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According to the WHO, a drug is a substance that can change how a living organism works. Food is usually not seen as a drug, even though some foods may have such properties. Most of the time drugs are taken to treat a disease, or other medical condition. An example for such drugs may be Aspirin or Paracetamol. These are usually given to treat fever, as well as certain infections. If such drugs are taken over a longer time, they are usually prescribed by a doctor. Other drugs are taken for fun, because of the effect they have. Some of these drugs taken for fun are better accepted by society than others. Having or taking certain drugs may be illegal, in certain countries.

Drugs that are taken to treat a disease or condition are usually called "therapeutic", drugs that are taken for fun are called "recreational" drugs.

Drugs may have other effects than those wanted. Such effects are generally known as side-effects.
Taking too much of a drug ("too high a dose") can cause sickness or even death.  When a doctor says how much of a drug (the right dose) to take, only that amount should be taken.  It is very important to keep taking the drug until the doctor says to stop because someone can feel better but still be sick.  When a doctor says what drug to take, how much of it, and for how long, it is called a prescription. Drugs may cause addiction. Some drugs are illegal because they are very addictive. These drugs are really expensive, too. It can also be sold illegally from drug sellers which may cause serious results

Recreational drugs
Recreational drugs can sometimes be bad for someone's health even if they make them feel good.  Alcohol can also be dangerous if the person drinking it drives a vehicle after drinking. This is called drunk driving.  Many countries make this against the law.  Common recreational drugs include:
Alcohol - In beer, wine and hard liquor
Nicotine - In cigarettes
Caffeine - In Coffee and cacao (See figure)
Cannabis - Smoked like cigarettes, or baked in something to eat, like a cake or brownie
Methamphetamine (also known as Crystal Meth) - Can be smoked, eaten, injected, or inhaled
Cocaine - can be snorted, injected or inhaled (freebasing)
Heroin - can be snorted, injected or smoked in its freebase form.

Certain recreational drugs also have uses as a therapeutic drug. Heroin can be used as an analgesic (a painkiller) and methamphetamine is used to treat narcolepsy or ADHD. Recreational drugs can be dangerous, certain countries have made it illegal to have or take them outside a medical context. Most of the time, this is because they can be addictive or that they are very dangerous when combined with other drugs. That way, Cannabis-based products are legal in the Netherlands, but illegal in many other countries.
Alcohol and Nicotine are legal almost everywhere, but there are a lot of taxes on the sale of these. In other words, they are expensive to buy. Being expensive to buy because of taxes has two benefits; one is that the taxes collected from the sale of the drugs goes into helping to pay for assistance the drug user may experience later. A smoker, for example, may develop cancer later in life and need treatment at a place that is granted a certain amount of tax money from the government to keep it operating. Another benefit to the taxing of "legal" drugs, is that the high price may stop people from beginning the habit in the first place, which will help them avoid the negative medical or addictive side effects of the drug. In some cases, not everyone is allowed to buy these drugs unless they are a minimal age to do so
. The age at which someone is allowed to buy a legal drug is most often decided by the government of a country, state or province, and is usually the age where a person is considered by the law to be an "adult". Some of the most common ages this happens is at 18, 19 or 21 years of age.
Therapeutic drugs
Therapeutic drugs are also called medicinal drugs, medicine, or medication. Doctors will give therapeutic drugs to someone who is ill to make you better. You can buy these drugs at a pharmacy.  Some drugs need a prescription to be bought, other drugs do not. Drugs that do not require a prescription are called "over the counter" medications. There are lots of these drugs for different illnesses.  These include:

Aspirin - For pain
Paracetamol - For pain
Penicillin - For infections
Prozac - For depression
Diazepam - For anxiety
Antibiotics - For killing bacteria (germs)

References
William B. Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American artist and cartoonist. He is most famous for his comic strip, "Calvin and Hobbes" which was published between 1985 and 1995. He is a very private person and not much is publicly known about him. He also did not want people to sell things with the pictures of his characters on them, and the only things he allowed to be made using his characters were books with collections of Calvin and Hobbes strips. 

1958 births
Living people
American cartoonists
American comics artists
A centimeter(the American spelling is centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) measurement system. It is equal to one hundredth of a metre. Centi- is placed in front to say 'a hundredth'. The centimeter is the base unit of length in the old centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system of units.

The centimetre is usually used to measure things that are too big for millimetre  but too small for metres. A centimetre is close to the length of a fingernail.

