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Events

1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 – Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1899 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1914 – The Bondetåget, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, takes place in Sweden
1918 – British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
1934 – Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1996 – Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.

Births

1347 – Dorothea of Montau, Catholic saint (d. 1394)
1452 – Joan, Princess of Portugal, Portuguese princess and saint (d. 1490)
1461 – Džore Držic, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501)
1465 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
1536 – Sassa Narimasa, Japanese samurai and Oda clan retainer (d. 1588)
1577 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
1582 – Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1657)
1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
1608 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
1611 – Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694)
1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
1665 – Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1714)
1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy (d. 1725)
1726 – Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist (d. 1805)
1732 – Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure (d. 1782)
1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (d. 1830)
1753 – Évariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
1756 – Aaron Burr, American politician and 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general (d. 1862)
1772 – Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter (d. 1832)
1772 – Sir George Murray, Scottish soldier and politician (d. 1830)
1778 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet (d. 1827)
1781 – John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer (d. 1844)
1796 – John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861)
1797 – Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general (d. 1853)
1799 – Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870)
1800 – Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857)
1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English scientist and inventor (d. 1875)
1811 – Henry George Liddell, father of Alice Liddell (d. 1898)
1818 – William M. Evarts, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1901)
1818 – Henry Litolff, British musician and composer (d. 1891)
1818 – Jenaro Quesada y Matheus, Spanish nobleman and politician (d. 1889)
1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect (d. 1914)
1830 – Daniel Oliver, British botanist (d. 1916)
1832 – John Brown Gordon, American politician (d. 1904)
1833 – José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
1833 – James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, American Civil War figure (d. 1864)
1834 – Edwin Klebs, German-born Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
1834 – Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer (d. 1911)
1838 – Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
1838 – Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1839 – Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
1842 – Mary Rudge, English chess master (d. 1919)
1843 – Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and essayist (d. 1901)
1847 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
1849 – Ida Straus, American passenger aboard the Titanic (d. 1912)
1852 – C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936)
1852 – Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer (d. 1918)
1853 – Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1854 – Tommaso Alberto Vittorio of Savoy-Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931)
1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master (d. 1913)
1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953)
1864 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer (d. 1933)
1866 – Karl Sapper, German explorer and linguist (d. 1945)
1872 – Robert Maillart, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940)
1875 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
1876 – Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (d. 1954)
1878 – Walter B. Pitkin, American lecturer (d. 1953)
1879 – Othon Friesz, French artist (d. 1949)
1879 – Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician (d. 1937)
1879 – Edwin Samuel Montagu, British statesman (d. 1924)
1879 – Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955)
1880 – Nishinoumi Kajiro II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (d. 1931)
1883 – Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
1884 – Marcel Cohen, French linguist (d. 1974)
1887 – Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
1892 – Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general (d. 1984)
1892 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1893 – Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Pakistani diplomat (d. 1985)
1894 – Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1894 – Kirpal Singh, Indian religious figure (d. 1974)
1895 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1897 – Louis Buchalter, American organized crime figure (d. 1944)
1898 – Alla Tarasova, Soviet actress (d. 1973)
1899 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
1901 – Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
1902 – George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
1903 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
1905 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
1905 – Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (d. 1980)
1906 – Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (d. 1980)
1908 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (d. 1999)
1908 – Edward Lansdale, American United States Air Force, CIA and OSS officer (d. 1987)
1908 – Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (d. 1981)
1910 – Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
1910 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1912 – Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
1912 – John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (d. 2003)
1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
1916 – John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 – Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2008)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian-born actress
1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
1919 – Takashi Yanase, Japanese manga artist
1922 – Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
1922 – Patrick Macnee, British actor
1922 – Denis Norden, British television personality
1922 – Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
1923 – Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 1981)
1924 – Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994)
1924 – Jin Yong, Chinese-language novelist
1925 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
1926 – Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
1927 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992)
1928 – Allan Meltzer, American economist
1929 – Pierre Brice, French actor
1929 – Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist, inventor of the tranquilliser gun (d. 2008)
1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
1929 – Valentin Yanin, Russian historian
1930 – Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist
1931 – Rip Torn, American actor
1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress
1931 – Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Roman Catholic Cardinal
1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
1932 – Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German music critic and theorist (d. 2009)
1932 – François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
1934 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
1936 – Donnie Brooks, American pop singer (d. 2007)
1936 – Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
1936 – J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
1938 – Fred Mifflin, Canadian Rear Admiral and politician
1939 – Jean Beaudin, Canadian film director and screenwriter
1939 – Mike Farrell, American actor
1939 – Orlando Parga, Puerto Rican politician
1940 – Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
1940 – Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician
1940 – Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
1941 – Gigi Perreau, American actress
1941 – Spencer Silver, American chemist
1942 – Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
1942 – Valentina Titova, Russian actress
1943 – Fabian Forte, American singer
1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
1943 – Georgeanna Tillman, American singer (The Marvelettes) (d. 1980)
1944 – Christine Boutin, French politician
1944 – Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
1944 – Michael Tucker, American actor
1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
1946 – Jim Turner, American politician
1946 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
1946 – Richie Hayward, American musician (Little Feat) (d. 2010)
1947 – Bill Staines, American singer and songwriter
1949 – Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
1949 – Mike Batt, British composer
1950 – Natalie Cole, American singer
1950 – Jane Gordon-Cumming, British writer
1951 – Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
1951 – Margo O'Donnell, Irish singer
1951 – Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
1951 – Kevin Whately, English actor
1952 – Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
1952 – Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss writer, comedian, moderator and actor
1954 – Bob Sirois, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Michael Pollan, American journalist
1955 – Bruno Stolorz, French rugby coach
1957 – Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedienne
1957 – Simon Phillips, Drummer (Toto)
1957 – Robert Townsend, American actor
1958 – Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004)
1958 – Barry Miller, American actor
1959 – Ken Nelson, English record producer
1960 – Megan Gallagher, American actress
1960 – Frank Jeske, East German footballer (d. 1994)
1961 – Cam Cameron, American football coach
1961 – Yuri Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut
1962 – Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek politician
1962 – W. Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
1963 – Scott Gordon, American ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Mike Hough, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
1963 – Quentin Letts, British journalist
1964 – Gordon Downie, Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip)
1964 – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian film director and actor
1965 – Jan Sverák, Czech film director
1966 – Rick Astley, British singer
1967 – Anita Cochran, American singer
1967 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
1968 – Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
1968 – Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
1969 – David Hayter, American voice actor
1969 – Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer
1969 – Tim Sherwood, English footballer
1970 – Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
1971 – Dana Eskelson, American actress
1971 – Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player
1971 – Carlos Rogers, American basketball player
1971 – Brian Stepanek, American actor
1972 – Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer
1972 – David Binn, American football player
1975 – Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish software engineer
1975 – Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
1975 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
1975 – Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
1975 – Chad Allen, American retired baseball player
1976 – Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
1976 – Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
1976 – Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball goalkeeper
1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
1977 – Jason Euell, English-born footballer
1977 – Josh Stewart, American actor
1978 – Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer and songwriter
1979 – Dan Balan, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1979 – Reentko, German musician and composer
1980 – Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
1980 – Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
1980 – Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
1981 – Ricky Barnes, American professional golfer
1981 – Calum Best, American model
1981 – Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
1981 – Ty Warren, American football player
1981 – Alison Haislip, American actress and TV personality
1981 – Shim Eun Jin, South Korean singer (Baby V.O.X.)
1982 – Jade Edmistone, Australian swimmer
1982 – Alice Eve, English actress
1982 – Elise Ray, American gymnast
1982 – Tank Lu, Taiwanese singer (Mandopop)
1983 – Melrose Bickerstaff, American fashion model
1983 – Brodie Croyle, American football player
1983 – Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer
1983 – Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
1983 – Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
1983 – Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1984 – Darren Bent, English footballer
1984 – Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
1984 – Antoine Wright, American basketball player
1985 – Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1985 – Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
1985 – Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
1986 – Alice Greczyn, American actress
1986 – Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 – Jung Yunho, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
1988 – Bailey Hanks, American actress
1988 – Allison Holker, American dancer
1989 – Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
1990 – Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Víctor Mañon, Mexican footballer

