December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 22 days remain until the end of the year.
0 480 – Odoacer , first King of Italy , occupies Dalmatia . He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate .0 536 – Gothic War : The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flee the capital.0 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil : The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, Al-Jarrah Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami .1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City .1688 – Glorious Revolution : Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading , forcing flight of James II from the country.1775 – American Revolutionary War : British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge , and leave Virginia soon afterward.1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho , putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence .1835 – Texas Revolution : The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas .1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal .1856 – The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.1861 – American Civil War : The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress .1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals , they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps .1872 – In Louisiana , P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee , kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines .1917 – World War I : Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire .1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic .1935 – Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government .1935 – Walter Liggett , American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War : Battle of Nanking : Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).1940 – World War II : Operation Compass : British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt .1941 – World War II: China , Cuba , Guatemala , and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan .1941 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan , Luzon .
1946 – The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials " begin with the "Doctors' trial ", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia .1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India .
1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted.1950 – Cold War : Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union . His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg .1953 – Red Scare : General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 , a Canadair North Star , crashes near Hope, British Columbia , Canada, killing all 62 people on board.1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street soap opera , is broadcast in the United Kingdom.1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident : A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos ", publicly debuting the computer mouse , hypertext , and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS) .1969 – U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition ; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO , which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.1971 – Indo-Pakistani War : The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland .1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).1987 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict : The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank .1992 – American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope .1996 – Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.2008 – The Governor of Illinois , Rod Blagojevich , is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama .2012 – A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.[1] 2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia .2016 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali , Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings .
2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage .2019 – A volcano on White Island , New Zealand , kills 22 people after it erupts .[2] [3] 1392 – Peter, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1449)1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)1482 – Frederick II, Elector Palatine (d. 1556)1493 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)1508 – Gemma Frisius , Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)1561 – Edwin Sandys , English lawyer and politician (d. 1629)1571 – Metius , Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)1579 – Martin de Porres , Peruvian saint (d. 1639)1594 – Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)1608 – John Milton , English poet and philosopher (d. 1674)1610 – Baldassare Ferri , Italian singer and actor (d. 1680)1617 – Richard Lovelace , English poet (d. 1657)1652 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus , German physician and botanist (d. 1723)1667 – William Whiston , English mathematician, historian, and theologian (d. 1752)1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann , German archaeologist and historian (d. 1768)1721 – Peter Pelham , English-American organist and composer (d. 1805)1728 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , Italian composer (d. 1804)1742 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele , Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist (d. 1786)1745 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1818)1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet , French chemist and academic (d. 1822)1752 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard , French general and engineer (d. 1813)1787 – John Dobson , English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (d. 1865)1779 – Tabitha Babbitt , American tool maker and inventor (d. 1853)1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier , Canadian physician (d. 1838)1813 – Thomas Andrews , Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1885)1837 – Émile Waldteufel , French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1915)1842 – Peter Kropotkin , Russian zoologist, economist, geographer, and philosopher (d. 1921)1845 – Joel Chandler Harris , American journalist and author (d. 1908)1850 – Emma Abbott , American soprano and actress (d. 1891)1861 – Hélène Smith , French psychic and occultist (d. 1929)1867 – Gregorios Xenopoulos , Greek journalist and author (d. 1951)1868 – Fritz Haber , Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)1870 – Ida S. Scudder , Indian physician and missionary (d. 1960)1870 – Francisco S. Carvajal , Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (d. 1932)[4]
1871 – Joe Kelley , American baseball player and manager (d. 1943)1873 – George Blewett , Canadian philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1912)1875 – Harry Miller , American engineer (d. 1943)1876 – Berton Churchill , Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1940)1882 – Elmer Booth , American actor (d. 1915)1882 – Joaquín Turina , Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator (d. 1949)
1883 – Nikolai Luzin , Russian mathematician, theorist, and academic (d. 1950)1883 – Alexander Papagos , Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)
1883 – Joseph Pilates , German-American fitness expert, developed Pilates (d. 1967)
1886 – Clarence Birdseye , American businessman, founded Birds Eye (d. 1956)1887 – Tim Moore , American actor (d. 1958)1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen , Finnish-American runner (d. 1966)1890 – Laura Salverson , Canadian author (d. 1970)1891 – Maksim Bahdanovič , Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917)1892 – André Randall , French actor (d. 1974)1895 – Dolores Ibárruri , Spanish activist, journalist and politician (d. 1989)1895 – Conchita Supervía , Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1936)
1897 – Hermione Gingold , English actress and singer (d. 1987)1898 – Irene Greenwood , Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (d. 1992)[5] 1898 – Emmett Kelly , American clown and actor (d. 1979)
1899 – Jean de Brunhoff , French author and illustrator (d. 1937)1900 – Margaret Brundage , American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales 1900 – Albert Weisbord , American activist, founded the Communist League of Struggle (d. 1977)
1901 – Jean Mermoz , French pilot and politician (d. 1936)1901 – Ödön von Horváth , Hungarian-German author and playwright (d. 1938)
1902 – Margaret Hamilton , American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (d. 1985)1904 – Robert Livingston , American actor and singer (d. 1988)1905 – Dalton Trumbo , American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee (d. 1976)1906 – Grace Hopper , American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)[6] 1906 – Freddy Martin , American bandleader and tenor saxophonist (d. 1983)
1909 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , American captain, actor, and producer (d. 2000)1911 – Broderick Crawford , American actor (d. 1986)1911 – Ryūzō Sejima , Japanese colonel and businessman (d. 2007)
1912 – Tip O'Neill , American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)1912 – Jim Turnesa , American golfer (d. 1971)
1914 – Max Manus , Norwegian lieutenant (d. 1996)1914 – Frances Reid , American actress (d. 2010)
1914 – Ljubica Sokić , Serbian painter and illustrator (d. 2009)
1915 – Eloise Jarvis McGraw , American author (d. 2000)1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , German-Austrian soprano and actress (d. 2006)
1916 – Jerome Beatty Jr. , American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002)1916 – Kirk Douglas , American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2020)
1916 – Colin McCool , Australian cricketer (d. 1986)
1917 – James Jesus Angleton , American CIA agent (d. 1987)1917 – James Rainwater , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1918 – Joyce Redman , Irish-born British actress (d. 2012)1919 – V. Dakshinamoorthy , Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)1919 – William Lipscomb , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy (d. 2016)1920 – Bruno Ruffo , Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (d. 2007)
1922 – Redd Foxx , American actor (d. 1991)1925 – Roy Rubin , American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1926 – Henry Way Kendall , American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)1926 – David Nathan , British journalist (d. 2001)
1926 – Jan Křesadlo , Czech-English psychologist and author (d. 1995)
1926 – Lorenzo Wright , American sprinter and coach (d. 1972)
1927 – Pierre Henry , French composer (d. 2017)1928 – Joan Blos , American author and educator (d. 2017)1928 – André Milhoux , Belgian race car driver
