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  • June 12 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

    • 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
    • 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
    • 1381 – Peasants’ Revolt: In England, rebels assemble at Blackheath, just outside London.
    • 1418 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and his suspected sympathizers, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.
    • 1429 – Hundred Years’ War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
    • 1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
    • 1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
    • 1665 – Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
    • 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe’s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences
    • 1772 – French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
    • 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
    • 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
    • 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
    • 1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
    • 1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma’il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
    • 1830 – Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thiry-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
    • 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
    • 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines’ independence from Spain.
    • 1899 – New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
    • 1914 – Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
    • 1921 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
    • 1935 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
    • 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
    • 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
    • 1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
    • 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
    • 1943 – The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
    • 1944 – World War II: Operation Overlord: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.
    • 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
    • 1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
    • 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
    • 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
    • 1975 – India, Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha of the city of Allahabad ruled that India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had used corrupt practices to win her seat in the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office. Mrs. Gandhi sent word that she refused to resign.
    • 1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
    • 1987 – The Central African Republic’s former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
    • 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
    • 1988 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
    • 1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
    • 1991 – Russians first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia.
    • 1991 – Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
    • 1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida.
    • 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered outside Simpson’s home in Los Angeles. Her estranged husband, O.J. Simpson is later charged with the murders, but is acquitted by a jury.
    • 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
    • 1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
    • 2009 – Analog television stations (excluding low-powered stations) switch to digital television following the DTV Delay Act.
    • 2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
    • 2016 – Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
    • 2017 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
    • 2018 – United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.

    Births on June 12

    • 950 – Reizei, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)
    • 1107 – Gao Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1187)
    • 1161 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1201)
    • 1519 – Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
    • 1561 – Anna of Württemberg, German princess (d. 1616)
    • 1564 – John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (d. 1633)
    • 1573 – Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (d. 1629)
    • 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
    • 1580 – Adriaen van Stalbemt, Flemish painter (d. 1662)
    • 1653 – Maria Amalia of Courland, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1711)
    • 1686 – Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet, French writer (d. 1764)
    • 1711 – Louis Legrand, French priest and theologian (d. 1780)
    • 1760 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist, and politician (d. 1797)
    • 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant (Lewis and Clark Expedition) and author (d. 1870)
    • 1775 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
    • 1777 – Robert Clark, American physician and politician (d. 1837)
    • 1795 – John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
    • 1798 – Samuel Cooper, American general (d. 1876)
    • 1800 – Samuel Wright Mardis, American politician (d. 1836)
    • 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author (d. 1876)
    • 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869)
    • 1807 – Ante Kuzmanić, Croatian physician and journalist (d. 1879)
    • 1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (d. 1890)
    • 1819 – Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (d. 1875)
    • 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author, best known for Heidi (d. 1901)
    • 1831 – Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
    • 1841 – Watson Fothergill, English architect, designed the Woodborough Road Baptist Church (d. 1928)
    • 1843 – David Gill, Scottish-English astronomer and author (d. 1914)
    • 1851 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (d. 1940)
    • 1857 – Maurice Perrault, Canadian architect, engineer, and politician, 15th Mayor of Longueuil (d. 1909)
    • 1858 – Harry Johnston, English botanist and explorer (d. 1927)
    • 1858 – Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
    • 1861 – William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)
    • 1864 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist, photographer, and author (d. 1945)
    • 1877 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (d. 1971)
    • 1883 – Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter (d. 1969)
    • 1883 – Robert Lowie, Austrian-American anthropologist and academic (d. 1957)
    • 1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1920)
    • 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter (d. 1918)
    • 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (d. 1982)
    • 1895 – Eugénie Brazier, French chef (d. 1977)
    • 1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
    • 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
    • 1899 – Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1968)
    • 1902 – Hendrik Elias, Belgian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Ghent (d. 1973)
    • 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player (d. 1988)
    • 1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
    • 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster (d. 1988)
    • 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2010)
    • 1908 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
    • 1910 – Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author (d. 1992)
    • 1912 – Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1993)
    • 1912 – Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (d. 1961)
    • 1913 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (d. 1996)
    • 1913 – Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral (d. 2005)
    • 1914 – William Lundigan, American actor (d. 1975)
    • 1914 – Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
    • 1915 – Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995)
    • 1915 – Christopher Mayhew, English soldier and politician (d. 1997)
    • 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman (d. 2017)
    • 1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
    • 1916 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
    • 1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
    • 1918 – Georgia Louise Harris Brown, American architect (d. 1999)
    • 1918 – Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001)
    • 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress and educator (d. 2004)
    • 1920 – Dave Berg, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2002)
    • 1920 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
    • 1921 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
    • 1921 – Christopher Derrick, English author, critic, and academic (d. 2007)
    • 1921 – James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (d. 2005)
    • 1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
    • 1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)
    • 1924 – Grete Dollitz, German-American guitarist and radio host (d. 2013)
    • 1928 – Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
    • 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician and diplomat, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
    • 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American composer and director
    • 1929 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (d. 1995)
    • 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)
    • 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani linguist and academic
    • 1929 – John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 2017)
    • 1930 – Jim Burke, Australian cricketer (d. 1979)
    • 1930 – Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
    • 1930 – Innes Ireland, Scottish race car driver and engineer (d. 1993)
    • 1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer (d. 2017)
    • 1931 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
    • 1931 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005)
    • 1932 – Mimi Coertse, South African soprano and producer
    • 1932 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (d. 2002)
    • 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (d. 2004)
    • 1934 – John A. Alonzo, American actor and cinematographer (d. 2001)
    • 1934 – Kevin Billington, English director and producer
    • 1935 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
    • 1935 – Paul Kennedy, English lawyer and judge
    • 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
    • 1937 – Klaus Basikow, German footballer and manager (d. 2015)
    • 1937 – Antal Festetics, Hungarian-Austrian biologist and zoologist
    • 1937 – Chips Moman, American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 2016)
    • 1938 – Jean-Marie Doré, Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2016)
    • 1938 – Tom Oliver, English-Australian actor
    • 1939 – Ron Lynch, Australian rugby league player and coach
    • 1939 – Frank McCloskey, American sergeant and politician (d. 2003)
    • 1940 – Jacques Brassard, Canadian educator and politician
    • 1941 – Marv Albert, American sportscaster
    • 1941 – Chick Corea, American pianist and composer
    • 1941 – Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
    • 1941 – Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
    • 1941 – Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
    • 1942 – Len Barry, American singer-songwriter and producer
    • 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
    • 1945 – Pat Jennings, Irish footballer and coach
    • 1946 – Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
    • 1946 – Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
    • 1946 – Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic
    • 1948 – Hans Binder, Austrian race car driver
    • 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer
    • 1948 – Len Wein, American comic book writer and editor (d. 2017)
    • 1949 – Jens Böhrnsen, German judge and politician
    • 1949 – Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1949 – John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 2017)
    • 1950 – Oğuz Abadan, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1950 – Michael Fabricant, English politician
    • 1950 – Sonia Manzano, American actress of Puerto Rican descent, noted for playing Maria on Sesame Street
    • 1950 – Bun E. Carlos, American drummer
    • 1951 – Brad Delp, American musician and singer (d. 2007)
    • 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
    • 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American academic and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Energy
    • 1952 – Junior Brown, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1952 – Pete Farndon, English bass player and songwriter (d. 1983)
    • 1953 – Rocky Burnette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1954 – Tim Razzall, Baron Razzall, English lawyer and politician
    • 1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
    • 1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
    • 1957 – Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
    • 1958 – Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and musician
    • 1959 – Scott Thompson, Canadian actor and comedian
    • 1960 – Joe Kopicki, American basketball player and coach
    • 1962 – Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, professor and cultural critic
    • 1963 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver (d. 2012)
    • 1963 – Warwick Capper, Australian footballer, coach, and actor
    • 1963 – Tim DeKay, American actor
    • 1963 – Jerry Lynn, American wrestler
    • 1964 – Derek Higgins, Irish race car driver
    • 1964 – Kent Jones, American journalist
    • 1964 – Paula Marshall, American actress
    • 1964 – Peter Such, Scottish-born, English cricketer
    • 1965 – Adrian Toole, Australian rugby league player
    • 1965 – Gwen Torrence, American sprinter
    • 1965 – Cathy Tyson, English actress
    • 1966 – Marc Glanville, Australian rugby league player
    • 1966 – Tom Misteli, Swiss cell biologist
    • 1967 – Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
    • 1967 – Frances O’Connor, English-Australian actress
    • 1968 – Scott Aldred, American baseball player and coach
    • 1968 – Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
    • 1968 – Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (d. 1999)
    • 1969 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (d. 2007)
    • 1969 – Héctor Garza, Mexican wrestler (d. 2013)
    • 1969 – Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
    • 1969 – Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
    • 1971 – Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler
    • 1971 – Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
    • 1971 – Jérôme Romain, Caribbean-Dominican triple jumper and coach
    • 1973 – Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
    • 1973 – Darryl White, Australian footballer
    • 1974 – Flávio Conceição, Brazilian footballer
    • 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
    • 1974 – Jason Mewes, American actor and producer
    • 1974 – Kerry Kittles, American basketball player
    • 1975 – Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and journalist
    • 1975 – Stéphanie Szostak, French-American actress
    • 1976 – Antawn Jamison, American basketball player and sportscaster
    • 1976 – Ray Price, Zimbabwean cricketer
    • 1976 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
    • 1977 – Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1977 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1978 – Lewis Moody, English rugby player
    • 1979 – Dallas Clark, American football player
    • 1979 – Martine Dugrenier, Canadian wrestler
    • 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
    • 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
    • 1979 – Earl Watson, American basketball player and coach
    • 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
    • 1980 – Larry Foote, American football player
    • 1980 – Ifet Taljević, German footballer
    • 1981 – Raitis Grafs, Latvian basketball player
    • 1981 – Paul Hasleby, Australian footballer
    • 1981 – Adriana Lima, Brazilian model and actress
    • 1982 – Ben Blackwell, American drummer
    • 1982 – Diem Brown, German-American journalist and activist (d. 2014)
    • 1982 – Jason David, American football player
    • 1982 – Shailaja Pujari, Indian weightlifter
    • 1982 – James Tomlinson, English cricketer
    • 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
    • 1983 – Alexander Pipa, German rugby player
    • 1983 – Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
    • 1984 – James Kwalia, Kenyan-Qatari runner
    • 1984 – Bruno Soriano, Spanish footballer
    • 1985 – Blake Ross, American computer programmer, co-created Mozilla Firefox
    • 1985 – Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby league player
    • 1985 – Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress, and author
    • 1985 – Chris Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1986 – Salim Mehajer, Australian politician
    • 1986 – Harry Taylor, Australian footballer
    • 1987 – Seyi Ajirotutu, American football player
    • 1987 – Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
    • 1988 – Artūrs Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
    • 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
    • 1988 – Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
    • 1988 – Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1988 – Dakota Morton, Canadian actor and radio host
    • 1989 – Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player
    • 1989 – Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner
    • 1990 – Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
    • 1990 – Kevin López, Spanish runner
    • 1990 – David Worrall, English footballer
    • 1991 – Avisail García, Venezuelan baseball player
    • 1992 – Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer

    Deaths on June 12

    • 796 – Hisham I, Muslim emir (b. 757)
    • 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
    • 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)
    • 1020 – Lyfing, English archbishop (b. 999)
    • 1036 – Tedald, Italian bishop (b. 990)
    • 1144 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian theologian (b. 1075)
    • 1152 – Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1114)
    • 1266 – Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben (b. 1215)
    • 1294 – John I of Brienne, Count of Eu
    • 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (b. 1360)
    • 1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1408)
    • 1478 – Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412)
    • 1524 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465)
    • 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
    • 1560 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1519)
    • 1565 – Adrianus Turnebus, French philologist and scholar (b. 1512)
    • 1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
    • 1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (b. 1575)
    • 1668 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (b. 1599)
    • 1675 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
    • 1734 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French-English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1670)
    • 1758 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
    • 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
    • 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (b. 1716)
    • 1816 – Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757)
    • 1818 – Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
    • 1841 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)
    • 1900 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
    • 1904 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836)
    • 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)
    • 1917 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853)
    • 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
    • 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (b. 1893)
    • 1944 – Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)
    • 1946 – Médéric Martin, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1869)
    • 1952 – Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (b. 1875)
    • 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
    • 1962 – John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
    • 1963 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
    • 1966 – Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (b. 1891)
    • 1968 – Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)
    • 1969 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
    • 1972 – Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)
    • 1972 – Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1909)
    • 1976 – Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
    • 1978 – Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
    • 1978 – Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
    • 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)
    • 1980 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
    • 1980 – Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
    • 1982 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
    • 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
    • 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
    • 1989 – Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (b. 1911)
    • 1990 – Terence O’Neill, Baron O’Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
    • 1994 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi and author (b. 1902)
    • 1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
    • 1995 – Pierre Russell, American basketball player (b. 1949)
    • 1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
    • 1998 – Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (b. 1924)
    • 1998 – Theresa Merritt, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
    • 1999 – J. F. Powers, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1917)
    • 2000 – Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
    • 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
    • 2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (b. 1922)
    • 2002 – Zena Sutherland, American reviewer of children’s literature (b. 1915)
    • 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor and political activist (b. 1916)
    • 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1918)
    • 2006 – Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player and fighter pilot (b. 1915)
    • 2006 – György Ligeti, Romanian-Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1923)
    • 2006 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
    • 2008 – Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1951)
    • 2008 – Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1932)
    • 2010 – Al Williamson, American illustrator (b. 1931)
    • 2011 – René Audet, Canadian bishop (b. 1920)
    • 2011 – Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
    • 2012 – Hector Bianciotti, Argentinian-French journalist and author (b. 1930)
    • 2012 – Henry Hill, American mobster (b. 1943)
    • 2012 – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Danish-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1917)
    • 2012 – Medin Zhega, Albanian footballer and manager (b. 1946)
    • 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)
    • 2012 – Pahiño, Spanish footballer (b. 1923)
    • 2012 – Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (b. 1942)
    • 2013 – Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (b. 1908)
    • 2013 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (b. 1975)
    • 2013 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1925)
    • 2014 – Nabil Hemani, Algerian footballer (b. 1979)
    • 2014 – Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (b. 1929)
    • 2014 – Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
    • 2015 – Fernando Brant, Brazilian journalist, poet, and composer (b. 1946)
    • 2015 – Frederick Pei Li, Chinese-American physician and academic (b. 1940)
    • 2015 – Patrick Lennox Tierney, American historian and academic (b. 1914)
    • 2016 – Omar Mateen, American mass murderer (b. 1986)
    • 2016 – George Voinovich, American politician (b. 1936)
    • 2016 – Janet Waldo, American actress and voice artist (b. 1920)

    Holidays and observances on June 12

    • Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
    • Christian feast day:
      • 108 Martyrs of World War II
      • Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius
      • Blessed Hildegard Burjan
      • Enmegahbowh (Episcopal Church)
      • Eskil
      • First Ecumenical Council (Lutheran)
      • Gaspar Bertoni
      • John of Sahagún
      • Onuphrius
      • Pope Leo III
      • Ternan
      • June 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    • Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
    • Helsinki Day (Finland)
    • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898.
    • June 12 Commemoration (Lagos State)
    • Loving Day (United States)
    • Russia Day (Russia)
    • World Day Against Child Labour, and its related observances:
      • Children’s Day (Haiti)

  • May 25 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

    • 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
    • 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
    • 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
    • 1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
    • 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
    • 1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
    • 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
    • 1660 – Charles II lands at Dover at the invitation of the Convention Parliament, which marks the end of the Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and begins the Restoration of the British monarchy.
    • 1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
    • 1787 – After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
    • 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
    • 1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern-day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.
    • 1810 – May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the “May Week”, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
    • 1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
    • 1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
    • 1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
    • 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
    • 1895 – Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
    • 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
    • 1914 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
    • 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
    • 1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
    • 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    • 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
    • 1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
    • 1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
    • 1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
    • 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
    • 1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
    • 1955 – First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
    • 1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
    • 1963 – The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    • 1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
    • 1968 – The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
    • 1973 – In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy.
    • 1977 – Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
    • 1977 – The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare’s work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
    • 1978 – The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
    • 1979 – John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
    • 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
    • 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
    • 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
    • 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
    • 1986 – The Hands Across America event takes place.
    • 1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
    • 1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People’s Republic of China’s nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
    • 2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
    • 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
    • 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board.
    • 2008 – NASA’s Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
    • 2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.
    • 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
    • 2012 – The SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
    • 2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
    • 2013 – A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
    • 2018 – The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
    • 2018 – Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
    • 2020 – George Floyd, a black man, is killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest when he is restrained in a prone position face-down on the ground for several minutes, provoking protests across the United States and elsewhere around the world.

