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• 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
• 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
• 1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
• 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
• 1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
• 1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
• 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
• 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
• 1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
• 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
• 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
• 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
• 1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
• 1930 – The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
• 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
• 1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
• 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
• 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
• 1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
• 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
• 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• 1952 – Occupied Japan by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
• 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
• 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
• 1975 – General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
• 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
• 1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
• 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
• 1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
• 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
• 1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
• 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
• 1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
• 2001 – Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

Births[edit]

• 32 – Otho, Roman emperor (d. 69 AD)
• 1442 – Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
• 1545 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean commander (d. 1598)
• 1630 – Charles Cotton, English poet and author (d. 1687)
• 1652 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1712)
• 1686 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
• 1715 – Franz Sparry, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1767)
• 1758 – James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
• 1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)
• 1819 – Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (d. 1884)
• 1827 – William Hall, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1904)
• 1838 – Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1913)
• 1848 – Ludvig Schytte, Danish pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1909)
• 1854 – Hertha Marks Ayrton, British engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (d. 1923)
• 1855 – José Malhoa, Portuguese painter (d. 1933)
• 1863 – Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1933)
• 1865 – Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist and academic (d. 1940)
• 1868 – Lucy Booth, English composer (d. 1953)
• 1868 – Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1945)
• 1868 – Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1908)
• 1874 – Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
• 1874 – Sidney Toler, American actor and director (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Nicola Romeo, Italian engineer and businessman (d. 1938)
• 1878 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor and director (d. 1954)
• 1886 – Art Shaw, American hurdler (d. 1955)
• 1888 – Walter Tull, English footballer and soldier (d. 1918)
• 1889 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)
• 1897 – Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Heinrich Müller, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1900 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992)
• 1901 – Henry Stallard, English runner and surgeon (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor and philanthropist (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Ethel Catherwood, American-Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Jack Fingleton, Australian cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster (d. 1981)
• 1908 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American theologist and orientalist (d. 1988)
• 1910 – Sam Merwin, Jr., American author (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Lee Falk, American director, producer, and playwright (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Odette Hallowes, French soldier and spy (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Kaneto Shindō, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1912 – József Sir, Hungarian sprinter (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Philip E. High, English author (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, created Lamborghini (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Robert Cornthwaite, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Rowland Evans, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Carolyn Cassady, American author (d. 2013)
• 1923 – William Guarnere, American sergeant (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist, (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, 1st President of Zambia
• 1925 – T. John Lesinski, American judge and politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1996)
• 1925 – John Leonard Thorn, English lieutenant, author, and academic
• 1926 – Bill Blackbeard, American historian and author (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Harper Lee, American author (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Hulusi Sayın, Turkish general (d. 1991)
• 1928 – Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
• 1928 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist and astronomer (d. 1997)
• 1930 – James Baker, American lawyer and politician, 61st United States Secretary of State
• 1930 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
• 1930 – Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Alf Valentine, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1933 – Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian-American neuropharmacologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Lois Duncan, American journalist and author
• 1934 – Diane Johnson, American-French author and screenwriter
• 1935 – Jimmy Wray, Scottish boxer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)
• 1937 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Jean Redpath, Scottish-American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1937 – John White, Scottish footballer (d. 1964)
• 1938 – Fred Dibnah, English steeplejack and television personality (d. 2004)
• 1938 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)
• 1941 – Ann-Margret, Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1941 – Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
• 1941 – John Madejski, English businessman and academic
• 1941 – Nico Mastorakis, Greek director and producer
• 1941 – Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet and author (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Mike Brearley, English cricketer and psychoanalyst
• 1943 – Jacques Dutronc, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1943 – Yoav Talmi, Israeli composer and conductor
• 1943 – Jeffrey Tate, English conductor
• 1944 – Elizabeth LeCompte, American director and producer
• 1944 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician, 10th Minister-President of the Walloon Region
• 1944 – Alice Waters, American chef and author
• 1946 – Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor and producer (d. 2015)
• 1946 – Ginette Reno, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1946 – Larissa Grunig, American theorist and activist
• 1947 – Christian Jacq, French historian and author
• 1947 – Nicola LeFanu, English composer and academic
• 1948 – Dorothée Berryman, Canadian actress and singer
• 1948 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Jeremy Cooke, English lawyer and judge
• 1949 – Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
• 1949 – Bruno Kirby, American actor and director (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle rider and engineer (d. 2004)
• 1950 – Willie Colón, Puerto Rican trombonist and producer (Fania All-Stars)
• 1950 – Jay Leno, American comedian, talk show host, and producer
• 1950 – Steve Rider, English journalist and sportscaster
• 1951 – Tim Congdon, English economist and politician
• 1951 – Larry Smith, Canadian football player and politician
• 1951 – Silvi Vrait, Estonian singer and pianist (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Chuck Leavell, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Allman Brothers Band and Sea Level)
• 1952 – Mary McDonnell, American actress
• 1953 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author and poet (d. 2003)
• 1953 – Kim Gordon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, and Free Kitten)
• 1953 – Brian Greenhoff, English footballer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Timothy Curley, American educator
• 1954 – Michael P. Jackson, American politician, 3rd Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
• 1954 – Vic Sotto, Filipino actor and producer
• 1954 – Ron Zook, American football player and coach
• 1955 – Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington
• 1955 – Nicky Gumbel, English priest and author
• 1955 – Eddie Jobson, English keyboardist and violinist (Curved Air, Roxy Music, U.K. (band), Jethro Tull (band))
• 1955 – Dieter Rubach, German bassist and producer (Accept and U.D.O.)
