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January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of the year (359 in leap years).
Events
- 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
- 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
- 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
- 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
- 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
- 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 1970 – The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
- 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
- 1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
- 1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
- 1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
- 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
- 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- 1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- 2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
- 2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
Births
- 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
- 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
- 1528 – Jeanne d'Albret, French wife of Antoine of Navarre (d. 1572)
- 1634 – Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666)
- 1647 – William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- 1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (d. 1761)
- 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- 1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian director (d. 1785)
- 1718 – Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790)
- 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral (d. 1823)
- 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, Italian brother of Napoleon (d. 1844)
- 1786 – John Catron, American jurist (d. 1865)
- 1796 – Princess Charlotte of Wales (d. 1817)
- 1800 – Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
- 1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
- 1832 – James Munro, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
- 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
- 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)
- 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous, French mystic and saint (d. 1879)
- 1845 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer (d. 1922)
- 1860 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
- 1864 – Seo Jae-pil, Korean independence activists, journalist (d. 1951)
- 1870 – Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, English judge and politician, 7th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1943)
- 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
- 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet (d. 1914)
- 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976)
- 1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
- 1875 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
- 1876 – William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
- 1879 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (d. 1941)
- 1880 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (d. 1957)
- 1885 – Edwin Swatek, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1953)
- 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian-American dancer (d. 1982)
- 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and author (d. 1960)
- 1895 – Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (d. 1974)
- 1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
- 1896 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (d. 1984)
- 1899 – Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (d. 1941)
- 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
- 1900 – John Brownlee, Australian opera singer (d. 1969)
- 1900 – Robert Le Vigan, French actor (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1906 – Bobbi Trout, American pilot (d. 2003)
- 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harp player (d. 1993)
- 1908 – Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967)
- 1910 – Orval Faubus, American politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor and composer (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1916 – W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan Tamil geographer and academic (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
- 1921 – Chester Kallman, American poet (d. 1975)
- 1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
- 1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000)
- 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor
- 1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentine race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1924 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1973)
- 1925 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist, and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995)
- 1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea
- 1928 – William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter
- 1929 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Terry Moore, American actress
- 1930 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
- 1933 – Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
- 1934 – Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter
- 1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
- 1935 – Kenny Davern, American clarinet player (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tuba player (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut
- 1935 – Ducky Schofield, American baseball player
- 1936 – G. Robert Blakey, American lawyer
- 1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
- 1936 – Hunter Davies, Scottish author and journalist
- 1936 – Ian La Frenais, English screenwriter
- 1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
- 1938 – Maureen MacGlashan, British former diplomat
- 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, and actor (d. 1997)
- 1938 – Fred Whitfield, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Tom Kiernan, Irish former rugby player
- 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
- 1941 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, American astronaut
- 1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German-American soccer player and coach
- 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
- 1942 – Danny Steinmann, American director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Richard Armstrong, English conductor
- 1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (d. 1955)
- 1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sportscaster
- 1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian lawyer, politician, and judge
- 1945 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician
- 1945 – Raila Odinga, Kenyan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya
- 1946 – Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist and author
- 1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone
- 1946 – Mike Wilds, English race car driver
- 1947 – Shobhaa De, Indian columnist and author
- 1947 – Tony Elliott, English publisher
- 1947 – Stuart Hampson, British businessman
- 1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter (Loggins and Messina)
- 1948 – Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (JAM Project)
- 1949 – Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Chavo Guerrero, Sr., Mexican-American wrestler
- 1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
- 1949 – Steven Williams, American actor
- 1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Erin Gray, American actress
- 1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
- 1950 – Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
- 1951 – Massimo Sigala, Italian racing driver
- 1951 – Helen Worth, English actress
- 1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
- 1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Alan Butcher, English former cricketer
- 1954 – Jodi Long, American actress
- 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban pianist and composer
- 1956 – David Caruso, American actor and producer
- 1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- 1956 – Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1957 – Nicholson Baker, American author
- 1957 – Katie Couric, American journalist and author
- 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress
- 1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1958 – Donna Rice Hughes, American actress and activist
- 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress
- 1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (Hot Club de Norvège)
- 1959 – Ross Norman, New Zealander former squash player
- 1959 – Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English politician
- 1959 – Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter (The Go-Go's)
- 1960 – David Marciano, American actor
- 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician
- 1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
- 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
- 1961 – John Thune, American politician
- 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian sociologist
- 1962 – Hallie Todd, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1963 – Clint Mansell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pop Will Eat Itself)
- 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician
- 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director
- 1965 – Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter
- 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
- 1966 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (d. 2012)
- 1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer-songwriter
- 1967 – Nick Clegg, English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1967 – Tim Donaghy, American basketball referee
