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• 1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
• 1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
• 1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
• 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
• 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
• 1667 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
• 1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
• 1789 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
• 1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
• 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
• 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
• 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
• 1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
• 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
• 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
• 1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
• 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
• 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
• 1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 1930 – The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
• 1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
• 1944 – World War II: American troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster.
• 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
• 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• 1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
• 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
• 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
• 1965 – Some one million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
• 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
• 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
• 1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
• 1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
• 1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
• 1989 – Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
• 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
• 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• 2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2003 – The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.
• 2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.

Births[edit]

• 58 BC – Livia, Roman wife of Augustus (d. 29)
• 133 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (d. 193)
• 1563 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1641)
• 1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American son of Pocahontas (d. 1675)
• 1661 – Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (d. 1741)
• 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (d. 1773)
• 1703 – François Bigot, French politician (d. 1778)
• 1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (d. 1778)
• 1754 – John Lansing, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Walter Savage Landor, English poet and author (d. 1864)
• 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (d. 1838)
• 1816 – Nathaniel P. Banks, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and curator (d. 1899)
• 1832 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
• 1841 – Félix Faure, French politician, 7th President of France (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Richard Theodore Greener, American diplomat and attorney (d.1922)
• 1846 – Angela of the Cross, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1932)
• 1852 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian playwright and poet (d. 1912)
• 1859 – Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1944)
• 1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler, French-American violinist and composer (d. 1935)
• 1862 – Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
• 1864 – James Mitchel, Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1921)
• 1866 – Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1951)
• 1875 – Walter Middelberg, Dutch rower (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
• 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician; 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
• 1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1937)
• 1890 – Bruno Kastner, German actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1932)
• 1894 – Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
• 1899 – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Alfrēds Riekstiņš, Latvian military officer and freedom fighter (d. 1952)
• 1913 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter (d. 1941)
• 1913 – Percy Thrower, English gardener and television host (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Luc-Marie Bayle, French commander and painter (d. 2000)
• 1914 – John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
• 1914 – David Wayne, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
• 1915 – John Profumo, English soldier and politician; Secretary of State for War (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and journalist (d. 2008)
• 1918 – David Opatoshu, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Nikolay Glazkov, Russian actor and poet (d. 1979)
• 1919 – Fred Korematsu, American activist (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Michael Anderson, English director and producer
• 1920 – Carwood Lipton, American lieutenant (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Delbert Mann, American director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Dick Martin, American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Marianne Ferber, Czech-American economist and author (d. 2013)
• 1924 – S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Lloyd Alexander, American soldier and author (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist; invented the computer mouse (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Dorothy Malone, American actress
• 1927 – Ahmed Abdul-Malik, American bassist and oud player (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish captain and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
• 1928 – Harold Prince, American director and producer
• 1929 – Lois Hole, Canadian politician, author, businesswoman, academician and professional gardener (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Hugh Tayfield, South African cricketer (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Samuel Byck, American criminal (d. 1974)
• 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor and author
• 1930 – Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Magnus Malan, South African general and politician; South African Minister of Defence (d. 2011)
• 1931 – John Crosbie, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice
• 1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian author
• 1932 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Tammy Grimes, American actress, singer and dancer
• 1935 – Richard Brautigan, American author and poet (d. 1984)
• 1935 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian model and actress
• 1936 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (d. 1998)
• 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress, singer, and producer
• 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
• 1938 – Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician; 1st President of Uzbekistan
• 1940 – Mitch Murray, English songwriter and producer
• 1941 – Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and author
• 1941 – Dick Cheney, American politician, 46th Vice President of the United States
• 1941 – Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
• 1942 – Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 – Lynn Harrell, American cellist and academic
• 1944 – Colin Rimer, English lawyer and judge
• 1944 – Gad Tsobari, Israeli wrestler
• 1945 – Michael Dorris, American author and scholar (d. 1997)
• 1945 – Boots Anson-Roa, Filipino actress
• 1946 – John Bird, English publisher; founded The Big Issue
• 1947 – Les Barker, English poet and author
• 1947 – Małgorzata Braunek, Polish actress (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 1991)
• 1948 – Nick Broomfield, English director and producer
• 1948 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer
• 1948 – Miles Reid, English mathematician and academic
• 1949 – Peter Agre, American physician and biologist; Nobel Prize laureate
• 1949 – Jaak Salumets, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1950 – Susan Gottesman, American microbiologist
• 1950 – Jack Newton, Australian golfer
• 1950 – Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar, Ghanaian-American scholar and theologian
• 1950 – Leili Pärnpuu, Estonian chess player
• 1950 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1951 – Phil Collins, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Genesis, Brand X, and Flaming Youth)
• 1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor and director
• 1951 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (d. 1995)
• 1952 – Doug Falconer, Canadian football player and producer
• 1953 – Fred Hembeck, American author and illustrator
• 1955 – John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine
• 1955 – Tom Izzo, American basketball player and coach
• 1955 – Curtis Strange, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1955 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player and sportscaster
• 1956 – Jeremy Gittins, English actor
• 1956 – Darko Rundek, Croatian-French singer-songwriter and actor
• 1956 – Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese race car driver and radio host
• 1957 – Polly Horvath, American-Canadian author
• 1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
• 1958 – Brett Butler, American actress and producer
• 1958 – Sayuri Ishikawa, Japanese singer
• 1959 – Cynthia Carter, Welsh journalist, author, and academic
• 1959 – Mark Eitzel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 – Steve Folkes, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1959 – Jody Watley, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1960 – Gerald Finley, Canadian opera singer
• 1960 – Tony O'Dell, American actor
• 1961 – Dexter Scott King, American actor and activist
• 1962 – Abdullah II of Jordan
• 1963 – Daphne Ashbrook, American actress
• 1963 – Tina Malone, English actress, director, and producer
• 1964 – Otis Smith, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1965 – Julie McCullough, American model and actress
• 1965 – Kevin Moore, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1966 – Neal Chase, American educator
• 1966 – Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 – Jay Gordon, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1968 – Trevor Dunn, American bass player and songwriter
• 1968 – Tony Maudsley, English actor
• 1968 – Felipe VI of Spain
• 1969 – Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman
• 1971 – Darren Boyd, English actor and screenwriter
• 1971 – Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
• 1972 – Lupillo Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Zoren Legaspi, Filipino actor
• 1973 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Christian Bale, Welsh-American actor
• 1974 – Olivia Colman, English actress and singer
• 1974 – Jemima Khan, English journalist and activist
• 1974 – Alvin Elchico, Filipino journalist
• 1975 – Dark Ozz, Mexican wrestler
• 1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer and actress (Puffy AmiYumi)
• 1976 – Andy Milonakis, American actor and rapper (Three Loco)
• 1977 – Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1977 – Tom Malchow, American swimmer
• 1977 – Deltha O'Neal, American football player
• 1978 – Carmen Küng, Swiss curler
• 1978 – John Patterson, American baseball player
• 1979 – Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Tarmo Jallai, Estonian hurdler
• 1979 – Jaak Urmet, Estonian author and poet
• 1980 – João Soares de Almeida Neto, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Leilani Dowding, English model and actress
• 1980 – Josh Kelley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Georgios Vakouftsis, Greek footballer
• 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor and producer
• 1981 – Jonathan Bender, American basketball player
• 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer
• 1981 – Mathias Lauda, Austrian race car driver
• 1982 – Jorge Cantú, Mexican baseball player
• 1982 – DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player
• 1982 – Mark Nwokeji, English footballer
• 1982 – Hidenori Tokuyama, Japanese actor and singer
• 1983 – Ben Maher, English horse rider
• 1983 – Rockstar Spud, English wrestler
• 1984 – Kid Cudi, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1984 – Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
• 1984 – Kotoshōgiku Kazuhiro, Japanese Sumo wrestler
• 1984 – Midori Kuzuoka, Japanese model
• 1985 – Torrey Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Yuuri Morishita, Japanese model
• 1985 – Richie Porte, Australian cyclist
• 1985 – Trae Williams, American football player
• 1986 – Nick Evans, American baseball player
• 1986 – Asami Shimoda, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 – Ben Cutting, Australian cricketer
• 1987 – Lance Franklin, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Phil Lester, English radio host and blogger
• 1987 – Becky Lynch, Irish wrestler
• 1987 – Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Maksim Krychanov, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Rob Pinkston, American actor and director
• 1989 – Khleo, American actor and rapper
• 1989 – Tomás Mejías, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Baek Sung-hyun, South Korean actor
• 1990 – Joe Colborne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Eiza González, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
• 1990 – Nils Miatke, German footballer
• 1990 – Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor
• 1990 – Fille Cainglet, Filipino volleyball player
• 1990 – Andrew McCullough, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer
• 1991 – Stefan Elliott, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 – Danielle Campbell, American actress
• 1995 – Misaki Iwasa, Japanese singer
• 1995 – Viktoria Komova, Russian gymnast
• 1995 – Thia Megia, American singer
• 1995 – Víctor Sánchez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2015)
• 2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al-Abdullah of Jordan

