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May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 223 days remain until the end of the year.
192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu .[1] 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet .853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt .[2] 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins ) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo .1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet .1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV .1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.1370 – Brussels massacre : Hundreds of Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels , Belgium , for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host .[3] 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe .1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses : At the First Battle of St Albans , Richard, Duke of York , defeats and captures King Henry VI of England .1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan , resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.[4] 1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War .1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg .1762 – Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.[5]
1766 – A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.[6] 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason .1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna , Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire , England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.1819 – SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia , United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.1840 – The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique .1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats , making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery .1863 – American Civil War : Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army 's Red River Campaign ends in failure.1866 – Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms1872 – Reconstruction Era : President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.1900 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine ".1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green , Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.1927 – Near Xining , China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.1939 – World War II : Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel .1941 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War , British troops take Fallujah .1942 – Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern .1947 – Cold War : The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.1957 – South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.1958 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils .1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake , measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale , hits southern Chile , becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.1963 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later.1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society .1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.1967 – L'Innovation department store in Brussels , Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores .1969 – Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon 's surface.1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution , becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka , and joins the Commonwealth of Nations .1972 – Over 400 women in Derry , Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
1987 – Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut , India.1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland , New Zealand.
1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen .1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations .1994 – A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide .1996 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.1998 – A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton .2000 – In Sri Lanka , over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna .2002 – Civil rights movement : A jury in Birmingham, Alabama , convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing .2010 – Air India Express Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore , India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737.2010 – Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the Uefa Champions League final in Madrid , Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri , killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.2012 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).2014 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état , following six months of political turmoil.2014 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi , capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing .2017 – United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall . 626 – Itzam K'an Ahk I , Mayan king (d. 686)1009 – Su Xun , Chinese writer (d. 1066)1408 – Annamacharya , Hindu saint (d. 1503)1539 – Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (d. 1621)1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac , French soldier and governor (d. 1698)1644 – Gabriël Grupello , Flemish Baroque sculptor (d. 1730)1650 – Richard Brakenburgh , Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1702)1694 – Daniel Gran , Austrian painter (d. 1757)1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis , French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1794)1733 – Hubert Robert , French painter (d. 1808)1752 – Louis Legendre , French butcher and politician (d. 1797)1762 – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst , English politician (d. 1834)1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)1772 – Ram Mohan Roy , Indian philosopher and reformer (d. 1833)1782 – Hirose Tansō , Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (d. 1856)1783 – William Sturgeon , English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)1808 – Gérard de Nerval , French poet and translator (d. 1855)1811 – Giulia Grisi , Italian soprano (d. 1869)1811 – Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle , English politician (d. 1864)
