EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST

• 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor & Oudinot defeated by Wittgenstein.
• 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
• 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
• 1886 – Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
• 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
• 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
• 1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
• 1921 – Foundation of the Communist Party of Spain.
• 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
• 1938 – The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
• 1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
• 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
• 1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day.
• 1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
• 1957 – The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
• 1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
• 1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
• 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
• 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
• 1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
• 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
• 1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
• 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
• 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
• 1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.
• 1977 – During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.
• 1978 – France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29,  1975–78 French nuclear tests.
• 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
• 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
• 1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
• 1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
• 1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
• 1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
• 1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
• 2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
• 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
• 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
• 2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
• 2016 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikoura, New Zealand, at a depth of 15 km (9 miles), resulting in the deaths of two people.
• 2017 – A gunman kills four people and injures twelve others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama Reserve, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home.

• 1449 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, daughter of King of Bohemia (d. 1510)
• 1487 – John III of Pernstein, Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (d. 1548)
• 1501 – Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia (d. 1575)
• 1531 – Richard Topcliffe, English torturer (d. 1604)
• 1567 – Maurice, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
• 1601 – John Eudes, French priest and missionary (d. 1680)
• 1650 – William III of England, Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1702)
• 1663 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German organist and composer (d. 1712)
• 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1787)
• 1765 – Robert Fulton, American engineer, invented the steamboat (d. 1815)
• 1771 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
• 1776 – Henri Dutrochet, French physician, botanist, and physiologist (d. 1847)
• 1777 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (d. 1859)
• 1778 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)
• 1779 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (d. 1850)
• 1797 – Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist and lawyer (d. 1875)
• 1803 – Jacob Abbott, American author (d. 1879)
• 1805 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (d. 1847)
• 1812 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
• 1812 – Maria Cristina of Savoy (d. 1836)
• 1816 – John Curwen, English minister and educator (d. 1880)
• 1828 – James B. McPherson, American general (d. 1864)
• 1832 – Henry Strangways, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)
• 1838 – August Šenoa, Croatian author, poet, and critic (d. 1881)
• 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• 1856 – Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicott, American activist (d. 1945)
• 1861 – Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian and author (d. 1932)
• 1863 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)
• 1869 – John Lumsden, Irish physician, founded the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland (d. 1944)
• 1875 – Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician (d. 1899)
• 1875 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and activist (d. 1944)
• 1877 – Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (d. 1968)
• 1878 – Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (d. 1966)
• 1878 – Leopold Staff, Ukrainian-Polish poet and academic (d. 1957)
• 1883 – Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
• 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
• 1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1895 – Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician and psychiatrist (d. 1972)
• 1897 – John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (d. 1946)
• 1898 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1944)
• 1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (d. 1970)
• 1904 – Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1995)
• 1904 – Dick Powell, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 1963)
• 1905 – John Henry Barbee, American singer and guitarist (d. 1964)
• 1906 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1907 – William Steig, American author, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2003)
• 1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)
• 1910 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Eric Malpass, English author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Barbara Hutton, American philanthropist (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Tung-Yen Lin, Chinese-American engineer, designed the Guandu Bridge (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Ken Carson, American Western singer (Sons of the Pioneers) (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Martha Tilton, American singer and actress (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (d. 1979)
• 1918 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
• 1919 – Lisa Otto, German soprano and actress (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Mary Greyeyes, the first First Nations woman to join the Canadian Armed Forces (d. 2011)^[1]
• 1921 – Ea Jansen, Estonian historian and academic (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Brian Keith, American actor and director (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations (d. 2016)
• 1922 – Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (d. 1973)
• 1924 – Leonid Kogan, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1982)
• 1925 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1925 – James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Lawrie Barratt, English businessman, founded Barratt Developments (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Bart Cummings, Australian horse trainer (d. 2015)
