , Australian saxophonist and composer (b. 1937)
2013 – Alex Naumik , Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
2013 – Michael J. Noonan , Irish farmer and politician, 25th Irish Minister of Defence (b. 1935)
2013 – Marvin Rainwater , American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
2013 – Eiji Toyoda , Japanese businessman (b. 1913)
2014 – George Hamilton IV , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)2014 – Andriy Husin , Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)
2014 – Wakachichibu Komei , Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1939)
2014 – Charles Read , Australian air marshal (b. 1918)
2014 – Peter von Bagh , Finnish historian, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
2014 – China Zorrilla , Uruguayan actress (b. 1922)
2015 – Ingrīda Andriņa , Latvian actress (b. 1944)2015 – Dettmar Cramer , German footballer and manager (b. 1925)2015 – Milo Hamilton , American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2015 – Vadim Kuzmin , Russian physicist and academic (b. 1937)
2015 – David Willcocks , English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919)
2016 – Bahman Golbarnezhad , Iranian racing cyclist (b. 1968)2016 – Sigge Parling , Swedish footballer (b. 1936)
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