February 9
Day of the year
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February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 325 days remain until the end of the year (326 in leap years).
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Events
Pre-1600
- 474 â Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.[1]
- 1003 â Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from BolesÅaw I the Brave of Poland.
- 1098 â A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch.[2]
- 1539 â The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.[3]
- 1555 â Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.[4]
1601â1900
- 1621 â Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.[5]
- 1654 â The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.[6]
- 1775 â American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.[7]
- 1778 â Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.[8]
- 1822 â Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.[9]
- 1825 â After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
- 1849 â The new Roman Republic is declared.
- 1861 â American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1870 â US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
- 1889 â US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
- 1893 â Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premieres at La Scala, Milan.[10]
- 1895 â William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
- 1900 â The Davis Cup competition is established.
1901âpresent
- 1904 â Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
- 1907 â The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- 1913 â A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
- 1920 â Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
- 1922 â Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1929 â Members of the Viá»t Nam Quá»c Dân Äảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.[11]
- 1932 â Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.[12][13]
- 1934 â The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
- 1941 â World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
- 1942 â Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.[14]
- 1943 â World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
- 1945 â World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
- 1945 â World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
- 1950 â Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.[15]
- 1951 â Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
- 1959 â The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
- 1961 â The Beatles at the Cavern Club: Lunchtime â The Beatles perform under this name at The Cavern Club for the first time following their return to Liverpool from Hamburg.[16]
- 1964 â The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
- 1965 â Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
- 1971 â The 6.5â6.7 Mw⯠Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
- 1971 â Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1971 â Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.
- 1975 â The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
- 1976 â Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.[17]
- 1978 â The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1982 â Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.[18]
- 1986 â Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
- 1987 â Civil unrest broke out across Palestine.[19]
- 1991 â Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1996 â The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
- 1996 â Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.[20]
- 2001 â The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.[21][22][23][24][25]
- 2016 â Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.[26]
- 2018 â Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.[27]
- 2020 â Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis.[28]
- 2021 â Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.[29]
- 2025 â The Baltic states synchronize their electric power transmission infrastructure with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA), in objective to disconnect from the Russo-Belarussian agreement to use the IPS/UPS system.[30]
Births
Pre-1600
- 1060 â Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1130)
- 1274 â Louis of Toulouse, French bishop (died 1297)
- 1313 â Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile, Portuguese infanta (died 1357)
- 1344 â Meinhard III, count of Tyrol (died 1363)
- 1441 â Ali-Shir Nava'i, Turkic poet, linguist, and painter (died 1501)
- 1533 â Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyÅ (died 1611)
- 1579 â Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (died 1639)[31]
1601â1900
- 1651 â Procopio Cutò, French entrepreneur (died 1727)
- 1666 â George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal (died 1737)
- 1711 â Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (died 1762)
- 1737 â Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (died 1809)[32]
- 1741 â Henri-Joseph Rigel, German-French composer (died 1799)
- 1748 â Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1817)
- 1763 â Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (died 1830)[33]
- 1769 â George W. Campbell, Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1848)
