Events

33 BC - Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.
395 - Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
629 - Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 - First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 - Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 - Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1522 - Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
1539 - Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1565 - Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1578 - Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1595 - The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands
1650 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 - The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1749 - First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1805 - First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).
1810 - Beethoven composes Für Elise.
1813 - War of 1812: American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
1840 - Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
1861 - American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1865 - The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
1865 - The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
1904 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
1905 - Exposition Universelle at Liège is opened.
1906 - The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
1909 - Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1911 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1914 - Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1927 - Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
1936 - The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 - World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1941 - World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.
1945 - World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
1945 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1950 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
1953 - Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
1960 - Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
1961 - Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
1967 - Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1969 - Last day of Charles De Gaulle in office [1][2]
1974 - Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
1977 - Twenty-eight people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1978 - Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1986 - The city of Pripyat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
1987 - The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1989 - The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 - Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 - The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 - All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 - South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
1996 - The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
2002 - The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
2005 - The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
2007 - Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2011 - The April 25-28 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2012 - At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2014 - Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954.
2014 - A tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States kills 35 people.

Births

1650 - Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (died 1714)
1701 - Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (died 1773)
1718 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-American surveyor and lawyer (died 1790)
1737 - Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (died 1794)
1748 - Adamantios Korais, Greek-French philosopher and scholar (died 1833)
1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (died 1836)
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (died 1797)
1788 - Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist, and writer (died 1863)
1791 - Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (died 1872)
1806 - Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (died 1878)
1812 - William W. Snow, American lawyer and politician (died 1886)
1812 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (died 1883)
1820 - Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1903)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (died 1885)
1840 - Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, author, and illustrator (died 1911)
1848 - Otto of Bavaria (died 1916)
1850 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general and politician (died 1921)
1853 - Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (died 1914)
1857 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1914)
1861 - William Arms Fisher, American composer and music historian (died 1948)
1862 - Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-American actor (died 1930)
1866 - Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (died 1916)
1875 - Frederick Fane, Irish-born, English cricketer (died 1960)
1876 - Con Leahy, Irish athlete (died 1921)
1877 - Frank Gotch, American wrestler (died 1917)
1878 - John Rimmer, English runner (died 1962)
1880 - Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1958)
1882 - Jessie Redmon Fauset, American author and poet (died 1961)
1887 - Warren Wood, American golfer (died 1926)
1888 - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (died 1917)
1893 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1939)
1894 - George Petty, American painter and illustrator (died 1975)
1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1995)
1896 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1963)
1896 - William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (died 1978)
1896 - Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor of nylon (died 1937)
1898 - Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator (died 1962)