Similarities to other units of length

1 centimetre is equal to:
 10 millimetres
 0.01 metre (1 metre is equal to 100 centimetres)
 about 0.393700787401575 inch (1 inch is equal to 2.54 centimetres) 

1 cubic centimetre is equal to 1 millilitre, under the SI system of units.
Uses of centimetre
The centimetre is also used:
 sometimes, to measure how much rain has fallen into a rain gauge;
 for heights of people, especially athletes, in metric nations;
 in  maps, centimetres are used to change from map scale to real-world scale of landscapes (kilometres).

Unicode symbols
The centimetre has Unicode symbols so it can be written in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. 
 centimetre (㎝) - code 339D
 square centimetre (㎠) - code 33A0
 cubic centimetre (㎤) - code 33A4

They are placed into one character, and it is mostly used with East Asian fonts.

References

 CJK Compatibility excerpt from The Unicode Standard, Version 4.4 and co-exterior users.

Units of length
SI units
Events

Up to 1900 
 1295 – Scotland and France create an alliance, known in Scotland as the "Auld Alliance".
 1316 - The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada.
 1601 - During the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish lay siege to Oostende.
 1610 - John Guy sets sail of Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
 1687 - Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton is published.
 1770 - The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario, Canada.
 1884 – Germany takes control of Cameroon and Togo.
1901  2000 
 1934 - Police shoot at striking longshoremen in San Francisco, California.
 1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Food Corporation.
 1940 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy Government of France break off diplomatic relations.
 1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - German troops reach the Dnieper River.
 1943 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sets sail for Sicily.
 1943 - World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union in the Battle of Kursk.
 1945 - World War II: The Liberation of the Philippines is declared.
 1946 – The Bikini is introduced in France.
 1948 – The UK's NHS (National Health Service) is founded.
 1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
 1950 - Zionism: The Israeli Knesset passes the Law of Return, which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel. 
 1954 – The BBC's first News bulletin is broadcast.
1954 - Elvis Presley records his first single - That's All Right - at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
 1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto, killing 109 people.
 1971 - The US lowers its voting age from 21 to 18.
 1975 – Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American men's singles Wimbledon champion.
 1975 – Cape Verde becomes independent from Portugal.
 1977 - Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is removed from power in a military coup.
 1987 - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam use suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan army for the first time.
 1989 - Iran-Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term.
 1989 - The sitcom Seinfeld is first broadcast.
 1991 – Nelson Mandela is chosen as President of the African National Congress.
 1995 – Armenia adopts its Constitution.
 1996 – The first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep is born.
From 2001 
 2002 - A bomb attack in Larbaa, Algeria, kills 50 people.
 2003 – The SARS virus is declared contained by the WHO.
 2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2.
 2009 – At Wimbledon, Roger Federer wins his 15th Grand Slam singles Tennis title in a five-set match against Andy Roddick, breaking the men's record previously held by Pete Sampras.
 2009 – Ethnic rioting occurs in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
 2009 - The largest-known hoard of Anglo-Saxon hoard of gold ever is discovered, consisting of over 1,500 items, in Staffordshire, England.
 2012 - Inauguration of The Shard in London - Britain's tallest, and Europe's second tallest, building.
 2015 - The United States wins the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating Japan 5-2 in the final in Vancouver, Canada.
 2016 - The Juno spacecraft enters into orbit around the planet Jupiter.

