On This Day: May 22 - Historical Events, Births & Deaths

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2021 Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China. ↗
2020 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people. ↗
2017 Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. ↗
2017 United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall. ↗
2015 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to legalise gay marriage. ↗
2014 General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil. ↗
2014 An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. ↗
2013 Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by 2 Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London ↗
2012 Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). ↗
2012 SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. ↗
2011 An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. ↗
2010 Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610. ↗
2010 Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). ↗
2002 Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. ↗
2000 In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. ↗
1998 A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. ↗
1996 The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting. ↗
1994 A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. ↗
1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations. ↗
1990 North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen. ↗
1987 Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India. ↗
1987 First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. ↗
1972 Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka. ↗
1972 Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave. ↗
1969 Apollo 10's Lunar Module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the Moon's surface. ↗
1968 The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 nautical miles (740 km) southwest of the Azores. ↗
1967 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. ↗
1967 L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history. ↗
1964 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson launches his Great Society program. ↗
1963 Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is clubbed over the head, causing his death five days later. ↗
1962 Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45. ↗
1960 The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. ↗
1958 The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths are estimated at 300, mostly Tamils. ↗
1957 South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities. ↗
1948 Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi releases Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister after the Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945. ↗
1947 Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece. ↗
1943 Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. ↗
1942 Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies. ↗
1941 During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah. ↗
1939 World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel. ↗
1927 Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes. ↗
1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.[vague] ↗
1915 Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century. ↗
1915 Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246. ↗
1906 The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". ↗
1905 The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II establishes the Ullah millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day, although most do so on May 23 instead, which is when this event was publicly announced. ↗
1874 Verdi's Requiem was first performed at San Marco in Milan on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death. ↗
1872 Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers. ↗
1866 Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms. ↗
1864 American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure. ↗
1863 American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history. ↗
1856 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. ↗
1849 Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent. ↗
1848 Slavery is abolished in Martinique. ↗
1846 The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative. ↗
1840 The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. ↗
1826 HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. ↗
1819 SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. ↗
1816 A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day. ↗
1809 On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is defeated in a major battle for the first time in his career, and repelled by an enemy army for the first time in a decade. ↗
1807 A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason. ↗
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri. ↗
1766 A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region. ↗
1762 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg. ↗
1762 Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome. ↗
1629 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War. ↗
1520 The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. ↗
1455 Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England. ↗
1377 Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe. ↗
1370 Brussels massacre: An estimated 13 Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, in a anti-Semitic attack, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host. ↗
1254 Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty. ↗
1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV. ↗
1200 King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet. ↗
1176 The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo. ↗
853 A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. ↗
760 Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. ↗
192 Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. ↗

2004 Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress ↗
2002 Anthony Richardson, American football player ↗
2001 Enzo Barrenechea, Argentine footballer ↗
2001 Emma Chamberlain, American internet personality ↗
