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December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 15 days remain until the end of the year.
714 – Pepin of Herstal , mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom . 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing , initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China. 1431 – Hundred Years' War : Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.[1] 1497 – Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River , where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. 1575 – An earthquake with an estimated of 8.5Mw strikes Valdivia, Chile. 1598 – Seven-Year War : Battle of Noryang : The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory. 1653 – English Interregnum : The Protectorate : Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England , Scotland and Ireland. 1689 – Convention Parliament : The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights . 1761 – Seven Years' War : After a four-month siege , the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg . 1773 – American Revolution : Boston Tea Party : Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act . 1777 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation . [1] 1782 – British East India Company : Muharram Rebellion : Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah .[2] 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri . 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas , and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia . 1838 – Great Trek : Battle of Blood River : Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis , led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa.[3] 1843 – The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves , who denoted them with a boldface O , was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton , discoverer of quaternions , in a letter on this date. 1850 – The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand . 1863 – American Civil War : Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee . 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville : Major General George Thomas 's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood 's Confederate Army of Tennessee . 1880 – Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire . 1882 – Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations ) rugby union match. 1883 – Tonkin Campaign : French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel. 1903 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests. 1907 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. 1912 – First Balkan War : The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli . 1914 – World War I : Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby . 1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic ; it is dissolved in 1919. 1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw . 1930 – Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana . 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay ; neither is ever seen again. 1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother .[4] 1941 – World War II : Japanese forces occupy Miri , Sarawak . 1942 – The Holocaust : Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz . 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. 1947 – William Shockley , John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor . 1950 – Korean War: In response to China's Second Phase Offensive , U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a limited state of emergency. 1960 – A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island , New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground. 1965 – Vietnam War : General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966 . 1968 – Second Vatican Council : Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain .[5] 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 : The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India. 1971 – The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain 's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day . 1978 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression . 1979 – Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices , which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States. 1985 – Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti , who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family . 1989 – Romanian Revolution : Protests break out in Timișoara , Romania , in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés . 1989 – U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. 1991 – Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union .[6] 2013 – A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. 2014 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attacked an Army Public School in Peshawar , Pakistan , killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.