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• 1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
• 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
• 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
• 1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
• 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
• 1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
• 1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
• 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
• 1816 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
• 1835 – Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
• 1846 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
• 1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
• 1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
• 1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco.
• 1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• 1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
• 1921 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.
• 1931 – The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
• 1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
• 1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
• 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
• 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• 1943 – The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
• 1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
• 1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
• 1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
• 1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
• 1956 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
• 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
• 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
• 1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
• 1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
• 1978 – The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
• 1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
• 1987 – Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
• 1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• 1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England.
• 1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
• 1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
• 2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
• 2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
• 2006 – In South Korea the United Liberal Democrats, the three top political parties was merged into Grand National Party.
• 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
• 2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
• 2013 – The smallest extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered.
• 2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
• 2015 – Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.

Births[edit]

• 1631 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1712)
• 1633 – Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (d. 1702)
• 1698 – Bernardo Tanucci, Italian statesman, adviser to the Spanish Bourbon monarchs (d. 1783)
• 1705 – Nicolas Chédeville, French musette player and composer (d. 1782)
• 1726 – William Prescott, American colonel (d. 1795)
• 1745 – Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (d. 1813)
• 1751 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic (d. 1826)
• 1753 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1815)
• 1757 – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist and politician (d. 1834)
• 1759 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (d. 1813)
• 1761 – Ludwig Abeille, German pianist and composer (d. 1838)
• 1763 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, Bohemian composer (d. 1850)
• 1792 – Eliza Courtney, French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1859)
• 1794 – William Carleton, Irish author (d. 1869)
• 1802 – Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1870)
• 1819 – Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician (d. 1882)
• 1839 – Benjamin Waugh, English activist, founded the NSPCC (d. 1908)
• 1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906)
• 1844 – Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer (d. 1909)
• 1848 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1909)
• 1850 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
• 1857 – Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (d. 1923)
• 1860 – Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (d. 1921)
• 1866 – Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum (d. 1936)
• 1867 – Louise, Princess Royal of England (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (d. 1937)
• 1874 – Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress (d. 1967)
• 1879 – Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1907)
• 1880 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (d. 1923)
• 1882 – Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (d. 1946)
• 1887 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (d. 1948)
• 1889 – Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (d. 1948)
• 1893 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1993)
• 1895 – Count Louis Zborowski, English racing driver and automobile engineer (d. 1924)
• 1898 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (d. 1951)
• 1899 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
• 1901 – René Dubos, French-American biologist and author (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect, designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (d. 1984)
• 1901 – Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
• 1906 – Gale Gordon, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (d. 1943)
• 1912 – Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (d. 1994)
• 1913 – Tommy Henrich, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 1914 – John Charles Daly, South African–American journalist and game show host (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer
• 1918 – Leonore Annenberg, American businesswoman and diplomat (d. 2009)
• 1919 – James O'Meara, English soldier and pilot (d. 1974)
• 1920 – Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer, designed the Dragunov sniper rifle (d. 1991)
• 1921 – René Jalbert, Canadian soldier (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (d. 1992)
• 1923 – Victor G. Atiyeh, American politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985)
• 1924 – Gloria Vanderbilt, American actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite
• 1925 – Robert Altman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, choreographer, and director
• 1926 – Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer and activist (d. 1986)
• 1927 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club and Afro-Cuban All Stars) (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Sidney Poitier, American actor, director, and diplomat
• 1928 – Roy Face, American baseball player and carpenter
• 1928 – Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland
• 1929 – Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Efraim Allsalu, Estonian painter (d. 2006)
• 1931 – John Milnor, American mathematician and academic
• 1932 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Bobby Unser, American race car driver
• 1935 – Ian Castles, Australian public servant (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Ellen Gilchrist, American author and poet
• 1936 – Marj Dusay, American actress
• 1936 – Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1937 – David Ackles, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
• 1937 – Robert Huber, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Roger Penske, American race car driver and businessman
• 1937 – Nancy Wilson, American singer and actress
• 1938 – Richard Beymer, American actor, director, and cinematographer
• 1938 – Wiley W. Hilburn, American journalist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, educator, and politician (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1941 – Lim Kit Siang, Malaysian politician
• 1941 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1942 – Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1942 – Mitch McConnell, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 1942 – Claude Miller, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Antonio Inoki, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and politician
• 1943 – Mike Leigh, English director and screenwriter
• 1943 – Tom McNally, Baron McNally, English politician
• 1944 – Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1999)
• 1944 – Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor (Blood, Sweat & Tears and Mingus Big Band) (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1945 – Andrew Bergman, American director and screenwriter
• 1945 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lindisfarne) (d. 1995)
• 1945 – Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1946 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
• 1946 – Sandy Duncan, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1946 – J. Geils, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
• 1947 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
• 1947 – Peter Strauss, American actor and producer
• 1947 – André van Duin, Dutch actor and singer
