Events

Pre-1600

• 418 A papal election begins, resulting in the election of Pope Boniface I.

• 457 Majorian is acclaimed as Western Roman emperor.

• 484 Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).

• 893 An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.

• 1065 Edward the Confessor's Romanesque monastic church at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

• 1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.

1601–1900

• 1659 The Marathas defeat the Adilshahi forces in the Battle of Kolhapur.

• 1768 King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

• 1795 Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).

• 1832 John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. He resigned after being elected Senator from South Carolina.

• 1835 Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.

• 1836 South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

• 1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty.

• 1846 Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

• 1879 Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.

• 1885 The Indian National Congress is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

• 1895 The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

• 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

1901–present

• 1902 The Syracuse Athletic Club defeat the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

• 1908 The 7.1 Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between about 80,000.

• 1912 The first municipally owned streetcarss take to the streets in San Francisco.

• 1918 Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons.

• 1941 World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

• 1943 Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.

• 1943 World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

• 1944 Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

• 1948 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears south of Miami.

• 1956 Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try to resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

• 1958 "Greatest Game Ever Played": The Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium to win the NFL Championship.

• 1967 American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

• 1972 The last scheduled day for induction into the military by the Selective Service System. Due to the fact that President Richard Nixon declared this day a national day of mourning due to former President Harry S Truman's death, approximately 300 men were not able to report due to most Federal offices being closed. Since the draft was not resumed in 1973, they were never drafted.

• 1973 The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.

• 1978 United Airlines Flight 173 crashes in a residential neighborhood near Portland International Airport, killing 10 people.

• 1989 A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

• 2006 War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.

• 2009 Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

• 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.

• 2014 Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.

• 2019 A truck bomb is detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 85 people and injuring over 140 more. The militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.

• 2025 Unrest in the form of mass protests erupt across Iran, the largest uprising in the country since the Iranian Revolution.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1461 Louise of Savoy, French nun (died 1503)

• 1510 Nicholas Bacon, English politician (died 1579)

• 1535 Martin Eisengrein, German theologian (died 1578)

1601–1900

• 1619 Antoine Furetière, French author and scholar (died 1688)

• 1635 Elizabeth Stuart, second daughter of King Charles I of England (died 1650)

• 1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer (died 1735)

• 1655 Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk (died 1698)

• 1665 George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (died 1716)

• 1722 Eliza Lucas, Caribbean-American agriculturalist (died 1793)

• 1724 Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (died 1805)

• 1763 John Molson, English-Canadian brewer, founded the Molson Brewery (died 1836)

• 1775 Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Swiss banker and photographer (died 1863)

• 1789 Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist of "domestic fiction" (died 1867)

• 1798 Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician (died 1844)

• 1818 Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic (died 1897)

• 1842 Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American lieutenant and composer (died 1891)

• 1856 Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)

• 1865 Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (died 1925)

• 1869 Kathleen O'Melia, Canadian religious sister (died 1939)

• 1870 Charles Bennett, English runner (died 1949)

• 1882 Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1944)

• 1882 Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (died 1931)

• 1887 Werner Kolhörster, German physicist and academic (died 1946)

• 1888 F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1931)

• 1890 Quincy Wright, American political scientist, historian, and academic (died 1970)

• 1894 Burnita Shelton Matthews, American judge (died 1988)

• 1895 Carol Ryrie Brink, American author and playwright (died 1981)

• 1898 Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish-American meteorologist and academic (died 1957)

• 1898 Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (died 1947)

• 1900 Ted Lyons, American baseball player (died 1986)

1901–present

• 1902 Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (died 2001)

• 1902 Shen Congwen, Chinese author and educator (died 1988)

• 1903 Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (died 1983)

• 1903 John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (died 1957)

• 1907 Ze'ev Ben-Haim, Ukrainian-Israeli linguist and academic (died 2013)

• 1908 Lew Ayres, American actor (died 1996)

• 1910 Billy Williams, American singer (died 1972)

• 1911 Wil van Beveren, Dutch sprinter and journalist (died 2003)

• 1913 Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor (died 2009)

• 1914 Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (died 1974)

• 1914 Pops Staples, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

• 1917 Ellis Clarke, Trinidadian politician, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (died 2010)

• 1919 Emily Cheney Neville, American author (died 1997)

• 1920 Tufty Mann, South African cricketer (died 1952)

• 1920 Bruce McCarty, American architect, designed the Knoxville City-County Building (died 2013)

• 1920 Steve Van Buren, Honduran-American football player (died 2012)

• 1920 Al Wistert, American football player and coach (died 2016)

• 1921 Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2012)

• 1922 Lionel Bowen, Australian politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (died 2012)

