* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1968 – Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model and race car driver

* 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.

* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

* 1989 – Yuri, South Korean singer ( Girls ' Generation )

* 1976 – Yuri, Korean singer

* 1945 – Yuri Antonov, Soviet-Russian musician

* 1961 – Yuri Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut

* 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* 1984 – Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician ( b. 1914 )

* 1937 – Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician

* 1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Russian rower

* 1982 – Yuri Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer

* 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U. S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

* 1964 – Yuri, Mexican actress and singer

* 1972 – Yuri Drozdov, Russian footballer

* 1985 – Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin ( live 1973 )

* 1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.

* 1238 – Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir ( b. 1189 )

* 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut ( b. 1934 )

During Yuri Andropov's tenure as General Secretary ( 1982 – 1984 ), Gorbachev became one of the Politburo's most visible and active members.

* 1922 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher ( d. 1999 )

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

* 2003 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian journalist ( b. 1937 )

* Yuri Vasiliyevich Tolstoy ( 1824 – 1878 ), statesman and historian

According to two of Tchaikovsky's relatives — his nephew Yuri Lvovich Davydov and his niece Anna Meck-Davydova — the composer had earlier created a little ballet called The Lake of the Swans at their home in 1871.

Musicians of Rostov-on-Don include Efrem Zimbalist the violinist, Zaslavsky, Nazaretov, and Modest Mussorgsky, Irina Allegrova ( 1952 ), a pop singer and Yuri Bashmet, and Sergey Vladimirovich Rodionov, composer.

In 2002, a satyrical short-story The First Russian ( პირველი რუსი ) penned by the young Georgian writer Lasha Bughadze and focused on a frustrated wedding night of Tamar and Yuri outraged many conservatives and triggered a nationwide controversy, including heated discussions in the media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Yuri Vella, though living as a reindeer herder, has become the first writer in the Forest.

A Chukchi writer, Yuri Rytkheu ( 1930 – 2008 ) has earned a measure of renown in both Russia and Western Europe, although much of his published work was written in Russian, rather than Chukchi.

In the mid-1980s, Yuri Druzhnikov, a dissident writer expelled from the Soviet Writers ' Union, performed an investigation, met with surviving eyewitnesses, and wrote a documentary book about Pavlik.

During this time he received high honors for the assassination of Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov, which had been accomplished on a request from Todor Zhivkov and ordered by the KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

In May 2007 Kara-Murza initiated the nomination of Vladimir Bukovsky, a writer and prominent Soviet-era dissident, as a candidate in the 2008 Russian presidential election and served as the national coordinator of Bukovsky's presidential campaign committee, which included Yuri Ryzhov, Viktor Shenderovich, Andrei Piontkovsky, Alexander Podrabinek, and others.

* Yuri Bohun, a fictional Cossack character in the novel With Fire and Sword ( 1884 ) by Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz

* Yuri Andrukhovych ( born 1960 ), Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator

In later years, Yuri Chechi would become several-time World and Olympic rings champion ( mostly during the 1990s ), and their women ’ s program served notice to the rest of the world that it had arrived as Vanessa Ferrari took the all-around titles at both the World Championships in 2006 and European Championships in 2007.

* Yuri Kholopov & Valeria Tsenova: Edison Denisov-The Russian Voice in European New Music ; Berlin, Kuhn, 2002

According to Yuri Druzhnikov, Poltoratzky was the first to introduce Pushkin's work to a western European audience, in the October 1821 issue of Revue encyclopedique ( published in Paris ).

Yuri Temirkanov and the BSO embarked on a European Tour in 2001, accompanied by Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and a 20-member trade delegation to enhance exchange opportunities in the areas of business and economic development, higher education and trade.

He became European Champion in 1956, and won Olympic gold in the 500 meter and 1, 500 meter events in both 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics ( sharing the 1, 500 meter victories with respectively Yuri Mikhailov and Roald Aas ), competing for the USSR team.

* Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls: an Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts ( 2007 ), an audio play by Yuri Rasovsky, won three 2008 Audie Awards for best audio drama, best original work and for achievement in production.

Though his by-now famous stage presence and soaring jumps had been made famous by PBS's airing of In Performance Live from Wolf Trap ( his American television dancing debut in 1976 ), Baryshnikov's performance of Yuri Kopeikine in The Turning Point was his first film role ; one for which he received an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe nomination and a David from the David di Donatello Awards.