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• 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
• 565 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
• 1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
• 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
• 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
• 1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
• 1642 – Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
• 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
• 1711 – Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais.
• 1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
• 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
• 1777 – British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
• 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
• 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
• 1795 – The Constitution of the Year III is ratified by the National Convention
• 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the Irish Rebellion.
• 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
• 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of about 60 whites and approximately 250 blacks.
• 1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
• 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
• 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
• 1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.
• 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
• 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
• 1932 – The BBC begins television broadcasting using John Logie Baird's system.
• 1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
• 1941 – World War II: German troops begins the Siege of Leningrad.
• 1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
• 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
• 1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
• 1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
• 1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1961 – Ida Siekmann dies attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
• 1962 – The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
• 1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).
• 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
• 1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
• 1978 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• 1984 – PC Brian Bishop a British police officer is shot in the head by an armed robber in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. He dies from his injuries five days later.
• 1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
• 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
• 1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
• 1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing a major shift in US welfare policy
• 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
• 2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
• 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. The combined run total is also Major League record.
• 2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
• 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

Births[edit]

• 1412 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1464)
• 1601 – Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1667)
• 1624 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French author and poet (d. 1701)
• 1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)
• 1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
• 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
• 1764 – Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer (d. 1838)
• 1771 – Henry Maudslay, English engineer (d. 1831)
• 1773 – Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer (d. 1858)
• 1778 – James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1860)
• 1800 – William S. Harney, American general (d. 1889)
• 1800 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1865)
• 1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1906)
• 1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1906)
• 1836 – Archibald Willard, American soldier and painter (d. 1918)
• 1845 – William Lewis Douglas, American businessman and politician, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
• 1848 – Melville Elijah Stone, American publisher, founded the Chicago Daily News (d. 1929)
• 1854 – Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901)
• 1857 – Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
• 1860 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (d. 1917)
• 1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)
• 1867 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
• 1873 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
• 1874 – Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (d. 1928)
• 1880 – Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
• 1882 – Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot (d. 1919)
• 1887 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1977)
• 1890 – Cecil Kellaway, South African-American actor and singer (d. 1973)
• 1891 – Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (d. 1983)
• 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1893 – Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977)
• 1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (d. 1967)
• 1895 – László Almásy, Hungarian captain, pilot, and explorer (d. 1951)
• 1895 – Paul Comtois, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966)
• 1897 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (d. 1965)
• 1898 – Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Thomas Pelly, American lawyer and politician (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, film director and propagandist (d. 2003)
• 1902 – Edward Rowe Snow, American historian and author (d. 1982)
• 1903 – Jerry Iger, American cartoonist, co-founded Eisner & Iger (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Mel Hein, American football player and coach (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
• 1913 – Leonard Pagliero, English businessman and pilot (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Jack Dunphy, American author and playwright (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Connie B. Gay, American businessman, co-founded the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (d. 1989)
• 1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)
• 1915 – James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, co-designed the electron microscope (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile (d. 2005)
• 1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Mary McGrory, American journalist and author (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Denton Cooley, American soldier and surgeon
• 1921 – Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Tony Pawson, English cricketer, footballer, and journalist (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Micheline Presle, French actress
