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• 1135 – Coronation of King Stephen of England.
• 1481 – Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
• 1489 – The forces of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, take control of Almería from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII.
• 1559 – Pope Pius IV is elected.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries.
• 1790 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
• 1793 – Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria.
• 1793 – The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
• 1799 – Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
• 1805 – Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
• 1806 – Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
• 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
• 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
• 1846 – Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
• 1860 – The first ever inter-club association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
• 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
• 1862 – The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans died.
• 1870 – The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
• 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
• 1883 – The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
• 1895 – New Empire Theatre, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England was destroyed by fire
• 1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
• 1900 – A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
• 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
• 1925 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• 1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
• 1943 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
• 1944 – World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
• 1948 – Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
• 1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
• 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
• 1976 – The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded.
• 1982 – Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
• 1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
• 1994 – Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
• 1996 – Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
• 1996 – Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
• 1997 – The Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
• 1998 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
• 1999 – The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
• 2003 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
• 2004 – A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000.
• 2004 – Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
• 2006 – An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
• 2009 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

Births[edit]

• 1194 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
• 1532 – Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar and academic (d. 1576)
• 1536 – Yi I, Korean philosopher and scholar (d. 1584)
• 1581 – Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach (d. 1643)
• 1646 – Robert Bolling, English-American merchant and planter (d. 1709)
• 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (d. 1755)
• 1716 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher (d. 1803)
• 1716 – Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar (d. 1771)
• 1723 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (d. 1807)
• 1737 – Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1815)
• 1751 – Lord George Gordon, English politician (d. 1793)
• 1751 – Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1820)
• 1771 – Julie Clary, French wife of Joseph Bonaparte (d. 1845)
• 1780 – Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author (d. 1872)
• 1785 – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871)
• 1782 – Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan (d. 1867)
• 1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine (d. 1871)
• 1803 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (d. 1882)
• 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author and educator (d. 1899)
• 1820 – Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
• 1837 – Morgan Bulkeley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1922)
• 1837 – George Dewey, American admiral (d. 1917)
• 1852 – Johannes François Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer (d. 1938)
• 1853 – René Bazin, French author and academic (d. 1932)
• 1854 – José Yves Limantour, Mexican finance minister under Porfirio Díaz (d. 1935)
• 1859 – William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)
• 1863 – Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records (d. 1957)
• 1864 – Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician (d. 1945)
• 1867 – Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist (d. 1940)
• 1869 – Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist (d. 1942)
• 1872 – Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1873 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953)
• 1874 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologist and academic (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (d. 1955)
• 1887 – Arthur Percival, English general (d. 1966)
• 1888 – Marius Canard, French orientalist and historian (d. 1982)
• 1890 – Percy Hodge, English runner (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
• 1891 – Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
• 1892 – Don Barclay, American actor, artist and caricaturist (d. 1975)
• 1893 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionist and politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (d. 1976)
• 1894 – Jean Toomer, American author and poet (d. 1967)
• 1899 – Udham Singh, Indian martyr and activist (d. 1940)
• 1901 – Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (d. 1941)
• 1902 – Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
• 1904 – Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (d. 1980)
• 1905 – William Loeb III, American publisher (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (d. 2003)
• 1907 – Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Ralph Hill, American runner (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (d. 1962)
• 1912 – Henk de Looper, Dutch field hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1913 – Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
• 1914 – Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Richard Widmark, American film, stage and television actor (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Rolf Botvid, Swedish actor and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1918 – Olga Lopes-Seale, Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Georgios Rallis, Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
• 1921 – John Severin, American illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Steve Allen, American actor, comedian, talk show personality, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Frank Broyles, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1926 – Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Gina Pellón, Cuban-French painter and poet (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Denis Gifford, English journalist and historian (d. 2000)
