Events

65 - The freedman Milichus betrays 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 Persians at Al-Raqqah (northern Syria).
797 - Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after Constantine dies of his wounds, and Irene proclaims herself basileus.
1012 - Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England.
1529 - Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1539 - Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
1608 - In Ireland O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry
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 (not actually born until 1717).
1770 - Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 - Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France 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 Emparán, 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 guarantees its neutrality.
1855 - Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 - American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1865 - Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
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 - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1943 - World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
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 "Operation Dewey Canyon III", 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 - Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
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 FBI 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, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 - The 1997 Red River flood 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.
2000 - Security guard David Sanes is killed in an accidental bombing in Vieques, Puerto Rico which resulted in the U.S. Navy closing down its bombing range there.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 - Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
2013 - Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Births

626 - Eanflæd, English nun and saint (died 685)
1603 - Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Minister of Defence (died 1685)
1613 - Christoph Bach, German musician (died 1661)
1658 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (died 1716)
1660 - Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer (died 1716)
1665 - Jacques Lelong, French author (died 1721)
1686 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (died 1750)
1715 - James Nares, English organist and composer (died 1783)
1721 - Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (died 1793)
1734 - Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian violinist and composer (died 1786)
1757 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (died 1833)
1758 - William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (died 1831)
1785 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (died 1858)
1787 - Deaf Smith, American soldier (died 1837)
1793 - Ferdinand I of Austria (died 1875)
1806 - Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer (died 1883)
1814 - Louis Amédée Achard, French journalist and author (died 1875)
1832 - José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
1835 - Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (died 1888)
1863 - Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (died 1940)
1873 - Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (died 1967)
1874 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (died 1952)
1877 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (died 1934)
1879 - Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner (died 1957)
1882 - Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (died 1954)
1883 - Henry Jameson, American soccer player (died 1938)
1883 - Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (died 1953)
1885 - Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (died 1975)
1889 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (died 1946)
1891 - Françoise Rosay, French actress (died 1974)
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator (died 1983)
1894 - Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (died 1966)
1897 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)
1897 - Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian (died 2013)
1897 - Constance Talmadge, American actress and producer (died 1973)
1899 - George O'Brien, American actor and singer (died 1985)
1899 - Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (died 1968)
1900 - Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1976)
1900 - Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (died 1991)
1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author and screenwriter (died 1989)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (died 1957)
1907 - Alan Wheatley, English actor (died 1991)
1908 - Irena Eichlerówna, Polish actress (died 1990)
1912 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
1913 - Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower and coach (died 1984)
1917 - Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (died 2012)
1919 - Sol Kaplan, American pianist and composer (died 1990)
1920 - Gene Leis, American guitarist, composer, and producer (died 1993)
1920 - Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (died 2015)
1920 - John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (died 2012)
1920 - Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (died 2013)
1920 - Marian Winters, American actress (died 1978)
1921 - Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (died 2006)
1921 - Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal and theologian (died 2015)
1922 - Erich Hartmann, German colonel and pilot (died 1993)
1925 - John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor (died 2011)
1925 - Hugh O'Brian, American actor
1926 - Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (died 1997)
1928 - John Horlock, English engineer and academic (died 2015)
1928 - Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society) (died 1984)
1930 - Ewan Jamieson, New Zealand air marshal (died 2013)
1930 - Dick Sargent, American actor (died 1994)
1931 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (died 2004)
1932 - Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
1933 - Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (died 1967)
1933 - Philip Lavallin Wroughton, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
1934 - Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1989)
1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, screenwriter, and composer (died 2002)
1935 - Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
1936 - Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2013)
1936 - Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (died 2013)
1937 - Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author
1937 - Elinor Donahue, American actress
1937 - Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor, producer, and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
1938 - Stanley Fish, American theorist, author, and scholar
