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  1. 2019

    1. President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.

      1. President of Peru from 2018 to 2020

        Martín Vizcarra

        Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously served as Governor of the Department of Moquegua (2011–2014), First Vice President of Peru (2016–2018), Minister of Transport and Communications of Peru (2016–2017), and Ambassador of Peru to Canada (2017–2018), with the latter three during the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

      2. Legislative branch of the Peruvian government

        Congress of the Republic of Peru

        The Congress of the Republic of Peru is the unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru.

      3. Political conflict in Peru

        2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis

        The 2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis began when President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru on 30 September 2019 considering a de facto denial of the vote of confidence. Congress responded by declaring Vizcarra's presidency suspended and appointed Vice President Mercedes Aráoz as interim president, moves that were largely seen as null and void.

  2. 2016

    1. Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

      1. Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2016

        Hurricane Matthew

        Hurricane Matthew was an extremely powerful Atlantic hurricane which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Stan in 2005, and the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007, Matthew was the thirteenth named storm, fifth hurricane and second major hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season. It caused extensive damage to landmasses in the Greater Antilles, and severe damage in several islands of the Bahamas which were still recovering from Joaquin, which had pounded the archipelago nearly a year earlier. Matthew also approached the southeastern United States, but stayed just offshore, paralleling the Florida coastline.

    2. Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.

      1. National art museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

        Van Gogh Museum

        The Van Gogh Museum is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 2 June 1973, and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa.

  3. 2009

    1. A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.

      1. Measure of earthquake size, in terms of the energy released

        Moment magnitude scale

        The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. It was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Similar to the local magnitude scale (ML ) defined by Charles Francis Richter in 1935, it uses a logarithmic scale; small earthquakes have approximately the same magnitudes on both scales.

      2. Earthquake in Indonesia

        2009 Sumatra earthquakes

        The first of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occurred on 30 September off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with a moment magnitude of 7.6 at 17:16:10 local time. The epicenter was 45 kilometres (28 mi) west-northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, and 220 kilometres (140 mi) southwest of Pekanbaru, Riau. Government and authorities confirmed 1,115 dead, 1,214 severely injured and 1,688 slightly injured. The most deaths occurred in the areas of Padang Pariaman (675), Padang (313), Agam (80) and Pariaman (37). In addition, around 135,000 houses were severely damaged, 65,000 houses were moderately damaged and 79,000 houses were slightly damaged. An estimated 250,000 families have been affected by the earthquake through the total or partial loss of their homes and livelihoods.

      3. Island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands

        Sumatra

        Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, Enggano, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago.

    2. The 7.6 Mw  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.

      1. Earthquake in Indonesia

        2009 Sumatra earthquakes

        The first of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occurred on 30 September off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with a moment magnitude of 7.6 at 17:16:10 local time. The epicenter was 45 kilometres (28 mi) west-northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, and 220 kilometres (140 mi) southwest of Pekanbaru, Riau. Government and authorities confirmed 1,115 dead, 1,214 severely injured and 1,688 slightly injured. The most deaths occurred in the areas of Padang Pariaman (675), Padang (313), Agam (80) and Pariaman (37). In addition, around 135,000 houses were severely damaged, 65,000 houses were moderately damaged and 79,000 houses were slightly damaged. An estimated 250,000 families have been affected by the earthquake through the total or partial loss of their homes and livelihoods.

  4. 2005

    1. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Muslim world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.

      1. Danish newspaper

        Jyllands-Posten

        Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, commonly shortened to Jyllands-Posten or JP, is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Aarhus C, Jutland, and with a weekday circulation of approximately 120,000 copies,

      2. 2005 controversy on the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad in a Danish newspaper

        Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

        The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005, most of which depicted Muhammad, a principal figure of the religion of Islam. The newspaper announced that this was an attempt to contribute to the debate about criticism of Islam and self-censorship. Muslim groups in Denmark complained, and the issue eventually led to protests around the world, including violence and riots in some Muslim countries.

      3. Founder and main prophet of Islam (c. 570–632)

        Muhammad

        Muhammad was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He is believed to be the Seal of the Prophets within Islam. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices forming the basis of Islamic religious belief.

      4. Muslim-majority countries, states, districts, or towns

        Muslim world

        The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is practiced. In a modern geopolitical sense, these terms refer to countries in which Islam is widespread, although there are no agreed criteria for inclusion. The term Muslim-majority countries is an alternative often used for the latter sense.

      5. Fear, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general

        Islamophobia

        Islamophobia is the fear of, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general, especially when seen as a geopolitical force or a source of terrorism.

      6. Act of insulting of religion

        Blasphemy

        Blasphemy, as defined in some religions or religion-based laws, is an insult that shows contempt, disrespect or lack of reverence concerning a deity, an object considered sacred or something considered inviolable.

    2. Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.

      1. 2005 controversy on the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad in a Danish newspaper

        Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

        The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005, most of which depicted Muhammad, a principal figure of the religion of Islam. The newspaper announced that this was an attempt to contribute to the debate about criticism of Islam and self-censorship. Muslim groups in Denmark complained, and the issue eventually led to protests around the world, including violence and riots in some Muslim countries.

  5. 2000

    1. Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.

      1. Ongoing military and political conflict

        Israeli–Palestinian conflict

        The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, beginning in the mid-20th century. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, alongside other efforts to resolve the broader Arab–Israeli conflict. Public declarations of claims to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, including the First Zionist Congress of 1897 and the Balfour Declaration of 1917, created early tensions in the region. Following World War I, the Mandate for Palestine included a binding obligation for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". Tensions grew into open sectarian conflict between Jews and Arabs. The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was never implemented and provoked the 1947–1949 Palestine War. The current Israeli-Palestinian status quo began following Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories in the 1967 Six-Day War.

      2. 2000 shooting of a Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip

        Killing of Muhammad al-Durrah

        On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was killed in the Gaza Strip during widespread protests and riots across the Palestinian territories against Israeli military occupation. Jamal al-Durrah and his son Muhammad were filmed by Talal Abu Rahma, a Palestinian television cameraman freelancing for France 2, as they were caught in crossfire between the Israeli military and Palestinian security forces. Footage shows them crouching behind a concrete cylinder, the boy crying and the father waving, then a burst of gunfire and dust. Muhammad is shown slumping as he is mortally wounded by gunfire, dying soon after.

      3. 2000–2005 Palestinian uprising against Israel

        Second Intifada

        The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major Palestinian uprising against Israel. The general triggers for the unrest are speculated to have been centred around the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit, which was expected to reach a final agreement on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process in July 2000. Outbreaks of violence began in September 2000, after Ariel Sharon, then the Israeli opposition leader, made a provocative visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; the visit itself was peaceful, but, as anticipated, sparked protests and riots that were put down by Israeli police with rubber bullets and tear gas.

  6. 1999

    1. The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

      1. Two nuclear accidents at Tōkai nuclear power plant in Japan (1997, 1999)

        Tokaimura nuclear accidents

        There have been two noteworthy nuclear accidents at the Tōkai village nuclear campus, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The first accident occurred on 11 March 1997, producing an explosion after an experimental batch of solidified nuclear waste caught fire at the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) radioactive waste bituminisation facility. Over twenty people were exposed to radiation. The second was a criticality accident at a separate fuel reprocessing facility belonging to Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co. (JCO) on 30 September 1999 due to improper handling of liquid uranium fuel. The incident spanned approximately 20 hours and resulted in radiation exposure for 667 people and the death of two workers.

  7. 1998

    1. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.

      1. American nonprofit organization that coordinates several Internet address databases

        ICANN

        The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation. ICANN performs the actual technical maintenance work of the Central Internet Address pools and DNS root zone registries pursuant to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function contract. The contract regarding the IANA stewardship functions between ICANN and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the United States Department of Commerce ended on October 1, 2016, formally transitioning the functions to the global multistakeholder community.

      2. Organization operated for a collective benefit

        Nonprofit organization

        A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in contrast with an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners. A nonprofit is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization's purpose, not taken by private parties. An array of organizations are nonprofit, including some political organizations, schools, business associations, churches, social clubs, and consumer cooperatives. Nonprofit entities may seek approval from governments to be tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions, but an entity may incorporate as a nonprofit entity without securing tax-exempt status.

      3. Identification string in the Internet

        Domain name

        A domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services and more. As of 2017, 330.6 million domain names had been registered. Domain names are used in various networking contexts and for application-specific naming and addressing purposes. In general, a domain name identifies a network domain or an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, or a server computer.

      4. Numerical label used to identify a network interface in an IP network

        IP address

        An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 that is connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two main functions: network interface identification and location addressing.

      5. Global system of connected computer networks

        Internet

        The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.

  8. 1993

    1. The 6.2 Mw  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

      1. Earthquake centered in Maharashtra State, India

        1993 Latur earthquake

        The 1993 Latur earthquake struck India at 3:56 am local time (UTC+05:30) on 30 September. The main area affected is the districts of Latur and Osmanabad, including the Ausa block of Latur and Omerga of Osmanabad in Maharashtra, Western India. Fifty-two villages were demolished in the intraplate earthquake. It measured 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale, and approximately 10,000 people died, whilst another 30,000 were injured. The earthquake's hypocenter was around 10 km deep – relatively shallow – allowing shock waves to cause more damage. It is considered the deadliest earthquake in the stable continental crust to have occurred in recorded history.

      2. Seismic intensity scale used to quantify the degree of shaking during earthquakes

        Modified Mercalli intensity scale

        The Modified Mercalli intensity scale, developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location, distinguished from the earthquake's inherent force or strength as measured by seismic magnitude scales. While shaking is caused by the seismic energy released by an earthquake, earthquakes differ in how much of their energy is radiated as seismic waves. Deeper earthquakes also have less interaction with the surface, and their energy is spread out across a larger volume. Shaking intensity is localized, generally diminishing with distance from the earthquake's epicenter, but can be amplified in sedimentary basins and certain kinds of unconsolidated soils.

  9. 1982

    1. Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.

      1. American television sitcom (1982–1993)

        Cheers

        Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar and namesake Cheers in Boston, where a group of locals in the city meet to drink, relax and socialize.

      2. 1st episode of the 1st season of Cheers

        Give Me a Ring Sometime

        "Give Me a Ring Sometime" is the first episode of the American situation comedy Cheers. Written by Glen and Les Charles and directed by James Burrows, the episode first aired September 30, 1982, on NBC. The pilot episode introduces the characters at the Cheers bar in Boston: employees Sam Malone, Diane Chambers, Coach Ernie Pantusso, and Carla Tortelli; and regular customers Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin. In this episode, Diane, brought in by her fiancé, meets the employees and patrons of the bar. When she realizes that her fiancé has left her alone in the bar, Diane accepts Sam's offer to be the bar's waitress to start over.

      3. American television and radio network

        NBC

        The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are located at Comcast Building in New York City. The company also has offices in Los Angeles at 10 Universal City Plaza and Chicago at the NBC Tower. NBC is the oldest of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks, having been formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network," in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting.

  10. 1980

    1. Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

      1. Computer networking technology

        Ethernet

        Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3. Ethernet has since been refined to support higher bit rates, a greater number of nodes, and longer link distances, but retains much backward compatibility. Over time, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies such as Token Ring, FDDI and ARCNET.

  11. 1978

    1. Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.

      1. Aircraft hijacking on 30 September 1978

        Finnair Flight 405

        Finnair Flight 405 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Oulu and Helsinki, Finland, that was hijacked on September 30, 1978. The Finnair Sud Aviation Caravelle with 44 passengers and 5 crew aboard was hijacked by an unemployed home building contractor. After forcing the pilot to fly to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Helsinki, the hijacker received his ransom demands and released his hostages. He was arrested at his home the following day.

      2. City in North Ostrobothnia, Finland

        Oulu

        Oulu is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after: Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere and Vantaa, and the fourth largest urban area in the country after Helsinki, Tampere and Turku. Oulu's neighbouring municipalities are: Hailuoto, Ii, Kempele, Liminka, Lumijoki, Muhos, Pudasjärvi, Tyrnävä and Utajärvi.

      3. Country in Northern Europe

        Finland

        Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of 338,455 square kilometres (130,678 sq mi) with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes.

  12. 1975

    1. The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.

      1. U.S. attack helicopter (1975–present)

        Boeing AH-64 Apache

        The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 chain gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage, and four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons for carrying armament and stores, typically a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has significant systems redundancy to improve combat survivability.

      2. Ground-attack military helicopter

        Attack helicopter

        An attack helicopter is an armed helicopter with the primary role of an attack aircraft, with the offensive capability of engaging ground targets such as enemy infantry, military vehicles and fortifications. Due to their heavy armament they are sometimes called helicopter gunships.

    2. Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.

      1. 1975 aviation incident

        Malév Flight 240

        Malév Flight 240 was a regular service from Budapest Ferihegy International Airport, Hungary, to Beirut International Airport, Lebanon. On 30 September 1975, the aircraft operating the route, a Tupolev Tu-154 of Malév Hungarian Airlines, on its final approach for landing, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea just off the coast of Lebanon. All fifty passengers and ten crew on board are thought to have been killed. No official statement was ever made on the crash and its cause has never been publicly disclosed.

      2. Sea between Europe, Africa and Asia

        Mediterranean Sea

        The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The Sea has played a central role in the history of Western civilization. Although the Mediterranean is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean, it is usually referred to as a separate body of water. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago.

      3. Airport in Lebanon

        Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport

        Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (Arabic: مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت, is the only operational commercial airport in Lebanon, which is located in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, 9 kilometres from the city center. It is the hub for Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines and was the hub for the Lebanese cargo carrier TMA cargo and Wings of Lebanon before their respective collapses.

      4. Capital and largest city of Lebanon

        Beirut

        Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast. Beirut has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years, and was one of Phoenicia's most prominent city states, making it one of the oldest cities in the world. The first historical mention of Beirut is found in the Amarna letters from the New Kingdom of Egypt, which date to the 14th century BC.

      5. Country in Western Asia

        Lebanon

        Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus lies to its west across the Mediterranean Sea; its location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has contributed to its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious diversity. It is part of the Levant region of the Middle East. Lebanon is home to roughly six million people and covers an area of 10,452 square kilometres (4,036 sq mi), making it the second smallest country in continental Asia. The official language of the state is Arabic, while French is also formally recognized; the Lebanese dialect of Arabic is used alongside Modern Standard Arabic throughout the country.

  13. 1970

    1. Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

      1. 1970 hijacking of passenger flights by Palestinian militants in Zarqa, Jordan

        Dawson's Field hijackings

        In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarqa, Jordan, formerly Royal Air Force Station Zarqa, which then became PFLP's "Revolutionary Airport". By the end of the incident, one hijacker had been killed and one injury reported. This was the second instance of mass aircraft hijacking, after an escape from communist Czechoslovakia in 1950.

