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November 

 November 8 – Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (d. 2001)
 November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American film and theatre actress, singer and dancer (d. 1965)
 November 12 – Stan Lee, American comic book writer (d. 2018)
 November 14 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (d. 1973)
 November 14 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2016)
 November 16 – Patricia Barry, Portuguese writer (d. 2010)
 November 17 – Stanley Cohen, American Nobel biochemist (d. 2020)
 November 23 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (d. 2012)
 November 26 – Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (d. 2000)
 November 28 – Pinchas Lapide, Israeli theologian (d. 1997)

December 

 December 11 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and politician (d. 2021)
 December 24 – Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (d. 2022)
 December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)

Deaths 
 January 22 - Pope Benedict XV
Books 
Ulysses by James Joyce

Movies released 
Nanook of the North
Legends (derived from Latin legenda) are stories in oral tradition passed on by word of mouth.

The word is also used for famous or historically significant people, places, events, etc. We sometimes say of someone who is extremely famous that they are a "legend" or "of legendary fame".

Examples of legends are Ali Baba, the Fountain of Youth, Paul Bunyan, Bogeyman, Kraken, Sirens, Atlantis, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Yeti.  Some legends are stories about real people; others are not. Odysseus and Robin Hood for example may have been real but most the stories about them are definitely fiction.

For some places, legends are the earliest history. For example, the origin of ancient Rome is known only from legends, as are the earliest dynasties in the history of China.

 	
 
Oral tradition
The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring. People talked about it for thousands of years. They thought its water could make people young and healthy. Herodotus put it in the Horn of Africa. Later stories said it was in India. A Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, was said to have looked for it while in present-day Florida. 

Mythology
Ho Chi Minh City () is a city in southern Vietnam. It is governed as a municipality and includes a large rural area. It is the biggest city in Vietnam. About 9 million people live in the city. 

Before its fall on 30 April 1975, the city used to be called "Saigon", and this is still the most common name in everyday conversation. The name Saigon come from the Saigon River, which flows through the city.
History
It used to be a Khmer port city called Prey Nokor, or “Jungle City”. The city was taken over by the Vietnamese and eventually took the name of(Sài Gòn). It was invaded by the French in 1859. As (French) Saigon it was the capital of French Indochina and became an important city in French colonial trade. After independence(from France), in 1954 to 1975, Saigon became the capital of the Republic of Vietnam. After the end of the US campaign (1973) in the Vietnam War, Saigon was overtaken by the North Vietnamese army on 30 April 1975 and renamed after Hồ Chí Minh. The tradition of naming places in Vietnam after great people is very common. Many streets bear the names of epic heroes. Hai Ba Trung street is named after heroic sisters.

Despite the name change, many people from other countries, and even among Vietnamese people, still call the city "Saigon" today. Interestingly enough, both the names of the Saigon River and the Saigon railway station have stayed unchanged.
City categorization
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has expanded with industrialization. It now includes all of the surrounding towns. The city center is old Saigon. Old Saigon has two main districts (One and Three). The new city districts used to be rice fields and fish farms. There are fish all over the city.
Geography
Ho Chi Minh City is as flat as the river plain it sits on. Nearly all roads are built flat. Bicycle riding around the Mekong delta is very easy in dry weather. Because of the flatness, roads and buildings sink into the draining soil. Lying water keeps pollution very close to city homes. The rising tides can flood many districts when the moon is fullest. 
Because rainwater can't be kept in valleys or mountains, the city-water is dangerous to drink. Most people drink from large bottles of water - .
When the streets flood (in rain or tides) the dirt from drains returns onto the city. This has caused a lot of problems for the health of the people living in the city. Escaping sewer water makes people very sick in the tropical countries. Older people may avoid drinking more than a few drinks a day.
Environment
It's very tropical in the city. The trees in streets are cut down to half every year - but they grow back. Fresh food markets are all over the city. The city has so much rain, that drains and rivers surround every district.

The southeast of the province has the Can Gio Wetlands. It's a 752 square kilometre mangrove area between Ho Chi Minh City and the sea.
Inside the wetlands there are birds, deer, fish, frogs, insects, lizards, monkeys, otters, and snakes. The centipedes all around the city are very dangerous (maybe deadly to tiny animals). People catch and eat the snakes.

