May 12 History

May 12 History

May 12 is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 233 days remain until the end of the year.

Our aim is to enhance the knowledge of human beings. We will have 7 years of history on this side. The history of each particular day by date is what happened on a date. The date of death of any person and special person will be reported. If anyone wants to gain this knowledge then please visit our web site. The limit of your knowledge will increase greatly.

আমাদের উদ্দেশ্য হলো মানুয়ের জ্ঞানের পরিধি বাড়ানো। আমাদের এই সাইডে থাকবে ১ বছরের সমস্থ ঘটে যাওয়া ইতিহাস। তারিখ অনুসারে প্রতিটি বিশেষ দিনের  ইতিহাস কোন তারিখে কি ঘটেছিল। কোন ব্যাক্তির জন্য এবং বিশেষ ব্যাক্তির মৃত্যর তারিখ জানানো হবে। যদি কোন মানুষ এই জ্ঞান অর্জন করতে চায় তাহলে আমাদের এই ওয়েবসাইডটি ভিজিট করুন । আপনার জ্ঞানের সীমা অনেক বৃদ্ধি পাবে। 

Events
254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church.[1]
907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus;[2] she is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków.[3]
1510 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1588 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
1593 – London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.
1689 – King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
1778 – Heinrich XI, count of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, is elevated to Prince by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.[4]
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1797 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 – The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.[5]
1862 – American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.[6]
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1881 – In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
1885 – North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1888 – In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.[7]
1933 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[8]
1937 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.[9]
1948 – Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne.
1949 – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.[10]
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
1978 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
1981 – Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
1989 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people.
2006 – Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
2006 – Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
2010 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board.
2015 – A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
2015 – Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500.
2017 – A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
2018 – Paris knife attack: A man was fatally shot by police in Paris after killing one and injuring several others.

