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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 480 BC – Greeks defeat Persians in the Battle of Salamis
- 622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived Medina
- 1058 – Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
- 1066 – Battle of Fulford, Viking Harold Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin (both died in the battle)
- 1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1260 – the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
- 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
- 1498 – The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
- 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
- 1697 – The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
- 1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
- 1792 – French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
- 1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
- 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
- 1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
- 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
- 1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
- 1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy.
- 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
- 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
- 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
- 1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
- 1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
- 1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
- 1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
- 1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
- 1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
- 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
- 1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1962 – James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
- 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- 1970 – Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
- 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
- 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
- 1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- 1979 – A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
- 1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
- 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- 1985 – Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.
- 1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
- 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
- 2002 – The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
- 2003 – Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
- 2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
- 2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
- 2011 – The United States ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
Births
- 524 – Kan B'alam I, Mayan ruler (d. 583)
- 1161 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
- 1486 – Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502)
- 1593 – Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (d. 1661)
- 1599 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick (d. 1623)
- 1608 – Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (d. 1657)
- 1685 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
- 1746 – Maurice Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (d. 1786)
- 1758 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (d. 1806)
- 1778 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (d. 1852)
- 1800 – Benjamin Franklin White, American singer (d. 1879)
- 1820 – John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)
- 1831 – Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (d. 1917)
- 1833 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
- 1842 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (d. 1923)
- 1844 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
- 1851 – Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (d. 1929)
- 1853 – Chulalongkorn, Thai king (d. 1910)
- 1861 – Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
- 1872 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (d. 1958)
- 1873 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
- 1873 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
- 1878 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist and author (d. 1968)
- 1880 – Louise Peete, American murderer (d. 1947)
- 1884 – Maxwell Perkins, American publisher and editor (d. 1947)
- 1885 – Enrico Mizzi, Maltese politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1950)
- 1886 – Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1945)
- 1889 – Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (d. 1962)
- 1889 – Charles Reidpath, American runner (d. 1975)
- 1890 – Linda Eenpalu, Estonian politician and activist (d. 1967)
- 1892 – Roy Turk, American songwriter (d. 1934)
- 1893 – Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1958)
- 1893 – Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (d. 1962)
- 1899 – Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1902 – Stevie Smith, English author and poet (d. 1971)
- 1906 – Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Pandit Shri Ram Sharma Acharya, Indian philosopher (d. 1991)
- 1913 – John Collins, American guitarist (d. 2001)
- 1913 – Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Kenneth More, English actor and singer (d. 1982)
- 1915 – K. H. Ting, Chinese bishop (d. 2012)
- 1916 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
- 1917 – Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
- 1917 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Don Starr, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1920 – Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (d. 1989)
- 1921 – Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013)
- 1922 – William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
- 1923 – Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-American poet and author (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (d. 1992)
- 1924 – Gogi Grant, American singer and actress
- 1924 – Albert Marre, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer
- 1925 – James Bernard, English composer (d. 2001)
- 1925 – Ananda Mahidol, Thai king (d. 1946)
- 1925 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters and The Robins) (d. 1986)
- 1926 – Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
- 1927 – Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (d. 1966)
- 1927 – John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (d. 1992)
- 1927 – Rachel Roberts, Welsh-American actress and singer (d. 1980)
- 1928 – Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Donald Hall, American poet, author, and critic
- 1928 – Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
- 1929 – Anne Meara, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1930 – Eddie Bo, American singer and pianist (d. 2009)
- 1931 – Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1933 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Steve McCall, American drummer (Air) (d. 1989)