  14. 1968

    1. The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.

      1. American wide-body long-range commercial jet aircraft

        Boeing 747

        The Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2022. After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2+1⁄2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30% to democratize air travel. In 1965, Joe Sutter left the 737 development program to design the 747, the first twin-aisle airliner. In April 1966, Pan Am ordered 25 Boeing 747-100 aircraft and in late 1966, Pratt & Whitney agreed to develop its JT9D engine, a high-bypass turbofan. On September 30, 1968, the first 747 was rolled out of the custom-built Everett Plant, the world's largest building by volume. The first flight took place on February 9, 1969, and the 747 was certified in December of that year. It entered service with Pan Am on January 22, 1970. The 747 was the first airplane dubbed "Jumbo Jet", the first wide-body airliner.

  15. 1966

    1. Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.

      1. Country in Southern Africa

        Botswana

        Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. It is connected to Zambia across the short Zambezi River border by the Kazungula Bridge.

  16. 1965

    1. Members of the 30 September Movement attempted a coup against the Indonesian government that was crushed by the military under Suharto, leading to a mass anti-communist purge with more than 500,000 people killed over the following months.

      1. 1965 Indonesian military faction that attempted a coup

        30 September Movement

        The Thirtieth of September Movement was a self-proclaimed organization of Indonesian National Armed Forces members who, in the early hours of 1 October 1965, assassinated six Indonesian Army generals in an abortive coup d'état, resulting in the unofficial but more accurate name of Gestok, for Gerakan Satu Oktober, or First of October Movement. Later that morning, the organisation declared that it was in control of media and communication outlets and had taken President Sukarno under its protection. By the end of the day, the coup attempt had failed in Jakarta. Meanwhile, in central Java there was an attempt to take control over an army division and several cities. By the time this rebellion was put down, two more senior officers were dead.

      2. 2nd president and military dictator of Indonesia (1921–2008)

        Suharto

        Suharto was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto led Indonesia through a dictatorship for 31 years, from the fall of Sukarno in 1967 until his own resignation in 1998. The legacy of his 31-year rule, and his US$38 billion net worth, is still debated at home and abroad.

      3. Anti-communist killings and unrest in Indonesia following a coup d'état attempt

        Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66

        The Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, also known as the Indonesian genocide, Indonesian Communist Purge, or Indonesian politicide, were large-scale killings and civil unrest primarily targeting members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). Other affected groups included communist sympathisers, Gerwani women, ethnic Javanese Abangan, ethnic Chinese, atheists, alleged "unbelievers" and alleged leftists. It is estimated that between 500,000 to 1,000,000 people were killed during the main period of violence from October 1965 to March 1966. The atrocities were instigated by the Indonesian Army under Suharto. Research and declassified documents demonstrate the Indonesian authorities received support from foreign countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.

    2. Six Indonesian Army generals were assassinated by the September 30 Movement. The PKI was blamed for the latter, resulting in mass killings of suspected leftists.

      1. Combined military forces of Indonesia

        Indonesian National Armed Forces

        The Indonesian National Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Indonesia. It consists of the Army (TNI-AD), Navy (TNI-AL), and Air Force (TNI-AU). The President of Indonesia is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. In 2021, it comprises approximately 395,500 military personnel including the Indonesian Marine Corps, which is a branch of the Navy.

      2. 1965 Indonesian military faction that attempted a coup

        30 September Movement

        The Thirtieth of September Movement was a self-proclaimed organization of Indonesian National Armed Forces members who, in the early hours of 1 October 1965, assassinated six Indonesian Army generals in an abortive coup d'état, resulting in the unofficial but more accurate name of Gestok, for Gerakan Satu Oktober, or First of October Movement. Later that morning, the organisation declared that it was in control of media and communication outlets and had taken President Sukarno under its protection. By the end of the day, the coup attempt had failed in Jakarta. Meanwhile, in central Java there was an attempt to take control over an army division and several cities. By the time this rebellion was put down, two more senior officers were dead.

      3. Former political party in Indonesia

        Communist Party of Indonesia

        The Communist Party of Indonesia was a communist party in Indonesia during the mid-20th century. It was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world before its violent disbandment in 1965. The party had two million members in the 1955 elections, with 16 percent of the national vote and almost 30 percent of the vote in East Java. During most of the period immediately following independence until the eradication of the PKI in 1965, it was a legal party operating openly in the country.

      4. Anti-communist killings and unrest in Indonesia following a coup d'état attempt

        Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66

        The Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, also known as the Indonesian genocide, Indonesian Communist Purge, or Indonesian politicide, were large-scale killings and civil unrest primarily targeting members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). Other affected groups included communist sympathisers, Gerwani women, ethnic Javanese Abangan, ethnic Chinese, atheists, alleged "unbelievers" and alleged leftists. It is estimated that between 500,000 to 1,000,000 people were killed during the main period of violence from October 1965 to March 1966. The atrocities were instigated by the Indonesian Army under Suharto. Research and declassified documents demonstrate the Indonesian authorities received support from foreign countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.

  17. 1955

    1. American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.

      1. American actor (1931–1955)

        James Dean

        James Byron Dean was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956).

      2. Car crash that killed American actor James Dean

        Death of James Dean

        Hollywood actor James Dean was killed at age 24 in an auto accident on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California. He had previously competed in several auto racing events, and was traveling to a sports car racing competition when he was involved in a car crash at the junction of California State Route 46 and California State Route 41.

      3. Unincorporated community in California, United States

        Cholame, California

        Cholame is an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. It sits within a mile of the San Andreas Fault at an elevation of 1,157 feet (353 m) above sea level and is located at 35°43′26″N 120°17′44″W. Cholame is reached via State Route 41, just southwest of the junction of Route 46. Rainfall data from a nearby ranch shows that the area around Cholame only receives about eight to nine inches (200–230 mm) of rain in a normal year.

  18. 1954

    1. The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

      1. First nuclear-powered submarine of the US Navy, in service from 1954 to 1980

        USS Nautilus (SSN-571)

        USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Her initial commanding officer was Eugene "Dennis" Wilkinson, a widely respected naval officer who set the stage for many of the protocols of today's Nuclear Navy of the US, and who had a storied career during military service and afterwards.

  19. 1949

    1. The Berlin Airlift ends.

      1. USSR blockade of Berlin, 1948–1949

        Berlin Blockade

        The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin.

  20. 1947

    1. The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.

      1. Championship series of Major League Baseball in 1947

        1947 World Series

        The 1947 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Yankees won the Series in seven games for their 11th World Series championship in team history. Yankees manager Bucky Harris won the Series for the first time since managing the Washington Senators to their only title in 1924, a gap of 23 years, the longest between World Series appearances in history.

    2. Pakistan joins the United Nations.

      1. Country in South Asia

        Pakistan

        Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. It has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre.

  21. 1945

    1. The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

      1. 1945 train derailment in Bourne End, Hertfordshire, England

        Bourne End rail crash

        The Bourne End rail crash occurred on 30 September 1945 when a sleeper train from Perth to London Euston derailed, killing 43. The cause was driver error, possibly compounded by ambiguous signalling regulations.

  22. 1944

    1. The Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.

      1. Battle in the Netherlands during WW2

        Battle of the Nijmegen salient

        The Battle of the Nijmegen salient or the Defence of the Nijmegen bridgehead was a series of engagements that took place in the Netherlands during World War II between 30 September and 8 October 1944. The battle occurred in the aftermath of Operation Market Garden, a failed attempt by the Allies to cut off German forces in the Netherlands and end the war quickly.

      2. World War II military operation

        Operation Market Garden

        Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the Netherlands from 17 to 27 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by two sub-operations: Seizing nine bridges with combined U.S. and British airborne forces (Market) followed by land forces swiftly following over the bridges (Garden).

  23. 1943

    1. The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.

      1. U.S. service academy

        United States Merchant Marine Academy

        The United States Merchant Marine Academy is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the United States Armed Forces and the transportation industry. Midshipmen are trained in different fields such as marine engineering, navigation, ship's administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.

  24. 1941

    1. World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.

      1. Ravine in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv

        Babi Yar

        Babi Yar or Babyn Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing some 33,771 Jews. The decision to murder all the Jews in Kyiv was made by the military governor Generalmajor Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. Sonderkommando 4a as the sub-unit of Einsatzgruppe C, along with the aid of the SD and Order Police battalions with the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police backed by the Wehrmacht, carried out the orders. Sonderkommando 4a and the 45th Battalion of the German Order Police conducted the shootings. Servicemen of the 303rd Battalion of the German Order Police at this time guarded the outer perimeter of the execution site.

  25. 1939

    1. NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.

      1. American television and radio network

        NBC

        The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are located at Comcast Building in New York City. The company also has offices in Los Angeles at 10 Universal City Plaza and Chicago at the NBC Tower. NBC is the oldest of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks, having been formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network," in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting.

      2. 1939 American football game in New York City; first football game to be televised

        1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football game

        The 1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football game was a college football game between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets played on September 30, 1939. The game was played at Triborough Stadium on New York City's Randall's Island. Fordham won the game 34–7. Broadcast by NBC, the contest was the first American football game ever televised.

      3. American college football season

        1939 Fordham Rams football team

        The 1939 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University during the 1939 college football season. The season opener against Waynesburg was the first college football game ever broadcast on television.

      4. Private university in Pennsylvania

        Waynesburg University

        Waynesburg University is a private university in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1850 and offers undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. The university enrolls over 2,500 students, including approximately 1,800 undergraduates.

    2. Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

      1. Global war, 1939–1945

        World War II

        World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries.

      2. Polish military and political leader

        Władysław Sikorski

        Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader.

      3. Head of Government of Poland

        Prime Minister of Poland

        The President of the Council of Ministers, colloquially referred to as the prime minister, is the head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland. The responsibilities and traditions of the office stem from the creation of the contemporary Polish state, and the office is defined in the Constitution of 1997. According to the Constitution, the president nominates and appoints the prime minister, who will then propose the composition of the Cabinet. Fourteen days following their appointment, the prime minister must submit a programme outlining the government's agenda to the Sejm, requiring a vote of confidence. Conflicts stemming from both interest and powers have arisen between the offices of President and Prime Minister in the past.

      4. Government of Poland in exile (1939–1990)

        Polish government-in-exile

        The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile, was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union, which brought to an end the Second Polish Republic.

    3. World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

      1. Global war, 1939–1945

        World War II

        World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries.

      2. Polish military and political leader

        Władysław Sikorski

        Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader.

    4. NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

      1. 1939 American football game in New York City; first football game to be televised

        1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football game

        The 1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football game was a college football game between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets played on September 30, 1939. The game was played at Triborough Stadium on New York City's Randall's Island. Fordham won the game 34–7. Broadcast by NBC, the contest was the first American football game ever televised.

  26. 1938

    1. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.

      1. Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

        Adolf Hitler

        Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

      2. Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943

        Benito Mussolini

        Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 1943, and "Duce" of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 until his execution in 1945 by Italian partisans. As dictator of Italy and principal founder of fascism, Mussolini inspired and supported the international spread of fascist movements during the inter-war period.

      3. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940

        Neville Chamberlain

        Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.

      4. French radical socialist politician

        Édouard Daladier

        Édouard Daladier was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, and the Prime Minister of France who signed the Munich Agreement before the outbreak of World War II.

      5. 1938 cession of German-speaking Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany

        Munich Agreement

        The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. It provided "cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory" of Czechoslovakia, despite the existence of a 1924 alliance agreement and 1925 military pact between France and the Czechoslovak Republic, for which it is also known as the Munich Betrayal. Most of Europe celebrated the Munich agreement, which was presented as a way to prevent a major war on the continent. The four powers agreed to the German annexation of the Czechoslovak borderland areas named the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. Adolf Hitler announced that it was his last territorial claim in Northern Europe.

      6. Historical name for Czechoslovakian area

        Sudetenland

        The Sudetenland is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predominated in the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia since the Middle Ages. Sudetenland had been since the 9th century an integral part of the Czech state both geographically and politically.

    2. Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

      1. 1938 cession of German-speaking Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany

        Munich Agreement

        The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. It provided "cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory" of Czechoslovakia, despite the existence of a 1924 alliance agreement and 1925 military pact between France and the Czechoslovak Republic, for which it is also known as the Munich Betrayal. Most of Europe celebrated the Munich agreement, which was presented as a way to prevent a major war on the continent. The four powers agreed to the German annexation of the Czechoslovak borderland areas named the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. Adolf Hitler announced that it was his last territorial claim in Northern Europe.

    3. The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

      1. 20th-century intergovernmental organisation, predecessor to the United Nations

        League of Nations

        The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organization ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations.

  27. 1935

    1. The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

      1. Dam in Clark County, Nevada, and Mohave County, Arizona, US

        Hoover Dam

        Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. It was referred to as Hoover Dam after President Herbert Hoover in bills passed by Congress during its construction; it was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. The Hoover Dam name was restored by Congress in 1947.

  28. 1918

    1. Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeat the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.

      1. Eastern European military conflict (1917–1921)

        Ukrainian War of Independence

        The Ukrainian War of Independence was a series of conflicts involving many adversaries that lasted from 1917 to 1921 and resulted in the establishment and development of a Ukrainian republic, most of which was later absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of 1922–1991.

      2. Anarchist army of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers (1918–21)

        Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine

        The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, also known as the Black Army or as Makhnovtsi, named after their leader Nestor Makhno, was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian peasants and workers during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. They protected the operation of "free soviets" and libertarian communes by the Makhnovshchina, an attempt to form a stateless libertarian communist society from 1918 to 1921 during the Ukrainian War of Independence. They were founded and inspired based on the Black Guards.

      3. Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)

        Nestor Makhno

        Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War.

      4. Military coalition in World War I

        Central Powers

        The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires, was one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1919). It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria and was also known as the Quadruple Alliance. Colonies of these countries also fought on the Central Powers' side such as German New Guinea and German East Africa, until almost all of their colonies were occupied by the Allies.

      5. Battle of Dibrivka

        The Battle of Dibrivka was a military conflict between Ukrainian insurgents, led by Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus, and the Central Powers that were occupying southern Ukraine. It resulted in an insurgent victory and the establishment of an autonomous territory in the region, following the subsequent defeat of the Central Powers.

  29. 1915

    1. World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

      1. Global war, 1914–1918

        World War I

        World War I or the First World War, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, and referred to by some Anglophone authors as the "Great War" or the "War to End All Wars", was a global conflict which lasted from 1914 to 1918, and is considered one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war.

      2. Serbian soldier in WWI; first to shoot down a military aircraft with ground-to-air artillery

        Radoje Ljutovac

        Radoje Ljutovac was a Serbian soldier from the village of Poljna, Serbia. Private Radoje Ljutovac fought in the First World War in the Serbian Army, and is officially credited with the first shooting down of a military aircraft with Ground-to-Air artillery fire.

  30. 1909

    1. The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

      1. British ocean liner in service 1906–1934

        RMS Mauretania (1906)

        RMS Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. Mauretania became a favourite among her passengers. She captured the eastbound Blue Riband on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the westbound Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1909 season, which she held both speed records for 20 years.

