Events

Pre-1600

• 962 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognising John as ruler of Rome.

• 1258 Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire, orders his army to sack and plunder the city of Baghdad, which they had just captured.

• 1322 The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th13th.

• 1352 War of the Straits: The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets.

• 1462 The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.

• 1503 Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.

• 1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.

1601–1900

• 1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

• 1642 The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding bishops of the Church of England from serving in the House of Lords.

• 1660 With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War.

• 1689 William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England.

• 1692 Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

• 1726 Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile brings an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.

• 1755 Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into two: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.

• 1820 – The Assassination of the Duke of Berry takes place in Paris. The Duke of Berry, nephew of Louis XVIII, is stabbed to death while attending the Paris Opera.

• 1849 The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.

• 1861 Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

• 1867 Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.

• 1880 Thomas Edison observes thermionic emission.

1901–present

• 1913 The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiates a period of almost four decades of independence.

• 1914 Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

• 1920 The Negro National League is formed.

• 1931 The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.

• 1935 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.

• 1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.

• 1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.

• 1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.

• 1954 Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.

• 1955 Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

• 1955 Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy.

• 1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.

• 1960 Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.

• 1961 An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.

• 1967 American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.

• 1975 Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.

• 1978 Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.

• 1979 An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.

• 1981 A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.

• 1983 A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.

• 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

• 1991 Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.

• 1996 The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).

• 2001 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 315.

• 2004 The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

• 2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

• 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.

• 2010 A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.

• 2011 For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.

• 2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

• 2017 Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

• 2021 Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.

• 2021 A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1440 Hartmann Schedel, German physician (died 1514)

• 1457 Mary of Burgundy, Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1482)

• 1469 Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (died 1549)

• 1480 Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (died 1542)

• 1523 Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1593)

• 1539 Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (died 1582)

• 1569 Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1625)

• 1599 Pope Alexander VII (died 1667)

1601–1900

• 1602 William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1637)

• 1672 Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (died 1731)

• 1683 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (died 1754)

• 1719 George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician (died 1792)

• 1721 John Reid, Scottish general (died 1807)

• 1728 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (died 1793)

• 1766 Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (died 1834)

• 1768 Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (died 1835)

• 1769 Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (died 1844)

• 1805 Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (died 1859)

• 1811 François Achille Bazaine, French general (died 1888)

• 1815 Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (died 1857)

• 1819 Francis Smith, Haitian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (died 1909)

• 1831 John Aaron Rawlins, American general and politician, 29th United States Secretary of War (died 1869)

• 1834 Heinrich Caro, Sephardic Jewish Polish-German chemist and academic (died 1910)

• 1835 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader (died 1908)

• 1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1895)

• 1855 Paul Deschanel, Belgian-French politician, 11th President of France (died 1922)

• 1863 Hugo Becker, German cellist and composer (died 1941)

• 1867 Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (died 1905)

• 1870 Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (died 1938)

• 1871 Joseph Devlin, Northern Irish political leader (Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)) (died 1934)

• 1873 Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (died 1938)

• 1876 Fritz Buelow, German-American baseball player and umpire (died 1933)

• 1879 Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (died 1949)

• 1880 Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher (died 1955)

• 1881 Eleanor Farjeon, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1965)

• 1883 Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (died 1947)

• 1883 Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director (died 1922)

• 1884 Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (died 1961)

• 1885 Bess Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (died 1982)

• 1887 Géza Csáth, Hungarian playwright and critic (died 1919)

• 1888 Georgios Papandreou, Greek lawyer, economist, and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)

• 1889 Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and director (died 1974)

• 1891 Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist (died 1985)

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

• 1892 Robert H. Jackson, American politician, 57th United States Attorney General, Nuremberg prosecutor, and Supreme Court justice (died 1954)

• 1898 Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (died 1979)

• 1899 Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (died 1978)

• 1900 Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress (died 1979)

1901–present

• 1901 Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (died 1976)

• 1902 Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist (died 1978)

• 1903 Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Design Bureau (died 1979)

• 1903 Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (died 1989)

• 1906 Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author (died 1994)

• 1907 Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress (died 2004)

