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April 16 in history

201 sourced entries recorded on April 16, from 43 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 43 BCEOctavian is first proclaimed imperator by his troops.source
  • 556The diplomatic representative (apocrisiarius) to Constantinople is elected as Pope Pelagius I, succeeding Vigilius as the 60th pope of Rome.source
  • 878The city of Belgrade is first mentioned in a papal letter to Boris I, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire.source
  • 1088The 6.5 Ms Tmogvi earthquake affects the southern provinces of Georgia, which causes the destruction of the castle of Tmogvi and many deaths.source
  • 1245Innocent IV sends Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (accompanied by Stephen of Bohemia) to the Mongol court at Karakorum, suggesting that the Mongols convert to Christianity.source
  • 1318An agreement with Birger, King of Sweden is made to release his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric Magnusson, Duke of Södermanland, who had been imprisoned at Nyköping Castle since December 10. The treaty is brokered by Valdemar's wife Ingeborg Eriksdottir of Norway and Eric's wife, Princess Ingeborg of Norway, who pledge for Valdemar and Eric to renounce all claims to the Swedish throne. However, Valdemar and Eric have already died inside the prison, and the discovery leads to a rebellion against King Birger.source
  • 1346The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of Southeast Europe.source
  • 1346after this date, John de Carew renovates and repairs Balymotha/Clerevoyse castle [1]source
  • 1496Filippo II becomes the new ruler of the Duchy of Savoy upon the death of his 6-year-old great-nephew, Duke Carlo II Giovanni Amedeo.source
  • 1520Revolt of the Comuneros: Citizens of Toledo, Castile opposed to the rule of the Flemish-born Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, rise up when the royal government attempts to unseat radical city councilors.source
  • 1521April 16–18 – Martin Luther is examined before Emperor Charles V and the Diet of Worms, where he refuses to recant his writings and allegedly proclaims, "Here I stand", regarding his belief in the Bible alone, as the standard of Christian doctrine.source
  • 1531The city of Puebla, Mexico, is founded.source
  • 1550The Valladolid debate on the rights and treatment of indigenous peoples of the Americas by their Spanish conquerors opens at the Colegio de San Gregorio in Valladolid, Castile.source
  • 1552Pedro de Valdivia founds the city of La Imperial, Chile.source
  • 1582Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.source
  • 1605Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shogun of Japan, becoming Ogosho (retired shogun). His son Tokugawa Hidetada succeeds him to the office.source
  • 1605In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his first wife (of 4), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, Essex.source
  • 1622Huguenot rebellions: Blockade of La Rochelle ends in royal victory.source
  • 1634Sumptuary laws proscribe embroidery of gold or silver.source
  • 1637Assassination of Sébastien de La Ruelle, former mayor of Liège, triggers anti-Spanish rioting.source
  • 1658In Skåneland, a region recently ceded by Denmark to the Swedish Empire, representatives of the nobility of the provinces of Blekinge, Halland and Scania gather at the Scanian city of Malmö to swear their allegiance to King Charles X Gustav of Sweden.source
  • 1677The Statute of Frauds is passed into English law.source
  • 1677Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act, placing the power to judge heresy and similar offences with the ecclesiastical courts, whose power of punishment is limited to excommunication, thus abolishing capital punishment (burning at the stake) in such cases.source
  • 1677Statute of Frauds, requiring certain types of contract to be in writing.source
  • 1681A royal decree orders the execution of a new cadastral survey. Christian V's Cadastre is completed in 1688.source
  • 1685Fort Frederiksborg is sold to the English.source
  • 1685Wara Dhammaraza becomes the new King of Arakan on the western coast of Burma upon the death of his brother, Thiri Thuriya.source
  • 1686The Portuguese vessel Nossa Senhora dos Milagros with 150 crew run aground at Struisbaai near Cape Agulhassource
  • 1690An estimated 8.0 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Caribbean Sea less than 10 mi from Barbuda and also affects St. Kitts and Nevis, as well as Antigua.source
  • 1705Isaac Newton is knighted by Queen Anne at Trinity College, Cambridge.source
  • 1705Queen Anne of England honours Isaac Newton with the title of Knight Bachelor at Trinity College, Cambridge.source
  • 1732After his disastrous attempt to fight the Ottoman Empire, Shah Tahmasp II is removed from the throne of Iran by one of his generals, Nader Khan, who later proclaims himself the King of Persia in Tahmasp's place as Nader Shah.source
  • 1734The County of Christiansholm is established by Christian Raben from the manors of Aalholm, Bramsløkke, Egholm and Stenvængegården.source
