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• 116 – Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
• 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
• 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
• 1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
• 1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
• 1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
• 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
• 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
• 1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
• 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
• 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
• 1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
• 1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
• 1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
• 1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
• 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
• 1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
• 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
• 1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
• 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
• 1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
• 1943 – World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
• 1943 – World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
• 1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
• 1957 – The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
• 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
• 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
• 1961 – The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
• 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
• 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
• 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
• 1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
• 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
• 1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
• 1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
• 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
• 1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.
• 1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
• 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
• 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–2005 regular season and playoffs.
• 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
• 2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
• 2015 – A CSX train crashes in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, resulting in large fires.

Births[edit]

• 1032 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (d. 1067)
• 1222 – Nichiren, Japanese monk, founded Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)
• 1304 – Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (d. 1332)
• 1497 – Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (d. 1560)
• 1519 – Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (d. 1572)
• 1543 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (d. 1590)
• 1620 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1688)
• 1643 – John Sharp, English archbishop (d. 1714)
• 1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758)
• 1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist (d. 1817)
• 1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
• 1761 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)
• 1774 – Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer (d. 1830)
• 1786 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859)
• 1802 – Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866)
• 1804 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (d. 1885)
• 1812 – Henry Wilson, American colonel and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
• 1821 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (d. 1865)
• 1822 – Francis Galton, English biologist and statistician (d. 1911)
• 1824 – Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
• 1825 – Crosby Stuart Noyes, American newspaper publisher (d. 1908)
• 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and author (d. 1886)
• 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (d. 1895)
• 1834 – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
• 1838 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (d. 1918)
• 1843 – Henry M. Leland, American machinist, inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founded of Cadillac and Lincoln (d. 1932)
• 1845 – George Kennan, American journalist and explorer (d. 1924)
• 1847 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer and educator (d. 1917)
• 1848 – Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic (d. 1935)
• 1848 – Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1917)
• 1856 – Willem Kes, Dutch violinist and conductor (d. 1934)
• 1856 – Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (d. 1920)
• 1866 – Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (d. 1940)
• 1873 – Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (d. 1908)
• 1874 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano and educator (d. 1935)
• 1868 – Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer (d. 1952)
• 1876 – G.M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic (d. 1962)
• 1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951)
• 1878 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920)
• 1883 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1980)
• 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (d. 1951)
• 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic (d. 1963)
• 1887 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (d. 1967)
• 1896 – Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (d. 2010)
• 1898 – Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985)
• 1901 – Chester Morris, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978)
• 1903 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (d. 1960)
• 1903 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian priest and sociologist (d. 2000)
• 1904 – James Baskett, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1904 – Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS officer (d. 1988)
• 1904 – George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (d. 2005)
• 1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-English chess player (d. 1944)
• 1909 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Jim O'Hora, American football player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Michael Relph, English director and producer (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Walt Faulkner, American racing driver (d. 1956)