  31. 1907

    1. The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

      1. Mausoleum of 25th U.S. President William McKinley in Canton, Ohio

        McKinley National Memorial

        The McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio, United States, is the final resting place of William McKinley, who served as the 25th president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Canton was a significant place in McKinley's life; he lived there, practiced as an attorney, and conducted his political campaigns from the town.

  32. 1906

    1. The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

      1. Cultural institution for the Galician language in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

        Royal Galician Academy

        The Royal Galician Academy is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is based in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The current president is Víctor Fernández Freixanes.

  33. 1888

    1. Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

      1. Unidentified serial killer in London in 1888

        Jack the Ripper

        Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.

  34. 1882

    1. The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.

      1. Dam in Wisconsin, United States

        Vulcan Street Plant

        The Vulcan Street Plant was the first Edison hydroelectric central station. The plant was built on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, and put into operation on September 30, 1882. According to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Vulcan Street plant is considered to be "the first hydro-electric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America". It is a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, an IEEE milestone and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

      2. City in Wisconsin, United States

        Appleton, Wisconsin

        Appleton is a city in Outagamie, Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the county seat of Outagamie County. As of the 2020 Census it had a population of 75,644, making it the sixth largest city in Wisconsin. Appleton is a part of the Fox Cities metropolitan area, the third largest in the state behind Milwaukee and Madison.

      3. Electricity generated by hydropower

        Hydroelectricity

        Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower. Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and also more than nuclear power. Hydropower can provide large amounts of low-carbon electricity on demand, making it a key element for creating secure and clean electricity supply systems. A hydroelectric power station that has a dam and reservoir is a flexible source, since the amount of electricity produced can be increased or decreased in seconds or minutes in response to varying electricity demand. Once a hydroelectric complex is constructed, it produces no direct waste, and almost always emits considerably less greenhouse gas than fossil fuel-powered energy plants. However, when constructed in lowland rainforest areas, where part of the forest is inundated, substantial amounts of greenhouse gases may be emitted.

    2. Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.

      1. Dam in Wisconsin, United States

        Vulcan Street Plant

        The Vulcan Street Plant was the first Edison hydroelectric central station. The plant was built on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, and put into operation on September 30, 1882. According to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Vulcan Street plant is considered to be "the first hydro-electric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America". It is a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, an IEEE milestone and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

  35. 1863

    1. Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.

      1. French composer (1838–1875)

        Georges Bizet

        Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

      2. 1863 opera by Georges Bizet

        Les pêcheurs de perles

        Les pêcheurs de perles is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on 30 September 1863 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, and was given 18 performances in its initial run. Set in ancient times on the island of Ceylon, the opera tells the story of how two men's vow of eternal friendship is threatened by their love for the same woman, whose own dilemma is the conflict between secular love and her sacred oath as a priestess. The friendship duet "Au fond du temple saint", generally known as "The Pearl Fishers Duet", is one of the best-known in Western opera.

      3. Former opera company in Paris

        Théâtre Lyrique

        The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century. The company was founded in 1847 as the Opéra-National by the French composer Adolphe Adam and renamed Théâtre Lyrique in 1852. It used four different theatres in succession, the Cirque Olympique, the Théâtre Historique, the Salle du Théâtre-Lyrique, and the Salle de l'Athénée, until it ceased operations in 1872.

    2. Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premiered in Paris.

      1. French composer (1838–1875)

        Georges Bizet

        Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

      2. 1863 opera by Georges Bizet

        Les pêcheurs de perles

        Les pêcheurs de perles is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on 30 September 1863 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, and was given 18 performances in its initial run. Set in ancient times on the island of Ceylon, the opera tells the story of how two men's vow of eternal friendship is threatened by their love for the same woman, whose own dilemma is the conflict between secular love and her sacred oath as a priestess. The friendship duet "Au fond du temple saint", generally known as "The Pearl Fishers Duet", is one of the best-known in Western opera.

      3. Capital and largest city of France

        Paris

        Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km², making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world.

  36. 1791

    1. The Magic Flute, one of the last operas composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

      1. Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

        The Magic Flute

        The Magic Flute, K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, just two months before the composer's premature death. Still a staple of the opera repertory, its popularity was reflected by two immediate sequels, Peter Winter's Das Labyrinth oder Der Kampf mit den Elementen. Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil (1798) and a fragmentary libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe titled The Magic Flute Part Two.

      2. Classical-era composer (1756–1791)

        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".

      3. Theater auf der Wieden

        The Theater auf der Wieden, also called the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden or the Wiednertheater, was a theater located in the then-suburban Wieden district of Vienna in the late 18th century. It existed for only 14 years (1787–1801), but during this time it was the venue for the premiere of no fewer than 350 theatrical works, of which the most celebrated was Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. During most of this period the director of the theater was Emanuel Schikaneder, remembered today as librettist and impresario of The Magic Flute.

      4. Capital and largest city of Austria

        Vienna

        Vienna is the capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's most populous city and its primate city, with about two million inhabitants, and its cultural, economic, and political center. It is the 6th-largest city proper by population in the European Union and the largest of all cities on the Danube river.

    2. The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

      1. Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

        The Magic Flute

        The Magic Flute, K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, just two months before the composer's premature death. Still a staple of the opera repertory, its popularity was reflected by two immediate sequels, Peter Winter's Das Labyrinth oder Der Kampf mit den Elementen. Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil (1798) and a fragmentary libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe titled The Magic Flute Part Two.

    3. France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.

      1. Revolutionary legislature of France, 1789 to 1791

        National Constituent Assembly (France)

        The National Constituent Assembly was a constituent assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved on 30 September 1791 and was succeeded by the Legislative Assembly.

      2. Legislature of France from October 1791 to September 1792

        Legislative Assembly (France)

        The Legislative Assembly was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention.

  37. 1744

    1. War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.

      1. 1744 battle during the War of the Austrian Succession

        Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo

        The Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo or Battle of Cuneo was fought on the outskirts of Cuneo on 30 September 1744, in the War of the Austrian Succession. The battle ended in a victory for the armies of Spain and France over the Kingdom of Sardinia but it did not advance the victors' campaign.

  38. 1551

    1. Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.

      1. 16th-century Japanese samurai

        Sue Harukata

        Sue Harukata was a samurai who served as a senior retainer of the Ōuchi clan in the Sengoku period in Japan. He was the second son of Sue Okifusa, a senior retainer of the Ōuchi clan. His childhood name was Goro, and previously had the name Takafusa.

      2. Japanese clan. famous as powerful daimyo of Muromachi period

        Ōuchi clan

        Ōuchi clan was one of the most powerful and important families in Western Japan during the reign of the Ashikaga shogunate in the 12th to 14th centuries. Their domains, ruled from the castle town of Yamaguchi, comprised six provinces at their height, and the Ōuchi played a major role in supporting the Ashikaga in the Nanboku-cho Wars against the Imperial Court. The Ōuchi remained powerful up until the 1560s, when they were eclipsed by their vassals, the Mōri clan.

      3. Coup attempt in 1551 in Japan

        Tainei-ji incident

        The Tainei-ji incident was a coup in September 1551 by Sue Takafusa against Ōuchi Yoshitaka, hegemon daimyō of western Japan, which ended in the latter's forced suicide in Tainei-ji, a temple in Nagato Province. The coup put an abrupt end to the prosperity of the Ōuchi clan, though they ruled western Japan in name for another six years under the figurehead Ōuchi Yoshinaga, who was not related to the Ōuchi by blood.

      4. Powerful feudal territorial lord in pre-modern Japan

        Daimyo

        Daimyo were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominally to the emperor and the kuge. In the term, dai (大) means 'large', and myō stands for myōden (名田), meaning 'private land'.

      5. 16th-century daimyo in Japan

        Ōuchi Yoshitaka

        Ōuchi Yoshitaka was the daimyō of Suō Province and the head of the Ōuchi clan, succeeding Ōuchi Yoshioki.

      6. Form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment

        Seppuku

        Seppuku , sometimes referred to as 'the only way to commit ritual suicide', is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Shōwa period to restore honour for themselves or for their families. As a samurai practice, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offences, or performed because they had brought shame to themselves. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the belly and drawing the blade from left to right, slicing the belly open. If the cut is deep enough, it can sever the abdominal aorta, causing a rapid death by blood loss.

    2. A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.

      1. Coup attempt in 1551 in Japan

        Tainei-ji incident

        The Tainei-ji incident was a coup in September 1551 by Sue Takafusa against Ōuchi Yoshitaka, hegemon daimyō of western Japan, which ended in the latter's forced suicide in Tainei-ji, a temple in Nagato Province. The coup put an abrupt end to the prosperity of the Ōuchi clan, though they ruled western Japan in name for another six years under the figurehead Ōuchi Yoshinaga, who was not related to the Ōuchi by blood.

  39. 1541

    1. Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.

      1. Spanish explorer and conquistador

        Hernando de Soto

        Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States. He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.

      2. Historic Native American tribe originally from what is now the U.S. state of Arkansas

        Tula people

        The Tula were a Native American group that lived in what is now western Arkansas. The Tula are known to history only from the chronicles of Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's exploits in the interior of North America.

  40. 1520

    1. Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

      1. Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566

        Suleiman the Magnificent

        Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566. Under his administration, the Ottoman Empire ruled over at least 25 million people.

  41. 1399

    1. Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.

      1. King of England from 1399 to 1413

        Henry IV of England

        Henry IV, also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. He asserted the claim of his grandfather King Edward III, a maternal grandson of Philip IV of France, to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest, over three hundred years prior, whose mother tongue was English rather than French.

  42. 1139

    1. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people.

      1. Natural disaster in Azerbaijan and Georgia

        1139 Ganja earthquake

        The 1139 Ganja earthquake is one of the worst seismic events in history. It affected the Seljuk Empire and Kingdom of Georgia; modern-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.7 MLH, 7.5 Ms and 7.0–7.3 Mw. A controversial death toll of 230,000–300,000 came as a consequence of this event.

      2. Transcontinental region between the Black and Caspian seas

        Caucasus

        The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically been considered as a natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

      3. Sunni Islamic Turko-Persian empire (1037–1194)

        Seljuk Empire

        The Great Seljuk Empire, or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval, culturally Turko-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, founded and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. It spanned a total area of 3.9 million square kilometres from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south.

  43. 737

    1. Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.

      1. Calendar year

        AD 737

        Year 737 (DCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 737 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming.

      2. 7th and 8th-century conquests in Asia

        Muslim conquest of Transoxiana

        The Muslim conquest of Transoxiana or Arab conquest of Transoxiana were the 7th and 8th century conquests, by Umayyad and Abbasid Arabs, of Transoxiana, the land between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers, a part of Central Asia that today includes all or parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

      3. 699–766 Turkic tribal confederation of Central Asia

        Türgesh

        The Türgesh or Türgish were a Turkic tribal confederation. Once belonging to the Duolu wing of the Western Turkic On Oq elites, Türgeshes emerged as an independent power after the demise of the Western Turks and established a khaganate in 699. The Türgesh Khaganate lasted until 766 when the Karluks defeated them. Türgesh and Göktürks were related through marriage.

      4. 737 Umayyad defeat in Transoxiana

        Battle of the Baggage

        The Battle of the Baggage was fought between the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turkic Türgesh tribes in September/October 737. The Umayyads under the governor of Khurasan, Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri, had invaded the Principality of Khuttal in Transoxiana, and the local ruler called upon the Türgesh for aid. The Umayyad army retreated in haste before the Türgesh arrived, managing to cross the Oxus River just in time, while their rearguard engaged the pursuing Türgesh. The Türgesh crossed immediately after, and attacked the exposed Muslim baggage train, which had been sent ahead, and captured it. The main Umayyad army came to the rescue of the baggage train's escort, which suffered heavy casualties. The failure of the Umayyad campaign meant the complete collapse of the Arab control in the Upper Oxus valley, and opened Khurasan itself to the Türgesh.

      5. Second Islamic caliphate (661–750 CE)

        Umayyad Caliphate

        The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. Uthman ibn Affan, the third of the Rashidun caliphs, was also a member of the clan. The family established dynastic, hereditary rule with Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, long-time governor of Greater Syria, who became the sixth caliph after the end of the First Fitna in 661. After Mu'awiyah's death in 680, conflicts over the succession resulted in the Second Fitna, and power eventually fell into the hands of Marwan I from another branch of the clan. Greater Syria remained the Umayyads' main power base thereafter, with Damascus serving as their capital.

    2. The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.

      1. Calendar year

        AD 737

        Year 737 (DCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 737 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming.

      2. 737 Umayyad defeat in Transoxiana

        Battle of the Baggage

        The Battle of the Baggage was fought between the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turkic Türgesh tribes in September/October 737. The Umayyads under the governor of Khurasan, Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri, had invaded the Principality of Khuttal in Transoxiana, and the local ruler called upon the Türgesh for aid. The Umayyad army retreated in haste before the Türgesh arrived, managing to cross the Oxus River just in time, while their rearguard engaged the pursuing Türgesh. The Türgesh crossed immediately after, and attacked the exposed Muslim baggage train, which had been sent ahead, and captured it. The main Umayyad army came to the rescue of the baggage train's escort, which suffered heavy casualties. The failure of the Umayyad campaign meant the complete collapse of the Arab control in the Upper Oxus valley, and opened Khurasan itself to the Türgesh.

  44. 489

    1. The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.

      1. 5th–6th-century Germanic ethnic group in the Balkans

        Ostrogoths

        The Ostrogoths were a Roman-era Germanic people. In the 5th century, they followed the Visigoths in creating one of the two great Gothic kingdoms within the Roman Empire, based upon the large Gothic populations who had settled in the Balkans in the 4th century, having crossed the Lower Danube. While the Visigoths had formed under the leadership of Alaric I, the new Ostrogothic political entity which came to rule Italy was formed in the Balkans under the influence of the Amal dynasty, the family of Theodoric the Great.

      2. King of the Ostrogoths (r. 471–526) & Visigoths (r. 511–526); King of Italy (r. 493–526)

        Theodoric the Great

        Theodoric the Great, also called Theodoric the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (471–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman Empire. As ruler of the combined Gothic realms, Theodoric controlled an empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea. Though Theodoric himself only used the title 'king' (rex), some scholars characterize him as a Western Roman Emperor in all but name, since he ruled large parts of the former Western Roman Empire, had received the former Western imperial regalia from Constantinople in 497, and was referred to by the title augustus by some of his subjects.

      3. Battle in 489 CE

        Battle of Verona (489)

        The Battle of Verona was fought on 30 September 489 between the Ostrogothic leader Theodoric the Great and the Germanic King of Italy Odoacer. Theodoric personally led his troops in battle, and achieved a decisive victory. Odoacer was subsequently forced to flee to Ravenna, and Theodoric was free to capture Pavia and Milan.

      4. Germanic king of Italy (r. 476–493) and usurper of the Western Roman Empire

        Odoacer

        Flavius Odoacer, also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a soldier and statesman of barbarian background, who deposed the child emperor Romulus Augustulus and became Rex/Dux (476–493). Odoacer's overthrow of Romulus Augustulus is traditionally seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire as well as Ancient Rome.

