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EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 1/12

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800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1864 – Great Fire of Brisbane
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas.
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1918 – Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1919 – The first issue of Diário de Noite is published from Goa.
1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book; the case remains unsolved and is "one of Australia's most profound mysteries."
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1964 – Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
1965 – India's Border Security Force is established.
1966 – The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.
1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 – 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.
2013 – China launches Yutu or Jade Rabbit, its first lunar rover, as part of the Chang'e 3 lunar exploration mission.
2013 – A derailment of a Metro-North Railroad train near Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York City kills 4 and injures 61.

Births[edit]

1081 – Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153)
1521 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)
1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Czech singer-songwriter, violinist, and conductor (d. 1789)
1716 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817)
1761 – Marie Tussaud, French sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (d. 1850)
1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
1844 – Alexandra of Denmark (d. 1925)
1847 – Julia A. Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic, assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
1886 – Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
1893 – Henry J. Cadbury, American biblical scholar and Quaker (d. 1974)
1895 – Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author (d. 1977)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
1897 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer (d. 1977)
1898 – Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
1901 – Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (d. 1988)
1902 – Rudolf Loo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1983)
1905 – Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1994)
1910 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (d. 2004)
1911 – Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
1911 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (d. 1986)
1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1916 – Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
1917 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (d. 1995)
1917 – Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
1921 – Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager (d. 1979)
1922 – Paul Picerni, American actor (d. 2011)
1923 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
1923 – William F. House, American otologist and physician (d. 2012)
1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral, 12th Director of Central Intelligence
1925 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1926 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (d. 2013)
1926 – Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer
1926 – Keith Michell, Australian actor
1926 – Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
1926 – Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (d. 2010)
1928 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
1928 – Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
1929 – David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
1930 – Marie Bashir, Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th Governor of New South Wales
1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author (d. 2002)
1930 – Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
1931 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 – Jim Nesbitt, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1933 – Curro Romero, Spanish bullfighter
1934 – Billy Paul, American singer
1935 – Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano (d. 2005)
1937 – Gordon Crosse, English composer and academic
1937 – Chuck Low, American actor
1937 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvian politician, 6th President of Latvia
1938 – Sandy Nelson, American drummer
1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer
1940 – Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (d. 2013)
1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1940 – Tasso Wild, German footballer
1942 – Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Egypt
1942 – John Crowley, American author and academic
1943 – Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
1944 – Pierre Arditi, French actor
1944 – Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult)
1944 – John Densmore, American drummer and songwriter (The Doors and the Butts Band)
1944 – Michael Hagee, American general
1944 – Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan author and poet
1944 – Werner Scholz, German footballer
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1946 – Kemal Kurspahić, Bosnian journalist and author
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish-English singer-songwriter and pianist
1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2009)
1947 – Elizabeth Baur, American actress
1947 – Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
1948 – George Foster, American baseball player and radio host
1948 – Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer and politician
1948 – John Roskelley, American mountaineer and author
1948 – Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
1948 – N. T. Wright, English bishop and scholar
1948 – Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kaduna State (d. 2012)
1949 – Jan Brett, American author and illustrator
1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
1949 – Jake Hartford, American radio host (d. 2013)
1949 – Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile
1949 – Colleen Brennan, American porn actress
1950 – Manju Bansal, Indian molecular biologist
1950 – Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice
1950 – Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer (David and the Giants)
1951 – Obba Babatundé, American actor, director, and producer
1951 – Albert Ho, Hong Kong lawyer and politician
1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Weather Report, Trio of Doom, and Blood, Sweat & Tears) (d. 1987)
1951 – Treat Williams, American actor, singer, and author
1952 – Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and playwright
1954 – Bob Goen, American television host
1954 – Judith Hackitt, English chemist and engineer
1954 – Annette Haven, American porn actress
1955 – Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
1955 – Pat Spillane, Irish footballer and sportscaster
1955 – Mark Thompson, American radio host and actor
1956 – Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter and actress
1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth, Circle Jerks, Damn the Machine, and OHM)
1957 – Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2011)
1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
1958 – Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
1958 – Lisa Fischer, American singer-songwriter
1958 – Gary Peters, American lieutenant and politician
1958 – Charlene Tilton, American actress and singer
1959 – Billy Childish, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (The Medway Poets, Thee Mighty Caesars, and Thee Headcoats)
1959 – Wally Lewis, Australian rugby player and coach
1960 – Carol Alt, American model and actress
1960 – Jane Turner, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Safra A. Catz, Israeli-American businesswoman
1961 – Armin Meiwes, German cannibal and murderer
1961 – Jeremy Northam, English actor and singer
1961 – Lynn LeMay, American pornographic actress
1962 – Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
1962 – Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Marco Greco, Brazilian race car driver
1963 – Nathalie Lambert, Canadian speed skater
1963 – Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
1964 – Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian author and poet
1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Katherine LaNasa, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
1966 – Ali Mosaffa, Iranian actor, director, and screenwriter
1966 – Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
1967 – Nestor Carbonell, American actor
1967 – Reggie Sanders, American baseball player
1968 – Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
1968 – Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
1969 – Richard Carrier, American author and blogger
1970 – Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman and actor
1970 – Golden Brooks, American actress
1970 – Julie Condra, American actress
1970 – Jonathan Coulton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Lembit Rajala, Estonian footballer
1970 – Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedian, actress, and singer
1971 – Trinity, American wrestler and stuntwoman
1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress and screenwriter
1971 – Melanie Peres, German-Israeli model, actress, and singer
1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish-American pianist and composer
1971 – John Schlimm, American author and educator
1971 – Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee, Mongolian wrestler and mixed martial artist
1971 – Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio host
1971 – Christian Pescatori, Italian racing driver
1972 – Bart Millard, American singer-songwriter (MercyMe)
1973 – Steve Gibb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Black Label Society and Crowbar)
1973 – Jon Theodore, American drummer (One Day as a Lion, The Mars Volta, and Golden)
1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer and manager
1975 – Matt Fraction, American author
1975 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (The Mars Volta, De Facto, and Free Moral Agents) (d. 2014)
1975 – Thomas Schie, Norwegian racing driver
1975 – Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
1976 – Tomasz Adamek, Polish boxer
1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist
1976 – Dean O'Gorman, New Zealand actor and photographer
1976 – Evangelos Sklavos, Greek basketball player
1976 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
1977 – Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer (Linkin Park)
1977 – Jared Fogle, American spokesman
1977 – Lee McKenzie, Scottish journalist
1977 – Akiva Schaffer, American actor, rapper, director, producer, and screenwriter (The Lonely Island)
1977 – Nate Torrence, American actor
1978 – Mat Kearney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Angelique Bates, American actress
1979 – Ryan Malone, American ice hockey player
1980 – Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
1980 – Roger Peterson, Aruban-Dutch singer-songwriter (Intwine)
1981 – Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter
1981 – Luke McPharlin, Australian footballer
1982 – Riz Ahmed, English actor and rapper
1982 – Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
1982 – Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer
1982 – Christos Melissis, Greek footballer
1985 – John Coughlin, American figure skater
1985 – Philip DeFranco, American video blogger
1985 – Janelle Monáe, American singer-songwriter and producer
1985 – Chanel Preston, American porn actress
1985 – Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
1986 – DeSean Jackson, American football player
1987 – Tabarie Henry, Virgin Islander sprinter
1987 – Brett Williams, English footballer
1987 – Simon Dawkins, English-born Jamaican footballer
1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress and singer
1988 – Dan Mavraides, Greek-American basketball player
1989 – Sotelúm, Mexican musician
1990 – Chanel Iman, American model
1990 – Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player
1991 – Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player
1992 – Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
1992 – Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player
1992 – Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
1993 – Reena Pärnat, Estonian archer
1994 – Seedy Njie, English footballer
1995 – Eva Boto, Slovenian singer
1995 – Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian tennis player
1995 – James Wilson, English footballer
2001 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
2001 – Savannah McReynolds, American actress

