On This Day: October 10 - Historical Events, Births & Deaths

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51 Events 254 Births 130 Deaths

2022 Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. ↗
2018 Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage. ↗
2018 The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency. ↗
2015 Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+. ↗
2010 The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country. ↗
2009 Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side. ↗
2007 Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11. ↗
2002 Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. ↗
1998 A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people. ↗
1997 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74. ↗
1986 A 5.7 Mw  San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500. ↗
1985 US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy. ↗
1980 The 7.1 Mw  El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369. ↗
1980 The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador. ↗
1979 The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland. ↗
1975 Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations. ↗
1973 U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax. ↗
1971 Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25. ↗
1970 Fiji becomes independent. ↗
1970 Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec. ↗
1969 King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King. ↗
1967 The Outer Space Treaty comes into force. ↗
1964 The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites. ↗
1963 France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia. ↗
1963 The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect. ↗
1957 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant. ↗
1957 The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident. ↗
1954 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War. ↗
1945 The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China. ↗
1938 Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland. ↗
1935 In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic. ↗
1933 A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation. ↗
1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China. ↗
1920 The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria. ↗
1918 RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea. ↗
1913 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal. ↗
1911 The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy. ↗
1903 The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women. ↗
1868 The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba. ↗
1846 Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell. ↗
1845 In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students. ↗
1814 War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy. ↗
1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean. ↗
1760 In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy. ↗
1580 Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion. ↗
1575 Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others. ↗
1492 The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny. ↗
1471 Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark. ↗
732 Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France. ↗
680 The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. ↗
19 The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province. ↗

2002 Josh Giddey, Australian basketball player ↗
1996 Sami Niku, Finnish ice hockey player ↗
1995 Courtland Sutton, American football player ↗
1994 Bae Suzy, South Korean singer, actress and model ↗
1994 Mike Tobey, American-Slovenian basketball player ↗
1994 Marquez Valdes-Scantling, American football player ↗
1993 Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Cuban baseball player ↗
1993 Jayden Stockley, English footballer ↗
1992 Anthony Brown, American basketball player ↗
1991 Michael Carter-Williams, American basketball player ↗
1991 Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1991 Lali Espósito, Argentinian actress and singer ↗
1991 Mariana Pajón, Colombian cyclist ↗
1991 Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer ↗
1990 Shelby Miller, American baseball player ↗
1990 Geno Smith, American football player ↗
1990 Kolten Wong, American baseball player ↗
1989 Jeurys Familia, Dominican baseball player ↗
1989 Emer Kenny, English actress and screenwriter ↗
1988 Shaun Fensom, Australian rugby league player ↗
1988 Brown Ideye, Nigerian footballer ↗
1988 Rose McIver, New Zealand actress ↗
1987 Ryan Mathews, American football player ↗
1986 Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player ↗
1986 Andrew McCutchen, American baseball player ↗
1986 Ellen Andrea Wang, Norwegian bassist and composer ↗
1985 Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter and pianist ↗
1985 Rostislav Olesz, Czech ice hockey player ↗
1984 Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer ↗
1984 Jean-Baptiste Grange, French skier ↗
1984 Ryan Hollins, American basketball player and commentator ↗
1984 Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress and singer ↗
1984 Paul Posluszny, American football player ↗
1984 Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player ↗
1982 Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer ↗
1982 David Cal, Spanish sprint canoeist ↗
1982 Tony Khan, American sports executive ↗
1982 Dan Stevens, English actor ↗
1981 Gavin Shuker, English lawyer and politician ↗
1981 Laura Tobin, English weather reporter ↗
1980 Julie Pomagalski, French snowboarder (died 2021) ↗
1979 Kangta, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ↗
1979 Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player ↗
