Events

Pre-1600

• 98 On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.

• 814 The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire.

• 1069 Robert de Comines, appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the Conqueror, rides into Durham, England, where he is defeated and killed by rebels. This incident leads to the Harrying of the North.

• 1077 Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.

• 1393 King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several other dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball in Paris.

• 1521 The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.

• 1547 Edward VI, the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII, becomes King of England on his father's death.

• 1568 The Edict of Torda prohibits the persecution of individuals on religious grounds in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.

• 1573 Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.

• 1591 Execution of Agnes Sampson, accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh.

1601–1900

• 1624 Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.

• 1671 Original city of Panama (founded in 1519) is destroyed by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacks and sets fire to it. The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see Panama Viejo).

• 1724 The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.

• 1754 Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.

• 1813 Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

• 1846 The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.

• 1851 Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.

• 1855 A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

• 1871 Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.

• 1878 Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.

• 1896 Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at , thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of .

1901–present

• 1902 The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C., with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

• 1908 Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.

• 1909 United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.

• 1915 An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.

• 1916 The Canadian province of Manitoba grants women the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections (although still excluding women of Indigenous or Asian heritage), marking the first time women in Canada are granted voting rights.

• 1918 Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.

• 1919 The Order of the White Rose of Finland is established by Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, the regent of Finland.

• 1920 Foundation of the Spanish Legion.

• 1922 Knickerbocker Storm: Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people.

• 1932 Japanese forces attack Shanghai.

• 1933 The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.

• 1935 Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.

• 1938 The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of .

• 1941 Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.

• 1945 World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

• 1956 Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.

• 1958 The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

• 1960 The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season.

• 1964 An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.

• 1965 The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.

• 1977 The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which dumps of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.

• 1977 The Shining, the horror novel and the first hardcover bestseller by Stephen King, is published.

• 1980 collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.

• 1981 Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States, helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.

• 1982 US Army General James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.

• 1984 Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.

• 1985 Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.

• 1986 Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.

• 1988 In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.

• 2002 TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.

• 2006 The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.

• 2021 A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten.

• 2023 Protests begin in the United States after police beat and kill Tyre Nichols.

• 2026 A Learjet 45 crashes on approach to Baramati Airport in Maharashtra, killing all six occupants including the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ajit Pawar.

• 2026 The Rubaya mine collapse at Rubaya mines in DR Congo causes at least 400 deaths and injured several others.

• 2026 Storm Kristin causes a catastrophic impact in Portugal and Spain with €6 billion in damage in the central region of Portugal, 15 deaths and 2,000 injuries.

Births

Pre-1600

• 598 Taizong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (died 649)

• 1312 Joan II, queen of Navarre (died 1349)

• 1368 Razadarit, king of Hanthawaddy (died 1421)

• 1457 Henry VII, king of England (died 1509)

• 1533 Paul Luther, German scientist (died 1593)

• 1540 Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (died 1610)

• 1582 John Barclay, French-Scottish poet and author (died 1621)

• 1600 Clement IX, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1669)

1601–1900

• 1608 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (died 1679)

• 1611 Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (died 1687)

• 1622 Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (died 1691)

• 1693 Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (died 1766)

• 1701 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (died 1774)

• 1706 John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (died 1775)

• 1712 Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shōgun (died 1761)

• 1717 Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (died 1774)

• 1726 Christian Felix Weiße, German poet and playwright (died 1802)

• 1755 Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (died 1830)

• 1784 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1860)

• 1797 Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (died 1867)

• 1818 George S. Boutwell, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1905)

• 1822 Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1892)

• 1833 Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (died 1885)

• 1853 José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (died 1895)

• 1853 Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1900)

• 1855 William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (died 1898)

• 1858 Tannatt William Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (died 1934)

• 1861 Julián Felipe, Filipino composer and educator (died 1944)

• 1863 Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (died 1918)

• 1864 Charles W. Nash, American businessman, founded Nash Motors (died 1948)

• 1865 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (died 1928)

• 1865 Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (died 1952)

• 1873 Colette, French novelist and journalist (died 1954)

• 1873 Monty Noble, Australian cricketer (died 1940)

• 1874 Alex Smith, Scottish golfer (died 1930)

• 1875 Julián Carrillo, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1965)

• 1878 Walter Kollo, German composer and conductor (died 1940)

• 1880 Bert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (died 1970)

• 1884 Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (died 1962)

• 1885 Vahan Terian, Armenian poet and activist (died 1920)

• 1886 Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author and poet (died 1973)

• 1886 Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (died 1976)

• 1887 Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and educator (died 1982)

