1755 - قيصر روسيا الإمبراطورة إليزابيث تفتتح أول جامعة في بلادها وذلك في مدينة سانت بطرسبرغ
1773 - تأسيس أول متحف للعموم في الولايات المتحدة في مدينة تشارلستون بولاية ساوث كارولينا.
1806 - فرنسا تنسحب من فيينا.
1809 - المملكة المتحدة تنتزع جويانا الفرنسية من فرنسا.
1820 - تأسيس الجمعية الفلكية الملكية في إنجلترا.
1879 - القوات البريطانية تجتاح بلاد الزولو في جنوب أفريقيا بقيادة الفريق تشيلمسفورد وذلك رداً على حرب الزولو ضد الاستعمار.
1915 - مجلس النواب الأمريكي يرفض مشروعاً لمنح المرأة حق التصويت في الانتخابات.
1944 -انسحاب القوات الألمانية النازية عن مدينة لينينغراد بعد حصار دام سنتين.
1944- انعقاد مؤتمر بين رئيس الوزراء البريطاني ونستون تشرشل ورئيس الحكومة الفرنسية المؤقتة شارل ديغول في مراكش بالمغرب استمر ليومين وذلك لمناقشة تطورات الحرب العالمية الثانية.
1945 - زلزال في ميكاوا باليابان بقوة 7.1 على مقياس ريختر يؤدي إلى وفاة 1900 شخص.
1948 -إدارة الإنتداب البريطانية تسرح 3200 مجند فلسطيني من عناصر قوات الحدود.
1948 -مهاتما غاندي يبدأ صيامه الأخير من أجل السلام.
1948 - افتتاح أول محل سوبر ماركت في المملكة المتحدة.
1950 -الاتحاد السوفيتي يستأنف أحكام الإعدام في قضايا الخيانة العظمى والتجسس والتخريب لصالح العدو.
1950- تعيين طه حسين وزيراً للمعارف.
1952 - جامعة تينيسي الأمريكية تقبل أول طالب أسود بعد تاريخ طويل من الفصل العنصري في الولايات المتحدة.
1953 -اعتقال تسعة فيزيائيين يهود في موسكو بتهمة القيام بأنشطة إرهابية.
1954 - ملكة بريطانيا إليزابيث الثانية تفتتح البرلمان النيوزيلندي.
1961 - دخول ميثاق الأمم المتحدة ضد الإبادة الجماعية حيز التطبيق.
1964 - عبيد كرومي يقوم بانقلاب ضد السلطان جمشيد بن عبد الله في سلطنة زنجبار.
1970 - انتهاء الحرب البيافارية في نيجيريا بهزيمة جمهورية بيافرا الواقعة شرقاً بعد يوم واحد من هروب مؤسسها أوجوكوو.
1974 - إعلان الوحدة بين تونس وليبيا ووافق بموجبها العقيد معمر القذافي على التنازل عن الرئاسة لصالح الرئيس التونسي الحبيب بورقيبة ولكنها لم تدم 24 ساعة، وكان مقرراً أن تحمل الدولة الوليدة اسم الجمهورية العربية الإسلامية.
1976 - مجلس الأمن الدولي يصوت بأغلبية 11 صوتاً مقابل صوت واحد لصالح السماح لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية بحضور جلساته.
1977 - مظاهرات ضد فرنسا في إسرائيل بعد إطلاق باريس سراح محمد داود عودة - أبو داود الذي اتهمته تل أبيب بالمسؤولية عن مقتل رياضييها في دورة ميونيخ للألعاب الأولمبية عام 1972.
1984 - إعادة انتخاب الشاذلي بن جديد رئيساً للجزائر.
1988 - لجنة دراسات إستراتيجية أمريكية تقدم تقريراً مفصلاً للرئيس رونالد ريغان يشدد على ضرورة تعزيز سياسة التسلح الأمريكي - الأوروبي المشترك.
1989 - زائير تطرد عيدي أمين رئيس أوغندا.
1990 - رومانيا تحظر الحزب الشيوعي، لتكون أول دولة من دول حلف وارسو تفعل ذلك مع انهيار الكتلة الشرقية.
1991 - تحطم طائرة عسكرية أمريكية شرقي البحر الأبيض المتوسط ومقتل قائدها.
1992 - مجلس الأمن الأعلى يتسلم مقاليد السلطة في الجزائر بعد الفوز الساحق للإسلاميين في الجولة الأولى من الانتخابات البرلمانية في الجزائر ويلغي الانتخابات ويعتقل قادة الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ.
1994 - اعتقال ابنه مالكوم أكس الزعيم الأسود السابق لجماعة أمة الإسلام في الولايات المتحدة وإتهامها بتدبير اغتيال الزعيم الحالي للجماعة لويس فرقان.
1995 -بدء محاكمة لاعب كرة القدم الأمريكية والممثل الأمريكي السابق أو جاي سيمبسون بتهمة قتل زوجته السابقة وعشيقها.
زلزال عنيف في كوبي في اليابان يقتل 5092 شخصاً.
