EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 17/6

• 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
• 1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• 1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
• 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
• 1596 – The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
• 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
• 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
• 1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is discovered by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• 1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
• 1795 – The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
• 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
• 1843 – The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
• 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
• 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
• 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• 1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
• 1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
• 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
• 1922 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
• 1929 – The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
• 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• 1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
• 1933 – Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
• 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
• 1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
• 1940 – World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
• 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
• 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
• 1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
• 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km²) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
• 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
• 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
• 1967 – The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
• 1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
• 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
• 1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
• 1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
• 1991 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
• 1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
• 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Births[edit]

• 801 – Drogo of Metz, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (d. 855)
• 1239 – Edward I of England (d. 1307)
• 1603 – Joseph of Cupertino, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1663)
• 1631 – Gauharara Begum, Mughal noblewoman (d. 1706)
• 1682 – Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
• 1691 – Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
• 1693 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
• 1704 – John Kay, English inventor, invented the Flying shuttle (d. 1780)
• 1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1784)
• 1718 – George Howard, English field marshal and politician (d. 1796)
• 1800 – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Anglo-Irish astronomer (d. 1867)
• 1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, playwright, and linguist (d. 1845)
• 1810 – Ferdinand Freiligrath, German poet (d. 1876)
• 1811 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic politician (d. 1879)
• 1818 – Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
• 1818 – Sophie of Württemberg (d. 1877)
• 1821 – E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (d. 1888)
• 1832 – William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)
• 1839 – Arthur Tooth, English priest (d. 1931)
• 1858 – Eben Sumner Draper, American politician, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
• 1861 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
• 1861 – Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)
• 1863 – Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1934)
• 1867 – Flora Finch, English-American actress (d. 1940)
• 1867 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-American educator, publisher, and humanitarian (d. 1948)
• 1867 – Henry Lawson, Australian poet and author (d. 1922)
• 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, journalist, and activist (d. 1938)
• 1876 – William Carr, American rower (d. 1942)
• 1876 – Edward Anthony Spitzka, American anatomist (d. 1922)
• 1880 – Carl Van Vechten, American author and photographer (d. 1964)
• 1881 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
• 1882 – Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
• 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Heinz Guderian, German general (d. 1954)
• 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (d. 1972)
• 1898 – Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (d. 1961)
• 1898 – Harry Patch, English soldier and firefighter (d. 2009)
• 1900 – Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945)
• 1902 – Sammy Fain, American composer (d. 1989)
• 1902 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
• 1903 – Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)
• 1904 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Patrice Tardif, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1907 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
• 1909 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
• 1909 – Ralph E. Winters, Canadian-American film editor (d. 2004)
• 1910 – Red Foley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1968)
• 1910 – George Hees, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1996)
• 1914 – John Hersey, American journalist (d. 1993)
• 1915 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, American singer and banjo player (d. 1973)
• 1915 – Marcel Cadieux, Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Terry Gilkyson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Easy Riders) (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Ajahn Chah, Thai educator (d. 1992)
• 1919 – William Kaye Estes, American psychologist (d. 2011)
• 1919 – John Moffat, Scottish lieutenant and pilot
• 1919 – Beryl Reid, English actress (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
• 1920 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress
• 1920 – François Jacob, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Peter Le Cheminant, English air marshal
• 1922 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Arnold S. Relman, American physician and academic (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian and educator (d. 1999)
• 1924 – William MacDonald, English-Australian serial killer (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Martin Böttcher, German composer and conductor
• 1927 – Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (d. 1981)
• 1929 – Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)
• 1929 – James Shigeta, American actor and singer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
• 1931 – John Baldessari, American painter
• 1932 – Derek Ibbotson, English runner
• 1932 – John Murtha, American colonel and politician (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Harry Browne, American politician (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
• 1936 – Vern Harper, Canadian tribal leader and activist
• 1936 – Ken Loach, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1937 – Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
• 1940 – George Akerlof, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Nicholas C. Handy, English chemist (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian politician, Vice President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Newt Gingrich, American politician, 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1943 – Barry Manilow, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1943 – Chantal Mouffe, Belgian political theorist
• 1943 – Burt Rutan, American engineer
• 1944 – Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1944 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and game show host (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Frank Ashmore, American actor
• 1945 – Art Bell, American radio host and author
• 1945 – Tommy Franks, American general
• 1945 – Ken Livingstone, English politician, 1st Mayor of London
• 1945 – Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
• 1946 – Peter Rosei, Austrian author
• 1947 – Linda Chavez, American author
• 1947 – George S. Clinton, American composer and songwriter
• 1947 – Gregg Rolie, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Santana, Journey, and The Storm)
• 1948 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1948 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1948 – Karol Sikora, English physician and academic
• 1949 – John Craven, English economist and academic
• 1950 – Lee Tamahori, New Zealand director
• 1951 – Starhawk, American author and activist
• 1951 – John Garrett, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1951 – Paul McGuinness, German-Irish talent manager
• 1951 – Robert Lowry Scott, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of County Tyrone
• 1952 – Judith Macgregor, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to South Africa
• 1952 – Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1952 – Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, English educator and politician, Secretary of State for Education
• 1954 – Mark Linn-Baker, American actor
• 1955 – Gail Jones, Australian author
• 1955 – Mati Laur, Estonian historian, author, and academic
• 1955 – Bob Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Kelly Curtis, American actress
• 1957 – Phyllida Lloyd, English director
• 1957 – Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor
• 1958 – Jello Biafra, American singer-songwriter and producer (Dead Kennedys, The No WTO Combo, and Lard)
• 1958 – Nicky Clarke, English hairdresser
• 1958 – Bobby Farrelly, American director, screenwriter and producer
• 1958 – Sam Hamad, Syrian-Canadian politician
• 1958 – Jon Leibowitz, American lawyer and politician
• 1958 – Daniel McVicar, American actor
• 1958 – Derek Lee Ragin, American tenor
• 1959 – Lawrence Haddad, British development economist and academic
• 1959 – Nikos Stavropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Adrián Campos, Spanish race car driver
• 1960 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
• 1961 – Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese actor
• 1962 – Michael Monroe, Finnish singer-songwriter and saxophonist (Hanoi Rocks and Demolition 23)
• 1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor and producer
• 1964 – Rinaldo Capello, Italian race car driver
• 1964 – Michael Groß, German swimmer
• 1964 – Svetla Mitkova-Sınırtaş, Bulgarian-Turkish shot putter and discus thrower
• 1964 – Erin Murphy, American actress
• 1965 – Kami Cotler, American actress and educator
• 1965 – Dermontti Dawson, American football player
• 1965 – Dan Jansen, American speed skater
• 1965 – Dara O'Kearney, Irish runner and poker player
• 1966 – Mohammed Ghazy Al-Akhras, Iraqi journalist
• 1966 – Tory Burch, American fashion designer
• 1966 – Christy Canyon, American porn actress
• 1966 – Ken Clark, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Diane Modahl, English runner
• 1966 – Jason Patric, American actor
• 1967 – Dorothea Röschmann, German soprano and actress
• 1967 – Eric Stefani, American musician and composer (No Doubt), writer and animator
• 1968 – Steve Georgallis, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1968 – Minoru Suzuki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1969 – Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner
• 1969 – Geoff Toovey, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 – Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1970 – Stéphane Fiset, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Will Forte, American actor and screenwriter
• 1970 – Jason Hanson, American football player
• 1970 – Popeye Jones, American basketball player
• 1970 – Michael Showalter, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
• 1970 – Sotiris Lagonikas, Greek multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer
• 1971 – Mildred Fox, Irish politician
• 1971 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer and actress (Timbiriche)
• 1973 – Krayzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony)
• 1973 – Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican martial artist and author
• 1973 – Louis Leterrier, French director and producer
• 1973 – Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
• 1974 – Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
• 1975 – Jennifer Irwin, Canadian actress
• 1976 – Scott Adkins, English actor and martial artist
• 1976 – Sven Nys, Belgian cyclist
• 1976 – Keisuke Ogihara, Japanese rapper (Rip Slyme)
• 1977 – Tjaša Jezernik, Slovenian tennis player
• 1977 – Mark Tauscher, American football player
• 1977 – Branko Tomović, Serbian-German actor
• 1978 – Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress
• 1978 – Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer
• 1979 – Tyson Apostol, American television personality
• 1979 – Nick Rimando, American soccer player
• 1980 – Kimeru, Japanese singer and actor
• 1980 – Jeph Jacques, American illustrator
• 1980 – Elisa Rigaudo, Italian race walker
• 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
• 1981 – Kyle Boller, American football player
• 1981 – Shane Watson, Australian cricketer
• 1982 – Arthur Darvill, English actor and singer
• 1982 – Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Stanislava Hrozenská, Slovak tennis player
• 1982 – Marek Svatoš, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1983 – Connie Fisher, Irish-Welsh actress and singer
• 1983 – Vlasis Kazakis, Greek footballer
• 1983 – Jamal Mixon, American actor
• 1983 – Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Arashi)
• 1984 – John Gallagher, Jr., American actor and singer
• 1984 – Michael Mathieu, Bahamian sprinter
• 1984 – Si Tianfeng, Chinese race walker
• 1984 – Chris Weidman, American mixed martial artist
• 1985 – Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
• 1985 – Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Apoula Edel, Armenian footballer
• 1986 – Helen Glover, English rower
• 1987 – Kendrick Lamar, Hip hop recording artist.
