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• 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
• 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
• 1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
• 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
• 1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
• 1414 – Council of Constance.
• 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
• 1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• 1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
• 1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
• 1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
• 1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
• 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
• 1807 – Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
• 1852 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
• 1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
• 1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
• 1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• 1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
• 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• 1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• 1903 – In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
• 1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
• 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
• 1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
• 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
• 1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
• 1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
• 1935 – First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
• 1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
• 1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
• 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra record Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the best-selling single in history.
• 1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
• 1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
• 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• 1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
• 1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
• 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
• 1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
• 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• 1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• 1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1989 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
• 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• 1993 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
• 1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
• 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
• 1999 – Charlotte Perrelli representing Sweden wins Eurovision Song Contest 1999 in Jerusalem with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
• 2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
• 2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 2008 – A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
• 2012 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
• 2014 – Ignatius Aphrem II is enthroned as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Births[edit]

• 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1632)
• 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1693)
• 1630 – Charles II of England (d. 1685)
• 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1715)
• 1716 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist (d. 1800)
• 1722 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (d. 1773)
• 1730 – Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer (d. 1803)
• 1736 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
• 1773 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
• 1780 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855)
• 1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
• 1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895)
• 1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1909)
• 1871 – Clark Greenwood Voorhees, American painter (d. 1933)
• 1873 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1918)
• 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1936)
• 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet (d. 1938)
• 1893 – Max Brand, American author (d. 1944)
• 1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-born British singer and actress (d. 1989)
• 1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1969)
• 1897 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American composer (d. 1957)
• 1899 – Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician, 10th Minister of Defence for Canada (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1905 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1994)
• 1906 – T.H. White, Anglo-Indian author (d. 1964)
• 1907 – Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (d. 2002)
• 1908 – Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter (d. 1978)
• 1911 – Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (d. 1986)
• 1915 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
• 1917 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
• 1917 – Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, educator, and author (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic
• 1920 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Clifton James, American actor
• 1922 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Bernard Clavel, French author (d. 2010)
• 1923 – John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon
• 1924 – Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Rune Ericson, Swedish cinematographer
• 1924 – Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Pepper Paire, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Katie Boyle, Italian-British actress and television host
• 1926 – Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese politician, 3rd President of Senegal
• 1927 – Gordon Berg, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
• 1927 – Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic
• 1929 – Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
• 1932 – Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
• 1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
• 1934 – Grandma Lee, American comedian
• 1934 – Nanette Newman, English actress and author
• 1934 – Bill Vander Zalm, Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
• 1935 – André Brink, South African author and playwright (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Fred White, American sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (d. 1989)
• 1937 – Charles W. Pickering, American judge
• 1937 – Irmin Schmidt, German keyboard player and composer (Can)
• 1937 – Alwin Schockemöhle, German horse rider
• 1938 – Christopher Bland, English businessman and politician
• 1938 – Fay Vincent, American lawyer and businessman
• 1939 – Al Unser, American race car driver
• 1940 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
• 1941 – Doug Scott, English mountaineer
• 1941 – Bob Simon, American journalist (d. 2015)
• 1942 – Pierre Bourque, Canadian politician, 40th Mayor of Montreal
• 1942 – Kevin Conway, American actor
• 1943 – Robert W. Edgar, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Bob Benmosche, American businessman (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1945 – Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist (Procol Harum and The Paramounts)
• 1945 – Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Catherine Lara, French singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1945 – Julian Le Grand, English economist and author
• 1945 – Martin Pipe, English horse trainer
• 1945 – Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
• 1945 – Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian scholar and author
• 1946 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (d. 2000)
• 1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor
• 1947 – Joey Levine, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ohio Express and The Third Rail)
• 1947 – Gene Robinson, American bishop
• 1947 – Constantino Romero, Spanish radio host and actor (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
• 1948 – Linda Esther Gray, Scottish operatic soprano and singing teacher
• 1948 – Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
• 1948 – Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor and producer
• 1949 – Robert Axelrod, American actor
• 1949 – Andrew Clements, American author and educator
• 1949 – Brian Kidd, English footballer and coach
• 1949 – Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo)
• 1949 – Cotter Smith, American actor
• 1950 – Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
• 1951 – Peter Chernin, American businessman
• 1952 – Alan Langlands, Scottish academic
• 1952 – Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (d. 2014)
• 1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Giles Clarke, English businessman
• 1953 – Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Oingo Boingo)
• 1954 – Robert Beaser, American composer
• 1954 – Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
• 1955 – Frank Baumgartl, German runner (d. 2010)
• 1955 – John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
• 1955 – David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author
• 1955 – Mike Porcaro, American bass player (Toto) (d. 2015)
• 1955 – Gordon Rintoul, Scottish curator
• 1955 – Ken Schrader, American race car driver
• 1956 – Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1956 – La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1957 – Steven Croft, English bishop and theologian
• 1957 – Jeb Hensarling, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Ted Levine, American actor
• 1958 – Annette Bening, American actress
• 1958 – Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
• 1958 – Karen Maruyama, American actress
• 1958 – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (d. 2011)
• 1958 – Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach
• 1958 – Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1958 – Wayne Duvall, American actor
• 1959 – Rupert Everett, English actor, singer, and producer
• 1959 – Steve Hanley, Irish-born English bass player and songwriter (The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
• 1959 – Adrian Paul, English actor and producer
• 1960 – Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic
• 1960 – Neil Crone, Canadian actor
• 1960 – Mike Freer, English politician
• 1960 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist
• 1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist
• 1961 – John Miceli, American drummer (Neverland Express)
• 1962 – Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach, and manager
• 1962 – Eric Davis, American baseball player
• 1962 – Perry Fenwick, English actor
• 1962 – John D. LeMay, American actor
• 1962 – Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress and singer
• 1963 – Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane)
• 1963 – Tracey E. Bregman, German-American actress
• 1963 – Zhu Jianhua, Chinese high jumper
• 1963 – Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Claude Loiselle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1963 – Lisa Whelchel, American actress and singer
• 1964 – Jestoni Alarcon, Filipino actor and politician
• 1964 – Howard Mills III, American politician
• 1965 – Jestoni Alarcon, Filipino actor and politician
• 1967 – Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Steven Levitt, American economist
• 1967 – Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (d. 2008)
• 1968 – Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
• 1968 – Tate George, American basketball player
• 1968 – Jessica Morden, English politician
• 1969 – Chan Kinchla, Canadian guitarist (Blues Traveler)
• 1970 – Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
• 1971 – Éric Lucas, Canadian boxer
• 1971 – Bernd Mayländer, German race car driver
• 1971 – Rob Womack, English shot putter
• 1972 – Közi, Japanese singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Malice Mizer and Eve of Destiny)
• 1972 – Stanislas, French singer-songwriter (Circus)
• 1972 – Bill Curley, American basketball player
• 1972 – Simon Jones, English singer and bass player (The Verve, The Shining, and Black Submarine)
• 1973 – Anthony Azizi, American actor
• 1973 – Mark Lee, American guitarist and songwriter (Third Day)
• 1973 – Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
• 1974 – Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1974 – Aaron McGruder, American cartoonist
• 1974 – Myf Warhurst, Australian radio and television host
• 1974 – Jenny Willott, English politician
• 1975 – Jason Allison, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Mel B, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Spice Girls)
• 1975 – Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
• 1975 – David Burtka, American actor and chef
• 1975 – Sven Kubis, German footballer
• 1975 – Sarah Millican, English comedian
• 1975 – Daniel Tosh, American comedian and actor
• 1975 – Anthony Wall, English golfer
• 1976 – Caçapa, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Jerry Hairston, Jr., American baseball player
• 1976 – Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese actor
• 1976 – Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
• 1976 – Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
• 1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Danny Gerard, American actor and singer
• 1977 – António Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
• 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player (The Hives)
• 1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
• 1978 – Lorenzo Odone, American Adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
• 1978 – Adam Rickitt, English actor and singer (5th Story)
• 1979 – Arne Friedrich, German footballer
• 1979 – Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
• 1979 – Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin, Singaporean footballer
• 1979 – John Rheinecker, American baseball player
• 1980 – Ernesto Farías, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
