EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 9/5

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• 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
• 1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
• 1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
• 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
• 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
• 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
• 1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
• 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
• 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
• 1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
• 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• 1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
• 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
• 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
• 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• 1918 – World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
• 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
• 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
• 1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
• 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
• 1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
• 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• 1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
• 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
• 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
• 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
• 1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
• 1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
• 1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
• 1958 – Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
• 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• 1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
• 1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
• 1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• 1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
• 1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
• 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
• 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
• 1987 – An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M, Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
• 1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
• 1992 – Westray Mine Disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
• 2012 – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.

Births[edit]

• 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
• 1540 – Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)
• 1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
• 1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1818)
• 1763 – János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
• 1800 – John Brown, American activist (d. 1859)
• 1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (d. 1866)
• 1814 – John Brougham, Irish-American actor and dramatist (d. 1880)
• 1824 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, Polish apologist (d. 1896)
• 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)
• 1845 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (d. 1913)
• 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author and playwright (d. 1937)
• 1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian politician (d. 1915)
• 1873 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
• 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist (d. 1939)
• 1882 – George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
• 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman and shipbuilder, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)
• 1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
• 1884 – Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (d. 1917)
• 1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1989)
• 1893 – William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1947)
• 1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
• 1895 – Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
• 1896 – Richard Day, Canadian art director (d. 1972)
• 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (d. 1964)
• 1904 – Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Eleanor Estes, American author (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (d. 1976)
• 1907 – Baldur von Schirach, German Nazi leader (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Fred Warngård, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1950)
• 1908 – Mary Scheier, American sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1909 – Don Messer, Canadian violinist (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Gordon Bunshaft, American architect (d. 1990)
• 1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (d. 1963)
• 1912 – Per Imerslund, Norwegian author (d. 1943)
• 1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Denham Fouts, American prostitute (d. 1948)
• 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
• 1916 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek soldier (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Orville Freeman, American soldier and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist and game show host (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Clifford Chadderton, Canadian soldier and journalist (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Arthur English, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Richard Adams, English author
• 1920 – William Tenn, English-American author (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Daniel Berrigan, American priest and activist
• 1921 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
• 1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Barbara New, English actress (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
• 1926 – John Middleton Murry, Jr., English author (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 – Ralph Goings, American painter
• 1928 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick, English judge
• 1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Vance D. Brand, American pilot and astronaut
• 1931 – Alistair MacFarlane, Scottish engineer and academic
• 1932 – Geraldine McEwan, Scottish actress and singer (d. 2015)
• 1932 – David Plastow, English businessman
• 1933 – Jessica Steele, English author
• 1934 – Alan Bennett, English actor, screenwriter, and author
• 1934 – Nathan Dean, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Roy Massey, English organist and conductor
• 1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor (The Ventures)
• 1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Terry Downes, English boxer
