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• 484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
• 756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. He permits his consort Yang Guifei to be strangled by his chief eunuch. General An Lushanhas other members of the emperor's family killed.
• 1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
• 1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
• 1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
• 1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
• 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
• 1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
• 1482 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
• 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
• 1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
• 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
• 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
• 1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
• 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
• 1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
• 1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
• 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
• 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
• 1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
• 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
• 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
• 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
• 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
• 1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
• 1922 – Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
• 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
• 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
• 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• 1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
• 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• 1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
• 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
• 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
• 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise.
• 1980 – A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
• 1983 – Orly Airport attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
• 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
• 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
• 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
• 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
• 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day
• 2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.

Births[edit]

• 1273 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
• 1353 – Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
• 1471 – Eskender, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1494)
• 1553 – Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
• 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (d. 1652)
• 1613 – Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (d. 1682)
• 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (d. 1669)
• 1626 – Christiane Sehested, Danish daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1670)
• 1626 – Hedevig Ulfeldt, Danish daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1678)
• 1631 – Jens Juel, Danish politician and diplomat, Governor-general of Norway (d. 1700)
• 1638 – Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
• 1704 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop (d. 1792)
• 1737 – Princess Louise of France (d. 1787)
• 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American author, poet, and educator (d. 1863)
• 1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American banker and author (d. 1867)
• 1799 – Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
• 1800 – Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (d. 1878)
• 1808 – Henry Edward Manning, English archbishop (d. 1892)
• 1812 – James Hope-Scott, English lawyer (d. 1873)
• 1817 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (d. 1898)
• 1827 – William Wallace Thayer American politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (d. 1899)
• 1837 – Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 1859)
• 1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
• 1850 – Francesca S. Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)
• 1851 – Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
• 1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist (d. 1928)
• 1864 – Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
• 1865 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Irish-English publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press (d. 1922)
• 1865 – Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
• 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Kunikida Doppo, Japanese author (d. 1908)
• 1880 – Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician (d. 1950)
• 1887 – Wharton Esherick, American sculptor (d. 1970)
• 1892 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (d. 1940)
• 1893 – Enid Bennett, Australian actress (d. 1969)
• 1893 – Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (d. 1970)
• 1894 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Seán Lemass, Irish politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Walter D. Edmonds, American author (d. 1998)
• 1903 – K. Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
• 1904 – Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author (d. 2007)
• 1904 – Mogubai Kurdikar, Indian singer (d. 2001)
• 1905 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1974)
• 1906 – R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic (d. 1993)
• 1906 – Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (d. 1992)
• 1911 – Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician, Secretary of State for Air (d. 1994)
• 1913 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
• 1913 – Hammond Innes, English journalist and author (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist, scholar, and activist (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Albert Ghiorso, American chemist (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan politician (d. 1979)
• 1917 – Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Doris Lussier, Canadian actor (d. 1993)
• 1918 – Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
• 1918 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician (d. 1979)
• 1919 – Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Jack Beeson, American composer (d. 2010)
