EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST. 10/9

• 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
• 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
• 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
• 1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
• 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
• 1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
• 1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
• 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
• 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
• 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
• 1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
• 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
• 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
• 1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
• 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
• 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
• 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
• 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
• 1943 – World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
• 1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
• 1961 – In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
• 1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
• 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 2001 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
• 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
• 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
• 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.

• 877 – Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (d. 940)
• 904 – Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou
• 920 – Louis IV of France (d. 954)
• 1169 – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
• 1423 – Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (d. 1425)^[1]
• 1487 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
• 1497 – Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (d. 1563)
• 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (d. 1615)
• 1547 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596)
• 1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (d. 1634)
• 1588 – Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1666)
• 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (d. 1689)
• 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683)
• 1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (d. 1695)
• 1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
• 1753 – John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (d. 1837)
• 1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
• 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
• 1786 – William Mason, American surgeon and politician (d. 1860)
• 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (d. 1868)
• 1793 – Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (d. 1834)
• 1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
• 1821 – William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (d. 1906)
• 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)
• 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (d. 1914)
• 1844 – Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (d. 1918)
• 1852 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
• 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (d. 1935)
• 1860 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
• 1864 – Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (d. 1933)
• 1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (d. 1930)
• 1871 – Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
• 1872 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933)
• 1875 – George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist (d. 1957)
• 1876 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1884 – Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (d. 1964)
• 1885 – Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955)
• 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (d. 1950)
• 1886 – H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (d. 1976)
• 1889 – Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (d. 1929)
• 1890 – Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
• 1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1894 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (d. 1956)
• 1895 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (d. 1976)
• 1896 – Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese general (d. 1946)
• 1897 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (d. 1962)
• 1897 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress and singer (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (d. 1999)
• 1903 – Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (d. 2003)
• 1904 – Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
• 1906 – Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (d. 1937)
• 1907 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Anglo-Irish captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – John W. Morris, American general (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1924 – Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
• 1925 – Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric
• 1925 – Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and politician
• 1928 – Walter Ralston Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche
• 1929 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
• 1929 – John Golding, English historian, scholar, and curator (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer and businessman (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Isabel Colegate, English author and agent
• 1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
• 1932 – Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer
• 1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and astronaut (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer
• 1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
• 1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator
• 1934 – Mr. Wrestling II, American wrestler
• 1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet
• 1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author
• 1937 – Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
• 1938 – David Hamilton, English radio and television host
• 1940 – Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer
• 1940 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Bob Chance, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and author (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (d. 1997)
• 1942 – Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer
• 1943 – Tezer Özlü, Turkish writer (b. 1986)
• 1944 – Thomas Allen, English actor, singer, and academic
• 1945 – José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Gerard Henderson, Australian journalist and author
• 1945 – Mike Mullane, American colonel and astronaut
• 1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
• 1946 – Jim Hines, American sprinter and football player
• 1946 – Don Powell, English rock drummer (Slade)
• 1946 – Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Larry Nelson, American golfer
• 1947 – David Pountney, English director and manager
• 1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese historian and author
• 1948 – Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician
• 1948 – Judy Geeson, English actress
• 1948 – Bob Lanier, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress and talk show host, 12th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada
• 1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player, coach, and radio host
• 1949 – Barriemore Barlow, English rock drummer and songwriter (Jethro Tull)
• 1949 – Babette Cole, English author and illustrator (d. 2017)
• 1949 – Don Muraco, American wrestler
• 1949 – Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and author
• 1950 – Rosie Flores, American singer and guitarist
• 1950 – Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 – Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic
• 1951 – Steve Keirn, American wrestler
• 1951 – Bill Rogers, American golfer
• 1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist, founder of Code Pink
• 1952 – Vic Toews, Paraguayan-Canadian lawyer and politician, 48th Canadian Minister of Justice
• 1953 – Amy Irving, American actress
• 1953 – Pat Cadigan, American science fiction author
• 1953 – John Thurso, Scottish businessman and politician
• 1954 – Jackie Ashley, English journalist
• 1954 – Lorely Burt, English politician
• 1954 – Don Wilson, American kickboxer and actor
• 1955 – Pat Mastelotto, American rock drummer
• 1956 – Johnnie Fingers, Irish keyboard player and songwriter (The Boomtown Rats)
• 1957 – Kate Burton, Swiss-born British actress
• 1957 – Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter (T'Pau)
• 1958 – Chris Columbus, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1959 – Michael Earl, American actor, singer, and puppeteer (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Margaret Ferrier, Scottish politician
• 1960 – Colin Firth, English actor and producer
• 1960 – Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Trace Gallagher, American journalist
• 1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player and actor
• 1963 – Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1964 – John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician
• 1966 – Yuki Saito, Japanese singer and actress
• 1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1968 – Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Craig Innes, New Zealand rugby player
• 1969 – Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
• 1970 – Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager
• 1970 – Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Neera Tanden, American lawyer and policy analyst
• 1971 – Joe Bravo, American jockey
• 1972 – James Duval, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Bente Skari, Norwegian skier
• 1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
• 1973 – Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist
• 1973 – Tim Stimpson, English rugby player
• 1974 – Mohammad Akram, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1974 – Mirko Filipović, Croatian mixed martial artist, boxer, and politician
• 1974 – Ryan Phillippe, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
• 1975 – Dan O'Toole, Canadian sportscaster
• 1975 – Melanie Pullen, American photographer
• 1976 – Marty Holah, New Zealand rugby player
• 1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
• 1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Matt Morgan, American wrestler
• 1976 – Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player
• 1977 – Mike DiBiase, American wrestler
• 1977 – Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 – Julia Goldsworthy, English politician
• 1978 – Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1980 – Trevor Murdoch, American wrestler
• 1980 – Mikey Way, American bass player and songwriter
• 1981 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
• 1981 – Germán Denis, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Bonnie Maxon, American wrestler
• 1982 – Misty Copeland, American ballerina and author
• 1982 – Javi Varas, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
• 1983 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
• 1984 – Sander Post, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Harry Treadaway, English actor
• 1984 – Luke Treadaway, English actor
• 1984 – Drake Younger, American wrestler
• 1985 – Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, Latvian footballer
• 1985 – James Graham, English rugby league player
• 1985 – Neil Walker, American baseball player
• 1986 – Ashley Monroe, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Eoin Morgan, English cricketer
• 1987 – Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
• 1987 – Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Alex Saxon, American actor
• 1988 – Bobby Sharp, Canadian wrestler
• 1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
• 1989 – Matt Ritchie, English footballer
• 1989 – Lee Sawyer, English footballer
• 1991 – Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 – Ricky Ledo, American basketball player
• 1992 – Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer
• 1994 – Mohamed Sylla, French rapper
• 1997 – Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
• 1998 – Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player

