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March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 37 – The Roman Senate annulled Tiberius's will and proclaimed Caligula emperor.
- 235 – Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea were murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ended.
- 633 – Ridda Wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.
- 1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declared himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
- 1241 – Mongols overwhelmed Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plundered the city.
- 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake.
- 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg became Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1608 – Susenyos was formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War began in the Colony of Virginia.
- 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sold his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
- 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George was burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
- 1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act.
- 1793 – The first republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, was declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- 1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England were sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- 1848 – The March Revolution went on in the German Confederation; in Berlin there was a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives. This started the revolution in Northern Germany.
- 1850 – American Express was founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
- 1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourned for the last time.
- 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, ordered evacuation of Paris.
- 1874 – Hawaii signed a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
- 1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledged to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
- 1906 – Traian Vuia flew a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at an altitude of one meter.
- 1913 – King George I of Greece was assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
- 1915 – World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships were sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
- 1921 – The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
- 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He served only 2 years.
- 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hit the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
- 1937 – The New London School explosion killed 300 people, mostly children.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeated the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 1937 – The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flew 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
- 1938 – Mexico nationalized all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
- 1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
- 1942 – The War Relocation Authority was established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
- 1944 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy killed 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
- 1945 – World War II: 1,250 American bombers attacked Berlin.
- 1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union were established.
- 1948 – Soviet consultants left Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito-Stalin split.
- 1953 – An earthquake hit western Turkey, killing 250 people.
- 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
- 1962 – The Evian Accords ended the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
- 1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, became the first person to walk in space.
- 1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the Cornish coast.
- 1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- 1969 – The United States began secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 1970 – Lon Nol ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- 1970 – The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history.
- 1971 – In Peru a landslide crashed into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
- 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations ended a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
- 1980 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people were killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
- 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy was found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
- 1990 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic voted in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
- 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans voted overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.
- 1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats signed the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines killed 162 people.
- 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane broke off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
Births
- 1395 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military commander (d. 1447)
- 1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
- 1555 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
- 1590 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
- 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659)
- 1602 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
- 1603 – Simon Bradstreet, English-American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1693)
- 1609 – Frederick III of Denmark, King of Denmark and Norway (d. 1670)
- 1634 – Madame de La Fayette, French author (d. 1693)
- 1640 – Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
- 1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (d. 1743)
- 1685 – Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
- 1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
- 1701 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (d. 1776)
- 1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811)
- 1780 – Miloš Obrenović I, Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
- 1782 – John C. Calhoun, American politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
- 1798 – Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872)
- 1813 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1864)
- 1814 – Jacob Bunn, American businessman (d. 1897)
- 1816 – Antonio Salviati, Italian lawyer and businessman (d. 1890)
- 1823 – Antoine Chanzy, French general (d. 1883)
- 1828 – Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
- 1837 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
- 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
- 1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
- 1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
- 1848 – Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, American engineer and architect (d. 1938)
- 1848 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (d. 1939)
- 1853 – Emilie Kempin-Spyri, Swiss lawyer and academic (d. 1901)
- 1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
- 1863 – William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
- 1869 – Neville Chamberlain, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
- 1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
- 1877 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
- 1877 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (d. 1945)
- 1878 – Percival Perry, English motor vehicle manufacturer, and chairman of Ford of Britain (d. 1956)
- 1882 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (d. 1973)
- 1884 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
- 1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1890 – Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Alice Cullen, Scottish politician (d. 1969)
- 1893 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
- 1893 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (d. 1918)
- 1898 – Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (d. 1960)
- 1901 – William H. Johnson, American painter (d. 1970)
- 1903 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Italy (d. 1944)
- 1904 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
- 1904 – Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (d. 1996)
- 1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
- 1907 – Rosita Moreno, Spanish actress (d. 1993)
