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July 22 is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 838 – Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
- 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1209 – Massacre at Béziers: the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
- 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
- 1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
- 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
- 1499 – Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
- 1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
- 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
- 1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
- 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
- 1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
- 1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but The 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
- 1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
- 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- 1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
- 1937 – New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
- 1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- 1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
- 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
- 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
- 1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
- 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
- 1963 – Sarawak achieve independence.
- 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War
- 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
- 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
- 1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
- 1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
- 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
- 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
- 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
- 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
- 2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
- 2013 – A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
Births
- 1210 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (d. 1238)
- 1478 – Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
- 1510 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
- 1535 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
- 1559 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (d. 1619)
- 1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
- 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1711)
- 1702 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian oboe player composer (d. 1775)
- 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist (d. 1753)
- 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (d. 1780)
- 1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
- 1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
- 1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
- 1839 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian folklorist, theologist, and linguist (d. 1907)
- 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
- 1848 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
- 1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
- 1862 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer (d. 1931)
- 1863 – Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
- 1877 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian horse rider (d. 1963)
- 1878 – Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (d. 1942)
- 1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- 1884 – Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1967)
- 1886 – Hella Wuolijoki, Finnish author (d. 1954)
- 1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
- 1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1889 – James Whale, English actor and director (d. 1957)
- 1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (d. 1995)
- 1892 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
- 1892 – Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (d. 1952)
- 1893 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
- 1893 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
- 1895 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (d. 1976)
- 1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet and author (d. 1943)
- 1898 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (d. 1976)
- 1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
- 1909 – Dorino Serafini, Italian race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1913 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano
- 1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader, bassist, and songwriter (d. 1995)
- 1915 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
- 1921 – William V. Roth, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American railroad executive and 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
- 1922 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
- 1923 – Bob Dole, American soldier and politician
- 1923 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1923 – The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1928 – Orson Bean, American actor
- 1928 – Keter Betts, American bassist (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
- 1929 – John Barber, English race driver
- 1929 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1931 – Perry Lopez, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican fashion designer
- 1934 – Louise Fletcher, American actress
- 1935 – Tom Cartwright, English cricketer and coach (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Tom Robbins, American author
- 1937 – Chuck Jackson, American singer-songwriter (The Del-Vikings)
- 1937 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (d. 1999)
- 1937 – John Price, English cricketer
- 1937 – Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
- 1939 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress and author
- 1939 – Terence Stamp, English actor and singer
- 1940 – Judith Walzer Leavitt, American historian
- 1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer
- 1940 – Thomas Wayne, American singer (d. 1971)
- 1941 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (The Ronettes) (d. 2009)
- 1941 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (d. 1975)
- 1941 – George Clinton, American singer-songwriter and producer (Parliament-Funkadelic)
- 1941 – David M. Kennedy, American historian and author
- 1941 – Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
- 1942 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
- 1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician
- 1943 – Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1944 – Rick Davies, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Supertramp)
