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February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 329 days remain until the end of the year (330 in leap years ).
Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 1649 – Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament.[6] 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation .[7] 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca .[8] 1783 – In Calabria , a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.[9] 1807 – HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues .1810 – Peninsular War : Siege of Cádiz begins.1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison 's first class meets at Madison Female Academy .[12] 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg , Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.[13] 1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza , Prince of Moldavia , is also elected as prince of Wallachia , joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities , an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire , which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.[14] 1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities .[15] 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul , Victoria, Australia.[16] 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.[17] 1901–present 1901 – J. P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel , a $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller 's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie 's entire steel business.[18] 1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite , the world's first synthetic plastic .1913 – Greek military aviators , Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson 's veto. 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. 1919 – Charlie Chaplin , Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks , and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists .1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal .1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra , Dutch East Indies .1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España ", or Leader of Spain.1941 – World War II : Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea .1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila .1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic .1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia , never to be recovered. 1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.1963 – The European Court of Justice 's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen direct effect , one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law .1967 – Cultural Revolution : The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.[19] 1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.1975 – Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before . The uprising (locally known as the Limazo 1985 – Ugo Vetere , then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi , then the mayor of Carthage , meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers .1994 – Markale massacres , more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo . 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny , Chechnya .2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves , starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion .2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi .[20] 2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial .[21] 2021 – Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist.[22] [23] Births Pre-1600 976 – Sanjō , emperor of Japan (d. 1017)1321 – John II , marquess of Montferrat (d. 1372)1438 – Philip II , duke of Savoy (d. 1497)1505 – Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss statesman and historian (d. 1572)1519 – René of Châlon , prince of Orange (d. 1544)1525 – Juraj Drašković , Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1587)1533 – Andreas Dudith , Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat (d. 1589)1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi , Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612)1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas , Spanish poet and educator (d. 1669)1594 – Biagio Marini , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)1601–1900 1608 – Gaspar Schott , German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666)1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , French author (d. 1696)[24] 1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles , French general (d. 1708)1703 – Gilbert Tennent , Irish-American minister (d. 1764)1723 – John Witherspoon , Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794)1725 – James Otis, Jr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe , German composer and conductor (d. 1798)1788 – Robert Peel , English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger , Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg , Finnish poet and hymn-writer (d. 1877)1808 – Carl Spitzweg , German painter and poet (d. 1885)1810 – Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880)1827 – Peter Lalor , Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889)1837 – Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church , Moody Bible Institute , and Moody Publishers (d. 1899)1840 – John Boyd Dunlop , Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921)1840 – Hiram Maxim , American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916) 1847 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson , Estonian missionary and engraver (d. 1903)1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author and critic (d. 1907)1848 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto , Chilean lieutenant (d. 1882) 1852 – Terauchi Masatake , Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919)1866 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla , Irish politician, 3rd and last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)1870 – Charles Edmund Brock , British painter and book illustrator (d. 1938)1876 – Ernie McLea , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1931)1878 – André Citroën , French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)1880 – Gabriel Voisin , French pilot and engineer (d. 1973)1889 – Patsy Hendren , English cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)1889 – Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (d. 1962) 1889 – Recep Peker , Turkish officer and politician (d. 1950) 1891 – Renato Petronio , Italian rower (d. 1976)1892 – Elizabeth Ryan , American tennis player (d. 1979)1897 – Dirk Stikker , Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO (d. 1979)1900 – Adlai Stevenson II , American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1965)1901–present 1903 – Koto Matsudaira , Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1994)[25] 1903 – Joan Whitney Payson , American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975) 1906 – John Carradine , American actor (d. 1988)1907 – Birgit Dalland , Norwegian politician (d. 2007)1907 – Pierre Pflimlin , French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000) 1908 – Marie Baron , Dutch swimmer and diver (d. 1948)1908 – Peg Entwistle , Welsh-American actress (d. 1932) 1908 – Eugen Weidmann , German criminal (d. 1939) 1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz , Polish violinist and composer (d. 1969)1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond , French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007)1910 – Francisco Varallo , Argentinian footballer (d. 2010) 1911 – Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960)1914 – William S. Burroughs , American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1997)1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin , English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) 1915 – Robert Hofstadter , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)1917 – Edward J. Mortola , American academic and president of Pace University (d. 2002)[26] 1917 – Isuzu Yamada , Japanese actress (d. 2012) 1919 – Red Buttons , American actor (d. 2006)1919 – Tim Holt , American actor (d. 1973) 1919 – Andreas Papandreou , Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996) 1921 – Ken Adam , German-born English production designer and art director (d. 2016)[27] 1923 – Claude King , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)1923 – James E. Bowman , American physician and academic (d. 2011) 1924 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy , Indian cardinal (d. 2014)1927 – Robert Allen , American pianist and composer (d. 2000)1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten , Dutch captain and pilot (d. 1977) 1928 – Tage Danielsson , Swedish author, actor, and director (d. 1985)1928 – Andrew Greeley , American priest, sociologist, and author (d. 2013) 1928 – P. J. Vatikiotis , Israeli-American historian and political scientist (d. 1997) 1929 – Hal Blaine , American session drummer (d. 2019)1929 – Luc Ferrari , French pianist and composer (d. 2005) 1929 – Fred Sinowatz , Austrian politician, 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008) 1932 – Cesare Maldini , Italian footballer and manager (d. 2016)1933 – Jörn Donner , Finnish director and screenwriter (d. 2020)1933 – B. S. Johnson , English author, poet, and critic (d. 1973) 1934 – Hank Aaron , American baseball player (d. 2021)[28] 1934 – Don Cherry , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster 1935 – Alex Harvey , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)1935 – Johannes Geldenhuys , South African military commander (d. 2018) 1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed , Indian poet and academic (d. 2020)1937 – Stuart Damon , American actor and singer (d. 2021)1937 – Larry Hillman , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1937 – Gaston Roelants , Belgian runner 1937 – Alar Toomre , Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician 1937 – Wang Xuan , Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006) 1938 – Rafael Nieto Navia , Colombian lawyer, jurist, and diplomat1939 – Brian Luckhurst , English cricketer (d. 2005)1940 – H. R. Giger , Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (d. 2014)1940 – Luke Graham , American wrestler (d. 2006) 1941 – Stephen J. Cannell , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)1941 – Henson Cargill , American country music singer (d. 2007) 1941 – David Selby , American actor and playwright 1941 – Barrett Strong , American soul singer-songwriter and pianist 1941 – Kaspar Villiger , Swiss engineer and politician, 85th President of the Swiss Confederation 1941 – Cory Wells , American pop-rock singer (d. 2015) 1942 – Roger Staubach , American football player, sportscaster, and businessman1943 – Nolan Bushnell , American engineer and businessman, founded Atari, Inc. 1943 – Michael Mann , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1943 – Craig Morton , American football player and sportscaster 1943 – Dušan Uhrin , Czech and Slovak footballer and manager 1944 – J. R. Cobb , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2019)1944 – Henfil , Brazilian journalist, author, and illustrator (d. 1988) 1944 – Al Kooper , American singer-songwriter and producer 1944 – Tamanoumi Masahiro , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971) 1945 – Douglas Hogg , English lawyer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1946 – Amnon Dankner , Israeli journalist and author (d. 2013)1946 – Charlotte Rampling , English actress 1947 – Mary L. Cleave , American engineer and astronaut1947 – Clemente Mastella , Italian politician, Italian Minister of Justice 1947 – Darrell Waltrip , American race car driver and sportscaster 1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson , Swedish footballer and manager1948 – Christopher Guest , American actor and director 1948 – Barbara Hershey , American actress 1948 – Errol Morris , American director and producer 