Events

Pre-1600

• 337 Election of pope Julius I.

• 590 Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih.

• 1579 The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo de Salazar appointed its first bishop.

1601–1900

• 1685 James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

• 1694 Dandara dos Palmares, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil, is captured and commits suicide rather than be returned to a life of slavery.

• 1778 American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

• 1778 New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

• 1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

• 1806 Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.

• 1819 The Treaty of Singapore was signed by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Hussein Shah of Johor, and Temenggong Abdul Rahman, and it is now recognised as the founding of modern Singapore.

• 1820 The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.

• 1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.

• 1840 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.

• 1843 The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

• 1851 The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.

• 1862 American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.

• 1865 The municipal administration of Finland is established.

• 1899 Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.

• 1900 The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

1901–present

• 1918 British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.

• 1919 The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.

• 1922 The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

• 1934 Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.

• 1944 World War II: The Great Raids Against Helsinki begins.

• 1951 The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.

• 1951 The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.

• 1952 Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

• 1958 Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.

• 1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

• 1959 At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

• 1973 The 7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.

• 1976 In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

• 1978 The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.

• 1981 The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.

• 1987 Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.

• 1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.

• 1996 Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.

• 1996 Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.

• 1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

• 2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.

• 2006 Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

• 2012 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.

• 2016 An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.

• 2018 SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.

• 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.

• 2023 Two earthquakes measuring 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.

Births

Pre-1600

• 885 Emperor Daigo of Japan (died 930)

• 1402 Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1458)

• 1452 Joanna, Princess of Portugal (died 1490)

• 1453 Girolamo Benivieni, Florentine poet (died 1542)

• 1465 Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician and theorist (died 1526)

• 1536 Sassa Narimasa, Japanese samurai (died 1588)

• 1577 Beatrice Cenci, Italian murderer (died 1599)

• 1582 Mario Bettinus, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (died 1657)

1601–1900

• 1605 Bernard of Corleone, Italian saint (died 1667)

• 1608 António Vieira, Portuguese priest and philosopher (died 1697)

• 1611 Chongzhen Emperor of China (died 1644)

• 1612 Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (died 1694)

• 1643 Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, Prussian politician, 1st Minister President of Prussia (died 1712)

• 1649 Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp, German noblewoman (died 1728)

• 1664 Mustafa II, Ottoman sultan (died 1703)

• 1665 Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1714)

• 1695 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss-Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1726)

• 1719 Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter (died 1759)

• 1726 Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (died 1805)

• 1732 Charles Lee, English-American general (died 1782)

• 1736 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (died 1783)

• 1744 Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (died 1795)

• 1748 Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (died 1830)

• 1753 Évariste de Parny, French poet and author (died 1814)

• 1756 Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (died 1836)

• 1758 Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Belarusian-Polish poet, playwright, and politician (died 1841)

• 1769 Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general (died 1862)

• 1772 George Murray, Scottish general and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (died 1830)

• 1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (died 1827)

• 1781 John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, Irish general and politician, Governor of Saint Lucia (died 1844)

• 1796 John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (died 1861)

• 1797 Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian general and politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (died 1853)

• 1799 Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (died 1870)

• 1800 Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (died 1857)

• 1802 Charles Wheatstone, English-French physicist and cryptographer (died 1875)

• 1811 Henry Liddell, English priest, author, and academic (died 1898)

• 1814 Auguste Chapdelaine, French missionary and saint (died 1856)

• 1818 William M. Evarts, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of State (died 1901)

• 1820 Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (died 1885)

• 1829 Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect, designed the La Santé Prison and Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge (died 1914)

• 1832 John Brown Gordon, American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (died 1904)

• 1833 José María de Pereda, Spanish author and academic (died 1906)

• 1833 J. E. B. Stuart, American general (died 1864)

• 1834 Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist and academic (died 1913)

• 1834 Ema Pukšec, Croatian-German soprano (died 1889)

• 1834 Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and author (died 1911)

• 1838 Henry Irving, English actor and manager (died 1905)

• 1838 Israel Meir Kagan, Lithuanian-Polish rabbi and author (died 1933)

• 1839 Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and psychiatrist (died 1907)

• 1842 Alexandre Ribot, French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1923)

• 1843 Inoue Kowashi, Japanese scholar and politician (died 1895)