The wetlands and ecosystem has been designated as a biosphere reserve. Ho Chi Minh people get education on how to look after their biosphere reserve and wetlands.
Port
The city is a river port on the Saigon River. Several larger terminals operate outside and inside of the city. Many small docks operate around the city. The river system leads out to sea at Vung Tau, or onto the Mekong delta.
Delivery of materials for the city can be made by boat. Farm produce distributors can arrive by boat in many districts outside the city.

Education
The use of English is rising in HCMC. Many HCMC people will travel around the world by using English as their international language. Many other languages are studied. French was previously the most popular. Chinese is also very well known to many people.

International
The city has international schools that teach foreign children. All classes (except for languages) are given in the chosen language. Many international schools have chosen English as the primary language. Some of the international schools are named by their country of origin. The schools named after a country use the national language of that country.
National
English is a subject taught in all national schools.

After-school and colleges
Many HCMC parents use cram schools to improve their children's English. HCMC adults attend colleges to learn English.

Going overseas
Some HCMC people will go overseas to get foreign education. It can be through staying with relatives, attending boarding schools, joining programs, or with family.

Universities
English is taught at university in HCMC. It doesn't replace the national language at most universities. International universities might set a requirement for English or another language.
Hobbies
 A favorite hobby is fishing. Fish invade grass fields when they flood - locals wade into the fields with good fishing rods to catch them.
 Kite flying is a popular hobby in the city. When the wind season starts many fields are full of kite-flyers. At this time, the city skyline is dotted with kites.
 Ho Chi Minh City is a very busy city. The traffic makes little sense to foreigners. Motorbikes are the most common vehicle. The motorbikes mostly travel at speeds under 40 km/hr. Cars drivers do their best to never hit motorcycles. Families ride together around the city for fun in the evening.
 Street food is as popular in HCMC as it is in all of South-East Asia.
Poverty
Wealthy people live a fantastic life in the city. But, others are very poor. Poor does not always mean without food, clothing, shelter, or work in HCMC. The cost of living in Vietnam helps even the poorest people to survive. Many temples, churches, charities, and government organizations help people that are even more misfortunate than the poor. But still, some ultra-poor people struggle with homelessness, and the tropical weather - they get very dark skin compared to other people.

Entertainment
There is a lot of entertainment for the people in the city. Many discos, bars, and clubs operate all around the city. Food is also a source of entertainment for people in HCMC. Very strange restaurants sell very strange food: scorpions, bats, rats and more. Tourists are amazed by what is eaten in HCMC.
Neighbors
The Mekong River delta is accessible from HCMC. It has a many rice, coconut, fish, and prawn farms. The main city is Can Tho City.
The mountain range of Vietnam is accessed via Dalat City.
The beaches of Vietnam are accessed via Vung Tau City or Phan Thiet City when leaving HCMC.
The border to Cambodia is the closest international exit point for tourists. This exit border takes people to Phnom Penh City.
Bien Hoa City is another industrial city to the northeast. Around there, the province of Binh Duong is growing through strong financial investment.

Images

References

Other websites

 Ho Chi Minh City government website
 Ho Chi Minh City travel information at Wikivoyage

Cities in Vietnam
An apricot is a drupe fruit. It is closely related to the plum.

Description 

The apricot comes from a small to medium-sized tree,  tall, with a trunk up to 40 centimetres in diameter with spreading, dense canopy; leaves are shaped somewhat like a heart, with pointed tips, about 8 centimetres (3 inches) wide. 
 Flowers: Flowers are white to pinkish in color.
 Fruit: The fruit has only one seed; the color runs from yellow to orange and may have a red cast; the surface of the fruit is smooth and nearly hairless.

Related pages
 List of fruits

Other websites 

 www.apricotseeds.org  – includes information on medicinal uses of apricot seeds
 Apricot Kernel products – About Apricot Kernel
 Scintro fruit book – All about fruits

Prunus
National symbols of Armenia
A contraction is a word that is made up of two or more words that are connected together. One or more letters are removed from the words when they are connected. One or more apostrophes are added in the location letters are removed. For example, an apostrophe goes in place of the o in not when "do not" is shortened to "don't."

