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August 21  is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar .  132 days remain until the end of the year.  
      959  – Eraclus  becomes the 25th bishop of Liège .   1140  – Song dynasty  general Yue Fei  defeats an army led by Jin dynasty  general Wuzhu  at the Battle of Yancheng  during the Jin–Song Wars .   1192  – Minamoto no Yoritomo  becomes Sei-i Taishōgun   and the de facto   ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date : the 12th day of the 7th month in the 3rd year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).   1331  – King Stefan Uroš III , after months of anarchy , surrenders to his son and rival Stefan Dušan , who succeeds as King of Serbia .   1415  – Henry the Navigator  leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta .   1680  – Pueblo Indians  capture Santa Fe  from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt .   1689  – The Battle of Dunkeld  in Scotland.   1716  – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War : The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin  force the Ottomans  to abandon the Siege of Corfu , thus preserving the Ionian Islands  under Venetian rule .[1]    1770  – James Cook  formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain , naming it New South Wales .   1772  – King Gustav III  completes his coup d'état  by adopting a new Constitution , ending half a century of parliamentary rule  in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot .   1778  – American Revolutionary War : British forces begin besieging  the French outpost at Pondichéry .   1791  – A Vodou ceremony , led by Dutty Boukman , turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution .   1808  – Battle of Vimeiro : British  and Portuguese  forces led by General Arthur Wellesley  defeat French  force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot  near the village of Vimeiro , Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War .   1810  – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte , Marshal of France , is elected Crown Prince  of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates .   1821  – Jarvis Island  is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances .   1831  – Nat Turner  leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion  in Southampton County, Virginia , which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.[2]    1852  – Tlingit Indians  destroy Fort Selkirk , Yukon Territory .   1858  – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates  is held in Ottawa, Illinois .[3]    1863  – Lawrence, Kansas  is destroyed  by pro-Confederate guerrillas  known as Quantrill's Raiders .   1883  – An F5 tornado  strikes Rochester, Minnesota , leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic .   1888  – The first successful adding machine  in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs .   1897  – Oldsmobile , an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.   1901  – Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites , arrived in Manila  on the USAT Thomas .   1911  – The Mona Lisa   is stolen  by Vincenzo Peruggia , a Louvre  employee.   1914  – World War I : The Battle of Charleroi , a successful German attack across the River Sambre  that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.   1918  – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme  begins.   1942  – World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign : American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army  soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru .   1944  – Dumbarton Oaks Conference , prelude to the United Nations , begins.   1944   – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture  the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados , France.   1945  – Physicist Harry Daghlian  is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident  during an experiment with the Demon core  at Los Alamos National Laboratory .   1957  – The Soviet Union  successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka , the first intercontinental ballistic missile .   1959  – United States President  Dwight D. Eisenhower  signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day .   1961  – American country music  singer Patsy Cline  returns to record producer Owen Bradley 's studio in Nashville, Tennessee  to record her vocals to Willie Nelson's  "Crazy ", which would become her signature song .   1961   – Motown  releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman " by The Marvelettes .   1963  – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids : The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces  loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu , brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem , vandalizes Buddhist  pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.   1968  – Cold War : Nicolae Ceaușescu , leader of Communist Romania , publicly condemns the Soviet -led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia , encouraging the Romanian  population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.   1968   – James Anderson Jr.  posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor  to be awarded to an African American  U.S. Marine .   1969   – Gap Inc.  opened their first store in San Francisco, California .   1971  – A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party  campaign rally in Plaza Miranda , Manila , Philippines  with several anti-Marcos  political candidates injured.   