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• 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
• 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
• 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
• 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
• 1515 – Coronation of Francis I of France.
• 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• 1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
• 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
• 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
• 1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
• 1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
• 1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
• 1787 – Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
• 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
• 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding recessional.
• 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
• 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.

• 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
• 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
• 1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
• 1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1944 – Florence Li Tim-Oi is ordained in China, becoming the first woman Anglican priest.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
• 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
• 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
• 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
• 1955 – The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.
• 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
• 1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
• 1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
• 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
• 1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
• 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
• 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• 1990 – Avianca Flight 52 crashed into Cove Neck, New York due to fuel exuasion.
• 1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
• 1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
• 1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
• 1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
• 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
• 1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
• 2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
• 2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
• 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
• 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
• 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into Mediterranean Sea. All 90 passengers and crew were killed.
• 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
• 2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

Births[edit]

• 750 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (d. 780)
• 1477 – Anne of Brittany (d. 1514)
• 1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• 1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
• 1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
• 1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch diplomat (d. 1688)
• 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician (d. 1707)
• 1688 – Juraj Jánošík, Slovak criminal (d. 1713)
• 1736 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813)
• 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
• 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
• 1750 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (d. 1813)
• 1755 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician (d. 1815)
• 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
• 1777 – Karoline Jagemann, German actress (d. 1848)
• 1783 – William Colgate, English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (d. 1857)
• 1794 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
• 1796 – William MacGillivray, Scottish ornithologist (d. 1852)
• 1813 – James Marion Sims, American physician (d. 1883)
• 1822 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician, founded the Bishop Museum (d. 1915)
• 1822 – William McDougall, Canadian lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (d. 1905)
• 1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1873)
• 1825 – George Pickett, American general (d. 1875)
• 1841 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Sri Lankan-English admiral (d. 1920)
• 1858 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1954)
• 1860 – Charles Curtis, American politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
• 1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author (d. 1934)
• 1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894)
• 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright (d. 1965)
• 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975)
• 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English author and critic (d. 1941)
• 1885 – Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (d. 1954)
• 1896 – Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1927)
• 1899 – Sleepy John Estes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1972)
• 1900 – István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author (d. 1986)
• 1901 – Martín De Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1982)
• 1902 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino architect (d. 1975)
• 1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Margery Sharp, English author (d. 1991)
• 1910 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author, and politician (d. 1984)
• 1913 – Huang Hua, Chinese politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2010)
• 1913 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994)
• 1913 – Luis Marden, American photographer and journalist (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 1989)
• 1916 – Pop Ivy, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Paul Rowe, Canadian football player (d. 1990)
• 1918 – Ernie Harwell, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Raymond Baxter, English television host and pilot (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1923 – Rusty Draper, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Sally Starr, American actress and television host (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Jean Taittinger, French politician (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Tom Tipps, American soldier and politician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1994)
• 1928 – Jérôme Choquette, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Robert Faurisson, English-French academic
• 1929 – Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer
• 1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (d. 1944)
• 1931 – Dean Jones, American actor and singer
• 1933 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Donald Nicholls, Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, English lawyer and judge
• 1934 – Mimi Kok, Dutch actress and singer (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Conrad Burns, American soldier and politician
• 1935 – António Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician, 16th President of Portugal
• 1935 – J. G. Farrell, Irish author (d. 1979)
• 1935 – Maretta Taylor, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1937 – Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian and author
• 1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician, President of the Central African Republic (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1938 – Etta James, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese illustrator
• 1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1980)
• 1939 – Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
• 1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver
• 1941 – Gregory Sierra, American actor
• 1942 – Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Carl Eller, American football player
• 1942 – Kenichi Shinoda, Japanese mobster
• 1943 – Roy Black, German singer and actor (d. 1991)
• 1943 – Tobe Hooper, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 – John Leslie, American porn actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
• 1945 – Dave Walker, English singer and guitarist (Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac)
• 1946 – Doc Bundy, American race car driver
• 1947 – Tostão, Brazilian footballer
• 1947 – Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1948 – Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter
• 1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian politician
• 1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English poet
• 1949 – Paul Nurse, English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Gloria Naylor, American author
• 1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
• 1951 – Leonid Telyatnikov, Kazakhstani fire fighter (d. 2004)
• 1952 – Sara Mandiano, French singer-songwriter
• 1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-English activist
• 1952 – Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
• 1953 – The Honky Tonk Man, American wrestler
• 1953 – Mark Walport, Scientist
• 1953 – Mark Weil, Russian-Uzbek director (d. 2007)
• 1954 – Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
• 1954 – Kay Cottee, Australian sailor
• 1954 – Renate Dorrestein, Dutch journalist and author
• 1954 – Kim Gandy, American lawyer and activist
• 1956 – Andy Cox, English guitarist (The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals)
• 1957 – Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
• 1957 – Andrew P. Harris, American physician and politician
• 1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer
• 1958 – Kavita Krishnamurthy, Indian singer
• 1958 – Dinah Manoff, American actress and director
• 1958 – Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1958 – Gary Tibbs, English bass guitarist and actor
• 1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
• 1961 – Willie Revillame, Filipino actor, singer, and game show host
• 1962 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
• 1963 – Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician, 61st Mayor of São Paulo
• 1963 – Molly Holzschlag, American computer scientist
• 1963 – Timo Rautiainen, Finnish singer (Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Lyijykomppania)
• 1965 – Mark Jordon, English actor, director, and producer
• 1965 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1966 – Chet Culver, American politician, 41st Governor of Iowa
• 1966 – Yiannos Ioannou, Cypriot footballer
• 1967 – David Ginola, French footballer and actor
• 1967 – Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Eric Orie, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1969 – Kina, American singer-songwriter (Brownstone)
• 1969 – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Stephen Chbosky, American author, screenwriter, and director
• 1970 – Chris Mills, American basketball player
• 1970 – Milt Stegall, American football player
• 1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
• 1971 – Philip Coppens, Belgian journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1971 – China Kantner, American actress
• 1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
• 1973 – Geoff Johns, American author
• 1973 – Ace Steel, American wrestler
• 1974 – Robert Budreau, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Emily Haines, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Metric and Broken Social Scene)
• 1974 – Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
• 1975 – Tim Montgomery, American runner
• 1975 – Dat Phan, Vietnamese-American comedian and actor
• 1976 – Stephanie Bellars, American wrestler
• 1976 – Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian race car driver
• 1976 – Dimitris Nalitzis, Greek footballer
• 1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
• 1978 – Charlene, Princess of Monaco
• 1978 – Jason Roberts, English footballer
• 1978 – Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
• 1978 – B.J. Whitmer, American wrestler
• 1979 – Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
• 1979 – Gabe Jennings, American runner
• 1979 – Christine Lakin, American actress
• 1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
• 1980 – Xavi, Spanish footballer
• 1980 – Michelle McCool, American wrestler
• 1980 – Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Charlie Bewley, English actor
• 1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
• 1981 – Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1981 – Märt Kosemets, Estonian footballer
• 1981 – Clara Morgane, French porn actress and singer
• 1981 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2007)
• 1982 – Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Arashi)
• 1982 – Shawna Waldron, American actress
• 1983 – Helen Klaos, Estonian badminton player
• 1983 – Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
• 1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Sara Aerts, Belgian heptathlete
• 1984 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
• 1985 – Brent Celek, American football player
• 1985 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
• 1985 – Acie Law, American basketball player
• 1985 – Michael Trevino, American actor
• 1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player
• 1986 – Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 – Chris O'Grady, English footballer
• 1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
• 1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
• 1989 – Sheryfa Luna, French singer
• 1989 – Víctor Ruiz Torre, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Mikako Tabe, Japanese actress
• 1990 – Thomas Berge, Dutch singer
• 1990 – Apostolos Giannou, Greek footballer
• 1991 – Jared Cowen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Nigel Melker, Dutch race car driver
• 1991 – Jano Toussounian, Australian actor
• 1992 – Mikkel Cramer, Danish footballer
• 1992 – Dean McCarthy, Irish actor, dancer, and model
• 1993 – Kylie Padilla, Filipino actress