• 1936 – Albert Finney, English actor, singer, and producer
• 1936 – Glenda Jackson, English politician and retired actress
• 1937 – Sonny Curtis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
• 1937 – Dave Prater, American singer (d. 1988)
• 1938 – Geoffrey Holland, English civil servant and academic
• 1938 – Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
• 1939 – Ralph Boston, American long jumper
• 1939 – Pierre Desproges, French journalist and actor (d. 1988)
• 1939 – Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
• 1940 – James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1940 – Alan Ryan, English philosopher and academic
• 1941 – Pete Birrell, English bass player (Freddie and the Dreamers)
• 1941 – Dorothy Hyman, English sprinter
• 1941 – John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1942 – John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
• 1942 – Jerry Buchek, American baseball player
• 1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Vince Cable, English politician
• 1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (d. 2009)
• 1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Poco, Buffalo Springfield, and Souther–Hillman–Furay Band)
• 1944 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
• 1945 – Peter Hammond, British economist
• 1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager
• 1945 – Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blues Project, and American Flyer)
• 1945 – Nicholas Wilson, Lord Wilson of Culworth, English lawyer and judge
• 1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
• 1946 – Clint Holmes, English-American singer-songwriter
• 1946 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (d. 2002)
• 1947 – Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat
• 1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
• 1948 – Tania Maria, Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader
• 1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and radio host
• 1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Hassles and Attila)
• 1949 – Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat, 17th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (d. 2013)
• 1950 – James Butts, American triple jumper
• 1950 – Jorie Graham, American poet
• 1950 – Matthew Kelly, English actor and television host
• 1950 – Tato Laviera, Puerto Rician-American poet (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Tom Petersson, American bass player and songwriter (Cheap Trick and Fuse)
• 1951 – Alley Mills, American actress
• 1952 – Linda Finnie, Scottish soprano
• 1952 – Patrick Ryecart, English actor
• 1953 – Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
• 1953 – Amy Hill, American actress
• 1953 – Connie Kaldor, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Nicholas Crane, English geographer and journalist
• 1954 – Andrew Dillon, English businessman
• 1954 – Lawrence Dutton, American viola player and educator (Emerson String Quartet)
• 1954 – Marc Sinden, English actor, director, and producer
• 1955 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1955 – Kevin Reed, American theologian and author
• 1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish soprano
• 1956 – Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer
• 1958 – Graham Smith, Canadian swimmer
• 1959 – Ulrich Matthes, German actor
• 1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1960 – Jillian Lane, Welsh psychic (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Sean Altman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rockapella)
• 1962 – John Corbett, American actor and singer
• 1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter (Depeche Mode)
• 1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter (The Housemartins and Beautiful South)
• 1963 – Joe Cirella, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 – Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer and television host (Novi fosili)
• 1965 – Lisa Colagrossi, American journalist (d. 2015)
• 1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese race car driver
• 1965 – Janu Tornell, American model, Miss Nevada USA 1989
• 1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1966 – Mark Tinordi, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – David Benoit, American basketball player
• 1968 – Graham Harman, American philosopher
• 1968 – Ruth Kelly, British economist, former politician and Cabinet member (Secretary of State for Transport)
• 1968 – Marie-José Pérec, French runner
• 1969 – Amber, Dutch-German singer-songwriter and producer
• 1969 – Hudson Leick, American actress
• 1970 – Curtis Bray, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
• 1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor (Wu-Tang Clan and Theodore Unit)
• 1971 – Jason Lee, English footballer and manager
• 1971 – Dan Chiasson, American poet, critic, and journalist
• 1971 – Paul McGuigan, English bass player (Oasis and The Rain)
• 1972 – Lisa Ann, American porn actress
• 1972 – Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and singer
• 1972 – Dana Perino, American journalist and politician, 27th White House press secretary
• 1972 – Daniela Silivaş, Romanian gymnast
• 1973 – Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan runner
• 1973 – Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghanaian sprinter
• 1973 – Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress
• 1974 – Dylan Lauren, American businesswoman, founded Dylan's Candy Bar
• 1974 – Stéphane Yelle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1975 – Brian Deegan, American motocross rider
• 1975 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
• 1975 – Lane Kiffin, American football player and coach
• 1976 – Ott Kadarik, Estonian architect
• 1977 – Averno, Mexican wrestler
• 1977 – Asal Badiee, Iranian actress (d. 2013)
• 1977 – Maggie Dixon, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
• 1977 – Choi Jung-yoon, South Korean actress
• 1977 – Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist
• 1977 – Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist
• 1978 – Marwan al-Shehhi, Emirati terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175 (d. 2001)
• 1978 – Leandro Cufré, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Santiago Dellapè, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player
• 1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Simple Plan and Reset)
• 1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress and singer
• 1979 – Ara Mina, Filipino actress and singer
• 1979 – Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Brandon Webb, American baseball player
• 1979 – Andrew W.K., American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
