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• 12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
• 845 – Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra
• 961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
• 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
• 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
• 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
• 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
• 1834 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
• 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
• 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
• 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• 1902 – Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
• 1912 – Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
• 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• 1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
• 1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
• 1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops.
• 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
• 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
• 1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
• 1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
• 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
• 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
• 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1968 – The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
• 1968 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
• 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
• 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
• 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
• 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
• 1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority [but never all] of the country's mineworkers.
• 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
• 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
• 1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
• 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
• 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

Births[edit]

• 1340 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Belgian-English politician, Lord High Steward of Great Britain (d. 1399)
• 1405 – John II of Castile (d. 1454)
• 1459 – Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (d. 1525)
• 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)
• 1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (d. 1540)
• 1495 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and diplomat (d. 1556)
• 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (d. 1655)
• 1663 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop (d. 1732)
• 1706 – George Pocock, English admiral (d. 1792)
• 1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)
• 1724 – Henry Laurens, English-born American merchant and politician, 5th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1792)
• 1761 – Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat (d. 1828)
• 1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
• 1785 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1857)
• 1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1826)
• 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet and translator (d. 1861)
• 1812 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch Company (d. 1895)
• 1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
• 1818 – William Claflin, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
• 1823 – Charles I of Württemberg (d. 1891)
• 1831 – Philip Sheridan, Irish-American general (d. 1888)
• 1834 – George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (d. 1896)
• 1849 – Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (d. 1923)
• 1870 – Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor (d. 1954)
• 1871 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1937)
• 1872 – Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (d. 1938)
• 1872 – Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss composer (d. 1940)
• 1882 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (d. 1980)
• 1882 – Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer (d. 1956)
• 1884 – Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Ring Lardner, American author and journalist (d. 1933)
• 1886 – Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1983)
• 1891 – Lidia Quaranta, Italian actress (d. 1928)
• 1893 – Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
• 1895 – Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler (d. 1944)
• 1899 – U Ba Khin, Burmese Vipassanā meditation teacher (d. 1971)
• 1900 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975)
• 1900 – Henri Jeanson, French author and journalist (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress (d. 2001)
• 1903 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
• 1904 – José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960)
• 1905 – Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Lou Costello, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1959)
• 1909 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 1987)
• 1909 – Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and author (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Ejler Bille, Danish sculptor and painter (d. 2004)
• 1910 – Ella Logan, Scottish-American singer and actress (d. 1969)
• 1911 – George Webb, English actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Louise Latimer, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1914 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 2014)
• 1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian and comic actor (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Leslie Smith, English businessman, co-founded Lesney Products (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Olive Dickason, Canadian journalist and historian (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1921 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Piero Carini, Italian racing driver (d. 1957)
• 1923 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (Montgomery Brothers) (d. 1968)
• 1924 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer (d. 2013)
• 1924 – William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist, 14th Director of Central Intelligence
• 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist and politician
• 1926 – Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1927 – William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Norman Treigle, American actor and singer (d. 1975)
• 1929 – Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Jimmy Stewart, Scottish racing driver (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1933 – William Davis, German-English journalist and economist
• 1934 – John Noakes, English actor and television host
• 1934 – Red Simpson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
• 1934 – Keith Spicer, Canadian journalist and academic
• 1935 – Ron Delany, Irish runner and coach
• 1935 – Leonard Termo, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Marion Barry, American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer and producer (Mickey & Sylvia) (d. 2011)
• 1936 – Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos
• 1937 – Ivan Boesky, American businessman
• 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1938 – Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician, 17th Japanese Minister of Justice
• 1939 – Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri
• 1939 – Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria
• 1939 – Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (d. 2003)
• 1939 – Cookie Rojas, Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1940 – Ken Danby, Canadian painter (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Joanna Miles, French-born American actress
• 1940 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker
• 1941 – Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist and clarinet player (Last Exit)
• 1941 – Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (d. 1963)
• 1941 – Marilyn Strathern, Welsh anthropologist and academic
• 1942 – Ben Murphy, American actor
• 1942 – Flora Purim, Brazilian singer (Return to Forever)
• 1944 – Richard Corliss, American journalist and critic (d. 2015)
• 1944 – David Forbes Hendry, English economist and academic
• 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano and actress
• 1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer and actress (The Supremes)
• 1945 – Angelo Castro, Jr., Filipino actor and journalist (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Hugh Grundy, English drummer (The Zombies)
• 1946 – David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd)
• 1946 – Murray Head, English actor and singer
• 1946 – Martin Kove, American actor
• 1946 – Richard Noble, Scottish race car driver and businessman
• 1947 – Tony Badger, English historian and academic
• 1947 – Kiki Dee, English singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Killer Khan, Japanese wrestler and actor
• 1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 – Jean Seaton, English historian and academic
• 1947 – John Stossel, American journalist and author
• 1947 – Judy Loe, English actress
• 1948 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress, director, and producer
• 1948 – Stephen Schwartz, American composer and producer
• 1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1949 – Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1950 – Arthur Roche, English archbishop
• 1950 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
• 1952 – John David Carson, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1953 – Phil Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Blasters)
• 1953 – Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (d. 1992)
• 1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal
• 1953 – Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and academic
• 1954 – Joey DeMaio, American bass player and songwriter (Manowar)
• 1954 – Jeff Greenwald, American author, photographer, and monologist
• 1954 – Harald Schumacher, German footballer and manager
• 1955 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015)
• 1958 – Eddie Deezen, American actor
• 1959 – Tom Arnold, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Michael Carmine, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1959 – Chris Raschka, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Cecilia Heyes, English psychologist and academic
• 1962 – Erika Hess, Swiss skier
• 1962 – Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican-American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1963 – Suzanne Crough, American actress (d. 2015)
• 1963 – D. L. Hughley, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Forbidden, Slayer, Testament, and Systematic)
• 1964 – Skip Ewing, American singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Madonna Wayne Gacy, American keyboard player (Marilyn Manson)
• 1964 – Yvette Wilson, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1965 – Allan Bateman, Welsh rugby player
• 1965 – Jim Knight, English politician
• 1966 – Alan Davies, English comedian and actor
• 1967 – Julio Bocca, Argentinian ballet dancer and director
• 1967 – Connie Britton, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1967 – Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer
• 1967 – Oktay Mahmuti, Turkish professional basketball coach
• 1968 – Moira Kelly, American actress and director
• 1968 – Michael Romeo, American guitarist and songwriter (Symphony X)
• 1969 – Tari Phillips, American basketball player
• 1969 – Amy Pietz, American actress
• 1970 – Chris Broderick, American guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth and Jag Panzer)
• 1970 – Gretchen Barretto, Filipino actress and singer
• 1971 – Darrick Martin, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Val Venis, Canadian wrestler
• 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player, actor, and rapper
• 1972 – Jaret Reddick, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Bowling For Soup and People on Vacation)
• 1973 – Michael Finley, American basketball player
• 1973 – Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Opeth)
• 1973 – Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
• 1973 – Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Elbow)
• 1974 – Beanie Sigel, American rapper (State Property)
• 1975 – Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer
• 1975 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor
• 1976 – Ken Anderson, American wrestler and actor
• 1977 – Nantie Hayward, South African cricketer
• 1977 – Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Edna Stern, Belgian-Israeli pianist and educator
• 1977 – Marcus Thames, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 – Lara Cox, Australian actress
• 1978 – Sage Rosenfels, American football player
• 1978 – Chad Wicks, American wrestler
• 1978 – Mike Jackson, American politician
• 1979 – Clint Barmes, American baseball player
• 1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
• 1979 – David Flair, American wrestler
• 1979 – Rufus Hound, English comedian and actor
• 1979 – Tim Howard, American soccer player
• 1980 – Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor and producer
• 1980 – Kristina Triska, Swedish tennis player
• 1981 – Ellen Muth, American actress
• 1983 – Tommaso Berni, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
• 1984 – Becky, Japanese-English singer and actress
• 1984 – Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician
• 1984 – Chris Tomson, American drummer (Vampire Weekend)
• 1984 – Edmund Yeo, Singaporean-Malaysian director and producer
• 1985 – Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer
• 1985 – Yael Stone, Australian actress
• 1986 – Traphik, American rapper and actor
• 1986 – Jake Arrieta, American baseball player
• 1986 – Francisco Cervelli, Italian baseball player
• 1986 – Ross Detwiler, American baseball player
• 1986 – Danny Jones, English rugby player (d. 2015)
• 1986 – Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer
• 1987 – José Manuel Flores, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
• 1988 – Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
• 1988 – Isabelle Daza, Filipino actress
• 1988 – Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
• 1989 – Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player
• 1990 – Linn Haug, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1990 – Park Choa, South Korean singer and actress (AOA)
• 1990 – Kirk Urso, American soccer player (d. 2012)
• 1991 – Nicole Fox, American model and actress
• 1991 – Lex Luger, American keyboard player and producer (Low Pros)
• 1991 – Emma McDougall, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1991 – Tyler, The Creator, American rapper, producer, and actor (Odd Future)
• 1992 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese actress and singer (Berryz Kobo, ZYX, and Buono!)
