EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST. 18/10

• 320 – Pappus of Alexandria observes a solar eclipse.
• 614 – The Edict of Paris defends the rights of the Frankish nobles and restricts Jewish employment.
• 629 – Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
• 1009 – Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah demolishes the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
• 1016 – Cnut the Great completes his conquest of England in the Battle of Assandun.
• 1081 – Byzantine–Norman wars: The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
• 1244 – The Khwarazmian Turks and Egypt defeat Damascus and the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem at the Battle of La Forbie.
• 1356 – The Basel earthquake is the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps.
• 1540 – Spanish conquistadors destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
• 1561 – In Japan, the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima was fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, resulting in a draw.
• 1565 – Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture a Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
• 1599 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
• 1748 – The signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
• 1797 – The Treaty of Campo Formio between France and Austria, among other provisions, abolishes the Republic of Venice.
• 1851 – Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale.
• 1860 – The Second Opium War ends at the Convention of Peking.
• 1867 – The United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: The Puerto Rican Campaign ends when the last Spanish troops, officials and loyalists withdraw from the island.
• 1914 – The Catholic Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
• 1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a national broadcasting service.
• 1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
• 1940 – World War II: Italian submarine Durbo is scuttled by her crew near the island of Alboran after attack by destroyers HMS Firedrake and HMS Wrestler.
• 1944 – World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
• 1945 – The Soviet nuclear program receives plans for the American Nagasaki bomb from atomic spies.
• 1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces stages a coup d'état against President Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
• 1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.
• 1951 – The Studio for Electronic Music was established at the West German Broadcasting facility in Cologne, making the first modern music studio.
• 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
• 1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.
• 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus, and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
• 1977 – German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
• 1979 – The Federal Communications Commission begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
• 1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
• 2003 – President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced into exile by the Bolivian gas conflict.
• 2007 – A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself was uninjured.
• 2011 – An Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit of the Israel Defense Forces is released by Hamas as part of a prisoner exchange deal, after being held captive for over five years.

Births[edit]

