64 Events
166 Births
110 Deaths
- 2013 Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras. ↗
- 2012 75 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried. ↗
- 2010 The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa. ↗
- 2008 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school. ↗
- 2008 The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. ↗
- 2007 Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people. ↗
- 2004 Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe. ↗
- 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. ↗
- 2001 Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. ↗
- 1998 Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. ↗
- 1987 Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain. ↗
- 1981 A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000. ↗
- 1978 Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University. ↗
- 1971 The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control. ↗
- 1970 After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so. ↗
- 1968 Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. ↗
- 1964 World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance. ↗
- 1963 American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register. ↗
- 1963 Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. ↗
- 1963 John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights. ↗
- 1962 Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. ↗
- 1956 Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150. ↗
- 1955 Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports. ↗
- 1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned. ↗
- 1942 World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. ↗
- 1942 Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance. ↗
- 1940 World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids. ↗
- 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts. ↗
- 1937 Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders. ↗
- 1936 Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC. ↗
- 1936 The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens. ↗
- 1920 During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room". ↗
- 1919 Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown. ↗
- 1917 King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, is deemed to have abdicated under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens. ↗
- 1903 A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga. ↗
- 1901 The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands. ↗
- 1898 The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.) ↗
- 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place. ↗
- 1892 The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia. ↗
- 1865 The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War. ↗
- 1837 The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish. ↗
- 1825 The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City. ↗
- 1805 A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory. ↗
- 1788 Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska. ↗
- 1776 The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence. ↗
- 1775 The Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims, the last coronation before the French Revolution. ↗
- 1775 The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel. ↗
- 1770 British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. ↗
- 1748 Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries. ↗
- 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach leads his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (O eternity, you word of thunder), BWV 20, on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his second cycle, the chorale cantata cycle. ↗
- 1702 Anglo-Dutch forces skirmish with French forces before the walls of Nijmegen and prevent its fall. ↗
- 1594 Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines). ↗
- 1559 Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with party of 1,500, intending to settle on gulf coast (Vera Cruz, Mexico). ↗
- 1509 Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. ↗
- 1488 Battle of Sauchieburn: Fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the king. ↗
- 1429 Hundred Years' War: Start of the Battle of Jargeau. ↗
- 1345 The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners. ↗
- 1157 Albert I of Brandenburg, also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first margrave. ↗
- 1118 Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks. ↗
- 1011 Lombard Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise up against the Lombard rebels led by Melus and deliver the city to Basil Mesardonites, Byzantine governor (catepan) of the Catepanate of Italy. ↗
- 980 Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'. ↗
- 786 A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh. ↗
- 631 Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang. ↗
- 173 Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain". ↗
- 2004 Katrina Scott, American tennis player ↗
- 2001 Billy Gilmour, Scottish footballer ↗
- 1999 Eartha Cumings, Scottish footballer ↗
- 1999 Kai Havertz, German footballer ↗
- 1998 Charlie Tahan, American actor ↗
- 1997 Kodak Black, American rapper ↗
- 1997 Unai Simón, Spanish footballer ↗
- 1997 Jorja Smith, English singer ↗
- 1996 Philip Billing, Danish footballer ↗
- 1996 Ayaka Sasaki, Japanese singer ↗
- 1994 Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress ↗
- 1993 Brittany Boyd, American basketball player ↗
- 1992 Davide Zappacosta, Italian footballer ↗
- 1991 Daniel Howell, English YouTuber ↗
- 1991 Kyle Troup, American bowler ↗
- 1990 Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter ↗
- 1989 Maya Moore, American basketball player ↗
- 1988 Jesús Fernández Collado, Spanish footballer ↗
