Happy birthday and many happy returns Canh Minh Vo,Jimmy Kien and John Ibrahim. Born on the same day, across the years. Remember, birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. I am sure that isn't a perceptual illusion.
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FIRST VICTIM CLUB
Tim Blair – Friday, March 29, 2013 (5:41pm)
It’s an old-fashioned possum roast:
A 1°C rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent’s first victim of climate change, researchers said.
If a mere 1°C rise is enough to wipe you out, then maybe you aren’t doing evolution right. The good news for our marsupial mate is that he joins the exclusive First Victim Club (an elite version of the previously covered First Casualty League). Let’s meet some of the other members …
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SLOW BLOKE TO CHINA
Tim Blair – Friday, March 29, 2013 (2:05pm)
Kevin Rudd still hasn’t worked out that he’s just the member for Griffith:
The former prime minister and foreign minister will speak in Seoul at the Asian Leadership Conference on Tuesday, addressing foreign and security policy challenges arising from Sino-Japanese tensions in the South China Sea.He then heads to Beijing …Mr Rudd will later deliver three keynote speeches in the United States, dealing with China and the implications of the United States’ renewed foreign policy focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
Ms Gillard is working to forge an agreement when she meets China’s leaders, President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, after arriving in China next Friday for a five-day tour …Kevin Rudd, who earlier this month failed to reclaim the prime ministership from Ms Gillard, is in Beijing before her visit, and will deliver an address to the People’s Liberation Army’s National Defence University.‘’She would be keen to show that Kevin Rudd is not the only person who can do China,’’ said Richard Rigby, director of the Australian National University’s China Institute.
China? These two can’t even “do” Australia.
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LANGUAGE PROBLEM
Tim Blair – Friday, March 29, 2013 (12:41pm)
A British Labour peer apologises for Jewish conspiracy talk:
Pakistan-born Nazir Ahmed was suspended from the opposition Labour party when the comments, made to a Pakistani television station, were published in The Times newspaper earlier this month.Speaking in Urdu, the 55-year-old had attributed a judge’s decision to jail him for dangerous driving four years ago to pressure from Jews “who own newspapers and TV channels” …He struggled to explain why he made the remarks, saying: “It must have been a twisted mind that said those things.”When he saw the video on The Times website, “I could not believe that this was me,” Ahmed said, adding: “I cannot honestly say why.”
It was just a Margo moment.
UPDATE. These types should use sign language.
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How students can rule this warming world
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (3:41pm)
Are you some kind of
scientist? A student, maybe, with an “affinity” for global warming
stuff? Are you prepared to work for nothing but a drink and a “diner”
(sic)?
Then you, too, can work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report as a “reviewer”? Here’s your chance to give governments the world over a blueprint for a radical left transormation of capitalism - an invitation from the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency:
Then you, too, can work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report as a “reviewer”? Here’s your chance to give governments the world over a blueprint for a radical left transormation of capitalism - an invitation from the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency:
For the Dutch government, the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency will conduct a review of the draft version of a volume of the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). For this review we need approximately 60 young scientists who have affinity with climate change…What Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said of the IPCC:
IPCC is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. Over the years, thousands of scientists from all over the world have contributed to the work of the IPCC on a voluntary basis.... The fifth
assessment report volume that soon will be undergoing expert and government review ... zooms in on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability related to climate change… The final version of the IPCC’s fifth ssessment report, to be released in 2013/2014, will constitute the basis for future climate negotiations. Especially the summaries for policymakers will have a major influence on future climate policies all around the
world. The IPCC reports are thereby the most influential scientific documents on climate change.
The IPCC offers governments the chance to review their reports.... For the Dutch government review, the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has chosen to ... conduct a systematic review of the entire [working group II] contribution to the IPCC report… As a member of the review team you will contribute to the quality of the IPCC report. Through this review you will help IPCC in their aim to produce policy-relevant and policy-neutral information on climate change.
Our offer
We ask you to invest two or three days in the review. Based on your interest and expertise we will ask you to review a chapter of the report… The kick off will take place in Utrecht on the 12th of April 2013 from
13.00 till 17.00, including lunch and drinks afterwards… The panel will select the best reviewer ... who will go home with an award and 250 euro. The presentation of findings will take place in Utrecht on the 13th of May 2013 from 14.00 till 20.00 and includes a diner.
