20 de febrero
El 20 de febrero es el quincuagésimo primer (51º) día del año en el Calendario Gregoriano. Quedan 314 días para finalizar el año (315 en los años bisiestos).
1472 - Las Islas Shetland y las Órcadas son anexionadas a la corona de Escocia.
1524 - España: El Rey Carlos I ordena estudiar la posibilidad de unir el Mar del Sur (Océano Pacífico) con el Mar del Norte (Océano Atlántico) por el istmo de Panamá.
1724 - Se estrena la ópera "Giulio Cesare" de Georg Friedrich Händel en Londres.
1790 -Tras la Revolución Francesa, los conventos son suprimidos en Francia.
Leopoldo II de Austria es elegido como nuevo emperador del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico.
1810 - Andreas Hofer, patriota tirolés y líder de la rebelión contra las tropas de Napoleón, es ejecutado.
1827 - Batalla de Ituzaingó (Guerra del Brasil): el Ejército Argentino derrota al del Imperio del Brasil.
1828 - Paraguay proclama su independencia.
1835 - Chile: La ciudad de Concepción es destruida por un terremoto.
1859 - Con la Toma del Cuartel de Coro estalla la Guerra Federal en Venezuela.
1862 - Ángel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas, es nombrado director de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua.
1872 - Se inaugura el Museo Metropolitano de Arte en Nueva York.
1903 - Estreno de la obra "La escalinata de un trono", de José de Echegaray.
1907 - Se estrena en San Petersburgo la ópera "La ciudad invisible de Kitege", de Nikolai Rimski-Kórsakov.
1909 - Le Figaro publica "El manifiesto futurista" de Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
1911 - El torero Rafael Gómez Ortega, El Gallo, y la tonadillera Pastora Imperio contraen matrimonio.
1917 - El Reich introduce las monedas de aluminio y retira las de cobre para aprovechar este metal con fines bélicos.
1920 - Se crea en Madrid el Instituto Cajal para investigaciones biológicas.
1921 - Estreno de la película "Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis", de Rex Ingram.
1922 - La Dieta de la ciudad de Vilna, en Lituania, es ocupada por las tropas polacas y se pronuncia a favor de su integración en Polonia.
1928 -Primeras elecciones por sufragio universal celebradas en Tokio.
Se clausura la VI Conferencia Panamericana, celebrada en La Habana (Cuba).
El Senado estadounidense acuerda desbloquear las propiedades alemanas embargadas durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
1937 - Victoria electoral del partido liberal japonés Minseit.
1938 -Se produce la dimisión de Anthony Eden, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino Unido; le sucederá Edward Halifax.
1943 - Se forma el volcán Paricutín en México.
1944 - En el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la aviación estadounidense inicia un bombardeo intensivo sobre las fábricas de armamento alemanas en la llamada operación "Semana Grande".
1947 - Retirada de las tropas británicas de la India; Lord Mountbatten asume el cargo de Virrey de la colonia.
1949 - El derrumbamiento de un muro en las islas de Cabo Verde ocasiona 232 muertos y 50 heridos.
1956 - Constantinos Karamanlis vence en las elecciones celebradas en Grecia.
1958 - El cohete estadounidense Atlas estalla en la plataforma de lanzamiento de Cabo Cañaveral, lo que supone el quinto fracaso de siete intentos de lanzamiento.
1962 - John Glenn orbita 3 veces la tierra en 4 horas, 55 minutos, siendo el primer estadounidense en hacerlo.
1965 - La sonda norteamericana Ranger VIII envía 7.000 imágenes antes de chocar contra la Luna.
1969 - Rumania prohíbe las maniobras del Pacto de Varsovia en su territorio.
1970 - Chile firma un tratado comercial con Cuba, a pesar de la prohibición de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA).
1976 - La Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca consigue el reconocimiento institucional.
1982 - Primeras maniobras navales de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) en el Mar Caribe.
1983 - Sangrientos disturbios en las elecciones celebradas en el estado federado de Assam (India).
1986 - Es detenido en Sicilia Michele Greco, jefe máximo de la mafia, buscado por la policía desde 1982.
1987 - Una bomba puesta por Theodore Kaczynski, más conocido como Unabomber, estalla en Salt Lake City.
1990 - El Soviet Supremo de la Unión Soviética estudia el proyecto de disgregación de las repúblicas de la URSS; asimismo, el ministro de Exteriores soviético, Eduard Shevardnadze, uno de los representantes más destacados de la perestroika, anuncia su dimisión.