• 1948 – Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1948 – Andrew Fabian, English astronomer and astrophysicist
• 1948 – Jennifer O'Neill, American model and actress
• 1949 – Ivana Trump, Czech-American skier and model
• 1949 – Adnan Kahveci, Turkish politician (d. 1993)
• 1950 – Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Steely Dan)
• 1950 – Peter Marinello, Scottish footballer
• 1950 – Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian and actor
• 1951 – Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Gordon Brown, Scottish historian and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1951 – Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
• 1951 – Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
• 1953 – Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Poison Ivy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Cramps)
• 1954 – Jon Brant, American bass player (Cheap Trick)
• 1954 – Anthony Head, English actor
• 1954 – Patty Hearst, American author, actress and media personality
• 1957 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1958 – Jamal Hamdan, Lebanese actor and voice actor
• 1959 – Scott Brayton, American race car driver (d. 1996)
• 1959 – David Corn, American journalist and author
• 1959 – Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
• 1960 – Joel Hodgson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist (Europe and Kee Marcello's K2)
• 1960 – Cándido Muatetema Rivas, Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (d. 2014)
• 1962 – Kenn Nesbitt, American poet and author
• 1962 – Dwayne McDuffie, American author, screenwriter, and producer, co-founded Milestone Media (d. 2011)
• 1963 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Ian Brown, English singer-songwriter (The Stone Roses)
• 1963 – Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
• 1964 – Willie Garson, American actor
• 1964 – Tom Harris, Scottish journalist and politician
• 1964 – French Stewart, American actor
• 1965 – Ron Eldard, American actor
• 1966 – Cindy Crawford, American model and businesswoman
• 1967 – Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nirvana and Fecal Matter) (d. 1994)
• 1967 – David Herman, American comedian and actor
• 1967 – Andrew Shue, American actor and activist, founded Do Something
• 1967 – Lili Taylor, American actress
• 1967 – Tom Waddle, American football player and sportscaster
• 1968 – Ha Seok-ju, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1969 – Gedo, Japanese wrestler
• 1969 – Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Danis Tanović, Bosnian director and screenwriter
• 1969 – Azusa Watanabe, Japanese actress
• 1971 – Calpernia Addams, American actress, author, activist and musician
• 1971 – Shawn McKenzie, American programmer, created AutoTheme
• 1971 – Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player
• 1972 – Brent Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Neil Primrose, Scottish drummer (Travis)
• 1975 – Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 1975 – Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor (Backstreet Boys)
• 1975 – Niclas Wallin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1976 – Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness and Stone Gods)
• 1977 – Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
• 1978 – Lauren Ambrose, American actress
• 1978 – Jay Hernandez, American actor
• 1980 – Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
• 1980 – Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
• 1980 – Yuichi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
• 1980 – Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer
• 1981 – Tony Hibbert, English footballer
• 1981 – Fred Jackson, American football player
• 1981 – Chris Thile, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers)
• 1982 – Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
• 1983 – Jose Morales, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1983 – Justin Verlander, American baseball player
• 1984 – Keisuke Koide, Japanese actor
• 1984 – Brian McCann, American baseball player
• 1984 – Trevor Noah, South African comedian and television host
• 1984 – Ramzee Robinson, American football player
• 1985 – Jake Richardson, American actor
• 1985 – Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
• 1985 – Julia Volkova, Russian actress and singer (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi)
• 1986 – Diego Reis, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Miles Teller, American actor
• 1988 – Rihanna, Barbadian-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 – Kealoha Pilares, American football player
• 1989 – Daly Cherry-Evans, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – Giovanni Kyeremateng, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Antonio Pedroza, English-Mexican footballer
• 1991 – Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player
• 1991 – Kyle Wilkie, Scottish footballer
• 1997 – Roosa Timonen, Finnish tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 702 – K'inich Kan B'alam II, Mayan king (b. 635)
• 1054 – Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev and Novgorod (b. 978)
• 1154 – Wulfric of Haselbury, English saint (b. 1080)
• 1171 – Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
• 1194 – Tancred, King of Sicily (b. 1138)
• 1258 – Al-Musta'sim, Iraqi caliph (b. 1213)
• 1408 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1342)
• 1431 – Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
• 1524 – Tecun Uman, Mayan ruler (b. 1500)
• 1579 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
• 1618 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
• 1626 – John Dowland, English lute player and composer (b. 1563)
• 1762 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723)
• 1771 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1678)
• 1773 – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
• 1778 – Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (b. 1711)
• 1790 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
• 1806 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (b. 1725)
• 1810 – Andreas Hofer, Italian rebel leader (b. 1767)
• 1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
• 1893 – P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
• 1895 – Frederick Douglass, American memoirist, statesman, and activist (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Chief Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 – Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1920 – Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
• 1920 – Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1936 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
• 1941 – La Bolduc, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1894)
• 1957 – Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Tatar and Turkish statesman, scholar and thinker (b. 1878)
• 1961 – Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 – Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 – Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 – René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
• 1981 – Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Bhawani Prasad Mishra, Indian poet and author (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor and singer (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Wayne Boring, American illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1992 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (b. 1898)
• 1992 – Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944)
• 1992 – Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (b. 1916)
• 1993 – Ernest L. Massad, American general (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Solomon Asch, American psychologist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Toru Takemitsu, Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
• 1999 – Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
• 2001 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2003 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Orville Freeman, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Ty Longley, American singer and guitarist (Great White and Samantha 7) (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
• 2005 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Thomas Willmore, English mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Emily Perry, English actress and dancer (b. 1907)
• 2009 – Larry H. Miller, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Alexander Haig, American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Knut Torbjørn Eggen, Norwegian footballer and manager (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Katie Hall, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (b. 1970)
• 2013 – David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Osmo Antero Wiio, Finnish journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Walter D. Ehlers, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Reghu Kumar, Indian composer (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Garrick Utley, American journalist (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Ibrahim Biogradlić, Bosnian footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2015 – John C. Willke, American physician, author, and activist (b. 1925)