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July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
- 645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
- 988 – The Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
- 1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
- 1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
- 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
- 1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1832 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
- 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- 1913 – Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
- 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
- 1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
- 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
- 1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
- 1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
- 1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
- 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1967 – New Zealand adopts decimal currency
- 1971 – Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
- 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
- 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1977 – Alexandr Zagirnyak and Gennadi Sheludko hijack a Tupolev Tu-134 en route from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad and try to force the pilot to fly to Sweden. The plane lands in Helsinki instead. The hijackers surrender the next day and are returned to the Soviet Union.
- 1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
- 1992 – In Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- 1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- 1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
- 2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
- 2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
- 2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
- 2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
- 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
- 2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
Births
- 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
- 1452 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
- 1509 – John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (d. 1564)
- 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571)
- 1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (d. 1660)
- 1614 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish politician (d. 1686)
- 1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
- 1638 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
- 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German theologian (d. 1711)
- 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1682 – Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German missionary (d. 1719)
- 1723 – William Blackstone, English jurist and politician (d. 1780)
- 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
- 1792 – George M. Dallas, American politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
- 1802 – Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)
- 1804 – Emma Smith, American religious leader (d. 1879)
- 1809 – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
- 1823 – Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1908)
- 1830 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
- 1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897)
- 1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1880)
- 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
- 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
- 1864 – Austin Chapman, Australian politician (d. 1926)
- 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden (d. 1929)
- 1871 – Marcel Proust, French author and critic (d. 1922)
- 1874 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
- 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (d. 1955)
- 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
- 1883 – Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright (d. 1952)
- 1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
- 1888 – Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (d. 1960)
- 1894 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (d. 1969)
- 1895 – Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
- 1896 – Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician (d. 1981)
- 1897 – Jack Diamond, American gangster (d. 1931)
- 1897 – Karl Plagge, German army officer and engineer (d. 1957)
- 1898 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress (d. 1975)
- 1899 – John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1936)
- 1899 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
- 1900 – Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993)
- 1900 – Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1903 – Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)
- 1903 – John Wyndham, English author (d. 1969)
- 1904 – Lili Damita, French-American actress (d. 1994)
- 1905 – Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (d. 2002)
- 1905 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German physician (d. 1948)
- 1907 – Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
- 1909 – Donald Sinclair, English businessman (d. 1981)
- 1913 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1985)
- 1913 – Elizabeth Inglis, British actress (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1992)
- 1916 – Judith Jasmin, Canadian journalist (d. 1972)
- 1917 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (d. 2009)
- 1920 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the Smiley (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Jeff Donnell, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1921 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer
- 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
- 1923 – John Bradley, American soldier (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Earl Hamner, Jr., American screenwriter and producer
- 1923 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author (d. 1987)
- 1924 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach
- 1924 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
- 1927 – David Dinkins, American politician, 106th Mayor of New York City
- 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli scholar (d. 2010)
- 1929 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician
- 1929 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Bruce Boa, Canadian-English actor (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Susan Cummings, German-American actress.
- 1931 – Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
- 1931 – Jerry Herman, American composer
- 1931 – Julian May, American author
- 1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian author
- 1932 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver
- 1933 – Jan DeGaetani, American soprano (d. 1989)
- 1934 – Jerry Nelson, American "Muppeteer" for Jim Henson's Muppets and voice actor (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Tura Satana, American actress and dancer (d. 2011)
- 1936 – Selwyn Baptiste, Trinidadian educator (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Tunne Kelam, Estonian politician
- 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect, designed the Osaka Maritime Museum and the National Grand Theater of China
- 1938 – Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
- 1939 – Phil Kelly, Irish footballer (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
- 1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Indian-English economist and politician
- 1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano
- 1940 – Tom Farmer, Scottish businessman
- 1940 – Brian Priestley, English pianist and composer
- 1941 – Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (d. 2012)
- 1941 – David G. Hartwell, American anthologist and author
- 1941 – Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell, and Elf) (d. 2010)
- 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Belarusian general, pilot, and astronaut
- 1942 – Sixto Rodriguez, Mexican American folk musician, singer-songwriter
- 1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
- 1944 – K. S. Balachandran, Sri Lankan-Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1945 – Ron Glass, American actor
- 1945 – Hal McRae American baseball player and manager
- 1945 – Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
- 1945 – John Motson, English sportscaster
- 1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré, French director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1945 – Virginia Wade, English tennis player
- 1946 – Sue Lyon, American actress
- 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1948 – Ronnie Cutrone, American painter (d. 2013)
- 1948 – Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1949 – Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer and author
- 1949 – Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
- 1949 – Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band)
- 1949 – Winston Rekert, Canadian actor (d. 2012)
- 1949 – John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (McFadden & Whitehead) (d. 2004)
- 1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1951 – Phyllis Smith, American actress
- 1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 – Kim Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Max Webster)
- 1952 – Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
- 1952 – Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
- 1953 – Rik Emmett, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Triumph and Strung-Out Troubadours)
- 1953 – Zoogz Rift, American guitarist (d. 2011)
- 1954 – Tommy Bowden, American football player and coach
- 1954 – Andre Dawson, American baseball player
- 1954 – Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys and Electronic)
- 1956 – Tom McClintock, American politician
- 1957 – Cindy Sheehan, American activist
- 1958 – Béla Fleck, American banjo player and songwriter (Sparrow Quartet, New Grass Revival, Strength in Numbers, and Trio!)