• 1956 – Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cold Chisel, Fraternity, and Living Loud)
• 1957 – Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
• 1958 – Nancy Lee Grahn, American actress
• 1958 – Rosanna Scotto, American journalist and actress
• 1958 – Hal Sutton, American golfer
• 1959 – Dainis Kūla, Latvian javelin thrower
• 1959 – Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2011)
• 1960 – Steven Blum, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – John Cerutti, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2004)
• 1960 – Elena Kagan, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1960 – Phil King, English bass player (Lush and The Jesus and Mary Chain)
• 1960 – Ian Rankin, Scottish author
• 1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman and weightlifter (d. 1993)
• 1960 – Walter Zenga, Italian footballer and manager
• 1963 – Sandrine Dumas, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1963 – Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist and academic
• 1964 – Stephen Ames, Trinidadian golfer
• 1964 – Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
• 1964 – Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, English surgeon and academic
• 1964 – Barry Larkin, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1964 – L'Wren Scott, American model and fashion designer (d. 2014)
• 1964 – Lady Helen Taylor, English daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
• 1965 – Jennifer Rardin, American author (d. 2010)
• 1966 – John Daly, American golfer
• 1966 – Too Short, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1967 – Chris White, English engineer and politician
• 1968 – Howard Donald, English singer-songwriter and producer (Take That)
• 1968 – Andy Flower, South African-English cricketer and coach
• 1968 – Scott Putesky, American guitarist (Marilyn Manson and Jack Off Jill)
• 1970 – Richard Fromberg, Australian tennis player
• 1970 – Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player and scout
• 1970 – Diego Simeone, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1971 – Brad McEwan, Australian journalist
• 1971 – Thomas Pendelton, American tattoo artist
• 1972 – Anita Anand, English journalist and producer
• 1972 – Violent J, American rapper, producer, wrestler, and actor (Insane Clown Posse, Dark Lotus, and Psychopathic Rydas)
• 1972 – Helena Tulve, Estonian composer
• 1972 – Jean-Paul van Gastel, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1973 – Jorge Garcia, American actor and producer
• 1973 – Earl Holmes, American football player and coach
• 1973 – Andrew Mehrtens, South African-New Zealand rugby player
• 1973 – Francisco Palencia, Mexican footballer
• 1973 – Elisabeth Röhm, German-American actress
• 1973 – Serge Zwikker, Dutch-American basketball player
• 1974 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and producer
• 1974 – Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1974 – Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
• 1974 – Vernon Kay, English radio and television host
• 1974 – Dominic Matteo, Scottish footballer and journalist
• 1976 – Shane Jurgensen, Australian cricketer
• 1978 – Lauren Laverne, English singer and television host
• 1978 – Nate Richert, American musician and actor
• 1979 – Scott Fujita, American football player and sportscaster
• 1979 – Roman Rasskazov, Russian race walker
• 1980 – Noriko Eguchi, Japanese actress
• 1980 – Karolina Gočeva, Macedonian singer
• 1980 – Josh Howard, American basketball player
• 1980 – Bradley Wiggins, Belgian-English cyclist
• 1981 – Jessica Alba, American model and actress
• 1981 – Alex Riley, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1981 – Pietro Travagli, Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Nikki Grahame, English model and journalist
• 1982 – Chris Kaman, American basketball player
• 1982 – Harry Shum, Jr., Costa Rican-American actor and dancer
• 1983 – Josh Brookes, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1983 – Roger Johnson, English footballer
• 1983 – Thomas Waldrom, New Zealand-English rugby player
• 1984 – Dmitri Torbinski, Russian footballer
• 1984 – Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Japanese voice actor, actor, and singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Lucas Jakubczyk, German sprinter and long jumper
• 1985 – Deividas Stagniūnas, Lithuanian ice dancer
• 1986 – Abdullah Al-Qasabi, Omani footballer
• 1986 – David Krejčí, Czech ice hockey player
• 1986 – Jennifer Palm Lundberg, Swedish model, Miss World Sweden 2008
• 1986 – Roman Polák, Czech ice hockey player
• 1986 – Jenna Ushkowitz, South Korean-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1987 – Ryan Conroy, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – Bradley Johnson, English footballer
• 1987 – Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer
• 1988 – Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
• 1988 – Juan Manuel Mata, Spanish footballer
• 1988 – Katariina Tuohimaa, Finnish tennis player
• 1989 – Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1989 – Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer (Infinite)
• 1990 – Nadia Lalami, Moroccan tennis player
• 1990 – Mario Meraz, Mexican boxer