• 1910 William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)

• 1911 Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist (died 1984)

• 1911 Jean Muir, American actress and educator (died 1996)

• 1912 Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander (died 1961)

• 1912 Margaretta Scott, English actress (died 2005)

• 1913 Khalid of Saudi Arabia (died 1982)

• 1915 Lyle Bettger, American actor (died 2003)

• 1915 Aung San, Burmese general and politician, 5th Premier of British Crown Colony of Burma (died 1947)

• 1916 Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist (died 1987)

• 1918 Patty Berg, golfer, Ladies Professional Golf Association tour founder

• 1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (died 1991)

• 1919 Eddie Robinson, American football player and coach (died 2007)

• 1920 Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (died 1987)

• 1920 Eileen Farrell, American soprano and educator (died 2002)

• 1921 Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (died 1968)

• 1921 Aung Khin, Burmese painter (died 1996)

• 1922 Francis Pym, Baron Pym, Welsh soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 2008)

• 1922 Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (died 2014)

• 1923 Michael Anthony Bilandic, American soldier, judge, and politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (died 2002)

• 1923 Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier (died 2020)

• 1924 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (died 2006)

• 1926 Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, American nuclear physicist (died 2012)

• 1928 Gerald Regan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)

• 1929 Omar Torrijos, Panamanian commander and politician, Military Leader of Panama (died 1981)

• 1930 Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2015)

• 1930 Israel Kirzner, English-American economist, author, and academic

• 1932 Susan Oliver, American actress (died 1990)

• 1933 Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, 2nd President of Cameroon

• 1933 Kim Novak, American actress

• 1933 Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (died 2019)

• 1934 George Segal, American actor (died 2021)

• 1937 Ali El-Maak, Sudanese author and academic (died 1992)

• 1937 Sigmund Jähn, German pilot and cosmonaut (died 2019)

• 1937 Angelo Mosca, American-Canadian football player and wrestler (died 2021)

• 1938 Oliver Reed, English actor (died 1999)

• 1940 Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (died 2022)

• 1941 Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (died 2010)

• 1941 Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor, director, and producer

• 1942 Carol Lynley, American model and actress (died 2019)

• 1942 Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (died 2019)

• 1942 Donald E. Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2016)

• 1943 Elaine Pagels, American theologian and academic

• 1944 Stockard Channing, American actress

• 1944 Jerry Springer, English-American television host, actor, and politician, 56th Mayor of Cincinnati (died 2023)

• 1945 Marian Dawkins, English biologist and academic

• 1945 King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (died 2006)

• 1945 Simon Schama, English historian and author

• 1945 William Sleator, American author and composer (died 2011)

• 1946 Richard Blumenthal, American sergeant and politician, 23rd Attorney General of Connecticut

• 1946 Janet Finch, English sociologist and academic

• 1946 Colin Matthews, English composer and educator

• 1947 Stephen Hadley, American soldier and diplomat, 21st United States National Security Advisor

• 1947 Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach

• 1947 Bogdan Tanjević, Montenegrin-Bosnian basketball coach

• 1947 Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist

• 1949 Peter Kern, Austrian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

• 1950 Vera Baird, English lawyer and politician

• 1950 Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician

• 1951 David Naughton, American actor and singer

• 1952 Ed Gagliardi, American musician (died 2014)

• 1953 Akio Sato, Japanese wrestler and manager

• 1954 Donnie Moore, American baseball player (died 1989)

• 1955 Joe Birkett, American lawyer, judge, and politician

• 1956 Peter Hook, English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer

• 1957 Denise Austin, American fitness trainer and author

• 1958 Pernilla August, Swedish actress

• 1958 Øivind Elgenes, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and composer

• 1958 Marc Emery, Canadian publisher and activist

• 1958 Jean-François Lisée, Canadian journalist and politician

• 1958 Derek Riggs, English painter and illustrator

• 1959 Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1960 Pierluigi Collina, Italian footballer and referee

• 1960 John Healey, English journalist and politician

• 1960 Gary Patterson, American football player and coach

• 1960 Matt Salinger, American actor

• 1960 Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player and author

• 1961 Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1961 cEvin Key, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboard player, and producer

