December 8 in recent years
December 8 is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 23 days remain until the end of the year.
Events 0 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.0 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong 's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.0 877 – Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald ) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne.1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany) , launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.1504 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah writes his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello .1851 – Conservative Santiago -based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.[1] 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin .1864 – Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura Syllabus of Errors Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.1914 – World War I : A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.1941 – World War II : U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy ", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.1941 – World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement , Malaya , Thailand , Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere .) 1943 – World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta .1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace " speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.1955 – The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.1962 – Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.1963 – Pan Am Flight 214 , a Boeing 707 , is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland , killing all 81 people on board.1966 – The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea , killing over 200.1969 – Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan 's port city of Karachi .1972 – United Airlines Flight 553 , a Boeing 737 , crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport , killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.1974 – A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.1980 – John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City .[2] 1985 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation , the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia, is established.1987 – Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada . 1988 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid , Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.1990 – The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the first time.1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States .1992 – The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the second time.1998 – Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria .2004 – The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco , Peru , establishing the South American Community of Nations.2009 – Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq , kill 127 people and injure 448 others.2010 – With the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft .[3] 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km. 2013 – Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India .2013 – Metallica performs a show in Antarctica , making them the first band to perform on all seven continents. 2019 – First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.[4] Births 65 BC – Horace , Roman poet (d. 8 BC)[5] 1021 – Wang Anshi, Chinese economist and chancellor (d. 1086)1412 – Astorre II Manfredi , Italian lord (d. 1468)1418 – Queen Jeonghui, Queen consort of Korea (d. 1483)1424 – Anselm Adornes, Belgian merchant, politician and diplomat (d. 1483)[6] 1538 – Miklós Istvánffy, Hungarian politician (d. 1615)1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots , daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise, at Linlithgow Palace (d. 1587)[7] 1558 – François de La Rochefoucauld , Catholic cardinal (d. 1645)[8] 1678 – Antonio de Benavides, colonial governor of Florida (d. 1762)[9] 1678 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole , English politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (d. 1757) 1699 – Maria Josepha of Austria (d. 1757)1708 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)1724 – Claude Balbastre, French organist and composer (d. 1799)1730 – Jan Ingenhousz , Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799)1731 – František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1799)1756 – Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (d. 1801)1765 – Eli Whitney, American engineer, invented the cotton gin (d. 1825)1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen , Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1874)1807 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893)1813 – August Belmont , Prussian-American financier and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 1890)1815 – Adolph Menzel , German painter and illustrator (d. 1905)1817 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs , Danish lawyer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)1818 