43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius.
69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 – Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Year's War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina.
1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (died April 15th).
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1931 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1941 – World War II: German general Erwin Rommel attacks Tobruk.
1942 – Malta receives the George Cross for its gallantry. The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 – Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
1978 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
1986 – 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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Births
1126 – Averroes, Spanish physician and philosopher (d. 1198)
1527 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
1572 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
1578 – Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1695)
1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (d. 1741)
1678 – Abraham Darby, a leading hand in the Industrial revolution (d 1717)
1709 – Charles Collé, French playwright and songwriter (d. 1783)
1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish minister (d. 1788)
1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (d. 1854)
1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, 2nd Vice-President of Texas (d. 1870)
1800 – John Appold, English engineer (d. 1865)
1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian publicist and author (d. 1887)
1818 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1909)
1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English army officer and archaeologist (d. 1900)
1854 – Martin Lipp, Estonian clergyman and poet (d. 1923)
1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)
1866 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (d. 1936)
1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect, designed the AEG turbine factory (d. 1940)
1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1870 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1929)
1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (d. 1953)
1881 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (d. 1948)
1882 – Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1936)
1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar (d. 1956)
1886 – Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet (d. 1928)
1889 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (d. 1975)
1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist and politician (d. 1956)
1891 – Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (d. 1958)
1892 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1962)
1892 – V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist and philologist (d. 1957)
1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
1902 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
1903 – Henry Corbin, French philosopher and educator (d. 1978)
1904 – John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2000)
1905 – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French activist (d. 1999)
1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
1907 – François Duvalier, Haitian politician, 40th President of Haiti (d. 1971)
1912 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d. 1994)
1912 – Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (d. 1978)
1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
1916 – Don Willesee, Australian politician (d. 2003)
1917 – Valerie Hobson, Irish-English actress (d. 1998)
1917 – Marvin Miller, American businessman (d. 2012)
1918 – Mary Healy, American actress and singer
1919 – Shamshad Begum, Indian singer (d. 2013)
1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
1923 – Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentinian golfer
1924 – Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Joseph Ruskin, American actor (d. 2013)
1924 – Philip Stone, English actor (d. 2003)
1924 – Mary Warnock, British philosopher
1925 – Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (d. 1974)
1925 – Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (d. 2010)
1925 – Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
1926 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (d. 2013)
1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1926 – Liz Renay, American actress and author (d. 2007)
1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1927 – Dany Robin, French actress (d. 1995)
1929 – Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1929 – Inez Andrews, American singer-songwriter (The Caravans) (d. 2012)
1930 – Martin Adolf Bormann, German theologian (d. 2013)
1930 – Arnold Burns, American lawyer and politician, 21st United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2013)
1930 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (d. 2007)
1930 – Bradford Dillman, American actor and author
1930 – Jay Robinson, American actor (d. 2013)
1931 – Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 – Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
1932 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1932 – Cameron Parker, Scottish businessman
1933 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian author (d. 2012)
1933 – Paddy Hopkirk, Northern Irish rally driver
1934 – Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist
1935 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss author
1935 – Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, (Baroness Masham of Ilton), British paralympian and disabled rights campaigner
1935 – John Oliver British bishop
1936 – Arlene Martel, American actress
1936 – Bobby Nichols, American golfer
1936 – Frank Serpico, American police officer
1937 – Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (d. 2013)
1937 – Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2012)
1940 – David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes British archbishop
1940 – Richard Thompson British physician
1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager
1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Russian engineer and astronaut
1942 – Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician
1943 – Fouad Siniora, Lebanese politician, 65th Prime Minister of Lebanon