In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term "abbreviation" in loose parlance. Contraction is also distinguished from morphological clipping, where beginnings and endings are omitted.
The definition overlaps with the term portmanteau (a linguistic blend), but a distinction can be made between a portmanteau and a contraction by noting that contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not, whereas a portmanteau word is formed by combining two or more existing words that all relate to a singular concept that the portmanteau describes.

Pronoun + verb contractions

Helping verbs
 I will = I'll
 He will = He'll
 You are = You're

Negative contractions

Be
 Are not = aren't
 Is not = isn't

Do
 Do not = don't
 Did not = didn't
 Does not = doesn't

Helping Verbs
 Cannot or Can not = can't
 Could not = couldn't
 Shall not = shan't
 Should not = shouldn't
 Might not = mightn't
 Must not = mustn't
 Will not = won't
 Would not = wouldn't
 He did = he'd

Have
 Has not = hasn't
 Have not = haven't
 Had not = hadn't

References

Grammar
Tonga is a country in Pacific Ocean. It has 169 islands. Only 36 islands have inhabitants. The most important island is Tongatapu. Tupou IV is the king of Tonga and the Prime Minister is Siaosi Sovaleni. The capital of Tonga is Nuku'alofa, which is on Tongatapu.

The official languages of Tonga are Tongan and English. Tonga had 102,321 inhabitants in 2000. It is a very hot country. Tonga became independent in 1970.

History
About 3000 years before, the Polynesians had settled in Tongatapu. In 1845, Tāufaʻāhau united Tonga into a kingdom. He declared Tonga a constitutional monarchy. Between 1845 and 1893, slavery was stopped. Also, constitution was made up.
In 1900, Tonga became a protected state of the United Kingdom. Tonga maintained its sovereignty. It remained the only Pacific nation never to have given up its monarchical government. Foreign affairs was managed by the UK. Tonga was no longer a protected state and became independent in 1970. Tonga joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970. It became a member of the United Nations in September 1999. Tonga has never lost indigenous governance.

Geography

Tonga is in Oceania. It is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. It has 177 islands. Thirty-six of them are inhabited. The islands are divided into three main groups – Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu. The largest island is Tongatapuon. The capital city of Nukuʻalofa is on Tongatapuon.

Politics

Tonga is a constitutional monarchy.

Tonga provides for its citizens:
 free and mandatory education for all
 secondary education with only nominal fees
 and foreign-funded scholarships for post-secondary education
Tongans have universal access to a national health care system. The Tongan constitution protects land ownership. Land cannot be sold to foreigners. While there is a land shortage on the urbanised main island of Tongatapu, there is farmland available in the outlying islands.

The majority of the population engages in some form of subsistence production of food. Women and men have equal access to education and health care. They are fairly equal in employment. Women are discriminated against in land holding, electoral politics, and government ministries.

Climate 
The climate is tropical with a distinct warm period (December–April) and a cooler period (May–November). The average wettest period is around March. The average daily humidity is 80%.

References

 
Current monarchies
1970 establishments in Oceania
Commonwealth member states
Archipelagos
Filippo Azzaiolo (1530 - 1569) was an Italian composer. He lived in 16th century. Azzaiolo worked in Bologna.

All his known songs were composed between 1557 and 1569. Azzaiolo's most famous song is "Chi passa".