Births
Up to 1900 
 465 - Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Mayan ruler (d. 524)
 1321 – Joan of the Tower, Queen of Scotland (d. 1362)
 1547 - Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan nobleman (d. 1562)
 1549 - Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian cardinal (d. 1627)
 1554 - Elizabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d. 1592)
 1580 - Carlo Contarini, 100th Doge of Venice (d. 1656)
 1586 - Thomas Hooker, English Puritan settler in Connecticut (d. 1647)
 1670 - Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (d. 1748)
 1717 – King Peter III of Portugal (d. 1786)
 1720 - Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1787)
 1755 - Sarah Siddons, British theatre actress (d. 1831)
 1780 - François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
 1781 – Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
 1791 - Samuel Bailey, British philosopher (d. 1870)
 1801 - David Farragut, American admiral (d. 1870)
 1802 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
 1805 – Robert FitzRoy, British naval officer and meteorologist (d. 1865)
1810 – P. T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
 1817 - Carl Vogt, German scientist, philosopher and politician (d. 1895)
 1820 - William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician and engineer (d. 1872)
 1829 - Ignacio Marisal, Mexican diplomat (d. 1910)
 1832 - Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (d. 1919)
 1841 - William Collins Whitney, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1904)
 1845 - August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius, German ornithologist (d. 1912)
 1849 - William Thomas Stead, English journalist (d. 1912)
 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, British colonial politician (d. 1902)
 1857 – Clara Zetkin, German socialist (d. 1933)
 1860 - Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (d. 1919)
 1872 - Edouard Herriot, Prime Minister of France (d. 1957)
 1879 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959)
 1879 - Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player (d. 1945)
 1880 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
 1882 - Inayat Khan, Indian educator (d. 1927)
1885 - Blas Infante, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
 1886 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1988)
 1888 – Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1963)
 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French writer, director and painter (d. 1963)
 1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist (d. 1987)
 1893 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1976)
 1894 - Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and theatre director (d. 1973)
 1898 - Georgios Grivas, Greek army officer (d. 1974)
 1899 - Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter and writer (d. 1974)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American colonel and politician (d. 1985)
 1903 - Bernardus Jan Alfrink, Dutch cardinal and Archbishop of Utrecht (d. 1987)
 1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (d. 2005)
 1907 - Ethel Smith, Canadian athlete (d. 1979)
 1907 – Yang Shangkun, President of China (d. 1998)
 1908 - Henri, Count of Paris (d. 1999)
 1911 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
 1911 - Giorgio Borg Olivier, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
 1914 - Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
 1915 - John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
 1918 - Zakaria Mohieddin, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
 1918 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (d. 2010)
 1919 - Bep Voskuijl, Dutch helper of Anne Frank (d. 1983)
 1921 – Viktor Kulikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2013)
 1924 - Janos Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (d. 2013)
 1925 - Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian sculptor (d. 2018)
 1925 - Jean Raspail, French writer and explorer
1926 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
 1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
 1926 - Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
 1926 - Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (d. 2016)
 1927 - Thomas Fleming, American novelist (d. 2017)
 1927 - Beverly Tyler, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
 1928 - Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
 1928 - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
 1928 – Juris Hartmanis, Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist
 1929 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019)
 1932 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
 1932 - Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (d. 2018)
 1933 – Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourgian mathematician (d. 2016)
 1934 – Yoshio Furukawa, Japanese football player 
 1935 - Brendan McCann, American basketball player
 1935 - Michael Wenning, American minister (d. 2011)
 1936 - Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist
 1936 - Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
 1939 – Pavel Morozenko, Soviet movie and theatre actor (d. 1991)
 1940 - James Herbert Brennan, Irish writer
 1940 - Chuck Close, American painter, artist and photographer
 1941 - Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian politician
 1942 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer (d. 2016)
 1945 - Michael Blake, American writer (d. 2015)
 1946 – Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist
 1946 - Giuseppe Furino, Italian footballer
 1946 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, 24th Premier of Quebec
 1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer
1951  1975 
 1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith)
 1954 – Don Stark, American actor
 1955 – Sebastian Barry, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
 1955 – Mia Couto, Mozambican writer
 1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player
 1956 – Horacio Cartes, President of Paraguay
 1956 – Terry Chimes, English drummer
 1957 – Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
 1958 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (d. 1996)
 1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
 1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
 1962 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
 1963 – Edie Falco, American actress
 1964 – Piotr Nowak, Polish footballer
 1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
 1967 – Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Iraq
 1968 – Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer
 1968 – Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