2001 Joshua Zirkzee, Dutch footballer ↗
2000 Julián Carranza, Argentine footballer ↗
1999 Samuel Chukwueze, Nigerian footballer ↗
1999 Femke Huijzer, Dutch model ↗
1999 Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler ↗
1998 Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model ↗
1997 Lauri Markkanen, Finnish basketball player ↗
1994 Florian Luger, Austrian male model ↗
1994 Athena Manoukian, Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter ↗
1992 Anna Baryshnikov, American actress ↗
1991 Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer ↗
1991 Suho, South Korean singer and actor ↗
1990 Wyatt Roy, Australian politician ↗
1989 Corey Dickerson, American baseball player ↗
1988 Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress ↗
1987 Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player ↗
1987 Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer ↗
1986 Julian Edelman, American football player ↗
1986 Matt Jarvis, English footballer ↗
1986 Tatiana Volosozhar, Russian figure skater ↗
1985 Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer ↗
1985 Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer me ↗
1985 Tao Okamoto, Japanese model and actress ↗
1984 Clara Amfo, English television and radio presenter ↗
1984 Karoline Herfurth, German actress ↗
1984 Didier Ya Konan, Ivorian footballer ↗
1984 Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook ↗
1983 Natasha Kai, American soccer player and Olympic medalist ↗
1982 Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress ↗
1982 Apolo Ohno, American speed skater ↗
1982 Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer ↗
1981 Bryan Danielson, American wrestler ↗
1981 Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer (died 2015) ↗
1981 Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player ↗
1981 Mark O'Meley, Australian rugby league player ↗
1980 Tarin Bradford, Australian rugby league player ↗
1980 Sharice Davids, American politician ↗
1980 Lucy Gordon, British actress and model (died 2009) ↗
1979 Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress ↗
1979 Tihomir Dovramadjiev, Bulgarian Chess boxer ↗
1979 Maggie Q, American actress ↗
1978 Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress ↗
1978 Katie Price, English television personality and glamour model ↗
1977 Pat Smullen, Irish jockey (died 2020) ↗
1976 Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist ↗
1975 Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager ↗
1974 Sean Gunn, American actor ↗
1974 Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer ↗
1974 Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast ↗
1974 Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician ↗
1974 Canek Sánchez Guevara, Cuban author and dissident (died 2015) ↗
1974 Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Norwegian politician ↗
1973 Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor ↗
1972 Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter ↗
1970 Naomi Campbell, English model ↗
1970 Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (died 2019) ↗
1969 Michael Kelly, American actor ↗
1969 Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician ↗
1968 Graham Linehan, Irish comedy writer and activist ↗
1966 Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1966 Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter ↗
1965 Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary ↗
1963 Claude Closky, French contemporary artist ↗
1962 Andrew Magee, French-American golfer ↗
1962 Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (died 1997) ↗
1960 Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter ↗
1959 David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball player and coach ↗
1959 Olin Browne, American golfer ↗
1959 Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer ↗
1959 Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter ↗
1959 Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician ↗
1957 Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician ↗
1956 Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet (died 2018) ↗
1955 Iva Davies, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1954 Barbara May Cameron, Native American human rights activist (died 2002) ↗
1954 Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
1953 François Bon, French writer ↗
1953 Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager ↗
1953 Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2021) ↗
1951 Kenneth Bianchi, American serial killer and rapist ↗
1950 Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet ↗
1949 Cheryl Campbell, English actress ↗
1949 Valentin Inzko, Austrian diplomat ↗
1948 Tomás Sánchez, Cuban painter and engraver ↗
1948 Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor and screenwriter (died 2021) ↗
1946 George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2005) ↗
1946 Michael Green, English physicist and academic ↗
1946 Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (died 2015) ↗
1946 Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician ↗
1946 Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer ↗
1945 Bob Katter, Australian politician ↗
1944 John Flanagan, Australian fantasy author ↗
1943 Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020) ↗
1943 Tommy John, American baseball player ↗
1942 Roger Brown, American basketball player (died 1997) ↗
1942 Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber) (died 2023) ↗
1942 Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress ↗
1942 Richard Oakes, Native American civil rights activist (died 1972) ↗
1941 Menzies Campbell, Scottish sprinter and politician (died 2025) ↗
1940 Kieth Merrill, American filmmaker ↗
1940 E. A. S. Prasanna, Indian cricketer ↗
1940 Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (died 2011) ↗
1940 Bernard Shaw, American journalist (died 2022) ↗
1940 Mick Tingelhoff, American football player (died 2021) ↗
1939 Paul Winfield, American actor (died 2004) ↗
1938 Richard Benjamin, American actor and director ↗
1938 Susan Strasberg, American actress (died 1999) ↗
1937 Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 2011) ↗
