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She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. *[[1837]] – [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] succeeds to the British throne. *[[1840]] - [[Samuel Morse]] receives a [[patent]] for the [[telegraph]]. *[[1862]] – [[Barbu Catargiu]] is assassinated in [[Romania]]. *[[1863]] – [[West Virginia]] is admitted as the 35th [[U.S. state]]. *[[1877]] – [[Alexander Graham Bell]] installs world's first commercial [[telephone]] service in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]] [[Ontario]]. *[[1884]] - The [[Pentre Ifan]] [[Neolithic]] site in [[Pembrokeshire]], west [[Wales]], gets the special status of a "Scheduled [[Monument]]". *[[1887]] - [[Victoria Terminus]], the busiest railway station in [[India]], opens in [[Bombay]]. *[[1893]] – [[Lizzie Borden]] is found innocent of murdering her stepmother and father. *[[1895]] - The [[Kiel Canal]], crossing the base of the [[Jutland]] peninsula in Northern [[Germany]], is officially opened. *[[1900]] – In [[China]], the [[Boxer Rebellion]] begins. *[[1919]] – 150 die at the [[Teatro Yaguez]] fire, [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico]]. *[[1921]] - Workers of the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in [[Chennai]], [[India]], begin a four-month strike. *[[1939]] – [[Benny Goodman]]'s ''Song School'' ends its radio series. *[[1940]] - [[World War II]]: [[Italy]] begins *[[1943]] - The [[Detroit]] race riots break out. *[[1944]] - [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of the Philippine Sea]] finishes, with a decisive [[US]] Naval victory. *[[1944]] - Continuation War: The [[Soviet Union]] demands the unconditional surrender of [[Finland]], which the Finnish [[government]] refuses. *[[1945]] - The [[United States Secretary of State]] approves the transfer of [[Wernher von Braun]] and his team of [[Nazi]] [[rocket]] [[scientist]]s to the [[US]]. *[[1948]] – ''Toast of the Town'', later ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', debuts. === 1951 {{ndash}} 2000 === *[[1954]] - [[1954 FIFA World Cup]]: [[West Germany]] loses a group game 8-3 to the [[Hungary national football team]], which they go on to beat 3-2 in the final. *[[1956]] – A [[Venezuelan]] [[Lockheed Constellation|Super-Constellation]] crashed in [[Atlantic Ocean]] off Ashbury Park, [[New Jersey]] killing 74 people *[[1959]] - A rare June [[hurricane]] strikes [[Canada]]'s [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]], killing 35 people. *[[1960]] – Independence of [[Mali]] and [[Senegal]]. *[[1963]] – "Hotline" established between [[Soviet Union]] and [[United States]]. *[[1966]] – [[Canada]] sells 336 million bushels of [[wheat]] to [[Soviet Union]]. *[[1969]] – [[Jacques Chaban-Delmas]] becomes Prime Minister of [[France]]. *[[1973]] - Ezeiza massacre in [[Buenos Aires]] - Snipers fire on left-wing [[Peronist]]s, killing 13 people. *[[1976]] - The [[Czechoslovakia national football team]] defeats the [[West Germany national football team]] to win [[UEFA Euro 1976]]. *[[1977]] - [[Menachem Begin]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Israel]]. *[[1977]] – Oil begins to flow through the [[Trans-Alaska Pipeline System]] (TAPS). *[[1979]] - [[ABC News]] correspondent [[Bill Stewart]] is shot dead by a [[Nicaragua]]n