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-==Births==+* [[284]] - [[Diocletian]] is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
 +* [[473]] - The future [[Zeno I]] is named associate emperor by [[Emperor Leo I]].
 +*[[1183]] - [[Battle of Mizushima]].
 +*[[1292]] - ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]]) [[John I of Scotland|John Balliol]] becomes King of [[Scotland]].
 +*[[1511]] - [[Spain]] and [[England]] ally against [[France]].
 +*[[1558]] - [[Elizabethan era]] begins: Queen [[Mary I of England]] dies and is succeeded by her half-sister [[Elizabeth I of England]].
 +*[[1603]] - [[England|English]] [[exploration|explorer]], [[writer]] and [[courtier]] [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] goes on trial for [[treason]].
 +*[[1659]] - [[Peace of the Pyrenees]] is signed between [[France]] and [[Spain]].
 +*[[1777]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] submitted to the states for ratification.
 +*[[1796]] - [[Napoleonic Wars]]: [[Battle of Arcole]] - [[France|French]] forces defeat the [[Austria]]ns in [[Italy]].
 +*[[1800]] - The [[United States Capitol]] building in [[Washington, DC]] holds its first session of the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]].
 +*[[1812]] - Napoleonic Wars: [[Battle of Krasnoi]].
 +*[[1820]] - Captain [[Nathaniel Palmer]] becomes the first [[United States|American]] to see [[Antarctica]] (the [[Palmer Peninsula]] was later named after him).
 +*[[1827]] - The [[Delta Phi]] Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at [[Union College]] in [[Schenectady]], NY.
 +*[[1831]] - [[Ecuador]] and [[Venezuela]] separate from Greater [[Colombia]].
 +*[[1839]] - [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s first opera, ''[[Oberto (opera)|Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio]]'' opens in [[Milan]].
 +*[[1855]] - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see [[Victoria Falls]] in what is now present-day [[Zambia]]-[[Zimbabwe]].
 +*[[1856]] - [[American Old West]]: On the [[Sonoita River]] in present-day southern [[Arizona]], the [[United States Army]] establishes [[Fort Buchanan, Arizona|Fort Buchanan]] in order to help control new land acquired in the [[Gadsden Purchase]].
 +*[[1858]] - Modified [[Julian Day]] zero.
 +*[[1863]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Siege of Knoxville]] begins - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces led by General [[James Longstreet]] place [[Knoxville, Tennessee]] under [[siege]].
 +*[[1869]] - In [[Egypt]], the [[Suez Canal]], linking the [[Mediterranean Sea]] with the [[Red Sea]], is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
 +*[[1871]] - The [[National Rifle Association]] is granted a charter by the state of [[New York]].
 +*[[1876]] - [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s patriotic [[Slavonic March]] made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
 +*[[1878]] - First assassination attempt against [[Umberto I of Italy]].
 +*[[1886]] - Premiere of the opera ''[[Mignon]]'' by [[Ambroise Thomas]].
 +*[[1903]] - The [[Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]] splits into two groups; the [[Bolsheviks]] ([[Russian language|Russian]] for "majority") and [[Mensheviks]] (Russian for "minority").
 +* 1903 - [[Dahomey]] (current [[Benin]]) becomes a French protectorate.
 +*[[1905]] - The [[Eulsa Treaty]] is signed between Japan and Korea.
 +*[[1911]] - The [[Omega Psi Phi]] fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at [[Howard University]] in [[Washington, DC]].
 +*[[1919]] - King [[George V of the United Kingdom]] proclaims [[Armistice Day]] (later [[Remembrance Day]]). The idea was first suggested by [[Edward George Honey]].
 +*[[1922]] - Former [[Ottoman sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]] goes into exile in [[Italy]].
 +*[[1933]] - [[United States]] recognizes [[Soviet Union]].
 +*[[1939]] - Nine [[Czech people|Czech]] students are executed as a response to anti-[[Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia|Nazi]] demonstrations prompted by the death of [[Jan Opletal]]; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to [[concentration camp]]s. November 17 declared International Student's day.
 +*[[1939]] - The [[Rome]]-[[Rio de Janeiro]] air connection is created.
 +*[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: [[Joseph Grew]], the [[United States]] ambassador to [[Japan]], cables the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] that Japan has plans to launch an [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|attack]] against [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]] (his cable is ignored).
