597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king. 455 – Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome). 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. 1190 – Massacre of Jews at Cliffords Tower, York. 1244 – Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur. 1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars. 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset. 1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament. 1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán. 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. 1812 – Battle of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War. 1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. 1818 – In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín. 1861 – Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. 1864 – American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana. 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war. 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London. 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete. 1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scotts South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: I am just going outside and may be some time. 1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. 1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy. 1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. 1936 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and lead to a major flood in Pittsburgh. 1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. 1939 – Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. 1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister. 1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted. 1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed. 1950 – Communist Czechoslovakias ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country. 1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the companys founding. 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead. 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle. 1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops. 1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. 1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155. 1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons. 1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors. 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history. 1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The Peoples Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war. 1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany. 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity. 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991. 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. 1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people. 1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews. 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. 2003 – Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah. 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. Births 1338 – Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, English son of Katherine Mortimer, Countess of Warwick (d. 1401) 1399 – Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435) 1445 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss priest (d. 1510) 1473 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541) 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and poet (d. 1647) 1585 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1618) 1631 – René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680) 1654 – Andreas Acoluthus, German scholar (d. 1704) 1663 – Jean-Baptiste Matho, French composer (d. 1743) 1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848) 1751 – James Madison, American politician, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836) 1771 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (d. 1835) 1773 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian military leader and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (d. 1836) 1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814) 1789 – Francis Chesney, English general and explorer (d. 1872) 1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854) 1794 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881) 1797 – Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (d. 1864) 1800 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (d. 1846) 1805 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (d. 1861) 1821 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881) 1822 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (d. 1899) 1823 – William Henry Monk, English organist, church musician, music editor and composer (d. 1889) 1834 – James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907) 1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907) 1839 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (d. 1922) 1840 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1931) 1845 – Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (d. 1928) 1846 – Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book smuggler (d. 1918) 1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927) 1848 – Axel Heiberg, Norwegian diplomat, financier and patron (d. 1932) 1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931) 1856 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (d. 1879) 1857 – Charles Harding Firth, English historian (d. 1936) 1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906) 1865 – Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1953) 1869 – Willy Burmester, Germann violinist (d. 1933) 1869 – F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936) 1871 – Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (d. 1951) 1871 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player (d. 1932) 1876 – Charles Halton, American actor (d. 1959) 1877 – Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director (d. 1972) 1878 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, German cardinal (d. 1946) 1883 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958) 1884 – Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and author (d. 1960) 1885 – Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist (d. 1943) 1885 – Emory Holloway, American author 1889 – Reggie Walker, South African runner (d. 1951) 1890 – Solomon Mikhoels, Latvian actor (d. 1948) 1890 – Robert Natus, Baltic German architect (d. 1950) 1892 – James Petrillo, American union leader (d. 1984) 1892 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (d. 1938) 1897 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970) 1899 – Alberto Gainza Paz, Argentinian journalist and activist (d. 1977) 1901 – Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988) 1901 – Potti Sreeramulu, Indian activist (d. 1952) 1902 – Leon Roppolo, American clarinet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1943) 1903 – Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 2001) 1905 – Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress, producer, and author (d. 1977) 1906 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish author (d. 2009) 1906 – Henny Youngman, English-American violinist and comedian (d. 1998) 1908 – René Daumal, French author and poet (d. 1944) 1908 – Robert Rossen, American director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1966) 1911 – Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2009) 1911 – Josef Mengele, German physician and SS officer (d. 1979) 1912 – Pat Nixon, American educator, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1993) 1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004) 1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman (d. 2010) 1916 – Sapru (actor), Indian actor (d. 1979) 1917 – Samael Aun Weor, Colombian author (d. 1977) 1917 – Louis C. Wyman, American politician (d. 2002) 1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) 1920 – John Addison, English composer (d. 1998) 1920 – Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (d. 1947) 1920 – Sid Fleischman, American author (d. 2010) 1920 – Traudl Junge, German secretary and journalist (d. 2002) 1920 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d. 2002) 1922 – Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright 1924 – Beryl Davis, English-American singer (d. 2011) 1925 – Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball referee (d. 2012) 1925 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004) 1926 – Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987) 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American actor, singer, director, screenwriter, and producer 1927 – Ruby Braff, American trumpet player (d. 2003) 1927 – Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967) 1927 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2003) 1927 – Olga San Juan, American actress and dancer (d. 2009) 1928 – Karlheinz Böhm, German-Austrian actor 1928 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (d. 2010) 1928 – Christa Ludwig, German soprano 1929 – Betty Johnson, American singer (The Johnson Family Singers) 1929 – Nadja Tiller, Austrian-German actress 1930 – Tommy Flanagan, American pianist (d. 2001) 1931 – John Munro, Canadian politician (d. 2003) 1932 – Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005) 1932 – Walter Cunningham, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut 1932 – Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and author 1932 – Herbert Marx, Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge 1933 – Sanford I. Weill, American banker, financier, and philanthropist 1934 – Jean Cournoyer, Canadian politician and radio host 1934 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002) 1934 – Mack McInnis, American politician (d. 2013) 1934 – Ray Walker, American singer (The Jordanaires) 1935 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano 1936 – Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001) 1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI 1936 – Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress and voice actor (d. 2006) 1937 – Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996) 1939 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian footballer and coach 1940 – Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter 1940 – Jan Pronk, Dutch politician 1940 – Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM) 1940 – Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azeri jazz pianist and composer 1941 – Robert Guéï, Ivorian military leader and politician, 3rd President of Côte dIvoire (d. 2002) 1941 – Chuck Woolery, American game show host 1942 – Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996) 1942 – James Soong, Chinese-Taiwanese politician, Governor of Taiwan Province 1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lost Gonzo Band) 1943 – Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, and author 1943 – Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005) 1944 – Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist and author 1946 – Michael Basman, English chess player 1946 – Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor 1947 – Ramzan Paskayev, Kazakh accordion player and composer 1947 – Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor 1947 – Trevor Hartley, English footballer and manager 1948 – Michael Owen Bruce, American singer-songwriter 1948 – Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer-songwriter and director 1948 – Margaret Weis, American author 1949 – Erik Estrada, American actor 1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor and singer 1949 – Elliott Murphy, American-French singer-songwriter and author 1949 – Joseph Pilato, American actor 1951 – Ray Benson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Asleep at the Wheel) 1951 – Erich Cviertna, Czech footballer and manager (d. 2013) 1951 – Joe DeLamielleure, American football player 1951 – Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress 1952 – Graham Cole, English actor 1952 – Alice Hoffman, American author 1952 – Philippe Kahn, French businessman, co-founded Fullpower Technologies 1952 – Scott Simon, American journalist 1953 – Isabelle Huppert, French actress 1953 – Óscar Ramírez, Peruvian terrorist 1953 – Richard Stallman, American computer programmer 1954 – Jimmy Nail, English singer-songwriter and actor 1954 – Hollis Stacy, American golfer 1954 – Nancy Wilson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress (Heart) 1955 – Svetlana Alexeeva, Russian ice dancer and coach 1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian director 1955 – Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer 1956 – Ozzie Newsome, American football player 1956 – Clifton Powell, American actor 1958 – Kate Worley, American author (d. 2004) 1959 – Sebastian Currier, American composer 1959 – Flavor Flav, American rapper and actor (Public Enemy) 1959 – Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Norway 1960 – Jenny Eclair, English actress and author 1960 – Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1961 – Brett Kenny, Australian rugby player 1961 – Todd McFarlane, Canadian writer, illustrator, and businessman, founded McFarlane Toys 1961 – Michiru Oshima, Japanese composer and producer 1963 – Jimmy DeGrasso, American drummer (Megadeth, Black Star Riders, F5, Y&T, and Suicidal Tendencies) 1963 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002) 1964 – Mark Canterbury, American wrestler 1964 – Patty Griffin, American singer-songwriter (Band of Joy) 1964 – Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist 1964 – Gore Verbinski, American director, screenwriter, and producer 1965 – Steve Armstrong, American wrestler 1965 – Mark Carney, Canadian banker 1965 – Richard Daniel Roman, English-Spanish songwriter and producer 1965 – Belén Rueda, Spanish actress 1966 – H.P. Baxxter, German singer-songwriter (Scooter and Celebrate the Nun) 1967 – Tracy Bonham, American singer and violinist 1967 – John Darnielle, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mountain Goats, The Extra Lens, and The Bloody Hawaiians) 1967 – Lauren Graham, American actress and producer 1968 – Ananya Khare, Indian actress 1968 – Trevor Wilson, American basketball player 1969 – Judah Friedlander, American actor and comedian 1969 – Aggelos Koronios, Greek basketball player and coach 1970 – Joakim Berg, Swedish singer-songwriter (Kent) 1970 – Paul Oscar, Icelandic singer-songwriter 1970 – Reynolds Wolf, American meteorologist and journalist 1971 – Alan Tudyk, American actor 1972 – Veiko Õunpuu, Estonian director and screenwriter 1972 – Velibor Radović, Serbian basketball player 1973 – Tim Kang, American actor 1973 – Vonda Ward, American boxer 1973 – Patrick N. Millsaps, American lawyer 1974 – Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer and politician 1974 – Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer 1975 – Sienna Guillory, English actress 1976 – Blu Cantrell, American singer-songwriter 1976 – Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player 1976 – Paul Schneider, American actor and director 1976 – Nick Spano, American actor 1977 – Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler 1978 – Brooke Burns, American actress 1978 – Ayesha Dharker, Indian actress 1979 – Édison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer 1979 – Rashad Moore, American football player 1979 – Leena Peisa, Finnish keyboard player and songwriter (Lordi) 1979 – Andrei Stepanov, Estonian footballer 1980 – Todd Heap, American football player 1980 – Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player 1981 – Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer 1981 – Curtis Granderson, American baseball player 1981 – Danny Brown, American rapper 1981 – Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer 1981 – Maher Zain, Lebanese-Swedish singer-songwriter and producer 1982 – Riley Cote, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1982 – Dian Sastrowardoyo, Indonesian model and actress 1982 – Brian Wilson, American baseball player 1983 – Brandon League, American baseball player 1983 – Stephen Drew, American baseball player 1983 – Vitali Gussev, Estonian footballer 1983 – Joe Mande, American comedian 1983 – Tramon Williams, American football player 1984 – Levi Brown, American football player 1984 – Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player 1984 – Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player 1984 – Nele-Liis Vaiksoo, Estonian singer and actress 1985 – Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer-songwriter 1986 – Joe Denly, English cricketer 1986 – Toney Douglas, American basketball player 1986 – Kenny Dykstra, American wrestler 1986 – T. J. Jordan, American basketball player 1986 – Boaz Solossa, Indonesian footballer 1986 – Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater 1986 – Nicole Trunfio, Australian model 1987 – Paw Diaz, Filipino actress 1987 – Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model 1988 – Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater 1988 – Jhené Aiko, American R&B singer 1988 – Patrick Herrmann, German footballer 1988 – Brett DiBiase, American wrestler and referee 1989 – Blake Griffin, American basketball player 1989 – Theo Walcott, English footballer 1991 – Wolfgang Van Halen, American bass player (Van Halen) 1992 – Brett Davern, American actor 1999 – Bailie Key, American artistic gymnast Deaths 37 – Tiberius, Roman emperor (b. 46 BC) 455 – Heraclius, Roman servant 455 – Valentinian III, Roman emperor (b. 419) 1021 – Heribert of Cologne, German archbishop (b. 970) 1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop (b. 1000) 1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276) 1410 – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral (b. 1373) 1457 – Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian politician (b. 1433) 1485 – Anne Neville, English wife of Richard III of England (b. 1456) 1559 – Anthony St. Leger, English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496) 1649 – Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (b. 1593) 1679 – John Leverett, English-American soldier and politician, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616) 1721 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657) 1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1710) 1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American clergyman and academic (b. 1670) 1738 – George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (b. 1666) 1747 – Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1690) 1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American captain and mathematician (b. 1773) 1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801) 1890 – Princess Zorka of Montenegro (b. 1864) 1892 – Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827) 1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872) 1899 – Joseph Medill, American politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1823) 1903 – Roy Bean, American jurist (b. 1825) 1907 – John OLeary (Fenian), Irish separatist and a leading Fenian (b. 1830) 1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) 1914 – Gaston Calmette, French journalist and newspaper editor (b.1858) 1926 – Sergeant Stubby, American dog (b. 1916) 1927 – Edward William Exshaw, English sailor (b. 1866) 1930 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870) 1935 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) 1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886) 1936 – Marguerite Durand, French journalist and activist (b. 1864) 1937 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Baltic German orientalist (b. 1877) 1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) 1945 – Simeon Price, American golfer (b. 1882) 1945 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874) 1955 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914) 1957 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor (b. 1876) 1961 – Václav Talich, Czech conductor, violinist and pedagogue (b. 1883) 1961 – Chen Geng, Chinese general (b. 1903) 1963 – Laura Adams Armer, American artist and writer (b. 1874) 1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer (b. 1895) 1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet (b. 1907) 1970 – Tammi Terrell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946) 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902) 1975 – Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936) 1975 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910) 1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese politician (b. 1917) 1979 – Jean-Guy Cardinal, Canadian politician (b. 1925) 1979 – Lucien Démanet, French gymnast (b. 1874) 1979 – Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888) 1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (b. 1898) 1983 – Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903) 1983 – Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907) 1984 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947) 1985 – Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1902) 1992 – Roger Lemelin, Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1919) 1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903) 1993 – Johnny Cymbal, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945) 1996 – Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954) 1998 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) 1999 – Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, playwright, and director (b. 1909) 2000 – Thomas Ferebee, American colonel (b. 1918) 2000 – Michael Starr, Canadian politician (b. 1910) 2001 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921) 2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943) 2003 – Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979) 2003 – Ronald Ferguson, English army officer, polo player, and manager (b. 1931) 2004 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910) 2005 – Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958) 2005 – Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed the The London Ark (b. 1914) 2005 – Anthony George, American actor (b. 1921) 2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927) 2005 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937) 2006 – David Feintuch, American author (b. 1944) 2006 – Minnie Pwerle, Australian painter (b. 1910) 2007 – Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984) 2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912) 2008 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish drummer (b. 1946) 2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931) 2008 – Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (b. 1942) 2008 – John Hewer, English actor (b. 1922) 2008 – G. David Low, American astronaut and engineer (b. 1956) 2008 – Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham) (b. 1968) 2009 – Marvin Sutton, American criminal (b. 1946) 2011 – Richard Wirthlin, American strategist (b. 1931) 2013 – Trond Brænne, Norwegian actor and author (b. 1953) 2013 – Larcenia Bullard, American politician (b. 1947) 2013 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939) 2013 – José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist (b. 1925) 2013 – John Marvel, American politician (b. 1926) 2013 – David Mills, English cricketer (b. 1937) 2013 – Jason Molina, American singer-songwriter (b. 1973) 2013 – Yadier Pedroso, Cuban baseball player (b. 1986) 2013 – Bobby Smith, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1936) 2013 – Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli politician (b. 1952) 2013 – Jae Spears, American politician (b. 1923) 2013 – Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921) Holidays and observances
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