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Day of the year
August 26 is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 127 days remain until the end of the year.
Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 1642 – Dutch–Portuguese War : Second Battle of San Salvador : The Dutch force the Spanish garrison at San Salvador (modern day Keelung , Taiwan ) to surrender, ending the short-lived Spanish colony on Formosa and replacing it with a new Dutch administration .[1] 1648 – The Fronde : First Fronde : In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens , Cardinal Mazarin , Chief Minister of France , suddenly orders the arrest of the leaders of the Parlement of Paris , provoking the rest of Paris to break into insurrection and barricade the streets the next day.[2] 1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium , is founded in Philadelphia .1767 – Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus .[3] 1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour .1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav , the highest mountain in Slovenia .1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat .1810 – The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution .1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition : An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz , Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).1814 – Chilean War of Independence : Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias .1833 – The great 1833 Kathmandu–Bihar earthquake causes major damage in Nepal, northern India and Tibet, a total of 500 people perish.[4] 1849 – President Faustin Soulouque of the First Republic of Haiti has the Senate and Chamber of Deputies proclaim him the Emperor of Haiti , abolishing the Republic and inaugurating the Second Empire of Haiti .[5] 1863 – The Swedish-language liberal newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad proposed the current blue-and-white cross flag as the flag of Finland .[6] 1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.1901–present 1914 – World War I : The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign . Togoland is the first German colony to fall to allied hand in World War I.1914 – World War I: During the retreat from Mons , the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fights a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau . 1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.1922 – Greco-Turkish War (1919–22) : Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.1936 – Spanish Civil War : Santander falls to the nationalists and the republican interprovincial council is dissolved.[7] 1940 – World War II : Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué , France's first black colonial governor .1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine : At Chortkiv , the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp . Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.1966 – The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe .1970 – The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality .1972 – The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich , West Germany .[8] 1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec .1978 – Papal conclave : Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I .1980 – After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada , in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.1997 – Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria , leaving 60 to 100 people dead.1998 – The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X communications satellite.1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade .2003 – A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Yarmouth, Massachusetts , killing both pilots on board.[9] 2009 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years. Her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido are apprehended.2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner , Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA .2014 – The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.[10] 2015 – Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia .2018 – Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida .[11] 2021 – During the 2021 Kabul airlift , a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.[12] 2023 – Exactly 5 years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting , there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida , leaving 3 people dead.[13] Births Pre-1600 1601–1900 1676 – Robert Walpole , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)[14] 1694 – Elisha Williams , English colonial minister, academic, and politician (d. 1755)1695 – Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault , French singer-songwriter (d. 1791)[15] 1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert , Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777)1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle , French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1790)1740 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier , French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810)1743 – Antoine Lavoisier , French chemist and biologist (d. 1794)1751 – Manuel Abad y Queipo , Spanish-born Mexican bishop (d. 1825)1775 – William Joseph Behr , German publicist and academic (d. 1851)1783 – Federigo Zuccari , astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (d. 1817)1792 – Manuel Oribe , Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay (d. 1857)1797 – Saint Innocent of Alaska , Russian Orthodox missionary priest , then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (d. 1879)1819 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)[16] 1824 – Martha Darley Mutrie , British painter (d. 1885)[17] 1854 – Arnold Fothergill , English cricketer (d. 1932)1856 – Clara Schønfeld , Danish actress (d. 1939)1862 – Herbert Booth , Canadian songwriter and bandleader (d. 1926)1865 – Arthur James Arnot , Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946)1873 – Lee de Forest , American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961)1874 – Zona Gale , American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1938)1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir , Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire , Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1918)1882 – James Franck , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)1882 – Sam Hardy , English footballer (d. 1966) 1885 – Jules Romains , French author and poet (d. 1972)1888 – Gustavo R. Vincenti , Maltese architect and developer (d. 1974)[18] 1891 – Acharya Chatursen Shastri , Indian author and playwright (d. 1960)1894 – Sparky Adams , American baseball player and farmer (d. 1989)1896 – Ivan Mihailov , Bulgarian soldier and politician (d. 1990)1897 – Yun Posun , South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea (d. 1990)1898 – Peggy Guggenheim , American-Italian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1979)1900 – Margaret Utinsky , American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom (d. 1970)1900 – Hellmuth Walter , German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980) 1901–present 1901 – Eleanor Dark , Australian author and poet (d. 1985)1901 – Hans Kammler , German SS officer and engineer (d. 1945) 1901 – Jimmy Rushing , American singer and bandleader (d. 1972) 1901 – Maxwell D. Taylor , American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (d. 1987) 1901 – Chen Yi , Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 1972) 1903 – Caroline Pafford Miller , American author (d. 1992)1904 – Christopher Isherwood , English-American author and academic (d. 1986)1904 – Joe Hulme , English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991) 1906 – Bunny Austin , English tennis player (d. 2000)[19] 1906 – Albert Sabin , Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993) 1908 – Walter Bruno Henning , Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)1908 – Aubrey Schenck , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999) 1909 – Eric Davies , South African cricketer and educator (d. 1976)1909 – Jim Davis , American actor (d. 1981) 1909 – Gene Moore , American baseball player (d. 1978) 1910 – Mother Teresa , Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)[20] 1911 – Otto Binder , American author and screenwriter (d. 1974)1914 – Julio Cortázar , Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (d. 1984)1914 – Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca , Turkish soldier and poet (d. 2008) 1915 – Humphrey Searle , English composer and conductor (d. 1982)1918 – Katherine Johnson , American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)[21] 1919 – Gerard Campbell , American priest and academic (d. 2012)1920 – Brant Parker , American illustrator (d. 2007)1920 – Prem Tinsulanonda , Thai general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2019) 1921 – Shimshon Amitsur , Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)1921 – Benjamin C. Bradlee , American journalist and author (d. 2014) 1922 – Irving R. Levine , American journalist and author (d. 2009)1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch , German pianist and conductor (d. 2013)1924 – Alex Kellner , American baseball player (d. 1996)1925 – Jack Hirshleifer , American economist and academic (d. 2005)1925 – Alain Peyrefitte , French scholar and politician, Minister of Justice for France (d. 1999) 1925 – Pyotr Todorovsky , Ukrainian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2013) 1925 – Etelka Keserű , Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018) 1925 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt , Chilean composer (d. 2010) 1926 – Anahit Tsitsikian , Armenian violinist and educator (d. 1999)1926 – Robert Vickrey , American painter and author (d. 2011) 1928 – Om Prakash Munjal , Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (d. 2015)1929 – Reuben Kamanga , Zambian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (d. 1996)1930 – Joe Solomon , Guyanese cricketer and coach (d. 2023)1931 – Kálmán Markovits , Hungarian water polo player (d. 2009)1932 – Luis Salvadores Salvi , Chilean basketball player (d. 2014)1934 – Tom Heinsohn , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2020)[20] 1934 – Kevin Ryan , Australian rugby player, coach, lawyer and politician 1935 – Geraldine Ferraro , American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)[20] 1935 – Karen Spärck Jones , English computer scientist and academic (d. 2007) 1936 – Benedict Anderson , American political scientist and academic (d. 2015)1937 – Don Bowman , American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)1938 – Jet Black , English drummer (d. 2022)1939 – Pinchas Goldstein , Israeli businessman and politician (d. 2007)1939 – Jorge Paulo Lemann , Brazilian banker and financier 1939 – Bill White , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2017)[22] 1940 – Michael Cockerell , English journalist1940 – Vic Dana , American dancer and singer[23] 1940 – Don LaFontaine , American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)[20] 1940 – Nik Turner , English musician and songwriter (d. 2022) 1941 – Chris Curtis , English drummer and singer (d. 2005)1941 – Jane Merrow , English actress, producer, and screenwriter 1941 – Barbet Schroeder , French-Swiss director and producer 1942 – Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston , English lawyer and politician (d. 2014)1942 – Chow Kwai Lam , Malaysian football coach and player (d. 2018) 1943 – Dori Caymmi , Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist1944 – Alan Parker , English guitarist and songwriter1944 – Judith Rees , English geographer and academic 1944 – Maureen Tucker , American singer-songwriter and drummer 1945 – Tom Ridge , American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security 1946 – Zhou Ji , Chinese engineer and politician, 14th Chinese Minister of Education 1946 – Valerie Simpson , American singer-songwriter 1946 – Alison Steadman , English actress 1947 – Nicolae Dobrin , Romanian footballer and manager (d. 2007)1949 – Allahshukur Pashazadeh , Azerbaijani cleric1949 – Leon Redbone , Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2019)[20] 1951 – Gerd Bonk , German weightlifter (d. 2014)1951 – Bill Whitaker , American journalist[23] 1951 – Edward Witten , American physicist and academic 1952 – Bryon Baltimore , Canadian ice hockey player1952 – Michael Jeter , American actor (d. 