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Ed "Big Daddy" Roth 1932-2001

Events

51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – Wladyslaw II Jagiello (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 – Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1908 – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1918 – The USS Cyclops (AC-4) departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1974 – People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 – 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2007 – Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.

Births

1188 – Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 – Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
1484 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543)
1492 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
1525 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (d. 1594)
1602 – Kano Tan'yu, Japanese painter (d. 1674)
1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1651 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716)
1665 – Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1702 – Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
1706 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
1715 – James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
1719 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1729 – Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794)
1745 – Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
1745 – Kazimierz Pulaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
1756 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1770 – Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
1781 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1782 – Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
1790 – David "Robber" Lewis, American criminal. (d. 1820)
1792 – Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1815 – Myrtilla Miner, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1864)
1817 – Edwards Pierrepont, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1820 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1823 – George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1902)
1826 – John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863)
1826 – Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
1826 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1828 – Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1870)
1835 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
1838 – Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1854 – Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1856 – Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1861 – Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian (d. 1933)
1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
1863 – Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
1863 – John Henry Wigmore, American jurist (d. 1943)
1864 – David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
1870 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1873 – Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1873 – John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
1875 – Mihály Károlyi, Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
1875 – Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, diplomat and art collector (d. 1961)
1876 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
1877 – Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
1877 – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1877 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1878 – Egbert van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1878 – Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
1878 – Arishima Takeo, Japanese writer (d. 1923)
1879 – Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
1879 – Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet (d. 1951)
1880 – Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
1881 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1881 – Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
1881 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1881 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1882 – Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat (d. 1941)
1883 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
1884 – Red Murray, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1886 – Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1887 – John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian politician and civil engineer (d. 1976)
1887 – Violet MacMillan, American actress (d. 1953)
1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942)
1888 – Jeff Pfeffer, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1888 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
1889 – Jean-Gabriel Domergue, French painter (d. 1962)
1889 – Oren E. Long, American politician (d. 1965)
1889 – Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)
1889 – Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (d. 1979)
1891 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961)
1891 – Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1985)
1893 – Adolph Lowe, German sociologist and economist (d. 1995)
1895 – Jesse Baker, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1895 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1895 – Shemp Howard, American comedian (d. 1955)
1896 – Kai Holm, Danish film actor (d. 1985)
1897 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1898 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1986)
1898 – Hans Krebs, German Army General (d. 1945)
1899 – Liana Del Balzo, Italian film actress (d. 1982)
1899 – Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
1900 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist (d. 1986)
1901 – Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
1901 – Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
1902 – Fred Mallin, English boxer (d. 1987)
1902 – Rachel Messerer, Russian silent film and theatre actress (d. 1993)
1902 – Russell Reeder, American Army officer and author (d. 1998)
1903 – Carrie Best, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1903 – William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1903 – Malcolm Dole, American chemist (d. 1990)
1903 – Merwin Graham, American Olympic track and field athlete (d. 1989)
1903 – Dorothy Mackaill, English-born American actress (d. 1990)