1979 Mýa, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress ↗
1978 Naomi Levari, Israeli film producer and director ↗
1978 Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American model and actress ↗
1976 Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-American skateboarder ↗
1976 Pat Burrell, American baseball player ↗
1976 Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1975 Ihsahn, Norwegian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ↗
1975 Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer and manager ↗
1975 Plácido Polanco, Dominican-American baseball player ↗
1974 Asi Cohen, Israeli actor and screenwriter ↗
1974 Oded Kattash, Israeli basketball player and coach ↗
1974 Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer ↗
1974 Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver and actor ↗
1974 Lucy Powell, English politician ↗
1974 Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1973 Mario Lopez, American actor, television personality, and producer ↗
1973 Zach Thornton, American soccer player and coach ↗
1972 Jun Lana, Filipino director, producer, playwright, and screenwriter ↗
1972 Alexei Zhitnik, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player ↗
1971 Graham Alexander, English-Scottish footballer and manager ↗
1971 Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist ↗
1970 Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German sled racer ↗
1970 Matthew Pinsent, English rower and sportscaster ↗
1969 Manu Bennett, New Zealand-Australian actor ↗
1969 Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish journalist and author ↗
1969 Francis Escudero, Filipino lawyer and politician ↗
1969 Brett Favre, American football player ↗
1969 Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress ↗
1968 Bart Brentjens, Dutch cyclist ↗
1968 Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish singer-songwriter ↗
1968 Chris Ofili, British painter ↗
1967 Michael Giacchino, American composer ↗
1967 Jonathan Littell, American-French author and humanitarian ↗
1967 Mike Malinin, American drummer and producer ↗
1967 Gavin Newsom, American businessman and politician, 40th and current Governor of California ↗
1967 Jacek Zieliński, Polish footballer and coach ↗
1966 Tony Adams, English footballer and manager ↗
1966 Bai Ling, Chinese-American model and actress ↗
1965 Toshi, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1965 Chris Penn, American actor (died 2006) ↗
1964 Sarah Lancashire, English actress and director ↗
1963 Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer ↗
1963 Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (died 2003) ↗
1963 Daniel Pearl, American-Israeli journalist (died 2002) ↗
1963 Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian skier ↗
1962 Thomas Rusch, German photographer ↗
1961 Henrik Jørgensen, Danish runner (died 2019) ↗
1961 Martin Kemp, English singer-songwriter and bass player ↗
1961 Crystal Waters, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer ↗
1960 Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1960 Russell Slade, English football manager ↗
1960 Simon Townshend, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ↗
1959 Michael Cobley, English-Scottish author ↗
1959 Kirsty MacColl, English singer-songwriter (died 2000) ↗
1959 Arif Peçenek, Turkish football player and manager (died 2013) ↗
1959 Bill Rammell, English academic and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces ↗
1959 Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1959 Bradley Whitford, American actor and producer ↗
1958 Tanya Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1957 Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator ↗
1956 Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress and producer ↗
1956 David Hempleman-Adams, English businessman and adventurer ↗
1956 Taur Matan Ruak, East Timorese politician, 3rd President of East Timor ↗
1954 Václav Patejdl, Slovak musician (died 2023) ↗
1954 Rekha, Indian actress ↗
1954 David Lee Roth, American singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1954 Fernando Santos, Portuguese footballer and manager ↗
1953 Fiona Rae, Scottish painter ↗
1953 Midge Ure, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ↗
1953 Aleksander Veingold, Estonian chess player and coach ↗
1953 Gus Williams, American basketball player ↗
1952 Bob Nystrom, Swedish ice hockey player ↗
1952 Dela Smith, English educator ↗
1951 Epeli Ganilau, Fijian general and politician, 16th Minister for Fijian Affairs (died 2023) ↗
1950 Charlie George, English footballer ↗
1950 Nora Roberts, American author ↗
1949 Warren Burt, American-Australian composer ↗
1949 Lance Cairns, New Zealand cricketer ↗
1949 Jessica Harper, American actress ↗
1949 Wang Wanxing, Chinese activist ↗
1948 Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, English academic and businesswoman ↗
1948 Cyril Neville, American R&B percussionist and singer ↗
1948 Séverine, French singer and actress ↗
1947 Gary Beach, American actor and singer (died 2018) ↗
1947 Giant Haystacks, English wrestler (died 1998) ↗
1946 Charles Dance, English actor, director, and screenwriter ↗
1946 Naoto Kan, Japanese lawyer and politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan ↗
1946 Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ↗
1946 Anne Mather, English author and screenwriter ↗
1946 John Prine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020) ↗
1946 Raymond Tallis, English physician, philosopher, author, and academic ↗
1946 Chris Tarrant, English radio and television host ↗
1946 Ben Vereen, American actor, singer, and dancer ↗
1946 Willard White, Jamaican-English actor and singer ↗
1945 Christopher Hill, English bishop ↗
1945 Vanburn Holder, Barbadian cricketer ↗
1945 Headman Shabalala, South African bass singer (died 1991) ↗
