EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST
- 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
- 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
- 1431 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
- 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
- 1575 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 strikes Valdivia, Chile.
- 1598 – Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang – The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory.
- 1653 – English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- 1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
- 1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
- 1761 – Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg.
- 1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
- 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
- 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
- 1838 – Great Trek: Battle of Blood River – Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- 1850 – The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville – Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
- 1903 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to the guests.
- 1907 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
- 1912 – First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
- 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
- 1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- 1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
- 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
- 1927 – Donald Bradman makes his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales against South Australia. Batting at No. 7, he scores a century.
- 1930 – Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
- 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
- 1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother.
- 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
- 1946 – Thailand joins the United Nations.
- 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
- 1950 – Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight in support of communist North Korea.
- 1957 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 1960 – New York mid-air collision, the midair collision of a United Airlines flight with a TWA flight near Idlewild Airport that killed 133.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
- 1968 – Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
- 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.
- 1971 – The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence. This is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
- 1978 – Cleveland, Ohio, becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
- 1979 – Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
- 1985 – Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family
- 1986 – Gennady Kolbin replaces Dinmukhamed Konayev as First Secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, prompting the Jeltoqsan protests which began the next day.
- 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
- 1989 – U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
- 2014 – The hostage crisis in Sydney comes to an end after a 13-hour siege—done by Man Haron Monis, killed by police—holding 17 hostage, including two killed.
- 1485 – Catherine of Aragon (d. 1536)
- 1584 – John Selden, English jurist and scholar (d. 1654)
- 1614 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
- 1716 – Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French diplomat (d. 1798)
- 1717 – Elizabeth Carter, English poet and scholar (d. 1806)
- 1742 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German field marshal (d. 1819)
- 1775 – Jane Austen, English author (d. 1817)
- 1775 – François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (d. 1834)
- 1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810)
- 1778 – John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (d. 1841)
- 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (d. 1855)
- 1790 – Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
- 1804 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1889)
- 1834 – Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and theorist (d. 1910)
- 1836 – Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic (d. 1907)
- 1861 – Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
- 1863 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and author (d. 1952)
- 1865 – Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet (d. 1918)
- 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (d. 1944)
- 1867 – Amy Carmichael, Irish-Indian missionary (d. 1951)
- 1869 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1952)
- 1872 – Anton Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
- 1882 – Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist (d. 1963)
- 1882 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist (d. 1967)
- 1882 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (d. 1974)
- 1883 – Károly Kós, Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician (d. 1977)
- 1883 – Max Linder, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1925)
- 1884 – Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor (d. 1987)
- 1888 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
- 1888 – Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (d. 1967)
- 1889 – Kim Chwa-chin, South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930)
- 1895 – Marie Hall Ets, American author and illustrator (d. 1984)
- 1899 – Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973)
- 1900 – Horatio Fitch, American sprinter (d. 1985)
- 1900 – V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997)
- 1901 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (d. 1978)
- 1902 – Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1999)
- 1903 – Hardie Albright, American actor (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Harold Whitlock, English race walker (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, author, and poet (d. 1996)
