March 5 — Ce Jour-là dans l'Histoire
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363
Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
Roman Emperor · Julian (emperor) · Antioch · Julian's Persian War · Sasanian Empire
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1046
Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
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1279
The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Livonian Order · Battle of Aizkraukle · Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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1496
King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
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1616
Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
Nicolaus Copernicus · De revolutionibus orbium coelestium · Index Librorum Prohibitorum
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1766
Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
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1770
Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
Boston Massacre · United States · Crispus Attucks · American Revolutionary War
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1811
Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
Peninsular War · Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno · Siege of Cádiz · Battle of Barrosa
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1824
First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
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1836
Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
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1850
The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
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1860
Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Parma · Tuscany · Modena · Romagna · Referendum
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1868
Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
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1872
George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
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1906
Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
Moro Rebellion · United States Army · Moro people · First Battle of Bud Dajo
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1912
Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
Italo-Turkish War · Kingdom of Italy · Airship · Reconnaissance · Ottoman Empire
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1931
The British Raj: Gandhi-Irwin Pact is signed.
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1933
Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
Great Depression · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Emergency Banking Act
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1933
Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
Adolf Hitler · Nazi Party · German federal election, March 1933 · Enabling Act of 1933
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1936
First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
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1940
Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union · Joseph Stalin · Intelligentsia · Prisoner of War · Katyn massacre
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1942
World War II: Japanese forces captures Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which left undefended after the withdrawal of KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
World War II · Empire of Japan · Batavia, Dutch East Indies · Dutch East Indies · Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
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1944
World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman-Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
World War II · Red Army · Uman-Botoșani Offensive · Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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1946
Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
Winston Churchill · Iron Curtain · Westminster College, Missouri
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1960
Indonesian President Soekarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
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1963
American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
Patsy Cline · Hawkshaw Hawkins · Cowboy Copas · 1963 Camden PA-24 crash · Camden, Tennessee
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1965
March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
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1970
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
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1974
Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
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1978
The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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1979
Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
Venera 11 · Venera 12 · Helios (spacecraft) · Gamma-ray burst · Soft gamma repeater
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1981
The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
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1984
Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
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2003
In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
Naissances Célèbres
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1133
Henry II of England (d. 1189)
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1224
Saint Kinga of Poland (d. 1292)
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1324
David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
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1326
Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
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1340
Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
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1451
William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (d. 1491)
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1512
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)
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1523
Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (d. 1600)
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1527
Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
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1539
Christoph Pezel, German theologian (d. 1604)
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1563
John Coke, English civil servant and politician (d. 1644)
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1575
William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (d. 1660)
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1585
John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
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1585
Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1638)
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1637
Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and engineer (d. 1712)
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1658
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1730)
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac · List of colonial governors of Louisiana
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1693
Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (d. 1754)
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1696
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
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1703
Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1768)
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1713
Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1776)
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1713
Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (d. 1783)
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1723
Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
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1733
Vincenzo Galeotti, Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1816)
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1739
Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (d. 1819)
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1748
Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (d. 1810)
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1748
William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
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1750
Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (d. 1805)
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1751
Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (d. 1829)
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1774
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (d. 1842)
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1779
Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
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1785
Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1841)
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1794
Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
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1794
Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1870)
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1814
Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (d. 1889)
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1800
Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher (d. 1875)
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1815
John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1888)
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1817
Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (d. 1894)
Austen Henry Layard · Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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1830
Étienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and chronophotographer (d. 1904)
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1830
Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (d. 1882)
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1834
Félix de Blochausen, Luxembourgian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915)
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1834
Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (d. 1899)
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1853
Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
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1862
Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
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1867
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
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1869
Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
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1870
Frank Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1902)
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1870
Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer (d. 1953)
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1871
Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)
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1871
Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general and politician, Minister Governor-General of Macedonia (d. 1941)
Konstantinos Pallis · Minister Governor-General of Macedonia
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1873
Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (d. 1961)
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1874
Henry Travers, English-American actor (d. 1965)
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1876
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician, 8th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1947)
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote · Lord Chief Justice of England
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1876
Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player (d. 1959)
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1879
William Beveridge, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic (d. 1963)
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1879
Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)
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1880
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1968)
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1882
Dora Marsden, English author and activist (d. 1960)
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1883
Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (d. 1969)
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1886
Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1975)
Dong Biwu · List of Presidents of the People's Republic of China
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1886
Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer (d. 1927)
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1887
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959)
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1894
Henry Daniell, English-American actor (d. 1963)
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1898
Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
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1898
Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015)
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1900
Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (d. 1944) [1]
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1900
Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)
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1901
Louis Kahn, American architect and academic (d. 1974)
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1901
Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg (d. 1971)
