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December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 20 days remain until the end of the year.
220 – Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao Cao 's son Cao Pi , ending the Han dynasty.361 – Julian enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire .861 – Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne. Start of the "Anarchy at Samarra ".969 – Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes .1282 – Battle of Orewin Bridge : Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , the last native Prince of Wales , is killed at Cilmeri , near Builth Wells , in mid-Wales.1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy , and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain , is repelled by the citizens of Geneva . (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade 1675 – Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.[1] 1688 – Glorious Revolution : James II of England , while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly .1792 – French Revolution : King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention .1815 – The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance .1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state .1868 – Paraguayan War : Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay .1899 – Second Boer War : In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley .1905 – A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv , Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire ), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic .1907 – The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.1917 – World War I : British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law .1920 – Irish War of Independence : In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city . Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas Feast of Christ the King .1927 – Guangzhou Uprising : Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou , China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet .1931 – Statute of Westminster 1931 : The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth —Australia, Canada, Newfoundland , New Zealand , South Africa , and Ireland .1934 – Bill Wilson , co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.1936 – Abdication Crisis : Edward VIII 's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas , and Emperor of India , becomes effective.1937 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War : Italy leaves the League of Nations .1941 – World War II : Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor . The United States, in turn, declares war on them.1941 – World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan. 1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island . 1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF ) is established.1948 – Arab–Israeli War : The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194 , creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.1958 – French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France , becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso ) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin ), respectively, and joining the French Community .1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle .1962 – Arthur Lucas , convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus the Rolling Stones , Jethro Tull , the Who , Taj Mahal , Marianne Faithfull , and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono , is filmed in Wembley , London.1972 – Apollo 17 Apollo mission to land on the Moon .1978 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke . It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund ) is enacted by the U.S. Congress .1981 – El Mozote massacre : Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War .1990 – Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania .1994 – First Chechen War : Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya .1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 , en route from Manila , Philippines , to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane. 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.1998 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport , killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation .2001 – The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead , England.2005 – Cronulla riots : Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales ; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla. 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran , Iran , by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.2006 – Felipe Calderón , the President of Mexico , launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán . This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War . 2007 – Insurgency in the Maghreb : Two car bombs explode in Algiers , Algeria , one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme .2012 – At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab , Syria .2017 – New York City attempted bombing : A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway , in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal . Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.2019 - The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% voters vote for Bougainville 's independence. [2] 1445 – Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1496)1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa , Japanese shogun (d. 1489)1475 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)1566 – Manuel Cardoso , Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1650)1595 – Heo Mok , Korean politician, poet and scholar (d. 1682)1613 – Amar Singh Rathore , Rajput nobleman (d. 1644)1680 – Emanuele d'Astorga , Italian composer (d. 1736)1712 – Francesco Algarotti , Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1764)1725 – George Mason , American lawyer and politician (d. 1792)1758 – Carl Friedrich Zelter , German composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1832)1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi , Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (d. 1835)1781 – David Brewster , Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1868)1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German poet and playwright (d. 1836)1803 – Hector Berlioz , French composer, conductor, and critic (d. 