    Births on May 25

    • 1048 – Emperor Shenzong of Song (d. 1085)
    • 1320 – Toghon Temür, Mongolian emperor (d. 1370)
    • 1334 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (d. 1398)
    • 1416 – Jakobus (“James”), Count of Lichtenburg (d. 1480)
    • 1417 – Catherine of Cleves, Duchess consort regent of Guelders (d. 1479)
    • 1550 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint and nurse (d. 1614)
    • 1606 – Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (d. 1649)
    • 1661 – Claude Buffier, Polish-French historian and philosopher (d. 1737)
    • 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
    • 1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician, 31st Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island (d. 1776)
    • 1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American farmer and politician, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1841)
    • 1791 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1841)
    • 1803 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1873)
    • 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (d. 1882)
    • 1818 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (d. 1897)
    • 1818 – Louise de Broglie, Countess d’Haussonville, French essayist and biographer (d. 1882)
    • 1830 – Trebor Mai (né Robert Williams), Welsh poet (d. 1877)
    • 1846 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian-Turkish poet and translator (d. 1900)
    • 1848 – Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, educator, and publisher (d. 1924)
    • 1852 – William Muldoon, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1933)
    • 1856 – Louis Franchet d’Espèrey, Algerian-French general (d. 1942)
    • 1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (d. 1944)
    • 1865 – John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
    • 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
    • 1867 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (d. 1950)
    • 1869 – Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic (d. 1918)
    • 1869 – Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator (d. 1936)
    • 1878 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (d. 1949)
    • 1879 – Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1964)
    • 1879 – William Stickney, American golfer (d. 1944)
    • 1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist and academic (d. 1967)
    • 1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
    • 1883 – Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)
    • 1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and activist (d. 1945)
    • 1886 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American miner and labor leader (d. 1952)
    • 1887 – Padre Pio, Italian priest and saint (d. 1968)
    • 1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1969)
    • 1889 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (d. 1941)
    • 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (d. 1972)
    • 1893 – Ernest “Pop” Stoneman, American country musician (d. 1968)
    • 1897 – Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (d. 1972)
    • 1897 – Gene Tunney, American boxer and soldier (d. 1978)
    • 1898 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television game show panelist; co-founded Random House (d. 1971)
    • 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player (d. 1976)
    • 1900 – Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet and author (d. 1975)
    • 1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (d. 1995)
    • 1908 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
    • 1909 – Alfred Kubel, German politician, 5th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 1999)
    • 1912 – Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (d. 2005)
    • 1913 – Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (d. 1957)
    • 1913 – Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and producer (d. 1965)
    • 1916 – Brian Dickson, Canadian captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1998)
    • 1916 – Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower (d. 1981)
    • 1917 – Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor (d. 1965)
    • 1917 – Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015)
    • 1920 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner and diplomat (d. 1992)
    • 1921 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (d. 2012)
    • 1921 – Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)
    • 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    • 1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
    • 1924 – István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
    • 1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (d. 1974)
    • 1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
    • 1925 – Eldon Griffiths, English journalist and politician (d. 2014)
    • 1925 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (d. 2000)
    • 1925 – Claude Pinoteau, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
    • 1926 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
    • 1926 – William Bowyer, English painter and academic (d. 2015)
    • 1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author and poet (d. 2009)
    • 1926 – Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
    • 1926 – David Wynne, English sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
    • 1927 – Robert Ludlum, American soldier and author (d. 2001)
    • 1927 – Norman Petty, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1984)
    • 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (d. 2007)
    • 1930 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
    • 1931 – Herb Gray, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2014)
    • 1931 – Georgy Grechko, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2017)
    • 1931 – Irwin Winkler, American director and producer
    • 1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2003)
    • 1932 – K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach
    • 1933 – Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (d. 2014)
    • 1933 – Basdeo Panday, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
    • 1933 – Ray Spencer, English footballer (d. 2016)
    • 1933 – Jógvan Sundstein, Faroese accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
    • 1935 – John Ffowcs Williams, Welsh engineer and academic
    • 1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player (d. 2011)
    • 1935 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian novelist and short story writer (d. 2016)
    • 1935 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
    • 1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1936 – Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (d. 2013)
    • 1937 – Tom Phillips, English painter and academic
    • 1938 – Raymond Carver, American short story writer and poet (d. 1988)
    • 1938 – Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (d. 2016)
    • 1938 – Geoffrey Robinson, English businessman and politician
    • 1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
    • 1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
    • 1940 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese photographer
    • 1941 – Rudolf Adler, Czech filmmaker:88
    • 1941 – Uta Frith, German developmental psychologist
    • 1941 – Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan economist and politician, 3rd President of Moldova
    • 1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
    • 1943 – John Palmer, English keyboard player
    • 1943 – Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer
    • 1944 – Digby Anderson, English journalist and philosopher
    • 1944 – Pierre Bachelet, French singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
    • 1944 – Charlie Harper, English singer-songwriter and producer
    • 1944 – Robert MacPherson, American mathematician and academic
    • 1944 – Frank Oz, English-born American puppeteer, filmmaker, and actor
    • 1944 – Chris Ralston, English rugby player
    • 1946 – Bill Adam, Scottish-Canadian racing driver
    • 1946 – David A. Hargrave, American game designer, created Arduin (d. 1988)
    • 1947 – Karen Valentine, American actress
    • 1947 – Catherine G. Wolf, American psychologist and computer scientist
    • 1948 – Bülent Arınç, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
    • 1948 – Marianne Elliott, Northern Irish historian, author, and academic
    • 1948 – Klaus Meine, German rock singer-songwriter
    • 1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
    • 1949 – Barry Windsor-Smith, English painter and illustrator
    • 1950 – Robby Steinhardt, American rock violinist and singer
    • 1951 – Bob Gale, American director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1952 – Jeffrey Bewkes, American businessman
    • 1952 – Nick Fotiu, American ice hockey player and coach
    • 1952 – David Jenkins, Trinidadian-Scottish runner
    • 1952 – Al Sarrantonio, American author and publisher
    • 1952 – Gordon H. Smith, American businessman and politician
    • 1953 – Eve Ensler, American playwright and producer
    • 1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
    • 1953 – Stan Sakai, Japanese-American author and illustrator
    • 1953 – Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (d. 1989)
    • 1954 – John Beck, English footballer, midfielder and manager
    • 1954 – Murali, Indian actor, producer, and politician (d. 2009)
    • 1955 – Alistair Burt, English lawyer and politician
    • 1956 – Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician
    • 1956 – Larry Hogan, American politician, 62nd Governor of Maryland
    • 1956 – David P. Sartor, American composer and conductor
    • 1957 – Alastair Campbell, English journalist and author
    • 1957 – Edward Lee, American author
    • 1957 – Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1958 – Dorothy Straight, American children’s author
    • 1958 – Paul Weller, English singer, songwriter and musician
    • 1959 – Julian Clary, English comedian, actor, and author
    • 1959 – Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
    • 1959 – Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
    • 1960 – Amy Klobuchar, American lawyer and politician
    • 1960 – Anthea Turner, English journalist and television host
    • 1962 – Ric Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
    • 1963 – George Hickenlooper, American director and producer (d. 2010)
    • 1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian-American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1963 – Ludovic Orban, Romanian engineer, and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Romania
    • 1964 – David Shaw, Canadian-American ice hockey player
    • 1965 – Yahya Jammeh, Gambian colonel and politician, President of the Gambia
    • 1967 – Luc Nilis, Belgian footballer and manager
    • 1967 – Mark Rosewater, Head designer of Magic: the Gathering
    • 1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player, boxer, and sportscaster
    • 1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist and songwriter
    • 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
    • 1969 – Karen Bernstein, Canadian voice actress
    • 1969 – Stacy London, American journalist and author
    • 1970 – Robert Croft, Welsh-English cricketer and sportscaster
    • 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1971 – Stefano Baldini, Italian runner
    • 1971 – Marco Cappato, Italian politician
    • 1972 – Karan Johar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1972 – Octavia Spencer, American actress and author
    • 1973 – Daz Dillinger, American rapper and producer
    • 1973 – Molly Sims, American model and actress
    • 1974 – Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
    • 1974 – Frank Klepacki, American drummer and composer
    • 1974 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican-American baseball player
    • 1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Congolese-Swiss footballer
    • 1976 – Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
    • 1976 – Erki Pütsep, Estonian cyclist
    • 1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor
    • 1976 – Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
    • 1976 – Miguel Zepeda, Mexican footballer
    • 1977 – Andre Anis, Estonian footballer
    • 1977 – Alberto Del Rio, Mexican-American mixed martial artist and wrestler
    • 1978 – Adam Gontier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
    • 1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American international soccer player, defender and Sports Executive
    • 1979 – Sayed Moawad, Egyptian footballer
    • 1979 – Caroline Ouellette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
    • 1979 – Sam Sodje, English-Nigerian footballer
    • 1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
    • 1979 – Chris Young, American baseball pitcher
    • 1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
    • 1981 – Michalis Pelekanos, Greek basketball player
    • 1981 – Matt Utai, New Zealand rugby league player
    • 1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
    • 1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
    • 1982 – Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
    • 1982 – Roger Guerreiro, Polish footballer
    • 1982 – Justin Hodges, Australian rugby league player
    • 1982 – Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan runner
    • 1982 – Jason Kubel, American baseball player
    • 1982 – Stacey Pensgen, American figure skater and meteorologist
    • 1982 – Luke Webster, Australian footballer
    • 1984 – Luke Ball, Australian footballer
    • 1984 – Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1984 – A. J. Foyt IV, American race car driver
    • 1984 – Shawne Merriman, American football player
    • 1985 – Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
    • 1985 – Demba Ba, French footballer
    • 1985 – Gert Kams, Estonian footballer
    • 1985 – Roman Reigns, American football player and wrestler
    • 1986 – Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer
    • 1986 – Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
    • 1986 – Takahiro Hōjō, Japanese actor and musician
    • 1986 – Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
    • 1987 – Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
    • 1987 – Yves De Winter, Belgian footballer
    • 1987 – Moritz Stehling, German footballer
    • 1987 – Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper
    • 1988 – Dávid Škutka, Slovak footballer
    • 1988 – Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
    • 1990 – Bo Dallas, American wrestler
    • 1990 – Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
    • 1993 – James Porter, English cricketer
    • 1994 – Matt Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1994 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast
    • 1995 – Kagiso Rabada, South African cricketer
    • 1996 – David Pastrňák, Czech ice hockey player

