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Day of the year
July 19 is the 200th day of the year (201st in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 165 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1903 –
Maurice Garin wins the
first Tour de France .
[2]
1916 –
World War I :
Battle of Fromelles :
British and
Australian troops attack
German trenches as part of the
Battle of the Somme .
1934 – The rigid airship
USS Macon surprised the
USS Houston near
Clipperton Island with a mail delivery for President
Franklin D. Roosevelt , demonstrating its potential for tracking ships at sea.
[3]
1936 –
Spanish Civil War : The
CNT and
UGT call a
general strike in
Spain – mobilizing workers' militias against the
Nationalist forces .
1940 –
World War II :
Battle of Cape Spada : The
Royal Navy and the
Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser
Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 –
Field Marshal Ceremony : First occasion in World War II that
Adolf Hitler appoints field marshals due to military achievements.
1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the
Intelligence Corps of the
British Army .
1942 – World War II: The
Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
1943 – World War II: Rome is
heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
1947 – Prime Minister of the shadow
Burmese government, Bogyoke
Aung San and eight others are
assassinated .
1947 – Korean politician
Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
1952 – Opening of the
Summer Olympics in
Helsinki , Finland.
[4]
1957 – The largely
autobiographical novel
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by
Evelyn Waugh was published.
[5]
1961 – Tunisia
imposes a blockade on the French naval base at
Bizerte ; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
1963 –
Joe Walker flies a
North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on
X-15 Flight 90 . Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a
human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 –
Vietnam War : At a rally in
Saigon ,
South Vietnamese
Prime Minister
Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into
North Vietnam .
1967 –
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 , a
Piedmont Airlines
Boeing 727-22 and a twin-engine
Cessna 310 collided over
Hendersonville, North Carolina ,
USA . Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed, including
John T. McNaughton , an advisor to
Robert McNamara .
[6]
1969 –
Chappaquiddick incident : U.S. Senator
Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at
Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts , killing his passenger
Mary Jo Kopechne .
[7]
1972 –
Dhofar Rebellion : British
SAS units help the
Omani government against
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the
Battle of Mirbat .
1976 –
Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1977 – The world's first
Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at
Rockwell Collins in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa , at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).
[8]
1979 – The
Sandinista rebels overthrow the
government of the
Somoza family in
Nicaragua .
1979 – The oil tanker
SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever
ship-borne oil spill .
1980 – Opening of the
Summer Olympics in
Moscow .
[9]
1981 – In a private meeting with U.S. President
Ronald Reagan , French President
François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the
Farewell Dossier , a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by
Hezbollah ,
David S. Dodge , president of the
American University of Beirut , is kidnapped.
[10]
1983 – The first
three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a
CT is published.
1985 – The
Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 –
United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.
1992 – A car bomb
kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
1997 –
The Troubles : The
Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their
25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
2011 –
Guinean President
Alpha Condé survives an attempted assassination and coup d'état at his
residence in
Conakry .
[11]
2012 –
Syrian civil war : The
People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of
Kobanî without resistance, starting the
Rojava conflict in Northeast Syria.
[12]
2014 – Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of
New Valley Governorate
attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a
state of emergency on its border with Sudan.
2018 – The
Knesset passes the controversial
Nationality Bill , which defines the
State of Israel as the
nation-state of the
Jewish people .
