EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 30/5

• 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
• 1381 – Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
• 1416 – The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
• 1431 – Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
• 1434 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
• 1510 – During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming Dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
• 1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
• 1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
• 1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
• 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
• 1631 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
• 1635 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
• 1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
• 1806 – Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I is exiled to Elba.
• 1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
• 1832 – End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
• 1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
• 1834 – Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders" in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
• 1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
• 1845 – The Fatel Razack land in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first East Indian to the country.
• 1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
• 1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
• 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
• 1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
• 1913 – First Balkan War: The Treaty of London (1913), is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
• 1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York, New York.
• 1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
• 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
• 1925 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
• 1932 – The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
• 1937 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
• 1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
• 1942 – World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• 1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
• 1958 – Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
• 1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• 1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1966 – The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
• 1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
• 1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
• 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
• 1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
• 1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• 1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
• 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
• 1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
• 2003 – Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
• 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappears while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.
• 2012 – Former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 2013 – Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

Births[edit]

• 1010 – Emperor Renzong of Song (d. 1063)
• 1220 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (d. 1263)
• 1423 – Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
• 1623 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1686)
• 1653 – Claudia Felicitas of Austria (d. 1676)
• 1686 – Antonina Houbraken, Dutch draughtswoman (d. 1736)
• 1718 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1793)
• 1719 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
• 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
• 1768 – Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French general (d. 1815)
• 1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
• 1800 – Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose, French cardinal (d. 1883)
• 1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian philosopher and theorist (d. 1876)
• 1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
• 1819 – William McMurdo, English general (d. 1894)
• 1820 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (d. 1890)
• 1835 – Alfred Austin, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1913)
• 1844 – Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer (d. 1921)
• 1845 – Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
• 1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
• 1862 – Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Azerbaijani philosopher and poet (d. 1911)
• 1871 – Nándor Dáni, Hungarian runner (d. 1949)
• 1871 – Olga Engl, Austrian-German actress (d. 1946)
• 1874 – Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912)
• 1875 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player and actor (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
• 1879 – Konstantin Ramul, Estonian psychologist an academic (d. 1975)
• 1881 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Wyndham Halswelle, English runner (d. 1915)
• 1884 – Siegmund Glücksmann, German-Jewish politician (d. 1942)
• 1885 – Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Laurent Barré, Canadian politician (d. 1964)
• 1886 – Randolph Bourne, American theorist (d. 1918)
• 1887 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor (d. 1964)
• 1887 – Paulette Noizeux, French actress (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Emil Reesen, Danish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Roger Salengro, French politician (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
• 1894 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1965)
• 1895 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Howard Hawks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1936)
• 1901 – Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (d. 1969)
• 1901 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Countee Cullen, American poet and author (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Bruno Gröning, Polish-German mystic (d. 1959)
• 1907 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
• 1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist (d. 2008)
• 1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor and singer (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Jacques Canetti, French talent agent (d. 1997)
• 1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986)
• 1910 – Harry Bernstein, English-American author (d. 2011)
• 1910 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh-English actor (d. 1980)
• 1912 – Millicent Selsam, American author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (d. 1979)
• 1916 – Justin Catayée, French politician (d. 1962)
• 1916 – Mort Meskin, American illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Pita Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007)
• 1919 – René Barrientos, Bolivian general and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Franklin J. Schaffner, Japanese-American director and producer (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Hal Clement, American author (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Anna Proclemer, Italian actress (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Marv Diemer, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Armando Peraza, Cuban-American drummer (Santana) (d. 2014)
• 1925 – John Henry Marks, English physician
• 1926 – Johnny Gimble, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Christine Jorgensen, American transgender (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Clint Walker, American actor and singer