References

1530 births
1569 deaths
16th-century Italian composers‎
Renaissance composers
Up to 1925 
 1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor drowns in the River Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
 1329 - The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine Empire defeat against the Ottoman Empire.
 1523 - Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city does not recognize him as successor to Christian II of Denmark.
 1539 - Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the council due to war and the difficulty the bishops had in travelling to Venice.
 1596 - Bear Island, the southernmost island of Svalbard, is discovered by Willem Barentsz.
 1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Zablati, turning point in the Bohemian revolt.
 1692 – In Salem, Massachusetts Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to be executed during the Salem Witch Trials, for alleged witchcraft.
 1719 – Jacobite uprising: The Battle of Glen Shiel takes place.
 1770 – James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1786 - A landslide dam created by an earthquake ten days earlier, in Sichuan, China, collapses, killing 10,000 people.
 1793 - French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the committee of public safety, installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
 1829 – The Boat Race between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place for the first time.
 1838 – Myall Creek Massacre: 28 Australian Aboriginals are killed.
 1854 – The First Class of US Naval Academy students graduate.
 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate forces under John B. Magruder defeat a Union force under Ebenezer W. Pierce, in Virginia.
 1864 – American Civil War: A Confederate force under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the Union force under Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
 1865 – Wagner's opera, Tristan und Isolde first performed in Munich.
 1878 - The League of Prizren is founded in the Balkans.
1886 – Mount Tarawera on New Zealand's North Island erupts, killing 153 people and destroys the famous Pink Terraces.
 1898 – Spanish-American War: US marines land on Cuba.
 1906 – William Hall-Jones replaces Richard Seddon as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
 1907 - The first Beijing to Paris car rally begins. It is the longest race of its kind in the world.
 1916 - Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
 1918 – World War I: Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks, having been torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
 1924 – Fascists kill Italian socialist Giacomo Matteotti.
 1925 – The United Church of Canada is founded in Toronto.
1926  2000 
 1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.
 1935 - The Chaco War ends, as a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay.
 1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on the United Kingdom and France.
 1942 – World War II: The Nazis burn the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia.
 1944 – World War II: 642 people are killed by German troops in Oradour-sur-Glane in France.
 1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Greece, German troops kill 218 people.
 1944 – 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player in a Major League Baseball game.
 1945 - World War II: Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
 1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
 1955 – The foundation stone of CERN, on the Switzerland-France border, is laid.
 1957 – John Diefenbaker is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
 1967 – The Six-Day War ends.
 1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is re-captured on June 13.
 1977 - Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
 1979 - The first election to the European Parliament takes place.
 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight for imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
 1991 – The American military's Clark Air Base in the Philippines is evacuated, because of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
 1991 – Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped by Philip Garrido in California. He holds her captive until 2009, and fathers two daughters with her.
 1996 – Peace negotiations begin in Northern Ireland, without the participation of Sinn Féin.
 1997 – Fleeing his main stronghold, former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot orders the killing of his former defense chief Son Sen, and of 11 of Sen's family members.
 1998 - The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France begins.
 1999 – NATO's air war over Kosovo ends, as Serbian forces withdraw.
2000 – Syrian President Hafez al-Assad dies. His son Bashar al-Assad replaces him.
 2000 – UEFA Euro 2000 begins in the Netherlands and Belgium.
From 2001 
 2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
 2002 - The first director electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Briton Kevin Warwick.
 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Explorer Rover System.
 2003 - Wicked begins on Broadway, later winning 40 awards.
 2005 – The Svinesund Bridge between Norway and Sweden is opened.
 2014 - Militants from the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", affiliated with Al-Qaeda, take control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.
 2014 - Reuven Rivlin is chosen to succeed Shimon Peres as President of Israel. He is sworn in on July 24.
 2016 - The UEFA Euro 2016 football championship in France begins.
 2016 - American singer Christina Grimmie is shot at a concert in Orlando, Florida, and dies later the same evening, aged 22.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1213 – Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)
 1493 – Anton Fugger, German banker (d. 1560)
 1513 - Louis, Duke of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1582)
 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1675)
 1657 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1921)