• 1927 – Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Stu Miller, American baseball player (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Denis Quilley, English actor (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Régine Zylberberg, Belgian-French singer and night-club impresaria
• 1930 – Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Donald Moffat, English-American actor
• 1933 – Ugly Dave Gray, English-Australian actor and singer
• 1933 – Olavi Salsola, Finnish runner (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and voice actor
• 1935 – Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (Four Tops)
• 1935 – Norm Ullman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1936 – Peep Jänes, Estonian architect
• 1936 – Trevor Taylor, English race car driver (d. 2010)
• 1937 – John Horton Conway, English-American mathematician and academic
• 1937 – Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
• 1938 – Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 – Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1938 – Mirko Kovač, Yugoslav novelist, playwright and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Fred Schepisi, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1939 – Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Teddy Bears)
• 1940 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 – Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1941 – Şener Şen, Turkish actor
• 1942 – Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala
• 1942 – Catherine Coulter, American author
• 1942 – Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California
• 1942 – Rob de Nijs, Dutch singer and actor
• 1942 – Dan Massey, American activist and author (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Jane Lapotaire, English actress and singer
• 1945 – John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist; created America's Most Wanted
• 1946 – Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician
• 1946 – Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian historian and academic
• 1946 – Rini Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist
• 1947 – James T. Conway, American general
• 1947 – Jean Echenoz, French author
• 1947 – Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
• 1947 – Josef Janíček, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player (The Plastic People of the Universe)
• 1947 – Richard Levis McCormick, American historian and academic
• 1948 – Candy Crowley, American journalist
• 1949 – Mikhail Boyarsky, Russian actor and singer
• 1949 – Bob Hartman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Petra)
• 1949 – José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1950 – Mario Mendoza, Mexican baseball player
• 1951 – C.J. Henderson, American author and critic (d. 2014)
• 1951 – John Scofield, American guitarist and composer (Trio Beyond)
• 1951 – Richard Skinner, English radio and television host
• 1953 – Leonel Fernández, Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic
• 1953 – Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia
• 1953 – Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1953 – Henning Schmitz, German drummer (Kraftwerk)
• 1954 – Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
• 1954 – Tony Rosato, Italian-Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1954 – Ozzie Smith, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1954 – Steve Steen, English actor and screenwriter
• 1955 – Evan Bayh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Indiana
• 1956 – David Sedaris, American comedian, author, and radio host
• 1957 – Dermot Murnaghan, English-born Northern Irish journalist and game show host
• 1957 – Mike South, American porn actor and director
• 1958 – Mieko Harada, Japanese actress, singer, and producer
• 1958 – Adrian Newey, English aerodynamicist and engineer
• 1959 – Wang Lijun, Chinese police officer and politician
• 1959 – Kōji Morimoto, Japanese animator and director
• 1959 – Hans Nielsen, Danish motorcycle racer
• 1960 – Keith Martin Ball, American mathematician and academic
• 1960 – Ruud Kaiser, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1960 – Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
• 1960 – Jim Toomey, American cartoonist
• 1960 – Cem Uzan, Turkish businessman and politician
• 1961 – Kazuhisa Kawahara, Japanese actor
• 1961 – Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
• 1961 – John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
• 1962 – Mark Starr, English wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish drummer, songwriter, and producer (Metallica)
• 1963 – Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• 1964 – Elizabeth Kostova, American author
• 1966 – Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, and Gob Iron)
• 1966 – Tim Legler, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 – Sandra Taylor, American model and actress
• 1966 – Jay Yuenger, American guitarist and producer (White Zombie)
• 1967 – Timo Karppinen, Finnish orienteer
• 1968 – Tricia Leigh Fisher, American actress and singer
• 1968 – Dennis Knight, American wrestler and chef
• 1969 – Isaac Viciosa, Spanish runner
• 1970 – Krissada Sukosol Clapp, Thai actor and singer
• 1970 – James Mercer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Shins and Broken Bells)
• 1971 – Jared Leto, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor and director (Thirty Seconds to Mars)
• 1971 – Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
• 1971 – Jonathan M. Parisen, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Tatiana Sorokko, Russian-American model and journalist
• 1972 – Esteban Fuertes, Argentinian footballer
• 1972 – Shane Meadows, English actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Robert Muchamore, English author
• 1973 – Paulo Frederico Benevenute, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Zach Blair, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hagfish, Gwar, Rise Against, and Only Crime)
• 1973 – Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player
• 1973 – Reichen Lehmkuhl, American model and actor
• 1973 – Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Japanese baseball player
• 1973 – Steve Prescott, English rugby player (d. 2013)
• 1974 – Tiffany Brissette, American actress
• 1974 – Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1974 – Joshua John Miller, American actor
• 1975 – Chris Calaguio, Filipino basketball player
• 1975 – Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
• 1975 – María Vasco, Spanish race walker
• 1976 – Lea De Mae, Czech porn actress and model (d. 2004)
• 1976 – Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and coach
• 1976 – Nadia Litz, Canadian actress and director
• 1977 – Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer
• 1977 – Sofia Bekatorou, Greek sailor
• 1977 – Adrienn Hegedűs, Hungarian tennis player
• 1978 – Karel Rüütli, Estonian politician
• 1978 – Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
• 1979 – Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Chris Daughtry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Daughtry)
• 1979 – Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
• 1979 – Craig Wing, Australian rugby player
• 1980 – Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
• 1980 – Tomoko Tabata, Japanese actress
• 1981 – Pablo Canavosio, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Kenneth Darby, American football player
• 1982 – Noel Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1982 – Shun Oguri, Japanese actor
