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January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years).
Events
- 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
- 639 – Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned.
- 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
- 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- 1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
- 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
- 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
- 1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
- 1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
- 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
- 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
- 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
- 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
- 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
- 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
- 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
- 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
- 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
- 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
- 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- 1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
- 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
- 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
- 1953 – 71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
- 1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
- 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
- 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
- 1977 – Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
- 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
- 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
- 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
- 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
- 1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
- 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
- 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
- 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
- 2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
- 2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
- 2013 – A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards.
Births
- 398 or 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d. 453)
- 1544 – Francis II of France, French monarch (d. 1560)
- 1676 – John Weldon, English composer (d. 1736)
- 1721 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
- 1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
- 1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian castrato, composer, and educator (d. 1802)
- 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (d. 1808)
- 1752 – James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
- 1757 – Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (d. 1831)
- 1788 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
- 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
- 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
- 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general (d. 1870)
- 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
- 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (d. 1849)
- 1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (d. 1898)
- 1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1875)
- 1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
- 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
- 1848 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1904)
- 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
- 1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
- 1863 – Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
- 1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1906)
- 1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
- 1876 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
- 1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
- 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
- 1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian author and terrorist (d. 1925)
- 1887 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (d. 1943)
- 1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
- 1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Soviet mathematician (d. 1971)
- 1909 – Hans Hotter, German opera singer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
- 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Soviet economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
- 1914 – Bob Gerard, English race car driver (d. 1990)
- 1917 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
- 1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Bernard Dunstan, English painter
- 1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat, 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- 1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
- 1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Nina Bawden, English author (d. 2012)
- 1926 – George Ives, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Jim Line, American basketball player (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
- 1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
- 1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author
- 1932 – Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Richard Lester, American-English director
- 1933 – George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian
- 1934 – Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist
- 1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
- 1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
- 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
- 1937 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
- 1937 – Fred J. Lincoln, American porn director, producer, screenwriter, actor, editor and cinematographer (d. 2013)
- 1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)
- 1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1937 – Appadurai Muttulingam, Sri Lankan Tamil author
- 1939 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (d. 1992)
- 1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Tony Anholt, Singaporean-English actor (d. 2002)
- 1941 – Colin Gunton, English theologian (d. 2003)
- 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
- 1942 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
- 1942 – Thom Mayne, American architect, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
- 1942 – Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet and politician
- 1942 – John Stanley, English politician
- 1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai actress
- 1943 – Larry Clark, American writer and film director
- 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 1970)
- 1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
- 1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
- 1944 – Laurie London, English singer
- 1944 – Peter Lynch, American businessman
- 1944 – Dan Reeves, American football player and coach
- 1945 – Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Audience and The Nashville Teens)
- 1946 – Julian Barnes, English author
- 1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1947 – Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist
- 1947 – Christine Allsopp, English Anglican priest former Archdeacon of Northampton,
- 1947 – Ann Compton, American journalist
- 1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and author
- 1947 – Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter (Deep Purple and Captain Beyond)
- 1947 – Patricia Hodgson, English broadcasting executive
- 1948 – Amanda Holden, English musician and librettist
- 1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
- 1948 – Mal Reilly, English rugby player and coach
- 1949 – Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (d. 2012)
- 1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Power Station) (d. 2003)
- 1949 – Lindsay Roy, British politician
- 1949 – Andrew Samuels, English psychoanalist and writer
- 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
- 1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
- 1950 – Jon Matlack, American baseball player
- 1950 – Grant Nordman, American-Canadian politician
- 1950 – David Tredinnick, English politician
- 1951 – Graham James English Anglican Bishop of Norwich
- 1951 – Arthur Taxier, American actor
- 1951 – Martha Davis American singer/songwriter
- 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
- 1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
- 1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
- 1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
- 1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
- 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and director
- 1955 – Tony Mansfield, English songwriter, musician and record producer
- 1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
- 1955 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American actor and comedian
- 1956 – Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host
- 1957 – Ottis Anderson, American football player
- 1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician, 13th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
- 1958 – Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012)
- 1959 – Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Dokken, Dio, and Foreigner)
- 1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
- 1961 – Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer and co-founder of Red or Dead
- 1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
- 1962 – Chris Sabo, American baseball player
- 1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach
- 1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
- 1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist
- 1963 – John Bercow, English politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (UK)
- 1963 – Caron Wheeler, English singer-songwriter (Soul II Soul)
- 1963 – Luís Martins, Portuguese football coach
- 1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer
- 1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
- 1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
- 1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 – DJ Sun, American Musician/DJ
- 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
- 1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
- 1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
- 1968 – Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter (Ugly Kid Joe, Medication, Another Animal, and Life of Agony)
- 1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author
- 1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
- 1969 – Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
- 1969 – Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
- 1969 – Casey Sherman, American author
- 1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
- 1970 – Tim Foster, English rower
- 1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
- 1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer (UltraCats)
- 1970 – Steffen Freund, German footballer and coach.