[13]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1670 –
Richard Leveridge , English singer-songwriter (d. 1758)
1688 –
Giuseppe Castiglione , Italian missionary and painter (d. 1766)
1744 –
Heinrich Christian Boie , German author and poet (d. 1806)
1759 –
Marianna Auenbrugger , Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1782)
1759 –
Seraphim of Sarov , Russian monk and saint (d. 1833)
1771 –
Thomas Talbot , Irish-Canadian colonel and politician (d. 1853)
1794 –
José Justo Corro , Mexican politician and president (d. 1864)
[14]
1789 –
John Martin , English painter, engraver, and illustrator (d. 1854)
1800 –
Juan José Flores , Venezuelan general and politician, 1st
President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1814 –
Samuel Colt , American businessman, founded the
Colt's Manufacturing Company (d. 1862)
[15]
1819 –
Gottfried Keller , Swiss author, poet, and playwright (d. 1890)
1822 –
Princess Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
1827 –
Mangal Pandey , Indian soldier (d. 1857)
1834 –
Edgar Degas , French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1917)
1835 –
Justo Rufino Barrios ,
Guatemalan
president (d. 1885)
1842 –
Frederic T. Greenhalge , English-American lawyer and politician, 38th
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1846 –
Edward Charles Pickering , American astronomer and physicist (d. 1919)
[16]
1849 –
Ferdinand Brunetière , French scholar and critic (d. 1906)
1860 –
Lizzie Borden , American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and step-mother in 1892 (d. 1927)
1864 –
Fiammetta Wilson , English astronomer (d. 1920)
[17]
1865 –
Georges Friedel , French mineralogist and crystallographer (d. 1933)
1865 –
Charles Horace Mayo , American surgeon, co-founder of the
Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1868 –
Florence Foster Jenkins , American soprano and educator (d. 1944)
1869 –
Xenophon Stratigos , Greek general and politician,
Greek Minister of Transport (d. 1927)
1875 –
Alice Dunbar Nelson , American poet and activist (d. 1935)
1876 –
Joseph Fielding Smith , American religious leader, 10th
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1877 –
Arthur Fielder , English cricketer (d. 1949)
1881 –
Friedrich Dessauer , German physicist and philosopher (d. 1963)
1883 –
Max Fleischer , Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972)
1886 –
Michael Fekete , Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1957)
1888 –
Enno Lolling , German physician (d. 1945)
1890 –
George II of Greece (d. 1947)
1892 –
Dick Irvin , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 –
Vladimir Mayakovsky , Russian actor, playwright, and poet (d. 1930)
1894 –
Aleksandr Khinchin , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)
1894 –
Khawaja Nazimuddin , Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd
Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 –
Percy Spencer , American physicist and inventor of the
microwave oven (d. 1969)
1895 –
Xu Beihong , Chinese painter and academic (d. 1953)
1896 –
Reginald Baker , English film producer (d. 1985)
1896 –
A. J. Cronin , Scottish physician and novelist (d. 1981)
1896 –
Bob Meusel , American baseball player and sailor (d. 1977)
1898 –
Herbert Marcuse , German-American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1979)
1899 –
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay , Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1979)
1901–present
1902 –
Samudrala Sr. , Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1904 –
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith , American lawyer and farmer (d. 1985)
1907 –
Isabel Jewell , American actress (d. 1972)
1908 –
Daniel Fry , American contactee (d. 1992)
1908 –
Hans Trippel , German engineer, developed
Amphicar (d. 2001)
[18]
1909 –
Balamani Amma , Indian poet and author (d. 2004)
1912 –
Peter Leo Gerety , American prelate (d. 2016)
1913 –
Kay Linaker , American actress and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1914 –
Marius Russo , American baseball player (d. 2005)
1915 –
Åke Hellman , Finnish painter (d. 2017)
1916 –
Phil Cavarretta , American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
1917 –
William Scranton , American captain and politician, 13th
United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2013)