- 1988 Claire Holt, Australian actress ↗
- 1988 Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host ↗
- 1987 Gonzalo Castro, German footballer ↗
- 1986 Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper ↗
- 1986 Shia LaBeouf, American actor ↗
- 1985 Tim Hoogland, German footballer ↗
- 1984 Andy Lee, Irish boxer ↗
- 1984 Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer ↗
- 1983 Chuck Hayes, American basketball player ↗
- 1983 José Reyes, Dominican baseball player ↗
- 1982 Vanessa Boslak, French pole vaulter ↗
- 1982 Jacques Freitag, South African high jumper (died 2024) ↗
- 1982 Joey Graham, American basketball player ↗
- 1982 Stephen Graham, American basketball player ↗
- 1982 Reni Maitua, Australian rugby league player ↗
- 1982 Eldar Rønning, Norwegian skier ↗
- 1982 Diana Taurasi, American basketball player ↗
- 1981 Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer ↗
- 1981 Kristo Tohver, Estonian footballer and referee ↗
- 1980 Yhency Brazoban, Dominican baseball player ↗
- 1979 Ali Boussaboun, Moroccan-Dutch footballer ↗
- 1979 Amy Duggan, Australian footballer and sportscaster ↗
- 1978 Joshua Jackson, Canadian-American actor ↗
- 1978 Daryl Tuffey, New Zealand cricketer ↗
- 1977 Ryan Dunn, American stunt performer (died 2011) ↗
- 1977 Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer ↗
- 1976 Reiko Tosa, Japanese runner ↗
- 1974 Fragiskos Alvertis, Greek basketball player, coach, and manager ↗
- 1973 José Manuel Abundis, Mexican footballer and coach ↗
- 1972 Stephen Kearney, New Zealand rugby league player and coach ↗
- 1971 Vladimir Gaidamașciuc, Moldovan footballer ↗
- 1971 Liz Kendall, British politician ↗
- 1971 Mark Richardson, New Zealand cricketer ↗
- 1969 Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer ↗
- 1969 Olaf Kapagiannidis, German footballer ↗
- 1968 Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein ↗
- 1968 Manoa Thompson, Fijian rugby player ↗
- 1967 Graeme Bachop, New Zealand rugby player ↗
- 1967 João Garcia, Portuguese mountaineer ↗
- 1966 Bruce Robison, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
- 1965 Georgios Bartzokas, Greek former professional basketball player ↗
- 1964 Jean Alesi, French racing driver ↗
- 1964 Kim Gallagher, American runner (died 2002) ↗
- 1964 Penny Ford, American singer ↗
- 1963 Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler and sportscaster (died 2000) ↗
- 1962 Mano Menezes, Brazilian footballer and coach ↗
- 1960 Mehmet Oz, American surgeon, author, and television host ↗
- 1959 Hugh Laurie, English actor and screenwriter ↗
- 1956 Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster ↗
- 1955 Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower (died 2021) ↗
- 1954 John Dyson, Australian cricketer ↗
- 1953 José Bové, French farmer and politician ↗
- 1952 Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Russian runner ↗
- 1952 Donnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
- 1951 Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese painter and photographer ↗
- 1949 Frank Beard, American drummer and songwriter ↗
- 1948 Dave Cash, American baseball player and coach ↗
- 1948 Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar ↗
- 1948 Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, cartoonist and actress (died 2014) ↗
- 1945 Adrienne Barbeau, American actress ↗
- 1943 Ray Warren, Australian sportscaster ↗
- 1942 Parris Glendening, American politician, 59th Governor of Maryland ↗
- 1941 Tony Whitford, Canadian politician (died 2024) ↗
- 1939 Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer and journalist (died 2017) ↗
- 1939 Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver and sports presenter ↗
- 1937 Chad Everett, American actor and director (died 2012) ↗
- 1937 Robin Warren, Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024) ↗
- 1933 Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2016) ↗
- 1932 Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director, and playwright (died 2025) ↗
- 1932 Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and politician, Minister of State for Trade ↗
- 1930 Charles Rangel, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2025) ↗
- 1928 Queen Fabiola of Belgium (died 2014) ↗
- 1927 Beryl Grey, English ballerina (died 2022) ↗
- 1926 Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator (died 2021) ↗
- 1925 William Styron, American novelist and essayist (died 2006) ↗
- 1922 Jean Sutherland Boggs, Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant (died 2014) ↗
- 1922 Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011) ↗
- 1920 Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American singer, actress, and pianist (died 1981) ↗
- 1920 Keith Seaman, Australian lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (died 2013) ↗
- 1919 Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (died 2008) ↗
- 1919 Richard Todd, Irish-English actor (died 2009) ↗
- 1918 Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player and manager (died 1980) ↗
- 1915 Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (died 1997) ↗
- 1915 Nicholas Metropolis, American mathematician and physicist (died 1999) ↗
- 1914 Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (died 2012) ↗
- 1913 Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager (died 1970) ↗
- 1913 Risë Stevens, American soprano and actress (died 2013) ↗
- 1912 James Algar, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1998) ↗
- 1912 William Baziotes, American painter and academic (died 1963) ↗
- 1912 Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (died 2012) ↗
- 1910 Carmine Coppola, American flute player and composer (died 1991) ↗
- 1910 Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (died 1997) ↗
- 1909 Natascha Artin Brunswick, German-American mathematician and photographer (died 2003) ↗
