May 8 is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 237 days remain until the end of the year.
Events 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period : The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia , Campania , Picenum , Samnium , Apulia , Lucania and Calabria , which were plundered by the Visigoths .[1] 589 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo , marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church .[2] 1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans , turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.1450 – Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.1516 – A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.1541 – Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi , and sees the Mississippi River[3] Río de Espíritu Santo , the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).[4] 1788 – King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror , French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale 1821 – Greek War of Independence : The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.1842 – A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.1846 – Mexican–American War: American forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.[5] 1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.1919 – Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.1921 – The creation of the Communist Party of Romania .1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.1941 – World War II : The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.1942 – World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington . 1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny . Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. 1945 – World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Reims comes into effect.1945 – End of the Prague uprising , celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. 1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre . 1945 – The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1957 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.[6] 1946 – Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn .1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis .1967 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte , Davao del Sur , and Davao Oriental .1972 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.1976 – The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain .1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler .1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.[7] 1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour .1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.[8] 1987 – The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall , Northern Ireland.1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell 's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".1997 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.2019 – British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.[9] [10] Births 1326 – Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (d. 1360)[11] 1427 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester , Lord High Treasurer (d. 1470)1460 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)1492 – Andrea Alciato , Italian jurist and writer (d. 1550)1508 – Charles Wriothesley , English Officer of Arms (d. 1562)1521 – Peter Canisius, Dutch-Swiss priest and saint (d. 1597)1551 – Thomas Drury, English government informer and swindler (d. 1603)1587 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)1622 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish politician (d. 1698)1628 – Angelo Italia, Sicilian Jesuit and architect (d. 1700)1629 – Niels Juel , Norwegian-Danish admiral (d. 1697)1632 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming , German field marshal and politician (d. 1706)1639 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli , Italian artist (d. 1709)1641 – Nicolaes Witsen , Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1717)1653 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars , French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1734)1670 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1726)1698 – Henry Baker , English naturalist (d. 1774)1720 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)1735 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland , English painter and politician (d. 1811)1737 – Edward Gibbon , English historian and politician (d. 1794)1745 – Carl Stamitz , German violinist and composer (d. 1801)1753 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and rebel leader (d. 1811)1786 – John Vianney, French priest and saint (d. 1859)1815 – Edward Tompkins, American lawyer and politician (d. 1872)1818 – Samuel Leonard Tilley , Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1896)1821 – William Henry Vanderbilt , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1885)1824 – William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (d. 1860)1825 – George Bruce Malleson , English-Indian colonel and author (d. 1898)1828 – Henry Dunant , Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)1828 – Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint (d. 1898) 1829 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American pianist and composer (d. 1869)1835 – Bertalan Székely , Hungarian painter and academic (d. 1910)1839 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier , Canadian judge, author, and songwriter (d. 1920)1842 – Emil Christian Hansen , Danish physiologist and mycologist (d. 1909)1846 – Oscar Hammerstein I , American businessman and composer (d. 1919)1850 – Ross Barnes , American baseball