Births
1325 – Rupert II, Elector Palatine (d. 1398)
1401 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (d. 1428)
1479 – Pompeo Colonna, Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
1496 – Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1606 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (d. 1688)
1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French-Canadian soldier and politician, 3rd Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
1626 – Louis Hennepin, Flemish priest and missionary (d. 1705)
1670 – Augustus II the Strong, Polish king (d. 1733)
1700 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect and engineer, designed the Palace of Caserta and Royal Palace of Milan (d. 1773)
1725 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785)
1739 – Johann Baptist Wanhal, Czech-Austrian organist and composer (d. 1813)
1754 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, German composer and publisher (d. 1812)
1755 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1824)
1767 – Manuel Godoy, Spanish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1851)
1774 – Ellis Cunliffe Lister, English politician (d. 1853)
1777 – Mary Reibey, Australian businesswoman (d. 1855)
1803 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (d. 1873)
1804 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of West Canada (d. 1858)
1806 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (d. 1881)
1812 – Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (d. 1888)
1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German pianist and composer (d. 1889)
1820 – Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician (d. 1910)
1825 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and explorer (d. 1878)
1828 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (d. 1882)
1829 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer and educator (d. 1896)
1839 – Tôn Thất Thuyết, Vietnamese mandarin (d. 1913)
1840 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (d. 1912)
1842 – Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912)
1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
1850 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (d. 1924)
1850 – Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909)
1859 – William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (d. 1932)
1859 – Frank Wilson, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1918)
1863 – Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur. (d. 1915)
1867 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (d. 1938)
1869 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, wrestler, and weightlifter (d. 1946)
1872 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1940)
1873 – J. E. H. MacDonald, English-Canadian painter (d. 1932)
1874 – Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian pediatrician and immunologist (d. 1929)
1875 – Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (d. 1960)
1880 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (d. 1951)
1885 – Paltiel Daykan, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (d. 1969)
1885 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Japanese author (d. 1976)
1886 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot (d. 1937)
1899 – Indra Devi, Latvian yoga instructor (d. 2002)
1889 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (d. 1967)[11]
1889 – Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank (d. 1980)
1892 – Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director (d. 1970)
1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (d. 1986)
1900 – Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971) [12]
1901 – The Duke of Paducah, American country comedian, radio host and banjo player (d. 1986)
1903 – Faith Bennett, British actress and ATA pilot during WWII (d. 1969) [13]
1903 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (d. 1991)
1905 – Édouard Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (d. 1994)
1907 – Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 – Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist (d. 1986)
1910 – James Dudley, American baseball player, wrestling manager and executive (d. 2004)
1910 – Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname (d. 2010)
1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1910 – Gordon Jenkins, American pianist and composer (d. 1984)
1911 – Charles Biro, American author and illustrator (d. 1972)
1912 – Henry Jonsson, Swedish runner (d. 2001)
1912 – Marshal Royal, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1995)
1914 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet and author (d. 1993)
1914 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist and actor (d. 2002)
1915 – Tony Strobl, American comics artist and animator (d. 1991)
1916 – Albert Murray, American author and critic (d. 2013)
1918 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
1918 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
1921 – Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and illustrator (d. 1986)
1921 – Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 2014)
1922 – Marco Denevi, Argentinian lawyer and author (d. 1998)
1922 – Murray Gershenz, American actor and businessman (d. 2013)
1922 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 1991)
1922 – Roy Salvadori, English race car driver and manager (d. 2012)
1924 – Maxine Cooper, American actress and photographer (d. 2009)
1924 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (d. 2016)
1924 – Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1925 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2015)
1926 – Paulette Poujol-Oriol, Hatian educator and writer (d. 2011)[14]
1926 – Viren J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal (d. 2013)
1928 – Burt Bacharach, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1929 – Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia
1929 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)[15]
1930 – Jesús Franco, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1932 – Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, South African-English lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
1933 – Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet (d. 2010)
1935 – Felipe Alou, Dominican-American baseball player, coach, and manager
1935 – Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1936 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (d. 2009)
1936 – Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk show host (d. 2007)
1936 – Frank Stella, American painter and sculptor
1937 – Beryl Burton, English cyclist (d. 1996)
1937 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2008)
1937 – Susan Hampshire, English actress
1937 – Miriam Stoppard, English physician and author
1938 – Millie Perkins, American actress
1939 – Cyril Chantler, English pediatrician and academic
1939 – Jalal Dabagh, Kurdish journalist and politician
1939 – Miltiadis Evert, Greek minister and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (d. 2011)
1939 – Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1939 – Ron Ziegler, American politician, White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)
1940 – Lill Lindfors, Swedish singer[16]
1940 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
1941 – Ruud de Wolff, Dutch singer member of the duo The Blue Diamonds (d. 2000)
1942 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
1942 – Michel Fugain, French singer-songwriter
1942 – Billy Swan, American country singer-songwriter
1942 – Dragoljub Velimirović, Serbian chess player and theoretician (d. 2014)
1944 – Chris Patten, English academic and politician, 28th Governor of Hong Kong
1945 – Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer and manager (d. 2007)
1945 – Ian McLagan, English keyboard player and songwriter (Small Faces and Faces) (d. 2014)
1945 – Patrick Ricard, French businessman (d. 2012)
1946 – Daniel Libeskind, American architect, designed the Imperial War Museum North and Jewish Museum
1947 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian journalist and politician
1948 – Lindsay Crouse, American actress
1948 – Dave Heineman, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of Nebraska
1948 – Richard Riehle, American actor
1948 – Steve Winwood, English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
1949 – Ross Bleckner, American painter
1950 – Bruce Boxleitner, American actor and author
1950 – Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor, director, and producer
1950 – Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, Scottish lawyer, academic, and politician
1950 – Billy Squier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – George Karl, American basketball player and coach
1954 – Barry Ackroyd, English cinematographer
1955 – Kix Brooks, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (Brooks & Dunn)
1956 – Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1956 – Sergio Marchi, Argentinean-Canadian urban planner and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of International Trade
1956 – Greg Phillinganes, American keyboardist
1956 – Asad Rauf, Pakistani cricketer and umpire
1957 – Ziya Onis, Turkish economist and academic
1958 – Kim Greist, American actress and model
1958 – Jennifer Hetrick, American actress
1958 – Andreas Petroulakis, Greek cartoonist
1958 – Eric Singer, American drummer and songwriter
1958 – Dries van Noten, Belgian fashion designer
1959 – Dave Christian, American ice hockey player
1959 – Ray Gillen, American rock singer-songwriter (d. 1993)
1959 – Ving Rhames, American actor
1960 – Lisa Martin, Australian runner
1961 – Thomas Dooley, German-American soccer player and manager
1961 – Billy Duffy, English rock guitarist and songwriter (The Cult)
1961 – Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor and comedian
1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
1962 – Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist and songwriter (Bad Religion)
1963 – Panagiotis Fasoulas, Greek basketball player and politician
1963 – Gavin Hood, South African actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Stefano Modena, Italian race car driver
1963 – Vanessa A. Williams, American actress and producer
1964 – Pierre Morel, French director and cinematographer
1965 – Renée Simonsen, Danish model and writer
1966 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor
1966 – Dez Fafara, American metal singer
1966 – Bebel Gilberto, American-Brazilian singer-songwriter
1966 – Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress
1967 – Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, French mathematician
1967 – Bill Shorten, Australian politician
1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder and actor
1968 – Catherine Tate, English actress and screenwriter
1969 – Suzanne Clément, Canadian actress
1969 – Kim Fields, American actress
1970 – Mark Foster, English swimmer
1970 – Jim Furyk, American golfer
1970 – Samantha Mathis, American actress
1970 – Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
1970 – David A. R. White, American actor and producer
1971 – Doug Basham, American wrestler
1971 – Jamie Luner, American actress
1972 – Christian Campbell, Canadian-American actor, writer and photographer
1972 – Rhea Seehorn, American actress
1973 – Mackenzie Astin, American actor
1973 – Forbes March, Canadian actor
1973 – Lutz Pfannenstiel, German footballer and manager
1975 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
1975 – Ricky Ortiz, American professional wrestler and football player
1976 – Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rap musician and producer
1977 – Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player and coach
1977 – Rebecca Herbst, American actress
1977 – Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017) [17]
1977 – Onur Saylak, Turkish actor, filmmaker and director
1977 – Rachel Wilson, Canadian actress and voice actress
1978 – Aaron Abrams, Canadian actor
1978 – Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer
1978 – Jason Biggs, American actor and comedian
1978 – Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer and fashion designer
1978 – Lidia Kopania, Polish singer
1978 – Amy Sloan, Canadian actress
1979 – Adrian Serioux,Canadian soccer player
1979 – Steve Smith Sr., American football player
1979 – Aaron Yoo, American actor
1980 – Keith Bogans, American basketball player
1981 – Rami Malek, American actor
1981 – Kentaro Sato, Japanese-American composer and conductor
1981 – Dennis Trillo, Filipino actor and singer
1982 – Donnie Nietes, Filipino boxer
1982 – Rhian Wilkinson, Canadian soccer player
1983 – Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor
1983 – Alina Kabaeva, Russian gymnast and politician
1983 – Yujiro Kushida, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1983 – Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
1983 – Virginie Razzano, French tennis player
1983 – Francisco Javier Torres, Mexican footballer
1984 – Clare Bowen, Australian actress and singer
1985 – Paolo Goltz, Argentinian footballer
1985 – Andrew Howe, Italian long jumper and sprinter
1985 – Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer
1986 – Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
1986 – Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
1987 – Alex Gough, Canadian luger
1987 – Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
1988 – Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
1989 – Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
1990 – Florent Amodio, French figure skater
1990 – Tobias Strobl, German footballer
1992 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
1995 – Luke Benward, American actor and singer
1995 – Kenton Duty, American actor
1995 – Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
1997 – Morgan Lake, English athlete
1997 – Odeya Rush, Israeli actress
1998 – Mohamed Bamba, American professional basketball player

