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2021
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damages and economic loss.
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2013
Security forces raided two camps of supporters of the ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, leading to the deaths of at least 595 civilians.
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2010
The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.
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2007
Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing 796 people and wounding 1,562 others.
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2005
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
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1975
The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in limited release.
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1945
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the surrender of Japan.
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1941
After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (both pictured) issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post–World War II world.
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1888
One of the first recordings of music, of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", was played at a press conference in London to introduce Thomas Edison's phonograph.
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1816
The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
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1720
The Spanish Villasur expedition, intended to slow the progress of French influence on the Great Plains of North America, ended in failure when it was ambushed by Pawnee and Otoe forces.
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1264
War of Saint Sabas: A Genoese fleet captured or sank most of the ships of a Venetian trade convoy off the Albanian coast.
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2023
Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.
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2022
An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
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2021
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
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2018
The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left 16 people injured and 43 people killed.
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2015
The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.
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2013
Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
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2013
UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
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2007
The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.
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2006
Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
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2006
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force air strike.
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2005
Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
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2003
A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
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1996
Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
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1994
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
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1980
Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
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1974
Turkey launches the second phase of the invasion of Cyprus, which eventually resulted in the Turkish occupation of 37% of Cyprus.
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1972
An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.
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1971
Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
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1969
The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
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1967
UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
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1959
Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
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1948
An Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers known as Beaver drop occurred. This program relocated beavers from Northwestern Idaho to Central Idaho by airplane and then parachuting the beavers into the Chamberlain Basin.
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1947
Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan, due to the partition of India.
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1941
World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
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1936
Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
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1935
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
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1933
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.
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1921
Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
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1920
The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
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1917
World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war.
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1914
World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
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1901
The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
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1900
Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
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1893
France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
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1885
Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
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1880
Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
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1848
Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
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1848
Pica Law (Legge Pica), a form of martial law, is established as the Italian government passes this anti-brigandage law to suppress resistance to the Unification of Italy.
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1842
American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
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1816
The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
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1814
A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ends the Swedish–Norwegian War.
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1791
Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
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1790
The Treaty of Wereloe ends the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War.
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1784
Russian colonization of North America: Awa'uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit.
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1720
The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
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1598
Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
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1592
The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
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1385
Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
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1370
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
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1352
War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
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1264
After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
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1183
Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.
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1136
Abbasid Caliph al-Rashid Billah flees from Bagdhad, which had been besieged by an army of the Seljuk Turks under Sultan Ghiyath ad-Din Mas'ud for fifty days.
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1040
King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
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-29
Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
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-70
Gaius Verres is found guilty of corruption after his defense lawyer Quintus Hortensius abandons the case as hopeless.
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-74
A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan.
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2004
Marsai Martin, American actress and producer
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2000
Johan Rojas, Dominican baseball player
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1998
Doechii, American rapper
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1997
Greet Minnen, Belgian tennis player
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1995
Léolia Jeanjean, French tennis player
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1994
Maya Jama, British TV presenter.
