August 30 — An diesem Tag in der Geschichte
339 Einträge
Ereignisse
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526
King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
Theoderic the Great · Dysentery · Ravenna · Amalasuntha · Regency
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1282
Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
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1363
The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
Battle of Lake Poyang · Chen Youliang · Zhu Yuanzhang · Yuan dynasty
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1464
Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
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1574
Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
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1590
Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
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1727
Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange · George II of Great Britain · Princess Royal
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1791
HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
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1799
The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
Vlieter Incident · Ralph Abercromby · Admiral · War of the Second Coalition
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1800
Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
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1813
First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
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1813
Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
Creek War · Fort Mims massacre · Creek people · Red Sticks · Mobile, Alabama
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1835
Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
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1862
American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
American Civil War · Battle of Richmond · Confederate States of America · Edmund Kirby Smith · Union Army
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1873
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
Julius von Payer · Karl Weyprecht · Archipelago · Franz Josef Land
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1896
Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
Philippine Revolution · Battle of San Juan del Monte · Philippines · Governor-General of the Philippines · Ramón Blanco y Erenas
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1909
Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
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1914
World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
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1917
Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
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1918
Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
Fanni Kaplan · Bolshevik · Vladimir Lenin · Bolshevik · Moisei Uritsky
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1922
Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
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1940
The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
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1942
World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
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1945
Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
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1945
The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
Commander-in-chief · Douglas MacArthur · Atsugi Air Force Base
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1945
The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
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1945
The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
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1962
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
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1963
The Moscow-Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
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1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thurgood Marshall · African American · Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States · Supreme Court of the United States
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1974
A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
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1974
A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
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1981
President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
Mohammad-Ali Rajai · Mohammad-Javad Bahonar · People's Mujahedin of Iran
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1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
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1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
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1992
The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
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1995
Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
Bosnian War · NATO · Operation Deliberate Force · Bosnian Serb
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1998
Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
Second Congo War · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Angola · Zimbabwe · Matadi
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2014
Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
Berühmte Geburten
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1334
Peter of Castile (d. 1369)
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1569
Jahangir, Mughal emperor (d. 1627)
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1574
Albert Szenczi Molnár, Hungarian writer and translator (d. 1634)
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1609
Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1644)
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1609
Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (d. 1668)
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1627
Itō Jinsai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1705)
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1716
Capability Brown, British landscape architect (d. 1783)
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1720
Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (d. 1796)
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1748
Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (d. 1825)
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1768
Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (d. 1812)
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1797
Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1851)
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1812
Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (d. 1869)
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1818
Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
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1839
Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (d. 1903)
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1842
Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
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1848
Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor (d. 1905)
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1850
Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896)
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1852
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
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1852
J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic (d. 1919)
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1856
Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927)
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1860
Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900)
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1870
Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
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1871
Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
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1883
Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist (d. 1931)
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1884
Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
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1885
Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1957)
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1890
Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918)
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1893
Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935)
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1896
Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983)
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1898
Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (d. 1992)
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1901
John Gunther, American journalist and author (d. 1970)
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1901
Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (d. 1981)
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1903
Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981)
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1906
Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (d. 1979)
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1907
Leonor Fini, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and author (d. 1996)
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1907
Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (d. 1978)
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1907
John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (d. 1980)
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1908
Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
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1909
Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968)
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1910
Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
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1912
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
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1912
Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (d. 2011)
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1913
Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
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1915
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (d. 2013)
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1915
Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2003)
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1916
Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)
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1917
Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 2015)
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1917
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (d. 1992)
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1918
Harold Atcherley, English businessman (d. 2017)
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1918
Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
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1918
Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2002)
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1919
Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist (d. 2005)
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1919
Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (d. 2010)
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1919
Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
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1920
Arnold Green, Estonian soldier and politician (d. 2011)
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1922
Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1986)
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1922
Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
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1923
Barbara Ansell, English physician and author (d. 2001)
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1923
Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (d. 1969)
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1923
Vic Seixas, American tennis player
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1924
Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972)
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1924
Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer (d. 1988)
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1925
Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
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1925
Donald Symington, American actor (d. 2013)
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1926
Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (d. 2010)
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1927
Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
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1927
Bill Daily, American actor
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1927
Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer
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1928
Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (d. 1965)
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1928
Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (d. 1989)
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1928
Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2014)
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1929
Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (d. 2001)
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1929
Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (d. 2014)
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1930
Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
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1930
Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (d. 1981)
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1931
Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut (d. 1982)
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1933
Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
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1934
Antonio Cabangon Chua, Filipino media mogul and businessman (d. 2016)
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1935
John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
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1935
Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician
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1936
Peter North, English scholar and academic
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1937
Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (d. 1970)
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1938
Murray Gleeson, Australian lawyer and judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia
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1939
Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
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1939
John Peel, English radio host and producer (d. 2004)
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1941
Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
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1941
Ben Jones, American actor and politician
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1941
Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host
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1941
John McNally, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers)
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1942
Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement
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1942
Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
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1943
Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player and coach
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1943
Robert Crumb, American illustrator
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1943
Colin Dann, English author
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1943
Nigel Hall, English sculptor and academic
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1943
Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
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1943
David Maslanka, American composer and academic
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1944
Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic
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1944
Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian
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1944
Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
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1944
Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
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1944
Alex Wyllie, New Zealand rugby player and coach
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1946
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
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1946
Peggy Lipton, American model and actress
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1947
Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
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1948
Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author
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1948
Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
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1948
Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic
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1949
Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (d. 2001)
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1949
Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
Don Boudria · Minister for International Cooperation (Canada)
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1950
Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic
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1951
Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
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1951
Timothy Bottoms, American actor and producer
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1951
Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist
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1951
Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania
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1952
Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator
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1952
Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player
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1953
Ron George, American businessman and politician
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1953
Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
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1953
Horace Panter, English bass player
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1953
Robert Parish, American basketball player
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1954
Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
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1954
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT
Ravi Shankar Prasad · Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
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1954