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1889)1822 – Jakov Ignjatović, Hungarian-Serbian author (d. 1889)1832 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)1860 – Amanda McKittrick Ros , Irish author and poet (d. 1939)[10] 1861 – William C. Durant , American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet (d. 1947)1861 – Aristide Maillol , French sculptor and painter (d. 1944) 1861 – Georges Méliès , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1938) 1862 – Georges Feydeau , French playwright (d. 1921)1863 – Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist (d. 1937)1864 – Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor (d. 1943)[11] 1865 – Rüdiger von der Goltz , German general (d. 1946)1865 – Jacques Hadamard , French mathematician and academic (d. 1963) 1865 – Jean Sibelius , Finnish violinist and composer (d. 1957)[12] 1874 – Ernst Moro , Austrian physician and pediatrician (d. 1951)1875 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor and screenwriter (d. 1925)1877 – Paul Ladmirault, French pianist, violinist, and composer (d. 1944)1880 – Johannes Aavik, Estonian linguist and philologist (d. 1973)1881 – Albert Gleizes , French painter (d. 1953)1884 – Francis Balfour, English colonel and politician (d. 1965)1886 – Diego Rivera , Mexican painter and educator (d. 1957)1890 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American pianist and composer (d. 1959)1892 – Marcus Lee Hansen, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1938)1894 – E. C. Segar , American cartoonist, created Popeye (d. 1938)1894 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (d. 1961) 1899 – Arthur Leslie, English-Welsh actor and playwright (d. 1970)1899 – John Qualen , Canadian-American actor (d. 1987) 1900 – Sun Li-jen , Chinese general and politician (d. 1990)1900 – Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982) 1902 – Wifredo Lam , Cuban-French painter (d. 1982)1903 – Zelma Watson George , Black American opera singer (d. 1994)[13] 1908 – Concha Piquer, Spanish singer and actress (d. 1990)1908 – John A. Volpe , American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1994)[14] 1911 – Lee J. Cobb , American actor (d. 1976)1911 – Nikos Gatsos , Greek poet and songwriter (d. 1992) 1913 – Delmore Schwartz , American poet and short story writer (d. 1966)1914 – Floyd Tillman , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)1914 – Ernie Toshack , Australian cricketer (d. 2003) 1915 – Ernest Lehman , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)1916 – Richard Fleischer , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)1917 – Ian Johnson , Australian cricketer and administrator (d. 1998)1919 – Peter Tali Coleman , Samoan-American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)1919 – Julia Bowman , American mathematician and theorist (d. 1985)[15] 1919 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)[16] 1920 – McDonald Bailey, Trinidadian-English sprinter and rugby player (d. 2013)[17] 1922 – Lucian Freud , German-English painter and illustrator (d. 2011)[18] 1922 – Jean Ritchie , American singer-songwriter (d. 2015) 1923 – Dewey Martin, American actor (d. 2018)1923 – Rudolph Pariser , Chinese-American soldier and chemist 1924 – Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)1925 – Sammy Davis, Jr. , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1990)[19] 1925 – Nasir Kazmi, Pakistani Urdu poet (d. 1972) 1925 – Carmen Martín Gaite , Spanish author and poet (d. 2000) 1925 – Jimmy Smith , American organist (d. 2005) 1927 – Vladimir Shatalov , Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut1927 – Niklas Luhmann , German thinker and social theorist (d. 1998) 1928 – Bill Hewitt, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. 1996)1928 – Ulric Neisser , German-American psychologist, neuroscientist, and academic (d. 2012) 1930 – Julian Critchley , English journalist and politician (d. 2000)1930 – Maximilian Schell , Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014) 1931 – Bob Arum , American boxing promoter, founded Top Rank1933 – Flip Wilson , American actor and comedian (d. 1998)1935 – Dharmendra , Indian actor, producer, and politician1935 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya , Russian-Israeli chess player (d. 2017)[20] 1936 – David Carradine , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2009)1936 – Michael Hobson , American publisher 1936 – Peter Parfitt , English cricketer 1937 – James MacArthur , American actor (d. 2010)1937 – Arne Næss, Jr. , German-Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (d. 2004) 1939 – Red Berenson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1939 – Jerry Butler , American singer-songwriter and producer 1939 – James Galway , Irish flute player 1939 – Felipe Gozon , Filipino lawyer and businessman 1939 – Dariush Mehrjui , Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter 1939 – Soko Richardson , American drummer (d. 2004) 1940 – Brant Alyea , American baseball player1941 – Ed Brinkman , American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)1941 – Bob Brown, American football player 1941 – Duke Cunningham , American