soldier under the regime of [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]]. *[[1980]] – [[Roberto Duran]] starts his classic [[boxing]] trilogy with [[Sugar Ray Leonard]] by defeating him in [[Canada]] by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the [[WBC]] world Welterweight championship. *[[1981]] – [[Iran]] is taken over by what is now known as the Islamic Republic of Iran after two and a half years of intimidation. *[[1982]] - [[Jacky Ickx]] wins the 24-hour motor race at [[Le Mans]], [[France]]. *[[1990]] – [[Asteroid]] [[5261 Eureka|Eureka]] is discovered. *[[1991]] – [[Germany|German]] parliament decides to move the [[capital city]] from [[Bonn]] back to [[Berlin]]. *[[1992]] - [[Estonia]] takes the [[Kroon]] as its national [[currency]]. *[[1994]] - In [[Mashad]], [[Iran]], a [[bomb]] attack on a [[mosque]] kills 26 people and injures 80. *[[1995]] - In [[Kenya]] the ''Safina'' political party is founded by [[Richard Leakey]] and opposition activists. === From 2001 === *[[2001]] – [[Pervez Musharraf]] becomes [[President]] of [[Pakistan]] *[[2001]] – [[Andrea Yates]] drowns her children in a bathtub and admits the crime. She was later sentenced to life in [[prison]]. *[[2003]] – Formation of [[Wikimedia Foundation]] is announced. *[[2009]] – In [[Tehran]], student [[Neda Agha-Soltan]] is shot dead. As it happened during post-election protests, she becomes a symbol of the [[Iran]]ian opposition. *[[2010]] - [[Juan Manuel Santos]] is elected [[President]] of [[Colombia]]. *[[2012]] - [[Antonis Samaras]] becomes [[Prime Minister]] of [[Greece]], after a second election in the space of six weeks, during the country's economic crisis. *[[2013]] - At 1 p.m., the 3-hour PSI reading in Singapore reached record levels once again with a reading of 371 in the ''Hazardous'' range, as Singapore experienced its worst haze to date.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/haze-reaches-hazardous/717772.html | title=Haze reaches hazardous level; PSI hits 371 | publisher=Channel NewsAsia | date=20 June 2013 | accessdate=20 June 2013 | archive-date=22 August 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822084746/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/haze-reaches-hazardous/717772.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[2014]] - [[2014 FIFA World Cup]]: [[Costa Rica national football team|Costa Rica]] secures a place in the second round after beating [[Italy national football team|Italy]] 1-0, from a group also containing [[England]] and [[Uruguay]]. It is one of the surprises of the tournament. *[[2019]] - [[Iran]] shoots down a US [[surveillance]] [[drone]] over the [[Strait of Hormuz]]; US President [[Donald Trump]] later admits to having ordered a strike on [[Iran]] which he later cancelled. *[[2019]] - [[Boris Johnson]] and [[Jeremy Hunt]] become the final two candidates for the leadership of the British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the post of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. == Births == === Up to 1900 === * [[1005]] - [[Ali az-Zahir]], Egyptian [[caliph]] (d. [[1036]]) * [[1389]] - [[John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford]] (d. [[1435]]) * [[1469]] - [[Gian Galeazzo Sforza]], consort of [[Isabella of Naples]] (d. [[1496]]) * [[1566]] – [[Sigismund III Vasa]], King