• 1922 Stan Lee, American publisher, producer, and actor (died 2018)

• 1924 Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Ethiopian politician; President of Ethiopia (died 2018)

• 1925 Hildegard Knef, German actress and singer (died 2002)

• 1925 Milton Obote, Ugandan engineer and politician, 2nd President of Uganda (died 2005)

• 1926 Donald Carr, German-English cricketer and referee (died 2016)

• 1928 Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (died 2001)

• 1928 John William Thomson, Canadian politician (died 2025)

• 1929 Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (died 1994)

• 1929 Terry Sawchuk, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 1970)

• 1929 Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (died 2022)

• 1930 Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian illustrator and academic (died 2010)

• 1931 Guy Debord, French theorist and author (died 1994)

• 1931 Martin Milner, American actor (died 2015)

• 1932 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (died 2002)

• 1932 Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (died 1979)

• 1932 Roy Hattersley, English journalist and politician, Shadow Home Secretary (died 2026)

• 1932 Harry Howell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2019)

• 1932 Nichelle Nichols, American actress (died 2022)

• 1932 Manuel Puig, Argentine author and playwright (died 1990)

• 1933 John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (died 2022)

• 1934 Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer and manager (died 2000)

• 1934 Maggie Smith, English actress (died 2024)

• 1936 Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1936 Lawrence Schiller, American journalist, director, and producer

• 1937 Ratan Tata, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2024)

• 1938 Dick Sudhalter, American trumpet player, scholar, and critic (died 2008)

• 1939 Philip Anschutz, American businessman, founded Anschutz Entertainment Group

• 1939 Frank McLintock, Scottish footballer and manager

• 1939 Michelle Urry, American journalist and illustrator (died 2006)

• 1940 A. K. Antony, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence

• 1940 Don Francisco, Chilean-American journalist and talk show host

• 1941 Intikhab Alam, Indian-Pakistani cricketer and coach

• 1942 Roger Swerts, Belgian cyclist

• 1943 Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal

• 1943 David Peterson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Ontario

• 1943 Joan Ruddock, Welsh politician

• 1944 Sandra Faber, American astronomer and academic

• 1944 Johnny Isakson, American sergeant and politician (died 2021)

• 1944 Kary Mullis, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)

• 1944 Gordon Taylor, English footballer

• 1945 Birendra, King of Nepal (died 2001)

• 1945 Max Hastings, English journalist, historian, and author

• 1946 Mike Beebe, American lawyer and politician, 45th Governor of Arkansas

• 1946 Pierre Falardeau, Canadian director, screenwriter, and activist (died 2009)

• 1946 Hubert Green, American golfer (died 2018)

• 1946 Tim Johnson, American lawyer and politician (died 2024)

• 1946 Barbara, Lady Judge, American-English lawyer and businesswoman (died 2020)

• 1946 Bill Lee, American baseball player and author

• 1946 Laffit Pincay Jr., Panamanian jockey

• 1946 Edgar Winter, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

• 1947 Dick Diamonde, Dutch-Australian rock bass player (died 2024)

• 1947 Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2000)

• 1948 Ziggy Modeliste, American drummer

• 1950 Alex Chilton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)

• 1950 Clifford Cocks, English mathematician and cryptographer

• 1950 Rainer Maria Latzke, German-American painter and academic

• 1952 Arun Jaitley, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Indian Minister of Law and Justice (died 2019)

• 1952 Bridget Prentice, Scottish educator and politician

• 1953 Richard Clayderman, French pianist

• 1953 Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese wrestler and promoter, founded Dradition wrestling promotion

• 1953 Charlie Pierce, American journalist and author

• 1953 Martha Wash, American singer-songwriter

• 1954 Tony Ables, American serial killer

• 1954 Gayle King, American television journalist

• 1954 Denzel Washington, American actor, director, and producer

• 1955 Stephen Frost, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

• 1955 Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)

• 1956 Nigel Kennedy, English violinist

• 1958 Terry Butcher, English footballer and manager

• 1958 Curt Byrum, American golfer

• 1958 Zoran Gajić, Serbian volleyball trainer

• 1959 Hansjörg Kunze, German runner and sportscaster

• 1959 Daniel Léo Simpson, American composer

• 1959 Ana Torroja, Spanish singer-songwriter

• 1960 Ray Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1960 John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster

• 1960 Chad McQueen, American actor and race car driver (died 2024)

• 1960 Melvin Turpin, American basketball player (died 2010)

• 1961 Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager

• 1962 Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (died 1999)

• 1964 Tex Perkins, Australian singer-songwriter

• 1964 Maite Zúñiga, Spanish runner

• 1965 Allar Levandi, Estonian skier

• 1967 Chris Ware, American illustrator

• 1968 Akihiko Hoshide, Japanese engineer and astronaut

• 1969 Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American computer programmer, developed Linux kernel