Births & Deaths

  1. 2021

    1. Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (b. 1931) deaths

      1. Japanese composer and conductor (1931–2021)

        Koichi Sugiyama

        Koichi Sugiyama was a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He was best known for composing the music for the Dragon Quest franchise, along with several other video games, anime, film, and television shows. Classically trained, Sugiyama was considered a major inspiration for other Japanese game music composers and was active from the 1960s until his death from septic shock in 2021.

  2. 2019

    1. Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (b. 1967) deaths

      1. British scientist (1967–2019)

        Victoria Braithwaite

        Victoria A. Braithwaite was a British scientist who was a Professor of Animal Behaviour and Cognition at Pennsylvania State University. She was the first person to demonstrate that fish feel pain, which impacted animal welfare research and changed guidelines for the treatment of fish in laboratories and fisheries in the UK, Europe, and Canada.

  3. 2018

    1. Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945) deaths

      1. Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist

        Kim Larsen

        Kim Mellius Flyvholm Larsen was a Danish rock and pop musician. He was a major selling Scandinavian act with over 5 million albums sold.

    2. Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (b. 1942) deaths

      1. English television presenter and actor (1942–2018)

        Geoffrey Hayes

        Charles Geoffrey Hayes was an English television presenter and actor. He presented Thames Television's children's show Rainbow from 1972 to 1992.

    3. Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (b. 1925) deaths

      1. American educator and resistance fighter

        Sonia Orbuch

        Sonia Shainwald Orbuch was an American Holocaust educator. During the Second World War she was a Jewish resistance fighter in eastern Poland.

      2. Global war, 1939–1945

        World War II

        World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries.

      3. Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany

        The Holocaust

        The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.

  4. 2017

    1. Monty Hall, American game show host (b. 1921) deaths

      1. Canadian-American game show host

        Monty Hall

        Monty Hall was a Canadian radio and television show host who moved to the United States in 1955 to pursue a career in broadcasting. After working as a radio newsreader and sportscaster, Hall returned to television in the U.S., this time in game shows. Starting in 1963, he was best known as the game show host and producer of Let's Make a Deal. As a celebrity, he had a conundrum with game theory and psychology aspects named after him: the Monty Hall problem. Behind the scenes, Hall also carried on an active life of philanthropy.

    2. Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1966) deaths

      1. Vladimir Voevodsky

        Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.

  5. 2015

    1. Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (b. 1941) deaths

      1. Italian theoretical physicist

        Guido Altarelli

        Guido Altarelli was an Italian theoretical physicist.

    2. Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951) deaths

      1. Claude Dauphin (businessman)

        Claude Dauphin was a French billionaire businessman and executive chairman of Trafigura Beheer BV, a company specialising in commodity trading. In addition to being one of the company's founding partners, Dauphin had previously served as Trafigura's chairman and CEO. In March 2013 his net wealth was estimated at $1 billion by Forbes. Dauphin died from cancer in a hospital in Bogota at the age of 64 after a two-year struggle with lung cancer.

    3. Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (b. 1947) deaths

      1. Swedish writer

        Göran Hägg

        Göran Olof Waldemar Hägg was a Swedish author, critic and docent in literature science. Hägg grew up in Tallkrogen, south of Stockholm. After graduating from studies in philosophy at Stockholm University in 1969, and also graduating from the Teachers high school in Uppsala, Hägg worked between 1971 and 1979 as a teacher at Arbetsmarknadsutbidlningen in Stockholm. His experiences there are the background to the satirical novel Det automatiska paradiset, which was published in 1979. His first book release happened before that, in 1972, with the poem collection called Ögon.

  6. 2014

    1. Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (b. 1940) deaths

      1. Indian politician, businessman and religious scholar

        Iftikhar Hussain Ansari

        Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, widely known among his followers as Moulvi Sahib, was a Kashmiri Shia cleric, politician, businessman and a proponent of the Grand Ashura Procession In Kashmir. He was a representative of Ruhollah Khomeini and other maraji’. He was a towering Islamic scholar in India and had close relations with multiple other important scholars such as Sayyid Jawad Shahristani, Mohammad Alavi Gorgani and Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani. He succeeded his father Muhammad Jawad Ansari as president of the All Jammu and Kashmir Shia Association in Jammu & Kashmir in 1962, a position which he held for life. He was a sitting member of Jammu and Kashmir's Legislative Assembly for the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party; he was earlier a member of the National Conference and Congress.

    2. Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) deaths

      1. American scientist

        Martin Lewis Perl

        Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.

      2. One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Physics

        The Nobel Prize in Physics is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions for humankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901, the others being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Physics is traditionally the first award presented in the Nobel Prize ceremony.

  7. 2013

    1. Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (b. 1942) deaths

      1. Australian politician

        Janet Powell

        Janet Frances Powell AM was an Australian politician.

  8. 2012

    1. Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (b. 1922) deaths

      1. Austrian actor (1922–2012)

        Turhan Bey

        Turhan Bey was an Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech-Jewish origins. Active in Hollywood from 1941 to 1953, he was dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans. After his return to Austria, he pursued careers as a photographer and stage director. Returning to Hollywood after a 40-year hiatus, he made several guest appearances in 1990s television series including SeaQuest DSV, Murder, She Wrote and Babylon 5 as well as a number of films. After retiring, he appeared in a number of documentaries, including a German-language documentary on his life.

    2. Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (b. 1917) deaths

      1. American politician

        Barry Commoner

        Barry Commoner was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems and its Critical Genetics Project. He ran as the Citizens Party candidate in the 1980 U.S. presidential election. His work studying the radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing led to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.

    3. Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1948) deaths

      1. American professional wrestler

        Bobby Jaggers

        Robert Francis Jeaudoin was an American professional wrestler and civil engineer, also known by the ring name of "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers.

    4. Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (b. 1913) deaths

      1. Clara Stanton Jones

        Clara Stanton Jones was the first African-American president of the American Library Association, serving as its acting president from April 11 to July 22 in 1976 and then its president from July 22, 1976 to 1977. Also, in 1970 she became the first African American and the first woman to serve as director of a major library system in America, as director of the Detroit Public Library.

    5. Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (b. 1928) deaths

      1. Canadian figure skater (1928–2012)

        Barbara Ann Scott

        Barbara Ann Scott was a Canadian figure skater. She was the 1948 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1947–1948), and a four-time Canadian national champion in ladies' singles. Known as "Canada's Sweetheart,” she is the only Canadian to have won the Olympic ladies' singles gold medal, the first North American to have won three major titles in one year and the only Canadian to have won the European Championship (1947–48). During her forties she was rated among the top equestrians in North America. She received many honours and accolades, including being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Order of Ontario in 2008.

    6. Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (b. 1956) deaths

      1. Croatian politician

        Boris Šprem

        Boris Šprem was a Croatian politician who was the speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 2011 to 2012. He was the first and to date only speaker to die in office since country's independence in 1991.

      2. Presiding officer in the Croatian Parliament

        Speaker of the Croatian Parliament

        The speaker of the Croatian Parliament is the presiding officer in the Croatian Parliament, Croatia's legislative body.

  9. 2011

    1. Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (b. 1971) deaths

      1. Yemeni-American imam and suspected Islamist extremist (1971–2011)

        Anwar al-Awlaki

        Anwar Nasser al-Awlaki was an American imam who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and killed by a drone strike from the U.S. government. US government officials argued that Awlaki was a key organizer for the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda, and in June 2014, a previously classified memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Justice was released, justifying al-Awlaki's death as a lawful act of war. Civil liberties advocates have described the incident as "an extrajudicial execution" that breached al-Awlaki's constitutional right to due process, including a trial.

    2. Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943) deaths

      1. Canadian immunologist and cell biologist

        Ralph M. Steinman

        Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Steinman was one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

      2. One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

        The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

  10. 2010

    1. Stephen J. Cannell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1941) deaths

      1. American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor (1941–2010)

        Stephen J. Cannell

        Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist, occasional actor, and founder of Cannell Entertainment and the Cannell Studios.

  11. 2008

    1. J. B. Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (b. 1926) deaths

      1. Singaporean politician

        J. B. Jeyaretnam

        Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, better known as J. B. Jeyaretnam or by his initials JBJ, was a Singaporean politician, lawyer, and judge who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Anson SMC between 1981 and 1986 and Non-Constituency Member of Parliament between 1997 and 2001.

  12. 2004

    1. Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b. 1936) deaths

      1. Sri Lankan actor-politician (1936–2004

        Gamini Fonseka

        Kala Keerthi Sembuge Gamini Shelton Fonseka, was a Sri Lankan film actor, film director and politician. Often considered as the Greatest Actor in the Sinhala Cinema, Fonseka dominated the cinema in 1960s and 1970s to bagged Best Actor award in multiple times. Apart from acting, he was the Deputy Speaker of Sri Lanka Parliament from 1989 to 1994 and Governor of the North-Eastern Province from 1995 to 1998.

    2. Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935) deaths

      1. Musical artist

        Jacques Levy

        Jacques Levy was an American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist.

    3. Michael Relph, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915) deaths

      1. Michael Relph

        Michael Leighton George Relph was an English film producer, art director, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of actor George Relph.

  13. 2003

    1. Yusuf Bey, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery (b. 1935) deaths

      1. African-American activist and religious leader

        Yusuf Bey

        Yusuf Bey, was an American Black Muslim activist and leader who was a member of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, an offshoot of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam (NOI).

      2. Muslim Bakery chain linked to various crimes

        Your Black Muslim Bakery

        Your Black Muslim Bakery (YBMB) was an American chain of bakeries opened by Yusuf Bey in 1968 in Santa Barbara, California, and relocated to Oakland in 1971. A power broker at the center of a local community, YBMB was held out as a model of African American economic self-sufficiency. However, it was later linked to widespread physical and sexual abuse, welfare fraud, and murder.

    2. Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) deaths

      1. American singer, guitarist and drummer

        Ronnie Dawson (musician)

        Ronald Monroe Dawson was an American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, nicknamed The Blond Bomber. Although he achieved regional success in the 1950s, his popularity peaked internationally with tours in the 1980s and 1990s.

    3. Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1944) deaths

      1. American attorney and businessman (1944–2003)

        Robert Kardashian

        Robert George Kardashian was an American attorney and businessman. He gained recognition as O. J. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial. He had four children with his first wife, Kris Kardashian: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob, who appear on their family reality television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and its spinoffs.

  14. 2002

    1. Levi Miller, Australian actor and model births

      1. Australian actor and model

        Levi Miller

        Levi Zane Miller is an Australian actor and model. He is known for playing Peter Pan in Pan (2015), Luke in Better Watch Out (2016), and Calvin in A Wrinkle in Time (2018).

    2. Tara Würth, Crotian tennis player births

      1. Croatian tennis player

        Tara Würth

        Tara Würth is a Croatian tennis player.

    3. Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress births

      1. American dancer and actress

        Maddie Ziegler

        Madison Nicole Ziegler is an American actress and dancer. She was initially known for appearing in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms from 2011 until 2016. From 2014, she gained wider recognition for starring in a series of music videos by Sia, beginning with "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart", which have in total attracted more than 5 billion views on YouTube. Ziegler has appeared in films, television shows, concerts, advertisements and on magazine covers.

    4. Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (b. 1966) deaths

      1. Swedish adventurer

        Göran Kropp

        Lars Olof Göran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer. The first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, for which he travelled by bicycle, alone, from Sweden and part-way back.

    5. Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1913) deaths

      1. Swiss politician (1913–2002)

        Hans-Peter Tschudi

        Hans-Peter Tschudi was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1959–1973) heading the Department of Home Affairs.

      2. Head of Switzerland's Federal Council

        President of the Swiss Confederation

        The president of the Swiss Confederation, also known as the president of the Confederation or colloquially as the president of Switzerland, is the head of Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council, the country's executive branch. Elected by the Federal Assembly for one year, the officeholder chairs the meetings of the Federal Council and undertakes special representational duties.

  15. 1998

    1. Yui Imaizumi, Japanese tarento births

      1. Japanese actress, model, and tarento

        Yui Imaizumi

        Yui Imaizumi is a retired Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality. She is a former member of the idol girl group Keyakizaka46.

    2. Trevi Moran, American youtuber and singer births

      1. American musician and YouTuber

        Trevi Moran

        Trevi Moran is an American singer and YouTube personality. She rose to fame after participating in The X Factor in 2012 at the age of 13. As of April 2020, Moran's YouTube channel surpassed 1.4 million subscribers.

    3. Marius Goring, English actor (b. 1912) deaths

      1. British actor

        Marius Goring

        Marius Re Goring, was a British stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes, and also for the title role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert. He regularly performed French and German roles, and was frequently cast in the latter because of his name, coupled with his red-gold hair and blue eyes. However, he explained that he was not of German descent in a 1965 interview, stating that "Goring is a completely English name."

    4. Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet (b. 1953) deaths

      1. American baseball player (1953-1998)

        Dan Quisenberry

        Daniel Raymond "Quiz" Quisenberry was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals. Notable for his submarine-style pitching delivery and his humorous quotes, he led the American League in saves a record five times. Quisenberry retired in 1990 with 244 saves, then the fifth-highest total in major league history.

    5. Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author (b. 1912) deaths

      1. American writer

        Robert Lewis Taylor

        Robert Lewis Taylor was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

  16. 1997

    1. Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian gymnast births

      1. Russian rhythmic gymnast, World Champion, Olympic silver medalist

        Yana Kudryavtseva

        Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champion in the All-around (2013–2015), the 2015 European Games All-around champion, two-time European Championships All-around champion, the 2012 European Junior ball champion. In national level, she is a two-time Russian National All-around champion and three time Russian Junior National all-around champion.

    2. Max Verstappen, Dutch Formula One driver births

      1. Belgian-Dutch racing driver (born 1997)

        Max Verstappen

        Max Emilian Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver and the 2021 and 2022 Formula One World Champion. He competes under the Dutch flag in Formula One with Red Bull Racing.

  17. 1996

    1. Jacob Host, Australian rugby league player births

      1. Australian rugby league footballer

        Jacob Host

        Jacob Host is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL.

  18. 1994

    1. Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast births

      1. Former Russian artistic gymnast

        Aliya Mustafina

        Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina is a Russian former artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 45 Olympic, World and European Championship medals, she is considered one of the most successful gymnasts of all time.

    2. André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) deaths

      1. André Michel Lwoff

        André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin.

      2. One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

        The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

  19. 1992

    1. Ezra Miller, American actor and singer births

      1. American actor (born 1992)

        Ezra Miller

        Ezra Matthew Miller is an American actor. Their feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008), which they followed by starring in the drama We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). In 2015, they co-starred in the drama The Stanford Prison Experiment and the comedy Trainwreck, before playing Credence Barebone / Aurelius Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). In 2020, they also had a recurring role on the miniseries The Stand as Donald Merwin "Trashcan Man" Elbert.