[7] 1364 – Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond (d. 1417) 1485 – Catherine of Aragon , Spanish princess, later queen consort of England (d. 1536) 1534 – Hans Bol , Flemish artist (d. 1593) 1582 – Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (d. 1642) 1584 – John Selden , English jurist and scholar (d. 1654) 1585 – Livia della Rovere , Italian noble (d. 1641) 1605 – Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland , English diplomat (d. 1663) 1614 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674) 1630 – Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort , British botanist (d. 1715) 1714 – George Whitefield , English Anglican priest (d. 1770) 1716 – Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini , French poet and diplomat (d. 1798) 1717 – Elizabeth Carter , English poet and scholar (d. 1806) 1730 – Diego Silang , Filipino revolutionary leader (d. 1763)[8] 1742 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , German field marshal (d. 1819) 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven , composer (d. 1827) 1775 – Jane Austen , English novelist (d. 1817)[9] 1775 – François-Adrien Boieldieu , French pianist and composer (d. 1834) 1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter , German chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810) 1778 – John Ordronaux , French-American soldier (d. 1841) 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford , English author and playwright (d. 1855) 1790 – Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865) 1804 – Viktor Bunyakovsky , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1889) 1812 – Stuart Donaldson , English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (d. 1867) 1834 – Léon Walras , French-Swiss economist and theorist (d. 1910) 1836 – Ernst von Bergmann , Latvian-German surgeon and academic (d. 1907) 1861 – Antonio de La Gándara , French painter and illustrator (d. 1917) 1863 – George Santayana , Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (d. 1952) 1865 – Olavo Bilac , Brazilian journalist and poet (d. 1918) 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky , Russian-French painter and theorist (d. 1944) 1867 – Amy Carmichael , Irish missionary and humanitarian (d. 1951) 1869 – Hristo Tatarchev , Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1952) 1869 – Bertha Lamme Feicht , American electrical engineer (d. 1943) 1872 – Anton Denikin , Russian general (d. 1947) 1882 – Jack Hobbs , English cricketer and journalist (d. 1963) 1882 – Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist (d. 1967) 1882 – Walther Meissner , German physicist and engineer (d. 1974) 1883 – Károly Kós , Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician (d. 1977) 1883 – Max Linder , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1925) 1884 – John Gunn , Australian politician, 29th Premier of South Australia (d. 1959) 1884 – Seibo Kitamura , Japanese sculptor (d. 1987) 1888 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934) 1888 – Alphonse Juin , Algerian-French general (d. 1967) 1889 – Kim Chwa-chin , South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930) 1895 – Marie Hall Ets , American author and illustrator (d. 1984) 1896 – Anna Anderson , an imposter who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1984) 1899 – Noël Coward , English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973) 1900 – Lucille Lortel , American actress and producer (d. 1999) 1900 – V. S. Pritchett , British writer and literary critic (d. 1997) 1901 – Margaret Mead , American anthropologist and author (d. 1978)[10] 1902 – Rafael Alberti , Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1999) 1903 – Hardie Albright , American actor (d. 1975) 1903 – Harold Whitlock , English race walker and coach (d. 1985) 1905 – Piet Hein , Danish mathematician, author, and poet (d. 1996) 1907 – Barbara Kent , Canadian-born American film actress (d. 2011) 1908 – Remedios Varo , Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist (d. 1963) 1910 – Freddie Brown , Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1991) 1913 – George Ignatieff , Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1989) 1914 – O. Winston Link , American photographer (d. 2001) 1916 – Ruth Johnson Colvin , American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide 1917 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch , Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2011) 1917 – Pete T. Cenarrusa , American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (d. 2013) 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke , British science fiction writer (d. 2008) 1920 – Frederick Rotimi Williams , Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2005) 1921 – Eulalio González , Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003) 1922 – Cy Leslie , American record producer, founded Pickwick Records (d. 2008) 1923 – Menahem Pressler , German-American pianist 1923 – Ernst Florian Winter , Austrian-American historian and political scientist (d. 2014) 1924 – Nicolas Sidjakov , Latvian-American illustrator (d. 1993) 1926 – James McCracken , American tenor and actor (d. 1988) 1926 – A. N. R. Robinson , Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014) 1926 – Jeffrey Stone , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2012) 1927 – Peter Dickinson , Rhodesian-English author and poet (d. 2015) 1927 – Randall Garrett , American author and poet (d. 1987) 1928 – Terry Carter , American actor, director, and producer 1928 – Philip