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Pre-1600

* 428
Nestorius Nestorius of Constantinople (; ; ) was an early Christian prelate who served as Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 11 July 431. A Christian theologian from the Catechetical School of Antioch, several of his teachings in the fi ...
becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837
Halley's Comet Halley's Comet is the only known List of periodic comets, short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years, though with the majority of recorded apparitions (25 of 30) occurring after ...
makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 1407Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the
Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the last imperial dynasty of ...
capital at
Nanjing Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yang ...
and is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma". * 1500
Ludovico Sforza Ludovico Maria Sforza (; 27 July 1452 – 27 May 1508), also known as Ludovico il Moro (; 'the Moor'), and called the "arbiter of Italy" by historian Francesco Guicciardini,
is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French. * 1545 – The settlement of Villa Imperial de Carlos V (now the city of Potosí) in
Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.


1601–1900

* 1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by
James I of England James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 unti ...
with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. * 1710 – The
Statute of Anne The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1709 or the Copyright Act 1710 (cited either as 8 Ann. c. 21 or as 8 Ann. c. 19), was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, which was the first statute to provide for ...
, the first law regulating
copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, ...
, comes into force in
Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...
. * 1717
Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (; 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the ''de facto'' first Prim ...
resigns from the British government, commencing the Whig Split which lasts until 1720. * 1724Bach leads the first performance of his cantata ''Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen'', BWV 66, his first cantata composed for Easter in Leipzig. * 1741
War of the Austrian Succession The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italian Peninsula, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King Ge ...
: Prussia gains control of
Silesia Silesia (see names #Etymology, below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Silesia, Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at 8, ...
at the Battle of Mollwitz. * 1809
Napoleonic Wars {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Napoleonic Wars , partof = the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , image = Napoleonic Wars (revision).jpg , caption = Left to right, top to bottom:Battl ...
: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the
Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...
invade
Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...
. * 1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years. * 1816 – The
Federal government of the United States The Federal Government of the United States of America (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the Federation#Federal governments, national government of the United States. The U.S. federal government is composed of three distinct ...
approves the creation of the
Second Bank of the United States The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Second Report on Public Credit, Hamiltonian national bank in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the bank was chartered from February 1816 to January ...
. * 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the
Patriarchate Patriarchate (, ; , ''patriarcheîon'') is an ecclesiological term in Christianity, referring to the office and jurisdiction of a patriarch. According to Christian tradition, three patriarchates—Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria—were establi ...
and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus. * 1821 –
Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. In 1826, the Greeks were assisted ...
: the island of Psara joins the Greek struggle for independence. * 1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive. * 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a bell for the
Palace of Westminster The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England. It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative ch ...
, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current bell by
Whitechapel Bell Foundry The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was a business in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. At the time of the closure of its Whitechapel premises, it was the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The bell foundry primarily made church bells ...
. * 1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. * 1865
American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...
: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time. * 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by
Henry Bergh Henry Bergh (August 29, 1813 – March 12, 1888) founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the United States was passed ...
. * 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor
Tewodros II Tewodros II (, once referred to by the English cognate Theodore; baptized as Kassa, – 13 April 1868) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1855 until his death in 1868. His rule is often placed as the beginning of modern Ethiopia and brought an end to ...
. While 700
Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
ns are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die. *
1872 Events January * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. *January 20 – The Cavite mutiny was an uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort S ...
– The first
Arbor Day Arbor Day (or Arbour Day in some countries) is a Secularity, secular day of observance in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees. Today, many countries observe such a holiday. Though usually observed in the spring, the date v ...
is celebrated in
Nebraska Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...
. * 1875 – India: Arya Samaj is founded in
Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...
by Swami Dayananda Saraswati to propagate his goal of social reform. * 1887 – On Easter Sunday,
Pope Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII (; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2March 181020July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of Peter the Ap ...
authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America. * 18961896 Summer Olympics: The Olympic
marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There ...
is run ending with the victory of Greek athlete Spyridon Louis. *
1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...
– British suffer a sharp defeat by the Boers south of Brandfort. 600 British troops are killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoner.