1899 - Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (died 1994)
1900 - August Koern, Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile (died 1989)
1902 - Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist (died 1942)
1903 - Horace Stoneham, American businessman (died 1990)
1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (died 1972)
1904 - Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (died 1973)
1905 - John Kuck, American javelin thrower and shot putter (died 1986)
1906 - Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (died 1966)
1910 - Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (died 1988)
1911 - Bruno Beger, German anthropologist and ethnologist (died 2009)
1911 - Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter and footballer (died 1965)
1912 - Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (died 2001)
1912 - Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (died 2014)
1913 - Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (died 2004)
1913 - Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (died 2012)
1913 - Luz Long, German long jumper and soldier (died 1943)
1916 - Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr., American sergeant, lawyer, and judge (died 2013)
1916 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager (died 2002)
1917 - Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (died 2001)
1918 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish lawyer and jurist (died 2008)
1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (died 1956)
1920 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (died 1997)
1920 - James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 2010)
1920 - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet and translator (died 2010)
1921 - Robert Dhéry, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2004)
1921 - John Stott, English clergyman and theologian (died 2011)
1922 - Martin Gray, Polish author and purported Holocaust survivor (died 2016)
1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor (died 2012)
1922 - Sheila Scott, English nurse and pilot (died 1988)
1923 - Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, Seminole chief (died 2011)
1924 - Vernon born Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (died 2013)
1925 - Derek Chinnery, English broadcaster (died 2015)
1926 - Tim LaHaye, American minister, activist, and author
1926 - Basil A. Paterson, American lawyer and politician, 59th Secretary of State of New York (died 2014)
1926 - Alan Reynolds, English painter and educator (died 2014)
1927 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and author (died 2006)
1927 - Joe Moakley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2001)
1929 - Nina Ponomaryova, Russian discus thrower and coach
1931 - Robert Donner, American actor (died 2006)
1931 - Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist and educator
1932 - Anouk Aimée, French actress
1932 - Pik Botha, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States
1932 - Maxine Brown, American singer-songwriter (The Browns)
1932 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey, music historian, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40 (died 2014)
1932 - Chuck Knox, American football coach
1932 - Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (died 2015)
1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (died 1999)
1933 - Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert, English police officer and politician, Lord Lieutenant for Greater London
1934 - Brennan Manning, American priest and author (died 2013)
1934 - Jean Valentine, American poet
1935 - Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
1935 - Ron Morris, American pole vaulter and coach
1936 - Geoffrey Shovelton, English singer and illustrator
1937 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (died 1992)
1937 - Robin Eames, Irish archbishop
1937 - Richard Perham, English biologist and academic (died 2015)
1938 - Earl Anthony, American bowler and sportscaster (died 2001)
1938 - Alain Caron, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1986)
1939 - Judy Carne, English actress (died 2015)
1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
1939 - Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer (Mashmakhan and April Wine)
1941 - Jennings Michael Burch, American author (died 2013)
1941 - Pat Choate, American economist and academic
1941 - Fethullah Gülen, Turkish preacher and theologian
1941 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
1942 - Ruth Glick, American author
1942 - Jim Keltner, American drummer (Traveling Wilburys, Plastic Ono Band, and Delaney & Bonnie and Friends)
1943 - Helmut Marko, Austrian race car driver and manager
1944 - Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, English academic and politician
1944 - Michael Fish, English meteorologist and journalist
1944 - Cuba Gooding Sr., American singer (The Main Ingredient)
1944 - Herb Pedersen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Desert Rose Band and The Dillards)
1945 - Martin Chivers, English footballer and manager
1945 - Jack Deverell, English general
1945 - Helen Hodgman, Scottish-Australian author
1945 - August Wilson, American author and playwright (died 2005)
1946 - Franz Roth, German footballer
1946 - Nicholas Serota, English historian and curator
1946 - Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (died 2013)
1947 - G. K. Butterfield, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
1947 - Nick Greiner, Hungarian-Australian politician, 37th Premier of New South Wales
1947 - Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (died 1975)
1947 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2003)
1947 - Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
1948 - Frank Abagnale, American businessman
1948 - Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
1948 - Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer, coach, and manager
1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The B-52's and NiNa)
