February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 317 days remaining until the end of the year (318 in leap years ).
Events
364 – Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor ) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances.
1370 – Northern Crusades : Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau .
1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum , Musa Çelebi , one of the sons of Bayezid I , becomes Sultan with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia .
1500 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen , Denmark , in the Battle of Hemmingstedt .
1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy , at Campo de' Fiori in Rome .
1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony .
1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar .
1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives .
1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition : The Battle of Mormans .
1819 – The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
1838 – Weenen massacre : Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus .
1854 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State .
1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross .
1864 – American Civil War : The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship , the USS Housatonic .
1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina , is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War .
1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan .
1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City , displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States .
1944 – World War II : The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22 .
1944 – World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon , Japan's main base in the central Pacific , in support of the Eniwetok invasion .
1949 – Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel .
1959 – Project Vanguard : Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud -cover distribution.
1964 – In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1964 – Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame , is installed in his place.
1965 – Project Ranger : The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts , the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1972 – Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T .
1974 – Robert K. Preston , a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter .
1978 – The Troubles : The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant , near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980 – Mount Everest , 1st Winter Ascent by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy .
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War : Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradağlı
1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN .
1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
1996 – NASA 's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros .
2003 – The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2006 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte , Philippines ; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2008 – Kosovo declares independence as the Republic of Kosovo .
2011 – Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain , security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama , the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday .
Births
624 – Wu Zetian , Chinese empress (d. 705)
1490 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1527)
1519 – Francis, Duke of Guise (d. 1563)
1524 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (d. 1574)
1581 – Fausto Poli , Italian cardinal (d. 1653)
1646 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert , French economist (d. 1714)
1653 – Arcangelo Corelli , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1713)
1718 – Matthew Tilghman , American politician (d. 1790)
1723 – Tobias Mayer , German astronomer (d. 1762)
1740 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure , Swiss physicist (d. 1799)
1752 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger , German author and playwright (d. 1831)
1754 – Nicolas Baudin , French cartographer and explorer (d. 1803)
1781 – René Laennec , French physician, invented the stethoscope (d. 1826)
1796 – Philipp Franz von Siebold , German physician (d. 1866)
1816 – Haller Nutt , American planter (d. 1864)
1817 – Édouard Thilges , Luxembourgian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1904)
1820 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau , Canadian cardinal (d. 1898)
1820 – Henri Vieuxtemps , Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1881)
