Wikipedia / December 11
Wikipedia / December 11
Events
Pre-1600
220 Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao Cao's son Cao Pi, ending the Han dynasty.
361 Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor.
861 Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne, start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
969 Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
1041 Michael V, adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium, is proclaimed emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1239 Treaty of Benavente: the heiresses of the Kingdom of León renounce their throne to King Ferdinand III of Castile
1282 Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri near Builth Wells in mid-Wales.
1317 The Nyköping Banquet () takes place as King Birger of Sweden celebrates Christmas at Nyköping Castle. Among the guests are his two brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Eric, who later that night are imprisoned and eventually starved to death in the castle dungeon.
1601–1900
1602 A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.)
1640 The Root and Branch petition, signed by 15,000 Londoners calling for the abolition of the episcopacy, is presented to the Long Parliament.
1675 Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.
1688 Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.
1792 French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
1815 The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
1816 Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg begins as the Army of the Potomac under Union General Ambrose Burnside crosses the Rappahannock River to clash with the Army of Northern Virginia led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
1868 Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat the Paraguayan Army at the Battle of Avay.
1899 Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
1901–present
1901 Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from Poldhu, Cornwall, England to St. John's, Newfoundland.
1905 A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
1907 The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
1913 More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence, Italy. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, is immediately arrested.
1917 World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
1920 Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
1925 Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
1927 Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
1931 Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the CommonwealthAustralia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.
1934 Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
1936 Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective.
1937 Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
1941 World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
1941 World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
1941 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.
1946 The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
1948 Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
1958 French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
1960 French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.
1962 Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
1964 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
1972 Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
1978 The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
1980 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (also known as Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1981 El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
1988 A Soviet Air Force Il-76 aircraft crashes while participating in the Armenian earthquake relief, killing 78 people.
1990 Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
1990 Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster result in a total of 12 deaths and 42 being injured
1993 A block of the Highland Towers condominium complex collapses following a landslide caused by heavy rain and water flowing from a construction site at Ampang district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 48 of its residents die, including one who died in hospital after being rescued alive, leaving only two survivors.
1994 First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
1994 A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to land the plane safely.
1997 The Kyoto Protocol, an agreement committing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, opens for signature.
1998 Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
1999 SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35.
2001 China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2005 The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
2005 Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2006 The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
2006 Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican drug war.
2007 Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
2008 Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50billion Ponzi scheme.
2009 Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game Angry Birds internationally on iOS.
2012 At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
2017 New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.
2019 The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence.
2020 The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.
Births
Pre-1600
1445 Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (died 1496)
1465 Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (died 1489)
1475 Pope Leo X (died 1521)
1566 Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (died 1650)
1595 Hŏ Mok, Korean politician, poet and scholar (died 1682)
1601–1900
1613 Amar Singh Rathore, Rajput nobleman (died 1644)
1712 Francesco Algarotti, Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1764)
1725 George Mason, American lawyer and politician (died 1792)
1758 Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor, and educator (died 1832)
1761 Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (died 1835)
1781 David Brewster, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1868)