- 1907 – Barbara Kent, Canadian-American actress (d. 2011)
- 1910 – Freddie Brown, Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1991)
- 1913 – George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1989)
- 1913 – Salik Lucknawi, Indian journalist and poet (d. 2013)
- 1915 – Turk Murphy, American trombonist and singer (d. 1987)
- 1916 – Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (d. 2014)
- 1917 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2011)
- 1917 – Pete T. Cenarrusa, American politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (d. 2013)
- 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke, English-Sri Lankan soldier and author (d. 2008)
- 1917 – Ruth Johnson Colvin, American educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide
- 1918 – Pierre Delanoë, French songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Vida Hope, English actress (d. 1963)
- 1920 – Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist (Beaux Arts Trio)
- 1923 – Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (d. 2014)
- 1924 – Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator (d. 1993)
- 1926 – James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
- 1926 – A. N. R. Robinson, Trinbagonian politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
- 1927 – Peter Dickinson, English author and poet
- 1927 – Randall Garrett, American author (d. 1987)
- 1928 – Terry Carter, American actor, director, and producer
- 1928 – Philip K. Dick, American author (d. 1982)
- 1929 – Nicholas Courtney, Egyptian-English actor (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Bill Brittain, American author (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Bill Young, American sergeant and politician (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Karl Denver, Scottish-English singer (d. 1998)
- 1932 – Rodion Shchedrin, Russian pianist and composer
- 1932 – Quentin Blake, English author and illustrator
- 1934 – Louis Waldon, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Morris Dees, American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center
- 1937 – Joyce Bulifant, American actress and singer
- 1938 – Frank Deford, American journalist and author
- 1938 – Liv Ullmann, Japanese-Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1939 – Philip Langridge, English tenor and actor (d. 2010)
- 1939 – Gordon Miller, British high jumper
- 1941 – Robert Kerman, American actor
- 1941 – Lesley Stahl, American journalist
- 1941 – Roger Wheeler, English general
- 1942 – Donald Carcieri, American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island
- 1942 – Eugene Robert Glazer, American actor
- 1943 – Steven Bochco, American screenwriter and producer
- 1944 – Jeff Kanew, American director and screenwriter
- 1944 – Don Meyer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
- 1945 – Patti Deutsch, American actress
- 1945 – Bobby George, English darts player
- 1945 – Yukio Hattori, Japanese television host
- 1945 – Tony Hicks, English guitarist and singer (The Hollies)
- 1946 – Benny Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (ABBA and Hep Stars)
- 1946 – Charles Dennis, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1946 – Christopher Ellison, English actor
- 1946 – Terence Knox, American actor
- 1946 – Trevor Pinnock, English harpsichord player and conductor
- 1946 – Tom Stern, American cinematographer
- 1947 – Ben Cross, English actor
- 1947 – Vincent Matthews, American sprinter
- 1947 – Martyn Poliakoff, English chemist and academic
- 1948 – Christopher Biggins, English actor
- 1949 – Billy Gibbons, American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor (ZZ Top and Moving Sidewalks)
- 1949 – Heather Hallett, English judge
- 1950 – Claudia Cohen, American journalist (d. 2007)
- 1950 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager (d. 2006)
- 1951 – Sally Emerson, English author and poet
- 1951 – Mike Flanagan, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Robben Ford, American guitarist and songwriter (L.A. Express and Yellowjackets)
- 1951 – Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
- 1952 – Joel Garner, Barbadian cricketer and manager
- 1952 – Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer and manager
- 1953 – Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actress and screenwriter
- 1955 – Xander Berkeley, American actor and producer
- 1955 – Carol Browner, American lawyer and environmentalist, 8th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- 1955 – Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
- 1956 – E. B. Lewis, American illustrator
- 1957 – Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nacha Pop) (d. 2009)
- 1958 – Katie Leigh, American voice actress
- 1958 – Bart Oates, American football player and lawyer
- 1959 – Alison LaPlaca, American actress
- 1959 – H. D. Kumaraswamy, Indian politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka
- 1959 – Alexander Lebedev, Russian businessman
- 1959 – Steve Mattsson, American author and illustrator
- 1959 – Larry Poindexter, American actor and singer
- 1960 – Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer and manager
- 1961 – LaChanze, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1961 – André Andersen, Russian-Danish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Royal Hunt)
- 1961 – Shane Black, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1961 – Bill Hicks, American comedian, actor, and singer (d. 1994)
- 1961 – Gretchen Palmer, American actress
- 1961 – Sam Robards, American actor
- 1961 – Jon Tenney, American actor and director
- 1962 – Maruschka Detmers, Dutch-French actress
- 1962 – William Perry, American football player and wrestler
- 1962 – Melanie Smith, American actress
- 1963 – Benjamin Bratt, American actor and producer
- 1963 – Jeff Carson, American singer-songwriter
- 1963 – James Mangold, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Heike Drechsler, German sprinter and long jumper
- 1964 – Gail Harris, English actress and producer
- 1964 – Georgie Parker, Australian actress
- 1964 – Billy Ripken, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1964 – Paul Vogt, American actor
- 1964 – Todd Glass, American comedian and actor
- 1965 – Chris Jones, American baseball player and manager
- 1965 – Melanie Sloan, American lawyer and activist
- 1965 – Nancy Valen, American actress and producer
- 1966 – Clifford Robinson, American basketball player
- 1966 – Dennis Wise, English footballer and manager
- 1967 – Donovan Bailey, Canadian sprinter and sportscaster
- 1967 – Indrek Kaseorg, Estonian decathlete
- 1967 – Miranda Otto, Australian actress
- 1968 – Peter Dante, American actor and singer
- 1968 – Lalah Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1968 – Greg Kovacs, Canadian bodybuilder (d. 2013)
- 1968 – Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (d. 2008)
- 1969 – Shane, American porn actress and director
- 1969 – Florencia Lozano, American actress
- 1969 – Adam Riess, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
- 1969 – Dmitri Tymoczko, American composer and theorist
- 1969 – Craig White, English cricketer and coach
- 1970 – Valerie Chow, Canadian-Hong Kong actress
- 1970 – Daniel Cosgrove, American actor
- 1971 – Seyhan Kurt, French-Turkish poet and sociologist
- 1971 – Michael McCary, American singer-songwriter (Boyz II Men)
- 1971 – Paul van Dyk, German DJ and producer
- 1972 – Charles Gipson, American baseball player
- 1972 – Željko Kalac, Australian footballer and coach
- 1972 – Paul Leyden, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Travis Morrison, American singer-songwriter (The Dismemberment Plan)
- 1973 – Sarah Kozer, American model and actress
- 1973 – Themba Mnguni, South African footballer
- 1973 – Jason Molina, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1973 – Luisa Ranieri, Italian actress
- 1973 – Scott Storch, American songwriter and producer, founded Storch Music Company
- 1974 – Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
- 1974 – Earl C. Poitier, American actor
- 1975 – Valentin Bădoi, Romanian footballer manager
- 1975 – Nao Kawakita, Japanese drummer (Maximum the Hormone)
- 1975 – Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Billy Talent)
- 1975 – Paul Maynard, English politician
- 1975 – Jonathan Scarfe, Canadian actor
- 1977 – Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Sylvain Distin, French footballer
- 1978 – Joe Absolom, English actor
- 1978 – John Morris, Canadian curler
- 1978 – Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer and manager
- 1979 – Luke Harper, American wrestler
- 1979 – Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
- 1979 – Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Jessie Ward, American wrestler
- 1980 – Danish Kaneria, Pakistani cricketer
- 1981 – Imran Nazir, Pakistani cricketer
- 1981 – Krysten Ritter, American model, actress, and producer
- 1981 – Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian-American singer and actress
- 1981 – Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
- 1982 – Garnon Davies, Welsh actor
- 1982 – Justin Mentell, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1982 – Antrel Rolle, American football player
- 1982 – Stanislav Šesták, Slovakian footballer
- 1983 – Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player
- 1983 – Frankie Ballard, American singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Danielle O'Hara, English model
- 1984 – Theo James, English-American actor and singer
- 1985 – Rachel Bright, English actress
- 1985 – Stanislav Manolev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1985 – Amanda Setton, American actress
- 1985 – Keita Tachibana, Japanese singer and dancer (W-inds)
- 1986 – Candice Crawford, American model and journalist
- 1986 – Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1986 – Zoltán Kovács, Hungarian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1986 – Pärt Uusberg, Estonian actor, composer and conductor
- 1987 – Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer
- 1987 – Beau Dowler, Australian footballer
- 1987 – Hallee Hirsh, American actress
- 1988 – Mats Hummels, German footballer
- 1988 – Anna Popplewell, English actress
- 1988 – Park Seo-joon, South Korean actor and model
- 1992 – Ulrikke Eikeri, Norwegian tennis player
- 1992 – Anamul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1992 – Tom Rogic, Australian footballer
- 1993 – Jyoti Amge, Indian actress, World's smallest woman
- 1994 – Elliot Lee, English footballer
- 1994 – Nicola Murru, Italian footballer
- 1994 – Stephen Sutton, English activist and blogger (d. 2014)
- 1994 – José Rodríguez Martínez, Spanish footballer
- 705 – Wu Zetian, Chinese empress (b. 625)
- 714 – Pepin of Herstal (b. 635)
- 867 – Eberhard of Friuli (b. 815)
- 999 – Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
- 1263 – Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
- 1325 – Charles, Count of Valois (b. 1270)
- 1378 – Secondotto, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1360)
- 1379 – John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel, English general and politician, Lord Marshall of England (b. 1348)
- 1470 – John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
- 1474 – Ali Qushji, astronomer, mathematician and physicist originally from Samarkand (b. 1403)
- 1515 – Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese admiral and politician, 3rd Viceroy of Portuguese India (b. 1453)
- 1598 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (b. 1545)
- 1669 – Nathaniel Fiennes, English soldier and politician (b. 1608)
- 1687 – William Petty, English economist and philosopher (b. 1623)
- 1751 – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1700)
- 1765 – Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian lieutenant and surveyor (b. 1741)
- 1774 – François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1694)
- 1783 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer and educator (b. 1699)
- 1783 – Sir William James, 1st Baronet, Welsh-English commander and politician (b. 1720)
- 1809 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755)
- 1859 – Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786)
