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• 1400 – The Trần Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
• 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
• 1568 – The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
• 1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
• 1757 – Capture of Chandannagar fort by British forces.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
• 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
• 1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
• 1821 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
• 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
• 1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
• 1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
• 1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
• 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
• 1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hung Hoa, northern Vietnam.
• 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, meets for the first time.
• 1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India.
• 1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston.
• 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
• 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• 1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming Prisoners of war
• 1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence.
• 1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
• 1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
• 1939 – The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War.
• 1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
• 1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
• 1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
• 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• 1965 – The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum.
• 1977 – All 12 of the Nixon Interviews are recorded with British journalist David Frost interviewing former President of the United States Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
• 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
• 1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
• 1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
• 1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
• 1994 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
• 1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
• 1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
• 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
• 2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
• 2005 – Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
• 2009 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.

Births[edit]

• 1336 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
• 1430 – Margaret of Anjou (d. 1482)
• 1599 – Thomas Selle, German composer (d. 1663)
• 1699 – John Bartram, British-American botanist and explorer (d. 1777)
• 1732 – Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (d. 1800)
• 1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
• 1750 – Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian bassist and composer (d. 1812)
• 1754 – Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and physicist (d. 1802)
• 1769 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
• 1769 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)
• 1823 – Schuyler Colfax, American politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
• 1826 – Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1917)
• 1834 – Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (d. 1858)
• 1842 – Friedrich Amelung, Baltic German historian, businessman and chess endgame composer (d. 1909)
• 1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1862 – Nathaniel Reed, American criminal (d. 1950)
• 1868 – Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (d. 1923)
• 1869 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Turkish-Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955)
• 1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
• 1871 – Heinrich Schroth, German actor (d. 1945)
• 1872 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1940)
• 1874 – Grantley Goulding, English athlete (d. 1947)
• 1874 – J. C. Leyendecker, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1951)
• 1876 – Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and political activist (d. 1924)
• 1878 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1934)
• 1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (d. 1922)
• 1881 – Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (d. 1969)
• 1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1882 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
• 1884 – Joseph Boxhall, English 4th officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Platt Adams, American athlete (d. 1961)
• 1886 – Frank Irons, American long jumper (d. 1942)
• 1887 – Josef Čapek, Czech painter and poet (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-American labor leader (d. 1946)
• 1887 – Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American production designer (d. 1960)
• 1893 – Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer (d. 1974)
• 1894 – Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (d. 2001)
• 1895 – Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, author, and composer (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
• 1900 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (d. 1980)
• 1902 – Blessed Józef Cebula, beatified Polish priest, murdered at concentration camp (d. 1942)
• 1904 – H. Beam Piper, American author (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1905 – Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Jerry Cornes, English middle-distance runner (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Neil McCorkell, English-South African cricketer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1912 – Wernher von Braun, German physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
• 1913 – Abidin Dino, Turkish artist and a well-known painter (d. 1913)
• 1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Tom Pashby, Canadian ophthalmologist (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Kenneth Tobey, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Helene Hale, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Carl Graffunder, American architect and educator (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Neal Edward Smith, American pilot and politician
• 1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Donald Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1967)
• 1922 – Marty Allen, American comedian and actor
• 1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Angelo Ingrassia, American judge (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American politician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)
• 1924 – Olga Kennard, English crystallographer
• 1924 – John Madin, English architect (d. 2012)
• 1925 – David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess player (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Jean E. Sammet, American computer scientist
• 1929 – Roger Bannister, English runner, neurologist, and academic
• 1929 – Michael Manser, English architect
• 1930 – Ahmed Ramzy, Egyptian actor (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player and author
• 1931 – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian skier (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1933 – Norman Bailey, English-American opera singer
• 1933 – Norman Yemm, Australian actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic
• 1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician and physicist
• 1934 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
• 1934 – Mark Rydell, American actor, director, and producer
• 1935 – Barry Cryer, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1936 – Jannis Kounellis, Greek artist
• 1937 – Craig Breedlove, American race car driver
• 1937 – Robert Gallo, American physician
• 1937 – Tony Burton, American actor
• 1938 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Irwin Levine, American songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1938 – Dave Pike, American vibraphone player
• 1939 – Robin Herd, English engineer and businessman
• 1940 – Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian author, playwright, and academic
• 1941 – Jim Trelease, American author and educator
• 1942 – Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, scholar, and activist (d. 1980)
• 1943 – Andrew Crockett, English economist and banker (d. 2012)
• 1943 – George P. Lee, American religious leader (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Lee May, American baseball player
• 1943 – Sharon Presley, American libertarian feminist and writer
• 1943 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish singer, author, and director (d. 2001)
• 1944 – B. P. Gavrilov, Russian rugby player (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Tony McPhee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Groundhogs)
• 1944 – Michael Nyman, English pianist and composer
• 1945 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter and director
• 1945 – David Grisman, American mandolin player and composer (Even Dozen Jug Band, Old and in the Way, and David Grisman Quintet)
• 1946 – Alan Bleasdale, English screenwriter and producer
• 1946 – Pepe Lienhard, Swiss singer and bandleader
• 1946 – Barbara Rhoades, American actress
• 1947 – Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, American author
• 1948 – Wasim Bari, Pakistani cricketer
• 1948 – Marie Malavoy, German-Canadian educator and politician
• 1948 – Penelope Milford, American actress
• 1948 – David Olney, American singer-songwriter
• 1949 – Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Cars)
• 1950 – Corinne Cléry, French actress
• 1950 – Joseph Connolly, English journalist and author
• 1950 – Anthony De Longis, American actor, stuntman, and choreographer
• 1950 – Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian author
• 1951 – Ron Jaworski, American football player and sportscaster
• 1951 – Phil Keaggy, American guitarist (Glass Harp and Love Song)
• 1951 – Adrian Reynard, English businessman, founded Reynard Motorsport
• 1952 – Francesco Clemente, Italian contemporary artist
• 1952 – Villano III, Mexican wrestler
• 1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
• 1953 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer-songwriter (Rufus)
• 1953 – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Indian businesswoman
• 1954 – Geno Auriemma, Italian-American basketball player and coach
• 1954 – Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer, founded Kenneth Cole Productions
• 1955 – Petrea Burchard, American actress
• 1955 – Moses Malone, American basketball player
• 1956 – José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, 117th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 – Andrew Mitchell, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development
• 1956 – Jeremy Wade, English biologist and author
• 1957 – Teresa Ganzel, American actress
• 1957 – Lucio Gutiérrez, Ecuadorian politician, 52nd President of Ecuador
• 1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 1998)
• 1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress
• 1958 – Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
• 1958 – Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1958 – Eldon Hoke, American drummer and singer (The Mentors and The Screamers) (d. 1997)
• 1958 – Michael Sorich, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Catherine Keener, American actress
• 1959 – Epic Soundtracks, English drummer and songwriter (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, and These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)
• 1959 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
• 1960 – Haris Romas, Greek actor, composer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Nicol Stephen, Baron Stephen, Scottish politician, 2nd Deputy First Minister of Scotland
• 1961 – Roger Crisp, British philosopher
• 1961 – Steve Holmes, Romanian-American porn actor and director
• 1961 – Helmi Johannes, Indonesian journalist and producer
• 1962 – Steve Redgrave, English rower
• 1963 – Míchel, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Juan Ramón López Caro, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban runner
• 1964 – Hope Davis, American actress
• 1964 – John Pinette, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1964 – Okan Bayülgen, Turkish actor, variety and talk show host, comedian and photographer
• 1965 – Sarah G. Buxton, American actress
• 1965 – Richard Grieco, American model and actor
• 1965 – Marti Pellow, Scottish singer-songwriter (Wet Wet Wet)
• 1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter
• 1966 – Lorenzo Daniel, American sprinter
• 1966 – Beverly Hills, English actress
• 1966 – Marin Hinkle, American actress
• 1966 – Vasilis Vouzas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1967 – David Ford, Canadian canoe racer
• 1968 – Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Blur, Gorillaz, and The Good, the Bad & the Queen)
• 1968 – Mike Atherton, English cricketer and journalist
• 1968 – Mitch Cullin, American author
• 1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
• 1968 – Pierre Palmade, French actor and comedian
• 1968 – Erki Pehk, Estonian conductor
• 1970 – Midajah, American model, trainer, and manager
• 1970 – Melissa Errico, American actress and singer
• 1970 – John Humphrey, American drummer (The Nixons and Seether)
• 1971 – Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian model
• 1971 – Karen McDougal, American model and actress
• 1971 – Gail Porter, Scottish television host
• 1971 – Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese wrestler
• 1972 – Jonas Björkman, Swedish tennis player
• 1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
• 1972 – Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
• 1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
• 1973 – Wim Eyckmans, Belgian race car driver
• 1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Kevin Northcutt, American wrestler
• 1973 – Patiparn Pataweekarn, Thai actor
• 1974 – Randall Park, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Burak Gürpınar, Turkish drummer primarily known for his work with the influential Turkish rock band Kurban
• 1976 – Jayson Blair, American journalist and author
• 1976 – Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist
• 1976 – Smriti Irani, Indian politician and former model, television actress and producer
• 1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle racer
• 1976 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress
• 1976 – Jeremy Newberry, American football player
• 1976 – Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Keri Russell, American actress and dancer
• 1976 – Travis Tomko, American wrestler
• 1976 – Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Miklos Perlus, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1978 – Simon Gärdenfors, Swedish illustrator
• 1978 – Perez Hilton, American blogger
• 1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – David Tom, American actor
• 1978 – Nicholle Tom, American actress
