* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician

* Leonid Amalrik ( 1905 – 1997 ), Soviet animator

* 1885 – Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian philosopher ( d. 1971 )

* 2004 – Leonid Telyatnikov, Kazakhstani fire chief at Chernobyl ( b. 1951 )

* 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.

* 1875 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general ( d. 1915 )

* 1978 – The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.

* 1951 – Leonid Telyatnikov, Kazakhstani fire chief at Chernobyl ( d. 2004 )

* 1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator ( d. 1997 )

* 1969 – A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

* 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1986 )

* 1934 – Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician

* 1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.

* 1982 – Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist ( b. 1924 )

* 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies-such as Alexei Kosygin-the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.

* 1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.

* 2000 – Leonid Rogozov, Russian surgeon ( b. 1934 )

* 1933 – Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov, Russian opera singer

* November 28 – Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

* October 14 – 15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union ; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.

* November 19 – Leonid Gaidai, Soviet comedy director ( b. 1923 )

* January 19 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1986 )

He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

Over the next century, the region was studied by scientists from a number of countries, including Russia ( geologist Alexander Karpinsky, botanist Porfiry Krylov and zoologist Leonid Sabaneyev ), England ( geologist Sir Roderick Murchison ), France ( paleontologist Edouard de Verneuil ), and Germany ( naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, geologist Alexander Keyserling ).

The cast included Ivan Kozlovsky ( Yuródivïy ), and Leonid Savransky ( Boris ).

* Leonid A. Gavrilov & Natalia S. Gavrilova ( 1991 ), The Biology of Life Span: A Quantitative Approach.

Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval ( 1930 – 1996 ), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer Charlie Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike Hailwood and composer John Barry musician Carlos Santana, all owned SMs.

* Leonid Borodin ( born 1938 ), Russian novelist

In 1934 Leonid Ramzin and other engineers sentenced in the Industrial Party Trial were formed into a special design bureau under State Political Directorate ( GPU ), which was then the Soviet secret police.

The last Leonid storms were in 1999, 2001 ( two ), and 2002 ( two ).

* Nikolai Stjernvall ( 1919-2010 ), whose mother was Elizaveta Grigorievna, wife of Leonid Robertovich de Stjernvall.

* Leonid Dobychin ( 1894 – 1936 ), writer

* Leonid A. Gavrilov & Natalia S. Gavrilova ( 1991 ), The Biology of Life Span: A Quantitative Approach.

* Black and White ( animated film ), directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Leonid Amalrik

According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book " The Cold War: A New History " ( 2005 ), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the ' publicity he would gain ... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much '... ' the Helsinki Accords gradually became a manifesto of the dissident and liberal movement '... What this meant was that the people who lived under these systems — at least the more courageous — could claim official permission to say what they thought.

* Thought ( Myel ), a short story by Leonid Andreyev

Songs titled Casey Jones, usually about the crash or the driver, have been recorded by Vernon Dalhart ( Edison Disc recorded June 16, 1925 ), This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Feverfew ( Blueboy ( band )), Tom Russell, Leonid Utyosov, Billy Murray, The New Christy Minstrels, and Skillet Lickers.

Yet a number of composers born in the 1950s and later have made some impact, notably Leonid Desyatnikov who became the first composer in decades to have a new opera commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre ( Rosenthal's Children, 2005 ), and whose music has been championed by Gidon Kremer and Roman Mints.

His bid was tentatively supported by billionaires Leonid Nevzlin and Boris Berezovsky ( both in exile after corruption indictments against them in Russia ), and also by former chess world champion Garry Kasparov.

In the USSR Championship at Tallinn 1965 ( URS-ch33 ), he scored 11 / 19 for 6th place, as Leonid Stein won.

On December 8, 1991, in Belavezhskaya Pushcha and together with the leaders of Russia ( Boris Yeltsin ) and Ukraine ( Leonid Kravchuk ), he signed a declaration that the Soviet Union was dissolved and replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States ; the declaration later became known as the " Belavezha Accords ".

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev with Komsomol leaders and prominent Soviet youth representatives ( from Brezhnev to right-Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov | Dmitry Filippov, Evgeniy Tyazhelnikov, Suren Arutyuniyan, Boris Pastuhov, Gennady Yanayev ; at far left-Anatoly Karpov ), 1977

Leonid Popov ( left ), and Dumitru Prunariu in 1981