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12/26/77 = 136,787 people reported dead on that day. http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/death?dob=1977-12-26


Unusual Deaths in 1977
  • Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce's car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.
Natural disasters in 1977
  • 1977 Bucharest earthquake
  • Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
  • Independence Day Derecho of 1977
  • 1977 San Juan earthquake
People who died on December 26 (various years)
  • 2006 - Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier
  • 2006 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
  • 2005 - Erich Topp, German submarine commander
  • 2005 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor
  • 2005 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman
  • 2005 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano
  • 2005 - Jane Creba, Canadian murder victim
  • 2004 - Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum
  • 2004 - Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon
  • 2004 - Reggie White, American football player
  • 2004 - Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician
  • 2004 - Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent
  • 2004 - Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator
  • 2004 - Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer
  • 2003 - Alan Bates, British actor
  • 2002 - Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer
  • 2002 - Herb Ritts, American photographer
  • 2001 - Nigel Hawthorne, English actor
  • 2000 - Jason Robards, American actor
  • 1999 - Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India
  • 1999 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician
  • 1997 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist
  • 1996 - JonBenét Ramsey, American murder victim
  • 1992 - Nikita Magaloff, Russian pianist
  • 1989 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1988 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman
  • 1986 - Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress
  • 1985 - Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist
  • 1983 - Violet Carson, British actress
  • 1981 - Amber Reeves, feminist writer
  • 1981 - Savithri, Indian actress
  • 1980 - Tony Smith, American sculptor
  • 1974 - Jack Benny, American comedian
  • 1973 - Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • 1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
  • 1970 - Lillian Board, British athlete
  • 1963 - George Wagner, American professional wrestler and television personality
  • 1960 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher
  • 1957 - Charles Pathé, French film and recording industries pioneer
  • 1933 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician
  • 1931 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification
  • 1909 - Frederic Remington, American artist
  • 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
  • 1869 - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist
  • 1786 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist
  • 1784 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader
  • 1780 - John Fothergill, English physician
  • 1771 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher
  • 1731 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer
  • 1624 - Simon Marius, German astronomer
  • 1574 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal
  • 1530 - Babur, Emperor of the Mogul empire
  • 1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan
  • 1458 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany
  • 1350 - Jean de Marigny, French bishop
  • 418 - Pope Zosimus
  • 268 - Pope Dionysius
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Approximately 143,836 people died worldwide on October 18, 1986.


Unusual Deaths in 1986

  • While on the air giving a traffic report, the helicopter that jane dornacker was riding in stalled and crashed into the hudson river, killing her. this was the second helicopter crash she had been in that year.
Natural disasters in 1986

  • Great San Salvador Earthquake
  • Lake Nyos
  • Winisk Flood, 1986
People who died on October 18 (various years)

  • 2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist
  • 2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda
  • 2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer
  • 2005 - John Hollis, British actor
  • 2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler
  • 2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer
  • 2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas
  • 2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer
  • 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut
  • 2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
  • 2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress
  • 2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress
  • 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet
  • 1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor
  • 1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist
  • 1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player
  • 1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
  • 1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician
  • 1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director
  • 1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States
  • 1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky
  • Jan-Carl Raspe
  • Gudrun Ensslin
  • 1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides Andreas Baader
  • 1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer
  • 1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor
  • 1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher
  • 1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher
  • 1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart)
  • 1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman
  • 1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress
  • 1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete
  • 1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal
  • 1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter
  • 1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast
  • 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor
  • 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria
  • 1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist
  • 1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer
  • 1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor
  • 1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
  • 1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor
  • 1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer
  • 1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian
  • 1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier
  • 1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain
  • 1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist
  • 1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter
  • 1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • 1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary
  • 1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman
  • 1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil
  • 1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician
  • 1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
  • 1545 - John Taverner, English composer
  • 1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland
  • 1503 - Pope Pius III
  • 1417 - Pope Gregory XII
  • 1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
  • 1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France
  • 1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
  • 707 - Pope John VII
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Unusual Deaths in 1986

  • While on the air giving a traffic report, the helicopter that jane dornacker was riding in stalled and crashed into the hudson river, killing her. this was the second helicopter crash she had been in that year.
Natural disasters in 1986

  • Great San Salvador Earthquake
  • Lake Nyos
  • Winisk Flood, 1986
People who died on April 25 (various years)

