March 13

March 13 is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 624 – Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
• 874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
• 1138 – Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• 1591 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
• 1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
• 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
• 1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
• 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
• 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
• 1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
• 1884 – The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
• 1897 – San Diego State University is founded.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
• 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 1921 – Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
• 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
• 1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
• 1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
• 1940 – The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
• 1954 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
• 1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• 1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
• 1963 – Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona
• 1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, the media erroneously report that many of the victim's neighbours witnessed the crime yet failed to help, prompting research into the bystander effect.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
• 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada.
• 1985 – The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
• 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
• 1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
• 1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
• 1996 – Dunblane school massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Watt Hamilton who then commits suicide.
• 1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
• 1997 – The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
• 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
• 2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
• 2012 – At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
• 2013 – Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

Births

• 1372 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1407)
• 1593 – Georges de La Tour, French painter (d. 1652)
• 1615 – Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
• 1648 – Anne Henriette of Bavaria (d. 1723)
• 1683 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-English philosopher and translator (d. 1744)
• 1700 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (d. 1768)
• 1706 – Johann Christoph Heilbronner, German historian and theologian (d. 1745)
• 1719 – John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (d. 1797)
• 1720 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss historian and author (d. 1793)
• 1733 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist, minister, and philosopher (d. 1804)
• 1741 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
• 1753 – Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1821)
• 1762 – Anine Frølich, Danish ballerina (d. 1784)
• 1763 – Guillaume Brune, French general (d. 1815)
• 1764 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
• 1770 – Daniel Lambert, English animal breeder (d. 1809)
• 1777 – Charles Lot Church, American-Canadian politician (d. 1864)
• 1781 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect, designed the Konzerthaus Berlin (d. 1841)
• 1782 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (d. 1863)
• 1798 – Abigail Fillmore, American wife of Millard Fillmore, 14th First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
• 1815 – James Curtis Hepburn, American physician, linguist, and missionary (d. 1911)
• 1825 – Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (d. 1903)
• 1849 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek painter (d. 1884)
• 1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1916)
• 1857 – B. H. Roberts, English-American historian and politician (d. 1933)
• 1860 – Hugo Wolf, Slovene-Austrian composer (d. 1903)
• 1864 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (d. 1941)
• 1870 – Henri Étiévant, French actor and director (d. 1953)
• 1870 – William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Albert Meyer, Swiss journalist and politician (d. 1953)
• 1874 – Ellery Harding Clark, American jumper (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1926)
• 1884 – Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (d. 1941)
• 1886 – Home Run Baker, American baseball player and manager (d. 1963)
• 1886 – Arthur Russell, English runner (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Albert William Stevens, American captain and photographer (d. 1949)
• 1888 – Paul Morand, French author (d. 1976)
• 1889 – Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (d. 1918)
• 1890 – Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (d. 1951)
• 1892 – Janet Flanner, American journalist and author (d. 1978)
• 1897 – Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1937)
• 1898 – Henry Hathaway, American director and producer (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 1981)
• 1899 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
• 1899 – Jan Lechoń, Polish poet and critic (d. 1956)
• 1899 – Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Hans Bellmer, German painter and sculptor(d. 1975)
• 1904 – George Guthrie, American hurdler (d. 1972)
• 1906 – Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (d. 1947)
• 1907 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (d. 1986)
• 1908 – Walter Annenberg, American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Sammy Kaye, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (d. 1973)
