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• 1431 – Joan of Arc is defeated by Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
• 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
• 1653 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
• 1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
• 1777 – American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
• 1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
• 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
• 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• 1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
• 1885 – Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
• 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
• 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
• 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
• 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
• 1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
• 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
• 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
• 1946 – Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
• 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
• 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
• 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
• 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• 1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
• 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
• 1961 – A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
• 1961 – In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
• 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
• 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
• 1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
• 1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
• 1994 – More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
• 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
• 1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
• 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
• 1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
• 2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
• 2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
• 2004 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
• 2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Births[edit]

• 106 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
• 169 – Lü Bu, Chinese general and warlord (d. 199)
• 1196 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
• 1698 – Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
• 1710 – Richard Gridley, American soldier (d. 1796)
• 1719 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
• 1722 – Fredrik Hasselqvist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
• 1760 – Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Indian activist (d.1799)
• 1760 – John Storm, American soldier (d. 1835)
• 1778 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (d. 1861)
• 1793 – Lucretia Mott, American activist (d. 1880)
• 1802 – Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (d. 1898)
• 1803 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright (d. 1857)
• 1806 – Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
• 1810 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
• 1816 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (d. 1891)
• 1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Italian astronomer (d. 1900)
• 1821 – Karel Dežman, Slovenian archeologist, botanist, and politician (d. 1889)
• 1831 – Savitribai Phule, Indian educator and activist (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and rebel leader (d. 1867)
• 1840 – Father Damien, Flemish missionary and priest (d. 1889)
• 1855 – Hubert Bland, English educator (d. 1914)
• 1856 – R. C. Lehmann, English journalist and politician (d. 1929)
• 1861 – William Renshaw, English tennis player (d. 1904)
• 1862 – Matthew Nathan, English soldier and politician, 13th Governor of Queensland (d. 1939)
• 1865 – Henry Lytton, English actor and singer (d. 1936)
• 1870 – Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
• 1873 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded the Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (d. 1957)
• 1874 – Francis Newton, American golfer (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Wilhelm Pieck, German politician, 1st President of the German Democratic Republic (d. 1960)
• 1879 – Grace Coolidge, American wife of Calvin Coolidge, 32nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
• 1880 – Francis Browne, Irish photographer (d. 1960)
• 1883 – Clement Attlee, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
• 1883 – Duncan Gillis, Canadian athlete (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Raoul Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
• 1885 – Harry Elkins Widener, American businessman (d. 1912)
• 1886 – John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
• 1887 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• 1887 – Helen Parkhurst, American educator and author (d. 1973)
• 1888 – Jacob Bolotin, American physician (d. 1924)
• 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist and author (d. 1973)
• 1894 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer and conductor (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1898 – Carolyn Haywood, American author (d. 1990)
• 1898 – Carlos Keller, Chilean politician (d. 1974)
• 1900 – Donald J. Russell, American businessman (d. 1985)
• 1901 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1907 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 1986)
• 1909 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and comedian (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1911 – John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier (d. 1936)
• 1912 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Jack Levine, American painter (d. 2010)
• 1915 – Mady Rahl, German actress (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
• 1916 – Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978)
• 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch author and actor (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Vernon A. Walters, American military officer and diplomat, 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Moldovan politician (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Dorothy Morrison, American actress
• 1919 – Herbie Nichols, American pianist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1920 – Siegfried Buback, German politician, Attorney General of Germany (d. 1977)
• 1920 – Renato Carosone, Italian pianist (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Bill Travers, English actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Bud Adams, American businessman (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Hank Stram, American football player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Bud Tingwell, Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Otto Beisheim, German businessman, founded Metro AG (d. 2013)
• 1924 – André Franquin, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1997)
• 1924 – Nell Rankin, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Jill Balcon, English actress (d. 2009)
• 1926 – W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman and politician, 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1926 – George Martin, English composer and producer
