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• 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
• 1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
• 1517 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
• 1521 – Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms
• 1555 – The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma.
• 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
• 1824 – The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
• 1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
• 1863 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
• 1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops decisively defeat British troops.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors.
• 1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
• 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
• 1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
• 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
• 1905 – Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• 1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
• 1915 – Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
• 1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
• 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
• 1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
• 1944 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
• 1946 – In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
• 1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
• 1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1957 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
• 1959 – Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
• 1962 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
• 1963 – The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
• 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• 1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
• 1969 – A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
• 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
• 1971 – The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
• 1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
• 1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
• 1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
• 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
• 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
• 1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• 1990 – Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
• 1991 – Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
• 1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
• 1992 – Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space
• 1995 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
• 1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
• 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• 2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
• 2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.

Births[edit]

• 1263 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Syirian scholar and theologian (d. 1328)
• 1440 – Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
• 1552 – Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (d. 1618)
• 1553 – Mōri Terumoto, Japanese warlord (d. 1625)
• 1561 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
• 1570 – Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English politician, founded the Cotton library (d. 1631)
• 1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (d. 1655)
• 1654 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (d. 1729)
• 1690 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
• 1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
• 1733 – Philip Carteret, English admiral (d. 1796)
• 1740 – Noah Phelps, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 1809)
• 1781 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (d. 1849)
• 1788 – Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
• 1796 – Karl Ernst Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
• 1797 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria (d. 1826)
• 1799 – Ludger Duvernay, Canadian journalist, publisher, and politician (d. 1852)
• 1831 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1917)
• 1831 – Joseph Alfred Slade, American businessman (d. 1864)
• 1840 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
• 1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1912)
• 1858 – Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
• 1869 – José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese colonel and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1952)
• 1869 – Grigori Rasputin, a Russian peasant, mystic, adviser and healer (d. 1916)
• 1874 – Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
• 1874 – Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
• 1875 – D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1948)
• 1876 – Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923)
• 1877 – Tom Jones, American baseball player (d. 1923)
• 1879 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (d. 1953)
• 1880 – Bill O'Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920)
• 1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Ira Thomas, American baseball player (d. 1958)
• 1882 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (d. 1956)
• 1886 – John J. Becker, American composer (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
• 1889 – Amos Strunk, American baseball player (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Fred M. Vinson, American politician and judge, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Vinko Žganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
• 1891 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1937)
• 1892 – Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (d. 1986)
• 1893 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
• 1897 – Blind Willie Johnson, American singer and guitarist (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
• 1898 – Ross Barnett, American politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
• 1898 – Denise Legeay, French actress (d. 1968)
• 1899 – Martti Haavio, Finnish poet (d. 1973)
• 1900 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (d. 1980)
• 1902 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
• 1903 – Robin Milford, English composer (d. 1959)
• 1904 – George Balanchine, Russian-American choreographer and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet (d. 1983)
• 1904 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian author (d. 1941)