of [[Poland]] and [[Sweden]] (d. [[1632]]) * [[1583]] - [[Jacob De la Gardie]], Swedish [[soldier]] and [[statesman]] (d. [[1652]]) * [[1634]] - [[Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy]] (d. [[1675]]) * [[1642]] - [[George Hickes]], English [[theologian]] and [[writer]] (d. [[1715]]) * [[1647]] - [[John George III, Elector of Saxony]] (d. [[1691]]) * [[1717]] - [[Jacques Saly]], French [[sculptor]] (d. [[1776]]) * [[1723]] – [[Adam Ferguson]], Scottish [[philosopher]] and historian (d. [[1816]]) * [[1737]] - [[Tokugawa Ieharu]], Japanese [[shogun]] (d. [[1786]]) * [[1753]] - [[Antoine de Rivarol]], French writer (d. [[1801]]) * [[1754]] - [[Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (d. [[1832]]) * [[1756]] - [[Joseph Martin Kraus]], German composer (d. [[1792]]) * [[1760]] - [[Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley]], British [[statesman]] (d. [[1842]]) * [[1763]] - [[Wolfe Tone]], Irish [[lawyer]] and independence campaigner (d. [[1798]]) * [[1771]] - [[Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk]], Scottish philanthropist (d. [[1820]]) * [[1778]] - [[Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac]], French [[statesman]] (d. [[1832]]) * [[1786]] - [[Marceline Desbordes-Valmore]], French writer (d. [[1859]]) * [[1819]] – [[Jacques Offenbach]], German-French composer (d. [[1880]]) * [[1832]] - [[Benjamin Bristow]], American politician (d. [[1896]]) * [[1833]] - [[Leon Bonnat]], French painter (d. [[1922]]) * [[1858]] – [[Charles W. Chesnutt]], American writer (d. [[1932]]) * [[1860]] - [[Alexander Winton]], Scottish [[automobile]] designer and racer (d. [[1932]]) * [[1860]] - [[Jack Worrall]], Australian [[cricket]]er and [[footballer]] (d. [[1932]]) * [[1861]] – [[Frederick Gowland Hopkins]], [[England|English]] [[chemist]], won the 1929 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1947]]) * [[1862]] - [[Marco Praga]], Italian [[playwright]] (d. [[1929]]) * [[1869]] - [[Lucy Kemp-Welch]], English painter (d. [[1958]]) * [[1872]] - [[George Carpenter]], 5th [[General officer|General]] of the [[Salvation Army]] (d. [[1948]]) * [[1875]] - [[Reginald Punnett]], British [[geneticist]] (d. [[1967]]) * [[1884]] - [[Johannes Heinrich Schultz]], German [[Psychiatry|psychiatrist]] (d. [[1970]]) * [[1887]] - [[Kurt Schwitters]], German painter and writer (d. [[1948]]) * [[1889]] - [[John S. Paraskevopoulos]], Greek-South African [[astronomer]] (d. [[1951]]) * [[1891]] – [[John A. Costello]], Irish [[Taoiseach]] (d. [[1976]]) * [[1891]] - [[Giannina Arangi-Lombardi]], Italian [[soprano]] (d. [[1951]]) * [[1896]] - [[Wilfrid Pelletier]], Canadian [[conductor (music)|conductor]], [[pianist]], [[composer]] and [[arts]] administrator (d. [[1982]]) * [[1897]] – [[Elisabeth Hauptmann]], German writer (d. [[1973]]) * [[1897]] - [[Jimmy Driftwood]], American folk musician and [[songwriter]] (d. [[1998]]) * [[1899]] - [[Jean Moulin]], French resistance leader (d. [[1943]]) === 1901 {{ndash}} 1950 === * [[1902]] - [[Juan Evaristo]], Argentine [[footballer]] (d. [[1978]]) * [[1905]] – [[Lillian Hellman]], American [[playwright]] (d. [[1984]]) * [[1906]] - [[Bob King (athlete)|Bob King]], American high jumper (d. [[1965]]) * [[1907]] - [[Jimmy Driftwood]], American [[singer-songwriter]] and [[banjo]] player (d. [[1998]]) * [[1909]] – [[Errol