- 1907 – John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997)
- 1908 – Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995)
- 1909 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (d. 2007)
- 1911 – Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
- 1911 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1967)
- 1912 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)
- 1913 – René Clément, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Reinhard Hardegen, German captain
- 1913 – Werner Mölders, German pilot (d. 1941)
- 1915 – Richard Condon, American author (d. 1996)
- 1918 – Bob Broeg, American journalist (d. 2005)
- 1919 – Christopher Challis, English cinematographer (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Frank Searle, Scottish photographer (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician
- 1922 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Andy Granatelli, American businessman
- 1925 – James Pickles, English judge and columnist (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1926 – Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, Indian poet
- 1927 – John Kander, American pianist and composer
- 1927 – George Plimpton, American journalist and actor (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Julia Mullock, American-Korean wife of Yi Gu
- 1928 – Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino politician, 12th President of the Philippines
- 1929 – Jacki Clérico, French businessman (d. 2013)
- 1929 – John Macurdy, American opera singer
- 1929 – Samuel Pisar, Polish-American lawyer and author
- 1929 – Michael Rowland, English-South African bishop (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Jack B. Sowards, American screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Pat Halcox, English trumpet player (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Howard Coble, American politician
- 1931 – John Fraser, Scottish actor
- 1931 – John Mollo, English costume designer and author
- 1932 – John Updike, American author, poet, and critic (d. 2009)
- 1934 – Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
- 1934 – Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian politician (d. 1997)
- 1935 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
- 1935 – Antonios Naguib, Egyptian patriarch
- 1936 – F. W. de Klerk, South African politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist
- 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
- 1938 – Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter
- 1938 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer
- 1938 – Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1938 – Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
- 1938 – Charley Pride, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1938 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006)
- 1939 – Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager
- 1939 – Yannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
- 1940 – József Tóth, Hungarian geographer and academic (d. 2013)
- 1941 – John W. Derr, American politician
- 1941 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (The Falcons) (d. 2006)
- 1942 – Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (d. 1991)
- 1943 – Kevin Dobson, American actor
- 1943 – Toula Grivas, French-Greek actress
- 1943 – Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1944 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military officer and politician (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Dick Smith, Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic
- 1945 – Joy Fielding, Canadian actress and author
- 1945 – Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
- 1945 – Michael Reagan, American radio host
- 1945 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and creator of The Alan Parsons Project (d. 2009)
- 1946 – Martyn Griffiths, English race car driver
- 1946 – Michel Leclère, French race car driver
- 1947 – Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright
- 1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor
- 1947 – Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
- 1947 – Heather Ryan, American model
- 1947 – B.J. Wilson, English drummer (Procol Harum) (d. 1990)
- 1948 – Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1948 – Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
- 1948 – Lockwood Phillips, American radio host
- 1949 – Alex Higgins, Irish snooker player (d. 2010)
- 1949 – Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician
- 1949 – Hannu Siitonen, Finnish javelin thrower
- 1950 – James Conlon, American conductor
- 1950 – Brad Dourif, American actor
- 1950 – John Hartman, American drummer (Doobie Brothers)
- 1950 – Rod Milburn, American hurdler (d. 1997)
- 1950 – Eiji Okuda, Japanese actor and director
- 1950 – Larry Perkins, Australian race car driver
- 1951 – Ben Cohen, American businessman co-founded Ben and Jerry's
- 1951 – Bill Frisell, American guitarist and composer
- 1951 – Mart Murdvee, Estonian psychologist and scholar
- 1952 – Will Durst, American journalist
- 1952 – Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
- 1952 – Bernie Tormé, Irish rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, record label and recording studio owner
- 1955 – Francis G. Slay, American politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis
- 1955 – Jeff Stelling, English sportscaster
- 1955 – Ana Obregón, Spanish actress, writer and biologist
- 1956 – Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler
- 1956 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (d. 2008)
- 1956 – Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier
- 1957 – Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist and astronaut
- 1957 – György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
- 1957 – Wolfgang Schilling, German footballer
- 1958 – Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist (d. 1990)
- 1959 – Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
- 1959 – Irene Cara, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1960 – Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1960 – Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1960 – James MacPherson, Scottish actor
- 1960 – James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player
- 1961 – Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hüsker Dü)
- 1961 – Todd Nelson, American tennis player
- 1961 – Tiffany Clark, American pornographic actress
- 1962 – Brian Fisher, American baseball player
- 1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor and martial artist
- 1962 – James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1962 – Mike Rowe, American television host
- 1962 – Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
- 1963 – Keith Brown, English cricketer
- 1963 – Jeff LaBar, American guitarist (Cinderella)
- 1963 – Vanessa L. Williams, American model, actress, and singer, Miss America 1984
- 1964 – Rozalla, Zambian singer
- 1964 – Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
- 1964 – Seymore Butts, American porn actor, director, and producer
- 1964 – Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver
- 1964 – Paul Elliott, English footballer
- 1964 – Courtney Pine, English saxophonist
- 1965 – Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete
- 1965 – Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress
- 1966 – Jerry Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alice in Chains)
- 1966 – Peter Jones, English businessman
- 1966 – Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi
- 1967 – Miki Berenyi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lush)
- 1967 – Ken Edenfield, American baseball player
- 1968 – Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême
- 1968 – Paul Marsden, English politician
- 1968 – Shin-ichiro Miki, Japanese voice actor
- 1969 – Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer
- 1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
- 1969 – J. David Shapiro, American actor, screenwriter, and director
- 1969 – Shaun Udal, English cricketer
- 1970 – Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress
- 1971 – Mariaan de Swardt, South African-American tennis player
- 1971 – Mike Bell, American wrestler (d. 2008)
- 1972 – Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
- 1972 – Anja Möllenbeck, German discus thrower
- 1972 – Reince Priebus, American lawyer and politician
- 1973 – Max Barry, Australian author
- 1973 – Luci Christian, American voice actress and screenwriter
- 1974 – Tina Križan, Slovenian tennis player