1937 Tomáš Janovic, Slovak writer (died 2023) ↗
1936 George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (died 2014) ↗
1935 Billy Rayner, Australian rugby league player (died 2006) ↗
1934 Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor (died 2023) ↗
1933 Fred Anderson, Australian-South African rugby league player (died 2012) ↗
1933 Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic (died 1996) ↗
1932 Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (died 2015) ↗
1930 Kenny Ball, English jazz trumpet player, vocalist, and bandleader (died 2013) ↗
1930 Marisol Escobar, French-American sculptor (died 2016) ↗
1930 Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician (died 1978) ↗
1929 Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (died 2013) ↗
1928 Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author (died 2017) ↗
1928 John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer (died 2011) ↗
1928 T. Boone Pickens, American businessman (died 2019) ↗
1928 Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist (died 2013) ↗
1927 Michael Constantine, American actor (died 2021) ↗
1927 Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (died 2014) ↗
1927 George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017) ↗
1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1991) ↗
1924 Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor (died 2018) ↗
1922 Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (died 1987) ↗
1921 George S. Hammond, American scientist (died 2005) ↗
1920 Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (died 2004) ↗
1919 Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2001) ↗
1917 George Aratani, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013) ↗
1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (died 1995) ↗
1914 Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat (died 2010) ↗
1914 Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (died 1993) ↗
1913 Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter (died 1986) ↗
1913 Dominique Rolin, Belgian author (died 2012) ↗
1912 Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004) ↗
1909 Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (died 1984) ↗
1909 Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator (died 1988) ↗
1908 Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (died 1963) ↗
1907 Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (died 1983) ↗
1907 Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (died 1989) ↗
1905 Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (died 1956) ↗
1905 Tom Driberg, British politician (died 1976) ↗
1904 Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (died 1989) ↗
1902 Jack Lambert, English footballer and manager (died 1940) ↗
1902 Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (died 1956) ↗
1901 Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor (died 1953) ↗
1900 Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (died 1985) ↗
1897 Robert Neumann, German and English-speaking author (died 1975) ↗
1894 Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1970) ↗
1891 Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet (died 1958) ↗
1887 A. W. Sandberg, Danish film director and screenwriter (died 1938) ↗
1885 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (died 1924) ↗
1885 Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (died 1957) ↗
1884 Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (died 1957) ↗
1880 Francis de Miomandre, French author and translator (died 1959) ↗
1879 Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1947) ↗
1879 Jean Cras, French admiral and composer (died 1932) ↗
1879 Symon Petliura, Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (died 1926) ↗
1876 Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1942) ↗
1874 Daniel François Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (died 1959) ↗
1868 Augusto Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (died 1934) ↗
1864 Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (died 1931) ↗
1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (died 1930) ↗
1859 Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (died 1935) ↗
1858 Belmiro de Almeida, Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (died 1935) ↗
1849 Aston Webb, English architect and academic (died 1930) ↗
1848 Fritz von Uhde, German painter and educator (died 1911) ↗
1846 Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (died 1908) ↗
1844 Mary Cassatt – American painter and educator (died 1926) ↗
1841 Catulle Mendès, French poet, author, and playwright (died 1909) ↗
1833 Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher (died 1914) ↗
1833 Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1895) ↗
1831 Henry Vandyke Carter, English anatomist and surgeon (died 1897) ↗
1828 Albrecht von Graefe, German ophthalmologist and academic (died 1870) ↗
1820 Worthington Whittredge, American painter (died 1910) ↗
1814 Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (died 1891) ↗
1813 Richard Wagner, German composer (died 1883) ↗
1811 Giulia Grisi, Italian soprano (died 1869) ↗
1811 Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, English politician (died 1864) ↗
1808 Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (died 1855) ↗
1783 William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (died 1850) ↗
1782 Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (died 1856) ↗
1779 Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger, Austrian painter (died 1853) ↗
1772 Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and reformer (died 1833) ↗
1770 Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (died 1840) ↗
1762 Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (died 1834) ↗
1752 Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician (died 1797) ↗
1733 Hubert Robert, French painter (died 1808) ↗
1715 François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (died 1794) ↗
1694 Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (died 1757) ↗
1665 Magnus Stenbock, Swedish field marshal and Royal Councillor (died 1717) ↗
