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Pre-1600

* 1018
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. * 1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.


1601–1900

* 1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. * 1648Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. * 1649Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London. * 1661Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. * 1667The Truce of Andrusovo is signed, ending the Russian-Polish War of 1654-1667 * 1789Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long. * 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. * 1820Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica. * 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. * 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself. * 1847Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California. * 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. * 1862American Civil War: The first American ironclad warship, the is launched. * 1889Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.


1901–present

* 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in
London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
. * 1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month. * 1911 – The destroyer makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy from Havana, Cuba. * 1920 – Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a cork-producing company. * 1925 – The Government of
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
expels Patriarch Constantine VI from
Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...
. * 1930 – The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders the confiscation of lands belonging to the Kulaks in a campaign of Dekulakization, resulting in the executions and forced deportations of millions. * 1933Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany. * 1939 – During a speech in the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler makes a prediction about the end of the Jewish race in Europe if another world war were to occur. * 1942
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 ...
: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war. * 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy. * 1945 – World War II: The '' Wilhelm Gustloff'', overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people. * 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp. * 1948British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle. * 1948 – Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound,
India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying " The light has gone out of our lives". The date of the assassination becomes observed as " Martyrs' Day" in India. * 1956 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott. * 1959 – The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman. * 1959 – , specifically designed to operate in icebound seas, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard. * 1960 – The African National Party is founded in
Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...
, through the merger of traditionalist parties. * 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. * 1968Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. * 1969The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. * 1972The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained. * 1972 – Pakistan leaves the
Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations, often referred to as the British Commonwealth or simply the Commonwealth, is an International organization, international association of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, 56 member states, the vast majo ...
in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh. * 1974Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, killing 97. * 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. *1975 – Turkish Airlines Flight 345 crashes into the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport, killing 42. * 1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. * 1982Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called " Elk Cloner". * 1989 – The American
embassy A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a Sovereign state, state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase ...
in Kabul,
Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...
is closed. * 1995Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease. * 2000Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...
, killing 169. * 2006 – The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven people before the perpetrator took her own life. * 2007Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel. * 2013Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea. * 2020 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.


Births


Pre-1600

* 58 BCLivia, Roman wife of Augustus (died 29) * 1410William Calthorpe, English knight (died 1494) * 1520William More, English courtier (died 1600) * 1563Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian and academic (died 1641) * 1573Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (died 1638) * 1580Gundakar, Prince of Liechtenstein, court official in Vienna (died 1658) * 1590Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (died 1676)


1601–1900

* 1628George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (died 1687) * 1661Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (died 1741) * 1697Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (died 1773) * 1703François Bigot, French politician (died 1778) * 1720Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (died 1778) * 1754John Lansing Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1829) * 1775Walter Savage Landor, English poet and author (died 1864) * 1781Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (died 1838) * 1816Nathaniel P. Banks, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1894) * 1822Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and curator (died 1899) * 1841Félix Faure, French politician, 7th President of France (died 1899) * 1844Richard Theodore Greener, American lawyer, academic, and diplomat (died 1922) * 1846Angela of the Cross, Spanish nun and saint (died 1932) * 1861Charles Martin Loeffler, German-American violinist and composer (died 1935) * 1862Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer (died 1950) * 1866Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and critic (died 1951) * 1878A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (died 1940) * 1882Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and statesman, 32nd
President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive branch of the Federal government of t ...
(died 1945) * 1889Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright (died 1937) * 1899Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972) * 1900Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (died 1969)