1948 - Si Robertson, American soldier, hunter, and television personality
1949 - Grant Chapman, Australian businessman and politician
1950 - Paul Lockyer, Australian journalist (died 2011)
1951 - Ace Frehley, American guitarist and songwriter (Kiss, Wicked Lester, and Frehley's Comet)
1952 - Larry Elder, American lawyer and talk show host
1952 - George Gervin, American basketball player
1952 - Ari Vatanen, Finnish race car driver and politician
1953 - Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and model
1954 - Frank Bainimarama, Fijian commander and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Fiji
1954 - Herman Edwards, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1954 - Mark Holden, Australian singer, actor, and lawyer
1955 - Gudrun Berend, German hurdler (died 2011)
1955 - Eric Schmidt, American engineer and businessman
1956 - Bryan Harvey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (House of Freaks) (died 2006)
1956 - Bridget Kendall, English journalist and talk show host
1956 - Jeff Probyn, English rugby player, coach, and manager
1957 - Willie Upshaw, American baseball player and manager
1959 - Sheena Easton, Scottish-American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
1959 - Louis Lortie, Canadian-German pianist and educator
1959 - Marco Pirroni, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Adam and the Ants, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Wolfmen, Rema-Rema, and Spear of Destiny)
1960 - Mike Krushelnyski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 - Andrew Schlafly, American lawyer and activist, founded Conservapedia
1962 - Ángel Comizzo, Argentinian footballer and manager
1962 - James LeGros, American actor
1962 - Seppo Räty, Finnish javelin thrower and coach
1962 - Robin S., American singer-songwriter
1962 - Im Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter
1962 - Andrew Selous, English soldier and politician
1963 - Russell T Davies, Welsh screenwriter and producer
1964 - Alison Etheridge, English academician and educator
1964 - Michael Mahonen, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1964 - Lisa Wilcox, American actress
1965 - Anna Chancellor, English actress
1966 - Peter McIntyre, Australian cricketer
1966 - Vyacheslav Oliynyk, Ukrainian wrestler
1966 - Matt Reeves, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese illustrator
1967 - Aki Avni, Israeli actor
1967 - Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1967 - Tommy Smith, Scottish saxophonist, composer, and educator
1967 - Erik Thomson, Scottish-New Zealand actor
1967 - Jason Whitlock, American football player and journalist
1968 - Dana Milbank, American journalist and author
1969 - Cory Booker, American lawyer and politician
1969 - Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
1969 - Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
1969 - Tess Daly, English model and television host
1969 - Vladimir Kozlov, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor
1971 - Olari Elts, Estonian conductor
1972 - Nigel Barker, English photographer and author
1972 - Almedin Civa, Bosnian footballer and coach
1973 - Sharlee D'Angelo, Swedish bass player and songwriter (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, King Diamond, Witchery, Sinergy, and Mercyful Fate)
1973 - Sébastien Lareau, Canadian tennis player
1974 - Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player
1974 - Johnny Devine, Canadian wrestler
1974 - Richard Johnson, Australian footballer
1975 - Rabih Abdullah, American football player
1975 - Chris Carpenter, American baseball player and manager
1975 - Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
1975 - Koopsta Knicca, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia) (died 2015)
1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist (Belle and Sebastian)
1976 - Sally Hawkins, English actress
1976 - Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter, and critic
1976 - Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
1977 - Khalid Zoubaa, French runner
1979 - Will Boyd, American bass player (Evanescence, American Princes, and The Visitors)
1979 - Natasha Chokljat, Australian netball player
1980 - Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
1980 - Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
1980 - Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 - Ananda Mikola, Indonesian race car driver
1981 - Joey Gathright, American baseball player
1981 - Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1982 - François Parisien, Canadian cyclist
1982 - Alexander Widiker, German rugby player
1983 - Ari Graynor, American actress and producer
1983 - Martin Viiask, Estonian basketball player
1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Daniel Holdsworth, Australian rugby league player
1984 - Patrick Stump, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fall Out Boy and Arma Angelus)
1985 - José António de Miranda da Silva Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1985 - Meselech Melkamu, Ethiopian runner
1986 - Jenna Coleman, English actress
1986 - Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
1987 - Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player
1987 - William Moseley, English actor
1987 - Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
1987 - Wang Feifei, Chinese singer, dancer, and actress (Miss A)
1988 - Joeri Dequevy, Belgian footballer
1988 - Kris Thackray, English footballer
1988 - Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
1989 - Lars Bender, German footballer
1989 - Sven Bender, German footballer
1989 - Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (died 2013)
1989 - Tim Glasby, Australian rugby league player
1989 - Dmytro Kozban, Ukrainian footballer
1989 - Milagros Schmoll, Argentinian model
1990 - Austin Dillon, American race car driver
1990 - Erik Keedus, Estonian basketball player
1990 - Martin Kelly, English footballer
1991 - Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer
1992 - Allison Iraheta, American singer-songwriter (Halo Circus)
1995 - Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player