1821 – Lola Montez , Irish actress and dancer (d. 1861)
1836 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer , Spanish poet (d. 1870)
1844 – Aaron Montgomery Ward , American businessman, founded Montgomery Ward (d. 1913)
1848 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman , Swedish executioner (d. 1920)
1848 – Louisa Lawson , Australian poet and publisher (d. 1920)
1854 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp , German businessman, founded Krupp (d. 1902)
1860 – Tom Seeberg , Norwegian target shooter (d. 1938)
1861 – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1922)
1862 – Mori Ōgai , Japanese author and poet (d. 1922)
1862 – Eugen Schmidt , Danish tug of war competitor (d. 1931)
1863 – Fyodor Sologub , Russian author and poet (d. 1927)
1864 – Jozef Murgaš , Slovak priest and inventor (d. 1929)
1864 – Banjo Paterson , Australian poet (d. 1941)
1874 – Thomas J. Watson , American businessman (d. 1956)
1877 – Isabelle Eberhardt , Swiss explorer and author (d. 1904)
1877 – André Maginot , French sergeant and politician (d. 1932)
1877 – Isidora Sekulić , Serbian author (d. 1958)
1880 – Ernest Linton , Scottish-Canadian soccer player (d. 1957)
1883 – George Edwin Cooke , American soccer player (d. 1969)
1885 – Steve Evans , American baseball player (d. 1943)
1887 – Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer (d. 1947)
1887 – Joseph Bech , Luxembourgish politician, 15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1975)
1888 – Otto Stern , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
1890 – Ronald Fisher , English statistician, biologist, and geneticist (d. 1962)
1891 – Abraham Fraenkel , German-Israeli mathematician (d. 1965)
1892 – Marjorie Fielding , British stage and film actress (d. 1956)
1893 – Wally Pipp , American baseball player (d. 1965)
1900 – Ruth Clifford , American actress (d. 1998)
1903 – Sadegh Hedayat , Iranian author (d. 1951)
1904 – Hans Morgenthau , German philosopher (d. 1980)
1905 – Osvald Käpp , Estonian wrestler (d. 1995)
1907 – Yevgeniy Abalakov , Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
1908 – Red Barber , American sportscaster (d. 1992)
1908 – Ants Eskola , Estonian actor and singer (d. 1989)
1908 – Bo Yibo , Chinese politician, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2007)
1910 – Arthur Hunnicutt , American actor (d. 1979)
1911 – Oskar Seidlin , German-American author, poet, and scholar (d. 1984)
1911 – Orrin Tucker , American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2011)
1912 – Andre Norton , American author (d. 2005)
1912 – Virginia Sorensen , American author (d. 1991)
1913 – Jean Le Moyne , Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1996)
1913 – Russel B. Nye , American author (d. 1993)
1914 – Arthur Kennedy , American actor (d. 1990)
1914 – Wayne Morris , American actor (d. 1959)
1916 – Alexander Obolensky , Russian rugby player (d. 1940)
1916 – Raf Vallone , Italian footballer and actor (d. 2002)
1917 – Abdel Rahman Badawi , Egyptian philosopher and poet (d. 2002)
1917 – Guillermo González Camarena , Mexican engineer (d. 1965)
1918 – William Bronk , American poet (d. 1999)
1918 – Volodymyr Shcherbytsky , Ukrainian politician (d. 1990)
1919 – J. M. S. Careless , Canadian historian (d. 2009)
1919 – Kathleen Freeman , American actress (d. 2001)
1920 – Ivo Caprino , Norwegian director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1920 – Curt Swan , American illustrator (d. 1996)
1921 – Duane Gish , American biochemist (d. 2013)
1922 – Enrico Banducci , American businessman (d. 2007)
1922 – Tommy Edwards , American singer-songwriter (d. 1969)
1922 – Valentino Mazzia , American physician (d. 1999)
1923 – John M. Allegro , English archaeologist and scholar (d. 1988)
1923 – Alden W. Clausen , American banker (d. 2013)
1923 – Buddy DeFranco , American jazz clarinettist
1924 – Margaret Truman , American author (d. 2008)
1925 – Ron Goodwin , English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1925 – Hal Holbrook , American actor
1928 – Marta Romero , Puerto Rican actress and singer
1929 – Paul Meger , Canadian ice hockey player
1929 – Chaim Potok , American author (d. 2002)
1929 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale , English politician (d. 1993)
1929 – Patricia Routledge , English actress and singer
1930 – Roger Craig , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1930 – Benjamin Fain , Ukrainian-Israeli physicist (d. 2013)
1930 – Doug Hoyle , British politician
1930 – Ruth Rendell , English author
1933 – Bobby Lewis , American singer
1931 – Jiřina Jirásková , Czech actress (d. 2013)
1933 – Larry Jennings , American magician and author (d. 1997)
1933 – Craig L. Thomas , American politician (d. 2007)
1934 – Alan Bates , English actor (d. 2003)
