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September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
- 372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
- 1213 – Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
- 1229 – The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
- 1309 – The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
- 1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
- 1683 – Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
- 1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
- 1847 – Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
- 1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- 1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
- 1874 – The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
- 1885 – Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
- 1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1897 – Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- 1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
- 1919 – Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
- 1930 – In cricket Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
- 1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
- 1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
- 1940 – An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
- 1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
- 1942 – World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
- 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
- 1944 – World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
- 1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.
- 1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
- 1953 – U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
- 1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
- 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- 1964 – Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
- 1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
- 1970 – Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
- 1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
- 1974 – Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
- 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
- 1979 – Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
- 1980 – Military coup in Turkey.
- 1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
- 1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
- 1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
- 1990 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
- 1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
- 1992 – Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
- 1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
- 1999 – Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
- 2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
- 2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
- 2003 – In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
- 2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
- 2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
- 2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
- 2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to the public.
Births
- 1492 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
- 1494 – Francis I of France, King of France (d. 1547)
- 1605 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
- 1688 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
- 1690 – Peter Dens, Flemish theologian (d. 1775)
- 1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
- 1736 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (d. 1776)
- 1740 – Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
- 1768 – Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (d. 1831)
- 1797 – Samuel Joseph May, American activist (d. 1871)
- 1812 – Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (d. 1878)
- 1812 – Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (d. 1886)
- 1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (d. 1903)
- 1818 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1882)
- 1830 – William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915)
- 1837 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892)
- 1852 – H. H. Asquith, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
- 1855 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (d. 1920)
- 1856 – Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (d. 1924)
- 1857 – Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian pharmacist and politician (d. 1919)
- 1862 – Carl Eytel, German-American painter (d. 1925)
- 1866 – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (d. 1941)
- 1875 – Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor and director (d. 1926)
- 1880 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956)
- 1884 – Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler (d. 1947)
- 1885 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957)
- 1888 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1972)
- 1889 – Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)
- 1891 – Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (d. 1965)
- 1891 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 1968)
- 1892 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (d. 1984)
- 1894 – Billy Gilbert, American actor and singer (d. 1971)
- 1895 – Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Grietje Jansen-Anker, Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2009)
- 1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
- 1898 – Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
- 1898 – Alma Moodie, Australian violinist (d. 1943)
- 1898 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter (d. 1969)
- 1901 – Ben Blue, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1975)
- 1901 – Shmuel Horowitz, Belarusian-Israeli agronomist (d. 1999)
- 1902 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (d. 1976)
- 1902 – Marya Zaturenska, American poet (d. 1982)
- 1904 – István Horthy, Hungarian admiral (d. 1942)
- 1904 – Lou Moore, American race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1905 – Linda Agostini, Australian murder victim (d. 1934)
- 1907 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (d. 1963)
- 1909 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman (d. 2013)
- 1914 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, poet, and scholar (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English actor (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Billy Daniels, American singer and actor (d. 1988)
- 1915 – Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1916 – Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
- 1916 – Edward Binns, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1917 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel, academic, and politician (d. 2004)
- 1917 – Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Irene Dailey, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish philosopher and author (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
- 1922 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet, playwright, and composer (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Stan Lopata, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Mathé Altéry, French soprano
- 1927 – Freddie Jones, English actor
- 1928 – Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician
- 1929 – Harvey Schmidt, American composer
- 1930 – Larry Austin, American composer
- 1931 – Ian Holm, English actor
- 1931 – Kristin Hunter, American author and educator (d. 2008)
