August 26

August 26 is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 127 days remain until the end of the year.

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Events

Pre-1600

1601–1900

  • 1642 Dutch–Portuguese War: Second Battle of San Salvador: The Dutch force the Spanish garrison at San Salvador (modern day Keelung, Taiwan) to surrender, ending the short-lived Spanish colony on Formosa and replacing it with a new Dutch administration.[1]
  • 1648 The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens, Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France, suddenly orders the arrest of the leaders of the Parlement of Paris, provoking the rest of Paris to break into insurrection and barricade the streets the next day.[2]
  • 1748 The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
  • 1767 Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.[3]
  • 1768 Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
  • 1778 The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
  • 1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
  • 1791 John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
  • 1810 The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
  • 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
  • 1814 Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
  • 1833 The great 1833 Kathmandu–Bihar earthquake causes major damage in Nepal, northern India and Tibet, a total of 500 people perish.[4]
  • 1849 President Faustin Soulouque of the First Republic of Haiti has the Senate and Chamber of Deputies proclaim him the Emperor of Haiti, abolishing the Republic and inaugurating the Second Empire of Haiti.[5]
  • 1863 The Swedish-language liberal newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad proposed the current blue-and-white cross flag as the flag of Finland.[6]
  • 1883 The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.

1901–present

  • 1914 World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
  • 1914 World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fights a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
  • 1920 The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
  • 1922 Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.
  • 1936 Spanish Civil War: Santander falls to the nationalists and the republican interprovincial council is dissolved.[7]
  • 1940 World War II: Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
  • 1942 The Holocaust in Ukraine: At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.
  • 1944 World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
  • 1966 The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
  • 1970 The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
  • 1972 The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, West Germany.[8]
  • 1977 The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
  • 1978 Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
  • 1980 After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.
  • 1997 Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
  • 1998 The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X communications satellite.
  • 1999 Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
  • 2003 A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, killing both pilots on board.[9]
  • 2009 Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years. Her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido are apprehended.
  • 2011 The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.
  • 2014 The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.[10]
  • 2015 Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
  • 2018 Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.[11]
  • 2021 During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.[12]

Births

Pre-1600

  • 1469 Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
  • 1548 Bernardino Poccetti, Italian painter (d. 1612)
  • 1582 Humilis of Bisignano, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (d. 1637)
  • 1596 Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632)

1601–1900

  • 1676 Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)[13]
  • 1694 Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician (d. 1755)
  • 1695 Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter (d. 1791)[14]
  • 1728 Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777)
  • 1736 Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1790)
  • 1740 Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810)
  • 1743 Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (d. 1794)
  • 1751 Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop (d. 1825)
  • 1775 William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (d. 1851)
  • 1783 Federigo Zuccari, astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (d. 1817)
  • 1792 Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay (d. 1857)
  • 1797 Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (d. 1879)
  • 1819 Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)[15]
  • 1824 Martha Darley Mutrie, British painter (d. 1885)[16]
  • 1854 Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932)
  • 1856 Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress (d. 1939)
  • 1862 Herbert Booth, Canadian songwriter and bandleader (d. 1926)
  • 1865 Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946)
  • 1873 Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961)
  • 1874 Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1938)
  • 1875 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
  • 1880 Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1918)
  • 1882 James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
  • 1882 Sam Hardy, English footballer (d. 1966)
  • 1885 Jules Romains, French author and poet (d. 1972)
  • 1888 Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (d. 1974)[17]
  • 1891 Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright (d. 1960)
  • 1894 Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer (d. 1989)
  • 1896 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian soldier and politician (d. 1990)
  • 1897 Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea (d. 1990)
  • 1898 Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1979)
  • 1900 Margaret Utinsky, American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom (d. 1970)
  • 1900 Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980)