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1991
Richard Freitag, German ski jumper
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1991
Giovanny Gallegos, Mexican baseball player
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1989
Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
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1989
Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
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1987
Johnny Gargano, American wrestler
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1987
David Peralta, Venezuelan baseball player
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1987
Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster
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1986
Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
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1985
Christian Gentner, German footballer
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1985
Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
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1984
Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player
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1984
Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
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1984
Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
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1984
Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
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1984
Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host
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1984
Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player
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1984
Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
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1983
Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (died 2014)
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1983
Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
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1983
Lamorne Morris, American actor and comedian
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1983
Spencer Pratt, American television personality
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1981
Earl Barron, American basketball player
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1981
Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league player, boxer, and sportscaster
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1981
Julius Jones, American football player
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1981
Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian-American wrestler
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1981
Scott Lipsky, American tennis player
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1980
Peter Malinauskas, Australian politician, 47th Premier of South Australia
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1979
Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter
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1978
Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
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1978
Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand rugby player
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1977
Juan Pierre, American baseball player
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1976
Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
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1975
Mike Vrabel, American football player
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1974
Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
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1974
Christopher Gorham, American actor
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1973
Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
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1973
Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
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1972
Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Haiti
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1971
Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter
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1971
Benito Carbone, Italian footballer
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1971
Peter Franzén, Finnish actor
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1971
Mark Loretta, American baseball player
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1970
Kevin Cadogan, American rock guitarist: 2005
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1969
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut
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1969
Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
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1968
Ben Bass, American actor
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1968
Catherine Bell, English-American actress and producer
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1968
Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
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1968
Jason Leonard, English rugby player
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1966
Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer
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1966
Karl Petter Løken, Swedish-Norwegian footballer
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1965
Paul Broadhurst, English golfer
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1964
Neal Anderson, American football player and coach
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1964
Jason Dunstall, Australian footballer
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2025
Mike Castle, American politician, 69th Governor of Delaware (born 1939)
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2024
Gena Rowlands, American actress (born 1930)
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2023
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Bangladeshi Islamic lecturer, politician (born 1940)
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2021
Michael Aung-Thwin, American historian and scholar of Burmese and Southeast Asian history (born 1946)
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2020
Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (born 1933)
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2020
Angela Buxton, British tennis player (born 1934)
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2020
James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (born 1936)
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2019
Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1935)
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2018
Jill Janus, American singer (born 1975)
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2016
Fyvush Finkel, American actor (born 1922)
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2015
Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (born 1932)
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2014
Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (born 1934)
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2014
George V. Hansen, American politician (born 1930)
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2013
Jack Germond, American journalist and author (born 1928)
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2012
Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1945)
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2012
Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (born 1923)
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2012
Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (born 1919)
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2010
Herman Leonard, American photographer (born 1923)
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2007
Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (born 1913)
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2006
Bruno Kirby, American actor (born 1949)
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2004
Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
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2004
Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (born 1918)
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2003
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (born 1929)
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2002
Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (born 1923)
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1999
Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1918)
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1996
Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (born 1912)
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1994
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
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1994
Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (born 1912)
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1992
John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (born 1904)
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1991
Alberto Crespo, Argentinian racing driver (born 1920)
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1988
Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
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1988
Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (born 1945): 1712
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1988
Enzo Ferrari, Italian racing driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (born 1898)
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1985
Gale Sondergaard, American actress (born 1899)
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1984
Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1904)
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1984
J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (born 1894)
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1982
Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (born 1904)
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1981
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (born 1894)
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1981
Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (born 1910)
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1980
Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (born 1960)
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1978
Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (born 1907)
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1973
Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (born 1908)
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1972
Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (born 1906)
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1972
Jules Romains, French author and poet (born 1885)
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1967
Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (born 1931)
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1965
Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (born 1911)
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1964
Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (born 1934)
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1963
Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906)
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1958
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
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1956
Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)
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1956
Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1873)
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1955
Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (born 1861)
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1954
Hugo Eckener, German pilot and airship designer (born 1868)
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1951
William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (born 1863)
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1948
Eliška Misáková, Czech gymnast (born 1926)
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1943
Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (born 1871)
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1941
Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (born 1894)
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1941
Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
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1938
Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (born 1876)
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1928
Klabund, German author and poet (born 1890)
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Christian feast day: Arnold of Soissons
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Christian feast day: Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
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Christian feast day: Eusebius of Rome
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Christian feast day: Fachtna of Rosscarbery
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Christian feast day: Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
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Christian feast day: Maria Elisabetta Renzi
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Christian feast day: Martyrs of Otranto
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Christian feast day: Maximilian Kolbe
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National Navajo Code Talkers Day is a holiday in the United States honoring Navajo code talkers in the military.
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Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.
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Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.
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Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947.
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