• 1981 – Justin Chon, American actor
• 1982 – Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia)
• 1982 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• 1982 – Joanne Borgella, American singer and model (d. 2014)
• 1982 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
• 1982 – Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete
• 1982 – Matt Macri, American baseball player
• 1982 – Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball player
• 1983 – Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
• 1983 – Alberto Medina, Mexican footballer
• 1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
• 1984 – Funmi Jimoh, American long jumper
• 1984 – Andreas Schäffer, German footballer
• 1985 – Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Hornswoggle, American wrestler
• 1986 – Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican-American model
• 1987 – Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian long jumper
• 1987 – Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Noah Reid, Canadian actor
• 1987 – Rui Sampaio, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 – Alessandra Torresani, American actress
• 1988 – Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
• 1988 – Muath al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian Air Force pilot burned alive by ISIL (d. 2015)
• 1988 – Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Riley Keough, American model and actress
• 1989 – Brandon Mychal Smith, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1989 – Mathew Waters, Australian actor
• 1990 – Ramil Guliyev, Azeri-Turkish sprinter
• 1991 – Kristen Alderson, American actress and singer
• 1991 – Saori Hayami, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1991 – Tom Ljungman, Swedish actor
• 1992 – Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player
• 1992 – Gregg Sulkin, English actor
• 1993 – Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
• 1993 – Maika Monroe, American actress
• 1993 – Grete Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
• 1998 – Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress

Deaths[edit]

• 1259 – Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
• 1379 – Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
• 1405 – Philippe de Mézières, French soldier and author (b. 1327)
• 1425 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
• 1453 – Ulubatlı Hasan, Ottoman commander (b. 1428)
• 1453 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
• 1500 – Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. 1451)
• 1546 – David Beaton, Scottish cardinal (b. 1494)
• 1593 – John Penry, Welsh martyr (b. 1559)
• 1660 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1615)
• 1691 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
• 1790 – Israel Putnam, American general (b. 1718)
• 1796 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (b. 1720)
• 1814 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon (b. 1763)
• 1829 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
• 1847 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (b. 1766)
• 1866 – Winfield Scott, American general and politician (b. 1786)
• 1873 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
• 1892 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1903 – Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 – W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 – Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English dramatist and novelist. (b.1871)
• 1914 – Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter and author (b.1853)
• 1917 – Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 – Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 – Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 – May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 – Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1951 – Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French composer (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler (b. 1891)
• 1953 – Morgan Russell, American painter (b. 1886)
• 1958 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1963 – Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)
• 1968 – Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1896)
• 1970 – John Gunther, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
• 1970 – Eva Hesse, German-American sculptor (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Prithviraj Kapoor, Pakistani-Indian actor (b. 1906)
• 1972 – Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1973 – George Harriman, English businessman (b. 1908)
• 1973 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer, and composer (b. 1922)
• 1975 – Kurt Großkurth, German actor and singer (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (b. 1892)
• 1979 – John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
• 1982 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
• 1983 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1946)
• 1989 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Dinosaurs, and Man) (b. 1943)
• 1989 – George C. Homans, American sociologist (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Erich Honecker, German politician (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Tamara Toumanova, Siberian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
• 1997 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (b. 1966)
• 1997 – George Fenneman, Chinese-American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
• 1998 – Barry Goldwater, American general and politician (b. 1909)
• 2003 – David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
• 2004 – Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Samuel Dash, American politician (b. 1925)
• 2005 – John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Hamilton Naki, South African surgeon (b. 1926)
• 2005 – George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
• 2008 – Harvey Korman, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
• 2010 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Bill Clements, American soldier and politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, 14th President of Hungary (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Dick Beals, American voice actor (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Mark Minkov, Russian composer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Jim Unger, English-Canadian illustrator (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Françoise Blanchard, French actress (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Mulgrew Miller, American pianist and composer (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Franca Rame, Italian actress and playwright (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Wali-ur-Rehman, Pakistani commander (b. 1970)
• 2014 – Karlheinz Böhm, German-Austrian actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Peter Glaser, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Miljenko Prohaska, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Herman Rattliff, American politician (b. 1926)
• 2014 – William M. Roth, American businessman (b. 1916)