- 1773 â William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (died 1841)
- 1775 â Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1856)
- 1781 â Johann Baptist von Spix, German biologist and explorer (died 1826)
- 1783 â Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (died 1852)
- 1789 â Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (died 1849)
- 1800 â Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (died 1844)
- 1814 â Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 28th Governor of New York (died 1886)
- 1815 â Federico de Madrazo, Spanish painter (died 1894)
- 1826 â KeÊ»elikÅlani, Hawaiian royal and governor[34] (died 1883)
- 1830 â Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan and Caliph (died 1876)[35]
- 1834 â Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author (died 1912)
- 1837 â José Burgos, Filipino priest and revolutionary (died 1872)
- 1839 â Silas Adams, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 1896)
- 1846 â Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (died 1929)
- 1846 â Whitaker Wright, English businessman and financier (died 1904)
- 1847 â Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh-English clergyman and theologian (died 1902)
- 1854 â Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician and suffrage activist (died 1929)[36]
- 1856 â Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1921)
- 1859 â Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (died 1930)
- 1863 â Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (died 1933)
- 1864 â Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1941)[37]
- 1865 â Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English-French actress (died 1940)
- 1865 â Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (died 1949)
- 1867 â Natsume SÅseki, Japanese author and poet (died 1916)
- 1871 â Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician (died 1910)
- 1874 â Amy Lowell, American poet, critic, and educator (died 1925)
- 1876 â Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (died 1963)
- 1878 â Jack Kirwan, Irish international footballer (died 1959)[38]
- 1880 â Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1959)
- 1883 â Jules Berry, French actor and director (died 1951)
- 1885 â Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (died 1935)
- 1885 â Clarence H. Haring, American historian and author (died 1960)
- 1889 â Larry Semon, American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (died 1928)
- 1891 â Ronald Colman, English-American actor (died 1958)
- 1891 â Kristian Krefting, Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (died 1964)[39]
- 1891 â Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (died 1980)[40]
- 1892 â Peggy Wood, American actress (died 1978)
- 1893 â Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1987)
- 1895 â Hermann Brill, German lawyer and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (died 1959)
- 1896 â Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (died 1982)
- 1897 â Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian captain and pilot (died 1935)
- 1898 â JÅ«kichi Yagi, Japanese poet and educator (died 1927)
1901âpresent
- 1901 â Brian Donlevy, American actor (died 1972)
- 1901 â James Murray, American actor (died 1936)
- 1905 â David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, English hurdler and politician (died 1981)
- 1906 â André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist (died 1999)
- 1907 â TrÆ°á»ng Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (died 1988)
- 1907 â Dit Clapper, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1978)[41]
- 1907 â Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (died 2003)
- 1909 â Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Scottish historian (died 2002)[42]
- 1909 â Heather Angel, English-American actress (died 1986)
- 1909 â Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer (died 1955)[43]
- 1909 â Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (died 1994)[43]
- 1910 â Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
- 1911 â William Orlando Darby, American general (died 1945)
- 1911 â Esa Pakarinen, Finnish actor and musician (died 1989)[44]
- 1912 â Ginette Leclerc, French actress (died 1992)
- 1912 â Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (died 1968)
- 1914 â Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1984)[43]
- 1916 â Tex Hughson, American baseball player (died 1993)
- 1918 â Lloyd Noel Ferguson, American chemist (died 2011)
- 1919 â John Abramovic, American basketball player (died 2000)[45]
- 1920 â Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2012)
- 1920 â Enrico Schiavetti, Italian football player (died 1993)
- 1922 â Kathryn Grayson, American actress and soprano (died 2010)[43]
- 1922 â Jim Laker, English cricketer and broadcaster (died 1986)[46]
- 1922 â C. P. Krishnan Nair, Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (died 2014)
- 1922 â Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (died 2005)
- 1923 â Brendan Behan, Irish rebel, poet, and playwright (died 1964)[43]
- 1923 â Tonie Nathan, American radio host, producer, and politician (died 2014)
- 1925 â John B. Cobb, American philosopher and theologian (died 2024)
- 1925 â Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (died 2001)
- 1926 â Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2011)