1991 - 100.000 personas se manifiestan en Tirana por la democratización de Albania.
1997 - Kim Novak recibe en el Festival de Berlín el Oso de Oro por toda su carrera cinematográfica.
1998 -Los representantes del Sinn Féin (brazo político del IRA) son temporalmente expulsados de la mesa de negociaciones de paz sobre Irlanda del Norte.
Primeras detenciones por pertenencia a grupos paramilitares de miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad de Colombia.
Estados Unidos finaliza sus operaciones en la Antártida, tras 43 años de presencia en la zona.
1999 - Triunfo del Partido Democrático del Pueblo de Nigeria (PDP), de Olusegun Obasanjo, en las elecciones celebradas en Nigeria.
2000 - La película "Magnolia", de Paul Thomas Anderson, recibe el Oso de Oro en el Festival de Berlín.
2002 -
Un incendio en un tren en Reqa Al-Gharbiya (Egipto) causa 370 muertos y 65 heridos.
La representación numérica de las 20 horas y dos minutos del día de hoy configura un curioso palíndromo de doce cifras: 20:02.20.02.2002, que no se producía desde 470 años antes (23:51.21.12.1532) y no volverá a repetirse hasta pasados 110 años (21:12.21.12.2112). Este fénomeno se llama Homidimea Coincidiente
2003 -
Un juez ordena la detención de Carlos Fernández, presidente de la mayor organización empresarial de Venezuela (Fedecámaras), por su actuación como instigador de la huelga general contra el Gobierno de Hugo Chávez.
El naufragio de un ferry en aguas del río Buriganga (Bangladesh), deja más de 80 fallecidos y un centenar de desaparecidos.
David Canal consigue el récord nacional de los 400 metros en pista cubierta, estableciendo una nueva marca de 45,93s.
Ruud Lubbers, Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados, dimite por las acusaciones de acoso sexual.
2006 - La justicia austriaca condena a tres años de cárcel al escritor David Irving por Negacionismo del Holocausto.
Nacimientos
1751: Johann Heinrich Voß, poeta alemán.
1844:
Ludwig Boltzmann, físico austriaco.
Joshua Slocum, escritor y aventurero canadiense. (m. 1909)
1874: Mary Garden, cantante escocesa.
1887: Vincent Massey, Gobernador General de Canadá. (m. 1967)
1888: Georges Bernanos, escritor francés.
1898: Jimmy Yancey, pianista y compositor de blues estadounidense.
1901: Muhammad Naguib, político y militar egipcio.
1902: Ansel Adams, fotógrafo estadounidense.
1904: Alekséi Kosygin, presidente de la Unión Soviética.
1912: Pierre Boulle, escritor francés.
1917: Juan Vicente Torrealba, músico y compositor venezolano.
1919: Luis Bedoya Reyes, político peruano.
1923: Forbes Burnham, político guyanés. (m. 1985)
1925: Robert Altman, director de cine estadounidense. (m. 2006)
1926: Richard Matheson, escritor estadounidense.
1926: Alfonso Sastre, escritor y dramaturgo español.
1927: Ibrahim Ferrer, cantante cubano.
1927: Abraham Lipsich, poeta lituano, nacionalizado argentino.
1927: Sidney Poitier, actor estadounidense.
1937:Roger Penske, automovilista estadounidense.
Nancy Wilson, cantante estadounidense.
1941: Buffy Sainte-Marie, cantante canadiense
Mike Leigh, director de cine británico.
1946:
Brenda Blethyn, actriz británica.
Riccardo Cocciante, músico italo-francés.
1947: Peter Strauss, actor estadounidense.
1948: Jennifer O'Neill, actriz estadounidense.
1950: Walter Becker, músico (Steely Dan).
1950: Ismael Miranda, cantante puertorriqueño.
1951:Gordon Brown, político británico.
Anthony Davis, compositor y pianista de jazz estadounidense.
1952: Elsa Bornemann, escritora argentina.
1954:Patty Hearst, actriz estadounidense.
Anthony Stewart Head, actor británico.
1963: Charles Barkley, jugador de baloncesto estadounidense.
1963: Ian Brown, cantante de los Stone Roses
1966: Cindy Crawford, modelo estadounidense.
1967: Kurt Cobain, cantante y guitarrista estadounidense de Nirvana (m. 1994).
1967: Lili Taylor, actriz estadounidense.
1969: Danis Tanovic, director de cine bosnio
1971: Jari Litmanen, futbolista finlandés.