 +*[[1950]] - [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama|Tenzin Gyatso]], the 14th [[Dalai Lama]], was enthroned as [[Tibet]]'s [[head of state]] at the age of fifteen.
 +*[[1953]] - The remaining human inhabitants of the [[Blasket Islands]], [[Kerry]], [[Ireland]] are evacuated to the mainland.
 +*[[1954]] - Colonel [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] becomes [[president of Egypt]].
 +*[[1962]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] dedicates [[Dulles International Airport]], serving the [[Washington, D.C.]] region.
 +*[[1967]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on [[November 13]], US President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
 +*[[1968]] - [[Alexandros Panagoulis]] is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate [[Greece|Greek]] dictator [[George Papadopoulos]].
 +*[[1969]] - [[Cold War]]: Negotiators from the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]] meet in [[Helsinki]] to begin [[SALT I]] negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
 +*[[1970]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Lieutenant [[William Calley]] goes on trial for the [[My Lai massacre]].
 +* 1970 - [[Luna program]]: The [[Soviet Union]] lands [[Lunokhod 1]] on [[Mare Imbrium]] (Sea of Rains) on the [[Moon]]. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting [[Luna 17]] spacecraft.
 +* 1970 - [[Douglas Engelbart]] receives the [[patent]] for the first [[computer mouse]].
 +*[[1973]] - [[Watergate scandal]]: In [[Orlando, Florida]], US President [[Richard Nixon]] tells 400 [[Associated Press]] managing editors "I am not a crook".
 +* 1973 - The [[Athens Polytechnic Uprising]] against the military [[Greek military junta of 1967-1974|regime]] ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
 +*[[1974]] - ''[[Worker-Peasant Alliance|Aliança Operário-Camponesa]]'' (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in [[Portugal]], as a front of [[Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist) (1974)|PCP(m-l)]].
 +*[[1978]] - [[The Star Wars Holiday Special]] aired one time only on CBS.
 +*[[1983]] - The [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]] is founded
 +*[[1985]] - The first edition of [[Phrack]] is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.
 +*[[1989]] - [[Cold War]]: [[Velvet Revolution]] begins - In [[Czechoslovakia]] a student demonstration in [[Prague]] is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the [[communism|communist]] government (it succeeds on [[December 29]]).
 +*[[1990]] - Fugendake, part of the [[Mount Unzen]] volcanic complex, [[Nagasaki prefecture]], [[Japan]] becomes active again and erupts.
 +*[[1997]] - In [[Luxor]], [[Egypt]], 62 people are killed by 6 [[Islam]]ic militants outside the [[Temple of Hatshepsut]], known as [[November 1997 Luxor massacre|Luxor massacre]] (The police then kill the assailants).
 +*[[2000]] - A catastrophic [[landslide]] in Log pod Mangartom, [[Slovenia]], kills 7, and causes millions of [[Slovenian tolar|SIT]] of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in [[Slovenia]] in the past 100 years.
 +* 2000 - [[Alberto Fujimori]] is removed from office as president of [[Peru]].
 +*[[2003]] - [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] is inaugurated as [[Governor of California]].
 +*[[2004]] - [[Kmart]] Corp. announces it is buying [[Sears, Roebuck and Co.]] for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company [[Sears Holdings Corporation]].
 +*[[2005]] - [[Italy]]'s choice of national anthem, ''[[Il Canto degli Italiani]]'', becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the [[Birth of the Italian Republic|birth of the republic]].
 +*[[2006]] - Official naming of element 111, [[Roentgenium]] (Rg).