• 1928 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1929 – Georges Gilson, French bishop
• 1930 – Mark Birley, English businessman, founded Annabel's (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Robert Ryman, American painter
• 1931 – Larry Silverstein, American businessman
• 1932 – Ray Cooney, English actor and playwright
• 1932 – Pauline Oliveros, American accordion player and composer (Deep Listening Band)
• 1932 – Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, Welsh politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1934 – Alexey Leonov, Russian general and astronaut
• 1934 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Lee Gunther, American production manager and producer (d. 1998)
• 1935 – Guy Tardif, Canadian politician (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor
• 1936 – Stanislav Hurenko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
• 1937 – Christopher Haskins, Irish businessman
• 1937 – Rick Mather, American-English architect (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Harry Statham, American basketball player and coach
• 1938 – David Early, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Billie Letts, American author and educator (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football defensive lineman
• 1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor
• 1939 – Dieter Quester, Austrian race car driver
• 1939 – Tim Waterstone, Scottish businessman, founded Waterstones
• 1940 – Gilles Villemure, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1942 – John Gladwin, English bishop
• 1942 – Carole Stone, English journalist and author
• 1943 – James Chaney, American activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Charles Collingwood, Canadian-English actor
• 1943 – Anders Michanek Swedish motorcycle racer
• 1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
• 1944 – Peter E. Berger, American film editor (d. 2011)
• 1944 – Lenny Davidson, English guitarist and songwriter (The Dave Clark Five)
• 1944 – Meredith MacRae, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1944 – Stav Prodromou, Greek-American businessman
• 1945 – Norman Eshley, English actor
• 1945 – Richard Hannon, Sr., English horse trainer
• 1946 – Allan Chapman, English historian and author
• 1947 – Jocelyne Bourassa, Canadian golfer
• 1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 1949 – P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball player and coach
• 1949 – Paul Coleridge, English judge
• 1949 – Klaus Flouride, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Dead Kennedys)
• 1949 – Bob Willis, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1950 – Bertrand Delanoë, French politician, Mayor of Paris
• 1950 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
• 1950 – Joshua Rozenberg, English lawyer, journalist, and author
• 1951 – Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian-Serbian singer-songwriter (Ambasadori and Korni Grupa)
• 1951 – Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan bishop and politician, President of Paraguay
• 1951 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor, singer, and director
• 1952 – Daniel Grodnik, American film producer and screenwriter
• 1952 – Kerry Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and sportscaster
• 1952 – Scott Holmes, American actor
• 1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
• 1955 – Topper Headon, English drummer and songwriter (The Clash and Mirkwood)
• 1955 – Jacqueline McGlade, British-born Canadian marine biologist, ecologist and academic
• 1955 – Jake Roberts, American wrestler
• 1955 – Michael Spencer, Malaysian-English businessman
• 1955 – Caroline Swift, English lawyer and judge
• 1955 – Colm Tóibín, Irish author, poet, playwright, and critic
• 1956 – Tim Lucas, American novelist and critic
• 1958 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (Roxette)
• 1958 – Steve Israel, American politician
• 1958 – Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1958 – Ted McGinley, American actor
• 1959 – Phil Brown, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1959 – Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler
• 1959 – Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
• 1960 – Stephen Duffy, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Duran Duran)
• 1961 – Ralph Carter, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Harry Enfield, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Bob Yari, Iranian-American director and producer
• 1962 – Kevin Eastman, American author and illustrator, co-created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 1962 – Richard Fuller, English politician
• 1962 – Tim Loughton, English politician
• 1962 – Tonya Pinkins, American actress and singer
• 1963 – Shauna Grant, American porn actress and model (d. 1984)
• 1963 – Michel Langevin, Canadian drummer and songwriter (Voivod)
• 1963 – Élise Lucet, French journalist
• 1963 – Helen Sharman, English chemist and astronaut
• 1964 – Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver
• 1964 – Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and activist (Rage Against the Machine, Axis of Justice)
• 1965 – Billy Donovan, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Abderraouf Jdey, Tunisian terrorist
• 1965 – Iginio Straffi, Italian animator and producer, founded Rainbow S.r.l.
• 1966 – Thomas Häßler, German footballer and manager
• 1966 – Stephen Malkmus, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pavement, Silver Jews, and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks)
• 1967 – Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter (The Charlatans and The Chavs)
• 1967 – Sven Pipien, German-American bass player (The Black Crowes)
• 1968 – Jason Kenney, Canadian politician
• 1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist
• 1969 – Naomi Kawase, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Ryuhei Kitamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Flora Chan, Hong Kong actress
• 1970 – Ness Wadia, Indian businessman
• 1971 – Paul Grayson, English rugby player and coach
• 1971 – Duncan Jones, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Idina Menzel, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 – Jiří Šlégr, Czech ice hockey player and politician
• 1971 – Kyle Vander Kuyp, Australian hurdler
• 1972 – Sōichirō Hoshi, Japanese voice actor
• 1972 – Manny Ramirez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1973 – Leigh Francis, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Kostas Chalkias, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley)
• 1974 – Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
• 1974 – Big L, American rapper (Children of the Corn and Diggin' in the Crates Crew) (d. 1999)
• 1974 – David Wilkie, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1975 – Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player
• 1975 – Brian Fair, American singer-songwriter (Shadows Fall and Overcast)
• 1975 – Andy Farrell, English rugby player and coach
• 1975 – Marissa Mayer, American computer scientist and businesswoman
• 1976 – Leonel Grave de Peralta, Cuban-American activist
• 1976 – Radoslav Nesterović, Slovenian-Greek basketball player
• 1976 – Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
• 1976 – Margaret Okayo, Kenyan runner
• 1977 – Akwá, Angolan footballer
• 1977 – Marc Dos Santos, Canadian soccer player, coach, and manager
• 1977 – Nathan Robertson, English badminton player
• 1977 – Rachael Stirling, English actress
• 1977 – Federico Vilar, Argentinian-Italian footballer
• 1978 – Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Clint Bowyer, American race car driver
• 1979 – Fabian Ernst, German footballer
• 1979 – Rie Kugimiya, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1979 – Francis Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
