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• 193 – The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
• 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
• 1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
• 1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
• 1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
• 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
• 1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
• 1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
• 1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
• 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
• 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
• 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
• 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
• 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
• 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
• 1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
• 1831 – James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the Magnetic North Pole.
• 1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
• 1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Court House: The first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
• 1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
• 1879 – Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
• 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
• 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
• 1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
• 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
• 1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 1921 – Tulsa race riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
• 1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
• 1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
• 1941 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
• 1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
• 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
• 1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
• 1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
• 1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
• 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
• 1962 – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
• 1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
• 1967 – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released.
• 1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
• 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
• 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
• 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
• 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
• 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
• 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
• 2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
• 2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
• 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
• 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
• 2014 – A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.
• 2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

Births[edit]

• 1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
• 1134 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
• 1300 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English politician, Lord Marshal of England (d. 1338)
• 1455 – Anne of Savoy (d. 1480)
• 1480 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
• 1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German knight (d. 1567)
• 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Secretary of State for England (d. 1612)
• 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1687)
• 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
• 1653 – Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (d. 1704)
• 1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright (d. 1755)
• 1754 – Ferdinand, Duke of Breisgau (d. 1806)
• 1762 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish priest and missionary, founded the Irish Christian Brothers (d. 1844)
• 1770 – Friedrich Laun, German author (d. 1849)
• 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1836)
• 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (d. 1832)
• 1800 – Edward Deas Thomson, Australian educator and politician, Chief Secretary of New South Wales (d. 1879)
• 1801 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1877)
• 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
• 1815 – Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
• 1819 – Francis V, Duke of Modena (d. 1875)
• 1825 – John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)
• 1831 – John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879)
• 1833 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General of Kentucky (d. 1911)
• 1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish physician and missionary, developed fingerprinting (d. 1930)
• 1844 – John J. Toffey, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1911)
• 1878 – John Masefield, English author and poet (d. 1967)
• 1879 – Max Emmerich, American triathlete and gymnast (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan businessman and politician, Mayor of Chișinău (d. 1940)
• 1889 – James Daugherty, American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1974)
• 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
• 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager (d. 1990)
• 1901 – Raymond Souplex, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
• 1901 – John Van Druten, English-American playwright and director (d. 1957)
• 1903 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Robert Newton, English-American actor (d. 1956)
• 1907 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, developed the jet engine (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (d. 1999)
• 1909 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-Israeli philologist and linguist (d. 1971)
• 1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (d. 2007)
• 1915 – John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1917 – William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Robert Clarke, American actor and producer (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (d. 1991)
• 1922 – Joan Copeland, American actress
• 1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Barry Till, English priest, author, and academic (d. 2013)
• 1924 – William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (d. 2006)
• 1924 – John Tooley, English director and manager
• 1925 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan poet and educator
• 1925 – Hazel Dickens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Marie Knight, American singer (d. 2009)
• 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (d. 1962)
• 1926 – Richard Schweiker, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1928 – Steve Dodd, Australian actor and composer (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
• 1929 – James H. Billington, American librarian and academic
• 1930 – John Lemmon, English logician and philosopher (d. 1966)
• 1930 – Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Matt Poore, New Zealand cricketer
• 1930 – Edward Woodward, English actor (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Hal Smith, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Frank Cameron, New Zealand cricketer
• 1932 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (d. 1994)
• 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
• 1933 – Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1934 – Peter Masterson, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• 1934 – Ken McElroy, American criminal (d. 1981)
• 1935 – Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect, founded Foster and Partners
• 1935 – Reverend Ike, American minister and television host (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Jack Kralick, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1935 – John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1936 – André Bourbeau, Canadian politician
• 1936 – Bekim Fehmiu, Bosnian-Serbian actor (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Gerald Scarfe, English illustrator and animator
• 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer
• 1937 – Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress and singer
• 1937 – Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist, author, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (d. 1981)
• 1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1940 – René Auberjonois, American actor
• 1940 – Katerina Gogou, Greek actress and poet (d. 1993)
• 1940 – Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1941 – Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
• 1941 – Edo de Waart, Dutch conductor and director
• 1941 – Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira
• 1941 – Wayne Kemp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
• 1941 – Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer
• 1942 – Bruce George, Welsh politician
• 1942 – Parveen Kumar, Pakistani-English physician and academic
• 1942 – Paco Peña, Spanish guitarist and composer
• 1943 – Richard Goode, American pianist
• 1943 – David Newbery, English economist and academic
• 1943 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Colin Blakemore, English neurobiologist and academic
• 1944 – Robert Powell, English actor
• 1945 – Jim McCarty, American blues rock guitarist (Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels)
• 1945 – Brian Oldfield, American shot putter
• 1945 – Linda Scott, American singer
• 1945 – Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Kerry Vincent, Australian chef and author
• 1945 – Frederica von Stade, American soprano and actress
• 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor and singer
• 1946 – Jody Stecher, American singer
• 1947 – Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded the McLaren Group
• 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor and singer
• 1947 – Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones, The Faces, The Jeff Beck Group, The Birds, and The Creation)
• 1948 – Joe Andrew, English author and academic
• 1948 – Powers Boothe, American actor
• 1948 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Tom Sneva, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1948 – Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor (d. 1995)
• 1950 – Charlene, American singer
• 1950 – Perrin Beatty, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1950 – Jean Lambert, English educator and politician
• 1950 – Michael McDowell, American author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Wayne Nelson, American singer and bass player (Little River Band)
• 1950 – Tom Robinson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Sector 27 and Tom Robinson Band)
• 1951 – Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, English actress and author
• 1952 – Şenol Güneş, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1952 – David Lan, South African-English director and playwright
• 1952 – Mihaela Loghin, Romanian shot putter
• 1953 – Timothy Bentinck, Australian-English actor
• 1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer
• 1953 – Ronnie Dunn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brooks & Dunn)
• 1953 – Ted Field, American entrepreneur and racing driver
• 1954 – Jill Black, English lawyer and judge
• 1955 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1955 – Lorraine Moller, New Zealand runner
• 1955 – Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (d. 2008)
• 1956 – Lisa Hartman Black, American actress and singer
• 1956 – Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish criminal (d. 1996)
• 1956 – Robin Mattson, American actress
• 1957 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish director and screenwriter
• 1958 – Ahron Bregman, Israeli-English political scientist and journalist
• 1958 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
• 1958 – Gennadiy Valyukevich, Belarusian triple jumper
• 1959 – Martin Brundle, English race car driver and sportscaster
• 1959 – John Pullinger, English statistician and librarian
• 1959 – Alan Wilder, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
• 1960 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1960 – Sergey Kuznetsov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1960 – Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician, 8th Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Mark Curry, American actor
• 1961 – Werner Günthör, Swiss shot putter and bobsledder
• 1961 – John Huston, American golfer
• 1961 – Peter Machajdík, Slovakian-German pianist and composer
• 1963 – Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths and Buzzcocks)
• 1963 – Miles J. Padgett, Scottish physicist and academic
• 1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian skier
• 1965 – Olga Nazarova, Russian sprinter
• 1965 – Nigel Short, English chess player and journalist
• 1966 – Greg Schiano, American football player and coach
• 1967 – Roger Sanchez, American DJ and producer
• 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
• 1968 – Mark Gonzales, American skateboarder
• 1968 – Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Susan Jones, Welsh politician
• 1968 – Yui Natsukawa, Japanese actress
• 1968 – Mathias Rust, German pilot
• 1969 – Rene Liu, Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1969 – Teri Polo, American actress
• 1969 – Richard Murrian, American photographer
• 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1970 – R. Madhavan, Indian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
• 1970 – Paul Schrier, American actor and director
• 1971 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor and singer
• 1971 – DJ Nihal, English radio and television host
• 1972 – Huáscar Aparicio, Bolivian singer (d. 2013)
• 1972 – Daniel Casey, English actor
• 1972 – Mike Dunham, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 – Mindy Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Frédérik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
• 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor
• 1973 – Derek Lowe, American baseball player
• 1973 – Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer
• 1974 – Ashok Jadeja, Indian criminal
• 1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
• 1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
• 1974 – Sarah Teather, English politician
• 1974 – Akis Zikos, Greek footballer and coach
• 1975 – Michal Grošek, Czech-Swiss ice hockey player and coach
• 1975 – Ēriks Rags, Latvian javelin thrower
• 1976 – Marlon Devonish, English sprinter and coach
• 1976 – Kōhei Murakami, Japanese actor
• 1977 – Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 – Hasna Benhassi, Moroccan runner
• 1978 – Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high jumper
• 1978 – Matthew Hittinger, American poet and author
• 1979 – Santana Moss, American football player
• 1979 – Markus Persson, Swedish game designer, founded Mojang
• 1980 – Oliver James, English actor and singer
• 1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – Smush Parker, American basketball player
• 1981 – Amy Schumer, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
• 1983 – Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko, Ukrainian runner
• 1983 – Tõnis Sahk, Estonian long jumper
• 1984 – David Neville, American sprinter
• 1984 – Olivier Tielemans, Dutch race car driver
• 1985 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
• 1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
• 1985 – Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer
• 1985 – Tanel Leok, Estonian motocross racer
• 1985 – Nick Young, American basketball player
• 1985 – Sam Young, American basketball player
• 1985 – L.A. Lopez, Filipino actor and singer
• 1986 – Skream, English DJ and producer (Magnetic Man)
• 1986 – Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner
• 1986 – Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan model, Miss Universe 2008
• 1986 – Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer
• 1986 – Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
• 1987 – Jerel McNeal, American basketball player
• 1987 – Johan Santos, Filipino actor
• 1987 – Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1988 – Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
• 1989 – Brooklyn Lee, American porn actress
• 1989 – Sammy Alex Mutahi, Kenyan runner
• 1990 – Kennie Chopart, Danish footballer
• 1990 – Rie Murakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1990 – Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer
• 1990 – Kieren Emery, German-English rower
• 1990 – Misha Fisenko, Russian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Roman Josi, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1990 – Martin Pembleton, English footballer
• 1990 – Bianca Perie, Romanian hammer thrower
• 1991 – Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 – Jenna McDougall, Australian singer-songwriter (Tonight Alive)
• 1992 – Kira Plastinina, Russian fashion designer
• 1995 – Carlos Castro García, Spanish footballer
• 1996 – Tom Holland, English actor
• 2000 – Willow Shields, American actress
• 2004 – Miyu Honda, Japanese actress

Deaths[edit]

• 195 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han (b. 256 BC)
• 193 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (b. 133)
• 1432 – Dan II of Wallachia
• 1434 – Władysław II Jagiełło, Polish husband of Jadwiga of Poland (b. 1351)
• 1571 – John Story, English martyr (b. 1504)
• 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
• 1625 – Honoré d'Urfé, French author and poet (b. 1568)
• 1639 – Melchior Franck, German composer (b. 1579)
• 1660 – Mary Dyer, English-American martyr (b. 1611)
• 1662 – Zhu Youlang, Chinese emperor (b. 1623)
• 1710 – David Mitchell, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1642)
• 1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
• 1769 – Edward Holyoke, American pastor and academic (b. 1689)
• 1795 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744)
• 1815 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1753)
• 1823 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1770)
• 1826 – J. F. Oberlin, French pastor and philanthropist (b. 1740)
• 1830 – Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (b. 1781)
• 1841 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter and academic (b. 1785)
• 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
• 1861 – John Quincy Marr, American captain (b. 1825)
• 1864 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel, led the Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)
• 1868 – James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
• 1872 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (b. 1795)
• 1873 – Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and journalist (b. 1848)
• 1879 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
• 1908 – Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
• 1927 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
• 1927 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist, and scholar (b. 1861)
• 1934 – Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b. 1867)
• 1935 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general (d. 1857)
• 1938 – Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)
• 1941 – Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (b. 1873)
• 1941 – Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (b. 1884)
• 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1943 – Wilfrid Israel, English-German businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
• 1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
• 1947 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, singer, and director (b. 1868)
• 1948 – Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• 1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1914)
• 1952 – John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1953 – Emanuel Vidović, Croatian painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1954 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish-German journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1955 – Kathleen Pelham-Clinton, Duchess of Newcastle (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Luisa Casati, Italian eccentric, artistic muse, and patron of the arts (b. 1881)
• 1959 – Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
• 1960 – Paula Hitler, Austrian-German sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
• 1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach, founded the Green Bay Packers (b. 1898)
• 1966 – Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1873)
• 1968 – Helen Keller, American author and activist (b. 1880)
• 1968 – André Laurendeau, Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1904)
• 1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Tadeusz Olsza, Polish actor (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
• 1980 – Arthur Nielsen, American businessman, founded the ACNielsen company (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Carl Vinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1883)
• 1982 – Einar Juhl, Danish actor (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Richard Greene, English actor and soldier (b. 1918)
• 1986 – Jo Gartner, Austrian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1987 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer, designed the Ferrari Lampredi engine (b. 1917)
• 1991 – David Ruffin, American singer and drummer (The Temptations) (b. 1941)
• 1994 – Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Aishwarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
• 2001 – Dhirendra of Nepal (b. 1950)
• 2001 – Prince Nirajan of Nepal (b. 1978)
• 2001 – Princess Shruti of Nepal (b. 1976)
• 2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
• 2004 – William Manchester, American historian and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Hilda Crosby Standish, American physician (b. 1902)
• 2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Arn Shein, American journalist (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician, 17th Justice Minister of Israel (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, founded Saint Laurent Paris (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Thomas Berry, American priest and theologian (b. 1914)
• 2009 – Bob Christie, American racing driver (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Vincent O'Brien, Irish horse trainer (b. 1917)
• 2010 – William H. Ginn Jr., American general (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
• 2010 – Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Haleh Sahabi, Iranian humanitarian and activist (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Faruq Z. Bey, American saxophonist and composer (Griot Galaxy) (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Milan Gaľa, Slovak politician (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Oliver Bernard, English poet and translator (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Mott Green, American businessman (b. 1966)
• 2013 – Bill Gunston, English pilot and author (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Ian P. Howard, English-Canadian psychologist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2013 – James Kelleher, Canadian lawyer and politician, 33rd Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Edward Cornelius Reed Jr., American sergeant and judge (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Jay Lake, American author (b. 1964)
• 2014 – Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian sailor (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Hugo White, English admiral and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and politician (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Jacques Parizeau, Canadian economist and politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)