- 1967 – Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
- 1967 – Mark Lamarr, English comedian, radio and television host
- 1969 – David Yost, American actor and producer
- 1970 – Andy Burnham, English politician
- 1970 – Todd Day, American basketball player
- 1970 – Doug E. Doug, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
- 1970 – Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
- 1971 – C. W. Anderson, American wrestler
- 1971 – David Longoria, American trumpeter, producer, composer, and songwriter
- 1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
- 1972 – Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
- 1973 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
- 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter
- 1974 – Svetlana Metkina, Russian actress
- 1974 – John Rich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Big & Rich)
- 1975 – Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian-Candian blogger
- 1976 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
- 1976 – Tomas Ražanauskas, Lithuanian footballer
- 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1977 – Michelle Behennah, Singaporean-English model
- 1977 – Dustin Diamond, American actor
- 1977 – John Gidding, American architect and television host
- 1977 – Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author
- 1977 – Marco Storari, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
- 1978 – Kevin Mench, American baseball player
- 1978 – Emilio Palma, Argentinian citizen, first person to be born on Antarctica
- 1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
- 1979 – Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian race car driver
- 1979 – Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
- 1980 – Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand rugby player
- 1980 – Zöe Salmon, Irish model and television host, Miss Northern Ireland 1999
- 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 – Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
- 1981 – Jinxx, American guitarist (Black Veil Brides, The Dreaming, and Amen)
- 1982 – Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982 – Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
- 1982 – Priit Viks, Estonian biathlete
- 1982 – Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine race car driver
- 1983 – Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
- 1983 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
- 1983 – Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian volleyball player
- 1983 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor
- 1984 – Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player
- 1984 – Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English race car driver
- 1985 – Wayne Routledge, English footballer
- 1986 – Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
- 1987 – Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
- 1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
- 1987 – Jimmy Smith, English footballer
- 1988 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
- 1988 – Sergei Mošnikov, Estonian footballer
- 1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
- 1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
- 1989 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
- 1990 – Liam Aiken, American actor
- 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
- 1990 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
- 1990 – Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
- 1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
- 1991 – Max Morrow, Canadian actor
- 1993 – Varunya Wongteanchai, Thai tennis player
- 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy)
Deaths
- 672 – Tenji, Japanese emperor (b. 626)
- 1285 – Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
- 1325 – Denis of Portugal (b. 1261)
- 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
- 1451 – Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
- 1536 – Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485)
- 1566 – Louis de Blois, Flemish monk (b. 1506)
- 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. 1547)
- 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. 1560)
- 1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
- 1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician (b. 1590)
- 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. 1618)
- 1700 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
- 1715 – François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)
- 1758 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- 1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic (b. 1703)
- 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
- 1783 – William Tans'ur, English composer (b. 1700)
- 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- 1812 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (b. 1768)
- 1830 – John Thomas Campbell, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
- 1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
- 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
- 1876 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
- 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
- 1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1852)
- 1893 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
- 1904 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist (b. 1836)
- 1913 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
- 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
- 1920 – Edmund Barton, Australian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
- 1927 – Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
- 1931 – Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
- 1932 – André Maginot, French soldier and politician (b. 1877)
- 1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
- 1941 – Charles Finger, British author (b. 1869)
- 1942 – Alfred Asikainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1888)
- 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
- 1944 – Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1874)
- 1944 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
- 1946 – Adamo Didur, Polish opera singer (b. 1874)
- 1951 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
- 1953 – Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
- 1958 – Jalmari Eskola, Finnish runner (b. 1886)
- 1960 – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (b. 1878)
- 1963 – Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
- 1964 – Cyril Davies, English singer and harmonica player (Blues Incorporated) (b. 1932)
- 1964 – Reg Parnell, English Grand Prix driver and team manager (b. 1911)
- 1966 – Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
- 1967 – David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 1967 – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
- 1968 – J.L.B. Smith, South African chemist (b. 1897)
- 1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
- 1972 – John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
- 1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1980 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1935)
- 1981 – Alvar Lidell, English journalist (b. 1908)
- 1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
- 1983 – Eliza Amy Hodgson, New Zealand botanist (b. 1888)
- 1984 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Mary Hardy, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1931)
- 1986 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
- 1986 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Trevor Howard,English actor (b. 1913)
- 1989 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
- 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Horace Stoneham, American businessman (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)
- 1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
- 1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
- 1996 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2000 – Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
- 2001 – James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
- 2002 – Jon Lee, English drummer (Feeder, The Darling Buds, and Raindancer) (b. 1968)
- 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
- 2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Alwyn Schlebusch, South African politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917)
- 2011 – Derek Gardner, English engineer (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Carl Berner, German-American super-centenarian (b. 1902)
- 2013 – Nancy Burley, Australian figure skater (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Jim Cosman, American baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Richard Ben Cramer, American journalist and author (b. 1950)
- 2013 – Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, Portuguese historian, author, and academic (b. 1958)
- 2013 – David R. Ellis, American director, actor, and stuntman (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Huell Howser, American television host (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Jeremy Hindley, English horse trainer (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American critic (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Maruša Krese, Slovene poet and journalist (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Louise Laurin, Canadian educator and activist (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Epifanie Norocel, Romanian archbishop (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Joseph Roney, Haitian politician (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Harvey Shapiro, American poet (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Fred L. Turner, American businessman (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances
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