- 1927 â Richard A. Long, American historian and author (died 2013)
- 1928 â Frank Frazetta, American painter and illustrator (died 2010)[47]
- 1928 â Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer and coach (died 2005)
- 1928 â Roger Mudd, American journalist (died 2021)[48]
- 1929 â A. R. Antulay, Indian social worker and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 2014)
- 1929 â Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (died 2005)
- 1930 â Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (died 2003)
- 1931 â Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (died 1989)
- 1931 â Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (died 2015)
- 1931 â Robert Morris, American sculptor and painter (died 2018)
- 1932 â Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager
- 1932 â Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer
- 1935 â Lionel Fanthorpe, English-Welsh priest, journalist, and author
- 1936 â Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (died 2019)[49]
- 1936 â Clive Swift, English actor and singer-songwriter (died 2019)
- 1936 â Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter (died 2013)[50]
- 1937 â Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (died 2007)
- 1937 â Fazle Haque, Bengali state minister[51]
- 1938 â Raul Martirez, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (died 2024)[52]
- 1939 â Mahala Andrews, English vertebrae palaeontologist (died 1997)[53]
- 1939 â Barry Mann, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
- 1939 â Janet Suzman, South African-British actress and director[54]
- 1940 â Brian Bennett, English drummer and songwriter
- 1940 â J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate[43]
- 1941 â Kermit Gosnell, American abortionist and serial killer[55]
- 1941 â Sheila Kuehl, American actress, lawyer, gay rights activist, and politician[54]
- 1942 â Carole King, American singer-songwriter and pianist[54]
- 1943 â Barbara Lewis, American singer-songwriter[54]
- 1943 â Joe Pesci, American actor[54]
- 1943 â Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[43]
- 1944 â Derryn Hinch, New Zealand-Australian radio and television host and politician
- 1944 â Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, and poet[54]
- 1945 â Bill Bergey, American football player (died 2024)[56]
- 1945 â Mia Farrow, American actress, activist, and model[54]
- 1945 â Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese biologist, 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- 1945 â Carol Wood, American mathematician and academic
- 1946 â Bob Eastwood, American golfer
- 1946 â Vince Papale, American football player and sportscaster
- 1946 â Jim Webb, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of the Navy
- 1947 â Carla Del Ponte, Swiss lawyer and diplomat
- 1947 â Joe Ely, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)[54]
- 1947 â Major Harris, American singer (died 2012)
- 1947 â Alexis Smirnoff, Canadian-American wrestler and actor (died 2019)
- 1948 â Guy Standing, English economist and academic
- 1949 â Bernard Gallacher, Scottish golfer and journalist
- 1949 â Judith Light, American actress[54]
- 1949 â Marcia Garbey, Cuba's first Olympic long jump finalist (died 2024)[57]
- 1950 â Richard F. Colburn, American sergeant and politician
- 1951 â David Pomeranz, American singer, musician, and composer
- 1952 â Danny White, American football player and sportscaster
- 1953 â Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor[43]
- 1953 â Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary, priest, and martyr (died 1985)
- 1953 â Gabriel Rotello, American journalist and author, founded OutWeek
- 1954 â Jo Duffy, American author
- 1954 â Chris Gardner, American businessman and philanthropist
- 1954 â Kevin Warwick, English scientist
- 1955 â Jerry Beck, American historian and author
- 1955 â Jimmy Pursey, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1955 â Charles Shaughnessy, English actor[54]
- 1956 â Phil Ford, American basketball player and coach[58]
- 1956 â Mookie Wilson, American baseball player and coach
- 1957 â Terry McAuliffe, American businessman and politician, 72nd Governor of Virginia
- 1957 â Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1958 â Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer
- 1958 â Chris Nilan, American ice hockey player, coach, and radio host
- 1960 â Holly Johnson, English singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1960 â David Simon, American journalist, author, screenwriter, and television producer
- 1960 â Peggy Whitson, American biochemist and astronaut[43]
- 1961 â John Kruk, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1962 â Anik Bissonnette, Canadian ballerina
- 1963 â Brian Greene, American physicist
- 1963 â Peter Rowsthorn, Australian comedian and actor
- 1963 â Travis Tritt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[54]
- 1964 â Debrah Miceli, Italian-American wrestler and manager
- 1964 â Dewi Morris, English rugby player
- 1964 â Ernesto Valverde, Spanish footballer and manager[59]
- 1965 â Dieter Baumann, German runner
- 1965 â Julie Warner, American actress[54]
- 1966 â Harald Eia, Norwegian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1967 â Gaston Browne, Antiguan and Barbudan Prime Minister[60]
- 1967 â Venus Lacy, American basketball player[61]
- 1967 â Todd Pratt, American baseball player and coach