1943 Frederick Barthelme, American novelist and short story writer ↗
1942 Janis Hansen, American singer and author (died 2017) ↗
1942 Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (died 2013) ↗
1941 Peter Coyote, American actor, director, and screenwriter ↗
1941 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (died 1995) ↗
1940 Winston Churchill, English journalist and politician (died 2010) ↗
1938 Oleg Gordievsky, Russian intelligence officer and author (died 2025) ↗
1938 Leroy Hood, American biologist and academic ↗
1938 Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer ↗
1938 Lily Tuck, American novelist and short story writer ↗
1937 Bruce Devlin, Australian golfer and sportscaster ↗
1937 Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (died 2014) ↗
1936 Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
1935 Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (died 1988) ↗
1935 André Bureau, Canadian lawyer and businessman (died 2019) ↗
1935 Judith Chalmers, English television host and actress ↗
1933 Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and businessman (died 1969) ↗
1932 Harry Smith, English footballer (died 2016) ↗
1930 Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (died 1957) ↗
1930 Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015) ↗
1930 Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008) ↗
1930 Adlai Stevenson III, American lawyer and politician (died 2021) ↗
1929 Ayten Alpman, Turkish singer (died 2012) ↗
1929 Herb Levinson, American actor (died 2012) ↗
1929 Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic (died 2014) ↗
1928 Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (died 2008) ↗
1928 Sheila Walsh, English author (died 2009) ↗
1927 Dana Elcar, American actor and director (died 2005) ↗
1927 Jon Locke, American actor (died 2013) ↗
1927 Thomas Wilson, American-Scottish composer and educator (died 2001) ↗
1926 Oscar Brown, American singer-songwriter, playwright, and actor (died 2005) ↗
1926 Richard Jaeckel, American actor (died 1997) ↗
1924 James Clavell, Australian-American director, producer, screenwriter, and author (died 1994) ↗
1924 Ludmilla Tchérina, French actress, ballerina, and choreographer (died 2004) ↗
1924 Ed Wood, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (died 1978) ↗
1923 Louis Gottlieb, American singer and bass player (died 1996) ↗
1923 Nicholas Parsons, English actor and game show host (died 2020) ↗
1923 Murray Walker, English journalist and sportscaster (died 2021) ↗
1922 Merv Pregulman, American football player, businessman, and philanthropist (died 2012) ↗
1920 Gail Halvorsen, American air force pilot known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" (died 2022) ↗
1919 Willard Estey, Canadian academic and jurist (died 2002) ↗
1919 Gerry Gomez, Trinidadian cricketer, manager, and umpire (died 1996) ↗
1919 Kim Ki-young, South Korean director, screenwriter, producer, and editor (died 1997) ↗
1919 William Kruskal, American mathematician and statistician (died 2005) ↗
1919 Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014) ↗
1917 Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (died 1982) ↗
1915 Harry Edison, American trumpet player and composer (died 1999) ↗
1914 Tommy Fine, American baseball player and businessman (died 2005) ↗
1914 Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1974) ↗
1913 Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005) ↗
1912 Ram Vilas Sharma, Indian poet and critic (died 2000) ↗
1911 Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author (died 2017) ↗
1910 Julius Shulman, American photographer and environmentalist (died 2009) ↗
1909 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (died 2010) ↗
1908 Johnny Green, American conductor and composer (died 1989) ↗
1908 Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan author and poet (died 1983) ↗
1906 Paul Creston, American composer and educator (died 1985) ↗
1906 Fei Mu, Chinese director and screenwriter (died 1951) ↗
1906 R. K. Narayan, Indian author (died 2001) ↗
1905 Aksella Luts, Estonian actress, screenwriter, dancer, and choreographer (died 2005) ↗
1903 Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (died 1983) ↗
1903 Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (died 1969) ↗
1903 Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and academic (died 2009) ↗
1902 K. Shivaram Karanth, Indian journalist, author, and activist (died 1997) ↗
1901 Alberto Giacometti – Swiss sculptor and painter (died 1966) ↗
1900 Helen Hayes, American actress (died 1993) ↗
1898 Lilly Daché, French-American fashion designer (died 1989) ↗
1895 Alfred Neuland, Estonian weightlifter (died 1966) ↗
1895 Fridolf Rhudin, Swedish actor (died 1935) ↗
1895 Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (died 1945) ↗
1889 Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and forger (died 1947) ↗
1885 Walter Anderson, Belarusian-German ethnologist and academic (died 1962) ↗
1885 Jean Peyrière, French actor (died 1965) ↗
1884 Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet and author (died 1937) ↗
1884 Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (died 1958) ↗
1877 William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (died 1963) ↗
1872 Dionysios Kasdaglis, Egyptian-Greek tennis player (died 1931) ↗
1870 Louise Mack, Australian journalist, author, and poet (died 1935) ↗
1864 T. Frank Appleby, American businessman and politician (died 1924) ↗
1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1930) ↗
1858 Maurice Prendergast, American painter and academic (died 1924) ↗
1842 Emily Dobson, Australian philanthropist (died 1934) ↗
1837 Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (died 1863) ↗
1834 Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (died 1872) ↗
