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• 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
• 1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
• 1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.
• 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc
• 1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
• 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
• 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
• 1771 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• 1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
• 1794 – The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
• 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
• 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
• 1896 – Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Indian sage, at age 16, spontaneously initiates a process of self-enquiry that culminates within a few minutes in his own permanent awakening.
• 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• 1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• 1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
• 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• 1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
• 1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
• 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
• 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
• 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• 1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
• 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.
• 1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
• 1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
• 1953 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida killing 44.
• 1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• 1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
• 1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
• 1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
• 1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
• 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
• 1979 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
• 1981 – The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England.
• 1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• 1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
• 1985 – Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
• 1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
• 1989 – Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
• 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
• 1996 – The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded.
• 1998 – The 7.0 Mw Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
• 1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
• 2001 – Concorde is brought back in to service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
• 2006 – The 7.7 Mw Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
• 2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
• 2009 – Two suicide bombers detonate themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
• 2014 – A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
• 2015 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Province, Iraq.

Births[edit]

• 1487 – Ismail I of Iran (d. 1524)
• 1674 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (d. 1748)
• 1695 – Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (d. 1766)
• 1698 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)
• 1708 – Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d. 1769)
• 1714 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher and academic (d. 1762)
• 1744 – Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)
• 1763 – John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1848)
• 1774 – John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (d. 1856)
• 1797 – Paul Delaroche, French painter and academic (d. 1856)
• 1823 – Leander Clark, American businessman, judge, and politician (d. 1910)
• 1831 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (d. 1861)
• 1837 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1886)
• 1839 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (d. 1916)
• 1853 – Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1920)
• 1868 – Henri Nathansen, Danish director and playwright (d. 1944)
• 1870 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (d. 1939)
• 1871 – Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1956)
• 1879 – Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1960)
• 1882 – James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (d. 1949)
• 1888 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1889 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (d. 1970)
• 1894 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966)
• 1896 – Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer (d. 1919)
• 1898 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)
• 1898 – Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer (d. 1999)
• 1899 – James Cagney, American actor and dancer (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1994)
• 1901 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author (d. 1938)
• 1901 – Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (d. 1982)
• 1902 – Christina Stead, Australian author and academic (d. 1983)
• 1910 – James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (d. 2012)
• 1910 – Barbara O'Neil, American actress (d. 1980)
• 1910 – Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist (d. 1953)
• 1911 – Lionel Ferbos, American trumpet player (d. 2014)
• 1911 – Heinz Lehmann, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Erwin Bauer, German race car driver (d. 1958)
• 1912 – Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (d. 2010)
• 1913 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building(d. 1997)
• 1914 – Eleanor Steber, American soprano and educator (d. 1990)
• 1915 – Fred Ball, American actor and manager (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (b. 1985)
• 1917 – Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1978)
• 1917 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Phyllis Diller, American actress, singer, dancer, and voice artist (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
• 1917 – Christiane Rochefort, French author (d. 1998)
• 1918 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan soldier and politician, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Žuži Jelinek, Hungarian-Croatian fashion designer (d. 2016)
• 1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010)
• 1921 – George Barnes, American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (The Three Suns) (d. 1977)
• 1921 – Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (d. 1955)
• 1921 – Mary Osborne, American guitarist (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Toni Stone, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1921 – František Zvarík, Slovakian actor (d. 2008)
• 1923 – John Cooper, English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Jimmy Scott, American singer and actor (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)
• 1928 – Joe Morello, American drummer (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1932 – Quino, Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist
• 1932 – Niccolò Castiglioni, Italian composer (d. 1996)
• 1932 – Johnny Kerr, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Wojciech Kilar, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Hal Riney, American businessman, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Maltese politician, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
• 1933 – Tony Pithey, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer
• 1935 – Peter Schickele, American composer and educator
• 1935 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor and producer
• 1938 – Hermann Huppen, Belgian author and illustrator
• 1939 – Andrée Champagne, Canadian actress and politician
• 1939 – Spencer Davis, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Spencer Davis Group)
• 1939 – Ali Khamenei, Iranian cleric and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
• 1940 – Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor and screenwriter
• 1941 – Daryle Lamonica, American football player
• 1941 – Bob Taylor, English cricketer
• 1941 – Achim Warmbold, German race car driver and manager
• 1942 – Gale Garnett, New Zealand-Canadian singer and actress
• 1942 – Don Kessinger, American baseball player and manager
• 1942 – Connie Hawkins, American basketball player
• 1942 – Zoot Money, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Dantalian's Chariot, and The Hard Travelers)
• 1943 – Conor Myles John O'Brien, 18th Baron Inchiquin
• 1943 – LaVyrle Spencer, American author and educator
• 1944 – Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer and footballer
• 1944 – Catherine Schell, Hungarian-English actress
• 1944 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1945 – Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
• 1945 – John Patten, Baron Patten, English politician, Secretary of State for Education
• 1946 – Alun Armstrong, English actor and singer
• 1947 – Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's, English educator and politician
• 1947 – Robert Begerau, German footballer and manager
• 1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
• 1947 – Wolfgang Flür, German drummer (Kraftwerk and Dyko)
• 1947 – Mick Tucker, English drummer (The Sweet) (d. 2002)
• 1948 – Ron Asheton, American guitarist, songwriter, and actor (The Stooges, Destroy All Monsters, The New Order, and New Race) (d. 2009)
• 1948 – Luc Bondy, Swiss director and producer (d. 2015)
• 1949 – Geezer Butler, English bass player and songwriter (Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler Band, GZR, and Heaven & Hell)
• 1949 – Wayne Sleep, English actor, dancer, and choreographer
• 1949 – Charley Steiner, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1950 – Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
• 1950 – Damon Harris, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (d. 2011)
• 1950 – P. J. Soles, German-American actress
• 1951 – Lucie Arnaz, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1951 – Mark Bowden, American journalist and author
• 1951 – Andrew Robathan, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
• 1952 – David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1952 – Nicolette Larson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1952 – Thé Lau, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
• 1952 – Robert R. McCammon, American author
• 1954 – Angela Merkel, German chemist and politician, 8th Chancellor of Germany
• 1954 – Edward Natapei, Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (d. 2015)
• 1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1955 – Sylvie Léonard, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• 1955 – Paul Stamets, American mycologist and author
• 1956 – Julie Bishop, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1956 – Robert Romanus, American actor and singer
• 1956 – Bryan Trottier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 – Fern Britton, English television host and actress
• 1957 – Bruce Crump, American drummer and songwriter (Molly Hatchet and Gator Country) (d. 2015)
• 1957 – Wendy Freedman, Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer
• 1958 – Wong Kar-wai, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Thérèse Rein, Australian businesswoman, founded Ingeus
• 1959 – Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, Bangladeshi-English politician
• 1960 – Kim Barnett, English cricketer and coach
• 1960 – Mark Burnett, English-American screenwriter and producer
• 1960 – Nancy Giles, American journalist and actress
• 1960 – Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor and martial artist
• 1960 – Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
• 1960 – Jan Wouters, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1961 – Guru, American rapper, producer, and actor (Gang Starr) (d. 2010)
• 1961 – Jeremy Hardy, English comedian and actor
• 1963 – Regina Belle, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1963 – Letsie III of Lesotho
• 1963 – Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper and singer
• 1963 – John Ventimiglia, American actor, screenwriter, and composer
• 1964 – Heather Langenkamp, American actress, producer and director
• 1965 – Billy Mitchell, American gamer
• 1965 – Craig Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Santiago Segura, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Alex Winter, English-born American actor, film director and screenwriter
• 1966 – Lou Barlow, American guitarist and songwriter (Deep Wound, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and The Folk Implosion)
• 1966 – Sten Tolgfors, Swedish lawyer and politician, 30th Swedish Minister of Defence
• 1968 – Beth Littleford, American comedian and actress
• 1968 – Andre Royo, American actor and producer
• 1968 – Bitty Schram, American actress
• 1969 – F. Gary Gray, American actor and director
• 1969 – Scott Johnson, American cartoonist
• 1969 – Jaan Kirsipuu, Estonian cyclist
• 1969 – Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
• 1971 – Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
• 1971 – Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist
• 1972 – Elizabeth Cook, American singer and guitarist
• 1972 – Donny Marshall, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X and Redemption)
• 1972 – Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1972 – Eric Williams, American basketball player
• 1973 – Tony Dovolani, Albanian-American dancer and actor
• 1973 – Eric Moulds, American football player
• 1973 – Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
• 1975 – Harlette, Australian-English fashion designer
• 1975 – Andre Adams, New Zealand cricketer
• 1975 – Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
• 1975 – Cécile de France, Belgian actress
• 1975 – Carey Hart, American motorcycle racer
• 1975 – Paul Hinojos, American guitarist and songwriter (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, and Sparta)
• 1975 – Konnie Huq, English television host and actress
• 1975 – Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician and academic
• 1976 – Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Gino D'Acampo, Italian chef and author
• 1976 – Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-American actress
• 1976 – Anders Svensson, Swedish footballer and sportscaster
• 1976 – Matt Holmes, Australian actor
• 1976 – Eric Winter, American model and actor
• 1977 – Andrew Downton, Australian cricketer
• 1977 – Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist
• 1977 – Lehmber Hussainpuri, Indian singer
• 1977 – Marc Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1978 – Panda Bear, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Animal Collective and Jane)
• 1978 – Mike Knox, American wrestler
• 1978 – Trevor McNevan, Canadian singer-songwriter (Thousand Foot Krutch and FM Static)
• 1979 – Mike Vogel, American actor
• 1980 – Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
• 1980 – Ryan Miller, American ice hockey player
• 1981 – Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan runner
• 1981 – Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
• 1981 – Raigo Toompuu, Estonian shot putter
• 1982 – Omari Banks, Anguillan cricketer
• 1982 – Natasha Hamilton, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Atomic Kitten)
• 1982 – René Herms, German runner (d. 2009)
• 1983 – Jessi Cruickshank, Canadian television host
• 1983 – Ryan Guettler, Australian motocross racer
• 1983 – Sarah Jones, American actress
• 1983 – Adam Lind, American baseball player
• 1984 – David Katoatau, I-Kiribati weightlifter
• 1984 – Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
• 1984 – Samyr Laine, Haitian triple jumper
• 1984 – Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 – Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (McFly and McBusted)
• 1985 – Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
• 1986 – Dana, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (The Grace)
• 1986 – DeAngelo Smith, American football player
• 1986 – Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
• 1987 – Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 – Jeremih, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1987 – Wankelmut, German DJ and producer
• 1987 – Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
• 1987 – Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• 1988 – Guo Yue, Chinese table tennis player
• 1990 – Jonty Usborne, Belgian-English engineer

Deaths[edit]

• 521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, Latin bishop and poet (b. 474)
• 855 – Pope Leo IV (b. 790)
• 924 – Edward the Elder, English king (b. 877)
• 1070 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
• 1453 – John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1387)
• 1531 – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (b. 1484)
• 1571 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
• 1588 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (b. 1489)
• 1645 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, English-Scottish politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (b. 1587)
• 1704 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French-American fur trader and explorer (b. 1657)
• 1709 – Robert Bolling, English-American planter and merchant (b. 1646)
• 1762 – Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
• 1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1791 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (b. 1717)
• 1793 – Charlotte Corday, French murderer (b. 1768)
• 1794 – John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (b. 1718)
• 1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
• 1878 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)
• 1879 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)
• 1881 – Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (b. 1804)
• 1883 – Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 – Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 – Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 – Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 – Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1894 – Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1907 – Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 – People of the Shooting of the Romanov family
  • Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901)
  • Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899)
  • Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895)
  • Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897)
  • Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1872)
  • Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1904)
  • Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
• 1925 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858)
• 1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)
• 1928 – Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)
• 1932 – Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862)
• 1935 – Nie Er, Chinese violinist and composer (b. 1912)
• 1935 – George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (b. 1867)
• 1944 – William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1945 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1946 – Draža Mihailović, Serbian general (b. 1893)
• 1950 – Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
• 1950 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885)
• 1959 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1915)
• 1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)
• 1961 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)
• 1967 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1926)
• 1974 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
• 1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
• 1987 – Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor and singer (b. 1934)
• 1987 – Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler, referee, and trainer (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)
• 1989 – Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
• 1991 – John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
• 1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Victims of TWA Flight 800
  • Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971)
  • Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951)
  • David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949)
  • Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948)
  • Pam Lychner, American real estate agent and activist (b. 1959)
• 1996 – Chas Chandler, American bass player and producer (The Animals) (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Zhao Lirong, Chinese actress (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
• 2003 – David Kelly, Welsh weapons inspector (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905)
• 2004 – Pat Roach, English wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Laurel Aitken, Cuban singer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Grant Forsberg, American actor and businessman (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
• 2007 – Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, Brazilian lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish historian and philosopher (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Larry Keith, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2011 – David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Richard Evatt, English boxer (b. 1973)
• 2012 – Forrest S. McCartney, American general (b. 1931)
• 2012 – İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American composer and producer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Morgan Paull, American actor (b. 1944)
• 2012 – William Raspberry, American journalist and academic (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Marsha Singh, Indian-English politician (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Peter Appleyard, English-Canadian vibraphone player and composer (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Vincenzo Cerami, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Don Flye, American tennis player (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Ian Gourlay, English general (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Briony McRoberts, English actress (b. 1957)
• 2013 – David White, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  • Liam Davison, Australian author and critic (b. 1957)
  • Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976)
  • Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (b. 1954)
  • Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (b. 1928)
• 2014 – J. Sasikumar, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Bill Arnsparger, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989)
• 2015 – Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (b. 1916)
• 2015 – Van Miller, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
• 2015 – John Taylor, English pianist and educator (Nucleus) (b. 1942)