1919 –
Patricia Medina , English-American actress (d. 2012)
1919 –
Miltos Sachtouris , Greek poet and author (d. 2005)
1919 –
Ron Searle , English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th
Mayor of Mississauga (d. 2015)
1920 –
Robert Mann , American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2018)
1920 –
Richard Oriani , Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (d. 2015)
1921 –
Harold Camping , American evangelist, author, radio host (d. 2013)
1921 –
André Moynet , French soldier, race car driver, and politician (d. 1993)
1921 –
Elizabeth Spencer , American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 2019)
1921 –
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1922 –
George McGovern , American lieutenant, historian, and politician (d. 2012)
1922 –
Rachel Robinson , American professor, registered nurse, and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson
1923 –
Theo Barker , English historian (d. 2001)
1923 –
Alex Hannum , American basketball player and coach (d. 2002)
[19]
1923 –
Joseph Hansen , American author and poet (d. 2004)
1923 –
William A. Rusher , American lawyer and journalist (d. 2011)
1923 –
Lon Simmons , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1924 –
Stanley K. Hathaway , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 40th
United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2005)
1924 –
Pat Hingle , American actor and producer (d. 2009)
1924 –
Arthur Rankin Jr. , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1925 –
Sue Thompson , American singer (d. 2021)
1926 –
Helen Gallagher , American actress, singer, and dancer
1928 –
Samuel John Hazo , American author
1928 –
Choi Yun-chil , South Korean long-distance runner
[20] and a two-time national champion in the
marathon
[21] (d. 2020)
1929 –
Gaston Glock , Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded
Glock Ges.m.b.H. (d. 2023)
1929 –
Orville Turnquest , Bahamian politician
1932 –
Buster Benton , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
1932 –
Jan Lindblad , Swedish biologist and photographer (d. 1987)
1934 –
Francisco de Sá Carneiro , Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th
Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 –
Nick Koback , American baseball player and golfer (d. 2015)
1936 –
David Colquhoun , English pharmacologist and academic
1937 –
George Hamilton IV , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1937 –
Richard Jordan , American actor (d. 1993)
1938 –
Jayant Narlikar , Indian astrophysicist and astronomer
1938 –
Tom Raworth , English poet and academic (d. 2017)
1941 –
Vikki Carr , American singer and actress
1941 –
Neelie Kroes , Dutch politician and diplomat,
European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
1943 –
Han Sai Por , Singaporean sculptor and academic
1943 –
Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini , Italian journalist and politician
[22]
1944 –
Tim McIntire , American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1944 –
Andres Vooremaa , Estonian chess player (d. 2022)
1945 –
Paule Baillargeon , Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
1946 –
Alan Gorrie , Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
1946 –
Ilie Năstase , Romanian tennis player and politician
1947 –
André Forcier , Canadian director and screenwriter
1947 –
Hans-Jürgen Kreische , German footballer and manager
1947 –
Bernie Leadon , American guitarist and songwriter
1947 –
Brian May , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist
1948 –
Keith Godchaux , American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 1980)
1949 –
Kgalema Motlanthe , South African politician, 3rd
President of South Africa
1950 –
Per-Kristian Foss , Norwegian politician,
Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 –
Freddy Moore , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2022)
1950 –
Adrian Noble , English director and screenwriter
1951 –
Abel Ferrara , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1952 –
Allen Collins , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1990)
1952 –
Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer
1953 –
Howard Schultz , American businessman and author
[23]
1954 –
Mark O'Donnell , American playwright (d. 2012)
1954 –
