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EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THEPAST 31/12

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406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
535 – Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
1225 – The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần dynasty.
1229 – James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island ofMajorca.
1501 – The First Battle of Cannanore commences.
1600 – The British East India Company is chartered.
1660 – James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
1757 – Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
1796 – The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.
1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1853 – A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1906 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
1907 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.
1909 – Manhattan Bridge opens.
1923 – The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
1944 – World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins.
1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
1960 – The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
1961 – RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
1963 – The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
1965 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
1967 – The Youth International Party, popularly known as the "Yippies", is founded.
1981 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
1983 – In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
1986 – A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
1988 – Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux becomes the only National Hockey League player to score goals in five different ways: even strength, shorthanded, power play, penalty shot, and empty net, during an 8–6 win over the New Jersey Devils.
1988 – First Winter Ascent of Lhotse (8,516m) by Krzysztof Wielicki (solo).
1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
1992 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
1994 – The First Chechen War: Russian army began a New Year's storming of Grozny.
1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
1999 – First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ended after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
2010 – Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

Births[edit]

695 – Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)
1378 – Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
1491 – Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (d. 1557)
1514 – Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (d. 1564)
1552 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
1572 – Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan, (d. 1617)
1585 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1645)
1668 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (d. 1738)
1704 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761)
1714 – Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
1720 – Charles Edward Stuart, Italian husband of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1788)
1738 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of India (d. 1805)
1741 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic (d. 1794)
1741 – Princess Isabella of Parma (d. 1763)
1763 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)
1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832)
1790 – Antonie Adamberger, Austrian actress (d. 1867)
1798 – Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian physician, philologist, and academic (d. 1850)
1805 – Marie d'Agoult, French author (d. 1876)
1815 – George Meade, American general and engineer (d. 1872)
1830 – Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (d. 1895)
1830 – Alexander Smith, Scottish poet (d. 1867)
1851 – Henry Carter Adams, American economist and academic (d. 1921)
1855 – Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1912)
1857 – King Kelly, American baseball player and manager (d. 1894)
1860 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (d. 1937)
1864 – Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (d. 1951)
1869 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954)
1873 – Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1936)
1877 – Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967)
1878 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (d. 1966)
1878 – Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937)
1880 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (d. 1957)
1880 – George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
1881 – Max Pechstein, German painter (d. 1955)
1884 – Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (d. 1964)
1885 – Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970)
1899 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1940)
1900 – Ivan Riley, American hurdler (d. 1943)
1901 – Júlia Báthory, Hungarian designer (d. 2000)
1901 – Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek politician (d. 1954)
1902 – Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
1904 – William Heynes, English engineer (d. 1989)
1905 – Jule Styne, English-American composer (d. 1994)
1908 – Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005)
1909 – Jonah Jones, American trumpet player and saxophonist (d. 2000)
1910 – Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1911 – Dal Stivens, Australian author (d. 1997)
1912 – John Frost, Indian-English general (d. 1993)
1914 – Yrjö Nikkanen, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1985)
1915 – Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996)
1917 – Evelyn Knight, American singer (d. 2007)
1917 – Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962)
1918 – Virginia Davis, American actress (d. 2009)
1919 – Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician (d. 2007)
1919 – Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rician-American soldier
1919 – Fritz Schwab, Swiss race walker (d. 2006)
1919 – G. Wood, American actor (d. 2000)
1920 – Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1922 – Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (d. 2014)
1922 – Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2013)
1923 – Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1924 – Taylor Mead, American actor and poet (d. 2013)
1925 – Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1925 – Sri Lal Sukla, Indian author (d. 2011)
1926 – Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic
1926 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (d. 1987)
1928 – Siné, French cartoonist
1928 – Tatyana Shmyga, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011)
1929 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host
1930 – Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (d. 2008)
1930 – Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010)
1931 – Bob Shaw, Irish journalist and author (d. 1996)
1932 – Don James, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1933 – Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005)
1934 – Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian scholar, author, and poet
1934 – George Christie, English opera manager
1934 – Noel Jan Tyl, American astrologer and author
1937 – Avram Hershko, Hungarian-Israeli biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh-American actor, director, and composer
1937 – Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
1937 – Tess Jaray, Austrian-English painter
1937 – Alvis Wayne, American singer (d. 2013)
1938 – Rosalind Cash, American actress and singer (d. 1995)