• 1927 – McLean Stevenson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1997)
• 1928 – Kathleen Hughes, American actress
• 1929 – Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
• 1930 – Peter Katin, English pianist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Monique Mercure, Canadian actress
• 1930 – Michael Robbins, English actor (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Ed White, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1932 – Gunter Sachs, German astrologer and photographer (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Fred Haise, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
• 1934 – Dave Mackay, Scottish-English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
• 1934 – Ellis Marsalis, Jr., American pianist and educator
• 1934 – Catherine McGuinness, Irish lawyer, judge, and politician
• 1935 – Michael Busselle, English photographer and author (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• 1935 – Lefteris Papadopoulos, Greek songwriter and journalist
• 1936 – Carey Bell, American singer and harmonica player (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (d. 2006)
• 1936 – Cornell Gunter, American R&B singer (The Coasters) (d. 1990)
• 1937 – Alan J. W. Bell, English director and producer
• 1937 – Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Wendy Carlos, American keyboard player and composer
• 1942 – Manon Cleary, American painter and academic (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Natalia Gutman, Russian cellist and educator
• 1943 – Peter Norton, American programmer and author
• 1944 – Karen Armstrong, English author and academic
• 1944 – David Nash, English sculptor and academic
• 1944 – Mike Katz, American bodybuilder and football player
• 1945 – Louise Ellman, English academic and politician
• 1945 – Brett Lunger, American race car driver
• 1945 – Sue Williams, American actress and model (d. 1969)
• 1946 – Bharathan, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1946 – Roland Duchâtelet, Belgian businessman and politician
• 1947 – P. J. O'Rourke, American political satirist and journalist
• 1947 – Nat Young, Australian surfer and author
• 1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American accordion player (d. 2016)
• 1948 – Paul Dacre, English journalist
• 1948 – Michael Dobbs, English author and politician
• 1948 – Robert Ginty, American actor and producer (d. 2009)
• 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales
• 1949 – Raúl di Blasio, Argentinian pianist, composer, and producer
• 1949 – Enzo Cucchi, Italian painter
• 1949 – Gary Grubbs, American actor
• 1949 – Ryo Hayami, Japanese actor
• 1949 – James Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 – Sarah Radclyffe, English production manager and producer
• 1951 – Frankie Banali, American rock drummer
• 1951 – Stephen Bishop, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1951 – Leszek Cichy, Polish mountaineer
• 1951 – Zhang Yimou, Chinese actor, director, producer, and cinematographer
• 1952 – Dimitra Galani, Greek singer, composer and songwriter
• 1952 – Johnny A., American guitarist and songwriter
• 1952 – Maggie Roswell, American voice actress and singer
• 1953 – Tim Bowler, English author
• 1953 – Dominique de Villepin, Moroccan-French lawyer and politician, 167th Prime Minister of France
• 1954 – Willie Hernandez, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1954 – Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
• 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, American political scientist, academic, and politician, 66th United States Secretary of State
• 1954 – Eliseo Salazar, Chilean race car driver
• 1954 – Yanni, Greek-American pianist, composer, and producer
• 1955 – Philip Egan, English bishop
• 1955 – Jack Sikma, American basketball player and coach
• 1956 – Babette Babich, American philosopher, author, and scholar
• 1956 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer and manager (d. 2010)
• 1956 – Peter R. de Vries, Dutch journalist and producer
• 1956 – Steve Stockman, American accountant and politician
• 1956 – Valerie Jarrett, American government official
• 1957 – Donald Canfield, American geologist and academic
• 1957 –  Michael J. Fitzgerald, American author
• 1959 – Paul Attanasio, American screenwriter and producer
• 1959 – Paul McGann, English actor
• 1959 – Chris Woods, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1960 – Tom Judson, American actor and composer
• 1960 – Remi Moses, English footballer and coach
• 1961 – Antonio Flores, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1995)
• 1961 – D. B. Sweeney, American actor
• 1962 – Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• 1962 – Josh Silver, American keyboard player and producer
• 1962 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
• 1963 – Stéphane Bern, French journalist, radio and television presenter and specialist in nobility and royalty.
• 1964 – Bill Hemmer, American journalist
• 1964 – Joseph Simmons, American hip-hop artist
• 1964 – Patrick Warburton, American actor and comedian
• 1966 – Charles Hazlewood, English conductor
• 1966 – Petra Rossner, German cyclist
• 1966 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Letitia Dean, English actress and singer
• 1967 – Nina Gordon, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Leo Kunnas, Estonian colonel and author
• 1969 – Butch Walker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1970 – Brendan Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – David Wesley, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1971 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 – Vikas Khanna, Indian chef and author
• 1971 – Marco Leonardi, Australian-Italian actor
• 1972 – Matt Bloom, American wrestler, trainer, and sportscaster
• 1972 – Josh Duhamel, American model and actor
• 1972 – Lara Giddings, Papua New Guinean-Australian politician, 44th Premier of Tasmania
• 1972 – Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
• 1972 – Dougie Payne, Scottish bass player (Travis)
• 1972 – Martin Pike, Australian footballer and coach
• 1972 – Aaron Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Dariusz Żuraw, Polish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Lawyer Milloy, American football player
• 1974 – Adina Howard, American singer-songwriter and chef
• 1974 – David Moscow, American actor
• 1974 – Joe Principe, American singer and bass player
• 1975 – Travis Barker, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1975 – Luiz Bombonato Goulart, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Stephen Guarino, American actor
• 1975 – Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American businessman and critic
• 1977 – Obie Trice, American rapper and producer
• 1978 – Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
• 1978 – Michala Banas, New Zealand actress and singer
• 1978 – Delphine Chanéac, French model and actress
• 1978 – Xavier Nady, American baseball player and coach
• 1979 – Carl Hayman, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 – Mavie Hörbiger, German-Austrian actress
• 1979 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French model and actress
• 1979 – Pushkar Lele, Indian singer
• 1979 – Moitheri Ntobo, Lesothan footballer
• 1979 – Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Brock Pierce, American actor and businessman