1903 – John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
1904 – Luis Carrero Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral (d. 1973)
1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
1904 – Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
1904 – Chief Tahachee, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 – Buck Canel, Argentine American sportscaster (d. 1980)
1906 – Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
1906 – Avery Fisher, American audio specialist (d. 1994)
1906 – Fionn MacColla, Scottish novelist (d. 1975)
1906 – Georges Ronsse, Belgian bicycle racer (d. 1969)
1906 – Horace Roye, English photographer (d. 2002)
1906 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
1907 – Edgar Barrier, American actor (d. 1964)
1907 – Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
1908 – T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
1908 – Thomas Shaw, American musician (d. 1977)
1909 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
1909 – George Edward Holbrook, American chemical engineer (d. 1987)
1910 – Miriam Kressyn, Polish-born actor (d. 1996)
1910 – Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (d. 1985)
1911 – Christer Boucht, Finnish-Swedish lawyer, adventure traveler and writer (d. 2009)
1911 – Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, British peer (d. 1984)
1912 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
1912 – Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
1912 – Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (d. 1996)
1912 – Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
1912 – Edgar Tafel, American architect (d. 2011)
1912 – Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, Guatemalan sculptor (d. 1988)
1913 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1913 – John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist (d. 1995)
1913 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
1914 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
1914 – Barbara Newhall Follett, American child prodigy novelist (disappeared 1939)
1914 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
1915 – Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, English politician and businessman (d. 2002)
1915 – Frank Sleeman, Australian administrator and politician (d. 2000)
1915 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
1915 – Robert Thom, American painter and historian (d. 1979)
1916 – William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
1916 – Maurice Argent, American actor (d. 1981)
1916 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
1916 – Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
1916 – Michael Howard, English actor and comedian (d. 1988)
1917 – Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1918 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player
1919 – Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
1919 – Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian politician (d. 1996)
1920 – Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
1920 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
1921 – Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
1921 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
1921 – Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (d. 1986)
1922 – Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
1922 – Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
1922 – Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg
1923 – Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping rider
1923 – Russell Freeburg, American newspaper editor and author
1923 – Willie Johnson, American guitarist (d. 1995)
1923 – Francis King, English novelist, poet and short story writer (d. 2011)
1923 – Patrick Moore, English astronomer and television presenter
1924 – Kenneth O'Donnell, American politician (d. 1977)
1925 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 – Henri de Contenson, French archaeologist and researcher
1926 – Richard DeVos, American businessman
1926 – James J. Eagan, American politician (d. 2000)
1926 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
1926 – Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926 – Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, philanthropist and author
1926 – Fran Warren, American singer
1927 – Philip Batt, American politician
1927 – Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
1927 – Jacques Dupin, French poet
1927 – Robert Orben, American magician
1927 – Dick Savitt, American tennis player
1927 – Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
1928 – Samuel Adler, American composer
1928 – Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010)
1929 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
1929 – Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter
1929 – Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
1929 – Darrett B. Rutman, American historian (d. 1997)
1929 – Elaine Shore, American actress (d. 2007)
1929 – Peter Swerling, American theoretician (d. 2000)
1931 – Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
1931 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
1931 – William Henry Keeler, American Archbishop
1931 – Larry Keith, American actor (d. 2010)
1931 – Alice Rivlin, American economist
1932 – Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor
1932 – Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
1932 – Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
1932 – Frank Wells, American businessman (d. 1994)
1933 – Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
1933 – John W Mills, English sculptor
1933 – Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver
1934 – Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
1934 – John Duffey, American musician (d. 1996)
1934 – Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
1934 – Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
1934 – Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player
1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
1934 – Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
1935 – Edward Debicki, Polish Romani poet, musician and composer
1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
1935 – Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 – Eric Allendale, West Indian trombonist and songwriter (d. 2001)
1936 – John Burland, English Engineering professor
1936 – Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
1936 – Robert Garrow, American serial killer (d. 1978)
