EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST. 22/5

• 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
• 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
• 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
• 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.
• 1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
• 1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV.
• 1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
• 1370 – Brussels massacre: Several Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels.
• 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
• 1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
• 1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.^[1]
• 1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
• 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
• 1762 – Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome by Pope Clement XIII.
• 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
• 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
• 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
• 1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots concerning high unemployment and rising grain costs spreads to Ely the next day.
• 1819 – SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
• 1840 – The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
• 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
• 1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
• 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding  Southerners and slavery.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
• 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
• 1872 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• 1900 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
• 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
• 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
• 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
• 1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
• 1927 – Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
• 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
• 1941 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
• 1942 – Mexico enters World War II, joining the Allies.
• 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
• 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece.
• 1957 – South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
• 1958 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
• 1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
• 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
• 1963 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later.
• 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society.
• 1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
• 1967 – L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
• 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
• 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
• 1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1972 – Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
• 1987 – Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
• 1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
• 1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
• 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
• 1994 – A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
• 1996 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
• 1998 – A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
• 2000 – In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
• 2002 – Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
• 2010 – Air India Express Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737.
• 2010 – Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the Uefa Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
• 2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
• 2012 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
• 2014 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
• 2014 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
• 2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
• 2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
• 2017 – United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit the Western Wall.

• 626 – Itzam K'an Ahk I, Mayan king (d. 686)
• 1009 – Su Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1066)
• 1408 – Annamacharya, Hindu saint (d. 1503)
• 1539 – Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (d. 1621)
• 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (d. 1698)
• 1644 – Gabriël Grupello, Flemish Baroque sculptor (d. 1730)
• 1650 – Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1702)
• 1694 – Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (d. 1757)
• 1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1794)
• 1733 – Hubert Robert, French painter (d. 1808)
• 1752 – Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician (d. 1797)
• 1762 – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (d. 1834)
• 1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
• 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and reformer (d. 1833)
• 1782 – Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (d. 1856)
• 1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)
• 1808 – Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (d. 1855)
• 1811 – Giulia Grisi, Italian soprano (d. 1869)
• 1811 – Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, English politician (d. 1864)
• 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
• 1814 – Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (d. 1891)
• 1820 – Worthington Whittredge, American painter (d. 1910)
• 1828 – Albrecht von Graefe, German ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1870)
• 1831 – Henry Vandyke Carter, English anatomist and surgeon (d. 1897)
• 1833 – Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher (d. 1914)
• 1833 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician; served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1871-73 (d. 1895)
• 1841 – Catulle Mendès, French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1909)
• 1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter and educator (d. 1926)
• 1846 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (d. 1908)
• 1848 – Fritz von Uhde, German painter and educator (d. 1911)
• 1849 – Aston Webb, English architect and academic (d. 1930)
• 1852 – Émile Sauret, French violinist and composer (d. 1920)
• 1858 – Belmiro de Almeida, Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (d. 1935)
• 1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (d. 1930)
• 1859 – Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (d. 1931)
• 1868 – Augusto Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (d. 1934)
• 1874 – Daniel François Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
• 1876 – Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
• 1879 – Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Jean Cras, French admiral and composer (d. 1932)
• 1879 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (d. 1926)
• 1880 – Francis de Miomandre, French author and translator (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
• 1885 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
• 1887 – A. W. Sandberg, Danish film director and screenwriter (d. 1938)
• 1891 – Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet (d. 1958)
• 1894 – Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1970)
• 1897 – Robert Neumann, German and English-speaking author (d. 1975)
• 1900 – Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d.1985)
• 1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1953)
• 1902 – Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (d. 1956)
• 1904 – Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
• 1905 – Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956)
• 1905 – Tom Driberg, British politician (d. 1976)
• 1907 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1983)
• 1907 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (d. 1963)
• 1909 – Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Dominique Rolin, Belgian author (d. 2012)
• 1914 – Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (d. 1993)
• 1917 – George Aratani, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (d. 1995)
• 1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)
