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• 571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
• 1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
• 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.
• 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
• 1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
• 1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
• 1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
• 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
• 1755 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
• 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
• 1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
• 1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
• 1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
• 1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
• 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
• 1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
• 1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
• 1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
• 1917 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
• 1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
• 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving Day. Twenty-seven twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansasalone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
• 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
• 1940 – World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
• 1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
• 1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, known at the time as the "Storm of the Century", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City. This storm also brings blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. Three hundred fifty-three people die in the event.
• 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
• 1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends as American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
• 1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• 1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
• 1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
• 1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
• 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
• 1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.
• 1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
• 1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
• 1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
• 1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
• 1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S., killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
• 1999 – A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off Florida coast.
• 1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
• 2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
• 2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
• 2009 – Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.

Births[edit]

• 1454 – Catherine Cornaro, Greek wife of James II of Cyprus (d. 1510)
• 1562 – Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1635)
• 1577 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (d. 1629)
• 1609 – Henrietta Maria of France (d. 1669)
• 1638 – Catherine of Braganza (d. 1705)
• 1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
• 1697 – Maria Karolina Sobieska, Polish daughter of Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (d. 1740)
• 1703 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
• 1752 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer and critic (d. 1814)
• 1753 – Robert Townsend, American spy (d. 1838)
• 1758 – John Armstrong, Jr., American general and politician, 7th United States Secretary of War (d. 1843)
• 1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (d. 1856)
• 1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1863)
• 1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
• 1815 – William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (d. 1904)
• 1817 – John Bigelow, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to France (d. 1911)
• 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• 1841 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and educator (d. 1902)
• 1843 – Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• 1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (d. 1929)
• 1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese-French journalist and author (d. 1900)
• 1846 – Carrie Nation, American activist (d. 1911)
• 1858 – Alfred Capus, French journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1922)
• 1862 – Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
• 1862 – Gustaf Söderström, Swedish tug of war competitor, shot putter, and discus thrower (d. 1958)
• 1867 – Talaat Harb, Egyptian economist, founded the Banque Misr (d. 1941)
• 1868 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937)
• 1869 – Ben Lindsey, American lawyer and judge (d. 1934)
• 1870 – Winthrop Ames, American director, producer, and playwright (d. 1937)
• 1872 – Robert Maysack, American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1960)
• 1873 – Albert Henry Krehbiel, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)
• 1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
• 1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1936)
• 1877 – Harley Granville-Barker, British actor, director and playwright (d. 1946)
• 1880 – John Flynn, Australian minister, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (d. 1951)
• 1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham, English author (d. 1960)
• 1881 – Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
• 1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (d. 1939)
• 1883 – Merrill C. Meigs, American publisher (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)
• 1888 – Amund Rydland, Norwegian actor and theatre director (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English soldier and poet (d. 1918)
• 1891 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941)
• 1893 – Joseph Wood Krutch, American author and critic (d. 1970)
• 1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (d. 1991)
• 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
• 1896 – Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesian archbishop (d. 1963)
• 1896 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (d. 1989)
• 1898 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1971)
• 1898 – Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian tenor and director (d. 1989)
• 1900 – Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947)
• 1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer (d. 1948)
• 1902 – Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1904 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1964)
• 1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese author (d. 2005)
• 1904 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000)
• 1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (d. 1938)
• 1909 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (d. 1984)
• 1913 – Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and educator (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1917 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Norman Tokar, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)
• 1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Noel Neill, American actress
• 1920 – Putra of Perlis (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Ilja Hurník, Czech composer (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Gloria Lasso, Spanish-French singer (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Fernance B. Perry, Portuguese-American businessman (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Mauno Koivisto, Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland
• 1924 – Paul Desmond, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
• 1924 – Sybil Stockdale, American activist, co-founded the National League of Families (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer (d. 1969)
• 1926 – Ranganath Misra, Indian jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (d. 2012)
• 1927 – John K. Cooley, American journalist and author (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Judy Crichton, American director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Nat Adderley, American cornet and trumpet player (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Takayo Fischer, American actress and singer
• 1933 – Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer
• 1935 – Robert Berner, American geologist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Trisha Brown, American dancer and choreographer
• 1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009)
• 1939 – Martin Feldstein, American economist and academic
• 1940 – Reinhard Furrer, Austrian-German physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
• 1940 – Joe Gibbs, American football player and coach
• 1940 – Jan Jongbloed, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1940 – Karl Offmann, Mauritian politician, 3rd President of Mauritius
• 1940 – Shyamal Kumar Sen, Indian jurist and politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal
• 1940 – Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015)
• 1941 – Christos Papanikolaou, Greek pole vaulter
• 1941 – Gerald Seymour, English journalist and author
• 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader and author
• 1942 – Bob Lind, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Mimis Papaioannou, Greek footballer and manager
• 1943 – Jerry Portnoy, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
• 1944 – Bev Bevan, English drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and ELO Part II)
• 1944 – Maarten 't Hart, Dutch biologist, ethologist, and author
• 1944 – Ben Stein, American actor, lawyer, and author
• 1944 – Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (d. 2003)
• 1945 – Patrick Nagel, American illustrator (d. 1984)
• 1945 – George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1946 – Marc Brown, American author and illustrator
• 1946 – Mike Doyle, English footballer (d. 2011)
• 1947 – Jonathan Kaplan, French-American director and producer
• 1947 – John Larroquette, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 – Tracey Walter, American actor
• 1948 – Jacques Dupuis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of Quebec
• 1948 – Lars Eighner, American author
• 1949 – Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1950 – Chris Claremont, English-American author
• 1950 – Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Alexis Wright, Australian author
• 1951 – Charlaine Harris, American author and poet
• 1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish author and journalist
• 1951 – Johnny Rep, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1952 – Crescent Dragonwagon, American author and educator
• 1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician
• 1952 – John Lynch, American businessman and politician, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
• 1952 – Herschel Savage, American porn actor and director
• 1952 – Gabriele Oriali, Italian footballer and manager
• 1953 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1953 – Mark Frost, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1953 – James Hayden, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1953 – Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman
• 1955 – Don Hahn, American director and producer
• 1955 – Kurt Niedermayer, German footballer and manager
• 1955 – Connie Palmen, Dutch author
• 1955 – Bruno Tonioli, Italian dancer and choreographer
• 1956 – Hélène Goudin, Belgian-Swedish politician
• 1957 – Bob Ehrlich, American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Maryland
• 1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2015)
• 1959 – Steve Rothery, English guitarist and songwriter (Marillion and The Wishing Tree)
• 1960 – Amy Grant, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and publisher, co-founded George Magazine (d. 1999)
• 1960 – Amy Gibson, American actress and businesswoman
• 1961 – Paul Comstive, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1962 – Scott Cam, Australian TV personality
• 1962 – Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese game designer, founded Mistwalker
• 1963 – Kevin Chamberlin, American actor
• 1963 – Holly Cole, Canadian singer
• 1963 – Chip Kelly, American football player and coach
• 1963 – Bernie Kosar, American football player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Ago Silde, Estonian politician
• 1964 – Mark Lanegan, American singer-songwriter (Screaming Trees and The Gutter Twins)
• 1964 – Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch runner
• 1965 – Cris Carter, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1965 – Dougray Scott, Scottish actor and producer
• 1966 – Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rancid, The Transplants, Devils Brigade, Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers)
• 1966 – Billy Burke, American actor and producer
• 1967 – Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
• 1967 – Anthony Nesty, Trinidadian-Surinamese swimmer and coach
• 1967 – Gregg Turkington, Australian-American comedian and singer (Zip Code Rapists)
• 1968 – Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and singer
• 1968 – Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
• 1968 – Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer (EPMD)
• 1969 – Dexter Jackson, American bodybuilder
• 1969 – Kim Ofstad, Norwegian drummer (D'Sound)
• 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1971 – Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 – Deepa Marathe, Indian cricketer