• 1127 – Go-Shirakawa, Japanese emperor (d. 1192)
• 1130 – Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (d. 1200)
• 1405 – Pius II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1464)
• 1444 – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English nobleman (d. 1476)
• 1482 – Philipp III, count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1538)
• 1517 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1570)
• 1523 – Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
• 1536 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1601)
• 1547 – Justus Lipsius, Belgian philologist and scholar (d. 1606)
• 1553 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (d. 1599)
• 1587 – Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (d. 1651)
• 1596 – Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (d. 1655)
• 1616 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (d. 1654)
• 1630 – Henry Powle, English politician (d. 1692)
• 1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1705)
• 1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
• 1662 – Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and scholar (d. 1714)
• 1663 – Eugene of Savoy, Austrian prince and statesman (d. 1736)
• 1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
• 1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian and author (d. 1778)
• 1706 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1785)
• 1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
• 1777 – Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet (d. 1811)
• 1785 – Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (d. 1866)
• 1787 – Robert L. Stevens, American inventor and steamship builder (d. 1856)
• 1792 – Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian (d. 1853)
• 1804 – Mongkut, Thai king (d. 1868)
• 1818 – Francis Dutton, German-Australian politician, 7th Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)
• 1822 – Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1883)
• 1831 – Frederick III, German emperor (d. 1888)
• 1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)
• 1850 – Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (d. 1935)
• 1854 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
• 1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1862 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952)
• 1865 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author (d. 1957)
• 1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith, American-English author and critic (d. 1946)
• 1868 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
• 1870 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1966)
• 1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author (d. 1936)
• 1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
• 1874 – Christine Murrell, English medical doctor, first female member of the British Medical Association's Central Council (d. 1933)
• 1875 – Len Braund, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1955)
• 1878 – James Truslow Adams, American historian and author (d. 1949)
• 1880 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (d. 1940)
• 1881 – Max Gerson, German-born American physician (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (d. 1917)
• 1887 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (d. 1946)
• 1888 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (d. 1925)
• 1893 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)
• 1893 – George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966)
• 1894 – H. L. Davis, American author and poet (d. 1960)
• 1894 – Tibor Déry, Hungarian author and translator (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American theorist and author (d. 1980)
• 1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
• 1900 – Sarah Bavly, Dutch-Israeli nutritionist, author and educator (d. 1993)
• 1900 – Evelyn Berckman, American author, known for her detective and Gothic horror novels (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Lina Radke, German runner and coach (d. 1983)
• 1904 – A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author (d. 1963)
• 1904 – Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
• 1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch activist (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)
• 1906 – James Brooks, American painter and educator (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1918 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2017)
• 1918 – Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Ric Nordman, Canadian captain and politician (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• 1919 – Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Jesse Helms, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
• 1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (d. 2011)
• 1925 – N. D. Tiwari, Indian politician (d. 2018)
• 1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
• 1926 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
• 1927 – Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1927 – George C. Scott, American actor and director (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Keith Jackson, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2018)
• 1928 – Maurice El Mediouni, Algerian pianist and composer
• 1928 – Dick Taverne, English lawyer and politician
• 1929 – Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1929 – Hillard Elkins, American producer and manager (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Kees Fens, Dutch author and critic (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Frank Stanmore, Australian rugby league player (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish politician
• 1930 – Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
• 1931 – Chris Albertson, Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer
• 1931 – Roger Climpson, English-Australian journalist
• 1931 – Ien Dales, Dutch civil servant and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1994)
• 1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian musicologist and politician
• 1933 – Forrest Gregg, American football player and coach
• 1933 – Irwin M. Jacobs, American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur
• 1933 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1968)
• 1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (d. 1970)
• 1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1936 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
• 1938 – Ronnie Bright, American R&B and doo-wop singer (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Robert Dove, American lawyer and politician
• 1938 – Dawn Wells, American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959
• 1939 – Flavio Cotti, Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
• 1939 – Jan Erik Vold, Norwegian poet, author, and translator
• 1940 – Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
• 1940 – Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction (d. 1971)
• 1941 – Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman
• 1941 – Martha Burk, American psychologist and author
• 1942 – Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar
• 1943 – Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
• 1945 – Huell Howser, American television host and actor (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Chris Shays, American politician
• 1946 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1946 – Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
• 1946 – Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh academic and politician
• 1946 – Howard Shore, Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
• 1947 – Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1947 – Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
• 1947 – Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
• 1947 – Luc Jouret, Belgian religious cult leader in Switzerland (d. 1994)
• 1948 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
• 1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 2018)
• 1949 – Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1949 – George Hendrick, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Gary Richrath, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
• 1950 – Om Puri, Indian actor (d. 2017)
• 1950 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and author (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1951 – Pam Dawber, American actress and producer
• 1951 – Terry McMillan, American author and screenwriter
• 1951 – David Normington, English civil servant and politician
• 1951 – Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Roy Dias, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1952 – Paul Geroski, American-English economist and academic (d. 2005)
• 1952 – Chuck Lorre, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer and photographer
• 1952 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese soldier and author
• 1952 – Allen Ripley, American baseball player (d. 2014)
• 1952 – Jerry Royster, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1953 – Vickie Winans, American gospel music singer-songwriter and music producer
• 1954 – Nick Houghton, English general
• 1954 – Arliss Howard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian journalist and television host (d. 2012)
• 1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1955 – Timmy Mallett, English radio and television host
• 1955 – Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator
• 1955 – David Twohy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Rita Verdonk, Dutch journalist and politician, former Dutch Minister of Justice
• 1955 – Denis Watson, Zimbabwean golfer
• 1955 – Mark Welland, English physicist and academic
• 1956 – Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
• 1956 – Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach
• 1956 – Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Jon Lindstrom, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Catherine Ringer, French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1957 – Alexander Levintal, Russian economist and politician, Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• 1958 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer
• 1958 – Megumi Ishii, Japanese actress and politician
• 1958 – Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Kirby Chambliss, American pilot
• 1959 – Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran politician, former President of El Salvador
• 1959 – Milcho Manchevski, Macedonian-American director and screenwriter
• 1959 – John Nord, American wrestler
• 1960 – Erin Moran, American actress (d. 2017)
• 1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator
• 1961 – Rick Moody, American author and composer
• 1961 – Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
• 1962 – Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist
• 1962 – Vincent Spano, American actor, director, and producer
• 1963 – Sigvart Dagsland, Norwegian singer, pianist and composer
• 1964 – Dan Lilker, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1964 – Charles Stross, English journalist, author, and programmer
• 1965 – Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Zakir Naik, an Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)
• 1966 – Dave Price, American journalist and game show host
• 1966 – Sam Sorbo, American actress, author, and talk radio host
• 1967 – Eric Stuart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
• 1968 – Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian
• 1968 – Stuart Law, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1968 – Michael Stich, German tennis player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Volker Neumüller, German talent manager
• 1969 – Nelson Vivas, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1970 – Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 – Mike Starink, Dutch television host and actor
• 1971 – Nick O'Hern, Australian golfer
• 1972 – Mark Morrison, West German-born British hip hop and R&B musician
• 1972 – Mika Ninagawa, Japanese photographer and director
• 1972 – Alex Tagliani, Canadian race car driver
• 1973 – Stephen Allan, Australian golfer
• 1973 – James Foley, American photographer and journalist (d. 2014)
• 1973 – Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
• 1973 – Rachel Nichols, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1973 – Sarah Winckless, English rower
• 1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer and sportscaster
• 1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
• 1974 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
• 1974 – Amish Tripathi, Indian author
• 1975 – Alex Cora, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, sportscaster and manager
• 1975 – Josh Sawyer, American video game designer
• 1977 – Flavia Colgan, Brazilian-American journalist
• 1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand-American soccer player and coach
• 1977 – David Vuillemin, French motorcycle racer
• 1977 – Jyothika, Indian actress
• 1978 – Kunal Kapoor, Indian actor
• 1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby player
• 1978 – Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Damon Scott, British entertainer
• 1979 – Jaroslav Drobný, Czech footballer
• 1979 – Ne-Yo, American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor
• 1980 – Josh Gracin, American country music singer and former member of the United States Marine Corps
• 1980 – Birsen Yavuz, Turkish sprinter and hurdler
• 1981 – Nathan Hauritz, Australian cricketer
• 1981 – Tina Hergold, Slovenian tennis player
• 1981 – Greg Warren, American football player
• 1982 – Thierry Amiel, French singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Michael Dingsdag, Dutch footballer
• 1982 – Mark Sampson, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1982 – Simon Gotch, American wrestler
• 1983 – Dante, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Robert Harting, German discus thrower
• 1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
• 1984 – Esperanza Spalding, American singer-songwriter and bassist
• 1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American skier
• 1984 – Milo Yiannopoulos, British journalist and public speaker
• 1985 – Yoenis Céspedes, Cuban baseball player
• 1985 – Andrew Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 – Wilma Elles, German actress and fashion designer
• 1987 – Zac Efron, American actor and singer
• 1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
• 1988 – Tessa Schram, Dutch director and actress
• 1989 – Brad Miller (baseball), American professional baseball infielder
• 1989 – Laci Green, American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist
• 1989 – Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress
• 1990 – Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality
• 1990 – Brittney Griner, American professional basketball player
• 1990 – Drew Crawford, American basketball player
• 1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor and musician
• 1993 – Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese professional footballer
• 1994 – Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian Formula One driver