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 +* [[9]] - [[Vespasian]], Roman Emperor (d. [[79]])
 +*[[1502]] - [[Atahualpa]], last emperor of the [[Inca]] (d. [[1533]])
 +*[[1503]] - [[Agnolo Bronzino]], Italian painter (d. [[1572]])
 +*[[1576]] - [[Roque Gonzales (missionary)|Roque Gonzales]], Paraguayan missionary (d. [[1628]])
 +*[[1587]] - [[Joost van den Vondel]], Dutch poet (d. [[1679]])
 +*[[1612]] - [[Dorgon]], Manchu prince (d. [[1650]])
 +*[[1681]] - [[Pierre François le Courayer]], French theologian (d. [[1776]])
 +*[[1685]] - [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye|Pierre Gaultier]], French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. [[1749]])
 +*[[1717]] - [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]], French mathematician (d. [[1783]])
 +*[[1755]] - [[Louis XVIII of France]] (d. [[1824]])
 +*[[1765]] - [[Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald]], French marshal (d. [[1840]])
 +*[[1790]] - [[August Ferdinand Möbius]], German mathematician (d. [[1868]])
 +*[[1793]] - [[Charles Lock Eastlake]], British painter (d. [[1865]])
 +*[[1799]] - [[Titian Peale]], American artist (d. [[1885]])
 +*[[1816]] - [[August Wilhelm Ambros]], Austrian composer (d. [[1876]])
 +*[[1827]] - [[Petko Slavejkov]], Bulgarian writer (d. [[1895]])
 +*[[1835]] - [[Andrew L. Harris]], governor of [[Ohio]] (d. [[1915]])
 +*[[1854]] - [[Hubert Lyautey]], French general (d. [[1934]])
 +*[[1857]] - [[Joseph Babiński]], Polish-French neurologist (d. [[1932]])
 +*[[1866]] - [[Voltairine de Cleyre]], American anarchist (d. [[1912]])
 +*[[1868]] - [[Korbinian Brodmann]], German neurologist (d. [[1918]])
 +*[[1877]] - [[Frank Calder]], the first [[NHL President]] (d. [[1943]])
 +*[[1878]] - [[Grace Abbott]], American social worker (d. [[1939]])
 +* 1878 - [[Lise Meitner]], Austrian physicist (d. [[1968]])
 +*[[1887]] - [[Bernard Montgomery]], British World War II commander (d. [[1976]])
 +*[[1894]] - [[Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi]], Austrian politician (d. [[1972]])
 +*[[1895]] - [[Mikhail Bakhtin]], Russian philosopher (d. [[1975]])
 +* 1895 - [[Gregorio López y Fuentes]], Mexican author (d. [[1966]])
 +*[[1896]] - [[Lev Vygotsky]], Russian psychologist (d. [[1934]])
 +*[[1897]] - [[Frank Fay(U.S.-born)|Frank Fay]], American actor (d. [[1961]])
 +*[[1899]] - [[Douglas Shearer]], Canadian film sound engineer (d. [[1971]])
 +*[[1901]] - [[Walter Hallstein]], German politician (d. [[1982]])
 +* 1901 - [[Lee Strasberg]], Austrian director (d. [[1982]])
 +*[[1902]] - [[Eugene Wigner]], Hungarian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1995]])
 +*[[1904]] - [[Isamu Noguchi]], American sculptor (d. [[1988]])
 +*[[1905]] - Queen [[Astrid of the Belgians]] (d. [[1935]])
 +* 1905 - [[Mischa Auer]], American actor (d. [[1967]])
 +*[[1906]] - [[Soichiro Honda]], Japanese automobile pioneer (d. [[1992]])
 +* 1906 - [[Rollie Stiles]], American baseball player (d. [[2007]])
 +*[[1907]] - [[Israel Regardie]], [[Aleister Crowley]]'s secretary (d. [[1985]])
 +*[[1911]] - [[Christian Fouchet]], French diplomat (d. [[1974]])
 +*[[1916]] - [[Shelby Foote]], American historian (d. [[2005]])
 +*[[1920]] - [[Camillo Felgen]], Luxembourgish singer (d. [[2005]])
 +*[[1922]] - [[Stanley Cohen (doctor)|Stanley Cohen]], American biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
 +*[[1923]] - [[Bert Sutcliffe]], New Zealand cricketer (d. [[2001]])
 +* 1923 - [[Hubertus Brandenburg]], Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
 +*[[1925]] - [[Rock Hudson]], American actor (d. [[1985]])
 +* 1925 - [[Charles Mackerras]], Australian-born conductor
 +*[[1927]] - [[Robert Brown (US actor)|Robert Brown]], American actor
 +*[[1928]] - [[Rance Howard]], American actor
