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• 314 – Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.
• 1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• 1578 – The Battle of Gembloux takes place.
• 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
• 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
• 1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
• 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.
• 1848 – John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
• 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
• 1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
• 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
• 1897 – Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
• 1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
• 1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
• 1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
• 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
• 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
• 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
• 1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
• 1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
• 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
• 1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
• 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
• 1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
• 1945 – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
• 1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
• 1946 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
• 1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
• 1950 – United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
• 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
• 1958 – The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
• 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
• 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
• 1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
• 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
• 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
• 1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
• 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
• 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
• 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
• 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
• 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
• 2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
• 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
• 2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
• 2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
• 2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.

Births[edit]

• 36 BC – Antonia Minor, Greek daughter of Mark Antony (d. 38 AD)
• 877 – Taejo of Goryeo (d. 943)
• 1512 – Henry, King of Portugal (d. 1580)
• 1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1616)
• 1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588)
• 1597 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (d. 1640)
• 1624 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher and academic (d. 1669)
• 1673 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (d. 1716)
• 1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian missionary and explorer (d. 1758)
• 1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American politician (d. 1816)
• 1759 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (d. 1803)
• 1797 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1828)
• 1820 – William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
• 1825 – Miska Magyarics, Hungarian-Slovenian poet (d. 1883)
• 1835 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (d. 1874)
• 1854 – David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
• 1857 – George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (d. 1933)
• 1865 – Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist (d. 1940)
• 1865 – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS (d. 1951)
• 1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
• 1872 – Zane Grey, American dentist and author (d. 1939)
• 1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
• 1884 – Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Nathaniel Moore, American golfer (d. 1910)
• 1884 – Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (d. 1955)
• 1889 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1892 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer (d. 1964)
• 1894 – Isham Jones, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)
• 1902 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman; founded White Spot (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Diana Napier, English actress (d. 1982)
• 1905 – John O'Hara, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Roosevelt Sykes, American singer and pianist (d. 1983)
• 1909 – Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (d. 1981)
• 1913 – Don Hutson, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Daya Mata, American religious leader (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer and police officer (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Bobby Hackett, American trumpet player and cornet player (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)
• 1915 – Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Fred Bassetti, American architect, founded Bassetti Architects (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1972)
• 1920 – Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2010)
• 1921 – John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1921 – E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)
• 1921 – Bill Pritchett, Australian public servant (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Eric Ash, German-English engineer and academic
• 1928 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1958)
• 1928 – Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Jean Simmons, British-American actress (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972)
• 1930 – Lynn Carlin, American actress
• 1930 – Al De Lory, American record producer, arranger, conductor and musician (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Miron Babiak, Polish captain (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Bernardo Provenzano, Italian mobster
• 1934 – Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver
• 1934 – Gene DeWeese, American writer (d. 2012)
• 1934 – James Franciscus, American actor and producer (d. 1991)
• 1934 – Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic; Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 – Can Bartu, Turkish former basketball and football player
• 1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
• 1937 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2007)
• 1937 – Philip Glass, American composer
• 1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Beatrix of the Netherlands
• 1938 – Lynn Carlin, American actress
• 1938 – James G. Watt, American lawyer and politician, 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1939 – Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1940 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby player and coach (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Dick Gephardt, American lawyer and politician