Flynn]], Australian-American actor (d. [[1959]]) * [[1913]] – [[Lilian Jackson Braun]], American writer (d. [[2011]]) * [[1913]] - [[Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona]], Spanish royal, father of King [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]] (d. [[1993]]) * [[1915]] - [[Terence Young]], British [[screenwriter]] and [[Movie director|director]] (d. [[1994]]) * [[1916]] - [[Jean-Jacques Bertrand]], 21st [[Premier]] of [[Quebec]] (d. [[1973]]) * [[1917]] - [[Helena Rasiowa]], Polish [[mathematician]] (d. [[1994]]) * [[1920]] - [[Man Mohan Adhikari]], [[Nepal]]ese politician (d. [[1999]]) * [[1920]] - [[Eduardo Mondlane]], [[Mozambique|Mozambican]] political activist (d. [[1969]]) * [[1923]] - [[Jerzy Nowak]], Polish actor (d. [[2013]]) * [[1923]] - [[Peter Gay]], German-American [[historian]], educator and [[writer]] (d. [[2015]]) * [[1924]] – [[Chet Atkins]], American [[guitarist]] and producer (d. [[2001]]) * [[1924]] – [[Fritz Koenig]], German [[sculptor]] (d. [[2017]]) * [[1924]] - [[Rainer Barzel]], German politician (d. [[2006]]) * [[1925]] - [[Audie Murphy]], American [[soldier]], [[actor]] and [[songwriter]] (d. [[1971]]) * [[1925]] - [[Doris Hart]], American [[tennis]] player (d. [[2015]]) * [[1926]] - [[Giovanni Viola]], Italian [[footballer]] (d. [[2008]]) * [[1927]] - [[Simin Behbahani]], [[Iran]]ian [[poet]] (d. [[2014]]) * [[1927]] – [[Josef Posipal]], German [[footballer]] and manager (d. [[1997]]) * [[1928]] – [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]], French far-right politician * [[1928]] – [[Martin Landau]], American actor (d. [[2017]]) * [[1928]] - [[Eric Dolphy]], American [[jazz]] musician (d. [[1964]]) * [[1929]] - [[Edgar Bronfman, Sr.]], Canadian-American businessman (d. [[2013]]) * [[1929]] - [[Edith Windsor]], American LGBT rights activist ad technological manager at IBM (d. [[2017]]) * [[1930]] - [[Magdalena Abakanowicz]], Polish [[sculptor]] and [[artist]] (d. [[2017]]) * [[1931]] – [[Olympia Dukakis]], American [[actress]] (d. [[2021]]) * [[1932]] - [[Robert Rozhdestvensky]], Russian [[poet]] (d. [[1994]]) * [[1933]] - [[Danny Aiello]], American actor * [[1933]] - [[Dai Dower]], Welsh boxer (d. [[2016]]) * [[1933]] - [[Brett Halsey]], American actor * [[1934]] - [[Sergio Balanzino]], Italian [[diplomat]], former Secretary-General of [[NATO]]. * [[1934]] - [[Graham Leggat]], Scottish [[footballer]] * [[1934]] - [[Wendy Craig]], English actress * [[1935]] - [[Armando Picchi]], Italian [[footballer]] (d. [[1971]]) * [[1936]] - [[Billy Guy]], American singer (d. [[2002]]) * [[1937]] - [[Phil Skoglund]], New Zealand lawn bowls player (d. [[2015]]) * [[1938]] - [[Joan Kirner]], Australian politician, 42nd [[Premier]] of [[Victoria (Australian state)|Victoria]] (d. [[2015]]) * [[1939]] - [[Konrad Spindler]], German prehistorian (d. [[2005]]) * [[1940]] - [[John Mahoney]], English-American actor (d. [[2018]]) * [[1941]] - [[Stephen Frears]], British [[actor]], [[Movie director|director]], [[producer]] * [[1941]] - [[Ulf Merbold]], German [[physicist]] and [[astronaut]] * [[1942]] – [[Brian Wilson]], American musician ([[The Beach Boys]]) * [[1945]] – [[Anne Murray]], Canadian singer * [[1945]] - [[Jean-Claude Izzo]], French writer (d. [[2000]]) * [[1945]] - [[Shekhar Mehta]], Kenyan rally driver (d. [[2006]]) * [[1946]] - [[Lars