 1968 – Nardwuar, Canadian interviewer and musician
 1969 – Michael O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1969 – RZA, American rapper, producer, actor and director
 1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper
 1971 – Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
 1971 – Nicola Stephenson, English actress
 1972 – Nia Roberts, Welsh actress
 1973 – Marcus Allback, Swedish footballer
 1973 – Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans)
 1973 – Spencer Kelly, English technology journalist
 1975 – Hernán Crespo, Argentine footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
 1976 - Bizarre, American rapper
 1977 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
 1977 - Royce da 5'9'', American rapper
 1978 - Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (d. 2013)
 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
 1979 – Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
 1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
 1980 – Eva Green, French actress
 1980 - Zayed Khan, Indian actor
 1980 - Hannes Reichelt, Austrian skier
 1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
 1981 - Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model and actress
 1981 - Ryan Hansen, American actor
 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
 1982 - Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
 1982 - Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer
 1982 - Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lady Antebellum)
 1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
 1984 - Zack Miller, American golfer
 1984 - Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress and singer
 1985 - Nick O'Malley, English bass player (Arctic Monkeys)
1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress
 1985 - Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player
 1986 - Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
 1986 - Samuel Honrubia, French handball player
 1986 - Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player
 1986 - Adam Young, American singer-songwriter and musician (Owl City)
 1989 - Charlie Austin, English footballer
 1989 - Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
 1989 - Hiroyuki Abe, Japanese footballer
 1991 - Jason Dolley, American actor
 1992 - Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
 1995 - Giovanni Simeone, Argentine footballer
 1996 – Dolly the Sheep, first cloned mammal (d. 2003)
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 967 - Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
 1080 – Isleifur Gissurarson, Bishop of Iceland and Greenland (b. 1006)
 1316 - Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
 1539 - Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
 1572 - Longqing Emperor of China (b. 1537)
 1666 - Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1584)
 1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish commander and politician (b. 1613)
 1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
 1816 - Dorothea Jordan, Irish actress and mistress to King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761) 
 1819 - William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
 1826 – Stamford Raffles, British colonial statesman, founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and photography pioneer (b. 1765)
 1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
 1863 - Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
 1875 - Maria Röhl, Swedish artist (b. 1801)
1901  2000 
 1904 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
 1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (b. 1833)
 1911 - Maria Pia of Savoy (b. 1847)
 1920 – Max Klinger, artist (b. 1857)
 1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
 1937 - Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
 1945 – John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
 1948 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
 1948 – Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
 1957 – Charles Sherwood Noble, inventor (b. 1873)
 1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
 1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
 1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini (b. 1908)
 1983 – Harry James, American musician (b. 1916)
 1991 – Howard Nemerov, poet (b. 1920)
 1998 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
From 2001 
 2001 – Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) (b. 1933)
 2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
 2002 – Ted Williams, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1918)
 2003 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
 2004 – Hugh Shearer, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
 2004 – Rodger Ward, auto racer (b. 1921)
 2007 – George Melly, British singer (b. 1926)
 2008 – René Harris, President of Nauru (b. 1947)
 2010 – Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
 2010 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian-Dutch academic (b. 1943)
 2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
 2010 – David Fanshawe, British composer (b. 1942)
 2011 - Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
 2012 - Gerrit Komrij, Dutch writer, poet and playwright (b. 1944)
 2013 - David Cargo, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929)
 2014 - Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian church leader (b. 1935)
 2014 - Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
2015 - Sakari Momoi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)
 2015 - Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist (b. 1921)
 2016 - William L. Armstrong, American politician (b. 1937)
 2016 - Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist (b. 1914)
 2016 - Valentino Zeichen, Italian poet and writer (b. 1938)
 2017 - Pierre Henry, French composer (b. 1927)
 2017 - Joachim Meisner, German cardinal (b. 1933)
 2017 - Willi Reschke, German military officer (b. 1922)
 2017 - John Rodriguez, Guyanese-born Canadian politician (b. 1937)
 2017 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet (b. 1954)
 2017 - Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (b. 1944)
 2018 - François Budet, French singer-songwriter and novelist (b. 1940)
 2018 - Adamu Ciroma, Nigerian politician and banker (b. 1934)
 2018 - Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (b. 1925)
 2018 - Ed Schultz, American television-radio personality and political commentator (b. 1954)
 2018 - Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (b. 1943)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Venezuela (1811), Algeria (1962), and Cape Verde (1975)
 Constitution Day in Armenia
 Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)