  • 2007 - Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer
  • 2007 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter
  • 2007 - Alan Ball, English footballer
  • 2006 - Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist
  • 2005 - Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk
  • 2004 - Thom Gunn, British poet
  • 2003 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
  • 2002 - Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC)
  • 2002 - Indra Devi, yoga teacher
  • 2001 - Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver
  • 2000 - Lucien le Cam, French mathematician
  • 2000 - David Merrick, American theatrical producer
  • 1999 - Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president
  • 1998 - Wright Morris, American writer
  • 1996 - Saul Bass, American graphics designer
  • 1995 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer
  • 1995 - Art Fleming, American game show host
  • 1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter
  • 1990 - Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist
  • 1982 - John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal
  • 1980 - Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann
  • 1976 - Carol Reed, British film producer and director
  • 1975 - Mike Brant, Israeli singer
  • 1972 - George Sanders, British actor
  • 1968 - John Tewksbury, American athlete
  • 1944 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player
  • 1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director
  • 1937 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b.1857)
  • 1928 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary
  • 1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician
  • 1915 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State
  • 1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist
  • 1892 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer
  • 1891 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist
  • 1878 - Anna Sewell, English author
  • 1843 - Edward Drummond, British civil servant
  • 1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician
  • 1800 - William Cowper, English poet
  • 1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist
  • 1744 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer
  • 1740 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, an outstanding General and Peshwa
  • 1690 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist
  • 1660 - Henry Hammond, English churchman
  • 1644 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China
  • 1605 - Naresuan, King of Siam
  • 1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet
  • 1566 - Louise Labé, French poet
  • 1566 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France
  • 1516 - John Yonge, English diplomat
  • 1472 - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher
  • 1295 - King Sancho IV of Castile
  • 1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
  • 1185 - Emperor Antoku of Japan
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Approximately 142,812 people died worldwide on July 08, 1985.


Natural disasters in 1985
  • Armero tragedy
  • Hurricane Gloria
  • 1985 Mendoza earthquake
  • 1985 Mexico City earthquake
  • Nevado del Ruiz
  • Tropical Storm Isabel (1985)
  • United States-Canadian Outbreak
People who died on July 08 (various years)

  • 2006 - Sabine Dünser, lead singer for band Elis
  • 2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor
  • 2006 - June Allyson, American actress
  • 2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor
  • 2004 - Paula Danziger, American author
  • 2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator
  • 2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director
  • 1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut
  • 1994 - Dick Sargent, American actor
  • 1994 - Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader
  • 1991 - James Franciscus, American actor
  • 1990 - Howard Duff, American actor
  • 1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete
  • 1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician
  • 1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet
  • 1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player
  • 1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player
  • 1979 - Michael Wilding, English actor
  • 1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate
  • 1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
  • 1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer
  • 1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player
  • 1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress
  • 1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation
  • 1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States
  • 1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist
  • 1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher
  • 1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader
  • 1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist
  • 1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician
  • 1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
  • 1933 - Anthony Hope, British author
  • 1930 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • 1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter
  • 1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer
  • 1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician
  • 1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist
  • 1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist
  • 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway
  • 1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer
  • 1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge
  • 1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman
  • 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
  • 1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist
  • 1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy
  • 1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University
  • 1716 - Robert South, English churchman
  • 1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
  • 1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer
  • 1623 - Pope Gregory XV
  • 1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer
  • 1153 - Pope Eugene III
  • 975 - King Edgar of England
  • 810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
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Approximately 145,918 people died worldwide on May 26, 1989.

People who died on May 26, 1989 (the exact day you were born)
  • Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager
Natural disasters in 1989
  • Hurricane Hugo
  • Loma Prieta earthquake
  • 1989 Newcastle earthquake
People who died on May 26 (various years)
  • 2007 - J Edward Oliver, catoonist and composer
  • 2006 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician
  • 2006 - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin
  • 2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor
  • 2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer
  • 2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer
  • 2003 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer
  • 2002 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner
  • 2001 - Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe
  • 2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver
  • 1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor
  • 1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor
  • 1995 - Friz Freleng, American animator
  • 1979 - George Brent, British actor
  • 1978 - Cybele, Greek actress
  • 1977 - William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays)
  • 1976 - Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared."
  • 1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
  • 1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver
  • 1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver
  • 1968 - Little Willie John, American singer
  • 1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver
  • 1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete
  • 1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist
  • 1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician
  • 1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive
  • 1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic)
  • 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer
  • 1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician
  • 1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter
  • 1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer
  • 1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam
  • 1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States
  • 1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist
  • 1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor
  • 1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer
  • 1883 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader
  • 1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist
  • 1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral
  • 1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot
  • 1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer
  • 1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge
  • 1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher
  • 1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist
  • 1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine
  • 1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria
  • 1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer
  • 1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet
  • 1647 - Alse Young, American "witch"
  • 1595 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman
  • 1536 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet
  • 1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
  • 1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan
  • 1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria
  • 946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
  • 818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
  • 604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Approximately 139,408 people died worldwide on April 06, 1981.