    Deaths on May 25

    • 675 – Li Hong, Chinese prince (b. 652)
    • 709 – Aldhelm, English-Latin bishop, poet, and scholar (b. 639)
    • 803 – Higbald of Lindisfarne, English bishop
    • 912 – Xue Yiju, chancellor of Later Liang
    • 916 – Flann Sinna, king of Meath
    • 939 – Yao Yanzhang, general of Chu
    • 986 – Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer (b. 903)
    • 992 – Mieszko I of Poland (b. 935)
    • 1085 – Pope Gregory VII (b. 1020)
    • 1261 – Pope Alexander IV (b. 1185)
    • 1452 – John Stafford, English archbishop and politician
    • 1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer (b. 1508)
    • 1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
    • 1595 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic (b. 1567)
    • 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b. 1515)
    • 1607 – Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, Italian Carmelite nun and mystic (b. 1566)
    • 1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
    • 1667 – Gustaf Bonde, Finnish-Swedish politician, 5th Lord High Treasurer of Sweden (b. 1620)
    • 1681 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1600)
    • 1741 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German bishop and theologian (b. 1660)
    • 1786 – Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
    • 1789 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist and physician (b. 1751)
    • 1797 – John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1719)
    • 1805 – William Paley, English priest and philosopher (b. 1743)
    • 1849 – Benjamin D’Urban, English general and politician, Governor of British Guiana (b. 1777)
    • 1895 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (b. 1822)
    • 1899 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
    • 1912 – Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
    • 1917 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
    • 1919 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
    • 1919 – Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
    • 1924 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1889)
    • 1926 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (b. 1879)
    • 1927 – Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1876)
    • 1930 – Randall Davidson, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1848)
    • 1934 – Gustav Holst, English trombonist, composer, and educator (b. 1874)
    • 1937 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (b. 1859)
    • 1939 – Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
    • 1942 – Emanuel Feuermann, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (b. 1902)
    • 1943 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (b. 1888)
    • 1948 – Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader (b. 1901)
    • 1951 – Paula von Preradović, Croatian poet and author (b. 1887)
    • 1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer and journalist (b. 1913)
    • 1957 – Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (b. 1883)
    • 1968 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
    • 1970 – Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)
    • 1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
    • 1979 – Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
    • 1979 – Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
    • 1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
    • 1981 – Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
    • 1983 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)
    • 1983 – Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
    • 1983 – Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
    • 1986 – Chester Bowles, American journalist and politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (b. 1901)
    • 1990 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)
    • 1995 – Élie Bayol, French racing driver (b. 1914)
    • 1995 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player and coach, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 1996 (b. 1948)
    • 1995 – Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
    • 1996 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and author (b. 1929)
    • 2003 – Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (b. 1920)
    • 2004 – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing Company (b. 1917)
    • 2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1929)
    • 2005 – Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b. 1938)
    • 2005 – Graham Kennedy, Australian television host and actor (b. 1934)
    • 2005 – Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer and director (b. 1936)
    • 2005 – Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter and illustrator (b. 1909)
    • 2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian, and director (b. 1931)
    • 2008 – J. R. Simplot, American businessman, founded Simplot (b. 1909)
    • 2009 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
    • 2010 – Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
    • 2010 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (b. 1936)
    • 2010 – Alan Hickinbotham, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
    • 2010 – Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
    • 2010 – Jarvis Williams, American football player and coach (b. 1965)
    • 2011 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1944)
    • 2012 – William Hanley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
    • 2012 – Peter D. Sieruta, American author and critic (b. 1958)
    • 2012 – Lou Watson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
    • 2013 – Mahendra Karma, Indian politician (b. 1950)
    • 2013 – Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (b. 1953)
    • 2014 – David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
    • 2014 – Marcel Côté, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1942)
    • 2014 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (b. 1923)
    • 2014 – Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor (b. 1913)
    • 2014 – Toaripi Lauti, Tuvaluan educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1928)
    • 2014 – Matthew Saad Muhammad, American boxer and trainer (b. 1954)
    • 2015 – George Braden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of the Northwest Territories (b. 1949)
    • 2015 – Robert Lebel, Canadian bishop (b. 1924)
    • 2019 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b.1926)

    Holidays and observances on May 25

    • Africa Day (African Union)
    • African Liberation Day (African Union, Rastafari)
    • Christian feast day:
      • Aldhelm
      • Bede
      • Canius
      • Dionysius of Milan
      • Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad
      • Gerard of Lunel
      • Madeleine Sophie Barat
      • Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
      • Maximus (Mauxe) of Évreux
      • Pope Boniface IV
      • Pope Gregory VII
      • Pope Urban I
      • Zenobius of Florence
      • May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    • Earliest day on which Arbor Day can fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May. (Venezuela)
    • Earliest day on which Children’s Day can fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May. (Hungary)
    • Earliest day on which Holiday of Saint Etchmiadzin can fall, while July 27 is the latest; celebrated on the 64th day after Easter. (Armenia)
    • Earliest day on which Memorial Day can fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in May. (United States)
    • Earliest day on which Mother’s Day can fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May. (Algeria, Dominican Republic, France (First Sunday of June, if Pentecost occurs on this day), Haiti, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia)
    • Earliest day on which Turkmen Carpet Day can fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May. (Turkmenistan)
    • First National Government / National Day (Argentina)
    • Geek Pride Day (geek culture)
    • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jordan from the United Kingdom in 1946.
    • Last bell (Russia, post-Soviet countries)
    • Liberation Day (Lebanon)
    • International Missing Children’s Day and its related observances:
      • National Missing Children’s Day (United States),
    • National Tap Dance Day (United States)
    • Towel Day in honour of the work of the writer Douglas Adams

  • March 29 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

    • 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
    • 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
    • 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses.
    • 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain-General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
    • 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
    • 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
    • 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm’s Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
    • 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
    • 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d’état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland’s four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
    • 1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
    • 1847 – Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
    • 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
    • 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company’s rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
    • 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
    • 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
    • 1871 – Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
    • 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
    • 1882 – The Knights of Columbus is established.
    • 1886 – John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
    • 1927 – Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
    • 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
    • 1936 – Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
    • 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
    • 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
    • 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
    • 1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
    • 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
    • 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s leading universities, is founded.
    • 1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
    • 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
    • 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
    • 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
    • 1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina’s armed forces, ending an 11​1⁄2 day constitutional crisis.
    • 1971 – My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
    • 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
    • 1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
    • 1974 – NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
    • 1974 – Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
    • 1982 – The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
    • 1984 – The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
    • 1990 – The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
    • 1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
    • 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
    • 1999 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
    • 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
    • 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
    • 2010 – Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
    • 2013 – At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
    • 2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.