1901–present

*
1912 This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15. In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skippin ...
– ''
RMS Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British ocean liner that Sinking of the Titanic, sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking Iceberg that struck the Titanic, an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York Ci ...
'' sets sail from
Southampton Southampton is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. It is located approximately southwest of London, west of Portsmouth, and southeast of Salisbury. Southampton had a population of 253, ...
, England on her maiden and only voyage. * 1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City. * 1919
Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution () was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It saw the destruction of the Federal Army, its ...
leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. * 1919 – The Third Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole. * 1925 – '' The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. * 1925 – The Russian city of Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920. *
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
– The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria. * 1939 – ''
Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global, peer-led Mutual aid, mutual-aid fellowship focused on an abstinence-based recovery model from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined twelve-step program. AA's Twelve Traditions, besides emphasizing anon ...
'' (AA) publish the first edition of their " Big Book", which introduced the twelve-step program. * 1941
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
: The
Axis powers The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies of World War II, Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Ge ...
establish the
Independent State of Croatia The Independent State of Croatia (, NDH) was a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Fascist Italy. It was established in parts of Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, ...
. *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...
Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp. *
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
– One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the
submarine A submarine (often shortened to sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. (It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.) The term "submarine" is also sometimes used historically or infor ...
sinks at sea. * 1968 – The TEV ''Wahine'', a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died. *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and the piano, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John ...
announces that he is leaving
The Beatles The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatle ...
for personal and professional reasons. *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S.
table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...
team for a week-long visit. *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
Tombs containing
bamboo slips Bamboo and wooden strips ( zh, s=简牍, t=簡牘, first=t, p=jiǎndú) are long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo, each typically holding a single column of several dozen brush-written characters. They were the main media for writing documents ...
, among them
Sun Tzu Sun Tzu (; zh, t=孫子, s=孙子, first= t, p=Sūnzǐ) may have been a Chinese General, military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC). Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the au ...
's '' Art of War'' and Sun Bin's lost
military treatise A military treatise or treatise on war is any work that deals with the "art of war" in some basic aspect. Fundamentally military treatises are treatises on military strategy. Other works may also be included in the definition that, although they de ...
, are discovered by construction workers in
Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...
. * 1972 –
Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...
: For the first time since November
1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...
, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing
North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; ; VNDCCH), was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty fully recognized in 1954 Geneva Conference, 1954. A member of the communist Eastern Bloc, it o ...
. *
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to
Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...
, Switzerland, killing 108 people. *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. * 1981 – Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He died twenty-six days later. * 1988 – The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in
Rawalpindi Rawalpindi is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, third-largest city in the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is a commercial and industrial hub, being the list of cities in P ...
and
Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...
, Pakistan. * 1991 – Italian ferry collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off
Livorno Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 152,916 residents as of 2025. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn ...
, Italy, killing 140. * 1991 – A rare
tropical storm A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its lo ...
develops in the South
Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...
near
Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
; the first to be documented by
satellites A satellite or an artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including communication relay, weather forecasting, navigation ( GPS), broadcasting, scientif ...
. *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
– The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland. *
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
President of Fiji The president of Fiji is the List of heads of state of Fiji, head of state of the Fiji, Republic of Fiji. The president is appointed by the Parliament of Fiji, Parliament for a three-year term under the terms of the 2013 Constitution of Fiji, ...
Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the
constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed. When these pri ...
and assumes all governance in the country, creating a
constitutional crisis In political science, a constitutional crisis is a problem or conflict in the function of a government that the constitution, political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to resolve. There are several variat ...
. *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
Polish Air Force The Polish Air Force () is the aerial warfare Military branch, branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as ''Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej'' (). In 2014 it consisted of roughly 26,000 military personnel an ...
Tu-154M crashes near
Smolensk Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It has been a regional capital for most of ...
, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries. *
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
– The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship. * 2016 – An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, impacting India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan. *
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
– Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a
black hole A black hole is a massive, compact astronomical object so dense that its gravity prevents anything from escaping, even light. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will form a black hole. Th ...
, which was located in the centre of the M87 galaxy. * 2023A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in
Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...
that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.


