December 20th Events in History | |
| 2005 | New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days |
| 1999 | Portugal returns Macau to China |
| 1998 | Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge |
| 1995 | Paul Roebson opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1995 | American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive |
| 1993 | Donald Trump weds Marla Maples |
| 1992 | Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability" |
| 1992 | Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia |
| 1991 | NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators |
| 1991 | Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia |
| 1990 | Pentagon warns Saddam that U.S. air power is ready to attack on 1/15 |
| 1990 | Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million |
| 1990 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns |
| 1989 | Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor |
| 1989 | U.S. troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him |
| 1988 | Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London |
| 1988 | NBC signs lease to stay in New York City, 33 more years |
| 1988 | Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka |
| 1987 | Nuts with Barbra Striesand premieres |
| 1987 | 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0) |
| 1987 | Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die |
| 1987 | Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 1986 | White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York |
| 1985 | Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points) |
| 1985 | Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC |
| 1985 | Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) |
| 1984 | 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library |
| 1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1983 | El Salvador adopts constitution |
| 1983 | Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1983 | New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins |
| 1983 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon |
| 1981 | Dreamgirls opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1522 performances |
| 1981 | Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) and most turnovers (10) |
| 1981 | Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark |
| 1981 | Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | NBC broadcasts New York Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin |
| 1978 | H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail |
| 1977 | 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut |
| 1977 | RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years |
| 1976 | Music Is opens at St. James Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1976 | Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns |
| 1975 | Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles |
| 1975 | Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht |
| 1974 | Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state |
| 1974 | George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the United Kingdom |
| 1973 | AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees |
| 1973 | Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms |
| 1973 | Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| 1972 | Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns |
| 1970 | Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader |
| 1969 | Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 |
| 1967 | Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres |
| 1967 | 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam |
| 1967 | Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull |
| 1966 | Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established |
| 1966 | NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season |
| 1966 | Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
| 1963 | Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners |
| 1963 | Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville |
| 1963 | Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins |
| 1962 | D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow |
| 1962 | Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show |
| 1960 | Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany |
| 1959 | Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India vs. Australia at Kanpur |
| 1957 | Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service |
| 1956 | Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra |
| 1956 | Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses |
| 1953 | KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, Idaho (CBS) 1st broadcasting |
| 1953 | KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | Harvey, starring James Stewart, premieres in NY |
| 1949 | Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres |
| 1948 | Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia |
| 1946 | Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
| 1945 | Rationg of auto tires ends in US |
| 1944 | Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market |
| 1944 | Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!) |
| 1944 | Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions |
| 1944 | Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London |
| 1943 | International is no longer U.S.S.R. National Anthem |
| 1942 | 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta |
| 1941 | Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon |
| 1941 | Japanese troops lands on Mindanao |
| 1940 | Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000 |
| 1939 | Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service |
| 1938 | Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system |
| 1937 | Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia |
| 1935 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii |
| 1933 | Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire |
| 1932 | Queensland all out 74 vs. Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13 |
| 1930 | Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 minutes WI vs. Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5) |
| 1929 | Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager |
| 1929 | Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park |
| 1928 | 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que |
| 1928 | Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St. New York City |
| 1926 | Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring |
| 1926 | Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy |
| 1926 | Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | Adolf Hitler freed from jail early |
| 1922 | 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1922 | Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president |
| 1921 | AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 |
| 1920 | Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut vs. England SCG |
| 1920 | Bob Hope became an American citizen |
| 1919 | Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM) |
| 1919 | U.S. House of Representatives restricts immigration |
| 1918 | Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in New York City |
| 1917 | Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski |
| 1915 | Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia |
| 1912 | J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in New York City |
| 1912 | Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faote Maroe," premieres in Paris |
| 1907 | Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91 |
| 1906 | Venezuela (under vice-president Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet |
| 1900 | Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft) |
| 1894 | England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket |
| 1893 | 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia |
| 1892 | Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne |
| 1892 | Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, New York |
| 1891 | Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses |
| 1883 | International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls |
| 1880 | Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten |
| 1880 | NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way" |
| 1879 | Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park |
| 1865 | De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens |
| 1862 | Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
| 1862 | Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky |
| 1861 | Battle of Dranesville, VA |
| 1860 | South Carolina votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede |
| 1850 | Hawaiian post office established |
| 1830 | England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium |
| 1823 | Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna |
| 1820 | Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50 |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to U.S. for $27M |
| 1790 | 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI) |
| 1780 | England declares war on Netherlands |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk |
| 1699 | Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1 |
| 1694 | Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben |
| 1688 | Prince Willem III's troops pull into London |
| 1669 | 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery |
| 1661 | Corporation Act enforced in England |
| 1626 | Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg |
| 1606 | Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va |
| 1600 | Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published |
| 1585 | English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen |
| 1448 | Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal |
| 1192 | Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna |
| 1046 | Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI, |
| 1046 | Benedictus IX and Silvester III and names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II |
| 69 | General Vespasianus occupies Rome |
December 20th Birthdays in History | |
| 1990 | Joanna Noelle Levesque, also known as JoJo, American Musician |
| 1974 | Augie Ojeda, born in Los Angeles, California, baseball infielder 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1973 | Barry Stokes, WLAF offensive linesman for the Rhein Fire |
| 1973 | Cory Stillman, Peterborough, NHL center for the Calgary Flames |
| 1973 | Jenny Boucek, WNBA guard for the Cleveland Rockers |
| 1973 | Muadianvita Kazadi, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1972 | Jan Caloun, hockey forward, Team Czechoslovakia, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1972 | Jonathan Wyatt, Lower Hutt New Zealand, 5000m 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Jerry Ellison, NFL running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1970 | Dino Felicetti, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 |
| 1970 | Grant Flower, cricketer, bro of Andy Zimbabwe Test opening batsman |
| 1970 | Jason Simmons, CFL/WLAF defensive tackle, Roughriders, Claymores |
| 1970 | Scott Slutzker, tight end for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1970 | Tony Semple, NFL guard, Detroit Lions |
| 1970 | Travis Green, Castlegar, NHL center for the New York Islanders |
| 1969 | Bobby Phills, NBA guard, Cleveland Cavaliers, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1967 | Duncan Kennedy, Burlington California, luger 1994 Olympics |
| 1967 | Wendy Hamilton, born in Detroit, Michigan, playmate, Dec, 1991 |
| 1966 | Chris Robinson, singer, Black Crowes |
| 1966 | Ed de Goey, Dutch soccer goalie, Feyenoord |
| 1966 | Tim Hauck, NFL safety, Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks |
| 1963 | Karen Moncrieff, Sacramento California, actress, Xtro 3, Days of Our Lives |
| 1963 | Pam Casale, Camden, New Jersey, tennis player, Marco Island finals 1985 |
| 1962 | Thomas Newberry, NFL guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1961 | Bonnie Marino, born in Cleveland, Ohio, playmate, Jun, 1990 |
| 1961 | Gale Gilbert, NFL quarterback for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1961 | Nate Newton, NFL guard for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1960 | Carolyn Seaward, Devonshire England, Miss United Kingdom, 1979 |
| 1960 | John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star |
| 1960 | Piet Keur, Dutch soccer player/trainer, South Carolina Heerenveen, AZ |