 +*[[1929]] - [[Norm Zauchin]], baseball player (d. [[1999]])
 +*[[1930]] - [[Bob Mathias]], American decathlete (d. [[2006]])
 +*[[1935]] - [[Bobby Joe Conrad]], American football player
 +*[[1935]] - [[Toni Sailer]], Austrian skier
 +*[[1936]] - [[Dahlia Ravikovitch]], Israeli poet (d. [[2005]])
 +*[[1937]] - [[Peter Cook]], British comedian (d. [[1995]])
 +*[[1938]] - [[Gordon Lightfoot]], Canadian singer
 +*[[1939]] - [[Auberon Waugh]], British author (d. [[2001]])
 +*[[1940]] - [[Luke Kelly]], Irish folk music singer and banjo player
 +*[[1942]] - [[Martin Scorsese]], American film director
 +* 1942 - [[Khang Khek Leu]], Cambodian politician
 +*[[1943]] - [[Lauren Hutton]], American actress
 +*[[1944]] - [[Jim Boeheim]], Hall of Fame Coach
 +* 1944 - [[Danny DeVito]], American actor
 +* 1944 - [[Rem Koolhaas]], Dutch architect
 +* 1944 - [[Lorne Michaels]], Canadian producer
 +* 1944 - [[Tom Seaver]], baseball player
 +* 1944 - [[Gene Clark]], American singer and songwriter ([[The Byrds]]) (d. [[1991]])
 +*[[1945]] - [[Elvin Hayes]], American basketball player
 +* 1945 - [[Roland Joffé]], Anglo-French film director
 +*[[1946]] - [[Terry E. Branstad]], Governor of [[Iowa]]
 +* 1946 - [[Martin Barre]], English rock musician ([[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]])
 +*[[1947]] - [[Steven E. de Souza]], American scriptwriter
 +* 1947 - [[Inky Mark]], Canadian politician
 +*[[1948]] - [[Howard Dean]], American politician
 +*[[1949]] - [[Nguyễn Tấn Dũng]], [[Prime Minister of Vietnam]]
 +*[[1950]] - [[Tom Walkinshaw]], British businessman
 +*[[1951]] - [[Stephen Root]], American actor
 +* 1951 - [[Dean Paul Martin]], American singer and actor (d. [[1987]])
 +*[[1952]] - [[Ties Kruize]], Dutch field hockey player
 +*[[1954]] - [[Mark Brandon Read]], Australian criminal
 +*[[1955]] - [[Dennis Maruk]], Canadian hockey player
 +* 1955 - [[Yolanda King]], daughter of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] (d. [[2007]])
 +*[[1957]] - [[Debbie Thrower]], BBC News Reader
 +*[[1958]] - [[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]], American actress
 +*[[1960]] - [[Jonathan Ross (English TV presenter)|Jonathan Ross]], British presenter
 +* 1960 - [[Kirk Fogg]], host of [[Legends of the Hidden Temple]]
 +* 1960 - [[RuPaul]], American [[drag queen|drag]] entertainer
 +*[[1962]] - [[Dédé Fortin]], Quebec singer ([[Les Colocs]]) (d. [[2000]])
 +*[[1964]] - [[Ralph Garman]], American actor and radio personality
 +* 1964 - [[Mitch Williams]], [[Major League Baseball]] player
 +*[[1965]] - [[Amanda Brown (musician)|Amanda Brown]], Australian musician ([[The Go-Betweens]]) and composer
 +*[[1966]] - [[Jeff Buckley]], American musician (d. [[1997]])
 +* 1966 - [[Sophie Marceau]], French actress
 +* 1966 - [[Daisy Fuentes]], Cuban model and actress
 +* 1966 - [[Kate Ceberano]], Australian singer
 +* 1966 - [[Richard Fortus]], American guitarist ([[Guns N' Roses]])
 +*[[1968]] - [[Amber Michaels]], German porn actress
 +*[[1969]] - [[Jean-Michel Saive]], Belgian [[table tennis]] player
 +* 1969 - [[Ryotaro Okiayu]], Japanese [[seiyu|voice actor]]
 +*[[1970]] - [[Paul Allender]], British guitarist ([[Cradle of Filth]])
 +*[[1972]] - [[Leonard Roberts]], American actor
 +*[[1973]] - [[Eli Marrero]], American baseball player
 +* 1973 - [[Bernd Schneider (football)|Bernd Schneider]], German footballer
 +* 1973 - [[Alexei Urmanov]], Russian figure skater
 +*[[1974]] - [[Leslie Bibb]], American actress
 +*[[1975]] - [[Lord Infamous]], Rapper
 +*[[1975]] - [[Diane Neal]], American actress
 +*[[1976]] - [[Brandon Call]], American actor
 +*[[1977]] - [[Ryk Neethling]], South African swimmer
 +*[[1978]] - [[Reggie Wayne]], American football player