1936 – Aribert Reimann, German composer
1937 – William Deverell, Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer
1937 – Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
1937 – Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
1937 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian medical doctor, explorer and TV anchorman. (d. 2003)
1937 – Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
1937 – Richard B. Wright, Canadian novelist
1938 – Anton Stanislaus Balasingham, Political strategist and negotiator (d. 2006)
1938 – Allan Kornblum, American federal judge (d. 2010)
1938 – Marshall Cooke, Australian politician
1938 – Roy Hazelwood, former FBI profiler of sex crimes
1938 – Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
1938 – Don Perkins, American football player
1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
1938 – Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
1939 – Jack Fisher, American baseball player
1939 – Zvi Mazel, Israeli diplomat
1939 – Keith Skues, English radio personality
1939 – Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
1940 – Edward Burke, American Olympic athlete
1940 – Alpha Condé, Guinean politician
1940 – Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German Federal Constitutional Court judge
1940 – Arild Lund, Norwegian politician
1940 – Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
1940 – Tom Pedigo, American set decorator (d. 2000)
1940 – David Plante, American novelist
1940 – Tamara Wilcox, American actress (d. 1998)
1941 – John Aprea, American actor
1941 – Adrian Lyne, English film director
1941 – Linda Obermoeller, American painter (d. 1990)
1941 – Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
1941 – James Zagel, American judge and novelist
1942 – Ji-Tu Cumbuka, American stage and screen actor
1942 – Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
1942 – Charles C. Krulak, American general and the 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
1942 – David Matthews, American keyboardist
1942 – Christopher Shackle, English Modern Languages professor
1942 – Lynn Sherr, American journalist and author
1942 – James Gustave Speth, American lawyer and advocate
1942 – Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian-born Hungarian musician, singer and composer
1942 – Henk van der Kroon, Dutch politician
1943 – Malcolm Barber, English scholar of medieval history
1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
1943 – Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
1943 – Ron O'Quinn, American radio disc jockey
1944 – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist
1944 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999)
1944 – Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1944 – Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-born American physicist
1944 – Len Walker, English footballer and manager
1944 – Greg Weld, American racecar driver (d. 2008)
1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer
1945 – Tony Allen, English comedian and writer
1945 – Femi Benussi, Italian film actress
1945 – Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
1945 – Greg Craig, Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama
1945 – Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
1945 – Frank Novak, American actor
1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
1945 – Tim Weigel, American broadcaster (d. 2001)
1945 – Gary Williams, American basketball coach
1946 – Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
1946 – Daniel Frisella, American baseball player (d. 1977)
1946 – Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
1946 – Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, American author
1946 – Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician
1946 – Jean-Claude Schmitt, prominent French medievalist
1947 – David Franzoni, American screenwriter
1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1947 – Greg Guma, American progressive journalist and author
1947 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
1947 – John Hinch, English Professor of fluid dynamics, Cambridge University
1947 – Aura Lewis, South African singer
1947 – Bob Lewis, American musician
1947 – Peteris Plakidis, Latvian composer and pianist
1947 – Mike Sheahan, Australian journalist and sports television personality
1947 – Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
1948 – Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
1948 – Brian Cummings, American voice actor
1948 – Veljko Despot, Croatian music journalist and record business entrepreneur
1948 – James Ellroy, American writer
1948 – Tom Grieve, American baseball player
1948 – Leron Lee, American baseball player
1948 – Jean O'Leary, American activist and politician (d. 2005)
1948 – Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes)
1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
1949 – Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, former President of the partially recognized de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia (d. 2011)
1949 – Cookie Mueller, American actress and writer (d. 1989)
1949 – Tomislav Trific, Serbian graphic artist
1950 – Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver (d. 1985)
1950 – Barrie Cassidy, veteran Australian political journalist
1950 – Ron Climie, American ice hockey player
1950 – Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
1950 – Rick Perry, American politician
1950 – Safet Plakalo, Bosnian playwright
1951 – Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
1951 – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
1951 – Pete Haycock, English guitarist and composer
1951 – Sam Perlozzo, American baseball manager
1951 – Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006)
1951 – Chris Rea, English singer
1951 – Cecilia Todd, Venezuelan singer and performer
1951 – Glenis Willmott, British politician, leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party
1951 – Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1952 – Serge Fiori, Canadian singer and songwriter (Harmonium)
1952 – Peter Kuhfeld, English figurative painter
1952 – Ronn Moss, American actor
1952 – Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1953 – Nicholas Campion, English historian
1953 – John Edwards, Australian television drama producer
1953 – Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
1953 – Scott Hicks, Australian film director
1953 – Pawel Janas, Polish football manager
