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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| *[[1634]] - [[Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in [[Loudun]], [[France]]. | *[[1634]] - [[Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in [[Loudun]], [[France]]. | ||
| *[[1941]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] orders a temporary halt to [[Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany's]] systematic [[euthanasia]] of [[mental illness|mentally ill]] and [[Disability|handicapped]] due to protests. | *[[1941]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] orders a temporary halt to [[Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany's]] systematic [[euthanasia]] of [[mental illness|mentally ill]] and [[Disability|handicapped]] due to protests. | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - Around 70 people died in the [[Vergarolla explosion]]. | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Julien Lahaut]], the [[chairman]] of the [[Communist Party of Belgium]] is assassinated by far-right elements. | ||
| *[[1958]] - [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s controversial novel ''[[Lolita]]'' is published in the [[United States]]. | *[[1958]] - [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s controversial novel ''[[Lolita]]'' is published in the [[United States]]. | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[American civil rights movement]]: [[James Meredith]] becomes the first black person to graduate from the [[University of Mississippi]]. | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Starlite]] begins - [[United States Marines]] destroy a [[Viet Cong]] stronghold on the [[Van Tuong]] peninsula in the first major [[United States|American]] ground battle of the war. | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Battle of Long Tan]] occurs, when a patrol of [[Royal Australian Regiment]] encounter the [[Viet Cong]]. | ||
| *[[1969]] - [[Jimi Hendrix]] plays the unofficial last day of [[Woodstock]]. | *[[1969]] - [[Jimi Hendrix]] plays the unofficial last day of [[Woodstock]]. | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] decide to withdraw their troops from [[Vietnam]]. | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - In the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] at [[Panmunjeom]], the [[Axe Murder Incident]] results in the death of two [[United States|US]] soldiers. | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Steve Biko]] was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in [[King William's Town]], [[South Africa]]. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to [[apartheid]]. | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Japan]]ese election law is amended to allow for [[proportional representation]]. | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Hurricane Alicia]] hits the [[Texas]] coast, killing 22 people and causing over [[USD]] $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars). | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - Leading presidential hopeful [[Luis Carlos Galán]] is assassinated near [[Bogotá]] in [[Colombia]]. | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Wang Laboratories]] files for [[bankruptcy]]. | ||
| - | * 1992 - [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] [[basketball]] [[Player (game)|player]] [[Larry Bird]] announces his retirement after winning an [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal as a member of the [[United States|U.S.]] ''[[Dream Team (basketball)|Dream Team]]''. | ||
| - | *[[2000]] - federal jury found the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|US EPA]] guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], later inspiring passage of the [[Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002|No FEAR Act]]. | ||
| - | *[[2002]] - [[MTR]] [[Tseung Kwan O Line (MTR)|Tseung Kwan O Line]] officially opened. *[[2004]] - In [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] the [[Dublin Port Tunnel]] excavation works are completed. | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Dennis Rader]] is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the [[BTK killer|BTK serial killings]]. | ||
| - | * 2005 - [[2005 Java-Bali Blackout|Massive power blackout]] hits the [[Indonesia]]n island of [[Java (island)|Java]], affecting almost 100 million people. | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | *[[1414]] - [[Jami]], Persian poet (d. [[1492]]) | ||
| - | *[[1450]] - [[Marko Marulić]], Croatian poet (d. [[1524]]) | ||
| - | *[[1579]] - [[Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau]], Roman Catholic nun (died [[1640]]) | ||
| - | *[[1587]] - [[Virginia Dare]], first English child born in North America (d. [[1588]]) | ||
| - | *[[1596]] - [[Jean Bolland]], Flemish Jesuit writer (d. [[1665]]) | ||
| - | *[[1605]] - [[Henry Hammond]], English churchman (d. [[1660]]) | ||
| - | *[[1657]] - [[Ferdinando Galli Bibiena]], Italian [[architect]]/[[designer]] (d. [[1743]]) | ||
| - | *[[1685]] - [[Brook Taylor]], English mathematician (d. [[1731]]) | ||
| - | *[[1692]] - [[Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon]], [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1740]]) | ||
| - | *[[1720]] - [[Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers]], English murderer (d. [[1760]]) | ||
| - | *[[1750]] - [[Antonio Salieri]], Italian composer (d. [[1825]]) | ||
| - | *[[1754]] - [[François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat]], French general (d. [[1833]]) | ||
| - | *[[1774]] - [[Meriwether Lewis]], American explorer (d. [[1809]]) | ||