• 1897 Valentin Kataev, Russian author and playwright (died 1986)

• 1900 Alice Neel, American painter (died 1984)

1901–present

• 1903 Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (died 1978)

• 1903 Kathleen Lonsdale, Irish crystallographer and 1st female FRS (died 1971)

• 1906 Pat O'Callaghan, Irish hammer thrower (died 1991)

• 1906 Markos Vafeiadis, Greek general and politician (died 1992)

• 1908 Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian (died 1998)

• 1909 John Thomson, Scottish footballer (died 1931)

• 1910 John Banner, Austrian actor (died 1973)

• 1911 Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (died 2018)

• 1912 Jackson Pollock, American painter (died 1956)

• 1918 Harry Corbett, English puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter (died 1989)

• 1918 Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (died 2004)

• 1919 Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (died 2002)

• 1920 Lewis Wilson, American actor (died 2000)

• 1921 Vytautas Norkus, Lithuanian–American basketball player (died 2014)

• 1922 Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (died 2014)

• 1922 Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)

• 1924 Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (died 1976)

• 1925 Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (died 2004)

• 1926 Jimmy Bryan, American race car driver (died 1960)

• 1927 Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)

• 1927 Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist (died 1996)

• 1927 Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)

• 1927 Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (died 2015)

• 1929 Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (died 2014)

• 1929 Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist (died 2026)

• 1929 Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager (died 2012)

• 1929 Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator (died 2022)

• 1930 Kurt Biedenkopf, German academic and politician, 54th President of the German Bundesrat (died 2021)

• 1930 Roy Clarke, English screenwriter, comedian and soldier

• 1933 Jack Hill, American director and screenwriter

• 1934 Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (died 1990)

• 1935 Helga Kleiner, German politician

• 1935 David Lodge, English author and critic (died 2025)

• 1935 Nicholas Pryor, American actor (died 2024)

• 1936 Alan Alda, American actor, director, and writer

• 1936 Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (died 2024)

• 1937 Karel Čáslavský, Czech historian and television host (died 2013)

• 1937 John Normington, English actor (died 2007)

• 1938 Tomas Lindahl, Swedish-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1938 Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter and coach (died 2016)

• 1939 John M. Fabian, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

• 1940 Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman and philanthropist, founded Grupo Carso

• 1941 Joel Crothers, American actor (died 1985)

• 1942 Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater (died 2024)

• 1942 Erkki Pohjanheimo, Finnish director and producer

• 1943 Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and author

• 1943 Dick Taylor, English guitarist and songwriter

• 1944 Susan Howard, American actress and writer

• 1944 Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (died 2013)

• 1944 John Tavener, English composer (died 2013)

• 1945 Marthe Keller, Swiss actress and director

• 1947 Jeanne Shaheen, American educator and politician, 78th Governor of New Hampshire

• 1948 Ilkka Kanerva, Finnish politician (died 2022)

• 1948 Bob Moses, American drummer

• 1948 Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia

• 1949 Mike Moore, New Zealand union leader and politician, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 2020)

• 1949 Gregg Popovich, American basketball player and coach

• 1949 Jim Wong-Chu, Canadian poet (died 2017)

• 1950 Barbi Benton, American actress, singer and model

• 1950 Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king

• 1950 David C. Hilmers, American colonel, physician, and astronaut

• 1950 Naila Kabeer, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic

• 1951 Brian Bilbray, American politician

• 1951 Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2018)

• 1951 Billy Bass Nelson, American R&B/funk bass player (died 2026)

• 1952 Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

• 1953 Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1954 Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian

• 1954 Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (died 2013)

• 1954 Rick Warren, American pastor and author

• 1955 Vinod Khosla, Indian-American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems

• 1955 Nicolas Sarkozy, French lawyer and politician, 23rd President of France

• 1956 Ruth Becher, Austrian politician

• 1956 Richard Danielpour, American composer and educator

• 1956 Peter Schilling, German singer-songwriter

• 1957 Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1957 Nick Price, Zimbabwean-South African golfer

• 1957 Frank Skinner, English comedian, actor, and author

• 1958 – Stan Smyl, Canadian ice hockey player and executive

• 1959 Frank Darabont, American director and producer

• 1960 Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist and politician

• 1961 Mike Holoway, British musician and actor

• 1961 Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1962 Michael Cage, American basketball player and broadcaster

• 1962 Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor

• 1962 Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 Dan Spitz, American musician and songwriter

• 1964 David Lawrence, English cricketer (died 2025)