1869)1810 – Alfred de Musset , French dramatist, poet, and novelist (d. 1857)1830 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d. 1872)1837 – Webster Paulson , English civil engineer (d. 1887)1838 – John Labatt , Canadian brewer and businessman (d. 1915)1843 – Robert Koch , German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)1856 – Georgi Plekhanov , Russian philosopher, theorist, and author (d. 1918)1858 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , Russian director, producer, and playwright (d. 1943)1861 – Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry , British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer (d. 1923)1863 – Annie Jump Cannon , American astronomer and academic (d. 1941)1872 – René Bull , British illustrator and photographer (d. 1942)1873 – Josip Plemelj , Slovenian mathematician and academic (d. 1967)1875 – Yehuda Leib Maimon , Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (d. 1962)1880 – Frank Tarrant , Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1951)1882 – Subramania Bharati , Indian journalist and poet (d. 1921)1882 – Max Born , German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) 1882 – Fiorello H. La Guardia , American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (d. 1947) 1884 – Piet Ooms , Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1961)1889 – Walter Knott , American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981)1890 – Carlos Gardel , French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935)1890 – Mark Tobey , American-Swiss painter and educator (d. 1976) 1893 – Leo Ornstein , Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 2002)1897 – Ronald Skirth , English soldier (d. 1977)1899 – Julio de Caro , Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1980)1900 – Hermína Týrlová , Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993)1904 – Marge , American cartoonist (d. 1993)1905 – Robert Henriques , English farmer, author, and broadcaster (d. 1967)1905 – Gilbert Roland , Mexican-American actor and singer (d. 1994) 1908 – Elliott Carter , American composer and academic (d. 2012)1908 – Manoel de Oliveira , Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015) 1908 – Hákun Djurhuus , Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987) 1908 – Amon Göth , Austrian Nazi war criminal (d. 1946) 1909 – Ronald McKie , Australian soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1991)1910 – Mildred Cleghorn , Native American chairwoman and educator (d. 1997)[3] 1911 – Val Guest , English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006)1911 – Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) 1911 – Qian Xuesen , Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (d. 2009) 1912 – Carlo Ponti , Italian-Swiss film producer (d. 2007)1913 – Jean Marais , French actor and director (d. 1998)1916 – Pérez Prado , Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989)1916 – Elena Garro , Mexican author and playwright (d. 1998) 1918 – Clinton Adams , American painter and historian (d. 2002)1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) 1919 – Cliff Michelmore , English television host and producer (d. 2016)1919 – Marie Windsor , American actress (d. 2000) 1920 – Mary Ivy Burks , American environmental activist (d. 2007)[4] 1920 – Denis Jenkinson , English motorcycle racer and journalist (d. 1996) 1921 – Ilmar Laaban , Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000)1921 – Liz Smith , English actress (d. 2016) 1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis , Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)1922 – Dilip Kumar , Pakistani-Indian actor, director, and screenwriter 1922 – Maila Nurmi , Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) 1922 – Grace Paley , American short story writer and poet (d. 2007) 1923 – Betsy Blair , American actress and dancer (d. 2009)1923 – Lillian Cahn , Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013) 1923 – Morrie Turner , American comics creator (d. 2014) 1924 – Doc Blanchard , American football player and colonel (d. 2009)1925 – Aaron Feuerstein , American businessman and philanthropist1925 – Paul Greengard , American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019) 1925 – James Sullivan , American politician (d. 2012) 1926 – Big Mama Thornton , American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)1927 – John Buscema , American illustrator (d. 2002)1929 – Axel Anderson , German actor and production manager (d. 2012)1929 – Subhash Gupte , Indian cricketer (d. 2002) 1930 – Chus Lampreave , Spanish actress (d. 2016)1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor, director, and screenwriter 1931 – Rajneesh , Indian guru, mystic, and educator (d. 1990)1931 – Ronald Dworkin , American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013) 1931 – Rita Moreno , Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer 1932 – Enrique Bermúdez , Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991)1932 – Keith Waldrop , American author and poet 1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. , Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2019)1934 – Salim Durani , Afghan-Indian cricketer1935 – Pranab Mukherjee , Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India (d. 2020)1935 – Elmer Vasko , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998) 1936 – Taku Yamasaki , Japanese politician1936 – Hans van den Broek , Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs 1937 – Jim Harrison , American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2016)1938 – Enrico Macias , Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist1938 – McCoy Tyner , American jazz musician (d. 2020) 1939 – Tom Hayden , American activist and politician (d. 2016)1939 – Thomas McGuane , American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter 1940 – David Gates , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1940 – Donna Mills , American actress and producer 1941 – Max Baucus , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China 1941 – J. P. Parisé , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2015) 1941 – Rogier van Otterloo , Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988) 1941 – J. Frank Wilson , American singer-songwriter (d. 1991) 1942 – Anna Carteret , English actress1943 – John Kerry , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State 1944 – Jon Garrison , American tenor and educator1944 – Lynda Day George , American actress 