EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST

• 48 BC – Pompey is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy upon arriving in Egypt.
• 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.
• 351 – Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
• 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor.
• 935 – Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.
• 995 – Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty.
• 1066 – William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
• 1106 – King Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
• 1238 – King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.
• 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
• 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
• 1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California.
• 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
• 1781 – American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
• 1787 – The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
• 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
• 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
• 1868 – The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
• 1871 – The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
• 1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
• 1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
• 1893 – Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
• 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
• 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
• 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
• 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
• 1924 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
• 1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
• 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
• 1939 – World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
• 1941 – World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
• 1941 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
• 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
• 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
• 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
• 1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
• 1971 – The British Parliament passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
• 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
• 1986 – The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
• 1991 – The Strategic Air Command stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force.
• 1992 – A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
• 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
• 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
• 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• 2000 – The Second Intifada begins after Ariel Sharon visits the Al-Aqsa Mosque (known to Jews as the Temple Mount).
• 2008 – Falcon 1 becomes the first privately-developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
• 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400 people.
• 2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
• 2014 – The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
• 2016 – The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.

• 551 BC – Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (d. 479 BC)
• 616 – Javanshir, King of Caucasian Albania (d. 680)
• 1494 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1545)
• 1555 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
• 1573 – Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (d. 1654)
• 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1694)
• 1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat (d. 1764)
• 1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1774)
• 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
• 1735 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811)
• 1746 – William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (d. 1794)
• 1765 – Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1814)
• 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (d. 1870)
• 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
• 1819 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher (d. 1885)
• 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (d. 1874)
• 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator (d. 1889)
• 1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
• 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (d. 1929)
• 1844 – Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
• 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• 1852 – Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945)
• 1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (d. 1923)
• 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
• 1861 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
• 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
• 1867 – James Edwin Campbell, American poet, editor, short story writer and educator (d. 1896)
• 1877 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (d. 1940)
• 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
• 1870 – Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
• 1882 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
• 1887 – Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
• 1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer (d. 1982)
• 1892 – Elmer Rice, American playwright (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 1984)
• 1898 – Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (d. 1957)
• 1900 – Isabel Pell, American socialite, fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII (d. 1951)
• 1901 – William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (d. 1990)
• 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician (d. 1997)
• 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 1909 – Al Capp, American author and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1942)
• 1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Alice Marble, American tennis player (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
• 1916 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
• 1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1918 – Arnold Stang, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and writer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (d. 2007)
• 1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
• 1925 – Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Jerry Clower, American soldier, comedian, and author (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer
• 1930 – Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic
• 1932 – Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish screenwriter and producer
• 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973)
• 1933 – Joe Benton, English soldier and politician
• 1933 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor and educator (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
• 1935 – Bruce Crampton, Australian golfer
• 1935 – David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, English diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• 1935 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)
• 1936 – Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick
• 1936 – Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player
• 1936 – Robert Wolders, Dutch television actor
• 1937 – Alice Mahon, English trade union leader and politician
• 1937 – Glenn Sutton, American country music songwriter and record producer (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
• 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist and academic
• 1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (d. 2001)
• 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Bavaria
• 1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
• 1943 – George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player
• 1944 – Richie Karl, American golfer
• 1944 – Marcia Muller, American journalist and author
• 1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French skier
• 1945 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2011)
• 1945 – Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army
• 1946 – Tom Bower, English journalist and author
• 1946 – Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
• 1947 – Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• 1947 – Jon Snow, English journalist and academic
• 1947 – Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
• 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Paul Burgess, English drummer
• 1950 – Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopher
• 1950 – John Sayles, American novelist, director, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2015)
• 1952 – Christopher Buckley, American satirical novelist
• 1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (d. 2012)
• 1952 – Andy Ward, English drummer
• 1953 – Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
• 1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and politician
• 1954 – George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1954 – John Scott, English rugby player
• 1954 – Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and diplomat, 42nd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian sociologist and politician, 15th Canadian Minister of the Environment
• 1955 – Mercy Manci, Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa
• 1955 – Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (d. 1998)
• 1956 – Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian-Italian mathematician and author
• 1957 – Bill Cassidy, American politician and physician
• 1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
• 1960 – Gary Ayres, Australian footballer and coach
• 1960 – Tom Byrum, American golfer
• 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager
• 1960 – Gus Logie, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1960 – Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
• 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer-songwriter
• 1960 – Socrates Villegas, Filipino archbishop
• 1961 – Helen Grant, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
• 1961 – Gregory Jbara, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Quentin Kawānanakoa, American lawyer and politician
• 1961 – Anne White, American tennis player
• 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 – Laurie Rinker, American golfer
• 1962 – Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager
• 1962 – Chuck Taylor, American journalist
• 1963 – Steve Blackman, American wrestler and martial artist
• 1963 – Érik Comas, French race car driver
• 1963 – Greg Weisman, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver
• 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Paul Jewell, English footballer and manager
• 1964 – Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
• 1966 – Scott Adams, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Maria Canals-Barrera, Cuban-American actress
• 1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
• 1967 – Moon Zappa, American actress and author
• 1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer and mixed martial artist
• 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1968 – Trish Keenan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1968 – Sean Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter and actor (d 2008)
• 1968 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (d. 1990)
• 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
• 1969 – Kerri Chandler, electronic music producer and DJ
• 1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
• 1969 – Ben Greenman, American journalist and author
• 1969 – Piper Kerman, American author and memoirist
• 1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1969 – Sascha Maassen, German race car driver
• 1969 – Angus Robertson, Scottish politician
• 1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
• 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
• 1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
• 1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
• 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – George Eustice, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player
• 1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer and manager
• 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer
• 1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
• 1974 – Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
• 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
• 1975 – Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, Russian-American swimmer
• 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician
• 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Pak Se-ri, South Korean golfer
• 1977 – Young Jeezy, American rapper
• 1978 – Ben Edmondson, Australian cricketer
• 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
• 1979 – Taki Tsan, American-Greek rapper and producer
• 1980 – Marlon Parmer, American basketball player
• 1981 – Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer
• 1981 – Willy Caballero, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
• 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player
• 1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter
• 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
• 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director
• 1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
• 1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Aivar Rehemaa, Estonian skier
• 1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
• 1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
• 1983 – John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Jenny Omnichord, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer
• 1984 – Naim Terbunja, Kosovan-Swedish boxer
• 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
• 1985 – Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1985 – Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist
• 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
• 1986 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (d. 2013)
• 1986 – Dominic Waters, American basketball player
• 1987 – Pierre Becken, German footballer
• 1987 – Gary Deegan, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
• 1987 – Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper
• 1988 – Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
• 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Worakls, French DJ and electronic musician
• 1989 – Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player
• 1989 – Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
• 1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
• 1990 – Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player
• 1992 – Khem Birch, Canadian professional basketball player
• 1992 – Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer
• 1992 – Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
• 1993 – Jodie Williams, English sprinter
• 1995 – Jason Williams, English footballer