- 1931 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Bill McKinney, American actor and singer (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Atli Dam, Faroese politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
- 1932 – Bernard Delcampe, French footballer (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Kim Hamilton, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1933 – Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
- 1934 – Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (d. 2009)
- 1934 – Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher
- 1937 – George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
- 1938 – Dick Hess, American politician (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1938 – Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano (d. 1993)
- 1939 – Phillip Ramey, American pianist and composer
- 1939 – Henry Waxman, American lawyer and politician
- 1940 – Linda Gray, American actress, director, and producer
- 1940 – Skip Hinnant, American actor
- 1940 – Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
- 1940 – Patrick Mower, English actor
- 1940 – Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1941 – Heino Kurvet, Estonian canoe racer
- 1942 – Michel Drucker, French journalist
- 1942 – Tomás Marco, Spanish composer
- 1942 – François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (d. 2004)
- 1943 – Maria Muldaur, American singer
- 1943 – Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet
- 1944 – Fred Fay, American activist (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Leonard Peltier, American activist
- 1944 – Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor
- 1944 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
- 1944 – Colin Young, Barbadian-English singer (The Foundations)
- 1945 – David Garrick, English singer (d. 2013)
- 1945 – Milo Manara, Italian author and illustrator
- 1945 – John Mauceri, American conductor and producer
- 1945 – Maria Aitken, Irish-English actress, director, and producer
- 1946 – Tony Bellamy, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Redbone) (d. 2009)
- 1947 – Bjørn Floberg, Norwegian actor
- 1948 – Luis Lima, Argentinian tenor
- 1948 – Steve Turre, American trombonist
- 1948 – Max Walker, Australian cricketer
- 1949 – Charles Burlingame, American pilot (d. 2001)
- 1949 – Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
- 1950 – Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician
- 1950 – Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
- 1950 – Bruce Mahler, American actor and screenwriter
- 1950 – Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1950 – Cynthia Myers, American model and actress (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Bertie Ahern, Irish politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland
- 1951 – Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player and actor (d. 2007)
- 1951 – Joe Pantoliano, American actor and producer
- 1951 – Gerald Stano, American serial killer (d. 1998)
- 1951 – Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor (The Temptations) (d. 2010)
- 1952 – Gerry Beckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (America)
- 1952 – Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (Rush)
- 1954 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (d. 1988)
- 1954 – Peeter Volkonski, Estonian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1955 – Peter Scolari, American actor and director
- 1955 – Brian Smith, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1956 – Barry Andrews, English singer and keyboard player (XTC, Shriekback, and The League of Gentlemen)
- 1956 – Sam Brownback, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Kansas
- 1956 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2003)
- 1956 – Brian Robertson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Motörhead, and Wild Horses)
- 1956 – Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
- 1956 – Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore
- 1957 – Rachel Ward, English actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1957 – Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer
- 1958 – Wilfred Benítez, American boxer
- 1958 – Gregg Edelman, American actor
- 1959 – Scott Brown, American colonel and politician
- 1959 – Sigmar Gabriel, German politician, 9th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
- 1960 – Stefanos Korkolis, Greek pianist and composer
- 1961 – Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi singer-songwriter
- 1961 – Mylène Farmer, Canadian-French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1962 – Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1962 – Amy Yasbeck, American actress
- 1963 – Paul Bellini, Canadian actor and screenwriter
- 1964 – Simon Bowthorpe, English businessman
- 1964 – Greg Gutfeld, American journalist and author
- 1964 – Dieter Hecking, German footballer and manager
- 1965 – Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian animator and producer
- 1965 – Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player
- 1966 – Darren E. Burrows, American actor
- 1966 – Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ben Folds Five, The Bens, Fear of Pop, and 8in8)
- 1966 – Vezio Sacratini, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Louis C.K., Mexican-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967 – Pat Listach, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1967 – Jason Statham, English actor and martial artist
- 1968 – Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter (Primus, Possessed, and Blind Illusion)
- 1968 – Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, English politician
- 1968 – Richard Snell, South African cricketer
- 1968 – Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1969 – Max Boot, Russian-American historian and author
- 1969 – Ángel Cabrera, Argentinian golfer
- 1969 – James Frey, American author
- 1969 – Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
- 1970 – Josh Hopkins, American actor
- 1970 – Nathan Larson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Shudder To Think, Hot One, and A Camp)
- 1971 – Ahn Jae-wook, South Korean actor and singer
- 1972 – Gideon Emery, English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1973 – Said Ali al-Shihri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2013)
- 1973 – Darren Campbell, English sprinter
- 1973 – Ki-Jana Carter, American football player
- 1973 – Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 – Paul Walker, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
- 1974 – Caroline Aigle, French pilot (d. 2007)
- 1974 – Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter (Sugarland)
- 1974 – Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
- 1975 – Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1976 – Bizzy Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Bone Brothers)
- 1976 – 2 Chainz, American rapper (Playaz Circle)
- 1976 – Lauren Stamile, American actress
- 1976 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
- 1977 – Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
- 1977 – Grant Denyer, Australian race car driver and journalist
- 1977 – Jeff Irwin, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1977 – James McCartney, English singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1977 – David Thompson, English footballer
- 1978 – Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
- 1978 – Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
- 1978 – Ruben Studdard, German-American singer and actor
- 1980 – Roda Antar, Sierra Leonean-Lebanese footballer
- 1980 – Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