• 1980 – Brooke Satchwell, Australian model and actress
• 1981 – Vanessa Bayer, American actress
• 1981 – Tom Ferrier, English race car driver
• 1981 – Russell Tovey, English actor
• 1982 – Boosie Badazz, American rapper
• 1982 – Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai
• 1982 – Kyle Orton, American football player
• 1982 – Joy Williams, American singer-songwriter (The Civil Wars)
• 1983 – Guillermo Moscoso, American baseball player
• 1983 – Naqqash Tahir, English cricketer
• 1983 – Chelsea Wolfe, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Lisa De Vanna, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Courtney Johns, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
• 1985 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Giorgos Georgiadis, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Chiyotairyū Hidemasa, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1988 – Nanase Hoshii, Japanese singer and actress
• 1989 – Vlad Chiricheș, Romanian footballer
• 1989 – Jake Livermore, English footballer
• 1990 – Roman Bürki, Swiss footballer
• 1990 – Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 1991 – Taylor Hall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Graham Patrick Martin, American actor
• 1993 – Francisco Lindor, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1993 – Shūhei Nomura, Japanese actor
• 1993 – Samuel Umtiti, French footballer
• 1996 – Borna Ćorić, Croatian tennis player

• 565 – Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (b. 482)
• 669 – Fujiwara no Kamatari, Japanese politician (b. 614)
• 940 – Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami, Samanid vizier
• 976 – Taizu, Chinese emperor (b. 927)
• 1060 – Geoffrey II, count of Anjou
• 1189 – William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
• 1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (b. 1193)
• 1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220)
• 1346 – Ostasio I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna
• 1359 – Gregory Palamas, Greek archbishop and saint (b. 1296)
• 1391 – Nikola Tavelić, Croatian missionary and saint (b. 1340)
• 1442 – Yolande of Aragon, French noblewoman (b. 1384)
• 1522 – Anne de Beaujeu, duchess of Bourbon (b. 1461)
• 1539 – Hugh Faringdon, English monk and abbot
• 1556 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian archbishop and poet (b. 1504)
• 1633 – William Ames, English philosopher and academic (b. 1576)
• 1687 – Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
• 1691 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
• 1716 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
• 1734 – Louise de Kérouaille, duchess of Portsmouth (b. 1649)
• 1739 – Juan de Galavís, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop of Santo Domingo and Bogotá (b. 1683)
• 1746 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (b. 1709)
• 1749 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (b. 1713)
• 1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian seamstress and spy (b. 1795)
• 1825 – Jean Paul, German journalist and author (b. 1763)
• 1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (b. 1763)
• 1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1770)
• 1831 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder (b. 1757)
• 1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American farmer and politician (b. 1737)
• 1844 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher (b. 1780)
• 1864 – Franz Müller, German tailor and murderer (b. 1840)
• 1866 – Miguel I of Portugal (b. 1802)
• 1907 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1848)
• 1908 – Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
• 1910 – John La Farge, American artist (b. 1835)
• 1914 – Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1861)
• 1915 – Booker T. Washington, American educator, essayist and historian (b. 1856)
• 1916 – Henry George, Jr., American journalist and politician (b. 1862)
• 1916 – Saki, British short story writer (b. 1870)
• 1921 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (b. 1846)
• 1930 – Sandy Pearce, Australian rugby league player (b. 1883)
• 1932 – Charles Hylton Stewart, English organist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1937 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air marshal (b. 1892)
• 1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1876)
• 1947 – Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Peter Baker, English captain, author, and politician (b. 1921)
• 1972 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
• 1974 – Johnny Mack Brown, American football player, actor, and singer (b. 1904)
• 1977 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian monk and guru, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Robert Bradford, Irish footballer and politician (b. 1941)
• 1984 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Zamboanga City (b. 1916)
• 1984 – Nikitas Platis, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (b. 1903)
• 1989 – Jimmy Murphy, Welsh footballer, manager, assistant manager, coach and scout (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Sol Kaplan, American composer and conductor (b. 1919)
• 1991 – Tony Richardson, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1995 – Jack Finney, American author and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal (b. 1928)
• 1996 – John A. Cade, American soldier and politician (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey and sportscaster (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian educator and politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Charlotte Coleman, English actress (b. 1968)
• 2001 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Eddie Bracken, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Elena Nikolaidi, Turkish-American soprano and educator (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Michel Colombier, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Sumner Shapiro, American admiral (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Kristin Hunter, American author and academic (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Robert E. Valett, American psychologist, teacher, and author (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Wes Santee, American runner (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Esin Afşar, Italian-Turkish singer and actress (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Brian Davies, Australian rugby player and manager (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (The Chieftains) (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian commander (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Abubakar Olusola Saraki, Nigerian physician and politician (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Sudhir Bhat, Indian producer and manager (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Hari Krishna Devsare, Indian journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Bennett Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1965)
• 2014 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Morteza Pashaei, Iranian singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
• 2015 – K. S. Gopalakrishnan, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Warren Mitchell, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Gwen Ifill, American television journalist (b. 1955)