1801 Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German poet and playwright (died 1836)
1803 Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (died 1869)
1810 Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (died 1857)
1830 Kamehameha V of Hawaii (died 1872)
1837 Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (died 1887)
1838 John Labatt, Canadian brewer and businessman (died 1915)
1843 Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
1854 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, American baseball pitcher (died 1897)
1856 Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher, theorist, and author (died 1918)
1858 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (died 1943)
1861 Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry, British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer (died 1923)
1863 Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (died 1941)
1872 René Bull, British illustrator and photographer (died 1942)
1873 Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician and academic (died 1967)
1875 Yehuda Leib Maimon, Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (died 1962)
1880 Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (died 1951)
1882 Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist and poet (died 1921)
1882 Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
1882 Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (died 1947)
1884 Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (died 1961)
1889 Walter Knott, American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm (died 1981)
1890 Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1935)
1890 Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (died 1976)
1892 Arnold Majewski, Finnish military hero of Polish descent (died 1942)
1893 Leo Ornstein, Russian-American pianist and composer (died 2002)
1897 Ronald Skirth, English soldier (died 1977)
1899 Julio de Caro, Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1980)
1900 Hermína Týrlová, Czech animator, screenwriter and film director (died 1993)
1900 Gerd Arntz, German Modernist artist, co-creator of Isotype (died 1988)
1901–present
1905 Robert Henriques, English farmer, author, and broadcaster (died 1967)
1905 Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor and singer (died 1994)
1908 Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (died 2012)
1908 Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
1908 Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, fourth Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1987)
1908 Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi war criminal (died 1946)
1909 Ronald McKie, Australian soldier, journalist, and author (died 1991)
1910 Mildred Cleghorn, Native American chairwoman and educator (died 1997)
1911 Val Guest, English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (died 2006)
1911 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
1911 Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (died 2009)
1912 Carlo Ponti, Italian-Swiss film producer (died 2007)
1913 Jean Marais, French actor and director (died 1998)
1916 Elena Garro, Mexican author and playwright (died 1998)
1916 Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (died 1989)
1918 Clinton Adams, American painter and historian (died 2002)
1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
1919 Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer (died 2016)
1919 Marie Windsor, American actress (died 2000)
1920 Mary Ivy Burks, American environmental activist (died 2007)
1920 Denis Jenkinson, English motorcycle racer and journalist (died 1996)
1921 Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (died 2000)
1921 Liz Smith, English actress (died 2016)
1922 Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (died 2005)
1922 Dilip Kumar, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2021)
1922 Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
1922 Grace Paley, American short story writer and poet (died 2007)
1923 Betsy Blair, American actress and dancer (died 2009)
1923 Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (died 2013)
1923 Morrie Turner, American comics creator (died 2014)
1924 Doc Blanchard, American football player and colonel (died 2009)
1925 Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2021)
1925 Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
1925 James Sullivan, American politician (died 2012)
1926 Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)
1927 John Buscema, American illustrator (died 2002)
1929 Axel Anderson, German actor and production manager (died 2012)
1929 Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (died 2002)
1930 Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (died 2016)
1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2022)
1931 Ernie Beck, American basketball player (died 2024)
1931 Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (died 2013)
1931 Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer
1931 Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2017)
1931 Rajneesh, Indian guru, mystic, and educator (died 1990)
1932 Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (died 1991)
1932 Keith Waldrop, American author and poet (died 2023)
1933 Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2019)
1934 Salim Durani, Afghan-Indian cricketer (died 2023)
1935 Pranab Mukherjee, Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India (died 2020)
1935 Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1998)
1936 Hans van den Broek, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
1936 Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1937 Jim Harrison, American novelist, essayist, and poet (died 2016)
1938 Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 McCoy Tyner, American jazz musician (died 2020)
1939 Tom Hayden, American activist and politician (died 2016)
1939 Thomas McGuane, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
1940 David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1940 Donna Mills, American actress and producer
1941 Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China
1941 J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2015)
1941 Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (died 1988)
1941 J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (died 1991)