• 1904 – John Milligan, American baseball player (d. 1972)
• 1905 – Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1906 – Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
• 1907 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
• 1907 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1908 – Prince Oana, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1909 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat (d. 1965)
• 1909 – Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1909 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
• 1911 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
• 1913 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (d. 2012)
• 1913 – William Conway, Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
• 1913 – Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Jacques Nguyễn Văn Mầu, Vietnamese bishop (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician, Mayor of Berlin (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
• 1916 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati author, poet, and astrologist (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Huck Geary, American baseball player (d. 1981)
• 1918 – Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1919 – Diomedes Olivo, Dominican baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1920 – Irving Kristol, American journalist, author and academic, founded The National Interest (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Arno Babajanian, Armenian pianist and composer (d. 1983)
• 1922 – Howard Moss, American poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987)
• 1923 – Diana Dill, Bermudian actress
• 1924 – J. J. Johnson, American trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood, English activist and academic
• 1924 – Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak Jesuit cardinal
• 1925 – Johnny Bucha, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Bobby Young, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1927 – Lou Creekmur, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Alan Grieve, English lawyer
• 1928 – Shozo Shimamoto, Japanese painter (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Éamon de Buitléar, Irish accordion player and director (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (The Soul Stirrers and The Highway Q.C.'s) (d. 1964)
• 1932 – Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and sexologist (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Piper Laurie, American actress
• 1933 – Yuri Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Vijay Anand, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1934 – Graham Kerr, English chef
• 1935 – Seymour Cassel, American actor
• 1935 – Alexander Men, Russian priest and scholar (d. 1990)
• 1936 – Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean politician, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 – Nyree Dawn Porter, New Zealand-born actress (d. 2001)
• 1936 – Peter Steen, Danish actor (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan politician
• 1937 – Joseph Wambaugh, American police officer and author
• 1938 – Peter Beard, Australian photographer and author
• 1938 – Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer
• 1939 – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996)
• 1939 – Alfredo Palacio, Ecuadoran politician, President of Ecuador
• 1939 – Jeff Smith, American chef and author (d. 2004)
• 1939 – J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
• 1940 – John Hurt, English actor
• 1940 – George Seifert, American football player and coach
• 1940 – Gillian Shephard, English politician, life peer
• 1941 – Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet, philosopher, and critic
• 1942 – Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
• 1943 – Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
• 1943 – Michael Spicer, Baron Spicer, English politician
• 1944 – Khosrow Golsorkhi, Iranian journalist, poet, and activist (d. 1974)
• 1945 – Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1945 – Jophery Brown, American baseball player, actor, and stuntman (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Jean-Pierre Nicolas, French race car driver
• 1945 – Christoph Schönborn, Bohemian-Austrian cardinal
• 1945 – Alojz Uran, Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop
• 1946 – Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and manager (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1947 – Vladimir Oravsky, Czech-Swedish author and director
• 1948 – Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1948 – Gilbert Levine, American conductor
• 1948 – Roger Williams, Welsh politician
• 1949 – Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
• 1949 – Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole, and Hatfield and the North)
• 1949 – Steve Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer (Journey)
• 1949 – Mike Westhues, American-Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Paul Bew, Irish historian and academic
• 1950 – Pamela Salem, English actress
• 1951 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
• 1951 – Leon Roberts, American baseball player
• 1951 – Steve J. Spears, Australian playwright, actor, and singer (d. 2007)
• 1952 – Ramón Avilés, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1952 – Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
• 1953 – Winfried Berkemeier, German footballer
• 1953 – Myung-whun Chung, South Korean pianist and conductor
• 1953 – Jim Jarmusch, American director and screenwriter
• 1954 – Tully Blanchard, American wrestler
• 1954 – Chris Lemmon, American actor
• 1954 – Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
• 1955 – Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
• 1955 – Thomas David Jones, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1956 – Steve Riley, American drummer (L.A. Guns, W.A.S.P., Keel, and Steppenwolf)
• 1956 – John Wesley Shipp, American actor
• 1956 – Şükrü Halûk Akalın, Turkish academic and bureaucrat
• 1957 – Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Brian Dayett, American baseball player
• 1957 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian and actor (d. 1993)
• 1957 – Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
• 1957 – Francis Wheen, English journalist
• 1958 – Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1958 – Filiz Koçali, Turkish politician and a feminist activist and journalist
• 1959 – Linda Blair, American actress
• 1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (INXS and Max Q) (d. 1997)