1944 – John Sergeant, English journalist
1944 – Brian Keith British judge
1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist and songwriter (The Outlaws, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Blackmore's Night)
1945 – Roger Frappier, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
1946 – Mireille Guiliano, French-American author
1946 – Michael Sarris, Cypriot economist and politician
1947 – Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1948 – Berry Berenson, American model, actress, and photographer (d. 2001)
1948 – Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician
1949 – Dave Gibbons, English illustrator
1949 – DeAnne Julius, American-English economist
1949 – Chris Langham, English actor and screenwriter
1949 – John Shea, American actor and director
1950 – Francis Collins, American physician and geneticist
1950 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian author
1951 – José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician
1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
1951 – Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean British politician
1952 – Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish footballer and manager
1952 – David Urquhart British bishop
1953 – David Buss, American psychologist
1954 – Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese director, screenwriter, and illustrator
1954 – Bruce Sterling, American author
1956 – Boris Šprem, Croatian politician, 8th President of Croatian Parliament (d. 2012)
1957 – Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
1957 – Richard Jeni, American comedian and actor (d. 2007)
1957 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor, and composer
1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director
1958 – John D'Aquino, American actor
1960 – Brad Garrett, American comedian and actor
1960 – Brian Forster, American actor (The Partridge Family)
1960 – Myoma Myint Kywe, Burmese historian
1960 – Tina Rosenberg, American journalist and author
1961 – Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor
1961 – Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter
1962 – Scott Boman, American politician
1962 – Guillaume LeBlanc, Canadian race walker
1963 – Kalle Vellevoog, Estonian architect
1964 – Greg Battle, American-Canadian football player
1964 – Gina McKee, English actress
1965 – Tom Dey, American director and producer
1965 – Alexandre Jardin, French author
1965 – Kirk Windstein, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crowbar, Down, Valume Nob, and Kingdom of Sorrow)
1966 – André Boisclair, Canadian politician
1966 – David Justice, American baseball player and sportscaster
1966 – Greg Maddux, American baseball player, manager, and coach
1967 – Nicola Berti, Italian footballer
1967 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1967 – Alain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Barrett Martin, American drummer, producer, and songwriter (Mad Season, Screaming Trees, Skin Yard, and Tuatara)
1967 – Julia Zemiro, French-Australian actress and singer
1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor, director, and producer
1969 – Brad Ausmus, American baseball player
1969 – Martyn LeNoble, Dutch-American bass player (Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction, and Thelonious Monster)
1969 – Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
1970 – Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
1970 – Steve Avery, American baseball player
1970 – Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer and actress (Onyanko Club)
1971 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1971 – Carlos Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
1971 – Gregg Zaun, American baseball player and sportscaster
1972 – Paul Devlin, English-Scottish footballer
1972 – Roberto Mejía, Dominican baseball player
1973 – Roberto Ayala, Argentinian footballer
1973 – Adrien Brody, American actor and producer
1973 – David Miller, American tenor and actor (Il Divo)
1974 – Da Brat, American rapper and actress
1975 – Lita, American wrestler and singer (The Luchagors)
1975 – Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
1975 – Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli-American composer
1975 – Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
1975 – Rajeshwari Sachdev, Indian actress
1975 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 – Christian Älvestam, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scar Symmetry, Miseration, and Solution .45)
1976 – Georgina Chapman, English model, actress, and fashion designer, co-founded Marchesa
1976 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
1976 – Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
1976 – Jason Wiemer, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Nate Fox, American basketball player
1977 – Martin Kaalma, Estonian footballer
1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress and producer
1977 – Chandra Levy, American murder victim (d. 2001)
1977 – Rob McElhenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – JD McPherson, American singer-songwriter
1978 – Roland Lessing, Estonian biathlete
1978 – Paul O'Brien, South-African-Australian actor
1979 – Rebecca DiPietro, American wrestler and model
1979 – Marios Elia, Cypriot footballer
1979 – Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player
1979 – Noé Pamarot, French footballer
1980 – Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arcade Fire)
1980 – Claire Coffee, American actress
1981 – Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
1981 – Amy Leach, English director
1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
1983 – William Obeng, Ghanaian-American football player
1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
1984 – Blake Costanzo, American football player
1984 – Charles Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
1984 – Harumafuji Kōhei, Mongolian sumo wrestler, 70th Yokozuna
1984 – Kristina Rose, American porn actress
1984 – Adán Sánchez, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1984 – Tyler Thigpen, American football player
1985 – Grant Clitsome, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
1986 – Todd Gilles, American ice dancer
1986 – Anne Watanabe, Japanese model, actress, and singer
1987 – Michael Baze, American jockey (d. 2011)