 +*[[1979]] - [[Brad Bradley]], American professional wrestler
 +* 1979 - [[Matthew Spring]], English footballer
 +*[[1980]] - [[Isaac Hanson]], American musician ([[Hanson (band)|Hanson]])
 +* 1980 - [[Mercedes Martinez]], professional wrestler
 +*[[1981]] - [[Sarah Harding]], English singer ([[Girls Aloud]])
 +*[[1982]] - [[Katie Feenstra]], American basketball player
 +*[[1983]] - [[Yiannis Bourousis]], Greek basketball player
 +* 1983 - [[Ryan Braun]], American baseball player
 +* 1983 - [[Nick Markakis]], American baseball player
 +* 1983 - [[Christopher Paolini]], American novelist
 +*[[1986]] - [[Nani (footballer)|Nani]], Portuguese football player
 +*[[1990]] - [[Shanica Knowles]], American actress
 +*[[1992]] - [[Darian Weiss]], American actor
 +*[[1994]] - [[Raquel Castro]], American actress
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 +== Deaths ==
 +* [[375]] - [[Valentinian I]], [[Roman Emperor]] (b. [[321]])
 +* [[594]] - [[Gregory of Tours]], bishop and historian (b. c.[[530s|539]])
 +* [[641]] - [[Emperor Jomei]] of Japan (b. [[593]])
 +* [[680]] - [[Hilda of Whitby]] (b. [[614]])
 +* [[885]] - Queen [[Liutgard]]
 +*[[1231]] - [[Elisabeth of Hungary]], daughter of [[Andrew II of Hungary]] (b. [[1207]])
 +*[[1302]] - [[Gertrude the Great|St. Gertrude the Great]] (b. [[1256]])
 +*[[1326]] - [[Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel]], English politician (b. [[1285]])
 +*[[1494]] - [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]], Italian philosopher (b. [[1463]])
 +*[[1558]] - [[Mary I of England]] (b. [[1516]])
 +* 1558 - [[Reginald Cardinal Pole]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1500]])
 +*[[1562]] - [[Antoine de Bourbon]], father of [[Henry IV of France]] (b. [[1518]])
 +*[[1592]] - [[John III of Sweden]] (b. [[1537]])
 +*[[1600]] - [[Kuki Yoshitaka]], Japanese naval commander (b. [[1542]])
 +*[[1632]] - [[Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim]], Bavarian field marshal (b. [[1594]])
 +*[[1643]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant]], Marshal of France (b. [[1602]])
 +*[[1648]] - [[Thomas Ford (composer)|Thomas Ford]], English composer
 +*[[1665]] - [[John Earle (bishop)|John Earle]], English bishop
 +*[[1668]] - [[Joseph Alleine]], English preacher (b. [[1634]])
 +*[[1690]] - [[Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier]], French soldier (b. [[1610]])
 +*[[1708]] - [[Ludolf Backhuysen]], Dutch painter (b. [[1631]])
 +*[[1713]] - [[Abraham van Riebeeck]], Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. [[1653]])
 +*[[1720]] - [[Calico Jack]], English pirate
 +*[[1747]] - [[Alain-René Lesage]], French writer (b. [[1668]])
 +*[[1768]] - [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1693]])
 +*[[1776]] - [[James Ferguson (1710-1776)|James Ferguson]], British astronomer (b. [[1710]])
 +*[[1780]] - [[Bernardo Bellotto]], Italian painter (b. [[1720]])
 +*[[1794]] - [[Jacques François Dugommier]], French general (b. [[1738]])
 +*[[1796]] - [[Catherine II of Russia]], Empress of Russia (b. [[1729]])
 +*[[1808]] - [[David Zeisberger]], Moravian missionary (b. [[1721]])
 +*[[1835]] - [[Antoine Charles Horace Vernet]], French painter (b. [[1758]])
 +*[[1849]] - [[Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst]], German priest and miracle-worker (b. [[1794]])
 +*[[1858]] - [[Robert Owen]], British father of the cooperative movement (b. [[1771]])
 +*[[1897]] - [[George Hendric Houghton]], American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. [[1820]])
 +*[[1902]] - [[Hugh Price Hughes]], Methodist Social Reformer (b. [[1847]])
 +*[[1905]] - [[Adolphe of Luxembourg]], (b. [[1817]])
 +*[[1910]] - [[Ralph Johnstone]], pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, [[Denver]], [[Colorado]].