The first thing I’d say is the IPCC - International Panel on Climate Change - scientists has 4000 essentially humourless scientists in white coats who go around and measure things and have been doing so for about 20 years. They reached a conclusion about, first of all, climate change happening and, second, the high likelihood, defined as 90 per cent plus, of it being caused by human activity sometime ago…
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Australian arrested in Savile case
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (2:35pm)
For some reason we
can’t name the man, despite him being identified all over the Internet,
but this will force a shift in the shape of Australian popular culture:
A PROMINENT Australian entertainer has been arrested by Scotland Yard detectives in London on suspicion of sexual offences.The man must be presumed innocent.
Metropolitan Police confirmed officers have arrested an 82-year-old man living in Berkshire.
He was arrested by detectives involved in Operation Yewtree - which is investigating the Jimmy Savile child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the UK.
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Wilders’ party now Netherlands’ most popular
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (10:51am)
Dutch politician Geert Wilders on his visit to Australia this year was vilified, hindered and smeared, while his audiences were attacked. It was the kind of shameful dehumanisation and incitement to hate that forces him to live under constant heavy security.
What wasn’t deployed against him here was rational argument on the points he makes on issues I believe also trouble many Australians. He was abused, not answered.
Much the same happened in Hollard to another Dutch politician - the fascinating, eloquent gay sociologist Pim Fortuyn, who was eventually murdered by a green in part for saying what Wilders says now, that importing many Muslim immigrants can be a threat to the kind of social freedoms, not least free speech and gay rights, Western nations take for granted.
Fortuyn, like Wilders, was Euro-sceptic, as he explained to director Theo van Gogh, later himself murdered by a Muslim extremist. Here the two soon-to-be-assassinated men discuss the EU:
Europe’s bail-out of busted Cyprus, involving yet another transfer of money from the Dutch to the south, seems to have swung more votes behind the Euro-sceptic Wilders.
UPDATE
Fortuyn was one of greatest and bravest political debates I’ve ever seen. One of his most famous fights:
Reader Harald:
What wasn’t deployed against him here was rational argument on the points he makes on issues I believe also trouble many Australians. He was abused, not answered.
Much the same happened in Hollard to another Dutch politician - the fascinating, eloquent gay sociologist Pim Fortuyn, who was eventually murdered by a green in part for saying what Wilders says now, that importing many Muslim immigrants can be a threat to the kind of social freedoms, not least free speech and gay rights, Western nations take for granted.
Fortuyn, like Wilders, was Euro-sceptic, as he explained to director Theo van Gogh, later himself murdered by a Muslim extremist. Here the two soon-to-be-assassinated men discuss the EU:
But here’s something to shame Australia’s politicians, not a man or woman of whom dared to meet Wilders. The latest poll says Wilders’ PVV party is the most popular in The Netherlands:
The PVV would win the most seats in the House of Representatives if an election were held now.(My translation.)
That is the finding of a poll by Maurice de Hond on Peil.nl…
With 24 seats, the party of Geert Wilders would have one more than the VVD, with 23. The PvdA would have 18 seats, according to the latest poll, giving the two ruling parties a total of 41 seats. That is the lowest total since the election in September 2012, when the parties of Diederik Samsom and [Prime Minister Mark] Rutte together won 79 seats.
Europe’s bail-out of busted Cyprus, involving yet another transfer of money from the Dutch to the south, seems to have swung more votes behind the Euro-sceptic Wilders.
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Fortuyn was one of greatest and bravest political debates I’ve ever seen. One of his most famous fights:
And note his warning at the beginning of this clip about who would be responsible for his murder:
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Reader Harald:
It may be worth pointing out some differences between elections in The Netherlands and Australia. First, in contrast to here, in The Netherlands there are no seats represented by local members. Instead, in The Netherlands the national political parties propose a candidate list to all electoral areas in the country. This list of candidates is usually not changed radically. That means that every voter, regardless of where he/she lives, is presented with largely the same list of candidates. In case of the PVV, that means Geert Wilders is at the top of the PVV candidate list, no matter what voting booth you walk into on election day.(Thanks to reader Michael.)
