Events

622 - Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina
1058 - Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
1066 - Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin
1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1260 - the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1498 - The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kutoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1596 - Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1697 - The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688-97).
1737 - The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1792 - French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
1835 - Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1854 - Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea.
1857 - The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
1863 - American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
1870 - Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.
1871 - Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
1881 - U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
1893 - Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1909 - The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
1910 - The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
1911 - White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
1920 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1930 - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
1942 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1961 - Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962 - James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1967 - RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
1970 - Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
1971 - Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
1977 - The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1979 - A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
1982 - The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1985 - Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.
1990 - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
2000 - The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
2002 - The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
2003 - Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
2007 - Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
2008 - A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
2011 - The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

Births

524 - Kan B'alam I, Mayan ruler (died 583)
1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (died 1181)
1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales (died 1502)
1593 - Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (died 1661)
1599 - Christian the Younger of Brunswick (died 1623)
1608 - Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (died 1657)
1685 - Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)
1746 - Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (died 1786)
1758 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (died 1806)
1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (died 1852)
1800 - Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (died 1879)
1820 - John F. Reynolds, American general (died 1863)
1831 - Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (died 1917)
1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (died 1923)
1844 - William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (died 1893)
1851 - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (died 1929)
1853 - Chulalongkorn, Thai king (died 1910)
1861 - Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (died 1955)
1872 - Maurice Gamelin, French general (died 1958)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1949)
1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (died 1944)
1878 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist and author (died 1968)
1880 - Louise Peete, American murderer (died 1947)
1880 - Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic (died 1968)
1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American journalist (died 1947)
1885 - Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1950)
1886 - Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (died 1945)
1889 - Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (died 1962)
1889 - Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (died 1975)
1890 - Linda Eenpalu, Estonian activist and politician (died 1967)
1891 - Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary, strongman of Tabasco (died 1943)
1892 - Roy Turk, American songwriter (died 1934)
1893 - Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1958)
1893 - Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (died 1962)
1899 - Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (died 1973)
1902 - Stevie Smith, English author and poet (died 1971)
1906 - Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)
1911 - Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist (died 1991)
1913 - John Collins, American guitarist (died 2001)
1913 - Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (died 2001)
1914 - Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (died 1985)
1914 - Kenneth More, English actor and singer (died 1982)
1915 - K. H. Ting, Chinese bishop (died 2012)
1916 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2003)
1917 - Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (died 2006)
1917 - Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (died 1994)
1917 - Don Starr, American actor (died 1995)
1917 - Clarice Taylor, American actress (died 2011)
1918 - Horace Gould, English racing driver (died 1968)
1920 - Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (died 2007)
1920 - Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (died 1989)
1921 - Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)
1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (died 1953)
1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-American poet and author (died 1997)
1923 - Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (died 2014)
1923 - Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (died 1992)
1924 - Gogi Grant, American singer and actress (died 2016)
1924 - Albert Marre, American actor, director, and producer (died 2012)
1924 - Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (died 2004)
1925 - James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (died 2001)
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, Thai king (died 1946)
1925 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters and The Robins) (died 1986)
1926 - Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1962)
1927 - Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (died 1966)
1927 - John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 2010)
1927 - Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (died 1992)
1927 - Rachel Roberts, Welsh-American actress and singer (died 1980)
1928 - Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (died 2012)
1928 - Donald Hall, American poet, author, and critic
1928 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (died 2000)
1929 - Anne Meara, American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
1929 - Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player
1930 - Eddie Bo, American singer and pianist (died 2009)
1931 - Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)
1933 - Steve McCall, American drummer (Air) (died 1989)
1933 - Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (died 1999)
1934 - Hamit Kaplan, Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler (died 1976)
1934 - Takayuki Kubota, Japanese-American martial artist and actor
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian-Swiss actress and singer
1934 - David Marquand, English academic and politician
1934 - Jeff Morris, American actor (died 2004)
1934 - Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (died 2015)
1935 - David Pegg, English footballer (died 1958)
1935 - Keith Roberts, English author and illustrator (died 2000)
1935 - Jim Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
1936 - Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer
1936 - Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (died 2012)
1937 - Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment
1937 - Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear, English police officer
1937 - Garry Johnson, English general
1937 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (died 2005)
1938 - Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (Stuff) (died 1994)
1938 - Jane Manning, English soprano and educator
1939 - Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
1940 - William Finley, American actor (died 2012)
1940 - Anna Pavord, Welsh-English journalist and author
1941 - Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator
1941 - Jim Cullum, Jr., American cornet player (Jim Cullum Jazz Band)
1941 - Sammy McMillan, Irish footballer
1942 - Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (died 2015)
1942 - Gérald Tremblay, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Montreal
1942 - R. J. Adams, film and television actor, acting coach, screenwriter, film producer, documentary producer and radio personality (died 2015)
1944 - Jeremy Child, English actor
1946 - Pete Coors, American businessman and politician
1946 - Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and judge
1947 - Billy Bang, American violinist and composer (died 2011)
1947 - Jude Deveraux, American author
1947 - Steve Gerber, American author and screenwriter (died 2008)
1947 - Wojciech Kurtyka, Polish mountaineer and rock climber
1947 - Mia Martini, Italian singer and actress (died 1995)
1947 - Chris Ortloff, American journalist and politician
1947 - Bruce Pasternack, American businessman
1947 - Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author
1948 - Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio host
1948 - Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (died 2014)
1948 - George R. R. Martin, American author and screenwriter
1948 - Chuck Panozzo, American bass player (Styx)
1948 - John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx) (died 1996)
1949 - Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 - Anthony Denison, American actor
1951 - Joanna Cameron, American model and actress
1951 - Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (died 2012)
1951 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic
1953 - Rocky Mattioli, Italian-Australian boxer
1954 - Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician
1954 - Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom
1954 - Brinke Stevens, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1954 - Shivarudra Balayogi, Yogi, direct disciple of Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj
1955 - Betsy Brantley, American actress
1955 - José Rivero, Spanish golfer
1956 - Jennifer Tour Chayes, American mathematician and computer scientist
1956 - Gary Cole, American actor
1956 - Steve Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
1956 - John Harle, English saxophonist, composer, conductor, and producer
1956 - Debbi Morgan, American actress
1957 - Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter (Thompson Twins)
1957 - Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director
1958 - Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer
1959 - Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator
1959 - Meral Okay, Turkish actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
1960 - Lee Hall, English playwright and screenwriter
1960 - Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter and drummer (The Beautiful South and The Housemartins)
1960 - Deborah Roberts, American journalist
1961 - Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and journalist
1961 - Caroline Flint, English politician, Minister of State for Europe
1962 - Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-English physicist, author, and academic
1963 - Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer
1963 - Robert LaSardo, American actor and producer
1963 - Joseph O'Connor, Irish novelist
1964 - Randy Bradbury, American bass player (Pennywise and One Hit Wonder)
1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
1965 - Robert Rusler, American actor and producer
1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Extreme, Satellite Party, DramaGods, and Mourning Widows)
1966 - Douglas Gordon, Scottish-German photographer
1967 - Martin Harrison, American football player
1967 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
1967 - Gunnar Nelson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nelson)
1967 - Matthew Nelson, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Nelson)
1968 - Ijaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
1968 - Van Jones, American lawyer and activist
1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (died 2004)
1968 - Ben Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Soundgarden, Hater, and Wellwater Conspiracy)
1968 - Michelle Visage, American singer and radio host (Seduction)
1969 - Megumi Kudo, Japanese wrestler and sportscaster
1969 - Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sloan)
1969 - Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (You Am I)
1969 - Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach
1971 - Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1971 - Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese pianist and composer
1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager
1971 - Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer and television host (Army of Lovers and Nouveau Riche)
1972 - Sergio Di Zio, Canadian actor
1972 - Victor Ponta, Romanian jurist and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Romania
1972 - Sawa Suzuki, Japanese actress
1973 - Cansel Elçin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
1973 - Ronald McKinnon, American football player
1973 - Jo Pavey, English runner
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress, director, and screenwriter
1975 - Moon Bloodgood, American model and actress
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
1975 - Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer (Cosmologic, Cross Border Trio, Groundation, and Trummerflora Collective)
1975 - Joe Roff, Australian rugby player
1976 - Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress and screenwriter
1976 - Reuben Singh, English businessman
1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese singer, dancer, and actress (Super Monkey's and Suite Chic)
1977 - The-Dream, American singer-songwriter and producer
1977 - Martin Horntveth, Norwegian drummer and composer (Jaga Jazzist and The National Bank)
1977 - Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic
1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian-American baseball player
1978 - Patrizio Buanne, Austrian-Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1978 - Héctor Camacho, Jr., Puerto Rican-American boxer
1978 - Dante Hall, American football player
1978 - Scott Minto, Australian rugby player
1978 - T. J. Tucker, American baseball player
1979 - Sean Davis, English footballer and journalist
1979 - Dan Gillespie Sells, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Feeling and Speedway)
1979 - Wilfried Tevoedjre, Beninese swimmer
1980 - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian model and actress
1980 - Ryan Donowho, American actor and producer
1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
1980 - Jonathan Le Billon, English actor
1980 - Mehrzad Marashi, Iranian-German singer
1980 - Madison Young, American porn actress and director, founded Femina Potens Art Gallery
1981 - Joanie Dodds, American model and actress
1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
1981 - David McMillan, American football player (died 2013)
1981 - Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (died 2014)
1981 - Jordan Tata, American baseball player
1982 - Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player
1982 - Aaron Burkart, German race car driver
1982 - Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer
1982 - Costa Pantazis, Cypriot-English songwriter and producer
1982 - Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer
1983 - A-Lin, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1983 - Jessica Alonso Bernardo, Spanish handball player
1983 - Yuna Ito, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1983 - Freya Ross, Scottish runner
1983 - Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1984 - Brian Joubert, French figure skater
1984 - Belén Rodríguez, Argentinian model, actress, and television host
1985 - Tessanne Chin, Jamaican-American singer and guitarist
1985 - Ian Desmond, American baseball player
1985 - Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress
1986 - Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby player
1987 - Gain, South Korean singer and actress (Brown Eyed Girls)
1987 - Jack Lawless, American drummer (Ocean Grove)
1987 - Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
1988 - Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
1988 - Arisa Sato, Japanese model and actress
1990 - Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1990 - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 - Génesis Carmona, Venezuelan model (died 2014)
1991 - Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer
1991 - Spencer Locke, American actress
1992 - Peter Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper
1992 - Amidu Salifu, Ghanaian footballer
1995 - Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor

Deaths

1246 - Michael of Chernigov (born 1185)
1328 - Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (born 1263)
1384 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou (born 1339)
1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (born 1400)
1586 - John Ballard, English priest
1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English poet (born 1558)
1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (born 1534)
1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (born 1555)
1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar and critic (born 1560)
1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (born 1586)
1639 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (born 1579)
1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1610)
1684 - Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (born 1634)
1793 - Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant (born 1764)
1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish commander (born 1780)
1815 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (born 1725)
1839 - Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (born 1769)
1840 - José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (born 1766)
1845 - Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (born 1780)
1852 - Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (born 1775)
1855 - José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (born 1797)
1855 - Harvey Putnam, American lawyer and politician (born 1793)
1863 - Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (born 1785)
1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (born 1802)
1898 - Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (born 1819)
1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (born 1834)
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (born 1844)
1927 - George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1864)
1930 - Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (born 1873)
1932 - John Ellis, English executioner (born 1874)
1932 - Wovoka, American religious leader, founded the Ghost Dance Movement (born 1856)
1933 - Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (born 1847)
1939 - Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (born 1855)
1945 - Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (born 1869)
1945 - William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (born 1884)
1945 - Jack Thayer, American survivor of the Sinking of the Titanic (born 1894)
1945 - Eduard Wirths, German physician (born 1909)
1947 - Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (born 1882)
1947 - Jantina Tammes, Dutch biologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1871)
1948 - Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (born 1881)
1957 - Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (born 1885)
1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (born 1865)
1958 - Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, pianist, and composer (born 1892)
1962 - Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (born 1889)
1970 - Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (born 1879)
1971 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
1972 - Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (born 1903)
1973 - Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
1973 - Ben Webster, American saxophonist (born 1909)
1975 - Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
1979 - Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895)
1984 - Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1948)
1985 - Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (born 1907)
1987 - Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (born 1924)
1989 - Richie Ginther, American race car driver (born 1930)
1992 - Musa Anter, Kurdish-Turkish activist and author (born 1920)
1992 - Reuben Kadish, American painter, sculptor, and educator (born 1913)
1993 - Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (born 1922)
1994 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1924)
1994 - Jule Styne, English-American composer (born 1905)
1996 - Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (born 1929)
1996 - Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (born 1914)
1996 - Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1912)
1997 - Matt Christopher, American author (born 1917)
1997 - Nick Traina, American singer-songwriter (Link 80) (born 1978)
1998 - Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician, 28th Second Lady of the United States (born 1912)
1999 - Raisa Gorbachova, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1932)
1999 - Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (born 1905)
2000 - Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935)
2002 - Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1971)
2002 - Necdet Kent, Turkish diplomat (born 1911)
2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American bodybuilder and actor (born 1923)
2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (born 1922)
2003 - Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1941)
2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (born 1935)
2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (born 1922)
2004 - Kalmer Tennosaar, Estonian singer and journalist (born 1928)
2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian holocaust survivor (born 1908)
2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (born 1932)
2006 - Sven Nykvist, Swedish director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1922)
2006 - John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (born 1921)
2007 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (born 1928)
2010 - Kenny McKinley, American football player (born 1987)
2010 - Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (born 1933)
2011 - Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (born 1915)
2011 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (born 1940)
2012 - Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (born 1935)
2012 - Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (born 1936)
2012 - Dinesh Thakur, Indian actor and director (born 1947)
2012 - Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (born 1920)
2013 - Robert W. Ford, English diplomat (born 1923)
2013 - Robert L. Reymond, American theologian and author (born 1932)
2013 - Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American wrestler and promoter (born 1914)
2013 - James born Vaught, American general (born 1926)
2013 - Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (born 1957)
2014 - Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (born 1942)
2014 - Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (born 1930)
2014 - Rob Bironas, American football player (born 1978)
2014 - Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (born 1928)
2014 - Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (born 1923)
2014 - Eric the Midget, American radio host and actor (born 1975)
2014 - George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)
2015 - Mario Caiano, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1933)
2015 - Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian businessman (born 1940)
2015 - Jack Larson, American actor, producer, and playwright (born 1928)
2015 - C. K. Williams, American poet, critic, and translator (born 1936)