 1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart ("The Old Pretender"), claimant to the British throne (d. 1766)
 1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757)
 1716 - Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish physician and explorer (d. 1784)
 1753 – William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
 1775 – James Barbour, American lawyer, politician and 19th Governor of Virginia (d. 1842)
 1804 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
 1819 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
 1825 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
 1825 – Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (d. 1864)
 1832 – Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
 1832 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American politician (d. 1920)
1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American politician (d. 1930)
 1835 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1908)
 1839 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
 1839 - Ion Creanga, Romanian writer (d. 1889)
 1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
 1843 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
 1844 - Carl Hagenbeck, German zoo director (d. 1913)
 1855 - Charles Allen Culberson, Governor of Texas (d. 1925)
 1859 – Santadasji Kathia Baba, Hindu Philosopher (d. 1935)
 1859 – Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian oil baron (d. 1932)
 1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch writer (d. 1923)
 1865 – Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer, claimed to be first at the North Pole (d. 1940)
 1870 - Constantin Angelescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1948)
 1876 - William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German aristocrat (d. 1923)
 1887 - Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (d. 1966)
 1891 - Al Dubin, American songwriter (d. 1945)
1894 - Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (d. 1918)
 1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
 1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian-born psychoanalyst and author (d. 1979)
 1897 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
 1899 - Stanislaw Czaykowski, Polish racing driver (d. 1933)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Frederick Loewe, German-born composer (d. 1988)
 1903 - Theo Lingen, German actor and director (d. 1978)
 1904 - Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955)
 1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer and musician (d. 1976)
 1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
 1912 - Jean Lesage, 11th Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
 1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist (d. 2005)
 1916 - Peride Celal, Turkish novelist and short story writer (d. 2013)
 1918 - Patachou, French singer and actress (d. 2015)
 1918 - Barry Morse, English actor (d. 2008)
 1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (d. 2007)
 1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish footballer, rugby player and physician (d. 2006)
 1920 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (d. 2007)
 1921 - Jean Robic, French motorcycle racer (d. 1980)
 1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 2021)
 1921 - Oskar Gröning, German SS member (d. 2018)
 1922 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
1922 - Bill Kerr, Australian actor (d. 2014)
 1923 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (d. 1991)
 1924 - Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (d. 2014)
 1925 - James Salter, American writer (d. 2015)
 1925 - Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player
 1926 – Lionel Jeffries, British actor (d. 2010)
 1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician (d. 2013)
 1928 – Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator (d. 2012)
 1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author
 1929 – Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
 1929 - James McDivitt, American astronaut
 1929 - Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer (d. 2009)
 1929 - Yevgeniy Chazov, Russian physician
 1930 - Aranka Siegal, Czech-born American writer and Holocaust survivor
 1930 - Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (d. 2017)
 1930 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (d. 2013)
 1931 - Bryan Cartledge, English diplomat
 1931 – Joao Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1932 - Philipp Jenninger, German politician (d. 2018)
 1933 – Georgi Atanasov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
 1934 - Alois Mock, Austrian politician (d. 2017)
 1936 - Eugenio Bersellini, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
 1938 – Violetta Villas, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress (d. 2011)
 1939 - Joe Bossano, former Chief Minister of Gibraltar
 1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
 1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
 1941 - Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor
 1942 - Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scottish judge
 1942 - Lopo do Nascimento, 1st Prime Minister of Angola
 1943 - Simon Jenkins, English journalist
 1943 - Edward Peel, English actor
 1944 - Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
 1947 - Nicole Bricq, French politician (d. 2017)
 1949 - Frankie Faison, American actor
 1949 – John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
 1949 - Kevin Corcoran, American actor (d. 2015)
1951  1975 
 1953 – John Edwards, American politician
 1953 - Bill Longmuir, Scottish golfer
 1954 - Rich Hall, American comedian and writer
 1955 – Annette Schavan, German politician
 1956 – Rolandas Paksas, former President of Lithuania
 1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and football manager
 1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American politician, former Governor of New York
 1960 – Mark-Anthony Turnage, English composer
 1960 – Maxi Priest, English singer
 1961 - Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress
 1962 - Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe
 1963 - Nadia Hasnaoui, Norwegian television presenter
 1963 - Brad Henry, American politician, 26th Governor of Oklahoma
 1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
 1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician
 1964 - Stuart McCall, Scottish footballer and manager
 1964 – Kate Flannery, American actress
 1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, British actress
 1965 - Veronica Ferres, German actress
1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino-American musician and songwriter
 1966 – David Platt, English footballer
 1967 - Paul Maskey, Northern Irish politician
 1967 - Heimir Hallgrímsson, Icelandic dentist and football coach
 1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian and writer
 1969 – Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
 1969 - Helen Young, English television presenter
 1969 - Jane Hill, English television journalist
 1970 - Chris Coleman, Welsh footballer and coach
 1970 - Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer, director and producer
 1971 – Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
 1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, former Governor of Louisiana
 1973 – Faith Evans, American singer
 1974 - Dustin Lance Black, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1974 - Simon Elliott, New Zealand footballer
 1974 - Mohamed Emara, Egyptian footballer
 1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
 1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
From 1976 
 1976 - George Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
 1978 – Shane West, American musician and actor
 1979 - Assi Azar, Israeli television host
 1980 - Wang Yaegu, Singaporean table tennis player
 1980 - Jessica DiCicco, American actress
 1981 – Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein of Jordan
 1981 – Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
 1982 - Laleh Pourkarim, Iranian-Swedish singer
 1982 – Princess Madeleine of Sweden
 1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
 1983 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress
 1983 - Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer
 1983 - Marion Barber III, American football player
 1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
 1985 - Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
 1985 – Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
 1985 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
 1986 - Keith Harkin, Irish singer-songwriter and actor
 1987 – Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer
 1989 – Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer
 1991 - Juan Jesus, Brazilian footballer
 1992 - Kate Upton, American model and actress
1994 - Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (d. 2014)
 1996 - Kristjan Ilves, Estonian skier
 1999 - Blanche, Belgian singer
 2001 – Sasha Obama, daughter of Barack Obama
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 323 BC – Alexander the Great (b. c. 355 BC)
 38 – Julia Drusilla, sister of Caligula (b. 16)
 223 - Liu Bei, Chinese Emperor (b. 161)
 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
 1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Frederick Barbarossa) (b. 1122)
 1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
 1580 – Luis de Camoes, Portuguese poet
 1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
 1680 – Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
 1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-born alleged witch (b. 1632)
 1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese King (b. 1736)
 1799 - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1745)
 1811 - Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, German aristocrat (b. 1728)
 1836 – Andre-Marie Ampere, French mathematician (b. 1775)
 1896 – Amelia Dyer, British murderer of babies (b. 1829)
 1898 - Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian barber, last speaker of the Dalmatian language
 1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1901  2000 
 1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
 1903 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician, statistician and politician (b. 1830)
 1906 – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845)
 1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
 1923 - Pierre Loti, French soldier and author (b. 1850)
 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist politician (b. 1885)
 1926 – Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
 1930 - Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (b. 1851)
 1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
 1937 – Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
 1940 – Marcus Garvey, African American publicist and political activist (b. 1887)
 1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
 1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer (b. 1882)
 1955 - Margaret Abbott, American golfer (b. 1876)
 1962 - Francisco Bru, Spanish footballer, coach and referee (b. 1885)
 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
 1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (b. 1873)
 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director and actor (b. 1945)
 1988 – Louis L'Amour, American writer (b. 1908)
 1992 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1931)
 1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
 1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
 1998 – Hammond Innes, English actor (b. 1914)
 2000 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
From 2001 
 2001 - Leila Pahlavi, daughter of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (b. 1970)
 2002 – John Gotti, American criminal (b. 1940)
 2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
 2004 – Ray Charles, American singer (b. 1930)
 2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
 2007 – Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934)
 2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer (b. 1928)
 2010 – Ferdinand Oyono, Cameroonian writer (b. 1929)
 2010 – Sigmar Polke, German painter (b. 1941)
 2011 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, British soldier and writer (b. 1915)
