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• 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
• 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
• 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• 1866 – President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
• 1886 – Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
• 1964 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F-117A, the first and only kill by the stealth aircraft.
• 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
• 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
• 2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 others are injured.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
• 2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
• 2016 – A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.

Births[edit]

• 347 – Jerome, Roman priest, bishop, theologian and translator (d. 420)
• 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
• 1220 – Pope Martin IV (d. 1285)
• 1401 – Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria-Munich (1438-1460) (d. 1460)
• 1416 – Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint, founded Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
• 1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
• 1676 – Francis Rákóczi II, Hungarian prince (b. 1676)
• 1679 – Domenico Lalli, Italian poet and librettist (d. 1741)
• 1681 – Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish-Italian cardinal (d. 1760)
• 1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
• 1710 – Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
• 1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon and author (d. 1779)
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
• 1724 – Jane Colden, American botanist and author (d. 1766)
• 1734 – Lady Diana Beauclerk, English painter and illustrator (d. 1808)
• 1745 – Lindley Murray, American-English Quaker and grammarian (d. 1826)
• 1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (d. 1767)
• 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican-French lawyer and politician (d. 1785)
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• 1781 – Alexander Vostokov, Estonian-Russian philologist and academic (d. 1864)
• 1784 – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (d. 1842)
• 1785 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
• 1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Alexander Barrow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1846)
• 1802 – Charles-Mathias Simons, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
• 1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer, urban planner, and politician (d. 1891)
• 1811 – Edward William Cooke, English painter and illustrator (d. 1880)
• 1814 – Charles Mackay, Scottish journalist, anthologist, and author (d. 1889)
• 1820 – Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Henri Murger, French novelist and poet (d. 1861)
• 1839 – John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
• 1843 – George Frederick Leycester Marshall, English colonel and entomologist (d. 1934)
• 1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
• 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1845 – Jakob Sverdrup, Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (d. 1899)
• 1847 – Otto Wallach, Jewish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer, co-founded Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (d. 1909)
• 1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (d. 1931)
• 1852 – Jan van Beers, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
• 1854 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician, zoologist, and entomologist (d. 1925)
• 1855 – William Libbey, American target shooter, colonel, mountaineer, geographer, geologist, and archaeologist (d. 1927)
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician, eugenicist, and academic (d. 1936)
• 1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1927)
• 1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American-Swiss scholar and academic (d. 1924)
• 1862 – Jelena Dimitrijević, Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist and polygot (d. 1945)
• 1862 – Arturo Berutti, Argentinian composer (d. 1938)
• 1862 – Dorothea Fairbridge, South African author and conservationist, co-founded Guild of Loyal Women (d. 1931)
• 1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
• 1868 – Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (d. 1946)
• 1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
• 1869 – J. R. Clynes, English trade unionist and politician, Home Secretary (d. 1949)
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German author and poet (d. 1950)
• 1871 – Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician, Minister of Labour (d. 1948)
• 1875 – Albert Marquet, French painter (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
• 1878 – Kathleen Scott, British sculptor (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish-American painter and photographer (d. 1973)
• 1881 – Arkady Averchenko, Russian playwright and satirist (d. 1925)
• 1882 – Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1884 – Gordon Thomson, English rower and lieutenant (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran accountant and politician, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (d. 1961)
• 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (d. 1934)
• 1886 – Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator (d. 1932)
• 1888 – George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (d. 1974)
• 1889 – Leonard Mociulschi, Romanian general (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (d. 1974)
• 1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian novelist and playwright (d. 1974)
• 1891 – Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski, Belarusian-Lithuanian architect, journalist, and diplomat, created the Flag of Belarus (d. 1959)
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Thorne Smith, American author (d. 1934)
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (d. 1947)
• 1893 – G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1981)
• 1893 – George Beranger, Australian-American actor and director (d. 1973)
• 1894 – René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
• 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
• 1899 – Francis Ponge, French poet and author (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Herbert Arthur Stuart, German-Swiss physicist and academic (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1902 – Émile Benveniste, Jewish Syrian-French linguist and semiotician (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1905 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
• 1905 – Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American author and engineer (d. 1980)
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Golo Mann, Jewish-German historian and author (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet and translator (d.1937)
• 1910 – Ai Qing, Chinese poet and author (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician (d. 1965)
• 1912 – James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Phil Chess, Czech-American record producer, co-founded Chess Records (d. 2016)
• 1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Dick King-Smith, English author (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Stefan Wul, French author and surgeon (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-American poet, translator, and academic (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan, African-American singer (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Margaret K. Butler, American mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Frank O'Hara, American writer (d. 1966)
• 1927 – Sylvia Anderson, English voice actress, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2016)
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
• 1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1929 – Reg Evans, Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer, writer and artist
• 1931 – David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1932 – Junior Parker, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1971)
• 1932 – Bailey Olter, Micronesian politician, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
• 1933 – Lê Văn Hưng, South Vietnam (d. 1975)
• 1934 – István Csurka, Hungarian journalist, author, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1981)
• 1935 – Julian Glover, English actor
• 1936 – Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
• 1937 – Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1939 – Jay Kim, South Korean-American engineer and politician
• 1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman
• 1940 – Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1941 – Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
• 1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician, Austrian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1942 – John Sulston, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Michael York, English actor
• 1943 – Mike Curtis, American football player and coach
• 1944 – Jesse Brown, American marine and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1944 – Alan C. Gilmore, New Zealand astronomer and academic
• 1946 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (d. 1999)
• 1947 – Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author, critic, poet and philosopher
• 1947 – Brian Jones, English balloonist and pilot
• 1947 – Walt Mossberg, American journalist
• 1948 – Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Tony Banks, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1950 – Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician, Greek Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
• 1950 – Maria Ewing, African-American soprano
• 1950 – Chris Stewart, English musician and author
• 1951 – Andrei Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
• 1951 – Mohamad Chatah, Lebanese economist and politician, Lebanese Minister of Finance (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Austrian skier
• 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1953 – Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist
• 1954 – Gerard Batten, English lawyer and politician
• 1955 – Patrick McCabe, Irish writer
• 1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1955 – Susan Neiman, Jewish American-German philosopher and author
• 1956 – Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist and politician
• 1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross country skier
• 1957 – Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1957 – Stephen Dillane, English actor
• 1958 – Didier de Radiguès, Belgian race car driver and motorcycle racer
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian rock musician and multi-instrumentalist
• 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
• 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
• 1961 – Ellery Hanley, English rugby league player and coach
• 1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss professional cyclist
• 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Brett French, Australian rugby league player
• 1962 – John O'Farrell, English journalist and author
• 1962 – Brad Wright, American-Spanish basketball player
• 1962 – Kevin J. Anderson, American science fiction writer
• 1963 – Cory Blackwell, American basketball player
• 1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player, coach, and pastor
• 1963 – Filippos Sachinidis, Greek-Canadian economist and politician
• 1963 – Gary Stevens, English-Australian footballer and physiotherapist
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
• 1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress, singer, businesswoman and television presenter
• 1965 – Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver
• 1966 – Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
• 1968 – Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
• 1969 – Gianluigi Lentini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress
• 1970 – Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran
• 1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
• 1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian-American multi-instrumentalist and recording artist
• 1970 – Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza
• 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver and sportscaster
• 1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1972 – Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
• 1973 – Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Marek Citko, Polish footballer and manager
• 1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
• 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Andrew Blowers, New Zealand rugby player
• 1975 – Kim Felton, Australian golfer
• 1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1975 – Christian Fiedler, German footballer and manager
• 1976 – Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician, 57th President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
• 1977 – Vítor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1978 – Gabriel Paraschiv, Romanian footballer
• 1978 – Marius Bakken, Norwegian runner
• 1978 – Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
• 1979 – Tom Palmer, English rugby union player
• 1979 – Imran Tahir, Pakistani-South African cricketer
• 1979 – Jennifer Wilson, Zimbabwean-South African field hockey player
• 1980 – Sean Ryan, American football player
• 1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
• 1980 – Maksim Shevchenko, Russian footballer
• 1981 – Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Akhil Kumar, Indian boxer
• 1981 – Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
• 1981 – Hilda Kibet, Kenyan runner
• 1982 – Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer
• 1983 – Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
• 1983 – Vasily Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 – Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Ben Franks, Australian-born New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Danny Vukovic, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
• 1987 – Jefferson Bernárdez, Honduran footballer
• 1987 – Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