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1901
Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator (d. 1970)
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1904
Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (d. 1984)
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1905
László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992)
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1908
Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (d. 1999)
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1908
Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990)
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1908
Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
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1910
Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (d. 2007)
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1910
Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 1972)
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1912
Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
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1915
Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
Henry Hicks (Nova Scotia politician) · Premier of Nova Scotia
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1915
Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (d. 2002)
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1918
Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2017)
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1918
Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2006)
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1918
James Tobin, American economist and academic (d. 2002)
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1920
José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
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1920
Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
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1920
Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer (d. 1997)
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1921
Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (d. 1998)
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1922
James Noble, American actor (d. 2016)
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1922
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
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1923
Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic (d. 2014)
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1923
Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (d. 2003)
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1924
Roger Marche, French footballer (d. 1997)
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1927
Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (d. 1976)
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1927
Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and politician
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1928
J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic
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1929
Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 2015)
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1929
J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
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1930
John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2008)
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1930
Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager
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1931
Fred, French author and illustrator (d. 2013)
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1931
Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and educator
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1933
Walter Kasper, German cardinal and theologian
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1934
Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1935
Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer and journalist
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1935
Philip K. Chapman, Australian-American astronaut and engineer
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1935
Paul Sand, American actor
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1936
Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
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1936
Dale Douglass, American golfer
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1936
Dean Stockwell, American actor
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1937
Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria
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1938
Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1938
Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (d. 2011)
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1938
Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
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1939
Samantha Eggar, English actress
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1939
Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian (d. 1995)
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1939
Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (d. 2010)
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1939
Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
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1940
Tom Butler, English bishop
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1940
Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player (d. 1990)
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1940
Graham McRae, New Zealand race car driver
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1940
Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager
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1941
Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman and activist
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1942
Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
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1942
David Watkins, Welsh rugby player
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1943
Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
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1944
Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor
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1944
Roy Gutman, American journalist and author
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1946
Richard Bell, Canadian pianist (d. 2007)
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1946
Murray Head, English actor and singer
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1946
Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and painter
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1946
Graham Hawkins, English footballer and manager
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1947
Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress
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1947
Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster
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1948
Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
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1948
Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician
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1948
Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar (d. 2008)
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1948
Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
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1948
Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach
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1949
Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector
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1949
Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
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1949
Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1951
Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach
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1951
Willis Alan Ramsey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1952
Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2010)
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1952
Alan Clark, English keyboard player
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1952
Mike Squires, American baseball player and scout
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1953
Michael J. Sandel, American philosopher and academic
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1953
Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng
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1953
Katarina Frostenson, Swedish poet and author
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1954
Marsha Warfield, American actress
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1955
Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and author
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1956
Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
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1956
Christopher Snowden, English engineer and academic
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1957
Ray Suarez, American journalist and author
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1957
Mark E. Smith, English singer, songwriter and musician
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1958
Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager
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1958
Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter
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1958
Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1988)
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1959
Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
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1960
Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson · Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
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1963
Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host
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1964
Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
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1964
Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and manager
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1965
José Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach
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1966
Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer
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1966
Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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1966
Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
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1966
Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
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1968
Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary
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1968
Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
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1969
Paul Blackthorne, English actor and producer
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1969
Danny King, English author and playwright
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1969
Moussa Saïb, Algerian footballer and manager
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1970
Mike Brown, American basketball player and coach
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1970
John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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1970
Yuu Watase, Japanese illustrator
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1971
Greg Berry, English footballer and coach
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1971
Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player and scout
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1971
Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
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1971
Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist
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1973
Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and manager
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1973
Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (d. 2009)
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1973
Juan Esnáider, Argentinian footballer and manager
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1973
Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
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1973
Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
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1974
Kevin Connolly, American actor and director
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1974
Eva Mendes, American model and actress
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1975
Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver and sportscaster
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1975
Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer
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1975
Chris Silverwood, English cricketer and coach
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1976
Neil Jackson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
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1976
Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
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1976
Paul Konerko, American baseball player
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1976
Norm Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player
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1977
Taismary Agüero, Cuban-Italian volleyball player
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1977
Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player
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1977
Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
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1977
Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player and sportscaster
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1978
Jared Crouch, Australian footballer
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1978
Mike Hessman, American baseball player and coach
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1978
Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer
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1978
Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
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1979
Martin Axenrot, Swedish drummer
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1979
Lee Mears, English rugby player
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1980
Shay Carl, American businessman, co-founded Maker Studios
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1981
Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player
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1981
Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
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1982
Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby player
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1982
Philipp Haastrup, German footballer
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1983
Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer
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1984
Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player
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1984
Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer
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1985
David Marshall, Scottish footballer
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1985
Brad Mills, American baseball player
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1985
Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
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1986
Alexandre Barthe, French footballer
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1986
Matty Fryatt, English footballer
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1987
Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
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1987
Chris Cohen, English footballer
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1988
Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer
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1990
Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
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1990
Alex Smithies, English footballer
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1991
Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentinian footballer
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1991
Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer
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1993
El-Hadji Ba, French footballer
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1993
Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
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1993
Harry Maguire, English footballer
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1994
Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
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1994
Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
Décès Célèbres
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254
Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
- 824
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1239
Hermann Balk, German knight
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1410
Matthew of Kraków, Polish reformer (b. 1335)
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1417
Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1364)
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1534
Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter and educator (b. 1489)
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1539
Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1487)
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1611
Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1533)
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1622
Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
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1695
Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (b. 1664)
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1726
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1655)
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull · Lord President of the Council
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1770
Crispus Attucks, American slave (b. 1723)
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1778
Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (b. 1710)
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1815
Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
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1827
Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
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1827
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745)
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1829
John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
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1849
David Scott, Scottish historical painter (b. 1806)
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1876
Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
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1893
Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
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1895
Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
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1895
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
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1907
Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
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1925
Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
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1927
Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
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1929
David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
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1934
Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
Reşit Galip · List of Ministers of National Education of Turkey
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1935
Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)
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1940
Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)
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1944
Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
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1945
Lena Baker, African American maid and murderer (b. 1900)
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1947
Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1883)
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1950
Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868)
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1950
Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (b. 1907)
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1953
Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897)
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1953
Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
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1953
Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
Joseph Stalin · Georgia (country) · List of leaders of the Soviet Union
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1955
Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1888)
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1963
Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
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1963
Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
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1963
Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
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1965
Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician, 27th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1897)
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1965
Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1904)
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1966
Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (b. 1889)
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1967
Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (b. 1905)
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1967
Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian political scientist and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882)
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1967
Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
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1971
Allan Nevins, American journalist and author (b. 1890)
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1973
Robert C. O'Brien, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
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1974
John Samuel Bourque, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1894)
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1974
Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
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1974
Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American businessman (b. 1888)
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1976
Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
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1977
Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (b. 1949)
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1980
Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (b. 1912)
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1981
Yip Harburg, American songwriter and composer (b. 1896)
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1982
John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
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1984
Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
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1984
Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1913)
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1984
William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
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1988
Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
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1990
Gary Merrill, American actor and director (b. 1915)
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1995
Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
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1996
Whit Bissell, American character actor (b. 1909)
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1997
Samm Sinclair Baker, American writer (b. 1909)
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1997
Jean Dréville, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
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1999
Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (b. 1922)
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2000
Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and singer (b. 1963)
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2005
David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (b. 1929)
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2008
Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (b. 1923)
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2010
Charles B. Pierce, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
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2010
Richard Stapley, British actor and writer (b. 1923)
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2011
Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
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2012
Paul Haines, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1970)
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2012
Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (b. 1934)
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2012
Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1925)
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2012
William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (b. 1922)
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2013
Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
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2013
Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
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2013
Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921)
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2014
Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931)
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2014
Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963)
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2014
Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948)
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2015
Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
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2015
Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
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2016
Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (b. 1932)
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2016
Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (b. 1941)
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2016
Al Wistert, American football player and coach (b. 1920)