• 1919 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (d. 1989)
• 1920 – Tony Crook, English racing driver (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Anna Mae Hays, American general
• 1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1921 – Esther Bubley, American photographer (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
• 1921 – John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German soldier and pilot (d. 1950)
• 1925 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1926 – Margot Frank, German-Dutch Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
• 1926 – John Schlesinger, English actor and director (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2002)
• 1931 – George E. Sangmeister, American lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor and singer (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer (d. 2007)
• 1934 – August Coppola, American author and academic (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Marlene Hagge, American golfer
• 1934 – Hal Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins) (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Herbie Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins) (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director (d. 2016)
• 1935 – Sonny Bono, American actor, singer, and politician (d. 1998)
• 1935 – Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founded The Farm (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Bradford Parkinson, American engineer and inventor, father of the Global Positioning System
• 1937 – Paul Bailey, English author and critic
• 1937 – Yuri I. Manin, Russian-German mathematician and academic
• 1938 – John Corigliano, American composer and academic
• 1938 – Barry Primus, American actor, director, and producer
• 1939 – Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino lawyer and judge
• 1939 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (Niebiesko-Czarni) (d. 2004)
• 1939 – David Simpson, Northern Irish politician
• 1940 – Hannelore Schmatz, German mountaineer (d. 1979)
• 1940 – Michael J. Shapiro, American philosopher, author, and academic
• 1941 – Anne Lonsdale, English sinologist and academic
• 1941 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Richard Williams, American tennis player and coach
• 1943 – Howard Riley, English pianist and composer
• 1944 – Glyn Davies, Welsh farmer and politician
• 1944 – António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cape Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde
• 1948 – Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Andy Van Hellemond, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
• 1949 – Bob Didier, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Bob O'Reilly, Australian rugby league player
• 1949 – Lyn Paul, English singer and actress (The New Seekers)
• 1950 – Peter Hain, Kenyan-Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales
• 1950 – Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (Roman and the Four Steps) (d. 2002)
• 1950 – Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese singer
• 1951 – Barry Foote, American baseball player and coach
• 1951 – Yumi Takigawa, Japanese actress and singer
• 1952 – William Katt, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Terence Kealey, English biochemist and academic
• 1952 – Peter Kitchen, English footballer
• 1952 – James Ingram, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1953 – John Bradbury, English drummer and songwriter (The Specials) (d. 2015)
• 1953 – George Martin, American football player
• 1953 – Lanny McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1953 – Roberta Williams, American video game designer, co-founded Sierra Entertainment
• 1954 – Iain Banks, Scottish author and playwright (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (d. 1996)
• 1954 – Michael Holding, Jamaican cricketer and sportscaster
• 1956 – Vincent Ward, New Zealand director and screenwriter
• 1957 – LeVar Burton, German-American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 – Ice-T, American rapper and actor
• 1958 – Natalie Angier, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Michael W. Burns, American lawyer and politician
• 1958 – Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player
• 1958 – Herb Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – John McEnroe, German-American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1959 – Kelly Tripucka, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1960 – Bill Pecota, American baseball player
• 1960 – Pete Willis, English guitarist (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, Gogmagog, and Roadhouse)
• 1961 – Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Andy Taylor, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Duran Duran and The Power Station)
• 1962 – John Balance, English singer-songwriter (Coil) (d. 2004)
• 1964 – Bebeto, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Christopher Eccleston, English actor
• 1965 – Dave Lombardo, Cuban-American drummer (Slayer, Grip Inc., Fantômas, Voodoocult, and Testament)
• 1967 – Keith Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Warren Ellis, English author and screenwriter
• 1969 – Gangrel, American wrestler and actor
• 1970 – Serdar Ortaç, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer
• 1971 – Amanda Holden, English actress and singer
• 1972 – Jerome Bettis, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Sarah Clarke, American actress
• 1972 – Naomi Nishida, Japanese actress
• 1973 – Cathy Freeman, Australian sprinter
• 1973 – Maureen Johnson, American author
• 1974 – Luis Figueroa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1974 – Fanis Katergiannakis, Greek footballer
• 1975 – Nanase Aikawa, Japanese singer
• 1975 – Vanina Ickx, Belgian race car driver
• 1976 – Kyo, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Dir En Grey)
• 1976 – Eric Byrnes, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1976 – Joe Odagiri, Japanese actor and singer
• 1977 – Ian Clarke, Irish computer scientist, founded Freenet
• 1977 – Ahman Green, American football player
• 1978 – Tia Hellebaut, Belgian high jumper
• 1978 – Wasim Jaffer, Indian cricketer
• 1978 – John Tartaglia, American actor, singer, and puppeteer
• 1979 – Eric Mun, American-South Korean singer and actor (Shinhwa)
• 1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1980 – Longineu W. Parsons III, French-American drummer (Yellowcard)
