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• 1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
• 1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
• 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
• 1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
• 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
• 1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
• 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
• 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
• 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
• 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
• 1889 – Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
• 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• 1899 – New Richmond Tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
• 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
• 1932 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
• 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
• 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
• 1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
• 1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
• 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
• 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
• 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
• 1972 – The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
• 1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
• 1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
• 1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
• 1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
• 1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
• 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
• 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
• 1996 – In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
• 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.

Births[edit]

• 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (d. 1187)
• 1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
• 1561 – Anna of Württemberg, German princess (d. 1616)
• 1573 – Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (d. 1629)
• 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
• 1711 – Louis Legrand, French Sulpician priest and theologian (d. 1780)
• 1760 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist and politician (d. 1797)
• 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant (d. 1870)
• 1775 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
• 1777 – Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
• 1795 – John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
• 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author (d. 1876)
• 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869)
• 1807 – Ante Kuzmanić, Croatian physician and journalist (d. 1879)
• 1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (d. 1890)
• 1819 – Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (d. 1875)
• 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
• 1841 – Watson Fothergill, English architect, designed the Woodborough Road Baptist Church (d. 1928)
• 1843 – Sir David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
• 1851 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (d. 1940)
• 1857 – Maurice Perrault, Canadian architect, civil engineer, and politician (d. 1909)
• 1858 – Harry Johnston, English botanist and explorer (d. 1927)
• 1858 – Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
• 1861 – William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)
• 1864 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (d. 1945)
• 1877 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (d. 1971)
• 1875 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian-American actor (d. 1953)
• 1883 – Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter (d. 1969)
• 1883 – Robert Lowie, Austrian-born American anthropologist (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
• 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
• 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
• 1892 – Apostolos Grozos, Greek politician (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1899 – Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician, Mayor of Ghent (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Emmett Hardy, American cornet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1925)
• 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
• 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
• 1908 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Füreya Koral, Turkish ceramists (d. 1997)
• 1912 – Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Carl Hovland, American psychologist (d. 1961)
• 1913 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral (d. 2005)
• 1914 – William Lundigan, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1914 – Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Priscilla Lane, American actress and singer (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Christopher Mayhew, English soldier and politician (d. 1997)
• 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman
• 1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
• 1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Christopher Derrick, English author (d. 2007)
• 1921 – James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
• 1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
• 1924 – Grete Dollitz, German-American guitarist and radio host (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese psychiatrist, author, and poet (d. 1975)
• 1928 – Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American composer and songwriter
• 1929 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch author and Holocaust memoirist and victim (d. 1945)
• 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani linguist and scholar
• 1929 – John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland
• 1930 – Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
• 1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer
• 1930 – Innes Ireland, Scottish race car driver and engineer (d. 1993)
• 1931 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Rona Jaffe, American author (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Mimi Coertse, South African soprano
• 1932 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
• 1934 – John A. Alonzo, American actor and cinematographer (d. 2001)
• 1934 – Nicole Berger, French actress (d. 1967)
• 1934 – Kevin Billington, English director and producer
• 1935 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Paul Kennedy, English judge
• 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Klaus Basikow, German footballer and manager
• 1937 – Antal Festetics, Hungarian-Austrian biologist and zoologist
• 1938 – Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles, English horse trainer (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Tom Oliver, English-Australian actor
• 1938 – Ian Partridge, English tenor
• 1939 – Frank McCloskey, American sergeant and politician (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Jacques Brassard, Canadian educator and politician
• 1941 – Marv Albert, American sportscaster
• 1941 – Chick Corea, American pianist and composer (Chick Corea Elektric Band, Return to Forever, and Five Peace Band)
• 1941 – Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
• 1942 – Len Barry, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Dovells)
• 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 – Pat Jennings, Irish footballer and coach
• 1946 – Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 – Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
• 1946 – Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist
• 1947 – Ron Freeman, American sprinter
• 1948 – Hans Binder, Austrian race car driver
• 1948 – Lyn Collins, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer
• 1949 – Tarak Ben Ammar, Tunisian film producer
• 1949 – Jens Böhrnsen, German politician, President of Germany
• 1949 – Ivo Linna, Estonian singer (Apelsin)
• 1949 – Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – Michael Fabricant, English politician
• 1950 – Oğuz Abadan, Turkish musician
• 1951 – Sonia Manzano, American actress and writer
• 1951 – Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boston RTZ, and Beatlejuice) (d. 2007)
• 1951 – Hans Niessl, Austrian politician
• 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
• 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician, 10th United States Secretary of Energy
• 1952 – Oliver Knussen, Scottish composer and conductor
• 1954 – Neil Oatley, English engineer
• 1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
• 1957 – Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1958 – Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Rory Sparrow, American basketball player and manager
• 1959 – Scott Thompson, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Mark Calcavecchia, American golfer
• 1960 – Joe Kopicki, American basketball player
• 1961 – Julius Kariuki, Kenyan runner
• 1963 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1963 – Warwick Capper, Australian footballer
• 1963 – Tim DeKay, American actor
• 1963 – Johnny Hotbody, American wrestler
• 1963 – T. B. Joshua, Nigerian minister and television host
• 1963 – Jerry Lynn, American wrestler
• 1963 – Patrice Martinez, American actress
• 1964 – Derek Higgins, Irish race car driver
• 1964 – Kent Jones, American journalist
• 1964 – Paula Marshall, American actress
• 1965 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (Psí vojáci) (d. 2013)
• 1965 – Gwen Torrence, American sprinter
• 1965 – Cathy Tyson, English actress
• 1965 – Vicky Vette, Norwegian-American porn actress and model
• 1967 – Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1967 – Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
• 1968 – Scott Aldred, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Manuel Blanc, French actor
• 1968 – Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
• 1968 – Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)
• 1969 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Bikini) (d. 2007)
• 1969 – Héctor Garza, Mexican wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
• 1969 – Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
• 1970 – Rick Hoffman, American actor
• 1971 – Arman Alizad, Iranian-Finnish tailor and television host
• 1971 – Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler
• 1971 – Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
• 1971 – Jérôme Romain, Dominican-French triple jumper
• 1972 – Bounty Killer, Jamaican rapper and DJ (The Alliance)
• 1972 – Finesse Mitchell, American actor
• 1973 – Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Jennifer Jo Cobb, American race car driver
• 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
• 1973 – Mitsuki Saiga, Japanese voice actress
• 1973 – Darryl White, Australian footballer
• 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Jason Mewes, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Kerry Kittles, American basketball player
• 1975 – Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and publisher
• 1975 – Michael Muhney, American actor
• 1975 – Stephanie Szostak, French-American actress
• 1976 – Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
• 1976 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
• 1977 – Richard Ayoade, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Lewis Moody, English rugby player
• 1978 – Yumiko Shaku, Japanese actress and model
• 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1979 – Dallas Clark, American football player
• 1979 – Martine Dugrenier, Canadian wrestler
• 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Earl Watson, American basketball player
• 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
• 1980 – Jason Dent, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Larry Foote, American football player
• 1980 – Ifet Taljević, German footballer
• 1981 – Raitis Grafs, Latvian basketball player
• 1981 – Paul Hasleby, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Jeremy Howard, American actor
• 1981 – Adriana Lima, Brazilian model and actress
• 1981 – Nora Tschirner, German actress
• 1982 – Ben Blackwell, American drummer (The Dirtbombs)
• 1982 – Diem Brown, American journalist and activist (d. 2014)
• 1982 – Jason David, American football player
• 1982 – Loïc Duval, French race car driver
• 1982 – Marko Popović, Croatian basketball player
• 1982 – Samantha Tolj, Australian actress
• 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
• 1983 – Andy Ologun, Nigerian boxer and actor
• 1983 – Alexander Pipa, German rugby player
• 1983 – Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
• 1984 – James Kwalia, Kenyan-Qatari runner
• 1984 – Andrea Servi, Italian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1985 – Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
• 1985 – Dave Franco, American actor
• 1985 – Blake Ross, American software developer, co-created Mozilla Firefox
• 1985 – Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby player
• 1985 – Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress, and author
• 1985 – Chris Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 – Carla Abellana, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Erik Ainge, American football player
• 1986 – Mario Casas, Spanish actor
• 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
• 1986 – Sergio Rodríguez, Spanish basketball player
• 1986 – Benjamin Schmideg, Australian actor
• 1987 – Seyi Ajirotutu, American football player
• 1987 – Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
• 1987 – Kristjan Rand, Estonian ice dancer
• 1988 – Artūrs Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
• 1988 – Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
• 1988 – Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Anarbor and Cute Is What We Aim For)
• 1988 – Dakota Morton, Canadian actor and radio host
• 1989 – Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989 – Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner
• 1989 – Krista K, Filipino-American model, actress, and singer
• 1990 – KevJumba, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1990 – Kevin López, Spanish runner
• 1990 – David Worrall, English footballer
• 1991 – Avisail García, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1991 – James Rodriguez, Colombian soccer player
• 1992 – Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 – Junrey Balawing, Filipino dwarf
• 1995 – Furkan Soyalp, Turkish footballer
• 1996 – Anna Margaret, American actress and singer
• 2001 – John Bigelow IV, Filipino-American golfer
• 2005 – Ryzza Mae Dizon, Filipino actress

Deaths[edit]

• 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
• 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)
• 1020 – Lyfing, English archbishop (b. 999)
• 1036 – Tedald, Italian bishop (b. 990)
• 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (b. 1360)
• 1428 – Zawisza Czarny z Garbowa, Polish nobleman ("the Black Knight")
• 1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1408)
• 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
• 1560 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
• 1565 – Adrianus Turnebus, French philologist and scholar (b. 1512)
• 1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
• 1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (b. 1575)
• 1675 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
• 1734 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French general (b. 1670)
• 1758 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
• 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
• 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (b. 1716)
• 1816 – Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757)
• 1818 – Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
• 1841 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)
• 1900 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
• 1904 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)
• 1917 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian marshal (b. 1893)
• 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
• 1962 – John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
• 1966 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
• 1968 – Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)
• 1969 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Latife Uşşaki, Mustafa Kemal Pasha's (later Atatürk) wife (b. 1898)
• 1976 – Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian ethologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
• 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Toma Bebić, Dalmatian painter, journalist, and educator (b. 1935)
• 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American murder victim (b. 1959)
• 1994 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
• 1995 – Pierre Russell, American basketball player (b. 1949)
• 1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
• 2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (b. 1921)
• 2006 – György Ligeti, Romanian-Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Nijiro Tokuda, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1895)
• 2007 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Al Williamson, American illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2011 – René Audet, Canadian bishop (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Pahiño, Spanish footballer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Philip H. Corboy, American lawyer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Henry Hill, American mobster (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Annie B. Martin, American labor and civil rights activist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, German psychoanalyst (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Sabri Ülker, Turkish businessman (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (b. 1908)
• 2013 – Soh Hang-suen, Hong Kong actress (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1897)
• 2013 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (b. 1975)
• 2013 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Scott Winkler, Norwegian ice hockey player (b. 1990)
• 2014 – Nabil Hemani, Algerian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2014 – Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2014 – Khagen Mahanta, Indian singer (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Joe Pittman, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Jimmy Scott, American singer (b. 1925)