• 1980 – Jo Hyun-jae, South Korean actor
• 1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater
• 1980 – Kate Richardson-Walsh, English field hockey player
• 1980 – Tony Schmidt, German race car driver
• 1981 – Bill Murphy, American baseball player
• 1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – You Yokoyama, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight)
• 1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
• 1982 – Beatriz Pascual, Spanish race walker
• 1982 – Gu Yuan, Chinese hammer thrower
• 1983 – Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish rower; British sculler
• 1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
• 1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
• 1983 – Christos Marangos, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1983 – Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
• 1984 – Chase Headley, American baseball player
• 1985 – Jake Long, American football player
• 1985 – Audrina Patridge, American model and actress
• 1985 – Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Daniel Rosenfeld, German independent musician
• 1986 – Grace Gummer, American actress
• 1986 – Vladimir Sidorkin, Estonian swimmer
• 1987 – Vitaliy Pushkar, Ukrainian rally driver
• 1988 – J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian race car driver
• 1989 – Ellen White, English footballer
• 1991 – Christy Mack, American porn actress and model
• 1991 – Stasia Rage, Latvian figure skater
• 1992 – Chris Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
• 1993 – Bonnie Rotten, American porn actress and model
• 1993 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor, singer, and dancer (NYC and Hey! Say! JUMP)
• 1994 – Ryan Auger, English footballer
• 1996 – Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer
• 1997 – Zane Huett, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 1267 – Constantine I of Barzrberd, Catholicos of All Armenians (b. 1180)
• 1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
• 1446 – Mary of Enghien (b. 1368)
• 1657 – William Bradford, English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
• 1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude, German-Danish organist and composer (b. 1637)
• 1736 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (b. 1658)
• 1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
• 1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
• 1760 – Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop (b. 1700)
• 1789 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (b. 1715)
• 1790 – William Clingan, American politician (b. 1721)
• 1791 – Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
• 1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)
• 1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
• 1850 – Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
• 1861 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 – John Sedgwick, American general (b. 1813)
• 1889 – William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 – Oscar von Gebhardt, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
• 1914 – C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 – François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist (b. 1887)
• 1915 – Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (b. 1883)
• 1918 – George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 – John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1938 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Józef Cebula, beatified Polish priest, murdered at concentration camp (b. 1902)
• 1949 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
• 1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)
• 1957 – Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
• 1957 – Ezio Pinza, Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
• 1959 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)
• 1964 – Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
• 1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (b. 1878)
• 1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
• 1968 – Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
• 1970 – Walter Reuther, American union leader (b. 1907)
• 1976 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
• 1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
• 1977 – James Jones, American author (b. 1921)
• 1978 – Giuseppe Impastato, Italian activist (b. 1948)
• 1978 – Aldo Moro, Italian politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
• 1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
• 1980 – Kate Molale, South African anti-Apartheid activist (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909)
• 1981 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
• 1987 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Keith Whitley, American singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1955)
• 1993 – Jacques Dextraze, Canadian general (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Rina Lasnier, Canadian poet (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Arthur Davis, American animator and director (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Dan Devine, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Carmen Filpi, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Russell B. Long, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)
• 2004 – Alan King, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Edith Rodriguez, American medical patient (b. 1964)
• 2007 – Dwight Wilson, Canadian soldier (b. 1901)
• 2008 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Pascal Sevran, French singer, television host, and author (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Lena Horne, American singer, actress, and dancer (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Otakar Motejl, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Northerly, Australian race horse (b. 1996)
• 2012 – Carl Beane, American sportscaster (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Bertram Cohler, American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islander politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Sanaullah Haq, Pakistani criminal (b. 1961)
• 2013 – George M. Leader, American politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Malcolm Shabazz, American criminal (b. 1984)
• 2013 – Andrew Simpson, English sailor (b. 1976)
• 2014 – Giacomo Bini, Italian missionary and priest (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Mel Patton, American sprinter (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Mary Stewart, English-Scottish author (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Joe Wilder, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)