• 1981 – Jay Howard, English race car driver
• 1981 – Jerry Owens, American baseball player
• 1981 – Qyntel Woods, American basketball player
• 1982 – Aleksandr Dmitrijev, Estonian footballer
• 1982 – Lupe Fiasco, American rapper and producer (Child Rebel Soldier and Japanese Cartoon)
• 1982 – Rickie Lambert, English footballer
• 1982 – Paulo Jorge Sousa Vieira, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 – Agyness Deyn, English model, actress, and singer
• 1983 – John Magaro, American actor
• 1984 – Sofia Arvidsson, Swedish tennis player
• 1985 – Simon Francis, English footballer
• 1985 – Ron Vlaar, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Zoi Dimoschaki, Greek swimmer
• 1986 – Josje Huisman, Dutch singer, actress, dancer (K3)
• 1987 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
• 1987 – Ryosuke Miura, Japanese actor
• 1987 – Hasheem Thabeet, Tanzanian basketball player
• 1988 – Diego Capel, Spanish footballer
• 1988 – Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
• 1988 – Denílson Pereira Neves, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Andrea Ranocchia, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer
• 1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
• 1990 – The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1991 – Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
• 1991 – Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer
• 1992 – Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player
• 1994 – Annika Beck, German tennis player
• 1995 – Katy Dunne, English tennis player
• 1995 – Mayu Matsuoka, Japanese actress
• 1995 – Carina Witthöft, German tennis player
• 1996 – Nana Komatsu, Japanese actress and model

Deaths[edit]

• 549 – Zhu Yi, Chinese general (b. 483)
• 1247 – Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
• 1279 – Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
• 1391 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1332)
• 1459 – Akshamsaddin, Ottoman religious scholar, poet, mystic saint, and guide of Mehmed the Conqueror (b. 1389)
• 1531 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
• 1560 – Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1493)
• 1645 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1585)
• 1710 – Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (b. 1632)
• 1721 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1686)
• 1754 – Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
• 1820 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
• 1844 – Joseph Crosfield, English businessman (b. 1792)
• 1898 – Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 – Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 – Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1916 – Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-Russian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1824)
• 1917 – Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1919 – Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1924 – John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (b. 1853)
• 1928 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 – Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1932 – Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
• 1933 – Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish general and politician, 1st Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1867)
• 1944 – Henri Nathansen, Danish author, playwright, and director (b. 1868)
• 1944 – Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)
• 1957 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1967 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1911)
• 1967 – Amund Rydland, Norwegian actor and theatre director (b. 1888)
• 1974 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand Rifle(b. 1888)
• 1975 – Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Norman Treigle, American actor and singer (b. 1927)
• 1978 – E. Roland Harriman, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Nematollah Nassiri, Iranian general (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895)
• 1984 – M. A. G. Osmani, Bangladeshi general (b. 1918)
• 1988 – Jean Carignan, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Keith Haring, American painter and activist (b. 1958)
• 1991 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan lieutenant and engineer (b. 1932)
• 1992 – Angela Carter, English journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Herman Wold, Norwegian-Swedish economist and statistician (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Roger Bowen, American actor and author (b. 1932)
• 1996 – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905)
• 1996 – Brownie McGhee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
• 1997 – Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Michael Larson, American game show contestant on Press Your Luck (b. 1949)
• 2000 – Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer
• 2000 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Bob Buhl, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Howard W. Koch, American director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 – William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Peter Voulkos, American ceramic artist (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Walter Winterbottom, England footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Narriman Sadek, Egyptian wife of Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, South Korean cardinal (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong footballer and actor (b. 1956)
• 2011 – Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Donald Henry Colless, Australian entomologist and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Elyse Knox, American model, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1917)
• 2012 – John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Dick Anthony Williams, American actor (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991)
• 2013 – Eric Ericson, Swedish conductor and educator (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Ernie Vossler, American golfer (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Gert Krawinkel, German guitarist (Trio) (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Jimmy Murakami, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946)
• 2015 – Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1946)
• 2015 – R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957)
• 2015 – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971)