1982  – Lebanese Civil War : The first troops of a multinational force  lands in Beirut  to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization 's withdrawal from Lebanon .   1983  – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr.  is assassinated  at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport   in his honor).   1986  – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic  Lake Nyos  in Cameroon , killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.   1988  – The 6.9 Mw   Nepal earthquake  shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity  of VIII (Severe ), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.   1991  – Latvia  declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1945.   1991   – Coup attempt  against Mikhail Gorbachev  collapses.   1993  – NASA  loses contact with the Mars Observer  spacecraft.   1994  – Royal Air Maroc Flight 630  crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco , killing all 44 people on board.[4]    1995  – Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 , an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia , attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport  after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County  near Carrollton, Georgia , killing nine of the 29 people on board.[5]    2000  – Tiger Woods , American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship  and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan  in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.   2013  – Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks  in the Ghouta  region of Syria .   2016  – The closing ceremony  of the 2016 Summer Olympics  in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , takes place.   2017  – A solar eclipse  traverses the continental United States .     1165  – Philip II of France  (d. 1223)   1481  – Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra  (d. 1550)   1535  – Shimazu Yoshihiro , Japanese general (d. 1619)   1552  – Muhammad Qadiri , Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order (d. 1654)   1567  – Francis de Sales , Swiss bishop and saint (d. 1622)   1579  – Henri, Duke of Rohan  (d. 1638)   1597  – Roger Twysden , English historian and politician (d. 1672)   1625  – John Claypole , English politician (d. 1688)   1643  – Afonso VI of Portugal  (d. 1683)   1660  – Hubert Gautier , French mathematician and engineer (d. 1737)   1665  – Giacomo F. Maraldi , French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)   1670  – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , French general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire  (d. 1734)   1725  – Jean-Baptiste Greuze , French painter and educator (d. 1805)   1754  – William Murdoch , Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting  (d. 1839)   1754   – Banastre Tarleton , English general and politician (d. 1833)   1765  – William IV of the United Kingdom   (d. 1837)   1789  – Augustin-Louis Cauchy , French mathematician and academic (d. 1857)   1798  – Jules Michelet , French historian and philosopher (d. 1874)   1800  – Hiram Walden , American general and politician (d. 1880)   1801  – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer , Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876)   1813  – Jean Stas , Belgian chemist and physician (d. 1891)   1816  – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt , French chemist and academic (d. 1856)   1823  – Nathaniel Everett Green , English painter and astronomer (d. 1899)   1826  – Karl Gegenbaur , German anatomist and academic (d. 1903)   1829  – Otto Goldschmidt , German composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1907)   1840  – Ferdinand Hamer , Dutch bishop and missionary (d. 1900)   1856  – Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès , American heiress (d. 1921)   1862  – Emilio Salgari , Italian journalist and author (d. 1911)   1869  – William Henry Ogilvie , Scottish-Australian poet and author (d. 1963)   1872  – Aubrey Beardsley , English author and illustrator (d. 1898)   1878  – Richard Girulatis , German footballer and manager (d. 1963)   1879  – Claude Grahame-White , English pilot and engineer (d. 1959)   1884  – Chandler Egan , American golfer and architect (d. 1936)   1885  – Édouard Fabre , Canadian runner (d. 1939)   1886  – Ruth Manning-Sanders , Welsh-English author and poet (d. 1988)   1887  – James Paul Moody , English sailor (d. 1912)   1891  – Emiliano Mercado del Toro , Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2007)   1892  – Charles Vanel , French actor and director (d. 1989)   1894  – Christian Schad , German painter (d. 1982)   1895  – Blossom Rock , American actress (d. 1978)   1897  – Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott , Scottish soldier and peer (d. 1966)   1902  – Angel Karaliychev , Bulgarian author (d. 1972)   1903  – Kostas Giannidis , Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1984)   1904  – Count Basie , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984)   1905  – Bipin Gupta , Indian actor and producer (d. 1981)   1906  – Friz Freleng , American animator, director, and producer (d. 1995)   1907  – P. Jeevanandham , Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1963)   1909  – Nikolay Bogolyubov , Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)   1912  – Toe Blake , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)   1914  – Doug Wright , English cricketer and coach (d. 1998)   1916  – Bill Lee , American actor and singer (d. 1980)   1916   – Consuelo Velázquez , Mexican pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)   1917  – Leonid Hurwicz , Russian economist and mathematician (d. 2008)   1918  – Billy Reay , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)   1921  – Reuven Feuerstein , Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)   1922  – Albert Irvin , English soldier and painter (d. 2015)   1923  – Keith Allen , Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)   1924  – Jack Buck , American sportscaster (d. 2002)   1924   – Jack Weston , American actor (d. 1996)   1926  – Can Yücel , Turkish poet and translator (d. 1999)   1927  – Thomas S. Monson , American religious leader, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  (d. 2018)   1928  – Addison Farmer , American bassist (d. 1963)   1928   – Art Farmer , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1999)   1928   – Bud McFadin , American football player (d. 2006)   1929  – Herman Badillo , Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)   1929   – X. J. Kennedy , American poet, translator, anthologist, editor   1929   – Ahmed Kathrada , South African politician and political prisoner (d. 2017)   1930  – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon  (d. 2002)   1930   – Frank Perry , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)   1932  – Menashe Kadishman , Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2015)   1932   – Melvin Van Peebles , American actor, director, and screenwriter   1933  – Janet Baker , English soprano and educator   1933   – Michael Dacher , German mountaineer (d. 1994)   1933   – Barry Norman , English author and critic (d. 2017)   1933   – Erik Paaske , Danish actor and singer (d. 1992)   1934  – Sudhakarrao Naik , Indian lawyer and politician, 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra  (d. 2001)   1934   – Paul Panhuysen , Dutch composer (d. 2015)   1936  – Wilt Chamberlain , American basketball player and coach (d. 1999)   1936   – Radish Tordia , Georgian painter and educator   1937  – Donald Dewar , Scottish lawyer and politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland  (d. 2000)   1937   – Gustavo Noboa , Ecuadorian academic and politician, 51st President of Ecuador    1937   – Robert Stone , American novelist and short story writer (d. 2015)   1938  – Kenny Rogers , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor   1938   – Mike Weston , English rugby player   1939  – James Burton , American Hall of Fame  guitarist   1939   – Festus Mogae , Botswana economist and politician, 3rd President of Botswana    1939   – Clarence Williams III , American actor   1940  – Dominick Harrod , English journalist, historian, and author (d. 2013)   1940   – Endre Szemerédi , Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist   1941  – Jackie DeShannon , American singer-songwriter   1943  – Patrick Demarchelier , French photographer   1943   – Jonathan Schell , American journalist and author (d. 2014)   1943   – Lucius Shepard , American author and critic (d. 2014)   1943   – Hugh Wilson , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)   1944  – Perry Christie , Bahamian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Bahamas    1944   – Peter Weir , Australian director, producer, and screenwriter   1945  – Basil Poledouris , Greek-American composer, conductor[6]   (d. 2006)   1945   – Celia Brayfield , English journalist and author   1945   – Jerry DaVanon , American baseball player   1945   – Willie Lanier , American football player   1945   – Patty McCormack , American actress   1947  – Carl Giammarese , American singer-songwriter and musician   1949  – Loretta Devine , American actress and singer   1949   – Daniel Sivan , Israeli scholar and academic   1950  – Patrick Juvet , Swiss singer-songwriter and model   1951  – Eric Goles , Chilean mathematician and computer scientist   1951   – Yana Mintoff , Maltese politician, economist and educator   1951   – Chesley V. Morton , American businessman and politician   1952  – Keith Hart , Canadian firefighter, wrestler, and trainer   1952   – Jiří Paroubek , Czech soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic    1952   – Bernadette Porter , English nun and educator   1952   – Joe Strummer , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)   1953  – Ivan Stang , American author, publisher, and director   1954  – Archie Griffin , American football player   1954   – Steve Smith , American drummer   1954   – Mark Williams , New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter   1956  – Kim Cattrall , English-Canadian actress   1956   – Jon Tester , American farmer and politician   1957  – Frank Pastore , American baseball player and radio host (d. 2012)   1958  – Mark Williams , Australian footballer and coach   1959  – Anne Hobbs , English tennis player and coach   1959   – Jim McMahon , American football player and coach   1961  – Gerardo Barbero , Argentinian chess player and coach (d. 2001)   1961   – V. B. Chandrasekhar , Indian cricketer and coach (d. 2019)   1961   – Stephen Hillenburg , American marine biologist, cartoonist, and animator (d. 2018)   1962  – John Korfas , Greek-American basketball player and coach   1962   – Pete Weber , American bowler   1963  – Mohammed VI of Morocco , King of Morocco    1963   – Nigel Pearson , English footballer and manager   1964  – Gary Elkerton , Australian surfer   1965  – Jim Bullinger , American baseball player   1966  – John Wetteland , American baseball player and coach   