Events

12 BC - The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
632 - The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
845 - Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra
961 - Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
1204 - The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1665 - The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 - York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 - The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1899 - Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 - Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
1912 - Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1921 - Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 - International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943 - Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 - World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 - Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 - Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
1962 - Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 - Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 - Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 - The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
1968 - Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1970 - An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 - For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 - After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 - The first United States Football League game is played.
1984 - In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority [but never all] of the country's mineworkers.
1987 - The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 - Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 - Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 - A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

Births

1340 - John of Gaunt (died 1399)
1405 - John II of Castile (died 1454)
1459 - Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (died 1525)
1475 - Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1564)
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (died 1540)
1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and diplomat (died 1556)
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (died 1655)
1663 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and poet (died 1732)
1706 - George Pocock, English admiral (died 1792)
1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (died 1779)
1724 - Henry Laurens, English-American merchant and politician, 5th President of the Continental Congress (died 1792)
1761 - Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat (died 1828)
1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, Swiss-French general (died 1869)
1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (died 1826)
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator (died 1861)
1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch Company (died 1895)
1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (died 1907)
1818 - William Claflin, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1905)
1823 - Charles I of Württemberg (died 1891)
1831 - Philip Sheridan, American general (died 1888)
1834 - George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (died 1896)
1841 - Viktor Burenin, Russian author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1926)
1849 - Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (died 1923)
1864 - Richard Rushall, British businessman (died 1953)
1870 - Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor (died 1954)
1871 - Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1937)
1872 - Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (died 1938)
1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (died 1980)
1882 - Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer (died 1956)
1884 - Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (died 1959)
1885 - Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (died 1933)
1886 - Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1983)
1891 - Lidia Quaranta, Italian actress (died 1928)
1893 - Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981)
1895 - Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (died 1976)
1898 - Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler (died 1944)
1900 - Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress (died 2001)
1900 - Lefty Grove, American baseball player (died 1975)
1900 - Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author (died 1970)
1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (died 1960)
1905 - Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter (died 1975)
1906 - Lou Costello, American actor, singer, and producer (died 1959)
1909 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 1987)
1910 - Ella Logan, Scottish-American singer and actress (died 1969)
1913 - Louise Latimer, American actress (died 1973)
1914 - Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (died 1981)
1915 - Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 2014)
1917 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (died 2003)
1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (died 2005)
1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian, actor, and singer (died 1992)
1920 - Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1921 - Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (died 2014)
1923 - Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (died 2009)
1923 - Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (Montgomery Brothers) (died 1968)
1924 - Ottmar Walter, German footballer (died 2013)
1924 - William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist, 14th Director of Central Intelligence
1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist and politician
1926 - Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (died 2013)
1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
1927 - William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (died 2005)
1927 - Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (died 2004)
1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
1929 - Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 2013)
1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2014)
1931 - Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (died 2013)
1932 - Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (died 2010)
1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (died 2004)
1933 - William Davis, German-English journalist and economist
1934 - Red Simpson, American singer-songwriter (died 2016)
1935 - Ron Delany, Irish runner and coach
1935 - Lisa Gaye, American actress (died 2016)
1936 - Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (died 2002)
1936 - Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (died 2014)
1936 - Sylvia Robinson, American singer and producer (Mickey and Sylvia) (died 2011)
1936 - Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos
1937 - Ivan Boesky, American businessman
1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
1938 - Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician, 17th Japanese Minister of Justice
1939 - Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri
1939 - Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria
1939 - Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (died 2003)
1939 - Cookie Rojas, Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager
1940 - Ken Danby, Canadian painter (died 2007)
1940 - Joanna Miles, French-American actress
1940 - Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (died 2001)
1940 - Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker
1941 - Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist and clarinet player (Last Exit)
1941 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (died 1963)
1941 - Marilyn Strathern, Welsh anthropologist and academic
1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor
1942 - Flora Purim, Brazilian singer (Return to Forever)
1944 - Richard Corliss, American journalist and critic (died 2015)
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano and actress
1944 - Mary Wilson, American singer and actress (The Supremes)
1945 - Angelo Castro, Jr., Filipino actor and journalist (died 2012)
1946 - David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd, Joker's Wild, and Deep End)
1946 - Martin Kove, American actor and producer
1946 - Richard Noble, Scottish race car driver and businessman
1947 - Kiki Dee, English singer-songwriter
1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, director, and producer
1947 - Jean Seaton, English historian and academic
1947 - John Stossel, American journalist and author
1948 - Anna Maria Horsford, American actress, director, and producer
1948 - Stephen Schwartz, American composer and producer
1949 - Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan
1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer and manager
1950 - Arthur Roche, English archbishop
1950 - Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese voice actor (died 2006)
1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (died 2004)
1952 - John David Carson, American actor (died 2009)
1953 - Phil Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Blasters)
1953 - Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (died 1992)
1953 - Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal
1953 - Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and academic
1954 - Joey DeMaio, American bass player and songwriter (Manowar)
1954 - Jeff Greenwald, American author, photographer, and monologist
1954 - Harald Schumacher, German footballer and manager
1955 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (died 1994)
1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (died 2015)
1956 - Steve Vizard, Australian comedian, producer, and television host
1958 - Eddie Deezen, American actor
1959 - Tom Arnold, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1959 - Michael Carmine, American actor (died 1989)
1959 - Chris Raschka, American author and illustrator
1960 - Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player and coach
1960 - Cecilia Heyes, English psychologist and academic
1962 - Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican comedian and actor (died 2014)
1963 - Suzanne Crough, American actress (died 2015)
1963 - D. L. Hughley, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1964 - Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Forbidden, Slayer, Testament, and Systematic)
1964 - Skip Ewing, American singer-songwriter
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American keyboard player (Marilyn Manson)
1964 - Yvette Wilson, American comedian and actress (died 2012)
1965 - Jim Knight, English politician
1966 - Alan Davies, English comedian and actor
1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentinian ballet dancer and director
1967 - Connie Britton, American actress, singer, and producer
1967 - Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer
1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress and director
1968 - Michael Romeo, American guitarist and songwriter (Symphony X)
1969 - Andrea Elson, American actress
1970 - Gretchen Barretto, Filipino actress and singer
1970 - Chris Broderick, American guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth and Jag Panzer)
1971 - Darrick Martin, American basketball player and coach
1971 - Val Venis, Canadian-American wrestler
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player, actor, and rapper
1972 - Jaret Reddick, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Bowling for Soup and People on Vacation)
1973 - Michael Finley, American basketball player
1973 - Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Opeth)
1973 - Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
1973 - Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 - Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Elbow)
1974 - Beanie Sigel, American rapper (State Property)
1975 - Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer
1975 - Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor
1976 - Ken Anderson, American wrestler and actor
1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
1977 - Bubba Sparxxx, American rapper
1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player and coach
1978 - Lara Cox, Australian actress
1978 - Sage Rosenfels, American football player
1978 - Chad Wicks, American wrestler
1979 - Clint Barmes, American baseball player
1979 - Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
1979 - David Flair, American wrestler
1979 - Tim Howard, American soccer player
1980 - Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress
1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
1984 - Becky, Japanese-English singer and actress
1984 - Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer
1984 - Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician
1984 - Chris Tomson, American drummer (Vampire Weekend)
1984 - Edmund Yeo, Singaporean-Malaysian director and producer
1985 - Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer
1985 - Yael Stone, Australian actress
1986 - Jake Arrieta, American baseball player
1986 - Francisco Cervelli, Italian baseball player
1986 - Timothy DeLaGhetto, American rapper and actor
1986 - Ross Detwiler, American baseball player
1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor
1986 - Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer
1987 - Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer
1987 - José Manuel Flores, Spanish footballer
1987 - Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
1988 - Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
1988 - Isabelle Daza, Filipino model and actress
1988 - Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
1990 - Linn Haug, Norwegian snowboarder
1990 - Kirk Urso, American soccer player (died 2012)
1991 - Lex Luger, American keyboard player and producer (Low Pros)
1991 - Emma McDougall, English footballer (died 2013)
1991 - Tyler, The Creator, American rapper, producer, and actor (Odd Future)
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese actress and singer (Berryz Kobo, ZYX, and Buono!)
1993 - Kristo Mangelsoo, Estonian basketball player
1993 - Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer
1994 - Nathan Redmond, English footballer
1994 - Marcus Smart, American basketball player
1995 - Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer

Deaths

766 - Chrodegang, Frankish bishop and saint
1052 - Emma of Normandy (born 985)
1252 - Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (born 1235)
1490 - Ivan the Young, Russian son of Ivan III of Russia (born 1458)
1531 - Pedro Arias Dávila, Spanish explorer and diplomat (born 1440)
1616 - Francis Beaumont, English playwright (born 1584)
1754 - Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1694)
1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (born 1705)
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (born 1690)
1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French historian and author (born 1713)
1836 - Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:
1842 - Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1763)
1854 - Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and diplomat, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (born 1778)
1866 - William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (born 1794)
1867 - Charles Farrar Browne, American-English author and educator (born 1834)
1881 - Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (born 1801)
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American author and poet (born 1832)
1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian author (born 1813)
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (born 1834)
1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (born 1818)
1917 - Valdemar Psilander Danish actor (born 1884)
1919 - Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (born 1882)
1932 - John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (born 1854)
1933 - Anton Cermak, Czech-American lawyer and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (born 1873)
1935 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (born 1841)
1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (born 1852)
1941 - Francis Aveling, Canadian priest, psychologist, and author (born 1875)
1941 - Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor and academic, designed Mount Rushmore (born 1867)
1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American author, poet, and academic (born 1914)
1950 - Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (born 1871)
1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (born 1893)
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1880)
1952 - Jürgen Stroop, German general (born 1895)
1955 - Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician (born 1884)
1959 - Fred Stone, American actor (born 1873)
1961 - George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor (born 1904)
1964 - Paul of Greece (born 1901)
1964 - Edward Van Sloan, American actor (born 1882)
1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress and singer (born 1889)
1967 - John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (born 1865)
1967 - Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (born 1901)
1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (born 1882)
1970 - William Hopper, American actor (born 1915)
1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
1974 - Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (born 1924)
1976 - Mary Petty, American illustrator (born 1899)
1976 - Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (born 1903)
1977 - Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (born 1903)
1978 - Dennis Viollet, English-American soccer player and manager (born 1933)
1981 - George Geary, English cricketer and coach (born 1893)
1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (born 1905)
1984 - Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (born 1961)
1984 - Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (born 1892)
1984 - Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (born 1893)
1984 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor and producer (born 1905)
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (born 1887)
1988 - Mairéad Farrell, Irish soldier (born 1957)
1988 - Daniel McCann, Irish soldier (born 1957)
1988 - Seán Savage, Irish soldier (born 1965)
1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (born 1920)
1997 - Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (born 1918)
1997 - Michael Manley, Jamaican soldier, pilot, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (born 1924)
1997 - Ursula Torday, English author (born 1912)
1999 - Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (born 1933)
2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (born 1928)
2001 - Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor (born 1934)
2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (born 1968)
2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1969)
2004 - Hercules, American wrestler (born 1957)
2004 - Frances Dee, American actress and singer (born 1909)
2005 - Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
2005 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer (born 1920)
2005 - Tommy Vance, English radio host (born 1943)
2005 - Teresa Wright, American actress (born 1918)
2006 - Anne Braden, American journalist and activist (born 1924)
2006 - King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (born 1945)
2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1960)
2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, singer, and activist (born 1961)
2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (born 1929)
2007 - Allen Coage, American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1943)
2007 - Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E and J Gallo Winery (born 1909)
2008 - Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (born 1918)
2009 - Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (born 1964)
2009 - Susan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean businesswoman (born 1959)
2010 - Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (born 1984)
2010 - Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sparklehorse) (born 1962)
2010 - Betty Millard, American philanthropist and activist (born 1911)
2012 - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (born 1937)
2012 - Louis J. Michot, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician (born 1922)
2012 - Donald M. Payne, American businessman and politician (born 1934)
2012 - Helen Walulik, American baseball player (born 1929)
2013 - Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr.) (born 1970)
2013 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
2013 - Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ten Years After) (born 1944)
2013 - W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (born 1930)
2014 - Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (born 1969)
2014 - Frank Jobe, American soldier and surgeon (born 1925)
2014 - Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1921)
2014 - Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (born 1946)
2014 - Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, author, and poet (born 1924)
2015 - Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (born 1928)
2015 - Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (born 1921)
2015 - Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player and politician (born 1926)
2016 - Kalabhavan Mani, Indian actor and singer (born 1971)
2016 - Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (born 1921)
2016 - Sheila Varian, American horse trainer and breeder (born 1937)