Events
65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persian at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1539 – Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1897 – Léo Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.
1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
1975 – India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas.
1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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Births
626 – Eanflæd, English daughter of Edwin of Northumbria (d. 685)
1603 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician (d. 1685)
1613 – Christoph Bach, German pianist (d. 1661)
1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (d. 1716)
1660 – Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer (d. 1716)
1665 – Jacques Lelong, French author (d. 1721)
1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (d. 1750)
1715 – James Nares, English organist and composer (d. 1783)
1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian composer (d. 1786)
1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral (d. 1833)
1758 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
1787 – Deaf Smith, American soldier (d. 1837)
1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French author (d. 1875)
1832 – José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1835 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet, journalist and poetry researcher (d. 1888)
1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (d. 1954)
1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938)
1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1953)
1885 – Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (d. 1975)
1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
1891 – Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer (d. 1974)
1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian and oldest man ever (d. 2013)
1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1900 – Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (d. 1989)
1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
1919 – Sol Kaplan, American film and television composer (d. 1990)
1920 – Gene Leis, American guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1993)
1920 – John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
1920 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006)
1922 – Erich Hartmann, German pilot (d. 1993)
1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor (d. 2011)
1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor
1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (d. 1997)
1927 – Kenneth, American hairdresser (d. 2013)
1928 – John Horlock, British professor of mechanical engineering
1928 – Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society) (d. 1984)
1930 – Ewan Jamieson, New Zealand commander (d. 2013)
1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor (d. 2009)
1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model, actress, and singer (d. 1967)
1933 – Philip Lavallin Wroughton, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
1934 – Dickie Goodman, American record producer (d. 1989)
1935 – Dudley Moore, English-American actor, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2002)
1935 – Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
1936 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
1936 – Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1937 – Antonio Carluccio, Italian chef, restaurateur, broadcaster and author
1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor, producer, and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
1938 – Stanley Fish, American academic and scholar
1939 – E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant and politician (d. 2013)
1940 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
1940 – Genya Ravan, American singer-songwriter and producer (Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 – Priit Aimla, Estonian author, poet, and playwright
1941 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
1941 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1941 – Michel Roux, French chef and restaurateur, broadcaster
1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch-American photographer and director (d. 1975)
1942 – Alan Price, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Animals)
1942 – Jack Roush, American businessman, founded Roush Fenway Racing
1942 – Maarten van den Bergh, Dutch businessman
1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
1943 – Margo MacDonald Scottish politician (d. 2014)
1943 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
1944 – Keith Erickson, American basketball player and sportscaster
1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist and songwriter (Parliament-Funkadelic, Praxis, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains)
1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer
1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
1947 – Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara
1947 – Mark Volman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and The Mothers of Invention)
1948 – Stuart McLean, Canadian radio host and author
1948 – Rick Miller, American baseball player and manager
1949 – Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish fashion designer
1949 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (d. 1993)
1950 – Julia Cleverdon, British chief executive of the charity Business in the Community
1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and playwright (d. 1978)
1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (d. 2009)
1952 – Tony Plana, Cuban-American actor and director
1952 – Michael Trend, British politician
1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American drummer (Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam)
1953 – Ruby Wax, American-English comedian and actress
1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer and manager
1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Payolas)
1956 – Sue Barker, English tennis player and journalist
1956 – Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
1957 – Tony Martin, English singer-songwriter (Black Sabbath, Giuntini Project, and Empire)
1958 – Steve Antin, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Denis O'Brien, Irish businessman, founded BT Ireland
1959 – Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, British Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian sociologist and educator
1960 – Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress and producer
1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer and coach
1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach
1961 – Richard Foltz, American-Canadian scholar
1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player and coach
1962 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer and coach
1965 – Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records
1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano
1966 – Brett J. Gladman, Canadian astronomer
1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor
1966 – Julia Neigel, Russian-German singer-songwriter and producer
1966 – El Samurai, Japanese wrestler
1967 – Philippe Saint-André, French rugby player and coach
1967 – Steven H Silver, American journalist and author
1967 – Dar Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cry Cry Cry)
1968 – Mswati III of Swaziland
1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
1968 – Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, songwriter, and producer
1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1969 – Andrew Carnie, Canadian-American educator and author
1969 – Jesse James, American motorcycle builder, founded West Coast Choppers
1969 – Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player
1970 – Kelly Holmes, English runner
1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
1971 – Gad Elmaleh, Moroccan-French comedian and actor
1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1972 – Jeff Wilkins, American football player
1973 – George Gregan, Zambian-Australian rugby player and coach
1973 – Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
1974 – Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer and coach
1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
1976 – Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
1976 – Scott Padgett, American basketball player, coach, and radio host
