August 7 — On This Day
325 entries
Events
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322 BC
Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia.
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626
The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
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768
Stephen III begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
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936
Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
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1420
Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
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1427
The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
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1461
The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
Ming dynasty · Military history of China before 1911 · Rebellion of Cao Qin · Zhengtong Emperor
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1479
Battle of Guinegate, French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg.
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1679
The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
Brigantine · Le Griffon · René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle · Niagara River · Great Lakes
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1714
The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
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1782
George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
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1789
The United States Department of War is established.
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1791
American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
Miami people · Battle of Kenapacomaqua · Logansport, Indiana · Northwest Indian War
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1794
U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
President of the United States · Militia Acts of 1792 · Whiskey Rebellion · Western Pennsylvania
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1819
Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
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1858
The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
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1879
The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
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1890
Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
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1909
Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
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1927
The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
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1930
The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
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1933
The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.
Simele massacre · Politics of Iraq · Simele massacre · Assyrian people · Simele
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1938
The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
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1940
World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
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1942
World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
Guadalcanal Campaign · United States Marine Corps · Guadalcanal · Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo · Solomon Islands
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1944
IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
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1946
The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
Soviet Union · Turkey · Turkish Straits · Turkish Straits crisis
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1947
Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
Thor Heyerdahl · Ochroma pyramidale · Kon-Tiki · Reef · Raroia
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1947
The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai · Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport
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1955
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
Sony · Sony · Transistor radio
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1959
The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.
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1959
Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Explorer program · Explorer 6 · Eastern Range · Cape Canaveral, Florida
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1960
Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
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1962
Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
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1964
Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
Vietnam War · United States Congress · Gulf of Tonkin Resolution · Lyndon B. Johnson · North Vietnam
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1970
California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
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1974
Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
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1976
Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
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1978
U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
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1981
The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
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1985
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
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1987
Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
Lynne Cox · Soviet Union · Bering Strait · Little Diomede Island · Big Diomede
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1989
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
Mickey Leland · Texas · Aviation accidents and incidents · Ethiopia
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1990
First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
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1998
Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
1998 United States embassy bombings · Dar es Salaam · Nairobi
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1999
The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
Chechnya · Islamic International Brigade · War of Dagestan · Dagestan
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2008
The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
Famous Births
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317
Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
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1282
Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)
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1533
Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (d. 1595)
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1560
Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and serial killer (d. 1614)
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1571
Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (d. 1627)
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1574
Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649)
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1598
Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet and linguist (d. 1672)
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1613
William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Dutch stadtholder (d. 1664)
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1702
Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India (d. 1748)
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1726
James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790)
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1742
Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)
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1751
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
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1779
Louis de Freycinet, French navigator and explorer (d. 1842)
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1779
Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859)
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1844
Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911)
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1860
Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)
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1862
Victoria of Baden (d. 1931)
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1867
Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (d. 1956)
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1868
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931)
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1876
Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
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1879
Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)
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1884
Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)
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1884
Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1940)
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1887
Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (d. 1970)
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1890
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (d. 1964)
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1901
Ann Harding, American actress and singer (d. 1981)
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1903
Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)
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1904
Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
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1907
Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter (d. 1980)
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1910
Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1965)
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1911
István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
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1911
Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (d. 1979)
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1913
George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
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1916
Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer (d. 2008)
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1918
C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (d. 1985)
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1918
Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (d. 2007)
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1921
Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (d. 2014)
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1921
Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor (d. 2016)
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1924
Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor (d. 2012)
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1925
Felice Bryant, American songwriter (d. 2003)
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1926
Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (d. 2015)
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1927
Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
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1927
Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana
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1927
Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist (d. 2003)
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1928
Betsy Byars, American author and academic
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1928
Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square
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1928
James Randi, Canadian-American magician and author
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1929
Don Larsen, American baseball player
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1930
Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic (d. 2013)
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1930
Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator
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1931
Jack Good, British television producer
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1931
Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author (d. 2015)
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1932
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)
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1932
Edward Hardwicke, English actor (d. 2011)
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1932
Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 1995)
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1932
Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (d. 2005)
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1933
Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager
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1933
Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
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1933
Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author
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1934
Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
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1935
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
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1937
Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (d. 2011)
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1937
Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (d. 2012)
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1940
Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian lawyer and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
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1941
Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician
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1942
Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
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1942
Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer and actor (d. 1995)
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1942
Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic
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1942
B. J. Thomas, American singer
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1943
Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
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1943
Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer
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1943
Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
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1944
John Glover, American actor
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1944
Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Robert Mueller · Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1945
Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (d. 2014)
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1945
Alan Page, American football player and jurist
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1947
Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter
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1947
Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
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1948
Marty Appel, American businessman and author
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1948
Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
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1949
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician
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1949
Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
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1950
Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1950
Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Alan Keyes · Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
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1950
S. Thandayuthapani, Sri Lankan educator and politician
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1952
Caroline Aaron, American actress and producer
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1952
Eamonn Darcy, Irish golfer
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1952
Kees Kist, Dutch footballer
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1952
Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author
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1953
Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author
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1954
Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
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1954
Alan Reid, Scottish politician
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1955
Wayne Knight, American actor, comedian and voice actor
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1955
Greg Nickels, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle
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1955
Vladimir Sorokin, Russian author and playwright
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1957
Daire Brehan, Irish journalist, lawyer, and actress (d. 2012)
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1957
Alexander Dityatin, Russian gymnast and colonel
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1958
Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey
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1958
Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1958
Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner and coach
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1959
Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author
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1959
Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
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1960
David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
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1961
Brian Conley, English actor and singer
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1961
Yelena Davydova, Russian gymnast
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1961
Walter Swinburn, English jockey and trainer
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1962
Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer
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1963
Paul Dunn, Australian rugby league player
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1963
Nick Gillespie, American journalist and author