- 1944 – Dennis Firestone, Australian race car driver
- 1944 – Sparky Lyle, American baseball player and manager
- 1944 – Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
- 1946 – Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer
- 1946 – Mireille Mathieu, French singer
- 1946 – Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter
- 1946 – Paul-Loup Sulitzer, French author
- 1946 – Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, Filipino archbishop
- 1946 – Johnson Toribiong, Palauan lawyer and politician, 7th President of Palau
- 1946 – Stephen M. Wolownik, American musicologist (d. 2000)
- 1947 – Albert Brooks, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
- 1947 – Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Eagles)
- 1948 – S. E. Hinton, American author
- 1948 – Otto Waalkes, German actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
- 1949 – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emirati politician, 4th Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
- 1949 – Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
- 1949 – Jane Purves, Canadian politician (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Lasse Virén, Finnish runner
- 1951 – Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer (The Notorious Cherry Bombs)
- 1951 – J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
- 1951 – Patriarch Daniel of Romania
- 1953 – Jimmy Bruno, American guitarist
- 1953 – Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
- 1953 – Brian Howe, English rock singer and songwriter (Bad Company)
- 1953 – Paul Quarrington, Canadian playwright and educator (d. 2010)
- 1953 – Priit Vilba, Estonian businessman and politician
- 1954 – Al Di Meola, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Return to Forever)
- 1954 – Steve LaTourette, American politician
- 1954 – Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
- 1954 – Lonette McKee, American actress and singer
- 1955 – Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (d. 2013)
- 1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
- 1956 – Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1957 – Dave Stieb, American baseball player
- 1958 – Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
- 1958 – Carrie Nahabedian, American chef
- 1958 – David Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1984)
- 1960 – Jon Oliva, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Jon Oliva's Pain)
- 1961 – Calvin Fish, English race car driver
- 1961 – Keith Sweat, American singer-songwriter and producer (LSG)
- 1962 – Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
- 1962 – Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
- 1963 – Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
- 1963 – Rob Estes, American actor and director
- 1963 – Olivier Gourmet, Belgian actor
- 1963 – Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
- 1964 – Adam Godley, English actor
- 1964 – Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
- 1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – David Spade, American actor
- 1964 – Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
- 1965 – Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor and screenwriter
- 1965 – Shawn Michaels, American wrestler
- 1965 – Richard B. Poore, New Zealand humanitarian
- 1965 – Doug Riesenberg, American football player and coach
- 1966 – Tim Brown, American football player and manager
- 1966 – Shaun Cohen, South African-American wrestler
- 1967 – Irene Bedard, American actress
- 1967 – Lauren Booth, English journalist
- 1968 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
- 1969 – Despina Vandi, German-Greek singer and actress
- 1970 – Craig Baird, New Zealand race car driver
- 1970 – Jason Becker, American guitarist and songwriter (Cacophony)
- 1970 – Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
- 1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
- 1972 – Seth Fisher, American illustrator (d. 2006)
- 1972 – Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster
- 1972 – Niclas Weiland, German footballer
- 1973 – Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
- 1973 – Daniel Jones, English-Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Savage Garden)
- 1973 – Petey Pablo, American rapper
- 1973 – Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
- 1973 – Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong-Canadian actress
- 1974 – Franka Potente, German actress and singer
- 1975 – Aile Asszonyi, Estonian opera singer
- 1975 – Sam Jacobson, American basketball player
- 1976 – Kokia, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
- 1976 – Janek Tombak, Estonian cyclist
- 1977 – Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
- 1977 – Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer
- 1977 – Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
- 1978 – A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
- 1978 – Martyn Lee, English radio host and producer
- 1978 – Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (d. 2012)
- 1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Anna Bieleń-Żarska, Polish tennis player
- 1979 – Lucas Luhr, German race car driver
- 1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
- 1979 – James Mason, English wrestler
- 1980 – Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper, producer, and actor (Epik High)
- 1980 – Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver
- 1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
- 1980 – Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Fandango, American wrestler
- 1981 – Ala Ghawas, Bahraini singer-songwriter
- 1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1982 – Anna Chicherova, Russian high jumper
- 1983 – Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
- 1983 – Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
- 1983 – Clemens von Grumbkow, German rugby player
- 1983 – Steven Jackson, American football player
- 1983 – Arsenie Todiraș, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
- 1983 – Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
- 1984 – Siim Avi, Estonian politician
- 1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer
- 1984 – Irina Kikkas, Estonian rhythmic gymnast
- 1985 – Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
- 1985 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
- 1985 – Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
- 1986 – Steve Johnson, American football player
- 1986 - Cilla Kung, Hong Kong actress / singer
- 1987 – Ilja Glebov, Estonian figure skater
- 1987 – Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
- 1988 – Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
- 1988 – Thomas Kraft, German footballer
- 1988 – Jeremy Schilling, American radio host
- 1989 – Keegan Allen, American actor
- 1989 – Leandro Damião, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 – Matty James, English footballer