Deaths
805 – Æthelhard, archbishop of Canterbury
940 – Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (b. 877)
1003 – Sylvester II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 946)
1012 – Sergius IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 970)
1090 – Liutold of Eppenstein, duke of Carinthia
1161 – Fergus of Galloway, Scottish nobleman
1182 – Valdemar I, king of Denmark (b. 1131)
1331 – Engelbert of Admont, Benedictine abbot and scholar
1382 – Joanna I, queen of Naples (b. 1328)
1465 – Thomas Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1409)
1490 – Joanna, Portuguese princess and regent (b. 1452)
1529 – Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington, English noblewoman (b. 1460)
1599 – Murad Mirza, Mughal prince (b. 1570)
1634 – George Chapman, English poet and playwright (b. 1559)
1641 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1593)
1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. 1620)
1699 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
1700 – John Dryden, English poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1631)
1708 – Adolphus Frederick II, duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1748 – Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer and academic (b. 1692)
1759 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1784 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and academic (b. 1710)
1792 – Charles Simon Favart, French playwright and composer (b. 1710)
1796 – Johann Uz, German poet and author (b. 1720)
1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (b. 1734)
1842 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (b. 1799)
1845 – János Batsányi, Hungarian poet and academic (b. 1763)
1856 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)
1859 – Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (b. 1791)
1860 – Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (b. 1795)
1864 – J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
1867 – Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
1878 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
1876 – Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
1884 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
1907 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
1916 – James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
1925 – Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)
1931 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
1935 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
1944 – Max Brand, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
1944 – Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863)
1956 – Louis Calhern, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
1957 – Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1957 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1885)
1963 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (b. 1878)
1963 – Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (b. 1882)
1966 – Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 – John Masefield, English poet and author (b. 1878)
1970 – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1971 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (b. 1901)
1973 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist (b. 1888)
1973 – Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1927)
1974 – Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944)
1980 – Lillian Roth, American actress 9b. 1910)
1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (b. 1901)
1986 – Elisabeth Bergner, German actress (b. 1897)
1992 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (b. 1911)
1992 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
1993 – Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b.1920)
1994 – Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
1994 – John Smith, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1938)
1995 – Ștefan Kovács, Romanian football player and coach (b. 1920)
1999 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American illustrator (b. 1914)
2000 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 – Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912)
2001 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
2003 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-American diplomat (b. 1933)
2005 – Ömer Kavur, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
2005 – Martin Lings, English author and scholar (b. 1909)
2005 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress (b. 1937)
2006 – Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1925)
2008 – Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian (b. 1910)
2009 – Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)
2012 – Jan Bens, Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1921)
2012 – Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (b. 1920)
2013 – Gerd Langguth, German political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1946)
2014 – Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (b. 1925)
2014 – Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
2014 – H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (b. 1940)
2014 – Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2014 – Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944)
2015 – Peter Gay, German-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1923)
2015 – William Zinsser American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
2016 – Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (b. 1935)
2017 – Mauno Koivisto, Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland (b. 1923)
2018 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (b. 1945)