• 1924 – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (d. 2015)
• 1924 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
• 1925 – Honor Blackman, English actress and singer
• 1926 – Marc Bohan, French fashion designer
• 1926 – Bob Flanigan, American tenor singer (The Four Freshmen) (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, Turkish poet and author (d. 1984)
• 1928 – Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean academic and diplomat
• 1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Valery Alekseyev, Russian anthropologist and author (d. 1991)
• 1929 – Ulrich Wegener, German police officer and general
• 1930 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut
• 1933 – Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Annie Proulx, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
• 1936 – Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1936 – John Callaway, American journalist and producer (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the maverick roller coaster
• 1938 – Jean Berkey, American businesswoman and politician (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Paul Maguire, American football player and sportscaster
• 1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress
• 1939 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
• 1940 – Bill McCartney, American football player and coach, founded Promise Keepers
• 1941 – Bill Parcells, American football player and coach
• 1942 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and author (d. 1993)
• 1943 – Alun Michael, Welsh police officer and politician, 1st First Minister of Wales
• 1943 – Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist and engineer, co-designed the Intel 4004
• 1944 – Roger Cashmore, English physicist and academic
• 1945 – David Chase, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Ron Dante, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Archies, The Cuff Links, and The Detergents)
• 1945 – Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
• 1947 – Donna Jean Godchaux, American singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, and Jerry Garcia Band, and Donna Jean Godchaux Band)
• 1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress and producer
• 1948 – David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys and Delaney & Bonnie)
• 1949 – Doug Bair, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author
• 1950 – Ray Burris, American baseball player and coach
• 1950 – Scooter Libby, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
• 1951 – Mary Allen, English journalist
• 1951 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
• 1952 – Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
• 1953 – Paul Ellering, American weightlifter, wrestler, and manager
• 1955 – Chiranjeevi, Indian actor, producer, and politician
• 1956 – Paul Molitor, American baseball player and coach
• 1956 – Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer
• 1957 – Steve Davis, English snooker player, sportscaster, and author
• 1958 – Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
• 1958 – Vernon Reid, English-American guitarist and songwriter (Living Colour)
• 1959 – Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Ratt and Dokken)
• 1959 – Pia Gjellerup, Danish lawyer and politician, Danish Minister of Finance
• 1959 – Annie Tempest, English cartoonist
• 1960 – Holger Gehrke, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Andrés Calamaro, Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Los Abuelos de la Nada and Los Rodríguez)
• 1961 – Iain Coucher, English businessman
• 1961 – Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate)
• 1961 – Debbi Peterson, American singer and drummer (The Bangles and Kindred Spirit)
• 1963 – Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Y Kant Tori Read)
• 1963 – Terry Catledge, American basketball player
• 1964 – Diane Setterfield, English author and educator
• 1964 – Mats Wilander, Swedish-American tennis player and coach
• 1965 – Wendy Botha, South African-Australian surfer
• 1966 – GZA, American rapper and producer (Wu-Tang Clan)
• 1966 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1966 – Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1967 – Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian
• 1967 – Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 – Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (Alice in Chains, Class of '99, Mad Season, and Sleze) (d. 2002)
• 1967 – Bill Welke, American baseball player and umpire
• 1968 – Casper Christensen, Danish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Newsboys and Paul Colman Trio)
• 1968 – Aleksandr Mostovoi, Russian footballer
• 1968 – Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian businesswoman
• 1968 – Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
• 1970 – Charlie Connelly, English-Irish journalist and author
• 1970 – Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author
• 1970 – Shaun Steels, English drummer and bass player (My Dying Bride and Anathema)
• 1971 – Richard Armitage, English actor
• 1971 – Natalie Ceeney, English businesswoman
• 1971 – Craig Finn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller)
• 1972 – Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
• 1972 – Paul Doucette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Matchbox Twenty, The Break and Repair Method, and Tabitha's Secret)
• 1972 – Steve Kline, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 – Pontus Schultz, Swedish journalist (d. 2012)
• 1972 – Max Wilson, German-Brazilian race car driver
• 1973 – Sornram Teppitak, Thai actor and singer
• 1973 – Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys)
• 1973 – Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Eurelijus Žukauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1974 – Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
• 1975 – Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
• 1976 – Marius Bezykornovas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 – Bryn Davies, American bassist, cellist, and pianist
• 1976 – Laurent Hernu, French decathlete
• 1976 – Randy Wolf, American baseball player
• 1977 – Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
• 1978 – Robert Levon Been, American singer and guitarist (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
• 1978 – James Corden, English actor, comedian, writer, and television host/presenter
• 1978 – Ioannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
• 1979 – Matt Walters, American football player
• 1980 – Roland Benschneider, German footballer
• 1980 – Nicolas Macrozonaris, Canadian sprinter
• 1980 – Seiko Yamamoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1981 – Alex Holmes, American football player
• 1981 – Jang Hyun-kyu, South Korean footballer (d. 2012)