• 1961 – Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (d. 2010)
• 1961 – Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
• 1962 – Dajan Ahmet, Estonian actor (d. 2006)
• 1962 – Sirous Ghayeghran, Iranian footballer (d. 1998)
• 1962 – Jimmy Herring, American guitarist (Widespread Panic)
• 1962 – Huw Irranca-Davies, Welsh politician
• 1962 – Eric Schaeffer, American actor and director
• 1963 – Nicola Duffett, English actress
• 1963 – Javier Ortiz, American baseball player
• 1963 – Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
• 1963 – Jeff Treadway, American baseball player
• 1964 – Nigel Benn, English boxer
• 1964 – Joe Dudek, American football player
• 1964 – Wayne Kirby, American baseball player
• 1964 – Stojko Vranković, Croatian basketball player
• 1965 – Steven Adler, American drummer and songwriter (Guns N' Roses, Adler's Appetite, Hollywood Rose, and Road Crew)
• 1965 – DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ, producer, and actor (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
• 1965 – Diane Lane, American actress
• 1965 – Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
• 1965 – Andrew Roachford, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Mike + The Mechanics)
• 1965 – Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
• 1967 – Nick Gillingham, English swimmer
• 1967 – Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese wrestler
• 1967 – Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
• 1968 – Guy Fieri, American chef, author, and television host
• 1968 – Heath, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (X Japan)
• 1968 – Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
• 1968 – Raquel Cassidy, English actress
• 1968 – Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
• 1969 – Olivia d'Abo, English-American actress
• 1969 – Keith Gordon, American baseball player
• 1970 – Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
• 1971 – Stan Collymore, English footballer
• 1971 – Jan Kaus, Estonian author
• 1971 – Sergei Zamorski, Russian-Estonian footballer
• 1972 – Katie Barberi, Mexican actress
• 1972 – Gabriel Macht, American actor
• 1972 – Romi Park, Japanese voice actress
• 1972 – Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan race car driver (d. 1999)
• 1972 – Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress
• 1973 – Larry Birkhead, American photographer
• 1973 – Rogério Ceni, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Ava Devine, American porn actress
• 1974 – Cameron McConville, Australian race car driver
• 1974 – Joseph Muscat, Maltese politician, 13th Prime Minister of Malta
• 1975 – Balthazar Getty, American actor and musician (Ringside)
• 1975 – Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver
• 1975 – James Murray, English actor
• 1975 – David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 – Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player
• 1976 – James Dearth, American football player
• 1977 – Vazgen Azrojan, Armenian ice dancer
• 1977 – Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Camila)
• 1977 – Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby player
• 1977 – Tõnis Kimmel, Estonian architect
• 1977 – Anna Linkova, Russian tennis player
• 1977 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• 1977 – Matthew Newton, Australian actor
• 1977 – Aaron Rakers, American baseball player
• 1977 – Luciano Andrade Rissutt, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – Chone Figgins, American baseball player
• 1979 – Aidan Burley, New Zealand-English politician
• 1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
• 1980 – Jake Grove, American football player
• 1980 – Christopher Masterson, American actor
• 1980 – Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese author and scholar
• 1980 – Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
• 1981 – Willa Ford, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1981 – Beverley Mitchell, American actress and singer
• 1981 – Ben Moody, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Evanescence and We Are the Fallen)
• 1981 – Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
• 1981 – Guy Wilks, English race car driver
• 1982 – Fabricio Coloccini, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 – Jason Peters, American football player
• 1983 – Shaun Cody, American football player
• 1984 – Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Ubaldo Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Raica Oliveira, Brazilian model
• 1984 – Leon Powe, American basketball player
• 1984 – Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Orianthi, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1985 – Fotios Papoulis, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
• 1986 – Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
• 1986 – Maher Magri, Tunisian footballer
• 1986 – Matt Simon, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Daniel Wayne Smith, American son of Anna Nicole Smith (d. 2006)
• 1987 – Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian skier
• 1987 – Shane Long, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Ray Rice, American football player
• 1988 – Asher Allen, American football player
• 1988 – Greg Oden, American basketball player
• 1989 – Rūta Gajauskaitė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1989 – Theo Robinson, English-Jamaican footballer
• 1989 – Nick Simmons, American actor and singer
• 1990 – Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
• 1991 – Stefan Kolb, German footballer
• 1991 – Alex MacDowall, English race car driver
• 1992 – Kimberly Ann Voltemas, Thai actor
• 1993 – Rio Haryanto, Indonesian race car driver
• 1993 – Tommy Knight, English actor
• 1993 – Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (d. 2013)

Deaths[edit]

• 239 – Cao Rui, Chinese emperor (b. 205)
• 1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
• 1552 – Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English general and politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1500)
• 1575 – James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (b. 1516)
• 1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1547)
• 1666 – Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (b. 1592)
• 1750 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
• 1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician (b. 1690)
• 1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German meteorologist and geologist (b. 1719)
• 1779 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
• 1779 – Claudius Smith, American guerrilla leader (b. 1736)
• 1798 – Lewis Morris, American politician (b. 1726)
