EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST

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• 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
• 1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
• 1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
• 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
• 1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
• 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
• 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
• 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
• 1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
• 1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
• 1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
• 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
• 1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
• 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
• 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
• 1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
• 1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
• 1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
• 1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
• 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
• 1924 – The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
• 1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
• 1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
• 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• 1938 – The Mallard the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England
• 1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
• 1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
• 1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
• 1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
• 1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
• 1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
• 1945 – World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
• 1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
• 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
• 1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
• 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
• 1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
• 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• 1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
• 1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
• 1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
• 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
• 1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
• 1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
• 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
• 2005 – Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
• 2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
• 2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of The House of Representatives in New Zealand , beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
• 2009 – The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
• 2012 – Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
• 2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.

Births[edit]

• 1455 – John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
• 1520 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian reformer (d. 1575)
• 1583 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English-Welsh soldier, historian, and diplomat (d. 1648)
• 1589 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676)
• 1606 – Edmund Waller, English poet and politician (d. 1687)
• 1631 – Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter (d. 1672)
• 1652 – Thomas Otway, English playwright (d. 1685)
• 1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian rebel leader (d. 1747)
• 1756 – William Godwin, English journalist and author (d. 1836)
• 1778 – Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1841)
• 1793 – William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
• 1800 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
• 1805 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician (d. 1861)
• 1816 – William James Blacklock, English painter (d. 1858)
• 1819 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (d. 1912)
• 1825 – Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1879)
• 1831 – George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (d. 1897)
• 1839 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (d. 1904)
• 1841 – John Murray, Scottish oceanographer (d. 1914)
• 1845 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
• 1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer, invented the Telephone (d. 1922)
• 1848 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)
• 1860 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
• 1863 – Arthur Machen, Welsh actor and author (d. 1947)
• 1866 – Fred A. Busse, American politician, 39th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
• 1868 – Émile Chartier, French philosopher and journalist (d. 1951)
• 1869 – Henry Wood, English conductor (d. 1944)
• 1870 – Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (d. 1943)
• 1871 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
• 1873 – William Green, American union leader (d. 1952)
• 1878 – Leopold Jessner, German director and producer (d. 1945)
• 1879 – József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian journalist and priest (d. 1936)
• 1879 – George Wilkinson, English water polo player (d. 1946)
• 1880 – Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1880 – Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (d. 1963)
• 1880 – Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan (d. 1946)
• 1882 – Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Cyril Burt, English psychologist (d. 1971)
• 1886 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot (d. 1915)
• 1890 – Edmund Lowe, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (d. 1949)
• 1891 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (d. 1982)
• 1893 – Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter (d. 1998)
• 1894 – Ethel Grandin, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1895 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Matthew Ridgway, American general (d. 1993)
• 1896 – Roy Franklin Nichols, American historian (d. 1973)
• 1898 – Emil Artin, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1962)
• 1901 – Claude Choules, English soldier (d. 2011)
• 1903 – Vasily Kozlov, Belarusian general and politician (d. 1967)
• 1906 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish poet and critic (d. 1991)
• 1908 – George Harriman, English rugby player and businessman (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Kittens Reichert, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1911 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1982)
• 1913 – Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1913 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter (d. 1973)
• 1917 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist (d. 1952)
• 1917 – Albrecht Fleckenstein, German Pharmacologist (d.1992)
• 1918 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Fritz Thiedemann, German horse rider (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994)
• 1920 – James Doohan, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Ronald Searle, English illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman, English lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)
• 1921 – Doc Paskowitz, American surfer and physician (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Japan
• 1924 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)
• 1924 – Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio host (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer
• 1926 – James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
• 1927 – Pierre Aubert, Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1927 – Nicolas Freeling, English author (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Joe Conley, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Pierre Michelot, French bassist (Play Bach Trio) (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Daphne Slater, English actress (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Alfredo Alcón, Argentinian actor (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Heiner Geißler, German politician
• 1930 – Ion Iliescu, Romanian politician, 2nd President of Romania
• 1930 – K. S. Rajah, Singaporean politician (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Margaret Fink, Australian film producer
• 1933 – Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer and actor
• 1933 – Lee Radziwill, American actress and author
• 1934 – Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1934 – Jimmy Garrison, American bassist (d. 1976)
• 1935 – Michael Walzer, American philosopher
• 1935 – Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Preston King, African-American civil rights activist and academic
• 1937 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1937 – Ken Jackson, English union leader
• 1938 – Patricia MacLachlan, American author
• 1939 – Larry Burkett, American author and radio host (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian author and journalist
• 1940 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (d. 1986)
• 1940 – Jean-Paul Proust, French-Monacan politician, 21st Minister of State of Monaco (d. 2010)
• 1940 – Owen Spencer-Thomas, English journalist and Anglican minister
• 1942 – Rod Hackney, English architect
• 1942 – Mike Pender, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Searchers and Mike Pender's Searchers)
• 1944 – Lee Holdridge, Haitian-American composer and conductor
• 1945 – George Miller, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Hattie Winston, American actress
• 1946 – John Virgo, English snooker player and sportscaster
• 1946 – Mike Wood, English politician
• 1947 – Clifton Snider, American poet and author
• 1947 – Otto Stuppacher, Austrian race car driver (d. 2001)
• 1947 – Jennifer Warnes, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1948 – Snowy White, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, and The Bleeding Heart Band)
• 1949 – Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist and academic
• 1949 – Ron Chernow, American author
• 1949 – Bonnie J. Dunbar, American engineer, academic, and astronaut
• 1949 – Gloria Hendry, American actress
• 1949 – Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1950 – Tim Kazurinsky, American actor
• 1951 – Lindsay Cooper, English bassoon player and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel, and Feminist Improvising Group) (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, English broadcaster
• 1951 – Andy Murray, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1951 – Heizō Takenaka, Japanese economist and politician
• 1952 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Zico, Brazilian footballer and coach
• 1953 – Robyn Hitchcock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Soft Boys and Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians)
• 1954 – John Lilley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hooters)
• 1954 – Édouard Lock, Moroccan-Canadian dancer and choreographer
• 1955 – Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor (d. 2012)
• 1955 – Andy Breckman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Darnell Williams, English-American actor
• 1956 – Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
• 1956 – Julia Glass, American author
• 1957 – Stephen Budiansky, American author
• 1957 – Thom Hoffman, Dutch actor and photographer
• 1957 – William Pascal Kikoti, Tanzanian bishop (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Nicholas Shakespeare, English author
• 1958 – Miranda Richardson, English actress
• 1959 – Ira Glass, American radio host
• 1959 – Duško Vujošević, Montenegrin basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Benedict Carey, American journalist