 2012 – George Saitoti, Kenyan politician (b. 1945)
 2013 - Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer (b. 1922)
 2013 - Barbara Vucanovich, American politician (b. 1921)
 2014 - Gerald Nicholas McAllister, American Anglican prelate (b. 1923)
 2015 - Wolfgang Jeschke, German science fiction writer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Robert Chartoff, American movie producer (b. 1933)
 2016 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2016 - Alex Govan, Scottish footballer (b. 1929)
 2016 - Habib, Iranian singer (b. 1952)
 2016 - Mary Feik, American aviatrix (b. 1924)
 2016 - Alexander Gorlov, Russian politician (b. 1931)
 2016 - Gopal Gurung, Nepalese politician and author (b. 1935)
 2016 - Alfred Oftedal Telhaug, Norwegian educator (b. 1934)
 2016 - Giuseppe Virgili, Italian footballer (b. 1935)
 2016 - Christina Grimmie, American singer (b. 1994)
 2017 - Chi Po-lin, Taiwanese photographer and director (b. 1964)
 2017 - Austin Deasy, Irish politician (b. 1936)
 2017 - Samuel V. Wilson, American army general (b. 1923)
 2017 - Helen Freedhoff, Canadian theoretical physicist (b. 1940)
 2018 - Neal E. Boyd, American pop singer and reality show contestant (b. 1975)
 2018 - Liliana Ross, Italian-Chilean actress (b. 1939)
 2019 - Girish Karnad, Indian actor, writer and director (b. 1938)
 2019 - Lee Hee-ho, First Lady of South Korea (b. 1922)
 2019 - Crazy Mohan, Indian comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2019 - Paul "Lil' Buck" Sinegal, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
 2019 - Wang Jun, Chinese business executive (b. 1941)
Observances 
 Day of Camoes, Portugal Day (Portugal)
 Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)
 Army Day (Jordan)
 Abolition Day (French Guiana)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
253  Pope Cornelius is executed by beheading.
524  The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vezeronce.
841  Battle of Fontenay: Forces lead by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530  At the Diet of Augsburg, the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and electors of Germany.
1658  Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1678  Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, graduating from the University of Padua.
1741  Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1786  Gavriil Pribylov discovers Saint George Island in the Pribilof Islands (now belonging to Alaska, US) in the Bering Sea.
1788  Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1876  Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1888  Fire destroys Sundsvall, Sweden.
1900  Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts of great historical significance, in the Magao Caves at Dunhuang, China.
1901  2000 
1903  Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
1910  Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" is first performed in Paris.
1935  Colombia and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1938  Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
1940  World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany.
1943  The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1944  World War II: The Nordic countries' biggest battle of the war, of Tali-Ihantala, begins.
1945  Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
1947  The Diary of a Young Girl (Diary of Anne Frank) is first published.
1948  The Berlin airlift begins.
1949  "Long-Haired Hare", starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theatres.
1950  The beginning of the Korean War.
1953  In the UK, the murderer John Christie is sentenced to death.
1959  Éamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
1960  Two cryptographers  working on the US National Security Agency leave for vacation in Mexico, and from there they defect to the Soviet Union.
1967  First global satellite television programme – "Our World".
1973  Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
1975  Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
1975  A State of Emergency is declared in India.
1976  A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Guinea kills 422 people.
1978  The Rainbow flag for Gay pride is flown for the first time in San Francisco.
1978  Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, beating the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time.
1981  Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982  A match-fixing scandal erupts after West Germany and Austria both qualify from the group stage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a very slow-paced match, at Algeria's expense.
1982  Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
1988  In West Germany, the Netherlands wins the UEFA European Championship, defeating the Soviet Union 2-0. In the game, Dutch striker Marco van Basten scores a goal that is widely considered to be the best in European Championship history.
1991  Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993  David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
1993  Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1993  Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
1993  Vienna Declaration is adopted by World Conference on Human Rights.
1996  Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
1997  The Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat erupts, killing 19 people.
1997  An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space Station Mir.
1998  Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
1998  In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999  The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode.
From 2001 
2001  A typhoon strikes Fujian province of China, killing over 100 people.
2006  Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
2007  British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years.
2009  Pop star Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief.
2013  Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar.
2014  An explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, kills over 20 people.