• 1982 – Roxanne Pallett, English actress and singer
• 1982 – Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
• 1983 – Yu Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer
• 1984 – Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player
• 1984 – Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
• 1985 – Beth Behrs, American actress
• 1985 – Yu Shirota, Japanese-Spanish actor and singer
• 1986 – Mew Azama, Japanese model and actress
• 1986 – Hugo Lloris, French footballer
• 1986 – Kit Harington, English actor
• 1986 – Selen Soyder, Turkish model and actress, Miss Turkey 2007
• 1987 – Adam Walker, English flute player
• 1988 – Kayo Satoh, Japanese model and television personality
• 1989 – Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 – Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter (Black Veil Brides)
• 1990 – Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 – Shota Matsushima, Japanese actor
• 1990 – Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1990 – James Wolpert, American singer
• 1991 – Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 – Kätlin Aas, Estonian model
• 1992 – Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
• 1994 – Samantha Boscarino, American actress and singer
• 1994 – Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
• 1995 – Zach Mills, American actor
• 1996 – Airi Matsui, Japanese singer, model, and actress (Sakura Gakuin)
• 1996 – Kasumi Yamaya, Japanese actress and model
• 2000 – Samuel Sevian, American chess player
• 2000 – Isac Elliot, Finnish singer

Deaths[edit]

• 268 – Pope Dionysius
• 831 – Euthymius of Sardis, Byzantine monk and bishop (b. 754)
• 1194 – Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, English noblemen (b. 1115)
• 1350 – Jean de Marigny, French archbishop
• 1352 – John, 3rd Earl of Kent, English nobleman (b. 1330)
• 1360 – Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, English nobleman and military commander (b. 1314)
• 1458 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
• 1476 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Italian husband of Bona of Savoy (b. 1444)
• 1530 – Babur, Mongolian emperor (b. 1483)
• 1574 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1524)
• 1731 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)
• 1771 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
• 1780 – John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
• 1784 – Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743)
• 1786 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
• 1863 – Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont (b. 1775)
• 1869 – Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 – Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 – Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 – Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 – Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 – Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 – Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
• 1933 – Eduard Vilde, Estonian author and diplomat (b. 1865)
• 1959 – Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
• 1960 – Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1963 – Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)
• 1966 – Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875)
• 1966 – Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (b. 1897)
• 1966 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1968 – Weegee, Ukrainian-American photojournalist (b.1898)
• 1970 – Lillian Board, South African-English runner (b. 1948)
• 1972 – Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
• 1974 – Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
• 1974 – Jack Benny, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (b. 1890)
• 1975 – K. Saraswathi Amma, Indian feminist writer (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (b. 1885)
• 1976 – Yashpal, Indian author (b. 1903)
• 1977 – Howard Hawks, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1980 – Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Savitri, Indian actress, director, and producer (b. 1937)
• 1981 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1981 – Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
• 1983 – Violet Carson, English actress and singer (b. 1898)
• 1984 – Sheila Andrews, American singer (b. 1953)
• 1985 – Margarete Schön, German actress (b. 1895)
• 1986 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)
• 1988 – Pablo Sorozábal, German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
• 1990 – Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (b. 1933)
• 1994 – Parveen Shakir, Pakistani civil servant and poet (b. 1952)
• 1996 – Kostas Palios, Greek actor (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Impressions) (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Jason Robards, American actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2004 – Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959)
• 2004 – Poom Jensen, American son of Ubolratana Rajakanya (b. 1983)
• 2004 – Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1959)
• 2004 – Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Nasum and Genocide Superstars) (b. 1974)
• 2004 – Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961)
• 2005 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Kerry Packer, Australian publisher and businessman (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Viacheslav Platonov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Erich Topp, German commander (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier and engineer (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Munir Niazi, Indian-Pakistani poet (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Joe Dolan, Irish singer (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Stu Nahan, American sportscaster (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Gösta Krantz, Swedish actor (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (b. 1958)
• 2010 – Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1956)
• 2011 – Houston Antwine, American football player (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Joe Bodolai, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Fred Fono, Solomon politician (b. 1962)
• 2011 – Sam Rivers, American flute player and composer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – James Rizzi, American painter and illustrator (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, American born Georgian aristocrat and NYC highway commissioner (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Ibrahim Tannous, Lebanese general (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Rebecca Tarbotton, Canadian-American activist (b. 1973)
• 2013 – Malena Alvarado, Venezuelan actress (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Paul Blair, American baseball player and coach (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Davide Lufrano Chaves, Italian-English guitarist (Alejandro Toledo and the Magic Tombolinos) (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1912)
• 2013 – Dr. Tangalanga, Argentinian comedian and actor (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Stanisław Barańczak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (b. 1946)
• 2014 – James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Rhodes Reason, American actor (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)