Unusual Deaths in 1981

  • A 25-year-old dutch woman studying in paris, ren�e hartevelt, was killed and eaten by a classmate, issei sagawa, when he invited her to dinner for a literary conversation. the killer was declared unfit to stand trial and extradited back to japan, where he was released from custody within fifteen months.
  • Carl mccunn, in march 1981, paid a bush pilot to drop him at a remote lake near the coleen river in alaska to photograph wildlife, but had not arranged for the pilot to pick him up again in august. rather than starve, mccunn shot himself in the head. his body was found in february 1982.
  • Boris sagal, a motion picture-director, died while shooting the tv miniseries world war iii when he walked into the tail-rotor blade of a helicopter and was decapitated.
People who died on April 06 (various years)
  • 2006 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach
  • 2005 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
  • 2004 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets)
  • 2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident
  • 2003 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure
  • 2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer
  • 2003 - David Bloom, American reporter
  • 2000 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician
  • 1999 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist
  • 1998 - Tammy Wynette, American singer
  • 1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics)
  • 1996 - Greer Garson, Irish actress
  • 1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician
  • 1994 - Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician
  • 1992 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author
  • 1976 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter
  • 1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895)
  • 1974 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect
  • 1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer
  • 1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player
  • 1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer
  • 1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer
  • 1961 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet
  • 1935 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet
  • 1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer
  • 1906 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author
  • 1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician
  • 1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general
  • 1838 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist
  • 1829 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
  • 1825 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter
  • 1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian
  • 1707 - Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter
  • 1686 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman
  • 1655 - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman
  • 1605 - John Stow, English historian
  • 1590 - Francis Walsingham, English spymaster
  • 1571 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
  • 1551 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist
  • 1528 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist
  • 1520 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect
  • 1490 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
  • 1362 - James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier
  • 1199 - Pierre Basile, French soldier
  • 1199 - King Richard I of England
  • 1147 - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia
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Unusual Deaths in 1986

  • While on the air giving a traffic report, the helicopter that jane dornacker was riding in stalled and crashed into the hudson river, killing her. this was the second helicopter crash she had been in that year.
Natural disasters in 1986

  • Great San Salvador Earthquake
  • Lake Nyos
  • Winisk Flood, 1986
People who died on August 01 (various years)

  • 2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer
  • 2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist
  • 2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist
  • 2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist
  • 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter
  • 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
  • 2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist
  • 2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
  • 2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress
  • 2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach
  • 2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player
  • 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer
  • 1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress
  • 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist
  • 1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker
  • 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
  • 1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer
  • 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer
  • 1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist
  • 1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist
  • 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer
  • 1980 - Strother Martin, American actor
  • 1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver
  • 1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot
  • 1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal
  • 1973 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman
  • 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer
  • 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate
  • 1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress
  • 1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
  • 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police)
  • 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer
  • 1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer
  • 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader
  • 1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger
  • 1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched)
  • 1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman
  • 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
  • 1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer
  • 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle)
  • 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle)
  • 1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer
  • 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order
  • 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain
  • 1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
  • 1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France
  • 1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat
  • 1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer
  • 1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian
  • 1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
  • 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence
  • 1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
  • 1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England
  • 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord
  • 1137 - King Louis VI of France
  • 527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)
  • 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
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Natural disasters in 1979

  • Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado
People who died on January 15 (various years)

  • 2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope
  • 2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player
  • 2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician
  • 2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
  • 2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
  • 2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
  • 2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress
  • 2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator
  • 2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author
  • 2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author
  • 2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano
  • 2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor
  • 2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter
  • 2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player
  • 2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter
  • 2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, French Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist
  • 2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress
  • 2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader
  • 1998 - Junior Wells, American musician
  • 1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
  • 1996 - Minnesota Fats, American Billiards player
  • 1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer
  • 1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician
  • 1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter
  • 1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist
  • 1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor
  • 1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  • 1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer
  • 1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster
  • 1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director
  • 1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician
  • 1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist
  • 1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician
  • 1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter
  • 1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia
  • 1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician
  • 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician
  • 1919 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician
  • 1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary
  • 1909 - Arnold Janssen SVD missionary
  • 1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist
  • 1790 - John Landen, English mathematician
  • 1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal
  • 1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician
  • 1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman
  • 1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan
  • 1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
  • 936 - King Rudolph of France
  • 570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
  • 69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
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140,548 People Died The Day I was Born



Unusual Deaths in 1982

  • Vic morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of twilight zone
  • Vladimir smirnov, an olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, penetrated his mask, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.
People who died on September 08 (various years)

  • 2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso
  • 2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach
  • 2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor
  • 2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident)
  • 2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist
  • 2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer
  • 2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator
  • 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director
  • 2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress
  • 2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer
  • 1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet
  • 1991 - Alex North, American composer
  • 1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 1983 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist
  • 1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist
  • 1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress
  • 1977 - Zero Mostel, American actor
  • 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer
  • 1969 - Bud Collyer, American television game show host
  • 1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress
  • 1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer
  • 1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer
  • 1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed)
  • 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq
  • 1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician
  • 1888 - Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper
  • 1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician
  • 1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
  • 1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist
  • 1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader
  • 1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general
  • 1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer
  • 1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist
  • 1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod
  • 1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor
  • 1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer
  • 1675 - Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels
  • 1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer
  • 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer
  • 1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet
  • 1645 - John Coke, English politician
  • 1637 - Robert Fludd, English mystic
  • 1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer
  • 1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician
  • 1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
  • 1425 - King Charles III of Navarre
  • 1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
  • 780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor
  • 701 - Pope Sergius I
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