Events

Pre-1600

• 1059 Upon reaching Rome, Bruno of Toul is elected as pope Leo IX and starts initiating reforms.

• 1096 Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular.

• 1404 The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performs the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.

• 1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the Battle of the Herrings.

• 1502 Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.

• 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail with 15 ships and 800 men from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.

• 1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.

• 1593 Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwŏn Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.

1601–1900

• 1689 The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.

• 1733 Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.

• 1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.

• 1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops at the Battle of Chacabuco.

• 1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.

• 1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.

• 1832 Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.

• 1889 Antonín Dvořák's Jakobín is premiered at the National Theater in Prague.

• 1894 Café Terminus bombing by Émile Henry during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894). This is considered one of the first acts of modern terrorism.

1901–present

• 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.

• 1909 New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the , an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.

• 1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.

• 1919 The Second Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.

• 1921 Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.

• 1935 , one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.

• 1945 A devastating tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama kills 45 people and injures 427 others.

• 1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.

• 1946 African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.

• 1947 The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.

• 1947 Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.

• 1961 The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.

• 1963 Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

• 1963 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashes into the Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

• 1965 Malcolm X visits Smethwick near Birmingham following the racially-charged 1964 United Kingdom general election.

• 1966 Rabbi Morris Adler is fatally shot by a disgruntled congregant at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan, United States.

• 1968 Vietnam War: The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre occurs, allegedly by South Korean troops.

• 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

• 1983 One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.

• 1988 Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.

• 1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.

• 1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.

• 1993 Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.

• 1994 Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

• 1999 United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

• 2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

• 2002 The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.

• 2002 An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.

• 2004 The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

• 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all 49 on board and one on the ground.

• 2016 Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.

• 2019 The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece.

• 2026 In the first general election since the July Revolution in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by Tarique Rahman, wins a landslide victory upon returning to power after almost 19 years. A referendum held alongside was also approved by the majority of voters.

Births

Pre-1600

• AD 41 Britannicus, Roman son of Claudius (died 55)

• 528 Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, nominal empress regnant of Northern Wei

• 661 Princess Ōku of Japan (died 702)

• 1074 Conrad II of Italy (died 1101)

• 1218 Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shōgun (died 1256)

• 1322 John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (died 1375)

• 1443 Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Italian noble (died 1508)

• 1480 Frederick II of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (died 1547)

• 1540 Wŏn Kyun, Korean general and admiral (died 1597)

• 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet, and physician (died 1620)

• 1584 Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch historian, poet, and theologian (died 1648)

1601–1900

• 1606 John Winthrop the Younger, English-American lawyer and politician, Governor of Connecticut (died 1676)

• 1608 Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (died 1685)

• 1637 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist and zoologist (died 1680)

• 1663 Cotton Mather, English-American minister and author (died 1728)

• 1665 Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (died 1721)

• 1704 Charles Pinot Duclos, French author (died 1772)

• 1706 Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (died 1777)

• 1728 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (died 1799)

• 1753 François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (died 1798)

• 1761 Jan Ladislav Dussek, Czech pianist and composer (died 1812)

• 1768 Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1835)

• 1775 Louisa Adams, 6th First Lady of the United States (died 1852)

• 1777 Bernard Courtois, French chemist and academic (died 1838)

• 1777 Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German author and poet (died 1843)

• 1785 Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (died 1838)

• 1787 Norbert Provencher, Canadian bishop and missionary (died 1853)

• 1788 Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (died 1869)

• 1791 Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Cooper Union (died 1883)

• 1794 Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player and composer (died 1867)

• 1794 Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician (died 1850)

• 1804 Heinrich Lenz, German-Italian physicist and academic (died 1865)

• 1809 Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, biologist and theorist (died 1882)

• 1809 Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and statesman, 16th President of the United States (died 1865)

• 1819 William Wetmore Story, American sculptor, architect, poet and editor (died 1895)

• 1824 Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher, founded Arya Samaj (died 1883)