| 1959 | David Lutz, NFL guard and tackle, Detroit Lions |
| 1957 | Anita Baker, Ward, born in Detroit, Michigan, vocalist, Rapture |
| 1957 | Billy Bragg, singer and songwriter |
| 1957 | Mike Watt, U.S. bassist, Rockband Firehose |
| 1956 | Blanche Baker, born in New York City, actress/Carroll Baker's Daughter, French Postcard |
| 1955 | Ed Kuepper, German/Australian, singer and songwriter, Saints |
| 1955 | Pierre Bokma, Dutch actor, Avonden, Leedvermaak |
| 1955 | Sammy Mitchell, U.S. programmer, Qedit/TSE/Semware |
| 1954 | Sandra Cisneros, American Author |
| 1952 | Jenny Agutter, born in Taunton, England, actress, Logan's Run, Equus, Amy |
| 1952 | Sergio Vastano, Italian actor, Nightclub, Prete Bello |
| 1949 | Claudia Jennings, Mary Ellen Chestrerton, Minnesota, playmate, Nov, 1969 |
| 1948 | Little Stevie Wright, rocker, Easybeats |
| 1948 | Giuliana Sgrena, Italian Journalist |
| 1948 | Alan Parsons, British Musician |
| 1947 | Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer |
| 1947 | Peter Crisscoula, born in Brooklyn, New York, rocker, Kiss-Beth |
| 1946 | John Spencer, actor, Tommy Mullanney-LA Law |
| 1946 | Patti Smith, singer and songwriter |
| 1946 | Uri Geller, Israel, psychic, bends forks |
| 1946 | Sonny Perdue, American Politician |
| 1946 | Dick Wolf, American Producer |
| 1945 | Tom Tancredo, American Politician |
| 1944 | Robert Colomby, New York City, rock drummer, Blood Sweat and Tears-When I Die |
| 1942 | Robert L. Hayes, born in Jacksonville, Florida, 100m/4x100m runner, 2 Gold Medals 1964 Olympics |
| 1942 | Bob Hayes, American Athlete |
| 1941 | Frank Creton, Suriname/Netherlands painter |
| 1940 | Larry Willis, rock keyboardist, Blood, Sweat and Tears |
| 1939 | Agatha N "Kim" Weston, U.S. gospel/singer, It Takes Two |
| 1939 | Dianne Arndt, artist/photographer |
| 1939 | Klaus Schweizer, composer |
| 1938 | John Harris Harbison, Orange, New Jersey, composer |
| 1935 | Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla, cricketer, 166 on debut Pakistan vs. Australia 1964 |
| 1934 | Gordon Getty, born in San Francisco, California, fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, sold Getty Oil to Texaco, became classical music composer, contributes to the San Francisco Opera |
| 1933 | Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist, world champion, 1961 |
| 1932 | John Hillerman, actor, Magnum PI |
| 1929 | Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia |
| 1928 | Charles Donald Adams, singer |
| 1928 | Jack Christiansen, Kansas, NFL hall of famer defensive back, Lions |
| 1927 | Jim Simpson, sportscaster |
| 1926 | David Levine, U.S. painter |
| 1925 | Bob de Moor, Flemish comic strip artist, Kuifje, Lion of Flanders |
| 1925 | Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mahamad, premier of Malaysia, 1981- |
| 1925 | Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect |
| 1925 | Vlastimir Nikolovski, composer |
| 1924 | Errol John, Port-of-Spain Trinidad, actor, PT-109, Assault on a Queen |
| 1924 | Ingeborg E A "Inge" Beekman, actress, Horizon |
| 1923 | Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist |
| 1922 | Charita Bauer, Newark, New Jersey, actress, Guiding Light, Aldrich Family |
| 1922 | George Roy Hill, dir, Slap Shot, Little Drummer Girl, Little Romance |
| 1920 | Vaino Linna, born in Urjala, Finland, author, wrote Finnish books, Under the North Star translated into English by Richard Impola |
| 1918 | Audrey Totter, Joliet, Illinois, actress, Carpetbaggers, Set-Up |
| 1917 | David Bohm, American Scientist |
| 1916 | Morrie Schwartz, American Educator |
| 1915 | Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey |
| 1911 | Hortense Calisher, New York City, novelist, Arts and Letters 1967 |
| 1909 | Vagn Holmboe, composer |
| 1908 | Giulio Cesare Brero, composer |
| 1908 | Norman Hackforth, broadcaster |
| 1906 | Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6 |
| 1906 | Irving Krick, meteorologist |
| 1906 | Lowell Gilmore, Minnesota, actor, Living Christ Series |
| 1905 | Tiger Bill O'Reilly, cricketer, mighty Australian leg-spinner |
| 1904 | Albert Van Dekker, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dr. Cyclops, Beau Gesture |
| 1904 | Hans Burkhardt, artist |
| 1902 | George EAE, English prince/earl of St. Andrews |
| 1902 | Max Lerner, U.S., columnist, New York Post |
| 1902 | Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher, Paradoxes of Freedom |
| 1901 | Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist, Mobility of Gaseous Ions |
| 1900 | Gabby Harnett, NL MVP 1935 |
| 1899 | John Sparkman, born in Hartselle, Alabama, Senator-D-Alabama 1946 - 1979 |
| 1898 | Irene [Marie] Dunne, Louisville, actress, Show Boat, I Remember Mama |
| 1895 | Susanne Langer, U.S., philosopher/educator, Philosophy in a New Key |
| 1894 | Robert Menzies, Australian PM, 1939-41, 1949-66 |
| 1889 | Bozidar Sirola, composer |
| 1886 | Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer |
| 1886 | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, California, tennis player, U.S. Open 1909-11 |
| 1884 | Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch nazi collaborator/traitor |
| 1881 | Branch Rickey, born in Portsmouth, Ohio, baseball executive, Dodgers |
| 1879 | Ramana Maharshi, Indian Philosopher |
| 1876 | Jan Van Oudshoorn, Jan K Feylbrief, Dutch writer, Maze of Senses |
| 1876 | Walter S. Adams, U.S. astronomer and director of Mount Wilson, 1923 - 1946 |
| 1875 | T F Powys, Wales, writer, Captain Patch, Goat Green |
| 1872 | Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer |
| 1871 | Henry Kimball Hadley, composer |
| 1870 | Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet, Voices, Carmina |
| 1869 | Charley Grapewin, Xenia, Ohio, actor, Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady |
| 1868 | Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road |
| 1868 | Harvey S. Firestone, American Businessman |
| 1867 | Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer |
| 1865 | Maude Gonne, Irish nationalist, Irish Joan of Arc |
| 1860 | Dan Leno, English Comedian |
| 1859 | Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher |
| 1858 | Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop, Dutch painter/graphic artist, 3 Brides |
| 1841 | Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927 |