As a consequence 1.5 million Dutch voters voted for Geert Wilders personally. Not a local member of the PVV party; no, they ticked specifically HIS box. Geert Wilders sits in parliament, with a personal mandate the size of which does not exist in Australia.
Second, in contrast to the Australian system, voting is non-compulsory in The Netherlands. Actually 80% showed up to vote in the elections of 2012. That means the 1.5 million people made their way to voting booth to vote for Geert Wilders at their own volition. If voting had been compulsory, as it is here, probably Geert Wilders would have personally received closer to 2 million votes.
In my discussions with colleagues who think this man is some extremist wingnut, this bit of context did help to rectify that misperception.
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Lewandowsky accused of defamation
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (10:17am)
Manic warmist Stephan Lewandowsky, the Perth academic, is in all sorts of strife with his bizarre and statistically sloppy papers linking global warming sceptics to the kind of conspiracy theorists who think the moon landings were faked. (Talk about self-projection.)
He’s been pinged for, how shall we say it, making claims that don’t accord with the records, and now his latest paper has again been withdrawn from circulation by a journal while complaints of defamation and inaccuracy are checked out.
From the complaint:
I am mentioned by name and identified as having been the first to have mentioned in public Recursive Conspiracist Hypothesis number 4 - namely that Sceptic blogs were only contacted after a delay. This hypothesis is quite true, as Professor Lewandowsky has admitted. Nonetheless, the fact of having been the first to make this accusation leads to me being accused of exhibiting the following symptoms of conspiracist ideation: nefarious intent, nihilistic skepticism, “must be wrong”; “no accident”, and unreflexive counterfactual thinking.From the journal:
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are taking this email very seriously and will temporarily remove the article while we investigate your claims. Please feel free to forward us any further information that will assist us with our investigation.I prefer debate to legal action, but a defamation hearing would at least allow Lewandowsky’s conspiracy theory to be property tested.
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Labor makes the cuts the Liberals won’t have to
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (9:57am)
The pain Labor inflicts will be a Liberal Government’s gain:
The opposition has said it cannot guarantee it will unwind any changes the federal government makes to superannuation in this year’s budget, despite its denunciations and claims that the reforms would be a ‘’smash and grab’’ raid on the savings of Australians.How much more damage will Labor do before the September 14 election?
“We don’t want to see any increase in taxes targeting superannuation,” [shadow assistant treasurer Mathias] Cormann said yesterday. “But if the government increases taxes on superannuation in the budget and spends all the money as they usually do, we cannot give a guarantee that we will fix up all the damage on day one.”
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Why not “the earns” and “earn nots”?
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (9:47am)
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No finer cover shot
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (9:38am)
The most naturally gifted cricketer in Australia. Pity she’s just three.
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Bolt Report on Sunday
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (9:25pm)
It’s over? Not with the Budget to come and Rudd’s forces already on the move…
Respected banker David Murray on the financial strife we’re in. Plus Belinda Neal and Peter Reith, and, for Easter, academics reading from the Gospel of St Marx.
Channel 10 at 10am on Sunday.
Respected banker David Murray on the financial strife we’re in. Plus Belinda Neal and Peter Reith, and, for Easter, academics reading from the Gospel of St Marx.
Channel 10 at 10am on Sunday.
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Good intentions do not excuse blank cheques
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (9:30am)
Noel Pearson’s name - and political contacts - save a program I am assured does good, but comes at an astonishing cost:
THE Queensland government has backed down and will extend Noel Pearson’s Cape York Welfare Reform trial after earlier announcing it would not fund the program after 2013…$100 million is incredible, given the four towns between then have fewer than 3500 people, according to census figures.
The Newman government’s decision came after Mr Pearson called for a federal takeover of indigenous affairs if Queensland failed to fund the radical trial, amid evidence the program has cut crime rates, improved infrastructure and services and helped school attendance levels…
Earlier today Mr Newman insisted he was not abandoning the program, but wanted to see a wider, more cost-effective rollout…
Tony Abbott weighed into the debate, saying he wanted the Cape York reforms expanded to communities across the country. Mr Abbott said he was a big supporter of the reforms..
