** Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer

** Trials of Saddam Hussein: Three gunmen assassinate Adel al-Zubeidi, the defense lawyer for Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former Iraqi Vice President under Saddam Hussein.

** G. D. Combe, Responsible Government in South Australia ( Adel, 1957 );

** Civil war in Chad ( 1998 – 2002 ) – involved the Movement for Justice and Democracy in Chad ( MDJT ) rebels that skirmished periodically with government troops in the Tibesti region, resulting in hundreds of civilian, government, and rebel casualties.

** British liner becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by in the eastern Atlantic.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

** Operation Manna: British Lancaster bombers drop food into the Netherlands to prevent the starvation of the civilian population.

** A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.

** American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

** Individual Mobilization Augmentee ( IMA )-The National Communications System ( NCS ) Augmentee Program was established in 1988 to provide a cadre of skilled civilian and military reservists to enhance the efforts of the Office of the Manager, NCS ( OMNCS ), the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications ( NCC ), and NCS Regional Managers ( RMs ) during national crises and emergencies.

** The first known underwater diving club in Britain, " The Amphibians Club ", is formed in Aberdeen by Ivor Howitt ( who modified an old civilian gas mask ) and some friends.

** Added fixed-wing planes and airships with both civilian and military grade weapons

** 1 July 1920 – 1925 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel ( 1879 – 1963 ), until the 1922 establishment of the mandate actually the first civilian who took over, already as High Commissioner, from the three consecutive military administrators since the 1917 conquest by British forces

** Dog tag, military and civilian neck-ID tags

** Logothetes tou stratiotikou ( Military Logothete ) – a civilian, in charge of distributing pay to the army.

** Cohors togata was a unit of the Praetorian guard in civilian dress tasked with duties within the pomerium ( sacred center of the Capital, where all armed forces were forbidden ).

** List of civilian nuclear accidents

** List of civilian nuclear ships

** Adaptive Combat Rifle ( ACR ; military versions only, while civilian versions are built by Bushmaster )

** Ernie Smith and Emory Bronte complete the first civilian non-stop flight from North America to the Hawaiian Islands when their Travel Air monoplane, the City of Oakland, crashes on Molokai after a flight from Oakland, California.

** Sir Edward Gregory, who was the last civilian to hold the office, and retired in 1703.

** Cinquedea, a civilian short sword ( or long dagger );

** All military and civilian personnel will return to work within 2 hours or at normal duty hours unless otherwise instructed by their commander.

** Two Israelis, including a civilian, are killed in an ambush close to Gaza.

** At least 10 people, nine police and one civilian, have died following a series of explosions at a Shia festival marking the birth of the Imam Mehdi in Karbala.

** Jean Ziegler, a Human rights investigator and senior United Nations official, has accuses the United States and occupying forces of " using hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population " in Iraq.

** The Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian honor awarded by the Governor of South Carolina

** Thomas North, English translator ( d. 1601 )

** Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator

** Anthony Wilden, British author and social theorist, noted translator of Jaques Lacan

** William Painter, English translator ( b. 1540 )

** Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch ( b. 1535 )

** John Wyclif, English theologian and Bible translator ( b. 1328 )

** Jane Lumley, English translator ( d. 1578 )

** Richard Carew, Cornish translator and antiquary ( d. 1620 )

** Edward Fairfax, English translator ( d. 1635 )

** Jane Lumley, English translator ( b. 1537 )

** Thomas Creech, English translator ( b. 1659 )

** Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator ( d. 1625 )

** Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca ( d. 1598 )

** Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator ( b. c. 1552 or 1553 ; d. 1616 )

** Philemon Holland, English translator ( d. 1637 )

** Richard Stanyhurst, English translator of Virgil ( d. 1618 )

** John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator ( d. 1607 )

** William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator ( d. 1604 )

** Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator ( d. 1566 )

** Octavien de Saint-Gelais, poet and translator ( b. 1468 )

** Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator ( d. 1568 )

** John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English translator ( d. 1553 )

** John Trevisa, English translator ( d. 1402 )

** John Purvey, English scholar and Bible translator ( d. 1428 )

** H. L. Fischer, translator ( born 1822 )