1975: Brian Littrell, cantante estadounidense.
1976: Ed Graham, músico británico.
1977: Stephon Marbury, jugador de baloncesto estadounidense.
1978:Lauren Ambrose, actriz estadounidense.
Jay Hernández, actor estadounidense.
Julia Jentsch, actriz alemana.
1985: Yulia Olegovna Volkova, cantante rusa.
1988: Rihanna, cantante barbadense.
Fallecimientos
1171: Conan IV, Duque de Britania. (n. 1138)
1194: Tancredo, Rey de Sicilia. (n. ha.1138)
1431: Papa Martín V (1417: 1431). (n. ha.1368)
1513: Juan de Dinamarca. (n. 1455)
1579: Nicholas Bacon, político británico. (n. 1510)
1626: John Dowland, compositor británico. (n. 1563)
1685: Sofía Amelia de Brunswick-Lüneburg, reina de Dinamarca y de Noruega. (n. 1628)
1773: Carlos Manuel III, Duque de Saboya y Rey de Cerdeña. (n. 1701)
1790: José II de Habsburgo, rey de Hungría. (n. 1741)
1810: Andreas Hofer, héroe tirolés. (n. 1767)
1862: Francisco Balagtas, poeta filipino. (n. 1788)
1871: Paul Kane, pintor irlandés-canadiense. (n. 1810)
1895: Frederick Douglass, escritor abolicionista estadounidense. (n. 1818)
1907: Henri Moissan, químico francés, Premio Nobel de Química en 1906. (n. 1852)
1916: Klas Pontus Arnoldson, político, periodista y pacifista sueco, Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1908. (n. 1844)
1920: Robert Peary, explorador estadounidense. (n. 1856)
1960: Charles Leonard Woolley, arqueólogo británico. (n. 1880)
1966: Chester Nimitz, militar estadounidense. (n. 1885)
1968: Anthony Asquith, director de cine británico. (n. 1902)
1972: Maria Goeppert-Mayer, física de origen alemán, Premio Nobel de Física en 1963. (n. 1906)
1992: Roberto d'Aubuisson, político salvadoreño, fundador del partido ARENA. (n. 1944)
1992: Dick York, actor estadounidense. (n. 1928)
1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, constructor de automóviles. (n. 1916)
1996: Tōru Takemitsu, compositor japonés. (n. 1930)
1999: Sarah Kane, escritora británica. (n. 1971)
1999: Gene Siskel, critíco de cine estadounidense. (n. 1946)
2003: Maurice Blanchot, escritor e intelectual francés. (n. 1907)
2003: Orville Freeman, político estadounidense. (n. 1918)
2003: Ty Longley, guitarrista de la banda de heavy metal Great White. (n. 1971)
2005: Sandra Dee, actriz estadounidense. (n. 1942)
2005: Hunter S. Thompson, escritor estadounidense. (n. 1937)
1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
1547 - Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
1835 - Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs - the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1873 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
1901 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1909 - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1913 - King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1931 - The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1933 - The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
1935 - Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1942 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1943 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 - The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
1944 - World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 - World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
1952 - Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1959 - The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
1965 - Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1976 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1987 - Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, Utah, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
1989 - An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
1991 - A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1998 - American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
2002 - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire on a train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
2003 - During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 300 others.
