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• 250 – Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred.
• 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
• 1265 – The first English parliament to include not only nobles but also representatives of the major towns meets in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
• 1320 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
• 1356 – Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
• 1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
• 1567 – Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
• 1576 – The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
• 1649 – Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".
• 1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
• 1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
• 1788 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
• 1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
• 1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
• 1877 – Last day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
• 1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
• 1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
• 1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
• 1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
• 1941 – A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
• 1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
• 1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
• 1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
• 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
• 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
• 1959 – The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard.
• 1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
• 1969 – East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
• 1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
• 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
• 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
• 1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
• 1990 – Following 7 days of pogroms on local Armenian population of Baku, Azerbaijan the the Red Army enters the city to restore order.
• 1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
• 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent.
• 1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés.
• 2001 – Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
• 2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
• 2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
• 2009 – A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.

Births[edit]

• 225 – Gordian III, Roman emperor (d. 244)
• 1292 – Elisabeth of Bohemia (d. 1330)
• 1435 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
• 1554 – Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
• 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
• 1586 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
• 1664 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian jurist (d. 1718)
• 1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1741)
• 1716 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1795)
• 1716 – Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
• 1732 – Richard Henry Lee, American politician (d. 1794)
• 1755 – Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1824)
• 1761 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer (d. 1825)
• 1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842)
• 1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
• 1781 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German politician (d. 1848)
• 1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
• 1798 – Anson Jones, American politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
• 1804 – Eugène Sue, French author (d. 1857)
• 1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
• 1834 – George D. Robinson, American politician, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
• 1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
• 1867 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
• 1873 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1967)
• 1878 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (d. 1968)
• 1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
• 1880 – Walter W. Bacon, American politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
• 1880 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (d. 1961)
• 1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mobster (d. 1957)
• 1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (d. 1968)
• 1883 – Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Claude Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1943)
• 1889 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946)
• 1894 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (d. 1968)
• 1894 – Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1985)
• 1896 – George Burns, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1996)
• 1896 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1898 – U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (d. 1947)
• 1899 – Clarice Cliff, English potter (d. 1972)
• 1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1990)
• 1900 – Colin Clive, English actor (d. 1937)
• 1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1902 – Kevin Barry, Irish Republican (d. 1920)
• 1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Turkish-Greek businessman (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Fleur Cowles, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
• 1908 – Jean S. MacLeod, Scottish author (d. 2011)
• 1909 – Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Joy Adamson, Austrian author (d. 1980)
• 1911 – Wendell J. Westcott, American carillon player (d. 2010)
• 1912 – Walter Briggs, Jr., American businessman (d. 1970)
• 1913 – S. M. Rasamanickam, Ceylonese politician (d. 1974)
• 1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani politician, 7th President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Nevin S. Scrimshaw, American scientist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Cleon Skousen, American author (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Ray Anthony, American trumpet player, composer, bandleader, and actor
• 1922 – Elizabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Graham Stark, English actor and director (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
• 1923 – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician
• 1926 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic
• 1926 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani author (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Helen Elliot, Scottish table tennis player (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Rudy Boesch, American soldier
• 1929 – Jimmy Cobb, American drummer
• 1929 – Arte Johnson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 1929 – Frank Kush, American football player and coach
• 1929 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
• 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
• 1930 – Blair Lent, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Preston Henn, American businessman, founded the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop
• 1931 – David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer (d. 1992)
• 1932 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1933 – Ronald Townson, American singer and actor (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
• 1934 – Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Tom Baker, English actor
• 1935 – Joan Weston, American roller derby racer (d. 1997)
• 1936 – Frances Shand Kydd, Mother of Diana, Princess of Wales and maternal Grandmother of Princes William and Henry (d. 2004)
• 1937 – Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2010)
• 1938 – William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
• 1938 – Liz Calder, English publisher
• 1938 – Derek Dougan, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician (d. 2000)
• 1939 – Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and astrobiologist
• 1940 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater
• 1940 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
• 1940 – Mandé Sidibé, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer and television host
• 1942 – Linda Moulton Howe, American journalist
• 1943 – Rick Evans, American singer and guitarist (Zager and Evans)
• 1943 – Jessica Rawson, English historian and academic
• 1944 – José Luis Garci, Spanish director and producer
• 1944 – Farhad Mehrad, Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
• 1945 – Dave Boswell, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Robert Olen Butler, American author
• 1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Eric Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (10cc, Hotlegs, Mandalaband, and The Mindbenders)
• 1946 – David Lynch, American director
• 1946 – Vladimír Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist
• 1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist
• 1948 – Nancy Kress, American author
• 1948 – Mel Pritchard, English drummer (Barclay James Harvest) (d. 2004)
• 1948 – Natan Sharansky, Russian-Israeli physicist and politician
• 1948 – Nigel Williams, English author, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Göran Persson, Swedish politician, 31st Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1950 – Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor
• 1950 – Liza Goddard, English actress
• 1950 – Edward Hirsch, American poet
• 1950 – Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerian politician, President of Niger
• 1951 – Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer
• 1951 – Ian Hill, English bass player (Judas Priest)
• 1952 – Nikos Sideris, Greek psychiatrist and poet
• 1952 – Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Kiss and Wicked Lester)
• 1952 – John Witherow, South African journalist
• 1953 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and philanthropist
• 1953 – Barbara Hay, English diplomat
• 1953 – Colleen Zenk Pinter, American actress
• 1954 – Rudy La Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter and producer
• 1954 – Ken Page, American actor and singer
• 1954 – Alison Seabeck, English politician
• 1955 – McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands
• 1955 – Joe Doherty, Irish soldier and activist
• 1955 – Wyatt Knight, American actor
• 1955 – Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
• 1956 – Maria Larsson, Swedish educator and politician
• 1956 – Bill Maher, American comedian, actor, and television host
• 1957 – Andy Sheppard, English saxophonist and composer
• 1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
• 1959 – Tami Hoag, American author
• 1959 – R.A. Salvatore, American author
• 1960 – Apa Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer
• 1960 – Scott Thunes, American bass player (Fear)
• 1960 – Will Wright, American video game designer, co-founded Maxis
• 1963 – Firebreaker Chip, American wrestler
• 1963 – James Denton, American actor
• 1963 – Mark Ryden, American painter
• 1964 – Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
• 1964 – Aquilino Pimentel III, Filipino politician
• 1964 – Ron Harper, American basketball player
• 1964 – Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and songwriter
• 1964 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author
• 1964 – Jack Lewis, American author
• 1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
• 1965 – Warren Joyce, English footballer
• 1965 – Greg Kriesel, American bass player (The Offspring)
• 1965 – John Michael Montgomery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Heather Small, English singer-songwriter and actress (Hot House and M People)
• 1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex
• 1965 – Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
• 1966 – Stacey Dash, American actress
• 1966 – Tracii Guns, American guitarist and songwriter (L.A. Guns, Brides of Destruction, Hollywood Rose, and Contraband)
• 1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
• 1967 – Jay Hunt, Australian businessman
• 1968 – Nick Anderson, American basketball player
• 1968 – Melissa Rivers, American actress, television host, and producer
• 1968 – Charlie Swan, Irish jockey
• 1969 – Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker and activist, co-founded MindVox
• 1969 – Nicky Wire, Welsh singer-songwriter and bass player (Manic Street Preachers)
• 1970 – Mitch Benn, English comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
• 1970 – Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Mark Spencer, English politician
• 1970 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor
• 1971 – Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Take That)
• 1971 – Brian Giles, American baseball player
• 1971 – Derrick Green, American singer-songwriter (Sepultura)
• 1971 – Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna
• 1971 – Gerard McDonnell, Irish mountaineer (d. 2008)
• 1971 – Questlove, American drummer, DJ, and producer (The Roots and Soulquarians)
• 1972 – Tony DeVito, American wrestler
• 1972 – Nikki Haley, American politician
• 1973 – Stephen Crabb, Scottish-Welsh politician
• 1973 – Queen Mathilde of Belgium
• 1973 – Josh Weston, American porn actor (d. 2012)
• 1974 – David Dei, Italian footballer
• 1975 – David Eckstein, American baseball player
• 1975 – Norberto Fontana, Argentinian race car driver
• 1975 – Zac Goldsmith, English journalist and politician
• 1976 – Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television host
• 1976 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
• 1976 – Michael Myers, former NFL defensive tackle
• 1977 – Melody, Belgian singer
• 1977 – Liivo Leetma, Estonian footballer
• 1978 – Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Joy Giovanni, American model and actress
• 1978 – Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
• 1978 – Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
• 1978 – Sid Wilson, American DJ and pianist (Slipknot)
• 1978 – Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Asaka Kubo, Japanese singer
• 1979 – Shang Yi, Chinese footballer
• 1979 – Will Young, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 – Philippe Cousteau, Jr., American-French oceanographer
• 1980 – Philippe Gagnon, Canadian swimmer
• 1980 – Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
• 1980 – Brigitte Olivier, Belgian martial artist
• 1980 – Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
• 1980 – Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer and guitarist (Bullet for my Valentine)
• 1981 – Daniel Cudmore, Canadian actor
• 1981 – Brendan Fevola, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
• 1981 – Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Jason Richardson, American basketball player
• 1982 – Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 – Joe Swash, English actor