• 1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, American religious leader and author, founded the Church of Scientology (d. 1986)
• 1913 – William J. Casey, American politician, 13th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Joe Kelly, Irish racing driver (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
• 1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and playwright (d. 2009)
• 1914 – W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Edward O'Hare, American lieutenant and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1943)
• 1916 – Lindy Boggs, American educator and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the Holy See (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Jacque Fresco, American engineer
• 1918 – Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
• 1923 – William F. Bolger, American politician, 65th United States Postmaster General (d. 1989)
• 1923 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek general (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Roy Haynes, American drummer and composer
• 1925 – Ray Martin, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Robert Denning, American interior designer and art collector (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (d. 1984)
• 1929 – Peter Breck, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Joseph Mascolo, American actor
• 1929 – Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Blue Mitchell, American trumpet player (d. 1979)
• 1931 – Gordon Borrie, Baron Borrie, English lawyer and politician
• 1932 – Jan Howard, American singer-songwriter
• 1933 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Mike Stoller, American songwriter and producer
• 1933 – Gero von Wilpert, German author and academic (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Barry Hughart, American author and screenwriter
• 1935 – David Nobbs, English author and screenwriter
• 1935 – Leslie Parrish, American actress
• 1936 – Michael Checkland English broadcaster
• 1936 – Nana Meskhidze, Georgian painter (d. 1997)
• 1938 – Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Robert Gammage, American captain and politician (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 49th Yokozuna
• 1939 – Marion Foale, English fashion designer
• 1939 – Claude Piquemal, French sprinter
• 1939 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1940 – Christopher Gable, English actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 1998)
• 1940 – Jacqueline Sassard, French actress
• 1940 – Candi Staton, American singer
• 1941 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author (d. 2008)
• 1941 – Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (d. 2001)
• 1942 – Marshall Chess, American record producer
• 1942 – Dave Cutler, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1942 – Geoffrey Hayes, English actor and screenwriter
• 1942 – Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Herman Wijffels, Dutch economist and politician
• 1943 – Frances Nero, American singer (d. 2014)
• 1943 – André Téchiné, French director and screenwriter
• 1944 – Terence Burns, Baron Burns, English economist and academic
• 1945 – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu, American-Israeli colonel (d. 1976)
• 1947 – Lesley Collier, English ballerina and educator
• 1947 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
• 1948 – Robert S. Woods, American actor
• 1949 – Sian Elias, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand
• 1949 – John Hall, English priest
• 1949 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (d. 1974)
• 1949 – Julia Migenes, American soprano and actress
• 1949 – Trevor Sorbie, Scottish hairdresser
• 1949 – Emmy Verhey, Dutch violinist
• 1950 – Haşim Kılıç, Turkish economist and judge
• 1950 – Charles Krauthammer, American physician, journalist, and author
• 1950 – William H. Macy, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and educator
• 1953 – Nicola Davies, Welsh lawyer and judge
• 1953 – Ridley Pearson, American author and bass player (Rock Bottom Remainders)
• 1953 – Deborah Raffin, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
• 1954 – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Guyanese-English politician, Secretary of State for International Development
• 1954 – Robin Duke, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• 1955 – Bruno Conti, Italian footballer and manager
• 1955 – Glenne Headly, American actress
• 1955 – Olga Rukavishnikova, Russian pentathlete
• 1956 – Dana Delany, American actress and producer
• 1956 – Jamie Dimon, American banker and businessman
• 1956 – Jonathan Rutherford, English political scientist and academic
• 1956 – Davor Slamnig, Croatian guitarist and songwriter (Buldožer)
• 1957 – John Hoeven, American banker and politician, 31st Governor of North Dakota
• 1957 – Moses Hogan, American composer and conductor (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Rick Lazio, American lawyer and politician
• 1958 – Caryl Phillips, Caribbean-English author and playwright
• 1958 – Linda Robson, English actress
• 1959 – Kathy Hilton, American actress and fashion designer
• 1960 – Yurii Andrukhovych, Ukrainian poet and author
• 1960 – Adam Clayton, English-Irish bass player and songwriter (U2 and Automatic Baby)
• 1960 – Joe Ranft, American animator, screenwriter, and voice actor (d. 2005)
• 1961 – Grahame Morris, English politician
• 1962 – Terence Blanchard, American trumpet player and composer
• 1962 – Seyhan Erözçelik, Turkish poet and author (d. 2011)
• 1963 – Fito Páez, Argentinian singer-songwriter, pianist, and director
• 1964 – Will Clark, American baseball player
• 1964 – João Gordo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Ratos de Porão)
• 1964 – Yevgeniy Misyulya, Belarusian race walker
• 1965 – Cees Geel, Dutch actor
