ΕVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 27/2

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• 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
• 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
• 907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.
• 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
• 1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
• 1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
• 1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
• 1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
• 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• 1809 – Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine
• 1812 – Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
• 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
• 1829 – Battle of Tarqui is fought.
• 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
• 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
• 1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
• 1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
• 1881 – First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• 1898 – King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
• 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
• 1900 – Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• 1902 – Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes.
• 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
• 1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
• 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.
• 1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
• 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
• 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
• 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
• 1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
• 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
• 1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
• 1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
• 1962 – Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
• 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
• 1964 – The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
• 1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
• 1973 – The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
• 1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
• 1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
• 1988 – Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
• 1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
• 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
• 1995 – Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
• 1995 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 978 is adopted.
• 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
• 2002 – Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
• 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
• 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
• 2007 – The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
• 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
• 2012 – A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
• 2013 – At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
• 2013 – Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
• 2015 – A gunman kills seven people then himself in a series of shootings in Tyrone, Missouri.

Births[edit]

• 272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
• 1572 – Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1632)
• 1575 – John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1616)
• 1606 – Laurent de La Hyre, French painter (d. 1656)
• 1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671)
• 1667 – Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Prussian-Lithuanian wife of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1695)
• 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
• 1691 – Edward Cave, English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (d. 1754)
• 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Ottoman ruler (d. 1769)
• 1724 – Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1767)
• 1732 – Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, French cardinal (d. 1804)
• 1746 – Louis-Jérôme Gohier, French politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 1830)
• 1748 – Anders Erikson Sparrman, Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820)
• 1767 – Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, French lawyer and politician, 24th Prime Minister of France (d. 1855)
• 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons (d. 1842)
• 1789 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (d. 1818)
• 1795 – José Antonio Navarro, American merchant and politician (d. 1871)
• 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (d. 1882)
• 1809 – Jean-Charles Cornay, French missionary and saint (d. 1837)
• 1812 – Pieter Harting, Dutch biologist and botanist (d. 1885)
• 1831 – Nikolai Ge, Russian painter (d. 1894)
• 1846 – Franz Mehring, German historian and politician (d. 1919)
• 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 1928)
• 1848 – Hubert Parry, English composer and historian (d. 1918)
• 1850 – Laura E. Richards, American author and poet (d. 1943)
• 1856 – Mattia Battistini, Italian opera singer (d. 1928)
• 1859 – Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-German activist and author (d. 1936)
• 1862 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek target shooter and architect (d. 1937)
• 1863 – Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (d. 1923)
• 1863 – George Herbert Mead, American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1930)
• 1864 – Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1935)
• 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (d. 1947)
• 1867 – Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Swedish composer and critic (d. 1942)
• 1869 – Alice Hamilton, American physician and academic (d. 1970)
• 1870 – Louis Coerne, American composer and educator (d. 1922)
• 1872 – Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1950)
• 1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American businessman (d. 1952)
• 1877 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (d. 1952)
• 1878 – Alvan T. Fuller, American politician, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
• 1878 – Teodor Ussisoo, Estonian artist, designer and pedagogue (d. 1959)
• 1879 – René Lefebvre, French businessman (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Sveinn Björnsson, Danish-Icelandic lawyer and politician, 1st President of Iceland (d. 1952)
• 1881 – L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1966)
• 1882 – George Terwilliger, American film director and screenwriter (d. 1970)
• 1886 – Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Pyotr Nesterov, Russian captain, pilot, and engineer (d. 1914)
• 1888 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1974)
• 1888 – Earl Caddock, American wrestler (d. 1950)
• 1888 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and academic (d. 1965)
• 1890 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (d. 1933)
• 1891 – David Sarnoff, Belarusian-American journalist and businessman, founded RCA (d. 1971)
• 1892 – William Demarest, American actor and singer (d. 1983)
• 1895 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
• 1897 – Marian Anderson, American singer (d. 1993)
• 1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and academic (d. 1980)
• 1902 – Ethelda Bleibtrey, American swimmer (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Lúcio Costa, French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace (d. 1998)
• 1902 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1999)