1938 – Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013)
1939 – Willye White, American athlete (d. 2007)
1940 – Mani Neumeier, German drummer (Guru Guru)
1941 – Sean S. Cunningham, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1941 – Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
1941 – Sarah Miles, English actress
1942 – Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Gentleman of Indonesia (d. 2013)
1942 – Andy Summers, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Police and Zoot Money's Big Roll Band)
1943 – John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The John Denver Band and Chad Mitchell Trio) (d. 1997)
1943 – Ben Kingsley, English actor
1943 – Mavis Maclean, British legal scholar
1943 – Pete Quaife, English bass player (The Kinks) (d. 2010)
1944 – Taylor Hackford, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Neil Ross, English-American voice actor
1945 – Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer
1945 – Connie Willis, American author
1946 – Roy Greenslade, English journalist and academic
1946 – Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean archbishop
1946 – Lyudmila Pakhomova, Soviet ice dancer (d. 1986)
1946 – Eric Robson, Scottish journalist and author
1946 – Nigel Rudd, English businessman, founded Williams Holdings
1946 – Tim Stevens, English bishop
1946 – Geoff Whitty, English academic
1947 – Burton Cummings, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (The Guess Who)
1947 – Rita Lee, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Os Mutantes)
1947 – Tim Matheson, American actor, director, and producer
1948 – Joe Dallesandro, American actor
1948 – Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1948 – René Robert, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 – Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)
1949 – Ellen Datlow, American anthologist and author
1949 – Seub Nakhasathien, Thai environmentalist (d. 1990)
1949 – Susan Shwartz, American author
1950 – Phil Blakeway, Welsh-English rugby player
1950 – Inge Helten, German sprinter
1950 – Cheryl Womack, American businesswoman and entrepreneur
1951 – Tom Hamilton, American bass player and songwriter (Aerosmith)
1951 – Terry Rhoads, American actor (d. 2013)
1952 – Vaughan Jones, New Zealand mathematician and academic
1953 – Jane Badler, American actress and singer
1953 – Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
1953 – Trevor Phillips, English broadcaster and politician
1953 – James Remar, American actor
1954 – Alex Salmond, Scottish economist and politician, 4th First Minister of Scotland
1954 – Hermann Tilke, German race car driver and engineer
1956 – Robert Goodwill, English farmer and politician
1956 – Helma Knorscheidt, German shot putter
1956 – Steve Rude, American author and illustrator
1956 – Hussein Ahmed Salah, Djiboutian runner
1958 – Bebe Neuwirth, American actress and singer
1959 – Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player
1959 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (d. 1981)
1959 – Ron Bennington, American comedian and radio host
1959 – Val Kilmer, American actor, singer, and producer
1959 – Phill Kline, American lawyer and politician
1959 – Baron Waqa, Nauruan politician, 14th President of Nauru
1959 – Paul Westerberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Replacements)
1960 – Steve Bruce, English footballer and manager
1960 – John Allen Muhammad, American murderer (d. 2009)
1961 – Rick Aguilera, American baseball player and coach
1961 – Jeremy Heywood, English civil servant
1961 – Nina Li, Chinese actress
1962 – Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player and coach
1962 – Don Diamont, American actor
1962 – Chris Hallam, English-Welsh swimmer and wheelchair racer (d. 2013)
1962 – Heather McCartney, American-English potter
1963 – Scott Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, The Damned Things, and Damnocracy)
1963 – Konishiki Yasokichi, American-Japanese sumo wrestler
1964 – Michael McDonald, American comedian, actor, and director
1965 – Tony Dorigo, Australian-English footballer and sportscaster
1965 – Julie Doucet, Canadian cartoonist
1965 – Gong Li, Chinese actress
1965 – Nicholas Sparks, American author, screenwriter, and producer
1965 – Jeff Williams, American sprinter
1966 – Lisa Joyner, American journalist and actress
1968 – Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1968 – Junot Díaz, Dominican-American author and academic
1968 – Luciano Szafir, Brazilian model and actor
1969 – Arvi Aavik, Estonian wrestler
1969 – Dominik Diamond, Scottish radio and television host
1969 – Are Kalvø, Norwegian author and radio host
1970 – Jorge Alberto da Costa Silva, Brazilian footballer
1970 – Sven Kretschmer, German footballer
1970 – Danny McNamara, English singer-songwriter (Embrace)
1970 – Carlos Morales Quintana, Spanish-Danish husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1970 – Bryon Russell, American basketball player
1971 – Brent Barry, American basketball player
1971 – Esteban Loaiza, Mexican baseball player
1972 – Joey McIntyre, American singer-songwriter and actor (New Kids on the Block)
1973 – Shandon Anderson, American basketball player
1973 – Crystal Knight, American porn actress and model
1973 – Malcolm Middleton, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arab Strap)
1974 – Joe Abercrombie, English author
1974 – Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist
1974 – Tony Kanaan, Brazilian race car driver
1974 – Ryan Sakoda, Japanese-American wrestler
1975 – Rami Alanko, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 – Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer
1975 – Rob Penders, Dutch footballer
1975 – Sander Schutgens, Dutch runner
1976 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (d. 2012)
1976 – Matthew Hoggard, English cricketer
1976 – Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1977 – Psy, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer
1977 – Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer
1977 – Donald Trump, Jr., American businessman
1978 – Eisa Al Dah, Emirati boxer
1979 – Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
1979 – Paul O'Neill, English race car driver
1980 – M-Dogg 20, American wrestler
1980 – Jesse Carlson, American baseball player
1980 – Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
1980 – Carsten Schlangen, German runner
1981 – Jason Campbell, American football player
1981 – Matthew Pavlich, Australian footballer
1981 – Margaret Simpson, Ghanaian heptathlete
1982 – Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player
1982 – Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
1982 – Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player
1982 – The Rocket Summer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1983 – Mariana Renata, French-Indonesian model and actress
1984 – Édgar Lugo, Mexican footballer
1984 – Paul Rodriguez, American skateboarder and actor
1984 – Calvin Zola, Congolese footballer
1985 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast
1985 – Jan Smit, Dutch singer
1986 – Nate Freiman, American baseball player
1986 – Bronson Pelletier, Canadian actor
1987 – Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
1987 – Danny Holla, Dutch footballer
1987 – Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast
1990 – Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater
1990 – Sam Faiers, English television personality
1991 – Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player
1991 – Bojana Jovanovski, Serbian tennis player
1992 – Karl Kruuda, Estonian race car driver
1993 – Ryan Blaney, American race car driver
1995 – Gabby Douglas, American gymnast
2005 – Lakshmi Tatma, Indian girl with conjoined twin

