July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 159 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar , co-ruler.
306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge .
864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings .
1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine married Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France , at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux .
1139 – Battle of Ourique : The Almoravids , led by Ali ibn Yusuf , are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos , re-establishing the Byzantine Empire .
1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile .
1467 – The Battle of Molinella : The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali .
1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned .
1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral .
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas , the capital city of Venezuela .
1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism .
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union . Political union would occur in 1707 .
1609 – The English ship Sea Venture , en route to Virginia , is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León , Mexico.
1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine -Massachusetts border.
1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians . Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana , while others resettle in New Brunswick .
1759 – French and Indian War : In Western New York , British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé .
1783 – American Revolutionary War : The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore , is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt , Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1814 – War of 1812 : Battle of Lundy's Lane : Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown 's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie .
1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua .
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1853 – Joaquin Murrieta , the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1861 – American Civil War : The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution , stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery .
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army . Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory .
1869 – The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date : June 17, 1869).
1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth , Greece is used for the first time.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1898 – The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico .
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom ) in 37 minutes.
1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross , for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front .
1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1920 – France captures Damascus .
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis .
1943 – World War II : Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio .
1944 – World War II: Operation Spring : One of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
1946 – Operation Crossroads : An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll .
1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey , Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island , the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou .
1959 – SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
1959 – Lloyd J. Old introduced BCG, a tuberculosis vaccine, into experimental cancer research as a way to stimulate non-specific resistance to tumor growth. BCG was FDA-approved in 1991 and is now widely used as a first line treatment for superficial bladder cancer.
1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO .
1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival , signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1969 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine , stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization " of the war.
1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
1976 – Viking program : Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
1978 – Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders .
1978 – Louise Brown , the world's first "test tube baby " is born.
1979 – Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt .
1983 – Black July : Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk .
1992 – Opening ceremony of 1992 Summer Olympics
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability , and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration , that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 – In a military coup in Burundi , Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya .
2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport , killing 113 passengers.
2002 – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th president of India.
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan , one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Births
1016 – Casimir I the Restorer , Polish son of Mieszko II Lambert (d. 1058)
1165 – Ibn Arabi , Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (d. 1240)
1261 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1291 – Hawys Gadarn , Welsh noblewoman (d. 1353)
1336 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
1404 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland , English politician (d. 1461)