• 1928 – Michael Barratt, English television presenter
• 1929 – Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and conductor
• 1930 – Mara Corday, American model and actress
• 1930 – Marcel Dubé, Canadian playwright
• 1930 – Robert Loggia, American actor and director
• 1930 – Barbara Stuart, American actress (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Yashawant Dinkar Phadke, Indian historian and activist (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Dabney Coleman, American actor
• 1932 – Eeles Landström, Finnish pole vaulter
• 1932 – Yolanda "Tongolele" Montes, American-Mexican dancer and actress
• 1933 – Geoffrey Bindman, English solicitor
• 1933 – Anya Linden, English ballerina
• 1933 – Anne Stevenson, American-English poet
• 1934 – Marpessa Dawn, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer and civil servant
• 1935 – Raymond Garneau, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1935 – Camil Samson, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Michael Layard, English admiral
• 1937 – Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, English politician
• 1938 – K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Arik Einstein, Israeli singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 – Ruben Reyes, Filipino jurist
• 1940 – Leo de Berardinis, Italian stage actor and theatre director (d. 2008)
• 1941 – Franklin McCain, American activist (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Van Dyke Parks, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1942 – John Marsden, Australian lawyer and activist (d. 2006)
• 1942 – John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish journalist (d. 2009)
• 1944 – David Atherton, English conductor
• 1944 – Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian author
• 1945 – David Starkey, English historian
• 1945 – Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Manassas)
• 1946 – John Paul Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures)
• 1946 – Cissy King, American singer and dancer
• 1946 – Michalis Kritikopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2002)
• 1947 – Zulema, American singer-songwriter (Faith Hope and Charity) (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (d. 1965)
• 1949 – Hilary Wainwright, English sociologist, political activist and editor Red Pepper
• 1950 – Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
• 1950 – Victoria Principal, American actress
• 1951 – Linda Dobbs, Sierra Leone-born former High Court judge
• 1951 – Gary Nairn, Australian politician
• 1952 – Esperanza Aguirre, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Community of Madrid
• 1952 – Gianfranco Fini, Italian politician
• 1952 – Jim Ross, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1953 – Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and author
• 1953 – Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Maldivian politician, 5th President of the Maldives
• 1954 – Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
• 1954 – Ned Lamont, American businessman and politician
• 1954 – Ross the Boss, American guitarist and songwriter (The Dictators, Manowar, and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom)
• 1955 – Palmolive, Spanish-English drummer (The Slits, The Raincoats, and The Flowers of Romance)
• 1956 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Sam Laidlaw, English businessman
• 1956 – Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
• 1958 – James J. Greco, American businessman
• 1958 – Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean actor, director, and producer
• 1959 – Alessandro Andrei, Italian shot putter
• 1960 – Russell Spence, English race car driver
• 1963 – Vic Grimes, American wrestler
• 1963 – Stewart Hosie, Scottish politician
• 1963 – New Jack, American wrestler
• 1963 – Alex Wheatle, English author
• 1964 – Bruce LaBruce, Canadian director
• 1967 – Gérald Mossé, French jockey
• 1969 – Jarmo Lehtinen, Finnish rally co-driver
• 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
• 1969 – Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian bobsledder
• 1970 – Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
• 1970 – Priit Reiska, Estonian footballer
• 1970 – Matt Ross, American actor
• 1970 – Lee Beom-soo, South Korean actor
• 1971 – Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Janek Kiisman, Estonian footballer
• 1972 – Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
• 1973 – Dan Harmon, American screenwriter and producer
• 1973 – Rory Stewart, British academic, writer and politician
• 1974 – Robert-Jan Derksen, Dutch golfer
• 1974 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
• 1975 – Thomas Bangalter, French DJ and producer (Daft Punk, Stardust, Together, and Darlin')
• 1975 – Jun Maeda, Japanese video game writer
• 1975 – Jason Marsden, American actor
• 1975 – Danica McKellar, American actress
• 1975 – Lisa Misipeka, American Samoan hammer thrower
• 1976 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
• 1976 – Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor and producer
• 1977 – Lee Bowyer, English footballer
• 1977 – A. J. Burnett, American baseball player
• 1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1978 – Dimitra Kalentzou, Greek basketball player
• 1978 – Liya Kebede, Ethiopian-American model, actress, and fashion designer
• 1978 – Kimberley Locke, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
• 1978 – Mike York, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Chris Geddes, Canadian volleyball player
• 1979 – Rie Tanaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1979 – Dina Tersago, Belgian model and television host, Miss Belgium 2001
• 1979 – Koit Toome, Estonian singer
• 1980 – Bryan Clay, American decathlete
• 1980 – Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – David Tyree, American football player
• 1980 – Kurt Vile, American musician
• 1980 – Mary Wineberg, American sprinter
• 1981 – Naresh Iyer, Indian singer
• 1981 – Eli Manning, American football player
• 1982 – Peter Clarke, English footballer
• 1982 – Lasse Nilsson, Swedish footballer
• 1983 – Antti Arst, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Miloš Juhász, Slovak footballer
• 1984 – Billy Mehmet, Irish footballer
• 1984 – Arif Suyono, Indonesian footballer
• 1985 – Nicole Beharie, American actress
• 1985 – John David Booty, American football player
• 1985 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1985 – Evan Moore, American football player
• 1986 – Dana Hussain, Iraqi sprinter
• 1986 – Greg Nwokolo, Indonesian footballer
• 1986 – Jessica O'Rourke, American footballer
• 1986 – Dmitry Starodubtsev, Russian pole vaulter
• 1986 – Jacob Timpano, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Anchal Joseph Indian-American model and actress
• 1987 – Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Ikechi Anya, Scottish-Nigerian footballer
• 1988 – Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Jonny Evans, Irish footballer
• 1988 – Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – J. R. Hildebrand American race car driver
• 1989 – Adas Juškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1989 – Alex D. Linz, American actor
• 1989 – Anya Rozova, Russian-American model
• 1989 – Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast
• 1989 – Ayaka Umeda, Japanese singer (AKB48 and Diva)
• 1991 – Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer
• 1991 – Özgür Çek, Turkish professional footballer
• 1992 – Sandra Zaniewska, Polish tennis player
• 1993 – Kevin Ware, American basketball player

Deaths[edit]

• 236 – Pope Anterus
• 323 – Emperor Yuan of Jin (b. 276)
• 492 – Pope Felix III
• 661 – Pope Benjamin I of Alexandria
• 1098 – Walkelin, French bishop
• 1322 – Philip V of France (b. 1292)
• 1437 – Catherine of France (b. 1401)
• 1543 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
• 1571 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
• 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
• 1656 – Mathieu Molé, French politician (b. 1584)
• 1670 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (b. 1608)
• 1690 – Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
• 1701 – Louis I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1642)
• 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter (b. 1634)
• 1743 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
• 1779 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon (b. 1712)
• 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
• 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founder of the Wedgwood Company (b. 1730)
• 1813 – Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (b. 1764)
• 1826 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
• 1871 – Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian saint (b. 1805)
• 1875 – Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer (b. 1817)
• 1882 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English author (b. 1805)
• 1895 – James Merritt Ives, American lithographer and businessman, co-founded Currier and Ives (b. 1824)
• 1903 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b. 1837)
• 1911 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
• 1915 – James Elroy Flecker, English poet, author, and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1916 – Grenville M. Dodge, American General (b. 1831)
• 1922 – Wilhelm Voigt, German military impostor (b. 1849)
• 1923 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech author (b. 1883)
• 1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
• 1933 – Wilhelm Cuno, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1943 – André Fauquet-Lemaître, French polo player (b. 1862)
• 1943 – Walter James, Australian politician, 5th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
• 1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
• 1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1946 – William Joyce, American-English politician (b. 1906)
• 1950 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
• 1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
• 1956 – Dimitrios Vergos, Greek wrestler, weightlifter, and shot putter (b. 1886)
• 1956 – Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1960 – Eric P. Kelly, American children's author (b. 1884)
• 1962 – Hermann Lux, German footballer (b. 1893)
• 1967 – Mary Garden, Scottish soprano (b. 1874)
• 1967 – Jack Ruby, American murderer (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b. 1909)
• 1969 – Tzavalas Karousos, Greek actor (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Gladys Aylward, English missionary (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
• 1975 – James McCormack, American army officer (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Joy Adamson, Czech author (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1980 – George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 – Ivan Triesault, Estonian-American actor (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
• 1988 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Joie Chitwood, American race car driver and stuntman (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1991 – Kleanthis Maropoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
• 1993 – Johnny Most, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (b.1920)
• 2003 – Sid Gillman, American football player and coach (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Des Corcoran, Australian politician, 37th Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Will Eisner, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (b. 1954)
• 2006 – Bill Skate, Papua New Guinean politician, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
• 2007 – János Fürst, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
• 2007 – William Verity, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Cecil Walker, Irish politician (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Werner Dollinger, German economist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
• 2010 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Mary Daly, American theologian and scholar (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Takis Michalos, Greek water polo player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2011 – Fadil Hadžić, Croatian director (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer and composer (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Charles W. Bailey, American journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Gene Bartow, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Robert L. Carter, American lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Selorm Kuadey, Ukrainian-English rugby player (b. 1987)
• 2012 – Winifred Milius Lubell, American author and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Joaquín Martínez, Mexican-American actor (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Jenny Tomasin, English actress (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bob Weston, English guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Harold Zirin, American astronomer and academic (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Alfie Fripp, English soldier and pilot (b. 1913)
• 2013 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan, Indian violinist (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Kanang anak Langkau, Malaysian soldier (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Ivan Mackerle, Czech cryptozoologist, explorer, and author (b. 1942)
• 2013 – William Maxson, American general (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Andrew P. O'Rourke, American judge and politician (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao, Indian archeologist (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Patty Shepard, American-Spanish actress (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Burry Stander, South African cyclist (b. 1987)
• 2014 – Leon de Wolff, Dutch journalist (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Phil Everly, American singer and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (b. 1939)
• 2014 – George Goodman, American economist and author (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Michael Neubert, English politician (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Alicia Rhett, American actress and painter (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Yashiki Takajin, Japanese singer-songwriter and television host (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Christian feast day:
  • Genevieve
  • William Passavant (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • January 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka)
• The tenth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
• First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore