EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST. 28/7

• 1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
• 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
• 1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
• 1635 – In the Eighty Years' War the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
• 1656 – Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.
• 1778 – Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
• 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
• 1808 – Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
• 1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
• 1854 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
• 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
• 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• 1914 – In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
• 1915 – The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
• 1917 – The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
• 1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
• 1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
• 1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• 1939 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
• 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
• 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
• 1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
• 1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
• 1960 – The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
• 1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
• 1974 – Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
• 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
• 1984 – The 1984 Summer Olympics officially known as the games of the XXIII were opened in Los Angeles.
• 1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
• 2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship.
• 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
• 2002 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.^[1]
• 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
• 2010 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.
• 2011 – While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.^[2]
• 2017 – Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified for lifetime by Supreme Court of Pakistan founding him guilty of corruption charges.
• 2018 – Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.^[3]

• 1347 – Margaret of Durazzo, Queen of Naples and Hungary (d. 1412)
• 1516 – William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (d. 1592)
• 1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
• 1635 – Robert Hooke, English physicist and chemist (d. 1703)
• 1645 – Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (d. 1721)
• 1659 – Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat (d. 1715)
• 1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American judge and politician (d. 1809)
• 1750 – Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, playwright, and politician (d. 1794)
• 1783 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (d. 1860)
• 1796 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian businessman, founded the Bösendorfer Company (d. 1859)
• 1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1815 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (d. 1889)
• 1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
• 1857 – Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Elias M. Ammons, American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
• 1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
• 1863 – Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
• 1866 – Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (d. 1943)
• 1866 – Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (d. 1938)
• 1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-Argentinian astronomer (d. 1951)
• 1872 – Albert Sarraut, French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (d. 1962)
• 1874 – Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945)
• 1879 – Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party (d. 1966)
• 1879 – Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter (d. 1944)
• 1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 1983)
• 1893 – Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (d. 1952)
• 1896 – Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1926)
• 1898 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979)
• 1901 – Rudy Vallée, American actor, singer, and saxophonist (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959)
• 1902 – Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
• 1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands (d. 1983)
• 1909 – Aenne Burda, German publisher (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (d. 1957)
• 1914 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor and composer (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• 1915 – Dick Sprang, American illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (d. 1998)
• 1916 – David Brown, American journalist and producer (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Luigi Musso, Italian race car driver (d. 1958)
• 1924 – C. T. Vivian, American minister, author, and activist^[4]
• 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian bassist (d. 2003)
• 1927 – John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)
• 1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Shirley Ann Grau, American novelist and short story writer
• 1930 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian general (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and author
• 1931 – Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
• 1932 – Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator (d. 2016)
• 1932 – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Brazilian colonel (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
• 1934 – Jacques d'Amboise, American dancer and choreographer
• 1935 – Neil McKendrick, English historian and academic
• 1936 – Russ Jackson, Canadian football player and coach
• 1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer
• 1937 – Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter
• 1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Arsen Dedić, Croatian singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, 90th President of Peru
• 1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1939 – Richard Johns, English air marshal
• 1940 – Philip Proctor, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor and educator
• 1941 – Susan Roces, Filipino actress and producer
• 1942 – Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
• 1942 – Tonia Marketaki, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
• 1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1981)
• 1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
• 1943 – Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist, created Garfield
• 1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
• 1946 – Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani poet and activist
• 1947 – Peter Cosgrove, Australian general and politician, 26th Governor General of Australia
• 1947 – Sally Struthers, American actress
• 1948 – Gerald Casale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director
• 1948 – Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Vida Blue, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1949 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Simon Kirke, English drummer
• 1949 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
• 1949 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and producer
• 1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Tapley Seaton, Kittitian politician, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis
• 1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and engineer, designed the Athens Olympic Sports Complex
• 1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 – Gregg Giuffria, American rock musician and businessman
• 1951 – Ray Kennedy, English footballer
• 1952 – Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
• 1954 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician and academic
• 1954 – Steve Morse, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 – Mikey Sheehy, Irish footballer
• 1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian skier
• 1956 – John Feinstein, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Robert Swan, English explorer
• 1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (d. 1981)
• 1958 – Michael Hitchcock, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – William T. Vollmann, American novelist, short story writer and journalist
• 1960 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Jon J. Muth, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese illustrator
• 1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
• 1962 – Rachel Sweet, American singer, television writer, and actress
• 1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
• 1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1966 – Sossina M. Haile, Ethiopian American chemist^[5]
• 1966 – Miguel Ángel Nadal, Spanish footballer
• 1966 – Jimmy Pardo, American stand-up comedian, actor, and host
• 1966 – Shikao Suga, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Taka Hirose, Japanese bass player
• 1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey player and manager
• 1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actress (d. 2016)
• 1970 – Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
• 1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
• 1970 – Paul Strang, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
• 1971 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• 1971 – Ludmilla Lacueva Canut, Andorran writer
• 1971 – Stephen Lynch, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1971 – Annie Perreault, Canadian speed skater
• 1972 – Robert Chapman, English cricketer
• 1973 – Marc Dupré, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek engineer and politician, 186th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1974 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
• 1975 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress
• 1976 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Aki Berg, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentinian basketball player
• 1977 – Miyabiyama Tetsushi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1978 – Kārlis Vērdiņš, Latvian poet
• 1978 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
• 1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 – Lee Min-woo, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1979 – Alena Popchanka, Belarusian-French swimmer and coach
• 1980 – Stephen Christian, American singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Anthony Weaver, American football player
• 1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
• 1983 – Sam Dastyari, Iranian-Australian politician
• 1983 – Cody Hay, Canadian figure skater
• 1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Mathieu Debuchy, French footballer
• 1985 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1985 – Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
• 1986 – Alexandra Chando, American actress
• 1986 – Lauri Korpikoski, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1986 – Dulquer Salmaan, Indian actor
• 1987 – Yasser Corona, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer
• 1987 – Pedro, Spanish footballer
• 1988 – Greg Hardy, American football player
• 1989 – Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian martial artist
• 1990 – Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1990 – Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
• 1993 – Harry Kane, English footballer
• 1993 – Moses Odubajo, English footballer
• 1993 – Cher Lloyd, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 – Josh Addo-Carr, Australian rugby league player