1967  – Darren Bewick , Australian footballer   1967   – Charb , French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015)   1967   – Carrie-Anne Moss , Canadian actress   1967   – Serj Tankian , Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer   1968  – Dina Carroll , English singer-songwriter   1968   – Goran Ćurko , Serbian footballer   1968   – Laura Trevelyan , English journalist and author   1969  – Bruce Anstey , New Zealand motorcycle racer   1969   – Josée Chouinard , Canadian figure skater   1970  – Craig Counsell , American baseball player and coach   1970   – Erik Dekker , Dutch cyclist and manager   1970   – Cathy Weseluck , Canadian actress   1971  – Mamadou Diallo , Senegalese footballer   1971   – Robert Harvey , Australian footballer and coach   1971   – Liam Howlett , English keyboard player, DJ, and producer   1973  – Sergey Brin , Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google    1973   – Steve McKenna , Canadian ice hockey player and coach   1974  – Martin Andanar , Filipino journalist and radio host   1974   – Paul Mellor , Australian rugby league player and referee   1975  – Simon Katich , Australian cricketer and manager   1976  – Alex Brooks , American ice hockey player and scout   1976   – Jeff Cunningham , Jamaican-American soccer player   1976   – Robert Miles , Australian rugby league player   1976   – Ramón Vázquez , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach   1978  – Peter Buxton , English rugby player and manager   1978   – Reuben Droughns , American football player and coach   1978   – Lee Gronkiewicz , American baseball player and coach   1978   – Alan Lee , Irish footballer and coach   1978   – Jason Marquis , American baseball player   1979  – Kelis , American singer-songwriter, producer, chef and author   1980  – Burney Lamar , American race car driver   1980   – Paul Menard , American race car driver   1980   – Jasmin Wöhr , German tennis player   1981  – Jarrod Lyle , Australian golfer (d. 2018)   1981   – Cameron Winklevoss , American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU    1981   – Tyler Winklevoss , American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU    1981   – Ross Thomas , American actor   1982  – Jason Eaton , New Zealand rugby player   1982   – Omar Sachedina , Canadian television journalist, correspondent, and news anchor   1983  – Scott McDonald , Australian footballer   1984  – Neil Dexter , South African cricketer   1984   – Melvin Upton, Jr. , American baseball player   1985  – Nicolás Almagro , Spanish tennis player   1985   – Aleksandra Kiryashova , Russian pole vaulter   1986  – Usain Bolt , Jamaican sprinter   1986   – Wout Brama , Dutch footballer   1986   – Koki Sakamoto , Japanese gymnast   1988  – Robert Lewandowski , Polish footballer   1988   – Kacey Musgraves , American singer-songwriter and guitarist   1989  – Charlison Benschop , Dutch footballer   1989   – James Davey , English rugby league player   1989   – Matteo Gentili , Italian footballer   1989   – Hayden Panettiere , American actress   1989   – Aleix Vidal , Spanish footballer   1990  – Bo Burnham , American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet   1991  – Leandro Bacuna , Dutch footballer   1992  – Felipe Nasr , Brazilian race car driver   2000  – Kate Valdez , Filipina actress and singer     672  – Emperor Kōbun  of Japan (b. 648)   784  – Alberic , archbishop of Utrecht    913  – Tang Daoxi , Chinese general   1131  – King Baldwin II of Jerusalem    1148  – William II, Count of Nevers  (b. c. 1089)   1157  – Alfonso VII of León and Castile  (b. 1105)   1245  – Alexander of Hales , English theologian   1271  – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers  (b. 1220)   1534  – Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , 44th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller  (b. 1464)   1568  – Jean Parisot de Valette , 49th Grandmaster  of the Knights Hospitaller  (b. 1495)   1614  – Elizabeth Báthory , Hungarian countess and serial killer (b. 1560)   1622  – Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana , Spanish poet and politician (b. 1582)   1627  – Jacques Mauduit , French composer and academic (b. 1557)   1673  – Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford , English soldier (b. 1599)   1689  – William Cleland , Scottish poet and soldier (b. 1661)   1762  – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1689)   1763  – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont , English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department  (b. 1710)   1775  – Zahir al-Umar , Arabian ruler (b. 1690)   1796  – John McKinly , American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware  (b. 1721)   1814  – Benjamin Thompson , American-English physicist and colonel (b. 1753)   1835  – John MacCulloch , Scottish geologist and academic (b. 1773)   1836  – Claude-Louis Navier , French physicist and engineer (b. 1785)   1838  – Adelbert von Chamisso , German botanist and poet (b. 1781)   1853  – Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon , French general (b. 1783)   1854  – Thomas Clayton , American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)   1867  – Juan Álvarez , Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790)[7]    1870  – Ma Xinyi , Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang  (b. 1821)   1888  – James Farnell , Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales  (b. 1825)   1905  – Alexander von Oettingen , Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)   