EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST. 5/9

• 17 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
• 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
• 1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
• 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
• 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
• 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
• 1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
• 1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• 1791 – Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
• 1793 – French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
• 1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
• 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
• 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
• 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1839 – The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• 1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
• 1882 – Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded (as Hotspur F.C.).
• 1887 – A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• 1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
• 1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• 1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
• 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
• 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
• 1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
• 1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
• 1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
• 1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
• 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
• 1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
• 1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
• 1957 – Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
• 1960 – Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
• 1960 – Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
• 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
• 1970 – Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
• 1972 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
• 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
• 1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
• 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
• 1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
• 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
• 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
• 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
• 1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
• 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
• 1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
• 2012 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.

• 699 – Abu Hanifa, Iraqi scholar (d. 767)
• 989 – Fan Zhongyan, Chinese chancellor (d. 1052)
• 1187 – Louis VIII, king of France (d. 1226)
• 1201 – Alix of Thouars, duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
• 1319 – Peter IV, king of Aragon (d. 1387)
• 1451 – Isabel Neville, daughter of Richard Neville (d. 1476)
• 1500 – Maria of Jever, ruler of the Lordship of Jever (d. 1575)
• 1533 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician (d. 1589)
• 1540 – Magnus of Holstein, prince of Denmark (d. 1583)
• 1567 – Date Masamune, Japanese daimyō (d. 1636)
• 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1639)
• 1638 – Louis XIV, king of France (d. 1715)
• 1641 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English diplomat (d. 1702)
• 1642 – Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (d. 1688)
• 1651 – William Dampier, English explorer (d. 1715)
• 1666 – Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
• 1667 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1733)
• 1694 – František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer (d. 1744)
• 1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 1770)
• 1722 – Frederick Christian, Prince-Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
• 1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1799)
• 1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German-English viol player and composer (d. 1782)
• 1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet and author (d. 1774)
• 1769 – John Shortland, English commander (d. 1810)
• 1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (d. 1847)
• 1772 – Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Iranian king (d. 1834)
• 1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher (d. 1840)
• 1775 – Juan Martín Díez, Spanish general (d. 1825)
• 1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (d. 1858)
• 1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
• 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer (d. 1864)
• 1792 – Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
• 1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1865)
• 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1875)
• 1818 – Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer and surveyor (d. 1848)
• 1826 – John Wisden, English cricketer and businessman (d. 1884)
• 1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and songwriter (d. 1849)
• 1829 – Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (d. 1908)
• 1831 – Victorien Sardou, French author and playwright (d. 1908)
• 1833 – George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (d. 1917)
• 1836 – Justiniano Borgoño, Peruvian soldier and politician, 57th President of Peru (d. 1921)
• 1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
• 1856 – Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (d. 1922)
• 1867 – Amy Beach, American pianist and composer (d. 1944)
• 1871 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)
• 1872 – V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1936)
• 1872 – Horace Rice, Australian tennis player (d. 1950)
• 1873 – Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer (d. 1942)
• 1874 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (d. 1959)
• 1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
• 1880 – José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (d. 1936)
• 1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria (d. 1938)
• 1881 – Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal (d. 1964)
• 1883 – Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Morris Carnovsky, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1897 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (d. 1980)
• 1899 – Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter (d. 1944)
• 1899 – Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist (d. 1998)
• 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)
• 1904 – Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator (d. 2004)
• 1905 – Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979)
• 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2005)
• 1906 – Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer, and photographer (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (d. 1973)
• 1908 – Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter
• 1909 – Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor (d. 1971)
• 1909 – Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Archie Jackson, Scottish-Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