    Births on March 29

    • 1001 – Sokkate, king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (d. 1044)
    • 1187 – Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1203)
    • 1373 – Marie d’Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)
    • 1517 – Carlo Carafa, Italian cardinal (d. 1561)
    • 1553 – Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1614)
    • 1561 – Santorio Santorio, Italian biologist (d. 1636)
    • 1584 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (d. 1648)
    • 1602 – John Lightfoot, English priest, scholar, and academic (d. 1675)
    • 1620 – Edward Digges, English barrister and colonist
    • 1629 – Alexis of Russia, Tsar of Russia (d. 1676)
    • 1713 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
    • 1735 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (d. 1787)
    • 1747 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German pianist and composer (d. 1822)
    • 1769 – Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician, 12th Prime Minister of France (d. 1851)
    • 1780 – Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish adventurer (d. 1841)
    • 1790 – John Tyler, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
    • 1799 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
    • 1802 – Johann Moritz Rugendas, German landscape painter of Spanish America (d. 1858)
    • 1816 – 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
    • 1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1899)
    • 1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
    • 1862 – Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-American painter (d. 1947)
    • 1863 – Walter James, Australian politician, 5th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1943)
    • 1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (d. 1955)
    • 1869 – Aleš Hrdlička, Czech-American anthropologist and scholar (d. 1943)
    • 1869 – Sir Edwin Lutyens, British architect (d. 1944)
    • 1870 – Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (d. 1904)
    • 1871 – Tom Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1939)
    • 1872 – Hal Colebatch, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1953)
    • 1873 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Jewish-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
    • 1874 – Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
    • 1876 – Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (d. 1908)
    • 1884 – Ed Archibald, Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1965)
    • 1885 – Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian author and poet (d. 1936)
    • 1888 – Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-American engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante (d. 1963)
    • 1889 – Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
    • 1889 – Howard Lindsay, American producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor (d. 1968)
    • 1890 – Bert Bliss, English international footballer, inside forward (d. 1968)
    • 1891 – Yvan Goll, French-German poet and playwright (d. 1950)
    • 1891 – Alfred Neubauer, Austrian race car driver and manager (d. 1980)
    • 1892 – József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1975)
    • 1893 – Astrid Holm, Danish actress (d. 1961)
    • 1895 – Ernst Jünger, German philosopher and author (d. 1998)
    • 1896 – Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (d. 1962)
    • 1899 – Lavrentiy Beria, Georgian-Russian general and politician (d. 1953)
    • 1900 – Bill Aston, English race car driver (d. 1974)
    • 1900 – John McEwen, Australian farmer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
    • 1902 – Marcel Aymé, French author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1967)
    • 1902 – Don Miller, American football player and coach (d. 1979)
    • 1902 – William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
    • 1903 – Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1999)
    • 1906 – James Bausch, American decathlete and football player (d. 1974)
    • 1907 – Braguinha, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2006)
    • 1908 – Arthur O’Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
    • 1908 – Dennis O’Keefe, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
    • 1909 – Moon Mullican, American country and western singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1967)
    • 1912 – Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)
    • 1914 – Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
    • 1914 – Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (d. 2014)
    • 1916 – Peter Geach, English philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
    • 1916 – Eugene McCarthy, American poet and politician (d. 2005)
    • 1917 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (d. 2008)
    • 1918 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
    • 1918 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (d. 1991)
    • 1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam’s Club (d. 1992)
    • 1919 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
    • 1920 – John M. Belk, American businessman and politician (d. 2007)
    • 1920 – Clarke Fraser, American-Canadian geneticist and academic (d. 2014)
    • 1920 – Pierre Moinot, French author (d. 2007)
    • 1920 – Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (d. 2000)
    • 1921 – Sam Loxton, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2011)
    • 1923 – Geoff Duke, English-Manx motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
    • 1923 – Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (d. 2012)
    • 1923 – Bob Haymes, American singer-songwriter, and actor (d. 1989)
    • 1926 – Moshe Sanbar, Hungarian-Israeli banker and economist (d. 2012)
    • 1927 – John McLaughlin, American journalist and producer (d. 2016)
    • 1927 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
    • 1928 – Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary of India (d. 2013)
    • 1928 – Keith Botsford, Belgian-American journalist, author, and academic (d. 2018)
    • 1928 – Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster (d. 2005)
    • 1929 – Sheila Kitzinger, English activist, author, and academic (d. 2015)
    • 1929 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist, and academic
    • 1929 – Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)
    • 1929 – Utpal Dutt, Indian Bengali actor, director and playwright (d. 1993)
    • 1930 – Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Mauritius
    • 1931 – Ștefan Andrei, Romanian politician, 87th Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2014)
    • 1931 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (d. 2002)
    • 1931 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2015)
    • 1931 – Norman Tebbit, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
    • 1933 – Jacques Brault, Canadian poet and academic
    • 1934 – Shahryar Khan, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat, 20th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
    • 1936 – Richard Rodney Bennett, English-American composer and educator (d. 2012)
    • 1936 – Mogens Camre, Danish politician (d. 2016)
    • 1936 – John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
    • 1936 – Judith Guest, American author and screenwriter
    • 1936 – Joseph P. Teasdale, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (d. 2014)
    • 1937 – Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (d. 2013)
    • 1937 – Smarck Michel, Haitian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)
    • 1937 – Gordon Milne, English footballer
    • 1938 – Bert de Vries, Dutch politician
    • 1939 – Roland Arnall, French-American businessman and diplomat, 63rd United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 2008)
    • 1939 – Terence Hill, Italian actor, director, and producer
    • 1939 – Hanumant Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)
    • 1940 – Ray Davis, American bass singer (d. 2005)
    • 1940 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter
    • 1940 – John Suchet, English journalist and game show host
    • 1941 – Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
    • 1942 – Bob Lurtsema, American football player
    • 1942 – Scott Wilson, American actor (d. 2018)
    • 1943 – Vangelis, Greek keyboard player and songwriter
    • 1943 – Chad Allan, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1943 – Eric Idle, English actor and comedian
    • 1943 – John Major, English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    • 1944 – Terry Jacks, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
    • 1944 – Denny McLain, American baseball player and sportscaster
    • 1944 – Lynne Segal, Australian-British feminist academic and activist
    • 1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player and sportscaster
    • 1945 – Speedy Keen, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2002)
    • 1946 – Billy Thorpe, English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2007)
    • 1946 – Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (d. 2017)
    • 1947 – Inge Bödding, German sprinter
    • 1947 – Robert Gordon, American singer and actor
    • 1947 – Bobby Kimball, American singer-songwriter
    • 1948 – Bud Cort, American actor, director, and screenwriter
    • 1948 – Piet Souer, Dutch record producer, songwriter and arranger
    • 1949 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2007)
    • 1949 – Dave Greenfield, English musician (d. 2020)
    • 1949 – Pauline Marois, Canadian social worker and politician, 30th Premier of Quebec
    • 1949 – Keith Simpson, English historian and politician
    • 1951 – William Clarke, American harmonica player (d. 1996)
    • 1951 – Geoff Howarth, New Zealand cricketer
    • 1951 – Tina Monzon-Palma, Filipino journalist
    • 1952 – Rainer Bonhof, German footballer
    • 1952 – Russell Fairfax, Australian rugby player and coach
    • 1952 – John Hendricks, American businessman, founded Discovery Communications
    • 1952 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (d. 2012)
    • 1953 – Tõnis Palts, Estonian politician, 39th Mayor of Tallinn
    • 1955 – Earl Campbell, American football player
    • 1955 – Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
    • 1955 – Marina Sirtis, British-American actress
    • 1956 – Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996)
    • 1957 – Elizabeth Hand, American author
    • 1957 – Christopher Lambert, American-born French actor
    • 1958 – Pedro Bial, Brazilian journalist and producer
    • 1958 – Travis Childers, American businessman and politician
    • 1958 – Nouriel Roubini, Turkish-American economist and academic
    • 1958 – Victor Salva, American director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1958 – Marc Silvestri, American publisher, founded Top Cow Productions
    • 1959 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
    • 1959 – Perry Farrell, American singer-songwriter
    • 1959 – Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)
    • 1960 – Wayne Pearce, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
    • 1961 – Gary Brabham, English-Australian race car driver
    • 1961 – Mike Kingery, American baseball player
    • 1961 – Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
    • 1961 – Michael Winterbottom, English director and producer
    • 1962 – Billy Beane, American baseball player and manager
    • 1962 – Ted Failon, Filipino journalist and politician
    • 1962 – Kirk Triplett, American golfer
    • 1964 – Catherine Cortez Masto, American attorney and politician
    • 1964 – Jill Goodacre, American model and actress
    • 1964 – Elle Macpherson, Australian model and actress
    • 1964 – Ming Tsai, American chef and television host
    • 1965 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 2005)
    • 1965 – William Oefelein, American commander, pilot, and astronaut
    • 1965 – Voula Patoulidou, Greek hurdler, long jumper, and politician
    • 1966 – Krasimir Balakov, Bulgarian footballer and manager
    • 1966 – Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch politician
    • 1966 – Eric Gunderson, American baseball player
    • 1966 – Sigrid Kirchmann, Austrian high jumper
    • 1967 – Ainars Bagatskis, Latvian basketball player and coach
    • 1967 – Michel Hazanavicius, French director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1967 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player and sportscaster
    • 1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress
    • 1969 – Kim Batten, American hurdler
    • 1969 – Shinichi Mochizuki, Japanese mathematician
    • 1969 – Jimmy Spencer, American football player and coach
    • 1971 – Robert Gibbs, American political adviser, 28th White House Press Secretary
    • 1971 – Lara Logan, South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent
    • 1971 – Hidetoshi Nishijima, Japanese actor
    • 1972 – Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer
    • 1972 – Piet-Hein Geeris, Dutch field hockey player
    • 1972 – Alex Ochoa, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
    • 1972 – Priti Patel, British Indian politician, Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • 1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer and coach
    • 1973 – Sebastiano Siviglia, Italian footballer
    • 1973 – Steve Smith, English high jumper
    • 1974 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian-American photographer and educator
    • 1976 – Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
    • 1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
    • 1978 – Aaron Persico, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
    • 1980 – Bill Demong, American skier
    • 1980 – Bruno Silva, Uruguayan footballer
    • 1981 – Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (d. 2018)
    • 1982 – Jēkabs Rēdlihs, Latvian ice hockey player
    • 1983 – Darius Draudvila, Lithuanian decathlete
    • 1984 – Juan Mónaco, Argentinian tennis player
    • 1985 – Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan international footballer, central defender
    • 1985 – Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1985 – Mickey Pimentel, American football player
    • 1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
    • 1986 – Ivan Ukhov, Russian high jumper
    • 1987 – Gianluca Freddi, Italian footballer
    • 1987 – Dimitri Payet, French footballer
    • 1987 – Romain Hamouma, French footballer
    • 1988 – Esther Cremer, German runner
    • 1988 – Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer
    • 1988 – Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player
    • 1989 – James Tomkins, English footballer
    • 1990 – Carlos Peña, Mexican footballer
    • 1990 – Teemu Pukki, Finnish footballer
    • 1990 – Lyle Taylor, English footballer
    • 1991 – Irene, South Korean idol, actress and television host
    • 1991 – Fabio Borini, Italian footballer
    • 1991 – N’Golo Kanté, French footballer
    • 1993 – Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer

    Deaths on March 29

    • 87 BC – Emperor Wu of Han of China (b. 157 BC)
    • AD 57 – Emperor Guangwu of Han (b. 5 BC)
    • 500 – Gwynllyw, Welsh king and religious figure
    • 1058 – Pope Stephen IX (b. 1020)
    • 1075 – Ottokar I of Styria, German noble
    • 1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)
    • 1461 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
    • 1461 – Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles
    • 1467 – Matthew Palaiologos Asen, Byzantine aristocrat and official
    • 1578 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1527)
    • 1578 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral and politician (b. 1524)
    • 1628 – Tobias Matthew, English archbishop and academic (b. 1546)
    • 1629 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1565)
    • 1692 – Nicolaus Bruhns, Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1665)
    • 1703 – George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, (b. 1678)
    • 1751 – Thomas Coram, English captain and philanthropist, founded Foundling Hospital (b. 1668)
    • 1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1688)
    • 1788 – Charles Wesley, English missionary and poet (b. 1707)
    • 1792 – Gustav III of Sweden (b. 1746)
    • 1800 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French general and engineer (b. 1714)
    • 1803 – Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian librarian and diplomat (b. 1733)
    • 1826 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic (b. 1751)
    • 1829 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1759)
    • 1848 – John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (b. 1763)
    • 1855 – Henri Druey, Swiss politician, 2nd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1799)
    • 1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian priest and physicist (b. 1797)
    • 1877 – Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802)
    • 1888 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (b. 1813)
    • 1891 – John Plankinton, American businessman and industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (b. 1820)
    • 1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
    • 1900 – Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (b. 1826)
    • 1905 – William Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist and banker (b. 1843)
    • 1906 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
    • 1911 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (b. 1837)
    • 1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish lieutenant and explorer (b. 1883)
    • 1912 – Robert Falcon Scott, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1868)
    • 1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and explorer (b. 1872)
    • 1924 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1852)
    • 1934 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-American banker and philanthropist (b. 1867)
    • 1937 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)
    • 1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian-English rugby player and soldier (b. 1916)
    • 1948 – Harry Price, English parapsychologist and author (b. 1881)
    • 1957 – Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish novelist (b. 1888)
    • 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, African priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
    • 1963 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian dentist and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1898)
    • 1963 – August Rei, Estonian soldier, journalist, and politician, 12th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1886)
    • 1970 – Anna Louise Strong, American journalist and author (b. 1885)
    • 1971 – Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1886)
    • 1972 – J. Arthur Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (b. 1888)
    • 1980 – Mantovani, Italian-English conductor and composer (b. 1905)
    • 1981 – Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
    • 1982 – Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, 1st President of the European Commission (b. 1901)
    • 1982 – Carl Orff, German composer and educator (b. 1895)
    • 1982 – Nathan Farragut Twining, American general (b. 1897)
    • 1985 – Luther Terry, American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
    • 1988 – Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1914)
    • 1988 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (b. 1924)
    • 1991 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928)
    • 1992 – Paul Henreid, American actor (b. 1908)
    • 1994 – Bill Travers, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
    • 1995 – Mort Meskin, American illustrator (b. 1916)
    • 1995 – Terry Moore, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912)
    • 1996 – Frank Daniel, Czech-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
    • 1996 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
    • 1997 – Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer and coach (b. 1935)
    • 1999 – Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1915)
    • 1999 – Joe Williams, American jazz singer (b. 1918)
    • 2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian lawyer, academic, and explorer (b. 1899)
    • 2001 – John Lewis, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
    • 2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956)
    • 2004 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (b. 1905)
    • 2004 – Joel Feinberg, American philosopher and academic (b. 1926)
    • 2005 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet and author (b. 1919)
    • 2006 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author and poet (b. 1932)
    • 2007 – Larry L’Estrange, English rugby player and soldier (b. 1934)
    • 2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1943)
    • 2009 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)
    • 2011 – Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)
    • 2011 – Iakovos Kambanellis, Greek author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
    • 2012 – Pap Cheyassin Secka, Gambian lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
    • 2012 – Bill Jenkins, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1930)
    • 2013 – Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter (b. 1930)
    • 2013 – Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1931)
    • 2013 – Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)
    • 2013 – Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (b. 1942)
    • 2013 – Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1930)
    • 2014 – Marc Platt, American actor and dancer (b. 1913)
    • 2014 – Ruth A. M. Schmidt, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1916)
    • 2015 – William Delafield Cook, Australian-English painter (b. 1926)
    • 2015 – Gerry Hardstaff, English cricketer (b. 1940)
    • 2016 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
    • 2017 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (b. 1928)
    • 2019 – Agnès Varda, French film director (b. 1928)

    Holidays and observances on March 29

    • Christian feast day:
      • Berthold
      • Eustace of Luxeuil
      • Gwladys
      • Gwynllyw
      • Hans Nielsen Hauge (Lutheran)
      • John Keble (commemoration, Anglicanism)
      • March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    • Earliest day on which the Octave Day of Easter can fall, while May 2 is the latest; observed on the Sunday after Easter. (Christianity)
    • Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
    • Commemoration of the 1947 Rebellion (Madagascar)
    • National Vietnam War Veterans Day (United States of America)
    • Day of the Young Combatant (Chile)
    • Youth Day (Taiwan)

  • January 11 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

    • 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
    • 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, Quraysh surrender.
    • 947 – Emperor Tai Zong of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty invades the Later Jin, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin.
    • 1055 – Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire.
    • 1158 – Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia.
    • 1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
    • 1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
    • 1654 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile.
    • 1693 – A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
    • 1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    • 1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
    • 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
    • 1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
    • 1861 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.
    • 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
    • 1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
    • 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
    • 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
    • 1912 – Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
    • 1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
    • 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
    • 1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
    • 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
    • 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
    • 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
    • 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
    • 1943 – The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
    • 1943 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
    • 1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People’s Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
    • 1949 – The first “networked” television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
    • 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
    • 1961 – Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City’s boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
    • 1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
    • 1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
    • 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
    • 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
    • 1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
    • 1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
    • 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
    • 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
    • 1998 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
    • 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’s death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
    • 2013 – One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.