K. Dick , American philosopher and author (d. 1982) 1929 – Nicholas Courtney , Egyptian-English actor (d. 2011) 1930 – Bill Brittain , American author (d. 2011) 1930 – Sam Most , American flute player and saxophonist (d. 2013) 1930 – Bill Young , American sergeant and politician (d. 2013) 1932 – Quentin Blake , English author and illustrator 1932 – Grace Alele-Williams , Nigerian mathematician and academic 1932 – Lin Zhao , Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (d. 1968) 1936 – Morris Dees , American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center 1937 – Joyce Bulifant , American actress 1937 – Edward Ruscha , American painter and photographer 1938 – Frank Deford , American journalist and author (d. 2017) 1938 – Liv Ullmann , Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter 1939 – Philip Langridge , English tenor (d. 2010) 1939 – Gordon Miller , English high jumper 1941 – Lesley Stahl , American journalist and actress 1941 – Roger Neil Wheeler , English general 1942 – Donald Carcieri , American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island 1943 – Steven Bochco , American television writer and producer (d. 2018) 1944 – Jeff Kanew , American director and screenwriter 1944 – Don Meyer , American basketball player and coach (d. 2014) 1945 – Patti Deutsch , American actress and comedian (d. 2017) 1945 – Tony Hicks , English singer and guitarist 1946 – Benny Andersson , Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1946 – Charles Dennis , Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1946 – Trevor Pinnock , English harpsichord player and conductor 1946 – Tom Stern , American cinematographer 1947 – Ben Cross , English actor (d. 2020) 1947 – Vincent Matthews , American sprinter 1947 – Martyn Poliakoff , English chemist and academic 1947 – Trevor Żahra , Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator[11] 1949 – Billy Gibbons , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1949 – Heather Hallett , English lawyer and judge 1950 – Claudia Cohen , American journalist (d. 2007) 1950 – Roy Schuiten , Dutch cyclist and manager (d. 2006) 1951 – Sally Emerson , English author and poet 1951 – Mike Flanagan , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2011) 1951 – Robben Ford , American guitarist and songwriter 1951 – Mark Heard , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992) 1951 – Aykut Barka , Turkish scientist (d. 2002) 1952 – Joel Garner , Barbadian cricketer and manager 1952 – Francesco Graziani , Italian footballer and manager 1953 – Rebecca Forstadt , American voice actress and screenwriter 1955 – Xander Berkeley , American actor and producer 1955 – Carol Browner , American lawyer and environmentalist, 8th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 1955 – Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este 1955 – Chiharu Matsuyama , Japanese singer-songwriter 1956 – Lizzy Mercier Descloux , French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (d. 2004) 1957 – Antonio Vega , Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009) 1958 – Bart Oates , American football player and lawyer 1959 – H. D. Kumaraswamy , Indian social worker and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka 1959 – Alexander Lebedev , Russian businessman and politician 1959 – Steve Mattsson , American author and illustrator 1960 – Pat Van Den Hauwe , Belgian footballer and manager 1961 – André Andersen , Russian-Danish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1961 – Shane Black , American actor, director, and screenwriter 1961 – Bill Hicks , American comedian and musician (d. 1994) 1961 – LaChanze , American actress, singer, and dancer 1961 – Jon Tenney , American actor and director 1962 – Maruschka Detmers , Dutch-French actress 1962 – William Perry , American football player and wrestler 1963 – Benjamin Bratt , American actor and producer 1963 – Cathy Johnston-Forbes , American golfer 1963 – James Mangold , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1964 – Heike Drechsler , German sprinter and long jumper 1964 – John Kirwan , New Zealand rugby player and coach 1964 – Georgie Parker , Australian actress 1964 – Billy Ripken , American baseball player and sportscaster 1964 – Todd Glass , American comedian 1965 – Chris Jones , American baseball player and manager 1965 – Melanie Sloan , American lawyer and activist 1966 – Paul McGinley , Irish golfer 1966 – Clifford Robinson , American basketball player (d. 2020) 1966 – Dennis Wise , English footballer and manager 1967 – Donovan Bailey , Canadian sprinter and sportscaster 1967 – Indrek Kaseorg , Estonian decathlete 1967 – Miranda Otto , Australian actress 1968 – Wendy Doolan , Australian golfer 1968 – Lalah Hathaway , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1968 – Greg Kovacs , Canadian bodybuilder (d. 2013) 1969 – Simon Grayson , English footballer and manager 1969 – Adam Riess , American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate 1969 – Michelle Smith , Irish swimmer 1969 – Dmitri Tymoczko , American composer and theorist 1969 – Craig White , English cricketer and coach 1969 – Kent Hehr , Canadian politician 1970 – Valerie Chow , Canadian-Hong Kong actress and publicist 1971 – Seyhan Kurt , French-Turkish poet and