• 210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China (b. 260 BC)
• 602 – Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty (b. 544)
• 689 – Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
• 710 – Li Chongfu, imperial prince of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. c. 680)
• 918 – Baldwin II, Frankish margrave (b. c. 865)
• 952 – Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (b. 885)
• 954 – Louis IV, king of West Francia (b. 920)
• 1167 – Matilda of England, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1102)
• 1197 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
• 1217 – William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English politician
• 1281 – John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (b. 1237)
• 1306 – Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1245)
• 1308 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
• 1364 – Robert of Taranto, King of Albania
• 1382 – Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
• 1384 – Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and Duchess of Brittany (b. 1319)
• 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1371)
• 1479 – Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, Italian cardinal and humanist (b. 1422)
• 1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (b. 1422)
• 1504 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
• 1519 – John Colet, English theologian and scholar (b. 1467)
• 1549 – Anthony Denny, English politician (b. 1501)
• 1591 – Richard Grenville, English admiral and politician (b. 1542)
• 1604 – William Morgan, Welsh bishop and translator (b. 1545)
• 1607 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1545)
• 1669 – Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
• 1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (b. 1609)
• 1748 – Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
• 1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
• 1759 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (b. 1703)
• 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (b. 1759)
• 1842 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
• 1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1851 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (b. 1787)
• 1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1788)
• 1889 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
• 1891 – David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (b. 1804)
• 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
• 1905 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
• 1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
• 1915 – Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1879 )
• 1919 – J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher, founded the Archibald Prize (b. 1856)
• 1922 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (b. 1840)
• 1923 – Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1869)
• 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (b. 1886)
• 1933 – Giuseppe Campari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1933 – Baconin Borzacchini, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1933 – Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1934 – George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
• 1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1938 – Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (b. 1888)
• 1948 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
• 1952 – Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect, designed the Beirut City Hall (b. 1866)
• 1954 – Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (b. 1908)
• 1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 – Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 – Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
• 1968 – Erna Mohr, German zoologist (b. 1894)
• 1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 – Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 – Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
• 1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Norah Lofts, English author (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Jon Brower Minnoch, American heaviest man (b. 1941)
• 1983 – B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 1985 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
• 1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1987 – Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (b. 1937)
• 1988 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
• 2000 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Patty Berg, American golfer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Robert Gammage, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Lance LeGault, American actor and stuntman (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Stanley Long, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2012 – John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (b. 1922)
• 2013 – John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Josef Němec, Czech boxer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant and politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Jack Vance, Canadian general (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Edward Nelson, American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
• 2014 – George Spencer, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Paul K. Sybrowsky, American religious leader and academic (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Antoine Lahad, Lebanese general (b. 1927)