• 1843 Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and philologist, co-founded the Society for Psychical Research (died 1901)

• 1845 Isidor Straus, German-American businessman and politician (died 1912)

• 1847 Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (died 1918)

• 1852 C. Lloyd Morgan, English zoologist and psychologist (died 1936)

• 1852 Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1918)

• 1861 Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic (died 1953)

• 1864 John Henry Mackay, Scottish-German philosopher and author (died 1933)

• 1866 Karl Sapper, German linguist and explorer (died 1945)

• 1872 Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer, designed the Salginatobel Bridge and Schwandbach Bridge (died 1940)

• 1874 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (died 1937)

• 1875 Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (died 1915)

• 1876 Henry Blogg, English fisherman and sailor (died 1954)

• 1879 Othon Friesz, French painter (died 1949)

• 1879 Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (died 1937)

• 1879 Edwin Samuel Montagu, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (died 1924)

• 1879 Carl Ramsauer, German physicist and author (died 1955)

• 1880 Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (died 1931)

• 1884 Marcel Cohen, French linguist and scholar (died 1974)

• 1887 Josef Frings, German cardinal (died 1978)

• 1890 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (died 1988)

• 1890 James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (died 1957)

• 1892 Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general (died 1984)

• 1892 William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

• 1893 Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat, 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs for Pakistan (died 1985)

• 1894 Eric Partridge, New Zealand-English lexicographer and academic (died 1979)

• 1894 Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (died 1974)

• 1895 Robert La Follette Jr., American politician (died 1953)

• 1895 María Teresa Vera, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer (died 1965)

• 1895 Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (died 1948)

• 1898 Harry Haywood, American soldier and politician (died 1985)

• 1899 Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (died 1968)

1901–present

• 1901 Ben Lyon, American actor (died 1979)

• 1902 George Brunies, American trombonist (died 1974)

• 1902 Zdenka Ziková, Czech opera singer (died 1990)

• 1903 Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist and composer (died 1991)

• 1905 Władysław Gomułka, Polish politician (died 1982)

• 1905 Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (died 1980)

• 1906 Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (died 1980)

• 1908 Geo Bogza, Romanian poet and journalist (died 1993)

• 1908 Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1999)

• 1908 Edward Lansdale, American general and CIA agent (died 1987)

• 1908 Michael Maltese, American actor, screenwriter, and composer (died 1981)

• 1910 Roman Czerniawski, Polish air force officer and spy (died 1985)

• 1910 Irmgard Keun, German author (died 1982)

• 1910 Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American gangster (died 1993)

• 1911 Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (died 2004)

• 1912 Eva Braun, German photographer, mistress and briefly wife of Adolf Hitler (died 1945)

• 1912 Christopher Hill, English historian and author (died 2003)

• 1913 Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist (died 1996)

• 1914 Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (died 2005)

• 1915 Kavi Pradeep, Indian poet and songwriter (died 1998)

• 1916 John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (died 2006)

• 1917 Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (died 2008)

• 1918 Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author and painter (died 2007)

• 1919 Takashi Yanase, Japanese poet and illustrator, created Anpanman (died 2013)

• 1921 Carl Neumann Degler, American historian and author (died 2014)

• 1921 Bob Scott, New Zealand rugby player (died 2012)

• 1922 Patrick Macnee, British-American actor (died 2015)

• 1922 Denis Norden, English actor, screenwriter, and television host (died 2018)

• 1922 Haskell Wexler, American director, producer, and cinematographer (died 2015)

• 1923 Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1981)

• 1924 Billy Wright, English footballer and manager (died 1994)

• 1924 Jin Yong, Hong Kong author and publisher, founded Ming Pao (died 2018)

• 1925 Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist and intellectual (died 2006)

• 1927 Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (died 1992)

• 1928 Allan H. Meltzer, American economist and academic (died 2017)

• 1929 Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian, invented the tranquilliser gun (died 2008)

• 1929 Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan author and critic (died 2011)

• 1929 Valentin Yanin, Russian historian and author (died 2020)

• 1930 Jun Kondo, Japanese physicist and academic (died 2022)

• 1931 Rip Torn, American actor (died 2019)

• 1931 Fred Trueman, English cricketer (died 2006)

• 1931 Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal (died 2017)

• 1932 Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier and anarchist (died 1959)