- 1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
- 1971 – John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Marcy Playground)
- 1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1972 – Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
- 1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress
- 1972 – Jon Fisher, American businessman and author
- 1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
- 1972 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak canoe racer
- 1972 – R-Truth, American wrestler
- 1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian footballer and race car driver
- 1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
- 1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
- 1973 – Aaron Yonda, American comedian, actor, and director
- 1974 – Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian
- 1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
- 1975 – Noah Georgeson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1975 – Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player
- 1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
- 1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian race car driver
- 1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor
- 1977 – Cocco, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Margus Maiste, Estonian architect
- 1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
- 1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
- 1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer
- 1979 – Wiley, English rapper and producer (Roll Deep)
- 1980 – Jenson Button, English race car driver
- 1980 – Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer
- 1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor and singer
- 1980 – Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Lucho González, Argentine footballer
- 1981 – Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
- 1981 – Andrus Mitt, Estonian football and beach soccer player
- 1981 – Jaanus Nõmmsalu, Estonian volleyball player
- 1981 – Kerby Raymundo, Filipino basketball player
- 1981 – Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
- 1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
- 1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
- 1983 – Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
- 1984 – Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian race car driver
- 1984 – Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer
- 1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Jake Allen, American football player
- 1985 – Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
- 1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
- 1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine race car driver
- 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Ongaku Gatas, v-u-den, and Hangry & Angry)
- 1985 – Aleksandr Nikulin, Russian footballer
- 1986 – Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
- 1986 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1986 – Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer
- 1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
- 1987 – Angus Monfries, Australian footballer
- 1988 – JaVale McGee, American basketball player
- 1988 – Yusuke Yamamoto, Japanese actor
- 1991 – Corinna Harrer, German runner
- 1991 – Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player
- 1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
- 1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
- 1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor
- 1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper and producer
- 1993 – Gus Lewis, American-English actor
- 1993 – Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer
- 1994 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
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Deaths
- 520 – John of Cappadocia
- 639 – Dagobert I, Frankish king (b. 603)
- 1526 – Isabella of Austria (b. 1501)
- 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
- 1576 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (b. 1494)
- 1597 – Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (b. 1540)
- 1661 – Thomas Venner, English rebel leader (b. 1599)
- 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
- 1755 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist (b. 1683)
- 1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar (b. 1674)
- 1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (b. 1695)
- 1785 – Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (b. 1713)
- 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
- 1833 – Ferdinand Hérold, French composer (b. 1791)
- 1847 – Charles Bent, American politician, 1st Governor of New Mexico (b. 1799)
- 1847 – Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772)
- 1851 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine poet and author (b. 1805)
- 1853 – Karl Faber, German historian (b. 1773)
- 1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
- 1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
- 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
- 1878 – Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
- 1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1906 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
- 1915 – Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
- 1925 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (b. 1841)
- 1927 – Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
- 1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
- 1938 – Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
- 1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
- 1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
- 1957 – József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian politician and activist (b. 1912)
- 1963 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
- 1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
- 1965 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
- 1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
- 1969 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (b. 1948)
- 1971 – Harry Shields, American clarinet player (b. 1899)
- 1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
- 1973 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (b. 1903)
- 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
- 1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1886)
- 1980 – William O. Douglas, American jurist (b. 1898)
- 1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
- 1983 – Ham the Chimp, Cameroonian-American chimpanzee (b. 1956)
- 1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
- 1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. 1927)
- 1990 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian mystic and guru (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
- 1991 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian scientist (b. 1918)
- 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 1996 – Don Simpson, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1943)
- 1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1997 – James Dickey, American poet and author (b. 1923)
- 1998 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
- 1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (b. 1967)
- 2000 – Bettino Craxi, Italian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
- 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and mathematician (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
- 2004 – Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (b. 1917)
- 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
- 2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand union leader (b. 1924)
- 2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African author (b. 1974)
- 2005 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
- 2006 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (The Falcons) (b. 1941)
- 2006 – Awn Alsharif Qasim, Sudanese author and scholar (b. 1933)
- 2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- 2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
- 2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas and The Halifax III) (b. 1940)
- 2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
- 2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
- 2008 – John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
- 2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1936)
- 2010 – Jennifer Lyon, American contestant on Survivor: Palau (b. 1972)
- 2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Ernest McCulloch, Canadian biologist (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (b. 1982)
- 2013 – Anatoly Bannik, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Mehnaz Begum, Pakistani singer (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Milt Bolling, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2013 – John Braheny, American singer-songwriter and author (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Happy Fernandez, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Abderrahim Goumri, Moroccan runner (b. 1976)
- 2013 – Viggo Hagstrøm, Norwegian scholar (b. 1954)
- 2013 – Basil Hirschowitz, American gastroenterologist (b. 1925)
- 2013 – İsmet Hürmüzlü, Iraqi-Turkish actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Jim Marking, American basketball coach (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Steven Muller, German-American academic (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (b. 1926)
- 2013 – A. Rafiq, Indonesian singer and actor (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Marcel Sisniega Campbell, Mexican chess player (b. 1959)
- 2013 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Ian Wells, English footballer (b. 1964)
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