    Births on January 11

    • 347 – Theodosius I, Roman emperor (d. 395)
    • 889 – Abd-ar-Rahman III, first Caliph of Córdoba (d. 961)
    • 1113 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese religious leader and poet (d. 1170)
    • 1209 – Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1259)
    • 1322 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1380)
    • 1359 – Emperor Go-En’yū of Japan (d. 1393)
    • 1395 – Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
    • 1503 – Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)
    • 1589 – William Strode, English politician (d. 1666)
    • 1591 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire (d. 1646)
    • 1624 – Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, Dutch painter (d. 1680)
    • 1630 – John Rogers, English-American minister, physician, and academic (d. 1684)
    • 1638 – Nicolas Steno, Danish bishop and anatomist (d. 1686)
    • 1642 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German organist and composer (d. 1710)
    • 1650 – Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter (d. 1721)
    • 1671 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general and diplomat (d. 1745)
    • 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
    • 1757 – Samuel Bentham, English engineer and architect (d. 1831)
    • 1760 – Oliver Wolcott Jr., American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1833)
    • 1777 – Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (d. 1837)
    • 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist (d. 1869)
    • 1788 – William Thomas Brande, English chemist and academic (d. 1866)
    • 1800 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (d. 1895)
    • 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University (d. 1874)
    • 1814 – James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
    • 1815 – John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
    • 1825 – Bayard Taylor, American poet, author, and critic (d. 1878)
    • 1839 – Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican lawyer, philosopher, and sociologist (d. 1903)
    • 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
    • 1843 – Adolf Eberle, German painter (d. 1914)
    • 1845 – Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
    • 1850 – Joseph Charles Arthur, American pathologist and mycologist (d. 1942)
    • 1852 – Constantin Fehrenbach, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Weimar Germany (d. 1926)
    • 1853 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 1932)
    • 1856 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1941)
    • 1857 – Fred Archer, English jockey (d. 1886)
    • 1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (d. 1947)
    • 1859 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (d. 1925)
    • 1864 – Thomas Dixon, Jr., American minister, lawyer, and politician (d. 1946)
    • 1867 – Edward B. Titchener, English psychologist and academic (d. 1927)
    • 1868 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1940)
    • 1870 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor and educator (d. 1945)
    • 1872 – G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic (d. 1956)
    • 1873 – John Callan O’Laughlin, American soldier and journalist (d. 1949)
    • 1875 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and academic (d. 1956)
    • 1876 – Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
    • 1876 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1952)
    • 1878 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (d. 1952)
    • 1885 – Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist (d. 1977)
    • 1887 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (d. 1948)
    • 1888 – Joseph B. Keenan, American jurist and politician (d. 1954)
    • 1889 – Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (d. 1938)
    • 1890 – Max Carey, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
    • 1890 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet and critic (d. 1954)
    • 1891 – Andrew Sockalexis, American runner (d. 1919)
    • 1893 – Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (d. 1969)
    • 1893 – Charles Fraser, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1981)
    • 1893 – Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
    • 1895 – Laurens Hammond, American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company (d. 1973)
    • 1897 – Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (d. 1955)
    • 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
    • 1899 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress, director, and producer (d. 1991)
    • 1901 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
    • 1902 – Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (d. 1986)
    • 1903 – Alan Paton, South African author and activist (d. 1988)
    • 1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist and theorist (d. 1960)
    • 1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d. 2008)
    • 1907 – Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
    • 1907 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1972)
    • 1908 – Lionel Stander, American actor and activist (d. 1994)
    • 1910 – Arthur Lambourn, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1999)
    • 1910 – Shane Paltridge, Australian soldier and politician (d. 1966)
    • 1911 – Tommy Duncan, American singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
    • 1911 – Nora Heysen, Australian painter (d. 2003)
    • 1911 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
    • 1912 – Don “Red” Barry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
    • 1913 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (d. 1980)
    • 1915 – Luise Krüger, German javelin thrower (d. 2001)
    • 1915 – Paddy Mayne, British colonel and lawyer (d. 1955)
    • 1916 – Bernard Blier, Argentinian-French actor (d. 1989)
    • 1917 – John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
    • 1918 – Robert C. O’Brien, American author and journalist (d. 1973)
    • 1920 – Mick McManus, English wrestler (d. 2013)
    • 1921 – Gory Guerrero, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1990)
    • 1921 – Juanita M. Kreps, American economist and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)
    • 1923 – Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
    • 1923 – Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (d. 2016)
    • 1923 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, engineer, and businessman, founded Carroll Shelby International (d. 2012)
    • 1924 – Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
    • 1924 – Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1994)
    • 1924 – Slim Harpo, American blues singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1970)
    • 1925 – Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises (d. 2016)
    • 1926 – Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1998)
    • 1928 – David L. Wolper, American director and producer (d. 2010)
    • 1929 – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist (d. 2020)
    • 1930 – Ron Mulock, Australian lawyer and politician, 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales (d. 2014)
    • 1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
    • 1931 – Betty Churcher, Australian painter, historian, and curator (d. 2015)
    • 1931 – Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (d. 2014)
    • 1932 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican actor and director
    • 1933 – Goldie Hill, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
    • 1934 – Jean Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
    • 1936 – Eva Hesse, German-American sculptor and educator (d. 1970)
    • 1938 – Arthur Scargill, English miner, activist, and politician
    • 1939 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
    • 1940 – Andres Tarand, Estonian geographer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
    • 1941 – Gérson, Brazilian footballer
    • 1942 – Bud Acton, American basketball player
    • 1942 – Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist and actor (d. 2011)
    • 1944 – Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, Sudanese poet and academic (d. 1989)
    • 1944 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Jharkhand
    • 1945 – Christine Kaufmann, German actress, author, and businesswoman (d. 2017)
    • 1946 – Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress
    • 1946 – Tony Kaye, English progressive rock keyboard player and songwriter (Yes)
    • 1946 – John Piper, American theologian and author
    • 1947 – Hamish Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player
    • 1948 – Fritz Bohla, German footballer and manager
    • 1948 – Joe Harper, Scottish footballer and manager
    • 1948 – Madeline Manning, American runner and coach
    • 1948 – Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 54th Yokozuna
    • 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh drummer
    • 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian singer-songwriter
    • 1949 – Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran
    • 1951 – Charlie Huhn, American rock singer and guitarist
    • 1951 – Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
    • 1951 – Philip Tartaglia, Scottish archbishop
    • 1952 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (d. 2013)
    • 1952 – Ben Crenshaw, American golfer and architect
    • 1952 – Michael Forshaw, Australian lawyer and politician
    • 1952 – Diana Gabaldon, American author
    • 1952 – Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer, and producer
    • 1953 – Graham Allen, English politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
    • 1953 – Kostas Skandalidis, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Agricultural Development and Food
    • 1954 – Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian physicist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Defence
    • 1954 – Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
    • 1956 – Big Bank Hank, American rapper (d. 2014)
    • 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
    • 1957 – Peter Moore, Australian rules footballer and coach
    • 1957 – Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
    • 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1959 – Brett Bodine, American NASCAR driver
    • 1959 – Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
    • 1961 – Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish racing driver (d. 1989)
    • 1962 – Chris Bryant, Welsh politician, Minister of State for Europe
    • 1962 – Susan Lindauer, American journalist and activist
    • 1962 – Brian Moore, English rugby player
    • 1963 – Tracy Caulkins, American-Australian swimmer
    • 1963 – Petra Schneider, German swimmer
    • 1964 – Ralph Recto, Filipino lawyer and politician
    • 1964 – Albert Dupontel, French actor and director
    • 1965 – Mascarita Sagrada, Mexican wrestler
    • 1965 – Aleksey Zhukov, Russian footballer and coach
    • 1966 – Marc Acito, American author and screenwriter
    • 1967 – Michael Healy-Rae, Irish politician
    • 1968 – Anders Borg, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Finance
    • 1968 – Tom Dumont, American guitarist and producer
    • 1969 – Manny Acta, Dominican-American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster
    • 1970 – Manfredi Beninati, Italian painter and sculptor
    • 1970 – Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
    • 1970 – Malcolm D. Lee, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
    • 1970 – Ken Ueno, American composer
    • 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
    • 1971 – Jeff Orford, Australian rugby league player
    • 1971 – Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
    • 1972 – Christian Jacobs, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
    • 1972 – Anthony Lledo, Danish composer
    • 1972 – Amanda Peet, American actress and playwright
    • 1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
    • 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer and captain
    • 1974 – Roman Görtz, German footballer
    • 1974 – Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
    • 1974 – Jens Nowotny, German footballer
    • 1975 – Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
    • 1975 – Dan Luger, English rugby player and coach
    • 1975 – Matteo Renzi, Italian politician, 56th Prime Minister of Italy
    • 1976 – Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
    • 1977 – Shamari Buchanan, American football player
    • 1977 – Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
    • 1977 – Olexiy Lukashevych, Ukrainian long jumper
    • 1978 – Vallo Allingu, Estonian basketball player
    • 1978 – Holly Brisley, Australian actress
    • 1978 – Michael Duff, Irish footballer
    • 1978 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
    • 1979 – Darren Lynn Bousman, American director and screenwriter
    • 1979 – Michael Lorenz, German footballer
    • 1979 – Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
    • 1980 – Josh Hannay, Australian rugby league player
    • 1980 – Mike Williams, American football player
    • 1982 – Tony Allen, American basketball player
    • 1982 – Blake Heron, American actor (d. 2017)
    • 1982 – Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
    • 1983 – Turner Battle, American basketball player
    • 1983 – André Myhrer, Swedish skier
    • 1983 – Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer
    • 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
    • 1984 – Kevin Boss, American football player
    • 1984 – Dario Krešić, Croatian footballer
    • 1984 – Matt Mullenweg, American web developer and businessman, co-created WordPress
    • 1984 – Stijn Schaars, Dutch footballer
    • 1985 – Newton Faulkner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1985 – Lucy Knisley, American author and illustrator
    • 1987 – Scotty Cranmer, American Professional BMX rider
    • 1987 – Danuta Kozák, Hungarian sprint canoer
    • 1987 – Daniel Semenzato, Italian footballer
    • 1987 – Jamie Vardy, English footballer
    • 1987 – Kim Young-kwang, South Korean actor and model
    • 1988 – Rodrigo José Pereira, Brazilian footballer
    • 1989 – Kane Linnett, Australian rugby league player
    • 1990 – Ryan Griffin, American football player
    • 1991 – Andrea Bertolacci, Italian footballer
    • 1992 – Dani Carvajal, Spanish footballer
    • 1992 – Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean rapper and dancer
    • 1993 – Michael Keane, English footballer
    • 1993 – Will Keane, English footballer
    • 1996 – Leroy Sané, German footballer
    • 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