player and manager (d. 1915)1853 – Dan Brouthers , American baseball player and manager (d. 1932)1856 – Pedro Lascuráin , Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913. (d. 1952)[12] 1858 – Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (d. 1924)1858 – J. Meade Falkner , English author and poet (d. 1932) 1859 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925)1867 – Margarete Böhme, German novelist (d. 1939)1879 – Wesley Coe , American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (d. 1926)1884 – Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972)1885 – Thomas B. Costain , Canadian journalist and author (d. 1965)1892 – Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat (d. 1981)1893 – Francis Ouimet , American golfer (d. 1967)1893 – Edd Roush , American baseball player and coach (d. 1988) 1893 – Teddy Wakelam , English rugby player and sportscaster (d. 1963) 1895 – James H. Kindelberger , American businessman (d. 1962)1895 – Fulton J. Sheen , American archbishop (d. 1979) 1895 – Edmund Wilson , American critic, essayist, and editor (d. 1972) 1898 – Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian cardinal (d. 1960)1899 – Arthur Q. Bryan , American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality (d. 1959)1899 – Friedrich Hayek , Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992) 1899 – Jacques Heim, French fashion designer (d. 1967) 1901 – Turkey Stearnes , American baseball player (d. 1979)1902 – André Michel Lwoff , French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)1903 – Fernandel , French actor and singer (d. 1971)1903 – Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch , British politician and educator (d. 1984) 1904 – John Snagge , English journalist (d. 1996)1905 – Red Nichols , American cornet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1965)1906 – Roberto Rossellini , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1977)1910 – George Male , English footballer (d. 1998)1910 – Andrew E. Svenson , American author and publisher (d. 1975) 1910 – Mary Lou Williams , American pianist and composer (d. 1981) 1911 – Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of The Interior (d. 1997)1911 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1938) 1912 – George Woodcock , Canadian author and poet (d. 1995)1913 – Bob Clampett , American animator, director, and producer (d. 1984)1913 – Sid James , South African-English actor and singer (d. 1976) 1915 – Milton Meltzer , American historian and author (d. 2009)1916 – João Havelange , Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman (d. 2016)1916 – Chinmayananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual leader and educator (d. 1993) 1916 – Ramananda Sengupta, Indian cinematographer (d. 2017) 1917 – John Anderson, Jr. , American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (d. 2014)1919 – Lex Barker , American actor (d. 1973)1920 – Saul Bass , American graphic designer and director (d. 1996)1920 – Tom of Finland , Finnish illustrator (d. 1991) 1920 – Sloan Wilson , American author and poet (d. 2003) 1920 – Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and academic (d. 2000) 1922 – Mary Q. Steele , American naturalist and author (d. 1992)1924 – S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan author and academic (d. 1989)1925 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi , Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania1926 – David Attenborough , English environmentalist and television host1926 – David Hurst, German actor (d. 2019) 1926 – Don Rickles , American comedian and actor (d. 2017) 1927 – Chumy Chúmez , Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)1927 – László Paskai , Hungarian cardinal (d. 2015) 1928 – Robert Conley, American journalist (d. 2013)1928 – Ted Sorensen , American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (d. 2010) 1929 – Ethel D. Allen, American physician and politician (d. 1981)[13] 1929 – Girija Devi , Indian classical singer (d. 2017) 1929 – Claude Castonguay , Canadian banker and politician 1929 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (d. 2007) 1930 – Heather Harper , Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)1930 – Doug Atkins , American football player (d. 2015) 1930 – René Maltête, French photographer and poet (d. 2000) 1930 – Gary Snyder , American poet, essayist, and translator 1932 – Julieta Campos , Cuban-Mexican author and translator (d. 2007)1932 – Phyllida Law , Scottish actress 1932 – Harry Wells, Australian rugby league player 1934 – Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann , South African-English lawyer and judge1934 – Maurice Norman , English footballer[14] 1934 – David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton , English soldier and politician (d. 2015) 1935 – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland , Scottish politician1935 – Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (d. 2018) 1935 – Jack Charlton , English footballer and manager (d. 2020) 1936 – Kazuo Koike , Japanese author1936 – Haljand Udam , Estonian orientalist and academic (d. 2005) 1937 – Bernard Cleary , Canadian journalist, academic, and politician1937 – Mike Cuellar , Cuban-American baseball player (d. 2010) 1937 – Carlos Gaviria Díaz , Colombian lawyer and politician (d. 2015) 1937 – Thomas Pynchon , American novelist 1938 – Javed Burki , Indian-Pakistani cricketer1938 – Jean Giraud , French author and illustrator (d. 2012) 1939 – Paul Drayton , American sprinter (d. 2010)1940 – Peter Benchley , American author and screenwriter (d. 2006)1940 – James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington , English businessman and academic 1940 – Irwin Cotler , Canadian lawyer and politician, 47th Canadian Minister of Justice 1940 – Emilio Delgado , Mexican-American actor, "Sesame Street" 1940 – Ricky Nelson , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1985) 1940 – Toni Tennille , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1941 – John Fred , American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)1941 – Bill Lockyer , American academic and politician, 30th Attorney General of California 1941 – James Traficant , American lawyer and politician (d. 2014) 1942 – Martin Dobkin, Canadian doctor and politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga1942 – Robin Hobbs , English cricketer 1942 – Norman Lamont , Scottish banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1942 – Pierre Morency , Canadian poet and playwright 1942 – Terry Neill , Irish footballer and manager 1943 – Pat Barker , English author1943 – Johnny Greaves, Australian rugby league player 1943 – Jon Mark, English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist 1943 – Paul Samwell-Smith , English bass player and producer 1943 – Danny Whitten , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972) 1944 – Gary Glitter , English singer-songwriter1944 – Bill Legend , English drummer 1945 – Arthur Docters van Leeuwen , Dutch jurist and politician1945 – Mike German, Baron German, Welsh educator and politician, Deputy First Minister for Wales 1945 – Janine Haines , Australian politician (d. 2004) 1945 – Keith Jarrett , American pianist and composer 1946 – André Boulerice , Canadian politician1946 – Jonathan Dancy , English philosopher, author, and academic 1947 – H. Robert Horvitz , American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate1947 – Felicity Lott , English soprano 1947 – John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, Scottish historian and politician, Secretary of State for Defence 1948 – Steve Braun, American baseball player and coach1948 – Stephen Stohn , American-Canadian lawyer and producer 1949 – David Vines , Australian economist and academic1950 – Robert Mugge , American director and producer1950 – Lepo Sumera , Estonian composer and educator (d. 2000) 1951 – Philip Bailey , American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor1951 – Mike D'Antoni , American basketball player and coach 1951 – Chris Frantz , American drummer and producer 1952 – Peter McNab , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster1953 – Billy Burnette , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor1953 – Alex Van Halen , Dutch-American drummer 1954 – Pam Arciero , American puppeteer and voice actress1954 – David Keith , American actor and director 1954 – John Michael Talbot , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1955 – Stephen Furst , American actor and director (d. 2017)1955 – Mladen Markač, Croatian general 1955 – Keith Osgood, English footballer[15] 1956 – Jeff Wincott , Canadian actor and martial artist1957 – Bill Cowher , American football player and coach1957 – Rino Katase, Japanese actress 1957 – Gary Lunn , Canadian lawyer and politician, 6th Canadian Minister of Natural Resources 1958 – Roddy Doyle , Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter1958 – Simone Kleinsma, Dutch actress and singer 1958 – Brooks Newmark , American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury 1958 – Lovie Smith , American football player and coach 1959 – Ronnie Lott , American football player and sportscaster1959 – David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland , English politician 1959 – Ikue Sakakibara , Japanese actress and singer 1960 – Franco Baresi , Italian footballer and coach1960 – Eric Brittingham , American bass player 1961 – Bill de Blasio, American politician, 109th Mayor of New York City 1961 – Gert Kruys , Dutch footballer and manager 1961 – Vallo Reimaa , Estonian academic and politician 1961 – David Winning , Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1962 – Natalia Molchanova , Russian diver (d. 2015)1962 – David Sole , Scottish rugby player 1963 – Sylvain Cossette , Canadian singer-songwriter1963 – Anthony Field , Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor 1963 – Michel Gondry , French director and screenwriter 1963 – Izabela Kloc , Polish politician 1963 – Aleksandr Kovalenko , Belarusian triple jumper 1963 – Rick Zombo , American ice hockey player and coach 1964 – Päivi Alafrantti , Finnish javelin thrower1964 – Melissa Gilbert , American actress and director 1964 – Bobby Labonte , American race car driver 1964 – Nathalie Roy, Canadian lawyer and politician 1964 – Dave Rowntree , English drummer and animator 1964 – Metin Tekin , Turkish footballer, manager, and journalist 1966 – Cláudio Taffarel , Brazilian footballer and coach1967 – Viviana Durante, Italian ballerina and actress1967 – Angus Scott, British sports television presenter 1968 – Teet Kask , Estonian ballet dancer and choreographer1968 – Mickaël Madar , French footballer[16] 1968 – Nathalie Normandeau , Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec 1968 – Johan Pehrson , Swedish lawyer and politician 1969 – Jonny Searle , English rower1969 – Akebono Tarō, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna 1969 – John Timu, New Zealand rugby player 1970 – Michael Bevan , Australian cricketer and coach1970 – Naomi Klein , Canadian author and activist 1970 – Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer and manager 1971 – Chuck Huber , American voice actor, director, and screenwriter1971 – Candice Night , American singer-songwriter 1972 – Darren Hayes , Australian singer-songwriter1972 – Ray Whitney , Canadian ice hockey player 1973 – Hiromu Arakawa , Japanese author and illustrator1973 – Jesús Arellano , Mexican footballer 1973 – Marcus Brigstocke , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter 1974 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer1974 – Korey Stringer , American football player (d. 2001) 1974 – Christian XXX, American pornographic star 1975 – Enrique Iglesias , Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor1975 – Jussi Markkanen , Finnish ice hockey player 1975 – Gastón Mazzacane , Argentinian race car driver 1975 – Dmitri Ustritski, Estonian footballer 1976 – Gonçalo Abecasis, Portuguese-American biochemist and academic1976 – Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 – Joe Bonamassa , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1977 – Bad News Brown, Canadian rapper, harmonica player, and actor (d. 2011) 1977 – Theodoros Papaloukas , Greek basketball player 1977 – Kathrin Bringmann, German mathematician and academic 1978 – Lúcio , Brazilian footballer1978 – Jang Woo-hyuk, South Korean rapper and dancer 1979 – Ole Morten Vågan, Norwegian bassist1980 – Keyon Dooling , American basketball player1980 – Panagiotis Kafkis, Greek basketball player 1980 – Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-English publisher and philanthropist 1980 – Michelle McManus , Scottish singer-songwriter and actress 1980 – Benny Yau , Hong Kong-Canadian actor and singer 1981 – Stephen Amell , Canadian actor[17] 1981 – Andrea Barzagli , Italian footballer 1981 – Tatyana Dektyareva, Russian hurdler 1981 – Björn Dixgård, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1981 – Manny Gamburyan, Armenian-American mixed martial artist 1981 – John Maine , American baseball player 1982 – Buakaw Banchamek, Thai kick-boxer1982 – Christina Cole , English actress 1982 – Adrián González, American baseball player 1982 – Uğur Yıldırım, Turkish-Dutch footballer 1983 – Juan Martin Goity, Argentinian-German rugby player1983 – Bershawn Jackson , American hurdler 1983 – Lawrence Vickers , American football player 1983 – Vicky McClure , English actress 1984 – David King , English figure skater1985 – Tommaso Ciampa, American wrestler1985 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian gymnast 1985 – Sarah Vaillancourt , Canadian ice hockey player 1985 – Usama Young , American football player 1986 – Pemra Özgen, Turkish tennis player1986 – Galen Rupp , American runner 1986 – Marvell Wynne , American soccer player 1987 – Felix Jones , American football player1987 – Aarne Nirk, Estonian hurdler 1987 – Mark Noble , English footballer 1987 – Kurt Tippett, Australian footballer 1988 – Tanel Kurbas, Estonian basketball player1988 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014) 1989 – Liam Bridcutt , English footballer1989 – Lars Eller , Danish ice hockey player 1989 – Dinesh Patel, Indian baseball player 1990 – Kemba Walker, American basketball player1991 – Ethan Gage, Canadian soccer player1991 – Valentijn Lietmeijer, Dutch basketball player 1991 – Anamaria Tămârjan, Romanian gymnast 1992 – Kevin Hayes, American ice hockey player1993 – Pat Cummins, Australian cricketer1996 – 6ix9ine, American rapper[18] 2001 – Jordyn Huitema, Canadian soccer player2003 – Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco Deaths 535 – Pope John II615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)[19] 685 – Pope Benedict II 997 – Tai Zong , Chinese emperor (b. 939)1157 – Ahmed Sanjar , Seljuk sultan (b. 1086)1192 – Ottokar IV , duke of Styria (b. 1163)1220 – Richeza of Denmark, queen of Sweden1278 – Duan Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1269)1319 – Haakon V , king of Norway (b. 1270)1473 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire , English politician (b. 1420)1538 – Edward Foxe , English bishop and academic (b. 1496)1551 – Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (b. 1520)1668 – Catherine of St. Augustine, French-Canadian nun and saint (b. 1632)1766 – Samuel Chandler , English minister and author (b. 1693)1773 – Ali Bey al-Kabir , Egyptian sultan (b. 1728)1781 – Richard Jago , English priest and poet (b. 1715)1782 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)1785 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul , French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1719)1785 – Pietro Longhi , Italian painter (b. 1701) 1788 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian physician and botanist (b. 1723)1794 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)1819 – Kamehameha I , king of the Hawaiian Islands1822 – John Stark , American general (b. 1728)[20] 1828 – Mauro Giuliani , Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer (b. 1781)1837 – Alexander Balashov , Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (b. 1770)1842 – Jules Dumont d'Urville , French admiral and explorer (b. 1790)1853 – Jan Roothaan , Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1785)1880 – Gustave Flaubert , French novelist (b. 1821)1891 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)1891 – John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816) 1893 – Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (b. 1833)[21] 1903 – Paul Gauguin , French painter and sculptor (b. 1848)1907 – Edmund G. Ross , American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1826)1925 – John Beresford , Irish polo player (b. 1847)1936 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)1941 – Natalie, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1859)1941 – Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (b. 1858) 1942 – Nikolai Reek , Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1890)1943 – Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (b. 1919)1944 – Themistoklis Diakidis , Greek high jumper (b. 1882)1945 – Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)1945 – Julius Hirsch , German footballer (b. 1892)[22] [23] 1945 – Wilhelm Rediess , German SS officer (b. 1900) 1945 – Bernhard Rust , German lieutenant and politician (b. 1883) 1945 – Josef Terboven , German lieutenant and politician (b. 1898) 1947 – Harry Gordon Selfridge , American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (b. 1858)1948 – U Saw , Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)1950 – Vital Brazil , Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)1952 – William Fox , Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (b. 1879)1959 – John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead , Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)1965 – Wally Hardinge , English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)1969 – Remington Kellogg , American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)1972 – Pandurang Vaman Kane , Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)1972 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921) 1975 – Avery Brundage , American businessman and art collector (b. 1887)1980 – Geoffrey Baker , English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)1981 – Uri Zvi Greenberg , Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)1982 – Neil Bogart , American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)1982 – Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian race car driver (b. 1950) 1983 – John Fante , American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)1984 – Lila Bell Wallace , American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest 1984 – Gino Bianco , Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916) 1985 – Karl Marx , German conductor and composer (b. 1897)1985 – Theodore Sturgeon , American author and critic (b. 1918) 1985 – Dolph Sweet , American actor (b. 1920) 1986 – Ernle Bradford , English historian and author (b. 1922)1987 – Doris Stokes , English psychic and author (b. 1920)1988 – Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction writer and screenwriter (b. 1907)[24] 1990 – Luigi Nono , Italian composer and educator (b. 1924)1991 – Jean Langlais , French pianist and composer (b. 1907)1991 – Rudolf Serkin , Czech-Austrian pianist and educator (b. 1903) 1992 – Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (b. 1933)1993 – Avram Davidson , American soldier and author (b. 1923)1994 – George Peppard , American actor and producer (b. 1928)1995 – Teresa Teng , Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)1996 – Beryl Burton , English cyclist (b. 1937)1996 – Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926) 1996 – Larry Levis , American poet, author, and critic (b. 1946) 1996 – Garth Williams , American illustrator (b. 1912) 1998 – Johannes Kotkas, Estonian wrestler (b. 1915)1998 – Charles Rebozo , American banker and businessman (b. 1912) 1999 – Dirk Bogarde , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)1999 – Ed Gilbert , American actor (b. 1931) 1999 – Dana Plato , American actress (b. 1964) 1999 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian author and educator (b. 1904) 2000 – Pita Amor , Mexican poet and author (b. 1918)2000 – Dédé Fortin , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962) 2000 – Henry Nicols , American activist (b. 1973) 2003 – Elvira Pagã, Brazilian vedette, singer, and artist (b. 1920)2005 – Jean Carrière, French author (b. 1928)2005 – Nicolás Vuyovich , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1981) 2006 – Iain Macmillan , Scottish photographer and author (b. 1938)2007 – Philip R. Craig, American author and poet (b. 1933)2007 – Carson Whitsett , American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (b. 1945) 2008 – Eddy Arnold , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1918)2008 – François Sterchele , Belgian footballer (b. 1982) 2009 – Dom DiMaggio , American baseball player (b. 1917)2009 – Bud Shrake , American journalist and author (b. 1931) 2011 – Lionel Rose , Australian boxer (b. 1948)2012 – Everett Lilly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)2012 – Jerry McMorris, American businessman (b. 1941) 2012 – Stacy Robinson , American football player (b. 1962) 2012 – Maurice Sendak , American author and illustrator (b. 1928) 2012 – Ampon Tangnoppakul, Thai criminal (b. 1948) 2012 – Roman Totenberg , Polish-American violinist and educator (b. 1911) 2013 – Jeanne Cooper , American actress (b. 1928)2013 – Bryan Forbes , English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926) 2013 – Juan José Muñoz , Argentinian businessman (b. 1950) 2013 – Hugh J. Silverman, American philosopher and theorist (b. 1945) 2013 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player (b. 1946) 2014 – Roger L. Easton , American scientist, co-invented the GPS (b. 1921)2014 – Nancy Malone , American actress, director, and producer (b. 1935) 2014 – Yago Lamela , Spanish long jumper (b. 1977) 2014 – Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian singer (b. 1939) 2014 – R. Douglas Stuart Jr., American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Norway (b. 1916) 2014 – Joseph P. Teasdale , American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (b. 1936) 2015 – Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (b. 1943)2015 – Mwepu Ilunga , Congolese footballer (b. 1949) 2015 – Menashe Kadishman , Israeli sculptor and painter (b. 1932) 2015 – Juan Schwanner, Hungarian-Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1921) 2015 – Atanas Semerdzhiev, Bulgarian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Bulgaria (b. 1924) 2016 – Tom M. 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