  20. 1991

    1. Thomas Röhler, German javelin thrower births

      1. German javelin thrower

        Thomas Röhler

        Thomas Röhler is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is the 2016 Olympic Champion and 2018 European Champion. His personal best of 93.90 m for the event ranks him third on the overall list.

    2. Toma Zdravković, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1938) deaths

      1. Serbian folk singer

        Toma Zdravković

        Tomislav "Toma" Zdravković was a Serbian pop-folk singer-songwriter and recording artist.

  21. 1990

    1. Rob Moroso, American race car driver (b. 1968) deaths

      1. American racing driver

        Rob Moroso

        Robert James Moroso was a NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series in 1989, and was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award. A promising young driver, he and another driver were killed when Moroso was driving under the influence at excessive speeds on roads near his hometown of Terrell, North Carolina.

    2. Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1930) deaths

      1. Polish born Quebec journalist

        Alice Parizeau

        Alice Parizeau, OC was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.

    3. Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) deaths

      1. English-born Australian writer

        Patrick White

        Patrick Victor Martindale White was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.

      2. One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Literature

        The Nobel Prize in Literature is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction". Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, the award is based on an author's body of work as a whole. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize. The academy announces the name of the laureate in early October. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. Literature is traditionally the final award presented at the Nobel Prize ceremony. On some occasions the award has been postponed to the following year, most recently in 2018 as of May 2022.

  22. 1989

    1. André Weis, German footballer births

      1. German footballer

        André Weis

        André Weis is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Fortuna Köln.

    2. Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896) deaths

      1. American composer and critic (1896–1989)

        Virgil Thomson

        Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".

  23. 1988

    1. Eglė Staišiūnaitė, Lithuanian hurdler births

      1. Lithuanian hurdler

        Eglė Staišiūnaitė

        Eglė Staišiūnaitė is a Lithuanian athlete who specialises in the 400 m hurdles.

    2. Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946) deaths

      1. American racing driver

        Al Holbert

        Alvah Robert "Al" Holbert was an American automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the IMSA Camel GT series. He once held the record with the most IMSA race wins at 49.

  24. 1987

    1. Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano births

      1. Russian lyric soprano (born 1987)

        Aida Garifullina

        Aida Emilevna Garifullina is a Russian lyric soprano of Tatar descent. She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and the Vienna State Opera. She has a recording contract with Decca Records.

    2. Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913) deaths

      1. American science fiction author (1913–1987)

        Alfred Bester

        Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953.

  25. 1986

    1. Olivier Giroud, French footballer births

      1. French footballer (born 1986)

        Olivier Giroud

        Olivier Jonathan Giroud is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club AC Milan and the France national team. Regarded for his work-rate, strength, shot power and consistent goal-scoring ability, he is often considered one of the most underrated strikers in the world.

    2. Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer births

      1. New Zealand cricketer

        Martin Guptill

        Martin James Guptill is a New Zealand international cricketer who plays as an opening batsman in limited overs formats of the game. Guptill is the first cricketer from New Zealand and the fifth overall to have scored a double century in a One Day International match and holds the current record for the highest individual score in Cricket World Cup matches and the second highest score in One Day Internationals of 237 not out. In March 2021, Guptill played in his 100th T20I match.

    3. Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter births

      1. British musician

        Ben Lovett (British musician)

        Benjamin Walter David Lovett is a Welsh musician and producer, best known for being a member of the Grammy Award-winning British folk rock band Mumford & Sons.

    4. Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer births

      1. Colombian footballer (born 1986)

        Cristián Zapata

        Cristián Eduardo Zapata Valencia is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for San Lorenzo. A quick and physically powerful defender, known for his hard marking of opponents and strength in the air, he usually plays as a centre back. Although naturally right footed, he can also play as a full-back on either side of the pitch, as he is comfortable with both feet.

    5. Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (b. 1908) deaths

      1. Hungarian-British economist

        Nicholas Kaldor

        Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor, born Káldor Miklós, was a Cambridge economist in the post-war period. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), derived the cobweb model, and argued for certain regularities observable in economic growth, which are called Kaldor's growth laws. Kaldor worked alongside Gunnar Myrdal to develop the key concept Circular Cumulative Causation, a multicausal approach where the core variables and their linkages are delineated. Both Myrdal and Kaldor examine circular relationships, where the interdependencies between factors are relatively strong, and where variables interlink in the determination of major processes. Gunnar Myrdal got the concept from Knut Wicksell and developed it alongside Nicholas Kaldor when they worked together at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Myrdal concentrated on the social provisioning aspect of development, while Kaldor concentrated on demand-supply relationships to the manufacturing sector. Kaldor also coined the term "convenience yield" related to commodity markets and the so-called theory of storage, which was initially developed by Holbrook Working.

  26. 1985

    1. Adam Cooney, Australian footballer births

      1. Australian rules footballer, born 1985

        Adam Cooney

        Adam Cooney is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He won the Brownlow Medal in 2008, with 24 votes becoming the tenth Western Bulldogs player to win the award.

    2. David Gower, Australian rugby league player births

      1. Australian rugby league footballer

        David Gower (rugby league)

        David Neil Gower is a former professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop, second-row and lock for the Hills District Bulls in the Ron Massey Cup competition.

    3. Téa Obreht, Serbian-American author births

      1. Serbian-American novelist

        Téa Obreht

        Téa Obreht is a Serbian-American novelist.

    4. Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer births

      1. Uruguayan footballer

        Cristian Rodríguez

        Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez Barotti is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a left winger for Club Plaza Colonia de Deportes.

    5. Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900) deaths

      1. Seismologist and mathematician

        Charles Francis Richter

        Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist.

    6. Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921) deaths

      1. French actress (1921-1985)

        Simone Signoret

        Simone Signoret was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards.

  27. 1984

    1. Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer births

      1. Cypriot footballer

        Georgios Eleftheriou

        Georgios Eleftheriou is a retired Cypriot defender.

    2. T-Pain, American rapper, producer, and actor births

      1. American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer

        T-Pain

        Faheem Rashad Najm, better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Throughout his career as a singer, T-Pain popularized the creative use of the Auto-Tune pitch correction effect, used with extreme parameter settings to create distinctive vocal sounds. His success with the effect has influenced several other major artists to adopt it as well, namely rappers Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Future and Travis Scott, among others. After signing with singer Akon's Konvict Muzik, T-Pain subsequently founded his own vanity label imprint, Nappy Boy Entertainment, established in 2005.

  28. 1983

    1. Boniek Forbes, Guinea-Bissau footballer births

      1. Boniek Forbes

        Boniek Manuel Gomes Forbes is a footballer who plays as a winger for Cheshunt. He played for Leyton Orient in the Football League. He received his first name Boniek after famous Polish international player Zbigniew Boniek.

    2. Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast births

      1. Romanian gymnast

        Andreea Răducan

        Andreea Mădălina Răducan is a retired gymnast from Bârlad, Romania. She currently works as a sports announcer and journalist.

  29. 1982

    1. Lacey Chabert, American actress births

      1. American actress

        Lacey Chabert

        Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress. One of her first roles was playing Erica Kane's daughter on All My Children. She was the third actress to play Bianca Montgomery, playing the part from 1992 until 1993. She then gained prominence as a child actress on television for her role as Claudia Salinger in the Fox television drama Party of Five (1994–2000).

    2. Ryane Clowe, Canadian ice hockey player. births

      1. Canadian ice hockey player

        Ryane Clowe

        Ryane Clowe is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils. He was drafted into the NHL by the San Jose Sharks in the sixth round, 175th overall, at the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. In 2018, he was named the head coach of the ECHL's Newfoundland Growlers, a position he resigned from in January 2019. Currently working as a hockey advisor for the New York Rangers.

    3. Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player births

      1. Canadian ice hockey player

        Yan Stastny

        Yan Pavol Stastny is a Canadian-born American former professional ice hockey centre. He comes from the Slovak Stastny ice hockey family, and is the son of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Šťastný. His uncles Anton and Marián Šťastný also played in the NHL, and his brother Paul Stastny plays for the Carolina Hurricanes.

    4. Dmytro Boyko, Ukrainian footballer births

      1. Ukrainian professional footballer

        Dmytro Boyko

        Dmytro Boyko is a Ukrainian professional footballer. He plays the position of midfielder and is 1.76 m tall and weighs 72 kg. His former clubs include FC Stal Alchevsk, FC Helios Kharkiv and JK Sillamäe Kalev.

  30. 1981

    1. Cecelia Ahern, Irish author births

      1. Irish novelist (born 1981)

        Cecelia Ahern

        Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, known for her works like PS, I Love You; Where Rainbows End; and If You Could See Me Now. Born in Dublin, Ahern is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as major motion films. The short story collection Roar has been adapted as a series for AppleTV+.

    2. Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast births

      1. American artistic gymnast

        Dominique Moceanu

        Dominique Helena Moceanu is a retired American gymnast. She was a member of the gold-medal-winning United States women's gymnastics team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

  31. 1980

    1. Martina Hingis, Czechoslovakia-born Swiss tennis player births

      1. Swiss tennis player

        Martina Hingis

        Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Hingis is the first Swiss player, male or female, to win a major title and attain a world No. 1 ranking. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. 1, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. She won five major singles titles, 13 major women's doubles titles, and seven major mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 25 major titles. In addition, she won the season-ending WTA Finals twice in singles and thrice in doubles, an Olympic silver medal in doubles, and a record 17 Tier I singles titles.

    2. Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player births

      1. Venezuelan tennis player

        Milagros Sequera

        Milagros Sequera Huss is a Venezuelan-Australian former professional tennis player.

  32. 1979

    1. Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer and coach births

      1. Australian rules footballer, born 1979

        Cameron Bruce

        Cameron Bruce is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as an assistant coach for the Brisbane Lions. During his AFL career, he was known for his aerobic capacity and neat kicking skills.

    2. Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer births

      1. Dutch footballer

        Andy van der Meyde

        Andy van der Meijde, anglicised to van der Meyde is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger.

  33. 1978

    1. Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale, Polish female volleyball player births

      1. Polish volleyball player

        Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale

        Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale is a Polish retired volleyball player. She was a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1997–2014, a participant of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, double European Champion, and a gold medalist of Polish, French, Spanish and Turkish national championships.

    2. Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903) deaths

      1. American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist (1903–1978)

        Edgar Bergen

        Edgar John Bergen was an American ventriloquist, actor, comedian, vaudevillian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. He was the father of actress Candice Bergen.

  34. 1977

    1. Roy Carroll, Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager births

      1. Northern Irish professional footballer

        Roy Carroll

        Roy Eric Carroll is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is best known for his spells at Wigan Athletic, Manchester United and Olympiacos. He has also represented Northern Ireland 45 times at full international level, gaining his first cap in 1997, aged 19.

    2. Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012) births

      1. Musical artist

        Nick Curran

        Nick Curran was an American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits, and The Ramones.

    3. Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924) deaths

      1. American vocalist and guitarist

        Mary Ford

        Mary Ford was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits, including "How High the Moon" and "Vaya con Dios", which were number one hits on the Billboard charts. In 1951 alone they sold six million records. With Paul, Ford became one of the early practitioners of multi-tracking.

  35. 1976

    1. Georgie Bingham, British radio and television presenter births

      1. British radio and television presenter

        Georgie Bingham

        Georgie Bingham is a British radio and television presenter, formerly a host of the Weekend Sports Breakfast on talkSPORT.

  36. 1975

    1. Jay Asher, American author births

      1. American writer

        Jay Asher

        Jay Asher is an American writer and novelist. He is best known for writing the bestselling 2007 book Thirteen Reasons Why.

    2. Marion Cotillard, French-American actress and singer births

      1. French actress, singer, and environmentalist

        Marion Cotillard

        Marion Cotillard is a French actress, film producer, singer, and environmentalist who is widely known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters in both European and Hollywood productions. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award, a Lumières Award, and two César Awards. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010, and was promoted to Officer in 2016. She has served as a spokeswoman for Greenpeace since 2001. Cotillard was the face of the Lady Dior handbag for nine years. Since 2020, she is the face of Chanel's fragrance Chanel No. 5.

    3. Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player births

      1. Venezuelan baseball player (born 1975)

        Carlos Guillén

        Carlos Alfonso Guillén is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder.

    4. Laure Pequegnot, French skier births

      1. French alpine skier

        Laure Pequegnot

        Laure Pequegnot is a French former Alpine skier.

    5. Christopher Jackson, American actor, singer, musician, and composer births

      1. American actor (born 1975)

        Christopher Jackson (actor)

        Christopher Neal Jackson is an American actor, singer, musician, and composer. He began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot at the age of 20. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 as an ensemble member in the original Broadway cast of Disney's The Lion King. He remained with the show for several years, ultimately taking over the role of Simba. He went on to perform leading roles in several more Broadway musicals and plays, including After Midnight, Bronx Bombers, Holler If Ya Hear Me, and Memphis. He drew critical acclaim in several projects with Lin-Manuel Miranda: originating the roles of Benny in In the Heights and George Washington in the smash hit Hamilton. For the latter role he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He also collaborated with Miranda on the Disney film Moana in which he provides the singing voice of Chief Tui. His other film work includes secondary roles in After.Life and Tracers.

  37. 1974

    1. Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player (d. 2022) births

      1. American baseball player (1974–2022)

        Jeremy Giambi

        Jeremy Dean Giambi was an American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four teams from 1998 to 2003, primarily the Oakland Athletics, where he was a teammate of his older brother Jason Giambi during the club's division championship-winning seasons in 2000 and 2001. He enjoyed his best season in 2001, batting .283 with 12 home runs and 57 runs batted in (RBI), then hitting .308 in the Division Series loss to the New York Yankees. Following his brother's departure to the Yankees as a free agent in the ensuing offseason, Jeremy saw declining playing time with three teams over the next two seasons before finishing his career in the minor leagues.

    2. Tom Greatrex, English politician births

      1. British Labour Co-op politician

        Tom Greatrex

        Thomas James Greatrex is a British Labour Co-op politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West between 2010 and 2015 and the Shadow Energy Minister from 2011 to 2015.

    3. Ben Phillips, English cricketer births

      1. English cricketer

        Ben Phillips (cricketer)

        Ben James Phillips is an English cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club until his release in 2013. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium pace bowler.

    4. Daniel Wu, American–born Hong Kong actor, director, and producer births

      1. American actor based in Hong Kong

        Daniel Wu

        Daniel Ng Neh-Tsu is an American actor, director and producer based in Hong Kong. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese language film industry. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. He also starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands.

    5. Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (b. 1915) deaths

      1. Carlos Prats

        Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer and politician. He served as a minister in Salvador Allende's government while Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. Immediately after General Augusto Pinochet's September 11, 1973 coup, Prats went into voluntary exile in Argentina. The following year, he and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert, were assassinated in Buenos Aires by a car bomb planted by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional.

      2. Chilean government ministry responsible for military and national defense affairs

        Ministry of National Defense (Chile)

        The Ministry of National Defense is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of "maintaining the independence and sovereignty" of Chile. It is also charged with planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the defense policies formulated by the President of Chile. The minister supervises all the Chilean armed forces. It is Chile's ministry of defence.