Steve O'Donnell , American screenwriter and producer
1954 –
Srđa Trifković , Serbian-American journalist and historian
1955 –
Roger Binny , Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1955 –
Dalton McGuinty , Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th
Premier of Ontario
1956 –
Mark Crispin , American computer scientist, designed the
IMAP (d. 2012)
1958 –
Brad Drewett , Australian tennis player and sportscaster (d. 2013)
1958 –
Robert Gibson , American wrestler
1958 –
David Robertson , American conductor
1959 –
Juan J. Campanella , Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 –
Atom Egoyan , Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 –
Kevin Haskins , English drummer and songwriter
1961 –
Harsha Bhogle , Indian journalist and author
1961 –
Maria Filatova , Russian gymnast
1961 –
Lisa Lampanelli , American comedian, actress, and author
1961 –
Benoît Mariage , Belgian director and screenwriter
1961 –
Hideo Nakata , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 –
Campbell Scott , American actor, director, and producer
1962 –
Anthony Edwards , American actor and director
1963 –
Thomas Gabriel Fischer , Swiss musician
1963 –
Garth Nix , Australian author
1964 –
Teresa Edwards , American basketball player
[24]
1964 –
Masahiko Kondō , Japanese singer-songwriter and race car driver
1965 –
Evelyn Glennie , Scottish musician
1965 –
Claus-Dieter Wollitz , German footballer and manager
1967 –
Yael Abecassis , Israeli model and actress
1967 –
Jean-François Mercier , Canadian comedian, screenwriter, and television host
1968 –
Robb Flynn , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1968 –
Pavel Kuka , Czech footballer and manager
1968 –
Jim Norton , American comedian, actor, and author
1969 –
Matthew Libatique , American cinematographer
1970 –
Bill Chen , American poker player and software designer
1970 –
Christopher Luxon , New Zealand politician, 42nd
Prime Minister of New Zealand
[25]
1970 –
Nicola Sturgeon , Scottish lawyer and politician,
First Minister of Scotland
[26]
1971 –
Rene Busch , Estonian tennis player and coach
1971 –
Vitali Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer and politician,
Mayor of Kyiv
1971 –
Michael Modest , American wrestler
1971 –
Catriona Rowntree , Australian television host
1971 –
Lesroy Weekes , Montserratian cricketer
1972 –
Ebbe Sand , Danish footballer and manager
1973 –
Martin Powell , English keyboard player and songwriter
1973 –
Scott Walker , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 –
Rey Bucanero , Mexican wrestler
1974 –
Francisco Copado , German footballer and manager
1974 –
Josée Piché , Canadian ice dancer
1974 –
Vince Spadea , American tennis player
1974 –
Preston Wilson , American baseball player and sportscaster
1975 –
Luca Castellazzi , Italian footballer
1976 –
Benedict Cumberbatch , English actor
[27]
1976 –
Gonzalo de los Santos , Uruguayan footballer and manager
1977 –
Jean-Sébastien Aubin , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 –
Tony Mamaluke , American wrestler and manager
1977 –
Ed Smith , English cricketer and journalist
1979 –
Rick Ankiel , American baseball player
1979 –
Josué Anunciado de Oliveira , Brazilian footballer
1979 –
Dilhara Fernando , Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 –
Luke Young , English footballer
1980 –
Xavier Malisse , Belgian tennis player
1980 –
Giorgio Mondini , Italian race car driver
1980 –
Chris Sullivan , American actor
[28]
1981 –
Nenê , Brazilian footballer
1981 –
David Bernard , Jamaican cricketer
1981 –
Mark Gasnier , Australian rugby player and sportscaster
1981 –
Jimmy Gobble , American baseball player
1981 –
Grégory Vignal , French footballer
1982 –
Christopher Bear , American drummer
1982 –
Phil Coke , American baseball player
1982 –
Jared Padalecki , American actor
1982 –
Jess Vanstrattan , Australian footballer
1983 –
Helen Skelton , English television host and actress
1983 –
Fedor Tyutin , Russian ice hockey player
1984 –
Andrea Libman , Canadian voice actress
1984 –
Adam Morrison , American basketball player
1984 –
Ryan O'Byrne , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 –
Lewis Price , Welsh footballer
1985 –
LaMarcus Aldridge , American basketball player
1985 –
Zhou Haibin , Chinese footballer
1985 –
Marina Kuzina , Russian basketball player
1985 –
Hadi Norouzi , Iranian footballer (d. 2015)