• 1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1840 – Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1795)
• 1879 – Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 – Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 – Joseph P. Bradley, American jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
• 1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1901 – Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1921 – George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
• 1927 – James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (b. 1848)
• 1929 – Emma Cooke, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1929 – R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (b. 1856)
• 1930 – Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (b. 1867)
• 1931 – László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
• 1931 – Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1945 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1949 – William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
• 1950 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
• 1950 – Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1951 – Karl Nessler, German-American hairdresser, invented the Perm (b. 1872)
• 1951 – Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper (b. 1883)
• 1954 – Princess Margaret of Prussia (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1964 – Marc Blitzstein American composer (b. 1905)
• 1966 – Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Robert Henriques, English farmer and author (b. 1905)
• 1968 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1890)
• 1973 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Andrew George Burry, Swiss-American businessman (b. 1873)
• 1977 – Johannes Terwogt, Dutch rower (b. 1878)
• 1978 – Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 – Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (b. 1940)
• 1980 – Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian (b. 1888)
• 1981 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (b. 1903)
• 1982 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
• 1982 – Tommy Tucker, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)
• 1982 – Pantelis Zervos, Greek actor (b. 1908)
• 1985 – Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1987 – R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
• 1988 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
• 1989 – S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan academic (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Robert Choquette, Canadian author, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese playwright and photographer (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Rhett Forrester, American singer-songwriter (Riot) (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)
• 1996 – Israel Eldad, Polish-Israeli philosopher (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
• 1997 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (Associates) (b. 1957)
• 1997 – Wally Whyton, English singer-songwriter and broadcaster (The Vipers Skiffle Group) (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2001 – Roy Brown, American clown and puppeteer (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Stanley Marcus, American businessman and author (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Peter Bardens, English keyboard player (Camel, Mirage, and Shotgun Express) (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Billy May, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
• 2005 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Carlo Orelli, Italian soldier (b. 1894)
• 2005 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Rose Mary Woods, American secretary (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Aydın Güven Gürkan, Turkish academician and politician (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Ngo Quang Truong, Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Miles Lerman, Polish-American holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 2010 – Louis R. Harlan, American historian and author (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Iskandar of Johor (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Sarah Cullen, English journalist (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Rita Gorr, Belgian soprano (b. 1926)
• 2012 – André Green, French psychoanalyst and author (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Moisés Kaiman, Polish-Mexican rabbi (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Simon Marsden, English photographer and author (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Pierre Sudreau, French politician, French Minister of National Education (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Clarence Tillenius, Canadian painter and environmentalist (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Dick Tufeld, American voice actor (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Kevin Ash, English journalist (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (b. 1929)
• 2013 – John Cheng, Singaporean actor (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Leslie Frankenheimer, American set designer (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Anna Litvinova, Russian model, Miss Russia 2006 (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Lídia Mattos, Brazilian actress (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Hinton Mitchem, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Ted Talbert, American historian and journalist (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Margareta Teodorescu, Romanian chess player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Lucyna Winnicka, Polish actress (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Luis Ávalos, Cuban-American actor (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Arthur Bellamy, English footballer (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Fred Bertelmann, German singer and actor (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Patrick Brooking, English general (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Roy Cicala, American songwriter and producer (b. 1939)
• 2014 – François Deguelt, French singer (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Pierre Jalbert, Canadian-American actor (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Serhiy Nigoyan, Ukrainian activist (b. 1993)
• 2014 – Maziar Partow, Iranian cinematographer (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (b. 1924)