1953 – Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
1953 – Kay Lenz, American actress
1953 – Geoff Nicholson, English novelist
1953 – Peggy Rathmann, American author and illustrator
1953 – Reinhold Roth, German motorcycle road racer
1953 – KRK Ryden, American visual artist
1953 – Chris Smith, American politician
1953 – Daniel Woodrell, American crime fiction writer
1954 – Timur Apakidze, Russian Hero of the Russian Federation (d. 2001)
1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
1954 – Ricky Ford, American saxophonist
1954 – François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
1954 – Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
1954 – Yvan Lachaud, French politician
1954 – Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor
1954 – Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
1954 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player
1954 – Adrian Zmed, American actor
1955 – Tim Costello, Australian minister and CEO
1955 – Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
1955 – Joey Jones, Welsh professional footballer
1955 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
1955 – James Weaver, English race car driver
1956 – Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
1957 – Nicholas Coleridge, English entrepreneur
1957 – Jim Dwyer, American journalist
1957 – Ron Fassler, American film and television actor
1957 – Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
1957 – Pius Njawé, Cameroonian journalist (d. 2010)
1958 – Patricia Heaton, American actress
1958 – Lennie Lee, British artist
1958 – Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
1959 – Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
1960 – Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
1960 – Kazimierz Matuszny, Polish politician
1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
1960 – Thierry Pastor, French singer
1960 – Christina Sussiek, German athlete
1960 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor
1961 – Alain Coumont, Belgian chef and restaurateur
1961 – Sabine Everts, German track athlete
1961 – Tinker Juarez, bike racer
1961 – Ray Mancini, American boxer
1961 – Mahito Oba, Japanese voice actor and narrator
1961 – Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian jazz musician
1961 – Steven Weber, American actor
1961 – Roger Wessels, South African golfer
1962 – Simon Bisley, British comic artist
1962 – Paul Canoville, English former professional footballer
1962 – Jon Durno, bassist (Roman Holliday)
1962 – Greg Kragen, American footballer
1962 – Stephan Reimertz, German art historian and novelist
1962 – Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer
1962 – David Sparrow, English actor
1963 – Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
1963 – Janey Lee Grace, English singer and disc jockey
1963 – Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod)
1963 – Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1964 – Scott Baker, American journalist
1964 – Paul Bostaph, American drummer
1964 – David Colclough, Welsh professional poker player
1964 – Brian Crowley, Irish politician
1964 – Cheryl Fergison, English actress
1964 – Karen Knowles, Australian singer and entertainer
1964 – Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
1964 – Paolo Virzì, Italian screenwriter and director
1965 – Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
1965 – Andrew Collins, English journalist
1965 – Stacy Edwards, American actress
1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
1965 – Maximillian Lenz, German rave techno DJ
1965 – Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut
1965 – Viktor Shapovalov, Russian auto racing driver
1965 – Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway
1966 – Daniela Amavia, American actress and model
1966 – Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
1966 – Patrick Hannan, drummer (The Sundays)
1966 – Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
1966 – Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and Mayor of Sacramento, California
1966 – Dav Pilkey, American author
1966 – Grand Puba, American rapper
1966 – Nick Scandone, American paralympian yachtsman (d. 2009)
1966 – Mike Small American professional golfer
1966 – Wash West, English film director
1967 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
1967 – Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)
1967 – Ivan Lewis, English politician
1967 – Fiona Ma, American politician
1967 – Andrew Osmond, English writer
1967 – Dave Rayner, English racing cyclist (d. 1994)
1967 – Derek Mooney, Irish radio and television personality and radio producer
1967 – Tim Vine, English actor and comedian
1967 – Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
1967 – Kubilay Türkyilmaz, Turkish-Swiss footballer
1967 – Andreas Wistuba, German taxonomist and botanist
1968 – Shafiek Abrahams, South African cricket player
1968 – Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
1968 – Jorge Celedón, Colombian musician and singer
1968 – Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Australian cricketer
1968 – Dionna Harris, American softball player and Olympic champion
1968 – Patsy Kensit, English actress
1968 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
1969 – Chaz Bono, American actor and activist
1969 – Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
1969 – Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
1969 – Frank Nicotero, American comedian
1969 – Stina Nordenstam, Swedish pop singer and musician
1969 – Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
1969 – Lacy Rose, American pornographic actress
1969 – Matt Tilley, Australian radio personality and comedian
1969 – Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
1969 – Annie Yi, Chinese singer, writer and actress
1970 – Andrea Bendewald, American actress
1970 – Àlex Crivillé, Spanish motorcycle road racer
1970 – Edward Gal, Dutch dressage rider
1970 – Caroline Vis, Dutch professional tennis player
1971 – Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
1971 – Claire Baker, Scottish politician
1971 – Anders Kjølholm, Danish bass player (Volbeat)
1971 – Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
1971 – Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver
1971 – Shavar Ross, American filmmaker
1971 – Jason Sellers, American country music artist
1971 – Nick Stabile, American actor
1971 – Jovan Stankovic, Serbian footballer
1972 – Buck 65, Canadian hip hop artist
1972 – Katherine Center, contemporary American fiction author