• 1980 – Ilona Korstin, Russian basketball player
• 1980 – Ryohgo Narita, Japanese author
• 1981 – Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Megapuss)
• 1981 – Blake Bashoff, American actor
• 1981 – Gianmaria Bruni, Italian race car driver
• 1981 – Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Remy Ma, American rapper (Terror Squad)
• 1981 – Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
• 1981 – Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
• 1982 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1982 – James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player
• 1983 – Jennifer Ellison, English actress, singer, and dancer
• 1984 – Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer
• 1984 – Matt Maguire, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Jordan Palmer, American football player
• 1984 – Alexander Sulzer, German ice hockey player
• 1985 – Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (d. 2013)
• 1985 – Vladimir Latin, Estonian rower
• 1985 – Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jennifer Winget, Indian actress
• 1986 – Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 – Joyce Cheng, Canadian-Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1988 – Kelvin Etuhu, Nigerian-English footballer
• 1988 – Antonio Winterstein, Australian rugby player
• 1989 – Ailee, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
• 1989 – Hyomin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
• 1989 – Kevin Covais, American singer and actor
• 1989 – Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1990 – Dean Collins, American actor
• 1990 – Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Im Yoona, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
• 1990 – Han Xinyun, Chinese tennis player
• 1991 – Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
• 1992 – Danielle Harold, English actress
• 1992 – Liam Mower, English actor and dancer
• 1994 – Madeon, French DJ and producer
• 1994 – Ivars Punnenovs, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1996 – Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player
• 1997 – Jake Short, American actor
• 2000 – Jared S. Gilmore, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 1159 – Władysław II the Exile, Polish husband of Agnes of Babenberg (b. 1105)
• 1252 – Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
• 1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech martyr and theologian (b. 1379)
• 1431 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (b. 1412)
• 1434 – Prokop the Great, Czech general (b. 1380)
• 1574 – Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
• 1576 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai
• 1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)
• 1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
• 1696 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1638)
• 1670 – John Davenport, English-American minister, co-founded the New Haven Colony (b. 1597)
• 1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
• 1718 – Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch-English general (b. 1670)
• 1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
• 1744 – Alexander Pope, English poet (b. 1688)
• 1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
• 1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
• 1829 – Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (b. 1774)
• 1832 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian, jurist, and politician (b. 1765)
• 1865 – John Catron, American jurist (b. 1786)
• 1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Wilbur Wright, American pilot and businessman, co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1867)
• 1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author (b. 1876)
• 1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864)
• 1934 – Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
• 1939 – Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1941 – Prajadhipok, Thai king (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist (b. 1910)
• 1947 – Georg Johannes von Trapp, Croatian-Austrian captain (b. 1880)
• 1948 – József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1955 – Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1957 – Piero Carini, Italian racing driver (b. 1921)
• 1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
• 1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1964 – Dave MacDonald, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1965 – Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Claude Rains, English-American actor (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
• 1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Michel Simon, Swiss-French actor (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942)
• 1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
• 1982 – Albert Norden, German politician (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Rudolf Loo, Estonian-Swedish wrestler (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded Perry Ellis (b. 1940)
• 1993 – Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Marcel Bich, Italian-French businessman, co-founded Société Bic (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
• 1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Lofty England, English-Austrian engineer (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 1996 – Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (b. 1961)
• 1999 – Kalju Lepik, Estonian poet (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian general (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Mickie Most, English singer and producer, founded Rak Records (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Fazal Mahmood, Indian-Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish author (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2006 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy, Algerian-French actor and director (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Noel Moore, English civil servant (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American adrenoleukodystrophy patient (b. 1978)
• 2009 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Yuri Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Peter Orlovsky, American poet and actor (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Joan Rhodes, English wrestler and stuntwoman (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Ricky Bruch, Swedish discus thrower and actor (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Isikia Savua, Fijian diplomat (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ and producer (b. 1967)
• 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Pete Cosey, American guitarist (b. 1943)
• 2012 – John Fox, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Charles Lemmond, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Gerhard Pohl, German politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Dean Brooks, American physician and actor (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Güzin Dino, Turkish-French linguist and scholar (b. 1910)
• 2013 – Rituparno Ghosh, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1963)
• 2013 – Helen Hanft, American stage actress (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Larry Jones, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Vina Mazumdar, Indian academic and activist (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Hienadz Buraukin, Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Joan Lorring, Hong Kong-American actress (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Hanna Maron, German-Israeli actress (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral (b. 1932)