Deaths

630 - Ardashir III of Persia (born 621)
1272 - Zita, Italian saint (born 1212)
1404 - Philip the Bold, French son of John II of France (born 1342)
1463 - Isidore of Kiev (born 1385)
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese sailor and explorer (born 1480)
1599 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (born 1538)
1605 - Pope Leo XI (born 1535)
1613 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish priest and missionary (born 1532)
1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1596)
1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (born 1668)
1695 - John Trenchard, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1640)
1702 - Jean Bart, French admiral (born 1651)
1782 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (born 1710)
1813 - Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (born 1779)
1873 - William Macready, English actor and manager (born 1793)
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (born 1803)
1893 - John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1839)
1896 - Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (born 1815)
1915 - John Labatt, Canadian businessman (born 1838)
1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (born 1872)
1919 - Anton Irv, Estonian captain (born 1886)
1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (born 1899)
1936 - Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (born 1857)
1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (born 1891)
1938 - Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (born 1859)
1952 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician (born 1865)
1961 - Roy Del Ruth, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1893)
1962 - A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bangladeshi-Pakistani lawyer and politician, Pakistani Minister of the Interior (born 1873)
1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (born 1908)
1967 - William Douglas Cook, New Zealand farmer, founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum (born 1884)
1969 - René Barrientos, Bolivian soldier, pilot, and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (born 1919)
1970 - Arthur Shields, Irish-American actor (born 1896)
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (born 1909)
1973 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian race car driver and polo player (born 1914)
1977 - Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (born 1915)
1977 - Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1891)
1979 - Celal Atik, Turkish wrestler and trainer (born 1918)
1981 - Münir Nurettin Selçuk, Turkish tenor and actor (born 1900)
1988 - Fred Bear, American hunter and author (born 1902)
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (born 1894)
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (born 1908)
1992 - Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (born 1927)
1995 - Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (born 1911)
1995 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1921)
1996 - William Colby, American diplomat, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (born 1920)
1996 - Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (born 1911)
1998 - John Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1915)
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (born 1925)
1998 - Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (born 1907)
1998 - Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (born 1924)
1999 - Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1922)
1999 - Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian, author, and academic (born 1923)
1999 - Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (born 1914)
2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer (born 1954)
2002 - George Alec Effinger, American author (born 1947)
2002 - Ruth Handler, American inventor and businesswoman, created the Barbie doll (born 1916)
2005 - Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1909)
2006 - Julia Thorne, American author (born 1944)
2007 - Al Hunter Ashton, English actor and screenwriter (born 1957)
2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927)
2008 - Marios Tokas, Cypriot singer-songwriter (born 1954)
2009 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1939)
2009 - Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer (born 1914)
2009 - Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (born 1983)
2011 - Marian Mercer, American actress and singer (born 1935)
2012 - Daniel E. Boatwright, American soldier and politician (born 1930)
2012 - Anatoly Lebed, Estonian-Russian colonel (born 1963)
2012 - Harold Pupkewitz, Lithuanian-Namibian businessman (born 1915)
2012 - Bill Skowron, American baseball player (born 1930)
2013 - Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (born 1938)
2013 - Tony Byrne, Irish-Canadian boxer (born 1930)
2013 - Lorraine Copeland, Scottish archaeologist (born 1921)
2013 - Antonio Díaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (born 1969)
2013 - Jérôme Louis Heldring, Dutch journalist and author (born 1917)
2013 - Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (born 1916)
2013 - Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician, Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1948)
2014 - Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer, founded Yigal Arnon & Co. (born 1929)
2014 - Vujadin Bolkov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1931)
2014 - Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (born 1935)
2014 - Harry Firth, Australian race car driver and manager (born 1918)
2015 - Gene Fullmer, American boxer (born 1931)
2015 - Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer (born 1926)
2015 - Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (Nathan Mahl and Camel) (born 1960)
2015 - Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (born 1956)
2015 - Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (born 1924)
2016 - Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (born 1957)