• 1979 – Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
• 1979 – Ray Gordy, American wrestler
• 1979 – Natalia Hadjiloizou, Belarusian-Cypriot swimmer
• 1979 – Misty Hyman, American swimmer
• 1979 – Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player
• 1980 – Ryan Day, Welsh snooker player
• 1980 – Russell Howard, English comedian and television host
• 1980 – Itay Tiran, Israeli actor
• 1980 – Ambwene Simukonda, Malawian sprinter
• 1981 – Erin Crocker, American race car driver
• 1981 – Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Shelley Rudman, English bobsledder
• 1981 – Giuseppe Sculli, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Aysun Kayacı, Turkish model, current actress and presenter
• 1982 – José Contreras Arrau, Chilean footballer
• 1982 – Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Evgeni Striganov, Estonian ice dancer
• 1983 – Mo Farah, Somalian-English runner
• 1983 – Sascha Riether, German footballer
• 1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer
• 1983 – Hakan Balta, Turkish professional footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Araña, Filipino basketball player
• 1985 – Geoff Eigenmann, Filipino actor and VJ
• 1985 – Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
• 1986 – Patrick Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Steven Strait, American actor and singer
• 1987 – James Foad, English rower
• 1987 – Kangna Ranaut, Indian actress
• 1987 – Vesna Rožič, Slovenian chess player (d. 2013)
• 1987 – Alan Toovey, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Jason Kenny, English cyclist
• 1988 – Michal Neuvirth, Czech ice hockey player
• 1989 – Nikola Gulan, Serbian footballer
• 1989 – Luis Fernando Silva, Mexican footballer
• 1990 – Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish race car driver
• 1990 – Princess Eugenie of York
• 1990 – Robert Zickert, German footballer
• 1991 – Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer
• 1992 – Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish footballer
• 1992 – Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player
• 1992 – Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress and singer
• 1994 – Nick Powell, English footballer
• 1995 – Kevin Kauber, Estonian footballer
• 1995 – Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
• 1995 – Ozan Tufan, Turkish footballer
• 1997 – Aidan Davis, English dancer

Deaths[edit]

• 851 – Zhou Chi, Chinese historian and politician (b. 793)
• 1103 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
• 1361 – Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1310)
• 1369 – Peter of Castile (b. 1334)
• 1548 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese samurai (b. 1489)
• 1555 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
• 1559 – Gelawdewos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1521)
• 1596 – Henry Unton, English diplomat (b. 1557)
• 1606 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish philologist (b. 1547)
• 1618 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (b. 1575)
• 1675 – Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1619)
• 1680 – Nicolas Fouquet, French politician (b. 1615)
• 1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (b. 1670)
• 1747 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (b. 1675)
• 1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (b. 1684)
• 1754 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and critic (b. 1693)
• 1783 – Charles Carroll, British-American lawyer and politician (b. 1723)
• 1801 – Paul I of Russia (b. 1754)
• 1842 – Stendhal, French author (b. 1783)
• 1884 – Henry C. Lord, American businessman (b. 1824)
• 1910 – Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820)
• 1914 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
• 1923 – Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1927 – Paul César Helleu, French painter (b. 1859)
• 1931 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908)
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1931 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1935 – Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
• 1947 – Archduchess Louise of Austria (b. 1870)
• 1953 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Said Nursî, Turkish theologian and scholar (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (b. 1887)
• 1961 – Albert Bloch, American painter (b. 1882)
• 1964 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1965 – Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1968 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 1970 – Del Lord, Canadian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Alekos Livaditis, Greek actor (b. 1914)
• 1980 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1941)
• 1984 – Shauna Grant, American porn actress and model (b. 1963)
• 1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1985 – Ben Hardwick, English liver transplant patient (b. 1981)
• 1987 – Olev Roomet, Estonian singer and violinist (b. 1901)
• 1990 – John Dexter, English director and producer (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1992 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1949)
• 1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
• 1994 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English singer-songwriter and pianist (Flanders and Swann) (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Alan Barton, English singer (Black Lace and Smokie) (b. 1953)
• 1995 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
• 1998 – Gerald Stano, American serial killer (b. 1951)
• 1999 – Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 2000 – Jeremy Applegate, American television and film actor (b. 1965)
• 2001 – Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Robert Laxalt, American author (b. 1923)
• 2001 – David McTaggart, Canadian environmentalist (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (b. 1977)
• 2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-English journalist (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (b. 1916)
• 2006 – David B. Bleak, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Desmond Doss, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Eric Medlen, American race car driver (b. 1973)
• 2008 – Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Raúl Macías, Mexican boxer and trainer (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Jean Bartik, American Computer Scientist (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Somalian politician, President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Jim Duffy, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Eric Lowen, American singer-songwriter (Lowen & Navarro) (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Naji Talib, Iraqi politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Lonnie Wright, American basketball and football player (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Sukhraj Aujla, Indian singer (b. 1968)
• 2013 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English mathematician and businessman (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Onofre Corpuz, Filipino economist, historian, and academic (b. 1926)
• 2013 – David Early, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness Magazine (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Peter Oakley, English blogger (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Jaroslav Šerých, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Oderus Urungus, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (Gwar, Death Piggy, X-Cops, and Dave Brockie Experience) (b. 1963)
• 2015 – Lee Kuan Yew, first Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1923)