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• 814 – Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire.
• 1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
• 1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
• 1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
• 1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
• 1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
• 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
• 1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
• 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
• 1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
• 1760 – Pownal, Vermont, is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
• 1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
• 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1821 – Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
• 1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
• 1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
• 1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
• 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• 1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
• 1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
• 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
• 1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• 1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
• 1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
• 1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• 1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
• 1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
• 1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
• 1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
• 1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
• 1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
• 1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
• 1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
• 1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• 1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
• 1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• 1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.
• 1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
• 1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
• 1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
• 1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.
• 1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.
• 1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
• 1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• 1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
• 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
• 1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
• 1988 – In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all nine months of pregnancy.
• 2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92.
• 2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
• 2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hung.

Births[edit]

• 1312 – Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
• 1457 – Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
• 1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1610)
• 1578 – Cornelius Haga, Dutch diplomat (d. 1654)
• 1582 – John Barclay, French-Scottish poet and author (d. 1621)
• 1600 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
• 1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
• 1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687)
• 1622 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1691)
• 1693 – Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766)
• 1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
• 1706 – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (d. 1775)
• 1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
• 1717 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
• 1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1749)
• 1719 – Christian Felix Weiße, German writer and pedagogue (d. 1802)
• 1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (d. 1830)
• 1784 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
• 1797 – Charles Gray Round, English barrister and politician (d. 1867)
• 1818 – George S. Boutwell, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)
• 1822 – Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian soldier, journalist, and politician; 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
• 1833 – Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (d. 1885)
• 1841 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-American explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
• 1843 – Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1890)
• 1853 – José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (d. 1895)
• 1853 – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1900)
• 1857 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (d. 1898)
• 1858 – Tannatt William Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934)
• 1861 – Julián Felipe, Filipino composer and educator (d. 1944)
• 1863 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (d. 1918)
• 1864 – Charles Williams Nash, American businessman, founded Nash Motors (d. 1948)
• 1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer; invented the Hot bulb engine and Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine (d. 1927)
• 1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (d. 1928)
• 1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (d. 1952)
• 1873 – Colette, French novelist and journalist (d. 1954)
• 1875 – Julián Carrillo, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1965)
• 1878 – Walter Kollo, German composer (d. 1940)
• 1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (d. 1962)
• 1885 – Vahan Terian, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1920)
• 1886 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author and poet (d. 1973)
• 1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (d. 1982)
• 1890 – Robert Stroud, American ornithologist (d. 1963)
• 1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
• 1897 – Valentin Kataev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1986)
• 1899 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish priest and activist (d. 1940)
• 1900 – Alice Neel, American painter (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and actor (d. 1979)
• 1908 – Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998)
• 1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
• 1910 – John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch academic and politician
• 1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
• 1915 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (d. 2009)
• 1918 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American businesswoman, composer and songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• 1924 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (d. 1976)
• 1925 – Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Eşref Kolçak, Turkish actor
• 1927 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist (The Jazz Couriers) (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator
• 1930 – Jasraj, Indian singer
• 1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf, German academic and politician, 54th President of the German Bundesrat
• 1930 – Roy Clarke, English soldier and screenwriter
• 1930 – Ruth Cohen, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990)
• 1934 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor and producer (d. 1970)
• 1935 – David Lodge, English author and critic
• 1935 – Nicholas Pryor, American actor
• 1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1936 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet
• 1937 – Karel Čáslavský, Czech historian and television host (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 – Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (d. 2016)
• 1939 – John M. Fabian, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1940 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman, founded Grupo Carso
• 1941 – Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1941 – King Tubby, Jamaican DJ, producer, and engineer (d. 1989)
• 1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater
• 1943 – John Beck, American actor
• 1943 – Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and minister
• 1944 – Bobby Ball, English comedian, actor, and singer
• 1944 – Tim Heald, English journalist and author
• 1944 – Susan Howard, American actress and screenwriter
• 1944 – Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (d. 2013)
• 1944 – John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress and singer
• 1945 – Marthe Keller, Swiss actress and director
• 1945 – John Perkins, American author and activist
• 1945 – Robert Wyatt, English singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1947 – Jeanne Shaheen, American educator and politician; 78th Governor of New Hampshire
• 1948 – Bob Moses, American drummer
• 1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor
• 1948 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician; 22nd President of Liberia
• 1949 – Gregg Popovich, American basketball player and coach
• 1950 – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king
• 1950 – Barbi Benton, American model, actress, and singer
• 1950 – David C. Hilmers, American colonel, physician, and astronaut
• 1950 – Naila Kabeer, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic
• 1951 – Brian Bilbray, American politician
• 1951 – Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1952 – Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1952 – Tomokazu Miura, Japanese actor (RC Succession)
• 1953 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1954 – Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian
• 1954 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)
• 1954 – Rick Warren, American pastor and author
• 1955 – Vinod Khosla, Indian-American businessman; co-founded Sun Microsystems
• 1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy, French lawyer and politician, 23rd President of France
• 1956 – Richard Danielpour, American composer
• 1957 – Kent Kessler, American bassist
• 1957 – Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1957 – Nick Price, South African-Zimbabwean golfer
• 1957 – Frank Skinner, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1959 – Frank Darabont, American director and producer
• 1960 – Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist and politician
• 1961 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic author
• 1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
• 1962 – Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 – Dan Spitz, American guitarist
• 1964 – Jürgen Teller, German-English photographer
• 1965 – Lynda Boyd, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1966 – Seiji Mizushima, Japanese director and producer
• 1967 – Jan Lamb, Chinese singer and actor
• 1968 – Rakim, American rapper (Eric B. & Rakim)
• 1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1968 – DJ Muggs, American DJ and producer (Cypress Hill and The 7A3)
• 1969 – Kathryn Morris, American actress
• 1969 – Mo Rocca, American comedian and television journalist
• 1969 – Linda Sánchez, American lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1972 – Léon van Bon, Dutch cyclist
• 1974 – Tony Delk, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Ramsey Nasr, Dutch author and poet
• 1974 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player and politician
• 1975 – Shark Boy, American wrestler
• 1975 – Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and producer
• 1975 – Terri Conn, American actress
• 1975 – Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese voice actor and singer
• 1975 – Pedro Pinto, Portuguese-American journalist
• 1975 – Junior Spivey, American baseball player and coach
• 1976 – Sireli Bobo, Fijian rugby player
• 1976 – Lee Ingleby, English actor
• 1976 – Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
• 1976 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player
• 1976 – Rick Ross, American rapper and producer
• 1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Matt DeVries, American guitarist
• 1977 – Joey Fatone, American singer, dancer, and actor (*NSYNC)
• 1977 – Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver
• 1978 – Sheamus, Irish wrestler and actor
• 1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Jamie Carragher, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1978 – Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
• 1979 – Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
• 1980 – Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys)
• 1980 – Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer
• 1980 – Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1980 – Jesse James Hollywood, American murderer
• 1981 – Gen Hoshino, Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, actor, and voice actor
• 1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor and producer
• 1984 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
• 1985 – Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – J. Cole, German-American rapper and producer
• 1985 – Lauris Dārziņš, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
• 1985 – Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
• 1986 – Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler
• 1986 – Shruti Haasan, Indian actress and singer
• 1986 – Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor
• 1986 – Antonis Petropoulos, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Blake Riley, American porn actor
• 1986 – Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1988 – AKA, South African hip hop musician and record producer
• 1988 – Paul Henry, English footballer
• 1988 – Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
• 1989 – Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Ronny Philp, Romanian-German footballer
• 1990 – Kalifa Faifai Loa, New Zealand rugby player
• 1990 – Zhang Kailin, Chinese tennis player
• 1991 – Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1992 – Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer
• 1992 – Andrei Savchenko, Russian footballer
• 1993 – Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer
• 1993 – Will Poulter, English actor
• 1998 – Ariel Winter, American actress and singer