- 1934 – Takayuki Kubota, Japanese martial artist
- 1934 – Sophia Loren, Italian-Swiss actress and singer
- 1935 – David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1935 – Keith Roberts, English author (d. 2000)
- 1935 – Jim Taylor, American football player
- 1936 – Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (d. 2012)
- 1937 – Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden
- 1937 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
- 1938 – Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (Stuff) (d. 1994)
- 1939 – Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
- 1940 – Tarō Asō, Japanese politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
- 1940 – William Finley, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Dale Chihuly, American sculptor
- 1941 – Jim Cullum, Jr., American cornet player (Jim Cullum Jazz Band)
- 1941 – Alix de Lannoy, Belgian mother of Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Sammy McMillan, Northern Irish footballer
- 1942 – Gérald Tremblay, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Montreal
- 1946 – Pete Coors, American businessman and politician
- 1946 – Markandey Katju, Indian judge
- 1947 – Billy Bang, American violinist and composer (d. 2011)
- 1947 – Jude Deveraux, American author
- 1947 – Steve Gerber, American author (d. 2008)
- 1947 – Wojciech Kurtyka, Polish mountaineer
- 1947 – Mia Martini, Italian singer and actress (d. 1995)
- 1947 – Chris Ortloff, American politician
- 1947 – Bruce Pasternack, American businessman
- 1947 – Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author
- 1948 – George R. R. Martin, American author, screenwriter, and producer
- 1948 – Chuck Panozzo, American bass player (Styx)
- 1948 – John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx) (d. 1996)
- 1949 – Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1949 – Anthony Denison, American actor
- 1951 – Cornelia Behm, German politician
- 1951 – Joanna Cameron, American actress
- 1951 – Mike Graham, American wrestler (d. 2012)
- 1951 – Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951 – Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic
- 1954 – Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom
- 1956 – Gary Cole, American actor
- 1956 – Steve Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
- 1956 – John Harle, English saxophonist, composer, conductor, and producer
- 1956 – Debbi Morgan, American actress
- 1957 – Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter (Thompson Twins)
- 1957 – Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director
- 1958 – Arn Anderson, American wrestler and author
- 1959 – Joanna Domańska, Polish pianist and educator
- 1960 – Deborah Roberts, American journalist
- 1960 – Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter (The Beautiful South and The Housemartins)
- 1961 – Lisa Bloom, American lawyer
- 1963 – Robert LaSardo, American actor
- 1964 – Randy Bradbury, American bass player (Pennywise and One Hit Wonder)
- 1964 – Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
- 1965 – Robert Rusler, American actor
- 1966 – Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Extreme, Satellite Party, DramaGods, and Mourning Widows)
- 1967 – Martin Harrison, American football player
- 1967 – Kristen Johnston, American actress
- 1967 – Gunnar Nelson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nelson)
- 1967 – Matthew Nelson, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Nelson)
- 1968 – Van Jones, American lawyer and activist
- 1968 – Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
- 1968 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
- 1968 – Ben Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Soundgarden, Hater, and Wellwater Conspiracy)
- 1969 – Victoria Dillard, American actress
- 1969 – Megumi Kudo, Japanese wrestler
- 1969 – Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sloan)
- 1969 – Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (You Am I)
- 1969 – Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer
- 1971 – Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach
- 1971 – Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese composer
- 1971 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager
- 1971 – Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers and Nouveau Riche)
- 1972 – Sergio Di Zio, Canadian actor
- 1972 – Victor Ponta, Romanian jurist and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Romania
- 1973 – Ronald McKinnon, American football player
- 1974 – Michael Waddington, American lawyer
- 1975 – Asia Argento, Italian actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1975 – Moon Bloodgood, American actress
- 1975 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
- 1975 – Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer (Cosmologic, Cross Border Trio, Groundation, and Trummerflora Collective)
- 1976 – Jon Bernthal, American actor
- 1976 – Agata Buzek, Polish actress
- 1976 – Yo Hitoto, Japanese singer
- 1976 – Yui Horie, Japanese voice actress and singer (Aice5)
- 1976 – Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
- 1976 – Reuben Singh, English businessman
- 1977 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer, dancer, and actress (Super Monkey's and Suite Chic)
- 1977 – Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic
- 1978 – Jason Bay, Canadian-American baseball player
- 1978 – Patrizio Buanne, Austrian-Italian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1978 – Héctor Camacho, Jr., Puerto Rican-American boxer
- 1978 – Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
- 1978 – Dante Hall, American football player
- 1978 – T. J. Tucker, American baseball player
- 1979 – Sean Davis, English footballer
- 1979 – Rakel Liekki, Finnish porn actress and journalist
- 1979 – Dan Gillespie Sells, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Feeling and Speedway)
- 1979 – Wilfried Tevoedjre, Beninese swimmer
- 1980 – Mariacarla Boscono, Italian model
- 1980 – Ryan Donowho, American actor and producer
- 1980 – Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
- 1980 – Jonathan Le Billon, English actor
- 1980 – Mehrzad Marashi, German singer
- 1980 – Madison Young, American porn actress and director, founded Femina Potens Art Gallery
- 1981 – Joanie Dodds, American model
- 1981 – Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
- 1981 – David McMillan, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1981 – Jordan Tata, American baseball player
- 1982 – Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Aaron Burkart, German race car driver
- 1982 – Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer
- 1982 – Sarah Glendening, American actress
- 1982 – Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer
- 1983 – A-Lin, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Yuna Ito, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- 1983 – Freya Murray, Scottish runner
- 1983 – Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1984 – Brian Joubert, French figure skater
- 1985 – Ian Desmond, American baseball player
- 1986 – Aldis Hodge, American actor