1562 – Katō Kiyomasa , Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1654 – Agostino Steffani , Italian composer and diplomat (d. 1728)
1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach , German composer (d. 1714)
1658 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish general (d. 1703)
1683 – Pieter Langendijk , Dutch playwright and poet (d. 1756)
1750 – Henry Knox , American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (d. 1806)
1753 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires , French-Spanish captain and politician, 10th Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
1797 – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
1839 – Francis Garnier , French captain and explorer (d. 1873)
1844 – Thomas Eakins , American painter, sculptor, and photographer (d. 1916)
1847 – Paul Langerhans , German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (d. 1888)
1848 – Arthur Balfour , Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1860 – Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (d. 1917)
1865 – Jac. P. Thijsse , Dutch botanist and conservationist (d. 1945)
1866 – Frederick Blackman , English physiologist and academic (d. 1947)
1867 – Max Dauthendey , German author and painter (d. 1918)
1867 – Alexander Rummler , American painter (d. 1959)
1869 – Platon , Estonian bishop and saint (d. 1919)
1870 – Maxfield Parrish , American painter and illustrator (d. 1966)
1875 – Jim Corbett , Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (d. 1955)
1878 – Masaharu Anesaki , Japanese philosopher and scholar (d. 1949)
1882 – George S. Rentz , American commander (d. 1942)
1883 – Alfredo Casella , Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1947)
1886 – Edward Cummins , American golfer (d. 1926)
1886 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke , Swedish hunter and author (d. 1946)
1886 – Hans von Blixen-Finecke , Swedish horse rider (b. 1917)
1894 – Walter Brennan , American actor and singer (d. 1974)
1894 – Gavrilo Princip , Bosnian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918)
1894 – Yvonne Printemps , French actress and singer (d. 1977)
1895 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt , Danish actress (d. 1968)
1896 – Jack Perrin , American actor and stuntman (d. 1967)
1896 – Josephine Tey , Scottish author and playwright (d. 1952)
1901 – Ruth Krauss , American author and poet (d. 1993)
1901 – Lila Lee , American actress and singer (d. 1973)
1902 – Eric Hoffer , American philosopher and author (d. 1983)
1905 – Elias Canetti , Bulgarian-Swiss author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1905 – Georges Grignard , French race car driver (d. 1977)
1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford , English author and illustrator (d. 1990)
1906 – Johnny Hodges , American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1970)
1908 – Bill Bowes , English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 – Ambroise-Marie Carré , French priest and author (d. 2004)
1908 – Jack Gilford , American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1908 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer , Indian singer (d. 2003)
1914 – Woody Strode , American football player and actor (d. 1994)
1915 – S. U. Ethirmanasingham , Sri Lankan businessman and politician
1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. , American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
1916 – Lucien Saulnier , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Fritz Honegger , Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1999)
1918 – Jane Frank , American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
1920 – Rosalind Franklin , English biophysicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1958)
1921 – Adolph Herseth , American soldier and trumpet player (Chicago Symphony Orchestra ) (d. 2013)
1921 – Lionel Terray , French mountaineer (d. 1965)
1923 – Estelle Getty , American actress (d. 2008)
1923 – Edgar Gilbert , American mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)
1923 – Maria Gripe , Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)
1924 – Frank Church , American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
1924 – Scotch Taylor , South African cricketer and hockey player (d. 2004)
1925 – Benny Benjamin , American drummer (The Funk Brothers ) (d. 1969)
1925 – Jerry Paris , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
1925 – Jutta Zilliacus , Finnish journalist and politician
1926 – Whitey Lockman , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2009)
1926 – Bernard Thompson , British television producer and director (d. 1998)
1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1927 – Midge Decter , American journalist and author
1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi , Pakistani politician, 10th Governor of Punjab (d. 2000)
1927 – Jean-Marie Seroney , Kenyan activist and politician (d. 1982)
1928 – Dolphy , Filipino actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
1928 – Mario Montenegro , Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1928 – Nils Taube , Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)
1929 – Judd Buchanan , Canadian businessman and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Public Works
1929 – Somnath Chatterjee , Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
1929 – Eddie Mazur , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 – Murray Chapple , New Zealand cricketer and manager (d. 1985)