• 1965 – Pamela Andersson, Swedish journalist
• 1967 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
• 1967 – Pieter Vink, Dutch footballer and referee
• 1968 – Christopher Collet, American actor
• 1968 – Akira Nogami, Japanese wrestler and actor
• 1969 – Christopher Coke, Jamaican drug lord
• 1969 – Rossie Harris, American actor and singer (Sukia)
• 1970 – Tim Story, American director and producer
• 1971 – Annabeth Gish, American actress
• 1971 – Rodica Mateescu, Romanian triple jumper
• 1971 – Tracy Wells, American actress
• 1972 – Common, American rapper and actor (Soulquarians)
• 1972 – Khujo, American rapper (Goodie Mob and The Lumberjacks)
• 1972 – Augenijus Vaškys, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Edgar Davids, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and manager
• 1973 – David Draiman, American singer-songwriter (Disturbed and Device)
• 1973 – Bobby Jackson, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Naho Toda, Japanese actress
• 1975 – Chris Ashworth, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Glenn Lewis, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1976 – James Dewees, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Get Up Kids, Leathermouth, Coalesce, and Reggie and the Full Effect)
• 1976 – Troy Hudson, American basketball player and rapper
• 1976 – Danny Masterson, American actor and producer
• 1977 – Mohammed Sylla, Guinean footballer
• 1977 – Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
• 1978 – Tom Danielson, American cyclist
• 1978 – Kenny Watson, American football player
• 1979 – Johan Santana, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1979 – Dainius Saulėnas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 – Cédric Van Branteghem, Belgian sprinter
• 1980 – Caron Butler, American basketball player
• 1980 – Flavia Cacace, Italian-English dancer
• 1980 – Molly Stanton, American actress
• 1981 – Toccara Jones, American model and actress
• 1981 – Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
• 1981 – April Matson, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Jeremy Curl, Japanese-English explorer, author and photographer
• 1982 – Nicole Ohlde, American basketball player
• 1982 – Adam Thomson, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Dan Lupu, Romanian actor
• 1983 – George Rose, Australian rugby player
• 1983 – Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
• 1983 – Erkan Veyseloğlu, Turkish basketball player
• 1984 – Rachael Bella, American actress
• 1984 – Pieter Custers, Dutch archer
• 1984 – Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
• 1984 – Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Chiaki Kyan, Japanese model
• 1984 – Yūka Nanri, Japanese voice actress and singer (Tiaraway and FictionJunction)
• 1984 – Künter Rothberg, Estonian martial artist
• 1984 – Rieneke Terink, Dutch swimmer
• 1984 – Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
• 1985 – Alcides Araújo Alves, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 – Naughty Boy, English DJ and producer
• 1985 – Víctor García, Spanish runner
• 1985 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
• 1985 – Ben Lowe, Australian rugby player
• 1985 – Taner Sağır, Bulgarian-Turkish weightlifter
• 1985 – Austin Scott, American football player
• 1986 – Shunsuke Daito, Japanese actor
• 1987 – Marco Andretti, American race car driver
• 1987 – Andreas Beck, German footballer
• 1987 – Rosela Gjylbegu, Albanian singer
• 1987 – Harald Lassen, Norwegian saxophonist (Mopti)
• 1988 – Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer
• 1988 – Dani Rivas, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
• 1989 – Holger Badstuber, German footballer
• 1989 – Peaches Geldof, English model and television host (d. 2014)
• 1989 – Marko Marin, German footballer
• 1989 – Harry Melling, English actor
• 1989 – Tom Westley, English cricketer
• 1991 – Eli Kim, American-South Korean singer (U-KISS)
• 1991 – Lê Quang Liêm, Vietnamese chess player
• 1991 – Suzu Natsume, Japanese actress
• 1991 – Tristan Thompson, Canadian basketball player
• 1991 – Aaron Woods, Australian rugby player
• 1992 – L, South Korean singer, dancer and actor (Infinite)
• 1992 – Lucy Fry, Australian actress
• 1992 – Antoni Sarcevic, English footballer
• 1992 – Kaya Scodelario, English actress
• 1994 – Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer
• 1995 – Zella Day, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1997 – Rúben Neves, Portuguese footballer

Deaths

• 600 – Leander of Seville, Spanish bishop and saint (b. 534)
• 1271 – Henry of Almain (b. 1235)
• 1395 – John Barbour, Scottish priest and poet (b. 1320)
• 1447 – Shahrukh Mirza, Persian ruler (b. 1377)
• 1516 – Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
• 1569 – Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1530)
• 1573 – Michel de l'Hôpital, French politician (b. 1507)
• 1604 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1537)
• 1619 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
• 1711 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
• 1719 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German chemist and potter (b. 1682)
• 1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (b. 1731)
• 1773 – Philibert Commerson, French historian and explorer (b. 1727)
• 1778 – Charles le Beau, French historian and author (b. 1701)
• 1800 – Nana Fadnavis, Indian minister and politician (b. 1742)
• 1803 – William Emes, English gardener (b. 1729)
• 1808 – Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
• 1833 – William Bradley, English lieutenant and cartographer (b. 1757)
• 1842 – Henry Shrapnel, English general (b. 1761)
• 1854 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
• 1873 – David Swinson Maynard, American physician, lawyer, and businessman (b. 1808)
• 1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German mathematician and chess player (b. 1818)
• 1881 – Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