- 1908 Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (died 1982) ↗
- 1908 Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (died 1919) ↗
- 1902 Eric Fraser, British illustrator and graphic designer (died 1983) ↗
- 1901 Cap Fear, Canadian football player and rower (died 1978) ↗
- 1901 Benny Wearing, Australian rugby league player (died 1968) ↗
- 1899 Yasunari Kawabata – Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972) ↗
- 1897 Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (died 1927) ↗
- 1897 Reg Latta, Australian rugby league player (died 1970) ↗
- 1895 Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (died 1975) ↗
- 1894 Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (died 1952) ↗
- 1889 Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete (died 1976) ↗
- 1888 Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal (died 1927) ↗
- 1881 Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter (died 1963) ↗
- 1881 Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (died 1983) ↗
- 1881 Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer (died 1976) ↗
- 1880 Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (died 1973) ↗
- 1879 Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (died 1944) ↗
- 1877 Renée Vivien, English-French poet and author (died 1909) ↗
- 1876 Alfred L. Kroeber, American-French anthropologist and ethnologist (died 1960) ↗
- 1871 Stjepan Radić, Croatian lawyer and politician (died 1928) ↗
- 1867 Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (died 1945) ↗
- 1864 Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (died 1949) ↗
- 1861 Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (died 1933) ↗
- 1847 Millicent Fawcett, English academic and activist (died 1929) ↗
- 1846 William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (died 1920) ↗
- 1842 Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic (died 1934) ↗
- 1834 Johann Bauschinger, German mechanical engineer and physicist (died 1893) ↗
- 1832 Lucy Pickens, American wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (died 1899) ↗
- 1829 Edward Braddon, English-Australian politician, 18th Premier of Tasmania (died 1904) ↗
- 1818 Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher and academic (died 1903) ↗
- 1815 Julia Margaret Cameron, Indian-Sri Lankan photographer (died 1879) ↗
- 1807 James F. Schenck, American admiral (died 1882) ↗
- 1797 José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran philosopher and theorist (died 1855) ↗
- 1796 François-Louis Cailler, Swiss chocolatier (died 1852) ↗
- 1776 John Constable, English painter and academic (died 1837) ↗
- 1741 Joseph Warren, American physician and general (died 1775) ↗
- 1726 Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (died 1746) ↗
- 1723 Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (died 1788) ↗
- 1712 Benjamin Ingham, American missionary (died 1772) ↗
- 1709 Joachim Martin Falbe, German painter (died 1782) ↗
- 1704 Carlos Seixas, Portuguese harpsichord player and composer (died 1742) ↗
- 1697 Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist and composer (died 1780) ↗
- 1696 James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (died 1758) ↗
- 1690 Giovanni Antonio Giay, Italian composer (died 1764) ↗
- 1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (died 1749) ↗
- 1662 Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese shōgun (died 1712) ↗
- 1655 Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter (died 1730) ↗
- 1620 John Moore, English businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of London (died 1702) ↗
- 1588 George Wither, English poet (died 1667) ↗
- 1585 Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (died 1615) ↗
- 1572 Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright, and critic (died 1637) ↗
- 1555 Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and theorist (died 1627) ↗
- 1540 Barnabe Googe, English poet and translator (died 1594) ↗
- 1456 Anne Neville, Princess of Wales and Queen of England (died 1485) ↗
- 1403 John IV, Duke of Brabant (died 1427) ↗
- 2025 Brian Wilson, American singer and songwriter, co-founder of the Beach Boys (born 1942) ↗
- 2024 Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (born 1936) ↗
- 2024 Howard Fineman, American journalist (born 1948) ↗
- 2024 Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1944) ↗
- 2024 Majed Abu Maraheel, Palestinian long-distance runner and football player (born 1963) ↗
- 2022 Hilary Devey, English businesswoman, television presenter (born 1957) ↗
- 2020 Stella Pevsner, children's author (born 1921) ↗
- 2016 Rudi Altig, German track and road racing cyclist (born 1937) ↗
- 2015 Jim Ed Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934) ↗
- 2015 Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (born 1930) ↗
- 2015 Ian McKechnie, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1941) ↗
- 2015 Ron Moody, English actor and singer (born 1924) ↗
- 2015 Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (born 1945) ↗
- 2014 Ruby Dee, American actress (born 1922) ↗
- 2014 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (born 1933) ↗
- 2014 Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (born 1955) ↗
- 2014 Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan lama and educator (born 1952) ↗
- 2014 Benjamin Mophatlane, South African businessman (born 1973) ↗
- 2014 Carlton Sherwood, American soldier and journalist (born 1947) ↗
- 2013 Miller Barber, American golfer (born 1931) ↗
- 2013 Carl W. Bauer, American lawyer and politician (born 1933) ↗
- 2013 Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926) ↗
- 2013 James Grimsley, Jr., American general (born 1921) ↗
- 2013 Rory Morrison, English journalist (born 1964) ↗
- 2013 Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1992) ↗