• 1932 François Truffaut, French filmmaker and critic (died 1984)

• 1933 Leslie Crowther, English comedian, actor, and game show host (died 1996)

• 1936 Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2009)

• 1938 Fred Mifflin, Canadian admiral and politician, 19th Minister of Veterans Affairs (died 2013)

• 1939 Jean Beaudin, Canadian director and screenwriter (died 2019)

• 1939 Mike Farrell, American actor and producer

• 1939 Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian singer (died 2014)

• 1940 Tom Brokaw, American journalist and author

• 1940 Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician and academic (died 2016)

• 1940 Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian and actor

• 1941 Stephen Albert, American pianist and composer (died 1992)

• 1941 Dave Berry, English pop singer

• 1941 Gigi Perreau, American actress and director

• 1942 Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov, Azerbaijani philosopher and academic (died 2021)

• 1942 Charlie Coles, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)

• 1942 James Loewen, American sociologist and historian (died 2021)

• 1942 Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (died 2012)

• 1943 Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress (died 2023)

• 1944 Christine Boutin, French politician, French Minister of Housing and Urban Development

• 1944 Willie Tee, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2007)

• 1945 Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and cultural icon (died 1981)

• 1945 Michael Tucker, American actor, writer, and producer

• 1946 Richie Hayward, American drummer and songwriter (died 2010)

• 1946 Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter (died 2010)

• 1946 Jim Turner, American captain and politician

• 1947 Charlie Hickcox, American swimmer (died 2010)

• 1947 Bill Staines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2021)

• 1949 Mike Batt, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 1949 Manuel Orantes, Spanish tennis player

• 1949 Jim Sheridan, Irish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1949 Mike Anderson, former American football player.

• 1950 &nfash; Natalie Cole, American singer (died 2015)

• 1950 Timothy M. Dolan, American cardinal

• 1950 Punky Meadows, American rock guitarist and songwriter

• 1951 Kevin Whately, English actor

• 1952 Ric Charlesworth, Australian cricketer, coach, and politician

• 1952 Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 Ricardo La Volpe, Argentinian footballer, manager, and coach

• 1955 Avram Grant, Israeli football manager

• 1955 John Kuester, American basketball player and coach

• 1955 Michael Pollan, American journalist, author, and academic

• 1955 Bruno Stolorz, French rugby player and coach

• 1956 Jerry Marotta, American drummer

• 1957 Andres Lipstok, Estonian economist and politician, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs

• 1957 Robert Townsend, American filmmaker, actor, and comedian

• 1958 Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (died 2004)

• 1960 Jeremy Bowen, Welsh journalist

• 1961 Cam Cameron, American football player and coach

• 1961 Alber Elbaz, Israeli fashion designer (died 2021)

• 1961 Bill Lester, American race car driver

• 1961 Yury Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

• 1962 Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Greece

• 1962 Axl Rose, American singer and songwriter

• 1963 David Capel, English cricketer (died 2020)

• 1963 Scott Gordon, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1963 Debra Granik, American filmmaker

• 1963 Quentin Letts, English journalist and critic

• 1964 Laurent Cabannes, French rugby player

• 1964 Gord Downie, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (died 2017)

• 1964 Colin Miller, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

• 1964 Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian actor and director

• 1965 Jan Svěrák, Czech actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1966 Rick Astley, British pop singer

• 1967 Anita Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1967 Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (died 2007)

• 1967 Michelle Thrush, Canadian actress and activist

• 1968 Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer

• 1968 Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer and producer

• 1969 David Hayter, American actor and screenwriter

• 1969 Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1969 Tim Sherwood, English footballer and manager

• 1969 Bob Wickman, American baseball player

• 1970 Per Frandsen, Danish footballer and manager

• 1970 Tim Herron, American golfer

• 1971 Brad Hogg, Australian cricketer

• 1971 Carlos Rogers, American basketball player

• 1972 Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer

• 1972 David Binn, American football player

• 1974 Aljo Bendijo, Filipino journalist

• 1975 Matt Alber, American singer-songwriter and filmmaker

• 1975 Chad Allen, American baseball player and coach

• 1975 Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish computer scientist and engineer, created Orkut

• 1975 Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer

• 1976 Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder and educator

• 1976 Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast and coach

• 1978 Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer-songwriter

• 1979 Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer-songwriter and producer

