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December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 21 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.[1]
- 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.[2]
- 1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.[3]
- 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.[4]
1601–1900
[edit]- 1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.
- 1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter.
- 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
- 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
- 1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
- 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
- 1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
- 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.
- 1896 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
- 1898 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. Spain cedes administration of Cuba to the United States, and the United States agrees to pay Spain $20 million for the Philippines.[5]
1901–present
[edit]- 1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
- 1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
- 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field.[6]
- 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers.[7]
- 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[8]
- 1932 – Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
- 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
- 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
- 1942 – World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.
- 1948 – The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
- 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
- 1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
- 1963 – An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.
- 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
- 1978 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1979 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
- 1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
- 1984 – United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.
- 1989 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
- 1991 – Nursultan Nazarbayev is sworn in as the 1st President of Kazakhstan.[9]
- 1991 – The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is renamed into the Republic of Kazakhstan.[10]
- 1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
- 1994 – Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
- 1995 – The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.
- 1996 – The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.
- 1999 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.[11][12]
- 2005 – Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people.[13]
- 2014 – Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
- 2015 – Rojava conflict: The Syrian Democratic Council is established in Dêrik, forming the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria.[14][15][16]
- 2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.
- 2017 – ISIL is defeated in Iraq.[17]
- 2019 – The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.[18]
- 2021 – A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.[19]
Births
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 553 – Houzhu, emperor of the Chen dynasty (d. 604)
- 1376 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. 1409)[20]
- 1452 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)[21]
- 1472 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (d. 1481)[22]
- 1489 – Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (d. 1512)
- 1588 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)[23]
1601–1900
[edit]- 1610 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)[24]
- 1654 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter (d. 1719)
- 1658 – Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York (d. 1743)
- 1713 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor and organist (d. 1747)
- 1751 – George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
- 1776 – Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (d. 1848)
- 1783 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (d. 1873)
- 1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (d. 1851)
- 1804 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (d. 1851)
- 1805 – William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator (d. 1879)
- 1805 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic (d. 1881)
- 1811 – Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer, American poet, biographer, and editor (d. 1894)[25]
- 1815 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1852)[26]
- 1821 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1877)
- 1822 – César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1890)
- 1824 – George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (d. 1905)
- 1827 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1913)
- 1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
- 1851 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931)
- 1866 – Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist (d. 1930)
- 1870 – Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (d. 1958)[27]
- 1870 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician (d. 1933)[28]
- 1870 – Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1925)
- 1878 – C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India (d. 1972)[29]
- 1878 – Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Indian Muslim activist (d. 1931)[30]
- 1882 – Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945)[31]
- 1882 – Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1950)
- 1883 – Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician (d. 1968)
- 1885 – Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (d. 1973)[32]
- 1885 – Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1967)
- 1886 – Victor McLaglen, English-American actor (d. 1959)
- 1889 – Ray Collins, American actor (d. 1965)
- 1890 – László Bárdossy, Hungarian politician and diplomat, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946)
- 1891 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Arlie Mucks, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1967)
- 1891 – Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1896 – Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (d. 1948)
1901–present
[edit]- 1903 – Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak politician, President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Harold Adamson, American lyricist (d. 1980)
- 1906 – Jules Ladoumègue, French runner (d. 1973)
- 1907 – Rumer Godden, English author and poet (d. 1998)[33]
- 1907 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach (d. 2005)
- 1907 – Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor (d. 1979)
- 1908 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
- 1909 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (d. 1996)
- 1911 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1912 – Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1976)
- 1912 – Tetsuji Takechi, Japanese theatrical and film director, critic, and author (d. 1988)[34]
- 1912 – René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (d. 1990)
- 1913 – Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American jazz patron and writer (d. 1988)
- 1913 – Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
- 1913 – Ray Nance, American trumpeter, violinist, and singer (d. 1976)
- 1914 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
- 1915 – Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player, soldier, and pilot (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)[35]
- 1918 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
- 1919 – Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1977)[36]
- 1920 – Reginald Rose, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2012)[37]
- 1922 – Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (d. 2016)
