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• 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
• 1126 – Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
• 1576 – Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
• 1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
• 1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
• 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
• 1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• 1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
• 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
• 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
• 1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
• 1782 – Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
• 1801 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
• 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
• 1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
• 1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
• 1911 – International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
• 1914 – First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
• 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• 1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
• 1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
• 1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• 1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• 1924 – The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• 1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
• 1942 – World War II: Dutch forces surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
• 1947 – Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
• 1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
• 1949 – President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
• 1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• 1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
• 1963 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
• 1966 – A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
• 1971 – The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
• 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
• 1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• 1983 – While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
• 1985 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
• 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
• 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with the loss of all 239 people aboard.

§Births[edit]

• 1286 – John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
• 1293 – Beatrice of Castile (d. 1359)
• 1495 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (d. 1550)
• 1514 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
• 1566 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
• 1659 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor (d. 1738)
• 1617 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian architect, historian, and engineer (d. 1681)
• 1702 – Anne Bonny, Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)
• 1712 – John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
• 1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
• 1726 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral (d. 1799)
• 1746 – André Michaux, French botanist and explorer (d. 1802)
• 1748 – William V, Prince of Orange (d. 1806)
• 1772 – Henry James Richter, German / English artist (d. 1857)
• 1783 – Hannah Van Buren, American wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
• 1799 – Simon Cameron, American politician, 26th United States Secretary of War (d. 1889)
• 1804 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer (d. 1887)
• 1814 – Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian playwright (d. 1878)
• 1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (d. 1882)
• 1825 – Jules Barbier, French poet, writer and opera librettist (d. 1901)
• 1826 – Johann Köler, Estonian painter (d. 1899)
• 1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
• 1830 – João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
• 1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist (d. 1935)
• 1847 – John Lister, English politician (d. 1933)
• 1848 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American developer of the roller coaster (d. 1917)
• 1856 – Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
• 1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter (d. 1937)
• 1859 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)
• 1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Charles de Vendeville, French swimmer (d. 1914)
• 1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1891 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979)
• 1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Margot Bryant, English actress (d. 1988)
• 1897 – Damerla Rama Rao, Indian painter (d. 1925)
• 1899 – Elmer Keith, American gun designer and author (d. 1984)
• 1900 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist, created the Harvard Mark I (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1902 – Jennings Randolph, American politician (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician, 3rd President of Greece (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Lucio and Simplicio Godina, Filipino conjoined twins (d. 1936)
• 1909 – Beatrice Shilling, English motorcycle racer and engineer (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Bernard Benjamin, English statistician and demographer (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American composer (d. 2000)
• 1912 – Preston Smith, American politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
• 1915 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
• 1916 – John W. Seybold, American businessman (d. 2004)
• 1918 – Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright (d. 1985)
• 1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1983)
• 1921 – Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1922 – Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1924 – Anthony Caro, English sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Sean McClory, Irish actor (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1926 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer
• 1927 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
• 1927 – Irene Tinker, American professor of women's studies
• 1929 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Nancy Burley, Australian figure skater (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1931 – Neil Adcock, South African cricketer (d. 2013)
• 1931 – John McPhee, American author and educator
• 1931 – Gerald Potterton, English-Canadian animator, director, and producer
• 1931 – Neil Postman, American author and critic (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Luca Ronconi, Italian actor and director (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Evelyn Ay Sempier, American model, Miss America 1954 (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1935 – George Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
• 1936 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer
• 1936 – Gábor Szabó, Hungarian-American guitarist (d. 1982)
• 1937 – Richard Fariña, American singer-songwriter and author (d. 1966)
• 1937 – Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
• 1938 – Pete Dawkins, American football player
• 1938 – Hans Fogh, Danish-Canadian sailor (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Juris Kalniņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Bruno Pizzul, Italian journalist
• 1939 – Jim Bouton, American baseball player
• 1939 – Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballet dancer
• 1939 – Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater
• 1939 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor (d. 2011)
• 1940 – Susan Clark, Canadian actress
• 1940 – Jacques Doucet, Canadian sportscaster
• 1941 – Andrei Mironov, Russian actor (d. 1987)
• 1941 – Norman Stone, Scottish-English historian, author, and academic
• 1942 – Dick Allen, American baseball player
• 1942 – Palito Ortega, Argentinian singer, actor, and politician
• 1942 – Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper
• 1943 – Michael Grade, English businessman
• 1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer
• 1944 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian union leader
• 1944 – Sergey Nikitin, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist (The Romeros)
• 1945 – Bruce Broughton, American composer
• 1945 – Jim Chapman, American politician
• 1945 – Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (The Monkees)
• 1945 – Anselm Kiefer, German painter
• 1946 – Randy Meisner, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Eagles and Poco)
• 1946 – Yiannis Parios, Greek singer
• 1946 – Robert Jaworski, Filipino basketball player and politician
• 1947 – Michael Allsup, American guitarist (Three Dog Night)
• 1947 – Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter and painter
• 1947 – Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (d. 2011)
• 1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Matadors, Blue Effect, Flamengo, and Etc...)
• 1947 – Florentino Pérez, Spanish businessman and engineer
• 1948 – Gyles Brandreth, German-English screenwriter and politician
• 1948 – Sam Lacey, American basketball player (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Peggy March, American singer
• 1948 – Jonathan Sacks, English rabbi and scholar
• 1949 – Natalia Kuchinskaya, Russian gymnast
• 1949 – Karel Lismont, Belgian runner
• 1949 – Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian-American director and critic
• 1950 – Dimitris Spentzopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1951 – Ian Brown, English director and producer
• 1951 – Phil Edmonds, Zambian-English cricketer
• 1952 – George Allen, American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia
• 1953 – Angelos Anastasiadis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1953 – Pepper MaShay, American singer
• 1953 – Jim Rice, American baseball player
• 1953 – Don Werner, American baseball player
• 1954 – Cheryl Baker, English singer (Bucks Fizz and Co-Co)
• 1954 – Bob Brozman, American guitarist (R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders) (d. 2013)
• 1954 – David Wilkie, Sri Lankan-Scottish swimmer
• 1955 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
• 1956 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)
• 1956 – John Kapelos, Canadian actor
• 1957 – Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (Iron Maiden, Samson, and Trust) (d. 2013)
• 1957 – John Butcher, American baseball player
• 1957 – William Edward Childs, American pianist and composer
• 1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist
• 1957 – Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
• 1958 – Nick Capra, American baseball player
• 1958 – Andy McDonald, English lawyer and politician
• 1958 – Gary Numan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tubeway Army)
• 1959 – Lester Holt, American journalist
• 1959 – Aidan Quinn, American actor
• 1960 – Jeffrey Eugenides, American author
• 1960 – Max Metzker, Australian swimmer
• 1960 – Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer
• 1960 – Buck Williams, American basketball player
• 1961 – Camryn Manheim, American actress
• 1961 – Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and journalist
• 1961 – Mark Salas, American baseball player
• 1962 – Kim Ung-yong, South Korean engineer
• 1963 – Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1964 – Kate Betts, American journalist
• 1964 – Thomas Bezucha, American director and screenwriter
• 1964 – Lance McCullers, American baseball player
• 1965 – Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
• 1965 – Kenny Smith, American basketball player
• 1966 – Gregory Barker, English politician
• 1966 – Jaime Levy, American interface designer
• 1967 – Joel Johnston, American baseball player
• 1968 – Michael Bartels, German race car driver
• 1968 – Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
• 1968 – Rob Dukes, American singer-songwriter (Exodus)
• 1968 – Ellen Forney, American author and illustrator
• 1968 – Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Joanna Read, English director and playwright
• 1970 – Jason Elam, American football player
• 1970 – Nazario Moreno González, Mexican drug lord (d. 2014)
• 1970 – Andrea Parker, American actress and dancer
• 1971 – Kit Symons, Welsh footballer
• 1972 – Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer
• 1972 – Angie Hart, Australian singer (Frente! and Splendid)
• 1972 – Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
• 1972 – Matthew Nable, Australian actor
• 1973 – Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-American actor and model
• 1973 – Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player
• 1973 – Kurt Mollekens, Belgian race car driver
• 1973 – Mickey Ferriols, Filipino actress
• 1973 – Justin Thompson, American baseball player
• 1973 – Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gathering)
• 1974 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
• 1974 – Mike Moriarty, American baseball player
• 1974 – Stefan Müller, German footballer
• 1975 – Mauro Briano, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Peggy Zina, Greek singer
• 1976 – Gaz Coombes, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Supergrass, The Jennifers, and The Hotrats)
• 1976 – Juan Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Ryan Freel, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1976 – Freddie Prinze, Jr., American actor
• 1976 – Hines Ward, American football player
• 1977 – Estelle Desanges, French porn actress
• 1977 – Michael Tarver, American wrestler
• 1977 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
• 1977 – Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
• 1978 – Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch-Moroccan murderer
• 1978 – Nick Zano, American actor and producer
• 1979 – Apathy, American rapper and producer (Army of the Pharaohs and Get Busy Committee)
• 1979 – Tom Chaplin, English singer-songwriter (Keane)
• 1979 – Andy Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (OK Go)
• 1980 – Stephen Milne, Australian footballer
• 1980 – Charli Robinson, Australian actress and singer (Hi-5)
• 1981 – Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Glenda Gilson, Irish model and television host
• 1981 – Jessica Jaymes, American porn actress
• 1981 – Timothy Jordan II, American guitarist and songwriter (Jonezetta) (d. 2005)
• 1981 – Joost Posthuma, Dutch cyclist
• 1982 – Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver
• 1982 – Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Craig Stansberry, American baseball player
• 1982 – Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist
• 1983 – André Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Mark Worrell, American baseball player
• 1984 – Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer
• 1984 – Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
• 1984 – Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player
• 1985 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and singer
• 1986 – Princess Tsuguko of Takamado
• 1988 – Armanti Edwards, American football player
• 1988 – Elly Jackson, English singer-songwriter and producer (La Roux)
• 1988 – Laura Unsworth, English field hockey player