1901–present

* 1901Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (died 1959) * 1902Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (died 1983) * 1910Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (died 2000) * 1911Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player (died 1989) * 1912Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (died 1988) * 1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian (died 1984) * 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (died 1989) * 1913Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter (died 1941)Great Minds
, The Tribune, 12 March 2000.
* 1914Luc-Marie Bayle, French commander and painter (died 2000) * 1914 – John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (died 1992) * 1914 – David Wayne, American actor (died 1995) * 1915Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (died 1976) * 1915 – John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (died 2006) * 1917Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and journalist (died 2008) * 1918David Opatoshu, American actor and screenwriter (died 1996) * 1919Fred Korematsu, American activist (died 2005) * 1920Michael Anderson, English director and producer (died 2018) * 1920 – Patrick Heron, British painter (died 1999) * 1920 – Delbert Mann, American director and producer (died 2007) * 1922Dick Martin, American comedian, actor, and director (died 2008) * 1923Marianne Ferber, Czech-American economist and author (died 2013) * 1924Ernie Calverley, American basketball player and coach (died 2003) * 1924 – S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian author and educator (died 2013) * 1925Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (died 2013) * 1927Olof Palme, Swedish statesman, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1986) * 1928Harold Prince, American director and producer (died 2019) * 1928 – Paul Seymour, American basketball player and coach (died 1998) * 1929Lois Hole, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (died 2005) * 1929 – Hugh Tayfield, South African cricketer (died 1994) * 1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian (died 1996) * 1930Gene Hackman, American actor and author (died 2025) * 1930 – Magnus Malan, South African general and politician, South African Minister of Defence (died 2011) * 1931John Crosbie, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 2020) * 1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2016) * 1932Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (died 2007) * 1934Tammy Grimes, American actress and singer (died 2016) * 1935Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (died 1984) * 1935 – Tubby Hayes, English saxophonist and composer (died 1973) * 1936Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (died 1998) * 1937Vanessa Redgrave, English actress * 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster (died 2025) * 1938Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (died 2016) * 1941Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and author * 1941 – Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States * 1941 – Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer * 1942Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018) * 1943Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager * 1944Lynn Harrell, American cellist and academic (died 2020) * 1944 – Colin Rimer, English lawyer and judge * 1945Meir Dagan, Israeli military officer and intelligence official, Director of Mossad (2002–11) (died 2016) * 1945 – Michael Dorris, American author and scholar (died 1997) *
1946 1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
John Bird, Baron Bird, English publisher, founded '' The Big Issue'' * 1947Les Barker, English poet and author (died 2023) * 1947 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1991) * 1949Peter Agre, American physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate * 1950Jack Newton, Australian golfer (died 2022) * 1951Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor * 1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor and director * 1951 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (died 1995) * 1952Doug Falconer, Canadian football player and producer (died 2021) * 1953Fred Hembeck, American author and illustrator * 1955John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine * 1955 – Curtis Strange, American golfer * 1955 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian-American basketball player and sportscaster * 1956Ann Dowd, American actress * 1957Chris Jansing, American television reporter * 1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (died 1999) * 1958Brett Butler, American actress * 1959Jody Watley, American entertainer * 1962Abdullah II of Jordan * 1962 – Mary Kay Letourneau, American sex offender (died 2020) * 1964Otis Smith, American basketball player, coach, and manager * 1965Kevin Moore, Australian rugby league player and coach * 1966Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1968Felipe VI of Spain * 1969Justin Skinner, English footballer and manager * 1970Kimiya Yui, Japanese astronaut * 1972Mike Johnson, American politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * 1972 – Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player * 1973Jalen Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster * 1974Christian Bale, British actor * 1974 – Olivia Colman, English actress * 1975Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer *
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
Andy Milonakis, American entertainer * 1978Carmen Küng, Swiss curler * 1978 – John Patterson, American baseball player * 1979Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player * 1980Lena Hall, American actress and singer * 1980 – Josh Kelley, American singer-songwriter and musician * 1980 – Georgios Vakouftsis, Greek footballer * 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor and producer * 1980 – Lee Zeldin, American politician and 17th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. * 1981Jonathan Bender, American basketball player * 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer * 1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer * 1981 – Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver * 1982Jorge Cantú, American-Mexican baseball player * 1982 – DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player and coach * 1982 – Cameron Wake, American football player * 1983Drake Maverick, English wrestler * 1983 – Slavko Vraneš, Montenegrin basketball player * 1984Kid Cudi, American entertainer * 1984 – Junior dos Santos, Brazilian mixed martial artist * 1984 – Kotoshōgiku Kazuhiro, Japanese sumo wrestler * 1985Gisela Dulko, Argentinian tennis player * 1987Becky Lynch, Irish wrestler * 1987 – Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer * 1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer * 1989Jahvid Best, American football player and athlete * 1989 – Yoon Bo-ra, South Korean singer * 1989 – Kylie Bunbury, Canadian-American actress * 1989 – Misha Zilberman, Israeli Olympic badminton player * 1990Melissa Duncan, Australian track and field athlete * 1990 – Eiza González, Mexican actress and singer * 1990 – Luca Sbisa, Italian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach * 1990 – Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer * 1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor * 1991Stefan Elliott, Canadian ice hockey player * 1991 – Jason Gastrow, American YouTuber * 1993Katy Marchant, English track cyclist * 1993 – Kodai Senga, Japanese baseball player * 1993 – Thitipoom Techaapaikhun, Thai actor * 1995Danielle Campbell, American actress * 1995 – Jack Laugher, English diver * 1996Dafne Navarro, Mexican trampoline gymnast * 1997Thomas Chabot, Canadian ice hockey player * 1997 – Colin White, American ice hockey player * 2000Markella Kavenagh, Australian actress * 2000 – Bryan Woo, American baseball player * 2001Curtis Jones, English footballer * 2002Tyla, South African singer and songwriter. * 2002 – Bijan Robinson, American football player * 2003Amen Thompson, American basketball player * 2003 – Ausar Thompson, American basketball player * 2005Prince Hashem, second son of King Abdullah II of Jordan


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 680Balthild, Frankish queen (born 626) * 970Peter I of Bulgaria * 1030William V, Duke of Aquitaine (born 969) * 1181Emperor Takakura of Japan (born 1161) * 1240Pelagio Galvani, Leonese lawyer and cardinal (born 1165) * 1314Nicholas III of Saint Omer * 1344William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (born 1301) * 1384Louis II, Count of Flanders (born 1330) * 1574Damião de Góis, Portuguese historian and philosopher (born 1502)