David Paymer, American actor and director
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1955
Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
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1956
Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
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1958
Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
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1958
Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
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1958
Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
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1958
Martin Jackson, English drummer
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1958
Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (d. 2006)
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1958
Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
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1959
Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer
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1960
Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Ben Bradshaw · Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
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1960
Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
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1960
Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer
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1962
Ricky Sanders, American football player
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1962
Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician
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1963
Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014)
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1963
Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer
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1963
Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician
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1963
Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver
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1964
Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer
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1964
Ra Luhse, Estonian architect
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1966
Peter Cunnah, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer
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1966
Joann Fletcher, English historian and academic
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1967
Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model and actress
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1967
Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
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1968
Diran Adebayo, English author and critic
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1968
Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
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1969
Vladimir Jugović, Serbian footballer
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1969
Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist and composer
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1970
Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
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1970
Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter
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1971
Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1971
Julian Smith, Scottish politician
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1972
Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer
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1972
Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
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1973
Lisa Ling, American journalist and author
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1974
Aaron Barrett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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1974
Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
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1975
Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach
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1976
Mike Koplove, American baseball player
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1977
Shaun Alexander, American football player
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1977
Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
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1977
Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
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1977
Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner and hurdler
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1978
Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
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1978
Cliff Lee, American baseball player
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1979
Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentinian tennis player
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1979
Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor
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1979
Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
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1980
Derrick Ward, American football player
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1981
Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor
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1981
Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
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1982
Will Davison, Australian race car driver
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1982
Andy Roddick, American tennis player
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1983
Emmanuel Culio, Argentinian footballer
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1983
Gustavo Eberto, Argentinian footballer (d. 2007)
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1983
Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
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1983
Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
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1983
Tian Qin, Chinese canoe racer
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1983
Marco Vianello, Italian footballer
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1984
Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
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1985
Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
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1985
Joe Inoue, American singer-songwriter
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1985
Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
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1985
Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer
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1985
Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
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1985
Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
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1985
Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player
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1985
Holly Weston, English actress
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1986
Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter
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1986
Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player
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1986
Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1986
Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer
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1987
Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter
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1988
Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
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1989
Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
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1989
Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
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1989
Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter
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1991
Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (d. 2014)
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1991
Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
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1991
Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
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1992
Jessica Henwick, British actress
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1994
Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player
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1994
Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
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1994
Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer
Berühmte Todesfälle
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526
Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454)
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832
Cui Qun, Chinese chancellor (b. 772)
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1131
Hervey le Breton, bishop of Bangor and Ely
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1181
Pope Alexander III (b. c. 1100-1105)
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1329
Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Chinese emperor (b. 1300)
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1428
Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401)
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1483
Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
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1500
Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (b. 1443)
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1580
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
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1604
John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (b. 1545)
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1619
Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
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1621
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. 1547)
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1751
Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
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1856
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
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1879
John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
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1886
Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
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1896
Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky · Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)
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1906
Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
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1907
Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
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1908
Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
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1928
Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
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1935
Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
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1935
Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
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1936
Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)
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1938
Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
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1940
J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
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1941
Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874)
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1943
Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885)
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1943
Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890)
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1945
Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
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1946
Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
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1947
Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
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1949
Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
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1951
Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
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1954
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
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1961
Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
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1963
Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911)
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1964
Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
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1967
Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913)
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1968
William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
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1970
Del Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1916)
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1971
Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor (b. 1906)
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1979
Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
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1981
Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
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1981
Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933)
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1985
Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (b. 1900)
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1988
Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)
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1989
Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
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1990
Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900)
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1991
Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
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1991
Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (b. 1952)
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1991
Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
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1993
Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
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1994
Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
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1995
Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938)
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1995
Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (b. 1942)
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1996
Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
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1999
Reindert Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912)
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1999
Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
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2001
Ivor Spencer-Thomas, Welsh farmer and inventor (b. 1907)
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2001
Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thank Mbeki (b. 1910)
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2002
J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
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2003
Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier (b. 1921)
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2003
Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917)
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2004
Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (b. 1906)
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2006
Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1926)
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2006
Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1916)
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2006
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
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2007
Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
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2007
Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician (b. 1918)
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2008
Brian Hambly, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1937)
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2008
Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1926)
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2009
Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
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2010
J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (b. 1983)
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2010
Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
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2010
Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (b. 1921)
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2010
Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1910)
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2013
William C. Campbell, American golfer (b. 1923)
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2013
Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1933)
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2013
Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
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2013
Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
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2013
Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
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2014
Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (b. 1928)
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2014
Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b. 1996)
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2014
Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (b. 1920)
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2014
Felipe Osterling, Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
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2015
Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
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2015
Edward Fadeley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
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2015
M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938)
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2015
Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (b. 1920)
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2015
Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (b. 1933)
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2017
Louise Hay, American motivational author, (b. 1926)