• 1966 Seiji Mizushima, Japanese director and producer

• 1966 Michal Pivoňka, Czech ice hockey player

• 1967 Billy Brownless, Australian footballer and sportscaster

• 1968 Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

• 1968 DJ Muggs, American DJ and producer

• 1968 Rakim, American rapper

• 1969 Giorgio Lamberti, Italian swimmer

• 1969 Kathryn Morris, American actress

• 1969 Mo Rocca, American comedian and television journalist

• 1969 Linda Sánchez, American lawyer and politician

• 1971 Anthony Hamilton, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1972 Elena Baranova, Russian basketball player

• 1972 Amy Coney Barrett, American jurist, academic, attorney, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

• 1972 Mark Regan, English rugby player

• 1972 Nicky Southall, English footballer and manager

• 1972 Léon van Bon, Dutch cyclist

• 1972 Gillian Vigman, American actress and comedian

• 1974 Tony Delk, American basketball player and coach

• 1974 Jermaine Dye, American baseball player

• 1974 Ramsey Nasr, Dutch author and poet

• 1974 Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player and politician

• 1975 Pedro Pinto, Portuguese-American journalist

• 1975 Junior Spivey, American baseball player and coach

• 1976 Sireli Bobo, Fijian rugby player

• 1976 Mark Madsen, American basketball player and coach

• 1976 Rick Ross, American rapper and producer

• 1976 Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer

• 1977 Sandis Buškevics, Latvian basketball player and coach

• 1977 Daunte Culpepper, American football player

• 1977 Joey Fatone, American singer, dancer, and television personality

• 1977 Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver

• 1978 Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer

• 1978 Jamie Carragher, English footballer and sportscaster

• 1978 Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (died 2020)

• 1978 Big Freedia, American musician

• 1978 Sheamus, Irish wrestler

• 1979 Angelique Cabral, American actress

• 1980 Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1980 Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer

• 1980 Brian Fallon, American singer-songwriter

• 1980 Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (died 2013)

• 1981 Elijah Wood, American actor and producer

• 1982 Chad Aull, American politician

• 1982 Omar Cook, American-Montenegrin basketball player and coach

• 1984 Ben Clucas, English race car driver

• 1984 Stephen Gostkowski, American football player

• 1984 Andre Iguodala, American basketball player

• 1984 Anne Panter, English field hockey player

• 1985 Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1985 J. Cole, American rapper

• 1985 Lauris Dārziņš, Latvian ice hockey player

• 1985 Tom Hopper, English actor

• 1985 Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer

• 1985 Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer

• 1986 Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler

• 1986 Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor

• 1986 Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer

• 1988 Paul Henry, English footballer

• 1988 Alexandra Krosney, American actress

• 1988 Sanada, Japanese wrestler

• 1989 Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer

• 1991 Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1991 Calum Worthy, Canadian actor

• 1992 Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer

• 1993 Will Poulter, English actor

• 1993 Alan Williams, American basketball player

• 1994 Joel Bolomboy, Russian-American basketball player

• 1994 Lin Zhu, Chinese tennis player

• 1994 Maluma, Colombian singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor

• 1995 Mimi-Isabella Cesar, British rhythmic gymnast

• 1998 Payton Pritchard, American basketball player

• 1998 Ariel Winter, American actress

• 2000 Abel Ruiz, Spanish footballer

• 2000 Dušan Vlahović, Serbian footballer

• 2002 Tabyana Ali, American actress and author

• 2002 Yoo Seon-ho, South Korean actor

• 2003 Whitney Peak, Ugandan-Canadian actress

• 2003 Carson Hocevar, American professional stock car racing driver

• 2004 Emoni Bates, American basketball player

• 2004 Liam Öhgren, Swedish ice hockey player

• 2006 – Beckett Sennecke, Canadian ice hockey player

• 2007 – That Girl Lay Lay, American rapper

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 724 Yazid II, Umayyad caliph (born 687)

• 814 Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor (born 742)

• 919 Zhou Dewei, Chinese general

• 929 Gao Jixing, founder of Chinese Jingnan (born 858)

• 947 Jing Yanguang, Chinese general (born 892)

• 1061 Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (born 1031)

• 1142 Yue Fei, Chinese general (born 1103)

• 1256 William II, Count of Holland, King of Germany (born 1227)

• 1271 Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (born 1247)

• 1290 Dervorguilla of Galloway, Scottish noble, mother of king John Balliol of Scotland (born c. 1210)

• 1443 Robert le Maçon, French diplomat (born 1365)

• 1501 John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham, English baron and Lord High Treasurer (born 1433)

• 1547 Henry VIII, king of England (born 1491)

1601–1900

• 1613 Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar, founded the Bodleian Library (born 1545)