1650 Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1702) ↗
1644 Gabriël Grupello, Flemish Baroque sculptor (died 1730) ↗
1622 Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (died 1698) ↗
1539 Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (died 1621) ↗
1408 Annamacharya, Hindu saint (died 1503) ↗
1009 Su Xun, Chinese writer (died 1066) ↗
626 Itzam K'an Ahk I, Mayan king (died 686) ↗

2024 David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer (born 1954) ↗
2022 Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (born 1931) ↗
2020 Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (born 1938) ↗
2019 Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (born 1923) ↗
2017 Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (born 1981) ↗
2016 Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (born 1933) ↗
2015 Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (born 1926) ↗
2015 Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (born 1921) ↗
2013 Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (born 1922) ↗
2012 Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (born 1970) ↗
2012 Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (born 1927) ↗
2011 Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (born 1938) ↗
2010 Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (born 1914) ↗
2008 Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (born 1946) ↗
2007 Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (born 1970) ↗
2006 Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (born 1945) ↗
2005 Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (born 1914) ↗
2005 Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (born 1914) ↗
2004 Richard Biggs, American actor (born 1960) ↗
2004 Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (born 1945) ↗
2000 Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1916) ↗
1998 John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (born 1926) ↗
1998 José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1910) ↗
1997 Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (born 1906) ↗
1997 Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908) ↗
1993 Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (born 1892) ↗
1992 Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (born 1909) ↗
1991 Lino Brocka, Filipino director and screenwriter (born 1939) ↗
1991 Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1899) ↗
1991 Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (born 1921) ↗
1990 Rocky Graziano, American boxer (born 1922) ↗
1989 Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (born 1953) ↗
1988 Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (born 1914) ↗
1985 Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (born 1909) ↗
1984 Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1901) ↗
1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899) ↗
1983 Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (born 1893) ↗
1982 Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (born 1899) ↗
1975 Lefty Grove, American baseball player (born 1900) ↗
1974 Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (born 1903) ↗
1972 Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (born 1904) ↗
1972 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (born 1892) ↗
1967 Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (born 1902) ↗
1967 Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (born 1911) ↗
1966 Tom Goddard, English cricketer (born 1900) ↗
1965 Christopher Stone, English radio host (born 1882) ↗
1954 Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1884) ↗
1948 Claude McKay, Jamaican writer and poet (born 1889) ↗
1939 Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (born 1893) ↗
1939 Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (born 1882) ↗
1938 William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (born 1870) ↗
1933 Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (born 1894) ↗
1932 Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852) ↗
1910 Jules Renard, French author and playwright (born 1864) ↗
1901 Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (born 1869) ↗
1885 Victor Hugo – French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1802) ↗
1868 Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (born 1801) ↗
1861 Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (born 1829) ↗
1859 Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (born 1810) ↗
1851 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (born 1755) ↗
1802 Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (born 1731) ↗
1795 Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (born 1725) ↗
1772 Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (born 1687) ↗
1760 Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (born 1700) ↗
1745 François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general (born 1671) ↗
1667 Pope Alexander VII (born 1599) ↗
1666 Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (born 1608) ↗
1609 Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (born 1573) ↗
1602 Renata of Lorraine (born 1544) ↗
1553 Giovanni Bernardi, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1495) ↗
1545 Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (born 1486) ↗
1540 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (born 1483) ↗
1538 John Forest, English friar and martyr (born 1471) ↗
1490 Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and magnate (born 1416) ↗
1457 Rita of Cascia, Italian nun and saint (born 1381) ↗
1455 Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (born 1406) ↗
1455 Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (born 1414) ↗
1455 Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (born 1393) ↗
1409 Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (born 1392) ↗
1310 Saint Humility, founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (born c.1226) ↗
1068 Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (born 1025) ↗
748 Empress Genshō of Japan (born 683) ↗
337 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (born 272) ↗
192 Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician (born 138) ↗