1996 - وصول القوات الروسية إلى البوسنة والهرسك للمشاركة في تطبيق اتفاق دايتون للسلام.
1998 - الموظفة السابقة في البيت الأبيض ليندا تريب تسلم المحقق الأمريكي المستقل كينيث ستار تسجيلات محادثات هاتفية مع زميلتها مونيكا لوينسكي التي تروي فيها تفاصيل علاقة حميمة مع الرئيس بيل كلينتون، لتشعل بذلك ما أصبح يعرف بفضيحة مونيكا غيت.
1999 - اغتيال مدير المركز الإعلامي لألبان كوسوفو أنور ماليوكي، ووجهت أصابع الإتهام إلى السلطات الصربية.
2000 -رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي إيهود باراك يتنبأ بإمكانية التوصل إلى اتفاق سلام مع سوريا خلال شهرين.
النيابة العامة الإسرائيلية توجه لائحة إتهام ضد إسرائيلي عمره 39 عاماً من مستوطني القدس الغربية هدد بقتل رئيس الحكومة إيهود باراك حالما يجده أو يلتقي به.
2009 - مجلس حقوق الإنسان يقرر إنشاء بعثة تقصي حقائق للتحقيق في دعاوى ارتكاب مخالفات للقانون الدولي الإنساني قبل وبعد حرب غزة.
2010 -اغتيال العالم النووي الإيراني مسعود محمدي بإنفجار استهدف منزله.
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مواليد:
1579 - فان هيلموت، عالم نباتات بلجيكي.
1729 - إدموند بيرك، كاتب وسياسي بريطاني.
1751 - الملك فرديناندو الأول، ملك الصقليتان.
1810 - الملك فرديناندو الثاني، ملك الصقليتان.
1876 - جاك لندن، روائي أمريكي.
1893 - هيرمان غورينغ، مؤسس البوليس السري الألماني - جيستابو في عهد أدولف هتلر.
1899 - بول مولر، عالم كيمياء سويسري حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الطب عام 1948.
1903 - إيجور فاسيليفتش خرشاتوف، عالم طاقة نووية روسي.
1936 - إميل لحود، رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية.
1937 - ميكال ميسخي، لاعب كرة قدم سوفيتي.
1941 - لونغ جون بولدري, مغني بريطاني وممثل صوتي.
1948 - عزيز الدويك، سياسي وأكاديمي فلسطيني ورئيس المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني.
1966 - أوليفر مارتينيز، ممثل فرنسي.
1968 - جونيتشي ماسدا، ملحن ياباني.
1978 - يعقوب عبد الله، ممثل كويتي.
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[عدل] وفيات
1519 - مكسمليان الأول، إمبراطور الإمبراطورية الرومانية وملك ألمانيا.
1665 - بيير دي فيرمات، عالم رياضيات ومحامي فرنسي.
1834 - وليام غرنفيل، رئيس وزراء المملكة المتحدة.
1909 - هيرمان مينكوفسكي، عالم رياضيات ألماني.
1946 - صفية زغلول، زوجة الزعيم سعد زغلول.
1976 - أجاثا كريستي، كاتبة إنجليزية شهيرة برواياتها عن الجريمة.
1994 - يوهان يورغن هولسن، وزير خارجية النرويج ومهندس اتفاقية أوسلو.
1999 - أنور ماليوكي، مدير المركز الإعلامي لألبان كوسوفو.
2005 - ليلى فوزي، ممثلة مصرية.
2009 - كلود بيري، مخرج وممثل ومنتج سينمائي فرنسي.
2010 -مسعود محمدي، عالم نووي إيراني.
2010- دانيال بن سعيد، فيلسوف فرنسي.
[ أعياد ومناسبات
يوم ثورة زنجبار في زنجبار بتنزانيا.
يوم الشباب الوطني في الهند.
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475 – Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
1528 – Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
1539 – Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
1773 – The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
1808 – The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1875 – Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1898 – Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1899 – 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued off the coast of England by the Lynmouth Lifeboat.
1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1918 – Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1932 – Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1976 – The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist.
