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August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
- 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo (Korea) during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.
- 1265 – Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
- 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
- 1532 – The Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France.
- 1578 – Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
- 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
- 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
- 1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
- 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
- 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
- 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
- 1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
- 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.
- 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
- 1863 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
- 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
- 1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
- 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
- 1906 – Central railway station, Sydney opens.
- 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
- 1915 – World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
- 1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
- 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
- 1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
- 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
- 1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
- 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
- 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
- 1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
- 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
- 1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
- 1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
- 1991 – The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
- 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
- 1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
- 2002 – Soham murders: 10-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
- 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
- 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
- 2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
- 2011 – Mark Duggan is shot and killed by Metropolitan Police in Tottenham, London, resulting in public protests and eventually four days of riots.
Births
- 1222 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)
- 1290 – Leopold I, Duke of Austria (d. 1326)
- 1521 – Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
- 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French cleric and author (d. 1676)
- 1701 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish historian and scholar (d. 1757)
- 1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
- 1721 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, Lord Privy Seal (d. 1803)
- 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter (d. 1805)
- 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
- 1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1865)
- 1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
- 1821 – James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1881)
- 1834 – John Venn, English logician and mathematician (d. 1923)
- 1839 – Walter Pater, English author, academic, and critic (d. 1894)
- 1844 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (d. 1929)
- 1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
- 1865 – Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)
- 1867 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1918)
- 1870 – Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970)
- 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic (d. 1949)
- 1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
- 1887 – Albert M. Greenfield, American businessman (d. 1967)
- 1888 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
- 1890 – Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1957)
- 1891 – Margit Makay, Hungarian actress (d. 1989)
- 1893 – Fritz Gause, German historian (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
- 1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
- 1901 – Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter and singer (d. 1971)
- 1901 – Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (d. 1969)
- 1904 – Helen Kane, American singer and actress (d. 1966)
- 1904 – Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Marie José of Belgium (d. 2001)
- 1906 – Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
- 1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American runner (d. 1988)
- 1909 – Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
- 1910 – Anita Page, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
- 1910 – William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1910 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
- 1912 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish architect and diplomat (d. 1947)
- 1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet and educator (d. 1980)
- 1915 – Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
- 1917 – John Fitch, American race car driver (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992)
- 1919 – Michel Déon, French author and playwright
- 1920 – Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2000)
- 1922 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Reg Grundy, Australian television producer
- 1926 – George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
- 1928 – Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Gerard Damiano, American director of adult films (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1987)
- 1930 – Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi Shi'a cleric
- 1931 – Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1932 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager
- 1934 – Allan Murdmaa, Estonian architect (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer (d. 1997)
- 1935 – Michael J. Noonan, Irish politician, 25th Minister of Defence for Ireland (d. 2013)
- 1935 – Carol Arthur, American producer and film/television actress
- 1937 – David Bedford, English keyboard player and composer (d. 2011)
- 1938 – Ellen Schrecker, American historian and educator
- 1939 – Frank Vincent, American actor
- 1940 – Larry Knechtel, American bass player (Bread and The Wrecking Crew) (d. 2009)