1934 – Barry Humphries , Australian comedian, actor, and author
1935 – Christina Pickles , English-American actress
1936 – Jim Brown , American football player and actor
1938 – Buck Trent , American banjo player
1938 – Martha Henry , American-Canadian actress
1938 – Yvonne Romain , English actress
1939 – John Leyton , English actor and singer
1939 – Mary Ann Mobley , American actress, Miss America 1959
1939 – Clément Richard , Canadian businessman and politician
1940 – Gene Pitney , American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1941 – Julia McKenzie , English actress, singer, and director
1942 – Huey P. Newton , American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989)
1943 – Costas Azariadis , Greek economist
1943 – Claire Malis , American actress (d. 2012)
1943 – Joe Medjuck , Canadian film producer and actor
1944 – Bruce Fogle , Canadian veterinarian and author
1944 – Nick Hewer , English public relations consultant, television personality and presenter
1944 – Karl Jenkins , Welsh saxophonist, keyboard player, and composer (Soft Machine )
1945 – Zina Bethune , American actress, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2012)
1945 – Brenda Fricker , Irish actress
1945 – Linda Kitson , English artist
1946 – Dodie Stevens , American singer
1946 – Shahrnush Parsipur , Iranian author
1948 – José José , Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1948 – Rick Majerus , American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1948 – Don Scardino , American actor and director
1949 – Fred Frith , English guitarist and composer (Henry Cow , Art Bears , Massacre and Skeleton Crew )
1950 – Rickey Medlocke , American musician (Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd )
1950 – Graham Stringer , English politician
1951 – Rashid Minhas , Pakistani pilot (d. 1971)
1952 – Karin Janz , German gymnast
1952 – Vladimír Padrůněk , Czech bass player (Energit and Etc... ) (d. 1991)
1953 – Norman Pace , English actor
1954 – Rene Russo , American actress
1954 – Miki Berkovich , Israeli basketball player
1955 – Mo Yan , Chinese author, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 – Richard Karn , American actor
1957 – Loreena McKennitt , Canadian singer-songwriter, harpist and pianist
1958 – Steve Fox , English footballer (d. 2012)
1958 – Alan Wiggins , American baseball player (d. 1991)
1959 – Aryeh Deri , Moroccan-Israeli rabbi and politician
1959 – Rowdy Gaines , American swimmer
1959 – Neil Lomax , American football player
1960 – Shunji Kosugi , Japanese wrestler
1961 – Christopher Ashford-Smith , American wrestler
1961 – Angela Eagle , English politician
1961 – Maria Eagle , English politician
1962 – David McComb , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Triffids and The Blackeyed Susans ) (d. 1999)
1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips , American actor and director
1962 – Sarah Wollaston , English politician
1963 – Larry the Cable Guy , American comedian and actor
1963 – Alison Hargreaves , English mountaineer (d. 1995)
1963 – Jen-Hsun Huang , Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founded Nvidia
1963 – Michael Jordan , American basketball player and actor
1963 – Rene Syler , American journalist
1964 – Buster Olney , American journalist
1965 – Michael Bay , American director and producer
1965 – Samuel Bayer , American director and cinematographer
1966 – Quorthon , Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Bathory ) (d. 2004)
1966 – Michael Lepond , American bass player (Symphony X and Seven Witches )
1966 – Robert Reid , Scottish rally co-driver
1966 – Luc Robitaille , Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Chanté Moore , American singer-songwriter
1968 – Wu'er Kaixi , Chinese Dissident, Tienanmen Student Leader
1968 – Bryan Cox , American football player
1969 – David Douillet , French martial artist and politician
1969 – Tuesday Knight , American actress and singer
1969 – Willi Kronhardt , German footballer
1970 – Tommy Moe , American skier
1970 – Dominic Purcell , English-Australian actor
1971 – Martyn Bennett , Canadian-Scottish composer (d. 2005)
1971 – Jeremy Edwards , English actor
1971 – SaRenna Lee , American porn actress
1971 – Denise Richards , American model and actress
1971 – Cynthia Caylor , English actress
1972 – Yuki , Japanese singer-songwriter (Mean Machine , Judy and Mary , and NiNa )
1972 – Billie Joe Armstrong , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer (Green Day , Pinhead Gunpowder , The Network , and Foxboro Hot Tubs )
1972 – Philippe Candeloro , French figure skater
1972 – Taylor Hawkins , American singer-songwriter and drummer (Foo Fighters and Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders )
1972 – Ralphie May , American comedian and actor
1972 – Valeria Mazza , Argentinian model