1830 Isabella II of Spain (died 1904) ↗
1828 Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1890) ↗
1825 Paul Kruger, South African soldier and politician, 5th President of the South African Republic (died 1904) ↗
1819 Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian and author (died 1883) ↗
1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer and philanthropist (died 1901) ↗
1810 Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (died 1897) ↗
1794 William Whiting Boardman, American judge and politician (died 1871) ↗
1780 John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1844) ↗
1770 Adam Johann von Krusenstern Imperial Russian Admiral and explorer (died 1846) ↗
1731 Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher (died 1810) ↗
1700 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor and illustrator (died 1759) ↗
1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (died 1721) ↗
1678 John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician, Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland (died 1743) ↗
1669 Johann Nicolaus Bach, German organist and composer (died 1753) ↗
1656 Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic (died 1746) ↗
1646 Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, French noblewoman (died 1705) ↗
1629 Richard Towneley, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1707) ↗
1599 Étienne Moulinié, French composer and director (died 1676) ↗
1584 Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (died 1649) ↗
1567 Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (died 1597) ↗
1560 Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (died 1609) ↗
1554 Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Lord of Rheda (died 1606) ↗
1486 Charles III, Duke of Savoy (died 1553) ↗
1421 John Paston, English politician (died 1466) ↗
1355 Zhu Biao, Chinese prince (died 1392) ↗
1344 Mary of Waltham, duchess of Brittany (died 1361) ↗
1332 King Charles II of Navarre (died 1387) ↗
867 Li Siyuan, Chinese emperor (died 933) ↗
786 Saga, emperor of Japan (died 842) ↗
19 Tiberius Gemellus, Roman son of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla; adoptive son of the Emperor Caligula (died 38) ↗

2025 John Lodge, English singer-songwriter and bassist (born 1943) ↗
2024 Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet (born 1934) ↗
2024 Ethel Kennedy, American philanthropist (born 1928) ↗
2022 Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (born 1939) ↗
2021 Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical scientist (born 1936) ↗
2016 Donn Fendler, American author and speaker (born 1926) ↗
2015 Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Nigerian politician, Governor of Bayelsa State (born 1952) ↗
2015 Hilla Becher, German photographer and educator (born 1934) ↗
2015 Manorama, Indian (Tamil) actress (born 1937) ↗
2015 Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (born 1949) ↗
2015 Sybil Stockdale, American activist, co-founded the National League of Families (born 1924) ↗
2014 Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (born 1958) ↗
2014 Damiana Eugenio, Filipino author and academic (born 1921) ↗
2014 Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1971) ↗
2014 Lari Ketner, American football and basketball player (born 1977) ↗
2014 Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (born 1936) ↗
2014 Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author (born 1947) ↗
2013 Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (born 1925) ↗
2013 Jay Conrad Levinson, American author and educator (born 1933) ↗
2013 Sohei Miyashita, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (born 1927) ↗
2013 Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist (born 1932) ↗
2012 Sam Gibbons, American captain and politician (born 1920) ↗
2012 Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (born 1935) ↗
2012 Piotr Lenartowicz, Polish philosopher and educator (born 1934) ↗
2012 Basil L. Plumley, American sergeant (born 1920) ↗
2012 Mark Poster, American philosopher and educator (born 1941) ↗
2012 Kyaw Zaw, Burmese commander and politician (born 1919) ↗
2011 Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1941) ↗
2010 Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter and preacher (born 1940) ↗
2010 Joan Sutherland, Australian-Swiss soprano and actress (born 1926) ↗
2009 Stephen Gately, Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (born 1976) ↗
2008 Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (born 1947) ↗
2006 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist and academic (born 1932) ↗
2006 Ian Scott, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934) ↗
2005 Wayne C. Booth, American educator and critic (born 1921) ↗
2005 Milton Obote, Ugandan politician, 2nd President of Uganda (born 1925) ↗
2004 Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (born 1963) ↗
2004 Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (born 1952) ↗
2004 Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer (born 1915) ↗
2004 Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (born 1932) ↗
2003 Eila Hiltunen, Finnish sculptor (born 1922) ↗
2003 Eugene Istomin, American pianist (born 1925) ↗
2001 Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer (born 1911) ↗
2001 Vasily Mishin, Russian engineer (born 1917) ↗
2000 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1916) ↗
1998 Clark Clifford, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1906) ↗
1998 Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (born 1914) ↗
1998 Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler and manager (born 1957) ↗
1997 Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian-born American theoretical chemist, developer of the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model (born 1918) ↗
