Year | Description | Category |
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2016 | Czechoslovak gymnast Vera Caslavska died. | Death day |
2013 | Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney died. | Death day |
2008 | Golfer from United States, Tommy Bolt died. | Death day |
2006 | Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz died. | Death day |
2005 | Supercentenarian from Netherlands, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died at the age of 115 years, 62 days. | Death day |
1995 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Lev Polugaevsky died. | Death day |
1990 | Dutch electrical engineer Bernard Tellegen died. | Death day |
1988 | New Zealand politician Jack Marshall died. | Death day |
1985 | Australian swimmer Leisel Jones was born. | Birthday |
1985 | Chess grandmaster from Ukraine, Anna Ushenina was born. | Birthday |
1983 | Aeroflot Flight 5463 aircraft incident at near Almaty, Kazakh SSR, USSR, killed 90 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
1982 | American tennis player Andy Roddick was born. | Birthday |
1981 | Iranian politician Mohammad-Ali Rajai died. | Death day |
1976 | Constitution Day of Turks and Caicos Islands. | National Holiday |
1974 | 153 people died in Zagreb express train crash. | Man-Made Disaster |
1974 | Netherlands's first artificial satellite ANS was launched. | Launch Day |
1972 | Czech footballer Pavel Nedvěd was born. | Birthday |
1972 | Sumo wrestler Susanoumi was born. | Birthday |
1971 | Astronaut from United States, Megan McArthur was born. | Birthday |
1961 | American actor Charles Coburn died. | Death day |
1953 | American basketball player Robert Parish was born. | Birthday |
1947 | 87 people died in Cinema fire at Rueil-Malmaison, France. | Man-Made Disaster |
1940 | English physicist J. J. Thomson died. | Death day |
1931 | Astronaut from United States, Jack Swigert was born. | Birthday |
1930 | American business magnate Warren Buffett was born. | Birthday |
1928 | German physicist Wilhelm Wien died. | Death day |
1920 | Egyptian politician Ali Sabri was born. | Birthday |
1919 | American microbiologist Maurice Hilleman was born. | Birthday |
1913 | British economist Richard Stone was born. | Birthday |
1912 | American physicist Edward Mills Purcell was born. | Birthday |
1907 | American physicist John W. Mauchly was born. | Birthday |
1898 | American actress Shirley Booth was born. | Birthday |
1884 | Swedish chemist Theodor Svedberg was born. | Birthday |
1871 | New Zealand-born British physicist and chemist Ernest Rutherford was born. | Birthday |
1863 | Russian chemist Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was born. | Birthday |
1852 | Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born. | Birthday |
1751 | Swedish scientist and inventor Christopher Polhem died. | Death day |
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