Births


Pre-1600

* 401
Theodosius II Theodosius II ( ; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450), called "the Calligraphy, Calligrapher", was Roman emperor from 402 to 450. He was proclaimed ''Augustus (title), Augustus'' as an infant and ruled as the Eastern Empire's sole emperor after the ...
, Roman emperor (died 450) * 1018
Nizam al-Mulk Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Ṭūsī () (1018 – 1092), better known by his honorific title of Niẓām al-Mulk (), was a Persian Sunni scholar, jurist, political philosopher and vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising from a low position w ...
, Persian scholar and vizier (died 1092) * 1472Margaret of York, English princess (died 1472) *
1480 Year 1480 ( MCDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso V of Portugal, ...
Philibert II, duke of Savoy (died 1504) * 1487William I, count of Nassau-Siegen (died 1559) *
1512 Year 1512 (Roman numerals, MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden), Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504, dies at the a ...
James V James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542) was List of Scottish monarchs, King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months. James was the son of King James IV a ...
, king of Scotland (died 1542) * 1579Augustus II, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1666) * 1583Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and jurist (died 1645)


1601–1900

* 1603
Christian A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism, monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the wo ...
, Prince-Elect of Denmark (died 1647) *1651 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1708) *1656 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian settler, founded Rimouski (died 1718) *1704 – Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (died 1766) *1707 – Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, and author (died 1795) *1713 – John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (died 1788) *1755 – Samuel Hahnemann, German-French physician and academic (died 1843) *1762 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (died 1834) *1769 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (died 1809) *1778 – William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic (died 1830) *1794 – Matthew C. Perry, English-Scottish American commander (died 1858) *1806 – Juliette Drouet, French actress (died 1883) * 1806 – Leonidas Polk, Scottish-American general and bishop (died 1884) *1827 – Lew Wallace, American general, lawyer, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (died 1905) *1829 – William Booth, English minister, founded The Salvation Army (died 1912) *1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist, publisher, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (died 1911) * 1864 – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (died 1932) * 1865 – Jack Miner, American-Canadian farmer, hunter, and environmentalist (died 1944) *1867 – George William Russell, Irish author, poet, and painter (died 1935) * 1868 – George Arliss, English actor and playwright (died 1946) * 1868 – Asriel Günzig, Moravian rabbi (died 1931) *1873 – Kyösti Kallio, Finnish farmer, banker, and politician, 4th President of Finland (died 1940) * 1875 – George Clawley, English footballer (died 1920) *1877 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian author and illustrator (died 1959) *1879 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (died 1921) *1880 – Frances Perkins, American sociologist, academic, and politician, United States Secretary of Labor (died 1965) * 1880 – Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (died 1948) *1886 – Johnny Hayes, American runner and trainer (died 1965) * 1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971) *1889 – Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1982) *1891 – Frank Barson, English footballer and coach (died 1968) *1893 – Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (died 1969) *1894 – Ben Nicholson, British painter (died 1982) *1897 – Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1990) *
1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...
– Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist (died 2004)


