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• 1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
• 1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and soon conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
• 1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
• 1285 – Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of the Trần Dynasty destroy most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
• 1287 – Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
• 1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
• 1404 – Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies himself with the French against King Henry IV of England.
• 1618 – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
• 1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
• 1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
• 1690 – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
• 1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
• 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
• 1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
• 1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
• 1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
• 1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
• 1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
• 1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
• 1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
• 1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
• 1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
• 1872 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
• 1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
• 1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
• 1907 – Norway grants women the right to vote.
• 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• 1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations
• 1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
• 1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
• 1940 – World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
• 1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
• 1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
• 1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
• 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
• 1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
• 1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• 1952 – The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
• 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
• 1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• 1959 – A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
• 1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
• 1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• 1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
• 1967 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
• 1982 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
• 1985 – TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
• 1994 – The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated CA$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
• 2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Births[edit]

• 1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)
• 1463 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1514)
• 1479 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1552)
• 1529 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1595)
• 1627 – Johann Abraham Ihle, German astronomer (d. 1699)
• 1691 – Jan Francisci, Slovak organist and composer (d. 1758)
• 1726 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and traveller (d. 1798)
• 1730 – Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer (d. 1786)
• 1736 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
• 1763 – Simon Mayr, German composer (d. 1845)
• 1780 – Henry Salt, English historian and diplomat (d. 1827)
• 1796 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)
• 1798 – František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (d. 1876)
• 1801 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
• 1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)
• 1812 – Fernando Wood, American politician, 73rd Mayor of New York City (d. 1881)
• 1819 – Henry Gardner, American politician, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
• 1820 – John Bartlett, American author and publisher (d. 1905)
• 1840 – William F. Nast, American businessman (d. 1893)
• 1848 – Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher (d. 1923)
• 1848 – Max Erdmannsdörfer, German conductor and composer (d. 1905)
• 1855 – Robert M. La Follette, Sr., American politician, 20th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1925)
• 1856 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1922)
• 1862 – John Ulric Nef, Swiss-born chemist (d. 1915)
• 1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (d. 1915)
• 1868 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Sophia of Prussia (d. 1932)
• 1871 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish mechanic and engineer (d. 1946)
• 1872 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest (d. 1936)
• 1877 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (d. 1970)
• 1878 – Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (d. 1943)
• 1879 – Arthur Duffey, American sprinter (d. 1955)
• 1884 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (d. 1953)
• 1890 – May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1893 – Siggie Nordstrom, American singer and actress (Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
• 1894 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
• 1895 – Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1968)
• 1903 – Alonzo Church, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1995)
• 1904 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971)
• 1905 – Steve Broidy, American businessman (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Arthur Davis, American animator and director (d. 2000)
• 1907 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (d. 1978)
• 1907 – René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Joe Morris, English-Canadian union leader (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Werner Heyking, Danish actor (d. 1974)
• 1914 – Pauline Moore, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist and author
• 1917 – Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and director (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor and director (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Jacques Datin, French composer (d. 1973)
• 1920 – Jean Madiran, French author (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect, designed Bank of America Plaza and the Central Park Zoo
• 1922 – K. Asif, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1971)
• 1922 – Harvey Littleton, American glass artist and educator (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Ivan Gubijan, Yugoslavian hammer thrower (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Judith Kerr, German-English author and illustrator
• 1923 – Green Wix Unthank, American judge (d. 2013)
• 1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
• 1926 – Hermann Kant, German author
• 1926 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player
• 1928 – Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, and guerrilla leader (d. 1967)
• 1929 – Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Johnny Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Marla Gibbs, American actress, singer, and screenwriter
• 1931 – Junior Walker, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1995)
• 1932 – Joe Arpaio, American police officer
• 1933 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American author (d. 1991)