1972 – Lars Göran Petrov , Swedish singer and drummer (Entombed and Morbid )
1973 – Drew Barry , American basketball player
1973 – Raphaël Ibañez , French rugby player
1974 – Kaoru , Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Dir en grey )
1974 – Jerry O'Connell , American actor
1974 – Bryan White , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Harisu , South Korean singer and actress
1975 – Kaspars Astašenko , Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
1975 – Todd Harvey , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Vaclav Prospal , Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Kelly Carlson , American actress
1976 – Lefteris Fafalis , Greek skier
1976 – William Roussel , French singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mütiilation )
1976 – Scott Williamson , American baseball player
1977 – Wong Choong Hann , Malaysian badminton player
1978 – Jacob Wetterling , American kidnapping victim
1979 – Josh Willingham , American baseball player
1980 – Aya Endō , Japanese voice actress
1980 – Al Harrington , American basketball player
1980 – Jason Ritter , American actor
1980 – Klemi Saban , Israeli footballer
1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt , American actor, director, and producer
1981 – Paris Hilton , American model, actress, singer
1981 – Andrew Stephenson , English politician
1982 – Brian Bruney , American baseball player
1982 – Daniel Merriweather , Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1982 – Deyvid Oprja , Estonian alpine skier
1982 – Adriano Leite Ribeiro , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Gérald Cid , French footballer
1983 – Marios Kaperonis , Greek boxer
1983 – Nguyen Tien Minh , Vietnamese badminton player
1983 – Kevin Rudolf , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1984 – Sadha , Indian actress
1984 – AB de Villiers , South African cricketer
1984 – Jimmy Jacobs , American wrestler
1984 – Stefan Jarosch , German footballer
1984 – Kenta Kamakari , Japanese actor and singer
1984 – Drew Miller , American ice hockey player
1985 – Sivakarthikeyan ,Tamil Film Actor
1985 – Anne Curtis , Australian-Filipino actress and singer
1985 – Anders Jacobsen , Norwegian ski jumper
1986 – Joey O'Brien , Irish footballer
1986 – Ricardo Rodriguez , American wrestler and ring announcer
1987 – Thomas Ayasse , French footballer
1987 – Aseem Trivedi , Indian cartoonist and activist
1987 – Danny Farquhar , American baseball player
1987 – Tiquan Underwood , American football player
1988 – Natascha Kampusch , Austrian kidnapping victim
1989 – Rebecca Adlington , English swimmer
1989 – Ina Demireva , Bulgarian ice dancer
1989 – Stacey McClean , English singer and actress (S Club 8 )
1989 – Chord Overstreet , American actor and singer
1990 – Marianne St-Gelais , Canadian speed skater
1991 – Sam Oldham , English artistic gymnast
1991 – Ed Sheeran , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1991 – Bonnie Wright , English actress
1992 – Meaghan Jette Martin , American actress and singer
1993 – Nicola Leali , Italian footballer
1993 – Marc Márquez , Spanish motorcycle racer
1993 – AJ Perez , Filipino actor (d. 2011)
1993 – Philip Wiegratz , German actor
1994 – Angie Miller , American singer
1996 – Sasha Pieterse American actress
Deaths
364 – Jovian , Roman emperor (b. 331)
440 – Mesrop Mashtots , Armenian monk, theologian, and linguist (b. 360)
661 – Finan , Irish monk and bishop
1339 – Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
1371 – Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
1596 – Friedrich Sylburg , German scholar (b. 1536)
1600 – Giordano Bruno , Italian philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1548)
1609 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
1624 – Juan de Mariana , Spanish priest and historian (b. 1536)
1652 – Gregorio Allegri , Italian composer (b. 1582)
1659 – Abel Servien , French diplomat (b. 1593)
1673 – Molière , French playwright and actor (b. 1622)
1680 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles , English politician (b. 1599)
1680 – Jan Swammerdam , Dutch biologist (b. 1637)
1715 – Antoine Galland , French archaeologist (b. 1646)
1732 – Louis Marchand , French organist and composer (b. 1669)
1768 – Arthur Onslow , English politician (b. 1691)
1780 – Andreas Felix von Oefele , German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
1841 – Ferdinando Carulli , Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
1854 – John Martin , English painter (b. 1789)
1856 – Heinrich Heine , German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
1874 – Adolphe Quetelet , Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
1883 – Vasudev Balwant Phadke , Indian activist (b. 1845)
1890 – Christopher Latham Sholes , American publisher, politician, and inventor (b. 1819)
1905 – William Bickerton , English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
1909 – Geronimo , American tribal leader (b. 1829)
1912 – Edgar Evans , Welsh navy officer and explorer (b. 1876)
1918 – Milan Neralić , Croatian fencer (b. 1875)
1919 – Wilfrid Laurier , Canadian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
1934 – Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
1934 – Siegbert Tarrasch , German chess player (b. 1862)
1939 – Willy Hess , German violinist (b. 1859)
1943 – Konstantin Bogaevsky , Russian painter (b. 1872)
1943 – Armand J. Piron , American violinist and composer (b. 1888)
1946 – Dorothy Gibson , American actress and singer (b. 1889)
1950 – William Dickey , American diver (b. 1883)
1958 – Hugh McCrae , Australian author (b. 1876)
1961 – Nita Naldi , American actress (b. 1897)
1962 – Joseph Kearns , American actor (b. 1907)
1962 – Bruno Walter , German-American conductor (b. 1876)
1968 – Marquard Schwarz , American swimmer (b. 1887)
1970 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Ukrainian-Israeli author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1970 – Alfred Newman , American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
1976 – Jean Servais , Belgian actor (b. 1910)
1977 – Janani Luwum , Ugandan archbishop (b. 1922)
1979 – K. Alvapillai , Ceylon Tamil civil servant (b. 1905)
1982 – Nestor Chylak , American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
1982 – Thelonious Monk , American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
1982 – Lee Strasberg , Austrian-American actor and director (b. 1901)
1986 – Jiddu Krishnamurti , Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
1988 – John M. Allegro , English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
1988 – Karpoori Thakur ,Former Bihar Chief Minister,Indian Socialist(b.1924)
1989 – Lefty Gomez , American baseball player (b. 1908)
1990 – Jean-Marc Boivin , French mountaineer (b. 1951)
1990 – Hap Day , Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
1990 – Erik Rhodes , American actor and singer (b. 1906)
1990 – Volodymyr Shcherbytsky , Ukrainian politician (b. 1917)
1994 – Randy Shilts , American author and journalist (b. 1951)
1996 – Hervé Bazin , French author (b. 1911)
1997 – Joe Kieyoomia , American soldier (b. 1919)
1998 – Ernst Jünger , German author (b. 1895)
1998 – Bob Merrill , American composer and songwriter (b. 1921)
1999 – Sunshine Parker , American actor (b. 1927)
2001 – Barry Burman , English painter (b. 1943)
2001 – Bob Geary , Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
2001 – Khalid Abdul Muhammad , American activist (b. 1948)
2003 – Steve Bechler , American baseball player (b. 1979)
2004 – José López Portillo , Mexican politician, 51st President of Mexico (b. 1920)
2005 – Dan O'Herlihy , Irish actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Omar Sívori , Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1935)
2006 – Ray Barretto , American drummer (b. 1929)
2006 – Bill Cowsill , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Cowsills ) (b. 1948)
2007 – Mike Awesome , American wrestler (b. 1965)
2007 – Jurga Ivanauskaitė , Lithuanian author (b. 1961)
2007 – Dermot O'Reilly , Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ryan's Fancy ) (b. 1943)
2007 – Maurice Papon , French civil servant (b. 1910)
2008 – Brian Harris , English footballer (b. 1935)
2009 – Conchita Cintrón , Chilean bullfighter (b. 1922)
2009 – Gazanfer Özcan , Turkish actor (b. 1931)
2009 – Mike Whitmarsh , American volleyball player (b. 1962)
2010 – Kathryn Grayson , American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2012 – Ulric Neisser , German-American psychologist (b. 1928)
2013 – Derek Batey , English game show host (b. 1928)
2013 – Claudette Boyer , Canadian politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Richard Briers , English actor (b. 1934)
2013 – Manoranjan Das , Indian playwright (b. 1923)
2013 – Debbie Ford , American author (b. 1955)
2013 – André Gingras , Canadian dancer and choreographer (b. 1966)
2013 – Phil Henderson , American basketball player (b. 1968)
2013 – Shmulik Kraus , Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (The High Windows ) (b. 1935)
2013 – Sophie Kurys , American baseball player (b. 1925)
2013 – Mindy McCready , American singer-songwriter (b. 1975)
2013 – Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin , Irish sportscaster and author (b. 1923)
2013 – Maretta Taylor , American politician (b. 1935)
2013 – Mike Westhues , American-Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
2013 – David Whitehouse , English archaeologist (b. 1941)
Holidays and observances
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