• 1960 – Neal Heaton, American baseball player and coach
• 1960 – Colin Wells, English cricketer
• 1961 – Mary Page Keller, American actress
• 1961 – John Matteson, American author and educator
• 1961 – Perry McCarthy, English race car driver
• 1961 – Knut Nærum, Norwegian comedian and author
• 1961 – Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower
• 1962 – Glen E. Friedman, American photographer
• 1962 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American long jumper
• 1962 – Herschel Walker, American football player
• 1963 – Martín Fiz, Spanish long-distance runner
• 1964 – Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist
• 1964 – Laura Harring, Mexican-American actress
• 1964 – Glenn Kulka, Canadian ice hockey player and wrestler
• 1965 – Dragan Stojković, Serbian footballer
• 1966 – Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and television host
• 1966 – Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
• 1966 – Tone Lōc, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1966 – Timo Tolkki, Finnish guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Stratovarius, Revolution Renaissance, and Symfonia)
• 1966 – Heidi Swedberg, American actress and singer
• 1967 – Shankar Mahadevan, Indian singer-songwriter (Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy)
• 1967 – Go Mi-Young, South Korean mountaineer (d. 2009)
• 1968 – Brian Cox, English keyboard player and physicist (Dare)
• 1968 – Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player
• 1968 – Scott Radinsky, American baseball player, coach, and singer (Pulley and Ten Foot Pole)
• 1969 – Simon Whitlock, Australian darts player
• 1970 – Julie Bowen, American actress
• 1970 – Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1970 – Kristine Kunce, Australian tennis player
• 1971 – Charlie Brooker, English journalist, producer, and author
• 1971 – Tyler Florence, American chef and author
• 1971 – Christian Eigner, Austrian drummer and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
• 1972 – Darren Anderton, English footballer
• 1973 – Xavier Bettel, Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 1973 – Alison King, English actress
• 1973 – Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer
• 1973 – Romāns Vainšteins, Latvian cyclist
• 1973 – Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian-American porn actress and model
• 1974 – Paula Malai Ali, Malaysian-Bruneian television host
• 1974 – David Faustino, American actor
• 1975 – Aleksandr Abdulkhalikov, Russian footballer
• 1975 – Aleksei Abdulkhalikov, Russian footballer
• 1976 – Fraser Gehrig, Australian footballer
• 1976 – Kristjan Kais, Estonian volleyball player
• 1976 – Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Estonian politician
• 1977 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer-songwriter and actor (Boyzone)
• 1977 – Stéphane Robidas, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Barret Swatek, American actress
• 1977 – Buddy Valastro, American chef
• 1978 – Ilias Anastasakos, Greek footballer
• 1978 – Matt Diaz, American baseball player
• 1978 – Ashwin Madia, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 1978 – Aarti Mann, American-Indian actress
• 1978 – Seo Moon-tak, South Korean singer
• 1978 – Ryan Eigenmann, Filipino actor
• 1979 – Manuel Benthin, German footballer
• 1979 – Albert Jorquera, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Patrick Renna, American actor
• 1979 – Alex Zane, English radio and television host
• 1980 – Christian Coronel, Filipino basketball player
• 1980 – Mason Unck, American football player
• 1981 – David Bailey, American basketball player
• 1981 – Eugene, South Korean singer and actress (S.E.S.)
• 1981 – Lil' Flip, American rapper and actor (Screwed Up Click)
• 1981 – Justin Gabriel, South African wrestler and model
• 1981 – Julius Malema, South African politician
• 1981 – Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer
• 1981 – Sung Yu-ri, South Korean singer and actress (Fin.K.L)
• 1982 – Jessica Biel, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Martin Hauswald, German footballer
• 1982 – Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Derreck Robinson, American football player
• 1983 – Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon, Canadian swimmer
• 1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Sarah Poewe, South African swimmer
• 1983 – Chris Roberson, American football player
• 1984 – Valerio Bernabò, Italian rugby player
• 1984 – Santonio Holmes, American football player
• 1984 – Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Sam Morrow, Irish footballer
• 1985 – Toby Turner, American comedian and actor
• 1986 – Jed Collins, American football player
• 1986 – Stacie Orrico, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer
• 1987 – Jesús Padilla, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Riccardo Bocchino, Italian rugby player
• 1988 – Christa-Elizabeth Goulakos, Canadian-Greek ice dancer
• 1988 – Teodora Mirčić, Serbian tennis player
• 1988 – Michael Morrison, English footballer
• 1988 – Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer
• 1988 – Max Waller, English cricketer
• 1988 – Patricia Tumulak, Filipino-American model, Miss Philippines Fire 2009
• 1989 – Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Hayley Marie Norman American actress
• 1990 – Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player
• 1991 – Park Cho-rong, South Korean singer and actress (A Pink)
• 1992 – Jordy Lucas, Australian actress
• 1992 – Daria Yurlova, Estonian biathlete
• 1993 – Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player
• 1993 – Nicole Gibbs, American tennis player
• 1994 – Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress (9nine)
• 1997 – Camila Cabello, American singer and member of girl group Fifth Harmony

Deaths[edit]

• 1111 – Bohemond I of Antioch (b. 1058)
• 1239 – Vladimir IV Rurikovich, Russian prince (b. 1187)