1948 – Tom Wilkinson , English actor 1949 – Kurt Beck , German politician1949 – Yvon Vallières , Canadian educator and politician 1950 – Jonathan Freeman , American actor and singer1950 – Rafael Puente , Mexican footballer 1951 – Nikolay Merkushkin , Mordovian engineer and politician, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia 1952 – Daniel Balavoine , French singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1986)1952 – Vladimir Moskovkin , Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic 1953 – Freddie Aguilar , Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist1953 – John Beilein , American basketball player and coach 1953 – Gustavo Benítez , Paraguayan footballer and manager 1954 – Cliff Martinez , American drummer and songwriter1954 – Frank Walker , Australian journalist and author 1955 – Mike Heath , American baseball player and manager1956 – Vinnie Colaiuta , American drummer1956 – Héctor Rebaque , Mexican race car driver 1956 – David Wiesner , American author and illustrator 1956 – Mao Daichi , Japanese actress 1957 – Jüri Tamm , Estonian hammer thrower and politician (d. 2021)1959 – Jennifer Granholm , Canadian-American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Michigan 1960 – Aris Christofellis , Greek soprano and musicologist1960 – Bonnie Crombie , Canadian businesswoman and politician, 6th Mayor of Mississauga 1960 – Micky Hazard , English footballer[29] 1961 – Savvas Kofidis , Greek footballer and manager1961 – Tim Meadows , American actor and screenwriter 1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress, screenwriter, producer and director1963 – Steven Shainberg , American film director and producer1964 – Laura Linney , American actress1964 – Ha Seung-moo , Korean poet, pastor, historical theologian 1964 – Duff McKagan , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer 1965 – Tarik Benhabiles , Algerian-French tennis player and coach1965 – Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian footballer and manager 1965 – Keith Moseley , American bass player and songwriter 1965 – Quique Sánchez Flores , Spanish footballer and manager 1966 – José María Olazábal , Spanish golfer1966 – Rok Petrovič , Slovenian skier (d. 1993) 1967 – Chris Parnell , American actor and comedian1968 – Roberto Alomar , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach1968 – Marcus Grönholm , Finnish race car driver 1969 – Bobby Brown , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor1969 – Michael Sheen , Welsh actor and director 1969 – Derek Stephen Prince , American voice actor 1970 – Jean-Marc Jaumin , Belgian basketball player and coach1970 – Darren Lehmann , Australian cricketer and coach 1971 – Michel Breistroff , French ice hockey player (d. 1996)1971 – Sara Evans , American country singer 1972 – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark 1972 – Brad Fittler , Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster 1973 – Richard Matvichuk , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1973 – Trijntje Oosterhuis , Dutch singer-songwriter 1973 – Luke Ricketson , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster 1974 – Michael Maguire , Australian rugby league player and coach1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst , Dutch footballer and manager1976 – John Aloisi , Australian footballer and manager1976 – Abhishek Bachchan , Indian actor 1977 – Ben Ainslie , English sailor1977 – Adam Dykes , Australian rugby league player 1977 – Adam Everett , American baseball player and coach 1978 – Brian Russell , American football player1978 – Samuel Sánchez , Spanish cyclist 1979 – Nate Holzapfel , American entrepreneur and television personality1980 – Brad Fitzpatrick , American programmer, created LiveJournal 1980 – Jo Swinson , Scottish politician 1981 – Mia Hansen-Løve , French director and screenwriter1981 – Loukas Vyntra , Czech-Greek footballer 1982 – Laura del Río , Spanish footballer1982 – Kevin Everett , American football player 1982 – Tomáš Kopecký , Slovak ice hockey player 1982 – Rodrigo Palacio , Argentinian footballer 1983 – Anja Hammerseng-Edin , Norwegian handball player1984 – Carlos Tevez , Argentinian footballer1985 – Lloyd Johansson , Australian rugby player1985 – Laurence Maroney , American football player 1985 – Paul Vandervort , American actor, film producer, and former model 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese footballer 1986 – Vedran Ćorluka , Croatian footballer, centre back[30] 1986 – Kevin Gates , American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur[31] [32] [33] 1986 – Sekope Kepu , Australian rugby player 1986 – Billy Sharp , English footballer 1986 – Reed Sorenson , American race car driver 1986 – Carlos Villanueva , Chilean footballer 1987 – Darren Criss , American actor, singer, and entrepreneur1987 – Curtis Jerrells , American basketball player 1987 – Alex Kuznetsov , Ukrainian-American tennis player 1987 – Linus Omark , Swedish ice hockey player 1987 – Donald Sanford , American-Israeli sprinter 1988 – Karin Ontiveros , Mexican model1989 – Marina Melnikova , Russian tennis player1990 – Dmitry Andreikin , Russian chess player1990 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar , Indian cricketer 1990 – Jordan Rhodes , Scottish footballer 1991 – Nabil Bahoui , Swedish footballer1991 – Gerald Tusha , Albanian footballer 1992 – Stefan de Vrij , Dutch footballer1992 – Neymar , Brazilian footballer 1993 – Leilani Latu , Australian rugby league player1993 – Ty Rattie , Canadian ice hockey player 1995 – Adnan Januzaj , Belgian-Albanian footballer1996 – Stina Blackstenius , Swedish footballer1997 – Patrick Roberts , English footballer2016 – Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck , Bhutanese princeDeaths Pre-1600 1601–1900 1661 – Shunzhi , Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1638)1705 – Philipp Spener , German theologian and author (b. 1635)1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau , French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)1754 – Nicolaas Kruik , Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)1766 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun , Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)1775 – Eusebius Amort , German theologian and academic (b. 1692)1790 – William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)[34] 1807 – Pasquale Paoli , Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)1818 – Charles XIII , king of Sweden (b. 1748)1881 – Thomas Carlyle , Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra , Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish author (b. 1807)1901–present 1915 – Ross Barnes , American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah , Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)1927 – Inayat Khan , Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias , Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)1933 – Josiah Thomas , English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)1937 – Lou Andreas-Salomé , Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861)[35] 1938 – Hans Litten , German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)1941 – Banjo Paterson , Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)1941 – Otto Strandman , Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875) 1946 – George Arliss , English actor and playwright (b. 1868)[36] 1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz , German general (b. 1883)1952 – Adela Verne , English pianist and composer (b. 1877)1954 – Hossein Sami'i , Iranian politician, diplomat, writer and poet (b. 1876)1955 – Victor Houteff , Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)[37] 1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad , Lebanese surgeon and author (b. 1890)[38] 1962 – Jacques Ibert , French-Swiss composer (b. 1890)[39] 1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean , American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)[40] 1969 – Thelma Ritter , American actress (b. 1902)[41] 1970 – Rudy York , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1913)[42] 1972 – Marianne Moore , American poet, author, critic, and translator (b. 1887)[43] 1976 – Rudy Pompilli , American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets ) (b. 1926)[44] 1977 – Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)[45] 1981 – Ella Grasso , American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)[46] 1982 – Neil Aggett , Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953)[47] 1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff , American chemist and academic (b. 1925)[48] 1987 – William Collier Jr. , American actor and producer (b. 1902)[49] 1989 – Joe Raposo , American pianist and composer (b. 1937)[50] 1991 – Dean Jagger , American actor (b. 1903)[51] 1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian , Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)[52] 1993 – Seán Flanagan , Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922)1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)[53] 1993 – William Pène du Bois , American author and illustrator (b. 1916)[54] 1995 – Doug McClure , American actor (b. 1935)[55] 1997 – Pamela Harriman , English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920)[56] 1997 – René Huyghe , French historian and author (b. 1906)[57] 1998 – Tim Kelly , American guitarist (b. 1963)[58] 1999 – Wassily Leontief , Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)[59] 2000 – Claude Autant-Lara , French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)[60] 2004 – John Hench , American animator (b. 1908)[61] 2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma , Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (b. 1937)[62] 2005 – Michalina Wisłocka , Polish gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1921)[63] 2006 – Norma Candal , Puerto Rican-American actress (b. 1927)[64] 2007 – Leo T. McCarthy , New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930)[65] 2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918)[66] 2010 – Brendan Burke , Canadian ice hockey player and activist (b. 1988)[67] 2010 – Harry Schwarz , South African lawyer, anti-apartheid leader, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (b. 1924) 2011 – Brian Jacques , English author and radio host (b. 1939)[68] 2011 – Peggy Rea , American actress and casting director (b. 1921)[69] 2012 – Sam Coppola , American actor (b. 1932)2012 – Al De Lory , American keyboard player, conductor, and producer (b. 1930) 2012 – John Turner Sargent Sr. , American publisher (b. 1924)[70] 2012 – Jo Zwaan , Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)[71] 2013 – Reinaldo Gargano , Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (b. 1934)2013 – Egil Hovland , Norwegian composer and conductor (b. 1924)[72] 2013 – Tom McGuigan , New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (b. 1921)[73] 2014 – Robert Dahl , American political scientist and academic (b. 1915)[74] 2015 – K. N. Choksy , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)[75] 2015 – Marisa Del Frate , Italian actress and singer (b. 1931)[76] 2015 – Val Logsdon Fitch , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)[77] 2015 – Herman Rosenblat , Polish-American author (b. 1929)[78] 2016 – Ciriaco Cañete , Filipino martial artist (b. 1919)2020 – Kirk Douglas , American actor (b. 1916)[79] 2021 – Christopher Plummer , Canadian actor (b. 1929)[80] Holidays and observances References ^ De Carolis, E.; Patricelli, G. (2003). Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum ISBN 978-88-8265-199-2 . Retrieved 29 April 2011 . ^ Volume 217 of Zizhi Tongjian ^ Fentress and Limane 2018 . sfn error: no target: CITEREFFentress_and_Limane2018 (help ) ^ Trevor N. Dupuy , Curt Johnson and David L. Bongard, Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography ^ "Martyrs List" . Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum. Archived from the original on 2010-02-14. 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