[An independent assessment] finds that, since the trial began in July 2008, the Cape York communities of Aurukun, Coen, Hopevale and Mossman Gorge in far north Queensland have experienced improved school attendance, care and protection of children, and community safety…
The Cape York welfare trial has received about $100 million from the federal and Queensland governments.
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A humble Pope, at war with “evil masters”
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (9:23am)
This new Pope has made his mark with astonishing speed:
POPE Francis washed 12 young offenders’ feet, including two girls at a Rome prison as he pushes for the Catholic Church to reach out to the needy.This has some relevance here, in this political climate:
In an apparent break with tradition by Latin America’s first pontiff, local prison ombudsman Angiolo Marroni said that one of the two girls taking part in the ceremony was Muslim.
“Whoever is the most high up must be at the service of others,” the Pope said at the start of the Holy Thursday ceremony.
Earlier on Thursday, the 76-year-old Argentinian pontiff told Catholic priests at a mass in St Peter’s Basilica to stop their “soul-searching” and “introspection”.“Prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.” It will be fascinating to see who he defines as the “evil masters”.
“We need to go out ... to the outskirts where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters,” he said.
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The Big Australia Gillard claimed she’d limit
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (8:33am)
We have half a million
Australians out of work. The economy is flattening. The cities are so
full that city traffic is often a nightmare. We’ve run out of money for
big-scale building of new roads and train lines.
So how on earth does this make sense:
So how on earth does this make sense:
JULIA Gillard is steering the nation’s population on a course to more than 40 million by 2050, despite warning just three years ago against “hurtling towards a big Australia”.Add the birth rate, and we are increasing our population by the equivalent of the city of Adelaide every three years. Do see anything remotely like that scale of infrastructure being built to accommodate them? Do you see a robust enough sense of community to absorb that level of immigration without friction?
New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today show net overseas migration jumped by almost a third, to 228,000, in the 12 months to September 30 last year.
When the Prime Minister vowed, in the 2010 election campaign, to work towards a “sustainable Australia”, net overseas migration was running at about 176,000 a year.
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But once you kill heathy babies near term, what’s the difference?
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (8:27am)
As I’ve noted already in this case: Where is the line to be drawn once ethicists seem to sanction murder?
Once we accept the killing of healthy babies eight or nine months in the womb, what is to stop us from killing babies outside the womb? Indeed, pro-abortion “ethicists” here have argued there is no difference (which is true) and we should be allowed to kill babies after birth:No more lines at all:
As the authors say: “If criteria such as the costs (social, psychological, economic) for the potential parents are good enough reasons for having an abortion even when the foetus is healthy, if the moral status of the newborn is the same as that of the infant and if neither has any moral value by virtue of being a potential person, then the same reasons which justify abortion should also justify the killing of the potential person when it is at the stage of a newborn.”And a prominent American abortionist agrees not only in principle:
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist now on trial in Philadelphia charged with seven counts of first-degree murder--he allegedly cut the spinal cords of late-term aborted babies who were born alive--apparently used to joke about the large size of some the infants he aborted and in one case, according to what a co-worker told the grand jury, said, “This baby is big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop.”
It’s one of the macabre mysteries in the case of Kermit Gosnell: Why did the West Philadelphia abortion doctor keep the severed feet of fetuses preserved in specimen jars?
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Everything in the NBN is shrinking except the cost
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (8:16am)
I think this is the first time the Opposition has said NBN chief Mike Quigley should be sacked for poor performance. MP Paul Fletcher, a former Optus executive:
IF NBN Co were a private company, chief executive Mike Quigley would be gone by now…
Mr Quigley has set a number of targets to be met along the way to deliver the plan and consistently failed to deliver on those targets.
According to NBN Co’s first corporate plan, released in December 2010, the fibre network was going to pass 317,000 homes by June 30 last year. It achieved less than 40,000.
That same plan set a target of 1.269 million homes by June 30 this year. To avoid missing that target too, NBN Co issued a new plan in August last year, sharply reducing its target for June 30 this year to 341,000 premises…
On Thursday, NBN Co formally admitted what everybody suspected—saying it now expected to fall well short of the 341,000 target.
NBN Co is receiving very large amounts of taxpayers’ money; $2.8 billion by June 30 last year, with another $20bn to be put in over the current four-year period…
It is time for the board—under newly appointed chairwoman Siobhan McKenna—to face up to the obvious.