1901–present

*1901 – Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, Indian economist (died 1971) *1903 – Patroklos Karantinos, Greek architect (died 1976) * 1903 – Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (died 1970) *1906 – Steve Anderson (athlete), Steve Anderson, American hurdler (died 1988) *1910 – Margaret Clapp, American scholar and academic (died 1974) * 1910 – Helenio Herrera, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1997) * 1910 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and publisher, founded the ''Monthly Review'' (died 2004) *1911 – Martin Denny, American pianist and composer (died 2005) * 1911 – Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France), Minister of Foreign and European Affairs for France (died 1998) *
1912 This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15. In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skippin ...
– Boris Kidrič, Austrian-Slovenian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (died 1953) *1913 – Stefan Heym, German-American soldier and author (died 2001) *1914 – Jack Badcock, Australian cricketer (died 1982) *1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor and director (died 2011) * 1915 – Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (died 2014) * 1916 – Lee Jung-seob, Korean painter (died 1956) *1917 – Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (died 2013) * 1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) * 1919 – John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (died 2014) *1921 – Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (died 1992) * 1921 – Jake Warren, Canadian soldier and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (died 2008) * 1921 – Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2003) *1923 – Roger Gaillard (historian), Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and author (died 2000) * 1923 – Jane Kean, American actress and singer (died 2013) * 1923 – Floyd Simmons, American decathlete and actor (died 2008) * 1923 – Sid Tickridge, English footballer (died 1997) * 1923 – John Watkins (South African cricketer), John Watkins, South African cricketer (died 2021) *1924 – Kenneth Noland, American soldier and painter (died 2010) * 1925 – Angelo Poffo, American wrestler and promoter (died 2010) *1926 – Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (died 2014) * 1926 – Junior Samples, American comedian (died 1983) *1927 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress (died 2006) * 1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010) *1929 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (died 1959) * 1929 – Liz Sheridan, American actress (died 2022) * 1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (died 2020) *1930 – Claude Bolling, French pianist, composer, and actor (died 2020) * 1930 – Dolores Huerta, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers * 1930 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor (died 2001) *1931 – Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical vocalist (died 2017) *1932 – Delphine Seyrig, Swiss people, Swiss/List of Alsatians and Lotharingians, Alsatian French actress (died 1990) * 1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (died 2015) *1933 – Rokusuke Ei, Japanese composer and author (died 2016) * 1933 – Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (died 2013) *1934 – David Halberstam, American journalist and author (died 2007) *1935 – Patrick Garland, English actor and director (died 2013) * 1935 – Peter Hollingworth, Australian bishop, 23rd Governor General of Australia * 1935 – Christos Yannaras, Greek philosopher, theologian and author (died 2024) *1936 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (died 1961) * 1936 – David A. Hardy, British artist * 1936 – John Howell (athlete), John Howell, English long jumper * 1936 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2021) * 1936 – Bobby Smith (rhythm and blues singer), Bobby Smith, American singer (died 2013) *1937 – Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator (died 2010) *
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
– Don Meredith, American football player and sportscaster (died 2010) * 1939 – Claudio Magris, Italian scholar, author, and translator *1940 – Gloria Hunniford, British radio and television host * 1941 – Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, (died 2022) * 1941 – Harold Long (politician), Harold Long, Canadian politician (died 2013) * 1941 – Paul Theroux, American novelist, short story writer, and travel writer *1942 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1998) * 1942 – Ian Callaghan, English footballer * 1942 – Stuart Dybek, American novelist, short story writer, and poet *1943 – Andrzej Badeński, Polish-German sprinter (died 2008) * 1943 – Margaret Pemberton, English author *1945 – Kevin Berry, Australian swimmer (died 2006) *1946 – David Angell, American screenwriter and producer (died 2001) * 1946 – Bob Watson, American baseball player and manager (died 2020) * 1946 – Adolf Winkelmann (film director), Adolf Winkelmann, German director, producer, and screenwriter *1947 – David A. Adler, American author and educator * 1947 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican singer-songwriter and drummer (died 2021) *1948 – Mel Blount, American football player * 1948 – Jim Burns, Welsh artist *1949 – Daniel Mangeas, French banker and sportscaster * 1949 – Eric Troyer, American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist *1950 – Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player and manager * 1950 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (died 1992) *1951 – David Helvarg, American journalist and activist *1952 – Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra * 1952 – Masashi Sada, Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, novelist, actor, and producer * 1952 – Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, and martial artist *1953 – David Moorcroft, English runner and businessman * 1953 – Pamela Wallin, Swedish-Canadian journalist, academic, and politician *1954 – Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (died 2013) * 1954 – Anne Lamott, American author and educator * 1954 – Peter MacNicol, American actor * 1954 – Juan Williams, Panamanian-American journalist and author *1955 – Marit Breivik, Norwegian handball player and coach * 1955 – Lesley Garrett, English soprano and actress * 1955 – Mike Rinder, Australian-American former Scientologist, critic (died 2025) *1956 – Carol V. Robinson, English chemist and academic *1957 – Aliko Dangote, Nigerian businessman, founded Dangote Group * 1957 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (died 2006) * 1957 – Steve Gustafson, Spanish-American bass player * 1957 – Rosemary Hill, English historian and author *1958 – Bob Bell (motorsport), Bob Bell, Northern Irish engineer * 1958 – Yefim Bronfman, Uzbek-American pianist * 1958 – Brigitte Holzapfel, German high jumper *1959 – Babyface (musician), Babyface, American singer-songwriter and producer * 1959 – Yvan Loubier, Canadian economist and politician * 1959 – Brian Setzer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist *1960 – Steve Bisciotti, American businessman, co-founded Allegis Group * 1960 – Katrina Leskanich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1960 – Terry Teagle, American basketball player *1961 – Nicky Campbell, Scottish broadcaster and journalist * 1961 – Carole Goble, English computer scientist and academic * 1961 – Mark Jones (basketball, born 1961), Mark Jones, American basketball player *1962 – Steve Tasker, American football player and sportscaster *