| - | *[[1792]] - [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1878]]) | ||
| - | *[[1803]] - [[Nathan Clifford]], American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. [[1881]]) | ||
| - | *[[1822]] - [[Isaac P. Rodman]], American Union general (d. [[1862]]) | ||
| - | *[[1830]] - Emperor [[Franz Josef I of Austria]] (d. [[1916]]) | ||
| - | *[[1841]] - [[William Halford]], American naval officer (d. [[1919]]) | ||
| - | *[[1855]] - [[Alfred Wallis]], English artist and mariner (d. [[1942]]) | ||
| - | *[[1857]] - [[Libert H. Boeynaems]], Belgian Catholic prelate (d. [[1926]]) | ||
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Lavr Georgevich Kornilov]], Russian general (d. [[1918]]) | ||
| - | *[[1879]] - [[Aleksandr Rodzyanko]], Russian general (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Walther Funk]], German Nazi politician (d. [[1960]]) | ||
| - | *[[1893]] - [[Ernest MacMillan]], Canadian musician (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| - | * 1893 - [[Burleigh Grimes]], baseball player (d. [[1985]]) | ||
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Jack Pickford]], Canadian-born actor (d. [[1933]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Glenn Albert Black]], American archaeologist (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Adamson-Eric]], Estonian painter (d. [[1968]]) | ||
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Lucienne Boyer]], French singer (d. [[1983]]) | ||
| - | *[[1904]] - [[Max Factor]], Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| *[[1906]] - [[Marcel Carné]], French film director (d. [[1996]]) | *[[1906]] - [[Marcel Carné]], French film director (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| - | *[[1908]] - [[Edgar Faure]], French politician and historian (d. [[1988]]) | + | *[[1920]] - [[Shelley Winters]], American actress (d. [[2006]]) |
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Gérard Filion]], French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. [[2005]]) | + | *[[1922]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], French writer and filmmaker (d. [[2008]]) |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Romain Maes]], Belgian cyclist (d. [[1983]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1915]] - [[Max Lanier]], baseball player (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1916]] - Dame [[Moura Lympany]], British pianist (d. [[2005]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Caspar Weinberger]], American politician (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Walter Joseph Hickel]], American politician | + | |
| - | * 1918 - [[Cisco Houston]], American folk singer (d. [[1961]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Bob Kennedy]], baseball player (d. [[2005]]) | + | |
| - | * 1920 - [[Shelley Winters]], American actress (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1921]] - [[Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr.]], Polish art historian | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], French writer | + | |
| *[[1925]] - [[Brian Aldiss]], English writer | *[[1925]] - [[Brian Aldiss]], English writer | ||
| - | * 1925 - [[Pierre Grondin]], French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Rosalynn Carter]], [[First Lady of the United States]] | ||
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Marge Schott]], baseball team owner (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Hugues Aufray]], French singer | ||
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Liviu Librescu]], Israeli professor, killed in the [[Virginia Tech massacre]] | ||
| - | *[[1931]] - [[Bramwell Tillsley]], Canadian Salvation Army general | ||
| - | * 1931 - [[Dick White (footballer)|Dick White]], English footballer | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[William R. Bennett]], Premier of British Columbia | ||
| *[[1933]] - [[Roman Polanski]], French-born director and actor | *[[1933]] - [[Roman Polanski]], French-born director and actor | ||
| - | * 1933 - [[Just Fontaine]], French footballer | + | *[[1955]] - [[Stefano Tamburini]], Italian graphic artist, (d. [[1986]]) |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Vincent Bugliosi]], American attorney | + | |
| - | * 1934 - [[Roberto Clemente]], Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. [[1972]]) | + | |
| - | * 1934 - [[Ronnie Carroll]], British singer | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Rafer Johnson]], American athlete | + | |
| - | * 1935 - [[Howard Morrison]], New Zealand entertainer | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Robert Redford]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Robert Horton]], British businessman | + | |
| - | * 1939 - [[Johnny Preston]], American singer | + | |
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Martin Mull]], American comedian | + | |
| - | * 1943 - [[Gianni Rivera]], Italian footballer and politician | + | |
| - | * 1943 - [[Carl Wayne]], English singer (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Barbara Harris (singer)|Barbara Harris]], American singer ([[The Toys|Toys]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Joseph Marcell]], British actor | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Elayne Boosler]], American comedian | + | |
| - | * 1952 - [[Patrick Swayze]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1952 - [[Ricky Villa]], Argentine former footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Louie Gohmert]], American politician | + | |