1813 – Richard Wagner , German composer (d. 1883)1814 – Amalia Lindegren , Swedish painter (d. 1891)1820 – Worthington Whittredge , American painter (d. 1910)1828 – Albrecht von Graefe , German ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1870)1831 – Henry Vandyke Carter , English anatomist and surgeon (d. 1897)1833 – Félix Bracquemond , French painter and etcher (d. 1914)1833 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla , Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1895)
1841 – Catulle Mendès , French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1909)1844 – Mary Cassatt , American painter and educator (d. 1926)1846 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez , Mexican poet, educator, and activist (d. 1908)1848 – Fritz von Uhde , German painter and educator (d. 1911)1849 – Aston Webb , English architect and academic (d. 1930)1858 – Belmiro de Almeida , Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (d. 1935)1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle , British writer (d. 1930)1859 – Tsubouchi Shōyō , Japanese author, playwright, and educator (d. 1935)
1864 – Willy Stöwer , German author and illustrator (d. 1931)1868 – Augusto Pestana , Brazilian engineer and politician (d. 1934)1874 – Daniel François Malan , South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)1876 – Julius Klinger , Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)1879 – Warwick Armstrong , Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1947)1879 – Jean Cras , French admiral and composer (d. 1932)
1879 – Symon Petliura , Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (d. 1926)
1880 – Francis de Miomandre , French author and translator (d. 1959)1884 – Wilhelmina Hay Abbott , Scottish suffragist and feminist (d. 1957)[7] 1885 – Giacomo Matteotti , Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1924)1885 – Soemu Toyoda , Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
1887 – A. W. Sandberg , Danish film director and screenwriter (d. 1938)1891 – Johannes R. Becher , German politician, novelist, and poet (d. 1958)1894 – Friedrich Pollock , German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1970)1897 – Robert Neumann , German and English-speaking author (d. 1975)1900 – Juan Arvizu , Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d.1985)1901 – Maurice J. Tobin , American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1953)1902 – Jack Lambert , English footballer and manager (d. 1940) [8] 1902 – Al Simmons , American baseball player and coach (d. 1956)
1904 – Uno Lamm , Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)1905 – Bodo von Borries , German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956)1905 – Tom Driberg , British politician (d. 1976)
1907 – Hergé , Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1983)1907 – Laurence Olivier , English actor, director, and producer (d. 1989)
1908 – Horton Smith , American golfer and captain (d. 1963)1909 – Bob Dyer , American-Australian radio and television host (d. 1984)[9] 1909 – Margaret Mee , English illustrator and educator (d. 1988)
1912 – Herbert C. Brown , English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)1913 – Rafael Gil , Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 1986)1913 – Dominique Rolin , Belgian author (d. 2012)
1914 – Max Kohnstamm , Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 2010)1914 – Sun Ra , American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (d. 1993)
1917 – George Aratani , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)1917 – Jean-Louis Curtis , French author (d. 1995)
1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants , Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)1920 – Thomas Gold , Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)1921 – George S. Hammond , American scientist (d. 2005)1922 – Quinn Martin , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1987)1924 – Charles Aznavour , French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018)1925 – Jean Tinguely , Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)1927 – Michael Constantine , American actor1927 – Peter Matthiessen , American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review
1927 – George Andrew Olah , Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
1928 – Serge Doubrovsky , French theorist and author (d. 2017)1928 – John Mackenzie , Scottish director and producer (d. 2011)
1928 – T. Boone Pickens , American businessman (d. 2019)
1928 – Hiroshi Sano , Japanese novelist (d. 2013)
1929 – Ahmed Fouad Negm , Egyptian poet (d. 2013)1930 – Kenny Ball , English jazz trumpet player, vocalist, and bandleader (d. 2013)1930 – Marisol Escobar , French-American sculptor (d. 2016)
1930 – Harvey Milk , American lieutenant and politician (d. 1978)
1932 – Robert Spitzer , American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2015)1933 – Fred Anderson , Australian-South African rugby league player (d. 2012)[10] 1933 – Chen Jingrun , Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
1934 – Peter Nero , American pianist and conductor1935 – Billy Rayner , Australian rugby league player (d. 2006)[11] 1936 – George H. Heilmeier , American engineer (d. 2014)1937 – Facundo Cabral , Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)1938 – Richard Benjamin , American actor and director1938 – Susan Strasberg , American actress (d. 1999)
1939 – Paul Winfield , American actor (d. 2004)1940 – Kieth Merrill , American filmmaker1940 – E. A. S. Prasanna , Indian cricketer[12]
1940 – Michael Sarrazin , Canadian actor (d. 2011)
1940 – Bernard Shaw , American journalist
1940 – Mick Tingelhoff , American Pro Football Hall of Famer
1941 – Menzies Campbell , Scottish sprinter and politician1942 – Roger Brown , American basketball player (d. 1997)[13] 1942 – Ted Kaczynski , American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber )
1942 – Barbara Parkins , Canadian actress
1942 – Richard Oakes , Native American civil rights activist (d. 1972)
1943 – Betty Williams , Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)1943 – Tommy John , American baseball player
1944 – John Flanagan , Australian fantasy author1945 – Bob Katter , Australian politician1946 – George Best , Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2005)1946 – Michael Green , English physicist and academic
1946 – Howard Kendall , English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1946 – Andrei Marga , Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
1946 – Lyudmila Zhuravleva , Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
1948 – Tomás Sánchez , Cuban painter and engraver1948 – Nedumudi Venu , Indian actor and screenwriter
1949 – Cheryl Campbell , English actress1949 – Valentin Inzko , Austrian diplomat
1950 – Bernie Taupin , English singer-songwriter and poet1953 – François Bon , French writer1953 – Cha Bum-kun , South Korean footballer and manager
1953 – Paul Mariner , English footballer, coach, and manager
1954 – Barbara May Cameron , Native American human rights activist (d. 2002)[14] 1954 – Shuji Nakamura , Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1955 – Iva Davies , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist[15] 1956 – Lucie Brock-Broido , American poet (d. 2018)1957 – Lisa Murkowski , American lawyer and politician1959 – David Blatt , Israeli-American basketball player and coach1959 – Olin Browne , American golfer[16]
1959 – Morrissey , English singer-songwriter and performer
1959 – Kwak Jae-yong , South Korean director and screenwriter
1959 – Mehbooba Mufti , Indian politician
1960 – Hideaki Anno , Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter1962 – Andrew Magee , French-American golfer[17] 1962 – Brian Pillman , American football player and wrestler (d. 1997)
1963 – Claude Closky , French contemporary artist[18] 1965 – Jay Carney , American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary 1966 – Johnny Gill , American singer-songwriter and producer1966 – Wang Xiaoshuai , Chinese director and screenwriter
1968 – Graham Linehan , Irish comedian, actor, and author1969 – Cathy McMorris Rodgers , American lawyer and politician1970 – Naomi Campbell , English model1970 – Brody Stevens , American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
1972 – Max Brooks , American author and screenwriter1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas , Danish actor1974 – Garba Lawal , Nigerian footballer1974 – Henrietta Ónodi , Hungarian Olympic gymnast
1974 – Arseniy Yatsenyuk , Ukrainian politician
1975 – Salva Ballesta , Spanish footballer and manager1976 – Christian Vande Velde , American cyclist1977 – Pat Smullen , Irish jockey (d. 2020)[19] 1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin , American actress1978 – Katie Price , English television personality and glamour model
1979 – Nazanin Boniadi , Iranian-American actress1979 – Maggie Q , American actress
1980 – Tarin Bradford , Australian rugby league player[20] 1980 – Sharice Davids , American politician
1980 – Lucy Gordon , British actress and model (d. 2009)
1981 – Daniel Bryan , American wrestler1981 – Bassel Khartabil , Syrian computer programmer and engineer (d. 2015)
1981 – Jürgen Melzer , Austrian tennis player
1981 – Mark O'Meley , Australian rugby league player[21]
1982 – Erin McNaught , Australian model and actress1982 – Apolo Ohno , American speed skater
1982 – Hong Yong-jo , North Korean footballer
1983 – Natasha Kai , American soccer player and Olympic medalist1984 – Karoline Herfurth , German actress1984 – Didier Ya Konan , Ivorian footballer
1984 – Dustin Moskovitz , American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta , Swiss footballer1985 – Tao Okamoto , Japanese model and actress
1986 – Julian Edelman , American football player1986 – Matt Jarvis , English footballer
1986 – Tatiana Volosozhar , Russian figure skater
1987 – Novak Djokovic , Serbian tennis player1987 – Arturo Vidal , Chilean footballer
1988 – Heida Reed , Icelandic-British actress1989 – Corey Dickerson , American baseball player1990 – Wyatt Roy , Australian politician1991 – Joel Obi , Nigerian footballer1991 – Suho , South Korean singer and actor
1992 – Anna Baryshnikov , American actress[22] 1994 – Florian Luger , Austrian male model1998 – Samile Bermannelli , Brazilian fashion model[23] 1999 – Camren Bicondova , American actress1999 – Femke Huijzer , Dutch model[24]
1999 – Hōshōryū Tomokatsu , Mongolian sumo wrestler[25] 192 – Dong Zhuo , Chinese warlord and politician (b. 138)337 – Constantine the Great , Roman emperor (b. 272)748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 683)1067 – Constantine X , Byzantine Emperor (b. 1006)1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)1310 – Saint Humility , founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (b. c.1226)1409 – Blanche of England , sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset , English commander (b. 1406)1455 – Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford , Lancastrian commander (b. 1414)
