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ΕVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST

461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.

Births[edit]

1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1563 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1626)
1597 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (d. 1660)
1600 – Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1600 – Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669)
1616 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770)
1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)
1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
1722 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
1752 – George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818)
1770 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
1802 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)
1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894)
1808 – Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician (d. 1881)
1812 – Karl Schwarz, German theologian and politician (d. 1885)
1828 – Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
1831 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
1833 – Wilhelm Dilthey, German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (d. 1911)
1834 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924)
1843 – Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1896)
1859 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1935)
1862 – Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935)
1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Russian politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (d. 1946)
1876 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)
1876 – James Steen, American water polo player (d. 1949)
1877 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)
1879 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1957)
1883 – Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)
1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1888 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player (d. 1942)
1889 – Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1966)
1892 – Thomas Clay, English footballer and coach (d. 1949)
1892 – Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (d. 1970)
1893 – René Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952)
1894 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
1895 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1895 – Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)
1898 – Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist (d. 2003)
1899 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (d. 1992)
1899 – Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
1900 – Bunny Ahearne, Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)
1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
1900 – Anna Seghers, German author and politician (d. 1983)
1904 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (The California Ramblers) (d. 1956)
1906 – Franz Schädle, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1907 – Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
1909 – Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (d. 2005)
1910 – Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver, author, and explorer (d. 1970)
1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1917 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1919 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1919 – Alan Young, English-Canadian actor, singer, and director
1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress and singer (d. 1991)
1921 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993)
1921 – Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator
1922 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)
1922 – Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (d. 1999)
1922 – Rajko Mitić, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
1923 – Louis D. Rubin, Jr., American author, critic, and academic (d. 2013)
1924 – William Russell, English actor
1924 – Knut Steen, Norwegian-Italian sculptor (d. 2011)
1924 – Margaret Turner-Warwick, English physician and academic
1925 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic
1926 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
1926 – Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012)
1926 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (d. 2011)
1928 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
1929 – Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004)
1930 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
1933 – Larry King, American journalist and talk show host
1933 – Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author
1934 – Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer
1934 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1934 – David Lloyd-Jones, English conductor
1935 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist (d. 1990)
1935 – Michael Till, English priest (d. 2012)
1935 – Jack Welch, American engineer, businessman, and author
1936 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host
1936 – Ray Collins, American singer (The Mothers of Invention) (d. 2012)
1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Penelope Leach, English psychologist
1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System
1939 – Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania
1939 – Tom Harkin, American pilot, lawyer, and politician
1939 – Ghada Karmi, Palestinian physician and academic
1939 – Jane Mansbridge, American political scientist
1939 – Richard Zare, American chemist and academic
1941 – Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer
1941 – Tommy Thompson, American captain and politician, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
1942 – Roland Clift, English engineer and academic
1942 – Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
1942 – Sharon Olds, American poet and academic
1943 – Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1943 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player and manager (d. 1990)
1944 – Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano and actress
1944 – Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1945 – Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (d. 2008)
1945 – Bobby Tolan, American baseball player and manager
1947 – Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
1947 – Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1947 – Lamar S. Smith, American lawyer and politician
1949 – Nigel Bennett, English-Canadian actor
1949 – Raymond Blanc, French chef and author
1949 – Ahmad Rashād, American football player and sportscaster
1949 – Amand Theis, German footballer
1950 – Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player
1951 – Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1952 – Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and activist
1953 – Robert Beltran, American actor
1953 – Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
1954 – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian field marshal and politician, 6th President of Egypt
1954 – Réjean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1954 – Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
1955 – Sam Hamm, American screenwriter and producer
1956 – Peter Carter, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Estonia (d. 2014)
1956 – Eileen Collins, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1956 – Ann Curry, American journalist
1956 – Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
1957 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
1957 – Tom Virtue, American actor
1958 – Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer
1958 – Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian, author, and academic
1958 – Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and journalist
1959 – Allison Janney, American actress and singer
1960 – Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
1960 – Matt Sorum, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Cult, Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver, Slash's Snakepit, Camp Freddy, and Neurotic Outsiders)
1961 – Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach
1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress and producer
1962 – Tommy Andersson, Swedish actor (d. 2013)
1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer
1962 – George Leventhal, American politician
1962 – Sean Parnell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Alaska
1962 – Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer
1963 – Terry Farrell, American actress
1963 – Zsuzsa Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
1963 – Jon Potter, English-American field hockey player
1963 – Gary Riley, American actor
1964 – Shawn Holman, American baseball player
1964 – Fred Diamond, 21st-century American mathematician
1964 – Phil Hughes, Irish footballer and coach
1964 – Celia Isabel Gauna Ruiz, Mexican politician
1964 – Irina Laricheva, Russian Olympic shooters
1964 – Eric Musselman, Sacramento Kings head coaches
1964 – Mike Gregory, English rugby player and coach (d. 2007)
1964 – Alfredo Zaiat, Argentinian economist and journalist
1964 – David Goodall, Scottish composers
1964 – Peter Rohde, Carlton Football Club players
1964 – Nicholas Patrick, English astronauts
1964 – Tony Ryall, Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand
1964 – Ronnie Sinclair, Association football goalkeepers
1964 – Vincent Herring, American jazz alto saxophonists
1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer and manager
1965 – Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
1965 – Jason Pierce, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spiritualized and Spacemen 3)
1966 – Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author
1966 – Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler
1966 – Rocco DiSpirito, American chef and author
1966 – Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer and manager
1966 – Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist
1969 – Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver
1969 – Erika Alexander, American actress
1969 – Richard Virenque, Moroccan-French cyclist
1971 – Justin Chancellor, English bass player (Tool and Peach)
1971 – Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
1971 – Naoko Mori, Japanese-English actress and singer
1971 – Alice Peacock, American singer-songwriter
1972 – Sandrine Holt, English-American actress
1973 – Ryukishi07, Japanese author and illustrator
1973 – Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
1973 – Django Haskins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Old Ceremony)
1974 – Arun Vijay, Indian actor and singer
1975 – Toby Bailey, American basketball player
1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian model and actress, Miss Universe 1994
1976 – Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
1976 – Robin Dunne, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976 – Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter
1976 – Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
1976 – Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer
1977 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast
1978 – Matt Dusk, Canadian singer
1978 – Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower and shot putter
1979 – Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter (Every Time I Die and The Damned Things)
1979 – John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
1979 – Ryan Howard, American baseball player
1979 – Larry Johnson, American football player
1979 – Leam Richardson, English footballer and manager
1980 – Courtney Anderson, American football player
1980 – Andrew Copson, English businessman
1980 – Otis Grigsby, American football player
1980 – Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player
1980 – Adele Silva, English actress
1981 – Marcus Banks, American basketball player
1981 – André Lotterer, German race car driver
1981 – Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentinian rugby player
1981 – DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter (Epik High)
1983 – Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier
1983 – Daria Werbowy, Polish-Canadian model
1984 – Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer
1984 – Brittany Maynard, American activist (d. 2014)
1985 – Chris Eagles, English footballer
1985 – Alex Mack, American football player
1986 – Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1986 – Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
1986 – Veronica Scott, American fashion designer, co-founded Fuchsia Clothing
1986 – Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer
1987 – Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Spanish tennis player
1988 – Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player
1988 – Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
1989 – Tyga, American rapper
1989 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
1989 – Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper
1990 – Marquise Goodwin, American football player
1990 – Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
1993 – Suso, Spanish footballer
1993 – Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
1994 – Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
1997 – McCaughey septuplets, American septuplets
2002 – Gaia Cauchi, Maltese singer

