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- 480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
- 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
- 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1499 – Treaty of Basel
- 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
- 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1692 – The last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies takes place.
- 1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
- 1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
- 1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- 1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- 1823 – Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
- 1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
- 1862 – Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1866 – Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War.
- 1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
- 1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
- 1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
- 1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
- 1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
- 1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
- 1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
- 1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
- 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- 1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
- 1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- 1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
- 1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
- 1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
- 2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Births[edit]
- 1515 – Anne of Cleves (d. 1557)
- 1547 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1590)
- 1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650)
- 1601 – Anne of Austria (d. 1666)
- 1606 – Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (d. 1645)
- 1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
- 1694 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1773)
- 1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French mineralogist and botanist (d. 1786)
- 1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (d. 1811)
- 1743 – Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (d. 1819)
- 1762 – Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850)
- 1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822)
- 1788 – Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (d. 1841)
- 1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867)
- 1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (d. 1897)
- 1829 – Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
- 1835 – Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (d. 1891)
- 1841 – Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (d. 1902)
- 1842 – Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
- 1868 – Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1931)
- 1869 – Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (d. 1953)
- 1870 – Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (d. 1966)
- 1870 – Arthur Pryor American trombone player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1942)
- 1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
- 1876 – André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- 1878 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
- 1880 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (d. 1958)
- 1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
- 1883 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)
- 1883 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (d. 1957)
- 1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Public Library (d. 1940)
- 1885 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1957)
- 1887 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)
- 1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
- 1891 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
- 1891 – Alma Thomas, American painter (d. 1978)
- 1892 – Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1975)
- 1894 – Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (d. 1976)
- 1895 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-American actor and singer (d. 1967)
- 1896 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
- 1896 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (d. 1930)
- 1898 – Katharine Alexander, American actress and singer (d. 1981)
- 1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)
- 1900 – Sergey Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- 1900 – William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967)
- 1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
- 1903 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Ellen Church, American flight attendant (d. 1965)
- 1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (d. 2009)
- 1905 – Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (d. 1964)
- 1906 – Ilse Koch, German wife of Karl-Otto Koch (d. 1967)
- 1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (d. 2003)
- 1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (d. 1981)
- 1907 – Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
- 1909 – John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (d. 1983)
- 1910 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (d. 2006)
- 1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Martha Scott, American actress and producer (d. 2003)
- 1913 – Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (d. 2000)
- 1915 – Grigory Frid, Russian composer (d. 2012)
- 1915 – Arthur Lowe, English actor (d. 1982)
- 1918 – Hans Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
- 1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and educator (d. 1988)
- 1920 – Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (d. 1976)
- 1920 – Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1945)
- 1920 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (d. 2000)
- 1920 – William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Will Elder, American illustrator (d. 2008)
- 1922 – David Sive, American environmentalist and lawyer (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (d. 2014)
- 1924 – Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist
- 1924 – Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English author
- 1924 – Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1951)
- 1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
- 1926 – Maria Charles, English actress and director
- 1926 – Leila Hadley, American author (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer
- 1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach
- 1927 – Colette Deréal, French singer and actress (d. 1988)
- 1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1928 – Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars
- 1928 – James Lawson, American activist, author, and academic
- 1928 – Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1986)
- 1930 – Joni James, American singer
- 1930 – P. B. Sreenivas, Indian singer (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Ashoka Mitran, Indian author
- 1931 – Fay Weldon, English author and playwright
- 1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
- 1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer and educator
- 1933 – T. Cullen Davis, American businessman
- 1933 – Carmelo Simeone, Argentinian footballer (d. 2014)
- 1933 – Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician
- 1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach
- 1934 – T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (d. 2010)
- 1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
- 1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player
- 1939 – Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian economist and engineer (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Deborah Lavin, South African-English historian and academic
- 1939 – Gilbert E. Patterson, American bishop (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer
- 1940 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1941 – Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Bulgarian soprano
- 1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian
- 1942 – Candida Lycett Green, Irish-English journalist and author (d. 2014)
- 1942 – Wu Ma, Chinese actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2014)
- 1942 – George Erik Rupp, American theologian and academic
- 1942 – Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal
- 1942 – Marlena Shaw, American singer
- 1942 – David Stern, American businessman
- 1943 – Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1943 – Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
- 1943 – Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic (Lighthouse)
- 1944 – Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1946 – King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1946 – Dan Baker, American sportscaster
- 1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
- 1947 – Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author
- 1947 – David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist
- 1947 – Robert Morace, American author
- 1948 – Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
- 1948 – Jim Byrnes, American guitarist and actor
- 1948 – Mark Phillips, English horse rider and journalist
- 1949 – James Cartwright, American general
- 1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
- 1950 – Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
- 1951 – David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter (Whitesnake, Deep Purple, and Coverdale and Page)
- 1951 – Bobby Radcliff, American singer and guitarist
- 1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician
- 1952 – Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter and actor (Heavy Metal Kids) (d. 1985)
- 1952 – Paul Le Mat, American actor
- 1952 – Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean singer-songwriter and actor
- 1952 – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
- 1953 – Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter (Right Said Fred)
- 1953 – Ségolène Royal, Senegalese-French politician
- 1953 – David Wohl, American actor
- 1954 – Shari Belafonte, American actress and singer
- 1954 – Randy Lanier, American race car driver and drug trafficker
- 1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach
- 1956 – Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author
- 1956 – Robert Bowlin, American guitarist and fiddler (The Time Jumpers)
- 1956 – Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
- 1956 – Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Living Colour and Tackhead)
- 1957 – Steve Carney, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Grinderman)
- 1957 – Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Concrete Blonde)
- 1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager
- 1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1958 – Neil Cavuto, American journalist
- 1958 – Christian Dozzler, Austrian-American singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Lynn Herring, American model and actress, Miss Virginia USA 1977
- 1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress (The Runaways)
- 1958 – Mark Patton, American actor
- 1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
- 1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1960 – Scott Baio, American actor, director, and producer
- 1960 – Ernest Martin, American murderer (d. 2003)
- 1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
- 1961 – Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
- 1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1961 – Diane Lemieux, Canadian politician
- 1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American-English actress
- 1961 – Michael Torke, American composer
- 1962 – Normand D'Amour, Canadian actor
- 1962 – Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian journalist
- 1962 – Marq Torien, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (BulletBoys and Ratt)
- 1964 – Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician
- 1964 – Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer
- 1965 – Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Andy Cairns, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Therapy?)
- 1965 – Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1965 – Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
- 1965 – Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
- 1965 – Robert Satcher, American physician, engineer, and astronaut
- 1966 – Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 – Wes Platt, American game designer, created OtherSpace
- 1966 – Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer and manager
- 1966 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
- 1966 – Erdoğan Atalay, Turkish-born German player
- 1967 – Matt Besser, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967 – Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver
- 1967 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- 1967 – Kim Watkins, Australian television host
- 1969 – Sue Perkins, English comedian, actress, and radio host
- 1969 – Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer
- 1969 – Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Weezer, The Rentals, and Goldenboy)
- 1970 – Mystikal, American rapper and actor
- 1970 – Mike Matheny, American baseball player and manager
- 1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
- 1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
- 1971 – Elizabeth Bear, American author and poet
- 1971 – Chesney Hawkes, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1971 – Toomas Krõm, Estonian footballer
- 1971 – Ted Leonard, American singer-songwriter (Enchant, Spock's Beard, and Thought Chamber)
- 1971 – Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
- 1972 – Dana Vespoli, American porn actress and director
- 1973 – Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2014)
- 1973 – Blake Sennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Rilo Kiley and The Elected)
- 1973 – Stéfan Louw, South African Opera tenor and producer of Opera.