sociologist 1971 – Michael McCary , American R&B singer 1972 – Charles Gipson , American baseball player 1972 – Paul Leyden , Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1972 – Travis Morrison , American singer-songwriter 1973 – Themba Mnguni , South African footballer 1973 – Scott Storch , American songwriter and producer, founded Storch Music Company 1975 – Valentin Bădoi , Romanian footballer and manager 1975 – Kaba Diawara , French-Guinean footballer 1975 – Benjamin Kowalewicz , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1975 – Paul Maynard , English politician 1976 – Jen Golbeck , American computer scientist and academic 1977 – Éric Bélanger , Canadian ice hockey player 1977 – Sylvain Distin , French footballer 1978 – John Morris , Canadian curler and firefighter 1978 – Gunter Van Handenhoven , Belgian footballer and manager 1979 – Luke Harper , American wrestler 1979 – Trevor Immelman , South African golfer 1979 – Daniel Narcisse , French handball player[12] 1979 – Mihai Trăistariu , Romanian singer-songwriter 1979 – Jessie Ward , American wrestler and producer 1980 – Danish Kaneria , Pakistani cricketer 1981 – Krysten Ritter , American actress, musician, and model 1981 – Gareth Williams , Scottish footballer 1982 – Antrel Rolle , American football player 1982 – Anna Sedokova , Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter 1982 – Stanislav Šesták , Slovak footballer 1983 – Kelenna Azubuike , American basketball player 1983 – Frankie Ballard , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984 – Theo James , English actor 1985 – Stanislav Manolev , Bulgarian footballer 1985 – James Nash , English race car driver 1986 – Alcides Escobar , Venezuelan baseball player 1986 – Zoltán Kovács , Hungarian footballer (d. 2013) 1986 – Pärt Uusberg , Estonian actor, composer, and conductor. 1987 – Mame Biram Diouf , Senegalese footballer 1987 – Beau Dowler , Australian footballer 1987 – Hallee Hirsh , American actress 1988 – Mats Hummels , German footballer 1988 – Anna Popplewell , English actress 1989 – Mirei Kiritani , Japanese model, actress, and journalist 1991 – Craig Goodwin , Australian footballer 1992 – Ulrikke Eikeri , Norwegian tennis player 1992 – Anamul Haque , Bangladeshi cricketer 1992 – Moe Miura , Japanese model, actress, and singer 1992 – Pietro Perdichizzi , Belgian footballer 1992 – Tom Rogic , Australian footballer 1994 – Elliot Lee , English footballer 1994 – Nicola Murru , Italian footballer 1994 – José Rodríguez Martínez , Spanish footballer 1996 – Joel Adams , Australian pop/soul singer-songwriter[13] 1997 – Zara Larsson , Swedish singer and songwriter 1998 – Mira Antonitsch , Austrian tennis player 604 – Houzhu , emperor of the Chen dynasty (b. 553) 705 – Wu Zetian , Empress of the Zhou dynasty (b. 624) 714 – Pepin of Herstal , Frankish statesman (b. 635) 867 – Eberhard of Friuli , Frankish duke (b. 815) 874 – Ado , archbishop of Vienne 882 – John VIII , pope of the Catholic Church 902 – Wei Yifan , chancellor of the Tang dynasty 999 – Adelaide of Italy , Holy Roman Empress (b. 931) 1153 – Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester , Norman nobleman 1263 – Haakon IV , king of Norway (b. 1204) 1316 – Öljaitü , Mongolian ruler (b. 1280) 1325 – Charles , French nobleman (b. 1270) 1378 – Secondotto , marquess of Montferrat (b. 1360) 1379 – John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel , English general and politician, Lord Marshall of England (b. 1348) 1470 – John II , duke of Lorraine (b. 1424) 1474 – Ali Qushji , Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1403) 1515 – Afonso de Albuquerque , Portuguese admiral and politician, 3rd Viceroy of Portuguese India (b. 1453) 1558 – Thomas Cheney , English diplomat and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1583 – Ivan Fyodorov , Russian printer 1594 – Allison Balfour , Scottish witch 1598 – Yi Sun-sin , Korean general (b. 1545) 1669 – Nathaniel Fiennes , English soldier and politician (b. 1608) 1687 – William Petty , English economist and philosopher (b. 1623) 1751 – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1700) 1774 – François Quesnay , French economist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1694) 1783 – Johann Adolph Hasse , German composer and educator (b. 1699) 1783 – Sir William James, 1st Baronet , Welsh-English commander and politician (b. 1720) 1805 – Saverio Cassar , Gozitan priest and rebel leader (b. 1746) 1809 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy , French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755) 1859 – Wilhelm Grimm , German anthropologist and author (b. 1786) 1892 – Henry Yesler , American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810) 1897 – Alphonse Daudet , French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840) 1898 – Pavel Tretyakov , Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832) 1908 – American Horse , American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840) 1917 – Frank Gotch , American wrestler (b. 1878) 1921 – Camille Saint-Saëns , French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835) 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz , Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865) 1928 – Elinor Wylie , American poet and