• 1933 – Vladislav Rastorotsky, Russian gymnast and coach
• 1936 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish author
• 1937 – Jørgen Leth, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1937 – Willie Louis, American witness in the Emmett Till murder trial (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton, Irish academic and politician
• 1938 – Julie Felix, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Steny Hoyer, American politician
• 1939 – Peter Mayle, English author
• 1939 – Hugh Detmar Torrens O'Neill, 3rd Baron Rathcavan, Irish businessman and politician
• 1939 – Colin Thubron, English author
• 1939 – James Wright, English academic
• 1940 – Jack Bannon, American actor
• 1940 – Ben Davidson, American football player and actor (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Mike Yarwood, English actor
• 1942 – Andy Irvine, English-Irish singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (Planxty, Sweeney's Men, and Patrick Street)
• 1942 – Jonathan Raban, English author
• 1943 – Barry Burman, English painter (d. 2001)
• 1943 – Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
• 1943 – John Miles, English race car driver
• 1943 – Spooner Oldham, American organist and songwriter
• 1943 – Harold Wheeler, American composer, conductor, and producer
• 1944 – Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
• 1944 – Joe Grifasi, American actor
• 1945 – Rod Argent, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Zombies and Argent)
• 1945 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Marilyn Schreffler, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1945 – Richard Stebbins, American sprinter
• 1946 – Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French businessman (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Tõnu Sepp, Estonian musician and pedagogue
• 1946 – Donald Trump, American businessman, founded the Trump Entertainment Resorts
• 1947 – Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle, English politician
• 1947 – Kat Martin, American author
• 1947 – Barry Melton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish and The Dinosaurs)
• 1947 – Hiroshi Miyauchi, Japanese actor
• 1948 – Laurence Yep, American author
• 1949 – Jim Lea, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Slade)
• 1949 – Roger Powell (scientist), British-born Australian based educator and academic
• 1949 – Antony Sher, South African-English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Harry Turtledove, American author
• 1949 – Alan White, English drummer (Yes, Plastic Ono Band, White, and Circa)
• 1950 – Rowan Williams, Welsh archbishop
• 1951 – Paul Boateng, English lawyer and politician, British High Commissioner to South Africa
• 1952 – Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
• 1952 – Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Leon Wieseltier, American journalist
• 1953 – Janet Mackey, New Zealand politician
• 1953 – David Thomas, American singer-songwriter (Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu)
• 1954 – Will Patton, American actor
• 1955 – Kirron Kher, Indian actress
• 1955 – Michael D. Duvall, American politician
• 1955 – Paul O'Grady, English television host, producer, and actor
• 1956 – King Diamond, Danish singer-songwriter and producer (Black Rose, Mercyful Fate, and Brats)
• 1956 – Fred Funk, American golfer
• 1956 – Gianna Nannini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Sam Irvin, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Maxi Jazz, English rapper (Faithless)
• 1957 – Suzanne Nora Johnson, American lawyer
• 1957 – Mona Simpson, American author and academic
• 1958 – Pamela Geller, American blogger and author
• 1958 – Eric Heiden, American speed skater
• 1959 – Eddie Mekka, American actor
• 1959 – Marcus Miller, American bass player and producer (SMV)
• 1960 – Tonie Campbell, American hurdler
• 1960 – Mike Laga, American baseball player
• 1961 – Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer (Culture Club, Bow Wow Wow, and Jesus Loves You)
• 1961 – Dušan Kojić, Serbian singer-songwriter and bass player (Disciplina kičme and Disciplin A Kitschme)
• 1961 – Sam Perkins, American basketball player
• 1964 – Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer
• 1964 – Kaija Parve, Estonian biathlete
• 1965 – Mike Scaccia, American guitarist (Ministry, Rigor Mortis, Lard, and League of Blind Women) (d. 2012)
• 1966 – Traylor Howard, American actress
• 1966 – Eduardo Waghorn, Chilean musician
• 1967 – Kumar Mangalam Birla, Indian businessman
• 1967 – Dedrick Dodge, American football player
• 1968 – Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
• 1968 – Campbell Brown, American journalist
• 1968 – Molly Glynn, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1968 – Faizon Love, Cuban-American actor
• 1969 – Elroy Chester, American murderer (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Éric Desjardins, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Michael Gerber, American author
• 1969 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
• 1969 – Kyle Hebert, American voice actor
• 1969 – MC Ren, American rapper (N.W.A)
• 1970 – Heather McDonald, American comedian, actress, and author
• 1971 – Bruce Bowen, American basketball player
• 1971 – Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer
• 1972 – Rick Brunson, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 – Michael Cade, American actor
• 1972 – Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist, founded KDE
• 1972 – Dominic Brown, English guitarist and songwriter (Duran Duran)
• 1972 – Shaun Keaveny, English radio host
• 1972 – Danny McFarlane, Jamaican hurdler and sprinter
• 1973 – Ceca, Serbian singer
• 1973 – Sami Kapanen, Finnish-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1974 – Sutan Amrull, American drag queen performer and makeup artist
• 1974 – Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (d. 2009)
• 1975 – Ryuji Miki, Japanese race car driver
• 1976 – Alan Carr, English comedian and actor
• 1976 – Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Chris McAlister, American football player
• 1977 – Massimiliano Neri, Italian model
• 1977 – Joe Worsley, English rugby player
• 1978 – Steve Bégin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Diablo Cody, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast
• 1979 – Osvaldo Benavides, Mexican actor
• 1979 – Shannon Hegarty, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 – Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
• 1982 – Nicole Irving, Australian swimmer
• 1982 – Luda Kroitor, Moldavian-Australian dancer
• 1982 – Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
• 1983 – Hirofumi Araki, Japanese actor and singer
• 1983 – Trevor Barry, Bahamian high jumper
• 1983 – Louis Garrel, French actor
• 1983 – J. R. Martinez, American soldier and actor
• 1984 – Lorenzo Booker, American football player
• 1984 – Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
• 1985 – Oleg Medvedev. Russian luge athlete
• 1985 – Andy Soucek, Spanish race car driver
• 1986 – Matt Read, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Andrew Cogliano, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Mohamed Diamé, Senegalese footballer
• 1987 – Dan Reynolds, American musician (Imagine Dragons)
• 1988 – Adrián Aldrete, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Kevin McHale, American singer, dancer, and actor (NLT)
• 1989 – Lucy Hale, American singer and actress
• 1989 – Joao Rojas, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1991 – Erick Barrondo, Guatemalan race walker
• 1991 – Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer
• 1992 – Daryl Sabara, American actor
• 1993 – Svetlana Issakova, Estonian figure skater