July 05
Marilyn Manson is a rock band, and also the name of the lead singer of the group. The name Marilyn Manson was taken from the first name of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe and the last name of cult leader and serial killer Charles Manson. Some of the earlier band members also created stage names by taking the first name of a female sex symbol and the last name of a serial killer.

Band history
When the band started in 1989 it was originally called Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids. The band had four bandmembers and a drumming machine. They played small concerts in their home state Florida (the Warner family had moved from Ohio to Florida when Manson was a teenager).

In 1993 frontman Manson met Trent Reznor, lead singer for Nine Inch Nails. Reznor liked their style and offered them a record deal and the chance to tour with Nine Inch Nails. To get the deal, the band had to change its name to just Marilyn Manson. They also had to find a real drummer.
In 1995, their cover of Sweet Dreams (originally by Eurythmics) became a hit, and the band was suddenly very popular.

The band is very good friends with Nat Morley who is often featured in their music videos.

Discography

Their first album was Portrait of an American Family, which was released in 1993.

Other Marilyn Manson albums are 
 Smells Like Children (1995) (EP)
 Antichrist Superstar (1996)
 Remix & Repent (1997) (EP)
 Mechanical Animals (1998)
 The Last Tour On Earth (1999) (live album)
 Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000) 
 The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) 
 Lest We Forget (2004) (greatest hits)
 Eat Me, Drink Me (2007)
 High End Of Low (2009)
 Born Villain (2012)
 The Pale Emperor (2015)
 Heaven Upside Down (2017)
 We Are Chaos (2020)

Some of their greatest hits are The Beautiful People, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), The Dope Show, Disposable Teens, Tainted Love, and  Personal Jesus.
Marilyn Manson's songs about drugs, violence and anti-Christianity caused a lot of trouble, especially among Christians. There were protests at his concerts and they were not allowed to play in some cities.

References

1989 establishments in the United States
1980s American music groups
1980s establishments in Florida
1990s American music groups
2000s American music groups
2010s American music groups
American heavy metal bands
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Musical groups established in 1989
Musical groups from Florida
Aubrey Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was a English illustrator. He is best known for his drawings for Oscar Wilde's Salome. Beardsley is one of the famous people who appears on the cover of The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Early life
Beardsley was born in Brighton where his mother taught him to be interested in books and music. He was very good at music and drawing by the age of ten, but he was already sick with tuberculosis. After leaving school he worked as a clerk for an insurance company in London. He had to stop working at the end of 1889 because of his illness. He tried writing, but in 1891 he started to work full-time as an artist.

References

1872 births
1898 deaths
English artists
People from Sussex
British illustrators
The Odyssey is a major Ancient Greek epic poem. It was written by Homer, as a sequel to the Iliad. In its origin it was an oral epic poem from Mycenaean Greece, about the 11th century BC. The hero of the poem is Odysseus, or Ulysses as he is called in Latin; the poem is mythological, not historical.

The poem is the story about Odysseus's ten-year-long voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. The Trojan War is the subject of the Iliad. At the same time, his wife Penelope has to fight off a lot of men who want to marry her; and his son Telemachos searches for him.

Along the way, Odysseus and his men have to fight monsters and many other dangers. The main events (places he goes, creatures and people he meets) of Odysseus' journey are:
 the Kikones
 the Lotus Eaters
 the Cyclops Polyphemus
 Aeolus, King of the winds
 the Laistrygones
 the sorceress Circe
 the Underworld
 the Sirens
 the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis
 Helios' cattle
 the nymph Calypso
 the Phaeacians
Story  
It is the story of the return of Ulysses after the Trojan War (Iliad)

The Cyclops 

On his journey home, Odysseus lands on the island of the Cyclops Polyphemus.  They go inside his cave at the sight of sheep, cheese and milk.  Polyphemus catches them and eats some of Odysseus' men.  Odysseus tricks and blinds him and they escape.  The Cyclops prays to his father Poseidon that Odysseus would not get home to Ithaca and if he was fated to make it home, Odysseus would lose all of his men, his ship and find trouble at home.  This prayer becomes the plot line of the Odyssey.

The Sirens
The Sirens 

Odysseus and his ship have to pass the Sirens' island. The Sirens were always singing very beautifully, so sailors would try to go to them, but their ships would get destroyed, and they would die.
Odysseus tells his men to put wax in their ears, so they will not hear the song of the sirens. He also tells his men to bind him to the ship's mast, so he cannot go to the sirens when he hears their song. His men can then look at Odysseus and see when he cannot hear the sirens anymore, because he is calm again. Then they can take the wax out of their ears, and free Odysseus.

Calypso
Calypso 

After escaping from the sea, and the death of his men, Odysseus comes to the island Ogygia. On this island lives the nymph Calypso, and Odysseus stayed with her for seven years. But then the god Hermes came and told her that the gods said that she had to let Odysseus go. Calypso promised Odysseus immortality (that he would live forever) if he stayed, but he wanted to go back to his wife Penelope. So Odysseus built a raft and left her.

The Phaeacians 
After a storm, Odysseus comes to the island of the Phaeacians. There he is found by the king's daughter Nausicaä. Nausicaä brings him to the palace of her father, King Alkinoos. During his time there, Odysseus tell the story of his journey. After this, Alkinoos gives Odysseus a ship and sends him home to Ithaca.
Return home 
During all this time, Penelope has been keeping the suitors at bay with a ruse (trick). She promises "I will choose when I have finished weaving this cloth", the cloth being a burial cloth for Odysseus' father. However, every night her servant unpicks the work of the previous day. The story is made more real by Penelope becoming restless. The goddess Athena causes Penelope to feel the need to display herself, and fan the flames of the suitors' desire.

Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he disguises himself as a beggar. He goes to his home and meets his son Telemachus. Together they kill the suitors, who are trying to marry Penelope in order to gain his kingdom. Later, the families of the suitors come to kill Odysseus for revenge. The goddess Athena helps Odysseus by making them stop and give up the fight.
Notes 
 The English word odyssey, meaning long journey, comes from this poem.
 The Roman name for Odysseus is Ulysses.
 James Joyce's 1922 book Ulysses is based on the book by Homer, but it is very different.

References

Other websites 

 Odyssey -Citizendium

Greek mythology
Classical Greek literature
Epic poems
8th-century BC books
Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress. She worked in vaudeville and later in movies. She is best-remembered for her dirty jokes and comedy movies.

Her name when she was born was Mary Jane West. She was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and died in Hollywood, California. Her mother was a German immigrant and former model.

Trivia
She is one of the famous people who appeared on the cover the Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. When asked if she wanted to be on the cover she said, "No, I won't be on it. What would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?", then later The Beatles told her what it was and she changed her mind.

Other websites 
Mae West: The Wild Woman of Film and Stage (VOA Special English)

1893 births
1980 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Deaths from pneumonia
Deaths from diabetes
Actors from New York City
American movie actors
American radio actors
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), was an American comedian. His real name was Leonard Alfred Schneider. He is considered an innovator of modern stand-up comedy and changed the way many people see comedians. His jokes and routines were very improper and off limits for the time and he got in a lot of trouble for them. He is considered a hero for the defense of the First Amendment rights in the United States, especially for free speech. 

In the 1960s he was the last person arrested for impersonating and swearing, overwatched by martial law and police and banned from many cities and comedy clubs. 

He appeared on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

He died in 1966 of an accidental morphine overdose whist on trial. 