Deaths[edit]

1557 – Bona Sforza, Polish wife of Sigismund I the Old (b. 1494)
1577 – Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese daimyo (b. 1510)
1581 – Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)
1630 – Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French-Italian painter (b. 1594)
1672 – John Wilkins, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1614)
1692 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642)
1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner
1723 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
1772 – William Nelson, American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
1773 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)
1785 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
1798 – Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
1804 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1725)
1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
1823 – Alvin Smith, American brother of Joseph Smith (b. 1798)
1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1883 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
1887 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian and academic (b. 1810)
1915 – Joe Hill, Swedish-American activist (b. 1879)
1918 – Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
1924 – Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1882)
1931 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
1938 – Lev Shestov, Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and theologian (b. 1866)
1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)
1943 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
1949 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
1954 – Walter Bartley Wilson, English footballer and manager (b. 1870)
1955 – Marquis James, American journalist and author (b. 1891)
1956 – Francis L. Sullivan, English-American actor (b. 1903)
1959 – Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)
1960 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
1962 – Grigol Robakidze, Georgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1882)
1963 – Henry B. Richardson, American archer (b. 1889)
1967 – Charles J. Watters, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
1974 – George Brunies, American trombonist (b. 1902)
1974 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
1976 – Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)
1983 – Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1985 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
1988 – Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)
1988 – Peggy Parish, American author (b. 1927)
1989 – Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
1990 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
1992 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
1992 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2001 – Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
2003 – Ian Geoghegan, Australian race car driver (b. 1940)
2004 – George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
2004 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
2004 – Helmut Griem, German actor and director (b. 1932)
2004 – Trina Schart Hyman, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)
2004 – Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (Bruce & Terry) (b. 1942)
2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
2005 – Erik Balling, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
2007 – Mike Gregory, English rugby player and coach (b. 1964)
2007 – Dick Wilson, English-American actor (b. 1916)
2008 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American murderer (b. 1955)
2009 – Daul Kim, South Korean model (b. 1989)
2010 – Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)
2010 – Jacques Sandulescu, Romanian author, boxer, bar-owner and actor (b. 1928)
2011 – Ruth Stone, American poet and author (b. 1915)
2012 – John Hefin, Welsh director and producer (b. 1941)
2012 – Magnus Lindgren, Swedish chef (b. 1982)
2012 – Hannie Lips, Dutch television host (b. 1924)
2012 – Shiro Miya, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
2012 – Joe Riordan, Australian politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Boris Strugatskiy, Russian author (b. 1933)
2013 – Babe Birrer, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2013 – Gunter Christmann, German-Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1936)
2013 – Diane Disney Miller, American philanthropist (b. 1933)
2013 – Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (b. 1921)
2013 – Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (b. 1939)
2013 – Edmund Reggie, American lawyer and judge (b. 1926)
2013 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2013 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (b. 1915)
2013 – Marc Breaux, American choreographer and film director (b. 1924)