- 1958 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and director
- 1959 – Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer
- 1960 – Jeff Bergman, American voice actor
- 1960 – Seth Godin, American author
- 1961 – Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
- 1963 – Richard Waites, English actor
- 1964 – Martin Laurendeau, Canadian tennis player
- 1964 – Urban Meyer, American football player and coach
- 1964 – Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
- 1965 – Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
- 1965 – Alec Mapa, American actor
- 1965 – Scott McCarron, American golfer
- 1965 – Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1966 – Gina Bellman, New Zealand-English actress
- 1966 – Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1966 – Christian Stangl, Austrian mountaineer
- 1967 – Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter
- 1967 – Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
- 1967 – Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen performer
- 1967 – John Yoo, South Korean-American lawyer, author, and educator
- 1968 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian runner
- 1968 – Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
- 1969 – Jamie Glover, English actor
- 1969 – Gale Harold, American actor
- 1969 – Alexandra Hedison, American actress
- 1969 – Jonas Kaufmann, German tenor
- 1969 – Vicky Morales, Filipino journalist
- 1970 – Adam Hills, Australian comedian and actor
- 1970 – Gary LeVox, American singer-songwriter (Rascal Flatts)
- 1970 – Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Take That)
- 1970 – John Simm, English actor
- 1970 – Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
- 1971 – Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
- 1972 – Urve Palo, Estonian politician
- 1972 – Peter Serafinowicz, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress
- 1972 – Tilo Wolff, German-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Lacrimosa)
- 1973 – Annie Mumolo, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1975 – Andrew Firestone, American businessman
- 1975 – Brendan Gaughan, American race car driver
- 1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1975 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
- 1975 – Richard Westbrook, English race car driver
- 1976 – Edmílson, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist (Deadsy)
- 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- 1976 – Adrian Grenier, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1976 – Brendon Lade, Australian footballer and coach
- 1976 – Lars Ricken, German footballer
- 1977 – Schapelle Corby, Australian-Indonesian drug smuggler
- 1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
- 1977 – Jesse Lacey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brand New and Taking Back Sunday)
- 1977 – Gwendoline Yeo, Singaporean-American actress
- 1979 – Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
- 1980 – Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress
- 1980 – Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor and singer
- 1980 – Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Elfonía and Stream of Passion)
- 1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1980 – James Rolfe, American actor, director, and producer
- 1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
- 1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1982 – Alex Arrowsmith, American guitarist and producer (The Shaky Hands)
- 1982 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
- 1983 – Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Matthew Egan, Australian footballer
- 1983 – Joelson José Inácio, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Kim Heechul, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior and Super Junior-T)
- 1984 – María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian model, Miss World 2004
- 1984 – Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer
- 1985 – B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
- 1985 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
- 1985 – Park Chu-Young, South Korean footballer
- 1986 – Simenona Martinez, American actress
- 1987 – Brian Belo, English-Nigerian actor
- 1988 – Antonio Brown, American football player
- 1988 – Heather Hemmens, American actress
- 1991 – María Chacón, Mexican actress and singer (Play)
- 1991 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
- 1992 – Larissa Marolt, Austrian model
- 1993 – Carlon Jeffery, American actor
- 1993 – Perrie Edwards, English singer (Little Mix)
- 1998 – Haley Pullos, American actress
Deaths
- 138 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (b. 76)
- 645 – Soga no Iruka, Japanese politician
- 649 – Emperor Taizong of Tang (b. 598)
- 1103 – Eric I of Denmark (b. 1060)
- 1290 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
- 1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English commander (b. 1402)
- 1461 – Stephen Thomas of Bosnia (b.1412)
- 1480 – René of Anjou (b. 1410)
- 1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1584 – William the Silent, French prince (b. 1533)
- 1590 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
- 1594 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian organist and composer (b. 1554)
- 1603 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop (b. 1538)
- 1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, French commander (b. 1571)
- 1653 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
- 1680 – Louis Moréri, French priest (b. 1643)
- 1683 – François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
- 1686 – John Fell, English bishop and academic (b. 1625)
- 1776 – Richard Peters, English clergyman (b. 1704)
- 1794 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (d. 1754)
- 1806 – George Stubbs, English painter (b. 1724)
- 1848 – Karoline Jagemann, German actress and singer (b. 1777)
- 1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
- 1863 – Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
- 1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and educator (b. 1812)
- 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
- 1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
- 1920 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Sri Lankan-English admiral (b. 1841)
- 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1890)
- 1950 – Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (b. 1882)
- 1952 – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (b. 1893)
- 1954 – Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (b. 1877)
- 1956 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
- 1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
- 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
- 1971 – Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
- 1971 – George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1888)
- 1972 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1887)
- 1972 – Francis Gailey, Australian-American swimmer (b. 1882)
- 1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
- 1978 – John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)
- 1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 1981 – Ken McElroy, American murder victim (b. 1936)
- 1985 – Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
- 1986 – Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
- 1987 – John Hammond, American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)
- 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor and singer (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Ruth Krauss, American author (b. 1901)
- 1993 – Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Eno Raud, Estonian children's writer (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909)
- 2000 – Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
- 2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
- 2002 – Evangelos Florakis, Greek general (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Laurence Janifer, American author (b. 1933)
- 2003 – Winston Graham, English author (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician (b. 1942)
- 2003 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1902)
- 2004 – Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1922)
- 2005 – A. J. Quinnell, English author (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
- 2005 – Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio host (b. 1955)
- 2006 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel leader (b. 1965)
- 2007 – Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
- 2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese diplomat (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Dolphy, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Maria Cole, American singer (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Cheryll Heinze, American politician (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Peter Kyros, American politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Berthe Meijer, German-Dutch holocaust survivor and author (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Viktor Suslin, Russian composer (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Colin Bennetts, English bishop (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Philip Caldwell, American businessman (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Józef Gara, Polish linguist (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Ok-Hee Ku, South Korean golfer (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Ibrahim Youssef, Egyptian footballer (b. 1959)
Holidays and observances
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