In 1970 the New York's highest court of appeals decided that he is "not guilty for using bad words".
1925 births
1966 deaths
American Jews
American stand-up comedians
Comedians from New York (state)
Drug-related accidental deaths in the United States
Up to 1900 
 117 – Roman Emperor Trajan dies, and is succeeded by Hadrian.
 1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor.
 1576 - The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg Observatory is laid in Ven, Sweden.
 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search for the Northwest Passage.
 1588 – The Spanish Armada is beaten by the English at the Battle of Gravelines.
 1605 – The city of Oulu in Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
 1647 - Battle of Dungan's Hill, Ireland - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces during the Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
 1709 - Bartolomeu de Gusmao demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in front of an audience and the King of Portugal in Lisbon.
 1786 – Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time, by an expedition led by Jacques Bilmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
 1789 – Australia's first police force begins in Sydney, called Nightwatch.
1794 - Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to find the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte sails to St. Helena to spend the rest of his life in exile.
 1844 – The Twelve Apostles, led by Brigham Young become the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
 1863 - American Civil War: General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Jefferson Davis, which is rejected.
 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph.
 1885 - Over 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
 1900 – The first Davis Cup tennis match begins in Brookline, Massachusetts.
1901  2000 
 1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse in Le Mans, France.
 1918 - World War I: Battle of Amiens.
 1927 - The predecessor of the Philippine Stock Exchange is founded.
 1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin starts on its round-the-world flight.
 1942 - The Walt Disney movie Bambi has its world premiere in London.
 1942 - The Quit India movement in India begins against British rule in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for total independence.
 1945 - The London Charter is signed by the United Kingdom, France, United States and the Soviet Union, creating the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg Trials.
 1960 - South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
 1963 – The Great Train Robbery occurs in England. Thieves steal 2.6 million pounds.
 1963 - Zimbabwe's main political party, ZANU, is founded.
 1967 – ASEAN is founded by Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia.
1969 - At a zebra crossing in London, Iain Macmillan takes the photograph that becomes the cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road album.
 1973 - Kim Dae Jung, future South Korean President, is kidnapped.
 1974 – Richard Nixon announces his resignation as President of the United States, due to the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford becomes President the next day.
 1975 - 62 dams break in China, killing a total of over 231,000 people, in the worst-ever reservoir disaster.
 1983 - President Efrain Rios Montt is removed from power in Guatemala.
 1988 – The 8888 Uprising against Burma's military regime occurs.
 1989 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes on a secret five-day military mission.
 1990 - Iraq occupies Kuwait, as Iraq declares it to be part of its territory.
 1991 – In Poland, the world-famous Warsaw Radio Mast collapses.
 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin visits Jordan for the first time.
 1997 - Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque in Gibraltar opens. It is Europe's southernmost Mosque, and was a gift from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
From 2001 
 2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorce. 
 2007 - An EFF 2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, as the most powerful tornado to hit the state.
 2008 – The Summer Olympics begin in Beijing, China, at exactly 8:08:08pm local time.
 2008 - A EuroCity express train strikes part of a motorway bridge that had fallen on the railway track near Studenka Railway Station in the Czech Republic, killing 8 people and injuring 64.
 2009 - Nine people are killed when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collide over the Hudson River at Hoboken, New Jersey. 
 2010 - A mudslide in Zhungqu County, Gansu Province, China, kills over 1,400 people.
 2013 - A suicide bombing at a funeral in Quetta, Pakistan, kills at least 31 people.
 2016 - Japanese Emperor Akihito indicates that he might want to abdicate.
 2016 - A bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan, kills over 70 people.
2017 - US President Donald Trump threatens North Korea with "fire and fury" over its nuclear tests in the continuing stand-off between the two countries.
 2022 - June Spencer, English actress, retires at the age of 103, after 79 years in the industry.
Up to 1900 
422 - Casper II, Maya ruler (d. 487)
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1170 - Saint Dominic, friar and founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)
1306 - Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1353)
1518 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist (d. 1561)
1605 - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
1693 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Scottish-Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
1748 - Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German physician and naturalist (d. 1804)
1754 - Hipólito Ruiz López, Spanish botanist (d. 1815)
1790 - Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (d. 1838)
1797 - Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter (d. 1890)
1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
1832 - George, King of Saxony (d. 1904)
1839 - Nelson A. Miles, American general (d. 1925)
1846 - Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (d. 1920)
1849 - Vera Zasulich, Russian writer and revolutionary (d. 1919)
1857 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1861 - William Bateson, British geneticist (d. 1925)
1875 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
1876 - Varghese Payapilly Palakkapilly, Indian Syrian Catholic priest (d. 1929)
1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1879 - Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
1880 - Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1882 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish stop-motion animator (d. 1965)
1882 - Oscar K. Allen, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1936)
1884 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (d. 1953)
1900 - Victor Young, American violinist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)
1901  1950 
1901 – Nina Berberova, Russian writer (d. 1993)
1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist (d. 1958)
1902 – Paul Dirac, British physicist (d. 1984)
1904 – Ciriaco Errasti, Spanish footballer (d. 1984)
1904 – Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver (d. 1948)
1907 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
1908 – Arthur Goldberg, US Supreme Court Justice (d. 1990)
1909 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1977)
1909 – Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (d. 1987)
1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
1913 – Boris Afanasiev, Russian ice hockey player, coach and footballer (d. 1983)
1914 – Unity Mitford, British fascist sympathiser (d. 1948)
1915 – James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981)
1919 – Dino de Laurentiis, Italian movie producer (d. 2010)
1919 – Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (d. 2016)
1919 – Samuel Pearson Goddard, American politician, 12th Governor of Arizona (d. 2006)
1920 – Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
1920 – Carol Lambrino, Romanian royal (d. 2006)
1920 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
1921 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)
1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
1922 – Alberto Granado, Argentine-Cuban biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (d. 2011)
1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