2003) 1952 – Will Shortz , American journalist and puzzle creator[20] 1953 – David Hurley , Australian general and politician, 27th Governor General of Australia 1953 – Andrea Saltelli , Italian statistician and sociologist[24] 1953 – Pat Sharkey , Irish footballer 1954 – Howard Clark , English golfer and sportscaster1954 – Tracy Krohn , American race car driver and businessman 1954 – Hugh Pelham , British academic and educator 1955 – Ian Dejardin , English historian and curator1955 – Giuseppe Resnati , Italian chemist and educator 1956 – Sally Beamish , English viola player and composer1956 – Brett Cullen , American actor 1956 – Mark Mangino , American football player and coach 1957 – Nikky Finney , American poet and academic1957 – Dr. Alban , Swedish musician[25] 1958 – Jan Nevens , Belgian cyclist1959 – Oliver Colvile , English lawyer and politician1959 – Stan Van Gundy , American basketball player and coach 1960 – Branford Marsalis , American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader[23] 1960 – Ola Ray , American model and actress 1961 – Daniel Lévi , Algerian-French singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2022)1961 – Jeff Parrett , American baseball player 1962 – Roger Kingdom , American hurdler1963 – David Byas , English cricketer and umpire1963 – Stephen J. Dubner , American journalist and author 1963 – Patrice Oppliger , American author, critic, and academic 1964 – Allegra Huston , English-American author and screenwriter1964 – Bobby Jurasin , American-Canadian football player and coach 1964 – Chad Kreuter , American baseball player and manager 1964 – Zadok Malka , Israeli footballer and manager 1964 – Torsten Schmitz , German boxer 1964 – Carsten Wolf , German cyclist 1964 – Mehriban Aliyeva , 1st Vice President of Azerbaijan, goodwill ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO 1965 – Marcus du Sautoy , English mathematician and academic1965 – Chris Burke , American actor[23] 1966 – Jacques Brinkman , Dutch field hockey player and coach1966 – Shirley Manson , Scottish singer-songwriter and actress[23] 1967 – Michael Gove , Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Education 1968 – Chris Boardman , English cyclist1969 – Adrian Young , American drummer and songwriter[23] 1970 – Jason Little , Australian rugby player1970 – Melissa McCarthy , American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter[23] 1970 – Brett Schultz , South African cricketer 1971 – Thalía , Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress[23] 1973 – Richard Evatt , English boxer (d. 2012)1974 – Kelvin Cato , American basketball player and coach1974 – Meredith Eaton , American actress[23] 1975 – Morgan Ensberg , American baseball player and coach1976 – Mike Colter , American actor[23] 1976 – Amaia Montero , Spanish singer-songwriter 1977 – Therese Alshammar , Swedish swimmer1977 – Liam Botham , English rugby player and cricketer 1977 – Saeko Chiba , Japanese voice actress and singer 1977 – Simone Motta , Italian footballer 1977 – Morris Peterson , American basketball player[26] 1979 – Jamal Lewis , American football player1979 – Cristian Mora , Ecuadorian footballer 1979 – Rubén Arriaza Pazos , Spanish footballer 1980 – Macaulay Culkin , American actor[23] 1980 – Brendan Harris , American baseball player 1980 – Manolis Papamakarios , Greek basketball player 1980 – Chris Pine , American actor[23] 1981 – Tino Best , Barbadian cricketer1981 – Sebastian Bönig , German footballer 1981 – Andreas Glyniadakis , Greek basketball player 1981 – Vangelis Moras , Greek footballer 1981 – Petey Williams , Canadian wrestler 1982 – Angelo Iorio , Italian footballer1982 – John Mulaney , American comedian, actor, writer, and producer[23] 1982 – Jayson Nix , American baseball player 1982 – Noah Welch , American ice hockey player 1983 – Mattia Cassani , Italian footballer1983 – Félix Porteiro , Spanish race car driver 1983 – Nicol David , Malaysian squash player[27] 1985 – Oleksiy Kasyanov , Ukrainian decathlete1985 – Brandon McDonald , American football player 1985 – David Price , American baseball player 1986 – Vladislav Gussev , Estonian footballer1986 – Saint Jhn , Guyanese-American rapper, singer, and songwriter[20] 1986 – Colin Kazim-Richards , Turkish footballer 1986 – Cassie Ventura , American singer, dancer, actress and model[23] 1987 – Juan Joseph , American football player and coach (d. 2014)1988 – Elvis Andrus , Venezuelan baseball player1988 – Evan Ross , American actor[23] 1988 – Danielle Savre , American actress[23] 1988 – Wayne Simmonds , Canadian ice hockey player 1988 – Lars Stindl , German footballer 1989 – James Harden , American basketball player1990 – Lorenzo Brown , American basketball player[28] 1990 – Irina-Camelia Begu , Romanian tennis player[29] 1990 – Mateo Musacchio , Argentine footballer 1991 – Jessie Diggins , American cross-country skier[30] 1991 – Dylan O'Brien , American actor[23] 1993 – Keke Palmer , American actress and singer[23] 1995 – Anthony Duclair , Canadian ice hockey player[31] 1999 – Kotoshoho Yoshinari , Japanese sumo wrestler[32] 2001 – Patrick Williams , American basketball player[33] Deaths Pre-1600 787 – Arechis II , duke of Benevento 887 – Kōkō , emperor of Japan (b. 830)1214 – Michael IV of Constantinople 1278 – Ottokar II of Bohemia (b. 1233)1346 – Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)1346 – Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304) 1346 – Louis II, Count of Blois 1346 – Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320) 1346 – John of Bohemia (b. 1296) 1349 – Thomas Bradwardine , English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)1399 – Mikhail II , Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1333)1462 – Catherine Zaccaria , Despotess of the Morea1486 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony (b. 1441)1500 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1449)1551 – Margaret Leijonhufvud , queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)1572 – Petrus Ramus , French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)1595 – António, Prior of Crato (b. 1531)1601–1900 1666 – Frans Hals , Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu , Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)1714 – Edward Fowler , English bishop and author (b. 1632) 1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek , Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville , English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)1810 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires , French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)1813 – Theodor Körner , German soldier and author (b. 1791)1850 – Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)1865 – Johann Franz Encke , German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)1878 – Mariam Baouardy , Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)1901–present 1910 – William James , American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)1921 – Matthias Erzberger , German publicist and politician (b. 1875)1921 – Sándor Wekerle , Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848) 1921 – Petro Petrenko , Ukrainian anarchist military commander (b. 1890)[34] 1930 – Lon Chaney , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)1943 – Bîmen Şen , Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz , German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)1945 – Franz Werfel , Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)1946 – Jeanie MacPherson , American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)1956 – Alfred Wagenknecht , German-American activist (b. 1881)1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams , English composer and educator (b. 1872)1966 – W. W. E. Ross , Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)1968 – Kay Francis , American actress (b. 1905)1972 – Francis Chichester , English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)1974 – Charles Lindbergh , American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)1975 – Olaf Holtedahl , Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)1976 – Lotte Lehmann , German-American soprano (b. 1888)1977 – H. A. Rey , German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George 1978 – Charles Boyer , French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)1978 – José Manuel Moreno , Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916) 1979 – Mika Waltari , Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty , German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)1980 – Tex Avery , American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908) 1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin , American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)1981 – Lee Hays , American singer-songwriter (b. 1914) 1986 – Ted Knight , American actor (b. 1923)1987 – John Goddard , Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)1987 – Georg Wittig , German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) 1988 – Carlos Paião , Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)1989 – Irving Stone , American author (b. 1903)1990 – Tang Chang , Thai artist (b. 1934)1991 – Mildred Albert , American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (b. 1905)[35] 1992 – Bob de Moor , Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)1993 – Reima Pietilä , Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)1995 – John Brunner , English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934)1998 – Frederick Reines , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)[36] 2000 – Akbar Adibi , Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)2000 – Bunny Austin , English tennis player (b. 1906)[19] 2001 – Louis Muhlstock , Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)2001 – Marita Petersen , Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940) 2003 – Jim Wacker , American football player and coach (b. 1937)2004 – Laura Branigan , American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1952)2005 – Denis D'Amour , Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1960)2005 – Robert Denning , American art collector and interior designer (b. 1927) 2005 – Moondog King , Canadian wrestler and politician (b. 1949) 2006 – Rainer Barzel , Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1924)2006 – Clyde Walcott , Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1926) 2006 – William Garnett , American landscape photographer (b. 1916)[37] 2007 – Gaston Thorn , Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)2009 – Dominick Dunne , American journalist and novelist (b. 1925)2010 – Raimon Panikkar , Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918)2011 – George Band , Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929)2011 – Patrick C. Fischer , American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935) 2011 – John McAleese , Scottish sergeant (b. 1949) 2012 – Russ Alben , American composer and businessman (b. 1929)2012 – Reginald Bartholomew , American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1936) 2012 – Jacques Bensimon , Canadian director and producer (b. 1943) 2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski , Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940) 2013 – Hélie de Saint Marc , French soldier (b. 1922)2013 – John J. Gilligan , American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921) 2013 – Bill Schmitz , American football player and coach (b. 1954) 2013 – Jack Sinagra , American lawyer and politician (b. 1950) 2013 – Clyde A. Wheeler , American soldier and politician (b. 1921) 2014 – Christian Bourquin , French lawyer and politician (b. 1954)2014 – Peter Bacon Hales , American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1950) 2014 – Caroline Kellett , English journalist (b. 1960) 2014 – Chūsei Sone , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937) 2015 – Amelia Boynton Robinson , American activist (b. 1911)2015 – Donald Eric Capps , American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1939) 2015 – P. J. Kavanagh , English poet and author (b. 1931) 2015 – Stefanos Manikas , Greek politician (b. 1952) 2015 – Francisco San Diego , Filipino bishop (b. 1935) 2017 – Tobe Hooper , American film director (b. 1943)2018 – Neil Simon , American playwright and author (b. 1927)[38] 2020 – Joe Ruby , American animator (b. 1933)[39] 2023 – Bob Barker , American television game show host (b. 1923)[40] Holidays and observances References External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to
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