1942 Anna Carteret, English actress
1943 John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State
1944 Jon Garrison, American tenor and educator
1944 Lynda Day George, American actress
1944 Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (died 2022)
1944 Brenda Lee, American singer-songwriter
1946 Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1946 Rick McCosker, Australian cricketer
1946 Diana Palmer, American journalist and author
1948 Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek guitarist and composer
1948 Shinji Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter (died 2023)
1949 Christina Onassis, Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (died 1988)
1951 Mazlan Othman, Malaysian astrophysicist and astronomer
1951 Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
1953 Bess Armstrong, American actress
1954 Brad Bryant, American golfer
1954 Sylvester Clarke, Barbadian cricketer (died 1999)
1954 Santiago Creel, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior
1954 Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1954 Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer
1955 Gene Grossman, American economist and academic
1955 Stu Jackson, American basketball player, coach, and manager
1955 Ray Kelvin, British fashion designer
1955 Christian Sackewitz, German footballer and manager
1956 Lani Brockman, American actress and director
1956 Andrew Lansley, English politician, Secretary of State for Health
1957 Peter Bagge, American author and illustrator
1958 Chris Hughton, English-born Irish footballer and manager
1958 Tom Shadyac, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 Nikki Sixx, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1960 Anders Eldebrink, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1961 Dave King, Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 Steve Nicol, Scottish footballer and manager
1961 Macky Sall, Senegalese engineer and politician, fourth President of Senegal
1961 Marco Pierre White, English chef and mentor
1962 Ben Browder, American actor
1963 Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 Mark Greatbatch, New Zealand cricketer
1963 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German tennis player
1963 John Lammers, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 Nigel Winterburn, English footballer and coach
1964 Justin Currie, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 Dave Schools, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1964 Carolyn Waldo, Canadian swimmer and sportscaster
1965 Gavin Hill, New Zealand rugby player
1965 Glenn Lazarus, Australian rugby league player and politician
1965 Giannis Ragousis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence
1966 Gary Dourdan, American actor
1966 Erik Honoré, Norwegian guitarist and producer
1966 Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (died 2002)
1966 Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor
1967 Peter Kelamis, Australian voice actor
1967 Mo'Nique, American comedian, actress, and producer
1967 Chris Shepherd, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 Katy Steding, American basketball player and coach
1968 Emmanuelle Charpentier, French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, and Nobel laureate
1968 Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer and manager
1969 Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player
1969 Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer and manager
1969 Max Martini, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1969 Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer and manager
1970 Victoria Fuller, American model and actress
1971 Willie McGinest, American football player and sportscaster
1972 Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1972 Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
1972 Murray Goodwin, Zimbabwean cricketer
1972 Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2014)
1974 Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer
1974 Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
1974 Lisa Ortiz, American theatre and voice actress
1974 Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host
1974 Gete Wami, Ethiopian runner
1975 Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
1976 Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player, coach, and manager
1976 Yujiro Shirakawa, Japanese actor
1977 Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
1978 Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and radio host
1979 Colleen Hoover, American author
1979 Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater
1979 Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 Adi Keissar, Israeli poet
1980 Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player
1981 Rebekkah Brunson, American basketball player and coach
1981 Jason Kennedy, American journalist
1981 Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator
1981 Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer
1981 Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
1982 Roman Harper, American football player
1982 Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentine race car driver
1984 Leighton Baines, English footballer
1984 Sandra Echeverría, Mexican actress and singer
1984 James Ellsworth, American wrestler
1984 Xosha Roquemore, American actress
1985 Karla Souza, Mexican actress
1986 Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
1987 Violetta Bock, German politician
1987 Clifton Geathers, American football player
1987 Alex Russell, Australian actor
1987 Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress
1988 Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
1989 Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer
1990 Alexa Demie, American actress and singer
1992 Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter
1992 Malcolm Brogdon, American basketball player
1993 Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress
1995 Abbi Grant, Scottish footballer
1996 Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, singer and songwriter
1997 Matthew Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
2000 Onyeka Okongwu, American basketball player
Deaths
Pre-1600
384 Pope Damasus I (born c.304)
861 Al-Fath ibn Khaqan, chief confidant and councillor to al-Mutawakkil