1976 – Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
1977 – Joe Beimel, American baseball player
1977 – Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1977 – Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
1977 – Jonny Storm, English wrestler
1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1978 – Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter
1979 – Rocky Bernard, American football player
1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress and singer
1979 – Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
1979 – Nicole Raczynski, American wrestler
1979 – Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
1980 – Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter
1980 – Robyn Regehr, Brazilian-Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Alexis Thorpe, American actress
1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
1981 – Martin Havlát, Czech ice hockey player
1981 – Kasie Head, American model, Miss Oklahoma USA 2002
1981 – James Hibberd, English cricketer
1981 – Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai actress
1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player
1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
1982 – Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast
1982 – Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
1982 – Ignacio Serricchio, Argentinian-American actor
1982 – Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan-American baseball player
1983 – Zach Duke, American baseball player
1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
1983 – Patrick Platins, German footballer
1983 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
1984 – Lee Da-hae, South Korean actress
1984 – Christopher Pearce, English cricketer
1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
1985 – Jan Zimmermann, German footballer
1986 – Maxine, American wrestler and model
1986 – Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
1986 – Heather Kuzmich, American model
1986 – Zhou Mi, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor (Super Junior-M)
1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
1986 – Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
1986 – Will Thursfield, English-Australian footballer
1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
1987 – David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter
1987 – Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer
1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
1987 – Courtland Mead, American actor
1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer-songwriter
1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1987 – Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater
1988 – Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer
1988 – Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48 and no3b)
1988 – Saya Yūki, Japanese actress
1989 – Dominik Mader, German footballer
1989 – Belinda Owusu, English actress
1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
1990 – Himchan, South Korean singer and dancer (B.A.P)
1990 – Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player
1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
1990 – Héctor Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer
1990 – Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
1990 – Teo Olivares, American actor
1990 – Patrick Wiegers, German footballer
1991 – Steve Cook, English footballer
1991 – Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player
1992 – Paul-Jose M'Poku, Belgian footballer
1993 – Sebastian de Souza, English actor
1994 – Lee Areum, South Korean singer (T-ara)
1995 – Akira Saitō, Japanese actress
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Deaths
1012 – Ælfheah of Canterbury, English archbishop (b. 954)
1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1321 – Patriarch Gerasimus I of Constantinople
1390 – Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
1560 – Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
1567 – Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (b. 1530)
1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English politician (b. 1536)
1618 – Thomas Bastard, English clergyman (b. 1566)
1627 – Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet, English poet (b. 1583)
1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
1689 – Christina, Queen of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (b. 1655)
1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter (b. 1697)
1776 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and talmudist (b. 1697)
1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet (b. 1788)
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral (b. 1756)
1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist (b. 1774)
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
1892 – Thomas Pelham Dale, English clergyman (b. 1821)
1893 – Martin Körber, Baltic German pastor, writer, composer and choral conductor (b. 1817)
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1906 – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
1937 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist (b. 1865)
1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
1955 – Jim Corbett, Indian conservationist, colonel, and author (b. 1875)
1958 – Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)
1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist (b. 1894)
1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
1966 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (b. 1886)
1966 – Javier Solís, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (b. 1899)
1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, North Korean pilot (b. 1901)
1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English author and playwright (b. 1907)
1991 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor (b. 1917)
1993 – David Koresh, American religious leader (b. 1959)
1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
1993 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938)
1993 – Joseph Wallace, American murder victim (b. 1990)
1996 – John Martin Scripps, English murderer (b. 1959)
1997 – Eldon Hoke, American singer and drummer (The Mentors and The Screamers) (b. 1958)
1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
1999 – David Sanes, American security guard (b. 1954)
2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
2001 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
2003 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)
2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)
2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2005 – George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (b. 1929)
2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (b. 1946)
2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2007 – Helen Walton, American businesswomen (b. 1919)
2008 – John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (b. 1935)
2009 – J. G. Ballard, Chinese-English author (b. 1930)
2010 – Guru, American rapper, producer, and actor (Gang Starr) (b. 1961)
2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
2010 – Carl Williams, Australian murderer and drug trafficker (b. 1970)
2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)
2012 – Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2012 – Greg Ham, Australian saxophonist, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work) (b. 1953)
2012 – Levon Helm, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Band) (b. 1940)
2012 – Murtaza Razvi, Pakistani journalist (b. 1964)
2012 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
2013 – Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (b. 1936)
2013 – Kenneth Appel, American mathematician (b. 1932)
2013 – Allan Arbus, American actor (b. 1918)
2013 – Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (b. 1940)
2013 – Patrick Garland, English actor and director (b. 1935)
2013 – Aishah Ghani, Malaysian politician (b. 1923)
2013 – Robert Holding, American businessman (b. 1926)
2013 – François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
2013 – Thomas Joseph Kelly, American horse trainer (b. 1919)
2013 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (b. 1930)
2013 – Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924)
65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persian at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1539 – Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1897 – Léo Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.
1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
1975 – India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas.
1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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Births
626 – Eanflæd, English daughter of Edwin of Northumbria (d. 685)
1603 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician (d. 1685)
1613 – Christoph Bach, German pianist (d. 1661)
1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (d. 1716)
1660 – Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer (d. 1716)
1665 – Jacques Lelong, French author (d. 1721)
1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (d. 1750)
1715 – James Nares, English organist and composer (d. 1783)
1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian composer (d. 1786)
1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral (d. 1833)
1758 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
1787 – Deaf Smith, American soldier (d. 1837)
1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French author (d. 1875)
1832 – José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1835 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet, journalist and poetry researcher (d. 1888)
1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (d. 1954)
1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938)
1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1953)
1885 – Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (d. 1975)
1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
1891 – Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer (d. 1974)
1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian and oldest man ever (d. 2013)
1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1900 – Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (d. 1989)
1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
1919 – Sol Kaplan, American film and television composer (d. 1990)
1920 – Gene Leis, American guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1993)
1920 – John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
1920 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006)
1922 – Erich Hartmann, German pilot (d. 1993)
1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor (d. 2011)
1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor
1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (d. 1997)
1927 – Kenneth, American hairdresser (d. 2013)
1928 – John Horlock, British professor of mechanical engineering
1928 – Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society) (d. 1984)
1930 – Ewan Jamieson, New Zealand commander (d. 2013)
1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor (d. 2009)
1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model, actress, and singer (d. 1967)
1933 – Philip Lavallin Wroughton, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
1934 – Dickie Goodman, American record producer (d. 1989)
1935 – Dudley Moore, English-American actor, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2002)
1935 – Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
1936 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
1936 – Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1937 – Antonio Carluccio, Italian chef, restaurateur, broadcaster and author
1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor, producer, and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
1938 – Stanley Fish, American academic and scholar
1939 – E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant and politician (d. 2013)
1940 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
1940 – Genya Ravan, American singer-songwriter and producer (Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 – Priit Aimla, Estonian author, poet, and playwright
1941 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
1941 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1941 – Michel Roux, French chef and restaurateur, broadcaster
1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch-American photographer and director (d. 1975)
1942 – Alan Price, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Animals)
1942 – Jack Roush, American businessman, founded Roush Fenway Racing
1942 – Maarten van den Bergh, Dutch businessman
1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
1943 – Margo MacDonald Scottish politician (d. 2014)
1943 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
1944 – Keith Erickson, American basketball player and sportscaster
1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist and songwriter (Parliament-Funkadelic, Praxis, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains)
1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer
1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
1947 – Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara
1947 – Mark Volman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and The Mothers of Invention)
1948 – Stuart McLean, Canadian radio host and author
1948 – Rick Miller, American baseball player and manager
1949 – Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish fashion designer
1949 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (d. 1993)
1950 – Julia Cleverdon, British chief executive of the charity Business in the Community
1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and playwright (d. 1978)
1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (d. 2009)
1952 – Tony Plana, Cuban-American actor and director
1952 – Michael Trend, British politician
1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American drummer (Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam)
1953 – Ruby Wax, American-English comedian and actress
1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer and manager
1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Payolas)
1956 – Sue Barker, English tennis player and journalist
1956 – Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
1957 – Tony Martin, English singer-songwriter (Black Sabbath, Giuntini Project, and Empire)
1958 – Steve Antin, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Denis O'Brien, Irish businessman, founded BT Ireland
1959 – Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, British Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian sociologist and educator
1960 – Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress and producer
1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer and coach
1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach
1961 – Richard Foltz, American-Canadian scholar
1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player and coach
1962 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer and coach
1965 – Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records
1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano
1966 – Brett J. Gladman, Canadian astronomer
1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor
1966 – Julia Neigel, Russian-German singer-songwriter and producer
1966 – El Samurai, Japanese wrestler
1967 – Philippe Saint-André, French rugby player and coach
1967 – Steven H Silver, American journalist and author
1967 – Dar Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cry Cry Cry)
1968 – Mswati III of Swaziland
1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
1968 – Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, songwriter, and producer
1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1969 – Andrew Carnie, Canadian-American educator and author
1969 – Jesse James, American motorcycle builder, founded West Coast Choppers
1969 – Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player
1970 – Kelly Holmes, English runner
1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
1971 – Gad Elmaleh, Moroccan-French comedian and actor
1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1972 – Jeff Wilkins, American football player
1973 – George Gregan, Zambian-Australian rugby player and coach
1973 – Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
1974 – Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer and coach
1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
1976 – Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
1976 – Scott Padgett, American basketball player, coach, and radio host
1976 – Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
1977 – Joe Beimel, American baseball player
1977 – Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1977 – Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
1977 – Jonny Storm, English wrestler
1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1978 – Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter
1979 – Rocky Bernard, American football player
1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress and singer
1979 – Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
1979 – Nicole Raczynski, American wrestler
1979 – Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
1980 – Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter
1980 – Robyn Regehr, Brazilian-Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Alexis Thorpe, American actress
1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
1981 – Martin Havlát, Czech ice hockey player
1981 – Kasie Head, American model, Miss Oklahoma USA 2002
1981 – James Hibberd, English cricketer
1981 – Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai actress
1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player
1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
1982 – Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast
1982 – Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
1982 – Ignacio Serricchio, Argentinian-American actor
1982 – Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan-American baseball player
1983 – Zach Duke, American baseball player
1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
1983 – Patrick Platins, German footballer
1983 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
1984 – Lee Da-hae, South Korean actress
1984 – Christopher Pearce, English cricketer
1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
1985 – Jan Zimmermann, German footballer
1986 – Maxine, American wrestler and model
1986 – Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
1986 – Heather Kuzmich, American model
1986 – Zhou Mi, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor (Super Junior-M)
1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
1986 – Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
1986 – Will Thursfield, English-Australian footballer
1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
1987 – David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter
1987 – Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer
1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
1987 – Courtland Mead, American actor
1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer-songwriter
1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1987 – Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater
1988 – Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer
1988 – Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48 and no3b)
1988 – Saya Yūki, Japanese actress
1989 – Dominik Mader, German footballer
1989 – Belinda Owusu, English actress
1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
1990 – Himchan, South Korean singer and dancer (B.A.P)
1990 – Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player
1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
1990 – Héctor Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer
1990 – Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
1990 – Teo Olivares, American actor
1990 – Patrick Wiegers, German footballer
1991 – Steve Cook, English footballer
1991 – Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player
1992 – Paul-Jose M'Poku, Belgian footballer
1993 – Sebastian de Souza, English actor
1994 – Lee Areum, South Korean singer (T-ara)
1995 – Akira Saitō, Japanese actress
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Deaths
1012 – Ælfheah of Canterbury, English archbishop (b. 954)
1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1321 – Patriarch Gerasimus I of Constantinople
1390 – Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
1560 – Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
1567 – Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (b. 1530)
1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English politician (b. 1536)
1618 – Thomas Bastard, English clergyman (b. 1566)
1627 – Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet, English poet (b. 1583)
1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
1689 – Christina, Queen of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (b. 1655)
1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter (b. 1697)
1776 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and talmudist (b. 1697)
1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet (b. 1788)
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral (b. 1756)
1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist (b. 1774)
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
1892 – Thomas Pelham Dale, English clergyman (b. 1821)
1893 – Martin Körber, Baltic German pastor, writer, composer and choral conductor (b. 1817)
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1906 – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
1937 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist (b. 1865)
1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
1955 – Jim Corbett, Indian conservationist, colonel, and author (b. 1875)
1958 – Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)
1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist (b. 1894)
1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
1966 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (b. 1886)
1966 – Javier Solís, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (b. 1899)
1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, North Korean pilot (b. 1901)
1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English author and playwright (b. 1907)
1991 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor (b. 1917)
1993 – David Koresh, American religious leader (b. 1959)
1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
1993 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938)
1993 – Joseph Wallace, American murder victim (b. 1990)
1996 – John Martin Scripps, English murderer (b. 1959)
1997 – Eldon Hoke, American singer and drummer (The Mentors and The Screamers) (b. 1958)
1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
1999 – David Sanes, American security guard (b. 1954)
2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
2001 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
2003 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)
2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)
2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2005 – George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (b. 1929)
2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (b. 1946)
2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2007 – Helen Walton, American businesswomen (b. 1919)
2008 – John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (b. 1935)
2009 – J. G. Ballard, Chinese-English author (b. 1930)
2010 – Guru, American rapper, producer, and actor (Gang Starr) (b. 1961)
2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
2010 – Carl Williams, Australian murderer and drug trafficker (b. 1970)
2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)
2012 – Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2012 – Greg Ham, Australian saxophonist, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work) (b. 1953)
2012 – Levon Helm, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Band) (b. 1940)
2012 – Murtaza Razvi, Pakistani journalist (b. 1964)
2012 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
2013 – Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (b. 1936)
2013 – Kenneth Appel, American mathematician (b. 1932)
2013 – Allan Arbus, American actor (b. 1918)
2013 – Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (b. 1940)
2013 – Patrick Garland, English actor and director (b. 1935)
2013 – Aishah Ghani, Malaysian politician (b. 1923)
2013 – Robert Holding, American businessman (b. 1926)
2013 – François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
2013 – Thomas Joseph Kelly, American horse trainer (b. 1919)
2013 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (b. 1930)
2013 – Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924)