| 1833 | Samuel A. Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth |
| 1825 | Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army |
| 1819 | John Geary, 1st San Francisco postmaster, 1st mayor, May 1, 1850 |
| 1813 | Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, Gov-Iowa, U.S. Sect of Interior, 1881-82 |
| 1812 | Achille Peri, composer |
| 1809 | Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer |
| 1808 | Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy |
| 1807 | Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1805 | Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry |
| 1786 | Pietro Raimondi, composer |
| 1774 | Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer |
| 1758 | Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer |
| 1729 | Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer |
| 1720 | Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie/Young Pretender] |
| 1659 | Francois Fagel, Dutch lawyer/statesman |
| 1629 | Pieter de Hoogh, Dutch painter |
| 1606 | Christoph Schultze, composer |
| 1594 | Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer |
| 1579 | John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist, Phylaster, baptized |
| 1539 | Paul Melissus, German poet/composer |
December 20th Deaths in History | |
| 2008 | Adrian Mitchell, dies of pneumonia, at 76 |
| 2002 | George Roy Hill, director, The Sting, dies at 80 |
| 1999 | Hank Snow, Canadian Musician |
| 1998 | Adelaide Hawley Cumming, Betty Crocker, dies at 93 |
| 1997 | Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51 |
| 1997 | Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies |
| 1996 | Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62 |
| 1995 | John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State 1961 - 1969, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | David Dean Rusk, American Politician |
| 1993 | Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74 |
| 1993 | W Edwards Deming, U.S. economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93 |
| 1991 | Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies |
| 1991 | Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives and Grows), dies |
| 1991 | Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 |
| 1991 | Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88 |
| 1991 | Stephen Birnbaum, U.S. tourism writer, dies at 54 |
| 1991 | Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 |
| 1991 | Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67 |
| 1989 | Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49 |
| 1984 | Stanley Milgram, American Psychologist |
| 1983 | Bill Brandt, British Photographer |
| 1983 | Mignon McLaughlin, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value', dies in Coral Gables, Florida |
| 1982 | Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95 |
| 1976 | Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Richard J. Daley, American Politician |
| 1975 | Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76 |
| 1975 | William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61 |
| 1974 | Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69 |
| 1973 | Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37 |
| 1973 | Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA |
| 1972 | Gunter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Roy Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78 |
| 1968 | John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66 |
| 1968 | Max Brod, writer, dies at 84 |
| 1965 | Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73 |
| 1963 | Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1962 | Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1962 | Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1961 | Moss Heart, U.S. dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57 |
| 1954 | Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1954 | James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 |
| 1948 | C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85 |
| 1947 | St-Georges de Bouchelier, French author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71 |
| 1944 | Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70 |
| 1942 | Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, dies at 63 |
| 1939 | Hans Langsdorff, German Captain (Graaf Spee), commits suicide |
| 1937 | Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 |
| 1936 | Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid |
| 1929 | Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 |
| 1916 | Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1916 | William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1909 | Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1903 | Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1896 | Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies |
| 1876 | Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US |
| 1875 | Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 |
| 1821 | Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1819 | Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1815 | Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 |
| 1812 | Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis and Clark, dies |
| 1803 | Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman |
| 1799 | David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1798 | Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 |
| 1793 | Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1783 | Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 |
| 1749 | Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies |
| 1738 | Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1679 | Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 |
| 1676 | John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 |
| 1632 | Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed |
| 1590 | Ambroise Pare, French surgeon, dies at 80 |
| 1355 | Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies |
| 1073 | Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies |
| 910 | Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies |
| 69 | Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine and 7th emperor, murdered |
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