Deaths[edit]

• AD 31 – Lucius Aelius Sejanus, Roman politician (b. 20 BC)
• 325 – Jin Mingdi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 299)
• 707 – John VII, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1035 – Sancho III Garcés III, king of Pamplona
• 1081 – Nikephoros Palaiologos, Byzantine general
• 1101 – Hugh I, count of Vermandois (b. 1057)
• 1141 – Leopold, duke of Bavaria
• 1214 – John de Gray, bishop of Norwich
• 1366 – Petrus Torkilsson, archbishop of Uppsala
• 1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (b. 1331)
• 1417 – Gregory XII, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1442 – John, Portuguese prince (b. 1400)
• 1480 – Uhwudong, Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)
• 1503 – Pius III, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1439)
• 1508 – Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland
• 1511 – Philippe de Commines, Flemish diplomat and writer (b. 1447)
• 1526 – Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
• 1541 – Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)
• 1545 – John Taverner, English organist and composer (b. 1490)
• 1558 – Mary of Austria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
• 1561 – Yamamoto Kansuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1501)
• 1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
• 1570 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (b. 1517)
• 1604 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1528)
• 1646 – Isaac Jogues, French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1607)
• 1667 – Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603)
• 1678 – Jacob Jordaens, Belgian painter illustrator (b. 1593)
• 1739 – António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
• 1744 – Sarah Churchill, duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
• 1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)
• 1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
• 1817 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
• 1865 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
• 1876 – Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (b. 1791)
• 1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
• 1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
• 1892 – William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1893 – Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (b. 1818)
• 1908 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
• 1911 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
• 1921 – Ludwig III, king of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 – Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
• 1933 – Christine Murrell, English medical doctor, first female member of the British Medical Association's Central Council (b. 1874)
• 1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 – Philip Collier, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1873)
• 1948 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 – Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
• 1962 – Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (b. 1874)
• 1965 – Lauri Törni, Finnish soldier, Veteran of the Winter War, the Continuation War, & the Vietnam War (b. 1919)
• 1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
• 1966 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867)
• 1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (b. 1913)
• 1973 – Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1899)
• 1975 – K. C. Douglas, American rural blues singer (b. 1913)
• 1975 – Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Graham Haberfield, English actor (b. 1941)
• 1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Andreas Baader, German militant (b. 1943)
• 1977 – Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1940)
• 1978 – Ramón Mercader, Spanish journalist, assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
• 1980 – Edwin Way Teale, American photographer and author (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Dwain Esper, American director and producer (b. 1892)
• 1982 – Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
• 1982 – John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
• 1982 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 40th First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
• 1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)
• 1983 – Willie Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1984 – Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
• 1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957).
• 1987 – Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
• 1988 – Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
• 2000 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Bill King, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Alan Coren, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2007 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Lucky Dube, South African singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Adriaan Kortlandt, Dutch ethologist and biologist (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Nancy Spero, American painter and academic (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Marion Brown, American saxophonist and musicologist (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Brain Damage, American wrestler (b. 1977)
• 2012 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2012 – George Mattos, American pole vaulter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Albert Lee Ueltschi, American pilot and businessman, founded FlightSafety International (b. 1917)
• 2012 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Bill Young, American sergeant and politician (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, Dominican author and academic (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Edward Regan, American academic and politician (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Sidney Shapiro, American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Robert Dickerson, Australian painter (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945)
• 2015 – Robert W. Farquhar, American engineer (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Frank Watkins, American bass player (b. 1968)
• 2015 – Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2018 – N. D. Tiwari, Indian politician (b. 1925)