Deaths[edit]

1135 – Henry I of England (b. 1068)
1241 – Isabella of England (b. 1214)
1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor (b. 1378)
1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1530 – Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 – Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (b. 1556)
1581 – Edmund Campion, English priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1540)
1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English martyr and saint (b. 1550)
1602 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese daimyo (b. 1582)
1633 – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Spanish wife of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1566)
1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1590)
1660 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (b. 1592)
1709 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian monk (b. 1644)
1723 – Susanna Centlivre, English actress and playwright (b. 1667)
1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 – Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)
1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)
1825 – Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
1866 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor, namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)
1884 – William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1913 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
1917 – John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
1933 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (b. 1886)
1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
1947 – Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
1950 – Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1954 – Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher (b. 1898)
1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (b. 1892)
1964 – Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887)
1968 – Darío Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1921)
1969 – Magic Sam, American guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (b. 1927)
1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906)
1981 – Russ Manning, American author and illustrator, created Magnus, Robot Fighter (b. 1929)
1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (b. 1911)
1986 – Frank McCarthy, American general and film producer (b. 1912)
1987 – James Baldwin, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1924)
1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1918)
1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
1990 – Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (b. 1917)
1991 – George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1993 – Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (Badlands, Black Sabbath, Blue Murder, and Sun Red Sun) (b. 1959)
1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1995 – Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (b. 1907)
1995 – Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
1997 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (Quintette du Hot Club de France) (b. 1908)
1997 – Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
1998 – Freddie Young, English cinematographer (b. 1902)
2001 – Ellis R. Dungan, American director and producer (b. 1909)
2002 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American captain and author (b. 1918)
2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2003 – Clark Kerr, American economist and academic (b. 1911)
2003 – Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
2004 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1911)
2004 – Bill Brown, Scottish footballer (b. 1931)
2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)
2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, Chinese-English actress and playwright (b. 1911)
2005 – Freeman V. Horner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922)
2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (b. 1937)
2007 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and footballer (b. 1929)
2007 – Anton Rodgers, English actor and director (b. 1933)
2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
2008 – Mikel Laboa, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (b. 1917)
2009 – Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan tenor and actor (b. 1920)
2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
2010 – Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (b. 1929)
2011 – Christa Wolf, German author and critic (b. 1929)
2012 – Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
2012 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
2012 – Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)
2012 – Steve Fox, English footballer (b. 1958)
2012 – Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
2012 – Ed Price, American pilot and politician (b. 1918)
2012 – Bhim Bahadur Tamang, Nepali politician (b. 1933)
2012 – Phil Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1917)
2012 – Yoshinori Watanabe, Japanese mobster (b. 1941)
2012 – Reinhold Weege, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
2012 – James R. Whelan, American historian, author, and journalist (b. 1933)
2013 – Heinrich Boere, German SS officer (b. 1921)
2013 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer (Caravan and The Wilde Flowers) (b. 1947)
2013 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (b. 1925)
2013 – Walter E. Ellis, American serial killer (b. 1960)
2013 – T. R. Fehrenbach, American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1925)
2013 – Edward Heffron, American soldier (b. 1923)
2013 – André Schiffrin, French-American author and publisher (b. 1935)
2013 – Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (b. 1942)
2013 – James von der Heydt, American lawyer and judge (b. 1919)