• 1970 Elaine Hendrix, American actress

• 1970 James Jett, American sprinter and football player

• 1970 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Dutch tennis player

• 1971 Benny Agbayani, American baseball player

• 1971 Sergi Barjuán, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1971 Anita Doth, Dutch singer-songwriter

• 1971 William Gates, American basketball player

• 1972 Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer

• 1972 Patrick Rafter, Australian-Bermudian tennis player and model

• 1972 Adam Vinatieri, American football player

• 1973 Holger Blume, German sprinter

• 1973 Marc Blume, German sprinter

• 1973 Seth Meyers, American actor, producer, screenwriter, and talk show host

• 1973 Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater

• 1974 Jocelyn Enriquez, American singer

• 1974 Rob Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1974 Markus Weinzierl, German footballer and manager

• 1975 B. J. Ryan, American baseball player

• 1976 Brendan Hines, American actor and singer

• 1976 Joe Manganiello, American actor

• 1976 Trond Nymark, Norwegian race walker

• 1976 Ben Tune, Australian rugby player

• 1976 Igor Žiković, Croatian footballer

• 1976 Deddy Corbuzier, Indonesian presenter and magician

• 1977 Derrick Brew, American sprinter

• 1977 Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player

• 1977 Vanessa Ferlito, American actress

• 1977 Seun Ogunkoya, Nigerian sprinter

• 1978 Chris Coyne, Australian footballer and manager

• 1978 John Legend, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

• 1979 James Blake, American tennis player

• 1979 Senna Gammour, German singer-songwriter

• 1979 Bill Hall, American baseball player

• 1979 Zach Hill, American musician and artist

• 1979 André Holland, American actor

• 1979 Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress

• 1980 Lomana LuaLua, Congolese footballer

• 1980 Ryta Turava, Belarusian race walker

• 1981 Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer

• 1981 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, American journalist

• 1981 Sienna Miller, American-British actress and fashion designer

• 1981 David Moss, American ice hockey player

• 1981 Narsha, South Korean singer and dancer

• 1981 Frank Turner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1981 Mika Väyrynen, Finnish footballer

• 1982 Cedric Benson, American football player (died 2019)

• 1982 Beau Garrett, American actress and model

• 1982 François Gourmet, Belgian decathlete

• 1982 Curtis Glencross, Canadian hockey player

• 1984 Martin Kaymer, German golfer

• 1984 Duane Solomon, American runner

• 1986 Tom Huddlestone, English footballer

• 1987 Thomas Dekker, American actor and musician

• 1989 Austin Barnes, American baseball player

• 1989 Mackenzie Rosman, American actress

• 1990 Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner

• 1990 Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer

• 1990 David Archuleta, American singer

• 1990 John Henson, American basketball player

• 1990 Bastiaan Lijesen, Dutch swimmer

• 1992 Tomáš Jurčo, Slovak ice hockey player

• 1994 Adam Peaty, English swimmer

• 1995 Dylan Cease, American baseball player

• 1995 Mauricio Lemos, Uruguayan footballer

• 1995 Nahitan Nández, Uruguayan footballer

• 1996 Tanguy Ndombele, French footballer

• 1999 Iqbaal Ramadhan, Indonesian actor and singer

• 2001 Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Canadian actress

• 2002 Tom Cannon, British-Irish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 925 Wang Zongbi, general of the Chinese state of Former Shu

• 1218 Robert II, Count of Dreux (born 1154)

• 1297 Hugh Aycelin, French cardinal (born 1230)

• 1326 Sir David II Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, Constable of Scotland, and Chief Warden of Northumberland

• 1367 Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (born 1330)

• 1394 Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, queen of Epirus (born 1350)

• 1446 Antipope Clement VIII (born 1369)

• 1491 Bertoldo di Giovanni, Italian sculptor (born c. 1435)

• 1503 Piero the Unfortunate, Italian ruler (born 1471)

• 1538 Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (born 1455)

• 1547 Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (born 1465)

• 1558 Hermann Finck, German organist and composer (born 1527)

1601–1900

• 1622 Francis de Sales, French bishop and saint (born 1567)

• 1663 Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1618)

• 1671 Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German scholar and critic (born 1611)

• 1694 Mary II of England (born 1662)

• 1706 Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (born 1647)

• 1708 Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and mycologist (born 1656)

• 1715 William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (born 1649)

• 1734 Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (born 1671)

• 1736 Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (born 1670)

• 1785 Peter Ernst Wilde, Polish-Estonian physician and journalist (born 1732)