• 1941 – Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Jessica Walter, American actress
• 1942 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
• 1942 – Derek Jarman, English director, stage designer, and author (d. 1994)
• 1944 – Connie Booth, American-English actress and psychotherapist
• 1944 – John Inverarity, Australian cricketer
• 1944 – Charlie Musselwhite, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
• 1945 – Rynn Berry, American historian and author (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, English lawyer, judge, and academic
• 1945 – Joseph Kosuth, American photographer and illustrator
• 1946 – Sylvia Hitchcock, American model, Miss Universe 1967 (d. 2015)
• 1946 – Terry Kath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
• 1946 – Glynn Turman, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 – Jonathan Banks, American actor
• 1947 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
• 1947 – Matt Minglewood, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 – Volkmar Groß, German footballer
• 1948 – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
• 1949 – Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and journalist
• 1949 – Norris Church Mailer, American model and educator (d. 2010)
• 1949 – Ken Wilber, American sociologist, philosopher, and author
• 1950 – Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator
• 1950 – Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard
• 1950 – Janice Rebibo, American-Israeli author and poet (d. 2015)
• 1951 – Dave Benton, Aruban-Estonian singer and drummer
• 1951 – Harry Wayne Casey, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1951 – Phil Manzanera, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1951 – Won Sei-hoon, South Korean intelligence officer
• 1952 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
• 1953 – Ovidiu Lipan, Romanian drummer
• 1954 – Faoud Bacchus, Guyanese cricketer
• 1954 – Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (d. 1972)
• 1954 – Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch guitarist
• 1955 – Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player and manager
• 1956 – John Lydon, English singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Stefan Majewski, Polish footballer and coach
• 1957 – Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer
• 1958 – Armin Reichel, German footballer and manager
• 1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, Australian footballer, actor, and producer
• 1959 – Kelly Lynch, American model and actress
• 1959 – Kelly Moore, American race car driver
• 1959 – Mickey Simmonds, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1960 – George Benjamin, British composer of classical music
• 1960 – Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and author
• 1960 – Grant Morrison, Scottish author and screenwriter
• 1960 – Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin politician; 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker, English politician
• 1961 – Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and judge
• 1961 – Lloyd Cole, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
• 1961 – Mako Ishino, Japanese singer and actress
• 1961 – Fatih Kısaparmak, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Bruce McGuire, Australian rugby league player
• 1963 – John Dye, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1963 – Madis Eek, Estonian architect
• 1964 – Sylvie Bernier, Canadian diver
• 1964 – Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist and songwriter (Slayer) (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Martha MacCallum, American journalist
• 1964 – Miki Maya, Japanese actress
• 1964 – Dawn Prince-Hughes, American anthropologist and ethologist
• 1964 – Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer-songwriter and actor
• 1965 – Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Ofra Harnoy, Canadian cellist.
• 1966 – Umar Alisha, Indian journalist and philanthropist
• 1966 – Dexter Fletcher, English actor and director
• 1966 – Jorge González, Argentinian basketball player and wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1966 – Ken Ishiguro, Japanese actor and voice actor
• 1966 – JJ Lehto, Finnish race car driver
• 1967 – Chad Channing, American singer and drummer
• 1967 – Fat Mike, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1967 – Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
• 1967 – Michelle Ruff, American voice actress
• 1967 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress
• 1968 – Matt King, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician; 2nd Swedish Minister for Infrastructure
• 1968 – Patrick Stevens, Belgian sprinter
• 1970 – Minnie Driver, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 – Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television host/presenter
• 1971 – Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan model, actress, and producer
• 1971 – Lee Young-ae, South Korean actress
• 1973 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress
• 1974 – Wil Anderson, Australian comedian and radio host
• 1974 – Othella Harrington, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
• 1975 – Fred Coleman, American football player and coach
• 1975 – Jackie O, Australian radio and television host
• 1975 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress
• 1976 – Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1976 – Buddy Rice, American race car driver
• 1976 – Paul Scheer, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Shingo Katori, Japanese singer and actor
• 1977 – Jim Kleinsasser, American football player
• 1977 – Bobby Moynihan, American actor
• 1977 – Sergei Pareiko, Estonian footballer
• 1977 – Katherine Shindle, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1977 – David Terbrugge, South African cricketer
• 1977 – Kerry Washington, American actress
• 1978 – Fabián Caballero, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1978 – Brad Rutter, American game show contestant; highest winning champion in Jeopardy! history
• 1978 – Ellen Stagg, American photographer
• 1978 – Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro
• 1979 – Daniel Tammet, English author and educator
• 1979 – Emmett J. Scanlan, Irish actor and producer
• 1980 – James Adomian, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Tiffany Limos, American actress
• 1981 – Julio Arca, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Amrita Arora, Indian actress
• 1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1982 – Maret Ani, Estonian tennis player
• 1982 – Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player
• 1982 – Andreas Görlitz, German footballer
• 1982 – Salvatore Masiello, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Allan McGregor, Scottish footballer
• 1982 – Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese comedian and actor
• 1982 – Elena Paparizou, Swedish-Greek singer-songwriter (Antique)
• 1982 – Jānis Sprukts, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Yukimi Nagano, Swedish singer-songwriter (Little Dragon)