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Taher ElGamal]], Egyptian scientist | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[John Debney]], American composer | + | |
| - | * 1956 - [[Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz]], American musician | + | |
| *[[1957]] - [[Carole Bouquet]], French actress | *[[1957]] - [[Carole Bouquet]], French actress | ||
| + | *[[1958]] - [[Roberto Baldazzini]], Italian graphic artist | ||
| * 1957 - [[Denis Leary]], American comedian and actor | * 1957 - [[Denis Leary]], American comedian and actor | ||
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Madeleine Stowe]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Tom Prichard]], American wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Fat Lever]], American basketball player | ||
| - | * 1960 - [[Mike LaValliere]], baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Bob Woodruff]], American journalist, anchor | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Felipe Calderón]], [[President of Mexico|President]] of [[Mexico]] | ||
| - | * 1962 - [[Geoff Courtnall]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Edith Frost]], American singer/songwriter | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Koji Kikkawa]], Japanese singer | ||
| - | * 1965 - [[Jim Florentine]], American comedian | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Gustavo Charif]], Argentine artist | ||
| - | * 1966 - [[Kang Soo-yeon]], South Korean actress | ||
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Brian Michael Bendis]], American comic book writer | ||
| - | * 1967 - [[Daler Mehndi]], Indian bhangra/pop singer | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Lee Seung-yeon]], South Korean actress | ||
| - | * 1968 - [[Dan Peters]], American musician | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Masta Killa]], American rapper | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Everlast (singer)|Everlast]], American musician | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Edward Norton]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Christian Slater]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Jessica Hsuan]], Hong Kong actress | ||
| - | * 1970 - [[Malcolm-Jamal Warner]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Richard D James]], Irish-born musician ([[Aphex Twin]]) | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Keiko Yamada]], Japanese singer | ||
| - | * 1972 - [[Leo Ku]], Hong Kong singer | ||
| - | * 1972 - [[Shaun Wilson]], Australian artist | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Shivnarine Chanderpaul]], West Indian cricketer | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Daphnee Duplaix Samuel]], American actress, Playboy Playmate | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Andy Samberg]], American comedian | ||
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Selena Silver]], pornographic actress | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Esteban Cambiasso]], Argentine footballer | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Preeti Jhangiani]], Indian actress | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Rob Nguyen]], Australian racing driver | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Athina Papayianni]], Greek race walker | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Jeremy Shockey]], American football [[Tight End]] | ||
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Jonathan Schneck]], American musician ([[Relient K]]) | ||
| - | * 1981 - [[César Delgado]], Argentine footballer | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Danny!|Daniel Keith Swain]] (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Mica Penniman]] (Mika), Lebanese-born musician | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Kris Boyd]], Scottish footballer | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Robert Huth]], German footballer | ||
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Mika Boorem]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Frances Bean Cobain]], daughter [[Kurt Cobain]] and [[Courtney Love]] | ||
| - | * 1992 - [[Riko Narumi]], Japanese actress | ||
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Jessie Flower]], American actress and voice actress | ||
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Parker McKenna Posey]], American actress | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[353]] - [[Decentius]], [[Roman usurper]] | ||
| - | * [[472]] - [[Ricimer]], Roman general | ||
| - | * [[849]] - [[Walafrid Strabo]], German monk and theologian | ||
| - | *[[1227]] - [[Genghis Khan]], Khagan of Mongol Empire | ||
| - | *[[1258]] - [[Theodore II Lascaris]], Emperor of the [[Empire of Nicaea]] | ||
| - | *[[1276]] - [[Pope Adrian V]] | ||
| - | *[[1318]] - [[Clare of Montefalco]], Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. [[1268]]) | ||
| - | *[[1430]] - [[Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros]], English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. [[1406]]) | ||
| *[[1503]] - [[Pope Alexander VI]] (b. [[1431]]) | *[[1503]] - [[Pope Alexander VI]] (b. [[1431]]) | ||
| - | *[[1559]] - [[Pope Paul IV]] (b. [[1476]]) | ||
| *[[1563]] - [[Étienne de La Boétie]], French judge and writer (b. [[1530]]) | *[[1563]] - [[Étienne de La Boétie]], French judge and writer (b. [[1530]]) | ||
| - | *[[1613]] - [[Giovanni Artusi]], Italian composer | ||
| - | *[[1620]] - [[Wanli]], [[Emperor of China]] (b. [[1563]]) | ||
| *[[1634]] - [[Urbain Grandier]], French priest (b. [[1590]]) | *[[1634]] - [[Urbain Grandier]], French priest (b. [[1590]]) | ||
| - | *[[1642]] - [[Guido Reni]], Italian painter (b. [[1575]]) | ||