- 1980 – Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Gus G, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (Firewind, Dream Evil, and Mystic Prophecy)
- 1980 – Joe Loeffler, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Chevelle)
- 1980 – Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
- 1980 – Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player
- 1980 – Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1981 – Marty Adams, Canadian actor
- 1981 – Alan Arruda, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress
- 1981 – Staciana Stitts, American swimmer
- 1981 – Hosea Chanchez, American actor
- 1982 – Nana Ozaki, Japanese model
- 1982 – Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player
- 1983 – Tom Geißler, German footballer
- 1983 – Rami Haikal, Jordanian guitarist (Bilocate)
- 1983 – Sebastian Hofmann, German footballer
- 1983 – Daniel Muir, American football player
- 1983 – Sergio Parisse, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
- 1983 – Clayton Richard, American baseball player
- 1983 – Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter and actress (We Are the Fallen)
- 1984 – September, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer
- 1985 – Jonatan Cerrada, Belgian singer
- 1986 – Kamila Chudzik, Polish heptathlete
- 1986 – Joanne Jackson, English swimmer
- 1986 – Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer
- 1986 – Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
- 1986 – Emmy Rossum, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1986 – Yang Mi, Chinese actress and singer
- 1988 – Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1989 – Freddie Freeman, American baseball player
- 1989 – Andrew Luck, American football player
- 1991 – Scott Wootton, English footballer
- 1996 – Colin Ford, American actor
Deaths
- 640 – Sak K'uk', Mayan queen
- 1185 – Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
- 1213 – Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
- 1362 – Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295)
- 1369 – Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345)
- 1500 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
- 1612 – Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
- 1642 – Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
- 1660 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
- 1665 – Jean Bolland, Belgian priest (b. 1596)
- 1672 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar (b. 1615)
- 1683 – Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
- 1691 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
- 1695 – Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
- 1712 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
- 1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (b. 1683)
- 1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1711)
- 1810 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker (b. 1740)
- 1814 – Robert Ross, Irish general (b. 1766)
- 1819 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
- 1833 – Charles Larkin, English reformer (b. 1775)
- 1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (b. 1801)
- 1869 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779)
- 1870 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (b. 1836)
- 1874 – François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
- 1903 – Duncan Gillies, Australia politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
- 1907 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)
- 1912 – Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (b. 1829)
- 1918 – George Reid, Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
- 1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1871)
- 1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist (b. 1841)
- 1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
- 1929 – Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
- 1938 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)
- 1944 – William Stickney, American golfer (b. 1879)
- 1945 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
- 1953 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
- 1953 – Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879)
- 1956 – Hans Carossa, German author and poet (b. 1878)
- 1956 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Minister of War of Hungary (b. 1882)
- 1956 – Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes (b. 1878)
- 1960 – Dino Borgioli, Italian tenor (b. 1891)
- 1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
- 1962 – Spot Poles, American baseball player b. 1887
- 1962 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (b. 1923)
- 1967 – Vladimir Bartol, Italian author (b. 1903)
- 1968 – Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1894)
- 1971 – Walter Egan, American golfer (b. 1881)
- 1972 – William Boyd, American actor and producer (b. 1895)
- 1977 – Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
- 1977 – Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898)
- 1977 – Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
- 1978 – Frank Ferguson, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1978 – William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896)
- 1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
- 1982 – Federico Moreno Tórroba, Spanish composer (b. 1891)
- 1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (b. 1894)
- 1990 – Athene Seyler, English actress (b. 1889)
- 1991 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (b. 1909)
- 1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1932)
- 1993 – Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1917)
- 1993 – Willie Mosconi, American pool player (b. 1913)
- 1994 – Tom Ewell, American actor and singer (b. 1909)
- 1994 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937)
- 1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
- 1995 – Katherine Locke, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
- 1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
- 1996 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
- 1997 – Idel Jakobson, Latvian NKVD officer (b. 1904)
- 1999 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
- 2000 – Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (b. 1938)
- 2000 – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
- 2001 – Victor Wong, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Tennessee Three and The Highwaymen) (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Kenny Buttrey, American drummer (Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615) (b. 1945)
- 2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
- 2008 – David Foster Wallace, American author and educator (b. 1962)
- 2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- 2009 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
- 2010 – Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
- 2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
- 2012 – Whobegotyou, Australian race horse (b. 2005)
- 2012 – Jimmy Andrews, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Derek Jameson, English journalist (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (b. 1950)
- 2012 – Sid Watkins, English surgeon (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, American-Somali terrorist (b. 1984)
- 2013 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Sheldon Hackney, American educator (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Rod Masterson, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Joan Regan, English singer and actress (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
- 2013 – Frank Tripucka, American football player (b. 1927)
Holidays and observances
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