• 1621 Pope Paul V (born 1550)

• 1666 Tommaso Dingli, Maltese architect and sculptor (born 1591)

• 1672 Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (born 1588)

• 1681 Richard Allestree, English priest and academic (born 1619)

• 1687 Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (born 1611)

• 1688 Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (born 1623)

• 1697 Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet, English general and politician (born 1645)

• 1754 Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian-Danish historian and philosopher (born 1684)

• 1782 Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer and cartographer (born 1697)

• 1832 Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (born 1769)

• 1859 F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1782)

• 1864 Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (born 1799)

• 1873 John Hart, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of South Australia (born 1809)

1901–present

• 1903 Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (born 1847)

• 1912 Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist and theorist (born 1819).

• 1912 Eloy Alfaro, former president of Ecuador (born 1842)

• 1918 John McCrae, Canadian soldier, physician, and author (born 1872)

• 1921 Mustafa Suphi, Turkish journalist and politician (born 1883)

• 1930 Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano and poet (born 1878)

• 1935 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (born 1859)

• 1937 Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and target shooter (born 1862)

• 1938 Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (born 1909)

• 1939 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)

• 1942 Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (born 1881)

• 1945 Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (born 1924)

• 1947 Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (born 1875)

• 1948 Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (born 1906)

• 1949 Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (born 1908)

• 1950 Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1883)

• 1953 James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1876)

• 1953 Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (born 1879)

• 1959 Walter Beall, American baseball player (born 1899)

• 1960 Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (born 1891)

• 1963 Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (born 1884)

• 1965 Tich Freeman, English cricketer (born 1888)

• 1965 Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (born 1867)

• 1971 Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (born 1896)

• 1973 John Banner, Austrian actor (born 1910)

• 1976 Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (born 1924)

• 1978 Ward Moore, American author (born 1903)

• 1983 Billy Fury. English pop star (born 1940)

• 1983 Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1890)

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger crew

• Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (born 1944)

• Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (born 1948)

• Ronald McNair, American physicist and astronaut (born 1950)

• Ellison Onizuka, American engineer and astronaut (born 1946)

• Judith Resnik, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1949)

• Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1939)

• Michael J. Smith, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (born 1945)

• 1988 Klaus Fuchs, German physicist, politician, and atomic spy (born 1911)

• 1989 Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (born 1938)

• 1993 Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (born 1905)

• 1996 Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)

• 1996 Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (born 1911)

• 1996 Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (born 1914)

• 1998 Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1938)

• 1999 Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (born 1939)

• 2001 Ranko Marinković, Croatian author and playwright (born 1913)

• 2002 Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (born 1913)

• 2002 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (born 1907)

• 2002 Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (born 1946)

• 2003 Mieke Pullen, Dutch runner (born 1957)

• 2004 Lloyd M. Bucher, American captain (born 1927)

• 2005 Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (born 1944)

• 2007 Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (born 1929)

• 2007 Robert Drinan, American priest, lawyer, and politician (born 1920)

• 2007 Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (born 1963)

• 2007 Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (born 1938)

• 2009 Werner Flume, German jurist (born 1908)

• 2009 Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter (born 1952)

• 2012 Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1952)

• 2012 Don Starkell, Canadian adventurer and author (born 1932)

• 2013 Florentino Fernández, Cuban-American boxer and coach (born 1936)

• 2013 Hattie N. Harrison, American educator and politician (born 1928)

• 2013 Oldřich Kulhánek, Czech painter, illustrator, and stage designer (born 1940)

• 2014 John Cacavas, American composer and conductor (born 1930)

• 2014 Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (born 1930)

• 2014 Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (born 1930)

• 2014 Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer (born 1949)

• 2014 Jorge Obeid, Argentinian engineer and politician, Governor of Santa Fe (born 1947)

• 2015 Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (born 1954)

• 2015 Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930)

• 2015 Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (born 1924)

• 2016 Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (born 1941)

• 2016 Paul Kantner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

• 2016 Franklin Gene Bissell, American football player and coach (born 1926)

• 2016 Buddy Cianci, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Providence (born 1941)

• 2016 Bob Tizard, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1924)

• 2017 Alexander Chancellor, British journalist (born 1940)

• 2017 Geoff Nicholls, British musician (born 1948)

• 2019 Pepe Smith, Filipino rock musician (born 1947)

• 2021 Cicely Tyson, American actress (born 1924)

• 2026 Ajit Pawar, Indian politician, former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1959)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Joseph Freinademetz

• Julian of Cuenca

• Thomas Aquinas

• January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Army Day (Armenia)

• Data Privacy Day

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on January 28