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And then Gillard’s friends were two…
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (8:10am)
How Gillard divides even her own friends is how she divides the nation:
WHEN Julia Gillard celebrated her 50th birthday in September 2011, only three other federal MPs were at the party for family and friends.Now Crean has deserted Gillard, backed Rudd, called for an end to the politics of division and been sacked as Minister. Having seen how her politics of division have divided Labor and even her own allies, Gillard should realise what damage they’ll do to the country, too:
One was her oldest political mate, Brendan O’Connor, who she appointed to Cabinet six months later, coincidentally on his 50th birthday. Wayne Swan was also there. He has become extremely tight with Gillard, despite the role she played tearing down the leadership of his other close mate, Kim Beazley.
And the third MP at the party was Simon Crean.
It would be silly to ignore some of Crean’s wisdom about class war and Labor values.
“I think the way in which Labor has always acted most effectively is when it’s been inclusive, when it’s sought consensus. Not when it’s sought division, not when it’s gone after class warfare...”
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No bank run in Cyprus, now cut off from Europe
Andrew Bolt March 29 2013 (7:57am)
Cypriot calm may have saved Europe - for now:
CYPRIOTS have stayed calm as banks reopened after a nearly two-week lockdown, with the first capital controls of their kind in the eurozone saving the island from a catastrophic bank run.But it is astonishing that the euro project, envisioning a borderless Europe, relies for now on the kind of border controls last seen when half the continent was under communist control:
President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted his thanks to the citizens of the bailed-out eastern Mediterranean nation for their “maturity” after they patiently formed queues at banks that had been shuttered since March 16.
Dozens of people were waiting outside banks when doors finally swung open, but the lines had vanished when they closed six hours later, and security guards posted at most branches had little to do.
World stocks were largely up and the euro recovered versus the US dollar, despite lingering fears the crisis could spread to Italy, Spain and Slovenia.
Banks were handing customers lists of the curbs including a daily withdrawal limit of 300 euros ($A370), a ban on the cashing of cheques and a 1000-euro ceiling on money being taken abroad by travellers.
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"Change of Our Lives" is casting for Vietnamese-Chinese extras. All ages and genders. Shooting in May. PM me to join in the filmic fun!
Maria Tran
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Ladies and gents, we officially present to you FUSEFEST 2013! Can't wait to perform next to all these great Sydney artists May 12 @The Basement! Tix are $30 and all profits go to Heart Reach Australia. It will be hosted by the CLEO bachelor of the year nominee, Andy Minh Trieu! Instead of easter presents, please buy a ticket or 2 :-) xx
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Grinding garlic to put in our mash and sauces, we go through an awful lot.
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With Britain facing its coldest Easter on record, and with fears that at least 10,000 sheep may have perished from the record freezing temperatures – farmers are resorting to dressing sheep in woolly jumpers to prevent them from freezing to death.
It is unknown if the UK’s Department of Global Warming is issuing grants to farmers to buy the woolly jumpers to prevent sheep from freezing to death from the record cold.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/
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The longest recorded marriage lasted 91 years and 12 days.
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Diablo Oak — in Rock City, CA.
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McCloud — in McCloud, CA.
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Santorini, Greece.
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Nixon was a good bloke .. but people don't look good when they are assaulted over decades daily by the press. Have you ever heard his "Checkers" speech? He wrote it himself .. neither Clinton nor O could do that. But more .. he was a warm, loving man and a very good President who made tough choices, compared to O or C who made decisions appear tough. - ed
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- 1638 – Swedish settlers founded New Sweden nearDelaware Bay, the first Swedish colony in America.
- 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall (pictured) in Albertopolis,London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army was almost completely destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at the Heiligenbeil Pocket inEast Prussia.
- 1973 – Vietnam War: The United States ended Operation Barrel Roll, a covert bombing campaign in Laos to help stem an increasing tide of People's Army of Vietnam and Pathet Lao offensives.
- 2010 – Islamist Chechen separatists set off two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 40 and injuring over 100 others.
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Events
- 502 – King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws.
- 1430 - The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
- 1461 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
- 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.
