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On September 17, 2007, a [[University of Florida]] student was stunned by police with a [[taser]] at a forum featuring then–[[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[John Kerry]].
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Kerry was addressing a [[Constitution Day (United States)|Constitution Day]] forum at the University of Florida campus in [[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]] that was organized by the [[ACCENT Speakers Bureau]], an agency of the university's [[student government]]. Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate [[mass communication]] student, had initially been allowed to ask a question after the close of the question period. He asked Kerry whether he was a member of the [[Skull and Bones]] society and used the term "[[blowjob]]" in reference to the [[impeachment of Bill Clinton]]. Meyer was forcibly pulled away from the microphone. He was immediately restrained, removed, and subsequently arrested by [[campus police|university police]]. During his arrest, Meyer struggled and screamed for help. While six officers held Meyer down,<ref name="alligator">{{cite web|last=Wilmath|first=Kim|date=October 30, 2007|title=Meyer apologizes in letter to students|url=http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/10/30/news/campus/meyer.txt|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113210850/http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/10/30/news/campus/meyer.txt|archive-date=November 13, 2007|access-date=November 30, 2016|work=The Independent Florida Alligator}}</ref> one of the officers [[Taser#Drive Stun|drive-stunned]] him with a taser following Meyer's shouted plea to the police "Don't tase me, bro!"
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Several videos of the episode were posted online, with one version reaching eight million views on [[YouTube]].<ref name="thevideoitself">{{cite web|author=GainesvilleSun|date=September 17, 2007|title=Video "University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum"|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/6bVa6jn4rpE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=May 1, 2021|website=youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The ''[[New Oxford American Dictionary]]'' listed ''tase,'' or "''taze"'' as one of the words of the year for 2007, popularized by the widespread use of Meyer's phrase. Meyer registered "Don't tase me, bro" as a [[trademark]] in September 2007.<ref name="washingtonpost_2011" />
==Events==
Below, the events of [[World War II]] have the "WWII" prefix.
 
===January= Details ==
{{Main|January 1943}}
* [[January 1]] – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at [[Stalingrad]], with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* [[January 4]] – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur [[Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz]] is executed by the Germans at [[Kaisariani]].
* [[January 10]] &ndash; WWII: [[Guadalcanal campaign|Guadalcanal Campaign]]: American forces of the [[2nd Marine Division]] and the [[25th Infantry Division (United States)|25th Infantry Division]] begin their assaults on the [[Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse#Galloping Horse|Galloping Horse and Sea Horse]] on [[Guadalcanal]]. Meanwhile, the Japanese [[Seventeenth Army (Japan)|17th Army]] makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal.<ref>Frank, Richard (1990). ''Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle'', pp. 553–554. New York: Random House. {{ISBN|0-394-58875-4}}.</ref>
* [[January 11]]
** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously [[unequal treaty]] relationships with the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]].
** Italian-American anarchist [[Carlo Tresca]] is assassinated in New York City.
* [[January 12]] – WWII: [[Landing at Amchitka]]: American forces make an unopposed landing on [[Amchitka]], an island of the [[Aleutian Islands]], southwest of [[Alaska]]. The destroyer [[USS Worden (DD-352)|USS ''Worden'']] moves into [[Constantine Harbor]] and disembarks a detachment of Alaska Scouts. During a maneuver, a strong current sweeps ''Worden'' onto a pinnacle rock that tears up the hull beneath the engine room – leaving the destroyer powerless. Later, ''Worden'' gets the order to abandon the ship and suffers the death of 14 Americans before the crew is rescued. After the island is cleared of Japanese, transports land some 2,100 men by the end of the day.<ref>Kohlhoff, Dean (2011). ''Amchitka and the bomb; nuclear testing in Alaska''. University of Washington Press. {{ISBN|9780295800509}}.</ref>
* [[January 13]] – Anti-[[Nazi]] protests in [[Sofia]] result in 200 arrests and 36 executions.
* [[January 14]]–[[January 24|24]] – WWII: [[Casablanca Conference]]: [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], President of the United States; [[Winston Churchill]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals [[Charles de Gaulle]] and [[Henri Giraud]] of the [[Free French forces]] meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in [[Casablanca]], [[Morocco]], to plan the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] European strategy for the next stage of the war.
* [[January 15]] – WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign – [[Operation Ke]]: Japanese forces begin to withdraw from Guadalcanal in the [[Solomon Islands]].
* [[January 16]] – [[Iraq]] declares war on the [[Axis powers]].
* [[January 18]]
** WWII: [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] officials announce that the [[Red Army]] has broken the [[Wehrmacht]]'s [[siege of Leningrad]] as part of [[Operation Iskra]], opening a narrow land corridor to the city. [[Georgy Zhukov]] is promoted to [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]].
** The first [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] begins: several day's engagements with the Germans limits the number of Jews deported at this time.
* [[January 21]] – WWII: [[Pan Am Flight 1104]] – [[Pan American Airways]] [[Martin M-130]] [[flying boat]] crashes about {{convert|7|smi|km|abbr=on}} southwest of [[Ukiah, California]]. All 10 passengers and 9 crew aboard are killed, including Admiral [[Robert Henry English|Robert H. English]] (at this time <small>[[COMSUBPAC]]</small>).
* [[January 22]]
** WWII: [[Battle of Buna–Gona]]: American and Australian forces secure control of the [[territory of Papua]].
** [[The Holocaust]]: [[Round up of Marseille]] begins – Over 4,000 Jews are arrested in Nazi-occupied [[Marseille]] as part of "Action Tiger", before being transported to [[extermination camp]]s in Poland.
* [[January 23]]
** WWII: British forces capture [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] from the [[Kingdom of Italy|Italians]].
** American critic and commentator [[Alexander Woollcott]] suffers an eventually fatal heart attack, during a regular broadcast of the [[CBS]] Radio [[Round table (discussion)|round-table]] program ''People's Platform''.
* [[January 27]] – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American [[airstrike|air raid]] against Germany: [[Wilhelmshaven]] is the target.
* [[January 29]]
** WWII: [[Operation Gallop]]: Russian forces of the [[Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)|Southwestern Front]] under General [[Nikolai Vatutin]] begin an offensive in the [[Donbas]] and break through the weak-defended German lines to the west of [[Luhansk|Voroshilovgrad]].<ref>Glantz, David M. (1995). ''When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler'', pp. 143–147. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. {{ISBN|0-70060-899-0}}.</ref>
** Nazi German police arrest alleged [[necrophiliac]] and [[serial killer]] [[Bruno Lüdke]].
** The [[United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve]] (MCWR) is created.
* [[January 29]]–[[January 30|30]] – WWII: [[Battle of Rennell Island]] – The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] resists the United States Navy's attempt to interrupt the [[Operation Ke|withdrawal of Japanese forces]] from [[Guadalcanal]], in the last major [[naval battle]] of the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]].
* [[January 29]]–[[January 31|31]] – WWII: [[Battle of Wau]] – Australian forces, with United States support, resist a Japanese advance in the [[New Guinea campaign]].
* [[January 30]] – WWII: German General [[Friedrich Paulus]] is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal and instructed to fight to the death in [[Volgograd|Stalingrad]], while [[Karl Dönitz]] is promoted to Commander in Chief of the German Navy, replacing [[Erich Raeder]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Levine|title=From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide: World War II, 1939-1943|publisher=Potomac Books|year=2012|page=188}}</ref>
 
===February Student ===
{{Main|February 1943}}
* [[February 2]] – WWII: In Russia, the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] comes to an end, with the surrender of the [[6th Army (Wehrmacht)|German 6th Army]].
* [[February 3]] – WWII: The [[Four Chaplains]] of the U.S. Army are among those drowned when their ship, {{SS|Dorchester||2}}, is struck by a German [[torpedo]] in the North Atlantic.
* [[February 5]] – Lt. General [[Frank M. Andrews]] is selected to command the U.S. armies in Europe, while General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] is assigned command in North Africa. Andrews will serve only 3 months, before dying in an airplane crash.
* [[February 6]] – WWII: RCN corvette [[HMCS Louisburg (K143)|HMCS ''Louisburg'']] is bombed and sunk off [[Oran]], [[Algeria]] by Italian aircraft.
* [[February 7]] – WWII: North Atlantic [[convoy SC 118]] is attacked by [[U-boat]]s, who sink 8 ships.<ref>{{citation|author=((Waters, John M. Jr., CAPT USCG))|title=Stay Tough |publisher=United States Naval Institute Proceedings |date=December 1966}}</ref>
* [[February 9]]
** WWII: The [[Guadalcanal Campaign]] in the [[Solomon Islands]] ends with United States forces in command of [[Guadalcanal]], the evacuation of Japanese forces in [[Operation Ke]] having been completed two days earlier.
** WWII: [[Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia]] by the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] begin, with the [[Parośla I massacre]] within the [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]].
** [[The Holocaust]]: [[Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup]] – The [[Gestapo]] arrested 86 Jews in [[Lyon]], 83 of whom were then sent to extermination camps.
* [[February 10]]–[[March 3]] – [[Mohandas Gandhi]] (under arrest by forces of the [[British Raj]] in [[Pune]] as a member of the [[Quit India Movement]]) keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
* [[February 13]] – WWII: [[Chindits#Operation Longcloth|Operation Longcloth]]: Chindit forces (some 3,000 men) of the [[77th Indian Infantry Brigade]] under Brigadier General [[Orde Wingate]] cross the [[Chindwin River]] and proceed into [[Myanmar|Burma]].<ref>Rooney, David (2000). ''Wingate and the Chindits'', p. 81. London: Cassell Military Paperbacks. {{ISBN|0-304-35452-X}}.</ref>
* [[February 14]] – WWII: [[Rostov-on-Don]] and [[Luhansk|Voroshilovgrad]] in Russia are liberated.
* [[February 14]]–[[February 17|17]] – WWII: [[Battle of Sidi Bou Zid]]: In the [[Tunisia Campaign]], German [[Panzer division]]s commanded by [[Hans-Jürgen von Arnim]] are victorious over the United States Army.
* [[February 16]] – WWII: The [[Soviet Union]] reconquers [[Kharkiv]], but is later driven out in the [[Third Battle of Kharkov|Third Battle of Kharkiv]].
* [[February 18]]
** In a [[Sportpalast speech|''Sportpalast'' speech]] in Berlin, German Propaganda Minister [[Joseph Goebbels]] declares a "[[total war]]" against the Allies, tacitly admitting that [[Nazi Germany]] faces serious dangers.
** The [[Nazism|Nazis]] arrest the members of the [[White Rose]] [[German resistance to Nazism|German Resistance]] movement.
* [[February 19]]–[[February 24|24]] – WWII: [[Battle of Kasserine Pass]]: German General [[Erwin Rommel]]'s [[Afrika Korps]] and other [[Axis powers|Axis]] forces launch an offensive against [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] defenses in [[Tunisia]]; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war. On February 22, an Anglo-American force halts the German advance near [[Thala, Tunisia|Thala]], forcing the Germans to retreat; US bombers harass the retreating Panzers.
* [[February 20]]
** American [[movie studio]] executives agree to allow the [[Office of War Information]] to [[Censorship|censor]] movies.
** The [[Parícutin]] [[volcano]] begins to appear in a cornfield in Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html|title=The Eruption of Parícutin (1943–1952)|work=How Volcanoes Work|access-date=2012-10-23|archive-date=June 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604150645/http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_paricutin.html|title=Parícutin, Mexico|work=Volcano World|access-date=2012-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206080150/http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_paricutin.html|archive-date=February 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mnh.si.edu/onehundredyears/expeditions/Paricutin.html|title=Parícutin: The Birth of a Volcano|publisher=[[Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History]]|access-date=2012-10-23|archive-date=January 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103191416/http://www.mnh.si.edu/onehundredyears/expeditions/Paricutin.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – WWII: North Atlantic [[convoy ON 166]] is attacked by [[U-boat]]s, which sink eleven ships.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945|author=Rohwer, J. |author2=Hummelchen, G.|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1992|page=194|isbn=1-55750-105-X}}</ref>
* [[February 22]]
**WWII: RCN corvette [[HMCS Weyburn (K173)|HMCS ''Weyburn'']] sinks east of [[Gibraltar]], after being [[naval mine|mined]].
**Members of the [[White Rose]] are executed in [[Nazi Germany]].
* [[February 23]]–[[February 24|24]] – [[Cavan Orphanage Fire]]: 35 girls and a cook from St Joseph's [[Orphanage]], an [[Industrial Schools in Ireland|industrial school]] at [[Cavan]], Ireland, are killed in a fire in their dormitories. A subsequent inquiry absolves the [[Poor Clares]] of blame.
* [[February 24]] – WWII: [[1943 Greek protests against labour mobilization|First major protest march]] in Athens against rumours of forced mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany, resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police. Demonstrators attack the Labour Ministry and burn its files.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mazower|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Mazower|title=Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44|year=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-06552-3|location=New Haven and London | page=116}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Grigoriadis | first = Solon | author-link = Solon Grigoriadis | title = Ιστορία της Σύγχρονης Ελλάδας 1941-1974. Τόμος 1 – Κατοχή: Η μεγάλη νύχτα | trans-title = History of Modern Greece 1941-1974. Volume 1 – The Occupation: The Great Night | language = Greek | publisher = POLARIS | location = Athens | year = 2011 | orig-date=1973 | isbn = 978-960-9487-63-4 | page=313}}</ref>
* [[February 28]]
** WWII: The funeral of Greece's [[national poet]], [[Kostis Palamas]], turns into a demonstration against the [[Axis occupation of Greece]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mazower|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Mazower|title=Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44|year=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-06552-3|location=New Haven and London | pages=117–118}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Grigoriadis | first = Solon | author-link = Solon Grigoriadis | title = Ιστορία της Σύγχρονης Ελλάδας 1941-1974. Τόμος 1 – Κατοχή: Η μεγάλη νύχτα | trans-title = History of Modern Greece 1941-1974. Volume 1 – The Occupation: The Great Night | language = Greek | publisher = POLARIS | location = Athens | year = 2011 | orig-date=1973 | isbn = 978-960-9487-63-4 | pages=309–312}}</ref>
** WWII: [[Operation Gunnerside]]: 6 Norwegians, led by [[Joachim Rønneberg]], successfully attack the [[heavy water]] plant at [[Vemork]].
 
At the time of the incident, Andrew Meyer was an undergraduate student at the [[University of Florida]]. Born in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]],<ref name="offensereport" /> he attended [[Cypress Bay High School]] in [[Weston, Florida]], where he worked at the [[school newspaper]], ''The Circuit'', and was a member of the [[National Honor Society]]. At the [[University of Florida]], Meyer worked as a columnist for the college paper ''[[Independent Florida Alligator]]''. Meyer has stated that he writes "mostly whimsical nonsense columns about nothing in particular, yet occasionally finds himself angry enough to rain down [[fire and brimstone]] on an unsuspecting politician or celebrity."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freewebs.com/newforum/bioandpersonalstories.htm |title=Andrew Meyer |publisher=The New Forum |access-date=September 22, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070918232133/http://www.freewebs.com/newforum/bioandpersonalstories.htm |archive-date=September 18, 2007 |df=mdy }}</ref>
===March===
{{Main|March 1943}}
[[File:A20BismarckSea.jpg|thumb|A low level attack on a Japanese ship during the [[Battle of the Bismarck Sea]]]]
[[File:Krakow Ghetto 06694.jpg|thumb|Jewish prisoners being deported from the [[Kraków Ghetto]]]]
* [[March]] – Exiled French aviator [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]'s self-illustrated children's [[novella]], ''[[The Little Prince]]'', is published in [[New York City]], the all-time [[List of best-selling books|best-selling book]] originating in French.
* [[March]]–[[December]] – [[History of computing hardware]]: British prototype Mark I [[Colossus computer]] is constructed (the world's first totally ''electronic'' programmable computing device) to assist in [[cryptanalysis]] of German signals at [[Bletchley Park]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Copeland |editor-first=B. Jack |year=2006 |title=Colossus: the Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-284055-4}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] – [[Heinz Guderian]] becomes Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the [[German Army (Wehrmacht)|German Army]].
* [[March 1]]–[[March 2|2]] – WWII: [[Koriukivka massacre]] – 6,700 inhabitants of [[Koriukivka]] are murdered in [[Ukraine]], by a [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[SS]] unit.
* [[March 2]] – WWII: [[Battle of the Bismarck Sea]] – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships, then strafe survivors in the water.<ref>{{cite book |last=Caidin |first=Martin |orig-date=1966 |year=1978 |title=The Ragged, Rugged Warriors |publisher=Bantam |page=37 |quote=The American and Australian planes swept up and down the Bismarck Sea, shooting at any sign of life. Cannon shells and streams of bullets tore into Japanese on life rafts.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mallison |first1=Sally V. |last2=Mallison |first2=W. Thomas |editor-last=Roberson |editor-first=Horace B. Jr. |title=Chapter IX, Naval Targeting: Lawful Objects of Attack |journal=International Law Studies |volume=64 |page=257 |url=https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1757&context=ils#page=17 |quote=Once the ships were sunk, the U.S. Armed Forces followed practices, much criticized when the offenders were German or Japanese, of killing as many of the helpless survivors in the water as possible.}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] – 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an [[air-raid shelter]] at [[Bethnal Green tube station|Bethnal Green, London]].
* [[March 4]]
** As part of [[The Holocaust in Bulgarian-occupied Greece]], almost all Jews in the region are rounded up to be taken to [[Treblinka extermination camp]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Chary|first=Frederick B.|author-link=Frederick B. Chary|title=The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, 1940–1944|year=1972|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=978-0-8229-3251-2}}</ref>
** The [[15th Academy Awards]] ceremony is held in Los Angeles. ''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'' wins the [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] Award.
* [[March 4]]–[[March 6|6]] – WWII: [[Battle of Fardykambos]] – Greek partisans and armed civilians force the surrender of an Italian army battalion.
* [[March 5]]
** WWII: [[1943 Greek protests against labour mobilization|General strike and protest march]] in Athens against rumours of forced mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany, resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police. The decree is withdrawn on the next day.<ref>{{cite book | last = Fleischer | first = Hagen | author-link = | title = Krieg und Nachkrieg: Das schwierige deutsch-griechische Jahrhundert | trans-title = War and Post-War: The Difficult German–Greek Century | publisher = Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | year = 2020 | location = Cologne | language = de | isbn = 978-341251790-8 | pages=61–62}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Mazower|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Mazower|title=Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44|year=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-06552-3|location=New Haven and London | pages=118–119}}</ref>
** The [[Gloster Meteor]], the first [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[Fighter aircraft#Jet-powered fighters|jet fighter]], makes its first flight, in England.
* [[March 9]]–[[March 10|10]] – WWII: North Atlantic [[convoy SC 121]] is attacked by [[U-boat]]s sinking seven ships.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rohwer |first1=J. |last2=Hummelchen |first2=G. |year=1992 |title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=1-55750-105-X |page=196}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] – [[Şükrü Saracoğlu]] forms the new government of Turkey (14th government; Şükrü Saracoğlu had served twice as a prime minister).
* [[March 10]] – [[Banco Bradesco]] is founded in [[Marília]], [[São Paulo]], Brazil.
* [[March 12]]
** WWII: [[Italian occupation of Greece]]: The Italian occupying forces abandon the town of [[Karditsa]] to the partisans. On the same day, an Italian motorized column razes the village of [[Tsaritsani]], burning 360 of its 600 houses and shooting 40 civilians.
** [[Aaron Copland]]'s ''[[Fanfare for the Common Man]]'' is premiered by the [[Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra]].
* [[March 13]] – [[The Holocaust]]: [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] forces liquidate the Jews of the [[Kraków Ghetto]], in [[Occupation of Poland (1939–45)|Occupied Poland]].
* [[March 14]] – WWII: British submarine [[HMS Thetis (N25)|HMS ''Thunderbolt'']] is sunk off [[Sicily]] by an Italian [[corvette]], the second time this vessel has been lost with all hands.<ref>{{cite web |title=HMS Thunderbolt (N 25) |work=uboat.net |url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3485.html |access-date=2010-10-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Warren |first1=C. E. T. |last2=Benson |first2=James |year=1958 |title="The Admiralty regrets ...": the story of His Majesty's submarine Thetis and Thunderbolt |publisher=Harrap |location=London}}</ref>
* [[March 15]] – WWII:
** [[Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci (1939)|Italian submarine ''Leonardo da Vinci'']] sinks [[Canadian Pacific Railway|Canadian Pacific]] [[Ocean liner|liner]] [[RMS Empress of Canada (1920)|RMS ''Empress of Canada'']] off [[Sierra Leone]]. Nearly half of the 392 fatalities are Italian [[prisoners of war]].
** German forces recapture [[Kharkiv]] after four days of house-to-house fighting against [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops, ending the month-long [[Third Battle of Kharkov|Third Battle of Kharkiv]].
* [[March 16]] – WWII: [[Battle of the Mareth Line]]: Allied forces of the British [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|8th Army]] under General [[Bernard Montgomery]] launch an offensive against the [[Mareth Line]] held by the Italo-German [[1st Army (Italy)|1st Army]].<ref>Ford, Ken (2012). ''The Mareth Line 1943: The End in Africa 1941–43''. Oxford: Osprey. {{ISBN|978-1-78200-299-4}}.</ref>
* [[March 16]]–[[March 19|19]] – WWII: 22 ships from [[Convoys HX 229/SC 122]] and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic U-boat "[[Wolfpack (naval tactic)|wolfpack]]" attack of the war.
* [[March 17]] ([[Saint Patrick's Day]]) – [[Éamon de Valera]], [[Taoiseach]] of the [[Republic of Ireland]], makes the speech "[[The Ireland That We Dreamed Of]]", commonly called the "comely maidens" speech, in [[Dublin Castle]].
* [[March 22]] – WWII: [[Khatyn massacre]] – The entire population of [[Khatyn]], [[Belarus]] is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
* [[March 23]] – The drugs [[Vicodin]] and [[Lortab]] are first produced in Germany.
* [[March 26]] – WWII: [[Battle of the Komandorski Islands]]: In the [[Aleutian Islands]], the battle begins when [[United States Navy]] forces intercept Japanese troops attempting to reinforce a garrison at [[Kiska]]. During the engagement, heavy cruiser [[USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)|USS ''Salt Lake City'']] is severely damaged by Japanese cruiser gunfire. Lasting for three and a half hours, it will be the longest continuous gunnery duel in modern naval history.
* [[March 27]] – WWII: British [[Royal Navy]] [[escort carrier]] {{HMS|Dasher|D37}} is destroyed by an accidental explosion in the [[Firth of Clyde]], killing 379 of the crew of 528.
* [[March 28]] – In Italy a ship full of weapons and ammunition explodes in the port of [[Naples]], killing 600.
 