- 1992 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer (Selena Gomez & the Scene)
- 1993 – Amber Beattie, English actress
- 1993 – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Chechen-American suspected Boston Marathon bomber
- 1994 – Lindsey Rayl, American actress and singer
- 1996 – Skyler Gisondo, American actor
- 1997 – Field Cate, American actor
- 1997 – Jane Oineza, Filipino actress
- 1998 – Madison Pettis, American actress
- 2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
- 2013 – Prince George of Cambridge
Deaths
- 1362 – Louis of Durazzo, Count of Gravina, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
- 1387 – Frans Ackerman, Flemish politician (b. 1330)
- 1461 – Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
- 1525 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. 1426)
- 1540 – John Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1487)
- 1619 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (b. 1559)
- 1633 – Trijntje Keever, Dutch giant (b. 1616)
- 1645 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (b. 1587)
- 1676 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
- 1726 – Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
- 1734 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
- 1789 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician (b. 1715)
- 1802 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
- 1824 – Thomas McNamara Russell, English admiral
- 1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
- 1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor (b. 1811)
- 1833 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1757)
- 1852 – Auguste de Marmont, French general (b. 1774)
- 1864 – James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
- 1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)
- 1902 – Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
- 1903 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (b. 1810)
- 1904 – Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (b. 1846)
- 1906 – William Snodgrass, Canadian minister (b. 1827)
- 1908 – Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
- 1915 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
- 1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
- 1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1898)
- 1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
- 1922 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
- 1932 – J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
- 1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (b. 1866)
- 1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
- 1932 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1867)
- 1934 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
- 1940 – Albert Young, American boxer (b. 1877)
- 1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
- 1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian author (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Carl Sandburg, American journalist and author (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
- 1970 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (b. 1912)
- 1974 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
- 1979 – J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
- 1979 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
- 1986 – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
- 1986 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- 1988 – Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
- 1989 – Martti Talvela, Finnish opera singer (b. 1935)
- 1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian author (b. 1932)
- 1992 – Wayne McLaren, American actor and stuntman (b. 1940)
- 1992 – David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)
- 1995 – Harold Larwood, English cricketer (b. 1904)
- 1996 – Rob Collins, English keyboard player (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
- 1997 – Vincent Hanna, Northern Irish television journalist (b. 1939)
- 1998 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (b. 1909)
- 1998 – Hermann Prey, German opera singer (b. 1929)
- 1999 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
- 2000 – Eric Christmas, English-American actor (b. 1916)
- 2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
- 2000 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2001 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (b. 1904)
- 2003 – Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician (b. 1966)
- 2003 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
- 2003 – Wahome Mutahi, Kenyan journalist (b. 1954)
- 2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1922)
- 2004 – George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (b. 1978)
- 2005 – Eugene Record, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
- 2006 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (b. 1965)
- 2006 – James E. West, American soldier and politician (b. 1950)
- 2007 – Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
- 2007 – Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
- 2007 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
- 2007 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 2007 – László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Greg Burson, American voice actor (b. 1949)
- 2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Richard M. Givan, American lawyer and judge (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
- 2011 – Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Eric Bell, English footballer (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Ding Guan'gen, Chinese politician (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Ernie Machin, English footballer (b. 1944)
- 2012 – George Armitage Miller, American psychologist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Oswaldo Payá, Cuban engineer and activist (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Fern Persons, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2012 – Frank Pierson, American director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Ed Stevens, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Herbert Vogel, American art collector (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Hugo Black, Jr., American lawyer and author (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Natalie de Blois, American architect, co-designed the Lever House (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Ali Maow Maalin, Somalian health worker (b. 1954)
- 2013 – Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, Indian civil servant (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Keron Thomas, Trinidadian-American criminal (b. 1975)
- 2013 – Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
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