Births
Up to 1900 
1242  Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
1328  William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1373  Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
1560  Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1568  Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597)
1612  John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1646  Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher (d. 1684)
1715  Jean-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726  Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
1755  Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1768  Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797)
1799  David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1821  Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1825  James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888)
1842  Eloy Alfaro, 15th President of Ecuador (d. 1912)
1852  Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858  Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1860  Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
1863  Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
1864  Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1941)
1865  Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
1870  Yi Jun-yong, Korean Joseon Dynasty politician (d. 1917)
1884  Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886  Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
1887  Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
1887  George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor (d. 1995)
1894  Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989)
1896  Alfred Anderson, Scottish centenarian and World War I veteran (d. 2005)
1900  Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
1900  Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979)
1901  1950 
1902  Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
1903  George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
1903  Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1903  Bob Skelton, American swimmer (d. 1977)
1904  Vladimir Kokkinaki, Russian test pilot (d. 1985)
1905  Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer (d. 1976)
1907  J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)
1908  Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911  William Howard Stein, American chemist (d. 1980)
1912  William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913  Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1915  Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
1917  Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
1917  Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018)
1921  Heinrich Windelen, German politician (d. 2015)
1923  Nicholas Mosley, British writer (d. 2017)
1923  Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
1924  Sidney Lumet, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
1925  June Lockhart, American actress
1925  Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)
1926  Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016)
1926  Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973)
1926  Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge and politician (d. 2015)
1927  Antal Roka, Hungarian athlete (d. 1970)
1928  Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (d. 2017)
1928  Peyo, Belgian comic book artist (d. 1992)
1928  Alex Toth, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1929  Eric Carle, American children's writer (d. 2021)
1929  Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1930  George Murdock, American actor (d. 2012)
1931  Mrunalini Devi Puar, Indian educator (d. 2015)
1931  V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
1932  George Sluizer, Dutch filmmaker (d. 2014)
1932  Peter Blake, British artist
1933  James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1935  Charles Sheffield, English mathematician, physicist and science fiction author (d. 2002)
1935  Larry Kramer, American writer and activist
1936  Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia, 1998 – 1999
1937  Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
1940  Denys Arcand, French-Canadian movie director, screenwriter and producer
1940  Peer Augustinski, German actor (d. 2014)
1940  Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
1942  Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1945  Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
1945  Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (d. 2019)
1946  Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
1946  Ian McDonald, British musician
1949  Brigitte Bierlein, Austrian jurist and Chancellor of Austria
1951  1975 
1952  Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter, musician and composer
1954  Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1954  Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
1954  David Paich, American singer-songwriter
1954  Alison Leslie, British diplomat
1955  Terry Chimes, musician
1956  Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956  Anthony Bourdain, American chef and writer (d. 2018)
1957  Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player
1959  Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
1960  Aldo Serena, Italian footballer
1960  Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player
1961  Ricky Gervais, British comedian and actor
1961  Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakhstani producer and director
1962  Phill Jupitus, British comedian and broadcaster
1963  George Michael, British singer (d. 2016)
1963  Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian writer
1963  Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963  John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1964  Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver
1964  Greg Raymer, American poker player
1966  Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (d. 2015)
1966  Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
1969  Zim Sum, American guitarist
1970  Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1971  Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971  Scott Maslen, English actor
1971  Jason Lewis, American actor
1972  Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan politician
1973  Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player
1973  Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1973  Sunetra Sarker, English actress
1974  Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1975  Derek Adams, Scottish footballer and coach
1975  Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975  Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975  Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
From 1976 
1976  José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976  Carlos Niesto, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1976  Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player
1976  Gavin Williamson, English politician
1977  Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model
1979  Daniel Jensen, Danish footballer
1979  La La, American actress and TV host
1981  Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1981  Sheridan Smith, English actress and singer
1981  Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
1982  Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982  Rain, Korean singer and actor
1982  Cécile Cassel, French actress and singer
1983  Marc Janko, Austrian footballer
1984  Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
1985  Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
1985  Hanna Pérez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash)
1985  Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
1986  Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (d. 2019)
1986  Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1986  Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1987  Claudio Corti, Italian motorcycle racer
1987  Alissa Czisny, American figure skater
1988  Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player
1989  Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1989  Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director and screenwriter
1991  Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer and model
1991  Victor Wanyama, Kenyan footballer
1991  Simone Zaza, Italian footballer
1993  Barney Clark, English actor
1997  Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
2002  Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
Up to 1900 
253  Pope Cornelius
635  Emperor Gaozu, 1st Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 566)
1134  King Niels of Denmark (b. 1034)
1218  Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160)
1291  Eleanor of Provence (b. 1223)
1533  Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
1579  Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
1593  Michele Mercati, Italian physician (b. 1541)
1634  John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638  Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665  Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
1671  Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1686  Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1767  Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1792  Thomas Peters, Sierra Leone founding father (b. 1738)
1822  E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
1857  Langdon Cheves, American politician (b. 1776)
1861  Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1864  King William I of Württemberg (b. 1781) 
1866  Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868  Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1876  George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
1876  Thomas Custer, American army officer (b. 1845)
1876  Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout (b. 1848)
1882  François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884  Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
1886  Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1809)
1889  Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831)
1898  Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (b. 1828)
1901  2000 
1906  Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)
1916  Thomas Eakins, artist (b. 1844)
1922  Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
1929  Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (b. 1858)
1932  Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881)
1933  Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1868)
1937  Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1939  Dick Seaman, English racing driver (b. 1913)
1944  Dénes Berinkey, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
1944  Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948  William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949  Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1960  Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1971  John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (b. 1880)
1974  Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
1976  Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1977  Bob Skelton, American swimmer (b. 1903)
1979  Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (b. 1894)
1983  Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
1983  Oddbjorn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
1984  Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1988  Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962)
1992  James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
1995  Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice (b. 1907)
1995  Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905)
1997  Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, movie maker and inventor (b. 1910)
1999  Tommy Ivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)