• 48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
• 782 – Leoba, Anglo-Saxon nun
• 935 – Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia
• 980 – Minamoto no Hiromasa, Japanese nobleman (b. 918)
• 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
• 1213 – Gertrude of Merania, queen consort of Hungaria (b. 1185)
• 1330 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292)
• 1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia, duchess consort of Austria (b. 1394)
• 1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1506)
• 1596 – Margaret Clifford, countess of Derby (b. 1540)
• 1618 – Josuah Sylvester, English poet and translator (b. 1563)
• 1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (b. 1623)
• 1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618)
• 1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, French-English lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1640)
• 1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
• 1829 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
• 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
• 1859 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779)
• 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 – Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 – Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 – Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
• 1925 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (b. 1888)
• 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)
• 1943 – Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1949 – Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (b. 1881)
• 1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (b. 1889)
• 1956 – William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (b. 1888)
• 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
• 1962 – Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1888)
• 1966 – André Breton, French author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1970 – John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
• 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
• 1982 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1984 – Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Larry O'Brien, American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (b. 1953)
• 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (b. 1915)
• 1994 – K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Escott Reid, Canadian academic and diplomat (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Patsy Mink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Elia Kazan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 2003 – George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician and diplomat (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1921)
• 2007 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor and director (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (b. 1954)
• 2010 – Arthur Penn, American director and producer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Avraham Adan, Israeli general (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Chris Economaki, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (b. 1928)
• 2013 – James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and rugby player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (b. 1945)
• 2014 – Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Sheila Faith, English dentist and politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Tim Rawlings, English footballer and manager (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (b. 1966)
• 2016 – Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (b. 1923)
• 2016 – Gloria Naylor, American novelist (b. 1950)
• 2017 – Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader (b. 1943)