1930 – Maureen Forrester , Canadian actress and singer (d. 2010)
1930 – Alice Parizeau , Polish-Canadian journalist and criminologist (d. 1990)
1930 – Herbert Scarf , American economist and academic (d. 2015)
1930 – Annie Ross , Scottish-American singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross )
1931 – James Butler , English sculptor and educator
1932 – Paul J. Weitz , American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1933 – Ken Swofford , American actor
1934 – Don Ellis , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
1934 – Claude Zidi , French director and screenwriter
1935 – Barbara Harris , American actress and singer
1935 – Adnan Khashoggi , Saudi Arabian businessman
1935 – Gilbert Parent , Canadian educator and politician, 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2009)
1935 – John Robinson , American football player and coach
1935 – Larry Sherry , American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1935 – Lars Werner , Swedish lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1936 – Gerry Ashmore , English race car driver
1936 – Glenn Murcutt , English-Australian architect and academic
1936 – August Schellenberg , Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
1937 – Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn , English archeologist and academic
1940 – Richard Ballantine , American-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
1941 – Manny Charlton , Spanish-Scottish guitarist (Nazareth and Manny Charlton Band )
1941 – Billy Hardwick , American bowler (d. 2013)
1941 – Raúl Ruiz , Chilean-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
1941 – Peter Suschitzky , Polish-English cinematographer
1941 – Donna Theodore , American actress and singer
1941 – Nate Thurmond , American basketball player and sportscaster
1941 – Emmett Till , American murder victim (d. 1955)
1942 – Bruce Woodley , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Seekers )
1943 – Jim McCarty , English singer and drummer (The Yardbirds , Renaissance , and Illusion )
1943 – Erika Steinbach , Polish-German politician
1944 – Sally Beauman , English journalist and author
1946 – José Areas , Nicaraguan drummer (Santana )
1946 – Nicole Farhi , French fashion designer and sculptor
1946 – John Gibson , American radio host
1946 – Rita Marley , Cuban-Jamaican singer (Bob Marley and the Wailers and I Threes )
1946 – P. Selvarasa , Sri Lankan politician
1948 – Steve Goodman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
1950 – Mark Clarke , English singer-songwriter and bass player (Colosseum , Mountain , Natural Gas , and Uriah Heep )
1951 – Jack Thompson , American lawyer and activist
1951 – Verdine White , American bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire )
1952 – Eduardo Souto de Moura , Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
1952 – Huang Wenyong , Malaysian-Singaporean actor (d. 2013)
1953 – Robert Zoellick , American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
1954 – Lynne Frederick , English-American actress (d. 1994)
1954 – Ken Greer , Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (Red Rider )
1954 – Sheena McDonald , Scottish journalist
1954 – Walter Payton , American football player and race car driver (d. 1999)
1954 – Jochem Ziegert , German footballer and manager
1955 – Iman , Somalian-English model and actress
1955 – Randall Bewley , American guitarist and songwriter (Pylon and Supercluster ) (d. 2009)
1955 – Kike Elomaa , Finnish bodybuilder, singer, and politician
1955 – Tom McCamus , Canadian actor
1956 – Andy Goldsworthy , English-Scottish sculptor and photographer
1957 – Mark Hunter , English politician
1957 – Steve Podborski , Canadian skier
1958 – Alexei Filippenko , American astrophysicist and academic
1958 – Thurston Moore , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth , Ciccone Youth , The Coachmen , and Dim Stars )
1959 – Fyodor Cherenkov , Russian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1959 – Anatoly Onoprienko , Ukrainian murderer (d. 2013)
1959 – Geoffrey Zakarian , American chef and author
1960 – Alain Robidoux , Canadian snooker player
1960 – Justice Howard , American photographer
1960 – Māris Martinsons , Latvian film director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor
1961 – Bobbie Eakes , American actress and singer
1961 – Katherine Kelly Lang , American actress
1961 – Hugo Teufel III , American lawyer and politician
1962 – Carin Bakkum , Dutch tennis player
1962 – Doug Drabek , American baseball player and coach
1963 – Denis Coderre , Canadian politician, 44th Mayor of Montreal
1963 – Julian Hodgson , Welsh chess player
1964 – Anne Applebaum , American journalist and author
1964 – Tony Granato , American ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Breuk Iversen , American designer and journalist
1964 – Reiko Takashima , Japanese actress
1965 – Marty Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Illeana Douglas , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Dale Shearer , Australian rugby player
1966 – Daryl Halligan , New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1966 – Maureen Herman , American bass player (Babes in Toyland )
1966 – Diana Johnson , English politician
1966 – Lynda Lemay , Canadian singer-songwriter
1966 – Christine Quinn , American politician
1967 – Matt LeBlanc , American actor and producer
1967 – Ruth Peetoom , Dutch minister and politician
1967 – Wendy Raquel Robinson , American actress
1967 – Tommy Skjerven , Norwegian footballer and referee
1968 – Rudi Bryson , South African cricketer
1968 – Shi Tao , Chinese journalist and poet
1969 – Jon Barry , American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 – Ernesto Alterio , Argentinian-Spanish actor
1971 – Chloë Annett , English actress
1971 – Roger Creager , American singer-songwriter
1971 – Tracy Murray , American basketball player
1971 – Miriam Shor , American actress
1971 – Billy Wagner , American baseball player and coach
1973 – Bendeniz , Swiss-Turkish singer
1973 – David Denman , American actor
1973 – Dani Filth , English singer-songwriter and actor (Cradle of Filth )
1973 – Hu Jia , Chinese activist
1973 – Mur Lafferty , American author and blogger
1973 – Kevin Phillips , English footballer
1973 – Michael C. Williams , American actor
1974 – Lauren Faust , American animator, producer, and screenwriter
1974 – Jay R. Ferguson , American actor and producer
1974 – Julia Laffranque , Estonian lawyer and judge
1974 – Kenzo Suzuki , Japanese rugby player and wrestler
1975 – Jody Craddock , English footballer and coach
1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville , Guianan-French footballer
1975 – Brian Gibson , American bass player (Lightning Bolt )
1975 – El Zorro , Mexican wrestler
1976 – Tera Patrick , American porn actress
1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan , Macedonian poet and critic
1976 – Javier Vázquez , Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Ahmad Batebi , Iranian activist
1977 – Kenny Thomas , American basketball player
1978 – Louise Brown , English test tube baby
1978 – Gerard Warren , American football player
1979 – Amy Adams, American singer
1979 – Ali Carter , English snooker player
1979 – Juan Pablo Di Pace , Argentinian actor
1979 – Stefanie Hertel , German yodeler
1979 – Tom Lungley , English cricketer and umpire
1980 – Soo Ae , South Korean actress
1980 – Sven Järve , Estonian fencer
1980 – Shawn Riggans , American baseball player
1980 – Samuel Sheinbein , American-Israeli murderer (d. 2014)
1980 – Toni Vilander , Finnish race car driver
1980 – David Wachs , American actor and producer
1980 – Scott Waldrom , New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Conor Casey , American soccer player
1981 – Constantinos Charalambidis , Cypriot footballer
1981 – Yūichi Komano , Japanese footballer
1981 – Mac Lethal , American rapper and producer
1981 – Jani Rita , Finnish ice hockey player
1982 – Jason Dundas , Australian-American television host and actor
1982 – Brad Renfro , American actor (d. 2008)
1982 – Monde Zondeki , South African cricketer
1983 – Richie Chance , American actor and producer
1983 – Kauri Kõiv , Estonian biathlete
1983 – Nenad Krstić , Serbian basketball player
1984 – Lauriane Gilliéron , Swiss model, Miss Switzerland 2005
1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis , Greek basketball player
1985 – James Lafferty , American actor and director
1985 – Nelson Piquet, Jr. , Brazilian race car driver
1985 – Hugo Rodallega , Colombian footballer
1985 – Shantel VanSanten , American actress and model
1986 – Hulk , Brazilian footballer
1986 – Abraham Gneki Guié , Ivorian footballer
1986 – Barbara Meier , German model and actress
1986 – Ahtyba Rubin , American football player
1987 – Alan Dawa Dolma , Tibet born Chinese singer
1987 – Fernando , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Mitchell Burgzorg , Dutch footballer and rapper
1987 – Michael Welch , American actor
1988 – Paulinho , Brazilian footballer
1988 – John Goossens , Dutch footballer
1988 – Tom Hiariej , Dutch footballer
1988 – Sarah Geronimo , Filipino singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1988 – Heather Marks , Canadian model and actress
1988 – Anthony Stokes , Irish footballer
1988 – Stacey Kemp , English skater
1989 – Andrew Caldwell , American actor
1989 – Noel Callahan , Canadian actor
1989 – Natalia Vieru , Russian basketball player
1990 – Andi Eigenmann , Filipino actress
1991 – Toni Duggan , English footballer
1992 – Sergei Simonov , Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
2000 – Preston Bailey , American actor
2005 – Pierce Gagnon , American actor
Deaths
306 – Constantius Chlorus , Roman emperor (b. 250)
1409 – Martin I of Sicily (b. 1376)
1471 – Thomas à Kempis , German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
1472 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1394)
1492 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
1572 – Isaac Luria , Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534)
1608 – Pomponio Nenna , Italian composer (b. 1556)
1616 – Andreas Libavius , German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull , English general and politician (b. 1584)
1681 – Urian Oakes , English-American minister and educator (b. 1631)
1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow , German educator and reformer (b. 1723)
1790 – William Livingston , American soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 – Isaac Low , American merchant and politician (b. 1735)
1794 – Jean-François Autié , French hairdresser (b. 1758)
1794 – André Chénier , Greek-French poet and author (b. 1762)
1794 – Jean-Antoine Roucher , French poet and author (b. 1745)
1794 – Friedrich von der Trenck , Prussian adventurer and author (b. 1726)
1826 – Kondraty Ryleyev , Russian poet and publisher (b. 1795)
1831 – Maria Szymanowska , Polish composer and pianist (b. 1789)
1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1772)
1842 – Dominique Jean Larrey , French physician and surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 – Charles Macintosh , Scottish chemist and engineer (b. 1766)