• 1961 Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1962 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician

• 1962 Baby Doll, American wrestler and manager

• 1962 Michele Greene, American actress

• 1964 Stephen Bowen, American engineer, captain, and astronaut

• 1964 Ylva Johansson, Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Employment

• 1965 Peter O'Neill, Papua New Guinean accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea

• 1966 Neal McDonough, American actor and producer

• 1966 Jeff Waters, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1966 Freedom Williams, American rapper and singer

• 1967 Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach

• 1968 Kelly Hu, American actress

• 1969 Joyce DiDonato, American soprano and actress

• 1969 Bryan Thomas Schmidt, American science fiction author and editor

• 1970 Elmer Bennett, American basketball player

• 1970 Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1971 Sonia Evans, English singer-songwriter

• 1971 Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1971 Todd Williams, American baseball player

• 1972 Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuanian discus thrower

• 1972 Juha Ylönen, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1974 Fonzworth Bentley, American rapper and actor

• 1974 Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter

• 1975 Ben Collins, English race car driver

• 1975 Katie Hopkins, English media personality and columnist

• 1976 Jörg Bergmeister, German race car driver

• 1976 Feist, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

• 1977 Randy Moss, American football player and coach

• 1978 Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1978 Philippe Jaroussky, French singer

• 1978 Cory Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1979 Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer

• 1979 Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer

• 1979 Rachel Reeves, English economist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer

• 1979 Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer

• 1980 Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer

• 1981 Luisão, Brazilian footballer

• 1981 Luke Ridnour, American basketball player

• 1982 Even Helte Hermansen, Norwegian guitarist and composer

• 1982 Michael Turner, American football player

• 1983 Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player

• 1983 Anna Watkins, English rower

• 1984 Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer

• 1985 Somdev Devvarman, Indian tennis player

• 1985 J. R. Giddens, American basketball player

• 1985 Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress

• 1985 Al Montoya, American ice hockey player

• 1986 Luke Moore, English footballer

• 1986 Aqib Talib, American football player

• 1987 Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer

• 1988 Ryan Goins, American baseball player

• 1988 Dave Rudden, Irish author

• 1989 Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer

• 1990 Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player

• 1990 Mamadou Sakho, French footballer

• 1991 Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer

• 1991 Vianney, French singer

• 1991 Luke Voit, American baseball player

• 1992 Keith Appling, American basketball player

• 1994 Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer

• 1995 Kendall Fuller, American football player

• 1995 Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, French-Cameroonian footballer

• 2000 Vitinha, Portuguese footballer

• 2001 Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player

• 2002 Jaden Ivey, American basketball player

• 2002 Sophia Lillis, American actress

• 2003 Raúl Asencio, Spanish footballer

• 2005 Sergio Mestre, Spanish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 106 Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty (born AD 79)

• 721 Chilperic II, Frankish king (born 672)

• 858 Kenneth MacAlpin, Scottish king (probable; b. 810)

• 921 Vratislaus I, duke of Bohemia

• 936 Xiao Wen, empress of the Liao dynasty

• 942 Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid emir and regent

• 988 Adalbert Atto, Lombard nobleman

• 1021 Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (born 985)

• 1130 Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1060)

• 1141 Béla II, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1110)

• 1199 Stefan Nemanja, Serbian grand prince (born 1113)

• 1219 Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shōgun (born 1192)

• 1332 Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1259)

• 1351 Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general

• 1539 Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman (born 1474)

• 1542 Catherine Howard, Queen Consort of England and English wife of King Henry VIII (executed; b. 1521)

• 1571 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1500)

• 1585 Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (born 1515)

1601–1900

• 1602 Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (born 1507)

• 1660 Charles X Gustav, king of Sweden (born 1622)

• 1662 Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (born 1596)

• 1693 Johann Caspar Kerll, German organist and composer (born 1627)

• 1727 William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (born 1666)

• 1728 Cotton Mather, American minister and author (born 1663)

• 1732 Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian and author (born 1640)