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
– Warren DeMartini, American guitarist and songwriter * 1963 – Jeff Gray (baseball, born 1963), Jeff Gray, American baseball player and coach * 1963 – Doris Leuthard, Swiss lawyer and politician, 162nd List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation, President of the Swiss Confederation *1965 – Tim Alexander, American drummer and songwriter * 1965 – Anna-Leena Härkönen, Finnish author * 1966 – Brad William Henke, American football player and actor (died 2022) *1966 – Steve Claridge, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster *
1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...
– Donald Dufresne, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1967 – David Rovics, American singer-songwriter * 1968 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (died 1996) * 1968 – Orlando Jones, American actor, producer, and screenwriter *1969 – Steve Glasson, Australian lawn bowler * 1969 – Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
– Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player * 1970 – Leonard Doroftei, Romanian-Canadian boxer * 1970 – Kenny Lattimore, American singer-songwriter * 1970 – Q-Tip (musician), Q-Tip, American rapper, producer, and actor *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
– Indro Olumets, Estonian footballer and coach * 1971 – Al Reyes, Dominican-American baseball player *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
– Ian Harvey, Australian cricketer * 1972 – Priit Kasesalu, Estonian computer programmer, co-created Skype * 1972 – Gordon Buchanan, Scottish film maker *
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
– Guillaume Canet, French actor and director * 1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer and manager * 1973 – Aidan Moffat, Scottish singer-songwriter * 1973 – Christopher Simmons, Canadian-American graphic designer, author, and academic *1974 – Eric Greitens, American soldier, author and politician * 1974 – Petros Passalis, Greek footballer *1975 – Chris Carrabba, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1975 – Terence Lewis (choreographer), Terrence Lewis, Indian dancer and choreographer * 1975 – David Harbour, American actor *1976 – Clare Buckfield, English actress * 1976 – Yoshino Kimura, Japanese actress and singer * 1976 – Sara Renner, Canadian skier *1977 – Stephanie Sheh, Taiwanese-American voice actress, director, and producer *1978 – Sir Christus, Finnish guitarist (died 2017) *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– Iván Alonso, Uruguayan footballer * 1979 – Kenyon Coleman, American football player * 1979 – Rachel Corrie, American author and activist (died 2003) * 1979 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor * 1979 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer-songwriter * 1979 – Pavlos Fyssas, Greek rapper (died 2013) * 1979 – Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer *1980 – Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player and model * 1980 – Charlie Hunnam, English actor * 1980 – Shao Jiayi, Chinese footballer * 1980 – Kasey Kahne, American race car driver * 1980 – Andy Ram, Israeli tennis player * 1980 – Bryce Soderberg, American singer-songwriter and bass player * 1981 – Laura Bell Bundy, American actress and singer * 1981 – Liz McClarnon, English singer and dancer * 1981 – Michael Pitt, American actor, model and musician * 1981 – Alexei Semenov (hockey player), Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player *1982 – Andre Ethier, American baseball player * 1982 – Chyler Leigh, American actress and singer *1983 – Jamie Chung, American actress * 1983 – Andrew Dost, American guitarist and songwriter * 1983 – Ryan Merriman, American actor * 1983 – Hannes Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer *1984 – Faustina Agolley, Australian television host * 1984 – Jeremy Barrett (figure skater), Jeremy Barrett, American figure skater * 1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress * 1984 – David Obua, Ugandan footballer * 1984 – Damien Perquis, French-Polish footballer * 1984 – Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer *1985 – Barkhad Abdi, Somali-American actor and director * 1985 – Willo Flood, Irish footballer * 1985 – Jesús Gámez, Spanish footballer * 1985 – Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player *1986 – Olivia Borlée, Belgian sprinter * 1986 – Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer and manager * 1986 – Corey Kluber, American baseball pitcher * 1986 – Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer and manager * 1986 – Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer *1987 – Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam, Egyptian footballer * 1987 – Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress and model * 1987 – Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano * 1988 – Chris Heston, American baseball pitcher * 1988 – Kareem Jackson, American football player * 1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor *1989 – Charlie Culberson, American baseball player *1990 – Ben Amos, English footballer * 1990 – Andile Jali, South African footballer * 1990 – Ricky Leutele, Australian-Samoan rugby league player * 1990 – Maren Morris, American singer * 1990 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor * 1991 – AJ Michalka, American actress and singer *1992 – Jack Buchanan (rugby league), Jack Buchanan, Australian rugby league player * 1992 – Sadio Mané, Senegalese footballer * 1992 – Chaz Mostert, Australian racing driver * 1992 – Daisy Ridley, English actress *1993 – Sofia Carson, American singer and actress *1994 – Siobhan Hunter, Scottish footballer *1995 – Ian Nelson (actor, born 1995), Ian Nelson, American actor *1996 – Andreas Christensen, Danish footballer * 1996 – Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australian tennis player * 1996 – Audrey Whitby, American actress *1997 – Claire Wineland, American activist and author (died 2018) *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
– Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater *2000 – Fidias Panayiotou, Cypriot internet celebrity and politician *2001 – Ky Baldwin, Australian singer and actor * 2001 – Noa Kirel, Israeli singer *2004 – Ismaël Gharbi, French-Spanish footballer * 2004 – Savinho, Brazilian footballer