1986 –
Leandro Greco , Italian footballer
1986 –
Jinder Mahal , Canadian wrestler
[29]
1987 –
Yan Gomes , Brazilian-American baseball player
[30]
1987 –
Jon Jones , American mixed martial artist
1987 –
Marc Murphy , Australian footballer
1988 –
Shane Dawson , American comedian and actor
1988 –
Kevin Großkreutz , German footballer
1988 –
Jakub Kovář , Czech ice hockey player
1989 –
Patrick Corbin , American baseball player
[31]
1989 –
Sam McKendry , Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
1991 –
Eray İşcan , Turkish footballer
1992 –
Jake Nicholson , English footballer
1994 –
Christian Welch , Australian rugby league player
1996 –
Paul Momirovski , Australian rugby league player
[32]
1998 –
Erin Cuthbert , footballer
[33]
1998 –
Ronaldo Vieira , Bissau-Guinean footballer
2003 –
Tyler Downs , American Olympic diver
[34]
Deaths
Pre-1600
514 –
Symmachus , pope of the Catholic Church
806 –
Li Shigu , Chinese general (b. 778)
973 –
Kyunyeo , Korean monk and poet (b. 917)
998 –
Damian Dalassenos , Byzantine general (b. 940)
1030 –
Adalberon , French bishop
1234 –
Floris IV , Dutch nobleman (b. 1210)
1249 –
Jacopo Tiepolo , doge of Venice
1333 –
John Campbell , Scottish nobleman
1333 –
Alexander Bruce , Scottish nobleman
1333 –
Sir Archibald Douglas , Scottish nobleman
1333 –
Maol Choluim II , Scottish nobleman
1333 –
Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland
1374 –
Petrarch , Italian poet and scholar (b. 1304)
1415 –
Philippa of Lancaster , Portuguese queen (b. 1360)
1543 –
Mary Boleyn , English daughter of
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1499)
1601–1900
1631 –
Cesare Cremonini , Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1550)
1742 –
William Somervile , English poet and author (b. 1675)
1810 –
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Prussian queen (b. 1776)
1814 –
Matthew Flinders , English navigator and cartographer (b. 1774)
1824 –
Agustín de Iturbide , Mexican general and emperor (b. 1783)
1838 –
Pierre Louis Dulong , French physicist and chemist (b. 1785)
1850 –
Margaret Fuller , American journalist and critic (b. 1810)
1855 –
Konstantin Batyushkov , Russian poet and translator (b. 1787)
1857 –
Stefano Franscini , Swiss statistician and politician (b. 1796)
1878 –
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1847)
1882 –
John William Bean , English criminal and failed regicide (b. 1824)
[35]
1896 –
Abraham H. Cannon , American publisher and religious leader (b. 1859)
1901–present
1913 –
Clímaco Calderón , Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th
President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1925 –
John Indermaur , British lawyer (b. 1851)
1930 –
Robert Stout , Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1844)
1933 –
Kaarle Krohn , Finnish historian and academic (b. 1863)
1939 –
Rose Hartwick Thorpe , American poet and author (b. 1850)
1941 –
Špiro Bocarić , Serbian painter, victim of
Genocide of Serbs
[36]
1943 –
Yekaterina Budanova , Russian captain and pilot (b. 1916)
1943 –
Carlo Zangarini , Italian poet and opera librettist (b. 1873)
[37]
1947 –
U Razak , Burmese educator and politician (b. 1898)
1947 –
Aung San , Burmese general and politician (b. 1915)
1947 –
Lyuh Woon-hyung , South Korean politician (b. 1886)
1963 –
William Andrew , English priest (b. 1884)
1965 –
Syngman Rhee , South Korean journalist and politician, 1st
President of South Korea (b. 1875)
1967 –
John T. McNaughton ,
United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and an advisor to
Robert McNamara (b. 1921)
[6]
1967 –
Odell Shepard , American poet and politician, 66th
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1884)
1969 –
Stratis Myrivilis , Greek soldier and author (b. 1890)
1974 –
Ernő Schwarz , Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1904)
1975 –
Lefty Frizzell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
1977 –
Karl Ristikivi , Estonian geographer, author, and poet (b. 1912)
1980 –
Margaret Craven , American journalist and author (b. 1901)
1980 –
Nihat Erim , Turkish jurist and politician, 13th
Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
1980 –
Hans Morgenthau , German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1904)
1981 –
Roger Doucet , Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 –