commander and politician 1941 – Bobby Elliott, English drummer 1941 – Geoff Hurst , English footballer and manager 1943 – Larry Martin , American paleontologist and ornithologist (d. 2013)1943 – Jim Morrison , American singer-songwriter and poet (d. 1971) 1943 – James Tate , American poet (d. 2015) 1943 – Bodo Tümmler , German runner 1943 – Mary Woronov , American actress, director, and screenwriter 1944 – George Baker, Dutch singer-songwriter1944 – Bertie Higgins , American singer-songwriter 1944 – Ted Irvine , Canadian ice hockey player 1944 – Vince MacLean, Canadian educator and politician 1945 – John Banville , Irish novelist and screenwriter1945 – Julie Heldman , American tennis player[21] 1946 – John Rubinstein , American actor, director, and composer1946 – Chava Alberstein , Polish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist 1947 – Gregg Allman , American musician (d. 2017)1947 – Gérard Blanc, French singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2009) 1947 – Thomas Cech , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1947 – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff , Finnish author and poet (d. 2011) 1947 – Margaret Geller , American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic 1948 – Luis Caffarelli , Argentinian-American mathematician and academic1948 – John Waters , English-Australian actor, singer-songwriter, and guitarist 1949 – Mary Gordon, American author, critic, and academic1949 – Nancy Meyers , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1949 – Robert Sternberg , American psychologist and academic 1950 – Rick Baker, American actor and makeup artist1950 – Tim Foli , American baseball player, coach, and manager 1950 – Dan Hartman , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1994) 1951 – Bill Bryson , American essayist, travel and science writer1951 – Richard Desmond , English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell 1951 – Jan Eggum , Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1952 – Khaw Boon Wan , Malayan-Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health 1952 – Steve Atkinson, English-Hong Kong cricketer 1953 – Kim Basinger , American actress1953 – Roy Firestone , American sportscaster and journalist 1953 – Norman Finkelstein , American author, academic, and activist 1953 – Sam Kinison , American comedian (d. 1992) 1953 – Władysław Kozakiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish pole vaulter and coach 1953 – Steve Yates, English footballer 1954 – Harold Hongju Koh , American lawyer, academic, and politician1954 – Frits Pirard, Dutch cyclist 1955 – Milenko Zablaćanski, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)1956 – Warren Cuccurullo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1956 – Andrius Kubilius , Lithuanian academic and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Lithuania 1956 – Slick, American wrestler and manager 1957 – Mike Buchanan, British men's rights advocate1957 – James Cama, American martial artist and educator (d. 2014) 1957 – Phil Collen , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1958 – Rob Byrnes , American author and blogger1958 – Rob Curling, Malayan-English journalist 1958 – Michel Ferté , French race car driver 1958 – Bob Greene, American physiologist and author 1958 – Mirosław Okoński, Polish footballer 1959 – Stephen Jefferies , South African cricketer and coach1959 – Mark Steyn , Canadian-American author and critic 1960 – Aaron Allston , American game designer and author (d. 2014)1960 – Lim Guan Eng , Malaysian accountant and politician 1961 – Conceição Lima, São Toméan poet[22] 1961 – Mikey Robins , Australian comedian and television host 1962 – Steve Elkington , Australian-American golfer1962 – Marty Friedman, American-Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and television host 1962 – Nikos Karageorgiou , Greek footballer and manager 1962 – Berry van Aerle , Dutch footballer 1963 – Greg Howe , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer1963 – Toshiaki Kawada , Japanese wrestler 1963 – Ricky Walford , Australian rugby league player 1964 – James Blundell , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist1964 – Teri Hatcher , American actress 1964 – Chigusa Nagayo , Japanese wrestler 1964 – Óscar Ramírez, Costa Rican footballer and coach 1965 – David Harewood, English actor1965 – Theo Maassen, Dutch actor, producer, and screenwriter 1966 – Bushwick Bill , Jamaican-American rapper (d. 2019)1966 – Les Ferdinand , English footballer and coach 1966 – Tyler Mane , Canadian wrestler and actor 1966 – Sinéad O'Connor , Irish singer-songwriter 1967 – Jeff George , American football player1967 – Andy Kapp , German curler 1967 – Kotono Mitsuishi , Japanese voice actress and singer 1967 – Darren Sheridan , English footballer and manager 1968 – Mike Mussina , American baseball player and coach1968 – Doriano Romboni , Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013) 1969 – Kristin Lauter, American mathematician and cryptographer1971 – Abdullah Ercan , Turkish footballer and manager1972 – Indrek Allmann, Estonian architect1972 – Janae Marie Kroczaleski, American powerlifter[23] 1972 – Édson