- 1923 – Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Ken Albers, American singer and musician (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Michael Manley, Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)[38]
- 1925 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
- 1926 – Guitar Slim, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
- 1927 – Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Danny Matt, German-Israeli general (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1930 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Ray Felix, American basketball player (d. 1991)[39]
- 1930 – Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, English farmer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
- 1931 – Peter Baker, English-South African footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- 1933 – Philip R. Craig, American author (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese actor (d. 2006)
- 1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1935 – Terry Allcock, English footballer and cricketer
- 1935 – Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director, and producer (d. 2014)
- 1938 – Bill Dunk, Australian golfer
- 1938 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor (d. 2023)
- 1939 – Dick Bavetta, American basketball player and referee
- 1939 – Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and academic
- 1941 – Ken Campbell, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
- 1941 – Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress and producer[40]
- 1941 – Tommy Kirk, American actor (d. 2021)[36]
- 1941 – Tommy Rettig, American child actor (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
- 1942 – Ann Gloag, Scottish nurse and businesswoman
- 1944 – Andris Bērziņš, Latvian businessman and politician, 8th President of Latvia
- 1944 – John Birt, Baron Birt, English businessman
- 1944 – Steve Renko, American baseball player
- 1945 – Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan
- 1946 – Douglas Kenney, American satirist (d. 1980)
- 1947 – Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani engineer and politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
- 1948 – Dušan Bajević, Bosnian footballer and manager
- 1948 – Jessica Cleaves, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
- 1948 – Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ugandan-English journalist and author
- 1949 – David Perdue, American politician
- 1950 – John Boozman, American football player, lawyer, and politician
- 1950 – Simon Owen, New Zealand golfer
- 1951 – Johnny Rodriguez, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist[40]
- 1952 – Clive Anderson, English lawyer and television host
- 1952 – Susan Dey, American actress[40]
- 1952 – Greg Mortimer, Australian geologist and mountaineer
- 1952 – Greg Laurie, American author and pastor
- 1952 – Paul Varul, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Justice
- 1953 – Chris Bury, American journalist and academic
- 1954 – Eudine Barriteau, Barbadian economist and academic
- 1954 – Price Cobb, American race car driver and manager
- 1954 – Jack Hues, English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1956 – Rod Blagojevich, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Illinois
- 1956 – Roberto Cassinelli, Italian lawyer and politician
- 1956 – Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)[36]
- 1957 – Paul Hardcastle, English composer and producer[40]
- 1957 – Prem Rawat, Indian-American guru and educator
- 1958 – Cornelia Funke, German-American author
- 1958 – Kathryn Stott, English pianist and academic
- 1959 – Mark Aguirre, American basketball player and coach
- 1959 – Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author
- 1959 – Kevin Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1959 – Wolf Hoffmann, German guitarist
- 1960 – Kenneth Branagh, British actor director, producer, and screenwriter[40]
- 1960 – Kōichi Satō, Japanese actor
- 1961 – Mark McKoy, Canadian hurdler and sprinter
- 1961 – Nia Peeples, American singer and actress[40]
- 1962 – Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat (d. 2015)
- 1962 – John de Wolf, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1963 – Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player[41]
- 1964 – Stephen Billington, English actor
- 1964 – Stef Blok, Dutch banker and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior
- 1964 – Bobby Flay, American chef and author[40]
- 1964 – Edith González, Mexican actress (d. 2019)
- 1965 – Greg Giraldo, American lawyer, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1965 – J Mascis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[40]
- 1965 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Swiss-Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 – Rein Ahas, Estonian geographer and academic
- 1966 – Robin Brooke, New Zealand rugby player
- 1966 – Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
- 1966 – Penelope Trunk, American writer[42]
- 1968 – Yōko Oginome, Japanese singer, actress, and voice actress
- 1969 – Darren Berry, Australian cricketer and coach
- 1969 – Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- 1970 – Kevin Sharp, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
- 1970 – Bryant Stith, American basketball player and coach
- 1972 – Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
- 1972 – Brian Molko, British-Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1973 – Rusty LaRue, American basketball player and coach[43]
- 1973 – Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan actress
- 1974 – Meg White, American drummer[40]
- 1975 – Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)
- 1975 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress[40]
- 1975 – Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
- 1976 – Shane Byrne, English motorcycle racer
- 1978 – Anna Jesień, Polish hurdler
- 1978 – Summer Phoenix, American actress
- 1979 – Matt Bentley, American wrestler
- 1979 – Iain Brunnschweiler, English cricketer
- 1979 – Yang Jianping, Chinese recurve archer[44]
- 1980 – Sarah Chang, American violinist
- 1981 – Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
- 1981 – Rene Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player[45]
- 1981 – Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
- 1982 – Claudia Hoffmann, German sprinter
- 1982 – Sultan Kösen, Turkish farmer, tallest living person[46]
- 1983 – Patrick Flueger, American actor[40]
- 1983 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor[36]
- 1984 – JTG, American wrestler[47]
- 1985 – Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer
- 1985 – Roman Červenka, Czech ice hockey player[48]
- 1985 – Matt Forte, American football player[49]
- 1985 – Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
- 1985 – Raven-Symoné, American actress, singer, and dancer[40]
- 1985 – Lê Công Vinh, Vietnamese footballer
- 1986 – Kahlil Bell, American football player
- 1987 – Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer
- 1988 – Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer
- 1988 – Neven Subotić, Serbian footballer
- 1989 – Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French politician
- 1989 – Tom Sexton, Australian-Irish rugby player
- 1990 – Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer
- 1990 – Sakiko Matsui, Japanese singer and actress
- 1990 – Wil Myers, American baseball player[50]
- 1990 – Teyana Taylor, American singer, songwriter, choreographer, and actress[40]
- 1990 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010)
- 1991 – KiKi Layne, American actress[40]
- 1991 – Eric Reid, American football player[51]
- 1991 – Dion Waiters, American basketball player[52]
- 1992 – Carlos Rodón, American baseball player[53]
- 1992 – Melissa Roxburgh, Canadian-American actress[36]
- 1994 – Richard Kennar, Samoan rugby league player
- 1994 – Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer
- 1995 – Tacko Fall, Senegalese basketball player[54]
