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Day of the year
July 23 is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 161 days remain until the end of the year.
Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 1901–present 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans .1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand . Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28 .1919 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana [3] 1921 – The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is established at the founding National Congress .1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay .1936 – In Catalonia , Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states : Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania .1942 – World War II : The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad. 1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex , England.1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland . 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser , the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt . 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua .1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite .1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.[4] 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.[5] 1967 – Detroit Riots : In Detroit , one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.1968 – Glenville shootout : In Cleveland, Ohio , a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod , Israel. 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1 satellite .1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.1980 – Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.1982 – Outside Santa Clarita, California , actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam .1983 – Gimli Glider : Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba . 1988 – General Ne Win , effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia . 1993 – China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan , Ningxia , China , killing 55 people.[6] 1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel .1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo , Japan by Yuji Nishizawa .1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93 , with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory .[7] 2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt, killing 88 people.2011 – A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou , Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths.[8] 2012 – The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.[9] 2014 – TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu , during approach to Penghu Airport . Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.[10] 2015 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler 2016 – Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.2018 – A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in the history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180.[11] [12] [13] [14] Births Pre-1600 1601–1900 1614 – Bonaventura Peeters the Elder , Flemish painter (d. 1652)1635 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux , New France garrison commander (d. 1660)1649 – Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)1705 – Francis Blomefield , English historian and author (d. 1752)1713 – Luís António Verney , Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (d. 1792)1773 – Thomas Brisbane , Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)1773 – Abraham Colles , Irish anatomist (d. 1841) [16] 1775 – Étienne-Louis Malus , French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)1777 – Philipp Otto Runge , German painter and illustrator (d. 1810)1796 – Franz Berwald , Swedish surgeon and composer (d. 1868)1802 – Manuel María Lombardini , Mexican general and president (d. 1853)[17] 1823 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché , Canadian archbishop and missionary (d. 1894)1838 – Édouard Colonne , French violinist and conductor (d. 1910)[18] 1851 – Peder Severin Krøyer , Norwegian-Danish painter (d. 1909)1854 – Ernest Belfort Bax , English barrister, journalist, philosopher, men's rights advocate, socialist and historian (d. 1926)[19] 1856 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak , Indian lawyer and journalist (d. 1920)1864 – Apolinario Mabini , Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (d. 1903)1865 – Henry Norris , English businessman and politician (d. 1934)1866 – Francesco Cilea , Italian composer and academic (d. 1950)1878 – James Thomas Milton Anderson , Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1946)1882 – Kâzım Karabekir , Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1948)1883 – Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke , French-English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of the County of London (d. 1963)1884 – Emil Jannings , Swiss-German actor (d. 1950)1885 – Izaak Killam , Canadian