1928 – Dick Van Patten , American actor (d. 2015)
1929 – John Cassavetes , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)1929 – Bob Hawke , Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
1930 – Buck Henry , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2020)1930 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores , Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (d. 2016)
1931 – Cliff Hagan , American basketball player-coach[7] 1931 – William Reynolds , American actor
1931 – Ladislav Smoljak , Czech actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1932 – Donald Byrd , American trumpet player and academic (d. 2013)1932 – Bill Hartack , American jockey (d. 2007)
1932 – Billy Edd Wheeler , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwright
1933 – Ashleigh Brilliant , English-American author and illustrator1933 – Milt Campbell , American decathlete and football player (d. 2012)
1933 – Morton Downey Jr. , American actor and talk show host (d. 2001)
1933 – Orville Moody , American golfer (d. 2008)
1934 – Judi Dench , English actress1934 – Junior Wells , American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1998)
1938 – David Houston , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)1938 – Deacon Jones , American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013)
1938 – Dimitrios Trichopoulos , Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (d. 2014)
1940 – Clancy Eccles , Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)1941 – Mehmet Ali Birand , Turkish journalist and author (d. 2013)1941 – Beau Bridges , American actor, director, and producer
1941 – Dan Hicks , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1942 – Billy Bremner , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1997)1942 – Dick Butkus , American football player, sportscaster, and actor
1942 – Germain Gagnon , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1942 – Fred Jones , Australian rugby league player
1942 – Joe McGinniss , American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1942 – William Turnage , American conservationist (d. 2017)[8]
1943 – Pit Martin , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)1943 – Joanna Trollope , English author, playwright, and director
1943 – Kenny Vance , American singer-songwriter and music producer
1944 – Neil Innes , English singer-songwriter (d. 2019)1944 – Ki Longfellow , American author, playwright, and producer
1944 – Bob O'Connor , American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 2006)
1945 – Michael Nouri , American actor1946 – David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone , English economist and academic1946 – Dennis Dunaway , American bass player and songwriter
1946 – Sonia Gandhi , Italian-Indian politician
1946 – Nicholas Reade , English bishop
1947 – Tom Daschle , American soldier, academic, and politician1947 – Jaak Jõerüüt , Estonian politician, 24th Estonian Minister of Defense
1947 – Allan Jones , English cricketer and umpire
1948 – Marleen Gorris , Dutch director and screenwriter1948 – Jonathan Sumption , English historian, author, and judge
1949 – Tom Kite , American golfer and architect1950 – Joan Armatrading , Kittian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist1952 – Liaqat Baloch , Pakistani politician1952 – Michael Dorn , American actor and voice artist
1953 – Cornelis de Bondt , Dutch composer and educator1953 – World B. Free , American basketball player
1953 – John Malkovich , American actor and producer
1954 – Phil Bryant , American academic and politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi 1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker , Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1954 – Henk ten Cate , Dutch footballer and manager
1955 – Otis Birdsong , American basketball player and radio host1955 – Chamras Saewataporn , Thai singer-songwriter
1956 – Sylvia , American country singer-songwriter1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet , French journalist and author
1957 – Peter O'Mara , Australian guitarist and composer1957 – Donny Osmond , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1957 – Steve Taylor , American singer-songwriter and producer
1959 – Susan Bullock , English soprano1960 – Stefen Fangmeier , American visual effects designer and director1960 – Caroline Lucas , English activist and politician
1960 – Dobroslav Paraga , Croatian politician
1960 – Juan Samuel , Dominican-American baseball player and manager
1961 – David Anthony Higgins , American actor and screenwriter1962 – Felicity Huffman , American actress and producer1962 – Roxanne Swentzell , Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) ceramic sculptor
1963 – Empress Masako , Empress of Japan[9] 1963 – Dave Hilton Jr. , Canadian boxer
1964 – Michael Foster , American drummer1964 – Ross Harrington , Australian rugby league player
1964 – Hape Kerkeling , German actor and singer
1964 – Les Kiss , Australian rugby league player
1964 – Johannes B. Kerner , German journalist and sportscaster
1964 – Paul Landers , German guitarist
1965 – Joe Ausanio , American baseball player and coach1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand , American lawyer and politician1966 – Dave Harold , English snooker player
1966 – Gideon Sa'ar , Israeli lawyer and politician, 24th Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs
1966 – Martin Taylor , English footballer and coach