Deaths[edit]

• 592 – Guntram, French king (b. 532)
• 814 – Charlemagne, Roman emperor (b. 742)
• 1061 – Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)
• 1271 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)
• 1443 – Robert le Maçon, French diplomat (b. 1365)
• 1547 – Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
• 1613 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar, founded the Bodleian Library (b. 1545)
• 1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
• 1672 – Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
• 1681 – Richard Allestree, English priest and academic (b. 1619)
• 1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (b. 1611)
• 1697 – Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet, English general and politician (b. 1645)
• 1754 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian-Danish historian and philosopher (b. 1684)
• 1802 – Joseph Wall, Irish born British Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Gorée (b. 1737)
• 1832 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
• 1859 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
• 1864 – Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)
• 1903 – Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1912 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist and theorist (b. 1819)
• 1918 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, physician, and author (b. 1872)
• 1921 – Mustafa Suphi, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)
• 1930 – Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (b. 1878)
• 1935 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)
• 1937 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1939 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1942 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant (b. 1924)
• 1947 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)
• 1948 – Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (b. 1906)
• 1948 – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
• 1948 – Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer (b. 1901)
• 1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
• 1953 – James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1953 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
• 1959 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• 1960 – Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1891)
• 1962 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian-Swiss actor (b. 1884)
• 1963 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (b. 1867)
• 1967 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1968 – Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
• 1973 – John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
• 1975 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
• 1978 – Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903)
• 1979 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (b. 1901)
• 1983 – Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
• 1983 – Billy Fury, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1940)
• 1986 – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger
  • – Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1944)
  • – Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (b. 1948)
  • – Ronald McNair, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1950)
  • – Ellison Onizuka, American engineer and astronaut (b. 1946)
  • – Judith Resnik, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1949)
  • – Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
  • – Michael J. Smith, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)
• 1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Hal Smith, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator; co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Ranko Marinković, Croatian novelist and playwright (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Karen Lancaume, French porn actress (b. 1973)
• 2005 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Yitzhak Kaduri, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi
• 2006 – Henry McGee, English actor and singer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Robert Drinan, American priest, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Beatrice Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer (b. 1978)
• 2007 – Teala Loring, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (b. 1963)
• 2007 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Keriman Halis Ece, Turkish pianist and model; Miss Universe 1932 (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Japanese priest and educator (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Jorge Obeid, Argentinian engineer and politician; Governor of Santa Fe (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954)

• 2015 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)