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 879 – Louis the Stammerer, king of West Francia (born 846) * 943 – Landulf I of Benevento, Landulf I, prince of Benevento and Capua * 948 – Hugh of Italy, Hugh of Arles, king of Italy *1008 – Notker of Liège, French bishop (born 940) *1216 – Eric X of Sweden, Eric X, king of Sweden (born 1180) *1282 – Ahmad Fanakati, chief minister under Kublai Khan *1309 – Elisabeth von Rapperswil, Swiss countess (born 1261) *1362 – Maud, Countess of Leicester, Maud, English noblewoman (born 1339) * 1500 – Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar and poet *1533 – Frederick I of Denmark, Frederick I, king of Denmark and Norway (born 1471) * 1545 – Costanzo Festa, Italian composer *1585 – Pope Gregory XIII, Gregory XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1502) *1598 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (born 1548) *1599 – Gabrielle d'Estrées, French mistress of Henry IV of France (born 1571)


1601–1900

*1601 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish soldier and poet (born 1562) *1619 – Thomas Jones (bishop), Thomas Jones, English-Irish archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1550) *1640 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and theorist (born 1578) *1644 – William Brewster (Mayflower passenger), William Brewster, English official and pilgrim leader (born 1566) *1646 – Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (born 1576) *1667 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and author (born 1595) *1704 – Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg, German cardinal (born 1629) *1756 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (born 1661) *1760 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian and author (born 1687) *1786 – John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1723) *1806 – Horatio Gates, English-American general (born 1727) *1813 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1736) * 1821Gregory V of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (born 1746) *1823 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (born 1757) *1871 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician (born 1789) *1889 – William Crichton (engineer), William Crichton, Scottish engineer and shipbuilder (born 1827)