- 1967 â Dan Shulman, Canadian sportscaster
- 1968 â Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress[62]
- 1968 â Derek Strong, American basketball player and race car driver
- 1968 â Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress[63]
- 1969 â Jimmy Smith, American football player
- 1970 â Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1971 â Sharon Case, American actress and model[54]
- 1971 â Matt Gogel, American golfer
- 1971 â Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager
- 1972 â Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1972 â Jason Winston George, American actor and model[54]
- 1973 â Svetlana Boginskaya, Belarusian gymnast
- 1973 â Colin Egglesfield, American actor
- 1973 â Makoto Shinkai, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
- 1974 â Jordi Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager[64]
- 1974 â Brad Maynard, American football player
- 1974 â Amber Valletta, American model[54]
- 1974 â John Wallace, American basketball player and coach
- 1975 â Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach
- 1975 â Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (died 2008)
- 1975 â Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1976 â Charlie Day, American actor, producer, and screenwriter[54]
- 1977 â A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter[54]
- 1979 â Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
- 1979 â Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater[43]
- 1979 â Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model[65]
- 1980 â Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
- 1980 â Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress
- 1980 â Manu Raju, American journalist
- 1981 â Tom Hiddleston, English actor[54]
- 1981 â John Walker Lindh, American Taliban member[43]
- 1981 â Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
- 1981 â The Rev, American musician (died 2009)[66]
- 1982 â Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
- 1982 â Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
- 1982 â Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- 1982 â Chris Weale, English footballer and manager
- 1983 â Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
- 1984 â Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer
- 1984 â Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player[67]
- 1984 â ShÅhÅzan YÅ«ya, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1985 â Nigel Dawes, Canadian-Kazakhstani ice hockey player[68]
- 1985 â David Gallagher, American actor[54]
- 1987 â Michael B. Jordan, American actor[54]
- 1987 â Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer
- 1987 â Rose Leslie, Scottish actress[54]
- 1987 â Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
- 1989 â Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier
- 1990 â Randall Delgado, Panamanian baseball player[69]
- 1990 â Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
- 1990 â Camille Winbush, American actress[54]
- 1991 â Helena KmieÄ, Polish Roman Catholic missionary (died 2017)[70]
- 1991 â Logan Ryan, American football player[71]
- 1992 â Avan Jogia, Canadian actor[72]
- 1993 â Wataru EndÅ, Japanese footballer[73]
- 1993 â K. J. McDaniels, American basketball player[74]
- 1993 â Despina Papamichail, Greek tennis player[75]
- 1993 â Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer[76]
- 1995 â André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player[77]
- 1995 â Mario PaÅ¡aliÄ, Croatian footballer[78]
- 1995 â Sheraldo Becker, Surinamese footballer[79]
- 1996 â Jimmy Bennett, American actor[54]
- 1996 â Kelli Berglund, American actress[43]
- 1996 â Chungha, South Korean singer[80]
- 1996 â Sebastián Driussi, Argentinian footballer[81]
- 1997 â Jaire Alexander, American football player[82]
- 1997 â Saquon Barkley, American football player[83]
- 1997 â Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player[84][85]
- 1998 â Cem BölükbaÅı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer[86]
- 1998 â Isabella Gomez, Colombian-American actress[43]
- 2001 â Dylan Cozens, Canadian ice hockey player[87]
- 2002 â Jalen Green, American basketball player[88]
- 2003 â Cooper DeJean, American football player[89]
- 2007 â Ryan Williams, American football player[90]
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 966 â Ono no Michikaze, Japanese calligrapher (born 894)
- 967 â Sayf al-Dawla, emir of Aleppo (born 916)
- 978 â Luitgarde, duchess consort of Normandy
- 1011 â Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
- 1014 â Yang Yanzhao, Chinese general
- 1135 â Tai Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1075)
- 1199 â Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shÅgun (born 1147)
- 1251 â Matthias II, duke of Lorraine
- 1407 â William I, margrave of Meissen (born 1343)
- 1450 â Agnès Sorel, French mistress of Charles VII of France (born 1421)
- 1555 â John Hooper, English bishop and martyr (born 1495)
- 1555 â Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (born 1510)
- 1588 â Ãlvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (born 1526)
- 1600 â John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania (born 1542)
1601â1900
- 1619 â Lucilio Vanini, Italian physician and philosopher (born 1585)
- 1670 â Frederick III of Denmark (born 1609)
- 1675 â Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (born 1613)