2005 - Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
[edit]Births
1631 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712)
1633 - Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
1745 - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
1753 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
1757 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
1759 - Johann Christian Reil, German physician, founder of psychiatry (d. 1813)
1794 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
1802 - Charles de Bériot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870)
1819 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
1839 - Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
1844 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
1844 - Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
1848 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
1850 - Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
1866 - Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
1867 - Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
1880 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
1887 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
1888 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
1893 - Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
1893 - Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, designer and racing car driver (d. 1988)
1898 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951)
1899 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
1901 - Cecil Harmsworth King, English newspaper owner (d. 1987)
1901 - Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
1902 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
1904 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
1906 - Gale Gordon, American television and radio actor (d. 1995)
1907 - Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (d. 1992)
1912 - Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
1914 - John Daly, South African-born broadcaster (d. 2001)
1918 - Leonore Annenberg American Billionaire
1920 - Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
1923 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985)
1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
1925 - Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
1925 - Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader
1926 - Richard Matheson, American author
1927 - Roy Cohn, American lawyer (d. 1986)
1927 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
1927 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
1929 - Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
1930 - Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer
1932 - Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
1934 - Bobby Unser, American racing driver
1936 - Marj Dusay, American actress
1936 - Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
1936 - Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
1937 - Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Roger Penske, American racing driver, race team owner and entrepreneur
1937 - Nancy Wilson, American singer
1938 - Richard Beymer, American actor
1939 - Frank Arundel, English footballer
1940 - Jimmy Greaves, English footballer
1941 - Lim Kit Siang, Democratic Socialist opposition party in Malaysia
1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
1942 - Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 - Charlie Gillett, British radio DJ
1942 - Mitch McConnell, American politician
1942 - Claude Miller, French film director and screenwriter
1943 - Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist
1943 - Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler
1943 - Mike Leigh, British film director
1944 - Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1944 - Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
1945 - Andrew Bergman, American screenwriter and film director
1945 - Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
1945 - Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
1946 - Brenda Blethyn, English actress
1946 - Richard Cocciante, French-Italian singer and songwriter
1946 - Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
1946 - J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
1947 - André van Duin, Dutch comedian
1947 - Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive
1947 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
1947 - Peter Strauss, American actor
1948 - Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 - Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-born actress
1949 - Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite
1950 - Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan)
1950 - Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
1950 - Tony Wilson, British journalist and impresario (d. 2007)
1951 - Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
1951 - Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1951 - Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
1951 - Phil Neal, English footballer
1953 - Riccardo Chailly, Italian conductor
1953 - Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
1954 - Jon Brant, American musician (Cheap Trick)
1954 - Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
1954 - Patty Hearst, American socialite
1955 - Wendee Lee, American voice actress
1956 - Rick Green, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Charlie Adler, American voice actor
1957 - Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
1959 - Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
1960 - Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1960 - Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
1962 - Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author
1963 - Charles Barkley, American basketball player
1963 - Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses)
1963 - Jon Lynn Christensen, former Nebraska Congressman
1963 - Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
1964 - French Stewart, American actor
1964 - Rodney Rowland, American actor
1966 - Cindy Crawford, American model
1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
1967 - Katherine Soucie, American voice actress
1967 - Andrew Shue, American television actor
1967 - Lili Taylor, American actress
1968 - Ted Hankey, English darts player
1969 - Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
1969 - Gedo, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 - Danis Tanovic, Bosnian film director and screenwriter
1969 - Rebecca Anne Halsey-Schmidt, American Speech Pathologist
1969 - Tommy Vardell, National Football League fullback
1969 - Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer
1971 - Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
1971 - Shawn McKenzie, American programmer
1972 - Brent Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper
1974 - Ophelie Winter, French actress
1975 - Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
1975 - Brian Littrell, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1976 - Rohan Gavaskar, Left-handed batsman, India ODI 2004 (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
1976 - Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness)
1976 - Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 - Bartosz Kizierowski, Polish swimmer
1977 - Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
1977 - T.J. Slaughter, American football player
1977 - Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model
1978 - Lauren Ambrose, American actress
1978 - Jakki Degg, English glamour model/actress
1978 - Jay Hernandez, American actor
1978 - Julia Jentsch, German actress
1980 - Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
1980 - Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer
1981 - Tony Hibbert, English footballer
1981 - Chris Thile, American musician
1982 - Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
1983 - Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 - Justin Verlander, American baseball player
1985 - Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
1985 - Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1988 - Rihanna, Barbadian singer
1988 - Jiah Khan, Indian actress
1989 - Melanie Leishman, Canadian actress
[edit]Deaths
702 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)
1154 - Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
1171 - Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
1194 - King Tancred of Sicily
1258 - Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
1408 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)
1431 - Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
1524 - Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya
1579 - Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
1618 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
1626 - John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)
1762 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1771 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
1773 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
1778 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
1790 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
1803 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1806 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767)
1862 - William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
1871 - Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1893 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
1905 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
1907 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844)
1920 - Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
1936 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1941 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1961 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
1963 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
1965 - Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880)
1966 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
1968 - Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902)
1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
1970 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1972 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1972 - Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897)
1974 - David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (b. 1888)
1976 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
1976 - Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
1981 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904)
1983 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
1985 - Clarence "Ducky" Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904)
1992 - Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944)
1992 - Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
1993 - Ernest L. Massad, U.S. Army general (b. 1908)
1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
1996 - Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907)
1996 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
1997 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
1999 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
1999 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
2000 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937)
2001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2003 - Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
2003 - Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
2003 - Harry Jacunski, American football player
2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2003 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947)
2005 - Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
2005 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
2006 - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
2006 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
2007 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
2007 - Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (b. 1913)
2007 - Mike Awesome, Pro Wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 - Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
2008 - Larry Davis, American murderer (b. 1966)
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