1991 – Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1992 – A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2004 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
2006 – A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 – Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2007 – Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2010 – The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing at least 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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[edit] Births
1483 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (d. 1538)
1562 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
1576 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
1577 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)
1580 – Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600)
1591 – José Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
1597 – François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
1628 – Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
1715 – Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
1716 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general (d. 1795)
1721 – Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792)
1723 – Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish statesman (d. 1797)
1737 – John Hancock, American patriot (d. 1793)
1746 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
1751 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
1772 – Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
1786 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
1792 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
1797 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
1810 – King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
1822 – Étienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900)
1849 – Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
1856 – John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925)
1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
1873 – Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940)
1876 – Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
1876 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1876 – Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish Field Marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950)
1877 – Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
1878 – Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian writer (d. 1952)
1879 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
1879 – Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (d. 1942)
1882 – Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
1884 – Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
1892 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
1893 – Hermann Göring, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
1893 – Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
1894 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
1895 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic art (d. 1959)
1896 – David Wechsler, American psychologist (d. 1981)
1899 – Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
1899 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1903 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
1904 – Fred McDowell, American blues musician (d. 1972)
1905 – James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
1905 – Tex Ritter, American country singer and actor (d. 1974)
1906 – Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (d. 1995)
1907 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
1908 – Jean Delannoy, French film director (d. 2008)
1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
1910 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
1910 – Luise Rainer, German actress
1915 – Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
1915 – Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa
1916 – Pieter Willem Botha, South African politician (d. 2006)
1916 – Jay McShann, American musician (d. 2006)
1916 – William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999)
1917 – Walter Hendl, American conductor (d. 2007)
1917 – Jimmy Skinner, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2007)
1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
1920 – James L. Farmer, Jr., American activist (d. 1999)
1920 – Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist (d. 2009)
1922 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian (d. 1994)
1923 – Ira Hayes, US Marine (d. 1955)
1924 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
1924 – Grethe Holmer, Danish actress (d. 2004)
1925 – Bill Burrud, American television host (d. 1990)
1925 – Scottie MacGregor, American actress
1925 – Bodil Udsen, Danish actress (d. 2008)
1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
1926 – Ray Price, American singer
1928 – Ruth Brown, American singer (d. 2006)
1928 – Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver (d. 2009)
1929 – Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-born American philosopher
1930 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (d. 1974)
1930 – Glenn Yarborough, American singer
1932 – Des O'Connor, British television presenter
1933 – Michael Aspel, English broadcaster
1934 – Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
1935 – Kreskin, American mentalist
1935 – Tomiko Ishii, Japanese actress
1936 – Raimonds Pauls, Latvian Composer
1937 – Marie Dubois, French actress
1937 – Shirley Eaton, British actress
1937 – Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
1938 – Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
1941 – Long John Baldry, British blues singer (d. 2005)
1942 – Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the radical leftist organization Weather Underground
1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer
1944 – Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate
1944 – Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player
1944 – Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
1944 – Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor
1945 – Maggie Bell, Scottish singer (Stone the Crows)
1946 – Lady Cosgrove, Scottish judiciary figure
1946 – George Duke, American musician
1946 – Cynthia Robinson, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
1947 – Tom Dempsey, American football player
1948 – Kenny Allen, English footballer
1948 – Anthony Andrews, English actor
1948 – Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia
1948 – Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (d. 2001)
1948 – William Nicholson, English writer
1949 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1949 – Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist
1949 – Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born American film director
1950 – Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
1950 – Göran Lindblad, Swedish politician
1950 – Bob McEwen, American politician
1950 – Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
1950 – Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress
1951 – Ann Althouse, American law professor
1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality, author and political commentator
1951 – Drew Pearson, American football player
1952 – Charles Faulkner, American motivational speaker and author
1952 – Walter Mosley, American author
1952 – John Walker, New Zealand middle distance runner
1954 – Howard Stern, American radio personality and author
1955 – Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter
1957 – John Lasseter, American animation director
1958 – Curt Fraser, American ice hockey coach
1959 – Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
1959 – Nick Nairn, British celebrity chef
1960 – Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
1960 – Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
1962 – Luna Vachon, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010)
1963 – François Girard, French-Canadian film director and screenwriter
1964 – Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur
1964 – Laura Gildemeister, Argentine tennis player
1964 – Clare Holman, British actress
1965 – Mark Moore, British record producer
1965 – Rob Zombie, American musician and film director (White Zombie, Solo)
1966 – Olivier Martinez, French actor
1967 – Subir Chowdhury, Six Sigma Quality Consultant, Author
1967 – Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
1968 – Keith Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
1968 – Rachael Harris, American actress
1968 – Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer
1968 – Heather Mills, British activist and model
1968 – Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1969 – Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and TV producer
1969 – Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer
1970 – Raekwon, American rapper
1970 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine)
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[edit] Deaths
690 – Benedict Biscop, saint (b. 628)
1167 – Ailred of Rievaulx, saint (b. 1110)
1321 – Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
1674 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
1700 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
1732 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
1735 – John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
1765 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (b. 1696)
1777 – Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
1781 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
1817 – Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
1833 – Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
1834 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1856 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
1892 – William Reeves, bishop, antiquarian (b. 1815)
1897 – Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
1899 – Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
1909 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
1921 – Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
1926 – Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
1934 – Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
1938 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
1940 – Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
1943 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
1944 – Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
1956 – Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
1958 – Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
1960 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
1962 – Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
1965 – Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
1974 – Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
1977 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1983 – Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)
1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
1988 – Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
1990 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer (b. 1919)
1991 – Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (b. 1904)
1996 – Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
1997 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
1999 – Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
2000 – Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
2000 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2001 – Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
2001 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
2001 – William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
2002 – Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
2002 – Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
2003 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
2003 – Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
2003 – Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2003 – Alan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
2004 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
2004 – Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2005 – Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2005 – Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
2007 – Sir James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
2007 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
2009 – Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
2009 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
2010 – Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Consolidated Contractors Company (b. 1920)
2010 – Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (b. 1946)
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[edit] Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day
Ailred of Rievaulx
Benedict Biscop
Tatiana
January 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Youth Day (India)
Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)