1601–1900

* 1606Everard Digby, English criminal (born 1578) * 1606 – John Grant, English conspirator (born 1570) * 1606 – Robert Wintour, English conspirator (born 1565) * 1649Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (born 1600) * 1664Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor (born 1599) * 1730Peter II of Russia (born 1715) * 1770Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (born 1712) * 1836Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to have designed the American Flag (born 1752) * 1838Osceola, American tribal leader (born 1804) * 1858Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (born 1778) * 1867Emperor Kōmei of Japan (born 1831) * 1869William Carleton, Irish author (born 1794) * 1881Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (born 1844) * 1889Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (born 1858)


1901–present

* 1923Columba Marmion, Benedictine abbot (born 1858) * 1926Barbara La Marr, American actress (born 1896) * 1928Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867) * 1934Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (born 1862) * 1947Frederick Blackman, English botanist and physiologist (born 1866) * 1948Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (born 1895) * 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (born 1869) * 1948 – Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company (born 1871) * 1951Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche (born 1875) * 1958Jean Crotti, Swiss painter (born 1878) * 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman; founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company (born 1888) * 1962Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician and engineer (born 1894) * 1963Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (born 1899) * 1966Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (born 1912) * 1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet, playwright, and journalist (born 1889) * 1969Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910) * 1973Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (born 1885) * 1973 – Titina Silá, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary (born 1943) * 1974Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (born 1910) * 1977Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist (born 1883) * 1980Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1918) * 1982Lightnin' Hopkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1912) * 1991John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908) * 1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator (born 1907) * 1993Alexandra of Yugoslavia, the last Queen of Yugoslavia (born 1921) * 1994Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (born 1912) * 1999Huntz Hall, American actor (born 1919) * 1999 – Ed Herlihy, American journalist (born 1909) * 2001Jean-Pierre Aumont, French soldier and actor (born 1911) * 2001 – Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (born 1915) * 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon and educator (born 1915) * 2004Egon Mayer, Swiss-American sociologist (born 1944) * 2005Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist (born 1971) * 2006Coretta Scott King, American author and activist (born 1927) * 2006 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and academic (born 1950) * 2007Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (born 1917) * 2008Marcial Maciel, Mexican-American priest, founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi (born 1920) * 2009H. Guy Hunt, American soldier, pastor, and politician, 49th Governor of Alabama (born 1933) * 2010Fadil Ferati, Kosovar accountant and politician (born 1960) * 2011John Barry, English composer and conductor (born 1933) * 2012Frank Aschenbrenner, American football player and soldier (born 1925) * 2012 – Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch author (born 1947) * 2013Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar (born 1920) * 2013 – Patty Andrews, American singer (born 1918) * 2013 – George Witt, American baseball player and coach (born 1931) * 2014Stefan Bałuk, Polish general and photographer (born 1914) * 2014 – The Mighty Hannibal, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1939) * 2014 – Russell D. Hemenway, American political activist (born 1925) * 2014 – William Motzing, American composer and conductor (born 1937) * 2014 – Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924) * 2014 – Greater, oldest known greater flamingo and Feast Festival 2021 mascot (h. c.1919–1933) * 2015Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (born 1923) * 2015 – Ülo Kaevats, Estonian academic, philosopher, and politician (born 1947) * 2015 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (born 1932) * 2015 – Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (born 1923) * 2015 – Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (born 1935) * 2016Frank Finlay, English actor (born 1926) * 2016 – Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (born 1959) * 2016 – Georgia Davis Powers, American activist and politician (born 1923) * 2016 – Gaston Mialaret, French pedagogist and professor (born 1918) * 2018Mark Salling, American actor and musician (born 1982) * 2019Dick Miller, American actor (born 1928) * 2021Sophie, Scottish musician (born 1986) * 2022Cheslie Kryst, American television presenter and model (born 1991) * 2023Bobby Beathard, American Pro Football Hall of Fame executive (born 1937) * 2023 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1939) * 2024Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1933) * 2025Dick Button, American figure skater and actor (born 1929) *2025 – Julius Chan, Papua New Guinean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (born 1939) *2025 – Marianne Faithfull, English singer-songwriter and actress (born 1946) *2025 – Edcel Lagman, Filipino politician (born 1942)


Holidays and observances

* Christian Feast Day: ** Adelelmus of Burgos ** Aldegonde ** Anthony the Great ( Coptic Church) ** Armentarius of Pavia ** Balthild ** Charles, King and Martyr (various provinces of the Anglican Communion) ** Hippolytus of Rome ** Hyacintha Mariscotti ** Martina ** Matthias of Jerusalem ** Mutien-Marie Wiaux ** Savina ** Three Holy Hierarchs ( Eastern Orthodox), and its related observances: *** Teacher's Day ( Greece) ** January 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) * Day of Azerbaijani customs ( Azerbaijan) * Day of ''Saudade'' (
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
) * Fred Korematsu Day ( California, Florida,
Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...
,
Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
) * Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances: ** Martyrs' Day (India) ** School Day of Non-violence and Peace (
Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
) ** Start of the Season for Nonviolence (January 30 – April 4)


References


External links


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