1910  – Bertalan Székely , Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)   1919  – Laurence Doherty , English tennis player (b. 1875)   1935  – John Hartley , English tennis player (b. 1849)   1940  – Hermann Obrecht , Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)   1940   – Ernest Thayer , American poet and author (b. 1863)   1940   – Leon Trotsky , Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army  (b. 1879)   1943  – Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize  laureate (b. 1857)   1947  – Ettore Bugatti , Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti  (b. 1881)   1951  – Constant Lambert , English composer and conductor (b. 1905)   1957  – Mait Metsanurk , Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)   1957   – Nels Stewart , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)   1957   – Harald Sverdrup , Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)   1960  – David B. Steinman , American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge  (b. 1886)   1964  – Palmiro Togliatti , Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice  (b. 1893)   1971  – George Jackson , American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family  (b. 1941)   1974  – Buford Pusser , American police officer (b. 1937)   1974   – Kirpal Singh , Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)   1978  – Charles Eames , American architect, co-designed the Eames House  (b. 1907)   1979  – Giuseppe Meazza , Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)   1981  – Kaka Kalelkar  , Indian Hindi Writer(B.1885)   1983  – Benigno Aquino, Jr. , Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)   1988  – Teodoro de Villa Diaz , Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)   1988   – Ray Eames , American architect, co-designed the Eames House  (b. 1912)   1989  – Raul Seixas , Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)   1993  – Tatiana Troyanos , American soprano and actress (b. 1938)   1995  – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize  laureate (b. 1910)   1995   – Chuck Stevenson , American race car driver (b. 1919)   2000  – Tomata du Plenty , American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948)   2000   – Daniel Lisulo , Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia  (b. 1930)   2000   – Andrzej Zawada , Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)   2001  – Calum MacKay , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)   2003  – John Coplans , British artist (b. 1920)   2003   – Kathy Wilkes , English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)   2004  – Sachidananda Routray , Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916)   2005  – Martin Dillon , American tenor and educator (b. 1957)   2005   – Robert Moog , American businessman, founded Moog Music  (b. 1934)   2005   – Dahlia Ravikovitch , Israeli poet and translator (b. 1936)   2005  – Marcus Schmuck , Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)   2006  – Bismillah Khan , Indian musician, Bharat ratna awardi (b. 1916)   2006  – Paul Fentener van Vlissingen , Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)   2007  – Siobhan Dowd , British author (b. 1960)   2007   – Elizabeth P. Hoisington , American general (b. 1918)   2008  – Jerry Finn , American engineer and producer (b. 1969)   2009  – Rex Shelley , Singaporean engineer and author (b. 1930)   2010  – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill , Argentinean sociologist and author (b. 1941)   2012  – Georg Leber , German soldier and politician, Federal Minister of Defence for Germany  (b. 1920)   2012   – J. Frank Raley Jr. , American soldier and politician (b. 1926)   2012   – Don Raleigh , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)   2012   – Guy Spitaels , Belgian academic and politician, 7th Minister-President of Wallonia  (b. 1931)   2012   – William Thurston , American mathematician and academic (b. 1946)   2013  – Jean Berkey , American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)   2013   – Sid Bernstein , American record producer (b. 1918)   2013   – C. Gordon Fullerton , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1936)   2013   – Fred Martin , Scottish footballer (b. 1929)   2013   – Enos Nkala , Zimbabwean politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence  (b. 1932)   2014  – Gerry Anderson , Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)   2014   – Helen Bamber , English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925)   2014   – Steven R. Nagel , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1946)   2014   – Jean Redpath , Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1937)   2014   – Albert Reynolds , Irish businessman and politician, 9th Taoiseach of Ireland  (b. 1932)   2015  – Colin Beyer , New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)   2015   – Wang Dongxing , Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916)   2015   – Jimmy Evert , American tennis player and coach (b. 1924)   2017  – Bajram Rexhepi , First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo (b. 1954)   2018  – Stefán Karl Stefánsson , Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975)[8]    2019  – Celso Piña , Mexican singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist (b. 1953 )[9]    Holidays and observances [ edit ]      References [ edit ]        ^   Chasiotis, Ioannis (1975). "Η κάμψη της Οθωμανικής δυνάμεως" [The decline of Ottoman power].  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