1991 Nickolaus Hirschl, Austrian wrestler, discus thrower, and shot putter (born 1906) ↗
1990 Tom Murton, American penologist and activist (born 1928) ↗
1990 Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and academic (born 1909) ↗
1990 Dorothy Stanley, American educator (born 1924) ↗
1987 Behice Boran, Turkish Marxist politician, author and sociologist (born 1910) ↗
1986 Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (born 1899) ↗
1985 Yul Brynner – Russian-American actor (born 1920) ↗
1985 Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915) ↗
1983 Ralph Richardson, English actor (born 1902) ↗
1982 Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (born 1908) ↗
1979 Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (born 1931) ↗
1979 Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (born 1886) ↗
1978 Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1914) ↗
1978 Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (born 1910) ↗
1977 Angelo Muscat, Maltese-English actor (born 1930) ↗
1976 Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (born 1939) ↗
1976 Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević, Bosnian singer-songwriter (born 1951) ↗
1974 Joseph Wulf, German-Polish historian (born 1912) ↗
1973 Ludwig von Mises, Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (born 1881) ↗
1971 John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian and scholar (born 1901) ↗
1970 Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, 105th Prime Minister of France (born 1884) ↗
1966 Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (born 1870) ↗
1966 Louise Thuliez, French school teacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II, and author (born 1881) ↗
1964 Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (born 1892) ↗
1964 Heinrich Neuhaus, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and educator (born 1888) ↗
1963 Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach (born 1893) ↗
1963 Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1915) ↗
1962 Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian-Polish architect (born 1891) ↗
1957 Karl Genzken, German physician and convicted war criminal (born 1885) ↗
1953 Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand general, lawyer, and judge (born 1884) ↗
1949 Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (born 1884) ↗
1948 Ted Horn, American race car driver (born 1910) ↗
1942 Arnold Majewski, Finnish military hero of Polish descent (killed in action) (born 1892) ↗
1940 Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (born 1876) ↗
1936 Abul Kasem, Bengali politician (born 1872) ↗
1935 Gustave Loiseau, French painter (born 1865) ↗
1930 Adolf Engler, German botanist and academic (born 1844) ↗
1927 August Kitzberg, Estonian author and playwright (born 1855) ↗
1927 Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (born 1874) ↗
1923 Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Peruvian general, President of Peru (born 1836) ↗
1922 Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek physician and author (born 1866) ↗
1918 Henry Dobson, Australian politician, 17th Premier of Tasmania (born 1841) ↗
1914 Carol I of Romania (born 1839) ↗
1913 Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer and businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (born 1839) ↗
1913 Katsura Tarō, Japanese general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1848) ↗
1901 Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1814) ↗
1893 Lip Pike, American baseball player and manager (born 1845) ↗
1876 Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist and meteorologist (born 1814) ↗
1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian author, poet, and playwright (born 1817) ↗
1872 William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (born 1801) ↗
1857 George Washington – American author and playwright (born 1781) ↗
1837 Charles Fourier, French philosopher and academic (born 1772) ↗
1827 Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (born 1778) ↗
1806 Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (born 1772) ↗
1800 Gabriel Prosser, American rebel leader (born 1776) ↗
1795 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (born 1714) ↗
1765 Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1688) ↗
1759 Granville Elliott, English general (born 1713) ↗
1747 John Potter, English archbishop and academic (born 1674) ↗
1725 Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician, Governor of New France (born 1643) ↗
1723 William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1665) ↗
1720 Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (born 1640) ↗
1714 Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist and academic (born 1646) ↗
1708 David Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (born 1659) ↗
1691 Isaac de Benserade, French author and poet (born 1613) ↗
1659 Abel Tasman, Dutch merchant and explorer (born 1603) ↗
1581 Bayinnaung, Burmese king (born 1516) ↗
1503 Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1438) ↗
1359 Hugh IV of Cyprus (born 1295) ↗
1308 Patrick Dunbar, 8th Earl of Dunbar ↗
1213 Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine ↗
1174 Adela of Ponthieu, Countess of Surrey ↗
1149 Al-Hafiz, Fatimid imam-caliph (born 1074/77) ↗
937 Wang Lingmou, chancellor of Wu ↗
827 Pope Valentine (born 800) ↗
680 Abbas ibn Ali, son of Imam Ali ↗
680 Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, son of Al-Husayn ↗
680 Habib ibn Madhahir ↗
680 Husayn ibn Ali, third Shia Imam and grandson of Muhammad (born 626) ↗
644 Paulinus of York, English bishop and missionary ↗
19 Germanicus, Roman general (born 15 BC) ↗