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• 97 – Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
• 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 312 – Battle of the Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
• 456 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (Portugal), and the town's churches are burnt to the ground.
• 969 – Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes seizes part of Antioch's fortifications. The capture of the city from the Arabs is completed three days later, when reinforcements under the stratopedarches Peter arrive.
• 1061 – Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
• 1344 – The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders.
• 1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, is completed.
• 1449 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
• 1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mamluks near Gaza.
• 1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
• 1538 – The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
• 1628 – French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
• 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
• 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
• 1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains: British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
• 1834 – The Pinjarra massacre occurred in the Swan River Colony at present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. An estimated 30 Noongar people were killed by British colonists.
• 1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1848 – The first railroad in Spain between Barcelona and Mataró is opened.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
• 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. The first ticker tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the statue is dedicated.
• 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
• 1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
• 1904 – Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic links.
• 1915 – Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
• 1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
• 1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
• 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
• 1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
• 1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
• 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
• 1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. So, Greco-Italian War began. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II.
• 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
• 1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores killing all people on board, including the French former middleweight world champion boxer Marcel Cerdan and French violinist Ginette Neveu
• 1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope.
• 1962 – End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
• 1965 – Nostra aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760-year-old declaration.
• 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
• 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
• 1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe González becomes Prime Minister-elect.
• 1990 – The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
• 1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
• 1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
• 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
• 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. Eight hundred seventeen Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
• 2006 – A group of activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked a rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed 14.
• 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
• 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
• 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
• 2013 – Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
• 2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.

Births[edit]

• 1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
• 1510 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1572)
• 1585 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop and theologian (d. 1638)
• 1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg (d. 1740)
• 1690 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian admiral (d. 1720)
• 1693 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
• 1696 – Maurice de Saxe, Marshal General of France (d. 1750)
• 1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1768)
• 1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (d. 1793)
• 1733 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)
• 1767 – Marie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1852)
• 1793 – Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (d. 1861)
• 1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849)
• 1815 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak philologist and politician (d. 1856)
• 1837 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1913)
• 1839 – Edward P. Allen, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1909)
• 1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888)
• 1846 – Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (d. 1935)
• 1854 – Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
• 1860 – Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
• 1864 – Adolfo Camarillo, American-Mexican rancher and philanthropist (d. 1958)
• 1867 – Sister Nivedita, Irish-born Indian nurse, educator, and author (d. 1911)
• 1875 – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist (d. 1966)
• 1877 – Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
• 1879 – Channing H. Cox, American politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
• 1880 – Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1940)
• 1881 – Vin Coutie, Australian footballer (d. 1951)
• 1881 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish pole vaulter (d. 1969)
• 1884 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)
• 1886 – Noel Macklin, English car maker and boat designer (d. 1946)
• 1886 – Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (d. 1937)
• 1887 – Herb Byrne, Australian Australian rules footballer (d. 1959)
• 1888 – Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English peer and military officer (d. 1964)
• 1889 – Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975)
• 1891 – Ormer Locklear, American pilot and actor (d. 1920)
• 1892 – Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player (d. 1954)
• 1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
• 1903 – John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English journalist and author (d. 1966)
• 1904 – George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986)
• 1907 – John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Douglas Seale, English-American actor and singer (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
• 1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Pearl Hackney, English actress (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Jack Soo, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
• 1919 – Walt Hansgen, American racing driver (d. 1966)
• 1919 – Hans Klenk, German racing driver (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)
• 1922 – Gershon Kingsley, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1922 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1923 – John Connell, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Cleo Laine, English singer and actress
• 1927 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
• 1928 – Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (d. 1955)
• 1928 – Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
• 1928 – William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
• 1929 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1929 – Virginia Held, American philosopher and author
• 1929 – John Hollander, American poet, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Joan Plowright, English actress
• 1930 – Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
• 1931 – Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
• 1932 – Suzy Parker, American model and actress (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
• 1933 – Michael Noakes, English painter and illustrator
• 1935 – Alan Clarke, English director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Carl Davis, American-English conductor and composer
• 1937 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
• 1938 – Keigo Abe, Japanese master of Shotokan karate, founded the Japan Shotokan Karate Association
• 1938 – Kenneth Best, Liberian journalist, founded The Daily Observer
• 1938 – Howard Blake, English composer and conductor
• 1938 – Dave Budd, American basketball player
• 1938 – Gary Cowan, Canadian golfer
• 1938 – David Dimbleby, English journalist
• 1938 – Richard Gott, English journalist and historian
• 1938 – Bernadette Lafont, French actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Anne Perry, English author
• 1939 – Jane Alexander, American actress and producer
• 1939 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist
• 1939 – Miroslav Cerar, Slovenian gymnast and lawyer
• 1939 – Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Susan Harris, American screenwriter and producer
• 1941 – John Hallam, Irish-English actor (d. 2006)
• 1941 – Hank Marvin, English singer and guitarist (The Shadows)
• 1942 – Abdelkader Fréha, Algerian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
• 1943 – Cornelia Froboess, German actress and singer
• 1943 – Charo López, Spanish actress
• 1943 – Jimmy McRae, Scottish race car driver
• 1943 – Karalyn Patterson, English psychologist and academic
• 1944 – Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Coluche, French actor and screenwriter (d. 1986)
• 1944 – Dennis Franz, American actor and playwright
• 1944 – Keizō Kanie, Japanese actor
• 1944 – Anton Schlecker, German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
• 1945 – Elton Dean, English saxophonist and keyboard player (Soft Machine) (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Wayne Fontana, English singer (The Mindbenders)
• 1946 – John Hewson, Australian economist and politician
• 1946 – Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1948 – Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
• 1949 – Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete and actress
• 1949 – Tracy Reed, American actress
• 1950 – Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and activist
• 1950 – Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
• 1951 – Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, American conjoined twins
• 1951 – Peter Hitchens, Maltese-English journalist and author
• 1951 – Joe R. Lansdale, American martial artist and author
• 1952 – Annie Potts, American actress and producer
• 1953 – Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman
• 1953 – Desmond Child, American songwriter and producer
• 1955 – Ronnie Bass, American football player and sportscaster
• 1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman, co-founded Microsoft
• 1955 – Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham, English businessman, lawyer, and politician, Minister of State for Trade
• 1955 – Indra Nooyi, Indian-American businesswoman
• 1955 – Gary Lavergne, American author
• 1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran
• 1956 – Dave Wyndorf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Monster Magnet)
• 1956 – Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher, scholar, and author
• 1957 – Marian Bell, English economist and academic
• 1957 – Christian Berkel, German actor
• 1957 – Stephen Morris, English drummer (Joy Division, New Order, and The Other Two)
• 1957 – Zach Wamp, American businessman and politician
• 1958 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (d. 2013)
• 1958 – Ashok Chavan, Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 1958 – William Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
• 1959 – James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1959 – Toshio Masuda, Japanese composer
• 1959 – Randy Wittman, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Mark Derwin, American actor
• 1960 – Yoko Kagabu, Japanese volleyball player
• 1960 – Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist and mathematician
• 1962 – Scotty Nguyen, Vietnamese-American poker player
• 1962 – Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1962 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• 1963 – Verónica Gamba, Argentinian model and actress
• 1963 – Lauren Holly, American-Canadian actress
• 1963 – James Miller, American pilot (d. 2002)
• 1963 – Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 – Sheryl Underwood, American comedian, actress, and talk show host
• 1964 – Andrew Bridgen, English soldier and politician
• 1964 – Onofrio Catacchio, Italian author and illustrator
• 1965 – Jami Gertz, American actress and producer
• 1965 – David Warburton, British Member of Parliament, composer and businessman
• 1965 – Miyako Yoshida, Japanese ballerina
• 1966 – Steve Atwater, American football player
• 1966 – Andy Richter, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs
• 1967 – Monica Chan, Hong Kong model and actress, Miss Hong Kong 1989
• 1967 – Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
• 1967 – Kevin Macdonald, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
• 1967 – John Romero, American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
• 1968 – Chris Broussard, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1968 – Caitlin Cary, American singer and violinist (Whiskeytown)
• 1968 – Marc Lièvremont, French rugby player and coach
• 1968 – Mayumi Ozaki, Japanese wrestler
• 1969 – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
• 1969 – Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Relentless7 and Fistful of Mercy)
• 1969 – Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player
• 1970 – Greg Eagles, American voice actor and producer
• 1971 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano and actress (d. 2010)
• 1971 – Caroline Dinenage, English politician
• 1971 – Leonidas Sabanis, Albanian-Greek weightlifter
• 1972 – Terrell Davis, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1973 – Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler and actor
• 1973 – Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Braden Looper, American baseball player
• 1974 – Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer and coach
• 1974 – Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993
• 1975 – Daniela Urzi, Argentinian model
• 1976 – Keiron Cunningham, English-Welsh rugby player and coach
• 1976 – Martin Lepa, Estonian footballer
• 1976 – Simone Loria, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Olga Vassiljeva, Estonian figure skater
• 1977 – Lauren Woodland, American actress and lawyer
• 1978 – Marta Etura, Spanish actress
• 1978 – Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (Blaque) (d. 2012)
• 1979 – Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
• 1980 – Kanzi, American bonobo
• 1980 – Christy Hemme, American wrestler, singer, and ring announcer
• 1980 – Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
• 1980 – Agnes Obel, Danish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer and coach
• 1981 – Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
• 1981 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
• 1981 – Shane Gore, English footballer
• 1981 – Nate McLouth, American baseball player
• 1981 – Nick Montgomery, English-Scottish footballer
• 1982 – Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
• 1982 – Enver Jääger, Estonian footballer
• 1982 – Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1982 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
• 1982 – Hironori Saruta, Japanese footballer
• 1982 – Matt Smith, English actor
• 1983 – Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
• 1983 – Kayo Noro, Japanese singer and entertainer (AKB48 and SDN48)
• 1983 – Joe Thomas, English actor and screenwriter
• 1984 – Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
• 1984 – Finn Wittrock, American actor
• 1985 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
• 1986 – Anthony Griffith, English footballer
• 1986 – Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 – Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter (Odd Future)
• 1988 – Nanao, Japanese model and actress
• 1988 – Edd Gould, English voice actor and animator, founded Eddsworld (d. 2012)
• 1988 – Shota Kawanishi, Japanese footballer
• 1988 – Kim Un-guk, North Korean weightlifter
• 1989 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015)
• 1991 – Lucy Bronze, English footballer
• 1992 – Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
• 1992 – Maria Borges, Angolan model
• 1992 – Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
• 1996 – Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
• 1996 – Jack Eichel, American Professional ice hockey player
• 1997 – Sierra McCormick, American actress
• 1997 – Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
• 2004 – Miss Beazley, American dog of George W. Bush (d. 2014)

Deaths[edit]

• 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
• 457 – Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
• 1225 – Jien, Japanese monk, historian, and poet (b. 1155)
• 1312 – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
• 1412 – Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
• 1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
• 1594 – Ōkubo Tadayo, Japanese general (b. 1532)
• 1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer and educator (b. 1587)
• 1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
• 1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish priest and playwright (b. 1618)
• 1676 – Jean Desmarets, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1595)
• 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (b. 1616)
• 1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1708 – Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
• 1716 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
• 1740 – Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
• 1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
• 1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
• 1763 – Heinrich von Brühl, German general and politician (b. 1700)
• 1768 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
• 1787 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735)
• 1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (b. 1710)
• 1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724)
• 1800 – Artemas Ward, American general and politician (b. 1727)
• 1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
• 1818 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
• 1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)
• 1857 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 – Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 – Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1917 – Dimitrios Votsis, Greek politician (b. 1841)
• 1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)
• 1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
• 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress and singer (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
• 1952 – Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)
• 1963 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)
• 1970 – Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (Baby Huey & the Babysitters) (b. 1944)
• 1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
• 1978 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)
• 1980 – Leon Janney, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1983 – Otto Messmer, American animator (b. 1892)
• 1986 – John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
• 1987 – André Masson, French painter (b. 1896)
• 1989 – Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Erich Göstl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Ted Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
• 2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer and actor (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Eugene K. Bird, American colonel (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Tina Aumont, American actress (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Takao Fujinami, Japanese politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Buck Adams, American porn actor and director (d. 1955)
• 2009 – Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1990)
• 2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
• 2010 – James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Tom Addington, English soldier (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Merry Anders, American actress (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Bob Brunner, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Kevin Reilly, American soldier, businessman, and politician (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Bonfire, German race horse (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Nalini Ambady, Indian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Ike Skelton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Koichiro Kimura, Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (b. 1927)
• 2014 – J. Ross Mackay, Canadian geographer and academic (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)