    Deaths on January 11

    • 140 – Pope Hyginus, Bishop of Rome (b. 74)
    • 705 – Pope John VI (b. 655)
    • 782 – Emperor Kōnin of Japan (b. 709)
    • 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine emperor
    • 844 – Michael I Rangabe, Byzantine emperor (b. 770)
    • 887 – Boso of Provence, Frankish nobleman
    • 937 – Cao, empress of Later Tang
    • 937 – Li Chongmei, prince of Later Tang
    • 937 – Li Congke, emperor of Later Tang (b. 885)
    • 937 – Liu, empress of Later Tang
    • 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1000)
    • 1068 – Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen
    • 1083 – Otto of Nordheim (b. 1020)
    • 1266 – Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania
    • 1344 – Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
    • 1372 – Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (b. 1318)
    • 1396 – Isidore Glabas, Metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica (b.c. 1341)
    • 1397 – Skirgaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania
    • 1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian painter (b. 1449)
    • 1495 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal (b. 1428)
    • 1546 – Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (b. c. 1471)
    • 1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian poet, scholar, and theorist (b. 1470)
    • 1554 – Min Bin, king of Arakan (b. 1493)
    • 1641 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (b. 1583)
    • 1696 – Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary, and explorer (b. 1616)
    • 1703 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (b. 1632)
    • 1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French priest and theologian (b. 1637)
    • 1735 – Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1670)
    • 1753 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (b. 1660)
    • 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688)
    • 1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French-English sculptor (b. 1695)
    • 1763 – Caspar Abel, German poet, historian, and theologian (b. 1676)
    • 1771 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, French philosopher and author (b. 1704)
    • 1788 – François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
    • 1791 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh composer and poet (b. 1717)
    • 1798 – Heraclius II of Georgia (b. 1720)
    • 1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (b. 1749)
    • 1824 – Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1736)
    • 1836 – John Molson, Canadian businessman, founded the Molson Brewing Company (b. 1763)
    • 1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779)
    • 1866 – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818)
    • 1866 – John Woolley, English minister and academic (b. 1816)
    • 1867 – Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812)
    • 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810)
    • 1891 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809)
    • 1902 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (b. 1862)
    • 1904 – William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1815)
    • 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and philanthropist (b. 1842)
    • 1920 – Steinar Schjøtt, Norwegian philologist and lexicographer (b. 1844)
    • 1923 – Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
    • 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (b. 1840)
    • 1931 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor, historian, and author (b. 1852)
    • 1937 – Nuri Conker, Turkish colonel and politician (b. 1882)
    • 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German mathematician, philosopher, and chess player (b. 1868)
    • 1944 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1903)
    • 1947 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian singer (b. 1879)
    • 1952 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (b. 1889)
    • 1952 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (b. 1885)
    • 1953 – Noe Zhordania, Georgian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1868)
    • 1954 – Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
    • 1957 – Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and politician, Solicitor-General of Australia (b. 1867)
    • 1958 – Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
    • 1958 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
    • 1961 – Elena Gerhardt, German soprano and actress (b. 1883)
    • 1963 – Arthur Nock, English-American scholar, theologian, and academic (b. 1902)
    • 1965 – Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
    • 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
    • 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
    • 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
    • 1969 – Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (b. 1890)
    • 1972 – Padraic Colum, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1881)
    • 1975 – Max Lorenz, German tenor and actor (b. 1901)
    • 1980 – Barbara Pym, English author (b. 1913)
    • 1981 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1889)
    • 1982 – Paul Lynde, American Actor and comedian (b. 1926)
    • 1985 – Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
    • 1985 – William McKell, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
    • 1986 – Sid Chaplin, English author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
    • 1986 – Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
    • 1987 – Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
    • 1988 – Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1912)
    • 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
    • 1989 – Ray Moore, English radio host (b. 1942)
    • 1990 – Carolyn Haywood, American author and illustrator (b. 1898)
    • 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
    • 1994 – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)
    • 1995 – Josef Gingold, Belarusian-American violinist and educator (b. 1909)
    • 1995 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish author and poet (b. 1936)
    • 1995 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (b. 1918)
    • 1995 – Theodor Wisch, German general (b. 1907)
    • 1996 – Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1942)
    • 1999 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
    • 1999 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish author and poet (b. 1897)
    • 1999 – Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
    • 2000 – Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (b. 1911)
    • 2000 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
    • 2001 – Denys Lasdun, English architect, co-designed the Royal National Theatre (b. 1914)
    • 2002 – Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian director and playwright (b. 1920)
    • 2003 – Jože Pučnik, Slovenian sociologist and politician (b. 1932)
    • 2007 – Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
    • 2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
    • 2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (b. 1919)
    • 2008 – Carl Karcher, American businessman, co-founded Carl’s Jr. (b. 1917)
    • 2010 – Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
    • 2010 – Éric Rohmer, French director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1920)
    • 2011 – David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)
    • 2012 – Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Iranian physicist and academic (b. 1980)
    • 2012 – Gilles Jacquier, French journalist and photographer (b. 1968)
    • 2012 – Edgar Kaiser, Jr, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1942)
    • 2012 – Wally Osterkorn, American basketball player (b. 1928)
    • 2012 – Steven Rawlings, English astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1961)
    • 2012 – David Whitaker, English composer and conductor (b. 1931)
    • 2013 – Aaron Swartz, American programmer (b. 1986)
    • 2013 – Guido Forti, Italian businessman, founded the Forti Racing Team (b. 1940)
    • 2013 – Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam (b. 1927)
    • 2013 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
    • 2013 – Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (b. 1935)
    • 2013 – Alemayehu Shumye, Ethiopian runner (b. 1988)
    • 2014 – Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (b. 1933)
    • 2014 – Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Indian-Bangladeshi jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1928)
    • 2014 – Chai Trong-rong, Taiwanese educator and politician (b. 1935)
    • 2014 – Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
    • 2015 – Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
    • 2015 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress (b. 1931)
    • 2015 – Chashi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi director and producer (b. 1941)
    • 2015 – Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1918)
    • 2016 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
    • 2016 – David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
    • 2017 – Adenan Satem, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (b. 1944)
    • 2018 – Edgar Ray Killen, American murderer (b.1925)
    • 2019 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (b.1929)

    Holidays and observances on January 11

    • Children’s Day (Tunisia)
    • Christian feast day:
      • Anastasius of Suppentonia (Roman Catholic)
      • Leucius of Brindisi (Roman Catholic)
      • Mary Slessor (Church of England)
      • Paulinus II of Aquileia
      • Pope Hyginus
      • Theodosius the Cenobiarch
      • Thomas of Cori
      • Vitalis of Gaza (Roman Catholic)
      • January 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    • Earliest day on which Triodion can fall, while February 14 is the latest; celebrated 70 days before Easter. (Eastern Orthodox)
    • Eugenio María de Hostos Day (Puerto Rico)
    • Independence Resistance Day (Morocco)
    • Kagami biraki (Japan)
    • National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (United States)
    • Republic Day (Albania)
    • Carmentalia (January 11th and January 15th), (Rome)