- 1892 – Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
- 1897 – Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
- 1898 – Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
- 1914 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1832)
- 1916 – Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović, Serbian inventor (b. 1851)
- 1917 – Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
- 1921 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
- 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian-Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)
- 1925 – Maurice Lecoq, French target shooter (b. 1854)
- 1928 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and author (b. 1885)
- 1930 – Herman Lamm, German-American bank robber (b. 1890)
- 1935 – Thelma Todd, American actress and singer (b. 1905)
- 1940 – Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866)
- 1944 – Betsie ten Boom, Dutch holocaust victim (b. 1885)
- 1945 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded the Fiat Automobile Company (b. 1866)
- 1945 – Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
- 1948 – Denham Fouts, American prostitute (b. 1914)
- 1949 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)
- 1952 – Robert Henry Best, American journalist (b. 1896)
- 1956 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter and author (b. 1890)
- 1961 – Hans Rebane, Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1882)
- 1963 – Nam Phương, Vietnamese wife of Emperor Bảo Đại (b. 1914)
- 1965 – W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright (b. 1874)
- 1968 – Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912)
- 1968 – Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and politician (b. 1916)
- 1969 – Soe Hok Gie, Indonesian activist (b. 1942)
- 1976 – Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
- 1977 – Risto Jarva, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
- 1980 – Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (b. 1890)
- 1980 – Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer (b. 1900)
- 1982 – Colin Chapman, English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
- 1983 – Debs Garms, American baseball player (b. 1907)
- 1984 – Karl Deichgräber, German classical philologist (b. 1903)
- 1985 – Thomas Bilotti, American mobster (b. 1940)
- 1985 – Paul Castellano, American mobster (b. 1915)
- 1988 – Sylvester, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)
- 1989 – Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1913)
- 1989 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
- 1989 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1989 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor and singer (b. 1925)
- 1990 – Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1896)
- 1991 – Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress and journalist (b. 1938)
- 1993 – Charizma, American rapper (b. 1973)
- 1993 – Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1993 – Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
- 1995 – Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
- 1995 – Mariele Ventre, Italian singer and director (b. 1939)
- 1996 – Quentin Bell, English historian and author (b. 1910)
- 1997 – Lillian Disney, American illustrator (b. 1899)
- 1997 – Nicolette Larson, American singer (b. 1952)
- 1998 – William Gaddis, American author (b. 1922)
- 2001 – Stuart Adamson, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Skids, Big Country, and The Raphaels) (b. 1958)
- 2001 – Stefan Heym, German-Israeli soldier and author (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Robert Stanfield, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
- 2003 – Alfred Lynch, English actor (b. 1931)
- 2004 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist, co-founded The Point (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Ed Hansen, American director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 2005 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
- 2006 – Don Jardine, Canadian wrestler (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Taliep Petersen, South African singer-songwriter and director (b. 1950)
- 2006 – Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
- 2009 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (b. 1930)
- 2009 – Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1956)
- 2009 – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South African physician and politician, 22nd South African Minister of Health (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Dan Frazer, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Axel Anderson, German-Puerto Rican actor (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Peter Clarke, English cartoonist (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Doyle Conner, American farmer and politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Febo Conti, Italian actor (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Robert Derleth, American football player (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Elwood V. Jensen, American biologist and academic (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Iñaki Lejarreta, Spanish cyclist (b. 1983)
- 2012 – Adam Ndlovu, Zimbabwean footballer (b. 1970)
- 2012 – Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Josh Weston, American porn actor (b. 1973)
- 2012 – Lynda Wiesmeier, American model and actress (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Jake Adam York, American poet and academic (b. 1972)
- 2013 – James Isbell Armstrong, American academic (b. 1919)
- 2013 – James Flint, English commander (b. 1913)
- 2013 – Conn McCluskey, Irish physician and activist (b. 1914)
- 2013 – Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Marta Russell, American author and activist (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Michiaki Takahashi, Japanese virologist (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Zvi Yanai, Israeli publicist and philosopher (b. 1935)
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