EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 10/4

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• 428 – Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
• 879 – Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks.
• 1407 – The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
• 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
• 1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
• 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
• 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitz on this date.
• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
• 1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
• 1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
• 1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
• 1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.
• 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
• 1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
• 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
• 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
• 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
• 1872 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
• 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
• 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law.
• 1912 – RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
• 1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
• 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
• 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
• 1941 – World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
• 1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
• 1953 – Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
• 1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• 1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
• 1963 – One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
• 1968 – New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
• 1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
• 1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
• 1972 – Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
• 1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
• 1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
• 1973 – A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashes in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
• 1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
• 1988 – The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.
• 1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
• 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
• 1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
• 2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
• 2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials
• 2014 – Kathleen Sebelius resigns as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in light of fallout from the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov.

Births[edit]

• 401 – Theodosius II, Roman emperor (d. 450)
• 1512 – James V of Scotland (d. 1542)
• 1583 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist and philosopher (d. 1645)
• 1651 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1708)
• 1656 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (d. 1718)
• 1704 – Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (d. 1766)
• 1707 – Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, and author (d. 1795)
• 1713 – John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (d. 1788)
• 1755 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (d. 1843)
• 1762 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
• 1778 – William Hazlitt, English painter and critic (d. 1830)
• 1783 – Hortense de Beauharnais, French-Dutch wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837)
• 1794 – Matthew C. Perry, American commander (d. 1858)
• 1806 – Juliette Drouet, French actress (d. 1883)
• 1827 – Lew Wallace, American general, lawyer, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (d. 1905)
• 1829 – William Booth, English minister, founded The Salvation Army (d. 1912)
• 1837 – Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
• 1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American politician, journalist, and publisher, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (d. 1911)
• 1864 – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (d. 1932)
• 1865 – Jack Miner, American-Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
• 1867 – George William Russell, Irish author, poet, and painter (d. 1935)
• 1868 – George Arliss, English actor and playwright (d. 1946)
• 1873 – Kyösti Kallio, Finnish politician, 4th President of Finland (d. 1940)
• 1877 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian author and illustrator (d. 1959)
• 1879 – Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939)
• 1879 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower (d. 1921)
• 1880 – Frances Perkins, American politician, 4th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1965)
• 1880 – Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (d. 1948)
• 1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Frank Barson, English footballer and coach (d. 1968)
• 1894 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman (d. 1983)
• 1897 – Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician and Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1990)
• 1897 – Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927)
• 1903 – Clare Boothe Luce, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (d. 1970)
• 1910 – Margaret Clapp, American scholar and academic (d. 1974)
• 1910 – Helenio Herrera, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and publisher, founded the Monthly Review (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Martin Denny, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)
• 1911 – Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign for France (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Boris Kidrič, Austrian-Slovenian politician (d. 1953)
• 1913 – Stefan Heym, German-American author (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor and director (d. 2011)
• 1915 – Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1916 – Lee Jung Seob, Korean painter (d. 1956)
• 1917 – Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1918 – Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1919 – John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and author (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Jane Kean, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Linda Goodman, American astrologer and author (d. 1995)
• 1925 – Angelo Poffo, American wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Junior Samples, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1927 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1929 – Liz Sheridan, American actress
• 1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor
• 1930 – Claude Bolling, French pianist, composer, and actor
• 1930 – Dolores Huerta, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers
• 1930 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish actor, director, and producer (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Lee Weaver, American actor
• 1932 – Delphine Seyrig, Lebanese-American actress and director (d. 1990)
• 1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
• 1933 – Rokusuke Ei, Japanese composer and author
• 1933 – Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Poncie Ponce, American actor and singer (d. 2013)
• 1934 – David Halberstam, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Richard Peck, American author
• 1935 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (d. 1961)
• 1935 – Patrick Garland, English actor and director (d. 2013)
• 1936 – John Howell, British long jumper
• 1936 – Milt Kogan, American actor
• 1936 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1936 – Bobbie Smith, American singer (The Spinners) (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Don Meredith, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Claudio Magris, Italian author
• 1940 – Gloria Hunniford, Northern Irish radio and television host
• 1941 – Harold Long, Canadian politician (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Paul Theroux, American scholar and author
• 1942 – Ian Callaghan, English footballer
• 1942 – Stuart Dybek, American author and poet
• 1942 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998)