• 1921 – George S. Hammond, American scientist (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1987)
• 1924 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
• 1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)
• 1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
• 1927 – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (d. 2014)
• 1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author (d. 2017)
• 1928 – John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer (d. 2011)
• 1928 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman
• 1928 – Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Kenny Ball, English jazz trumpet player, vocalist, and bandleader (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Marisol Escobar, French-American sculptor (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1978)
• 1932 – Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor
• 1936 – George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor and director
• 1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1940 – Kieth Merrill, American filmmaker
• 1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
• 1940 – Bernard Shaw, American journalist
• 1940 – Mick Tingelhoff, American Pro Football Hall of Famer
• 1941 – Menzies Campbell, Scottish sprinter and politician
• 1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber)
• 1942 – Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
• 1942 – Richard Oakes, Native American civil rights activist (d. 1972)
• 1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Tommy John, American baseball player
• 1944 – John Flanagan, Australian fantasy author
• 1945 – Bob Katter, Australian politician
• 1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2005)
• 1946 – Michael Green, English physicist and academic
• 1946 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
• 1946 – Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
• 1946 – Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
• 1948 – Tomás Sánchez, Cuban painter and engraver
• 1948 – Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor and screenwriter
• 1949 – Cheryl Campbell, English actress
• 1949 – Valentin Inzko, Austrian diplomat
• 1950 – Alekos Alavanos, Greek lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
• 1953 – François Bon, French writer
• 1953 – Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1953 – Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1954 – Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 – Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet (d. 2018)
• 1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 – David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
• 1959 – Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter
• 1959 – Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician
• 1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1965 – Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary
• 1966 – Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1966 – Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter
• 1968 – Ma Jun, Chinese environmentalist and journalist
• 1968 – Graham Linehan, Irish comedian, actor, and author
• 1969 – Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician
• 1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model
• 1970 – Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
• 1972 – Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
• 1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1974 – Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
• 1974 – Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• 1974 – Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician
• 1975 – Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1976 – Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist
• 1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
• 1978 – Katie Price, English television personality & glamour model
• 1979 – Maggie Q, American actress
• 1980 – Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress
• 1980 – Lucy Gordon, British actress and model (d. 2009)
• 1980 – Tommy Smith, English footballer
• 1981 – Daniel Bryan, American wrestler
• 1981 – Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer
• 1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
• 1982 – Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress
• 1982 – Apolo Ohno, American speed skater
• 1982 – Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer
• 1983 – Natasha Kai, American soccer player and Olympic medalist
• 1984 – Karoline Herfurth, German actress
• 1984 – Didier Ya Konan, Ivorian footballer
• 1984 – Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
• 1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
• 1985 – Tao Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
• 1986 – Julian Edelman, American football player
• 1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer
• 1986 – Tatiana Volosozhar, Russian figure skater
• 1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
• 1988 – Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
• 1989 – Corey Dickerson, American professional baseball player
• 1990 – Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
• 1991 – Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 – Suho, South Korean singer and actor
• 1994 – Florian Luger, Austrian male model
• 1999 – Camren Bicondova, American actress

• 192 – Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician (b. 138)
• 337 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (b. 272)
• 748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 683)
• 1067 – Constantine X, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1006)
• 1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
• 1310 – Saint Humility, founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (b. c. 1226)
• 1409 – Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)
• 1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)
• 1455 – Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (b. 1414)
• 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (b. 1393)
• 1457 – Rita of Cascia, Italian nun and saint (b. 1381)
• 1490 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and magnate (b. 1416)
• 1538 – John Forest, English friar and martyr (b. 1471)
• 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (b. 1483)
• 1545 – Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (b. 1486)
• 1553 – Giovanni Bernardi, Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1495)
• 1602 – Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)
• 1609 – Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (b. 1573)
• 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
• 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
• 1745 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general (b. 1671)
• 1760 – Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (b. 1700)
• 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (b. 1687)
• 1795 – Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (b. 1725)
• 1802 – Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
• 1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)
• 1859 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
• 1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
• 1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 – Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1910 – Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1932 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 – Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 – William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1939 – Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1939 – Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 – Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 – Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1967 – Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)^[2]
• 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
• 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 1991 – Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1997 – Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)
• 1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)
• 2008 – Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Lee Rigby, British fusilier
• 2015 – Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921)
• 2016 – Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Nicky Hayden, American professional motorcycle racer (b. 1981)