1987 – Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
1987 – Korina Perkovic, German tennis player
1988 – Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete
1988 – Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
1989 – Aleksei Alekseyev, Russian footballer
1989 – Joe Haden, American football player
1989 – Dafina Zeqiri, Albanian-Kosovar-Swedish singer and dancer
1990 – Christian Alexander, Greek-American actor
1990 – Markus Smarzoch, German footballer
1992 – Frederik Sørensen, Danish footballer
1993 – Vivien Cardone, American actress
1993 – Graham Phillips, American actor and singer
1993 – Burnell Taylor, American singer
1994 – Skyler Samuels, American actress
1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
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Deaths
1132 – Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
1279 – Bolesław the Pious, Polish husband of Yolanda of Poland (b. 1224)
1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
1345 – Richard de Bury, English bishop and author (b. 1287)
1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English commander and politician (b. 1428)
1574 – Louis of Nassau (b. 1538)
1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1534)
1599 – Henry Wallop, English politician (b. 1540)
1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (b. 1582)
1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest (b. 1620)
1721 – Michel Chamillart, French politician (b. 1652)
1759 – George Frideric Handel, German-English composer (b. 1685)
1785 – William Whitehead, English poet and playwright (b. 1715)
1792 – Maximilian Hell, Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and priest (b. 1720)
1843 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer (b. 1801)
1864 – Charles Lot Church, American-Canadian politician (b. 1777)
1910 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1911 – Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
1912 – Henri Brisson, French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)
1914 – Hubert Bland, English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist, created Esperanto (b. 1859)
1925 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (b. 1856)
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1893)
1931 – Richard Armstedt, German philologist, historian, and educator (b. 1851)
1935 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
1941 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer (b. 1871)
1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, Georgian-Russian lieutenant (b. 1907)
1950 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1879)
1951 – Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1962 – Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and scholar (b. 1860)
1963 – Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian monk and historian (b. 1893)
1964 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
1964 – Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
1965 – Richard Hickock, American murderer (b. 1933)
1965 – Perry Smith, American murderer (b. 1928)
1968 – Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1969 – Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, Spanish actress (b. 1900)
1975 – Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
1975 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
1976 – José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
1978 – Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
1978 – F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
1983 – Pete Farndon, English bass player (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
1983 – Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
1985 – Noele Gordon, English actress (b. 1919)
1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author (b. 1908)
1990 – Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1990 – Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927)
1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
1995 – Burl Ives, American actor and singer (b. 1909)
1997 – Gerda Christian, German secretary (b. 1913)
1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
1999 – Anthony Newley, English-American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)
2000 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2003 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish politician (b. 1941)
2004 – Micheline Charest, English-Canadian television producer, co-founded Cookie Jar Group (b. 1953)
2005 – John Fred, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2006 – Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
2007 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1924)
2007 – Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (b. 1930)
2007 – René Rémond, French historian and economist (b. 1918)
2008 – Miguel Galván, Mexican actor (b. 1957)
2008 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
2008 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912)
2009 – Maurice Druon, French author (b. 1918)
2010 – Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (b. 1932)
2010 – Alice Miller, Polish-French psychologist and author (b. 1923)
2010 – Peter Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Type O Negative, Carnivore, and Fallout) (b. 1962)
2011 – Trevor Bannister, English actor (b. 1934)
2011 – Walter Breuning, American super-centenarian (b. 1896)
2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop (b. 1924)
2012 – Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
2012 – Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (b. 1924)
2012 – William Finley, American actor (b. 1940)
2012 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (b. 1986)
2012 – Martin Poll, American film producer (b. 1922)
2013 – Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (b. 1937)
2013 – Colin Davis, English conductor (b. 1927)
2013 – R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (b. 1930)
2013 – Adolph Herseth, American trumpet player (b. 1921)
2013 – Tom Huff, American politician (b. 1933)
2013 – Stanislav Hurenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1936)
2013 – George Jackson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
2013 – Rentarō Mikuni, Japanese actor and director (b. 1923)
2013 – Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
2013 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1943)