1939 - E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant, judge, and politician (died 2013)
1940 - Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (died 1977)
1940 - Genya Ravan, American singer-songwriter and producer (Goldie and the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 - Priit Aimla, Estonian author, poet, and playwright
1941 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
1941 - Michel Roux, French-English chef and author
1941 - Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (died 1992)
1942 - Bas Jan Ader, Dutch-American photographer and director (died 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, American-Dutch businessman
1943 - Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
1943 - Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (died 2014)
1943 - Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
1944 - Keith Erickson, American basketball player and sportscaster
1944 - James Heckman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 - Bernie Worrell, American keyboard player and songwriter (Parliament-Funkadelic, Praxis, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains)
1946 - Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist, author, and activist (died 2006)
1946 - Tim Curry, English actor
1946 - Euphrosyne Doxiadis, Greek-French painter and author
1946 - Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
1947 - Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
1947 - Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara, English civil servant
1947 - Yan Pascal Tortelier, French violinist and conductor
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 (died 1993)
1950 - Julia Cleverdon, English businesswoman and philanthropist
1951 - Barry Brown, American actor and playwright (died 1978)
1951 - Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature
1951 - Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 - Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (died 2009)
1952 - Tony Plana, Cuban-American actor and director
1952 - Michael Trend, English journalist and politician
1953 - Rod Morgenstein, American drummer (Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam)
1953 - Sara Simeoni, Italian high jumper
1953 - Ruby Wax, British-based American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
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
1956 - Anne Glover, Scottish biologist and academic
1957 - Tony Martin, English singer-songwriter (Black Sabbath, Giuntini Project, and Empire)
1958 - Steve Antin, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 - Stevie B, American singer-songwriter and record producer
1958 - Denis O'Brien, Irish businessman, founded BT Ireland
1958 - Vytautas apranauskas, Lithuanian actor (died 2013)
1958 - Keith Shine, British academic and educator
1959 - Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, English activist
1959 - Teofisto Guingona III, Filipino lawyer and politician
1959 - Donald Markwell, Australian sociologist and academic
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 - Alan Kirschenbaum, American producer and writer (died 2012)
1961 - Albert Martinez, Filipino actor, director, and producer
1961 - Spike Owen, American baseball player and coach
1961 - Richard Phelps, English pentathlete
1962 - Al Unser Jr., American race car driver
1964 - Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer and coach
1964 - Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano and actress
1965 - Suge Knight, American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records
1966 - Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress
1966 - Brett J. Gladman, Canadian astronomer and academic
1966 - David La Haye, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 - Julia Neigel, Russian-German singer-songwriter and producer
1966 - Paul Reiffel, Australian cricketer and umpire
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 - Ashley Judd, American actress and activist
1969 - Andrew Carnie, Canadian-American linguist, author, and academic
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 actor, director, and screenwriter
1971 - You Hee-yeol, South Korean singer-songwriter (Toy)
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1972 - Jeff Wilkins, American football player
1973 - Michael Bacall, American screenwriter and actor
1973 - George Gregan, Zambian-Australian rugby player and coach
1973 - Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
1975 - Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer and coach
1975 - Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
1976 - Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation and Maiden uniteD)
1976 - Scott Padgett, American basketball player, coach, and radio host
1976 - Kim Young-oh, South Korean author and illustrator
1977 - Joe Beimel, American baseball player
1977 - Anju Bobby George, Indian long jumper
1977 - Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1977 - Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
1977 - Jonny Storm, English wrestler and trainer
1978 - James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 - Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1978 - Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator
1979 - Rocky Bernard, American football player
1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress
1979 - Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
1980 - Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter
1980 - Robyn Regehr, Brazilian-Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian-American actor and producer
1981 - Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
1981 - Martin Havlát, Czech ice hockey player
1981 - Kasie Head, American model and actress, 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 - Filip Jícha, Czech handball player
1982 - Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter
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 - Christopher Pearce, English cricketer
1985 - Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
1985 - Jan Zimmermann, German footballer
1986 - Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
1986 - Zhou Mi, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor (Super Junior-M and SM the Ballad)
1986 - Candace Parker, American basketball player
1986 - Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
1986 - Will Thursfield, English-Australian footballer
1987 - David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter
1987 - Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer
1987 - Joe Hart, English footballer
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 singer and actress (AKB48 and no3b)
1989 - Dominik Mader, German footballer
1989 - Kristen O'Connor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 - Sam Tordoff, English racing driver
1989 - Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
1990 - Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player
1990 - Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
1990 - Héctor Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer
1990 - Kim Him-chan, South Korean singer and dancer (bornA.P)
1990 - Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
1990 - Patrick Wiegers, German footballer
1991 - Steve Cook, English footballer
1991 - Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player
1992 - Paul-José M'Poku, Belgian footballer

Deaths

1012 - Alfheah of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint (born 954)
1044 - Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine, (born 967)
1054 - Pope Leo IX (born 1002)
1321 - Gerasimus I of Constantinople
1390 - Robert II of Scotland (born 1316)
1560 - Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (born 1497)
1567 - Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (born 1487)
1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (born 1530)
1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (born 1528)
1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1536)
1618 - Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (born 1566)
1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born 1582)
1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (born 1610)
1689 - Christina, Queen of Sweden (born 1626)
1733 - Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (born 1655)
1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (born 1682)
1768 - Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (born 1697)
1776 - Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (born 1697)
1791 - Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (born 1723)
1813 - Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (born 1745)
1824 - Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (born 1788)
1831 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1765)
1833 - James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1756)
1840 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (born 1777)
1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (born 1774)
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1804)
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (born 1809)
1892 - Pelham Dale, English priest (born 1821)
1893 - Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (born 1817)
1901 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (born 1839)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
1906 - Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (born 1839)
1916 - Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (born 1839)
1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (born 1874)
1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
1937 - Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (born 1856)
1937 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (born 1865)
1941 - Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (born 1878)
1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (born 1877)
1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (born 1886)
1955 - Jim Corbett, Indian colonel, hunter, and author (born 1875)
1958 - Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (born 1899)
1960 - Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (born 1894)
1961 - Max Hainle, German swimmer (born 1882)
1967 - Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1876)
1971 - Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (born 1913)
1975 - Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (born 1899)
1987 - Hugh Brannum, American vocalist, arranger, composer and actor (born 1910)
1989 - Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (born 1907)
1991 - Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (born 1905)
1992 - Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (born 1917)
1993 - David Koresh, American religious leader (born 1959)
1993 - George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (born 1941)
1997 - Eldon Hoke, American singer and drummer (Mentors and The Screamers) (born 1958)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (born 1919)
2000 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (born 1918)
2001 - Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (born 1912)
2002 - Reginald Rose, American writer (born 1920)
2003 - Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (born 1928)
2004 - Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (born 1925)
2004 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (born 1920)
2005 - George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (born 1941)
2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (born 1911)
2005 - Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor and author (born 1929)
2005 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (born 1946)
2006 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (born 1921)
2007 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (born 1932)
2007 - Helen Walton, American businesswomen (born 1919)
2008 - John Marzano, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1963)
2008 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (born 1935)
2009 - J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. (born 1930)
2010 - Guru, American rapper, producer, and actor (Gang Starr) (born 1961)
2010 - Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (born 1981)
2010 - Carl Williams, Australian murderer and drug trafficker (born 1970)
2011 - Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (born 1946)
2011 - Chet Allen, American actor (born 1928)
2012 - Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (born 1927)
2012 - Greg Ham, Australian saxophonist, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work) (born 1953)
2012 - Levon Helm, American singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, instrumentalist and actor (The Band) (born 1940)
2012 - Murtaza Razvi, Pakistani journalist (born 1964)
2012 - Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (born 1949)
2013 - Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (born 1936)
2013 - Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (born 1918)
2013 - Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (born 1940)
2013 - Patrick Garland, English actor and director (born 1935)
2013 - François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
2013 - E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (born 1930)
2013 - Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (born 1924)
2013 - Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist (born 1986)
2014 - Bashir Ahmad, Indian-Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (born 1940)
2014 - Lindy Berry, American football player (born 1927)
2014 - Ian McIntyre, Scottish journalist and producer (born 1930)
2014 - Sonia Silvestre, Dominican singer (born 1952)
2014 - Frits Thors, Dutch journalist (born 1909)
2015 - Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (born 1919)
2015 - William Price Fox, American journalist and author (born 1926)
2015 - Freddie Gray, American victim of police brutality (born 1989)
2015 - Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (born 1924)
2015 - Tom McCabe, Scottish social worker and politician (born 1954)
2016 - Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (born 1918)