• 1828 George Meredith, English novelist and poet (died 1909)

• 1837 Thomas Moran, British-American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School (died 1926)

• 1857 Eugène Atget, French photographer (died 1927)

• 1857 Bobby Peel, English cricketer and coach (died 1943)

• 1861 Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (died 1937)

• 1866 Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (died 1938)

• 1869 Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor (died 1884)

• 1870 Marie Lloyd, English actress and singer (died 1922)

• 1876 13th Dalai Lama (died 1933)

• 1877 Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault (died 1944)

• 1880 George Preca, Maltese priest and saint (died 1962)

• 1880 John L. Lewis, American miner and union leader (died 1969)

• 1881 Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina and actress (died 1931)

• 1882 Walter Nash, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1968)

• 1884 Max Beckmann, German painter and sculptor (died 1950)

• 1884 Johan Laidoner, Estonian-Russian general (died 1953)

• 1884 Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American author (died 1980)

• 1884 Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (died 1957)

• 1885 James Scott, American composer (died 1938)

• 1885 Julius Streicher, German publisher, founded Der Stürmer (died 1946)

• 1889 Bhante Dharmawara, Cambodian monk, lawyer, and judge (died 1999)

• 1893 Omar Bradley, American general (died 1981)

• 1895 Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1984)

• 1897 Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician (died 1988)

• 1897 Lincoln LaPaz, American astronomer and academic (died 1985)

• 1898 Wallace Ford, English-American actor and singer (died 1966)

• 1900 Roger J. Traynor, American lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (died 1983)

1901–present

• 1902 William Collier, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1987)

• 1903 Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (died 1980)

• 1903 Chick Hafey, American baseball player and manager (died 1973)

• 1904 Ted Mack, American radio and television host (died 1976)

• 1907 Joseph Kearns, American actor (died 1962)

• 1908 Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (died 1982)

• 1908 Jacques Herbrand, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1931)

• 1909 Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter and illustrator (died 2005)

• 1909 Sigmund Rascher, German physician (died 1945)

• 1911 Charles Mathiesen, Norwegian speed skater (died 1994)

• 1912 R. F. Delderfield, English author and playwright (died 1972)

• 1914 Tex Beneke, American singer, saxophonist, and bandleader (died 2000)

• 1914 Hanna Neumann, German-Canadian mathematician (died 1971)

• 1915 Lorne Greene, Canadian-American actor (died 1987)

• 1915 Olivia Hooker, American sailor (died 2018)

• 1916 Joseph Alioto, American lawyer and politician, 36th Mayor of San Francisco (died 1998)

• 1917 Al Cervi, American basketball player and coach (died 2009)

• 1917 Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (died 2009)

• 1918 Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (died 2015)

• 1918 Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)

• 1919 Forrest Tucker, American actor (died 1986)

• 1920 Raymond Mhlaba, South African anti-apartheid and ANC activist (died 2005)

• 1922 Hussein Onn, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malaysia (died 1990)

• 1923 Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director, producer, and politician (died 2019)

• 1925 Anthony Berry, English politician (died 1984)

• 1925 Joan Mitchell, American-French painter (died 1992)

• 1926 Rolf Brem, Swiss sculptor and illustrator (died 2014)

• 1926 Joe Garagiola, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2016)

• 1926 Charles Van Doren, American academic (died 2019)

• 1928 Vincent Montana, Jr., American drummer and composer (died 2013)

• 1930 John Doyle, Irish hurler and politician (died 2010)

• 1930 Arlen Specter, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)

• 1931 Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch-American author and translator (died 2008)

• 1932 Axel Jensen, Norwegian author and poet (died 2003)

• 1932 Julian Simon, American economist, author, and academic (died 1998)

• 1933 Ivan Anikeyev, Soviet cosmonaut (died 1992)

• 1933 Costa-Gavras, Greek-French director and producer

• 1934 Annette Crosbie, Scottish actress

• 1934 Anne Osborn Krueger, American economist and academic

• 1934 Bill Russell, American basketball player and coach (died 2022)

