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• 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
• 221 – Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
• 363 – Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
• 687 – Pope Benedict II chosen.
• 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
• 1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
• 1295 – Przemysł II crowned as King of Poland king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
• 1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
• 1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
• 1460 – Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
• 1483 – Richard III becomes King of England.
• 1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
• 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
• 1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
• 1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
• 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
• 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
• 1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
• 1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
• 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
• 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• 1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
• 1906 – The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.
• 1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
• 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
• 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• 1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
• 1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• 1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
• 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
• 1948 – The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
• 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
• 1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
• 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• 1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating american Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after 2 minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
• 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
• 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
• 1963 – Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
• 1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
• 1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
• 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• 1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
• 1977 – Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 1991 – Ten-Day War: The Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• 1995 – Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa.
• 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 2000 – President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome.
• 2000 – John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
• 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• 2004 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland.
• 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
• 2007 – Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes.
• 2012 – The Waldo Canyon Fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
• 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others.
• 2013 – Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani became Prime Minister of Qatar.

Births[edit]

• 1501 – Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (d. 1572)
• 1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612)
• 1582 – Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653)
• 1681 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
• 1689 – Edward Holyoke, American clergyman and academic (d. 1769)
• 1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
• 1699 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, famous French salon hostess of the Enlightenment (d. 1777)
• 1702 – Philip Doddridge, English educator and hymnwriter (d. 1751)
• 1703 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (d. 1767)
• 1712 – Johann Andreas Silbermann, German organ builder (d. 1783)
• 1726 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
• 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
• 1764 – Jan Paweł Łuszczewski, Polish politician (d. 1812)
• 1786 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
• 1796 – Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter (d. 1847)
• 1798 – Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic (d. 1873)
• 1817 – Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
• 1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general (d. 1893)
• 1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian politician, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906)
• 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
• 1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (d. 1896)
• 1839 – Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (d. 1901)
• 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
• 1865 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-American historian and author (d. 1959)
• 1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and banker (d. 1923)
• 1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)
• 1875 – Oskar Goßler, German rower (d. 1953)
• 1880 – Mitchell Lewis, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1960)
• 1885 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (d. 1950)
• 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1893 – Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist (d. 1989)
• 1895 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
• 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and businessman (d. 1978)
• 1898 – Chesty Puller, American general (d. 1971)
• 1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
• 1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
• 1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
• 1904 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (d. 1985)
• 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (d. 1974)
• 1906 – Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer and sculptor (d. 2008)
• 1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)
• 1909 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956)
• 1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish engineer, plane constructor and glider test pilot (d. 2009)
• 1913 – Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Kathryn Johnston, American shooting victim (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Laurie Lee, English author and poet (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Paul Castellano, American mobster (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)
• 1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Richard Neustadt, American political scientist and academic (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Violette Szabo, French secret agent (d. 1945)
• 1922 – Walter Farley, American author (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Dick Smith, American make-up artist (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Franz-Paul Decker, German conductor
• 1924 – Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian soldier, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1970)
• 1925 – Wolfgang Unzicker, German Chess Grandmaster
• 1927 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)
• 1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
• 1929 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer
• 1930 – Jackie Fargo, American wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
• 1935 – Carlo Facetti, Italian racing driver
• 1936 – Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, Scottish politician
• 1936 – Edith Pearlman, American author
• 1936 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Nancy Willard, American author and poet
• 1937 – Sombat Metanee, Thai actor and director
• 1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Reggie Workman, American jazz double bassist.
• 1938 – Neil Abercrombie, American sociologist and politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
• 1938 – Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
• 1938 – Margret Göbl, German figure skater (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Gerald North, American climatologist and academic
• 1938 – Krzysztof Baranowski, Polish yachtsman and sailor
• 1939 – Chuck Robb, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
• 1940 – Vyacheslav Ionov, Russian canoe racer (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and academic
• 1941 – Hiro Narita, Japanese-American cinematographer
• 1942 – Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician
• 1943 – Georgie Fame, English singer and pianist
• 1943 – Warren Farrell, American author and educator
• 1944 – Wolfgang Weber, German footballer and manager
• 1944 – Gennady Zyuganov, Russian politician
• 1946 – Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (d. 2015)
• 1949 – Adrian Gurvitz, English singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Jaak Joala, Estonian singer (d. 2014)
• 1951 – Pamela Bellwood, American actress
• 1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1952 – Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1952 – Greg Palast, American journalist and author
• 1953 – Robert Davi, American actor and singer
• 1954 – Steve Barton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2001)
• 1955 – Mick Jones, English musician (The Clash)
• 1955 – Dick Mol, Dutch paleontologist
• 1955 – Gedde Watanabe, American actor
• 1956 – Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1956 – Patrick Mercer, English colonel and politician
• 1957 – Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec
• 1957 – Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Riho Sibul, Estonian singer and guitarist (Ultima Thule and Propeller)
• 1959 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Mark Durkan, Irish politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
• 1961 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist
• 1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer and actress (Berlin)
• 1962 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer, created Magic: The Gathering
• 1963 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
• 1964 – Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1966 – Dany Boon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Yūko Minaguchi, Japanese voice actress
• 1967 – Inha Babakova, Ukrainian high jumper
• 1967 – Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter
• 1967 – Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer
• 1968 – Isshin Chiba, Japanese voice actor
• 1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
• 1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Carlo Boszhard, Dutch singer and television host
• 1969 – Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer
• 1969 – Francis Magee, Irish actor
• 1969 – Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
• 1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Paul Bitok, Kenyan runner
• 1970 – Irv Gotti, American record producer, co-founded The Inc. Records
• 1970 – Sean Hayes, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1970 – Takeshi Konomi, Japanese illustrator
• 1970 – Matt Letscher, American actor and playwright
• 1970 – Adam Ndlovu, Zimbabwean footballer (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Chris O'Donnell, American actor and producer
• 1970 – Nick Offerman, American actor and producer
• 1971 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1972 – Garou, Canadian singer
• 1972 – Asako Tajimi, Japanese volleyball player
• 1972 – Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper
• 1973 – Amen, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lordi)
• 1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
• 1974 – Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress (The 4 Cats)
• 1974 – Kristofer Steen, Swedish guitarist (Refused and Final Exit)
• 1974 – Matt Striker, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor
• 1975 – Chris Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Canadian opera singer
• 1976 – Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
• 1976 – Pommie Mbangwa, Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster
• 1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Mark Jindrak, American wrestler
• 1977 – Florian Kehrmann, German handball player
• 1977 – Tite Kubo, Japanese illustrator
• 1977 – Quincy Lewis, American basketball player
• 1978 – Maxime Boilard, Canadian canoe racer
• 1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American actress and singer
• 1979 – Ryo Fukuda, Japanese race car driver
• 1979 – Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
• 1979 – Ryan Tedder, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (OneRepublic)
• 1980 – Sinik, French rapper
• 1980 – Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros, Togolese footballer
• 1980 – Michael Jackson, English footballer
• 1980 – Jason Schwartzman, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (Phantom Planet)
• 1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
• 1981 – Natalya Antyukh, Russian sprinter and hurdler
• 1981 – Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Kanako Kondō, Japanese voice actress
• 1981 – Damien Sargue, French singer and actor
• 1981 – Takashi Toritani, Japanese baseball player
• 1982 – Zuzana Kučová, Slovak tennis player
• 1983 – Vinícius Rodrigues Almeida, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Nick Compton, South African-English cricketer
• 1983 – Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1983 – Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Antonio Rosati, Italian footballer
• 1984 – José Juan Barea, Puerto Rican basketball player
• 1984 – Yankuba Ceesay, Gambian footballer
• 1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
• 1984 – Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
• 1984 – Aubrey Plaza, American actress
• 1984 – Jūlija Tepliha, Latvian figure skater
• 1984 – Gabrielle Walcott, Trinidadian model, Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe 2011
• 1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player
• 1985 – Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th Karmapa Lama
• 1985 – Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
• 1986 – Xisco, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Duvier Riascos, Colombian footballer
• 1987 – Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian race car driver
• 1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
• 1987 – Hamilton Pereira, Uruguayan footballer
• 1988 – Rina Nakanishi, Japanese model and singer (AKB48)
• 1988 – Oliver Stang, German footballer
• 1988 – Masakazu Tashiro, Japanese footballer
• 1989 – Lü Huihui, Chinese javelin thrower
• 1989 – Carlos Lopez, American actor and stuntman (d. 2014)
• 1990 – Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
• 1990 – Igor Subbotin, Estonian footballer
• 1991 – Houssem Chemali, French footballer
• 1991 – Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
• 1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
• 1993 – Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Deaths[edit]