Ribeiro , Brazilian sprinter[24] 1973 – Corey Taylor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor1974 – Cristian Castro , Mexican singer1974 – Tony Simmons, American football player and coach 1974 – Nick Zinner , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1975 – Kevin Harvick , American race car driver 1976 – Brettina, Bahamian-American singer-songwriter and actress1976 – Reed Johnson , American baseball player 1976 – Dominic Monaghan , German-born English actor 1976 – Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician 1977 – Ryan Newman, American race car driver1977 – Aleksandra Olsza, Polish tennis player 1977 – Anita Weyermann, Swiss runner and journalist 1978 – John Oster , English-Welsh footballer1978 – Frédéric Piquionne , French footballer 1978 – Anwar Siraj , Ethiopian footballer 1978 – Ian Somerhalder, American actor 1978 – Vernon Wells, American baseball player 1979 – Daniel Fitzhenry , Australian rugby player1979 – Johan Forssell, Swedish lawyer and politician 1979 – Raymond Lam , Chinese actor and singer 1979 – Ingrid Michaelson , American singer-songwriter and pianist 1979 – Christian Wilhelmsson , Swedish footballer 1980 – Yuliya Krevsun, Ukrainian runner1981 – Jeremy Accardo , American baseball player1981 – Simon Finnigan , English rugby league player 1981 – Philip Rivers , American football player 1982 – Alfredo Aceves, American baseball player1982 – Serena Ryder , Canadian singer-songwriter 1982 – Chrisette Michele , American singer-songwriter 1982 – Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and actress 1983 – Neel Jani , Swiss race car driver1983 – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014) 1984 – Emma Green Tregaro, Swedish high jumper1984 – Greg Halford , English footballer 1984 – Sam Hunt, American singer-songwriter 1985 – Meagan Duhamel , Canadian figure skater1985 – Dwight Howard , American basketball player[25] 1985 – Oleksiy Pecherov , Ukrainian basketball player 1986 – Enzo Amore, American wrestler and rapper1986 – Amir Khan , English boxer 1986 – Sam Tagataese , New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player 1986 – Kate Voegele , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress 1989 – Drew Doughty , Canadian ice hockey player1989 – Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player 1992 – Yui Yokoyama, Japanese idol, model, and actress1993 – Janari Jõesaar, Estonian basketball player1993 – Jordan Obita, English footballer 1993 – AnnaSophia Robb , American actress 1993 – Cara Mund, Miss America 2018 1994 – Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan runner[26] 1994 – Raheem Sterling, English footballer 1996 – Scott McTominay, Scottish footballer[27] Deaths 0 855 – Drogo of Metz , illegitimate son of Charlemagne (b. 801)0 899 – Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)0 964 – Zhou the Elder, Chinese queen consort1186 – Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen (b.c 1125 )1292 – John Peckham , Archbishop of Canterbury 1365 – Nicholas II, Duke of Opava (b. 1288)1431 – Hedwig Jagiellon, Polish and Lithuanian princess (b. 1408)1550 – Gian Giorgio Trissino , Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1478)1626 – John Davies , English poet, lawyer, and politician (b. 1569)1632 – Philippe van Lansberge , Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561)1638 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)1643 – John Pym , English politician (b. 1583)1649 – Noël Chabanel , French missionary and saint (b. 1613)1680 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester , English lawyer and politician (b. 1606)1691 – Richard Baxter , English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (b. 1615)1695 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (b. 1625)1709 – Thomas Corneille , French playwright and philologist (b. 1625)1722 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (b. 1652)1744 – Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1717)1745 – Étienne Fourmont , French orientalist and academic (b. 1683)1746 – Charles Radclyffe , English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)1756 – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington , English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)1768 – Jean Denis Attiret , French painter and missionary (b. 1702)1779 – Nathan Alcock , English physician (b. 1707)1815 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)1830 – Benjamin Constant , Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)1856 – Theobald Mathew , Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)1859 – Thomas De Quincey , English journalist and author (b. 1785)1864 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)1869 – Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)1885 – William Henry Vanderbilt , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)1886 – Isaac Lea , American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)1894 – Pafnuty Chebyshev , Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)1903 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)1907 – Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)1913 – Camille Jenatzy , Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)1914 – Melchior Anderegg , Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)1914 – Maximilian von Spee , Danish-German admiral (b. 1861) 1917 – Mendele Mocher Sforim , Russian author (b. 1836)1918 – Josip Stadler , Bosnian Catholic archbishop (b. 1843)1919 – J. Alden Weir , American painter (b. 1852)1929 – José Vicente Concha , Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (b. 1867)[28] 1932 – Gertrude Jekyll , British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)[29] 1937 – Hans Molisch , Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (b. 1856)1938 – Friedrich Glauser , Swiss author (b. 1896)1940 – George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (b. 1861)1941 – Izidor Kürschner , Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1885)[30] 1942 – Albert Kahn , American architect, Fisher Building , Packard Automotive Plant, Ford River Rouge Complex (b. 1869)1952 – Charles Lightoller , English sailor (b. 1874)1954 – Claude Cahun , French artist, photographer, and writer (b. 1894)[31] 1954 – Gladys George , American actress (b. 1904) 1954 – Joseph B. Keenan , American lawyer and politician (b. 1888) 1958 – Tris Speaker , American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)1963 – Sarit Thanarat, Thai field marshal and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)1966 – Ward Morehouse , American playwright, author, and critic (b. 1899)1971 – Ernst Krenkel, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1903)1971 – Eleni Ourani, Greek poet and critic (b. 1896) 1975 – Gary Thain , New Zealand bass player (b. 1948)1978 – Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)1980 – John Lennon , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)[2] 1982 – Bram Behr , Surinamese journalist and politician (b. 1951)1982 – André Kamperveen, Surinamese footballer and manager (b. 1924) 1982 – Marty Robbins , American singer-songwriter and race car driver (b. 1925) 1982 – Haim Laskov , Israel Defense Forces fifth Chief of Staff (b. 1919) 1983 – Keith Holyoake , New Zealand farmer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)1983 – Slim Pickens , American actor (b. 1919) 1984 – Luther Adler , American actor (b. 1903)1984 – Robert Jay Mathews , American militant leader, founded The Order (b. 1953) 1984 – Razzle, English drummer (b. 1960) 1984 – Semih Sancar, Turkish general (b. 1911) 1991 – Buck Clayton , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1911)1992 – William Shawn , American journalist (b. 1917)1993 – Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1933)1994 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1927)1996 – Howard Rollins , American actor (b. 1950)1996 – Kashiwado Tsuyoshi , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (b. 1938) 1997 – Bob Bell , American clown and actor (b. 1922)1999 – Péter Kuczka , Hungarian poet and author (b. 1923)2001 – Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player and coach (b. 1954)2001 – Betty Holberton , American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1917) 2003 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (b. 1919)2004 – Dimebag Darrell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)2005 – Rose Heilbron , British barrister and judge (b. 1914)[32] 2006 – Martha Tilton , American singer (b. 1915)2006 – José Uribe , Dominican baseball player (b. 1959) 2007 – Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist (b. 1983)2008 – Oliver Postgate , English voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)2008 – Robert Prosky , American actor (b. 1930) 2009 – Luis Días, Dominican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)2012 – Jerry Brown, American football player (b. 1987)2012 – John Gowans , Scottish-English 16th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1934) 2012 – Johnny Lira, American boxer (b. 1951) 2013 – John Cornforth , Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)2013 – Sándor Szokolay, Hungarian composer and academic (b. 1931) 2013 – Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1949) 2014 – Tom Gosnell, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1951)2014 – Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) 2014 – Knut Nystedt , Norwegian organist and composer (b. 1915) 2015 – Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano and actress (b. 1925)2015 – Alan Hodgkinson , English footballer and coach (b. 1936) 2015 – Douglas Tompkins , American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (b. 1943) 2015 – John Trudell , American author, poet, and actor (b. 1946) 2015 – Elsie Tu , English-Hong Kong educator and politician (b. 1913) 2016 – John Glenn , American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (b. 1921)[33] 2018 – David Weatherall , English physician, geneticist, and academic (b. 1933)[34] 2019 – René Auberjonois , American actor (b. 1940)[35] 2019 – Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer and songwriter (b. 1998)[36] 2019 – Caroll Spinney , American puppeteer and actor (b. 1933) [37] Holidays and observances References ^ Bengoa, José (2000) [1985]. 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