• 1935 Gene McDaniels, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2011)

• 1936 Joe Don Baker, American actor (died 2025)

• 1936 Alan Ebringer, Australian immunologist

• 1938 Judy Blume, American author and educator

• 1939 Leon Kass, American physician, scientist, and educator

• 1939 Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2013)

• 1941 Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (died 2013)

• 1941 Naomi Uemura, Japanese mountaineer and explorer (died 1984)

• 1942 Ehud Barak, Israeli general and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Israel

• 1942 Terry Bisson, American science fiction and fantasy author (died 2024)

• 1942 Pat Dobson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2006)

• 1945 Maud Adams, Swedish model and actress

• 1945 David D. Friedman, American economist, physicist, and scholar

• 1946 Jean Eyeghé Ndong, Gabonese politician, Prime Minister of Gabon

• 1946 Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress

• 1948 Ray Kurzweil, American computer scientist and engineer

• 1948 Nicholas Soames, English politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces

• 1949 Lenny Randle, American baseball player

• 1949 Gundappa Viswanath, Indian cricketer

• 1950 Angelo Branduardi, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1950 Steve Hackett, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1950 Michael Ironside, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1952 Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (died 2010)

• 1952 Michael McDonald, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

• 1953 Joanna Kerns, American actress and director

• 1954 Zach Grenier, American actor

• 1954 Joseph Jordania, Georgian-Australian musicologist and academic

• 1954 Tzimis Panousis, Greek comedian, singer, and author (died 2018)

• 1954 Phil Zimmermann, American cryptographer and programmer

• 1955 Bill Laswell, American musician and producer

• 1955 Chet Lemon, American baseball player and coach

• 1956 Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host

• 1956 Ad Melkert, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment

• 1956 Brian Robertson, Scottish musician and songwriter

• 1958 Bobby Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and executive

• 1959 Larry Nance, American basketball player

• 1961 David Graeber, American anthropologist and activist (died 2020)

• 1961 Jim Harris, Canadian environmentalist and politician

• 1961 Michel Martelly, Haitian singer and politician, 56th President of Haiti

• 1963 John Michael Higgins, American actor and comedian

• 1964 Omar Hakim, American drummer, producer, arranger, and composer

• 1964 Raphael Sbarge, American actor and director

• 1965 Rubén Amaro, Jr., American baseball player and manager

• 1965 Christine Elise, American actress and producer

• 1965 Brett Kavanaugh, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

• 1965 David Westlake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1966 Greg Carberry, Australian rugby league player

• 1966 Paul Crook, American musician, songwriter, and producer

• 1966 Lochlyn Munro, Canadian actor

• 1968 Josh Brolin, American actor

• 1968 Chynna Phillips, American singer and actress

• 1968 Nathan Rees, Australian politician, 41st Premier of New South Wales

• 1969 Darren Aronofsky, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1969 Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (died 2014)

• 1969 Steve Backley, English javelin thrower

• 1969 Anneli Drecker, Norwegian singer and actress

• 1969 Hong Myung-bo, South Korean footballer and manager

• 1970 Jim Creeggan, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

• 1970 Bryan Roy, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1970 Judd Winick, American author and illustrator