• 1990 – Niels-Peter Mørck, Danish footballer
• 1991 – Jordan Robinson, English footballer
• 1992 – Lacey Banghard, English model
• 1993 – Craig Garvey, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 – Jonathan Benteke, Belgium footballer
• 1995 – Melanie Martinez, American singer-songwriter

Deaths[edit]

• 224 – Artabanus V of Parthia (b. 191)
• 1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (b. 1140)
• 1489 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1449)
• 1533 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
• 1643 – Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese politician (b. 1578)
• 1710 – Thomas Betterton, English actor and manager (b. 1630)
• 1716 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (b. 1673)
• 1726 – Thomas Pitt, English merchant and politician (b. 1653)
• 1740 – Bajirao I, Indian ruler (b. 1700)
• 1741 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (b. 1668)
• 1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and politician (b. 1737)
• 1781 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (b. 1723)
• 1813 – Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
• 1816 – Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1762)
• 1841 – Peter Chanel, French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1803)
• 1853 – Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (b. 1773)
• 1858 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)
• 1865 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (b. 1787)
• 1881 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)
• 1883 – John Russell, English hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
• 1902 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819)
• 1905 – Fitzhugh Lee, American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (b. 1835)
• 1929 – Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (b. 1879)
• 1934 – Charley Patton, American singer and guitarist (b. 1887)
• 1936 – Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
• 1944 – Mohammed Alim Khan, Manghud ruler (b. 1880)
• 1944 – Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874)
• 1945 – Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Hermann Fegelein, German general (b. 1906)
• 1945 – Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. 1912)
• 1946 – Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
• 1949 – Aurora Quezon, Filipino wife of Manuel Quezon, 2nd First Lady of the Philippines (b. 1888)
• 1954 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1956 – Fred Marriott, American racing driver (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1960 – Turan Emeksiz, Turkish student (b. 1940)
• 1963 – Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer (b. 1928)
• 1976 – Richard Hughes, American author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Sepp Herberger, German footballer and coach (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Tommy Caldwell, American bass player (The Marshall Tucker Band) (b. 1949)
• 1981 – Steve Currie, English bass player (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
• 1987 – Ben Linder, American engineer and activist (b. 1959)
• 1988 – B. W. Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
• 1991 – Steve Broidy, American film producer (b. 1905)
• 1991 – Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (Sons of the Pioneers) (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Iceberg Slim, American pimp and author (b. 1918)
• 1993 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Lester Sumrall, American minister, founded LeSEA (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Ann Petry, American novelist (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
• 1999 – Rory Calhoun, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (b. 1950)
• 2002 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
• 2005 – Percy Heath, American bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Vern Gosdin, American singer (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Richard Pratt, Polish-Australian businessman (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Al Ecuyer, American football player (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Patricia Medina, English actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Milan N. Popović, Serbian psychiatrist and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Ervin Zádor, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Brad Lesley, American baseball player and actor (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Fredrick McKissack, American author (b. 1939)
• 2013 – John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2013 – János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Bernie Wood, New Zealand journalist and author (b. 1939)
• 2014 – William Honan, American journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (b. 1981)
• 2015 – Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian actor and director (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Jack Ely, American singer and guitarist (The Kingsmen) (b. 1943)
• 2015 – Ashura Hara, Japanese rugby player and wrestler (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Michael J. Ingelido, American general (b. 1916)