Deaths[edit]

• 767 – Abū Ḥanīfa, Iraqi scholar (b. 699)
• 809 – Ōtomo no Otomaro, Japanese general (b. 731)
• 1161 – Emperor Qinzong of Song (b. 1100)
• 1205 – Walter III, Count of Brienne
• 1349 – Günther von Schwarzburg, King of Germany (b. 1304)
• 1381 – Simon Sudbury, English archbishop (b. 1316)
• 1497 – Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1474; assassinated)
• 1544 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
• 1548 – Carpentras, French composer (b. 1470)
• 1594 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
• 1662 – Henry Vane the Younger, English-American politician, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1613)
• 1674 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French author and poet (b. 1600)
• 1703 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
• 1794 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1718)
• 1800 – Louis Desaix, French general (b. 1768)
• 1800 – Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (b. 1753)
• 1801 – Benedict Arnold, American general (b. 1741)
• 1825 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)
• 1837 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1798)
• 1883 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet and author (b. 1809)
• 1886 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian director and playwright (b. 1823)
• 1907 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect and engineer, designed the Home Insurance Building (b. 1832)
• 1907 – Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician (b. 1830)

Isabelle Bogelot

• 1908 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1914 – Adlai Stevenson I, American politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)
• 1916 – João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian author (b. 1865)
• 1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
• 1923 – Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b. 1838)
• 1926 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1843)
• 1927 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
• 1927 – Jerome K. Jerome, English author (b. 1859)
• 1928 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1857)
• 1932 – Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (b. 1858)
• 1933 – Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1936 – G. K. Chesterton, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1936 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and designer, designed the IG Farben Building (b. 1869)
• 1946 – John Logie Baird, Scottish-English engineer (b. 1888)
• 1967 – Eddie Eagan, American boxer (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian author and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
• 1975 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino architect (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1980 – Charles Miller, American saxophonist and flute player (War) (b. 1939)
• 1982 – Marjorie Bennett, Australian actress (b. 1896)
• 1986 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author and poet (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (b. 1918)
• 1987 – Stanisław Bareja, Polish director (b. 1929)
• 1990 – Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Els Aarne, Ukrainian-Estonian composer (b. 1917)

Noemí Gerstein

• 1995 – Rory Gallagher, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Roger Zelazny, American author (b. 1937)
• 1996 – Noemí Gerstein, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football player (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet (b. 1911)
• 2002 – June Jordan, American author and activist (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain climber and guide (b. 1900)
• 2004 – Eamonn McGirr, Irish-American singer (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Monty Berman, English director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1905)
• 2006 – Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Ruth Graham, Chinese-American author, poet, and painter (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Robin Olds, American general and pilot (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian lieutenant and politician, 9th President of Austria (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Jamelão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1913)
• 2008 – Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish pianist (Esbjörn Svensson Trio) (b. 1964)
• 2009 – Bob Bogle, American guitarist (The Ventures) (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, journalist, and author (b. 1940)
• 2009 – William McIntyre, Canadian judge (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Al Brancato, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Bob Chappuis, American football player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Margie Hyams, American pianist and vibraphone player (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, German pianist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Gitta Sereny, Austrian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Yvette Wilson, American actress (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Pa Dillon, Irish hurler (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Al Green, American wrestler (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Hugh Maguire, Irish violinist (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Olwen Wymark, American-English playwright (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Alberto Cañas Escalante, Costa Rican journalist and politician (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American actress (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Robert Lebeck, German photographer and journalist (b. 1929)
• 2014 – James E. Rogers, American lawyer, businessman, and academic (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Telangana Shakuntala, Indian actress (b. 1951)