financier and philanthropist (d. 1955)1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli , Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (d. 1935) 1886 – Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish historian and diplomat (d. 1978)1886 – Walter H. Schottky , Swiss-German physicist and engineer (d. 1976) 1888 – Raymond Chandler , American crime novelist and screenwriter (d. 1959)1891 – Louis T. Wright , American surgeon and civil rights activist (d. 1952)1892 – Haile Selassie , Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)1894 – Arthur Treacher , English-American actor and television personality (d. 1975)1895 – Aileen Pringle , American actress (d. 1989)1898 – Daniel Cosío Villegas , Mexican historian, economist (d. 1976)1898 – Bengt Djurberg , Swedish actor and singer (d. 1941) 1898 – Red Dutton , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1987) 1898 – Herman Kruusenberg , Estonian wrestler (d. 1970) 1898 – Jacob Marschak , Ukrainian-American economist, journalist, and author (d. 1977) 1899 – Gustav Heinemann , German lawyer and politician, 3rd President of West Germany (d. 1976)1900 – Julia Davis Adams , American author and journalist (d. 1993)1900 – John Babcock , Canadian-American sergeant (d. 2010) 1900 – Inger Margrethe Boberg , Danish folklore researcher and writer (d. 1957) 1901–present 1901 – Hank Worden , American actor and singer (d. 1992)1901 – Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer , Puerto Rican brothel owner and madam in barrio Maragüez, Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 1974) 1905 – Leopold Engleitner , Austrian author and educator (d. 2013)1906 – Vladimir Prelog , Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)1906 – Chandra Shekhar Azad , Indian activist (d. 1931) 1912 – M. H. Abrams , American author, critic, and academic (d. 2015)1912 – Michael Wilding , English actor (d. 1979) 1913 – Michael Foot , English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Employment (d. 2010)1914 – Nassos Daphnis , Greek-American painter (d. 2010)1914 – Virgil Finlay , American illustrator (d. 1971)[20] 1914 – Elly Annie Schneider , German-American actress (d. 2004) 1916 – Laurel Martyn , Australian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2013)1918 – Abraham Bueno de Mesquita , Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)1918 – Ruth Duccini , American actress (d. 2014) 1918 – Pee Wee Reese , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999) 1921 – Calvert DeForest , American actor (d. 2007)1922 – Damiano Damiani , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)1922 – Jenny Pike , Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (d. 2004)[21] 1923 – Luis Aloma , Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1997)1923 – Morris Halle , Latvian-American linguist and academic (d. 2018) 1923 – Amalia Mendoza , Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001) 1924 – Gavin Lambert , English-American screenwriter and author (d. 2005)1924 – Gazanfer Bilge , Turkish wrestler (d. 2008) 1925 – Tajuddin Ahmad , Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)1925 – Quett Masire , Botswana politician, the former Vice-President of Botswana (d. 2017) 1925 – Alain Decaux , French historian and author (d. 2016) 1925 – Gloria DeHaven , American actress and singer (d. 2016) 1926 – Ludvík Vaculík , Czech journalist and author (d. 2015)1927 – Gérard Brach , French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)1928 – Leon Fleisher , American pianist and conductor (d. 2020)1928 – Vera Rubin , American astronomer and academic (d. 2016) 1928 – Hubert Selby, Jr. , American author and screenwriter (d. 2004) 1929 – Danny Barcelona , American drummer (d. 2007)1929 – Lateef Jakande , Nigerian journalist and politician, 5th Governor of Lagos State (d. 2021) 1931 – Te Atairangikaahu , Māori queen (d. 2006)1931 – Claude Fournier , Canadian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2023) 1931 – Guy Fournier , Canadian author and screenwriter 1933 – Raimund Abraham , Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Cultural Forum (d. 2010)1933 – Bert Convy , American actor, singer, and game show host (d. 1991) 1933 – Benedict Groeschel , American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (d. 2014) 1933 – Richard Rogers , Italian-English architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building (d. 2021) 1935 – Jim Hall , American race car driver1936 – Don Drysdale , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1993)1936 – Anthony Kennedy , American lawyer and jurist 1937 – Dave Webster , American football player and engineer (d. 2006)1938 – Juliet Anderson , American porn actress and producer (d. 2010)1938 – Ronny Cox , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1938 – Charles Harrelson , American murderer (d. 2007) 1938 – Bert Newton , Australian actor and television host (d. 2021) 1940 – Danielle Collobert , French author, poet, and journalist (d. 1978)1940 – Don Imus , American radio host (d. 2019) 1940 – John Nichols , American novelist (d. 2023)[22] 1940 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa , Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finance (d. 2010) 1941 – Christopher Andrew , English historian and academic1941 – Richie Evans , American race car driver (d. 1985) 1941 – Sergio Mattarella , Italian lawyer, judge, and politician, 12th President of Italy 1942 – Sallyanne Atkinson , Australian journalist and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane 1942 – Madeline Bell , American singer-songwriter 1942 – Richard E. Dauch , American businessman, co-founded American Axle (d. 2013) 1942 – Dimitris Liantinis , Greek philosopher and author (d. 1998) 1943 – Randall Forsberg , American scientist (d. 2007)1943 – Tony Joe White , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018) 1944 – Dino Danelli , American drummer1944 – Maria João Pires , Portuguese pianist 1945 – Edward Gregson , English composer and educator1945 – Jon Sammels , English footballer 1946 – Andy Mackay , English oboe player and composer1946 – René Ricard , American poet, painter, and critic (d. 2014) 1947 – Gardner Dozois , American journalist and author (d. 2018)1947 – David Essex , English singer-songwriter, and actor 1947 – Torsten Palm , Swedish race car driver 1947 – Robin Simon , English historian, critic, and academic 1948 – Ross Cranston , Australian-English lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales 1948 – John Cushnahan , Northern Irish educator and politician 1948 – John Hall , American politician 1948 – Stanisław Targosz , Polish general (d. 2013) 1949 – Clive Rice , South African cricketer and coach (d. 2015)1950 – Alex Kozinski , Romanian-born American lawyer and judge1950 – Ian Thomas , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1950 – Blair Thornton , Canadian guitarist and songwriter 1950 – Alan Turner , Australian cricketer 1952 – Paul Hibbert , Australian cricketer and coach (d. 2008)1952 – Bill Nyrop , American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995) 1952 – John Rutsey , Canadian drummer (d. 2008) 1952 – Janis Siegel , American jazz singer 1953 – Graham Gooch , English cricketer and coach1953 – Najib Razak , Malaysian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957 – Jo Brand , English comedian, actress, and screenwriter1957 – Nikos Galis , American basketball player 1957 – Theo van Gogh , Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004) 1957 – Quentin Willson , English TV presenter, Top Gear 1958 – Ken Green , American golfer1958 – Tomy Winata , Indonesian businessman and philanthropist, founded the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation 1959 – Nancy Savoca , American director, producer, and screenwriter1960 – Gary Ella , Australian rugby player1960 – Susan Graham , American soprano and educator 1960 – Al Perez , American wrestler 1961 – André Ducharme , Canadian comedian and author1961 – Michael Durant , American pilot and author 1961 – Martin Gore , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1961 – Woody Harrelson , American actor and activist 1961 – Milind Gunaji , Indian actor, model, television show host, and author 1962 – Eriq La Salle , American actor, director, and producer1962 – Mark Laurie , Australian rugby league player 1962 – Alain Lefèvre , Canadian pianist and composer 1963 – Slobodan Zivojinovic , Serbian tennis player1964 – Uwe Barth , German politician1964 – Nick Menza , German drummer and songwriter (d. 2016) 1965 – Rob Dickinson , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1965 – Slash , English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)1968 – Elden Campbell , American basketball player1968 – Gary Payton , American basketball player and actor 1968 – Stephanie Seymour , American model and actress 1969 – Andrew Cassels , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1969 – Raphael Warnock , American politician and minister[23] 1970 – Charisma Carpenter , American actress1970 – Thea Dorn , German author and playwright 1970 – Sam Watters , American singer-songwriter and producer 1970 – Saulius Skvernelis , 13th Prime Minister of Lithuania [24] 1971 – Dalvin DeGrate , American rapper and producer1971 – Alison Krauss , American singer-songwriter and fiddler 1971 – Joel Stein , American journalist 1972 – Suat Kılıç , Turkish journalist, lawyer, and politician, former Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports 1972 – Floyd Reifer , Barbadian cricketer and coach 1972 – Marlon Wayans , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Nomar Garciaparra , American baseball player and sportscaster1973 – Kathryn Hahn , American actress[25] 1973 – Fran Healy , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1973 – Monica Lewinsky , American activist and former White House intern[26] 1973 – Himesh Reshammiya , Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director 1973 – Andrea Scanavacca , Italian rugby player and manager 1974 – Terry Glenn , American football