- 1974 – Evan Lowenstein, American singer-songwriter (Evan and Jaron)
- 1974 – Jaron Lowenstein, American singer-songwriter (Evan and Jaron)
- 1974 – Laure Savasta, French basketball player
- 1974 – Stuart Zender, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Jamiroquai)
- 1975 – Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1975 – Rodleen Getsic, American singer and actress
- 1975 – Brian Griese, American football player and sportscaster
- 1975 – Kimmo Timonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1975 – Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
- 1976 – Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress and producer
- 1976 – Jovan Kirovski, American soccer player and coach
- 1976 – Tomo Ohka, Japanese baseball player
- 1976 – Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
- 1976 – Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler, trainer, and author, founded Chikara wrestling promotion
- 1977 – Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1977 – Devin Lima, American singer (LFO)
- 1977 – Danny Murphy, English footballer
- 1977 – Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1977 – Willy Sagnol, French footballer
- 1977 – Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player
- 1978 – Jan Bulis, Czech ice hockey player
- 1978 – Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer
- 1978 – Antonio Margarito, American boxer
- 1978 – Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player
- 1978 – Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player
- 1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
- 1978 – Virginia Williams, American actress
- 1979 – Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer
- 1979 – Danneel Harris, American actress
- 1979 – Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Maroon 5)
- 1979 – Anthony Maher, American soccer player
- 1980 – Sébastien Frey, French footballer
- 1980 – Sophia Myles, English actress
- 1980 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
- 1981 – Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
- 1981 – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist
- 1981 – Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress
- 1981 – Kasib Powell, American basketball player
- 1981 – Tom Starke, German footballer
- 1981 – Doug Warren, American soccer player
- 1981 – Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player
- 1982 – Mantorras, Angolan footballer
- 1982 – Chad Cordero, American baseball player
- 1982 – Timo Glock, German race car driver
- 1982 – Adam Pally, American actor
- 1983 – Derrick Bateman, American wrestler
- 1983 – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player
- 1983 – Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
- 1983 – Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
- 1984 – Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
- 1984 – Simone Padoin, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Gary Roberts, English footballer
- 1984 – Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress
- 1985 – Gennaro Esposito, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian race car driver
- 1985 – Marvin Humes, English singer and actor (JLS and VS)
- 1985 – Vince Lia, Australian footballer
- 1986 – Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
- 1986 – Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player
- 1986 – Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian footballer
- 1987 – Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Rebecca Soni, American swimmer
- 1987 – Mauro Zárate, Argentinian footballer
- 1989 – Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Lily Collins, English-American actress
- 1989 – Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer
- 1989 – Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1990 – Corey Liuget, American football player
- 1991 – Dylan Mattingly, American composer
- 1993 – Urassaya Sperbund, Thai actress
- 1993 – Maziah Mahusin, Bruneian hurdler
- 1996 – Madeline Carroll, American actress
- 1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
Deaths
- 235 – Alexander Severus, Roman emperor (b. 208)
- 978 – Edward the Martyr, English king (b. 962)
- 1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
- 1314 – Jacques de Molay, Frankish knight (b. 1244)
- 1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
- 1689 – John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
- 1696 – Robert Charnock, English academic (b. 1663)
- 1715 – William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun. Scottish politician (b. 1654)
- 1745 – Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
- 1768 – Laurence Sterne, Irish clergyman and author (b. 1713)
- 1781 – Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French economist and politician (b. 1727)
- 1823 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
- 1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian diplomat (b. 1769)
- 1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician (b. 1806)
- 1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 1826)
- 1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
- 1913 – George I of Greece (b. 1845)
- 1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
- 1933 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (b. 1873)
- 1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
- 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
- 1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
- 1947 – William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
- 1956 – Louis Bromfield, American author and environmentalist (b. 1896)
- 1962 – Walter W. Bacon, American politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
- 1963 – Wanda Hawley, American actress and singer (b. 1895)
- 1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
- 1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
- 1965 – Jack Quinlan, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
- 1969 – Barbara Bates, American actress (b. 1925)
- 1973 – Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (b. 1880)
- 1975 – Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet (b. 1900)
- 1976 – Giuseppe Genco Russo, Italian mob boss (b. 1893)
- 1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
- 1977 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)
- 1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
- 1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
- 1982 – Patrick Smith, an Irish politician (b. 1901)
- 1983 – Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904)
- 1984 – Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
- 1986 – Bernard Malamud, American author (b. 1914)
- 1988 – Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player (b. 1917)
- 1990 – Robin Harris, American comedian and actor (b. 1953)
- 1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
- 1995 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (b. 1920)
- 1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
- 2000 – Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
- 2001 – Viktor Masing, Estonian botanist and ecologist (b. 1925)
- 2001 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
- 2002 – R. A. Lafferty, American author (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
- 2003 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Adam Osborne, Thai-English businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)
- 2004 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Michael Attwell, English actor (b. 1943)
- 2006 – Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948)
- 2008 – Andrew Britton, English-American author (b. 1981)
- 2008 – Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
- 2008 – Geoffrey Pearson, Canadian diplomat and author (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980)
- 2009 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
- 2010 – Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Warren Christopher, American politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (b. 1925)
- 2012 – George Tupou V, Tongan king (b. 1948)
- 2012 – Ustad Sibte Jaafar Zaidi, Pakistani academic (b. 1957)
- 2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Mindy Baha El Din, American-Egyptian environmentalist (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Henry Bromell, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Earl Hersh, American baseball player (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Robin M. Williams, New Zealand mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
Holidays and observances
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