- 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
- 1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, 15-year old Japanese girl, burnt at the stake for an act of arson committed due to unrequited love.
- 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 the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
- 1871 – The 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 are established.
- 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
- 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
- 1941 – The North American Radio 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(Insurrection in Madagascar) against French colonial rule.
- 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 and a half day constitutional crisis.
- 1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- 1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- 1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
- 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
- 1974 – Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the 3rd century BCE.
- 1982 – The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
- 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 internet boom.
- 1999 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of 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 Banksince the 1967 Six-Day War.
- 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
- 2004 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
- 2008 – Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.
- 2010 – Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
[edit]Births
- 1553 – Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet
- 1584 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)
- 1602 – John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)
- 1668 – Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)
- 1713 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
- 1735 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (d. 1787)
- 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
- 1747 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German composer, organist and pianist (d. 1822)
- 1751 – Supply Belcher, American composer, singer, and compiler of tune books (d. 1836)
- 1769 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
- 1790 – John Tyler, American politician, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
- 1799 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
- 1815 – Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor, writer, and first director of Craiova's National Theater (d. 1877)
- 1816 – Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
- 1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
- 1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
- 1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
- 1869 – Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (d. 1943)
- 1870 – Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)
- 1873 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
- 1874 – Lou Hoover, American First Lady (d. 1944)
- 1876 – Friedrich Traun, German athlete and tennis player (d. 1908)
- 1878 – Albert Von Tilzer, American songwriter and composer (d. 1956)
- 1885 – Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian poet and writer (d. 1936)
- 1888 – Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
- 1889 – Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
- 1891 – Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)
- 1891 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (d. 1980)
- 1892 – József Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)
- 1895 – Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
- 1899 – Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)
- 1900 – John McEwen, Australian politician 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Andrija Maurović, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
- 1902 – Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
- 1902 – Don Miller, American football player and coach (d. 1979)
- 1902 – William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
- 1903 – Douglas Harkness, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
- 1903 – Arthur Negus, British broadcaster and antiques expert (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1906 – E. Power Biggs American organist (d. 1977)
- 1907 – "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter and singer (d. 2006)
- 1908 – Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1911 – Tito Arévalo, Filipino actor and musician (d. 2000)
- 1911 – Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
- 1913 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
- 1914 – Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1914 – Chapman Pincher, Indian-born British journalist, historian, and novelist
- 1916 – Peter Geach, British philosopher
- 1916 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
- 1918 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician (d. 1991)
- 1918 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman, founded the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club (d. 1992)
- 1919 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1920 – John Belk, American businessman and politician (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Clarke Fraser, Canadian geneticist
- 1920 – Pierre Moinot, French novelist (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Theodore Trautwein, American judge (d. 2000)
- 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 economist (d. 2012)
- 1927 – John McLaughlin, American political commentator
- 1927 – John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1928 – Vincent Gigante, Italian-American mobster (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
- 1929 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist
- 1929 – Lennart Meri,Estonian writer, film director, and statesman, 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician
- 1931 – Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet economist and politician (d. 2002)
- 1931 – Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1931 – Norman Tebbit, British politician
- 1933 – Jacques Brault, Canadian poet
- 1934 – Paul Crouch, American broadcaster, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network
- 1935 – Ruby Murray, English singer and actress (d. 1996)
- 1936 – Richard Rodney Bennett, English composer (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Mogens Camre, Danish politician
- 1936 – John A. Durkin, American politician
- 1936 – Judith Guest, American author
- 1937 – Billy Carter, American businessman, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)
- 1937 – Smarck Michel, Haitian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Barry Jackson, English actor