• 1988 – Bryan Termulo, Filipino singer and actor
• 1989 – Robbie Hummel, American basketball player
• 1990 – Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1990 – Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
• 1990 – Ben Tozer, English footballer
• 1990 – Nico Salva, Filipino basketball player
• 1991 – Miriam Bryant, Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1991 – Tom English, Australian rugby player
• 1991 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor and singer
• 1993 – Stephanie Davis, English actress
• 1994 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
• 1997 – Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48 and SKE48)
• 2001 – Azamour, Irish race horse (d. 2014)
• 2004 – Brenna Penaflor, Filipino actress

§Deaths[edit]

• 1126 – Urraca of León and Castile (b. 1079)
• 1144 – Pope Celestine II
• 1223 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish bishop and historian (b. 1161)
• 1550 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (b. 1495)
• 1641 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (b. 1587)
• 1674 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French author (b. 1597)
• 1702 – William III of England (b. 1650)
• 1717 – Abraham Darby I, English blacksmith (b1678)
• 1731 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
• 1757 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar (b. 1701)
• 1771 – Louis August le Clerc, French-Danish sculptor (b. 1688)
• 1819 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, British-American colonel and politician (b. 1739)
• 1844 – Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1855 – William Poole, American criminal (b. 1821)
• 1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
• 1872 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 – Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
• 1887 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 – John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1907 – Marinos Antypas, Greek lawyer and journalist (b. 1872)
• 1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 – Krišjānis Barons, Latvian author (b. 1835)
• 1923 – Martin Lipp, Estonian clergyman and poet (b. 1854)
• 1923 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1925 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
• 1930 – William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1930 – Edward Terry Sanford, American jurist (b. 1865)
• 1935 – Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1941 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
• 1942 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
• 1943 – Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (b. 1864)
• 1951 – Martha Beck, American murderer (b. 1920)
• 1951 – Raymond Fernandez, American murderer (b. 1914)
• 1957 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
• 1971 – Harold Lloyd, American actor and producer (b. 1893)
• 1972 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
• 1975 – Georg Faehlmann, Estonian sailor (b. 1895)
• 1975 – George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Joseph Henry Woodger, English biologist (b. 1894)
• 1983 – Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
• 1983 – William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Charles Exbrayat, French author (b. 1906)
• 1991 – John Bellairs, American author (b. 1938)
• 1993 – Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (b. 1899)
• 1995 – Paul Horgan, American author (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (b. 1965)
• 1996 – Jack Churchill, Hong Kong-English lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Peggy Cass, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)
• 1999 – William Wrigley III, American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
• 2005 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand surgeon (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Christopher Barrios, Jr., American murder victim (b. 2001)
• 2007 – John Inman, English actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Vicky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
• 2007 – John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Carol Barnes, English journalist (b. 1944)
• 2009 – Ali Bongo, Indian-English magician (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Zbigniew Religa, Polish surgeon and politician (b. 1938)
• 2011 – St. Clair Lee, American singer (Hues Corporation) (b. 1944)
• 2011 – Mike Starr, American bass player (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun, and Days of the New) (b. 1966)
• 2012 – LaVerne Carter, American bowler (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Leslie Cochran, American activist (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Mike Fetchick, American golfer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Bugs Henderson, American guitarist (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Scott Huey, Irish cricketer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Minoru Mori, Japanese businessman, founded the Mori Art Museum (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Steven Rubenstein, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1962)
• 2013 – Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Hartmut Briesenick, German shot putter (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Hakob Hakobian, Egyptian-Armenian painter (b. 1923)
• 2013 – John O'Connell, Irish politician (b. 1927)
• 2013 – George Saimes, American football player (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Raymond Telles, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (b. 1915)
• 2013 – Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Ginny Wood, American environmentalist, co-founded the Alaska Conservation Society (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921)
• 2014 – James Ellis, Irish-English actor (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Buren Fowler, American guitarist (Drivin N Cryin) (b. 1959)
• 2014 – William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Wendy Hughes Australian actress (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Alan Rodgers, American author and poet (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Larry Scott, American bodybuilder (b. 1938)