• 1983 – Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
• 1983 – Jahri Evans, American football player
• 1983 – Miho Ohwada, Japanese actress
• 1983 – Dani Thompson, Australian-English model and actress
• 1984 – Lee Camp, English footballer
• 1984 – Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian-Qatari footballer
• 1985 – Kether Donohue, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1985 – Luke Russert, American journalist
• 1986 – Monsieur Adi, French DJ and producer
• 1986 – James Frost, Welsh guitarist and keyboardist (The Automatic)
• 1986 – Erika Hebron, American model, Miss Missouri 2010
• 1986 – Adrian Neville, English wrestler
• 1986 – Janis Vahter, Estonian basketball player
• 1987 – Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Uhaa Nation, American wrestler
• 1987 – Karlie Simon, English porn actress
• 1988 – Sarah Major, New Zealand actress and singer
• 1989 – Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Syque Caesar, Bangladeshi gymnast
• 1990 – Randall Cobb, American football player
• 1990 – Drew Hutchison, American baseball player
• 1990 – Robbie Rochow, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Ema Burgić Bucko, Bosnian tennis player
• 1994 – Olli Määttä, Finnish ice hockey player

Deaths[edit]

• 408 – Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
• 1155 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
• 1241 – Pope Gregory IX, (b. 1143)
• 1280 – Pope Nicholas III (b. 1216)
• 1304 – John II, Count of Holland (b. 1247)
• 1350 – Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
• 1358 – Isabella of France (b. 1295)
• 1456 – Vladislav II of Wallachia
• 1485 – Richard III of England (b. 1452)
• 1553 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1504)
• 1572 – Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, English leader of the Rising of the North (b. 1528)
• 1584 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1530)
• 1599 – Luca Marenzio, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1553)
• 1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (b. 1572)
• 1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Estonian-Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (b. 1583)
• 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Polish astronomer and author (b. 1610)
• 1680 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
• 1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)
• 1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1793 – Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1793 – Cäcilia Weber, German-Austrian mother of Constanze Weber (b. 1727)
• 1797 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1817 – Nakşidil Sultan, Ottoman wife of Abdul Hamid I (b. 1768)
• 1818 – Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1888 – Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1817)
• 1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
• 1903 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1904 – Kate Chopin, American novelist and poet (b. 1850)
• 1909 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (b. 1846)
• 1914 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian bishop and academic (b. 1859)
• 1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1920 – Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (b. 1860)
• 1922 – Michael Collins, Irish commander and politician, 2nd Irish Minister of Finance (b. 1890)
• 1926 – Charles William Eliot, American academic (b. 1834)
• 1933 – Alexandros Kontoulis, Greek general and diplomat (b. 1858)
• 1940 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (b. 1851)
• 1940 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1861)
• 1942 – Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
• 1950 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 – Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1965 – Ellen Church, American flight attendant (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 – James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (b. 1904)
• 1980 – James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Charles Gibson (historian), Historian of Mexico and its Indians, President of the American Historical Association (b. 1920)
• 1986 – Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883)
• 1987 – Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Boris Pugo, Russian soldier and politician, Soviet Minister of Interior (b. 1937)
• 1994 – Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Professor Tanaka, American wrestler and actor (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater and coach (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player and trainer (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Al Dvorin, American bandleader and talent agent (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Luc Ferrari, French-Italian director and composer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Mati Unt, Estonian author and director (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Bruce Gary, American drummer and producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Grace Paley, American short story writer, and poet (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Gladys Powers, English-Canadian soldier (b. 1899)
• 2009 – Elmer Kelton, American journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Stjepan Bobek, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Nick Ashford, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ashford & Simpson) (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Jack Layton, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Joan Gerber, American voice actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Casey Ribicoff, American philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Nina Bawden, English author (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Paulino Matip Nhial, South Sudanese soldier and politician
• 2012 – Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2012 – András József Szennay, Hungarian clergyman (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Andrea Servi, Italian footballer (b. 1984)
• 2014 – U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Emmanuel Kriaras, Greek lexicographer and philologist (b. 1906)
• 2014 – Pete Ladygo, American football player and coach (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Noella Leduc, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2014 – John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (b. 1921)
• 2014 – John S. Waugh, American chemist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Mariem Hassan, Saharan singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
• 2015 – Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Ieng Thirith, Cambodian academic and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Eric Thompson, English race car driver and book dealer (b. 1919)