 +*[[1917]] - [[Auguste Rodin]], French sculptor (b. [[1840]])
 +*[[1922]] - [[Robert Comtesse]], Swiss Federal Councillor (b. [[1847]])
 +*[[1928]] - [[Lala Lajpat Rai]], Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. [[1865]])
 +*[[1929]] - [[Herman Hollerith]], American statistician (b. [[1860]])
 +*[[1936]] - [[Ernestine Schumann-Heink]], Austrian contralto (b. [[1861]])
 +*[[1937]] - [[Jack Worrall]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1860]])
 +*[[1938]] - [[Ante Trumbić]], Croatian politician (b. [[1864]])
 +*[[1940]] - [[Eric Gill]], British sculptor (b. [[1882]])
 +* 1940 - [[Raymond Pearl]], American biologist (b. [[1879]])
 +*[[1942]] - [[Ben Reitman]], American anarchist, physician (b. [[1879]])
 +*[[1947]] - [[Victor Serge]], Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. [[1890]])
 +*[[1955]] - [[James P. Johnson]], American pianist and composer (b. [[1894]])
 +*[[1958]] - [[Mort Cooper]], baseball player (b. [[1913]])
 +*[[1959]] - [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian composer (b. [[1887]])
 +*[[1968]] - [[Mervyn Peake]], British writer (b. [[1911]])
 +*[[1973]] - [[The Mother]], Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. [[1878]])
 +*[[1979]] - [[John Glascock]], British bassist ([[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]])
 +*[[1980]] - [[Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha]], 41st [[Sufi]] master of [[Oveyssi]] order (b. [[1916]])
 +*[[1982]] - [[Eduard Tubin]], Estonian composer (b. [[1905]])
 +* 1982 - [[Leonid Borisovitch Kogan]], Russian violinist (b. [[1924]])
 +*[[1986]] - [[Georges Besse]], French automobile executive (b. [[1927]])
 +*[[1987]] - [[Paul Derringer]], baseball player (b. [[1906]])
 +*[[1989]] - [[Gus Farace]], American gangster (b. [[1960]])
 +*[[1990]] - [[Robert Hofstadter]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1915]])
 +*[[1993]] - [[Gérard D. Lévesque]], Canadian politician (b. [[1926]])
 +*[[1995]] - [[Alan Hull]], English Rock Musician ([[Lindisfarne (band)|Lindisfarne]])
 +*[[1998]] - [[Esther Rolle]], American actress (b. [[1920]])
 +*[[2000]] - [[Louis Eugène Félix Néel]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1904]])
 +*[[2001]] - [[Michael Karoli]], German guitarist (b. [[1948]])
 +*[[2002]] - [[Abba Eban]], Israeli diplomat (b. [[1915]])
 +*[[2003]] - [[Arthur Conley]], American singer (b. [[1946]])
 +* 2003 - [[Don Gibson]], American singer (b. [[1928]])
 +*[[2004]] - [[Mikael Ljungberg]], Swedish wrestler (b. [[1970]])
 +* 2004 - [[Alexander Ragulin]], Russian hockey player (b. [[1941]])
 +*[[2005]] - [[Marek Perepeczko]], Polish actor (b. [[1942]])
 +*[[2006]] - [[Ruth Brown]], American blues singer (b. [[1928]])
 +* 2006 - [[Ferenc Puskás]], Hungarian footballer (b. [[1927]])
 +* 2006 - [[Bo Schembechler]], American football coach (b. [[1929]])
 +* 2006 - [[Flo Sandon's]], Italian singer (b. [[1924]])
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