  38. 1973

    1. Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902) deaths

      1. Inuk photographer, sculptor, artist and historian

        Peter Pitseolak

        Peter Pitseolak (1902–1973) was an Inuk photographer, sculptor, artist and historian. Pitseolak was Baffin Island's first indigenous photographer.

  39. 1972

    1. Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster births

      1. American football player (born 1972)

        Jamal Anderson

        Jamal Sharif Anderson is a former American football running back of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played high school football at El Camino Real High School, where he was named to the CIF Los Angeles City Section 4-A All-City first-team in 1989. He went on to play college football at Moorpark College for the Moorpark College Raiders before playing at Utah.

    2. Ari Behn, Danish-Norwegian author and playwright (d. 2019) births

      1. Norwegian author

        Ari Behn

        Ari Mikael Behn was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist.

    3. John Campbell, American bass player and songwriter births

      1. American heavy metal band

        Lamb of God (band)

        Lamb of God is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1994 as Burn the Priest, the group consists of bassist John Campbell, vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler, and drummer Art Cruz. The band is considered a significant member of the new wave of American heavy metal movement.

    4. Mayumi Kojima, Japanese singer-songwriter births

      1. Japanese Shibuya-kei musician (born 1972)

        Mayumi Kojima

        Mayumi Kojima is a Japanese Shibuya-kei musician. As of 2015, she has released 10 studio albums, 3 extended plays and several singles. Her music has been featured in multiple movies and television commercials. In the west, she is best known for her songs "Hatsukoi" (はつ恋), which was featured in a Nintendo commercial for the Game Boy Advance and the video game Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, and "Poltergeist" , which was used as the opening theme song of the anime Ghost Hound.

    5. José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (d. 2010) births

      1. Dominican baseball player

        José Lima

        José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros (1997–2001), Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers (2004) and New York Mets (2006). His best year in the majors was 1999, when he won 21 games for the Astros and pitched in his only All-Star Game.

  40. 1971

    1. Jenna Elfman, American actress and producer births

      1. American actress and producer

        Jenna Elfman

        Jennifer Mary Elfman is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1999, and three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. After making her film debut in Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), she has appeared in Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), Dr. Dolittle (1998), EDtv (1999), Keeping the Faith (2000), Town & Country (2001), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004), and Big Stone Gap (2014).

  41. 1970

    1. Tony Hale, American actor and producer births

      1. American actor

        Tony Hale

        Anthony Russell Hale is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role in the Fox comedy series Arrested Development as Buster Bluth. Hale played Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy Veep from 2012 until its conclusion in 2019, for which he won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

    2. Damian Mori, Australian footballer and manager births

      1. Australian soccer player and manager

        Damian Mori

        Damian Mori is an Australian former football player who is an assistant coach for Adelaide United. He won two Johnny Warren Medals, awarded to the best player in the Australian league and was top scorer on 5 occasions. He established a reputation as a pacy, poaching goalscorer, which is notable for a player who started his career as a defender.

  42. 1969

    1. Gintaras Einikis, Lithuanian basketball player births

      1. Lithuanian basketball player and coach

        Gintaras Einikis

        Gintaras Einikis is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player and current coach. He stands at 6 ft 10 in (208 cm), and is a former center for the senior Lithuanian national team. Einikis is the only player from the Lithuanian national team to have won all three consecutive bronze medals at the Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Atlanta, and Sydney.

    2. Chris von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1991) births

      1. American professional wrestler (1969–1991)

        Chris Von Erich

        Christopher Barton Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Chris Von Erich of the Von Erich family.

  43. 1967

    1. Emmanuelle Houdart, Swiss-French author and illustrator births

      1. Swiss artist and illustrator (born 1967)

        Emmanuelle Houdart

        Emmanuelle Houdart is a Swiss artist and illustrator.

  44. 1966

    1. Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player births

      1. British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player

        Gary Armstrong (rugby union)

        Gary Armstrong is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played scrum-half for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons and the Border Reivers.

    2. Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator births

      1. German pianist, composer and music educator

        Markus Burger

        Markus Burger is a German pianist, composer and music educator.

  45. 1965

    1. Omid Djalili, English comedian, actor, and producer births

      1. British stand-up comedian

        Omid Djalili

        Omid Djalili is a British actor, comedian and writer.

  46. 1964

    1. Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer births

      1. American musician

        Trey Anastasio

        Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 141 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole.

    2. Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model births

      1. Italian actress and model

        Monica Bellucci

        Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to Italian films and later American and French films.

  47. 1963

    1. David Barbe, American bass player and producer births

      1. American musician

        David Barbe

        David Barbe is an American musician and producer/engineer from Athens, Georgia and director of the Music Business Certificate Program at the University of Georgia. He is chief of Chase Park Transduction studio in Athens. Barbe is known for his work as a songwriter, singer, guitarist, and bass guitarist in Sugar, Mercyland, and Buzz Hungry, as well as solo performances. He has produced nearly every album by the popular country rock band Drive-By Truckers, and has worked as producer and engineer with Son Volt. He has an all-star solo band in Athens called the Quick Hooks.

  48. 1961

    1. Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player births

      1. Australian former professional footballer

        Gary Coyne

        Gary Coyne is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League for the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls and in the New South Wales Rugby League for the Canberra Raiders.

    2. Eric Stoltz, American actor, director, and producer births

      1. American actor, director and film producer

        Eric Stoltz

        Eric Cameron Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He played the role of Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask, which earned him the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, and has appeared in a wide variety of films from mainstream ones including Some Kind of Wonderful to independent films such as Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe and Kicking and Screaming. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Pulp Fiction. In 2010, he portrayed Daniel Graystone in the science fiction television series Caprica and became a regular director on the television series Glee.

    3. Mel Stride, English politician births

      1. British Conservative politician

        Mel Stride

        Melvyn John Stride is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since October 2022. He previously served in the May Government as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 2017 to 2019 and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from May to July 2019. He also served as Chair of the Treasury Select Committee from 2019 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Devon since 2010.

    4. Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver births

      1. Belgian racing driver

        Eric van de Poele

        Eric van de Poele is a Belgian racing driver and former Formula One driver. He participated in 29 Grands Prix, in 1991 and 1992. He is a three-times class winner at 24 Hours of Le Mans, and won three Formula 3000 races in 1990.

    5. Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1888) deaths

      1. Canadian politician

        Onésime Gagnon

        Onésime Gagnon, was a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec.

      2. Representative in Quebec of the Canadian monarch

        Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

        The lieutenant governor of Quebec is the viceregal representative in Quebec of the Canadian monarch, King Charles III, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, as well as the other Commonwealth realms and any subdivisions thereof, and resides predominantly in his oldest realm, the United Kingdom. The lieutenant governor of Quebec is appointed in the same manner as the other provincial viceroys in Canada and is similarly tasked with carrying out most of the monarch's constitutional and ceremonial duties. The present and 29th lieutenant governor of Quebec is J. Michel Doyon, who has served in the role since September 24, 2015.

  49. 1960

    1. Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer births

      1. Canadian musician

        Julia Adamson

        Julia Adamson is a Canadian composer, musician and current label manager of Invisiblegirl Records. In 1967 her family moved to Manchester, England.

    2. Nicola Griffith, English-American author births

      1. British-American writer (b. 1960)

        Nicola Griffith

        Nicola Griffith is a British-American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards.

    3. Miki Howard, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress births

      1. American singer-songwriter

        Miki Howard

        Alicia Michelle "Miki" Howard is an American singer and actress who had a string of top 10 hit songs in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, including "Baby, Be Mine" (1987), "Come Share My Love" (1986) and "Love Under New Management" (1990). "Ain't Nobody Like You" (1992) and "Ain't Nuthin' in the World" (1989) both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B Singles chart.

    4. Blanche Lincoln, American politician births

      1. American politician

        Blanche Lincoln

        Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1997.

  50. 1959

    1. Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach births

      1. Italian professional basketball coach (born 1959)

        Ettore Messina

        Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball coach who is the head coach of Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina is regarded as one of the best European basketball coaches of all time, having been named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.

    2. Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (b. 1877) deaths

      1. Australian politician

        Henry Barwell

        Sir Henry Newman Barwell KCMG was the 28th premier of South Australia.

      2. Premier of South Australia

        The premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia. The Government of South Australia follows the Westminster system, with a Parliament of South Australia acting as the legislature. The premier is appointed by the Governor of South Australia, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the House of Assembly.

  51. 1958

    1. Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist births

      1. American musician

        Marty Stuart

        John Marty Stuart is an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash's road band before beginning work as a solo artist in the early 1980s. His greatest commercial success came in the first half of the 1990s on MCA Records Nashville. Stuart has recorded over 20 studio albums, and has charted over 30 times on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His highest chart entry is "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'", a duet with Travis Tritt. Stuart has also won five Grammy Awards out of 16 nominations. He is known for his combination of rockabilly, country rock, and bluegrass music influences, his frequent collaborations and cover songs, and his distinctive stage dress. Stuart is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry and Country Music Hall of Fame.

  52. 1957

    1. Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter births

      1. American actress (born 1957)

        Fran Drescher

        Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader. She is known for her role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.

  53. 1956

    1. Trevor Morgan, English footballer and manager births

      1. English footballer and coach

        Trevor Morgan (footballer)

        Trevor James Morgan is an English football coach and former player.

  54. 1955

    1. Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems births

      1. German electrical engineer and co-founder of Sun Microsystems

        Andy Bechtolsheim

        Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. His net worth reached $7 billion in September 2018.

      2. American computer company, 1982–2010

        Sun Microsystems

        Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. Notable Sun acquisitions include Cray Business Systems Division, Storagetek, and Innotek GmbH, creators of VirtualBox. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. At its height, the Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California, on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.

    2. Frankie Kennedy, Northern Irish flute player (d. 1994) births

      1. Musical artist

        Frankie Kennedy

        Frankie Kennedy was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The popular Frankie Kennedy Winter Music School was founded in 1994 in his honour.

    3. James Dean, American actor (b. 1931) deaths

      1. American actor (1931–1955)

        James Dean

        James Byron Dean was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956).

  55. 1954

    1. Basia, Polish singer-songwriter and record producer births

      1. Polish singer-songwriter

        Basia

        Barbara Stanisława Trzetrzelewska, better known as Basia, is a Polish singer-songwriter and recording artist noted for her Latin-inspired jazz-pop music. She began singing professionally in various Polish bands from the late 1960s throughout the 1970s, then relocated to the UK in 1981. She rose to fame as a singer in the British trio Matt Bianco. By 1986, Basia and her bandmate Danny White had left the group to focus on her solo career. She signed on with Epic Records and enjoyed a successful international career between 1987 and 1995, particularly in the USA where her first two albums Time and Tide and London Warsaw New York were platinum-certified, million-unit sellers. During that period, her biggest hits were "Time and Tide", "New Day for You", "Promises", "Baby You're Mine", "Cruising for Bruising", and "Drunk on Love". She had also built up a fan base in Asia. She took a lengthy hiatus due to personal tragedies, then made a comeback to regular recording and performing in the late 2000s. She currently releases her music through independent labels.

    2. Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer births

      1. American guitarist, composer, and bandleader

        Scott Fields

        Scott Fields is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for blending music that is composed with music that is written and for his modular pieces. He works primarily in avant-garde jazz, experimental music, and contemporary classical music.

    3. Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer births

      1. American jazz pianist and R&B singer

        Patrice Rushen

        Patrice Louise Rushen is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer. She is also a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.

  56. 1953

    1. Matt Abts, American drummer births

      1. American drummer

        Matt Abts

        Matt Abts is an American drummer, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band Gov't Mule.

    2. Deborah Allen, American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress births

      1. American country singer-songwriter

        Deborah Allen

        Deborah Allen is an American country music singer and songwriter. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. She recorded the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied", which reached No. 4 on the country chart and No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also written No. 1 singles for herself, Janie Fricke, and John Conlee; Top 5 hits for Patty Loveless and Tanya Tucker; and a Top 10 hit for The Whites.

  57. 1952

    1. John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist births

      1. Musical artist

        John Lombardo

        John Lombardo is one of the founding members of the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs and one of the band's most influential members, writing much of its early material. He is also a member of folk rock duo John & Mary.

  58. 1951

    1. John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer births

      1. John Lloyd (producer)

        John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English television and radio comedy producer and writer. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Spitting Image, Blackadder and QI. He is currently the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.

    2. Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate births

      1. Australian physician

        Barry Marshall

        Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.

      2. One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

        The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

    3. Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic births

      1. British astronomer

        Simon White

        Simon David Manton White, FRS, is a British astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019.

  59. 1950

    1. Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter births

      1. Mexican politician

        Laura Esquivel

        Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and politician, serving in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress in the Chamber of Deputies for the Morena Party from 2015 to 2018. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film.

    2. Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer births

      1. British actress

        Victoria Tennant

        Victoria Tennant is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela Tudsbury, as well as her supporting roles in such movies as All of Me (1984), The Holcroft Covenant (1985), Flowers in the Attic (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), and L.A. Story (1991).

  60. 1948

    1. Craig Kusick, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006) births

      1. American baseball player (1948–2006)

        Craig Kusick

        Craig Robert Kusick was an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays.

  61. 1947

    1. Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977) births

      1. English guitarist and singer (1947–1977)

        Marc Bolan

        Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of T. Rex.

    2. Rula Lenska, English actress births

      1. British actress

        Rula Lenska

        Rula Lenska is a British actress. She mainly appears in British stage and television productions and is known in the United States for a series of television advertisements in the 1970s and 1980s. She portrayed Claudia Colby in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

  62. 1946

    1. Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer births

      1. American actress

        Fran Brill

        Fran Brill is an American retired actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street, as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film Being There (1979), Dana Mardukas in the Martin Brest film Midnight Run (1988) and Lily Marvin in the Frank Oz film What About Bob? (1991).

    2. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords births

      1. British politician (born 1946)

        Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury

        Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil,, is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons, and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses, the 17th-century Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.

      2. Member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom

        Leader of the House of Lords

        The leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The post is also the leader of the majority party in the House of Lords who acts as the government party chairperson in the house. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unless the Leader is also a departmental minister, being Leader constitutes the bulk of their government responsibilities, but it has never been an independent salaried office. The Office of the Leader of the House of Lords is a ministerial department.

    3. Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 1993) births

      1. Puerto Rican salsa singer

        Héctor Lavoe

        Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Lavoe is considered to be possibly the best and most important singer and interpreter in the history of salsa music because he helped to establish the popularity of this musical genre in the decades of 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His personality, style and the qualities of his voice led him to a successful artistic career in the whole field of Latin music and salsa during the 1970s and 1980s. The cleanness and brightness of his voice, coupled with impeccable diction and the ability to sing long and fast phrases with total naturalness, made him one of the favorite singers of the Latin public.

    4. Jochen Mass, German race car driver births

      1. German racing driver

        Jochen Mass

        Jochen Richard Mass is a German former racing driver.