• 1902 – John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1903 – Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1903 – Grethe Weiser, German actress and singer (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Reginald Gardiner, English-American actor (d. 1980)
• 1904 – James T. Farrell, American author and poet (d. 1979)
• 1904 – Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
• 1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996)
• 1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
• 1907 – Momčilo Đujić, Serbian-American priest and commander (d. 1999)
• 1909 – Väinö Myllyrinne, Finnish giant (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (d. 1993)
• 1910 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
• 1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Lawrence Durrell, Indian-French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1990)
• 1913 – Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish soldier and politician, President of Poland (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Irwin Shaw, American author and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian general, football player, and businessman (d. 2001)
• 1917 – John Connally, American lieutenant and politician, 61st United States Secretary of Treasury (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch historian, author, and scholar (d. 1977)
• 1923 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Samuel Dash, American lawyer and academic (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Hardrock Gunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer and actor (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Peter Whittle, New Zealand-English mathematician and theorist
• 1928 – Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian painter and sculptor (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Stefan Kudelski, Polish engineer, invented the Nagra (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Jovan Krkobabić, Serbian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Peter Stone, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2003)
• 1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
• 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 2011)
• 1932 – David Young, Baron Young of Graffham, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1933 – Raymond Berry, American football player and coach
• 1933 – Edward Lucie-Smith, British poet, author, and critic
• 1934 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
• 1934 – Tim Forster, English racehorse trainer (d. 1999)
• 1934 – N. Scott Momaday, American author and academic
• 1934 – Ralph Nader, American lawyer and politician
• 1935 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano and actress
• 1935 – Brian Heap, English biologist and academic
• 1935 – Uri Shulevitz, American author and illustrator
• 1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian footballer and coach
• 1936 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal
• 1937 – Barbara Babcock, American actress
• 1938 – Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Derek Ware, English actor and stuntman (d. 2015)
• 1939 – Don McKinnon, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1939 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (d. 1974)
• 1940 – Pierre Duchesne, Canadian politician, 28th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
• 1940 – Howard Hesseman, American actor
• 1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, English captain and politician
• 1942 – Jimmy Burns, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
• 1942 – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer (d. 2011)
• 1943 – Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer and conductor
• 1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1944 – Ken Grimwood, American author (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer and coach
• 1944 – Roger Scruton, English philosopher and author
• 1945 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
• 1947 – Alan Guth, American physicist and cosmologist
• 1947 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist and conductor
• 1949 – Istvan Banyai, Hungarian illustrator and animator
• 1949 – Rosalinda Galli, Italian voice actress
• 1949 – Robert Paterson, English bishop
• 1950 – Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, English rabbi and politician
• 1950 – Annabel Goldie, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1951 – Lee Atwater, American political activist and media consultant (d. 1991)
• 1951 – Steve Harley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cockney Rebel)
• 1951 – Janet Steinbeck, Australian swimmer
• 1952 – Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
• 1953 – Gavin Esler, Scottish journalist and author
• 1953 – Ian Khama, English-Botswanan lieutenant and politician, 4th President of Botswana
• 1953 – Yolande Moreau, Belgian actress and director
• 1954 – JoAnn Falletta, American conductor
• 1954 – Neal Schon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Journey, Santana, Bad English, and Hardline)
• 1955 – Peter Christopherson, English keyboard player, songwriter, and director (Coil and Throbbing Gristle) (d. 2010)
• 1957 – Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Robert de Castella, Australian runner
• 1957 – Adrian Smith, English guitarist and songwriter (Iron Maiden, ASAP, and Psycho Motel, and Urchin)
• 1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor
• 1958 – Naas Botha, South African rugby player
• 1958 – Max Crivello, Italian illustrator
• 1958 – Maggie Hassan, American lawyer and politician, 81st Governor of New Hampshire
• 1959 – Frédéric Durieux, French composer
• 1959 – Vardan Petrosyan, Armenian-French actor and screenwriter
• 1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Zant)
• 1960 – Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1960 – Paul Humphreys, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Listening Pool, and Onetwo)
• 1961 – George Kapiniaris, Australian comedian and actor
• 1961 – James Worthy, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1962 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
• 1962 – Robert Spencer, American author and blogger
• 1963 – Cynthia Layne, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1963 – Nasty Suicide, Finnish guitarist (Hanoi Rocks and The Suicide Twins)
• 1963 – Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
• 1964 – Todd Bodine, American race car driver
• 1964 – John Pyper-Ferguson, Australian-Canadian actor
• 1964 – Thomas Lange, German rower and physician
• 1964 – Jeffrey Pasley, professor of American history at the University of Missouri
• 1965 – Noah Emmerich, American actor
• 1965 – Pedro Chaves, Portuguese race car driver
• 1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor and director
• 1966 – Baltasar Kormákur, Icelandic actor, director, and producer
• 1967 – Dănuț Lupu, Romanian footballer
• 1968 – Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Stuart MacBride, Scottish author
• 1969 – Gareth Llewellyn, Welsh rugby player and coach
• 1970 – Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
• 1970 – Patricia Petibon, French coloratura soprano
• 1971 – Sara Blakely, American businesswoman, founded Spanx
• 1971 – Derren Brown, English magician and painter
• 1971 – Roman Giertych, Polish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
• 1971 – Rozonda Thomas, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC)
• 1973 – Peter Andre, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1973 – Ali Tabatabaee, Iranian-American singer-songwriter (Zebrahead)
• 1973 – Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby player and manager
• 1974 – Julie Andrieu, French radio and television host
• 1974 – Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer
• 1974 – Carte Goodwin, American lawyer and politician