• 1920 – D. V. Narasa Raju, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 – George Chesterton, English cricketer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Joe Turkel, American actor
• 1927 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Ian Stewart, Scottish racing driver
• 1930 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
• 1931 – Clive Cussler, American author
• 1931 – Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director
• 1931 – Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
• 1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinet player and saxophonist (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Julian Bream, English guitarist
• 1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1933 – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter
• 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
• 1934 – Risto Jarva, Finnish director and producer (d. 1977)
• 1935 – Thilakan, Indian actor (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Ken Kercheval, American actor
• 1936 – Steven Gilborn, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1936 – George Voinovich, American lawyer and politician, 65th Governor of Ohio
• 1937 – Prabhash Joshi, Indian journalist (d. 2009)
• 1938 – Ernie Barnes, American football player, actor, and painter (d. 2009)
• 1938 – Carmen Callil, Australian publisher, founded Virago Press
• 1939 – Calixte Duguay, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
• 1940 – Robert Winston, English surgeon and politician
• 1941 – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer
• 1942 – Mil Máscaras, Mexican wrestler and actor
• 1943 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor
• 1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 2003)
• 1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, Bruneian sultan
• 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Stone Poneys and Free Creek)
• 1947 – Lydia Davis, American author
• 1947 – Pridiyathorn Devakula, Thai economist and politician
• 1947 – Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, and musician (The 13th Floor Elevators)
• 1948 – Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek anthropologist and critic
• 1948 – Artimus Pyle, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• 1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1949 – Trevor Horn, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1949 – Richard Russo, American author
• 1950 – Colin Barnett, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
• 1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and author, founded The Huffington Post
• 1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1951 – Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
• 1952 – Celia Imrie, English actress
• 1952 – Terry O'Quinn, American actor
• 1952 – Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
• 1952 – Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers) (d. 1991)
• 1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian priest and politician, 49th President of Haiti
• 1953 – Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Sultanah Haminah Hamidun, Queen of Malaysia
• 1954 – Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer and sportscaster
• 1954 – Jeff Jarvis, American journalist and blogger
• 1954 – Giorgos Kaminis, American-Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Mayor of Athens
• 1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1956 – Joe Satriani, American instrumental rock guitarist, composer and songwriter
• 1956 – Nicholas Harberd, scientist
• 1956 – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
• 1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1956 – Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver
• 1958 – Ardo Hansson, American-Estonian economist
• 1958 – Mac Thornberry, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 – Vincent Lindon, French actor
• 1960 – Willie Aames, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Kim Alexis, American model and actress
• 1961 – Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
• 1961 – Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
• 1961 – Scott Ritter, American weapons inspector for the United Nations
• 1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor, director, and producer
• 1962 – Nikos Filippou, Greek basketball player and manager
• 1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-American model, actress, and singer
• 1963 – Steve Thomas, English-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1965 – Alistair Carmichael, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1965 – Eleftherios Fotiadis, Greek footballer
• 1965 – David Miliband, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1966 – Irène Jacob, French-Swiss actress
• 1967 – Adam Savage, American actor and special effects designer
• 1967 – Elbert West, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1968 – Eddie Griffin, American comedian and actor
• 1968 – Stan Kirsch, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Shirley Robertson, Scottish sailor
• 1968 – Julius Babao, Filipino journalist
• 1969 – Ain Tammus, Estonian footballer and coach
• 1970 – Chi Cheng, American bass player (Deftones) (d. 2013)
• 1971 – Danijela Martinović, Croatian singer
• 1971 – Jim Rash, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Yao Defen, Chinese giant (d. 2012)
• 1972 – Scott Foley, American actor
• 1972 – Beth Ostrosky Stern, American model and actress
• 1973 – Buju Banton, Jamaican singer
• 1973 – John Dolmayan, Lebanese-American drummer and songwriter (System of a Down and Scars on Broadway)
• 1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Marilita Lambropoulou, Greek actress
• 1974 – Chris Taylor, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1975 – K Brosas, Filipino actress, comdian, host, and singer (K and the Boxers)
• 1975 – Viveika Ravanes, Filipino actress and comedian
• 1975 – Cherry, American wrestler and manager
• 1975 – Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
• 1976 – Steve Cunningham, American boxer
• 1976 – Gabriel Iglesias, American comedian and actor
• 1976 – Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (d. 2014)
• 1976 – Jim Jones, American rapper and actor (The Diplomats)
• 1976 – Diane Kruger, German-American actress and model
• 1977 – Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
• 1977 – Kitana Baker, American model and actress
• 1977 – André Nel, South African cricketer
• 1977 – Lana Parrilla, American actress
• 1977 – Ray Toro, American guitarist and songwriter (My Chemical Romance)
• 1978 – Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – Laura Benanti, American actress and singer