• 1943 – Andrzej Badeński, Polish sprinter (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Margaret Pemberton, English author
• 1944 – Mike Carrell, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Mordechai Mishani, Israeli politician (d. 2013)
• 1946 – David Angell, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2001)
• 1946 – Bob Watson, American baseball player and manager
• 1946 – Adolf Winkelmann, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1947 – David A. Adler. American author
• 1947 – William Castell, English businessman
• 1947 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican singer-songwriter and drummer (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
• 1949 – Daniel Mangeas, French sportscaster
• 1950 – Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player and manager
• 1950 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Parliament-Funkadelic, and The Parliaments) (d. 1992)
• 1950 – Akiko Wada, Japanese singer and actress
• 1951 – David Helvarg, American journalist and activist
• 1952 – Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 1952 – Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, and martial artist
• 1953 – David Moorcroft, English runner and businessman
• 1953 – Pamela Wallin, Canadian journalist and politician
• 1954 – Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Anne Lamott, American author
• 1954 – Peter MacNicol, American actor
• 1954 – Juan Williams, Panamanian-American journalist
• 1955 – Lesley Garrett, English soprano
• 1956 – Carol V. Robinson, British chemist
• 1957 – Aliko Dangote, Nigerian businessman, founded Dangote Group
• 1957 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (d. 2006)
• 1957 – Steve Gustafson, Spanish-American bass player (10,000 Maniacs)
• 1957 – Rosemary Hill, English historian and author
• 1958 – Bob Bell, Northern Irish engineer
• 1958 – Yefim Bronfman, Uzbek-American pianist
• 1959 – Babyface, American singer-songwriter and producer (After 7, The Deele, and Manchild)
• 1959 – Uwe Behrens, German footballer and manager
• 1959 – Davy Carton, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Saw Doctors and Blaze X)
• 1959 – Yvan Loubier, Canadian economist and politician
• 1959 – Brian Setzer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Stray Cats, The Tomcats, and The Brian Setzer Orchestra)
• 1960 – Steve Bisciotti, American businessman, co-founded Allegis Group
• 1960 – Katrina Leskanich, American-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (Katrina and the Waves)
• 1960 – Terry Teagle, American basketball player
• 1961 – Nicky Campbell, Scottish journalist and game show host
• 1961 – Joe Cole, American roadie and author (d. 1991)
• 1961 – Carole Goble, British academic and educator
• 1961 – Mark Jones, American basketball player
• 1961 – Steven Lyon, American actor, model, and photographer
• 1962 – Steve Tasker, American football player and sportscaster
• 1962 – Viktor Zuikov, Estonian fencer
• 1963 – Warren DeMartini, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt)
• 1963 – Jeff Gray, American baseball player and coach
• 1963 – Doris Leuthard, Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Manon Bollegraf, Dutch tennis player
• 1964 – Felicia Collins, American guitarist (CBS Orchestra)
• 1964 – Gopinath Muthukad, Indian magician
• 1965 – Tim Alexander, American drummer (Primus and Major Lingo)
• 1966 – Steve Claridge, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
• 1967 – Donald Dufresne, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 – David Rovics, American singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Orlando Jones, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Billy Jayne, American actor
• 1969 – Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter
• 1970 – Q-Tip, American rapper, producer, and actor (A Tribe Called Quest)
• 1970 – Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Leonard Doroftei, Romanian-Canadian boxer
• 1970 – Kenny Lattimore, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Brad William Henke, American actor
• 1971 – Indro Olumets, Estonian footballer
• 1971 – Al Reyes, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1971 – Nana Smith, American-Japanese tennis player
• 1972 – Ed Byrne, Irish comedian and actor
• 1972 – Priit Kasesalu, Estonian software developer and programmer
• 1973 – Guillaume Canet, French actor and director
• 1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1973 – Aidan Moffat, Scottish singer-songwriter (Arab Strap and The Reindeer Section)
• 1973 – Christopher Simmons, Canadian-American graphic designer, author, and academic
• 1974 – Eric Greitens, American lieutenant
• 1974 – Petros Passalis, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Henning Wehn, German-English comedian
• 1975 – Chris Carrabba, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dashboard Confessional and Further Seems Forever)
• 1975 – Terrence Lewis, Indian dancer and choreographer
• 1975 – Matthew Phillips, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Sara Renner, Canadian skier
• 1976 – Clare Buckfield, English actress
• 1977 – Stephanie Sheh, American voice actress
• 1978 – Sir Christus, Finnish guitarist (Negative)
• 1979 – Iván Alonso, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Kenyon Coleman, American football player
• 1979 – Shemekia Copeland, American singer
• 1979 – Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
• 1979 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (KinKi Kids, J-Friends, and Toraji Haiji)
• 1979 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer-songwriter (Theaudience)
• 1979 – Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer
• 1980 – Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player, businessman, and advertising executive
• 1980 – Charlie Hunnam, English actor and screenwriter
• 1980 – Shao Jiayi, Chinese footballer
• 1980 – Kasey Kahne, American race car driver
• 1980 – Bryce Soderberg, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Lifehouse)
• 1981 – Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder
• 1981 – Anis Boussaïdi, Tunisian footballer
• 1981 – Laura Bell Bundy, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1981 – Liz McClarnon, English singer and dancer (Atomic Kitten)
• 1981 – Michael Pitt, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Pagoda)
• 1981 – Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Andre Ethier, American baseball player
• 1982 – Damián Lanza, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1982 – Chyler Leigh, American actress
• 1983 – Jamie Chung, American actress
• 1983 – Andrew Dost, American guitarist and songwriter (Fun and Anathallo)
• 1983 – Ryan Merriman, American actor
• 1983 – Hannes Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1983 – Haig Sutherland, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Faustina Agolley, English-Australian television host and producer
• 1984 – Jeremy Barrett, American figure skater
• 1984 – Cara DeLizia, American actress
• 1984 – Billy Kay, American actor
• 1984 – Natasha Melnick, American actress
• 1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1984 – David Obua, Ugandan footballer
• 1984 – Damien Perquis, French-Polish footballer
• 1984 – Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Willo Flood, Irish footballer
• 1985 – Jesús Gámez, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Paula Reca, Argentinian actress
• 1986 – Olivia Borlée, Belgian sprinter
• 1986 – Fernando Gago, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 – Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer
• 1986 – Ayesha Takia, Indian actress
• 1986 – Ben Torgersen, American actor
• 1987 – Vladimir Ivanov, Estonian tennis player
• 1987 – Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress
• 1987 – Jamie Renée Smith, American actress
• 1987 – Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano (Celtic Woman)
• 1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
• 1990 – Lulinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1990 – Ben Amos, English footballer
• 1990 – Andile Jali, South African footballer
• 1990 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor
• 1991 – AJ Michalka, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (78violet)
• 1991 – Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
• 1994 – Nerlens Noel, American basketball player
• 1995 – Ian Nelson, American actor
• 1996 – Audrey Whitby, American actress
• 2005 – Big Brown, American race horse
• 2007 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

Deaths[edit]

• 879 – Louis the Stammerer, French son of Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 846)
• 948 – Hugh of Italy (b. 885)
• 1533 – Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
• 1545 – Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (b. 1485)
• 1585 – Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
• 1599 – Gabrielle d'Estrées, French mistress of Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
• 1601 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish soldier and poet (b. 1562)
• 1619 – Thomas Jones, English-Irish archbishop (b. 1550)
• 1640 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1578)
• 1646 – Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
• 1667 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician (b. 1595)
• 1704 – William Egon of Fürstenberg, German bishop (b. 1629)
• 1706 – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish general (b. 1666)
• 1756 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661)
• 1760 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
• 1786 – John Byron, English admiral (b. 1723)
• 1806 – Horatio Gates, English-American general (b. 1727)
• 1813 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
• 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople (b. 1746)
• 1823 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
• 1871 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1789)
• 1904 – Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
• 1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English author, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1837)
• 1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (b. 1879)
• 1920 – Moritz Cantor, German historian (b. 1829)
• 1931 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet and painter (b. 1883)
• 1938 – Joe "King" Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
• 1942 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (b. 1881)
• 1943 – Andreas Faehlmann, Estonian sailor (b. 1898)
• 1945 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer (b. 1882)
• 1947 – Charles Nordhoff, English-American author(b. 1887)
• 1954 – Auguste Lumière, French director and producer (b. 1862)
• 1954 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)
• 1955 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest and philosopher (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
• 1960 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1962 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
• 1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish bass player (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
• 1965 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 – Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English soldier, author, and educator (b. 1903)
• 1968 – Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
• 1969 – Harley Earl, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Hjalmar Mäe, Estonian politician (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1983 – Issam Sartawi, Palestinian activist (b. 1935)
• 1986 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
• 1991 – Martin Hannett, English guitarist and producer (The Invisible Girls) (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian and actor (b. 1953)
• 1993 – Chris Hani, South African activist and politician (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian politician, 4th Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Archbishop Seraphim of Athens (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German biochemist (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
• 2004 – Jacek Kaczmarski, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (Amadeus Quartet) (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Scott Gottlieb, American drummer (Bleed the Dream) (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Archbishop Iakovos of America (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
• 2007 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist (b. 1910)
• 2007 – Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Deborah Digges, American poet (b. 1950)
• 2010 – Passengers in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash:
  • Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish politician, 6th President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1919)
  • Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
  • Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (b. 1949)
  • Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (b. 1929)
  • Janusz Zakrzeński, Polish actor (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Arthur Mercante, Sr., American boxer and referee (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
• 2011 – Homer Smith, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Raymond Aubrac, French engineer and activist (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Barbara Buchholz, German theremin player and composer (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Virginia Spencer Carr, American author and academic (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Lili Chookasian, American opera singer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Akin Omoboriowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Grant Tilly, Australian-New Zealand actor (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Carlos Truan, American politician (b. 1935)
• 2012 – John Weaver, American-Canadian sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Raymond Boudon, French sociologist and academic (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Karol Castillo, Peruvian model (b. 1989)
• 2013 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Robert Edwards, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Dick Hart, American golfer (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Olive Lewin, Jamaican anthropologist, musicologist, and author (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Angela Voigt, German long jumper (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Joe Dini, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Phyllis Frelich, American actress (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Richard Hoggart, English author and academic (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Sue Townsend, English author and playwright (b. 1946)