1922 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer (d. 1985)
1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
1923 – Antonio Qarracino, Argentine cardinal (d. 1998)
1923 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues and jazz singer (d. 1997)
1925 – Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian politician (d. 2003)
1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor (d. 2017)
1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
1928 – Simon Diaz, Venezuelan musician, singer and composer (d. 2014)
1929 – Ronald Biggs, British train robber (d. 2013)
1929 – Leoncio Evita Enoy, Equatorial Guinean writer (d. 1996)
1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1930 – Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (d. 1975)
1930 – Joan Mondale, American wife of former US Vice President Walter Mondale (d. 2014)
1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh writer and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1931 – Roger Penrose, British physicist
1932 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian leader (d. 2018)
1932 – Zito, Brazilian footballer (d. 2015)
1933 – Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
1934 – Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director and movie producer (d. 2014)
1935 – Donald P. Bellisario, American screenwriter and producer
1936 - Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer, composer and actor (d. 2015)
1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1937 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish composer and poet (d. 1987)
1938 – Connie Stevens, American actress, singer, director and producer
1939 – Phil Balsley, baritone singer
1940 – Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist
1941 – George Tiller, American physician and abortion rights activist (d. 2009)
1942 – Dennis Canavan, Scottish politician
1943 – Denis Payton, British saxophonist
1943 – Alan Boswell, English footballer (d. 2017)
1944 – John Renbourn, British guitarist and songwriter (d. 2015)
1944 – John Holmes, American pornographic actor (d. 1988)
1946 – Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1947 – Miguel Blesa, Spanish banker (d. 2017)
1947 – Philip Nitschke, Australian humanist and found of Exit International
1948 - Akira Matsunaga, Japanese footballer
1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut
1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor and singer
1950 – Martine Aubry, French politician
1950 – Lucjan Lis, Polish cyclist (d. 2015)
1951  1975 
1951 – Louis van Gaal, Dutch football manager
1951 - Mohamed Morsi, former President of Egypt (d. 2019)
1952 – Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian writer
1953 – Nigel Mansell, British racing driver
1955 – Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
1956 - Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
1956 - David Grant, British singer and vocal coach
1956 - Chris Foreman, British guitarist and songwriter (Madness)
1957 - Dennis Drew, American keyboardist
1958 - Akihiro Nishimura, Japanese footballer
1960 - Ulrich Maly, German politician, 16th Mayor of Nuremberg
1961 – The Edge, Irish musician (U2)
1961 – Rikki Rockett, American drummer
1962 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Hur Jin-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
1963 - Jordan K. Hubbard, American computer scientist
1964 - Giuseppe Conte, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy
1964 – Klaus Ebner, Austrian writer
1964 - Scott Sandelin, American ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Chris Eubank, British boxer
1967 - Eric Angle, American wrestler
1967 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer and guitarist
1969 - Faye Wong, Chinese singer and actress
1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor and Paralympic sportsman
1970 - Chester Williams, South African rugby union player (d. 2019)
1972 - Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach
1972 - Axel Merckx, Belgian cyclist
1972 - Steven Tweed, Scottish footballer
1974 - Brian Harvey, English singer (East 17)
1975 - Makoto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
From 1976 
1976 – JC Chasez, American singer
1976 - Laura Kuenssberg, Scottish journalist, BBC News Political Editor
1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer and actor
1976 - Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball player
1977 – Szilárd Németh, Slovakian footballer
1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
1978 – Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (d. 2010)
1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer
1979 - Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, Icelandic handball player
1980 - Michael Urie, American actor
1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter
1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British singer (S Club)
1982 - Brandon Gay, American basketball player
1982 - David Florence, Scottish canoe racer
1984 – Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
1984 - Owen Jones, English journalist and writer
1985 - Toby Flood, English rugby player
1986 - Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
1986 - Peyton List, American actress
1987 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress
1987 - Pierre Boulanger, French actor
1988 – Princess Beatrice of York, member of the British Royal family
1988 - Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
1988 - Flavia Bujor, Romanian-French novelist
1989 - Hannah Miley, British swimmer
1990 - Oti Mabuse, South African professional dancer
1991 - Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
1991 - Joel Matip, German footballer
1995 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
1998 - Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Up to 1900 
117 – Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
869 – Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
1303 - Henry of Castile the Senator (b. 1230)
1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1533 - Lucas van Leyden, Dutch painter (b. 1494)
1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
1719 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
1746 – Francis Hutcheson, Scottish-Irish philosopher (b. 1694)
1747 - Madeleine de Vercheres, New France heroine (b. 1678)
1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
1824 - Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist (b. 1759)
1827 – George Canning, shortest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1854 - Zenaide Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte (b. 1801)
1876 - Adolph Tidemand, Norwegian painter (b. 1814)
1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1882 - Gouverneur Kimble Warren, American general (b. 1830)
1887 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
1899 - William Yates Atkinson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1854)
1901  2000 
1902 – James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
1909 - Mary MacKillop, Scottish-born Australian Catholic nun and Saint (b. 1842)
1911 – William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1918 - Michel Zevaco, French writer (b. 1860)
1928 - Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
1930 - Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter (b. 1874)
1940 – Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (b. 1892)
1944 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
1950 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (Qantas) (b. 1879)
1959 - Albert Namatjira, Australian artist (b. 1902)
1961 - Mei Lanfang, Chinese writer (b. 1916)
1962 - Kunio Yanagita, Japanese writer and ethnologist (b. 1875)
1965 – Shirley Jackson, American writer (b. 1919)
1972 – Andrea Feldman, actor (b. 1948)
1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish writer and historian (b. 1898)
1973 - Nikos Zachariades, Greek Communist politician (b. 1893)
1974 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi Youth leader (b. 1907)
1975 – Cannonball Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1977 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1889)
1985 – Louise Brooks, silent movie actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 - Alan Napier, English-American actor (b. 1903)
1991 – James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
1991 - Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
1996 - Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (b. 1905)
1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)