player and coach (d. 2017)1974 – Maurice Greene , American sprinter 1974 – Rik Verbrugghe , Belgian cyclist 1975 – Dan Rogerson , Cornish politician1976 – Judit Polgár , Hungarian chess player1977 – Scott Clemmensen , American ice hockey player and coach1977 – Gail Emms , English badminton player 1977 – Néicer Reasco , Ecuadorian footballer 1977 – Shawn Thornton , Canadian ice hockey player 1978 – Stuart Elliott , Northern Irish footballer1978 – Stefanie Sun , Singaporean singer-songwriter and pianist 1978 – Lauren Groff , American novelist and short story writer 1979 – Perro Aguayo Jr. , Mexican wrestler and promoter (d. 2015)1979 – Sotirios Kyrgiakos , Greek footballer 1979 – Richard Sims , Zimbabwean cricketer 1979 – Ricardo Sperafico , Brazilian race car driver 1979 – Cathleen Tschirch , German sprinter 1979 – Michelle Williams , American singer-songwriter and actress[27] 1980 – Sandeep Parikh , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1981 – Steve Jocz , Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and director1981 – Dmitriy Karpov , Kazakhstani decathlete 1981 – Aleksandr Kulik , Estonian footballer 1981 – Jarkko Nieminen , Finnish tennis player 1982 – Ömer Aysan Barış , Turkish footballer1982 – Joe Mather , American baseball player 1982 – Gökhan Ünal , Turkish footballer 1982 – Gerald Wallace , American basketball player 1982 – Paul Wesley , American actor, director, and producer 1983 – Bec Hewitt , Australian actress1983 – Aaron Peirsol , American swimmer 1983 – David Strettle , English rugby player 1984 – Walter Gargano , Uruguayan footballer1984 – Matthew Murphy , English singer and guitarist 1984 – Brandon Roy , American basketball player 1984 – Celeste Thorson , American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1985 – Luis Ángel Landín , Mexican footballer1986 – Aya Uchida , Japanese voice actress and singer1986 – Nelson Philippe , French race car driver 1986 – Yelena Sokolova , Russian long jumper 1987 – Alessio Cerci , Italian footballer1987 – Felipe Dylon , Brazilian singer 1987 – Serdar Kurtuluş , Turkish footballer 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe , English actor[28] 1989 – Donald Young , American tennis player[29] 1990 – Kevin Reynolds , Canadian figure skater1991 – Lauren Mitchell , Australian gymnast1991 – Jarrod Wallace , Australian rugby league footballer 1992 – Danny Ings , English footballer1996 – Alexandra Andresen , Norwegian heiress and equestrian1996 – David Dobrik , Slovak YouTube personality[30] 2002 – Séléna Janicijevic , French tennis player[31] [32] Deaths Pre-1600 955 – He Ning , Chinese chancellor (b. 898)997 – Nuh II , Samanid emir (b. 963)1065 – Gunter of Bamberg , bishop of Bamberg (c. 1025/1030)[33] 1100 – Warner of Grez , French nobleman, relative of Godfrey of Bouillon 1227 – Qiu Chuji , Chinese religious leader, founded the Dragon Gate Taoism (b. 1148)1298 – Thoros III , Armenian king (b. c. 1271)1373 – Bridget of Sweden , Swedish mystic and saint, founded the Bridgettine Order (b. 1303)1403 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester , English rebel (b. 1343)1531 – Louis de Brézé , French husband of Diane de Poitiers 1536 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1519)1562 – Götz von Berlichingen , German knight and poet (b. 1480)1584 – John Day , English printer (b. 1522)1596 – Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (b. 1526)1601–1900 1645 – Michael I , Russian tsar (b. 1596)1692 – Gilles Ménage , French lawyer, philologist, and scholar (b. 1613)1727 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt , English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1661)1757 – Domenico Scarlatti , Italian harpsichord player and composer (b. 1685)1773 – George Edwards , English biologist and ornithologist (b. 1693)1781 – John Joachim Zubly , Swiss-American pastor and politician (b. 1724)1793 – Roger Sherman , American lawyer and politician (b. 1721)1833 – Anselmo de la Cruz , Chilean politician, Chilean Minister of Finance (b. 1777)1853 – Andries Pretorius , South African general (b. 1798)1875 – Isaac Singer , American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (b. 1811)1878 – Carl von Rokitansky , Bohemian physician, pathologist, and politician (b. 1804)1885 – Ulysses S. Grant , American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)1901–present 1904 – John Douglas , English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Queensland (b. 1828)1909 – Frederick Holder , Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)1916 – William Ramsay , Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)[34] 1919 – Spyridon Lambros , Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)1920 – Conrad Kohrs , German-American rancher and politician (b. 1835)1924 – Frank Frost Abbott , American author and scholar (b. 1850)1926 – Viktor Vasnetsov , Russian painter (b. 1848)1927 – Reginald Dyer , British brigadier general (b. 1864)1930 – Glenn Curtiss , American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)1932 – Tenby Davies , Welsh runner (b. 1884)1936 – Anna Abrikosova , Russian linguist (b. 1882)[35] 1941 – George Lyman Kittredge , American scholar and educator (b. 1860)1941 – José Quiñones Gonzales , Peruvian soldier and pilot (b. 1914) 1942 – Adam Czerniaków , Polish engineer and politician (b. 1880)1942 – Andy Ducat , English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886) 1948 – D. W. Griffith , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1875)1950 – Shigenori Tōgō , Japanese politician and diplomat, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1882)1951 – Robert J. Flaherty , American director and producer (b. 1884)1951 – Philippe Pétain , French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (b. 1856) 1954 – Herman Groman , American runner (b. 1882)1955 – Cordell Hull , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State , Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)1957 – Bob Shiring , American football player and coach (b. 1870)1966 – Montgomery Clift , American actor (b. 1920)1968 – Henry Hallett Dale , English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)1970 – Eino Tainio , Finnish politician (b. 1905)[36] 1971 – Van Heflin , American actor (b. 1910)1972 – Esther Applin , American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1895)1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker , American pilot and race car driver, founded Rickenbacker Motors (b. 1890)1978 – Kamil Tolon , Turkish industrialist (b. 1912)[37] 1979 – Joseph Kessel , French journalist and author (b. 1898)1980 – Sarto Fournier , Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)1980 – Keith Godchaux , American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1948) 1980 – Mollie Steimer , Ukrainian activist (b. 1897) 1982 – Vic Morrow , American actor (b. 1929)1983 – Georges Auric , French composer (b. 1899)1985 – Johnny Wardle , English cricketer and manager (b. 1923)1989 – Donald Barthelme , American short story writer and novelist (b. 1931)1990 – Kenjiro Takayanagi , Japanese engineer (b. 1899)1996 – Jean Muir , American actress (b. 1911)1997 – Chūhei Nambu , Japanese jumper and journalist (b. 1904)1999 – Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)2001 – Eudora Welty , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)2002 – Leo McKern , Australian-English actor (b. 1920)2002 – William Luther Pierce , American activist and author (b. 1933) 2002 – Chaim Potok , American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929) 2002 – Clark Gesner , American author and composer (b. 1938) 2003 – James E. Davis , American police officer and politician (b. 1962)2004 – Mehmood Ali , Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1932)2004 – Carlos Paredes , Portuguese guitarist and composer (b. 1925) 2004 – Piero Piccioni , Italian pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1921) 2005 – Ted Greene , American guitarist and journalist (b. 1946)2006 – Jean-Paul Desbiens , Canadian journalist and academic (b. 1927)2007 – Ron Miller , American songwriter and producer (b. 1933)2007 – Mohammed Zahir Shah , Afghan king (b. 1914)[38] 2008 – Kurt Furgler , Swiss lawyer and politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1924)2009 – E. Lynn Harris , American author and screenwriter (b. 1955)2010 – Daniel Schorr , American journalist and author (b. 1916)2011 – Amy Winehouse , English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)2012 – Margaret Mahy , New Zealand author (b. 1936)2012 – Sally Ride , American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951)[39] 2012 – Lakshmi Sahgal , Indian soldier and politician (b. 1914) 2012 – Esther Tusquets , Spanish publisher and author (b. 1936) 2012 – José Luis Uribarri , Spanish television host and director (b. 1936) 2013 – Rona Anderson , Scottish actress (b. 1926)[40] 2013 – Pauline Clarke , English author (b. 1921) 2013 – Arthur J. Collingsworth , American diplomat (b. 1944) 2013 – Dominguinhos , Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (b. 1941) 2013 – Emile Griffith , American boxer and trainer (b. 1938) 2013 – Kim Jong-hak , South Korean director and producer (b. 1951) 2013 – Djalma Santos , Brazilian footballer (b. 1929) 2014 – Dora Bryan , English actress and restaurateur (b. 1923)2014 – Norman Leyden , American composer and conductor (b. 1917) 2014 – Ariano Suassuna , Brazilian author and playwright (b. 1927) 2014 – Jordan Tabor , English footballer (b. 1990) 2015 – Shigeko Kubota , Japanese-American sculptor and director (b. 1937)2015 – Don Oberdorfer , American journalist, author, and academic (b. 1931)[41] 2015 – William Wakefield Baum , American cardinal (b. 1926)[42] 2017 – John Kundla , American basketball coach (b. 1916)[43] 2022 – Zayar Thaw , Burmese politician and rapper (b. 1981)[44] 2022 – Kyaw Min Yu , Burmese political activist (b. 1969)[45] Holidays and observances References External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to
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