- 1940 – Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Martin Jarvis, English actor
- 1941 – Ted Strickland, American politician, 68th Governor of Ohio
- 1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Cleon Jones, American baseball player
- 1942 – David Lange, New Zealand politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician, 6th President of the Principality of Asturias
- 1943 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper and footballer
- 1944 – Amjad Islam Amjad, Pakistani poet, screenwriter, and songwriter
- 1944 – Richard Belzer, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1944 – Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
- 1945 – Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman
- 1946 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English hairdresser (d. 1994)
- 1946 – Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist and ethologist
- 1947 – Klaus Schulze, German keyboard player and songwriter (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and Cosmic Jokers)
- 1948 – Johnny Grubb, American baseball player and coach
- 1949 – John Riggins, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
- 1952 – Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (Clannad and T with the Maggies)
- 1952 – Gábor Demszky, Hungarian lawyer and politician
- 1953 – Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer and manager
- 1953 – Vini Reilly, English musician
- 1954 – Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine
- 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter
- 1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General
- 1955 – Dariusz Lipiński, Polish politician
- 1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (The Boxmasters)
- 1956 – Gerry Cooney, American boxer
- 1957 – Brooks D. Simpson, American historian and author
- 1957 – Valdis Valters, Latvian basketball player and coach
- 1957 – John Wark, Scottish footballer
- 1958 – Ian Broudie, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Lightning Seeds, Big in Japan, and Care)
- 1958 – Allison Hedge Coke, American poet
- 1958 – Mary Decker, American runner
- 1958 – Kym Karath, American actress and singer
- 1958 – Silvan Shalom, Israeli politician, 30th Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
- 1959 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (d. 2002)
- 1959 – John Gormley, Irish politician
- 1960 – Chuck C. Lopez, American jockey
- 1960 – Dean Malenko, American wrestler
- 1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
- 1960 – Bernard Rose, English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
- 1960 – Tim Winton, Australian author
- 1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender
- 1961 – Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1961 – Peter Reichert, German footballer
- 1961 – Lauren Tom, American actress
- 1962 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player and actor
- 1962 – Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls)
- 1964 – Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician
- 1964 – Gary King, English radio host
- 1964 – Anna Sui, American fashion designer
- 1965 – Terri Lyne Carrington, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
- 1965 – Crystal Chappell, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Dennis Lehane, American author
- 1965 – Wayne Pacelle, American humanitarian and author
- 1965 – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1965 – Michael Skibbe, German footballer and manager
- 1965 – James Tupper, Canadian actor
- 1966 – Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
- 1967 – Timothy Adams, American model and actor
- 1967 – Michael Marsh, American sprinter
- 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor
- 1968 – Lee Mack, English comedian and actor
- 1968 – Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model and actor
- 1969 – Mark Bickley, Australian footballer and coach
- 1969 – Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sepultura, Soulfly, Nailbomb, and Cavalera Conspiracy)
- 1969 – Michael DeLuise, American actor
- 1969 – Vlad Ivanov, Romanian actor
- 1969 – Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
- 1970 – John August, American director and screenwriter
- 1970 – Bret Baier, American journalist
- 1970 – Steve House, American mountaineer
- 1970 – Steven Jack, South African cricketer
- 1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
- 1972 – Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1973 – Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amaral)
- 1973 – Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
- 1973 – Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer
- 1973 – Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer
- 1974 – Kily González, Argentinian footballer
- 1974 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (d. 2001)
- 1975 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
- 1975 – Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1975 – Joe Saenz, American gangster
- 1975 – Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
- 1975 – Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
- 1976 – Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
- 1977 – Kazarian, American wrestler
- 1977 – Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
- 1978 – Jeremy Adduono, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Luke Allen, American baseball player
- 1978 – Victor Marius Beliciu, Romanian sitar player
- 1978 – Emmanuelle Boidron, French actor
- 1978 – Kurt Busch, American race car driver
- 1978 – Mick Cain, American actor
- 1978 – Agnė Eggerth, Lithuanian sprinter
- 1978 – Ibán Espadas, Spanish footballer
- 1978 – Shaunard Harts, American football player
- 1978 – Satoshi Hino, American-Japanese voice actor
- 1978 – Suja Irfan, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1978 – Benet Kaci, Kosovan journalist and singer
- 1978 – Jon Knott, American baseball player
- 1978 – Karine Legault, Canadian swimmer
- 1978 – Duane Ludwig, American mixed martial artist
- 1978 – Sandeep Naik, Indian politician
- 1978 – Danish Nawaz, Pakistani actor and director
- 1978 – Siri Nordby, Norwegian footballer
- 1978 – Talinda Nyathi, Botswanan footballer
- 1978 – JD Samson, American DJ and producer (Le Tigre, MEN, and The New England Roses)
- 1978 – Ricardo Serrano, Spanish cyclist
- 1978 – Per-Åge Skrøder, Norwegian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Michail Stifunin, Russian ice dancer
- 1979 – Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
- 1980 – Richard Dawson, English cricketer
- 1981 – Erica Carlson, Swedish actress
- 1981 – Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (IMx)