• 1884 – Leland Stanford Jr., American son of Leland Stanford (b. 1868)
• 1901 – Benjamin Harrison, American general and politician, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American activist (b. 1820)
• 1911 – John J. Toffey, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1844)
• 1912 – Eugène-Étienne Taché, Canadian engineer and architect, designed the Parliament Building (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Hugo Treffner, German educator, founded the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium (b. 1845)
• 1914 – Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Pakistani physician and scholar (b. 1841)
• 1918 – César Cui, Russian composer and critic (b. 1835)
• 1921 – Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (b. 1835)
• 1925 – Lucille Ricksen, American model and actress (b. 1909)
• 1938 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (b. 1857)
• 1941 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (b. 1881)
• 1943 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author and poet (b. 1898)
• 1955 – Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
• 1960 – Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (b. 1874)
• 1963 – Austin Dobson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1964 – Friedrich Lahrs, German architect and academic (b. 1880)
• 1965 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and statistician (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1965 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 – Ivo Andrić, Croatian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1981 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish businessman (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
• 1983 – Paul Citroen, German-Dutch illustrator and educator (b. 1896)
• 1988 – John Holmes, American porn actor and director (b. 1944)
• 1989 – Fahrettin Özdilek, Turkish general and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Odette Hallowes, French-English Resistance agent and nurse (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Peer Guldbrandsen, Danish screenwriter, actor, film director and producer (d. 1996)
• 1996 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 1998 – Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Bill Reid, Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Lee Falk, American cartoonist, director, and producer (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Anton Raadik, Estonian-American boxer (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (b. 1902)
• 2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895)
• 2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar (b. 1900)
• 2002 – Eugen Sacharias, German-Estonian architect (b. 1906)
• 2004 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal (b. 1905)
• 2006 – Robert C. Baker, American chef, invented the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host and actor (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and manager (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Elizabeth Gilels, Russian violinist (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Test, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Betsy Blair, American-English actress (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
• 2010 – He Pingping, Chinese dwarf (b. 1988)
• 2011 – Rick Martin, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Princess Anna of Saxony (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Michael P. Barnett, English chemist and computer scientist (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Michel Duchaussoy, French actor (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Jock Hobbs, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Eileen McDonough, American actress (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Karl Roy, Filipino singer-songwriter (P.O.T. and Kapatid) (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Jacques Villiers, French engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Richard Davey, Australian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Cartha DeLoach, American FBI agent and author (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Ducky Detweiler, American baseball player and manager (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Tore Lokoloko, Papua New Guinean politician, 2nd Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Perween Rahman, Bangladeshi-Pakistani activist (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Władysław Stachurski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Cherifa, Algerian singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American businessman (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, Irish businessman and politician (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Icchokas Meras, Lithuanian-Israeli author and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Abby Singer, American production manager (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Daevid Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Soft Machine and Gong) (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Irwin Hasen, American cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Ib Melchior, Danish-American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Meyera Oberndorf, American politician, 23rd Mayor of Virginia Beach
• 2015 – Al Rosen, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Maria Vicol, Romanian fencer and referee (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Blessed Irmã Dulce Pontes
  • Euphrasia of Constantinople
  • Gerald of Mayo
  • James Theodore Holly (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Leander of Seville
  • Leticia
  • Nicephorus
  • Roderick
  • Sabinus of Hermopolis
• Kasuga Matsuri (Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara, Japan)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada