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• 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
• 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
• 351 – Battle of Mursa Major: The Roman emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
• 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
• 935 – Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.
• 995 – Members of the Slavník dynasty: Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
• 1066 – William the Conqueror invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
• 1106 – Battle of Tinchebray: Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
• 1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
• 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
• 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
• 1542 – Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, United States.
• 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
• 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
• 1787 – The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
• 1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
• 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
• 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
• 1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
• 1871 – The Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
• 1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
• 1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
• 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in Balangiga, Eastern Samar.
• 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland.
• 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
• 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
• 1924 – First round-the-world flight completed.
• 1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
• 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
• 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
• 1941 – The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
• 1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
• 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
• 1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
• 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
• 1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.
• 1971 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
• 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
• 1986 – The Democratic Progressive Party was established under the martial law in Taiwan, becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
• 1991 – SAC stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force.
• 1992 – A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 crashes in a hill in Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 167 passengers and crew.
• 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
• 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
• 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• 1996 – Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and murdered by the Taliban.
• 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
• 2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
• 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed, and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
• 2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
• 2014 – Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.

Births[edit]

• 551 BC – Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (d. 479 BC)
• 616 – Javanshir, King of Caucasian Albania (d. 680)
• 1494 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1545)
• 1555 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
• 1573 – Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (d. 1654)
• 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1694)
• 1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat (d. 1764)
• 1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1774)
• 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
• 1735 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811)
• 1746 – William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (d. 1794)
• 1765 – Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1814)
• 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (d. 1870)
• 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
• 1819 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher (d. 1885)
• 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (d. 1874)
• 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator (d. 1889)
• 1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
• 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (d. 1929)
• 1844 – Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
• 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• 1852 – Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945)
• 1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (d. 1923)
• 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
• 1861 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
• 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
• 1867 – James Edwin Campbell, American poet, editor, short story writer and educator (d. 1896)
• 1877 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (d. 1940)
• 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
• 1870 – Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
• 1882 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
• 1887 – Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
• 1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer (d. 1982)
• 1892 – Elmer Rice, American playwright (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 1984)
• 1898 – Carl Clauberg, German physician (d. 1957)
• 1901 – William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (d. 1990)
• 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician (d. 1997)
• 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 1909 – Al Capp, American author and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1942)
• 1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Alice Marble, American tennis player (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
• 1916 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
• 1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1918 – Arnold Stang, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and writer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (d. 2007)
• 1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
• 1925 – Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Jerry Clower, American soldier, comedian, and author (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer
• 1930 – Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic
• 1932 – Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish screenwriter and producer
• 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973)
• 1933 – Joe Benton, English soldier and politician
• 1933 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor and educator (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
• 1935 – Bruce Crampton, Australian golfer
• 1935 – David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, English diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• 1935 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)
• 1936 – Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick
• 1936 – Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player
• 1937 – Alice Mahon, English trade union leader and politician
• 1937 – Glenn Sutton, American country music songwriter and record producer (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
• 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist and academic
• 1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (d. 2001)
• 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Bavaria
• 1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
• 1943 – George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player
• 1944 – Richie Karl, American golfer
• 1944 – Marcia Muller, American journalist and author
• 1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French skier
• 1945 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2011)
• 1945 – Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army
• 1946 – Tom Bower, English journalist and author
• 1946 – Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
• 1947 – Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• 1947 – Jon Snow, English journalist and academic
• 1947 – Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
• 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Paul Burgess, English drummer
• 1950 – Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopher
• 1950 – John Sayles, American novelist, director, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2015)
• 1952 – Christopher Buckley, American satirical novelist
• 1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (d. 2012)
• 1952 – Andy Ward, English drummer
• 1953 – Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
• 1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and politician