author (b. 1885) 1935 – Thelma Todd , American actress and comedian (b. 1905) 1936 – Frank Eugene , American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865) 1940 – Eugène Dubois , Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858) 1940 – Billy Hamilton , American baseball player and manager (b. 1866) 1943 – George Bambridge , English diplomat (b. 1892) 1944 – Betsie ten Boom , Dutch Holocaust victim (b. 1885) 1945 – Giovanni Agnelli , Italian businessman, founded Fiat (b. 1866) 1945 – Fumimaro Konoe , Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891) 1949 – Sidney Olcott , Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873) 1952 – Robert Henry Best , American journalist (b. 1896) 1956 – Nina Hamnett , Welsh painter and author (b. 1890) 1961 – Hans Rebane , Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1882) 1965 – W. Somerset Maugham , British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1874) 1968 – Futabayama Sadaji , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912) 1968 – Muhammad Suheimat , Jordanian general and politician (b. 1916) 1969 – Alphonse Castex , French rugby union player (b. 1899) 1969 – Soe Hok Gie , Indonesian activist and academic (b. 1942) 1970 – Oscar Lewis , American anthropologist of Latin America (b. 1914) 1974 – Kostas Varnalis , Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884) 1976 – Réal Caouette , Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1917) 1977 – Risto Jarva , Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934) 1980 – Colonel Sanders , American businessman, founded KFC (b. 1890) 1980 – Hellmuth Walter , German-American engineer (b. 1900) 1982 – Colin Chapman , English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars (b. 1928) 1983 – Debs Garms , American baseball player (b. 1907) 1984 – Karl Deichgräber , German philologist and academic (b. 1903) 1985 – Thomas Bilotti , American mobster (b. 1940) 1985 – Paul Castellano , American mobster (b. 1915) 1989 – Oscar Alfredo Gálvez , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1913) 1989 – Silvana Mangano , Italian actress (b. 1930) 1989 – Aileen Pringle , American actress (b. 1895) 1989 – Lee Van Cleef , American actor (b. 1925) 1991 – Eszter Tamási , Hungarian actress and journalist (b. 1938) 1993 – Moses Gunn , American actor (b. 1929) 1993 – Kakuei Tanaka , Japanese soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918) 1996 – Quentin Bell , English historian and author (b. 1910) 1997 – Lillian Disney , American illustrator and philanthropist (b. 1899) 1998 – William Gaddis , American author and academic (b. 1922) 2001 – Stuart Adamson , English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958) 2001 – Stefan Heym , German-American soldier and author (b. 1913) 2003 – Robert Stanfield , Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914) 2003 – Gary Stewart , American singer-songwriter (b. 1945) 2004 – Ted Abernathy , American baseball player (b. 1933) 2004 – Deyda Hydara , Gambian journalist, co-founded The Point (b. 1946) 2004 – Agnes Martin , American painter and educator (b. 1912) 2005 – Kenneth Bulmer , English author (b. 1921) 2005 – Ed Hansen , American director and screenwriter (b. 1937) 2005 – John Spencer , American actor (b. 1946) 2006 – Don Jardine , Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1940) 2006 – Taliep Petersen , South African singer-songwriter and director (b. 1950) 2006 – Pnina Salzman , Israeli pianist and educator (b. 1922) 2006 – Stanford J. Shaw , American historian and academic (b. 1930) 2007 – Dan Fogelberg , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951) 2009 – Roy E. Disney , American businessman (b. 1930) 2009 – Yegor Gaidar , Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1956) 2009 – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang , South African physician and politician, 22nd South African Minister of Health (b. 1940) 2010 – Melvin E. Biddle , American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1923) 2010 – Ayinde Barrister , Nigerian fuji musician (b. 1948) 2011 – Robert Easton , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1930) 2011 – Nicol Williamson , Scottish actor (b. 1938) 2012 – Elwood V. Jensen , American biologist and academic (b. 1920) 2012 – Jake Adam York , American poet and academic (b. 1972) 2013 – James Flint , English commander (b. 1913) 2013 – Ray Price , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926) 2013 – Marta Russell , American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1951) 2014 – Martin Brasier , English paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1947) 2014 – Tim Cochran , American mathematician and academic (b. 1955) 2015 – Peter Dickinson , Rhodesian-English author and poet (b. 1927) 2015 – Lizmark , Mexican wrestler (b. 1950) 2015 – George Earl Ortman , American painter and sculptor (b. 1926) 2017 – Keely Smith , American singer and actress (b. 1928)[14] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Grummitt, David (2015). Henry VI . Routledge. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-317-48260-4 . ^ Ahmed, M Shamim (12 June 2018). "সিলেটের শাহী ঈদগাহ ইতিহাস ঐতিহ্য" (in Bengali). Sylhet: Sheersha Khobor. 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