- 1981 – Jana Kolukanova, Estonian swimmer
- 1981 – Meghan Markle, American model and actress
- 1981 – Ben Scott, English cricketer
- 1981 – Abigail Spencer, American actress
- 1982 – Rubinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Greta Gerwig, American actress and screenwriter
- 1984 – Mardy Collins, American basketball player
- 1985 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1985 – Robbie Findley, American soccer player
- 1985 – Kina Grannis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1985 – Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
- 1985 – Ha Seung-Jin, South Korean basketball player
- 1985 – Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1986 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Nick Augusto, American drummer (Trivium)
- 1986 – Leon Camier, English motorcycle racer
- 1987 – Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
- 1987 – Phil Younghusband, English–Filipino footballer
- 1988 – Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress
- 1988 – Tom Parker, English singer (The Wanted)
- 1989 – Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
- 1989 – Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Young Divas)
- 1990 – Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
- 1991 – Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 – Lucinda Dryzek, English actress
- 1991 – River Viiperi, Spanish model
- 1992 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress
- 1992 – Yvonne Neuwirth, Austrian tennis player
- 1992 – Cole Sprouse, Italian-American actor
- 1992 – Dylan Sprouse, Italian-American actor
- 1993 – Saido Berahino, Burundian-English footballer
- 1994 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
- 1995 – Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
- 1995 – Jessica Sanchez, American singer
- 2001 – Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor
Deaths
- 966 – Berengar II of Italy (b. 900)
- 1060 – Henry I of France (b. 1008)
- 1113 – Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
- 1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
- 1306 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
- 1430 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
- 1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
- 1578 – Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
- 1578 – Thomas Stukley, English mercenary (b. 1520)
- 1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1520)
- 1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar and theologian (b. 1549)
- 1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican actor and playwright (b. 1581)
- 1718 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (b. 1656)
- 1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
- 1741 – Andrew Hamilton, Scottish-American lawyer and politician (b. 1676)
- 1778 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Canadian-French politician, Governor General of New France (b. 1698)
- 1792 – John Burgoyne, English general and politician (b. 1723)
- 1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1711)
- 1804 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish admiral (b. 1731)
- 1822 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (b. 1801)
- 1844 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (b. 1773)
- 1849 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1821)
- 1859 – John Vianney, French priest and saint (b. 1786)
- 1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
- 1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet (b. 1805)
- 1886 – Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814)
- 1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
- 1914 – Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
- 1919 – Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
- 1922 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman general (b. 1881)
- 1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
- 1940 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
- 1941 – Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet (b. 1883)
- 1942 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860)
- 1957 – Washington Luís, Brazilian politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
- 1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (b. 1883)
- 1959 – József Révai, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
- 1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- 1976 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop (b. 1923)
- 1976 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
- 1977 – Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
- 1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
- 1985 – Don Whillans, English mountaineer (b. 1933)
- 1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1996 – Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, broadcaster, and author (b. 1936)
- 1997 – Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian (b. 1875)
- 1998 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1999 – Victor Mature, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Leslie Glass, American porn actress and model (b. 1963)
- 2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Iván Szabó, Hungarian politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
- 2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
- 2008 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
- 2009 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1957)
- 2011 – Mark Duggan, English shooting victim (b. 1982)
- 2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Metin Erksan, Turkish director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Hanley Funderburk, American academic (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Con Houlihan, Irish journalist (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Bud Riley, American football player and coach (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Sherko Bekas, Iraqi poet (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Ronny Bruckner, Belgian businessman (b. 1957)
- 2013 – Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Dominick Harrod, English journalist (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Renato Ruggiero, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Stanisław Targosz, Polish general (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Billy Ward, Australian boxer (b. 1993)
- 2013 – Sandy Woodward, English admiral (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Tim Wright, American bass player (Pere Ubu and DNA) (b. 1950)
Holidays and observances
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