- 2013 Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1929) ↗
- 2012 Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (born 1917) ↗
- 2012 Teófilo Stevenson – Cuban boxer and engineer (born 1952) ↗
- 2011 Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1947) ↗
- 2011 Seth Putnam, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1968) ↗
- 2008 Ove Andersson, Swedish race car driver (born 1938) ↗
- 2008 Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1922) ↗
- 2007 Imre Friedmann, American biologist and academic (born 1921) ↗
- 2007 Mala Powers, American actress (born 1931) ↗
- 2006 Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (born 1944) ↗
- 2006 Bruce Shand, English soldier (born 1917) ↗
- 2005 Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general and politician, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1922) ↗
- 2005 Anne-Marie Alonzo, Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher (born 1951) ↗
- 2004 Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (born 1946) ↗
- 2003 David Brinkley, American journalist and author (born 1920) ↗
- 2001 Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (born 1968) ↗
- 2001 Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (born 1923) ↗
- 1999 DeForest Kelley, American actor and screenwriter (born 1920) ↗
- 1998 Catherine Cookson, English author (born 1906) ↗
- 1996 George Hees, Canadian politician (born 1910) ↗
- 1996 Brigitte Helm, German-Swiss actress (born 1908) ↗
- 1995 Rodel Naval, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor (born 1953) ↗
- 1994 A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (born 1934) ↗
- 1993 Ray Sharkey, American actor (born 1952) ↗
- 1992 Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (born 1954) ↗
- 1991 Cromwell Everson, South African composer (born 1925) ↗
- 1986 Chesley Bonestell, American painter and illustrator (born 1888) ↗
- 1984 Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (born 1922) ↗
- 1983 Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman and politician (born 1894) ↗
- 1982 H. Radclyffe Roberts, American entomologist (born 1906) ↗
- 1979 Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (born 1893) ↗
- 1979 John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (born 1907) ↗
- 1976 Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (born 1917) ↗
- 1974 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (born 1883) ↗
- 1974 Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (born 1898) ↗
- 1970 Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (born 1884) ↗
- 1965 Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (born 1908) ↗
- 1965 José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (born 1883) ↗
- 1963 Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (born 1897) ↗
- 1962 Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (born 1900) ↗
- 1955 Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (born 1905) ↗
- 1941 Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (born 1850) ↗
- 1937 R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (born 1895) ↗
- 1936 Robert E. Howard, American author and poet (born 1906) ↗
- 1934 Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (born 1896) ↗
- 1927 William Attewell, English cricketer (born 1861) ↗
- 1924 Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (born 1837) ↗
- 1920 William F. Halsey, Sr., American captain (born 1853) ↗
- 1914 Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1848) ↗
- 1913 Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 279th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1856) ↗
- 1911 James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (born 1815) ↗
- 1903 Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher (born 1837) ↗
- 1903 Alexander I of Serbia (born 1876) ↗
- 1903 Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (born 1864) ↗
- 1897 Henry Ayers, English-Australian politician, 8th Premier of South Australia (born 1821) ↗
- 1885 Matías Ramos Mejía, Argentinian colonel (born 1810) ↗
- 1882 Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (born 1804) ↗
- 1879 William, Prince of Orange (born 1840) ↗
- 1859 Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (born 1773) ↗
- 1852 Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (born 1799) ↗
- 1847 John Franklin, English admiral and politician (born 1786) ↗
- 1796 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (born 1720) ↗
- 1748 Felice Torelli, Italian painter (born 1667) ↗
- 1727 George I of Great Britain (born 1660) ↗
- 1712 Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (born 1654) ↗
- 1695 André Félibien, French historian and author (born 1619) ↗
- 1683 Nikita Pustosvyat, a leader of the Russian Old Believers, beheaded (born unknown) ↗
- 1560 Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1515) ↗
- 1557 John III of Portugal (born 1502) ↗
- 1488 James III of Scotland (born 1451) ↗
- 1479 John of Sahagun, hermit and saint (born 1419) ↗
- 1446 Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (born 1425) ↗
- 1347 Bartholomew of San Concordio, Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters (born 1260) ↗
- 1345 Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire ↗
- 1323 Berengar Fredol the Elder, French lawyer and bishop (born 1250) ↗
- 1298 Yolanda of Poland (born 1235) ↗
- 1253 Amadeus IV, count of Savoy (born 1197) ↗
- 1248 Adachi Kagemori, Japanese samurai ↗
- 1216 Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (born c. 1174) ↗
- 1183 Henry the Young King of England (born 1155) ↗
- 888 Rimbert, archbishop of Bremen (born 830) ↗
- 884 Shi Jingsi, general of the Tang Dynasty ↗
- 840 Junna, emperor of Japan (born 785) ↗
- 786 Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Abid, anti-Abbasid rebel leader ↗
- 573 Emilian of Cogolla, Iberic saint (born 472) ↗