• 1971 Scott Menville, American voice actor, singer, actor and musician

• 1972 Owen Nolan, Northern Irish-Canadian ice hockey player

• 1973 Gianni Romme, Dutch speed skater

• 1973 Tara Strong, Canadian-American voice actress and singer

• 1974 Naseem Hamed, English boxer

• 1975 Scot Pollard, American basketball player and actor

• 1976 Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby player

• 1977 Jimmy Conrad, American soccer player and manager

• 1978 Paul Anderson, English actor

• 1979 Jesse Spencer, Australian actor and violinist

• 1980 Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player

• 1980 Sarah Lancaster, American actress

• 1980 Gucci Mane, American rapper

• 1980 Christina Ricci, American actress and producer

• 1981 Wade McKinnon, Australian rugby league player

• 1982 Jonas Hiller, Swiss ice hockey player

• 1982 Louis Tsatoumas, Greek long jumper

• 1982 Anthony Tuitavake, New Zealand rugby player

• 1983 Carlton Brewster, American football player and coach

• 1984 Brad Keselowski, American race car driver

• 1984 Andrei Sidorenkov, Estonian footballer

• 1984 Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer

• 1985 Konstantin Pushkaryov, Kazakhstani ice hockey player

• 1986 Todd Frazier, American baseball player

• 1987 Jérémy Chardy, French tennis player

• 1987 Gabriela Mărginean, Romanian basketball player

• 1988 DeMarco Murray, American football player

• 1988 Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine footballer

• 1988 Josh Phegley, American baseball player

• 1988 Mike Posner, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1989 Josh Harrellson, American basketball player

• 1990 Katherine Barrell, Canadian actress, director, writer, and producer

• 1990 Robert Griffin III, American football player

• 1991 Patrick Herrmann, German footballer

• 1991 Kane Richardson, Australian cricketer

• 1992 Magda Linette, Polish tennis player

• 1993 Bud Dupree, American football player

• 1993 Rafinha, Brazilian footballer

• 1993 Jennifer Stone, American actress

• 1994 Kemal Bilmez, Belgian politician

• 1994 Arman Hall, American sprinter

• 1994 Paxton Lynch, American football player

• 2000 Kim Ji-min, South Korean actress

• 2001 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Georgian footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 821 Benedict of Aniane, French monk and saint (born 747)

• 890 Henjō, Japanese priest and poet (born 816)

• 981 Ælfstan, bishop of Ramsbury

• 901 Antony II, patriarch of Constantinople

• 914 Li, empress of Yan

• 941 Wulfhelm, Archbishop of Canterbury

• 1247 Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg, ruler (born 1185)

• 1266 Amadeus of the Amidei, Italian saint

• 1517 Catherine of Navarre (born 1468)

• 1538 Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, engraver, and architect (born 1480)

• 1554 Lord Guildford Dudley, Disputed Consort of the English Monarch, Husband of Lady Jane Grey (born c1535; executed)

• 1554 Lady Jane Grey, de facto monarch of England and Ireland for nine days (born 1537; executed)

• 1571 Nicholas Throckmorton, English politician and diplomat (born 1515)

• 1578 Pari Khan Khanum, Iranian princess (born 1548)

• 1590 François Hotman, French lawyer and author (born 1524)

• 1600 Edward Denny, Knight Banneret of Bishop's Stortford, English soldier, privateer and adventurer (born 1547)

1601–1900

• 1612 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (born 1563)

• 1624 George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist, founded George Heriot's School (born 1563)

• 1713 Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor (born 1664)

• 1728 Agostino Steffani, Italian priest and composer (born 1653)

• 1763 Pierre de Marivaux, French author and playwright (born 1688)

• 1771 Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (born 1710)

• 1789 Ethan Allen, American farmer, general, and politician (born 1738)

• 1804 Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1724)

• 1834 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German philosopher and scholar (born 1768)

• 1886 Randolph Caldecott, English-American painter and illustrator (born 1846)

• 1894 Hans von Bülow, German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1830)

• 1896 Ambroise Thomas, French composer and academic (born 1811)

1901–present

• 1912 Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (born 1841)

• 1915 Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1837)

• 1916 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, philosopher, and academic (born 1831)

• 1929 Lillie Langtry, English singer and actress (born 1853)

• 1931 Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani-Russian general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (born 1855)

• 1935 Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (born 1846)

• 1942 Eugene Esmonde, Irish-English lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1909)

• 1942 Avraham Stern, Polish-Israeli militant leader (born 1907)