• 1980 Kerry Jeremy, Antiguan cricketer

• 1980 Konnor, American wrestler

• 1980 Kim Poirier, Canadian actress, singer, and producer

• 1980 Luke Ravenstahl, American politician, 58th Mayor of Pittsburgh

• 1981 Ricky Barnes, American golfer

• 1981 Calum Best, American-English model and actor

• 1981 Shim Eun-jin, South Korean singer and actress

• 1981 Alison Haislip, American actress and producer

• 1981 Jens Lekman, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1982 Elise Ray, American gymnast

• 1982 Tank, Taiwanese singer-songwriter

• 1983 Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer

• 1983 S. Sreesanth, Indian cricketer

• 1983 Jamie Whincup, Australian race car driver

• 1984 Darren Bent, English international footballer

• 1984 Piret Järvis, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1984 Antoine Wright, American basketball player

• 1985 Fallulah, Danish singer-songwriter

• 1985 Kris Humphries, American basketball player

• 1986 Tony Johnson, American mixed martial artist

• 1986 Yunho, South Korean singer and actor

• 1987 Pedro Álvarez, Dominican-American baseball player

• 1987 Travis Wood, American baseball player

• 1988 Bailey Hanks, American actress, singer, and dancer

• 1989 Craig Cathcart, Northern Irish footballer

• 1989 Jonny Flynn, American basketball player

• 1990 Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1990 Jermaine Kearse, American football player

• 1990 Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater

• 1991 Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer

• 1991 Aleksandar Katai, Serbian footballer

• 1991 Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater

• 1991 Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player

• 1991 Fei Yu, Chinese footballer

• 1992 Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer

• 1993 Teresa Scanlan, American beauty pageant titleholder, Miss America 2011

• 1995 Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver

• 1995 Leon Goretzka, German footballer

• 1995 Sam McQueen, English footballer

• 1996 Kevon Looney, American basketball player

• 1998 Adley Rutschman, American baseball player

• 2000 Conor Gallagher, English footballer

• 2002 Ona Huczkowski, Finnish actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 685 Hlothhere, king of Kent

• 743 Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph (born 691)

• 797 Donnchad Midi, Irish king (born 733)

• 891 Photios I of Constantinople (born 810)

• 1135 – Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily

• 1140 Thurstan, Archbishop of York

• 1215 Hōjō Tokimasa, Japanese shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (born 1138)

• 1378 Joanna of Bourbon (born 1338)

• 1411 Esau de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Epirus

• 1497 Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer and educator (born 1410)

• 1515 Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher, founded the Aldine Press (born 1449)

• 1519 Lorenz von Bibra, Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg (born 1459)

• 1539 John III, Duke of Cleves (born 1491)

• 1585 Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and scholar (born 1518)

• 1593 Jacques Amyot, French author and translator (born 1513)

• 1593 Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (born 1517)

• 1597 Franciscus Patricius, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1529)

1601–1900

• 1612 Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (born 1538)

• 1617 Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1553)

• 1685 Charles II of England (born 1630)

• 1695 Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (born 1642)

• 1740 Pope Clement XII (born 1652)

• 1775 William Dowdeswell, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1721)

• 1783 Capability Brown, English gardener and architect (born 1716)

• 1793 Carlo Goldoni, Italian-French playwright (born 1707)

• 1804 Joseph Priestley, English chemist and theologian (born 1733)

• 1833 Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist and entomologist (born 1762)

• 1834 Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (born 1804)

• 1865 Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (born 1836)

• 1899 Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, chancellor of Germany (born 1831)

1901–present

• 1902 John Colton, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of South Australia (born 1823)

• 1908 Harriet Samuel, English businesswoman and founder of the jewellery retailer H. Samuel (born 1836)

• 1916 Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (born 1867)

• 1918 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and illustrator (born 1862)

• 1929 Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Consort of King Alfonso XII of Spain, Queen Regent of Spain (born 1858)

• 1931 Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (born 1861)

• 1932 John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (born 1865)

• 1938 Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (born 1860)

• 1942 Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (born 1880)

• 1951 Gabby Street, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1882)

• 1952 George VI of the United Kingdom (born 1895)

1958 victims of the Munich air disaster

• Geoff Bent, English footballer (born 1932)