  • 1735Alcina, George Frideric Handel's Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.source
  • 1735London premiere of Alcina by Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House.source
  • 1739The Hats (party) forms government with Carl Gyllenborg as Privy Council Chancellery.source
  • 1746The Battle of Culloden in Scotland, the final pitched battle fought on British soil, brings an end to the Jacobite rising of 1745.source
  • 1746the Battle of Culloden, the final pitched battle fought on British soil, brings an end to the Jacobite rising of 1745.source
  • 1746Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite rising. Culloden is the last pitched battle fought on British soil. George Frideric Handel composes the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus to commemorate the Duke of Cumberland's victory.source
  • 1753The Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753 is passed by Britain's House of Lords, permitting Jewish immigrants to England to become naturalized citizens "without receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper". The bill, introduced by George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, passes the House of Commons on May 22.source
  • 1757The works of astronomer Galileo Galilei espousing heliocentrism are removed (with the approval of Pope Benedict XIV) from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum list of books banned by Roman Catholic Church, along with "all books teaching the earth's motion and the sun's immobility". Other works of heliocentrists Galileo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Diego de Zúñiga and Paolo Foscarini remain on the list.source
  • 1763George Grenville takes office as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain, after the Earl of Bute resigns amid criticism over Britain's concessions in the Treaty of Paris.source
  • 1763John Butler is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork.source
  • 1763HDMS Prindsesse Sophia Magdalenaø is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.source
  • 1780The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.source
  • 1796War of the First Coalition – Battle of Ceva: French troops (some 8,000 men) under General Pierre Augereau assault the Sardinian defensive positions at Ceva. After fierce fighting, the defensive system gives way under French pressure. The Sardinians are forced to withdraw. The French lose some 600 men killed or wounded.source
  • 1797The Spithead and Nore mutinies break out in the British Royal Navy.source
  • 1799French Revolutionary Wars: At the Battle of Mount Tabor severely outnumbered French forces repulse an Ottoman attack.source
  • 1818The Court of King's Bench (England) decides the case of Ashford v Thornton, upholding the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle. Four days later, the plaintiff declines to fight.source
  • 1831Trade in preserved Māori heads as curios is outlawed by the Governor of New South Wales.source
  • 1843April 16 or 17 – A group of 24 West Indian Moravians from Jamaica and Antigua, recruited by the Danish minister and Basel missionary, Andreas Riis, arrive in Christiansborg (Osu), Gold Coast, now Ghana, to set up schools and Presbyterian churches in the country.source
  • 1847New Zealand Wars: A minor Māori chief is accidentally shot by a junior British Army officer in Whanganui on New Zealand's North Island, triggering the Wanganui Campaign (which continues until July 23).source
  • 1853Indian Railways: The first passenger railway in India opens from Bombay to Thana, Maharashtra, 22 mi.source
  • 1853The first Indian train steamed off from Bombay to Thane. The train was drawn by three steam locomotives and covered the 34 km distance in 57 minutes.source
  • 1854The United States packet ship Powhattan is wrecked off the New Jersey shore, with more than 200 victims.source
  • 1854The American packet ship Powhattan is wrecked off the shore of New Jersey with a loss of more than 200 lives.source
  • 1855Emperor of the French Napoleon III, with Empress Eugénie, begins a 6-day state visit to Britain.source
  • 1856The Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law abolishes privateering, and regulates the relationship between neutral and belligerent shipping on the high seas.source
  • 1856Jacob Heinrich Moresco opens a shop with women's clothing and fashion accessories at Amagertorv 13 in Copenhagen.source
  • 1858The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.source
  • 1858the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh is wound up.source
  • 1863The first ever submarine to be propelled by mechanized (rather than human) power, Plongeur, of the French Navy, propelled by compressed air, is launched in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime.source
  • 1866Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops, under Marshal Manuel Luís Osório, cross the Rio Paraguay and stop at Fort Itapirú.source
  • 1873April 15–17 – American Indian Wars: The Second Battle of the Stronghold is fought.source
  • 1878The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part of the islands from the old Kymi parish.source
  • 1888The German Empire annexes the island of Nauru.source
  • 1894Manchester City Football Club is formed in north-west England under this name.source
  • 1895The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.source
  • 1904FC Einigkeit Braunschweig established.source
  • 1910Wang Jingwei and Luo Shixun were arrested separately. They were arrested for conspiracy to assassinate and kill Prince Chun in Beijing.source
  • 1912Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.source
  • 1914April 14–18 – The first International Criminal Police Congress is held in Monaco; 24 countries are represented, including some from Asia, Europe, and the Americas; the Dean of the Paris Law School is president.source
  • 1917WWI: The Nivelle Offensive commences.source
  • 1917(N.S.) (April 3, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin arrives at the Finland Station in Petrograd after a German-sponsored voyage in a sealed train from his exile in Switzerland through Germany and Scandinavia.source
  • 1917(N.S.) (April 3, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin arrives at the Finland Station in Petrograd.source
  • 1919Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, architect (Museo Nacional de Antropología).source
  • 1922The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.source
  • 1924American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles, California, through the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures.source
  • 1925A communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.source
  • 1928The opening of National Taiwan University.source
  • 1936Pedro Calmon is elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras.source
  • 1938Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard, along with other members of the party, is arrested. He is sentenced to ten years prison but shot while allegedly trying to escape on 30 November.source
  • 1940In American baseball, the Cleveland Indians, behind Bob Feller's Opening Day no-hitter, defeat the Chicago White Sox, 1–0.source
  • 1942Decree prohibits the establishment of new businesses or expansion of existing businesses.source
  • 1945MV Goya is sunk by Soviet submarine L-3 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German troops and civilians as part of Operation Hannibal; 7,000–8,000 drown.source
  • 1946The Eureka Diamond, the first diamond discovered in South Africa, is sold in London for £5,700.source
  • 1947American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch describes the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "Cold War".source
  • 1947The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded, with Luxembourg as one of the sixteen founding members.source
  • 1947The first public demonstration of a TV camera zoom lens, the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar, is held at NBC studios in New York.source
  • 1947Texas City disaster: The ammonium nitrate cargo of French-registered Liberty ship SS Grandcamp explodes in Texas City, Texas in one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history, killing at least 581, including all but one member of the city fire department, injuring at least 5,000 and destroying 20 city blocks. Of the dead, remains of 113 are never found, and 62 are unidentifiable.source
  • 1948The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded, as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).source
  • 1950An apartment building in Jaffa collapses, killing ten and injuring dozens more.source
  • 1952Esther Roth-Shahamorov, former Israeli track and field athlete.source
  • 1953President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech, to the National Association of Newspaper Editors.source
  • 1953The Ministry of Hygiene completes its transition into the new Ministry of Public Health, being officially renamed via Decree 984 of 1953 (Decreto 984 de 1953).source
  • 1953The Habar Corporation's building in Chicago, United States, catches fire, killing 35 employees.source
  • 1955The Burma–Japan Peace Treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries.source
  • 1955April 16–17 - Abe coal mine debris collapse, due to heavy torrential rain hit in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, resulting in the death of 73 people, according to a confirmed JFDMA report.source
  • 1957Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated into Israel from the village of Faqqua, killed two guards, Yechezkel Beit Elgar (Idgadri) and Yamin (Binyamin) David-Hai at Kibbutz Mesilot. The militants also planted a landmine in a nearby field, which exploded when a tractor drove over it. The tractor driver was injured lightly.source
  • 1963Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".source
  • 1964In the Assize Court at Buckingham, England, sentences totalling 307 years are passed on twelve men who stole £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that becomes known as the Great Train Robbery.source
  • 1966Two top Barisan Sosialis leaders and MPs, Chia Thye Poh and Koo Young were arrested on sedition charge.source
  • 1972Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched. During the mission, the astronauts, driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle, achieve a lunar rover speed record of 17 km/h.source
  • 1976As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.source
  • 1982VVD leader Hans Wiegel accepts the position of Queens Commissioner in the province of Friesland. Ed Nijpels is elected as the next VVD Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives.source
  • 1983Michael Zohary (born 1898), Austro-Hungary (Galicia)-born Israeli botanist.source
  • 1984More than one million people, led by Tancredo Neves, occupy the streets of São Paulo to demand direct presidential elections during the Brazilian military government of João Figueiredo. It is the largest protest during the Diretas Já civil unrest, as well as the largest public demonstration in the history of Brazil. The elections are granted in 1989.source
  • 1986The United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands sign a peace treaty, thus ending the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, one of the longest wars in human history.source
  • 1986Bejski Commission publishes its report.source
  • 1988Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.source
  • 1990The Doi Luang National Park, covering areas in Chiang Rai, Lampang, and Phayao provinces, was inaugurated.source
  • 1991April 16–18 – General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev begins the first ever visit of a Soviet leader to Japan, but fails to resolve the two countries' dispute over ownership of the Kuril Islands.source
  • 1992President of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is ousted and detained by Muslim rebels moving towards Kabul, setting the stage for the civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96).source
  • 1993Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is declared a UN-protected "safe area". Also members of the Jokeri unit of the HVO entered the village of Ahmići and killed 120 Muslim residents.source
  • 2003The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens between the European Union and ten countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia), concerning these countries' accession into the EU, leading to the 2004 enlargement of the European Union.source
  • 2003The Helsingin Sanomat reports that in late March, a RITEG-beacon was disassembled by thieves in Kurgolovo, Russia, who dumped the highly radioactive nuclear material into the Gulf of Finland, 100 km south of Finland.source
  • 2007Virginia tech massacre: 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho fatally shoots 32 people and injured 17 others, before committing suicide as police arrive on the scene.source
  • 2007April 15–22 – Three major marathon races were won by Kenyan men: Rotterdam Marathon was won by Joshua Chelanga, Boston Marathon by Robert Cheruiyot and London Marathon by Martin Lel.source
  • 2014The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing 304 people, mostly high school students.source
  • 2016Mariam Fardous became the first ever Arab woman and only the third woman in history to dive in the North Pole.source
  • 2016April 14–16 – A series of major earthquakes strikes southwestern Japan, killing 277 people and injuring 2,809.source
  • 2016An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes northwestern Ecuador killing 676 people and injuring over 6,000. Widespread damage was caused across Manabí Province, with structures hundreds of kilometres away from the epicenter collapsing.source
  • 2016an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.8 struck Ecuador near the towns of Muisne and Pedernales, killing more than 650 people.source
  • 2019The Howse Peak avalanche kills three noted mountaineers: Austrians Hansjörg Auer and David Lama, and Canadian Jess Roskelley.source
  • 2020Forty-two people die after drinking adulterated alcohol from three clandestine distilleries in the Dominican Republic.source

Births

  • 1075Orderic Vitalis, English Benedictine chroniclersource
  • 1127Felix of Valois, French nobleman and hermit (died 1212)source
  • 1220Ambrose of Sienna, Italian missionary (died 1287)source
  • 1226Mugaku Sogen, Chinese monk and adviser (died 1286)source
  • 1435Jan II the Mad, Duke of Żagań (1439–1449 and 1461–1468 and again in 1472) (died 1504)source
  • 1488Jungjong of Joseon (died 1544)source
  • 1495Petrus Apianus, German humanist (died 1552)source
  • 1497Mōri Motonari, Japanese daimyō (died 1571)source
  • 1516Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (died 1550)source
  • 1569John Davies, English poet and lawyer (died 1626)source
  • 1607Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, French duke (died 1611)source
  • 1630Lambert van Haven, architect (died 1695)source
  • 1646Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French Baroque architect (died 1708)source
  • 1646Christian V of Denmark (died 1699)source
  • 1660Hans Sloane, British physician (died 1753)source
  • 1661Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (died 1715)source
  • 1663Maria Elizabeth of Zweibrücken, princess (died 1748)source
  • 1682John Hadley, English inventor (died 1744)source
  • 1693Mary Alexander, British American merchant (died 1760)source
  • 1693Anne Sophie Reventlow, Danish royal consort, Queen of Denmark-Norway (died 1743)source
  • 1693Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1743)source
  • 1728Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (died 1799)source
  • 1730Henry Clinton, British general (died 1795)source
  • 1755Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)source
  • 1786John Franklin, British naval officer and explorer (died 1847)source
  • 1865Harry Chauvel, Australian Army general (died 1945)source
  • 1867Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Orville (died 1912)source
  • 1881Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, British politician (died 1959)source
  • 1889Charlie Chaplin, English comic actor, film director (died 1977)source
  • 1927Pope Benedict XVI (died 2022)source
  • 1939Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (died 1999)source
  • 1971Selena, American singer (died 1995)source

Deaths

  • 69Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman emperor (born AD 32)source
  • 665Fructuosus of Braga, French archbishopsource
  • 963William I, German noblemansource
  • 1039William III, count of Weimar and Eichsfeldsource
  • 1090Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (born 1040)source
  • 1106Arnold I, Lotharingian noblemansource
  • 1113Sviatopolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1050)source
  • 1113Sviatopolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev, dies after a 20-year reign and is succeeded by his 60-year-old cousin Vladimir II Monomakh. He begins a campaign against the Cumans on the steppe in an effort to reunite the land of Kievan Rus'.source
  • 1117Magnus Erlendsson, Norse earl of Orkney (born 1080)source
  • 1118Adelaide del Vasto, countess of Sicilysource
  • 1118William d'Évreux, Norman noblemansource
  • 1148Robert de Bethune, bishop of Herefordsource
  • 1148Roger de Clinton, bishop of Coventrysource
  • 1153Piotr Włostowic, Polish nobleman (born 1080)source
  • 1198Frederick I (the Catholic), duke of Austria (born 1175)source
  • 1206Kujō Yoshitsune, Japanese nobleman (born 1169)source
  • 1214April 16 or 26 – Henry VI, Count Palatine of the Rhine ("the Younger"), German nobleman (born 1196)source
  • 1234Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman (born 1191)source
  • 1234Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (born 1191).source
  • 1249Contardo of Este, Italian nobleman (born 1216)source
  • 1292Thibaud Gaudin, French nobleman and Grand Mastersource
  • 1375John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (born 1347)source
  • 1378Mujahid Shah, ruler of the Bahmani Sultanate in what is now the Karnataka state in southern India, is assassinated by his uncle, Da'ud Shah, while traveling between Adoni and Kulbarga. Da'ud and three accomplices enter Mujahid's tent and stab him to death, after which Da'ud declares himself to be the new Sultan of Bahmani.source
  • 1485Vuk Grgurevic Brancovic, the Despot of Serbia under Hungarian rule, dies after a reign of 14 years, bringing the Brankovic dynasty to an end, leaving the office vacant and prompting Hungary's King Matthias Corvinus to find a suitable heir.source
  • 1496Duke Charles II of Savoy (born 1489)source
  • 1534Kemalpaşazâde, Ottoman historian (born 1468)source
  • 1587Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born c. 1510)source
  • 1594Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (born 1559), second in line to the throne of Englandsource
  • 1661Joachim Gersdorff dies suddenly, giving rise to rumours that he has been poisoned. His wife Øllegaard Huitfeld and a maidservant are convicted of murder.source
  • 1687George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet (born 1628)source
  • 1689Aphra Behn, British playwright, poet and spy (born 1640)source
  • 1715Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, Colonial governor of Maryland (born 1679)source
  • 1731Bartholomæus Deichman, bishop (born 1671).source
  • 1748Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India (born 1702)source
  • 1788Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (born 1707)source
  • 1796Molly Brant Mohawk United Empire Loyalist (born c.1736)source
  • 1828Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (born 1746)source
  • 1859Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (born 1805)source
  • 1870Domnița Rallou Caragea, Greek princess, independence activist (born 1799)source
  • 1879Bernadette Soubirous, French Roman Catholic saint (born 1844)source
  • 1913Miroslav Kraljević, painter (born 1885)source
  • 1958Rosalind Franklin, English crystallographer (born 1920)source
  • 1992Andy Russell, 72, American singer, complications from a stroke.source
  • 20242024 Persian Gulf floods: At least 32 people are killed when heavy rainfall strikes the Middle East, causing flash flooding. This caused many disruptions for the airline Emirates at Dubai International Airport.source