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1963
Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator
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1964
John Birmingham, English-Australian journalist and author
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1964
Ian Dench, English guitarist and songwriter (EMF)
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1964
Peter Niven, Scottish jockey
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1965
Raul Malo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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1965
Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figure skater
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1966
David Cairns, Scottish laicised priest and politician, Minister of State for Scotland (d. 2011)
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1966
Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1966
Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founder of Wikipedia
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1967
Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
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1968
Francesca Gregorini, Italian-American director and screenwriter
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1968
Trevor Hendy, Australian surfer and coach
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1968
Sophie Lee, Australian actress and author
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1969
Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager
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1970
Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (d. 2006)
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1971
Dominic Cork, England cricketer and sportscaster
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1971
Rachel York, American actress and singer
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1972
Gerry Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and promoter
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1973
Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
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1973
Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player
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1973
Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager
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1974
Chico Benymon, American actor
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1974
Michael Shannon, American actor
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1975
Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter
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1975
Gerard Denton, Australian cricketer
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1975
Megan Gale, Australian model and actress
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1975
Ray Hill, American football player (d. 2015)
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1975
Rebecca Kleefisch, American journalist and politician, 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
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1975
Édgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player
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1975
Charlize Theron, South African-American actress and producer
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1976
Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager
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1976
Shane Lechler, American football player
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1977
Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer
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1977
Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ
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1978
Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter
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1978
Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter
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1978
Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer
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1979
Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
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1979
Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer
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1979
Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author
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1980
Carsten Busch, German footballer
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1980
Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress
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1980
Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer
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1980
Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer
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1981
David Testo, American soccer player
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1981
Randy Wayne, American actor and producer
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1982
Ángeles Balbiani, Argentine actress and singer
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1982
Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
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1982
Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player
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1982
Marquise Hill, American football player (d. 2007)
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1982
Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
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1982
Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer
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1983
Christian Chávez, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor
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1983
Murat Dalkılıç, Turkish singer-songwriter
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1983
Andriy Hrivko, Ukrainian cyclist
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1983
Mark Pettini, English cricketer and journalist
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1984
Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player
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1984
Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model and actress
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1984
Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (d. 2003)
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1986
Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
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1986
Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
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1986
Altaír Jarabo, Mexican model and actress
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1986
Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer
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1987
Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
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1987
Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer
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1987
Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player
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1987
Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer
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1988
Jonathan Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
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1988
Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer
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1988
Anisa Mohammed, West Indian cricketer
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1988
Melody Oliveria, American blogger
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1988
Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer
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1988
Beanie Wells, American football player
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1989
DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player
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1990
Helen Flanagan, English actress
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1990
Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter
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1991
Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2016)
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1991
Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
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1991
Mike Trout, American baseball player
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1992
Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
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1992
Adam Yates, English cyclist
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1992
Simon Yates, English cyclist
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1993
Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
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1993
Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer
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1993
Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
Famous Deaths
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461
Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420)
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707
Li Chongjun, crown prince of the Tang Dynasty
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1106
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
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1234
Hugh Foliot, bishop of Hereford (b.c. 1155)
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1272
Richard Middleton, Lord Chancellor of England
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1296
Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg
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1385
Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard II of England (b. 1328)
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1485
Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454)
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1547
Saint Cajetan, Italian priest and saint (b. 1480)
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1613
Thomas Fleming, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1544)
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1616
Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
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1632
Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575)
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1635
Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591)
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1639
Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
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1661
Jin Shengtan, Chinese journalist and critic (b. 1608)
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1787
Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman and activist (b. 1705)
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1817
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
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1834
Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
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1848
Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
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1855
Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
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1864
Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
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1893
Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
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1899
Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
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1900
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
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1912
François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
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1917
Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
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1938
Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
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1941
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
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1948
Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
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1953
Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
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1957
Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
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1958
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
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1960
Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
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1968
Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)
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1969
Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)
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1969
Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905)
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1970
Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
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1970
Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953)
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1972
Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1929)
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1973
Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
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1974
Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
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1974
Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
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1981
Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
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1985
Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)
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1987
Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
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1989
Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
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1994
Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
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1995
Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)
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2001
Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
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2003
K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
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2003
Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
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2004
Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
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2004
Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)
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2005
Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)
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2006
Mary Anderson Bain, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)
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2007
Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
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2007
Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919)
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2008
Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931)
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2008
Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1957)
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2009
Louis E. Saavedra, American educator and politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933)
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2009
Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
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2010
John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
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2011
Mark Hatfield, American soldier, academic, and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
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2011
Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and spy (b. 1912)
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2012
Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani academic and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (b. 1928)
Murtuz Alasgarov · Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
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2012
Judith Crist, American critic and academic (b. 1922)
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2012
Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)
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2012
Anna Piaggi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1931)
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2012
Mayer Zald, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931)
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2012
Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)
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2013
Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (b. 1927)
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2013
Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
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2013
Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (b. 1952)
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2013
Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
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2013
Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (d. 1946)
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2013
Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (b. 1961)
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2014
Víctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
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2014
Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
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2014
Henry Stone, American record producer (b. 1921)
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2015
Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
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2015
Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914)
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2015
Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923)
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2016
Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989)