• Roger Byrne, English footballer (born 1929)

• Eddie Colman, English footballer (born 1936)

• Walter Crickmer, English footballer and manager (born 1900)

• Mark Jones, English footballer (born 1933)

• David Pegg, English footballer (born 1935)

• Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (born 1913)

• Tommy Taylor, English footballer (born 1932)

• 1963 Piero Manzoni, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1933)

• 1964 Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (born 1869)

• 1967 Martine Carol, French actress (born 1920)

• 1971 Lew "Sneaky Pete" Robinson, drag racer (born 1933)

• 1972 Julian Steward, American anthropologist (born 1902)

• 1976 Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (born 1925)

• 1976 Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1928)

• 1981 Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (born 1925)

• 1982 Ben Nicholson, British painter (born 1894)

• 1985 James Hadley Chase, English-Swiss soldier and author (born 1906)

• 1986 Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (born 1899)

• 1986 Dandy Nichols, English actress (born 1907)

• 1986 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (born 1912)

• 1987 Julien Chouinard, Canadian lawyer and jurist (born 1929)

• 1989 Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (born 1912)

• 1990 Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer (born 1913)

• 1991 Salvador Luria, Italian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

• 1991 Danny Thomas, American actor, producer, and humanitarian (born 1914)

• 1993 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1943)

• 1994 Joseph Cotten, American actor (born 1905)

• 1994 Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (born 1917)

• 1995 James Merrill, American poet and playwright (born 1926)

• 1998 Falco, Austrian pop-rock musician (born 1957)

• 1999 Don Dunstan, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (born 1926)

• 1999 Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (born 1924)

• 2000 Phil Walters, American race car driver (born 1916)

• 2000 Hani al-Rahib, Syrian novelist and literary academic (born 1939)

• 2001 Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (born 1953)

• 2001 Trần Văn Lắm, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician (born 1913)

• 2002 Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)

• 2004 Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and economist (born 1920)

• 2005 Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (born 1913)

• 2007 Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (born 1926)

• 2007 Frankie Laine, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1913)

• 2007 Willye White, American runner and long jumper (born 1939)

• 2008 Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (born 1918)

• 2009 Philip Carey, American actor (born 1925)

• 2009 Shirley Jean Rickert, American actress (born 1926)

• 2009 James Whitmore, American actor (born 1921)

• 2011 Gary Moore, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1952)

• 2012 David Rosenhan, American psychologist and academic (born 1929)

• 2012 Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1923)

• 2012 Janice E. Voss, American engineer and astronaut (born 1956)

• 2013 Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician (born 1964)

• 2013 Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (born 1923)

• 2014 Vasiľ Biľak, Slovak politician (born 1917)

• 2014 Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)

• 2014 Maxine Kumin, American author and poet (born 1925)

• 2014 Vaçe Zela, Albanian-Swiss singer and guitarist (born 1939)

• 2015 André Brink, South African author and playwright (born 1935)

• 2015 Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (born 1958)

• 2015 Pedro León Zapata, Venezuelan cartoonist (born 1929)

• 2016 Dan Gerson, American screenwriter (born 1966)

• 2016 Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

• 2017 Irwin Corey, American comedian and actor (born 1914)

• 2017 Inge Keller, German actress (born 1923)

• 2017 Alec McCowen, English actor (born 1925)

• 2017 Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union footballer (born 1971)

• 2018 Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (born 1935)

• 2019 Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (born 1927)

• 2019 Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (born 1924)

• 2020 Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (born 1962)

• 2021 George Shultz, American politician, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor (born 1920)

• 2022 Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer and music composer (born 1929)

• 2023 Greta Andersen, Danish swimmer (born 1927)

• 2024 Sebastian Piñera, former Chilean president (born 1949)

• 2025 Virginia Halas McCaskey, American football executive (born 1923)

• 2025 Nigel McCrery, English screenwriter, producer and writer (born 1953)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Amand

• Dorothea of Caesarea

• Hildegund, O.Praem.

• Jacut

• Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)

• Mél of Ardagh

• Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan

• Relindis (Renule) of Maaseik

• Vedastus

• February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nations)

• Ronald Reagan Day (California, United States)

• Sami National Day (Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden)

• Waitangi Day, celebrates the founding of New Zealand in 1840.

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on February 6