What happened on January 8? There are more than 350 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 8
January 8 is the 8th day of the year 2024. There are 358 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 2nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Porthill, Idaho 83853 sunrise occured at 07:36 AM and sunset occured at 04:08 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 33 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 8
- 307Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
- 871Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1297François Grimaldi, disguised as monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1499Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
- 1734Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 1746Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- 1780An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
- 1790George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1806Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- 1811An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
- 1815War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- 1835The United States national debt is 0 for the only time.
- 1838Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
- 1863American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
- 1867African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1877Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- 1889Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
- 1904The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- 1906A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- 1912The African National Congress is founded.
- 1918President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
- 1920The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- 1940World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- 1945World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units was enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
- 1956Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- 1961In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle’s policies in Algeria.
- 1962The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
- 1963Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- 1964President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
- 1971Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
- 1973Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
- 1973Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
- 1975Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
- 1977Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
- 1979The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
- 1981A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.
- 1982The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
- 1989Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
- 1989The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 on board.
- 1994Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
- 1996An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
- 2002President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
- 2003Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
- 2004The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake’s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
- 2005The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
- 2010Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
- 2011An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
Who Were Born On January 8?
- 1556Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
- 1583Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
- 1587Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
- 1601Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
- 1628François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
- 1632Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
- 1635Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop (d. 1709)
- 1735John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
- 1763Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
- 1786Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
- 1788Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
- 1788Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
- 1792Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
- 1805John Bigler, American lawyer, politician and diplomat; 3rd Governor of California; and former United States Envoy to Chile (d. 1871)
- 1805Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
- 1812Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss virtuoso pianist and composer (d. 1871)
- 1817Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
- 1821James Longstreet, American Confederate general and diplomat; and former United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire (d. 1904)
- 1821W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
- 1823Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
- 1824Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
- 1824Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
- 1830Albert Bierstadt, German/American painter (d. 1902)
- 1830Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
- 1836Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
- 1843Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
- 1843John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
- 1852James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
- 1860Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
- 1862Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
- 1864Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
- 1865Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, an American patron of French music, and of the arts, sciences, and letters (d. 1943)
- 1866William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940)
- 1867Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
- 1870Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
- 1871James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
- 1873Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
- 1873Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
- 1881Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
- 1883Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, statesman, and diplomat; 51st United States Secretary of War and former United States Ambassador to the Republic of China (d. 1963)
- 1883Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
- 1885A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967)
- 1885John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
- 1888Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
- 1888Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
- 1891Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
- 1891Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
- 1891Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
- 1894Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
- 1896Arthur Ford, American medium (d. 1971)
- 1896Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
- 1897Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
- 1899Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister (d. 1959)
- 1900Dame Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
- 1902Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
- 1902Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
- 1904Karl Brandt, Alsatian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
- 1904Tampa Red, American blues musician (d. 1981)
- 1905Franjo Šeper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
- 1905Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
- 1908William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
- 1909Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d.1995)
- 1909Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
- 1909Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
- 1909Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
- 1910Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (d. 1998)
- 1911Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress and entertainer (d. 1970)
- 1911Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
- 1912José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
- 1912Lawrence E. Walsh, American jurist and 4th United States Deputy Attorney General
- 1915Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
- 1921Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
- 1922Abbey Simon, American pianist
- 1922Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
- 1923Giorgio Tozzi, American bass
- 1923Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
- 1923Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
- 1923Larry Storch, American actor
- 1924Benjamin Lees, American composer (d. 2010)
- 1924Ron Moody, English actor
- 1925Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
- 1926Evelyn Lear, American soprano
- 1926Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
- 1926Jani Christou, Greek composer
- 1926Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
- 1926Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009)
- 1927Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
- 1928Gaston Miron, French-Canadian poet and editor (d. 1996)
- 1928Slade Gorton, American politician
- 1929Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
- 1931Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
- 1933Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
- 1933Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
- 1933Ko Un, Korean poet
- 1934Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
- 1934Gene Freese, American baseball player
- 1934Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
- 1934Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1935Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977)
- 1935Lewis H. Lapham, American writer
- 1936Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
- 1936Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
- 1937Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- 1938Bob Eubanks, American game show host
- 1938Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone
- 1939Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan fashion designer
- 1941Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
- 1941Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
- 1942Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
- 1942Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
- 1942Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian folk singer
- 1942Yvette Mimieux, American actress
- 1943Charles Murray, American author and pundit
- 1944Terry Brooks, American writer
- 1945Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
- 1945Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician
- 1945Kathleen Noone, American actress
- 1945Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
- 1946Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
- 1947David Bowie, English musician
- 1947Don Bendell, American author & karate master
- 1947Laurie Walters, American actress
- 1947Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
- 1947Terry Sylvester, English singer and musician
- 1947William Bonin, American serial killer and sex offender (d. 1996)
- 1948Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
- 1951John McTiernan, American film director
- 1951Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
- 1952Mel Reynolds, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois and convicted sex offender
- 1952Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
- 1953Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
- 1955Mike Reno, Canadian musician
- 1955Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
- 1957David Lang, American composer
- 1957Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer
- 1958Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
- 1959Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (d. 1982)
- 1959Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)
- 1961Calvin Smith, American athlete
- 1961Keith Arkell, English chess Grandmaster
- 1962Chris Marion, American musician
- 1964Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1965Maria Pitillo, American actress
- 1965Michelle Forbes, American actress
- 1966Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
- 1966Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
- 1967R. Kelly, American singer
- 1967Torsten Gowitzke, German footballer
- 1967Willie Anderson, American basketball player
- 1968Keith Mullings, American boxer
- 1969Ami Dolenz, American actress
- 1969Jeff Abercrombie, American musician
- 1970Rachel Friend, Australian actress
- 1971Jason Giambi, American baseball player
- 1971Mike Süsser, German chef
- 1971Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
- 1972Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer
- 1972Sean McKeever, American writer
- 1973Henning Solberg, Norwegian rally driver
- 1973Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1973Mark Knight, English sound designer
- 1973Mike Cameron, American baseball player
- 1974Maria Matsouka, Greek politician
- 1975DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
- 1975Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer
- 1976Carl Pavano, American baseball player
- 1976Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician
- 1976Josh Meyers, American actor
- 1977Amber Benson, American actress
- 1977Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
- 1977Melanie Seeger, German race walker
- 1977Melanie Seeger, German race walker
- 1977Ron Pederson, Canadian actor
- 1978Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
- 1978Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
- 1979Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
- 1979Mirella van Melis, Dutch track and road cyclist
- 1979Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
- 1979Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
- 1979Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
- 1979Torry Castellano, American musician (The Donnas)
- 1980Rachel Nichols, American actress
- 1981Carmen Schäfer, Swiss curler
- 1981Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
- 1981Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
- 1982Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
- 1982Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
- 1982John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
- 1982Wil Francis, American singer
- 1983Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
- 1983Felipe Colombo, Argentine/Mexican actor and singer
- 1983Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader (year disputed, possibly 1984)
- 1984Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
- 1985Rachael Lampa, American singer
- 1986David Silva, Spanish footballer
- 1986Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
- 1986Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress
- 1986Maria Ozawa, Japanese/French-Canadian pornstar
- 1987Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player
- 1988Allison Harvard, American artist and fashion model
- 1988Michael Mancienne, English footballer
- 1989Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player
- 1989Kristján Einar, Icelandic racing driver
- 1991Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
- 2000Noah Cyrus, American actress
- 2011Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine of Denmark, twin children of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
Who Died On January 8?
- 307Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 259)
- 482Saint Severinus of Noricum
- 1100Antipope Clement III (b. c.1029)
- 1107Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
- 1198Pope Celestine III (b. c. 1106)
- 1324Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
- 1337Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
- 1456St. Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
- 1464Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
- 1557Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
- 1570Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (b. c. 1510)
- 1598John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
- 1642Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
- 1664Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
- 1707John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
- 1713Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
- 1775John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
- 1789Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. c. 1703)
- 1794Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
- 1815Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
- 1825Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
- 1853Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene (Prekmurian poet and teacher in Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1788)
- 1854William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
- 1865Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
- 1874Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
- 1878Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
- 1880Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico (b. 1811)
- 1883Miska Magyarics, Slovene poet in Hungary (b. 1825)
- 1896Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
- 1896William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
- 1901John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
- 1916Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
- 1916Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
- 1918Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
- 1932Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
- 1934Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
- 1934Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
- 1938Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
- 1941Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and founder of the Scout movement (b. 1857)
- 1942Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
- 1943Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
- 1944William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
- 1945Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
- 1948Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
- 1948Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
- 1950Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
- 1953Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
- 1956Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
- 1958Mary Jane Colter, American architect (b. 1869)
- 1958Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
- 1963Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
- 1967Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
- 1969Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
- 1970Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
- 1972Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
- 1975John Gregson, English actor (b. 1919)
- 1975Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
- 1976Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
- 1976Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1898)
- 1979Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
- 1980John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
- 1981Matthew “Stymie” Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
- 1982Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
- 1983Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
- 1983Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
- 1983Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
- 1986Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
- 1990Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
- 1991Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
- 1994Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1994Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1995Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
- 1996François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
- 1996Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
- 1996John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
- 1997Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1998Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
- 2000Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
- 2002Alexander Mikhaylovich Prokhorov, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
- 2002Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
- 2003Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
- 2004John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
- 2005Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
- 2005Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
- 2005Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer (b. 1954)
- 2006Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
- 2007David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
- 2007Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
- 2007Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
- 2007Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
- 2007Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
- 2008George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
- 2009Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American Christian writer and editor (b. 1936)
- 2010Monica Maughan, Australian actor (b. 1933)
- 2010Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (b. 1963)
- 2011John Roll, United States federal judge (b.1947)
- 2011Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
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