1967 – Joshua Bell , American violinist and conductor1967 – Jason Dozzell , English footballer and manager
1968 – Brian Bell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1968 – Brent Price , American basketball player
1969 – Jakob Dylan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1969 – Saskia Garel , Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwriter
1969 – Lori Greiner , American businesswoman
1969 – Bixente Lizarazu , French footballer
1969 – Raphaël Rouquier , French mathematician and academic
1970 – Kara DioGuardi , American singer-songwriter and producer1970 – Lance Krall , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Geoff Barrow , English drummer, DJ, composer, and producer1971 – Nick Hysong , American pole vaulter and coach
1971 – Petr Nedvěd , Czech-Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Reiko Aylesworth , American actress1972 – Tré Cool , German-American drummer and songwriter
1972 – Michael Corcoran , American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 – Saima Wazed Hossain , Bangladeshi psychologist[10]
1972 – Fabrice Santoro , Tahitian-French tennis player and sportscaster
1973 – Fabio Artico , Italian footballer1973 – Vénuste Niyongabo , Burundian runner
1973 – Bárbara Padilla , Mexican-American soprano
1974 – Canibus , Jamaican-American rapper1974 – Wendy Dillinger , American soccer player, coach, and manager
1974 – Aloísio da Silva Filho , Brazilian footballer
1974 – Fiona MacDonald , Scottish curler[11]
1976 – Chris Booker , American baseball player1977 – Shayne Graham , American football player1977 – Imogen Heap , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1978 – Gastón Gaudio , Argentinian tennis player1978 – Jesse Metcalfe , American actor and musician
1979 – Olivia Lufkin , Japanese-American singer-songwriter1979 – Stephen McPhail , Irish footballer
1979 – Aiko Uemura , Japanese skier
1980 – Simon Helberg , American actor, comedian, and musician1980 – Ryder Hesjedal , Canadian cyclist
1980 – Mark Riddell , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1981 – Mardy Fish , American tennis player1982 – Tamilla Abassova , Russian cyclist1982 – Nathalie De Vos , Belgian runner
1982 – Ryan Grant , American football player
1982 – Bastian Swillims , German sprinter
1983 – Jermaine Beckford , English-Jamaican footballer1983 – Neslihan Demir Darnel , Turkish volleyball player
1983 – Dariusz Dudka , Polish footballer
1984 – Michael Adam , German politician1984 – Ángel Guirado , Spanish–Filipino footballer
1984 – Leon Hall , American football player
1985 – Wil Besseling , Dutch golfer1987 – Kostas Giannoulis , Greek footballer1987 – Mat Latos , American baseball player
1987 – Hikaru Nakamura , Japanese-American chess player
1988 – Kwadwo Asamoah , Ghanaian footballer1990 – Denise Hannema , Dutch cricketer1991 – Choi Minho , Korean singer and actor1993 – Mark McMorris , Canadian snowboarder1993 – Laura Smulders , Dutch cyclist
1995 – McKayla Maroney , American gymnast1996 – Kyle Connor , American ice hockey player[12] 1996 – MyKayla Skinner , American gymnast1999 – Riley Clemmons , American Christian musician2000 – Diāna Ņikitina , Latvian figure skater0 638 – Sergius I of Constantinople 0 730 – Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah , Arab general0 748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar , Umayyad general and politician (b. 663)0 933 – Li Congrong , prince of Later Tang 1117 – Gertrude of Brunswick , Markgräfin of Meißen 1165 – Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)1242 – Richard le Gras , Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham1268 – Vaišvilkas , Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of Lithuania 1299 – Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier 1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)1544 – Teofilo Folengo , Italian poet (b. 1491)1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)[13] 1603 – William Watson , English priest (b. 1559)1625 – Ubbo Emmius , Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)1636 – Fabian Birkowski , Polish preacher and author (b. 1566)1641 – Anthony van Dyck , Belgian-English painter and illustrator (b. 1599)1669 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)1674 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon , English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609)1706 – Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)1718 – Vincenzo Coronelli , Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650)1761 – Tarabai , Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (b. 1675)[14]
1793 – Yolande de Polastron , French-Austrian educator (b. 1749)1798 – Johann Reinhold Forster , German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729)1830 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757)1854 – Almeida Garrett , Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799)1858 – Robert Baldwin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (b. 1804)1887 – Mahmadu Lamine , Senegalese religious leader1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière , French author and critic (b. 1849)1916 – Natsume Sōseki , Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)1924 – Bernard Zweers , Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)1930 – Rube Foster , American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)1932 – Karl Blossfeldt , German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)1932 – Begum Rokeya , Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
1935 – Walter Liggett , American journalist and activist (b. 1886)1937 – Lilias Armstrong , English phonetician (b. 1882)1937 – Gustaf Dalén , Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1941 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky , Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)1943 – Georges Dufrénoy , French painter (b. 1870)1944 – Laird Cregar , American actor (b. 1913)1945 – Yun Chi-ho , South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)1957 – Ali İhsan Sâbis , Turkish general (b. 1882)1963 – Daniel O. Fagunwa , Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903)1963 – Perry Miller , American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905)
1964 – Edith Sitwell , English poet and critic (b. 1887)1965 – Branch Rickey , American baseball player and manager (b. 1884)1967 – Charles Léon Hammes , Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)1968 – Enoch L. Johnson , American mob boss (b. 1883)1970 – Artem Mikoyan , Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)1970 – Feroz Khan Noon , Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 – Ralph Bunche , American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)1971 – Sergey Konenkov , Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)
1971 – Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams , Church of Scotland Minister , Missionary in India and China , writer and poet (b. 1886 )
1972 – Louella Parsons , American writer and columnist (b. 1881)1975 – William A. Wellman , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896)1979 – Fulton J. Sheen , American archbishop (b. 1895)1982 – Leon Jaworski , American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)1991 – Berenice Abbott , American photographer (b. 1898)1992 – Vincent Gardenia , American actor (b. 1922)1993 – Danny Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)1995 – Toni Cade Bambara , American author and academic (b. 1939)1995 – Douglas Corrigan , American pilot (b. 1907)
1996 – Patty Donahue , American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)1996 – Mary Leakey , English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 – Alain Poher , French lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
1996 – Diana Morgan , Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1998 – Shaughnessy Cohen , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)1998 – Archie Moore , American boxer and actor (b. 1913)
2001 – Michael Carver, Baron Carver , English field marshal (b. 1915)2002 – Mary Hansen , Australian singer and guitarist (b. 1966)2002 – Ian Hornak , American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
2002 – Stan Rice , American painter and poet (b. 1942)
2003 – Norm Sloan , American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)2003 – Paul Simon , American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (b. 1928)
2005 – György Sándor , Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912)2005 – Robert Sheckley , American author (b. 1928)
2006 – Georgia Gibbs , American singer (b. 1919)2007 – Rafael Sperafico , Brazilian race car driver (b. 1981)2007 – Gordon Zahn , American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1918)
2008 – Ibrahim Dossey , Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)2008 – Yury Glazkov , Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
2009 – Gene Barry , American actor (b. 1919)2010 – James Moody , American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1925)2010 – Dov Shilansky , Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (b. 1924)
2012 – Béla Nagy Abodi , Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1918)2012 – Patrick Moore , English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (b. 1923)
2012 – Alex Moulton , English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (b. 1920)
2012 – Jenni Rivera , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (b. 1969)
2012 – Charles Rosen , American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)
2012 – Riccardo Schicchi , Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (b. 1953)
2012 – Norman Joseph Woodland , American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921)
2013 – John Gabbert , American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909)2013 – Barbara Hesse-Bukowska , Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930)
2013 – Eleanor Parker , American actress (b. 1922)
2013 – John Wilbur , American football player (b. 1943)
2014 – Sacvan Bercovitch , Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933)2014 – Jane Freilicher , American painter and poet (b. 1924)
2014 – Jorge María Mejía , Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923)
2014 – Mary Ann Mobley , American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (b. 1937)
2014 – Blagoje Paunović , Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
2014 – Jože Toporišič , Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926)
2015 – Soshana Afroyim , Austrian painter (b. 1927)2015 – Norman Breslow , American statistician and academic (b. 1941)
2015 – Juvenal Juvêncio , Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2015 – Julio Terrazas Sandoval , Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936) Holidays and observances Edit References Edit
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