    5. Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator births

      1. Australian cricketer

        Paul Sheahan

        Andrew Paul Sheahan is a former Australian international cricketer who played 31 Test matches and three One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 and 1973.

    6. Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism births

      1. Author of Raëlism and founder and current leader of the Raëlian Movement

        Raël

        Raël is a French journalist who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.

      2. UFO religion

        Raëlism

        Raëlism, also known as Raëlianism or Raelian Movement is a UFO religion founded in 1970s France by Claude Vorilhon, now known as Raël. Scholars of religion classify Raëlism as a new religious movement. The group is formalised as the International Raëlian Movement (IRM) or Raëlian Church, a hierarchical organisation under Raël's leadership.

    7. Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1887) deaths

      1. Japanese officer, war criminal 1887–1946

        Takashi Sakai

        Takashi Sakai was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, known for his role as Governor of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.

      2. Head of the Hong Kong Government during British rule

        Governor of Hong Kong

        The governor of Hong Kong was the representative of the British Crown in Hong Kong from 1843 to 1997. In this capacity, the governor was president of the Executive Council and commander-in-chief of the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong. The governor's roles were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Royal Instructions. Upon the end of British rule and the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, most of the civil functions of this office went to the chief executive of Hong Kong, and military functions went to the commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison.

  63. 1945

    1. Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and academic births

      1. British astronomer (1945–2022)

        Richard Edwin Hills

        Richard Edwin Hills was a British astronomer who was emeritus professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.

    2. Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel births

      1. Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009

        Ehud Olmert

        Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006. Between his first and second stints as a cabinet member, he served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. After serving as PM, he was sentenced to serve a prison term over convictions for accepting bribes and for obstruction of justice during his terms as mayor of Jerusalem and as trade minister.

      2. Head of government of Israel

        Prime Minister of Israel

        The prime minister of Israel is the head of government and chief executive of the State of Israel.

  64. 1944

    1. Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter births

      1. Musical artist

        Diane Dufresne

        Diane Dufresne, is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs.

    2. Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006) births

      1. Scottish footballer

        Jimmy Johnstone

        James Connolly Johnstone was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Known as "Jinky" for his elusive dribbling style, Johnstone played for Celtic for 13 years, and was part of the 'Lisbon Lions', the team who won the 1967 European Cup Final, as well as winning nine consecutive Scottish championships. He scored 129 goals for Celtic in 515 appearances and was voted the club's greatest ever player by fans in 2002.

    3. Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009) births

      1. American basketball player

        Red Robbins

        Austin "Red" Robbins was an American basketball player.

  65. 1943

    1. Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate births

      1. German biochemist

        Johann Deisenhofer

        Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.

      2. One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Chemistry

        The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. This award is administered by the Nobel Foundation, and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on proposal of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry which consists of five members elected by the Academy. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

    2. Marilyn McCoo, American singer births

      1. American singer, actress, television presenter

        Marilyn McCoo

        Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold.

    3. Philip Moore, English organist and composer births

      1. English composer and organist

        Philip Moore (organist)

        Philip John Moore is an English composer and organist.

    4. Ian Ogilvy, English-American actor, playwright, and author births

      1. English actor, playwright and novelist

        Ian Ogilvy

        Ian Raymond Ogilvy is an English actor, playwright, and novelist.

    5. Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (b. 1864) deaths

      1. German-Jewish sociologist and political economist (1864–1943)

        Franz Oppenheimer

        Franz Oppenheimer was a German Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state.

  66. 1942

    1. Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (d. 2002) births

      1. English record producer

        Gus Dudgeon

        Angus Boyd "Gus" Dudgeon was an English record producer, who oversaw many of Elton John's most acclaimed recordings, including his commercial breakthrough, "Your Song". Their collaboration led to seven US No. 1 albums, and established John as one of the most successful singles artists of the 1970s. Dudgeon also produced Chris Rea's first hit, the US chart topping "Fool ", and David Bowie's "Space Oddity", and steered many other artists to chart success, including Joan Armatrading and Elkie Brooks. The Guinness Book of Records cites Dudgeon as being the first person to use sampling in music production. He was a founding member of the Music Producers Guild.

    2. Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968) births

      1. American singer (1942–1968)

        Frankie Lymon

        Franklin Joseph Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and that of the Teenagers fell into decline. He was found dead at the age of 25 on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom from a heroin overdose. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of the Teenagers. His life was dramatized in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

    3. Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (b. 1919) deaths

      1. German World War II fighter pilot

        Hans-Joachim Marseille

        Hans-Joachim Marseille was a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II. He is noted for his aerial battles during the North African Campaign and his Bohemian lifestyle. One of the most successful fighter pilots, he was nicknamed the "Star of Africa". Marseille claimed all but seven of his 158 victories against the British Commonwealth's Desert Air Force over North Africa, flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter for his entire combat career. No other pilot claimed as many Western Allied aircraft as Marseille.

  67. 1941

    1. Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and educator births

      1. Samuel Pickering

        Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. Pickering has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.

    2. Kamalesh Sharma, Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General births

      1. Indian diplomat

        Kamalesh Sharma

        Kamalesh Sharma is an Indian diplomat. He was the fifth Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008 to 2016, having previously served as the High Commissioner for India in London. He has served as the Chancellor Emeritus of Queen's University Belfast.

      2. Head of the Commonwealth Secretariat

        Commonwealth Secretary-General

        The Commonwealth secretary-general is the head of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the central body which has served the Commonwealth of Nations since its establishment in 1965, and responsible for representing the Commonwealth publicly. The Commonwealth secretary-general should not be confused with the head of the Commonwealth.

    3. Reine Wisell, Swedish race car driver (d. 2022) births

      1. Swedish former racing driver (1941–2022)

        Reine Wisell

        Reine Wisell was a Swedish racing driver. He participated in 23 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 4 October 1970. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 13 championship points.

  68. 1940

    1. Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (d. 2015) births

      1. American philosopher

        Claudia Card

        Claudia Falconer Card was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studies, and LGBT Studies.

    2. Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982) births

      1. Canadian track and field runner

        Harry Jerome

        "Harry" Winston Jerome was a Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and set a total of seven world records over the course of his career.

    3. Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (d. 2009) births

      1. American drummer

        Dewey Martin (musician)

        Dewey Martin was a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

  69. 1939

    1. Len Cariou, Canadian actor births

      1. Canadian actor and stage director

        Len Cariou

        Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and for playing the patriarch Henry Reagan, NYPD Police Commissioner (retired), in the multi-generational television series Blue Bloods on CBS.

    2. Anthony Green, English painter and academic births

      1. British painter

        Anthony Green (painter)

        Anthony Green is an English realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes use compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses. As well as producing oil paintings, he also produces a number of works designed from the start as limited edition prints, which are typically giclée works.

    3. Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate births

      1. French chemist, Nobel laureate (born 1939)

        Jean-Marie Lehn

        Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host–guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. As of January 2006, his group has published 790 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature.

      2. One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Chemistry

        The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. This award is administered by the Nobel Foundation, and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on proposal of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry which consists of five members elected by the Academy. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

  70. 1938

    1. Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and educator (d. 2012) births

      1. Musical artist

        Alan Hacker

        Alan Ray Hacker was an English clarinettist, conductor, and music professor.

  71. 1937

    1. Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (d. 1997) births

      1. German writer, film-author and GDR dissident

        Jurek Becker

        Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.

    2. Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer births

      1. Ukrainian pianist and composer

        Valentyn Silvestrov

        Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov is a Ukrainian composer and pianist, who plays and writes contemporary classical music.

    3. Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (d. 1962) births

      1. Gary Hocking

        Gary Stuart Hocking was a Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s based in Rhodesia.

  72. 1936

    1. Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China births

      1. American politician

        Jim Sasser

        James Ralph Sasser is an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. A Democrat, Sasser served three terms as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1977 to 1995, and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. From 1996 to 1999, during the Clinton Administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China.

      2. List of ambassadors of the United States to China

        The United States Ambassador to China is the chief American diplomat to People's Republic of China (PRC). The United States has sent diplomatic representatives to China since 1844, when Caleb Cushing, as commissioner, negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia. Commissioners represented the United States in China from 1844 to 1857. Until 1898, China did not have a system in place for the Emperor to accept the Letters of Credence of foreign representatives. From 1858 to 1935, the U.S. representative in China was formally Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China. The American legation in Nanjing was upgraded to an embassy in 1935 and the Envoy was promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

    2. Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (d. 1976) births

      1. Turkish writer

        Sevgi Soysal

        Sevgi Soysal was a Turkish writer.

  73. 1935

    1. Johnny Mathis, American singer and actor births

      1. American pop music singer (b.1935)

        Johnny Mathis

        John Royce Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three recordings.

  74. 1934

    1. Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (d. 2009) births

      1. English footballer

        Alan A'Court

        Alan A'Court was an English footballer who mostly played for Liverpool. He gained five caps for England and represented the nation at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

    2. Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2014) births

      1. Austrian composer and singer

        Udo Jürgens

        Udo Jürgens was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, composed close to 1,000 songs, and sold over 100 million records. In 2007, he additionally obtained Swiss citizenship.

    3. Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (d. 2015) births

      1. British actress (1934–2015)

        Anna Kashfi

        Anna Kashfi was a British film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s but was better known for her tumultuous marriage to film star Marlon Brando and the controversies surrounding their son.

  75. 1933

    1. Cissy Houston, American singer births

      1. American singer (born 1933)

        Cissy Houston

        Emily "Cissy" Houston is an American soul and gospel singer. After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Roy Hamilton, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, Houston embarked on a solo career, winning two Grammy Awards for her work.

  76. 1932

    1. Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo (d. 2022) births

      1. Japanese politician and author, Governor of Tokyo (1932–2022)

        Shintaro Ishihara

        Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Japan Restoration Party, he was one of the most prominent ultranationalists in modern Japanese politics. An ultranationalist, he was infamous for his misogynistic comments, racist remarks, xenophobic views and hatred of Chinese and Koreans, including using the antiquated pejorative term "sangokujin".

      2. Governor of Tokyo

        The Governor of Tokyo is the head of government of Tokyo.

    2. Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008) births

      1. American baseball player (1932–2008)

        Johnny Podres

        John Joseph Podres was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in the majors from 1953 to 1969, spending most of his career with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers. Podres won four World Series titles with the Dodgers. He is best known for pitching a shutout in game 7 of the 1955 World Series to give the Dodgers their first championship.

  77. 1931

    1. Angie Dickinson, American actress births

      1. American actress (b. 1931)

        Angie Dickinson

        Angeline Dickinson is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.

    2. Teresa Gorman, English educator and politician (d. 2015) births

      1. British politician

        Teresa Gorman

        Teresa Ellen Gorman was a British politician. She was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Billericay, in the county of Essex in England, from 1987 to 2001 when she stood down. She was a leading figure in the rebellions over the Maastricht Treaty that nearly brought down John Major's government. She worked in both education and business.

  78. 1929

    1. Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (d. 2002) births

      1. American children's writer

        Carol Fenner

        Carol Elizabeth Fenner was an American children's writer.

    2. Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic births

      1. Greek politician and seismologist (1929–2022)

        Vassilis Papazachos

        Vassilis Papazachos was a Greek seismologist and author of Earthquakes of Greece.

    3. Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (d. 2017) births

      1. Filipina politician and diplomat

        Leticia Ramos-Shahani

        Leticia Valdez Ramos-Shahani was a Filipina senator, diplomat, and writer.

    4. Dorothee Sölle, German theologian and author (d. 2003) births

      1. German theologian

        Dorothee Sölle

        Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle, known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German liberation theologian who coined the term "Christofascism". She was born in Cologne and died at a conference in Göppingen.

  79. 1928

    1. Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) births

      1. Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor

        Elie Wiesel

        Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

      2. One of five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Peace Prize

        The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded annually to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

    2. Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 2013) births

      1. American gridiron football player and coach (1928–2013)

        Ray Willsey

        Ray Willsey was an American gridiron football player and coach. He was the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 to 1971. During his tenure he compiled a 40–42–1 record. He was inducted into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

  80. 1927

    1. W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (d. 2019) births

      1. American poet (1927–2019)

        W. S. Merwin

        William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests.

  81. 1926

    1. Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012) births

      1. Estonian basketball player

        Heino Kruus

        Heino Kruus was an Estonian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Kalev in Tallinn

    2. Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2010) births

      1. American baseball player

        Robin Roberts (baseball)

        Robin Evan Roberts was a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1961). He spent the latter part of his career with the Baltimore Orioles (1962–1965), Houston Astros (1965–66), and Chicago Cubs (1966). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. After his playing days, he coached the NCAA's South Florida Bulls baseball team for nine seasons, leading them to 6 conference titles.

  82. 1925

    1. Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998) births

      1. Arkady Ostashev

        Arkady Ilyich Ostashev, KN, was a Russian mechanical engineer who participated in the Soviet Union's first launch of the Sputnik, and of the first cosmonaut. He was a Candidate of Technical Sciences, docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes, senior test pilot of missiles and space-rocket complexes of OKB-1 as well as a companion of Sergey Korolev, the head of the Soviet space program.

  83. 1924

    1. Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984) births

      1. American author (1924–1984)

        Truman Capote

        Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." His works have been adapted into more than 20 films and television dramas.

  84. 1923

    1. Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (d. 1994) births

      1. British composer (1923–1994)

        Donald Swann

        Donald Ibrahim Swann was a British composer, musician, singer and entertainer. He was one half of Flanders and Swann, writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders.

  85. 1922

    1. Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010) births

      1. American actor

        Lamont Johnson

        Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.

    2. Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006) births

      1. Indian film director

        Hrishikesh Mukherjee

        Hrishikesh Mukherjee was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. Popularly known as Hrishi-da, he directed 42 films during his career spanning over four decades, and is named the pioneer of the 'middle cinema' of India. Renowned for his social films that reflected the changing middle-class ethos, Mukherjee "carved a middle path between the extravagance of mainstream cinema and the stark realism of art cinema".

  86. 1921

    1. Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (d. 2007) births

      1. British film and television actress (1921–2007)

        Deborah Kerr

        Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

    2. Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator (d. 2018) births

      1. Musical artist

        Aldo Parisot

        Aldo Simoes Parisot was a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher. He was first a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and then went on to serve as a music professor at the Yale School of Music for sixty years.

  87. 1919

    1. Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1992) births

      1. Roberto Bonomi

        Roberto Wenceslao Bonomi Oliva was a racing driver who took part in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix driving a Cooper for the Scuderia Centro Sud team. Before he participated in Formula One he was a sports car champion in 1952 and 1953, as well as a member of the Argentine team to race in Europe. Bonomi worked as a local politician and landowner.

    2. Elizabeth Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 2008) births

      1. Soviet violinist, professor (1919–2008)

        Elizabeth Gilels

        Elizabeth Gilels was a Soviet violinist and professor.

    3. William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013) births

      1. American politician

        William L. Guy

        William Lewis Guy was an American politician who was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. Guy was North Dakota's longest-serving governor in state history, serving two consecutive two-year terms and two four-year terms in office.