• 1795 Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (born 1747)

• 1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (born 1800)

• 1872 James Van Ness, American lawyer and politician, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (born 1808)

• 1890 Dennis Miller Bunker, American painter (born 1861)

• 1897 William Corby, American priest and academic (born 1833)

• 1900 Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born 1846)

1901–present

• 1907 Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (born 1812)

• 1913 Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Turkish journalist and translator (born 1844)

• 1916 Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (born 1835)

• 1917 Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot (born 1892)

• 1918 Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet and journalist (born 1865)

• 1919 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (born 1854)

• 1924 Léon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (born 1866)

• 1932 Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (born 1854)

• 1935 Clarence Day, American author and illustrator (born 1874)

• 1937 Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer (born 1875)

• 1938 Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (born 1886)

• 1942 Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (born 1869)

• 1943 Steve Evans, American baseball player (born 1885)

• 1945 Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (born 1871)

• 1946 Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (born 1882)

• 1947 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (born 1869)

• 1949 Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and soldier (born 1910)

• 1959 Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (born 1889)

• 1960 Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1895)

• 1963 Paul Hindemith, German violist, composer, and conductor (born 1895)

• 1967 Katharine McCormick, American biologist and philanthropist (born 1875)

• 1968 David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (born 1893)

• 1971 Max Steiner, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1888)

• 1976 Katharine Byron, American politician (born 1903)

• 1981 Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1885)

• 1983 Dennis Wilson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1944)

• 1984 Sam Peckinpah, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)

• 1984 Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, British politician and educator (born 1903)

• 1984 Peter Kihss, American journalist

• 1986 John D. MacDonald, American colonel and author (born 1916)

• 1986 Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (born 1922)

• 1989 Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (born 1894)

• 1990 Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (born 1946)

• 1992 Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (born 1917)

• 1993 William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (born 1904)

• 1994 Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1911)

• 1999 Clayton Moore, American actor (born 1914)

• 2001 Samuel Abraham Goldblith, American lieutenant, biologist, and engineer (born 1919)

• 2001 William X. Kienzle, American priest and author (born 1928)

• 2003 Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (born 1935)

• 2004 Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (born 1935)

• 2004 Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (born 1933)

• 2006 Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian politician, Iranian Minister of Justice (born 1956)

• 2008 Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and illustrator (born 1923)

• 2009 Jimmy Sullivan, American musician, composer and songwriter. Known by his stage name The Rev (born 1981)

• 2010 Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (born 1921)

• 2010 Terry Peder Rasmussen, American serial killer (born 1943)

• 2012 Nicholas Ambraseys, Greek-English seismologist and engineer (born 1929)

• 2012 Mark Crispin, American computer scientist and academic, designed the IMAP (born 1956)

• 2012 Václav Drobný, Czech footballer (born 1980)

• 2012 Frankie Walsh, Irish hurler and manager (born 1936)

• 2013 Halton Arp, American-German astronomer and critic (born 1927)

• 2013 Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress (born 1913)

• 2013 Andrew Jacobs, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1932)

• 2013 Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls (born 1919)

• 2013 Joseph Ruskin, American actor and producer (born 1924)

• 2013 Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (born 1969)

• 2014 Leelah Alcorn, American transgender teenager (born 1997)

• 2014 Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (born 1956)

• 2014 Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)

• 2015 John Bradbury, English drummer and songwriter (born 1953)

• 2015 Eloy Inos, Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 8th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (born 1949)

• 2015 Lemmy, English musician, singer, and songwriter (born 1945)

• 2016 Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1932)

• 2016 Jean-Christophe Victor, French political scientist (born 1947)

• 2017 Rose Marie, American actress and comedienne (born 1923)

• 2021 Grichka Bogdanoff, French television presenter and scientific essayist (born 1949)

• 2021 John Madden, American football Hall of Fame coach and commentator (born 1936)

• 2021 Harry Reid, American lawyer, politician, and former Senate majority leader (born 1939)

• 2022 Philomena Franz, German Romani author (born 1922)

• 2023 Vijayakanth, Indian actor and politician (born 1952)

• 2024 Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO (born 1926)

• 2025 Brigitte Bardot, French actress, singer and activist (born 1934)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Abel (Coptic Church)

• Caterina Volpicelli

Feast of the Holy Innocents or Childermas; in Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated with pranks (inocentadas), similar to April Fools' Day (Catholic Church, Church of England, Lutheran Church), and its related observances:

• Els Enfarinats (Ibi, Spain)

• Simon the Athonite

• December 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• King Taksin Memorial Day (Thailand)

• Proclamation Day (South Australia), celebration started on the day following Christmas (South Australia)

• Republic Day (South Sudan)

• The fourth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on December 28