Deaths[edit]

• 680 – Balthild, Frankish queen (b. 626)
• 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
• 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• 1240 – Pelagio Galvani, Leonese cardinal (b. 1165)
• 1314 – Nicholas III of Saint Omer
• 1384 – Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)
• 1574 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese historian and philosopher (b. 1502)
• 1606 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
• 1649 – Charles I of England (b. 1600)
• 1730 – Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress, designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
• 1849 – Jonathan Alder, American farmer (b. 1773)
• 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 – William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)
• 1889 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (b. 1858)
• 1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1928 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 – La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866)
• 1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher; founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Alfred Grütter, Swiss target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1947 – Frederick Blackman, British plant physiologist (b. 1866)
• 1948 – Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895)
• 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, philosopher, and activist (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer; co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman; founded Porsche (b. 1875)
• 1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss painter (b. 1878)
• 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman; founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician and engineer (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1966 – Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (b. 1912)
• 1968 – Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1969 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)
• 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)
• 1984 – Lee McCall, South African criminal (b. 1950)
• 1987 – Harold Loeffelmacher, American singer and bandleader (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (b. 1936)
• 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator (b. 1907)
• 1991 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Hulusi Sayın, Turkish Gendarmerie (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, author, and television host (b. 1925)
• 1998 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor and actor (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor and singer (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy, American journalist and actor (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon and educator (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Wes Wehmiller, American bass player (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American author and activist (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican priest, founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi (b. 1920)
• 2009 – H. Guy Hunt, American soldier, pastor, and politician; 49th Governor of Alabama (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Neiliezhü Üsou, Indian preacher and theologian (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Fadil Ferati, Kosovar accountant and politician (b. 1960)
• 2011 – John Barry, English composer and conductor (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Charles Nolan, American fashion designer (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Abdelhamid Mehri, Algerian soldier and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch author (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1918)
• 2013 – George Witt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Jean Babilée, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Stefan Bałuk, Polish general (b. 1914)
• 2014 – William Motzing, American composer and conductor (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Arthur Rankin, Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (b. 1923)
• 2015 - Kenji Goto, Japanese freelance journalist (b. 1967)
• 2015 – Ülo Kaevats, Estonian academic, philosopher, and politician (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician; 2nd President of Bulgaria (b. 1935)