EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 26/11
- 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
- 1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
- 1476 – Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
- 1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
- 1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
- 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
- 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
- 1812 – The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia.
- 1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
- 1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. (Since 1941, it has been on the fourth Thursday.)
- 1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
- 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
- 1918 – The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- 1922 – The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
- 1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
- 1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
- 1942 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City
- 1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
- 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.
- 1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
- 1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
- 1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
- 1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
- 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
- 1977 – An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.
- 1983 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
- 1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
- 1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
- 1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
- 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
- 2000 – George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
- 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
- 2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
- 2004 – The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- 2008 – Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba.
- 2011 – NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
- 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
- 2012 – Aam Aadmi Party Indian political party formally started.
- 1436 – Catherine of Portugal (d. 1463)
- 1604 – Johannes Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1673)
- 1607 – John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (d. 1638)
- 1609 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman and academic (d. 1659)
- 1657 – William Derham, English minister and philosopher (d. 1735)
- 1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771)
- 1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and playwright (d. 1758)
- 1727 – Artemas Ward, American general and politician (d. 1800)
- 1731 – William Cowper, English poet and hymnwriter (d. 1800)
- 1792 – Sarah Moore Grimké, American author and activist (d. 1873)
- 1827 – Ellen G. White, American religious leader and author, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1915)
- 1828 – Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (d. 1895)
- 1828 – René Goblet, French politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1905)
- 1832 – Rudolph Koenig, German-French physicist and academic (d. 1901)
- 1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and activist, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1919)
- 1847 – Maria Fyodorovna, Danish wife of Alexander III of Russia (d. 1928)
- 1853 – Bat Masterson, Canadian-American police officer and journalist (d. 1921)
- 1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (d. 1913)
- 1858 – Katharine Drexel, American nun and saint (d. 1955)
- 1864 – Edward Higgins, English 3rd General of the Salvation Army (d. 1947)
- 1869 – Maud of Wales (d. 1938)
- 1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning (d. 1950)
- 1878 – Marshall Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932)
- 1880 – Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (d. 1943)
- 1885 – Heinrich Brüning, German lieutenant, economist, and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1970)
- 1888 – Ford Beebe, American screenwriter and director (d. 1978)
- 1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1976)
- 1891 – Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1977)
- 1894 – James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Bill W., American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Wim Hesterman, Dutch boxer (d. 1971)
- 1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (d. 1936)
- 1900 – Reinhold Kesküll, Russian-Estonian sprinter (d. 1942)
- 1901 – William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (d. 1953)
- 1902 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1971)
- 1903 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English pianist and educator (d. 2014)
- 1904 – Armand Frappier, Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1907 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist and limnologist (d. 2013)
- 1908 – Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group (d. 2007)
- 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and manager (d. 1998)
- 1909 – Frances Dee, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
- 1909 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Cyril Cusack, South African-Irish actor (d. 1993)
- 1911 – Samuel Reshevsky, American chess player (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Charles Breijer, Dutch photographer (d. 2011)
- 1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean lawyer and politician, 31st President of Chile
- 1919 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish soldier and politician, 6th President of the Republic of Poland (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Frederik Pohl, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1919 – Ram Sharan Sharma, Indian historian and academic (d. 2011)
- 1920 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian-American director and producer (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (d. 2000)
- 1923 – V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
- 1924 – Michael Holliday, English singer (d. 1963)
- 1924 – George Segal, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
- 1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Rabi Ray, Indian politician, 10th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
- 1927 – Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television host (d. 2001)
- 1928 – Nishida Tatsuo, Japanese linguist and academic (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian singer-songwriter and accordion player (d. 2015)
- 1929 – Betta St. John, American actress, singer and dancer
- 1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
- 1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentinian painter, sculptor, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 – Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch cardinal
- 1933 – Robert Goulet, American-Canadian singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Richard Holloway, Scottish bishop and radio host
- 1933 – Stanley Long, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor
- 1933 – Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (d. 2015)
- 1934 – Jerry Jameson, American director and producer
- 1936 – Margaret Boden, English computer scientist and psychologist
- 1937 – Bob Babbitt, Hungarian-American musician (d. 2012)
- 1937 – John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, English politician, Secretary of State for Health
- 1937 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (d. 1994)
- 1938 – Porter Goss, American soldier and politician, 19th Director of the CIA
- 1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist and academic
- 1938 – Rich Little, Canadian-American comedian, actor, and singer
- 1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- 1939 – Wayland Flowers, American actor and puppeteer (d. 1988)
- 1939 – John Gummer, English politician, Secretary of State for the Environment
- 1939 – Mark Margolis, American actor
- 1939 – Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Irish-Scottish politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- 1939 – Art Themen, English saxophonist and surgeon
- 1939 – Tina Turner, American-Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Ike & Tina Turner)
- 1940 – Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician and academic
- 1940 – Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (d. 2007)
- 1940 – Quentin Skinner, English historian, author, and academic
- 1941 – Susanne Marsee, American soprano and educator
- 1942 – Maki Carrousel, Japanese actor
- 1942 – Olivia Cole, American actress
- 1942 – Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese physician and author (d. 1970)
- 1943 – Paul Burnett, English radio host
- 1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American director and producer (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Marilynne Robinson, American author and academic
- 1943 – Dale Sommers, American radio host (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Michael Gregory, American actor
- 1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
- 1944 – Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin, English academic and politician, Minister of State for Europe
- 1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor
- 1945 – John McVie, English bass player (Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
- 1945 – Jim Mullen, Scottish guitarist (Kokomo and Morrissey–Mullen)
- 1945 – Michael Omartian, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Rhythm Heritage)
- 1945 – Björn von Sydow, Swedish academic and politician, 27th Swedish Minister for Defence
- 1946 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (d. 2014)
- 1946 – Art Shell, American football player and coach
- 1946 – Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian and author (d. 2012)
- 1947 – Roger Wehrli, American football player
- 1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
- 1948 – Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1948 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player and coach, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 1996 (d. 1995)
- 1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish journalist
- 1948 – Marianne Muellerleile, American actress
- 1948 – Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (d. 2015)
- 1948 – Peter Wheeler, English rugby player
- 1949 – Mari Alkatiri, East Timorese geographer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of East Timor
- 1949 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1949 – Martin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brotherhood of Man)
- 1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, American political scientist and academic
- 1950 – Honey Wilder, American porn actress
- 1951 – Ilona Staller, Hungarian-Italian porn actress, singer, and politician
- 1951 – Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian politician (d. 2014)
- 1953 – Hilary Benn, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development
- 1953 – Harry Carson, American football player and sportscaster
- 1953 – Desiré Wilson, South African race car driver
- 1954 – Roz Chast, American cartoonist
- 1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (d. 2009)
- 1955 – Gisela Stuart, German-English academic and politician
- 1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
- 1956 – Don Lake, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1956 – Keith Vaz, Yemeni-English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Europe
- 1957 – Felix Gonzales-Torres, Cuban-American visual artist (d. 1996)
- 1959 – Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, American author and academic
- 1959 – Jerry Schemmel, American sportscaster
- 1960 – Chuck Eddy, American journalist
- 1960 – Harold Reynolds, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1961 – Ivory, American wrestler
- 1961 – Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Indian-English businessman, co-founded Cobra Beer
- 1961 – Marcy Walker, American minister and actress
- 1962 – Fernando Bandeirinha, Portuguese footballer
- 1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball player
- 1963 – Mario Elie, American basketball player and coach
- 1963 – Matt Frei, German-English journalist and author
- 1963 – Joe Lydon, English rugby player and coach
- 1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
- 1965 – Scott Adsit, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Des Walker, English footballer
- 1966 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian-American actress and singer
- 1966 – Fahed Dermech, Tunisian footballer
- 1967 – Ridley Jacobs, Antiguan cricketer
- 1968 – Edna Campbell, American basketball player, sportscaster, and nurse
- 1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
- 1969 – Kara Walker, American painter and illustrator
- 1970 – John Amaechi, American-English basketball player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian and radio host
- 1971 – Vicki Pettersson, American author
- 1971 – Ryan Robbins, Canadian actor
- 1971 – Winky Wright, American boxer and actor
- 1972 – Christopher Fitzgerald, American actor and singer
- 1972 – Helger Hallik, Estonian wrestler
- 1972 – Chris Osgood, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
- 1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor, director, and producer
- 1973 – Kristin Bauer van Straten, American actress
- 1974 – Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
- 1974 – Line Horntveth, Norwegian tubist (Jaga Jazzist)
- 1974 – Andris Keišs, Latvian actor
- 1974 – Roman Šebrle, Czech decathlete
- 1975 – DJ Khaled, American rapper and producer
- 1975 – Patrice Lauzon, Canadian figure skater
- 1976 – Maven, American wrestler
- 1976 – Andreas Augustsson, Swedish footballer
- 1976 – Brian Schneider, American baseball player and manager
- 1977 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
- 1977 – Paris Lenon, American football player
- 1977 – John Parrish, American baseball player
- 1977 – Campbell Walsh, Scottish canoe racer
- 1978 – Jun Fukuyama, Japanese voice actor and singer
- 1979 – B. J. Averell, American reality show contestant, winner of The Amazing Race 9
- 1980 – Jason Griffith, American voice actor
- 1980 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor (Arashi)
- 1980 – Jackie Trail, American tennis player
- 1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
- 1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1981 – OJ da Juiceman, American rapper (1017 Brick Squad)
- 1981 – Natalie Gauci, Australian singer and pianist (Tune in Tokyo)
- 1981 – Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby player
- 1983 – Chris Hughes, American publisher and businessman, co-founded Facebook
- 1983 – Emiri Katō, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
- 1986 – Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
- 1986 – Kanae Itō, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1986 – Bauke Mollema, Dutch cyclist
- 1986 – Trevor Morgan, American actor
- 1986 – Alberto Sgarbi, Italian rugby player
- 1987 – Georgios Tzavellas, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Blake Harnage, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Versa)