Hugh Everett III , American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)
1984 –
Faina Ranevskaya , Russian actress (b. 1896)
1984 –
Aziz Sami , Iraqi writer and translator (b. 1895)
[38]
1985 –
Janusz Zajdel , Polish author (b. 1938)
1989 –
Kazimierz Sabbat , Polish businessman and politician,
President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1913)
1990 –
Eddie Quillan , American actor (b. 1907)
1992 –
Paolo Borsellino , Italian lawyer and judge (b. 1940)
1994 –
Victor Barbeau , Canadian author and academic (b. 1896)
1998 –
Elmer Valo , Polish-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1921)
2002 –
Dave Carter , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
2002 –
Alan Lomax , American historian, scholar, and activist (b. 1915)
2003 –
Bill Bright , American evangelist and author, founded the
Campus Crusade for Christ (b. 1921)
2003 –
Pierre Graber , Swiss politician,
President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1908)
2004 –
Sylvia Daoust , Canadian sculptor (b. 1902)
2004 –
J. Gordon Edwards , American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate (b. 1919)
2004 –
Francis A. Marzen , American priest and journalist (b. 1924)
2004 –
Zenkō Suzuki , Japanese politician, 70th
Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 –
Edward Bunker , American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2006 –
Jack Warden , American actor (b. 1920)
2007 –
A. K. Faezul Huq , Bangladeshi journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1945)
2007 –
Roberto Fontanarrosa , Argentinian cartoonist (b. 1944)
2008 –
Dercy Gonçalves , Brazilian comedian and actress (b. 1907)
2009 –
Frank McCourt , American author and educator (b. 1930)
2009 –
Henry Surtees , English race car driver (b. 1991)
2010 –
Cécile Aubry , French actress, author, television screenwriter and director (b. 1928)
2010 –
Jon Cleary , Australian author and playwright (b. 1917)
2012 –
Humayun Ahmed , Bangladeshi director and playwright (b. 1948)
2012 –
Tom Davis , American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2012 –
Mohammad Hassan Ganji , Iranian meteorologist and academic (b. 1912)
2012 –
Omar Suleiman , Egyptian general and politician, 16th
Vice President of Egypt (b. 1935)
2012 –
Sylvia Woods , American businesswoman, co-founded
Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem (b. 1926)
2012 –
Valiulla Yakupov , Islamic cleric (b. 1963)
2013 –
Mikhail Gorsheniov , Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1973)
2013 –
Geeto Mongol , Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1931)
2013 –
Mel Smith , English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2013 –
Bert Trautmann , German footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2013 –
Phil Woosnam , Welsh-American soccer player and manager (b. 1932)
2013 –
Peter Ziegler , Swiss geologist and academic (b. 1928)
2013 –
Leyla Erbil , Turkish author (b. 1931)
2014 –
Rubem Alves , Brazilian theologian (b. 1933)
2014 –
David Easton , Canadian-American political scientist and academic (b. 1917)
2014 –
Paul M. Fleiss , American pediatrician and author (b. 1933)
2014 –
James Garner , American actor (b. 1928)
2014 –
Jerzy Jurka , Polish biologist (b. 1950)
2014 –
Ray King , English footballer and manager (b. 1924)
2014 –
Ingemar Odlander , Swedish journalist (b. 1936)
2014 –
Harry Pougher , English cricketer (b. 1941)
2014 –
Leen Vleggeert , Dutch politician (b. 1931)
2014 –
John Winkin , American baseball player, coach, and journalist (b. 1919)
2015 –
Van Alexander , American composer and conductor (b. 1915)
2015 –
Galina Prozumenshchikova , Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (b. 1948)
2015 –
Carmino Ravosa , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1930)
2015 –
Gennadiy Seleznyov , Russian journalist and politician, 2nd
Speaker of the Duma (b. 1947)
2016 –
Garry Marshall , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934)
2018 –
Jon Schnepp , American producer, director, voice actor, editor, writer, cartoonist, animator, and cinematographer (b. 1967)
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2018 –
Denis Ten , Kazakhstani figure skater (b. 1993)
[41]
2019 –
Rutger Hauer , Dutch actor, director, and producer (b. 1944)
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