• 363 – Julian, Roman emperor (b. 332)
• 1487 – John Argyropoulos, Byzantine philosopher (b. 1415)
• 1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer and politician (b. 1471)
• 1688 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher and academic (b. 1617)
• 1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
• 1757 – Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1784 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
• 1793 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
• 1795 – Johannes Jährig, German linguist (b. 1747)
• 1808 – Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
• 1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
• 1830 – George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• 1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (b. 1760)
• 1856 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1870 – Armand Barbès, French republican revolutionary (b. 1809)
• 1878 – Mercedes of Orléans (b. 1860)
• 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)
• 1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
• 1922 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
• 1932 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1938 – Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859)
• 1938 – James Weldon Johnson, American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
• 1939 – Ford Madox Ford, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1945 – Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
• 1946 – Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1946 – Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan (b. 1880)
• 1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 1949 – Kim Gu, Korean politician and educator, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
• 1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
• 1956 – Richie Powell, American pianist (b. 1931)
• 1957 – Alfred Döblin, German doctor and author (b. 1878)
• 1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English poet and author (b. 1909)
• 1958 – George Orton, Canadian runner (b. 1873)
• 1958 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Émile Wegelin, French rower (b. 1875)
• 1964 – Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
• 1975 – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian politician (b. 1936)
• 1980 – Miriam Daly, Irish socialist and republican activist (b. 1928)
• 1989 – Howard Charles Green, Canadian politician (b. 1895)
• 1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
• 1993 – William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist and accountant (b. 1958)
• 1997 – Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, American singer-songwriter and ukulele player (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (b. 1959)
• 2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Arnold Brown, English-Canadian 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
• 2003 – Strom Thurmond, American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Ott Arder, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1950)
• 2004 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Tõnno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Richard Whiteley, English journalist and game show host (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
• 2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Joey Sadler, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Sergio Vega, Mexican singer (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Sverker Åström, Swedish diplomat (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Pat Cummings, American basketball player (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Ann Curtis, American swimmer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Nora Ephron, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Mario O'Hara, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Doris Singleton, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish trumpet player and composer (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Bert Stern, American photographer (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (b. 1931)