- 1709 â François Louis, Prince of Conti (born 1664)
- 1777 â Seth Pomeroy, American general and gunsmith (born 1706)
- 1803 â Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier, poet, and philosopher (born 1716)
- 1857 â Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (born 1798)
- 1874 â Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (born 1798)
- 1881 â Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (born 1821)
- 1891 â Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819)
1901âpresent
- 1903 â Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (born 1816)
- 1906 â Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1872)
- 1928 â William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (born 1868)
- 1930 â Richard With, Norwegian captain and businessman, founded Hurtigruten (born 1846)
- 1932 â Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (born 1869)
- 1932 â A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (born 1904)
- 1935 â Bob Diry,[91] Austrian-born wrestler and boxer (born 1884)
- 1942 â Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland (born 1883)[92]
- 1945 â Ella D. Barrier, American educator (born 1852)
- 1950 â Ted Theodore, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Queensland (born 1884)
- 1951 â Eddy Duchin, American pianist, bandleader, and actor (born 1910)
- 1957 â Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (born 1868)
- 1960 â Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (born 1870)
- 1960 â ErnÅ Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1877)
- 1965 â Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (born 1874)
- 1966 â Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (born 1884)
- 1969 â George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (born 1885)
- 1976 â Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (born 1908)
- 1977 â Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Bureau (born 1894)
- 1978 â Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (born 1893)
- 1979 â Allen Tate, American poet and academic (born 1899)
- 1980 â Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (born 1900)
- 1981 â M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1900)
- 1981 â Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1925)
- 1984 â Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (born 1914)
- 1989 â Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (born 1928)
- 1994 â Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)
- 1995 â J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician (born 1905)
- 1995 â Kalevi Keihänen, Finnish entrepreneur (born 1924)[93]
- 1995 â David Wayne, American actor (born 1914)
- 1998 â Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1911)
- 2001 â Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
- 2002 â Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (born 1920)
- 2002 â Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (born 1930)
- 2003 â Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (born 1926)
- 2004 â Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1925)
- 2005 â Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the intermittent windscreen wiper (born 1927)
- 2006 â Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (born 1922)
- 2007 â Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (born 1922)
- 2007 â Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (born 1934)
- 2008 â Christopher Hyatt, American occultist and author (born 1943)
- 2008 â Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (born 1932)[94]
- 2008 â Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian painter, poet, and sculptor (born 1931)
- 2009 â Orlando "CachaÃto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (born 1933)
- 2010 â Walter Frederick Morrison, American businessman, invented the Frisbee (born 1920)
- 2011 â Miltiadis Evert, Greek lawyer and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (born 1939)
- 2012 â O. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
- 2012 â John Hick, English philosopher and academic (born 1922)
- 2012 â Joe Moretti, Scottish-South African guitarist and songwriter (born 1938)
- 2013 â Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (born 1923)
- 2013 â Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (born 1913)[95]
- 2013 â Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (born 1931)
- 2014 â Gabriel Axel, Danish actor, director, and producer (born 1918)
- 2014 â Hal Herring, American football player and coach (born 1924)
- 2014 â Logan Scott-Bowden, English general (born 1920)
- 2015 â Liu Han, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (born 1965)
- 2015 â Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (born 1916)
- 2016 â Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (born 1939)
- 2016 â Zdravko Tolimir, Bosnian Serb military commander (born 1948)
- 2017 â André Salvat, French Army colonel (born 1920)
- 2018 â Reg E. Cathey, American actor of stage, film, and television (born 1958)[96]
- 2018 â Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic composer (born 1969)
- 2018 â John Gavin, American actor and United States ambassador to Mexico (born 1931)
- 2021 â Chick Corea, American jazz composer (born 1941)[97]
- 2022 â Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1939)[98]
- 2025 â Tom Robbins, American writer (born 1932)[99]