1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland , English commander (b. 1393)
1457 – Rita of Cascia , Italian nun and saint (b. 1381)1490 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent , English administrator, nobleman and magnate (b. 1416)1538 – John Forest , English friar and martyr (b. 1471)1540 – Francesco Guicciardini , Italian historian and politician (b. 1483)1545 – Sher Shah Suri , Indian ruler (b. 1486)1553 – Giovanni Bernardi , Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1495)1602 – Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)1609 – Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff , Dutch captain (b. 1573)1666 – Gaspar Schott , German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)1745 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie , French general (b. 1671)1760 – Baal Shem Tov , Polish rabbi and author (b. 1700)1772 – Durastante Natalucci , Italian historian and academic (b. 1687)1795 – Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg , Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (b. 1725)1802 – Martha Washington , First, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah , American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)1859 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown , American soldier (b. 1829)1868 – Julius Plücker , German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)1885 – Victor Hugo , French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)1901 – Gaetano Bresci , Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)1910 – Jules Renard , French author and playwright (b. 1864)1932 – Augusta, Lady Gregory , Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)1933 – Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav , Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)1938 – William Glackens , American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)1939 – Ernst Toller , German playwright and author (b. 1893)1939 – Jiří Mahen , Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
1948 – Claude McKay , Jamaican writer and poet (b. 1889)1954 – Chief Bender , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)1965 – Christopher Stone , English radio host (b. 1882)1966 – Tom Goddard , English cricketer (b. 1900)1967 – Langston Hughes , American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)1967 – Charlotte Serber , American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)[26]
1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis , Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)1972 – Margaret Rutherford , English actress (b. 1892)
1974 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz , German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)1975 – Lefty Grove , American baseball player (b. 1900)1982 – Cevdet Sunay , Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)1983 – Albert Claude , Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman , German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)1988 – Giorgio Almirante , Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)1989 – Steven De Groote , South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)1990 – Rocky Graziano , American boxer (b. 1922)1991 – Shripad Amrit Dange , Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)1991 – Stan Mortensen , English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
1992 – Zellig Harris , American linguist and academic (b. 1909)1993 – Mieczysław Horszowski , Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)1997 – Alziro Bergonzo , Italian architect and painter (b. 1906)1997 – Alfred Hershey , American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1998 – John Derek , American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)1998 – José Enrique Moyal , Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
2000 – Davie Fulton , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)2004 – Richard Biggs , American actor (b. 1960)2004 – Mikhail Voronin , Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2005 – Charilaos Florakis , Greek politician (b. 1914)2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft , American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2006 – Lee Jong-wook , South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945)2007 – Pemba Doma Sherpa , Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)2008 – Robert Asprin , American soldier and author (b. 1946)2010 – Martin Gardner , American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914)2011 – Joseph Brooks , American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)2012 – Muzafar Bhutto , Pakistani politician (b. 1970)2012 – Wesley A. Brown , American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927)
2013 – Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt , Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922)2015 – Marques Haynes , American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)2015 – Vladimir Katriuk , Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921)
2016 – Velimir "Bata" Živojinović , Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)2017 – Nicky Hayden , American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)[27] 2019 – Judith Kerr , German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923)2020 – Denise Cronenberg , Canadian costume designer (b. 1938)[28] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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