• 1942 Grant Wood, American painter and academic (born 1891)

• 1947 Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (born 1866)

• 1949 Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian educator, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (born 1906)

• 1954 Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (born 1896)

• 1958 Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (born 1897)

• 1960 Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and academic (born 1887)

• 1970 Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (born 1903)

• 1971 James Cash Penney, American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (born 1875)

• 1975 Carl Lutz, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews (born 1895)

• 1976 Frank Stagg, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (born 1941)

• 1976 Sal Mineo, American actor (born 1939)

• 1977 Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher and scholar (born 1894)

• 1979 Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)

• 1980 Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and activist (born 1913)

• 1982 Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (born 1902)

• 1983 Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (born 1887)

• 1984 Anna Anderson, Polish-American woman, who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1896)

• 1984 Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and poet (born 1914)

• 1985 Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (born 1924)

• 1989 Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and author (born 1931)

• 1991 Roger Patterson, American bass player (born 1968)

• 1992 Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (born 1907)

• 1994 Donald Judd, American painter and sculptor (born 1928)

• 1995 Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (born 1952)

• 1998 Gardner Ackley, American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1915)

• 2000 Tom Landry, American football player and coach (born 1924)

• 2000 Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (born 1922)

• 2001 Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and producer (born 1912)

• 2002 John Eriksen, Danish footballer (born 1957)

• 2005 Dorothy Stang, American-Brazilian nun and missionary (born 1931)

• 2007 Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic (born 1905)

• 2007 Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist and bandleader (born 1905)

• 2008 David Groh, American actor (born 1939)

• 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 victims:

• 2009 Alison Des Forges, American historian and activist (born 1942)

• 2009 Beverly Eckert, American activist (born 1951)

• 2009 Mat Mathews, Dutch accordion player (born 1924)

• 2009 Coleman Mellett, American guitarist (born 1974)

• 2009 Gerry Niewood, American saxophonist (born 1943)

• 2010 Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (born 1988)

• 2011 Peter Alexander, Austrian singer and actor (born 1926)

• 2011 Betty Garrett, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1919)

• 2011 Kenneth Mars, American actor and comedian (born 1935)

• 2012 Zina Bethune, American actress, dancer, and choreographer (born 1945)

• 2012 Denis Flannery, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1928)

• 2012 David Kelly, Irish actor (born 1929)

• 2012 John Severin, American illustrator (born 1921)

• 2013 Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1941)

• 2013 Reginald Turnill, English journalist and author (born 1915)

• 2013 Hennadiy Udovenko, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ukraine (born 1931)

• 2014 Sid Caesar, American actor and comedian (born 1922)

• 2014 John Pickstone, English historian and author (born 1944)

• 2015 Movita Castaneda, American actress and singer (born 1916)

• 2015 Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian cleric and politician, 12th Menteri Besar of Kelantan (born 1931)

• 2015 Gary Owens, American radio host and voice actor (born 1934)

• 2015 Steve Strange, Welsh singer (born 1959)

• 2016 Dominique D'Onofrio, Italian-Belgian footballer and coach (born 1953)

• 2016 Yannis Kalaitzis, Greek cartoonist (born 1945)

• 2016 Yan Su, Chinese general and composer (born 1930)

• 2017 Al Jarreau, American singer (born 1940)

• 2017 Anna Marguerite McCann, first female American underwater archaeologist (born 1933)

• 2018 Bill Crider, American author (born 1941)

• 2019 Gordon Banks, English footballer (born 1937)

• 2019 Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (born 1922)

• 2019 Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler and commentator (born 1942)

• 2020 Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (born 1951)

• 2020 Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (born 1928)

• 2022 Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (born 1946)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Benedict of Aniane

• Julian the Hospitaller

• Martyrs of Abitinae

• Meletius of Antioch

• February 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Georgia Day (Georgia (U.S. state))

• Lincoln's Birthday (United States)

• Red Hand Day (United Nations)

• Union Day (Myanmar)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on February 12