1944 – Brenda Lee , American singer-songwriter 1946 – Rhoma Irama , Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor1946 – Rick McCosker , Australian cricketer 1946 – Diana Palmer , American journalist and author 1948 – Tanimura Shinji , Japanese singer-songwriter1948 – Stamatis Spanoudakis , Greek guitarist and composer 1949 – Christina Onassis , American-born Greek/Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (d. 1988)1951 – Mazlan Othman , Malaysian astrophysicist and astronomer1951 – Ria Stalman , Dutch discus thrower and shot putter 1953 – Bess Armstrong , American actress1954 – Brad Bryant , American golfer1954 – Sylvester Clarke , Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999) 1954 – Santiago Creel , Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior 1954 – Jermaine Jackson , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer 1954 – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson , Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer 1955 – Gene Grossman , American economist and academic1955 – Stu Jackson , American basketball player, coach, and manager 1955 – Ray Kelvin , British fashion designer 1955 – Christian Sackewitz , German footballer and manager 1956 – Lani Brockman , American actress and director1956 – Andrew Lansley , English politician, Secretary of State for Health 1957 – Peter Bagge , American author and illustrator1958 – Chris Hughton , English-born Irish footballer and manager1958 – Tom Shadyac , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1958 – Nikki Sixx , American bass player, songwriter, and producer 1961 – Dave King , Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist1961 – Steve Nicol , Scottish footballer and manager 1961 – Macky Sall , Senegalese engineer and politician, 4th President of Senegal 1961 – Marco Pierre White , English chef and mentor 1963 – Mario Been , Dutch footballer and manager1963 – Mark Greatbatch , New Zealand cricketer 1963 – Claudia Kohde-Kilsch , German tennis player 1963 – John Lammers , Dutch footballer and manager 1963 – Nigel Winterburn , English footballer and coach 1964 – Justin Currie , British singer-songwriter and guitarist1964 – Dave Schools , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer 1964 – Carolyn Waldo , Canadian swimmer and sportscaster 1965 – Jay Bell , American baseball player and coach1965 – Gavin Hill , New Zealand rugby player 1965 – Glenn Lazarus , Australian rugby league player and politician 1965 – Giannis Ragousis , Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence 1966 – Gary Dourdan , American actor1966 – Göran Kropp , Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (d. 2002) 1966 – Erik Honoré , Norwegian guitarist and producer 1966 – Leon Lai , Hong Kong singer and actor 1967 – Peter Kelamis , Australian voice actor1967 – Mo'Nique , American comedian, actress, and producer 1967 – Chris Shepherd , English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter 1968 – Emmanuelle Charpentier , French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry[5] 1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli , Italian footballer and manager 1969 – Viswanathan Anand , Indian chess player1969 – Stig Inge Bjørnebye , Norwegian footballer and manager 1969 – Max Martini , American actor, director, and screenwriter 1969 – Alessandro Melli , Italian footballer and manager 1970 – Victoria Fuller , American model and actress1971 – Willie McGinest , American football player and sportscaster1972 – Daniel Alfredsson , Swedish ice hockey player1972 – Sami Al-Jaber , Saudi Arabian footballer and manager 1972 – Murray Goodwin , Zimbabwean cricketer 1972 – Andriy Husin , Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014) 1973 – Mos Def , American rapper1974 – Rey Mysterio , American wrestler1974 – Maarten Lafeber , Dutch golfer 1974 – Ben Shephard , English journalist and television host 1974 – Gete Wami , Ethiopian runner 1974 – Lisa Ortiz , American theatre and voice actress 1975 – Gerben de Knegt , Dutch cyclist1976 – Shareef Abdur-Rahim , American basketball player, coach, and manager1976 – Yujiro Shirakawa , Japanese actor 1977 – Brandon Rogers , American singer and actor1977 – Mark Streit , Swiss ice hockey player 1978 – Roy Wood, Jr. , American comedian, actor, and radio host1979 – Valdis Mintals , Estonian figure skater1979 – Rider Strong , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1980 – Kristjan Kitsing , Estonian basketball player1980 – Adi Keissar , Israeli poet 1981 – Jason Kennedy , American journalist1981 – Jeff McComsey , American author and illustrator 1981 – Paul Medhurst , Australian footballer 1981 – Javier Saviola , Argentinian footballer 1982 – Pablo Pérez Companc , Argentinian race car driver1984 – Leighton Baines , English footballer1984 – Sandra Echeverría , Mexican actress and singer 1984 – James Ellsworth , American wrestler 1985 – Karla Souza , Mexican actress1986 – Roy Hibbert , American basketball player1987 – Clifton Geathers , American football player1987 – Alex Russell , Australian actor[6] 1987 – Miranda Tapsell , Australian actress 1988 – Tim Southee , New Zealand cricketer1990 – Derrick Nix , American basketball player1992 – Tiffany Alvord , American singer-songwriter1992 – Dalton Pompey , Canadian baseball player 1993 – Yalitza Aparicio , Mexican actress[7] 1995 – Abbi Grant , Scottish footballer[8] 1996 – Hailee Steinfeld , American actress, singer and songwriter2000 – Emily Whitehead , artistic gymnast[9] 384 – Pope Damasus I (b. 305)861 – Al-Mutawakkil , Abbasid caliph (b. 822)861 – Al-Fath ibn Khaqan , chief confidant and councillor to al-Mutawakkil 969 – Nikephoros II Phokas , Byzantine emperor (b. 912)1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah , Egyptian political adviser (b. 1066)1241 – Ögedei Khan , Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , Welsh prince (b. 1223)1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos , Byzantine emperor (b. 1225) 1474 – Henry IV of Castile , King of the Crown of Castile (b. 1425)1532 – Pietro Accolti , Italian cardinal (b. 1455)1582 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba , Spanish general and politician, 12th Constable of Portugal (b. 1508)1610 – Adam Elsheimer , German artist working in Rome who died at only thirty-two (b. 1578)1686 – Louis, Grand Condé , French general (b. 1621)1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)1737 – John Strype , English priest, historian, and author (b. 1643)1747 – Edmund Curll , English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)1797 – Richard Brocklesby , English physician (b. 1722)1826 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)1840 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)1872 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)1880 – Oliver Winchester , American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)1892 – William Milligan , Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)1906 – Charles Townsend , American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)1909 – Ludwig Mond , German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (b. 1839)1913 – Carl von In der Maur , Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852)1918 – Ivan Cankar , Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)1920 – Olive Schreiner , South African author and activist (b. 1855)1936 – Myron Grimshaw , American baseball player (b. 1875)1937 – Jaan Anvelt , Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)1937 – Hugh Thackeray Turner , English architect and painter (b. 1853) 1938 – Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)1941 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr. , American pilot and poet (b. 1922)1941 – Émile Picard , French mathematician and academic (b. 1856) 1945 – Charles Fabry , French physicist and academic (b. 1867)1950 – Leslie Comrie , New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)1951 – Mustafa Muğlalı , Turkish general (b. 1882)1951 – Hijri Dede , Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (b. 1881) 1953 – Sedat Simavi , Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896)1957 – Musidora , French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)1959 – Jim Bottomley , American baseball player and manager (b. 1900)1964 – Sam Cooke , American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)1964 – Percy Kilbride , American actor (b. 1888) 1966 – Augusta Fox Bronner , American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (b. 1881)1968 – Richard Sagrits , Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)1968 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger , American publisher (b. 1891) 1971 – Maurice McDonald , American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)1975 – Lee Wiley , American singer (b. 1908)1975 – Nihal Atsız , Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905) 1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)1978 – Paul O'Dea , American baseball player and manager (b. 1920) 1979 – James J. Gibson , American psychologist and author (b. 1904)1983 – Neil Ritchie , Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)1984 – Oskar Seidlin , German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)1984 – George Waggner , American director, producer and actor (b. 1894) 1987 – G. A. Kulkarni , Indian author and academic (b. 1923)1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe , American photographer (b. 1895)1991 – Robert Q. Lewis , American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)1991 – Artur Lundkvist , Swedish author and critic (b. 1906) 1994 – Philip Phillips , American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)1995 – Greg Bahnsen , American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)1996 – Willie Rushton , English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye 1997 – Eddie Chapman , English spy (b. 1914)1997 – Simon Jeffes , English guitarist and composer (b. 1949) 1998 – André Lichnerowicz , French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915)1998 – Lynn Strait , American singer-songwriter (b. 1968) 2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah , Pakistani politician and diplomat (b. 1915)2000 – David Lewis , American actor (b. 1916) 2001 – Mainza Chona , Zambian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma , Ivorian author and playwright (b. 1927)2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo , Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)2004 – Arthur Lydiard , New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917) 2008 – Bettie Page , American model (b. 1923)2010 – Dick Hoerner , American football player (b. 1922)2011 – John Patrick Foley , American cardinal (b. 1935)2012 – Galina Vishnevskaya , Russian soprano and actress (b. 1926)2012 – Mendel Weinbach , Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1933) 2012 – Ravi Shankar , Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920) 2013 – Nadir Afonso , Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920)2013 – Barbara Branden , Canadian-American author and academic (b. 1929) 2013 – Javier Jauregui , Mexican boxer (b. 1973) 2013 – Sheikh Mussa Shariefi , Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942) 2014 – Hans Wallat , German conductor and director (b. 1929)2015 – Abish Kekilbayev , Kazakh academic and politician (b. 1939)2015 – H. Arnold Steinberg , Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1933) 2015 – Hema Upadhyay , Indian painter and sculptor (b. 1972) 2015 – John "Hot Rod" Williams , American basketball player (b. 1962) 2015 – Ken Woolley , Australian architect (b. 1933) 2017 – Keith Chegwin , British TV presenter (b. 1957)Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ de Vea, Antonio (1886). "Expedición de Antonio de Vea" . Anuario Hidrográfico de la Marina de Chile ^ CNN, Jessie Yeung and Angus Watson. "Bougainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea" . CNN . Retrieved 2020-08-05 . ^ "Mildred Imach Cleghorn, b. Dec 11, 1910, d. Apr 15, 1997 - Overview - Histopolis" . www.histopolis.com . Retrieved 2018-11-09 .^ "Alabama Women's Hall of Fame - Kathleen Mallory" . www.awhf.org . Retrieved 2019-11-02 .^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020" . NobelPrize.org . Retrieved 7 October 2020 .^ "Only the Brave: Australian actor Alex Russell talks new movie | Community News Group" . Community News Group . 23 November 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2018 .^ "Yalitza Aparicio, biografía de la estrella de "Roma" " [Yalitza Aparicio, biography of the star of "Roma"], Heraldo de Mexico (in Spanish), February 23, 2019, retrieved February 23, 2019 ^ "Abbi Grant" . Birmingham City Football Club . Retrieved 9 January 2020 .^ "Artistic Gymnastics | Athlete Profile: Emily WHITEHEAD - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games" . results.gc2018.com . Retrieved 29 April 2020 . External links [ edit ] 
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