1901–present

  • 1901 Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet (d. 1985)
  • 1901 Hans Kammler, German SS officer and engineer (d. 1945)
  • 1901 Jimmy Rushing, American singer and bandleader (d. 1972)
  • 1901 Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (d. 1987)
  • 1901 Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 1972)
  • 1903 Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (d. 1992)
  • 1904 Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (d. 1986)
  • 1904 Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991)
  • 1906 Bunny Austin, English tennis player (d. 2000)[18]
  • 1906 Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993)
  • 1908 Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)
  • 1908 Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)
  • 1909 Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator (d. 1976)
  • 1909 Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
  • 1909 Gene Moore, American baseball player (d. 1978)
  • 1910 Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
  • 1911 Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter (d. 1974)
  • 1914 Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (d. 1984)
  • 1914 Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (d. 2008)
  • 1915 Humphrey Searle, English composer and conductor (d. 1982)
  • 1918 Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)[19]
  • 1919 Gerard Campbell, American priest and academic (d. 2012)
  • 1920 Brant Parker, American illustrator (d. 2007)
  • 1920 Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2019)
  • 1921 Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)
  • 1921 Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
  • 1922 Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
  • 1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (d. 2013)
  • 1924 Alex Kellner, American baseball player (d. 1996)
  • 1925 Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (d. 2005)
  • 1925 Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, Minister of Justice for France (d. 1999)
  • 1925 Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2013)
  • 1925 Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018)
  • 1925 Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (d. 2010)
  • 1926 Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist and educator (d. 1999)
  • 1926 Robert Vickrey, American painter and author (d. 2011)
  • 1928 Om Prakash Munjal, Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (d. 2015)
  • 1929 Reuben Kamanga, Zambian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (d. 1996)
  • 1930 Joe Solomon, Guyanese cricketer and coach
  • 1931 Kálmán Markovits, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2009)
  • 1932 Luis Salvadores Salvi, Chilean basketball player (d. 2014)
  • 1934 Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2020)
  • 1934 Kevin Ryan, Australian rugby player, coach, lawyer and politician
  • 1935 Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
  • 1935 Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (d. 2007)
  • 1936 Benedict Anderson, American political scientist and academic (d. 2015)
  • 1937 Don Bowman, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
  • 1938 Jet Black, English drummer
  • 1939 Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli businessman and politician (d. 2007)
  • 1939 Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazilian banker and financier
  • 1940 Michael Cockerell, English journalist
  • 1940 Vic Dana, American dancer and singer
  • 1940 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
  • 1940 Nik Turner, English musician and songwriter
  • 1941 Chris Curtis, English drummer and singer (d. 2005)
  • 1941 Jane Merrow, English actress, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1941 Barbet Schroeder, French-Swiss director and producer
  • 1942 Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston, English lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
  • 1942 Chow Kwai Lam, Malaysian football coach and player (d. 2018)
  • 1943 Dori Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1944 Alan Parker, English guitarist and songwriter
  • 1944 Judith Rees, English geographer and academic
  • 1944 Maureen Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer
  • 1945 Tom Ridge, American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security
  • 1946 Zhou Ji, Chinese engineer and politician, 14th Chinese Minister of Education
  • 1946 Valerie Simpson, American singer-songwriter
  • 1946 Alison Steadman, English actress
  • 1947 Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
  • 1949 Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Azerbaijani cleric
  • 1949 Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2019)
  • 1951 Gerd Bonk, German weightlifter (d. 2014)
  • 1951 Bill Whitaker, American journalist
  • 1951 Edward Witten, American physicist and academic
  • 1952 Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1952 Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
  • 1952 Will Shortz, American journalist and puzzle creator
  • 1953 David Hurley, Australian general and politician, 27th Governor General of Australia
  • 1953 Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
  • 1954 Howard Clark, English golfer and sportscaster
  • 1954 Tracy Krohn, American race car driver and businessman
  • 1954 Hugh Pelham, British academic and educator
  • 1955 Ian Dejardin, English historian and curator
  • 1955 Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist and educator
  • 1956 Sally Beamish, English viola player and composer
  • 1956 Brett Cullen, American actor
  • 1956 Mark Mangino, American football player and coach
  • 1957 Nikky Finney, American poet and academic
  • 1958 Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
  • 1959 Oliver Colvile, English lawyer and politician
  • 1959 Stan Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
  • 1960 Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
  • 1960 Ola Ray, American model and actress
  • 1961 Daniel Lévi, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and pianist
  • 1961 Jeff Parrett, American baseball player
  • 1962 Roger Kingdom, American hurdler
  • 1963 David Byas, English cricketer and umpire
  • 1963 Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist and author
  • 1963 Patrice Oppliger, American author, critic, and academic
  • 1964 Allegra Huston, English-American author and screenwriter
  • 1964 Bobby Jurasin, American-Canadian football player and coach
  • 1964 Chad Kreuter, American baseball player and manager
  • 1964 Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer and manager
  • 1964 Torsten Schmitz, German boxer
  • 1964 Carsten Wolf, German cyclist
  • 1964 Mehriban Aliyeva, 1st Vice President of Azerbaijan, goodwill ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO.
  • 1965 Marcus du Sautoy, English mathematician and academic
  • 1965 Chris Burke, American actor
  • 1966 Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player and coach
  • 1966 Shirley Manson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1967 Michael Gove, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Education
  • 1968 Chris Boardman, English cyclist
  • 1969 Adrian Young, American drummer and songwriter
  • 1970 Jason Little, Australian rugby player
  • 1970 Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1970 Brett Schultz, South African cricketer
  • 1971 Thalía, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1973 Richard Evatt, English boxer (d. 2012)
  • 1974 Kelvin Cato, American basketball player and coach
  • 1974 Meredith Eaton, American actress
  • 1975 Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player and coach
  • 1976 Mike Colter, American actor
  • 1976 Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter
  • 1977 Therese Alshammar, Swedish swimmer
  • 1977 Liam Botham, English rugby player and cricketer
  • 1977 Saeko Chiba, Japanese voice actress and singer
  • 1977 Simone Motta, Italian footballer
  • 1979 Jamal Lewis, American football player
  • 1979 Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
  • 1979 Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer
  • 1980 Macaulay Culkin, American actor
  • 1980 Brendan Harris, American baseball player
  • 1980 Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player
  • 1980 Chris Pine, American actor
  • 1981 Tino Best, Barbadian cricketer
  • 1981 Sebastian Bönig, German footballer
  • 1981 Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
  • 1981 Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer
  • 1981 Petey Williams, Canadian wrestler
  • 1982 Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer
  • 1982 John Mulaney, American comedian, actor, writer, and producer
  • 1982 Jayson Nix, American baseball player
  • 1982 Noah Welch, American ice hockey player
  • 1983 Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer
  • 1983 Félix Porteiro, Spanish race car driver
  • 1983 Nicol David, Malaysian squash player[20]
  • 1985 Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete
  • 1985 Brandon McDonald, American football player
  • 1985 David Price, American baseball player
  • 1986 Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
  • 1986 Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer
  • 1986 Cassie Ventura, American singer, dancer, actress and model
  • 1987 Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
  • 1988 Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1988 Evan Ross, American actor
  • 1988 Danielle Savre, American actress
  • 1988 Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1988 Lars Stindl, German football player
  • 1989 James Harden, American basketball player
  • 1990 Irina-Camelia Begu, Romanian tennis player[21]
  • 1990 Mateo Musacchio, Argentinian footballer
  • 1991 Jessie Diggins, American cross-country skier[22]
  • 1999 Kotoshoho Yoshinari, Japanese sumo wrestler[23]