• 1988 – Jessie J, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
• 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
• 1989 – Matt Harvey, American baseball player
• 1989 – Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player
• 1990 – Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer
• 1990 – Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1990 – Luca Zuffi, Swiss footballer
• 1992 – Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer
• 1995 – Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 – Bill Tuiloma, New Zealand footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 215 BC – Emperor Kōrei of Japan (b. 342 BC)
• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian bishop and saint (b. 660)
• 853 – Haymo of Halberstadt, German bishop and author (b. 778)
• 973 – Hermann Billung, Frankish lieutenant (b. 900)
• 1184 – Giorgi III, King of Georgia
• 1350 – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 1462 – Vasily II of Moscow (b. 1415)
• 1472 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet (b. 1434)
• 1564 – Lütfi Pasha, Turkish historian and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1488)
• 1598 – Theodor de Bry, Belgian-German engraver, goldsmith, and publisher (b. 1528)
• 1615 – Margaret of Valois (b. 1553)
• 1621 – Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian cardinal (b. 1554)
• 1625 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (b. 1566)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 1679 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English businessman and politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1603)
• 1729 – Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1679)
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1717)
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
• 1848 – Gabriel Bibron, French zoologist and herpetologist (b. 1805)
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, Irish-Canadian politician, 35th Governor General of Canada (b. 1776)
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer, Prussian astronomer and banker (b. 1797)
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist and academic (b. 1800)
• 1869 – James Harper, American publisher and politician, 65th Mayor of New York City (b. 1795)
• 1875 – Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Peruvian soldier and politician, President of Peru (b. 1808)
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 – George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
• 1886 – Henry Taylor, English poet and playwright (b. 1800)
• 1889 – John Bright, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1811)
• 1890 – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1898 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)
• 1900 – Joseph A. Campbell, American businessman, founded the Campbell Soup Company (b. 1817)
• 1900 – Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (b. 1831 or 1834)
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist, zoologist, and engineer (b. 1835)
• 1913 – Richard Montgomery Gano, American minister, physician, and general (b. 1830)
• 1918 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (b. 1881)
• 1921 – Harry Barron, English general and politician, 16th Governor of Western Australia (b. 1847)
• 1922 – Nikolay Sokolov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1859)
• 1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1842)
• 1925 – Carl Neumann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1926 – Kick Kelly, American baseball player, manager, and umpire (b. 1856)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (b. 1842)
• 1927 – Klaus Berntsen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1844)
• 1928 – Leslie Stuart, English organist and composer (b. 1863)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1938 – William Stern, German-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
• 1942 – Julio González, Catalan sculptor and painter (b. 1876)
• 1943 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1882)
• 1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 – Karl Groos, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1949 – Elisheva Bikhovski, Israeli-Russian poet (b. 1888)
• 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)
• 1956 – Évariste Lévi-Provençal, French orientalist and historian (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Leon C. Phillips, American lawyer and politician, 11th Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1890)
• 1960 – Gregorio Marañón, Spanish physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)
• 1968 – Vladimir Seryogin, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1973 – Mikhail Kalatozov, Georgian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Eduardo Santos, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
• 1975 – Arthur Bliss, English conductor and composer (b. 1891)
• 1976 – Georg August Zinn, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Hesse (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, and composer (b. 1896)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Sverre Farstad, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1920)
• 1980 – Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Jakob Ackeret, Swiss engineer and academic (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Fazlur Khan, Bangladeshi-American engineer and architect, designed the John Hancock Center and Willis Tower (b. 1929)
• 1987 – William Bowers, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1988 – Charles Willeford, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Percy Beard, American hurdler and coach (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Colin Gibson, English footballer (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Lang Hancock, Australian businessman (b. 1909)
• 1992 – James E. Webb, American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1900)
• 1994 – Lawrence Wetherby, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1908)
• 1995 – René Allio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Lane Dwinell, American businessman and politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Ella Maillart, Swiss skier, sailor, field hockey player, and photographer (b. 1903)
• 1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (b. 1946)
• 2000 – George Allen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Dudley Moore, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Edwin Carr, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Robert Merle, French author (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish author (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Rudolf Vrba, Czech Holocaust survivor and educator (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Neil Williams, English cricketer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Nancy Adams, New Zealand botanist and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Clement Arrindell, Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (b. 1920)
• 2014 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (b. 1935)
• 2015 – T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Mother Angelica, American Roman Catholic religious leader and media personality (b. 1923)