1853 – Joaquin Murrieta , Mexican-American criminal (b. 1829)
1861 – Jonas Furrer , Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1805)
1865 – James Barry , English soldier and surgeon (b. 1799)
1866 – Floride Calhoun , American wife of John C. Calhoun , 4th Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)
1887 – John Taylor , American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1808)
1934 – François Coty , French businessman, founded Coty, Inc. (b. 1874)
1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss , Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
1942 – Fred Englehardt , American triple jumper (b. 1879)
1952 – Herbert Murrill , English organist and composer (b. 1909)
1958 – Otto Lasanen , Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
1959 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , Polish-Irish rabbi and author (b. 1888)
1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret , Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
1963 – Ugo Cerletti , Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877)
1966 – Frank O'Hara , American poet and critic (b. 1926)
1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis , Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
1971 – John Meyers , American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
1971 – Leroy Robertson , American composer and educator (b. 1896)
1973 – Amy Jacques Garvey , Jamaican-American journalist and activist (b. 1895)
1973 – Louis St. Laurent , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky , Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
1982 – Hal Foster , Canadian-American author and illustrator (b. 1892)
1984 – Bryan Hextall , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 – Big Mama Thornton , American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
1986 – Vincente Minnelli , American director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1988 – Judith Barsi , American actress (b. 1978)
1989 – Steve Rubell , American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943)
1992 – Alfred Drake , American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 – Charlie Rich , American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
1996 – Howard Vernon , Swiss-French actor (b. 1914)
1997 – Ben Hogan , American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 – Tal Farlow , American guitarist (b. 1921)
1998 – Evangelos Papastratos , Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
2000 – Rudi Faßnacht , German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
2002 – Abdel Rahman Badawi , Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow , German engineer (b. 1912)
2003 – Erik Brann , American singer and guitarist (Iron Butterfly ) (b. 1950)
2003 – John Schlesinger , English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2004 – John Passmore , Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1914)
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff , German trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Carl Brashear , American sailor (b. 1931)
2006 – Ezra Fleischer , Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928)
2007 – Bernd Jakubowski , German footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2007 – Jesse Marunde , American strongman (b. 1979)
2008 – Jeff Fehring , Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2008 – Tracy Hall , American chemist and academic (b. 1919)
2008 – Randy Pausch , American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960)
2009 – Yasmin Ahmad , Malaysian actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
2009 – Alexis Cohen , American singer (b. 1983)
2009 – Vernon Forrest , American boxer (b. 1971)
2009 – Stanley Middleton , English author (b. 1919)
2009 – Harry Patch , English soldier (b. 1898)
2010 – Redford White , Filipino actor (b. 1955)
2011 – Michael Cacoyannis , Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2012 – David Barby , English antiques expert (b. 1943)
2012 – B. R. Ishara , Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2012 – Barry Langford , English director and producer (b. 1926)
2012 – Greg Mohns , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1950)
2012 – Franz West , Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
2013 – Steve Berrios , American drummer (b. 1945)
2013 – Mohamed Brahmi , Tunisian politician (b. 1955)
2013 – Walter De Maria , American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (b. 1935)
2013 – William J. Guste , American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2013 – Hugh Huxley , English-American biologist and academic (b. 1924)
2013 – Bernadette Lafont , French actress and singer (b. 1938)
2013 – Duilio Marzio , Argentinian actor (b. 1923)
2013 – Kongar-ol Ondar , Russian singer (b. 1962)
2014 – Carlo Bergonzi , Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924)
2014 – Alan C. Greenberg , American businessman (b. 1927)
2014 – Çolpan İlhan , Turkish actress (b. 1936)
2014 – Bel Kaufman , German-American author and academic (b. 1911)
2014 – Richard Larter , Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929)
2015 – Jacques Andreani , French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929)
2015 – R. S. Gavai , Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (b. 1929)
2015 – Bob Kauffman , American basketball player and coach (b. 1946)
2015 – Robin Phillips , English-Canadian actor and director (b. 1942)
2015 – Scott Sims , American veterinarian and television host (b. 1955)
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