He received international publicity when videos were posted of police tasering him at the town hall forum featuring Senator Kerry.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moses |first=Asher|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/web/dont-tase-me-bro/2007/09/20/1189881651002.htm |title='Don't Tase me, bro!' a global sensation |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=September 20, 2007 |access-date=July 25, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> ''[[The Miami Herald]]'' stated that "Meyer's grandmother, Lucy Meyer of [[Pembroke Pines, Florida]], told ''The Miami Herald'' that he is a hardworking student with no prior run-ins with the law." She also said, "He gets very, very overcome with passion for whatever he is feeling. Maybe that passion took over."<ref>{{cite news |title=Student Tasered at Kerry forum has a penchant for practical jokes |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/18/america/NA-GEN-US-Student-Tasered.php |work=[[International Herald Tribune]] |date=September 17, 2007 |access-date=July 25, 2008 }}</ref>
===April===
{{Main|April 1943}}
* [[April 3]] – Shipwrecked steward [[Poon Lim]], BEM, is rescued by Brazilian fishermen after being adrift for 133 days.
* [[April 13]] – WWII: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by [[Wehrmacht]] of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the [[Katyn massacre]].
* [[April 19]]
** [[History of lysergic acid diethylamide]]: [[Albert Hofmann]] self-administers the psychedelic drug [[LSD]] (which he first synthesized in [[1938]]) for the first time in history and records the details of his experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psychedelic-library.org|first=Albert|last=Hofmann|title=LSD — My Problem Child|work=The Psychedelic Library|access-date=2020-01-19}}</ref>
** [[The Holocaust]]: The [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] begins when Nazi troops enter the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] to round up remaining Jews.
* [[April 21]] – WWII:
** [[Aberdeen]], Scotland, experiences its worst bombing, with 125 people killed.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140425115108/http://news.stv.tv/north/222033-aberdeen-suffered-its-own-blitzkrieg-70-years-ago-this-weekend/ Bombing of Aberdeen], news.stv.tv; accessed December 6, 2014.</ref>
** The first German [[Tiger I]] tank is captured in North Africa by British forces.
* [[April 25]] – [[Easter]] occurs on the latest possible date (last time [[1886]]; next time [[2038]]) in the [[Western Christianity|Western Christian Church]].
* [[April 27]] – The U.S. [[Federal Writers' Project]] ceases operation.
 
''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]],'' an American [[Breakfast television|morning television show]], interviewed Meyer a month after the incident, once he had negotiated probation.<ref>{{cite news|title='Don't Tase me, bro' student breaks silence|url=http://www.today.com/id/21558022/ns/today-today_people/t/dont-tase-me-bro-student-breaks-silence/|work=TODAYshow.com|date=October 31, 2007|access-date=March 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922081631/http://www.today.com/id/21558022/ns/today-today_people/t/dont-tase-me-bro-student-breaks-silence/|archive-date=September 22, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
===May===
{{Main|May 1943}}
[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 08.jpg|thumb|This photograph, from the [[Stroop Report]], shows captured fighters in the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]].]]
[[File:Mohne Dam Breached.jpg|thumb|The [[Möhne Dam]] breached following [[Operation Chastise]], carried out by the [[No. 617 Squadron RAF|"Dambusters"]] of the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]].]]
* [[May 6]] – WWII: Six U-boats are sunk, after sinking 12 ships from [[Convoy ONS 5]], in the last major North Atlantic U-boat "[[Wolfpack (naval tactic)|wolfpack]]" attack of the war.
* [[May 9]]–[[May 12|12]] – Japanese troops carry out the [[Changjiao massacre]] in Changjiao, [[Hunan]], China.
* [[May 11]] – WWII: American troops invade [[Attu Island|Attu]] in the [[Aleutian Islands]], in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
* [[May 12]] – The [[Washington Conference (1943)|Third Washington Conference]] ("Trident") begins in Washington, D.C., with [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] taking part.
* [[May 13]] – WWII: German [[Afrika Korps]] and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces.
* [[May 14]] – WWII:
** [[AHS Centaur|Australian Hospital Ship ''Centaur'']] is sunk off the coast of Queensland by {{ship|Japanese submarine |I-177}}, killing 268 of the 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard.
** The [[358th Bombardment Squadron]], [[303d Bombardment Group]] [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress variants#B-17F|B-17F]] ''Hell's Angels'' is the first [[USAAF]] [[bomber]] to complete 25 missions.
* [[May 15]] – WWII:
** [[Case Black|Operation Case Black]]: Axis forces begin a joint offensive, with the aim of destroying the [[Yugoslav Partisans]], in south-eastern [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]]. During the offensive, some 7,500 partisans are killed or wounded.<ref>Tomasevich, Jozo (1975). ''The Chetniks'', p. 255. Stanford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0804708579}}.</ref>
** The [[Comintern]] is dissolved in Moscow.
* [[May 16]]–[[May 17|17]] – WWII: [[Operation Chastise]] (the 'Dambuster Raid') takes place: [[No. 617 Squadron RAF]] use [[bouncing bomb]]s to breach German dams in the [[Ruhr Valley]].
* [[May 16]] – [[Holocaust]]: The [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] ends. 13,000 Jews have been killed in the ghetto and almost all the remaining 50,000 residents are deported to [[Majdanek concentration camp|Majdanek]] and [[Treblinka extermination camp]]s.
* [[May 17]] – WWII:
** The [[United States Army]] contracts with the [[University of Pennsylvania]]'s Moore School to develop the computer [[ENIAC]].
** The ''[[Memphis Belle (aircraft)|Memphis Belle's]]'' crew becomes the first aircrew in the [[8th Air Force]] to complete its 25-mission tour of duty. The aircraft and crew are the first to return to the U.S. intact for a War Bond drive.
* [[May 19]] – [[Winston Churchill]] addresses a [[joint session of the United States Congress]].
* [[May 23]] – WWII: The [[battleship]] {{USS|New Jersey|BB-62}} is commissioned at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
* [[May 24]] – WWII: Admiral [[Karl Dönitz]] orders most of the U-boats to withdraw from the [[Atlantic Sea]]. Allied anti-submarine tactics are causing huge losses. Only 41 U-boats are operational for duty, Dönitz orders the suspension of all Atlantic operations.<ref>Syrett, David (1994). ''The Defeat of the German U-boats: The Battle of the Atlantic'', p. 145. Columbia: university of South Carolina Press. {{ISBN|978-1-41022-139-1}}.</ref>
* [[May 27]] – The port city of [[Maizuru]] is founded in Japan.
* [[May 29]] – [[Norman Rockwell]]'s illustration of '[[Rosie the Riveter]]' first appears, on the cover of ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]''.
* [[May 30]] – WWII:
** Chinese 6th War Area commander [[Chen Cheng]] orders a large counteroffensive in [[Hubei|Hubei Province]] and pushes the Japanese forces of the [[Eleventh Army (Japan)|11th Army]] back at multiple locations.<ref>Tuchman, Barbara W. (2001). ''Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45'', p. 373. {{ISBN|9780802138521}}.</ref>
** [[The Holocaust]]: [[Josef Mengele]] begins his position as a medical officer in the [[Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp]].
** The [[Battle of Attu]] ends in the Aleutian Islands with an American victory over the Japanese forces there.
 
Meyer later attended the [[Florida International University College of Law]],<ref name="washingtonpost_2011" /> and registered "Don't tase me, bro" as a [[trademark]] in September 2007, using the publicity to sell T-shirts on his website.<ref name="washingtonpost_2011">{{cite news|title=Whatever Happened To ... the college kid who got tased by police at a Kerry forum?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/whatever-happened-to--the-college-kid-who-got-tased-by-police-at-a-kerry-forum/2011/04/26/AFQq3W7G_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 26, 2011|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Nathan|last=Crabbe|title=Three years later, "Don't Tase me, bro" guy speaks|url=http://chalkboard.blogs.gainesville.com/2010/09/three-years-later-"don't-tase-me-bro"-guy-speaks/|work=The Gainesville Sun|department=The Chalkboard|date=September 17, 2010|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref> As of July 15, 2016, the phrase is no longer trademarked.<ref name="trademark_search">{{cite web|url=http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:5uxipr.2.1|publisher=[[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]|access-date=June 20, 2018|title=TESS -- Error}}</ref> Meyer wrote a book titled ''Don't Tase Me Bro! Real Questions, Fake News, and My Life as a Meme'', which he published on Amazon in December 2018.<ref name="washingtonpost_2011" /><ref>{{cite news|first=Nathan|last=Crabbe|title=Andrew Meyer writes book on UF Taser incident|url=http://chalkboard.blogs.gainesville.com/2011/05/andrew-meyer-writes-book-on-uf-taser-incident/|work=The Gainesville Sun|department=The Chalkboard|date=May 25, 2011|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref>
===June===
{{Main|June 1943}}
* [[June 1]] – [[BOAC Flight 777]], a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the [[Bay of Biscay]] by German [[Junkers Ju 88]]s; all 17 persons aboard perish, including actor [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]].
* [[June 3]]
** The [[Zoot Suit Riots]] erupt between military personnel and Mexican-American youths in East Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi07t.htm|title=Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots|work=Los Angeles Almanac}}</ref>
** The [[French Committee of National Liberation]] (''Comité Français de Libération Nationale'', CFLN) is formed with headquarters in [[Algiers]] and Generals [[Charles de Gaulle]] and [[Henri Giraud]] as co-presidents.
* [[June 4]] – A military [[1943 Argentine coup d'état|coup d'état]] in [[Argentina]] ousts [[Ramón Castillo]].
* [[June 8]] – WWII: [[Japanese battleship Mutsu|Japanese battleship ''Mutsu'']] is destroyed by an accidental magazine explosion, in [[Hashirajima]] anchorage.
* [[June 8]]–[[June 9|9]] – WWII: [[Battle of Porta]]: The [[Royal Italian Army]] is defeated by the [[Greek People's Liberation Army]].
* [[June 20]]–[[June 23|23]] – The [[Detroit race riot of 1943]] in the United States kills 34 people (25 African Americans, 9 whites), wounds hundreds more and damages and destroys property worth millions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://life.time.com/history/detroit-race-riots-1943-photos-from-a-city-in-turmoil-during-wwii/#1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607202717/http://life.time.com/history/detroit-race-riots-1943-photos-from-a-city-in-turmoil-during-wwii/#1|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2013|title=Hatred on the Home Front: The Detroit Race Riots During WWII|first=Ben|last=Cosgrove|work=Time Life|date=2014-06-18|access-date=2016-11-29}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – WWII: As part of [[Operation Animals]], British [[Special Operations Executive]] saboteurs destroy the railway bridge over the Asopos River in "[[Operation Washing]]", and guerrillas of the [[Greek People's Liberation Army]] ambush and destroy a German convoy at the [[Battle of Sarantaporos (1943)|Battle of Sarantaporos]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Meyer | first = Hermann Frank | author-link = | title = Von Wien nach Kalavryta: Die blutige Spur der 117. Jäger-Division durch Serbien und Griechenland | trans-title = From Vienna to Kalavryta: The Bloody Trail of the 117th Jäger Division Across Serbia and Greece | publisher = Bibliopolis | location = Mannheim | year = 2009 | language = de | isbn = 978-3-941336-10-0 | pages = 138–142}}</ref>
* [[June 22]] – WWII: The [[45th Infantry Division (United States)|U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division]] lands in North Africa, prior to training at [[Arzew]], French Morocco.
* [[June 30]]
** The United States [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] is abolished.
** WWII: The [[New Georgia campaign]] begins in the [[Solomon Islands]], an Allied offensive against the Japanese forces stationed there.
* [[June]] (late) – [[The Holocaust]]: The last trainload of Jewish prisoners is moved from [[Bełżec extermination camp]] in [[Occupation of Poland (1939–45)|Occupied Poland]] (for gassing at [[Sobibór extermination camp|Sobibór]]), and for the remainder of the year the [[Nazism|Nazis]] make efforts to obliterate the site.<ref>{{cite book|first=Yitzhak|last=Arad|title=Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps|url=https://archive.org/details/belzecsobibortre00yitz|url-access=registration|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington|year=1999|page=[https://archive.org/details/belzecsobibortre00yitz/page/371 371]|isbn=0-253-21305-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005191|publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] |title=Belzec|encyclopedia=Holocaust Encyclopedia|access-date=2013-01-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107184303/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005191|archive-date=2012-01-07}}</ref>
 
=== Incident prior to start of video ===
===July===
[[File:SC180476.jpg|thumb|The U.S. [[Liberty ship]] SS ''Robert Rowan'' explodes during the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]], July 11, 1943.]]
[[File:Bombing of Hamburg.ogg|thumb|The [[bombing of Hamburg in WWII|bombing of Hamburg]] during 1943.]]
[[File:Wladyslaw Sikorski 2.jpg|thumb|Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish military and political leader of the Polish government in exile during World War 2]]
{{Main|July 1943}}
* [[July 1]] – The United States [[Women's Army Corps]] (WAC) is converted to full status.
* [[July 4]] – [[1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash]]: The aircraft carrying General [[Władysław Sikorski]], Prime Minister of the [[Polish government-in-exile]], crashes, killing him and 15 others, leading to [[Władysław Sikorski's death controversy|a lasting controversy over the circumstances]].
* [[July 5]] – WWII:
** [[Nazi Germany]] commences [[Operation Citadel]]. It will eventually lead to the [[Battle of Kursk]], the largest tank battle in history.
** A fleet sets sail for the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]].
** The [[National Bands Agreement]] is concluded in Greece.
* [[July 6]] – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the [[Battle of Kula Gulf]] off [[Kolombangara]].
* [[July 10]]
** (0245 GMT (4:45&nbsp;a.m. local time)) – WWII: [[Allied invasion of Sicily]] &ndash; The [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] invasion of [[Axis powers|Axis]]-controlled Europe begins, with landings on the island of [[Sicily]] off mainland Italy by the [[Seventh United States Army]] and the [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|British Eighth Army]], including the [[1st Canadian Infantry Division]].
** [[The Holocaust]]: [[Jedwabne pogrom]] &ndash; At least 340 Polish Jews are marched to a local barn, locked inside and subsequently burned to death.
* [[July 11]] – WWII:
** [[United States Army]] forces make an assault on Piano Lupo, just outside [[Gela]], [[Sicily]].
** [[Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia]] by the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] within the [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] ([[Volhynia]]) peak.
* [[July 12]] – WWII: Main engagement of the [[Battle of Prokhorovka]] – The [[Wehrmacht]] and the [[Red Army]] fight to a draw in one of the largest tank battles in [[military history]].
* [[July 17]] – WWII:
** Soviet forces of the [[Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)|Southwestern]]- and [[Southern Front (Soviet Union)|Southern Front]] strike hard at the German defenses of the [[9th Army (Wehrmacht)|9th Army]] under General [[Walter Model]] during [[Operation Kutuzov]].<ref>Glantz, David M. (1999). ''The Battle for Kursk 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study'', p. 28. London: Frank Cass. {{ISBN|0-7146-4933-3}}.</ref>
** [[Krasowo-Częstki massacre]]: The village of [[Krasowo-Częstki]] in Nazi-[[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|occupied Poland]] is completely burned and 257 of its inhabitants, mostly women and children, murdered by the [[Ordnungspolizei]] and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] in retaliation for German deaths in a skirmish with [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish partisans]] nearby.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fajkowski|first=Józef|title=Wieś w ogniu. Eksterminacja wsi polskiej w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej|trans-title=A countryside on fire. The extermination of the Polish villages during the Nazi occupation|year=1972|publisher=Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza|location=Warszawa|language=pl}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] – WWII: Rome is bombed by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]], for the first time in the war.
* [[July 24]] – WWII: [[Operation Gomorrha]]: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb [[Hamburg]] by night; American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 42,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
[[File:Mussolini mezzobusto.jpg|200px|thumb|Mussolini]]
* [[July 25]] – [[Benito Mussolini]], Fascist [[Prime Minister of Italy]] since 1922, is arrested after the [[Grand Council of Fascism]] withdraws its support. "Il Duce" is replaced by General [[Pietro Badoglio]].
 
[[Image:Meyersarrest.jpg|thumb|Two University of Florida police officers attempt to grab and force Andrew Meyer out of the auditorium.]]
===August===
Meyer was reportedly in line for access to the microphone when former Ambassador [[Dennis Jett]], a University of Florida political science instructor and the forum's moderator,<ref>{{cite news|last=Stripling|first=Jack |url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070920/NEWS/709200767 |title=Stun gun case fuels claims of repression at UF |work=The Gainesville Sun |date=September 20, 2007 |access-date=July 25, 2008}}</ref> announced that one more question would be taken from the microphone on the right, as seen from the stage. Meyer grabbed a second microphone, which had been shut off, and demanded he be allowed to ask a question, asking, "Why don't you answer my questions? I have been waiting and listening to you speak in circles for the last two hours." He also stated, "These officers are going to arrest me," and "You will take my question because I have been listening to your crap for two hours."<ref>{{cite news |title=Cops on leave after Taser incident, student's behavior under scrutiny |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered/index.html |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=September 18, 2007 |access-date=July 25, 2008 }}</ref> When an officer attempted to cut Meyer off and escort him out of the hall, Meyer broke away and continued to shout. Kerry then intervened and requested that Meyer be allowed to ask a question. Meyer was then brought back to the microphone with police officers on either side of him.<ref>{{cite news |first=Dennis |last=Jett |title=What YouTube doesn't show |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1031/p09s01-coop.html |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date=October 31, 2007 |access-date=July 25, 2008 }}</ref>
[[File:Quebec conference 1943.png|thumb|[[William Lyon Mackenzie King|Mackenzie King]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] at the [[Quebec Conference, 1943|1943 Quebec Conference]].]]
{{Main|August 1943}}
* [[August 1]] – [[Operation Tidal Wave]]: 177 [[B-24 Liberator]] bombers from the [[U.S. Army Air Force]] bomb oil refineries at [[Ploiești|Ploiești, Romania]].
* [[August 2]] – WWII: [[John F. Kennedy]]'s [[PT boat]] [[Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109|''PT-109'']] is run down by Japanese destroyer [[Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)|''Amagiri'']].
* [[August 3]] – [[Patton slapping incident]]: U.S. General [[George S. Patton Jr.]] slaps a soldier suffering from battle fatigue, at a field hospital in [[Sicily]]. On August 10, he slaps another soldier suffering from the same condition.
* [[August 4]] – WWII: The [[aircraft carrier]] {{USS|Intrepid|CV-11}} is launched at [[Newport News, Virginia]].
* [[August 5]] – WWII:
** United States [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WASPs) are formed, consolidating the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] (WAFS) and [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WFTD).
** [[John F. Kennedy]] and crew are found by [[Solomon Islands]] [[coastwatchers]] [[Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana]], with their [[dugout canoe]].
* [[August 6]] – WWII: [[Battle of Vella Gulf]]: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off [[Kolombangara]], as the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on [[New Georgia]].
* [[August 11]]–[[August 17|17]] – WWII: [[Operation Lehrgang]]: German and Italian forces evacuate from Sicily to the Italian mainland. The evacuation includes some 40,000 Wehrmacht troops, 9,000 vehicles, 30 tanks, and 90 heavy guns. Also, a total of 62,000 Italian troops are successfully evacuated. Despite Allied air attacks, losses are very low due to sufficient Axis anti-aircraft coverage.<ref>Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard (1974). ''Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939–1945''. Volume Two: 1943–1945. Arco Publishing. {{ISBN|9780711003682}}.</ref>
* [[August 14]]
** WWII: Rome is declared an [[open city]] by the Italian government, with Italy offering to demilitarize the capital, in return for an Allied agreement not to bomb the city further.<ref>"Badolgio Declares Rome An 'Open City', ''Pittsburgh Press'', August 15, 1943, p. 1</ref>
** The [[Quebec Conference, 1943|Quadrant Conference]] begins in [[Quebec City]]; Canadian [[Prime Minister]] [[MacKenzie King]] meets with [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
* [[August 17]] – WWII:
** The [[Seventh United States Army|Seventh U.S. Army]], under General [[George S. Patton]], meets the [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|Eighth British Army]] under [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein|B. L. Montgomery]] in [[Messina, Sicily]], completing the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]].
** [[Operation Hydra (1943)|Operation Hydra]]: The British [[Royal Air Force]] sets out to bomb the [[Peenemünde Army Research Center]], to disrupt the German [[V-weapons]] programme.
* [[August 21]] – [[1943 Australian federal election]]: [[John Curtin]]'s [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Curtin government|government]] defeats the [[National Party of Australia|Country]]/[[United Australia Party|UAP]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]], led by former [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Arthur Fadden]]. Labor achieves its greatest ever electoral result, including winning every seat (except one) outside of the eastern states. Notably, this election marked the first time that a woman has been elected to both the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] and the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]. Fadden will step down from the Opposition leadership, handing it over to [[Robert Menzies]], who will go on to dissolve the UAP and form the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] shortly after.
* [[August 23]] – WWII: The [[Battle of Kursk]] ends, with a strategic defeat for the German forces.
* [[August 24]] – [[Heinrich Himmler]] is named Reichsminister of the Interior in Germany.
* [[August 26]] – WWII: [[Louis Mountbatten]] is named Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.
* [[August 28]] – WWII: King [[Boris III of Bulgaria]] dies under suspicious circumstances; his 6-year-old son, [[Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha|Simeon II]], ascends to the throne.
* [[August 29]] – WWII: [[Denmark in World War II|Occupation of Denmark]] – Germany dissolves the Danish government, after it refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction of the German authorities.
 
Meyer then handed his camera to the woman who was standing in line in front of him and requested that she record him. After Kerry completed answering a prior question, Meyer was acknowledged by Kerry to pose his question.
===September===
{{Main|September 1943}}
* [[September 3]] – WWII: [[Allied invasion of Italy]]
** [[Armistice of Cassibile]]: The [[Kingdom of Italy]] surrenders to the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] in a document signed on [[Sicily]] but not made public at this time.
** [[Operation Baytown]]: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces under General [[Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein|Bernard Montgomery]], for the first time in the war.
* [[September 5]] – WWII: [[Landing at Nadzab|US landing at Nadzab]]: The [[503rd Infantry Regiment (United States)|503rd Parachute Regiment]] under Colonel [[George M. Jones|George Jones]] lands and occupies [[Nadzab]], just east of the port city of [[Lae]], in northeastern [[Papua New Guinea]].
* [[September 7]] – [[Gulf Hotel fire]]: A fire at the Gulf Hotel in [[Houston, Texas]] kills 55.
* [[September 8]]
** WWII: United States General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]].
** WWII: [[Frascati air raid]]: The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone.
** The first classes commence at [[Grace University]] in [[Omaha, Nebraska]].
* [[September 9]] – [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s play ''[[Life of Galileo]]'' ({{Langx|de|Leben des Galilei}}) receives its first theatrical production, at the [[Schauspielhaus Zürich]].
* [[September 12]] – WWII: [[Gran Sasso raid]] – German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from imprisonment, in ''Unternehmen Eiche'' ("Operation Oak").
* [[September 16]] – WWII: [[Salerno Mutiny]] – Soldiers of the [[British Army]]'s [[X Corps (United Kingdom)|X Corps]] refuse postings to new units.
* [[September 17]] – WWII: Villefranche-de-Rouergue Mutiny – A group of pro-[[Yugoslav Partisans|Partisan]] soldiers, led by [[Ferid Džanić]] and others within the [[13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)]], training in [[Occupied France]], rise against [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] troops in the Division; the revolt is rapidly suppressed.
* [[September 21]]–[[September 26|26]] – WWII: [[Massacre of the Acqui Division]] – German soldiers of the [[1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)]] kill over 5,100 [[Italian military internees]] resisting disarmament on the Greek island of [[Cephalonia]].
* [[September 22]]–[[October 2]] – WWII: [[Landing at Scarlet Beach]] on the [[Huon Peninsula]] of [[New Guinea]] by Allied forces, the first time Australian troops have made an opposed amphibious landing since the [[Gallipoli Campaign]] of [[1915]].
* [[September 23]] – WWII: The [[Italian Social Republic]] ("Republic of Salò") is founded in northern Italy as a [[puppet state]] of [[Nazi Germany]].
* [[September 25]] – WWII: The Russian city of [[Smolensk]] is liberated by Soviet forces as part of the successful [[Smolensk operation]] against German defenders.
* [[September 27]] – WWII: [[Four days of Naples]] begins: a popular uprising drives German occupying forces from the city.
 
===October Video begins ===
{{Main|October 1943}}
* [[October 1]] – WWII: United States forces enter liberated [[Naples]].
* [[October 3]] – WWII: Nazi [[Wehrmacht]] forces commit the [[Lyngiades massacre]] in northwest Greece as an arbitrary reprisal.
* [[October 6]] – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the [[naval Battle of Vella Lavella]].
* [[October 7]] – WWII: The [[1943 Naples post-office bombing|Naples post-office bombing]] kills 100.
* [[October 10]]
** WWII: [[Double Tenth incident]] ([[Japanese occupation of Singapore]]): The Japanese military police, the [[Kempeitai]], arrest and torture more than 50 civilians and civilian internees, on false suspicion of their involvement in a raid on [[Singapore]] Harbour during [[Operation Jaywick]].
** The [[Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union)|Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky]] is instituted in the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[October 13]] – WWII: The new government of Italy sides with the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] and declares war on Germany.
* [[October 14]]
** WWII: During the [[Second Raid on Schweinfurt]], the United States [[Eighth Air Force]] suffers so many losses, that it loses [[air supremacy]] over Germany for several months.
** [[The Holocaust]]: Uprising in [[Sobibór extermination camp]]; about half the inmates escape. Three days later, the camp is closed.
** [[Jose P. Laurel|José P. Laurel]] takes the oath of office as President of the [[Philippines]] ([[Second Philippine Republic]]).
* [[October 16]] – The Holocaust: [[Raid of the Ghetto of Rome]] – Over a thousand Jews are rounded up in Rome by the [[Gestapo]]; only 16 will survive their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. The public silence of [[Pope Pius XII and the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome|Pope Pius XII on the raid]] becomes a matter of historical controversy.
* [[October 17]] – WWII:
** The last [[commerce raider]], [[German auxiliary cruiser Michel|German auxiliary cruiser ''Michel'']], is sunk off Japan by United States [[submarine]] [[USS Tarpon (SS-175)|''Tarpon'']].<ref>{{cite book|last=Muggenthaler|first=August Karl|title=German Raiders of WWII| publisher=Prentice-Hall|year=1977|isbn=0-13-354027-8|page=276}}</ref>
** The [[Burma Railway]] is completed between [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]] and [[Yangon|Rangoon]], Burma (modern-day [[Myanmar]]) ({{convert|415|km|mi|abbr=on}}) by the [[Empire of Japan]], to support its forces in the [[Burma campaign]], using the [[forced labour]] of Asian civilians and [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[Prisoners of war]].
* [[October 18]] – WWII:
* [[Moscow Conference (1943)|Third Moscow Conference]]: A meeting takes place at the [[Kremlin]] between the British, American, and Soviet foreign ministers [[Anthony Eden]], [[Cordell Hull]] and [[Vyacheslav Molotov]]. The USSR agrees to the full creation of a world peace organization with its Allies.<ref>Pubantz, Jerry; Moore, John Allphin Jr. (2008). "Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers". ''Encyclopedia of the United Nations'', Modern World History (Second ed.). New York: Facts On File.</ref>
* [[Chiang Kai-shek]] takes the oath of office as [[President of the Republic of China|Chairman of the National Government of China]].
* [[October 19]] – WWII: Allied aircraft sink the German-controlled cargo ship {{MS|Sinfra}} in the Mediterranean, killing over 2,000 people, mostly [[Italian military internees]].
* [[October 21]] – [[Lucie Aubrac]] and others in her [[French Resistance]] cell liberate [[Raymond Aubrac]] from [[Gestapo]] imprisonment.
* [[October 22]] – WWII: [[Bombing of Kassel in World War II]]: The British [[Royal Air Force]] delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of [[Kassel]]; at least 10,000 are killed and 150,000 are made homeless.
* [[October 24]] – WWII: British [[Royal Navy]] [[destroyer]] {{HMS|Eclipse|H08}} is sunk by a mine in the [[Aegean Sea]], with the loss of 119 of the ship's company and 134 troops.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-21E-Eclipse.htm|title=HMS ''Eclipse'', destroyer| work=naval-history.net|access-date=2013-01-15}}</ref>
* [[October 30]]
** WWII: Signing of [[Moscow Declarations]]: the [[Declaration of the Four Nations]] on general security, by the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union and Republic of China; and the Declarations on Italy, Austria and Atrocities by the first three governments.
** The [[Merrie Melodies]] [[animated cartoon]] ''[[Falling Hare]]'', one of the only [[Short film|short]]s with [[Bugs Bunny]] getting out-smarted, is released in the United States.
 
Meyer's video begins with him speaking for approximately 1 minute and 20 seconds. He starts by citing the book ''[[Armed Madhouse]]'' and its author [[Greg Palast]]'s description of the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 U.S. presidential election]] and reports of [[2004 United States election voting controversies|election irregularities]].<ref name="wapo" /><ref name="Fox excessive">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/florida-college-student-who-was-tasered-arrested-at-john-kerry-campus-forum-is-released-from-jail|title=Florida College Student Who Was Tasered, Arrested at John Kerry Campus Forum Is Released From Jail|work=FoxNews.com|date=September 18, 2007|access-date=September 18, 2007}}</ref> According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Meyer's question turned into "an increasingly agitated three-parter".<ref name="wapo">{{cite news|last=Hesse|first=Monica|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091802115.html| title=Aiming to Agitate, Florida Student Got a Shock|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 19, 2007|access-date=September 19, 2007}}</ref>
===November===
{{Main|November 1943}}
[[File:Cairo conference.jpg|thumb|[[Chiang Kai-shek]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] at the [[Cairo Conference]], November 25, 1943.]]
[[File:Lebanese flag.JPG|thumb|The first [[Flag of Lebanon|Lebanese flag]] hand drawn and signed by the deputies of the Lebanese parliament, November 11, 1943. The [[French Mandate of Lebanon|French Mandate]] ends and [[Lebanon]] gains independence in November 1943.]]
[[File:Teheran conference-1943.jpg|thumb|[[Joseph Stalin]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] on the verandah of the Soviet Embassy in [[Tehran]] during the [[Tehran Conference]]]]
* [[November 1]] – WWII: [[Operation Goodtime]]: [[United States Marines]] land on [[Bougainville Island]] in the [[Solomon Islands]].
* [[November 2]] – WWII:
** [[Battle of Empress Augusta Bay]] off [[Bougainville Island]]: American and Japanese ships fight to a draw.
** WWII: British forces in Italy reach the [[Garigliano River]].
* [[November 3]]–[[November 4|4]] – [[The Holocaust]]: ''[[Aktion Erntefest]]'' ("Operation Harvest Festival") – The largest single day massacre of Jews in the entire war takes place when over 43,000 Jews are murdered by the [[SS]], the ''[[Ordnungspolizei]]'' and the "[[Trawniki men]]" (Ukrainian collaborators) in ''[[Sonderdienst]]'' formations at the [[Majdanek concentration camp|Majdanek]], [[Trawniki concentration camp|Trawniki]] and [[Poniatowa concentration camp|Poniatowa]] concentration camps in the [[General Government]] territory of [[occupied Poland]].
* [[November 5]] – WWII:
** [[Battle of the Dnieper]]: Soviet forces of the [[4th Ukrainian Front]] under General [[Fyodor Tolbukhin]] overrun the area between the lower [[Dnieper]] and the [[Crimea]]. The German [[6th Army (Wehrmacht)|6th Army]] pulls back across the river, leaving the bridgehead at [[Nikopol, Ukraine|Nikopol]] on the east bank. The Crimea is cut off from the rest of the German army.<ref>Forczyk, Robert (2016). Osprey:''The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles'', p. 91. {{ISBN|978-1-4728-1237-7}}.</ref>
** First [[Bombing of the Vatican]] – Four bombs are dropped on the neutral [[Vatican City]]; the aircraft responsible is never certainly identified.
* [[November 6]] – WWII: The Ukrainian capital of [[Kiev]] is liberated by Soviet forces from its German occupiers as part of the [[Battle of Kiev (1943)|Battle of Kiev]].
* [[November 9]] – [http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1943/431109a.html An agreement] for the foundation of the [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]] is signed by 44 countries in the [[White House]], Washington, D.C.
* [[November 10]] – The [[Lübeck martyrs]], four men of religion, are executed for supposedly treasonable views.
* [[November 14]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor [[Bruno Walter]], directs the [[New York Philharmonic]] in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert, over [[CBS]] Radio. The event receives front-page coverage in ''[[The New York Times]]'' the following day.
* [[November 15]] – [[Porajmos]]: German [[SS]] leader [[Heinrich Himmler]] orders that [[Romani people|Gypsies]] be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in [[Nazi concentration camps]]."
* [[November 16]] – WWII:
** After flying from Britain, 160 American bombers [[Norwegian heavy water sabotage|strike]] a [[hydro-electric power]] facility and [[heavy water]] factory in German-controlled [[Vemork]], Norway.
** A Japanese [[submarine]] sinks the surfaced U.S. submarine {{USS|Corvina|SS-226|6}}, near [[Chuuk Lagoon]] (Truk).
* [[November 18]] – WWII: [[Battle of Berlin (RAF campaign)|Battle of Berlin]] – The British [[Royal Air Force]] opens its bombing campaign against Berlin with 440 planes, causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft and 53 aviators.
* [[November 19]] – [[The Holocaust]]: Inmates of [[Janowska concentration camp]], near [[Lwów]] (at this time in [[History of Poland (1939–45)|German-occupied Poland]]), stage a failed uprising, after which the [[SS]] liquidates the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.
* [[November 20]] – WWII: [[Battle of Tarawa]]: [[United States Marines]] land on [[Tarawa Atoll|Tarawa]] and [[Makin (islands)|Makin]] [[atoll]]s in the [[Gilbert Islands]] ([[Kiribati]] from [[1979]]) and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.
* [[November 22]]–[[November 26|26]] – WWII: [[Cairo Conference]] ("Sextant") – [[President of the United States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Chairman of the National Government of China]] [[Chiang Kai-shek]] meet at [[Cairo]], Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan in the [[Pacific War]].
* [[November 22]] – [[Lebanon]] gains independence, upon the ending of the [[French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|French Mandate]].
* [[November 23]] – The [[Deutsches Opernhaus]] on Bismarckstraße, in the Berlin district of [[Charlottenburg]], is destroyed in an air raid (it is reopened in [[1961]], as the [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]]).
**[[Andrew Goodman (activist)|Andrew Goodman]]
* [[November 25]] – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval [[Battle of Cape St. George]], between [[Buka Island|Buka]] and [[New Ireland (island)|New Ireland]].
* [[November 26]] – WWII: British [[troopship]] [[HMT Rohna|HMT ''Rohna'']] is sunk off the north African coast by a ''[[Luftwaffe]]'' [[Henschel Hs 293]] radio controlled [[glide bomb]], killing 1,015.<ref>{{cite book|first=Barbara|last=Tomblin|title=With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=2004|pages=308–310}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Carlton|last=Jackson|title=Forgotten Tragedy: The Sinking of HMT Rohna|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1997}}</ref>
* [[November 27]] – The [[1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake]] in Turkey kills thousands.<ref>{{cite web|title=PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/|publisher=USGS|date=2009-09-04|author=[[United States Geological Survey]]|edition=Version 2008_06.1}}</ref>
* [[November 28]] – WWII: [[Tehran Conference]]: U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] and Soviet leader [[Joseph Stalin]] meet in [[Tehran]], to discuss war strategy. On [[November 30]], they establish an agreement concerning a planned [[June]] [[1944]] invasion of Europe, codenamed [[Operation Overlord]].
* [[November 29]] – The second session of [[AVNOJ]], the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of [[Yugoslavia]], is held in [[Jajce]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], to determine the post-war ordering of the country.
 
Meyer questioned Kerry's concession of the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 U.S. presidential election]], Kerry's support or lack of support of the [[efforts to impeach George W. Bush]],<ref name="wapo" /> and Kerry's involvement in the [[Yale University]] [[secret society]] known as [[Skull and Bones]].<ref name="wapo" />
===December===
After Meyer used the term "blowjob" (in reference to the [[impeachment of Bill Clinton]]) and while he was asking about Kerry's involvement in Skull and Bones, Meyer's microphone was cut off. Later, Steven Blank, ACCENT chairman, said, "We make it clear that any profanity and vulgarity by anyone asking questions will result in a cutting off of the mic."<ref name="fla gator">Culclasure, Devin, [http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/18/news/student_government/accent.txt "Meyer incident won't affect Accent security policy, chairman says"].{{Dead link|date=September 2010}} ''The Independent Florida Alligator''</ref>
{{Main|December 1943}}
* [[December 2]] – WWII: [[Bari#The 1943 chemical warfare disaster|Bari chemical warfare disaster]]: A surprise [[Luftwaffe]] [[air raid on Bari]], Italy sinks 28 [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] ships in the harbor, including the American [[Liberty ship]] {{SS|John Harvey}}, releasing its secret cargo of [[mustard gas]] bombs, inflating the number of casualties.<ref>{{cite book|first=Glenn B.|last=Infield|title=Disaster at Bari|year=1967}}</ref>
* [[December 3]]
** In reprisal for an act of sabotage, the [[SS]] and [[Gestapo]] execute 100 [[Warsaw Tramway]] workers.<ref>{{cite web|title=December 3rd, 1943|url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/1943/12/03.htm|access-date=2013-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310120842/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/1943/12/03.htm|archive-date=March 10, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Edward R. Murrow]] delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over [[CBS]] Radio, describing a [[Royal Air Force]] nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.
* [[December 4]]
** WWII: In [[Yugoslavia]], resistance leader Marshal [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]] proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government-in-exile.
** With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] closes the [[Works Progress Administration]].
** WWII: [[Bolivia]] declares war on [[Romania]] and Hungary.
* [[December 7]] – [[Chiara Lubich]] starts the humanitarian [[Focolare Movement]] in [[Trento]], Italy.
* [[December 13]] – WWII: [[Massacre of Kalavryta]] – The occupying [[117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)]] machine-guns all adult males from [[Kalavryta]], Greece, subsequently burning the town.
* [[December 15]] – WWII: American and Australian forces begin the [[Battle of Arawe]] as a diversion before a larger landing at [[Cape Gloucester (Papua New Guinea)|Cape Gloucester]] on [[New Britain]], in Papua New Guinea.
* [[December 20]] – A [[military coup]] is staged in [[Bolivia]].
*[[December 20]]–[[December 28|28]] – WWII: Italian Campaign – [[Battle of Ortona]]: Canadian infantry defeat elite German paratroops.
* [[December 24]] – WWII: U.S. General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] becomes [[Supreme Allied Commander Europe]]. He establishes the [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force]] in London.
* [[December 26]] – WWII: [[Battle of the North Cape]] – [[German battleship Scharnhorst|German battleship ''Scharnhorst'']] is torpedoed and sunk in a night action north of the Arctic Circle by British battleship [[HMS Duke of York (17)|HMS ''Duke of York'']] and her escorts with the loss of all but 36 of the German crew of 1,943 (including Admiral [[Erich Bey]]);<ref>{{cite book|first=Chris|last=Mann|title=British Policy and Strategy towards Norway, 1941–45|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2012|pages=34–35}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=British Sink Scharnhorst|newspaper=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|date=1943-12-27|page=1}}</ref> this is the war's last action between big-gun [[capital ship]]s of Britain and Germany.
* [[December 30]] – [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at [[Port Blair]], India.
* [[December 31]] – The [[Times Square Ball]] in [[Times Square]], New York City isn't dropped a second time. Instead, there was a [[moment of silence]] at midnight, followed by the sound of bells playing from sound trucks at the base of [[One Times Square]].
 
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* [[Bengal famine of 1943|Bengal Famine]].
* [[History of the cooperative movement]]: Father [[José María Arizmendiarrieta]] sets up a polytechnic school at [[Mondragón]] in the [[Spanish Basque Country]] (predecessor of the [[University of Mondragón]]), which inspires creation of the [[Mondragon Corporation]].
* [[Arana Hall]], a residential college of the [[University of Otago]] in [[Dunedin]], New Zealand, is founded.
* [[Jacques-Yves Cousteau]] co-invents, with [[Émile Gagnan]], the first commercially successful open circuit type of [[Scuba set|scuba diving equipment]], the [[Aqua-lung]].<ref>"Year by Year 1943" – [[History Channel International]].</ref>
* [[Martin Noth]]'s groundbreaking work of [[Old Testament]] scholarship, {{lang|de|Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament}}, is published.<ref>[Schriften der Königsberger Gelehrten-Gesellschaft: Geisteswissenschaftliche Klasse; 18,2 (trans: "Writings of the Königsberg Scholarly Society: Spiritual Scientific Class No. 18.2")]: ([[Halle, Saxony-Anhalt|Halle]] ["Halle an der Saale"]: M. Niemeyer, 1943.)</ref>
 
After Meyer's microphone was turned off, two University of Florida police officers attempted to take him away and arrest him.<ref>{{cite news|last=Leusner|first=Jim|author2=Katie Fretland |url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-taseredgator19sep19,0,4218845.story?coll=orl-jobs-utility|title='Don't Tase Me Bro' becomes rallying cry at UF following arrest of student|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|date=September 19, 2007}}</ref> Steven Blank, ACCENT chairman, later said that the police "acted independently of ACCENT."<ref name="fla gator" /> Some members of the crowd began to cheer and applaud. Physical contact by the police occurred right after Meyer remarked, "Thank you for cutting my mic!" Kerry responded to the police action, "That's all right, let me answer his question,"<ref name="wapo" /> but two police officers continued to hold Meyer and attempted to forcibly move him towards the exit. Meyer repeatedly asked why he was being arrested. He struggled for several seconds shouting, "Get off me! What are you doing? What is going on?" while a third police officer kept a Taser aimed at him.<ref name="Fox excessive"/> Meyer managed to get back towards the stage and stated, "I want to stand and listen to the answers to my questions!" A fourth officer joined in, and single-handedly removed Meyer to the back of the auditorium while being escorted by the three other officers. Meyer was carried part of the way by officer King, holding Greg Palast's book up in the air with his one free arm and shouting, "Why are you arresting me? Help! Help!" Close to the exit, Meyer broke free for a short moment and then was wrestled to the ground. Two more officers joined in and Meyer was now held down by four officers on the body and two on the legs. The officers only [[handcuffs|handcuffed]] one hand.
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[[File:Police issue X26 TASER-white.jpg|alt=Black taser, pictured flat on its side, pointed left. Shaped like a typical handgun.|thumb|An X-26 [[taser]], like the one used by Officer Mallo on Meyer.]]
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As Meyer requested to be allowed to leave of his own accord, they informed him that he no longer had a say in the matter and threatened several times to [[taser]] him if he did not comply with arrest. Meyer asked again to leave, and he yelled "Don't tase me, bro! Don't tase me!" but was [[Taser#Drive Stun|drive-stunned]] (referred to in the police report as a "contact tase") in the shoulder by an officer with a department-issued X-26 Taser when he failed to comply.<ref name="offensereport"/><ref name="wapo"/><ref name="Fox excessive"/>
 
{{quote|I managed to take control of Meyer's right hand and restrain it into one side of my handcuffs. Due to Meyer's erratic flailing, the inability to attain Meyer's left arm from his resistance, and increased potential for injury with one cuff on, Sgt. King attempted to deploy a contact tase to no avail. He then instructed [Officer] Mallo to apply a contact tase to gain compliance in order to place Meyer's left hand into the other cuff. Mallo gave verbal commands and informed Meyer that he would be tased if he did not comply. Once Mallo applied the tase, Wise assisted Meyer's left arm to where I was able to apply the other cuff. Once he was restrained, he was escorted out of the Auditorium where I checked the fitting and applied the double-locked function on the cuffs.|Police Report, Statement of Officer Pablo De Jesus, Jr.|<ref name="offensereport">{{cite web|url=http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/09/18/offense.report.072274.pdf|title=University of Florida Police Department offense report|date=October 18, 2007|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=July 25, 2008}}</ref>|source=}}
===January===
[[File:Rene Preval.jpg|thumb|100px|[[René Préval]]]]
[[File:Janis Joplin 1970.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Janis Joplin]]]]
[[File:Margriet von Oranien-Nassau.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Princess Margriet of the Netherlands]]]]
[[File:Sharon Tate in Eye of the Devil (1965).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sharon Tate]]]]
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* [[January 1]] – [[Don Novello]], American comedian and actor
* [[January 2]] – [[Barış Manço]], Turkish singer, television personality (d. [[1999]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]], American writer<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA323|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=323}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] – [[James Goldstein]], LA businessman, [[NBA]] basketball aficionado
* [[January 6]] – [[Terry Venables]], English footballer and manager (d. [[2023]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Sadako Sasaki]], Japanese [[leukemia|atomic bomb sickness]] victim (d. [[1955]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]], American-born singer, composer and record producer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sharon Davis|title=The Sixties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmPLPGrPyCgC|year=1997|publisher=Mainstream|isbn=978-1-85158-836-7|page=184}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Jim Croce]], American surburbia musician (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Steve Hochman|title=Popular Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBwKAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-987-7|page=263}}</ref>
* [[January 14]]
** [[Mariss Jansons]], Latvian conductor (d. [[2019]])
** [[José Luis Rodríguez (singer)|José Luis Rodríguez]], Venezuelan singer
** [[Ralph M. Steinman]], Canadian immunologist, cell biologist and Nobel laureate (d. [[2011]])
** [[Holland Taylor]], American actress
* [[January 15]]
** [[Kirin Kiki]], Japanese actress (d. [[2018]])
** Dame [[Margaret Beckett]], British politician
* [[January 17]]
** [[Daniel Brandenstein]], American astronaut
** [[René Préval]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Haiti]], 38th and 40th [[President of Haiti]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Paul Freeman (actor)|Paul Freeman]], English actor
** [[Kay Granger]], American politician
* [[January 19]]
** [[Janis Joplin]], American rock singer (d. [[1970]])
** [[Princess Margriet of the Netherlands]]
* [[January 22]]
** [[Tamás Cseh]], Hungarian composer, singer and actor (d. [[2009]])
** [[Marília Pêra]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[January 24]]
** [[Janice Raymond]], American second-wave feminist activist
** [[Sharon Tate]], American actress and model (d. [[1969]])
* [[January 25]]
** [[Roy Black (singer)|Roy Black]], German singer (d. [[1991]])
** [[Tobe Hooper]], American film director (d. [[2017]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Soad Hosny]], Egyptian actress (d. [[2001]])
 
Meyer continued screaming for help as the officers removed him from the room. During the altercation, Kerry urged everyone to calm down, saying that "Unfortunately, [Meyer] is not available to come up here and swear me in as President" and continued his response to Meyer's question, which he referred to as "very important". Senator Kerry later released a statement saying that he was unaware that any tasing had occurred until afterwards.<ref name="Fox excessive"/>
===February===
[[File:Blythe Danner - 1980.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Blythe Danner]]]]
[[File:JoePesci-2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joe Pesci]]]]
[[File:Koehlerhorst08032007.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Horst Köhler]]]]
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[[File:George Harrison 1974 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Harrison]]]]
* [[February 3]]
** [[Blythe Danner]], American actress
** [[Dennis Edwards]], American soul, R&B singer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Eric Haydock]], British musician (d. [[2019]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Alberto João Jardim]], Portuguese politician
* [[February 5]]
** [[Nolan Bushnell]], American video game pioneer
** [[Michael Mann (director)|Michael Mann]], American film director, writer and producer
** [[Craig Morton]], American football player
* [[February 7]] – [[Gareth Hunt]], English actor (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 8]] – [[Creed Bratton]], American actor, musician
* [[February 9]]
** [[Joe Pesci]], American actor (''[[Goodfellas]]'')
** [[Joseph E. Stiglitz]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[February 10]] – [[Walter B. Jones Jr.]], American politician (d. [[2019]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Mohammad Rafiquzzaman]], Bangladeshi lyricist
* [[February 12]] – [[Wacław Kisielewski]], Polish pianist (d. [[1986]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Maceo Parker]], American musician ([[James Brown]], [[P-Funk]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Elke Heidenreich]], German author, TV presenter and journalist
* [[February 18]] – [[Graeme Garden]], Scottish writer, comedian and actor
* [[February 19]]
** [[Homer Hickam]], American aerospace engineer and writer
** [[Tim Hunt]], British biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[February 20]]
** [[Moshe Cotel]], American composer, pianist (d. [[2008]])
** [[Antonio Inoki]], Japanese professional wrestler (d. [[2022]])
** [[Mike Leigh]], British film director
* [[February 21]]
** [[David Geffen]], American record executive, film producer
** [[Lyudmila Ulitskaya]], Russian novelist
* [[February 22]]
** [[Dick Van Arsdale]], American basketball player
** [[Tom Van Arsdale]], American basketball player
** [[Horst Köhler]], [[President of Germany|President of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
** [[Eduard Limonov]], Russian writer, poet, publicist, and political dissident (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Fred Biletnikoff]], American football player, coach
* [[February 24]] – [[Hristo Prodanov]], Bulgarian mountaineer
* [[February 25]]
** [[Boediono]], Indonesian economist, 11th [[Vice President of Indonesia]]
** [[George Harrison]], English singer, guitarist ([[The Beatles]]) (d. [[2001]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Bill Duke]], American actor, director
** [[Bob Hite]], American singer, musician ([[Canned Heat]]) (d. [[1981]])
** [[Darcus Howe]], Trinidadian-born British civil rights activist (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Morten Lauridsen]], American composer
* [[February 28]] – [[Donnie Iris]], American rock singer, guitarist ([[The Jaggerz]], [[Wild Cherry (band)|Wild Cherry]], [[Donnie Iris|Donnie Iris and the Cruisers]])
 
{{quote|'''Police ''[in background]'':''' Get down!
===March===
[[File:Lynn Redgrave 1999.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lynn Redgrave]]]]
[[File:David Cronenberg 2012-03-08.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Cronenberg]]]]
[[File:Evstafiev-ratko-mladic-1993-w.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ratko Mladić]]]]
[[File:Mario Molina 1c389 8385 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mario Molina]]]]
[[File:Mario Monti - Terre alte 2013.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Mario Monti]]]]
[[File:George Benson 2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Benson]]]]
[[File:Eric Idle 2014.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Eric Idle]]]]
[[File:Major PM full (cropped).jpg|thumb|135x135px|Sir [[John Major]]]]
[[File:ChristopherWalkenFeb08.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Christopher Walken]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Gil Amelio]], American entrepreneur
** [[Richard H. Price]], American physicist
* [[March 2]]
** [[Zygfryd Blaut]], Polish footballer (d. [[2005]])
** [[Tony Meehan]], British drummer ([[The Shadows]]) (d. [[2005]])
** [[Peter Straub]], American author (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Trond Mohn]], Norwegian billionaire
* [[March 4]]
** [[Lucio Dalla]], Italian singer-songwriter (d. [[2012]])
** [[Zoltán Jeney]], Hungarian composer (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 5]]
** [[Shehu Musa Yar'Adua]], Nigerian Army major general (d. [[1997]])
** [[Lucio Battisti]], Italian singer-songwriter (d. [[1998]])
* [[March 8]]
** [[Lynn Redgrave]], English-American actress (d. [[2010]])
** [[Susan Clark]], Canadian actress (''[[Webster (TV series)|Webster]]'')
* [[March 9]]
** [[Bobby Fischer]], American chess player (d. [[2008]])
** [[Charles Gibson]], American television journalist
* [[March 11]] – [[Ma'ruf Amin]], Indonesian Islamic cleric and 13th [[Vice President of Indonesia]]
* [[March 12]] – [[Ratko Mladic]], Serbia military leader
* [[March 13]] – [[André Téchiné]], French film director
* [[March 14]]
** [[Anita Morris]], American actress, singer and dancer (d. [[1994]])
** [[Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner]], American guitarist ([[Ohio Players]]) (d. [[2013]])
* [[March 15]]
** [[David Cronenberg]], Canadian film director
** [[Kohji Moritsugu]], Japanese actor ([[Ultraseven]])
** [[Sly Stone]], African-American singer ([[Sly and the Family Stone]])
* [[March 16]]
** [[Helen Armstrong (violinist)|Helen Armstrong]], American violinist (d. [[2006]])
** [[Kim Mu-saeng]], South Korean actor (d. [[2005]])
* [[March 18]]
** [[Kevin Dobson]], American actor (d. [[2020]])
** [[Lowrell Simon]], American singer (d. [[2018]])
* [[March 19]]
** [[Mario J. Molina]], Mexican chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2020]])
** [[Mario Monti]], 54th [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
* [[March 20]]
** [[Gerard Malanga]], American poet, photographer
** [[Douglas Tompkins]], American conservationist, businessman (d. [[2015]])
* [[March 21]]
** [[Luigi Agnolin]], Italian football referee (d. [[2018]])
** [[István Gyulai]], Hungarian sports official (d. [[2006]])
** [[Vivian Stanshall]], British comedy writer, artist, broadcaster and musician (d. [[1995]])
** [[Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
* [[March 22]]
** [[George Benson]], African American guitarist and singer-songwriter
** [[Keith Relf]], British rock musician (d. [[1976]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Lee May]], American baseball player (d. [[2017]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Kate Webb]], New Zealand-born Australian war correspondent (d. [[2007]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Paul Michael Glaser]], American actor
* [[March 26]] – [[Bob Woodward]], American journalist
* [[March 28]] – [[Conchata Ferrell]], American actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[March 29]]
** [[Eric Idle]], English comedian, actor, author and musician (''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'')
** [[John Major]], British politician, 70th [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
** [[Vangelis]], Greek musician, composer (''[[Chariots of Fire]]'', ''[[Cosmos: A Personal Voyage|Cosmos]]'') (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 30]]
** [[Dennis Etchison]], American author and editor (d. [[2019]])±
** [[Jay Traynor]], American singer ([[Jay and the Americans]]) (d. [[2014]])
* [[March 31]]
** [[Motiur Rahman Nizami]], Bangladeshi politician, convicted war criminal (d. [[2016]])
** [[Christopher Walken]], American actor
 
'''Senator Kerry:''' Hey officers ... could we ... Hey folks ... I think that if everybody just ...
===April===
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* [[April 2]] – [[Caterina Bueno]], Italian singer (d. [[2007]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Isabel-Clara Simó]], Spanish journalist and writer (d. [[2020]])
* [[April 5]]
** [[Jean-Louis Tauran]], French cardinal (d. [[2018]])
** [[Max Gail]], American actor (''[[Barney Miller]]'')
* [[April 6]] − [[Susan Tolsky]], American actress and voice actress
* [[April 8]]
** [[Miller Farr]], American football player
** [[Jack O'Halloran]], American boxer and actor
* [[April 10]]
** [[Andrzej Badeński]], Polish athlete (d. [[2008]])
** [[Margaret Pemberton]], English writer
* [[April 11]] – [[Harley Race]], American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Doreen Tracey]], British-born American actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 15]]
** [[Robert Lefkowitz]], American physician and biochemist
** [[Mighty Sam McClain]], American singer, songwriter (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Petro Tyschtschenko]], German businessman
* [[April 17]] – [[Bobby Curtola]], Canadian singer (d. [[2016]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Claus Theo Gärtner]], German actor
* [[April 20]] – [[John Eliot Gardiner]], English conductor
* [[April 21]] – [[Napsiah Omar]], Malaysian educator, politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 22]]
** [[Louise Glück]], American poet, 12th [[US Poet Laureate]], recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[2023]])
** [[Gabriel López Zapiain]], Mexican footballer (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 23]]
** [[Dominik Duka]], Czech Roman Catholic bishop, theologian
** [[Tony Esposito]], Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. [[2021]])
** [[Gail Goodrich]], American basketball player
** [[Fighting Harada]], Japanese boxer
** [[Frans Koppelaar]], Dutch painter
** [[Hervé Villechaize]], French-born actor (''[[Fantasy Island]]'') (d. [[1993]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Richard Sterban]], American singer (''[[The Oak Ridge Boys]]'')
* [[April 25]]
** [[Alan Feduccia]], American paleornithologist
** [[James G. Mitchell]], Canadian computer scientist
* [[April 26]] – [[Gary Wright]], American singer, songwriter, musician and composer (d. [[2023]])
* [[April 28]] – [[John Oliver Creighton|John O. Creighton]], American astronaut
* [[April 29]] – Sir [[Ian Kershaw]], English historian
* [[April 30]]
** [[Frederick Chiluba]], Zambian politician, 2nd [[President of Zambia]] (d. [[2011]])
** [[Bobby Vee]], American singer (d. [[2016]])
 
'''Police:''' Do it now!
===May===
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[[File:Betty Williams, Women's World Awards 2009 c.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Betty Williams (peace activist)|Betty Williams]]]]
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* [[May 1]]
**[[Ian Dunn (activist)|Ian Dunn]], Scottish gay and paedophile rights activist (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-ian-dunn-1151494.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-ian-dunn-1151494.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Ian Dunn|date=March 21, 1998|website=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
**[[Vassal Gadoengin]], [[Nauru]]an politician (d. [[2004]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Mustafa Nadarević]], Yugoslav and Bosnian actor and comedian (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Jim Risch]], American politician
* [[May 5]] – [[Michael Palin]], English comedian, actor, and television presenter (''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'')
* [[May 6]] – [[Grange Calveley]], British writer, artist (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[Orlando Ramírez (footballer)|Orlando Ramírez]], Chilean footballer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Thelma Houston]], American disco singer
* [[May 8]] – [[Danny Whitten]], American musician (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Richard Darman]], American federal government official, businessman (d. [[2008]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Kurt Trampedach]], Danish artist (d. [[2013]])
* [[May 14]]
** [[Jack Bruce]], British musician, songwriter (d. [[2014]])
** [[Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson]], 5th [[President of Iceland]]
* [[May 16]] – [[Dan Coats]], American politician and diplomat
* [[May 17]]
** [[Mark W. Olson]], American economist, politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin]], [[King of Malaysia]]
** [[Mangala Narlikar]], Indian mathematician (d. [[2023]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Imata Kabua]], Marshallese politician, 2nd [[List of Presidents of the Marshall Islands|President of the Marshall Islands]] (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Betty Williams (Nobel laureate)|Betty Williams]], Northern Irish political activist, co-recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Gary Burghoff]], American actor (''[[M*A*S*H]]'')
* [[May 25]] – [[Jessi Colter]], American singer, composer
* [[May 26]] – [[Erica Terpstra]], Dutch swimmer, politician and president of the Dutch Olympic Committee
* [[May 27]]
** [[Bruce Weitz]], American actor
** [[Diane Pershing]], American actress
** [[Cilla Black]], English singer, entertainer (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Ion Ciubuc]], Moldovan politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 30]] – [[James Chaney]], African-American civil rights worker (d. [[1964]])
* [[May 31]]
** [[Sharon Gless]], American actress
** [[Joe Namath]], American football player
 
'''Senator Kerry:''' ... calms down this situation would calm down. [unintelligible] ... I'll answer his question. Unfortunately, he is not available to come up here and swear me in as President.
===June===
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[[File:BarryManilow.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Barry Manilow]]]]
[[File:Klaus von Klitzing 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Klaus von Klitzing]]]]
[[File:Florence Ballard (1965).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Florence Ballard]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Kuki Gallmann]], Kenyan writer, poet
** [[Richard Goode]], American pianist
** [[Lorrie Wilmot]], South African cricketer (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Ilayaraaja]], Indian composer
* [[June 3]]
** [[John Burgess (host)|John Burgess]], Australian game show host, actor
** [[Billy Cunningham]], American basketball player and coach
* [[June 4]] – [[Joyce Meyer]], Christian author, speaker
* [[June 6]] – [[Richard Smalley]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 7]]
** [[Chan Hung-lit]], Hong Kong actor (d. [[2009]])
** [[Nikki Giovanni]], American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator
** [[Ken Osmond]], American actor (d. [[2020]])
* [[June 8]]
** [[Colin Baker]], British actor
** [[Şahan Arzruni]], Armenian pianist
* [[June 11]]
** [[Henry Hill]], American gangster (d. [[2012]])
** [[Oleg Vidov]], Soviet Russian American actor (d. [[2017]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Malcolm McDowell]], English actor
* [[June 14]]
** [[Eudoro Galindo]], Bolivian businessman and politician (d. [[2019]])
** [[Jim Sensenbrenner]], American politician
* [[June 15]]
** [[Johnny Hallyday]], French pop singer, actor (d. [[2017]])
** [[Poul Nyrup Rasmussen]], 23rd [[Prime Minister of Denmark]]
* [[June 16]]
** [[Raymond Ramazani Baya]], Congolese politician (d. [[2019]])
** [[Joan Van Ark]], American actress
* [[June 17]]
** [[Newt Gingrich]], American politician, author and historian
** [[Barry Manilow]], American pop musician
* [[June 18]]
** [[Raffaella Carrà]], Italian singer, dancer and actress (d. [[2021]])
** [[Barry Evans (actor)|Barry Evans]], English actor (d. [[1997]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Marika Green]], French-Swedish actress
* [[June 22]]
** [[Klaus Maria Brandauer]], Austrian actor
** [[J. Michael Kosterlitz]], Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[June 23]]
** [[Patrick Bokanowski]], French filmmaker
** [[James Levine]], American conductor (d. [[2021]])
** [[Vint Cerf]], American internet pioneer
* [[June 25]]
** [[Carly Simon]], American singer-songwriter
* [[June 26]]
** [[John Beasley (actor)|John Beasley]], American actor (d. [[2023]])
** [[Warren Farrell]], American educator, activist and author on gender issues
* [[June 27]] – [[Rico Petrocelli]], American baseball player
* [[June 28]]
** [[Jens Birkemose]], Danish painter
** [[Klaus von Klitzing]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[June 29]]
** [[Maureen O'Brien]], British actress
** [[Leopold Grausam]], Austrian footballer
** [[Frank Zweerts]], Dutch field hockey player
* [[June 30]]
** [[Cees Kurpershoek]], Dutch sailor
** [[Daniel Kablan Duncan]], Ivorian politician
** [[Florence Ballard]], African-American singer, founder of [[The Supremes]] (d. [[1976]])
** [[Dieter Kottysch]], West German Olympic boxer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Dani Litani]], Israeli musician and actor
 
'''Andrew Meyer:''' Why are they arresting me? Did someone do something here? Are they arresting?
===July===
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[[File:Geraldo Rivera at White House (5682334468) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Geraldo Rivera]]]]
[[File:RobbieRobertson2007.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robbie Robertson]]]]
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[[File:Christine McVie 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Christine McVie]]]]
[[File:Kay Bailey Hutchison official photo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kay Bailey Hutchison]]]]
[[File:Mick Jagger Deauville 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mick Jagger]]]]
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[[File:Giovanni Goria.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Giovanni Goria]]]]
* [[July 3]]
** [[Judith Durham]], folk pop singer ([[The Seekers]]) (d. [[2022]])
** [[Kurtwood Smith]], American actor (''[[That '70s Show]]'')
** [[Norman Thagard]], American astronaut
* [[July 4]]
** [[Conny Bauer|Konrad "Conny" Bauer]], German free jazz trombonist
** [[Geraldo Rivera]], American reporter, talk show host
** [[Alan Wilson (musician)|Alan Wilson]], American blues singer-songwriter ([[Canned Heat]]) (d. [[1970]])
* [[July 5]]
** [[Curt Blefary]], American baseball player (d. [[2001]])
** [[István Gáli]], Hungarian boxer
** [[Robbie Robertson]], Canadian folk rock songwriter and guitarist ([[The Band]]) (d. [[2023]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Rosemary Forsyth]], Canadian-American actress, model
** [[Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar]], Pakistani politician
** [[Kim Kye-gwan]], North Korean diplomat
** [[Tamara Sinyavskaya]], Russian mezzo-soprano
* [[July 7]]
** [[Jürgen Geschke]], German track cyclist
** [[M. Karathu]], Malaysian football player, manager
** [[Robert East (actor)|Robert East]], Welsh theatre, TV actor
** [[Joel Siegel]], American film critic (d. [[2007]])
** [[Miguel Vila Luna]], Dominican architect, painter (d. [[2005]])
* [[July 8]]
** [[Guido Marzulli]], Italian painter
** [[Carmine Preziosi]], Italian road bicycle racer
* [[July 9]]
** [[Suzanne Rogers]], American actress
** [[Soledad Miranda]], Spanish actress (d. [[1970]])
* [[July 10]]
** [[Arthur Ashe]], African-American tennis player (d. [[1993]])
** [[Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika]], Zambian politician
* [[July 11]]
** [[Edna Madzongwe]], Zimbabwean politician
** [[Tom Holland (filmmaker)|Tom Holland]], American screenwriter, actor and filmmaker
** [[Luciano Onder]], Italian journalist
* [[July 12]]
** [[Christine McVie]], British musician (''[[Fleetwood Mac]]'') (d. [[2022]])
** [[Walter Murch]], American film editor, sound designer
* [[July 14]]
** [[George Thomas Coker]], United States Navy commander
** [[Harold Wheeler (musician)|Harold Wheeler]], American orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer and music director
** [[David Burden]], British Army officer
* [[July 15]] – [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]], British astrophysicist
* [[July 16]] – [[Reinaldo Arenas]], Cuban writer (d. [[1990]])
* [[July 17]]
** [[Shlomo Ben-Ami]], Israeli diplomat, politician and historian
** [[Alfredo Mantica]], Italian politician
* [[July 18]] – [[Jerry Chambers]], American basketball player
* [[July 19]]
** [[Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini]], Italian journalist and politician
** [[David Griffin (actor)|David Griffin]], British actor
* [[July 20]]
** [[Christopher Murney]], American actor, vocal artist
** [[Wendy Richard]], British actress (d. [[2009]])
* [[July 21]]
** [[Michael Caton]], Australian actor, comedian and television presenter
** [[Edward Herrmann]], American actor (d. [[2014]])
** [[Henry McCullough]], Northern Irish musician (''[[Paul McCartney & Wings]]'') (d. [[2016]])
** [[Bob Shrum]], American political consultant
* [[July 22]] – [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]], American attorney, television correspondent, politician and diplomat
* [[July 23]]
** [[Tony Joe White]], American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. [[2018]])
** [[Zvonimir Vujin]], Serbian amateur boxer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Bob Hilton]], American game show host
* [[July 24]] – [[John Bryson]], American businessman and Former 37th US Secretary of Commerce (2011–12)
* [[July 25]] – [[Erika Steinbach]], German politician
* [[July 26]] – [[Mick Jagger]], English rock singer (''[[The Rolling Stones]]'')
* [[July 28]]
** [[Mike Bloomfield]], American guitarist and composer (d. [[1981]])
** [[Bill Bradley]], American basketball player and politician
** [[Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright]], British musician (d. [[2008]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Bob Brunning]], British musician (d. [[2011]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Giovanni Goria]], Prime Minister of Italy (d. [[1994]])
 
'''Senator Kerry:''' Let me just say, because it is a very important question.|Youtube User "hunnybun523"|title=UF Police Taser Student During Kerry Forum|source=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiWCS10C5s}}
===August===
[[File:Prinsessan Christina, fru Magnuson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson|Princess Christina of Sweden]]]]
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[[File:Robert De Niro Cannes 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert De Niro]]]]
[[File:Surayud2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Surayud Chulanont]]]]
* [[August 2]] – [[Max Wright]], American actor (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 3]]
** [[Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson|Princess Christina of Sweden]]
** [[Clarence Wijewardena]], Sri Lankan musician (d. [[1996]])
* [[August 4]]
** [[Barbara Saß-Viehweger]], German politician, lawyer and civil law notary
** [[Bjørn Wirkola]], Norwegian ski jumper
* [[August 5]] – [[Nelson Briles]], American baseball player (d. [[2005]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Jim Hardin]], American baseball pitcher ([[Baltimore Orioles]], [[New York Yankees]], [[Atlanta Braves]]) (d. [[1991]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Luc Rosenzweig]], French journalist (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Ken Norton]], African-American boxer, actor (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Louis E. Brus]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
** [[Frédéric Kyburz]], Swiss judoka (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ronnie Spector]], American singer ([[The Ronettes]]) (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/ronnie-spector-dead-84c905db02a01ffa43a6052c3ce66920|title=Ronnie Spector, '60s icon who sang 'Be My Baby,' dies at 78|date=January 12, 2022|website=AP NEWS}}</ref>
* [[August 11]]
** [[Abigail Folger]], American heiress, murder victim (d. [[1969]])
** [[Pervez Musharraf]], Pakistani general, leader and 10th [[President of Pakistan]] (d. [[2023]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Roberto Micheletti]], [[President of Honduras]]
* [[August 15]] – [[Glória Maria]], Brazilian journalist, reporter and television host
* [[August 17]]
** [[Robert De Niro]], American actor
** [[Yukio Kasaya]], Japanese ski jumper
* [[August 18]]
** [[Martin Mull]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2024]])
** [[Gianni Rivera]], Italian footballer
* [[August 19]] – [[Edwin Hawkins]], African-American gospel musician, pianist (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Sylvester McCoy]], Scottish actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Sylvester McCoy |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3c85b98 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528093240/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3c85b98 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 28, 2016 |website=BFI |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] – [[Nahas Angula]], [[Prime Minister of Namibia]]
* [[August 23]]
**[[Rodney Alcala]], American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://the-line-up.com/rodney-alcala-the-dating-game-killer-victims | title=Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer Who Appeared on a Gameshow in the Midst of His Murder Spree | date=February 20, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.biography.com/crime/rodney-alcala | title=Rodney Alcala - Dating Game, Death & Victims | date=October 3, 2023 }}</ref>
**[[Pino Presti]], Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor, record producer
* [[August 27]] – [[Tuesday Weld]], American actress
* [[August 28]]
** [[Surayud Chulanont]], Thai politician, 24th [[Prime Minister of Thailand]]
** [[Lou Piniella]], American baseball player, manager
** [[Jihad Al-Atrash]], Lebanese actor, voice actor
* [[August 29]] – [[Arthur B. McDonald]], Canadian astrophysicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[August 30]]
** [[Tal Brody]], American-born Israeli basketball player
** [[Robert Crumb|R. Crumb]], American artist, illustrator
** [[Altovise Davis]], American entertainer (d. [[2009]])
** [[Jean-Claude Killy]], French skier
** [[John Kani]], South African actor
* [[August 31]] – [[Leonid Ivashov]], Russian general
 
Meyer was then escorted off the premises and detained overnight in the [[Alachua County, Florida|Alachua County]] Jail.<ref name="aparrestarticle" /> A large gathering of students protested outside the jail that evening.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2489183.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080726122825/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2489183.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 26, 2008|title=Andrew Meyer, the student who begged: 'Don't Tase me bro!', becomes internet star|newspaper=The Times|date=September 19, 2007 | location=London | first=Nico | last=Hines | access-date=May 27, 2010}}</ref>
===September===
[[File:Roger Waters 18 May 2008 London O2 Arena.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Roger Waters]]]]
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[[File:JerryBruckheimerHWOFJune2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jerry Bruckheimer]]]]
[[File:Julio Iglesias09.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Julio Iglesias]]]]
[[File:Lech Wałęsa (2019), FORUM 2000, Prague (2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lech Wałęsa]]]]
* [[September 5]] – [[Dulce Saguisag]], Filipino politician, former DSWD Secretary (d. [[2007]])
* [[September 6]]
** [[Harris Hines]], American judge (d. [[2018]])
** [[Richard J. Roberts]], English biochemist, molecular biologist and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
** [[Roger Waters]], English musician (''[[Pink Floyd]]'')
* [[September 7]]
** [[Lena Valaitis]], Lithuanian-German Schlager singer
** [[Gloria Gaynor]], American disco singer
* [[September 9]] – [[Art LaFleur]], American actor (d. [[2021]])
* [[September 10]]
** [[Daniel Truhitte]], American actor
** [[Neale Donald Walsch]], American author (''[[Conversations with God]]'')
* [[September 11]]
** [[Mickey Hart]], American percussionist and musicologist (''[[Grateful Dead]]'')
** [[Jaime Thorne León]], Peruvian politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Gilbert Proesch]], Italian-born artist (''[[Gilbert and George]]'')
** [[Raymond Villeneuve]], Canadian terrorist
* [[September 13]] – [[Mildred D. Taylor]], American writer
* [[September 14]]
** [[Irwin Goodman]], Finnish singer (d. [[1991]])
** [[Tunde Idiagbon]], Nigerian Army major general (d. [[1999]])
* [[September 16]]
** [[Tadamasa Goto]], Japanese [[yakuza]] boss
** [[Oskar Lafontaine]], German politician
* [[September 18]] – [[Nina Wayne]], American actress
* [[September 19]] – [[Joe Morgan]], American baseball player (d. [[2020]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Sani Abacha]], Nigerian Army officer and dictator (d. [[1998]])
* [[September 21]]
**[[Jerry Bruckheimer]], American film and television producer
**[[David Hood]], American session bassist and trombone player
**[[Mathew Prichard]], British philanthropist, the only child of literary guardian [[Rosalind Hicks]] and the only grandchild of author [[Agatha Christie]]
* [[September 22]] – [[Toni Basil]], American musician, video artist ("[[Mickey (Toni Basil song)|Mickey]]")
* [[September 23]]
** [[Ernie Ackerley]], British footballer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Julio Iglesias]], Spanish singer, songwriter
** [[Tanuja]], Indian actress
* [[September 28]] – [[J. T. Walsh]], American actor (d. [[1998]])
* [[September 29]]
** [[Wolfgang Overath]], German footballer
** [[Lech Wałęsa]], [[President of Poland]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
* [[September 30]]
** [[Johann Deisenhofer]], German biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
** [[Ian Ogilvy]], British-American <!-- dual citizen -->actor
 
===October Legal action ===
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[[File:ChevyChaseMar10.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chevy Chase]]]]
[[File:R l stine 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[R.L. Stine]]]]
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* [[October 1]]
** [[Jerry Martini]], American musician
** [[Naushad Ali (cricketer)|Naushad Ali]], Pakistani cricketer
** [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]], French film director
* [[October 2]]
** [[Franklin Rosemont]], American poet (d. [[2009]])
** [[Henri Szeps]], Australian actor
* [[October 3]] – [[Jeff Bingaman]], American politician
* [[October 4]] – [[Buddy Roemer]], American politician, investor and banker (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 5]]
** [[Bonnie Bryant (golfer)|Bonnie Bryant]], American golfer
** [[Ben Cardin]], American politician
** [[Inna Churikova]], Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Michael Durrell]], American actor
* [[October 7]] – [[Oliver North]], American military officer, military historian, political commentator, author and television host
* [[October 8]]
** [[Chevy Chase]], American comedian, actor (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'')
** [[R. L. Stine]], American novelist (''[[Goosebumps]]'')
* [[October 11]]
** [[John Nettles]], English actor, writer
** [[Gene Watson]], American country singer
* [[October 12]]
**[[Jeffrey R. MacDonald]], American physician and United States Army Officer
**[[Köbi Kuhn]], Swiss footballer and manager (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 14]]
** [[Lois Hamilton]], American model, actress and artist (d. [[1999]])
** [[Mohammad Khatami]], 5th [[President of Iran]]
** [[Lance Rentzel]], American football player
* [[October 15]] – [[Penny Marshall]], American actress, director and producer (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 18]]
** [[Birthe Rønn Hornbech]], Danish politician
** [[Christine Charbonneau]], Canadian francophone singer, songwriter (d. [[2014]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Catherine Deneuve]], French actress
* [[October 24]]
** [[Theodor Stolojan]], 54th Prime Minister of Romania
** [[José E. Serrano]], American politician
* [[October 25]] – [[Roy Lynes]], English keyboardist
* [[October 27]] – [[Carmen Argenziano]], American actor (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Cornelia Froboess]], German actress
* [[October 29]] – [[Don Simpson]], American film producer, screenwriter and actor (d. [[1996]])
 
After the incident, Meyer was arrested for inciting a riot and charged with [[Resisting arrest|resisting an officer]] and [[Breach of the peace|disturbing the peace]] and taken to [[Alachua County, Florida|Alachua County]] Jail.<ref name="aparrestarticle">{{cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/241199.html|title=Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum after election question|date=September 18, 2007}} {{Dead link|date=December 2016}}</ref> Meyer spent one night in the jail and was released the following morning.<ref name="aparrestarticle" /><ref name="alligatorjailarticle">{{cite news|last=Wilmath|first=Kim|url=http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/18/news/campus/arraignment.txt|title=Meyer released from jail|work=The Independent Florida Alligator|date=September 18, 2007}}</ref> Police recommended charges of resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school administrative functions, a misdemeanor.
===November===
[[File:Joni Mitchell 1983.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joni Mitchell]]]]
[[File:A Michael Spence.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Spence]]]]
[[File:Wallace Shawn 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wallace Shawn]]]]
[[File:Denis Sassou Nguesso 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Denis Sassou Nguesso]]]]
[[File:Randy Newman (1972).png|thumb|100px|[[Randy Newman]]]]
* [[November 1]] – [[Jacques Attali]], French economist
* [[November 3]] – [[Bert Jansch]], Scottish folk musician (d. [[2011]])
* [[November 4]]
** [[Sundar Popo]], [[Indo-Trinidadian]] [[Chutney music|chutney]] musician (d. [[2000]])
** [[Chuck Scarborough]], American news anchor
* [[November 5]]
** [[Friedman Paul Erhardt]], German-American pioneering television chef (d. [[2007]])
** [[Sam Shepard]], American playwright, actor (d. [[2017]])
* [[November 7]]
** [[Stephen Greenblatt]], American literary critic
** [[Nasirdin Isanov]], 1st Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (d. [[1991]])
** [[Joni Mitchell]], Canadian musician (''[[Big Yellow Taxi]]'')
** [[Michael Spence]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[November 8]] – [[Martin Peters]], English footballer (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Doug Frost (swimming coach)|Doug Frost]], Australian swimming coach
* [[November 12]] – [[Wallace Shawn]], American actor
* [[November 13]]
** [[Roberto Boninsegna]], Italian footballer
** [[Jay Sigel]], American golfer
* [[November 14]]
** [[Peter Norton]], American software engineer, businessman
** [[Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero|Rafael Leonardo Callejas]], [[President of Honduras]] (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Lauren Hutton]], American actress, model
* [[November 19]] – [[Aurelio Monteagudo]], Cuban [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1990]])
* [[November 20]]
** [[Mie Hama]], Japanese actress
** [[Marek Tomaszewski]], Polish pianist
* [[November 21]] – [[Larry Mahan]], American rodeo cowboy
* [[November 22]]
** [[Peter Adair]], American filmmaker (d. [[1996]])
** [[Yvan Cournoyer]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Billie Jean King]], American tennis player
** [[William Kotzwinkle]], American novelist, screenwriter
** [[Fouad Siniora]], 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon
* [[November 23]] – [[Denis Sassou Nguesso]], [[President of the Republic of the Congo]]
* [[November 24]]
** [[Dave Bing]], American mayor, longtime [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] player
** [[Kuniwo Nakamura]], 6th President of Palau (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Dante Caputo]], Argentine diplomat, politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Marilynne Robinson]], American writer
* [[November 28]]
** [[Randy Newman]], American musician
** [[Susan Brookes]], British television chef<ref>''[[The Times]]'' (London, England), 28 November 2023, p. 26. ''[[NewsBank]]: Access Global NewsBank'', https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A178CBE1543ACB068%2540AWGLNB-195967280332F736%25402460277-1959673C892099D0%254025-1959673C892099D0%2540. Accessed 28 November 2023.</ref>
* [[November 30]] – [[Terrence Malick]], American film director
 
Meyer's attorney, Robert S. Griscti, stated he would seek to have the charges dismissed.<ref name="alligatorjailarticle" /> Meyer later issued a public apology for his "failure to act calmly", stating that he "stepped out of line". He initially insisted there was no reason for his arrest and demanded an apology from the Alachua County Police Department, although he sent written letters of apology to the University Police Department, as well as UF President Machen and the Gator Community.<ref name="alligator"/> The state attorney agreed to drop prosecution of Meyer's case in return for Meyer serving a voluntary 18-month probation. If Meyer got into legal trouble during the probationary period, he was to be charged for the September 17 incident with resisting officers without violence and interfering with a school function.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/31/State/Tasered_student_is_so.shtml|title=State: Tasered student is sorry<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=September 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.totallawyers.com/legal-articles-taser-probation.asp |title=Tasered Student Andrew Meyer Given Probation - Total Lawyers |access-date=February 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217095313/http://www.totallawyers.com/legal-articles-taser-probation.asp |archive-date=December 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> According to the University of Florida, Meyer also accepted sanctions from the university for violations of the Student Code of Conduct. The sanctions were not made public because of student privacy laws.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.ufl.edu/2007/10/30/news-stmt/ |title=University of Florida News – UF responds to Andrew Meyer apologies |access-date=February 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813032104/http://news.ufl.edu/2007/10/30/news-stmt/ |archive-date=August 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He returned as a student in the spring semester of 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21541335|title=MSN - Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest Videos|website=NBC News|date=October 30, 2007|access-date=September 19, 2018}}</ref>
===December===
[[File:Jim Morrison 1969.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Jim Morrison]]]]
[[File:John Kerry official Secretary of State portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Kerry]]]]
<!--[[File:Dickey Betts Pistoia Blues Festival 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dickey Betts]]]]-->
[[File:Keith RichardsCLOSE UP.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Keith Richards]]]]
[[File:Harry Shearer at RT4.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Harry Shearer]]]]
[[File:Queen Silvia of Sweden in 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Queen Silvia of Sweden]]]]
[[File:John Denver 1973.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Denver]]]]
[[File:Ben Kingsley by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ben Kingsley]]]]
* [[December 2]]
** [[Wayne Allard]], American politician
** [[William Wegman (photographer)|William Wegman]], American photographer
* [[December 5]]
** [[Eva Joly]], Norwegian-born French magistrate
** [[Nicolae Văcăroiu]], 55th Prime Minister of Romania
* [[December 8]]
** [[José Carbajal (Uruguayan musician)|José Carbajal]], Uruguayan singer, composer and guitarist (d. [[2010]])
** [[Larry Martin]], American paleontologist (d. [[2013]])
** [[Jim Morrison]], American rock musician ([[The Doors]]) (d. [[1971]])
** [[Bodo Tümmler]], German Olympic middle-distance runner
* [[December 11]] – [[John Kerry]], American politician, 68th [[U.S. Secretary of State]]
* [[December 12]]
** [[Dickey Betts]], American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer ([[The Allman Brothers Band]]) (d. [[2024]])
** [[Gianni Russo]], American actor
** [[Phyllis Somerville]], American actress (d. [[2020]])
** [[Grover Washington, Jr.]], African-American saxophonist (d. [[1999]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[David W. Huff]], American rock singer and guitarist ([[David and the Giants]])
** [[Ferguson Jenkins]], Canadian baseball player
** [[Mariví Ugolino]], Uruguayan sculptor
* [[December 14]]
** [[Britt Allcroft]], British television producer, creator of ''[[Thomas & Friends]]'' (d. [[2024]])
** [[António Simões]], Portuguese footballer
* [[December 15]] – [[Lucien den Arend]], Dutch sculptor
* [[December 16]] – [[Steven Bochco]], American television producer (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Pak Doo-ik]], North Korean footballer
** [[Ron Geesin]], British musician, songwriter ([[Pink Floyd]])
** [[Rick Nolan]], American politician
* [[December 18]] – [[Keith Richards]], English rock guitarist, songwriter ([[The Rolling Stones]])
* [[December 19]]
** [[Sam Kelly]], English actor (d. [[2014]])
** [[Ross M. Lence]], American political scientist (d. [[2006]])
** [[Jimmy Mackay]], Australian football player (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Jacqueline Pearce]], English screen actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Jack Nance]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Paul Wolfowitz]], American political scientist
* [[December 23]]
** [[Elizabeth Hartman]], American actress (d. [[1987]])
** [[Harry Shearer]], American actor, comedian and screenwriter
** [[Queen Silvia of Sweden]], Queen consort of Sweden
* [[December 24]]
** [[Tarja Halonen]], 11th [[President of Finland]]
** [[James A. Johnson (politics)|James A. Johnson]], American business leader, philanthropist
* [[December 25]] – [[Hanna Schygulla]], German actress
* [[December 27]] – [[Sam Hinds]], 3-Time Prime Minister of Guyana
* [[December 28]]
** [[Keith Floyd]], British chef (d. [[2009]])
** [[Chas Hodges]], English musician and singer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Craig MacIntosh]], American illustrator
** [[Billy Chapin]], American child actor (d.[[ 2016]])
** [[Richard Whiteley]], English television presenter (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 31]]
** [[John Denver]], American musician (d. [[1997]])
** Sir [[Ben Kingsley]], British actor (''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'')
** [[Pete Quaife]], English musician, artist and author ([[The Kinks]]) (d. [[2010]])
 
==Deaths Issues raised ==
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=== Allegations of excessive force ===
===January===
[[File:George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration.jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Washington Carver]]]]
[[File:N.Tesla.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Nikola Tesla]]]]
[[File:Agustín P. Justo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Agustin Pedro Justo]]]]
[[File:Taj aldin.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Taj al-Din al-Hasani]]]]
[[File:Peidl Gyula official.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gyula Peidl]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Madeleine Barclay|Madeline Barclay]], French SOE espionage agent (b. [[1911]])
* [[January 2]]
** [[Qazim Koculi]], Albanian politician, acting [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (murdered) (b. [[1887]])
** [[Wilhelm Lorenz]], German general (died of wounds) (b. [[1894]])
* [[January 3]]
** [[Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli]], Azerbaijani statesman and writer (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Yusif+Vazir+Chamanzaminli|title=Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli|website=TheFreeDictionary.com}}</ref>
** [[Bid McPhee]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1859]])
* [[January 4]]
** [[Hàm Nghi]], Emperor of Vietnam (b. [[1872]])
** [[Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz]], Greek-born Polish athlete, resistance member (executed) (b. [[1911]])
** [[Kate Price (actress)|Kate Price]], Irish-born American actress (b. [[1872]])
* [[January 5]] – [[George Washington Carver]], African-American botanist (b. c. [[1864]])
* [[January 7]]
** [[George Washington Crile]], founder of the [[Cleveland Clinic]] (b. [[1864]])
** [[Nikola Tesla]], Serbian-American electrical engineer, inventor (b. [[1856]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Richard Hillary]], Australian-born British [[Battle of Britain]] [[Supermarine Spitfire|Spitfire]] pilot, author (killed on active service in aviation accident) (b. [[1919]])
* [[January 9]] – [[R. G. Collingwood]], English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (b. [[1889]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Lewis Hall (soldier)|Lewis Hall]], American soldier (killed on active service) (b. [[1895]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Agustín Pedro Justo]], Argentinian military officer, diplomat and politician, 23rd [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Jan Campert]], Dutch journalist, writer (in [[Neuengamme concentration camp]]) (b. [[1902]])
* [[January 13]]
** [[Henner Henkel]], German tennis champion (killed in action) (b. [[1915]])
** [[Xavier Martinez]], Mexican-born American painter (b. [[1869]])
** [[Else Ury]], German writer, children's book author (b. [[1877]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Laura E. Richards]], American author (b. [[1850]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Eric Knight]], American author (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet]], British surgeon (b. [[1856]])
* [[January 17]]
** [[Jane Avril]], French dancer (b. [[1868]])
** [[Taj al-Din al-Hasani]], Syrian politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of Syria]] and 6th [[President of Syria]] (b. [[1885]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen]], Norwegian admiral and industry leader (b. [[1857]])
* [[January 19]] – [[William Pettigrew (missionary)|William Pettigrew]], British Christian missionary (b. [[1869]])
* [[January 20]]
** [[Giacomo Benvenuti (composer)|Giacomo Benvenuti]], Italian composer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |date=1966 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-benvenuti_(Dizionario-Biografico) |volume=8 |access-date=20 October 2021 |language=it-IT |chapter=Benvenuti, Giacomo}}</ref>
** [[Max Wladimir von Beck]], former Minister-President of Austria (born [[1854]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[Aimo Cajander]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Finland]] (b. [[1879]])
** [[Konstantinos Davakis]], Greek army officer (died of wounds) (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Gyula Peidl]], 23rd [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Alexander Woollcott]], American critic (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 26]]
** [[Harry H. Laughlin]], American [[Eugenics|eugenicist]] (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/harry-hamilton-laughlin-1880-1943|title=Harry Hamilton Laughlin (1880-1943) &#124; The Embryo Project Encyclopedia|website=embryo.asu.edu}}</ref>
** [[Nikolai Vavilov]], Russian, Soviet botanist, geneticist (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 29]]
** [[Henriette Caillaux]], French murderer, socialite and wife of former French prime minister (b. [[1874]])
** [[Vladimir Kokovtsov]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Russia|Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire]] (b. [[1853]])
 
[[CNN]] reported that student opinions on the [[University of Florida]] campus were evenly divided as to whether the officers acted properly.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ortiz|first=Eunic|title= Students stunned – and tired – about Taser incident|publisher=CNN.com|date=September 19, 2007|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/19/cnnu.tase/index.html|access-date=September 24, 2007}}</ref> The day following this incident, about 300 students marched to the steps of campus police headquarters the following day with another 100 marching to Emerson Alumni Hall. They chanted that police used [[excessive force]] and waved signs that read "Stop [[police brutality]]", "Taze Pigs", "Freedom of Speech not a Felony", "Tasers Kill", and Meyer's words, "Don't Tase me, bro."<ref>{{cite news|last=Tiegen|first=Alex|author2=Ileana Morales |url=http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/20/news/campus/protest.txt|title=Students continue protesting Taser incident Wednesday|newspaper=The Independent Florida Alligator|date=September 20, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gawade|first=Tejas|url=http://media.www.sbstatesman.com/media/storage/paper955/news/2007/09/24/News/Another.College.Student.Falls.Victim.To.Tasers-2985004.shtml|title=Another College Student Falls Victim to Tasers|publisher=The Statesman|date=September 24, 2007|access-date=December 9, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222001254/http://media.www.sbstatesman.com/media/storage/paper955/news/2007/09/24/News/Another.College.Student.Falls.Victim.To.Tasers-2985004.shtml|archive-date=December 22, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> They demanded that tasers be banned from campus and that charges be filed against the police officers who restrained and tased Meyer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.local6.com/news/14144444/detail.html|title=Students Erupt In Protest, Demand Charges Filed Against Officers At Kerry Event|publisher=[[WKMG-TV]]'s website www.local6.com|date=September 18, 2007|access-date=September 19, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015212501/http://www.local6.com/news/14144444/detail.html|archive-date=October 15, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Four weeks after the incident, the university sponsored a panel to discuss appropriate police practices. Fifteen people attended and one signed up to make comments.<ref>[http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/10/16/news/campus/panel.txt "Policy panel draws 15 attendees"].</ref>
===February===
[[File:Senjuro Hayashi suit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Senjūrō Hayashi]]]]
[[Image:Hilbert.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Hilbert]]]]
[[File:Karl von Möller.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karl Leopold von Möller]]]]
[[File:Foto Madre Caridad Brader.jpg|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Maria Josefa Karolina Brader]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Foy Draper]], American Olympic athlete (killed in action) (b. [[1911]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Alfred Cavendish]], British general (b. [[1859]])
** [[Ganga Singh]], Maharaja of Bikaner (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 4]]
** [[Frank Calder]], British-born Canadian ice hockey executive, first [[National Hockey League]] president (b. [[1877]])
** [[Senjūrō Hayashi]], Japanese army commander, politician and 22nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[February 5]] – [[W. S. Van Dyke]], American director (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 9]]
** [[Eustace Fiennes]], British soldier, politician (b. [[1864]])
** [[Dmitry Kardovsky]], Soviet painter, illustrator (b. [[1866]])
* [[February 10]]
** [[Sverre Granlund]], Norwegian general (b. [[1918]])
** [[James T. Powers (actor)|James T. Powers]], American actor (b. [[1862]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Bess Houdini]], American wife of [[Harry Houdini]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[February 14]] – [[David Hilbert]], German mathematician (b. [[1862]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Charles Bennett (actor)|Charles Bennett]], American actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Paul Ranous Greever]], American politician (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Reginald Pinney|Sir Reginald Pinney]], British army general (b. [[1863]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Jan Piekałkiewicz]], Polish economist, statistician and politician (b. [[1892]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Ernest Guglielminetti]], Swiss physician (b. [[1862]])
** [[Donald Haines]], American actor (b. [[1919]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Tamara Drasin]], Russian-born American singer, actress (b. [[1905]])
** [[Christoph Probst]], German White Rose resistance member (executed) (b. [[1919]])
** [[Ben Robertson (journalist)|Ben Robertson]], American novelist, journalist and war correspondent (b. [[1903]])
** [[Hans Scholl]], German White Rose resistance member (executed) (b. [[1918]])
** [[Sophie Scholl]], German White Rose resistance member (executed) (b. [[1921]])
* [[February 23]]
** [[Edward Heaton-Ellis|Sir Edward Heaton-Ellis]], British vice-admiral (b. [[1868]])
** [[Grigory Kravchenko]], Soviet test pilot and air force general (killed in action) (b. [[1912]])
** [[Karl Leopold von Möller]], German officer, journalist, author and politician (b. [[1876]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Potato Creek Johnny]], American gold prospector and pioneer (b. {{circa}} [[1866]])<ref>{{cite news |title='Potato Creek Johnny' Joins Famed Pioneers Who Opened Up The West's Last Frontier |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-pioneer-times-potato-creek-j/154217352/ |access-date=August 29, 2024 |work=The Weekly Pioneer-Times |date=March 4, 1943 |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
** [[Theodor Eicke]], German Nazi official (killed in action) (b. [[1892]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Maria Josefa Karolina Brader]], Swiss [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and blessed (b. [[1860]])
 
===March Free speech issues ===
[[File:Gustav Vigeland 1929.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gustav Vigeland]]]]
[[File:Hans Woellke 1936.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hans Woellke]]]]
[[File:Sergei Rachmaninoff cph.3a40575.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]]]
[[File:SisterRestituta.jpg|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Maria Restituta Kafka]]]]
* [[March 1]] – [[Alexandre Yersin]], Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. [[1863]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Gisela Januszewska]], Austrian physician (in Theresienstadt concentration camp) (b. [[1867]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Rafael López Nussa]], Puerto Rican physician (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Jimmy Collins]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1870]])
* [[March 8]]
** [[Alma del Banco]], German painter (suicide) (b. [[1862]])
** [[Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo]], Indonesian independence leader (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Otto Freundlich]], German painter, sculptor (killed in [[Majdanek concentration camp]]) (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Laurence Binyon]], English poet and scholar (b. [[1869]])<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/laurence-binyon Laurence Binyon 1869–1943]</ref>
** [[Tully Marshall]], American character actor (b. [[1864]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Czesława Kwoka]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister and blessed (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. [[1928]])
** [[Gustav Vigeland]], Norwegian sculptor (b. [[1869]])
* [[March 13]]
** [[Stephen Vincent Benét]], American writer (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Vincent-Benet Stephen Vincent Benét | Poet, Novelist, Short Story Writer]</ref>
** [[Jaap Nunes Vaz]], Dutch journalist, writer and editor (killed in Sobibór extermination camp) (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Frank Nitti]], Italian-born American gangster (suicide) (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[Lizika Jančar]], Slovene Partisan, national hero (killed by militia) (b. [[1919]])
** [[Heinrich Zimmer]], German-born Indologist, historian (pneumonia) (b. [[1890]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Hans Woellke]], German Olympic athlete (killed by partisans) (b. [[1911]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Mervyn Herbert, Viscount Clive]], British peer, army officer (killed on active service in aviation accident) (b. [[1904]])
* [[March 27]] – [[George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway]], British politician, 5th [[Governor-General of New Zealand]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 28]]
** [[Ben Davies (tenor)|Ben Davies]], British tenor (b. [[1858]])
** [[Lorenzo Gasparri]], Italian admiral (killed on active service in accidental explosion) (b. [[1894]])
** [[Edward Heron-Allen]], British polymath, lawyer, scientist and scholar (b. [[1861]])
** [[Robert W. Paul]], British film director (b. [[1869]])
** [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Russian composer (b. [[1873]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Maria Restituta Kafka]], German [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister and blessed (executed) (b. [[1894]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Pavel Milyukov]], exiled Russian politician, founder and leader of the [[Constitutional Democratic Party]] (b. [[1859]])
 
Some critics of the police action here have suggested that it was not Meyer's actions which led to his removal, but the content of his remarks. For example, writer Palast said, "When you bring up uncomfortable stuff, it's going to create discomfort. Obviously, if he was speaking about baseball scores—if he maybe had a different political viewpoint that wasn't seen as combative or outside of what's permissible—then the cops' backs wouldn't have been up."<ref>[http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20070920/NEWS/709200326/1007/NEWS Taser sparks debate] Gainesville sun</ref>
===April===
[[File:Exposition universelle de 1900 - portraits des commissaires généraux-Alexandre Millerand.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alexandre Millerand]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[Vahida Maglajlić]], Yugoslav partisan, national hero (killed in combat) (b. [[1907]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Conrad Veidt]], German actor (b. [[1893]])
* [[April 5]] – [[W. G. Howard Gritten]], British barrister, writer and conservative politician (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Alexandre Millerand]], French politician, 41st [[Prime Minister of France]] and 11th [[President of France]] (b. [[1859]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Auguste Audollent]], French historian, archaeologist (b. [[1864]])
* [[April 8]]
** [[Harry Baur]], French actor (b. [[1880]])
** [[Itamar Ben-Avi]], Israeli activist (b. [[1882]])
** [[Tomás Garrido Canabal]], Mexican politician, revolutionary (b. [[1891]])
** [[Otto and Elise Hampel]], German anti-Nazi resistance members (executed) (b. [[1897]] & [[1903]])
** [[Richard Sears (tennis)|Richard Sears]], American tennis champion (b. [[1861]])
* [[April 9]] – [[Philip Slier]], Dutch Jewish typesetter (in [[Sobibór extermination camp]]) (b. [[1923]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Kim Myeong-sik]], Korean independence activist (b. [[1890]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Oskar Schlemmer]], German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (b. [[1888]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Carlos Arniches]], Spanish playwright (b. [[1866]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Isoroku Yamamoto]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1884]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Rihard Jakopič]], Yugoslav painter (b. [[1869]])
* [[April 24]]
** [[Kenneth Whiting]], United States Navy officer, submarine and naval aviation pioneer (b. [[1881]])
** [[Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord]], German general (b. [[1878]])
* [[April 30]]
** [[Eddy Hamel]], American footballer (b. [[1902]]; killed in Auschwitz)<ref>
Simon Kuper (2012). [https://books.google.com/books?id=VC1aclsVRDgC&dq=Eddy+Hamel+October+21,+1902&pg=PA54 ''Ajax, the Dutch, the War; The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour'']</ref>
** [[Otto Jespersen]], Danish linguist, creator of [[Ido (language)|Ido]] and [[Novial]] languages (b.[[1860]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00001114|title=KNAW Historisch Ledenbestand &#124; Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum|date=October 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016130515/https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00001114 |archive-date=October 16, 2020 }}</ref>
** [[Beatrice Webb]], British sociologist, economist, historian and social reformer (b. [[1858]])
 
The [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s Florida chapter released a statement on September 18, 2007, expressing dismay over the incident.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=2980|title=University of Florida Taser Incident Should Have Been Avoided, Says ACLU<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=September 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013121116/http://aclufl.org/news_events/?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=2980|archive-date=October 13, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
===May===
[[File:GRZEGORZ FRACKOWIAK.jpg|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak]]]]
[[File:Fethi Okyar.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fethi Okyar]]]]
[[File:Rida pasha alrikabi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rida Pasha al-Rikabi]]]]
[[File:Joseph Gordon Coates, 1931.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gordon Coates]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Johan Oscar Smith]], Norwegian Christian leader, founder of [[Brunstad Christian Church]] (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Frank Maxwell Andrews]], American general (plane crash) (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 4]]
** [[Cesira Ferrani]], Italian soprano (b. [[1863]])
** [[Saverio Marotta]], Italian naval officer (killed in action) (b. [[1911]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. [[1911]])
** [[Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart]], British politician, judge (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Fethi Okyar]], Turkish diplomat, politician and 2nd [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Miroslav Šalom Freiberger]], Yugoslav rabbi, writer and spiritual leader (killed at Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 14]]
** [[George, Crown Prince of Saxony]], Catholic priest (b. [[1893]])
** [[Henri La Fontaine]], Belgian lawyer, author and Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1854]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Horst Hannig]], German Luftwaffe fighter ace (b. [[1921]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[Johanna Elberskirchen]], German feminist (b. [[1864]])
** [[Montagu Love]], British actor (b. [[1877]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Kristjan Raud]], Soviet painter, drawer (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 20]] – [[John Stone Stone]], American physicist, inventor (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Helen Taft]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Johannes Orasmaa]], Estonian army general (in labour camp) (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Ali Rikabi]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Syria]], 2-time [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Edsel Ford]], American businessman, president of Ford Motor Company (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Gordon Coates]], 21st [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 31]]
** [[Prince Georg of Bavaria]], Catholic priest (b. [[1880]])
** [[Helmut Kapp]], German Gestapo official (killed by partisans)
 
{{quote|"Apart from the taser use issues, one must consider the free speech implications of the police officers' actions", said Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida Executive Director. "People have a reasonable expectation to ask questions in a public setting&nbsp;– even if they are aggressive and some disagree with their position&nbsp;– that is free speech plain and simple. Similarly&nbsp;– Kerry had a reasonable expectation to be able to answer those questions. Neither of them was able to exercise their free speech rights due to the police action.}}
===June===
[[File:Kermit Roosevelt 1926.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kermit Roosevelt]]]]
[[File:Karl Landsteiner nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karl Landsteiner]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[István Bárczy]], Hungarian politician (b. [[1866]])
** [[Leslie Howard]], British actor (aircraft shot down) (b. [[1893]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Nile Kinnick]], American athlete, [[Heisman Trophy]] winner (died on active service in aviation accident) (b. [[1918]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Osgood Hanbury]], British pilot (killed on active service) (b. [[1917]])
* [[June 4]]
** [[Francesco Pianzola]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1881]])
** [[Kermit Roosevelt]], American explorer, author (suicide) (b. [[1889]])
* [[June 10]] – Sultan [[Abdelaziz of Morocco]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Hans Junkermann (actor)|Hans Junkermann]], German actor (b. [[1872]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Karl Landsteiner]], Austrian biologist, physician (b. [[1868]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Pietro Porcelli]], Italian sculptor (b. [[1872]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Kristian Kristiansen (explorer)|Kristian Kristiansen]], Norwegian explorer (b. [[1865]])
 
=== Versions of the incident ===
===July===
[[File:Kazimierz Junosza Stepowski Polish actor.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski]]]]
[[File:Nazaria.jpg|thumb|100px|Saint [[Ignacia Nazaria March Mesa]]]]
[[File:Hedley Verity cigarette card.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hedley Verity]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Alice Mary Dowd]], American educator and poet (b. [[1855]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Cevat Abbas Gürer]], Turkish army officer (b. [[1887]])
** [[Gordon Sidney Harrington]], Canadian politician (b. [[1883]])
** [[Zofia Leśniowska]], Polish army officer (aviation accident) (b. [[1912]])
** [[Władysław Sikorski]], Polish prime minister in exile (aviation accident) (b. [[1881]])
** [[Charles Stevenson (actor)|Charles Stevenson]], American silent film actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[July 5]]
** [[Leonardo Ferrulli]], Italian pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1918]])
** [[Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski]], Polish actor (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Teruo Akiyama]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1891]])
** [[Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa]], Spanish-born [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister, canonized (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 8]]
** [[Jean Moulin]], French resistance fighter (injuries from suicide attempt in custody) (b. [[1899]])
** Sir [[Harry Oakes]], American-born British gold mine owner (murdered) (b. [[1874]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Eugen Lovinescu]], Romanian critic, academic and novelist (b. [[1881]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Cecilia Loftus]], Scottish-born actress (b. [[1876]])
* [[July 13]]
** [[Lorenzo Barcelata]], Mexican composer (b. [[1898]])
** [[Marianna Biernacka]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister, martyr and blessed (killed) (b. [[1888]])
** [[Luz Long]], German long jump athlete (killed in action) (b. [[1913]])
** [[Alexander Schmorell]], Russian-born German [[White Rose]] resistance member, Orthodox Church passion bearer and saint (executed) (b. [[1917]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Mariya Borovichenko]], Soviet medical officer (killed in action) (b. [[1925]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Saul Raphael Landau]], Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist (b. [[1870]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Martin Faust (actor)|Martin Faust]], American film actor (b. [[1886]])
** [[Giuseppe Terragni]], Italian architect (b. [[1904]])
* [[July 20]]
** [[Maria Gay]], Spanish opera singer (b. [[1879]])
** [[Charles Hazelius Sternberg]], American fossil collector and paleontologist (b. [[1850]])
* [[July 21]]
** [[José Jurado de la Parra]], Spanish journalist, poet and playwright (b. [[1856]])
** [[Charley Paddock]], American sprinter (aviation accident) (b. [[1900]])
** [[Louis Vauxcelles]], French art critic (b. [[1870]])
** [[Theodor von Guérard]], German jurist, politician (b. [[1863]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Mario Nicolis di Robilant]], Italian general (b. [[1855]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Luis Barros Borgoño]], Chilean politician (b. [[1858]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Charles Granval]], French actor (b. [[1882]])
* [[July 29]] – [[William Ewart Hart]], Australian aviator, dentist (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Max Eitingon]], Belarusian-German medical doctor and psychoanalyst (b. [[1881]])
* [[July 31]]
**[[Zdzisław Lubomirski]], Polish aristocrat, landowner, lawyer, politician and activist (b. [[1865]])
**[[James MacLachlan]], British flying ace (b. [[1919]])
**[[Hedley Verity]], British cricketer (b. [[1905]])
**[[Rodger Young]], American soldier, remembered in the song "[[The Ballad of Rodger Young]]" (killed in action) (b. [[1918]])
 
Various news articles speculated that the incident was a stunt by Meyer, noting that he would post comedy videos on his personal website and arrange to have himself filmed by others.<ref name="suntimes1911">{{cite web|url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/563864,CST-NWS-taser19.article|title=Chicago Sun-Times article Sept 19|access-date=September 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116110513/http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/563864,CST-NWS-taser19.article|archive-date=November 16, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The reports also cited Meyer's behavior when no cameras were present as evidence that the incident was a prank. The police report claimed that "as [Meyer] was escorted [downstairs] with no cameras in sight, he remained quiet, but once the cameras made their way [downstairs] he started screaming and yelling again." Additionally, the report asserts that Meyer was "laughing and being lighthearted in the car, his demeanor completely changed once the cameras were not in sight." The police officers involved in the arrest claimed that during the ride, Meyer said: "I am not mad at you guys, you didn't do anything wrong, you were just trying to do your job."<ref name="offensereport" />
===August===
 
John Levy, a graduate student at the university and a friend of Meyer's since the second grade, said that he spoke with Meyer shortly before he entered the Kerry forum. Levy said that Meyer felt excited, had come up with several questions, and wanted to hear the senator's responses. Levy also said that Meyer was "really upset that people are more concerned with the police attack and not with the dialogue he was trying to start with Kerry" and that he asked Levy "What kind of message does that send? He wants to show students it's okay to ask hard questions, and then he gets tased for doing it."<ref name="wapo"/> This sentiment was strongly echoed by filmmaker [[John Wellington Ennis|John Ennis]] and [[Greg Palast]] (the author of the book Meyer was holding during the event) in the 2008 film ''Free For All.'' When "asked about speculation that Meyer [[publicity stunt|staged]] the confrontation", University spokesman Steve Orlando has stated that a member of the Office of Student Affairs told Orlando that Meyer brought a [[video camera]] to the forum and gave it to Clarissa Jessup, the young woman who was next in line to ask a question,<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092301286.html?nav=rss_politics 'Washington Post''article Sept 24 "Got a Camera by Howard Kurtz]</ref> with whom he was unacquainted, before he spoke. Henry Perlstein, a university senior who has known Meyer since high school, said, "My first impression was that [the video] was a [[home movies|home movie]] he made for his friends because it was so [[surrealism|surreal]]. Then I heard the screams and he sounded genuinely afraid."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theapple.com/news/articles/1188-student-tasered-while-questioning-sen-kerry|title=Student Tasered While Questioning Sen. Kerry|access-date=September 23, 2007|last=Hesse|first=Monica}}</ref> Amos Eshel, a fellow UF student who has known Meyer since middle school and who attended his arraignment in September 2007, later told reporters that Meyer does "like to speak his mind" but that Meyer is not the type of person who would attempt to start trouble.<ref name="alligator"/>
[[File:BASA-3K-7-342-28-Boris III of Bulgaria.jpeg|thumb|100px|King [[Boris III of Bulgaria]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Martyrs of Nowogródek]], Polish nuns, martyrs and blessed (executed) (b. 1888–1916)
** [[Lin Sen]], Chinese chairman of the National Government of China (b. [[1868]])
* [[August 5]]
** [[Iosif Apanasenko]], Soviet commander (killed in action) (b. [[1890]])
** [[Eva-Maria Buch]], German resistance leader (executed) (b. [[1921]])
* [[August 9]]
** [[Franz Jägerstätter]], Austrian conscientious objector, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. [[1907]])
** [[Chaïm Soutine]], Russian-born painter (b. [[1893]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Bobby Peel]], English cricketer (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Joe Kelley]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1871]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Hans Jeschonnek]], German general (suicide) (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Henrik Pontoppidan]], Danish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Virgilio Dávila]], Puerto Rican poet, educator, businessman and politician (b. [[1869]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Ettore Muti]], Italian Fascist politician (shot while under arrest) (b. [[1902]])
** [[Hermannus Reydon]], Dutch journalist and Nazi collaborator (shot by Dutch resistance) (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite web
|publisher=[[Parlementair Documentatie Centrum]]
|url=https://www.parlement.com/id/vh9h1bik5orp/h_reydon
|date=
|access-date = 13 June 2024
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190302032643/https://www.parlement.com/id/vh9h1bik5orp/h_reydon
|archive-date=2 March 2019
|title=Mr. H. Reydon
|language=Dutch
}}</ref>
** [[Simone Weil]], French philosopher (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Ted Ray (golfer)|Ted Ray]], British golfer (b. [[1877]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[William de Burgh (philosopher)|William de Burgh]], British philosopher (b. [[1866]])
** [[Constantin Prezan]], Romanian general, [[Marshal of Romania]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[August 28]] – King [[Boris III of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Baba Nand Singh ji]], Punjabi Sikh religious leader, saint (b. [[1870]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Gustav Bachmann]], German naval officer, admiral (b. [[1860]])
 
=== University investigation ===
===September===
[[File:Ernst Trygger, prime minister of Sweden.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ernst Trygger]]]]
* [[September 1]] – [[Charles Atangana]], Cameroonian chief (b. c.[[1880]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Marsden Hartley]], [[American modernism|American Modernist]] artist (b. [[1877]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Reginald McKenna]], British [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] 1915–1916 (b. [[1863]])
* [[September 7]]
** [[Géza Grünwald]], Hungarian mathematician (b. [[1910]])
** [[Karlrobert Kreiten]], German pianist (executed) (b. [[1916]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Julius Fučík (journalist)|Julius Fučík]], Czech resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1903]])
* [[September 9]]
** [[Carlo Bergamini (admiral)|Carlo Bergamini]], Italian admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1888]])
** [[Salvatore John Cavallaro]], American naval officer (killed in action) (b. [[1920]])
** [[Federico Martinengo]], Italian pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 13]]
** [[David Bacon (actor)|David Bacon]], American film actor (b. [[1914]])
** [[Ugo Cavallero]], General of the Italian Army (assassinated or suicide) (b. [[1880]])
* [[September 17]] – (killed in [[Ponary massacre]])
** [[Kazimierz Pelczar]], Polish oncologist, academic (b. [[1894]])
** [[Mieczysław Witold Gutkowski]], Polish lawyer (b. [[1893]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Germaine Cernay]], French mezzo-soprano (b. [[1900]])
* [[September 23]]
** [[Elinor Glyn]], British writer, critic (b. [[1864]])
** [[Ernst Trygger]], Swedish professor, politician and 19th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (b. [[1857]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Henri Fertet]], [[French Resistance]] fighter (b. [[1926]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr/compagnons/henri-fertet |title=Henri Fertet |website=[[Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération]] |language=fr |access-date=2019-12-01}}</ref>
* [[September 28]]
** [[Sam Ruben]], American chemist (b. [[1913]])
** [[Filippo Illuminato]], Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (b. [[1930]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Willoughby Hamilton]], Irish tennis player (b. [[1864]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Mariano Goybet]], French army general (b. [[1861]])
* [[September 30]]
** [[Johan Ludwig Mowinckel]], Norwegian businessman, [[Prime Minister of Norway]] (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/bio-johan-ludwig-mowinckel|title=Johan Ludwig Mowinckel|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref>
** [[Adolf Paul]], Swedish novelist, playwright (b. [[1863]])
 
On September 18, in Emerson Alumni Hall, then-UF President [[J. Bernard Machen]] held a press conference about the incident. He also issued a letter in which he stated that the University Police Chief Linda Stump had requested that the [[Florida Department of Law Enforcement]] (FDLE) investigate the arrest.<ref>{{cite web |title=President Machen presents update on issues related to student arrest |url=http://www.president.ufl.edu/incident.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922042239/http://www.president.ufl.edu/incident.htm |archive-date=September 22, 2007 |access-date=September 21, 2007 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> President Machen stated that "We plan to assemble a panel of faculty and students to review our police protocols, our management practices and the FDLE report to come up with a series of recommendations for the university."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://gainesvillesun.com/article/20070918/NEWS/70918014/1007/NEWS|title=Two officers suspended in Tasering}}</ref> The [[State Attorney's Office]] will review the charges as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20070918/NEWS/70918020/1007/NEWS|title=State Attorney's Office to expedite review}}</ref>
===October===
[[File:Carlos Blanco Galindo.jpg|thumb|153x153px|[[Carlos Blanco Galindo]]]]
[[File:Pieter Zeeman.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pieter Zeeman]]]]
* [[October 2]]
** [[Carlos Blanco Galindo]], 32nd [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1882]])
** [[Muhamed Hadžiefendić]], Yugoslav army officer (killed by partisans) (b. [[1898]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Irena Iłłakowicz]], Polish general (murdered) (b. [[1906]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Leon Roppolo]], American jazz clarinetist (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln]], Hungarian adventurer (b. [[1879]])
* [[October 7]]
** [[Eugeniusz Bodo]], Polish actor (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://culture.pl/en/artist/eugeniusz-bodo Eugeniusz Bodo]</ref>
** [[Prince Christoph of Hesse]] (aviation accident) (b. [[1901]])
* [[October 8]]
**[[Marianne Golz]], Austrian-born opera singer, World War II resistance member (executed) (b. [[1895]])
**[[Wilhelm Hegeler]], German novelist (b. [[1870]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Pieter Zeeman]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Max Wertheimer]], Austro-Hungarian psychologist (b. [[1880]])
* [[October 14]]
** [[Rudolf Beckmann]], German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. [[1910]])
** [[Siegfried Graetschus]], German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. [[1916]])
** [[Johann Niemann]], German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. [[1913]])
* [[October 15]] – [[William Penhallow Henderson]], American painter, architect and furniture designer (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Margaret Bartholomew]], American [[Civil Air Patrol]] officer (aviation accident on mission) (b. [[1903]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Camille Claudel]], French sculptor (b. [[1864]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Dudley Pound|Sir Dudley Pound]], British admiral (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 22]] – [[William Reginald Hall|Sir Reginald Hall]], British admiral (b. [[1870]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[André Antoine]], French actor (b. [[1858]])
** [[Ben Bernie]], American jazz violinist (b. [[1891]])
** [[Antonio Legnani]], Italian admiral (automobile accident) (b. [[1888]])
** [[Franceska Mann]], Polish dancer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau]], Canadian poet, lawyer (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 26]]
** [[Joseph E. Widener]], American art collector and philanthropist (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://patrons.org.es/widener-joseph-early/|title=JOSEPH EARLY WIDENER|date=August 31, 2015|website=PATRONS}}</ref>
** [[Aurel Stein|Sir Aurel Stein]], Hungarian-born British archaeologist (b. [[1862]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Max Reinhardt]], Austrian director (b. [[1873]])
 
''[[The Miami Herald]]'' stated that, at the press conference, President Machen called the situation "regretful for us" and announced that two officers involved in the incident had been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the probe. University spokesman Steve Orlando said Meyer was asked to leave the microphone after his allotted time was up. However, a transcript of the event shows that this is untrue; he was not told to leave at any point. The university president "would not say whether he thought the latest episode was a [[prank]]."<ref>{{cite news|last=Reed|first=Travis|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/241199.html|title=Student Tasered at Kerry forum has a penchant for practical jokes|publisher=Miami Herald (AP)|date=September 18, 2007}}</ref>
===November===
[[File:Grand Duke Boris of Russia.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia]]]]
[[File:Stamp of Moldova 128.gif|thumb|100px|Metropolitan [[Gurie Grosu]]]]
[[File:Dorie Miller - Restoration, full.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Doris Miller]]]]
* [[November 5]]
** [[Samad Abdullayev]], Soviet army officer (killed in action) (b. [[1920]])
**[[Frank Campeau]], American actor (b. [[1864]])
** [[Idhomene Kosturi]], Albanian politician, acting [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Dwight Frye]], American character actor (b. [[1899]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia]] (b. [[1877]])
* [[November 10]] – Blessed [[Lübeck martyrs]], German [[Roman Catholic]] priests (executed):
** [[Johannes Prassek]] (b. [[1911]])
** [[Eduard Müller (martyr)|Eduard Müller]] (b. [[1911]])
** [[Hermann Lange]] (b. [[1912]])
** [[Karl Friedrich Stellbrink]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Maurice Denis]], French painter (b. [[1870]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Gurie Grosu]], Romanian [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] priest and metropolitan (b. [[1877]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Baruch Lopes Leão de Laguna]], Dutch painter (b. [[1864]])
* [[November 22]]
** [[Lorenz Hart]], American lyricist (b. [[1895]])
** [[Keiji Shibazaki]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Charles Ray (actor)|Charles Ray]], American actor (b. [[1891]])
* [[November 24]]
** [[France Balantič]], Yugoslav poet (killed in action) (b. [[1921]])
** [[Doris Miller]], African-American sailor, Pearl Harbor survivor (killed in action) (b. [[1919]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Renato Cialente]], Italian film actor (b. [[1897]])
* [[November 26]]
** [[Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (pilot)|Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (b. [[1909]])
** [[Edward O'Hare|Edward "Butch" O'Hare]], American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Aleksander Hellat]], Soviet politician (b. [[1881]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Zsolt Harsányi]], Hungarian author, dramatist, translator and writer (b. [[1887]])
 
On October 24, the FDLE released a report<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.president.ufl.edu/incident/FDLE-Executive-Summary.pdf |title=FDLE Case GA-27-0008 |access-date=October 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025141823/http://www.president.ufl.edu/incident/FDLE-Executive-Summary.pdf |archive-date=October 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> on its investigation of the incident. The report concluded that Meyer may have planned a 'disruption' of the forum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gainesville.com/article/20071025/NEWS/710250322/0/news|title=UF police cleared in Tasering|first=JACK STRIPLING Sun staff|last=writer|access-date=September 19, 2018}}</ref> It also cleared the police officers involved of any wrongdoing in subduing Meyer, saying that the officer's actions were justified.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/283492.html|title=UF police cleared in 'Don't Tase me, Bro' case Miami Herald 25 Oct 2007| website=[[Miami Herald]] |access-date=September 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/24/america/NA-GEN-US-Student-Tasered.php|title=University of Florida police cleared in use of stun gun on student|work=[[International Herald Tribune]]|date=October 24, 2007}}</ref> University President Bernie Machen stated that "I have full confidence in the police department" and that the two officers previously placed on paid administrative leave have been fully reinstated.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2007/10/24/machen-fdle/|title=President addresses summary of FDLE report|publisher=Inside UF|date=October 24, 2007|access-date=October 24, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026050756/http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2007/10/24/machen-fdle/|archive-date=October 26, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
===December===
[[File:John Harvey Kellogg ggbain.15047.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Harvey Kellogg]]]]
[[File:Fats Waller edit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fats Waller]]]]
* [[December 1]]
** [[Antonio de Viti de Marco]], Italian economist (b. [[1858]])
** [[Damrong Rajanubhab]], Thai prince, historian (b. [[1862]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Nordahl Grieg]], Norwegian poet, novelist, journalist and activist (killed in action as war correspondent) (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 6]] – [[G. O. Smith]], English sportsman (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Hamilton Lamb]], Australian politician, soldier (in Japanese POW camp) (b. [[1900]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Donald Mackintosh (bishop)|Donald Mackintosh]], British clergyman, [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and reverend (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 9]]
** [[George Cooper (actor)|George Cooper]], American silent film actor (b. [[1892]])
** [[Georges Dufrénoy]], French post-impressionist painter (b. [[1870]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Charles Belcher (actor)|Charles Belcher]], American film actor (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Erich Garske]], German political activist (executed) (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 14]] – [[John Harvey Kellogg]], American physician, nutritionist (b. [[1852]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Fats Waller]], African-American jazz pianist (pneumonia) (b. [[1904]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Hector Gray]], British Royal Air Force officer (executed in Japanese Prisoner of War camp) (b. [[1911]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Edward L. Beach Sr.]], American naval officer, author (b. [[1867]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Beatrix Potter]], British children's author, illustrator (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Frederic Fisher|Sir Frederic Fisher]], British admiral (b. [[1851]])
* [[December 25]] – [[William Irving (actor)|William Irving]], German-born American film actor (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Erich Bey]], German admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Rupert Julian]], New Zealand actor, director (b. [[1879]])
** [[Creelman MacArthur]], Canadian businessman, politician (b. [[1874]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Hobart Bosworth]], American film actor, director, writer and producer (b. [[1867]])
 
=== Response from Senator Kerry ===
==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Otto Stern]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[George de Hevesy]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Carl Peter Henrik Dam]], [[Edward Adelbert Doisy]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – not awarded
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded
 
On the day following the incident, Kerry's office issued a statement:
==References==
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{{quote|In 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way. I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention. I asked the police to allow me to answer the question and was in the process of responding when he was taken into custody. I was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building. I hope that neither the student nor any of the police were injured. I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted.|[[John Kerry]]<ref name="kerry_statement">{{cite letter
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== Popular culture ==
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The most viewed video of the taser incident, shot by Kyle Mitchell of ''[[The Gainesville Sun]]'', has more than 8 million views on YouTube as of October 2023.<ref name="thevideoitself"/> The "Don't tase me, bro!" quote has become a [[catchphrase]] and [[Internet meme]], spawning various [[Parody|parodies]] of the incident. The ''[[New Oxford American Dictionary]]'' listed "tase/taze" as one of the words of the year for 2007. ''[[The Yale Book of Quotations]]'' designated Meyer's exclamation as the most memorable quote of 2007.<ref name="Reuters1">{{cite news |title="Don't Tase Me, Bro!" tops '07 memorable quote list|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1959512020071219?loc=interstitialskip|work=[[Reuters]]|first=Arthur|last=Spiegelman|date=December 19, 2007|access-date=July 25, 2008}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' selected the video as one of YouTube's 50 Best Videos in March 2010.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Megan|last=Friedman|title=The YouTube 50: Don't Tase Me, Bro|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1974961_1974925_1970494,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401081841/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1974961_1974925_1970494,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 1, 2010|magazine=Time|department=Lists|date=March 29, 2010|access-date=March 13, 2013}}</ref> In addition,
* [[Mick Jones (The Clash)|Mick Jones]], former guitarist for [[The Clash]], wrote and published a song inspired by the event titled "Don't Tase Me, Bro".
* New wave band [[Devo]]'s song "[[Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)]]" from 2010 contains the lyric "They'll hunt you down and tase you, bro," and ends with the refrain "Don't tase me, bro!" In 2012, Devo recorded a song called "Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro! (Seamus Unleashed)," referring to then-presidential candidate [[Mitt Romney]]'s road trip with his dog Seamus in a crate atop his vehicle.
* On the game platform [[Roblox]], a gear under the name of "Laser Electrocutor" was uploaded to the Gears section of the Avatar Shop on January 6, 2012. The description of the item said "Don't laser electrocute me bro!".
* The quote was also used by [[nerdcore]] rapper [[MC Lars]] in his song "True Player for Real."
* [[Ben Folds Five]] used the phrase in their 2012 song "Erase Me".
* In an episode of ''[[truTV Presents: World's Dumbest...]]'', after a clip showing a "sovereign citizen" refusing to release control of his camera before entering a courtroom and having a taser used on him, a "taze montage" was shown where it had part of the video where Meyer said the phrase and then being tasered.
* In ''[[The Boondocks (TV series)|The Boondocks]]'' episode "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman", Grandad utters the phrase before being tazed.
* In ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'''s episode "The Ex-Files", Tyler references the event while seeing an alien by saying, "Don't probe me, bro!"
* In ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' season 2 episode 5, "Little Man on Campus", both [[Cleveland Brown]] and [[List of The Cleveland Show characters#Tim the Bear|Tim the Bear]] realize that Holt is in disguise in his high school persona. As Tim is about to maul him, a panicked Holt recites a series of media and internet memes, including "Don't Tase Me, Bro!"
* In ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 video game)|The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' Spider-Man quotes the phrase after dodging a taser attack from a prison security guard.
* An episode of the 2010 TV series [[The Good Guys (2010 TV series)|''The Good Guys'']] had an episode titled "Don't Tase Me, Bro" involving an incident with a taser, during which the character tased said, "Don't tase me, bro."
* An October 2010 comic strip by the webcomic ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' referenced the incident with the phrase "Don't stake me, bro", said by a creature from ''[[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow]]''.<ref name="pennyarcade01">{{cite web |url=http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/20/that-constant-refrain |title=The Constant Refrain |last1=Krahulik |first1=Mike |last2=Holkins |first2=Jerry |date=20 October 2010 |website=penny-arcade.com |publisher=Penny Arcade, Inc}}</ref><ref name="pennyarcade02">{{cite AV media |title=Penny Arcade - The 4th Panel - Don't Stake Me Bro |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3RAOjPi5Q |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/0p3RAOjPi5Q |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|publisher=Penny Arcade Inc.}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* In the 2014 video game ''[[Watch Dogs (video game)|Watch Dogs]]'', the line appears as one of the various popular culture references and internet memes seen when the player hacks a billboard.
* In ''[[Elf Bowling]]'', one of the elves used as a bowling pin yells, "Don't taze me, bro!"
* In the 2014 animated film ''[[Mr. Peabody & Sherman]]'', Greek hero [[Agamemnon]], voiced by [[Patrick Warburton]], says, "Don't tase me, bro" after police use a taser to subdue French revolutionary [[Maximilien de Robespierre|Robespierre]] (voiced by Guillaume Aretos).
* In "Hundred Dollar Gus" of ''[[Uncle Grandpa]]'', Mr. Gus blames Pizza Steve for whatever happens to him after Uncle Grandpa calls the cops, causing them to tackle him to the ground where he says the phrase before being tasered.
* In episode 47 of [[Sonic Boom (TV series)|''Sonic Boom'']] (Fuzzy Puppy Buddies), Dave the Intern is framed by Orbot and Cubot and is subsequently arrested. While being taken away, he pleads innocent and finishes with "Don't taze me, bro!" before going off-screen.
* In season 26 episode 12 "[[The Musk Who Fell to Earth]]" of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer says, "don't take me, bro" inside his car after Elon Musk asks him for more ideas.
* A ''[[Tom the Dancing Bug]]'' comic strip by [[Ruben Bolling]] outlines a fictional history of the expression.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2007/10/06/|title=Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 06, 2007 - GoComics.com|date=October 6, 2007|access-date=September 19, 2018}}</ref>
* In the Android/iOS game ''Sky Force Reloaded'', one of the unlockable technicians is called "Tase Mebro".
* In his album [[Solid State (Jonathan Coulton album)|''Solid State'']], [[Jonathan Coulton]] uses the phrase as part of the song "Don't Feed the Trolls".
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'' a protester can be seen with a sign that reads "Don't Taste Me Bro" in protest of Bob's alleged use of human flesh in his burger meat.
* Comedian [[Eric Andre]] utters the phrase when he is arrested at a town hall meeting in Season 2 Episode 5 of ''[[The Eric Andre Show]]''.
* In season 5 episode 2 of ''[[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]]'' the character Jake Peralta says, "Don't taze me man, do you remember that, so funny...but don't" when being escorted from the warden's office by a guard.
* In the 2022 film ''[[Minions: The Rise of Gru]]'', [[Gru]] uses a Cheese-Ray on multiple customers in an ice cream parlor, causing the employee behind the counter to plead "Don't cheese me, bro."
* In a 2014 episode of [[The Fairly OddParents]] titled "Weirdo's on a Train", the main character's teacher (Mr. Crocker) uses the phrase with the main character's father while riding a mall kiddie train.
* In [[Slugterra: Ghoul from Beyond]], Kord Zane told Eli Shane, who's being controlled by The Goon, that he wouldn't do this before saying "Don't Tazerling me, bro!" But he's been shot by an Amperling.
* In the 13th episode of season 3 of [[Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)|''Person of Interest'']], titled [[4C_(Person_of_Interest)|''4C'']], the phrase is said to protest the use of an electric [[stun belt]].
 
== See also ==
 
*[[Taser safety issues]]
*[[Taser International]] – Taser Manufacturer
*[[Braidwood Inquiry]] – Official Canadian enquiry into Tasers and similar devices
*[[UCLA Taser incident]]
*[[Killing of Robert Dziekański]]
*[[Student protest]]
 
== References ==
 
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== External links ==
 
*{{youtube|SaiWCS10C5s|UF Police Taser Student During Kerry Forum}}
*{{youtube|r7Qef8oPmag|Extended Video}}
*[http://www.theandrewmeyer.com/ Andrew Meyer's website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071025141818/http://sg.ufl.edu/accent/press/johnkerrypressrelease.pdf Press Release for Town Hall Forum]
*[https://thetab.com/us/2017/09/14/whatever-happened-to-the-dont-tase-me-bro-guy-71781/ Whatever happened to Andrew Meyer?]
 
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