- 1996 – Joe Burrow, American football player[55]
- 1996 – Kang Daniel, South Korean singer and entrepreneur[56]
- 1997 – Viktoriia Savtsova, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer[57]
- 1998 – Lucia Bronzetti, Italian tennis player[58][59]
Deaths
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 925 – Sancho I, king of Pamplona
- 949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia
- 990 – Folcmar, bishop of Utrecht[60]
- 1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine emperor (b. 1010)
- 1081 – Nikephoros III Botaneiates, deposed Byzantine Emperor (b. c.1002)
- 1113 – Radwan, ruler of Aleppo
- 1310 – Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1271)
- 1454 – Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.[61]
- 1475 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (b. 1397)
- 1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
- 1541 – Thomas Culpeper, English courtier (b. 1514)
- 1541 – Francis Dereham, English courtier (b. c. 1513)
- 1561 – Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian and writer
1601–1900
[edit]- 1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer and educator (b. 1551)
- 1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1581)
- 1665 – Tarquinio Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1594)
- 1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese soldier and politician (b. 1663)
- 1791 – Jacob Frank, Polish religious leader (b. 1726)
- 1831 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (b. 1770)
- 1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
- 1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
- 1865 – Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
- 1867 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
- 1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
1901–present
[edit]- 1909 – Red Cloud, American tribal chief (of the Oglala nation) (b. 1822)
- 1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
- 1917 – Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
- 1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
- 1922 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)
- 1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
- 1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)
- 1929 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)
- 1932 – Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1857)
- 1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
- 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
- 1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1879)
- 1941 – Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (b. 1915)
- 1944 – John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1922)
- 1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German captain (b. 1913)
- 1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1887)
- 1946 – Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer (b. 1884)
- 1948 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896)
- 1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (b. 1869)
- 1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (b. 1872)
- 1956 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1891)
- 1957 – Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (b. 1891)
- 1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (b. 1864)
- 1963 – K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian and diplomat (b. 1894)
- 1967 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941)
- 1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1886)
- 1968 – George Forrest, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
- 1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
- 1970 – Chen Qiyou, Chinese politician and revolutionary (b. 1892)[62]
- 1972 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894)
- 1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922)
- 1974 – Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (b. 1890)
- 1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (b. 1901)
- 1978 – Ed Wood, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 1979 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
- 1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (b. 1901)
- 1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
- 1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer and coach (b. 1911)
- 1988 – Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (b. 1895)
- 1990 – Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter and academic (b. 1901)
- 1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Alice Tully, American soprano (b. 1902)
- 1994 – Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (b. 1918)
- 1994 – Alex Wilson, Canadian-American sprinter (b. 1905)
- 1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (b. 1967)
- 1996 – Faron Young, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932)
- 1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)
- 1999 – Woodrow Borah, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1912)
- 2000 – Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911)
- 2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945)
- 2002 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)[63]
- 2003 – Sean McClory, Irish actor and director (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist and author (b. 1955)
- 2005 – Mary Jackson, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, American poet, academic, and politician (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (b. 1908)
- 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator, 30th President of Chile (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Vitali Hakko, Turkish businessman, founded Vakko (b. 1913)
- 2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and physicist (b. 1925)
- 2010 – John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
- 2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
- 2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Antonio Cubillo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Don Lund, American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Srikanta Wadiyar, Indian politician and the titular Maharaja of Mysore(b. 1946)
- 2014 – Ralph Giordano, German author and publicist (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Robert B. Oakley, American diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to Pakistan (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Bob Solinger, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and politician (b. 1944)
- 2014 – Gerard Vianen, Dutch cyclist (b. 1944)
- 2015 – Ron Bouchard, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1948)
- 2015 – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer (b. 1940)
- 2015 – Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (b. 1989)
- 2015 – Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
- 2017 – Bruce Brown, American filmmaker (b. 1937)[64]
- 2017 – Max Clifford, British publicist (b. 1943)
- 2017 – Charles M. Green Jr., American Internet personality (b. 1950)[65]
- 2017 – Curtis W. Harris, American minister (b. 1924)[66]
- 2019 – Philip McKeon, American actor (b. 1964)
- 2019 – Gershon Kingsley, American composer and musician (b. 1922)[67]
- 2019 – Emily Mason, American painter (b. 1932)[68]
- 2020 – Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., American actor and wrestler (b. 1958)[69]
- 2020 – Joseph Safra, Lebanese-Brazilian financier (b.1938)[70]
- 2020 – Carol Sutton, American actress (b. 1944)[71]
- 2020 – Barbara Windsor, English actress (b. 1937)[72]
- 2021 – Michael Nesmith, American musician (The Monkees), songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist (b. 1942)[73]
- 2023 – Julian Carroll, American politician, 54th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1931)[74]
Holidays and observances
[edit]- Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen (Sweden)
- Christian feast day:
- Constitution Day (Thailand)
- Human Rights Day (International)[76]
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