Deaths

891 – St. Photius I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
1215 – Hojo Tokimasa, Head of the Hojo clan and shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (b. 1138)
1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c.1410)
1515 – Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
1585 – Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
1593 – Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1617 – Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1685 – King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 – William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
1783 – Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
1806 – Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, French general and father of author Alexandre Dumas, père (b. 1762)
1807 – John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
1816 – Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 – Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 – Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1899 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1899 – Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 – Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b. 1839)
1916 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1927 – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1929 – Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
1938 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1950 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1951 – Gabby Street, former MLB player (b. 1882)
1952 – George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 – Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 – Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
1958 – Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
1958 – Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 – David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 – Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
1958 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1963 – Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Moroccan politician (b. 1880s)
1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
1966 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 – Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
1976 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali Indian film maker and scriptwriter (b. 1925)
1976 – Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
1981 – Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1981 – Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
1985 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 – Georges Cabana, Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop (b. 1894)
1986 – Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 – Dandy Nichols, English actress (b. 1907)
1986 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1987 – Julien Chouinard, Canadian civil servant, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b. 1929)
1988 – Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 – André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1989 – Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 – Joe Raposo, American composer (b. 1937)
1989 – Osbourne 'King Tubby' Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1989 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1991 – Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
1994 – Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
1995 – James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
1996 – Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
1997 – Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 – Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 – José Marroquín Leal (better known as Pipo), Mexican actor and performer (b. 1933)
1998 – Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
1998 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
2001 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (b. 1897)
2001 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2004 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1920)
2005 – Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 – Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 – Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007 – Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2007 – Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
2008 – Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
2008 – John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2009 – Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925)
2009 – James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
2011 – Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)
2012 – Sharada Dwivedi, Indian historian