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• 226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
• 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
• 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.
• 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
• 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
• 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
• 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco.
• 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
• 1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
• 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
• 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
• 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
• 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1915 – The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
• 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
• 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
• 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable-pitch propeller.
• 1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
• 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
• 1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1972 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
• 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Perón, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
• 1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
• 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1976 – The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin
• 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
• 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
• 2012 – The June 2012 North American derecho event occurs causing widespread damage from the midwest to the mid-Atlantic states.
• 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.

Births[edit]

• 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
• 1398 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Italian wife of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1497)
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
• 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
• 1543 – Christine of Hesse (d. 1604)
• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, educator, and author (d. 1818)
• 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
• 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German author (d. 1871)
• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
• 1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
• 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1878)
• 1819 – Thomas Dunn English, American politician, author, and songwriter (d. 1902)
• 1833 – Peter Waage, Norwegian chemist (d. 1900)
• 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
• 1849 – Pedro Montt, Chilean politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
• 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (d. 1915)
• 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
• 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American social reformer, director of the United States Children's Bureau (1912-22) (d. 1932)
• 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1934)
• 1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and journalist (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director (d. 1926)
• 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
• 1877 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
• 1879 – Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian author (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
• 1881 – Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
• 1882 – Franz Seldte, German politician (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
• 1886 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
• 1888 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
• 1889 – Willie Macfarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2005)
• 1890 – Robert Laurent, American sculptor (d. 1970)
• 1892 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist, economist, and statistician (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1898 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist and educator (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)
• 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
• 1903 – Paul Newlan, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Heinz Harmel, German general (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
• 1908 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
• 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1916 – Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1919 – Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 2006)
• 1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Jean Kent, British actress (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Harry Schell, American race car driver (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Serbian poet (d. 1991)
• 1922 – John William Vessey, Jr., American general
• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer and educator
• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer and educator (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Roy Walford, American pathologist and gerontologist (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of Italy
• 1925 – Hale Smith, American pianist and composer (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Jean-Louis Pesch, French author and illustrator
• 1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist and politician (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Ernst Albrecht, German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Robert Evans, American actor and producer
• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Northern Irish politician and jurist, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• 1934 – Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos, Greek captain and businessman (d. 2011)
• 1935 – Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross, English politician
• 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, and director (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer and coach
• 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1940 – John Dawes, Welsh rugby player and coach
• 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
• 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
• 1942 – Charlotte Bingham, English author and screenwriter
• 1942 – Paul Lorieau, Canadian singer (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist
• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor and singer
• 1944 – Andreu Mas-Colell, Spanish economist
• 1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician, 5th President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician, 33rd President of Panama
• 1946 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian and actor
• 1948 – Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
• 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Deep Purple and Paice Ashton Lord)
• 1948 – Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, Kenyan-English politician
• 1949 – Greg Burson, American voice actor (d. 2008)
• 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1950 – Michael Whelan, American artist
• 1950 – Bobby London, American artist
• 1950 – Don Moen, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1951 – Don Rosa, American author and illustrator
• 1953 – Don Dokken, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dokken)
• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and actor (Men at Work)
• 1954 – Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1956 – Nick Fry, English economist and businessman
• 1956 – David Burroughs Mattingly, American illustrator
• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player and manager
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 – Michael McIntyre, British yacht racer
• 1956 – A. K. Shiva Kumar, Indian economist and academic
• 1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens and Tuff Monks)
• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
• 1957 – Terry Wyatt, British physicist
• 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
• 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
• 1961 – Greg Hetson, American singer and guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Black President, and Redd Kross)
• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, English actress
• 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
• 1962 – George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, Kuwaiti-German kidnapped victim
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Five Star)
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X, Dope, and Murderdolls)
• 1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American race car driver
• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and educator
• 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician (d. 2010)
• 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1969 – Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician
• 1970 – Melanie Paschke, German sprinter
• 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder and actor
• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matthew Good Band)
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 – DJ Shadow, American DJ and producer (Unkle)
• 1972 – Samantha Smith, American actress, author, and activist (d. 1985)
• 1972 – Külli Tomingas, Estonian soprano
• 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver
• 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand guitarist, producer, and actor (Flight of the Conchords, The Black Seeds, and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra)
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress and singer
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Pussycat Dolls and Eden's Crush)
• 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Abz Love, English singer and DJ (Five)
• 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
• 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 – Martin Truex, Jr., American race car driver
• 1981 – Nino, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1982 – Lily Rabe, American actress
• 1982 – Ott Sepp, Estonian actor and singer
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Danity Kane)
• 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
• 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Paula Peralejo, Filipino actress
• 1984 – Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper
• 1986 – Iya Villania, Filipino actress, singer, dancer, VJ, and host
• 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Luke McLean, Australian-Italian rugby player
• 1987 – Yasuka Saitō, Japanese actor
• 1987 – Ilya Shesterkov, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani martial artist
• 1988 – Jewel Mische, Filipino actress
• 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
• 1990 – The Sxplay, Japanese singer
• 1991 – Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 – Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
• 1991 – Addison Timlin, American actress
• 1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer
• 1993 – Fran Kirby, English footballer
• 1993 – George Sampson, English actor and dancer
• 1993 – Alyssa Valdez, Filipino volleyball player
• 1994 – Elina Born, Estonian singer
• 1994 – Shin Dongho, South Korean singer and actor (U-KISS)

Deaths[edit]

• 226 – Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (b. 187)
• 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
• 1252 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1509 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443)
• 1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
• 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
• 1594 – Niels Kaas, Danish politician (b. 1535)
• 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (b. 1657)
• 1744 – André Campra, French composer and conductor (b. 1660)
• 1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1693)
• 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
• 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian minister and politician (b. 1757)
• 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, French prince (b. 1775)
• 1852 – Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (b. 1777)
• 1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
• 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
• 1860 – Thomas Addison, English physician and endocrinologist (b. 1793)
• 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1824)
• 1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist and carcinologist (b. 1825)
• 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
• 1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter (b. 1837)
• 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Otto Seeck German historian and academic (b. 1850)
• 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)
• 1933 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1935 – Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1936 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest (b. 1872)
• 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
• 1949 – Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860)
• 1951 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Alfred Braunschweiger, German diver (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Anton Koolmann, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1899)
• 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
• 1959 – Geert Lotsij, Dutch rower (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1964 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
• 1968 – Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
• 1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1915)
• 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1977 – Magda Lupescu, Romanian wife of Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor and radio host (b. 1928)
• 1979 – Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1945)
• 1981 – Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer, founded Balmain (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
• 1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian serial killer (b. 1950)
• 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1950)
• 1999 – Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937)
• 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, American author (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Don S. Davis, American captain, actor, and educator (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Diane Hébert, Canadian medical patient (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Takeo Chii, Japanese actor (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean politician (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Juan Reccius, Chilean triple jumper (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Damian D'Oliveira, South African cricketer (b. 1960)
• 2014 – Dermot Healy, Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Paul Horn, American flute player (b. 1930)