| - | *[[1645]] - [[Eudoxia Streshneva]], Tsarina of [[Mikhail I of Russia]] (b. [[1608]]) | ||
| - | *[[1683]] - [[Charles Hart (17th-century actor)|Charles Hart]], English actor (b. [[1625]]) | ||
| - | *[[1707]] - [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire]], English soldier and statesman (b. [[1640]]) | ||
| - | *[[1712]] - [[Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers]], English soldier | ||
| - | *[[1765]] - [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1708]]) | ||
| - | *[[1809]] - [[Matthew Boulton]], English manufacturer and engineer (b. [[1728]]) | ||
| - | *[[1815]] - [[Chauncey Goodrich]], American politician (b. [[1759]]) | ||
| - | *[[1842]] - [[Louis de Freycinet]], French explorer (b. [[1779]]) | ||
| *[[1850]] - [[Honoré de Balzac]], French writer (b. [[1799]]) | *[[1850]] - [[Honoré de Balzac]], French writer (b. [[1799]]) | ||
| - | *[[1919]] - [[Joseph E. Seagram]], Canadian distillery founder (b. [[1841]]) | + | * [[1879]] – [[Joseph Octave Delepierre]], Belgian bibliophile (b. 1802) |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Walter P. Chrysler]], American automobile executive (b. [[1875]]) | + | *[[1942]] - [[Erwin Schulhoff]], Czech composer and pianist ("In futurum") (b. [[1894]]) |
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Ali-Agha Shikhlinski]], Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. [[1865]]) | + | *[[1970]] - [[Soledad Miranda]], Spanish actress (b. [[1943]]) |
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Paul Mares]], American musician (b. [[1900]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Clifford Odets]], American playwright (b. [[1906]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Anita Loos]], American screenwriter (b. [[1889]]) | + | |
| *[[1983]] - [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], German-born art historian (b. [[1902]]) | *[[1983]] - [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], German-born art historian (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Grethe Ingmann]], Danish singer (b. [[1938]]) | + | *[[1990]] - [[B.F. Skinner]], American psychological theorist (b. [[1904]]) |
| - | * 1990 - [[B.F. Skinner]], American psychological theorist (b. [[1904]]) | + | |
| *[[1992]] - [[John Sturges]], American film director (b. [[1911]]) | *[[1992]] - [[John Sturges]], American film director (b. [[1911]]) | ||
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Martin Cahill]], The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. [[1949]]) | ||
| - | *[[1998]] - [[Persis Khambatta]], Indian actress (b. [[1950]]) | ||
| - | *[[2001]] - [[David Peakall]], British scientist (b. [[1931]]) | ||
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Dean Riesner]], American film and television writer (b. [[1918]]) | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Tony Jackson (bass player)|Tony Jackson]], English musician ([[The Searchers (band)|The Searchers]]) (b. [[1938]]) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Elmer Bernstein]], American composer (b. [[1922]]) | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Christopher Bauman]], American wrestler (b. [[1982]]) | ||
| - | * 2005 - [[Gao Xiumin]], Chinese comedy actress (b. [[1959]]) | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Fernand Gignac]], Canadian singer and actor (b. [[1934]]) | ||
| - | * 2006 - [[Jamie Astaphan]], Caribbean-born physician (b. [[1946]]) | ||
| - | *[[2007]] - [[Michael Deaver]], Reagan Administration [[Deputy White House Chief of Staff]] (b. [[1938]]) | ||
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| - | == Notes == | ||
| - | Alain Robbe-Grillet | ||
| - | Roman Polanski | ||
| - | Roberto Baldazzini | ||
| - | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| - | Brian Aldiss | ||
| - | Pope Alexander VI | ||
| - | Shelley Winters | ||
| - | Soledad Miranda | ||
| - | Roaring Twenties | ||
| - | Stefano Tamburini | ||
| - | Erwin Schulhoff | ||
| - | Nikolaus Pevsner | ||
| - | Urbain Grandier | ||
| - | Carole Bouquet | ||
| - | Marcel Carné | ||
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Art and culture
- 1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
- 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.
- 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
- 1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
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Births
- 1906 - Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
- 1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (d. 2008)
- 1925 - Brian Aldiss, English writer
- 1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
- 1955 - Stefano Tamburini, Italian graphic artist, (d. 1986)
- 1957 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
- 1958 - Roberto Baldazzini, Italian graphic artist
- 1957 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
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Deaths
- 1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
- 1563 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
- 1634 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
- 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
- 1879 – Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian bibliophile (b. 1802)
- 1942 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist ("In futurum") (b. 1894)
- 1970 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
- 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
- 1990 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
- 1992 - John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
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