- 1974 – Kostas Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer and manager
- 1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Angelique Morgan, French television personality
- 1975 – Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter (Ostava)
- 1975 – Bob Sapp, American football player, wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
- 1976 – David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1976 – Mo Collins, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
- 1976 – Xiao Huang-Chi, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
- 1976 – Martin Solveig, French DJ and producer
- 1976 – Wowie de Guzman, Filipino actor and dancer
- 1977 – Thu Minh, Vietnamese singer, dancer, and actress
- 1977 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby player
- 1978 – Ed Joyce, Irish cricketer
- 1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet
- 1979 – Jericho Rosales, Filipino actor and singer
- 1979 – Swin Cash, American basketball player
- 1979 – Michael Graziadei, German-American actor
- 1980 – Francesco D'Isa, Italian painter and journalist
- 1980 – Ray Foley, Irish radio and television host
- 1980 – Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian model and actress
- 1980 – Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
- 1981 – Ashley Eckstein, American actress
- 1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight)
- 1981 – Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano
- 1982 – Domenic Cassisi, Australian footballer
- 1982 – Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1982 – Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
- 1982 – Billie Piper, English actress and singer
- 1982 – Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer
- 1982 – Katie Lowes, American actress
- 1983 – Rianti Cartwright, Indonesian actress, model and presenter
- 1983 – Will Farquarson English bass player (Bastille)
- 1983 – Eriko Imai, Japanese singer (Speed)
- 1983 – Şeref Tüfenk, Turkish amateur Greco-Roman wrestler
- 1984 – Theresa Fu, Chinese singer and actress (Cookies)
- 1984 – Ross Jarman, English drummer and songwriter (The Cribs)
- 1984 – Eduardo Rubio, Chilean footballer
- 1984 – Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Rima Fakih, Lebanese-American model and wrestler, Miss USA 2010
- 1985 – Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
- 1985 – Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer
- 1985 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (d. 2013)
- 1987 – Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist
- 1987 – Tom Felton, English actor and singer
- 1987 – Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer
- 1987 – Alfred Rainer, Austrian soldier and skier (d. 2008)
- 1988 – Nikita Andreev, Russian footballer
- 1988 – Bethany Dillon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1988 – Mohamed Faisal, Maldivian footballer
- 1988 – Ali Fasir, Maldivian footballer
- 1989 – Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, model and actress (Girls' Generation and Younique Unit)
- 1989 – Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
- 1989 – Cœur de pirate, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (Armistice and Bonjour Brumaire)
- 1990 – Denard Robinson, American football player
- 1990 – Senem Kuyucuoğlu, Turkish model and television presenter
- 1991 – Khairul Anuar Mohamad, Malaysian archer
- 1993 – Chase Ellison, American actor
- 1994 – Jr., South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Got7 and JJ Project)
- 1994 – Ralf Tribuntsov, Estonian swimmer
- 1999 – Tallan Latz, American guitarist
- 1999 – Kim Yoo-jung, South Korean actress
Deaths[edit]
- 1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician (b. 1007)
- 1253 – Dōgen, Japanese monk and philosopher (b. 1200)
- 1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward (b. 1281)
- 1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (b. 1366)
- 1520 – Selim I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1465)
- 1539 – Guru Nanak, Pakistani religious leader, founded Sikhism (b. 1469)
- 1554 – Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
- 1566 – Johannes Agricola, German theologian and academic (b. 1494)
- 1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
- 1662 – John Biddle, English minister and theologian (b. 1615)
- 1692 – Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1620)
- 1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622)
- 1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- 1776 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (b. 1755)
- 1777 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (b. 1699)
- 1852 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (b. 1783)
- 1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (b. 1801)
- 1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician (b. 1801)
- 1881 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1831)
- 1914 – Alain-Fournier, French soldier and author (b. 1886)
- 1919 – Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (b. 1848)
- 1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (b. 1865)
- 1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1957 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
- 1961 – Marion Davies, American actress, singer, and producer (b. 1897)
- 1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
- 1973 – Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893)
- 1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1987 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
- 1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor and producer (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (b. 1914)
- 1989 – Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1929)
- 1989 – Irving Berlin, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
- 1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
- 1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (b. 1903)
- 1994 – Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Bruno Junk, Estonian race walker (b. 1929)
- 1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
- 1999 – George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1927)
- 2000 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Fikret Kızılok, Turkish musician
- 2002 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Gordon Jump, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Hugo Young, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
- 2004 – Big Boss Man, American wrestler (b. 1962)
- 2004 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Edward Albert, American actor and singer (b. 1951)
- 2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player and educator (b. 1950)
- 2007 – Nílton Coelho da Costa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
- 2008 – Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia (b. 1920)
- 2008 – Petrus Schaesberg, German painter, historian, and educator (b. 1967)
- 2009 – Edward Delaney, Irish sculptor (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1971)
- 2011 – Peter E. Berger, American film editor (b. 1944)
- 2011 – Cengiz Dağcı, Ukrainian-English author and poet (b. 1919)
- 2011 – Whatumoana Paki, New Zealand husband of Te Atairangikaahu (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Irving Adler, American mathematician, educator, and author (b. 1913)
- 2012 – Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Grigory Frid, Russian composer (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (b. 1914)
- 2013 – Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
- 2013 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Dave Nichol, Canadian businessman (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Skip E. Lowe, American talk show host and actor (b. 1929)
- 2014 – Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1945)
- 2014 – Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (b. 1936)
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