• 1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
• 1979 – Edda Gardarsdottir, Icelandic former footballer
• 1979 – Renata Kučerová, Czech tennis player
• 1980 – Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and producer
• 1980 – Rivo Vesik, Estonian volleyball player
• 1980 – Mike Zambidis, Greek kick-boxer and martial artist
• 1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
• 1981 – Taylor Kinney, American actor and model
• 1981 – Petros Klampanis, Greek bassist and composer
• 1981 – Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
• 1982 – Alan Pérez, Spanish cyclist
• 1982 – Neemia Tialata, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 – Aída Yéspica, Venezuelan model/actress
• 1983 – Nelson Merlo, Brazilian race car driver
• 1983 – Heath Slater, American wrestler
• 1984 – Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, Slovak skier
• 1985 – Chris Tiu, Filipino basketball player and host
• 1985 – Burak Yılmaz, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Steven Jahn, German footballer
• 1989 – Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
• 1989 – Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
• 1989 – Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer
• 1990 – Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
• 1990 – Damian Lillard, American basketball player
• 1991 – Derrick Favors, American basketball player
• 1991 – Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48 and French Kiss)
• 1992 – Tobias Harris, American basketball player
• 1992 – Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1992 – Porter Robinson, American DJ and producer
• 1993 – Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 756 – Yang Guifei, Chinese consort (b. 719)
• 998 – Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 940)
• 1274 – Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
• 1291 – Rudolph I of Germany (b. 1218)
• 1381 – John Ball, English priest (b. 1338)
• 1406 – William, Duke of Austria (b. 1370)
• 1410 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German knight (b. 1360)
• 1544 – René of Châlon (b. 1519)
• 1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1514)
• 1609 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
• 1614 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian, and author (b. 1540)
• 1655 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
• 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Dutch-English general and politician, Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull (b. 1649)
• 1750 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
• 1765 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
• 1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (b. 1746)
• 1789 – Jacques Duphly, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1715)
• 1828 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
• 1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (b. 1802)
• 1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
• 1851 – Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian soldier and politician (b. 1787)
• 1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
• 1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
• 1885 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
• 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
• 1898 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (d. 1825)
• 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author (b. 1860)
• 1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1930 – Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-American actor (b. 1862)
• 1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
• 1931 – Eduardo Camet, Argentinian fencer (b. 1876)
• 1932 – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician (b. 1873)
• 1933 – Irving Babbitt, American academic and critic (b. 1865)
• 1933 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
• 1940 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
• 1940 – Robert Wadlow, American giant (b. 1918)
• 1942 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
• 1944 – Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1947 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
• 1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
• 1953 – Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882)
• 1957 – James M. Cox, American publisher and politician, 46th Governor of Ohio (b. 1870)
• 1957 – Vasily Maklakov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1869)
• 1958 – Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
• 1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer (b. 1880)
• 1959 – Vance Palmer, Australian author and critic (b. 1885)
• 1960 – Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Lawrence Tibbett, American singer and actor (b. 1896)
• 1961 – John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1908)
• 1966 – Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1966)
• 1974 – Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (b. 1944)
• 1976 – Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1977 – Donald Mackay, Australian activist (b. 1933)
• 1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
• 1981 – Frédéric Dorion, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1986 – Alfonso Thiele, Italian racing driver (b. 1920)
• 1989 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
• 1990 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress and singer (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet and diplomat (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (b. 1933)
• 1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
• 1992 – Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
• 1993 – David Brian, American actor and dancer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Dana Hill, American actress and singer (b. 1964)
• 1997 – Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (b. 1946)
• 1998 – S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960)
• 2000 – Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer (b. 1925)
• 2001 – C. Balasingham, Sri Lankan civil servant (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author and poet (b. 1953)
• 2003 – Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (b. 1942)
• 2008 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoe racer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (b. 1970)
• 2009 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1958)
• 2011 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and business manager (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Tsilla Chelton, Israeli-French actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)