969 Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor (born 912)
1121 Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Egyptian political adviser (born 1066)
1198 Averroes, Spanish astronomer, physicist, and philosopher (born 1126)
1241 Ögedei Khan, Mongolian emperor (born 1186)
1282 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Welsh prince (born 1223)
1282 Michael VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1225)
1474 Henry IV of Castile, King of the Crown of Castile (born 1425)
1532 Pietro Accolti, Italian cardinal (born 1455)
1582 Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and politician, 12th Constable of Portugal (born 1508)
1601–1900
1610 Adam Elsheimer, German artist working in Rome (born 1578)
1686 Louis, Grand Condé, French general (born 1621)
1694 Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1630)
1737 John Strype, English priest, historian, and author (born 1643)
1747 Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
1797 Richard Brocklesby, English physician (born 1722)
1826 Maria Leopoldina of Austria (born 1797)
1840 Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (born 1771)
1872 Kamehameha V of Hawaii (born 1830)
1880 Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (born 1810)
1892 William Milligan, Scottish theologian and scholar (born 1821)
1901–present
1906 Charles Townsend, American fencer, engineer, and academic (born 1872)
1909 Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (born 1839)
1913 Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (born 1852)
1918 Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (born 1876)
1920 Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (born 1855)
1928 Juho Kekkonen, Finnish forestry manager and tenant farmer (born 1873)
1936 Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (born 1875)
1937 Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (born 1884)
1937 Hugh Thackeray Turner, English architect and painter (born 1853)
1938 Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
1941 John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (born 1922)
1941 Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (born 1856)
1945 Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (born 1867)
1950 Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (born 1893)
1951 Mustafa Muğlalı, Turkish general (born 1882)
1951 Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (born 1881)
1953 Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalist and director (born 1896)
1957 Musidora, French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889)
1959 Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and manager (born 1900)
1964 Percy Kilbride, American actor (born 1888)
1966 Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (born 1881)
1968 Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (born 1910)
1968 Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (born 1891)
1971 Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (born 1902)
1975 Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1905)
1978 Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
1978 Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)
1979 James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (born 1904)
1983 Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (born 1897)
1984 Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (born 1911)
1984 George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (born 1894)
1987 G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (born 1923)
1989 Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (born 1895)
1991 Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (born 1921)
1991 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (born 1906)
1994 Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (born 1900)
1995 Greg Bahnsen, American minister and philosopher (born 1948)
1996 Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (born 1937)
1997 Eddie Chapman, English spy (born 1914)
1997 Simon Jeffes, English guitarist and composer (born 1949)
1998 André Lichnerowicz, French physicist and mathematician (born 1915)
1998 Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (born 1968)
2000 Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician and diplomat (born 1915)
2000 David Lewis, American actor (born 1916)
2001 Mainza Chona, Zambian lawyer and politician, first Prime Minister of Zambia (born 1930)
2003 Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian author and playwright (born 1927)
2004 José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (born 1962)
2004 Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (born 1917)
2008 Bettie Page, American model (born 1923)
2010 Dick Hoerner, American football player (born 1922)
2011 John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (born 1935)
2012 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano and actress (born 1926)
2012 Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (born 1933)
2012 Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (born 1920)
2013 Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (born 1920)
2013 Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author and academic (born 1929)
2013 Javier Jáuregui (boxer), Mexican boxer (born 1973)
2013 Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian philosopher and scholar (born 1942)
2014 Hans Wallat, German conductor and director (born 1929)
2015 Abish Kekilbayev, Kazakh academic and politician (born 1939)
2015 H. Arnold Steinberg, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (born 1933)
2015 Hema Upadhyay, Indian painter and sculptor (born 1972)
2015 John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player (born 1962)
2015 Ken Woolley, Australian architect (born 1933)
2017 Keith Chegwin, British TV presenter (born 1957)
2020 James Flynn, New Zealand intelligence researcher. (born 1934)
2023 Andre Braugher, American actor (born 1962)
2024 David Bonderman, American billionaire businessman (born 1942)
2024 Khalil Haqqani, Afghan politician and warlord (born 1966)
2024 Purushottam Upadhyay, Indian musician, singer and composer (born 1934)
Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
Indiana Day (United States)
National Tango Day (Argentina)
Pampanga Day (Pampanga province, Philippines)
Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958. (Burkina Faso)