• 1954 – George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1954 – John Scott, English rugby player
• 1954 – Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and diplomat, 42nd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian sociologist and politician, 15th Canadian Minister of the Environment
• 1955 – Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (d. 1998)
• 1956 – Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian-Italian mathematician and author
• 1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
• 1960 – Gary Ayres, Australian footballer and coach
• 1960 – Tom Byrum, American golfer
• 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager
• 1960 – Gus Logie, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1960 – Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
• 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer-songwriter
• 1960 – Socrates Villegas, Filipino archbishop
• 1961 – Helen Grant, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
• 1961 – Gregory Jbara, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Quentin Kawānanakoa, American lawyer and politician
• 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 – Laurie Rinker, American golfer
• 1962 – Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager
• 1962 – Chuck Taylor, American journalist
• 1963 – Steve Blackman, American wrestler and martial artist
• 1963 – Érik Comas, French race car driver
• 1963 – Greg Weisman, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver
• 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Paul Jewell, English footballer and manager
• 1964 – Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
• 1966 – Scott Adams, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
• 1967 – Moon Zappa, American actress and author
• 1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer and mixed martial artist
• 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1968 – Trish Keenan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1968 – Sean Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter and actor (d 2008)
• 1968 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (d. 1990)
• 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
• 1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
• 1969 – Ben Greenman, American journalist and author
• 1969 – Piper Kerman, American author and memoirist
• 1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1969 – Sascha Maassen, German race car driver
• 1969 – Angus Robertson, Scottish politician
• 1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
• 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
• 1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
• 1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
• 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – George Eustice, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player
• 1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer and manager
• 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer
• 1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
• 1974 – Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
• 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
• 1975 – Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, Russian-American swimmer
• 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician
• 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Pak Se-ri, South Korean golfer
• 1977 – Young Jeezy, American rapper
• 1978 – Ben Edmondson, Australian cricketer
• 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
• 1979 – Taki Tsan, American-Greek rapper and producer
• 1980 – Marlon Parmer, American basketball player
• 1981 – Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer
• 1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
• 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player
• 1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter
• 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director
• 1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
• 1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Aivar Rehemaa, Estonian skier
• 1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
• 1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
• 1983 – John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Jenny Omnichord, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer
• 1984 – Naim Terbunja, Kosovan-Swedish boxer
• 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
• 1985 – Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1985 – Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist
• 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
• 1986 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (d. 2013)
• 1986 – Dominic Waters, American basketball player
• 1987 – Pierre Becken, German footballer
• 1987 – Gary Deegan, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
• 1987 – Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper
• 1988 – Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
• 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
• 1989 – Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player
• 1989 – Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
• 1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
• 1990 – Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player
• 1992 – Khem Birch, Canadian professional basketball player
• 1992 – Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer
• 1992 – Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
• 1993 – Jodie Williams, English sprinter
• 1995 – Jason Williams, English footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
• 782 – Leoba, Anglo-Saxon nun
• 935 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
• 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
• 1213 – Gertrude of Merania (b. 1185)
• 1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia (b. 1394)
• 1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1506)
• 1596 – Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (b. 1540)
• 1618 – Josuah Sylvester, English poet and translator (b. 1563)
• 1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (b. 1623)
• 1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618)
• 1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, French-English lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1640)
• 1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
• 1829 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
• 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
• 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 – Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 – Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 – Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
• 1925 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (b. 1888)
• 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)
• 1943 – Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1949 – Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (b. 1881)
• 1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (b. 1889)
• 1956 – William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (b. 1888)
• 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
• 1962 – Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1888)
• 1966 – André Breton, French author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1970 – John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
• 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
• 1982 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1984 – Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Larry O'Brien, American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (b. 1953)
• 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (b. 1915)
• 1994 – K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Escott Reid, Canadian academic and diplomat (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Patsy Mink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Elia Kazan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 2003 – George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician and diplomat (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1921)
• 2007 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor and director (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (b. 1954)
• 2010 – Arthur Penn, American director and producer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Avraham Adan, Israeli general (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Chris Economaki, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (b. 1928)
• 2013 – James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and rugby player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (b. 1945)
• 2014 – Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Sheila Faith, English dentist and politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Tim Rawlings, English footballer and manager (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (b. 1966)
• 2016 – Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (b. 1923)
• 2016 – Gloria Naylor, American novelist (b. 1950)