- 1939 – Roland Arnall, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2008)
- 1939 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
- 1940 – Ray Davis, American singer and musician (The Parliaments, Parliament, and Funkadelic) (d. 2005)
- 1941 – Violeta Andrei, Romanian actress
- 1941 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
- 1941 – Eden Kane, British singer
- 1942 – Bob Lurtsema, American football player
- 1942 – Scott Wilson, American actor (The Walking Dead)
- 1943 – Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
- 1943 – John Major, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1943 – Vangelis, Greek musician and composer (Aphrodite's Child and Jon & Vangelis)
- 1944 – Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist (The Poppy Family)
- 1944 – Denny McLain, American baseball player
- 1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player
- 1945 – John "Speedy" Keene, English musician, songwriter, and producer (Thunderclap Newman) (d. 2002)
- 1945 – Willem Ruis, Dutch game show host (d. 1986)
- 1946 – Paul Herman, American actor
- 1946 – Richard Holmes, British Army officer and military historian (d. 2011)
- 1946 – Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (d. 2007)
- 1946 – Rigo Tovar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2005)
- 1947 – Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto and Yoso)
- 1947 – Robert Gordon, American musician and actor
- 1948 – Bud Cort, American actor
- 1949 – Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2007)
- 1949 – Dave Greenfield, English Keyboardist (The Stranglers)
- 1949 – Pauline Marois, Canadian politician
- 1949 – Keith Simpson, British politician
- 1949 – John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)
- 1950 – Norman Snow, American actor
- 1951 – William Clarke, American harmonica player (d. 1996)
- 1952 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (d. 2012)
- 1953 – Tõnis Palts, Estonian politician
- 1954 – Dianne Kay, American actress
- 1954 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
- 1955 – Earl Campbell, American football player
- 1955 – Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
- 1955 – Christopher Lawford, American actor
- 1955 – Marina Sirtis, English actress
- 1956 – Stephen Cole, English journalist
- 1956 – Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (d. 1996)
- 1956 – Kurt Thomas, American gymnast
- 1957 – Elizabeth Hand, American writer
- 1957 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
- 1958 – Pedro Bial, Brazilian producer, director, writer, journalist, and television presenter
- 1958 – Victor Salva, American director
- 1958 – Marc Silvestri, American comics artist and publisher
- 1959 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
- 1959 – Perry Farrell, American singer and musician (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Psi com, and Satellite Party)
- 1959 – Michael Hayes, American wrestler and musician
- 1959 – Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1959 – Nouriel Roubini, American economist and college professor
- 1960 – Annabella Sciorra, American actress
- 1961 – Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver
- 1961 – Mike Kingery, American baseball player
- 1961 – Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
- 1961 – Michael Winterbottom, English film director
- 1961 – Ari Emanuel, American Talent Agent and brother of Rahm Emanuel
- 1962 – Billy Beane American baseball player and executive
- 1962 – Dan Bittman, Romanian singer (HOLOGRAF)
- 1963 – Elle Macpherson, Australian model
- 1964 – Michael A. Jackson, American politician
- 1964 – Ming Tsai, Chinese-American chef and restaurateur
- 1965 – Jill Goodacre, American actress and model
- 1965 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
- 1965 – Dominic Littlewood, English television presenter and journalist
- 1965 – William Oefelein, American astronaut
- 1965 – Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
- 1966 – Eric Gunderson, American baseball player
- 1967 – Michel Hazanavicius, French director and screenwriter
- 1967 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player
- 1967 – John Popper, American musician and songwriter (Blues Traveler and The John Popper Project)
- 1968 – Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist
- 1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
- 1969 – Jimmy Spencer, American football player
- 1970 – Ruth England, British actress
- 1971 – Robert Gibbs, American political adviser, 28th White House Press Secretary
- 1971 – Lara Logan, South-African journalist and reporter
- 1972 – Michel Ancel, French game designer
- 1972 – Rui Costa, Portugal footballer
- 1972 – Alex Ochoa, Cuban-American baseball player
- 1972 – Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor
- 1973 – Brandi Love, American adult model and pornographic actress
- 1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
- 1973 – Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer
- 1974 – Kristoffer Cusick, American actor
- 1974 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian photographer
- 1974 – Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver
- 1974 – Sarah Walker, English property investor, broadcaster and writer
- 1976 – Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
- 1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
- 1978 – Pierre Faber, French-born German rugby player
- 1978 – Jeffrey Parazzo, Canadian actor and producer
- 1978 – Aaron Persico, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player
- 1979 – Estela Giménez, Spanish gymnast
- 1979 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1980 – China P. Arnold, American convicted murderer
- 1980 – Chris D'Elia, American actor
- 1980 – Bill Demong, American skier
- 1980 – Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
- 1980 – Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress
- 1980 – Amy Mathews, Australian actress
- 1980 – Bruno Silva, Uruguayan footballer
- 1981 – Megan Hilty, American actress
- 1981 – Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer
- 1981 – Brian Skala, American actor
- 1982 – Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese actor and singer (Tackey & Tsubasa)
- 1983 – Luiza Sá, Brazilian musician (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
- 1983 – Jamie Woon, British singer, songwriter and producer
- 1983 – Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer
- 1984 – Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian street vendor and activist (d. 2011)
- 1984 – Juan Mónaco, Argentine tennis player
- 1984 – Mai Satoda, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