Deaths

Pre-1600

  • 787 Arechis II, duke of Benevento
  • 887 Kōkō, emperor of Japan (b. 830)
  • 1214 Michael IV of Constantinople
  • 1278 Ottokar II of Bohemia (b. 1233)
  • 1346 Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)
  • 1346 Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)
  • 1346 Louis II, Count of Blois
  • 1346 Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
  • 1346 John of Bohemia (b. 1296)
  • 1349 Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)
  • 1399 Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1333)
  • 1462 Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
  • 1486 Ernest, Elector of Saxony (b. 1441)
  • 1500 Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1449)
  • 1551 Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
  • 1572 Petrus Ramus, French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)
  • 1595 António, Prior of Crato (b. 1531)

1601–1900

  • 1666 Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)
  • 1714 Constantin Brâncoveanu, Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)
  • 1714 Edward Fowler, English bishop and author (b. 1632)
  • 1723 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
  • 1785 George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)
  • 1810 Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
  • 1813 Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
  • 1850 Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
  • 1865 Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
  • 1878 Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)

1901–present

  • 1910 William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
  • 1921 Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (b. 1875)
  • 1921 Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
  • 1930 Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
  • 1943 Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)
  • 1944 Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
  • 1945 Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)
  • 1946 Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
  • 1956 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
  • 1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)
  • 1966 W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)
  • 1968 Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)
  • 1972 Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)
  • 1974 Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
  • 1975 Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)
  • 1976 Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
  • 1977 H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
  • 1978 Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
  • 1978 José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
  • 1979 Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
  • 1980 Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
  • 1980 Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
  • 1981 Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
  • 1981 Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
  • 1986 Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
  • 1987 John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
  • 1987 Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  • 1988 Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
  • 1989 Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
  • 1990 Tang Chang, Thai artist (b. 1934)
  • 1991 Mildred Albert, American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (b. 1905)[24]
  • 1992 Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)
  • 1993 Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)
  • 1995 John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934)
  • 1998 Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)[25]
  • 2000 Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)
  • 2000 Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)[18]
  • 2001 Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
  • 2001 Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)
  • 2003 Jim Wacker, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
  • 2004 Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1952)
  • 2005 Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1960)
  • 2005 Robert Denning, American art collector and interior designer (b. 1927)
  • 2005 Moondog King, Canadian wrestler and politician (b. 1949)
  • 2006 Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1924)
  • 2006 Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1926)
  • 2006 William Garnett, American landscape photographer (b. 1916)[26]
  • 2007 Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
  • 2009 Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (b. 1925)
  • 2010 Raimon Panikkar, Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918)
  • 2011 George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929)
  • 2011 Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
  • 2011 John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949)
  • 2012 Russ Alben, American composer and businessman (b. 1929)
  • 2012 Reginald Bartholomew, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1936)
  • 2012 Jacques Bensimon, Canadian director and producer (b. 1943)
  • 2012 Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940)
  • 2013 Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (b. 1922)
  • 2013 John J. Gilligan, American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)
  • 2013 Bill Schmitz, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
  • 2013 Jack Sinagra, American lawyer and politician (b. 1950)
  • 2013 Clyde A. Wheeler, American soldier and politician (b. 1921)
  • 2014 Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (b. 1954)
  • 2014 Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1950)
  • 2014 Caroline Kellett, English journalist (b. 1960)
  • 2014 Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • 2015 Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (b. 1911)
  • 2015 Donald Eric Capps, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1939)
  • 2015 P. J. Kavanagh, English poet and author (b. 1931)
  • 2015 Stefanos Manikas, Greek politician (b. 1952)
  • 2015 Francisco San Diego, Filipino bishop (b. 1935)
  • 2017 Tobe Hooper, American film director (b. 1943)
  • 2018 Neil Simon, American playwright and author (b. 1927)[27]
  • 2020 Joe Ruby, American animator (b. 1933)[28]

Holidays and observances

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