Deaths[edit]

• 389 – Gregory of Nazianzus, Byzantine archbishop and saint (b. 329)
• 477 – Genseric, Vandals king (b. 389)
• 844 – Pope Gregory IV (b. 827)
• 1067 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. 1032)
• 1366 – Henry Suso, German mystic (b. 1300)
• 1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
• 1494 – Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
• 1559 – Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
• 1578 – Mihrimah Sultan, Ottoman daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. 1522)
• 1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
• 1640 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
• 1670 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
• 1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
• 1733 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (b. 1652)
• 1751 – Paul Dudley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1675)
• 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
• 1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
• 1884 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek painter (b. 1849)
• 1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 – Ouida, English author (b. 1839)
• 1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
• 1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal (b. 1816)
• 1925 – Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
• 1939 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish piper (b. 1870)
• 1940 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and activist (b. 1899)
• 1947 – Al Capone, American mobster (b. 1899)
• 1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician (b. 1861)
• 1954 – M. N. Roy, Indian activist and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1957 – Thomas January, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1957 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician (b. 1871)
• 1958 – Robert R. Young, American businessman (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1963 – Wilson Kettle, Canadian diver and fisherman (b. 1860)
• 1966 – Saul Adler, Russian-English parasitologist (b. 1895)
• 1969 – Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (b. 1877)
• 1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and producer (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Barry III, Guinean politician (b. 1923)
• 1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
• 1976 – Chris Kenner, American singer-songwriter (b. 1929)
• 1978 – Skender Kulenović, Bosnian poet (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Queenie Watts, English actress and singer (b. 1926)
• 1981 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
• 1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek jurist and politician (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Frank J. Lynch, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1922)
• 1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960)
• 1997 – Dan Barry, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Sarah Louise Delany, American author and educator (b. 1889)
• 1999 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2004 – Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2005 – William Augustus Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
• 2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
• 2005 – Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch runner (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Anna Malle, American porn actress (b. 1967)
• 2008 – Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Evelyn Barbirolli, English oboe player (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Kim Manners, American director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister of Defence (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Vincent Cronin, Welsh historian and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Alfred Ball, English air marshal (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Veronica Carstens, German wife of Karl Carstens (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Jacques Maisonrouge, French businessman (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Len McIntyre, English rugby player (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Mark Reale, American guitarist and songwriter (Riot and Westworld) (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, American philanthropist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Robert Sheran, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Alexander Zhitinsky, Russian journalist and author (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Rade Bulat, Croatian activist and politician (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Gregory Carroll, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Orioles and The Four Buddies) (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Normand Corbeil, Canadian composer (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Max Kampelman, American diplomat (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Frank Keating, English journalist and author (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Irene Koumarianou, Greek actress (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian soprano (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Shozo Shimamoto, Japanese painter (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Bruce Barmes, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 2014 – John Robertson, Canadian journalist (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Emanuel Saldaño, Argentinian cyclist (b. 1985)
• 2014 – Dave Strack, American basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Morrie Turner, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Dennis Wirgowski, American football player (b. 1947)