Vilks]], Swedish [[sculptor]], [[artist]] and [[activist]] * [[1946]] – [[Xanana Gusmao]], former [[President]] of [[East Timor]] * [[1948]] – [[Ludwig Scotty]], former [[President]] of [[Nauru]] * [[1948]] - [[Cirilo Flores]], American [[bishop]] (d. [[2014]]) * [[1948]] - [[Alan Longmuir]], Scottish musician and actor ([[Bay City Rollers]]) (d. [[2018]]) * [[1949]] - [[Lionel Richie]], [[United States|American]] [[singer]] and [[musician]] * [[1950]] – [[Nouri al-Maliki]], [[Prime Minister]] of [[Iraq]] === 1951 {{ndash}} 1975 === * [[1951]] – [[Tress MacNeille]], American voice actress * [[1952]] – [[John Goodman]], American actor * [[1952]] – [[Vikram Seth]], Indian [[poet]] * [[1952]] - [[Larry Riley]], American actor * [[1952]] - [[Mabel Rivera]], Spanish [[actress]] * [[1953]] - [[Ulrich Mühe]], German actor (d. [[2007]]) * [[1954]] – [[Michael Anthony]], American musician ([[Van Halen]]) * [[1954]] - [[Allan Lamb]], South African-English [[cricket]]er * [[1954]] - [[Ilan Ramon]], Israeli [[astronaut]] (d. [[2003]]) * [[1958]] - [[Barbara Rosenkranz]], Austrian politician * [[1958]] - [[Chuck Wagner]], American actor * [[1959]] – [[Chris Williams (actor)|Chris Williams]], African-American actor * [[1960]] – [[John Taylor]], British musician ("[[Duran Duran]]") * [[1963]] - [[José Basualdo]], Argentine [[footballer]] * [[1964]] - [[Pierfrancesco Chili]], Italian [[motorcycle]] racer * [[1964]] - [[Silke Möller]], German athlete * [[1966]] - [[Boaz Yakin]], American [[screenwriter]] and [[Movie director|director]] * [[1967]] – [[Nicole Kidman]], Australian actress * [[1967]] - [[Angela Melillo]], Italian actress, model, singer and television personality * [[1968]] - [[Mateusz Morawiecki]], Polish politician, [[Prime minister]] of [[Poland]] * [[1969]] - [[Paulo Bento]], Portuguese [[footballer]] and manager * [[1970]] – [[Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco|Prince Moulay Rachid]] of [[Morocco]] * [[1970]] - [[Andrea Nahles]], German politician * [[1971]] - [[Josh Lucas]], American actor * [[1971]] - [[Jeordie White]], American musician * [[1972]] - [[Craig Thomson (referee)|Craig Thomson]], Scottish football referee * [[1973]] - [[Chino Moreno]], American [[singer-songwriter]] and [[musician]] === From 1976 === * [[1976]] – [[Juliano Belletti]], Brazilian footballer * [[1978]] – [[Frank Lampard]], English [[footballer]] * [[1978]] - [[Quinton Jackson]], American mixed martial artist and actor * [[1979]] - [[Masashi Motoyama]], Japanese [[footballer]] * [[1980]] – [[Carlo Festuccia]], Italian [[Rugby football|rugby]] player * [[1980]] - [[Vignir Svavarsson]], Icelandic [[handball]] player * [[1981]] - [[Brede Hangeland]], Norwegian [[footballer]] * [[1982]] – [[Aleksei Berezutski]], Russian footballer * [[1982]] – [[Vasili Berezutski]], Russian footballer * [[1982]] – [[Example (rapper)|Example]], English rapper * [[1982]] - [[George Forsyth]], [[Peru]]vian [[footballer]] * [[1983]] - [[Josh Childress]], American [[basketball]] player * [[1984]] - [[Hassan Adams]], American [[basketball]] player * [[1985]] - [[Souleymane Mamam]], [[Togo]]lese [[footballer]] * [[1986]] - [[Luca Cigarini]], Italian [[footballer]] * [[1987]] – [[Itumeleng Khune]], South African footballer * [[1987]] - [[Alexey Korolev]], Kazakhstani ski jumper * [[1987]] – [[Paweł Rogaliński]], Polish