• 1993 – Kristo Mangelsoo, Estonian basketball player
• 1993 – Misaki Momose, Japanese actress and entertainer
• 1993 – Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer
• 1994 – Nathan Redmond, English footballer
• 1995 – Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1995 – Annelies Törös, Belgian-Hungarian actress
• 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress

Deaths[edit]

• 766 – Chrodegang, Frankish bishop and saint
• 1052 – Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England, Denmark and Norway (b. c. 985)
• 1070 – Ulric I, Margrave of Carniola
• 1252 – Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
• 1490 – Ivan the Young, Russian son of Ivan III of Russia (b. 1458)
• 1531 – Pedro Arias Dávila, Spanish explorer and diplomat (b. 1440)
• 1616 – Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (b. 1584)
• 1658 – Ivan Bunić Vučić, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1591)
• 1754 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
• 1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1705)
• 1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1690)
• 1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French historian and author (b. 1713)
• 1836 – Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:
  • James Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
  • James Bowie, American colonel (b. 1796)
  • Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (b. 1786)
  • William B. Travis, American lieutenant and lawyer (b. 1809)
• 1842 – Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1763)
• 1854 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and diplomat (b. 1778)
• 1860 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
• 1866 – William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1794)
• 1867 – Charles Farrar Browne, American-English author and educator (b. 1834)
• 1881 – Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1801)
• 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (b. 1832)
• 1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and feminist (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (b. 1875)
• 1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b. 1834)
• 1905 – John Henninger Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1818)
• 1917 – Valdemar Psilander Danish actor (b. 1884)
• 1919 – Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (b. 1882)
• 1920 – Ömer Seyfettin, Turkish author and educator (b. 1884)
• 1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
• 1933 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)
• 1935 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor (b. 1895)
• 1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1852)
• 1941 – Francis Aveling, Canadian psychologist and Roman Catholic priest (b. 1875)
• 1941 – Gutzon Borglum, Danish-American sculptor, designed Mount Rushmore (b. 1867)
• 1947 – İhsan Eryavuz, Ottoman Army officer and Turkish politician (b. 1867)
• 1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American author, poet, and academic (b. 1914)
• 1950 – Albert François Lebrun, French politician, 15th President of France (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1893)
• 1951 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1880)
• 1952 – Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1955 – Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani statesman, scholar, public figure and the first and only president of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (b. 1884)
• 1959 – Fred Stone, American actor (b. 1873)
• 1961 – George Formby, English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian (b. 1904)
• 1961 – Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1964 – Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
• 1964 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1967 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)
• 1967 – Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1967 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
• 1970 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1971 – Thurston Dart, English keyboard player and conductor (b. 1921)
• 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Arapeta Awatere, New Zealand interpreter, military leader, maori welfare officer, politician, and murderer (b. 1910)
• 1976 – Mary Petty, American illustrator (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
• 1977 – Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Dennis Viollet, English-American soccer player and manager (b. 1933)
• 1981 – George Geary, English cricketer and coach (b. 1893)
• 1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (b. 1961)
• 1984 – Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (b. 1893)
• 1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor and producer (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b. 1887)
• 1988 – Mairéad Farrell, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Daniel McCann, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Seán Savage, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Michael Manley, Jamaican soldier, pilot, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Ursula Torday, English author (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (b. 1933)
• 1999 – Graham Armitage, English actor (b. 1936)
• 2000 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
• 2002 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
• 2004 – Hercules, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Frances Dee, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Tommy Vance, English radio host (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Anne Braden, American activist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Dana Reeve, American actress, singer, and activist (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Allen Coage, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Pierre Moinot, French author (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1964)
• 2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean businesswoman (b. 1959)
• 2010 – Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sparklehorse) (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Betty Millard, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Louis J. Michot, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Donald M. Payne, American businessman and politician (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Helen Walulik, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr.) (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Norman King, English admiral (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ten Years After) (b. 1944)
• 2013 – W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Frank Jobe, American surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Sheila MacRae, English-born American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (b. 1949)
• 2015 – Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican-American basketball player and politician (b. 1926)