• 1983 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1983 – Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress and model
• 1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and ZYX)
• 1984 – Victoria Asher, American keyboard player (Cobra Starship)
• 1984 – Toni Gonzaga, Filipino actress and singer
• 1984 – Olivia Hallinan, English actress
• 1984 – Rene Mandri, Estonian cyclist
• 1985 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1985 – Tanel Sokk, Estonian basketball player
• 1986 – Genie Chuo, Taiwanese singer and actress
• 1986 – Bissan Rafe, Palestinian-American painter and biologist
• 1986 – Derek Fathauer, American golfer
• 1987 – Evan Peters, American actor
• 1987 – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
• 1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
• 1987 – Mark Wright, English actor, footballer, and radio host
• 1988 – Colin Bensadon, Gibraltarian swimmer
• 1988 – Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer
• 1988 – Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
• 1988 – Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player
• 1989 – Nick Foles, American football player
• 1989 – Washington Santana da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 – Ciara Hanna, American actress
• 1991 – Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
• 1991 – Jolyon Palmer, English race car driver
• 1992 – Jorge Zárate, Mexican footballer
• 1993 – Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer
• 1994 – Denis Mukhametdinov, Russian footballer
• 1995 – Joey Badass, American rapper (Pro Era)
• 1999 – Shannon Tavarez, American actress and singer (d. 2010)

Deaths[edit]

• 250 – Pope Fabian (b. 200)
• 820 – Al-Shafi‘i, Palestinian jurist (b. 767)
• 842 – Theophilos, Byzantine emperor (b. 813)
• 1156 – Henry, English-Finnish bishop and saint
• 1191 – Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
• 1410 – Martin of Aragon (b. 1356)
• 1479 – John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
• 1568 – Myles Coverdale, English bishop (b. 1488)
• 1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
• 1663 – Isaac Ambrose, English minister and author (b. 1604)
• 1666 – Anne of Austria (b. 1601)
• 1707 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
• 1709 – François de la Chaise, French priest (b. 1624)
• 1751 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
• 1770 – Charles Yorke, English politician (b. 1722)
• 1779 – David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
• 1810 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (b. 1721)
• 1819 – Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
• 1837 – John Soane, English architect, designed the Bank of England (b. 1753)
• 1841 – Minh Mang, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
• 1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
• 1850 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
• 1852 – Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
• 1873 – Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
• 1877 – Lela Pandak Lam, Malayan activist
• 1891 – Kalākaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 – John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
• 1901 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
• 1908 – John Ordronaux, American surgeon (b. 1830)
• 1913 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1920 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
• 1924 – Ivor Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)
• 1936 – George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
• 1940 – Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
• 1941 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (b. 1879)
• 1944 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
• 1947 – Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1954 – Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
• 1955 – Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1962 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
• 1971 – Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1971 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1973 – Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
• 1973 – Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1977 – Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician (b. 1892)
• 1979 – Gustav Winckler, Danish singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
• 1980 – William Roberts, English painter (b. 1895)
• 1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
• 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist (b. 1890)
• 1988 – Dora Stratou, Greek author (b. 1903)
• 1989 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 1990 – Hayedeh, Iranian singer (b. 1942)
• 1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Stan Szelest American keyboard player (The Band) (b. 1943)
• 1993 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-English actress (b. 1929)
• 1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Bedia Muvahhit, Turkish stage and movie actress (b. 1897)
• 1996 – Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Carrie Hamilton, American actress and singer (b. 1963)
• 2003 – Al Hirschfeld, American illustrator (b. 1903)
• 2003 – Craig Kelly, American snowboarder (b. 1966)
• 2003 – Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
• 2003 – David Battley, English comic actor (b. 1935)
• 2004 – T. Nadaraja, Sri Lankan lawyer and academic (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Parveen Babi, Indian model and actress (b. 1949)
• 2005 – Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Miriam Rothschild, English zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Dave Lepard, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crashdïet) (b. 1980)
• 2009 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian patriarch (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
• 2009 – David "Fathead" Newman, American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Sheila Walsh, English author (b. 1928)
• 2012 – John F. Baker, Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Larry Butler, American songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Lucy Faulkner, Irish journalist (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Etta James, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2012 – John Levy, American bassist and maanger (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Ioannis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Alejandro Rodriguez, Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Robert Fortune Sanchez, American archbishop (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Michael Welsh, English miner and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Ron Fraser, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Dolores Prida, Cuban-American journalist and playwright (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Tracy Sugarman, American illustrator (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Freddie Williams, Welsh motorcycle racer (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Wistin Abela, Maltese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Ubaldo Continiello, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Graeme Dallow, New Zealand police officer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – James Jacks, American film producer (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician (b. 1921)
• 2014 – George Scott, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Jonas Trinkūnas, Lithuanian ethnologist (b. 1939)