      2. Head of government of North Dakota, US

        Governor of North Dakota

        The governor of North Dakota is the head of government of North Dakota and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

    4. Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (d. 2012) births

      1. American opera and theater singer

        Patricia Neway

        Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid-1940s through the 1970s. One of the few performers of her day to enjoy equal success on both the opera and musical theatre stages, she was a regular performer on both Broadway and at the New York City Opera during the 1950s and 1960s.

  88. 1918

    1. Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (d. 1995) births

      1. United States Army officer and businessman

        Lewis Nixon III

        Captain Lewis Nixon III was a United States Army officer who, during World War II, served at the company, battalion, and regimental level with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Nixon was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Ron Livingston.

    2. René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007) births

      1. René Rémond

        René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.

  89. 1917

    1. Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014) births

      1. Yuri Lyubimov

        Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.

    2. Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (d. 1987) births

      1. American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917–1987)

        Buddy Rich

        Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.

  90. 1915

    1. Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (d. 2003) births

      1. American politician from Georgia (1915–2003)

        Lester Maddox

        Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, the Pickrick, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He later served as Georgia lieutenant governor under Jimmy Carter.

      2. Head of government of the U.S. state of Georgia

        Governor of Georgia

        The governor of Georgia is the head of government of Georgia and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor also has a duty to enforce state laws, the power to either veto or approve bills passed by the Georgia Legislature, and the power to convene the legislature. The current governor is Republican Brian Kemp, who assumed office on January 14, 2019.

  91. 1913

    1. Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975) births

      1. American film producer, screenwriter, and comics author

        Bill Walsh (producer)

        William Crozier Walsh was a film producer, screenwriter and comics writer who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions. He was born in New York City. For his work on Mary Poppins, he shared Academy Award nominations for Best Picture with Walt Disney, and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium with Don DaGradi. He also wrote the Mickey Mouse comic strip for more than two decades. He died in Los Angeles and was interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

  92. 1912

    1. Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985) births

      1. Singer and actor (1912–1985)

        Kenny Baker (American performer)

        Kenneth Laurence Baker was an American singer and actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on radio's The Jack Benny Program during the 1930s.

  93. 1911

    1. Gustave Gilbert, American psychologist (d. 1977) births

      1. American psychologist

        Gustave Gilbert

        Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials. His 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship was an attempt to profile the Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler using as reference the testimonials of Hitler's closest generals and commanders. Gilbert's published work is still a subject of study in many universities and colleges, especially in the field of psychology.

  94. 1910

    1. Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain (d. 1962) births

      1. Jussi Kekkonen

        Uuno Johannes (Jussi) Kekkonen was a Finnish major, CEO and the younger brother of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen. Jussi Kekkonen fought successfully in the Winter War in the direction of Kuhmo but lost his sight when he was wounded in the early stages of the Continuation War.

    2. Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838) deaths

      1. French engineer

        Maurice Lévy

        Maurice Lévy was a French engineer and member of the Institut de France.

  95. 1908

    1. David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1974) births

      1. Soviet violinist (1908–1974)

        David Oistrakh

        David Fyodorovich Oistrakh, was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor.

  96. 1906

    1. Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996) births

      1. Mireille Hartuch

        Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille," it being a common practice of the time to use a single name for the stage.

  97. 1905

    1. Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) births

      1. English physicist, Nobel prize winner

        Nevill Francis Mott

        Sir Nevill Francis Mott was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The award was shared with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck. The three had conducted loosely related research. Mott and Anderson clarified the reasons why magnetic or amorphous materials can sometimes be metallic and sometimes insulating.

      2. One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Physics

        The Nobel Prize in Physics is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions for humankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901, the others being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Physics is traditionally the first award presented in the Nobel Prize ceremony.

    2. Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990) births

      1. English film director

        Michael Powell

        Michael Latham Powell was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). His later controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, while today considered a classic, and a contender as the first "slasher", was so vilified on first release that his career was seriously damaged.

  98. 1904

    1. Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971) births

      1. Welsh poet and pacifist, 1904–1971

        Waldo Williams

        Waldo Goronwy Williams was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is often referred to by his first name only.

  99. 1901

    1. Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966) births

      1. American musician (1901–1966)

        Thelma Terry

        Thelma Terry was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s and 1930s. She led Thelma Terry and Her Playboys and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist.

  100. 1898

    1. Renée Adorée, French-American actress (d. 1933) births

      1. French actress (1898–1933)

        Renée Adorée

        Renée Adorée was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade. Adorée‘s career was cut short after she contracted tuberculosis in 1930. She died of the disease in 1933 at the age of 35.

    2. Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (d. 1977) births

      1. Hereditary Princess of Monaco

        Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois

        Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, was the daughter of Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and the mother of Prince Rainier III. From 1922 until 1944, she was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco, heiress presumptive to the throne.

    3. Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator (d. 1986) births

      1. Wife-and-husband illustrator and children's writer duo

        Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

        Ingri d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire were American writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team, completing almost all of their well-known works together. The couple immigrated to the United States from Europe and worked on books that focused on history such as Abraham Lincoln, which won the 1940 Caldecott Medal. They were part of the group of immigrant artists composed of Feodor Rojankovsky, Roger Duvoisin, Ludwig Bemelmans, Miska Petersham and Tibor Gergely, who helped shape the Golden Age of picture books in mid-twentieth-century America.

  101. 1897

    1. Alfred Wintle, Russian-English soldier and politician (d. 1966) births

      1. Recipient of the Military Cross

        Alfred Wintle

        Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle MC, better known as A. D. Wintle, was a British military officer in the 1st The Royal Dragoons who served in the First and Second World Wars. He was the first non-lawyer to achieve a unanimous verdict in his favour in the House of Lords, and is considered one of London's greatest eccentrics.

    2. Charlotte Wolff, German-English physician and psychotherapist (d. 1986) births

      1. German physician

        Charlotte Wolff

        Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential early works in the field.

    3. Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (b. 1873) deaths

      1. French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897)

        Thérèse of Lisieux

        Thérèse of Lisieux, born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin, also known as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known in English as the Little Flower of Jesus, or simply the Little Flower, and in French as la petite Thérèse.

  102. 1895

    1. Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1980) births

      1. Moldovan-American film director

        Lewis Milestone

        Lewis Milestone was a Moldovan-American film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page, The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960), and received the directing credit for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), though Marlon Brando largely appropriated his responsibilities during its production.

  103. 1893

    1. Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1964) births

      1. Politician and United States Army officer (1893-1964)

        Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer

        Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for seven terms from 1939 to 1953.

  104. 1891

    1. Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1837) deaths

      1. French general and rightist politician (1837–1891)

        Georges Ernest Boulanger

        Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, nicknamed Général Revanche, was a French general and politician. An enormously popular public figure during the second decade of the Third Republic, he won multiple elections. At the zenith of his popularity in January 1889, he was feared to be powerful enough to establish himself as dictator. His base of support was the working districts of Paris and other cities, plus rural traditionalist Catholics and royalists. He promoted an aggressive nationalism, known as revanchism, which opposed Germany and called for the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) to be avenged.

      2. Minister of the Armed Forces (France)

        The Minister of the Armed Forces is the leader and most senior official of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, tasked with running the French Armed Forces. The minister is the third highest civilian having authority over France's military, behind only the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister. Based on the governments, they may be assisted by a minister or state secretary for veterans' affairs.

  105. 1887

    1. Lil Dagover, Indonesian-German actress (d. 1980) births

      1. German actress (1887–1980)

        Lil Dagover

        Lil Dagover was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar Republic.

  106. 1883

    1. Bernhard Rust, German educator and politician (d. 1945) births

      1. Bernhard Rust

        Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in Nazi ideology. He also served as the party Gauleiter in Hanover and Brunswick from 1925 to 1940.

    2. Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (d. 1971) births

      1. British civil engineer and suffragist

        Nora Stanton Barney

        Nora Stanton Barney was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or practice engineering she chose engineering. She was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

  107. 1882

    1. Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (d. 1945) births

      1. German physicist (1882–1945)

        Hans Geiger

        Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.

  108. 1870

    1. Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1948) births

      1. American banker

        Thomas W. Lamont

        Thomas William Lamont Jr. was an American banker.

    2. Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942) births

      1. French physicist

        Jean Baptiste Perrin

        Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter. For this achievement he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926.

      2. One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

        Nobel Prize in Physics

        The Nobel Prize in Physics is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions for humankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901, the others being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Physics is traditionally the first award presented in the Nobel Prize ceremony.

  109. 1866

    1. Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, Swedo-Finnish treasurer of Tavastia province, manor host, and paternal grandfather of President P. E. Svinhufvud (b. 1804) deaths

      1. Finnish provincial treasurer

        Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad

        Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad was a Finnish provincial treasurer of Tavastia and the host of the Rapola Manor in Sääksmäki. His grandson was Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, the future third President of the Republic of Finland.

      2. Historical province in the south of Finland

        Tavastia (historical province)

        Tavastia is a historical province in the south of Finland. It borders Finland Proper, Satakunta, Ostrobothnia, Savonia and Uusimaa.

      3. President of Finland from 1931 to 1937

        Pehr Evind Svinhufvud

        Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad was the third president of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, he played a major role in the movement for Finnish independence, he was one who presented the Declaration of Independence to the Parliament. In 1917–1918, Svinhufvud was the first Head of State of independent Finland, first as Chairman of the Senate and subsequently as Protector of State or Regent. He also served as Prime Minister from 1930 to 1931.

  110. 1865

    1. Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800) deaths

      1. Italian Orthodox rabbi, linguist and poet

        Samuel David Luzzatto

        Samuel David Luzzatto, also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal (שד״ל), was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.

  111. 1863

    1. Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (d. 1928) births

      1. German admiral (1863–1928)

        Reinhard Scheer

        Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer was an Admiral in the Imperial German Navy. Scheer joined the navy in 1879 as an officer cadet and progressed through the ranks, commanding cruisers and battleships, as well as senior staff positions on land. At the outbreak of World War I, Scheer was the commander of the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet. He then took command of the III Battle Squadron, which consisted of the newest and most powerful battleships in the navy. In January 1916, he was promoted to Admiral and given control of the High Seas Fleet. Scheer led the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, one of the largest naval battles in history.

  112. 1861

    1. William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (d. 1932) births

      1. American businessman (1861–1932)

        William Wrigley Jr.

        William Mills Wrigley Jr. was an American chewing gum industrialist. He was founder of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891.

      2. American company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois

        Wrigley Company

        The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, known as the Wrigley Company, is an American multinational chewing gum company, based in the Global Innovation Center (GIC) in Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois.

  113. 1852

    1. Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1924) births

      1. Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor

        Charles Villiers Stanford

        Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.

  114. 1836

    1. Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian politician, 56th President of Peru (d. 1894) births

      1. President of Peru from 1890 to 1894

        Remigio Morales Bermúdez

        Remigio Morales Bermúdez served as the 28th President of Peru from 1890 to 1894. He died while still in office. He served as the first vice president from 1886 to 1890.

      2. Chief Executive of the Republic of Peru

        President of Peru

        The president of Peru, officially called the president of the Republic of Peru, is the head of state and head of government of Peru. The president is the head of the executive branch and is the Supreme Head of the Armed Forces and Police of Peru. The office of president corresponds to the highest magistracy in the country, making the president the highest-ranking public official in Peru. Due to broadly interpreted impeachment wording in the 1993 Constitution of Peru, the Congress of Peru can impeach the president without cause, effectively making the executive branch subject to the legislature.

  115. 1832

    1. Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (d. 1905) births

      1. Ann Jarvis

        Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis was a social activist and community organizer during the American Civil War era. She is recognized as the mother who inspired Mother's Day and as a founder of Mother's Day movements, and her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis (1864–1948), is recognized as the founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States.

      2. Holiday in the United States

        Mother's Day (United States)

        Mother's Day is an annual holiday celebrated in the United States on the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day recognizes mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds in general, as well as the positive contributions that they make to their families and society. It was established by Anna Jarvis, with the first official Mother's Day celebrated through a service of worship at St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908. Popular observances include holiday card and gift giving, churchgoing often accompanied by the distribution of carnations, and family dinners. In the United States, Mother's Day complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Father's Day, Siblings Day and Grandparents Day.

  116. 1827

    1. Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (d. 1918) births

      1. American politician (1827–1918)

        Ellis H. Roberts

        Ellis Henry Roberts was an American politician who served as a Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States.

      2. Official in the United States Department of the Treasury

        Treasurer of the United States

        The treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who serves as custodian and trustee of the federal government's collateral assets and the supervisor of the department's currency and coinage production functions. The current treasurer is Marilynn Malerba, who is the first Native American to hold the post.

  117. 1814

    1. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (d. 1900) births

      1. American feminist, educator, traveler, writer and philanthropist

        Lucinda Hinsdale Stone

        Lucinda Hinsdale Stone was an early American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, and philanthropist. Stone was the first woman in the United States to take classes of young women abroad to study, that means to illustrate history and literature.

  118. 1813

    1. John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893) births

      1. Scottish explorer

        John Rae (explorer)

        John Rae was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada.

  119. 1800

    1. Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (d. 1881) births

      1. British architect (1800–1881)

        Decimus Burton

        Decimus Burton was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman revival, Greek revival, Georgian neoclassical and Regency styles. He was a founding fellow and vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and from 1840 architect to the Royal Botanic Society, and an early member of the Athenaeum Club, London, whose clubhouse he designed and which the company of his father, James Burton, the pre-eminent Georgian London property developer, built.

      2. Lighthouse

        Pharos Lighthouse, Fleetwood

        The Pharos Lighthouse is a 93-foot (28 m) tall Runcorn red sandstone lighthouse situated in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England. The lighthouse was designed in 1839 by Decimus Burton and Capt H.M. Denham. Burton has been commissioned three years previously by Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood as the architect of the new town of Fleetwood. Construction was completed in 1840. Unusually for a functioning British lighthouse, it stands in the middle of a residential street. Though officially named the 'Upper Lighthouse', it has been known as the 'Pharos' since its construction, after the celebrated ancient lighthouse Pharos of Alexandria.

  120. 1770

    1. Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1695) deaths

      1. 18th-century English diplomat and politician

        Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham

        Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham,, of Newby, Yorkshire, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1761.

      2. Former British political position

        Secretary of State for the Southern Department

        The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a position in the cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782, when the Southern Department became the Home Office.

    2. George Whitefield, English-American priest and theologian (b. 1714) deaths

      1. English minister and preacher (1714–1770)

        George Whitefield

        George Whitefield, also known as George Whitfield, was an Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.

  121. 1765

    1. José María Morelos, Mexican priest and general (d. 1815) births

      1. Mexican priest and rebel leader of Mexican War of Independence

        José María Morelos

        José María Teclo Morelos Pérez y Pavón was a Mexican Catholic priest, statesman and military leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1811.

  122. 1743

    1. Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German cantor and composer (d. 1813) births

      1. Christian Ehregott Weinlig

        Christian Ehregott Weinlig was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche.