** Gabonese president Leon M ' ba is toppled by a military coup and his archrival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.

** Leon Ames, American actor ( b. 1903 )

** Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

** Leon Russell, American singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist

** Leon Garfield, English children's author ( b. 1921 )

** Leon Askin, Austrian actor ( d. 2005 )

** Leon Ames, American actor ( d 1993 )

** Leon Cadore, American baseball pitcher ( b. 1890 )

** Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor

** Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.

** Leon Garfield, English children's author ( died 1996 )

** Pedro Leon, Spanish soccer player

** Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

** Le Carnaval ( 1910 )— music by Robert Schumann ( orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, and Alexander Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, set and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** Papillons ( Butterflies )— music by Robert Schumann ( arranged by Nicolai Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, sets by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** Leon Koruh

** Leon Garfield's novel Smith

** England: David Hockney, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff

** San Leon Elementary School ( PreKindergarten-4th Grade ) San Leon portion of DISD

** Leon Lai 黎明 ( 1966 -; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in China ; Hakka pronunciation: Le Min ), Singer / actor ; One of the " Four Great Heavenly Kings " of Chinese pop music

** Jerry Douglas, Gen Duncan, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, Steve Martin, Leon Russell, Earl Scruggs, Gary Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Paul Shaffer & Marty Stuart for " Foggy Mountain Breakdown "

** Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story

** Phil Spector ( producer ), George Harrison ( producer & artist ), Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr & Klaus Voormann for The Concert for Bangla Desh

** Lenin and Trotsky: what they really stood for ( 1969 )

** Trotsky for Beginners by Tariq Ali ( 1980 )

** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III Russian warship

** Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

** Vladimirskaya ( Russian Orthodox )

** Romanov sainthood ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class

** List of Russian rulers: early Grand Dukes and Tsars

** Alexander Nevsky ( Repose, Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian original was written in 1970, distributed by samizdat, and eventually printed as Восленский М. С., Номенклатура.

** In many languages ( e. g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian ), the sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical.

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

** Romanized Russian: Dogovor o druzhbe, sotrudnichestve i vzaimnoy pomoshchi

** Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler

** Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, Russian astronomer and inventor ( b. 1896 )

** The First Chechen War ( 1994 – 1996 ) – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator

** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer

** Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

** Lena Katina, Russian singer