• 1987 – Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer (Morning Musume Minimoni, and Morning Musume Otomegumi)
• 1988 – Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
• 1988 – Shaun MacDonald, Welsh footballer
• 1988 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
• 1989 – Giorgos Tofas, Cypriot footballer
• 1990 – Jordan Henderson, English footballer
• 1990 – Hansle Parchment, Jamaican hurdler
• 1991 – Kayane, French gamer
• 1991 – Jang Min-chul, South Korean gamer
• 1992 – Ryan Allsop, Engosh footballer
• 1993 – Jean Marie Froget, Mauritian swimmer
• 1997 – Ottomar Ladva, Estonian chess player

Deaths[edit]

• 676 – Pope Adeodatus II
• 850 – Tachibana no Kachiko, Japanese wife of Emperor Saga (b. 786)
• 900 – Fulk, French archbishop
• 1025 – Bolesław I Chrobry, Polish king (b. 967)
• 1091 – Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
• 1463 – Infanta Catherine of Portugal (b. 1436)
• 1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
• 1694 – Philip Howard, English cardinal (b. 1629)
• 1696 – John III Sobieski, Polish king (b. 1629)
• 1719 – Joseph Addison, English poet and playwright (b. 1672)
• 1734 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general (b. 1653)
• 1740 – Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1687)
• 1762 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet and playwright (b. 1674)
• 1771 – Daskalogiannis, Greek rebel leader
• 1775 – John Pitcairn, Scottish-English soldier (b. 1722)
• 1797 – Mohammad Khan Qajar, Persian tribal chief (b. 1742)
• 1813 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1726)
• 1821 – Martín Miguel de Güemes, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1785)
• 1839 – Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (b. 1774)
• 1858 – Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (b. 1828)
• 1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
• 1898 – Edward Burne-Jones, English painter (b. 1833)
• 1904 – Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1839)
• 1936 – Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1939 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1940 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1941 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862)
• 1942 – Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1853)
• 1952 – Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (b. 1914)
• 1954 – Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (b. 1920)
• 1956 – Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (b. 1878)
• 1956 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (b. 1892)
• 1956 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (b. 1926)
• 1957 – J. R. Williams, Canadian-born cartoonist (b. 1888)
• 1961 – Jeff Chandler, American actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1963 – Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
• 1968 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901)
• 1969 – Rita Abatzi, Turkish-Greek singer (b. 1914)
• 1975 – James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1981 – Richard O'Connor, Indian-English general (b. 1889)
• 1981 – Zerna Sharp, American author and educator (b. 1889)
• 1982 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
• 1983 – Peter Mennin, American composer and educator (b. 1923)
• 1984 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician (b. 1914)
• 1985 – John Boulting, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1986 – Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
• 1987 – Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Curt Swan, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
• 2001 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Willie Davenport, American hurdler (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Bussunda, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Darrell Powers, American sergeant (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Stéphane Brosse, French mountaineer (b. 1971)
• 2012 – Patricia Brown, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Nathan Divinsky, Canadian mathematician and chess player (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
• 2012 – R. C. Owens, American football player (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Fauzia Wahab, Pakistani politician (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Michael Baigent, New Zealand-English author (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi playwright and producer (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Pierre F. Côté, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Bulbs Ehlers, American basketball player (b. 1923)
• 2013 – James Holshouser, American politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Jalil Shahnaz, Iranian tar player (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Éric Dewailly, Canadian epidemiologist and academic (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Stanley Marsh 3, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Arnold S. Relman, American physician and academic (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1928)