- 1987 – Gain, South Korean singer and actress (Brown Eyed Girls)
- 1987 – Jack Lawless, American drummer (Ocean Grove)
- 1987 – Sarah Natochenny, American voice actress
- 1987 – Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
- 1988 – Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Marilou, Canadian singer
- 1990 – Erich Gonzales, Filipino actress
- 1990 – Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1990 – John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 – Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer
- 1991 – Spencer Locke, American actress
- 1992 – Amidu Salifu, Ghanaian footballer
- 1995 – Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
- 1995 – Sammi Hanratty, American actress and singer
Deaths
- 1246 – Michael of Chernigov (b. 1185)
- 1384 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)
- 1460 – Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
- 1586 – John Ballard, English priest
- 1586 – Chidiock Tichborne, English poet (b. 1558)
- 1590 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (b. 1534)
- 1625 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
- 1627 – Jan Gruter, Dutch critic and scholar (b. 1560)
- 1630 – Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1586)
- 1639 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch scholar (b. 1579)
- 1643 – Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (b. 1610)
- 1684 – Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (b. 1634)
- 1721 – Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (b. 1640)
- 1793 – Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant (b. 1764)
- 1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
- 1815 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)
- 1839 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
- 1840 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
- 1845 – Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer (b. 1780)
- 1852 – Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
- 1855 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
- 1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist, jurist, and author (b. 1785)
- 1884 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b. 1802)
- 1898 – Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
- 1906 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
- 1908 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1927 – George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
- 1930 – Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (b. 1873)
- 1932 – Wovoka, American religious leader, founded the Ghost Dance Movement (b. 1856)
- 1933 – Annie Besant, English activist (b. 1847)
- 1939 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (b. 1855)
- 1945 – Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician (b. 1869)
- 1945 – William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (b. 1884)
- 1945 – Jack Thayer, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1894)
- 1945 – Eduard Wirths, German physician (b. 1909)
- 1946 – Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
- 1947 – Fiorello La Guardia, American politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
- 1948 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (b. 1881)
- 1957 – Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (b. 1885)
- 1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
- 1958 – Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, pianist, and composer (b. 1892)
- 1962 – Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (b. 1889)
- 1970 – Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
- 1971 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1972 – Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
- 1973 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
- 1973 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (b. 1909)
- 1975 – Saint-John Perse, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1979 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
- 1980 – Hayashiya Sanpei I, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
- 1984 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
- 1985 – Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American author (b. 1907)
- 1985 – Ruhi Su, Turkish singer-songwriter and bağlama player (b. 1912)
- 1987 – Michael Stewart, American playwright (b. 1924)
- 1989 – Richie Ginther, American race car driver (b. 1930)
- 1993 – Erich Hartmann, German pilot (b. 1922)
- 1994 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
- 1994 – Jule Styne, English-American composer (b. 1905)
- 1996 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician (b. 1913)
- 1996 – Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (b. 1929)
- 1996 – Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (b. 1914)
- 1996 – Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
- 1997 – Matt Christopher, American author (b. 1917)
- 1997 – Nick Traina, American singer-songwriter (Link 80) (b. 1978)
- 1998 – Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Raisa Gorbachova, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
- 1999 – Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
- 2000 – Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
- 2002 – Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1971)
- 2003 – Gordon Mitchell, American bodybuilder and actor (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1941)
- 2004 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (b. 1922)
- 2004 – Kalmer Tennosaar, Estonian singer and journalist (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian holocaust survivor (b. 1908)
- 2006 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
- 2006 – John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
- 2010 – Leonard Skinner, American educator (b. 1933)
- 2011 – Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Robert G. Barrett, Australian author (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Richard H. Cracroft, American academic and author (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Gianfranco Dell'Innocenti, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Ulla Lock, Danish actress (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Paul O'Connor, Irish hurler (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Dinesh Thakur, Indian actor and director (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Tereska Torrès, French author (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Dorothy Wedderburn, English academic (b. 1925)
- 2013 – D. J. R. Bruckner, American journalist and critic (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Carolyn Cassady, American author (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Robert W. Ford, English diplomat (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Robert L. Reymond, American theologian and author (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American wrestler (b. 1914)
- 2013 – James B. Vaught, American general (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist (b. 1957)
Holidays and observances
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