Deaths[edit]

192 – Commodus, Roman emperor (b. 161)
335 – Pope Sylvester I
669 – Li Shiji, Chinese general (b. 594)
1164 – Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)
1194 – Leopold V, Duke of Austria (b. 1157)
1297 – Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1249)
1302 – Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
1424 – Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (b. 1377)
1460 – Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1400)
1510 – Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)
1535 – William Skeffington, English-Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
1568 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (b. 1493)
1575 – Pierino Belli, Italian commander and jurist (b. 1502)
1583 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524)
1610 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician (b. 1540)
1650 – Dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)
1655 – Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian politician (b. 1612)
1673 – Oliver St John, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1598)
1679 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
1691 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
1691 – Dudley North, English merchant and economist (b. 1641)
1705 – Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638)
1719 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)
1742 – Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
1799 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723)
1872 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)
1876 – Catherine Labouré, French saint (b. 1806)
1877 – Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter (b. 1819)
1888 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)
1889 – Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
1890 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
1891 – Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
1894 – Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
1909 – Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
1910 – Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884)
1910 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868)
1921 – Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
1936 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)
1948 – Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (b. 1885)
1949 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
1950 – Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (b. 1867)
1953 – Albert Plesman, Dutch businessman, founded KLM (b. 1889)
1964 – Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (b. 1884)
1964 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892)
1964 – Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal (b. 1881)
1968 – George Lewis, American clarinet player and composer (b. 1900)
1971 – Pete Duel American actor (b. 1940)
1971 – Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)
1972 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1934)
1972 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (b. 1892)
1977 – Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1924)
1978 – Basil Wolverton, American illustrator (b. 1909)
1980 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher and theorist (b. 1911)
1980 – Raoul Walsh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1985 – Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1940)
1986 – Raj Narain, Indian politician (b. 1917)
1987 – Jerry Turner, American journalist (b. 1929)
1988 – Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
1990 – George Allen, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
1990 – Vasily Lazarev, Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut (b. 1928)
1990 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891)
1993 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)
1993 – Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972)
1994 – Leigh Bowery, Australian-English singer and actor (b. 1961)
1994 – Woody Strode, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1914)
1997 – Floyd Cramer, American pianist (Million Dollar Band) (b. 1933)
1997 – Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 – Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, American son of Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1958)
1999 – Elliot Richardson, American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General (b. 1920)
2000 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (b. 1914)
2000 – José Greco, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
2000 – Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966)
2001 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919)
2002 – Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Cutting Crew) (b. 1951)
2003 – Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist (b. 1898)
2004 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
2005 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (b. 1932)
2005 – Phillip Whitehead, English politician (b. 1937)
2006 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1922)
2006 – George Sisler, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917)
2007 – Tommy Dickson, Irish footballer (b. 1929)
2007 – Tony Elliott, American football player (b. 1959)
2007 – Michael Goldberg, American painter and educator (b. 1924)
2007 – Bill Idelson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
2007 – Kathryn Ish, American actress (b. 1936)
2007 – Milton L. Klein, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
2007 – Markku Peltola, Finnish actor and singer (b. 1956)
2007 – Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
2008 – Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2009 – Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and philosopher (b. 1917)
2009 – Justin Keating, Irish surgeon, journalist, and politician (b. 1930)
2009 – Erica Boyer, American porn actress (b. 1956)
2010 – Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (b. 1925)
2010 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2012 – Larry Bowie, American football player (b. 1939)
2012 – Béla Csécsei, Hungarian educator and politician (b. 1952)
2012 – Konstantin Kobets, Russian general (b. 1939)
2012 – Alasdair Liddell, English businessman (b. 1949)
2012 – Annapurna Maharana, Indian activist (b. 1917)
2012 – Tarak Mekki, Tunisian businessman and politician (b. 1958)
2012 – James B. Reuter, American-Filipino priest and journalist (b. 1916)
2012 – Jean-Henri Roger, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
2012 – Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (b. 1926)
2013 – Antonio Allocca, Italian actor (b. 1937)
2013 – James Avery, American actor (b. 1945)
2013 – Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1953)
2013 – John Fortune, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
2013 – Bob Grant, American radio host (b. 1929)
2013 – Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013 – T.C. Narendran, Indian entomologist (b. 1944)
2013 – Al Porcino, American-German trumpet player (b. 1925)