• 1982 – Brad Thompson, American baseball player
• 1983 – James Sutton, English actor
• 1983 – Fabio Quagliarella, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Vernon Davis, American football player
• 1984 – Josh Johnson, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1984 – Jeremy Wariner, American runner
• 1984 – Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player
• 1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Mario Williams, American football player
• 1986 – Megan Ellison, American film producer; founded Annapurna Pictures
• 1986 – George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer
• 1986 – Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player
• 1987 – Tyler Hubbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Florida Georgia Line)
• 1987 – Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Raúl Richter, German actor
• 1988 – Justine Ozga, German tennis player
• 1988 – Brett Pitman, English footballer
• 1988 – Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer
• 1990 – Kota Yabu, Japanese singer and actor
• 1992 – Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 – Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer
• 1996 – Joel Courtney, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 632 – Máedóc of Ferns, Irish bishop and saint (b. 550)
• 1216 – Theodore II of Constantinople
• 1398 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)
• 1418 – Mircea I of Wallachia (b. 1355)
• 1435 – Xuande Emperor of China (b. 1398)
• 1561 – Bairam Khan, Mughalan general (b. 1501)
• 1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1496)
• 1580 – Henry, King of Portugal (b. 1512)
• 1606 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1570)
• 1606 – Ambrose Rookwood, English conspirator (b. 1578)
• 1606 – Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (b. 1571)
• 1615 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543)
• 1615 – Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent, English peer (b. 1541)
• 1632 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
• 1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1622)
• 1686 – Jean Mairet, French playwright (b. 1604)
• 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1654)
• 1729 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
• 1736 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (b. 1678)
• 1788 – Charles Edward Stuart, Italian husband of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (b. 1720)
• 1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-American lawyer and surveyor (b. 1718)
• 1794 – Mariot Arbuthnot, English admiral and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1711)
• 1811 – Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (b. 1763)
• 1815 – José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan soldier (b. 1775)
• 1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)
• 1836 – John Cheyne, English physician and author (b. 1777)
• 1844 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
• 1856 – 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838)
• 1870 – Cilibi Moise, Moldavian-Romanian journalist and author (b. 1812)
• 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
• 1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
• 1907 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 – John Galsworthy, English author and playwright; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
• 1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French novelist and playwright(b. 1882)
• 1945 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
• 1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 – John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright; wrote Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1898)
• 1960 – Auguste Herbin, French cubist and abstract painter (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Krishna Singh, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Meher Baba, Indian guru and mystic (b. 1894)
• 1970 – Slim Harpo, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1924)
• 1971 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)
• 1973 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film producer; co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)
• 1974 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (b. 1912)
• 1974 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, referee, and coach (b. 1885)
• 1976 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal, inspired the Miranda rights (b. 1941)
• 1976 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
• 1985 – Reginald Baker, English film producer (b. 1896)
• 1985 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1989 – William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
• 1990 – Muammer Aksoy, Turkish academic of law, politician, columnist and intellectual (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Kostas Mountakis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 1995 – George Abbott, American director and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)
• 1998 – Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler; co-founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2000 – Ralph Manza, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Paul Regina, American actor (b. 1956)
• 2006 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Kirka, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Olevi Kull, Estonian ecologist and academic (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Zeltim Odie Peterson, American dog (b. 1997)
• 2009 – Nagesh, Indian actor (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Bartolomeu Anania, Romanian bishop and poet (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Mark Ryan, English guitarist (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Mani Ram Bagri, Indian politician (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Leslie Carter, American singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
• 2012 – Tristram Potter Coffin, American author, scholar, and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Mike Kelley (artist), American artist (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter and sculptor (b. 1910)
• 2013 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician; 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (b. 1987)
• 2013 – Tony Pierce, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Ingo Swann, American psychic and author (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Shail Upadhya; Nepalese diplomat, United Nations disarmament expert and "one of a kind" fashion designer (b. 1936 0r 1937)
• 2014 – Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer; co-founded Anna Records (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician; 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Tomás Bulat, Argentinian economist, journalist, and academic (b. 1964)
• 2015 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 2015 – William Klinger, Croatian historian and author (b. 1972)
• 2015 – Udo Lattek, German football coach (b. 1935)
• 2015 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician; 6th President of Germany (b. 1920)