journalist * [[1987]] - [[Asmir Begovic]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [[footballer]] * [[1988]] - [[Shefali Chowdhury]], British [[actress]] * [[1989]] – [[Javier Pastore]], Argentine footballer * [[1989]] - [[Christopher Mintz-Plasse]], American actor * [[1990]] - [[Ding Ning]], Chinese [[table tennis]] player * [[1990]] - [[Iselin Solheim]], Norwegian singer * [[1991]] - [[Rick ten Voorde]], Dutch [[footballer]] * [[1993]] - [[Sead Kolasinac]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [[footballer]] * [[1996]] - [[Majid Hosseini]], Iranian [[footballer]] * [[1997]] - [[Maria Lark]], Russian-American actress * [[1997]] - [[Jordan Larsson]], Swedish [[footballer]] * [[1998]] - [[Jadin Gould]], American actress * [[1999]] - [[Yui Mizuno]], Japanese [[singer]] and [[Model (person)|model]] == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === *[[451]] – [[Theodorid]], [[Visigoths#Kings_of_the_Visigoths|King of the Visigoths]] *[[537]] - [[Pope Silverius]] *[[840]] – [[Louis the Pious]], King of the Franks, Emperor of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] (b. [[778]]) *[[1176]] - [[Mikhail of Vladimir]] *[[1597]] – [[Willem Barentsz]], navigator (b. [[1550]]) *[[1605]] – [[Tsar]] [[Feodor II of Russia]] (b. [[1589]]) *[[1668]] - [[Heinrich Roth]], German scholar (b. [[1620]]) *[[1776]] - [[Benjamin Huntsman]], English [[inventor]] and manufacturer (b. [[1704]]) *[[1787]] – [[Karl Friedrich Abel]], German composer *[[1810]] - [[Axel von Fersen the Younger]], Swedish [[statesman]] (b. [[1755]]) *[[1820]] – [[Manuel Belgrano]], Argentine lawyer and politician (b. [[1770]]) *[[1837]] – King [[William IV of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1765]]) *[[1840]] - [[Pierre Claude Francois Daunou]], French [[statesman]] (b. [[1761]]) *[[1847]] - [[Juan Larrea]], Argentine politician and businessman (b. [[1782]]) *[[1862]] - [[Barbu Catargiu]], Romanian politician (b. [[1807]]) *[[1869]] - [[Hijikata Toshizo]], Japanese [[military]] leader (b. [[1835]]) *[[1870]] - [[Jules de Goncourt]], French [[writer]] (b. [[1830]]) *[[1888]] – [[Johannes Zukertort]], German [[chess]] player (b. [[1847]]) *[[1891]] - [[Mihail Kogalniceanu]], Romanian [[historian]], [[writer]] and [[journalist]] (b. [[1817]]) === 1901 {{ndash}} 2000 === *[[1909]] - [[Friedrich Martens]], [[Estonia]]n-[[Russia]]n [[diplomat]], [[lawyer]] and [[historian]] (b. [[1845]]) *[[1925]] - [[Josef Breuer]], Austrian [[Psychology|psychologist]] (b. [[1842]]) *[[1929]] - [[Emmanuel Benakis]], Greek merchant and politician (b. [[1843]]) *[[1933]] – [[Clara Zetkin]], German politician and [[Feminism|feminist]] (b. [[1857]]) *[[1940]] - [[Jehan Alain]], French [[organist]] and [[composer]] (b. [[1911]]) *[[1945]] – [[Bruno Frank]], German writer (b. [[1878]]) *[[1945]] - [[Luis Fernando de Orleans y Borbon]], Spanish prince (b. [[1888]]) *[[1946]] - [[Wan Rong]], last Empress of [[China]] (b. [[1906]]) *[[1947]] – [[Bugsy Siegel]], American gangster (b. [[1906]]) *[[1947]] - [[Howard Mason Gore]], 17th [[Governor]] of [[West Virginia]] (b. [[1877]]) *[[1952]] - [[Luigi Fagioli]], Italian racing driver (b. [[1898]]) *[[1958]] – [[Kurt Alder]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]]) *[[1965]] - [[Bernard Baruch]], American financier and politician (b. [[1870]]) *[[1966]] – [[Georges Lemaitre]], Belgian [[theologian]] and [[astrophysics|astrophysicist]] (b. [[1894]]) *[[1976]] - [[Lou Klein]], American [[baseball]] player (b. [[1918]]) *[[1979]] - [[Bill Stewart]], American [[journalist]] (b. [[1941]]) *[[1995]] – [[Emil Cioran]], Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (b. [[1911]]) *[[1997]] - [[Lawrence Payton]], American [[singer-songwriter]] and [[producer]] (b. [[1938]]) *[[1998]] – [[Conrad Schumann]], East German borderguard, most famous escapee from [[East Germany]] (b. [[1942]]) *[[1999]] – [[Clifton Fadiman]], writer (b. [[1902]]) === From 2001 === *[[2001]] - [[Gina Cigna]], Italian-French [[opera]] singer and dramatic [[soprano]] (b. [[1900]]) *[[2002]] – [[Erwin Chargaff]], Austrian biochemist (b. [[1905]]) *[[2002]] – [[Tinus Osendarp]], Dutch sprinter (b. [[1916]]) *[[2003]] – [[Bob Stump]], U.S. Congressman from Arizona (b. [[1927]]) *[[2005]] – [[Jack Kilby]], American electrical engineer (b. [[1923]]) *[[2009]] – [[Neda Agha-Soltan]], Iranian student (shot), symbol of the resistance to [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] (b. [[1982]]) *[[2010]] – [[Roberto Rosato]], Italian [[footballer]] (b. [[1943]]) *[[2011]] – [[Ryan Dunn]], American television star and [[stuntman]] (b. [[1977]]) *[[2012]] - [[Judy Agnew]], wife of [[Spiro Agnew]] (b. [[1920]]) *[[2013]] - [[Ingvar Rydell]], Swedish [[footballer]] (b. [[1922]]) *[[2014]] - [[Oberdan Cattani]], Brazilian [[footballer]] (b. [[1919]]) *[[2014]] - [[Jaroslav Walter]], Czech [[ice hockey]] player (b. [[1939]]) *[[2015]] - [[Elson Floyd]], American educator (b. [[1956]]) *[[2015]] - [[Angelo Niculescu]], Romanian football manager (b. [[1921]]) *[[2015]] - [[Takanonami Sadahiro]], Japanese [[sumo]] wrestler (b. [[1971]]) *[[2015]] - [[François Delapierre]], French [[politician]] (b. [[1970]]) *[[2015]] - [[Esther Brand]], South African athlete (b. [[1922]]) *[[2015]] - [[William Brantley Aycock]], American educator (b. [[1915]]) *[[2016]] - [[Frank Chapot]], American [[Equestrianism|equestrian]] (b. [[1932]]) *[[2016]] - [[Rich Olive]], American politician (b. [[1949]]) *[[2016]] - [[Ernesto Maceda]], Filipino politician (b. [[1935]]) *[[2016]] - [[Edgard Pisani]], French politician (b. [[1918]]) *[[2016]] - [[Chayito Valdez]], Mexican-American folk singer and actress (b. [[1945]]) *[[2017]] - [[Sergei Mylnikov]], Russian [[ice hockey]] player (b. [[1958]]) *[[2017]] - [[Prodigy (rapper)|Prodigy]], American [[rapper]] (b. [[1974]]) *[[2017]] - [[Fredrik Skagen]], Norwegian writer (b. [[1936]]) *[[2018]] - [[Ken Albiston]], Australian rules football player (b. [[1926]]) *[[2018]] - [[Dante Caputo]], Argentine politician (b. [[1943]]) *[[2018]] - [[Peter Thomson (golfer)|Peter Thomson]], Australian golfer (b. [[1929]]) *[[2018]] - [[Bill Hendon]], American activist, writer and politician (b. [[1944]]) *[[2018]] - [[Ernie Hunt]], English [[footballer]] (b. [[1943]]) *[[2018]] - [[Sándor Kányádi]], Hungarian poet and translator (b. [[1929]]) *[[2018]] - [[Bill Speakman]], British soldier (b. [[1927]]) *[[2019]] - [[Eddie Garcia]], Filipino actor, director and television personality (b. [[1929]]) *[[2019]] - [[Rubén Suñé]], Argentine [[footballer]] (b. [[1947]]) *[[2019]] - [[Mark Warawa]], Canadian politician (b. 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