• 1910 – Leila Mackinlay, English author (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
• 1912 – John Cage, American composer and theorist (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1984)
• 1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 2018)
• 1916 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Frank Yerby, American novelist (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician (d. 1990)
• 1918 – Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1920 – Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator (d. 1990)
• 1920 – Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic (d. 2016)
• 1923 – David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Frank Armitage, Australian-American artist (d. 2016)
• 1925 – Justin Kaplan, American author (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Paul Volcker, American economist and academic
• 1928 – Joyce Hatto, English pianist and educator (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor
• 1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
• 1932 – Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer and inventor
• 1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal
• 1934 – Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
• 1934 – Dennis Letts, American actor and educator (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Kevin McNamara, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1935 – Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project
• 1935 – Helen Gifford, Australian composer and educator
• 1936 – Robert Burns, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 1936 – John Danforth, American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist, author, and educator
• 1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and coach
• 1936 – Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian poet, journalist, and translator
• 1937 – Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1937 – Dick Clement, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 – John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician
• 1939 – Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist
• 1939 – William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
• 1939 – John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
• 1939 – George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician
• 1940 – Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician
• 1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress and singer
• 1941 – Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1942 – Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
• 1943 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1996)
• 1944 – Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1945 – Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter
• 1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 – Kyongae Chang, South Korean astrophysicist and academic
• 1946 – Dennis Dugan, American actor and director
• 1946 – Dean Ford, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Marmalade)
• 1946 – Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1991)
• 1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1947 – Mel Collins, Manx saxophonist and flute player
• 1947 – Chip Davis, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
• 1947 – Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2008)
• 1947 – Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2019)
• 1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria
• 1949 – Clem Clempson, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1950 – Rosie Cooper, English businesswoman and politician
• 1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, created Cathy
• 1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
• 1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor and producer
• 1951 – Jamie Oldaker, American drummer and percussionist
• 1952 – David Glen Eisley, American rock singer-songwriter and actor
• 1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, American historian and journalist
• 1953 – Murray Mexted, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 1953 – Eiki Nestor, Estonian engineer and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
• 1953 – Paul Piché, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Richard Austin, Jamaican footballer and cricketer (d. 2015)
• 1954 – Frederick Kempe, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1957 – Rudi Gores, German footballer and manager
• 1957 – Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist
• 1958 – Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, composer, and producer
• 1959 – Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and publisher (d. 2014)
• 1960 – Don Kulick, Swedish anthropologist and academic
• 1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1962 – Tracy Edwards, English sailor and coach
• 1962 – John McGrath, Welsh businessman
• 1963 – Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter
• 1963 – Jeff Brantley, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Terry Ellis, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress
• 1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver and manager
• 1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Sergei Loznitsa, Belarusian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter
• 1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
• 1964 – Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor (d. 2016)
• 1965 – David Brabham, Australian race car driver
• 1965 – Hoshitango Imachi, Japanese wrestler
• 1965 – Nick Talbot, English geneticist and academic
• 1966 – Achero Mañas, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1967 – Matthias Sammer, German footballer and manager
• 1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
• 1968 – Serhiy Kovalets, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1968 – Dennis Scott, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1968 – Robin van der Laan, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1968 – Brad Wilk, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1969 – Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Mariko Kouda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host
• 1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer and coach
• 1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician
• 1970 – Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director
• 1970 – Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1970 – Gilbert Remulla, Filipino journalist and politician
• 1970 – Johnny Vegas, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Adam Hollioake, Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist
• 1972 – Shane Sewell, Canadian-American wrestler and referee
• 1972 – Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Rose McGowan, American actress
• 1974 – Rawl Lewis, Grenadian cricketer
• 1974 – Ken-Marti Vaher, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior
• 1975 – Rod Barajas, American baseball player and manager
• 1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1975 – Randy Choate, American baseball player
• 1975 – Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1976 – Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
• 1977 – Rosevelt Colvin, American football player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer
• 1977 – Minoru Fujita, Japanese wrestler