• 1974 – Movlud Miraliyev, Uzbekistani-Azerbaijani martial artist
• 1975 – Nikita Gross, Czech-Russian porn actress and model
• 1975 – Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
• 1975 – Christopher B. Landon, American director and screenwriter
• 1975 – Eugenia Manolidou, Greek composer and conductor
• 1976 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player and sportscaster
• 1976 – Yukari Tamura, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1976 – Sergei Semak, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager
• 1977 – James Wan, Malaysian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – James Beattie, English footballer and manager
• 1978 – Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer
• 1978 – Emelie Öhrstig, Swedish skier and cyclist
• 1979 – Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (d. 2015)
• 1980 – Chelsea Clinton, American journalist
• 1980 – Scott Prince, Australian rugby league player
• 1980 – Bobby V, American singer-songwriter (Mista)
• 1981 – Evi Goffin, Belgian singer-songwriter (Lasgo)
• 1981 – Josh Groban, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1981 – Cameron Ling, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1981 – Élodie Ouédraogo, Belgian sprinter
• 1981 – Alessandro Rottoli, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Pat Richards, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Bruno Soares, Brazilian tennis player
• 1983 – Devin Harris, American basketball player
• 1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
• 1983 – Mohammed Nabbous, Libyan journalist (d. 2011)
• 1983 – Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
• 1984 – David Noel, American basketball player
• 1984 – Aníbal Sánchez, American baseball player
• 1984 – Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer
• 1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
• 1985 – Braydon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Vladislav Kulik, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
• 1985 – Brett Stewart, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 – Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player
• 1986 – Jonathan Moreira, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Sandeep Singh, Indian field hockey player
• 1987 – Djaïd Kasri, French-Algerian footballer
• 1987 – Kristian Marmor, Estonian footballer
• 1987 – Sandy Paillot, French footballer
• 1987 – Scott Davies, English footballer
• 1988 – Iain Ramsay, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – David Button, English footballer
• 1989 – Shota Shimizu, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Lloyd Rigby, English footballer
• 1991 – Misako Renbutsu, Japanese actress
• 1992 – Ty Dillon, American race car driver
• 1992 – Meyers Leonard, American basketball player
• 1992 – Ioannis Potouridis, Greek footballer
• 1992 – Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
• 1992 – Callum Wilson, English footballer
• 1993 – Alphonse Aréola, French-Filipino footballer
• 1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
• 1995 – Laura Gulbe, Latvian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 640 – Pepin of Landen, Frankish politician (b. 580)
• 956 – Theophylact of Constantinople (b. 917)
• 1659 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman and academic (b. 1609)
• 1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1625)
• 1702 – Münejjim Bashi, Ottoman astrologer, Sufi, and historian
• 1706 – John Evelyn, English gardener and author (b. 1620)
• 1720 – Samuel Parris, English-American minister (b. 1653)
• 1735 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician and polymath (b. 1667)
• 1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
• 1844 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and politician (b. 1786)
• 1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
• 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
• 1902 – Peter Handcock, Australian lieutenant (b. 1868)
• 1902 – Breaker Morant, English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
• 1928 – Jürgen Kröger, German architect (b. 1856)
• 1932 – William Southam, Canadian publisher (b. 1843)
• 1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
• 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
• 1937 – Emily Malbone Morgan, American saint, founded the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (b. 1862)
• 1941 – William D. Byron, American politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1956 – Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)
• 1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers) (b. 1942)
• 1969 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
• 1972 – Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 1973 – Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1978 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
• 1980 – George Tobias, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
• 1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
• 1985 – J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor and singer (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
• 1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Ukrainian-American scholar and theologian (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Josephine Johnson, American author and poet (b. 1910)
• 1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1998 – George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Horace Tapscott American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian, actor, and author (b. 1918)
• 2003 – John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Fred Rogers, American minister and television host (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian and academic (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and journalist (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Otis Chandler, American publisher (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American general and author (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Linda Smith, English comedian and author (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German general (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and journalist, founded the National Review (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Boyd Coddington, American motorcycle designer (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Myron Cope, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian educator and activist (b. 1916)
• 2011 – Frank Buckles, American soldier (b. 1901)
• 2011 – Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Duke Snider, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Gary Winick, American director and producer (b. 1961)
• 2011 – Frank Alesia, American actor and television director (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Vince Dantona, American ventriloquist (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Ma Jiyuan, Chinese general (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Tina Strobos, Dutch physician and psychiatrist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Helga Vlahović, Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Ramon Dekkers, Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1969)
• 2013 – Stéphane Hessel, German-French diplomat and author (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations and The Monitors) (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Adolfo Zaldívar, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960)
• 2014 – Tim Kehoe, American chemist and author (b. 1970)
• 2014 – Huber Matos, Cuban-American activist (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Terry Rand, American basketball player (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Julio César Strassera, Argentinian lawyer and jurist (b. 1933)