• 1741 Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and theorist (born 1660)

• 1787 Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1711)

• 1787 Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French lawyer and politician, Foreign Minister of France (born 1717)

• 1795 George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (born 1717)

• 1813 Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (born 1725)

• 1818 George Rogers Clark, American general (born 1752)

• 1826 Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (born 1745)

• 1831 Edward Berry, English admiral (born 1768)

• 1837 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (born 1809)

• 1845 Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (born 1773)

• 1859 Eliza Acton, English food writer and poet (born 1799)

• 1877 Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (born 1815)

• 1883 Richard Wagner, German composer (born 1813)

• 1888 Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (born 1814)

• 1892 Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (born 1791)

• 1893 Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (born 1834)

1901–present

• 1905 Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (born 1844)

• 1906 Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (born 1866)

• 1934 József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (born 1864)

• 1942 Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (born 1895)

• 1942 Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (born 1865)

• 1950 Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (born 1875)

• 1951 Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister and author (born 1877)

• 1952 Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (born 1896)

• 1954 Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (born 1890)

• 1956 Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (born 1878)

• 1958 Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (born 1880)

• 1958 Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (born 1871)

• 1964 Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (born 1896)

• 1964 Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1902)

• 1967 Yoshisuke Aikawa, entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (born 1880)

• 1967 Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889)

• 1968 Mae Marsh, American actress (born 1895)

• 1968 Portia White, Canadian opera singer (born 1911)

• 1973 Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect and educator (born 1883)

• 1975 André Beaufre, French general (born 1902)

• 1976 Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (born 1938)

• 1976 Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (born 1904)

• 1980 David Janssen, American actor (born 1931)

• 1984 Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (born 1888)

• 1986 Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (born 1907)

• 1989 Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (born 1911)

• 1991 Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (born 1900)

• 1992 Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1909)

• 1996 Martin Balsam, American actor (born 1919)

• 1997 Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (born 1906)

• 1997 Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1920)

• 2000 Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (born 1914)

• 2000 James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (born 1921)

• 2000 John Leake, English soldier (born 1949)

• 2002 Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

• 2003 Kid Gavilán, Cuban-American boxer (born 1926)

• 2003 Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist; 7th United States National Security Advisor (born 1916)

• 2004 François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (born 1942)

• 2004 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1952)

• 2005 Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1943)

• 2005 Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (born 1907)

• 2006 P. F. Strawson, English philosopher and author (born 1919)

• 2007 Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (born 1923)

• 2007 Charlie Norwood, American captain and politician (born 1941)

• 2007 Richard Gordon Wakeford, English air marshal (born 1922)

• 2008 Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)

• 2009 Edward Upward, English author and educator (born 1903)

• 2010 Lucille Clifton, American poet and academic (born 1936)

• 2010 Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)

• 2012 Russell Arms, American actor and singer (born 1920)

• 2012 Louise Cochrane, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1918)

• 2012 Daniel C. Gerould, American playwright and academic (born 1928)

• 2013 Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)

• 2013 Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (born 1952)

• 2013 Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)

• 2013 Andrée Malebranche, Haitian artist (born 1916)

• 2013 Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (born 1939)

• 2014 Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1939)

• 2014 Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (born 1937)

• 2014 Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (born 1928)

• 2014 Laura Motta, Brazilian catholic nun (born 1919)

• 2015 Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (born 1918)

• 2015 Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (born 1923)

• 2016 O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (born 1931)

• 2016 Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936)

• 2017 Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (born 1933)

• 2017 Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (born 1926)

• 2017 Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (born 1923)

• 2017 Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (born 1971)

• 2017 E-Dubble, American rapper (born 1982)

• 2018 Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (born 1934)

• 2019 Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936)

• 2021 Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (born 1945)

• 2025 Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas (born 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Black Love Day (United States)

• Children's Day (Myanmar)

Christian feast day:

• Absalom Jones (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Blessed Agostina Camozzi

• Benignus of Todi

• Agabus (for catholics)

• Castor of Karden

• Dyfnog

• Ermenilda of Ely

• Fulcran

• Jordan of Saxony

• Paul Liu Hanzuo

• February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• World Radio Day

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on February 13