• 450 – Theodosius II, Roman emperor (b. 401)
• 938 – Thankmar, half-brother of Otto I (during Siege of Eresburg) (b. c. 908)
• 942 – Shi Jingtang, emperor of Later Jin (b. 892)
• 1057 – Victor II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1018)
• 1128 – William Clito, English son of Sybilla of Conversano (b. 1102)
• 1230 – Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (b. 1176)
• 1271 – Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)
• 1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia
• 1333 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)
• 1345 – Sancia of Majorca, queen regent of Naples (b. c. 1285)
• 1458 – John II, king of Cyprus and Armenia
• 1488 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier)
• 1508 – Robert Blackadder, bishop of Glasgow
• 1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish explorer, founded the city of Santa Marta (b. 1460)
• 1540 – Thomas Cromwell, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1495)
• 1585 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (b. 1527)
• 1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish playwright (b. 1569)
• 1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet and playwright (b. 1619)
• 1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet and author (b. 1618)
• 1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and politician (b. 1605)
• 1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1618)
• 1718 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (b. 1630)
• 1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1678)
• 1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1685)
• 1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1691)
• 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the Committee of Public Safety (b. 1758)
• 1794 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (b. 1767)
• 1808 – Selim III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1761)
• 1809 – Richard Beckett, English cricketer and captain (b.1772)
• 1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1746)
• 1835 – Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)
• 1836 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (b. 1777)
• 1842 – Clemens Brentano, German author and poet (b. 1778)
• 1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
• 1849 – Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
• 1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
• 1878 – George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1885 – Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
• 1895 – Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 – John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
• 1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
• 1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
• 1934 – Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
• 1935 – Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
• 1942 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1946 – Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be Canonization as a saint by the Catholic Church (b. 1910)
• 1957 – Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)
• 1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
• 1967 – Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942)
• 1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1971 – Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Charles E. Pont, French-American minister and painter (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (b. 1903)
• 1979 – Don Miller, American football player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Rose Rand, Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1953)
• 1987 – Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Jill Esmond, English actress (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Sulev Nõmmik, Estonian actor and director (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Stanley Woods, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and author (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Lenny McLean, English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2006 – David Gemmell, English author (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
• 2009 – Jim Johnson, American football player and coach (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan general (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – William F. Milliken Jr., American race car driver and engineer (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Mustafa Adrisi, Ugandan general and politician, 3rd Vice President of Uganda (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 2013. – Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer^[6] (b. 1924)
• 2013 – William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (b. 1914)
• 2014 – Margot Adler, American journalist and author (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Alakbar Mammadov, Azerbaijani footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Edward Natapei, Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
• 2015 – Clive Rice, South African cricketer and coach (b. 1949)
• 2016 – Émile Derlin Zinsou, Beninese politician (b. 1918)
• 2016 – Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (b. 1926)
• 2018 – Wanny van Gils, Dutch footballer^[7] (b. 1959)