• 1459 – Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
• 1554 – John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1503)
• 1606 – Nyaungyan Min, Burmese king (b. 1557)
• 1703 – Robert Hooke, English architect and philosopher (b. 1635)
• 1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German organist and composer (b. 1653)
• 1707 – Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor (b. 1618)
• 1717 – Pierre Allix, French pastor and author (b. 1641)
• 1744 – Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist (b. 1674)
• 1765 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
• 1768 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator (b. 1686)
• 1792 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect, designed the Culzean Castle (b. 1728)
• 1850 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
• 1894 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1899 – William P. Sprague, American banker and politician (b. 1827)
• 1901 – George Gilman, American businessman, founded The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (b. 1826)
• 1920 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
• 1927 – Mikhail Artsybashev, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1927 – J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
• 1929 – Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 – George Thompson, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1946 – Pauline Whittier, American golfer (b. 1876)
• 1953 – James J. Jeffries, American boxer (b. 1875)
• 1954 – George E. Wiley, American cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1959 – Lou Costello, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1906)
• 1961 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Joseph Fields, American playwright, director, and producer (b. 1895)
• 1966 – William Frawley, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1977 – Percy Marmont, English actor (b. 1883)
• 1982 – Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian poet and critic (b. 1896)
• 1982 – Georges Perec, French author (b. 1936)
• 1983 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Peter Capell, German actor (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist (b. 1918)
• 1988 – Sewall Wright, American biologist (b. 1889)
• 1990 – Gérard Blitz, Belgian water polo player (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Arthur Murray, Austrian-American dancer (b. 1895)
• 1991 – William Penney, Baron Penney, Gibraltarian-English mathematician, physicist, and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Mel Bradford, American author and critic (b. 1934)
• 1993 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American mob boss (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist (b. 1906)
• 1994 – John Edward Williams, American author (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)
• 1996 – John Krol, American cardinal (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Fred W. Friendly, American broadcaster (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Eugene Sledge, American author (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Harlan Howard, American songwriter (b. 1927)
• 2002 – G. M. C. Balayogi, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Luis Marden, American photographer (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Max Fisher, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Else Fisher, Swedish choreographer, dancer, theatre director and writer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – William Herskovic, Hungarian-American holocaust survivor and humanitarian (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Thea D. Hodge, American computer scientist (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Norman Smith, English drummer and producer (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Gilbert Parent, Canadian politician, 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Keith Alexander, English footballer and manager (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Michael Foot, English politician (b. 1913)
• 2011 – May Cutler, Canadian journalist, author, and politician (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Steve Bridges, American comedian and actor (b. 1963)
• 2012 – Dave Charnley, English boxer (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Leonardo Cimino, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Franklin McMahon, American journalist and illustrator (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Frank Marocco, American accordion player and composer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator and designer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Montrose and Gamma) (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Alex Webster, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez, Mexican journalist (b. 1975)
• 2013 – Müslüm Gürses, Turkish actor and singer (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Johnny Hanks, New Zealand boxer (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Bobby Rogers, American singer-songwriter (The Miracles) (b. 1940)
• 2013 – José Sancho, Spanish actor (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Song Wenfei, Chinese actress (b. 1985)
• 2014 – Robert Ashley, American composer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Xu Chongde, Chinese political scientist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Stan Koziol, American soccer player (b. 1965)
• 2014 – Kurt Chew-Een Lee, American soldier (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Curtis McClarin, American actor (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon, author, and educator (b. 1930)
• 2014 – William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic, founded Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Billy Robinson, English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Don Shows, American football player and coach (b. 1940)