- 1988 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model
- 1989 – Junior Stanislas, English footballer
- 1990 – Chip, English rapper
- 1990 – Avery Bradley, American basketball player
- 1990 – Rita Ora, Kosovan-English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer
- 1991 – Manolo Gabbiadini, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Louis Ducruet, Monacan son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
- 1993 – Erena Ono, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
- 1994 – Azra Hadzic, Australian tennis player
- 399 – Pope Siricius (b. 334)
- 1504 – Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
- 1621 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor and cartographer (b. 1540)
- 1639 – John Spottiswoode, Scottish archbishop (b. 1565)
- 1651 – Henry Ireton, English-Irish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1611)
- 1661 – Luis Méndez de Haro, Spanish general and politician (b. 1598)
- 1688 – Philippe Quinault, French playwright (b. 1635)
- 1689 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1635)
- 1717 – Daniel Purcell, English organist and composer (b. 1664)
- 1719 – John Hudson, English librarian and scholar (b. 1662)
- 1780 – James Steuart, Scottish economist and educator (b. 1712)
- 1829 – Thomas Buck Reed, United States Senator (b. 1787)
- 1836 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (b. 1756)
- 1851 – Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician, 12th Prime Minister of France (b. 1769)
- 1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1798)
- 1857 – Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and author (b. 1788)
- 1860 – Benjamin Greene, English brewer and founder of Greene King (b. 1780)
- 1872 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
- 1882 – Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian politician, Minister President of Prussia (b. 1805)
- 1883 – Sojourner Truth, American activist (b. 1797)
- 1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813)
- 1892 – Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (b. 1825)
- 1895 – George Edward Dobson, Irish zoologist, photographer, and surgeon (b. 1848)
- 1896 – Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic (b. 1823)
- 1912 – Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1834)
- 1919 – Felipe Ángeles, Mexican general (b. 1868)
- 1926 – John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (b. 1855)
- 1928 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863)
- 1934 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian historian and politician (b. 1866)
- 1941 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and cermamist (b. 1861)
- 1941 – Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1876)
- 1943 – Edward O'Hare, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914)
- 1952 – Paul Éluard, French Surrealist poet (b. 1895)
- 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer (b. 1865)
- 1954 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- 1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, trumpet player, and composer (b. 1905)
- 1959 – Albert Ketèlbey, English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1875)
- 1962 – Albert Sarraut, French politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
- 1963 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
- 1971 – Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (b. 1884)
- 1973 – John Rostill, English bass player and songwriter (The Shadows) (b. 1942)
- 1974 – Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (b. 1903)
- 1977 – Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (b. 1920)
- 1978 – Ford Beebe, American screenwriter and director (b. 1888)
- 1981 – Pete DePaolo, American race car driver (b. 1898)
- 1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1884)
- 1985 – Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic (b. 1910)
- 1986 – Betico Croes, Aruban politician and activist (b. 1938)
- 1987 – Thomas George Lanphier, Jr., American colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
- 1987 – J. P. Guilford, American psychologist and educator (b. 1897)
- 1987 – Peter Hujar, American photographer (b. 1934)
- 1989 – Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician, President of Comoros (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (b. 1908)
- 1991 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1931)
- 1993 – César Guerra-Peixe, Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1914)
- 1994 – David Bache, English car designer (b. 1925)
- 1994 – Joey Stefano, American porn actor (b. 1968)
- 1994 – Arturo Rivera y Damas, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1923)
- 1996 – Michael Bentine, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 1996 – Paul Rand, American art director and graphic designer (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Marguerite Henry, American author (b. 1902)
- 1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American journalist and author (b. 1941)
- 2001 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish author, poet, and painter (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Polo Montañez, Cuban singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
- 2002 – Verne Winchell, American businessman, founded Winchell's Donuts (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (UTP) (b. 1978)
- 2003 – Stefan Wul, French surgeon and author (b. 1922)
- 2004 – Philippe de Broca, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Cyril Walter Hodges, English artist and writer (b. 1909)
- 2005 – Takanori Arisawa, Japanese composer (b. 1951)
- 2005 – Stan Berenstain, American author and illustrator, co-created the Berenstain Bears (b. 1923)
- 2005 – Mark Craney, American drummer (Jethro Tull) (b. 1952)
- 2006 – Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Portuguese painter and poet (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Dave Cockrum, American author and illustrator (b. 1943)
- 2006 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975)
- 2006 – Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host and producer (b. 1933)
- 2007 – Silvestre S. Herrera, Mexican-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Mel Tolkin, Russian-Canadian screenwriter and producer (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks:
- 2008 – Vitaly Karayev, Russian politician (b. 1962)
- 2008 – Edna Parker, American super-centenarian (b. 1893)
- 2008 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)
- 2010 – Leroy Drumm, American songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2010 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
- 2011 – Manon Cleary, American painter (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Celso Advento Castillo, Filipino actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Peter Marsh, Australian table tennis player (b. 1948)
- 2012 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
- 2012 – P. K. Venukuttan Nair, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2012 – M. C. Nambudiripad, Indian author (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (The High Windows) (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Jane Kean, American actress and singer (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Saul Leiter, American photographer and painter (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Temistocle Popa, Romanian actor and composer (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Stan Stennett, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Frankie Fraser, English gangster (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Gilles Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (b. 1923)
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