• 1977 – Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player
• 1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 – Sylvester Joseph, Antiguan cricketer
• 1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
• 1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
• 1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• 1979 – Julien Lizeroux, French skier
• 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer
• 1979 – George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
• 1980 – Franco Costanzo, Argentinian footballer
• 1980 – Kevin Simm, British singer
• 1981 – Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist
• 1981 – Kai Rüütel, Estonian opera singer
• 1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
• 1982 – Alexandre Geijo, Spanish-Swiss footballer
• 1983 – Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
• 1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
• 1983 – Lincoln Riley, American football coach
• 1983 – Antony Sweeney, English footballer
• 1984 – Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist
• 1985 – Ryan Guy, American soccer player
• 1986 – Colt McCoy, American football player
• 1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
• 1988 – Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer
• 1988 – Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1989 – Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player
• 1989 – José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Ben Youngs, English rugby player
• 1990 – Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Francesca Segarelli, Dominican tennis player
• 1990 – Lance Stephenson, American basketball player
• 1990 – Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater
• 1990 – Franco Zuculini, Argentinian footballer
• 1991 – Zeki Yavru, Turkish footballer
• 1994 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer
• 1995 – Szabina Szlavikovics, Hungarian tennis player
• 1996 – Richairo Živković, Dutch footballer
• 1996 – Sigrid, Norwegian singer

• 590 – Authari, Lombard king (b. 540)
• 714 – Shang, emperor of the Tang Dynasty
• 1165 – Nijō, emperor of Japan (b. 1143)
• 1235 – Henry I, duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
• 1311 – Amadeus Aba, Hungarian oligarch
• 1336 – Charles d'Évreux, count of Étampes (b. 1305)
• 1526 – Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer
• 1548 – Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
• 1562 – Katharina Zell, German Protestant reformer (b. 1497)
• 1569 – Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (b. c. 1500)
• 1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, French politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1529)
• 1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1585)
• 1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French composer (b. 1664)
• 1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1712)
• 1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
• 1803 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (b. 1759)
• 1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (b. 1790)
• 1838 – Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (b. 1764)
• 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798)
• 1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1877 – Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (b. 1849)
• 1894 – George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (b. 1822)
• 1898 – Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
• 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1909 – Louis Bouveault, French chemist (b. 1864)
• 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American general (b. 1845)
• 1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)
• 1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
• 1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
• 1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
• 1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1849)
• 1931 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
• 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1932 – Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1934 – Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (b. 1878)
• 1936 – Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (b. 1859)
• 1942 – François de Labouchère, French soldier and pilot (b. 1917)
• 1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1877)
• 1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (b. 1881)
• 1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Argentinian-German agronomist and politician (b. 1895)
• 1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1860)
• 1955 – Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach (b. 1911)
• 1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (b. 1879)
• 1970 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1972 – Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (b. 1897)
• 1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1980 – Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (b. 1923)
• 1982 – Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
• 1984 – Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (b. 1929)
• 1985 – Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Neerja Bhanot, Indian model and youngest recipient of country's highest peacetime military award Ashok Chakra (b. 1963)
• 1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Philip Baxter, Welsh-English engineer and academic (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1896)
• 1991 – Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (b. 1931)
• 1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (b. 1921)
• 1994 – John Newman, Australian politician (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1939)
• 1995 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam film and other films. (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Leon Edel, American author and critic (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician (b. 1942)
• 2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defense (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Justin Wilson, American chef and author (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and academic (b. 1912)
• 2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean general (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Thomas Hansen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1976)
• 2007 – D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Hedley Beare, Australian author and academic (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-Dutch poet and painter (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (b. 1986)
• 2012 – Ian Dick, Australian cricketer and field hockey player (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author (b. 1946)
• 2012 – John Oaksey, English jockey and journalist (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (b. 1975)
• 2014 – Bruce Morton, American journalist (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1964)
• 2015 – Goh Eng Wah, Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
• 2015 – Chester Stranczek, American baseball player and businessman (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2016 – Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (b. 1924)
• 2018 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934)
• 2018 – Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (b. 1926)