• 1972 – Mark Morton, American guitarist and songwriter (Lamb of God)
• 1973 – Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist
• 1973 – Octavio Dotel, Dominican baseball player
• 1973 – Erick Strickland, American basketball player
• 1973 – Eddie Steeples, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor
• 1975 – Abdelkader Benali, Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author
• 1975 – Kristian Nairn, Irish actor and DJ
• 1976 – Clint Mathis, American soccer player and coach
• 1976 – Donovan McNabb, American football player and sportscaster
• 1976 – Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian gymnast and coach
• 1977 – Guillermo Cañas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1977 – Marcus Marshall, Australian race car driver
• 1978 – Ringo Sheena, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Tokyo Jihen)
• 1979 – Jerry Ferrara, American actor
• 1979 – Thea Gilmore, English singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Michael Lehan, American football player
• 1979 – Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
• 1980 – Valerie Azlynn, American actress
• 1980 – John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – Josh Mathews, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
• 1980 – Alviro Petersen, South African cricketer
• 1980 – Steffen Thier, German rugby player
• 1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Lee Bum-ho, South Korean baseball player
• 1981 – Barbara Pierce Bush, American activist
• 1981 – Jenna Bush Hager, American journalist and author
• 1981 – Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
• 1981 – Maurício Rua, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1983 – Joey Chestnut, American competitive eater
• 1983 – Jhulan Goswami, Indian cricketer
• 1984 – Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
• 1984 – Gaspard Ulliel, French model and actor
• 1985 – Remona Fransen, Dutch pentathlete
• 1986 – Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
• 1986 – Craig Gardner, English footballer
• 1987 – Dolla, American rapper (d. 2009)
• 1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
• 1988 – Jay Spearing, English footballer
• 1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Rye Rye, American rapper, dancer, and actress
• 1990 – Everton Heleno dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 – Jamie Grace, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1991 – Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Zack Shada, American actor
• 1993 – Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer

Deaths[edit]

• 311 – Pope Peter of Alexandria
• 1034 – Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 954)
• 1120 – William Adelin, English son of Henry I of England (b. 1104)
• 1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
• 1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
• 1374 – Philip II, Prince of Taranto (b. 1329)
• 1456 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant and banker (b. 1395)
• 1517 – Marcus Musurus, Greek philosopher and scholar (b. 1470)
• 1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (b. 1466)
• 1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor, founded Dulwich College (b. 1566)
• 1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
• 1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (b. 1643)
• 1748 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (b. 1674)
• 1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (b. 1687)
• 1785 – Richard Glover, English poet and politician (b. 1712)
• 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)
• 1884 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
• 1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
• 1885 – Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
• 1907 – George Sheldon, American diver (b. 1874)
• 1909 – Edward P. Allen, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
• 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)
• 1948 – Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist, founded Uechi-ryū (b. 1877)
• 1949 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (b. 1878)
• 1950 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
• 1955 – Herman Hoogland, Dutch draughts player (b. 1891)
• 1955 – Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1956 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Ukrainian-Russian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
• 1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
• 1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
• 1963 – Alexander Marinesko, Russian lieutenant (b. 1913)
• 1965 – Myra Hess, English pianist and educator (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist, author, and politician (b. 1878)
• 1968 – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (b. 1908)
• 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and director (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-English actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1974 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1974 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
• 1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 1984 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Franz Hildebrandt, German pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
• 1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
• 1991 – Eleanor Audley, American actress and singer (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Hastings Banda, Malawian physician and politician, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
• 1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Flip Wilson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 1999 – Valentín Campa, Mexican union leader and politician (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (b. 1926)
• 2005 – George Best, Irish footballer (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1979)
• 2006 – Phyllis Fraser, American actress and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Antonis Vratsanos, Greek soldier (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Peter Lipton, American philosopher and academic (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter and coach (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician and educator (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Dave Sexton, English footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Simeon ten Holt, Dutch composer (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian businessman (b. 1968)
• 2013 – Bill Foulkes, English footballer and manager (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Al Plastino, American author and illustrator (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Petr Hapka, Czech composer and conductor (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Denham Harman, American biogerontologist and academic (b. 1916)