1901–present

*1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (born 1837) * 1919Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (born 1879) *1920 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (born 1829) *1931 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (born 1883) *1935 – Rosa Campbell Praed, Australian novelist (born 1851) *
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
– King Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (born 1885) *1942 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor and director (born 1881) *1943 – Andreas Faehlmann, Estonian-German sailor and engineer (born 1898) *1945 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer and typographer (born 1882) *1947 – Charles Nordhoff, English-American lieutenant and author (born 1887) *1950 – Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish field marshal and politician, 2nd List of Prime Ministers of Turkey, Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1876) *1954 – Auguste and Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière, French director and producer (born 1862) * 1954 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (born 1888) *1955 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, theologian, and philosopher (born 1881) *1958 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (born 1928) *1960 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (born 1903) *1962 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1886) * 1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish artist and musician (born 1940) *1965 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver, founded Casner Motor Racing Division (born 1928) * 1965 – Linda Darnell, American actress (born 1923) *1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English soldier, novelist, journalist and critic (born 1903) * 1968 – Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian lieutenant and politician (born 1899) *1969 – Harley Earl, American businessman (born 1893) *1975 – Walker Evans, American photographer (born 1903) * 1975 – Marjorie Main, American actress (born 1890) *1978 – Hjalmar Mäe, Estonian politician (born 1901) *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1911) *1980 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer (born 1919) * 1981 – Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher and civil rights activist (born 1899) *1983 – Issam Sartawi, Palestinian activist (born 1935) *1985 – Zisis Verros, Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle (born 1880) *1986 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (born 1948) * 1988 – Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek Cypriot politician (born 1908) * 1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (born 1955) * 1991 – Martin Hannett, English guitarist and producer (born 1948) * 1991 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (born 1900) *1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian and actor (born 1953) *1993 – Chris Hani, South African activist and politician (born 1942) *1994 – Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1924) *1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian politician, 4th Prime Minister of India (born 1896) *1997 – Michael Dorris, American author and academic (born 1945) *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
– Seraphim of Athens, Greek archbishop (born 1913) *1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-American biochemist and physician (born 1910) * 1999 – Jean Vander Pyl, American actress and voice artist (born 1919) *2000 – Peter Jones (actor), Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (born 1920) * 2000 – Larry Linville, American actor (born 1939) *2003 – Little Eva, American singer (born 1943) *2004 – Jacek Kaczmarski, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (born 1957) * 2004 – Sakıp Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Sabancı Holding (born 1933) *2005 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (born 1923) * 2005 – Scott Gottlieb (musician), Scott Gottlieb, American drummer (born 1970) * 2005 – Archbishop Iakovos of America (born 1911) * 2005 – Al Lucas (American football), Al Lucas, American football player (born 1978) * 2005 – Wally Tax, Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1948) *2006 – Kleitos Kyrou, Greek poet and translator (born 1921) *2007 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (born 1910) * 2007 – Dakota Staton, American singer (born 1930) *
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
– Deborah Digges, American poet and educator (born 1950) * 2009 – Ioannis Patakis, Greek politician (born 1940) *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
– List of casualties of the Smolensk air disaster, Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included: ** Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish soldier and politician, 6th President of the Republic of Poland (born 1919) ** Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist, First Lady of Poland (born 1942) ** Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (born 1949) ** Anna Walentynowicz, Ukrainian-Polish journalist and activist (born 1929) * 2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (born 1939) *2012 – Raymond Aubrac, French engineer and activist (born 1914) * 2012 – Barbara Buchholz, German theremin player and composer (born 1959) * 2012 – Lili Chookasian, Armenian-American operatic singer (born 1921) * 2012 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (born 1922) * 2012 – Akin Omoboriowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (born 1932) *2013 – Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (born 1922) * 2013 – Raymond Boudon, French sociologist and academic (born 1934) * 2013 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (born 1911) * 2013 – Robert Edwards (physiologist), Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925) * 2013 – Olive Lewin, Jamaican anthropologist, musicologist, and author (born 1927) * 2013 – Gordon Thomas (cyclist), Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (born 1921) * 2013 – Angela Voigt, German long jumper (born 1951) *2014 – Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (born 1947) * 2014 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Minister of Finance (Canada), Canadian Minister of Finance (born 1949) * 2014 – Richard Hoggart, English author and academic (born 1918) * 2014 – Sue Townsend, English author and playwright (born 1946) *2015 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1930) * 2015 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (born 1916) * 2015 – Judith Malina, German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (born 1926) * 2015 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, List of heads of state of Gabon, President of Gabon (born 1942) * 2015 – Peter Walsh (Australian politician), Peter Walsh, Australian farmer and politician, 6th Minister for Finance (Australia), Australian Minister for Finance (born 1935) *
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
– Howard Marks, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer, and legalisation campaigner (born 1945) * 2023 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (born 1921) *2024 – O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor, and broadcaster (born 1947) *2025 – Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football manager (born 1942) *2025 – Ted Kotcheff, Canadian film and television director (born 1931) *2025 – Peter Lovesey, British writer (born 1936)


Holidays and observances

*Christian feast day: **Fulbert of Chartres **James, Azadanus and Abdicius **Mikael Agricola (Calendar of Saints (Lutheran), Lutheran) **Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church), Episcopal Church) **William of Ockham (Calendar of saints (Church of England), Anglicanism) **William Law (Anglicanism) **April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Day of the Builder (Azerbaijan) *Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema) *Siblings Day (International observance)


References


External links


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