- 1985 – Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Mickey Pimentel, American football player
- 1985 – Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer
- 1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
- 1986 – Luke Eberl, American actor and director
- 1987 – Gianluca Freddi, Italian footballer
- 1988 – Esther Cremer, German athlete
- 1988 – Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer
- 1988 – Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player
- 1989 – James Tomkins, English footballer
- 1990 – Carlos Peña, Mexican footballer
- 1990 – Lyle Taylor, British footballer
- 1991 – Hayley McFarland, American actress
- 1991 – Fabio Borini, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Chris Massoglia, American actor
- 1994 – Sulli Choi, South Korean singer and dancer (f(x))
- 1995 – Marc Musso, American actor
[edit]Deaths
- 87 BC – Han Wudi, emperor of China (b. 156 BC)
- 1058 – Pope Stephen IX (b. c. 1020)
- 1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
- 1461 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
- 1578 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
- 1578 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
- 1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
- 1628 – Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
- 1629 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
- 1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, Japanese young girl burned at the stake for arson (b. 1667)
- 1692 – Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1665)
- 1751 – Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist (b. 1668)
- 1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1788 – Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707)
- 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden (b. 1746)
- 1800 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
- 1803 – Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch-Austriana diplomat, librarian, and government official (b. 1733)
- 1826 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
- 1829 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine military officer and statesman (b. 1759)
- 1848 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman (b. 1763)
- 1855 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)
- 1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
- 1877 – Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802)
- 1888 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
- 1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter and draftsman (b. 1859)
- 1906 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
- 1911 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (b. 1837)
- 1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish Lieutenant, member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1883)
- 1912 – Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer, member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1868)
- 1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist, member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1872)
- 1924 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (b. 1852)
- 1934 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German investment banker, collector and philanthropist (b. 1867)
- 1937 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
- 1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and Rugby footballer (b. 1916)
- 1948 – Harry Price, British psychic researcher and writer (b. 1881)
- 1948 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
- 1956 – Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
- 1957 – Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
- 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
- 1963 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician (b. 1898)
- 1965 – Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (b. 1895)
- 1970 – Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
- 1971 – Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
- 1972 – Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (b. 1888)
- 1979 – Yahya Petra of Kelantan (b. 1917)
- 1980 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
- 1981 – Eric Williams, Caribbean historian, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (b. 1911)
- 1982 – Walter Hallstein, German politician and professor (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
- 1982 – Nathan Twining, American Air Force general (b. 1897)
- 1985 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (The Singing Nun) (b. 1933)
- 1985 – Luther Terry, American physician and public health official, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
- 1986 – Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
- 1988 – Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer, conductor and sound editor (b. 1914)
- 1988 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
- 1989 – Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)
- 1992 – Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922)
- 1995 – Jimmy McShane, Irish singer (Baltimora) (b. 1957)
- 1995 – Mort Meskin, American comics artist (b. 1916)
- 1995 – Terry Moore, American baseball player (b. 1912)
- 1996 – Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)
- 1996 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
- 1997 – Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German football player (b. 1935)
- 1999 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
- 1999 – Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
- 2001 – John Lewis, American jazz pianist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Ayat al-Akhras, Palestinian suicide bomber (b. 1984)
- 2002 – Haim Smadar, Israeli security guard (b. 1947)
- 2002 – Rachel Levy, Israeli victim of Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing (b. 1985)
- 2002 – Rico Yan, Philippine actor (b. 1975)
- 2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
- 2004 – Joel Feinberg, American philosopher (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Simone Renant, French actress (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
- 2005 – Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)
- 2007 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Soviet football striker and manager (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)
- 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Bill Jenkins, American engine builder and drag racer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (b. 1947)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Day of the Young Combatant, celebrated with civil disorder by leftists and anarchists. (Chile)
- Youth Day (Republic of China), commemorates Huanghuagang Uprising
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