1972 – Nocturno Culto, Norwegian musician
1972 – Ian Garbutt, English professional golfer
1972 – Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
1972 – Giorgos Mazonakis, Greek pop singer
1972 – Brittney Powell, German-American actress
1972 – Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
1972 – Robert Smith, American footballer
1972 – Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
1973 – Massimo Brambilla, Italian football player
1973 – Jennifer Cole, American model, actress and game show/talk show host
1973 – Phillip Daniels, American footballer
1973 – Sadik Harchaoui, Moroccan-Dutch legal academic
1973 – Valery Kobelev, Russian ski jumper
1973 – Mark Lavine, West Indian cricketer (d. 2001)
1973 – Linus of Hollywood, American rock and pop singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
1973 – Len Wiseman, American director
1973 – Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Tollywood film director
1974 – Peggy Clydesdale, American artist and painter
1974 – Crowbar, American professional wrestler
1974 – ICS Vortex, Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
1974 – Karol Kucera, Slovak tennis player
1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
1974 – Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian hip hop rapper
1974 – Mladen Krstajic, Serbian footballer
1974 – Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
1974 – Virginijus Praškevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
1974 – David Wagner, American wheelchair tennis player
1974 – Bill Young, Australian rugby union footballer
1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 – Jacqueline Anderson, American actress and entrepreneur
1975 – Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
1975 – Julie Dibens, British triathlete
1975 – Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player
1975 – El-P, American hip hop artist and entrepreneur
1975 – Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
1975 – Jerod Turner, American professional golfer
1975 – Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
1976 – Robbie Blake, English footballer
1976 – Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 – Sean Covel, American film producer
1976 – Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor
1976 – Brian Diego Fuentes, Argentine soccer player
1976 – Alireza Heidari, Iranian Olympic wrestler
1976 – Cho In-Chul, South Korean judoka champion
1976 – Kim Jung-eun, South Korean actress
1976 – Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
1976 – Sam Mraovich, American screenwriter and film director
1976 – Christian Nicolay, German javelin thrower
1976 – Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
1976 – Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
1976 – Sabrina Sabrok, Argentine television host, singer, and producer
1976 – Gary Shortland, English figure skater
1976 – Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack)
1976 – Jasin Thomason, American guitarist (The Ataris)
1976 – Vic Wunderle, American archer
1977 – Nacho Figueras, Argentine polo player
1977 – Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete
1977 – Jeremiah Green, American drummer (Modest Mouse)
1977 – Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player
1977 – Ron Horsley, American author and artist
1977 – Laura Jansen, Dutch singer-songwriter
1977 – Christian Jessen, English doctor and television presenter
1977 – Mike Kinsella, American musician
1977 – Daniel Klewer, German footballer
1977 – Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby union footballer
1977 – Tonga Lea'aetoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player
1977 – Jason Marsalis, American musician
1977 – Traver Rains, American designer (Heatherette)
1977 – Rockell (Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo), American musician
1977 – Dan Wells, American horror fiction author
1977 – Gareth Wyatt, Welsh rugby union player
1978 – Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
1978 – César Morales, Mexican bantamweight boxer
1978 – Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
1979 – Neil Best, Irish rugby union footballer
1979 – Ariel Carreño, Argentine football striker
1979 – Karima Delli, French politician
1979 – Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
1979 – Trenton Hassell, American basketball player
1979 – Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
1979 – Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian football goalkeeper
1979 – Mark Anthony Parrish, American actor, producer and activist
1979 – Sarah Stock, Canadian wrestler
1979 – Paul Terry, English footballer
1980 – Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player
1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
1980 – Ben Briand, Australian film director
1980 – Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
1980 – Michael Henrich, American-born ice hockey player
1980 – Alex Ribeiro Garcia, Brazilian professional basketball player
1980 – Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian professional basketball player
1980 – Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby player
1980 – Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
1980 – Greg Lamb, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 – Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
1980 – Phil McGuire, Scottish football player
1980 – Kamalinee Mukherjee, (Kamalini Mukherjee) Indian film actress
1981 – Carol Banawa, Filipino singer
1981 – Marie Delattre, French sprint canoer
1981 – Gareth Knapman, English theatre actor and director
1981 – Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
1981 – Ariza Makukula, Portuguese international football player
1981 – Aketza Peña, Spanish road bicycle racer
1981 – Alastair Ross, Northern Ireland Unionist politician
1981 – Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
1981 – Helen Wyman, British cyclist
1982 – Uma Blasini, Puerto Rican beauty queen
1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
1982 – Cate Edwards, American attorney and author
1982 – Ludmila Ezhova, Russian Olympic gymnast
1982 – Ali Khalid, British Asian actor
1982 – Machinedrum, American musician and record producer
1982 – Yasemin Mori, Turkish alternative rock singer
1982 – Elia Rigotto, Italian road bicycle racer
1983 – Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater
1983 – Jaque Fourie, South African rugby union footballer
1983 – Akeem Omolade, Nigerian footballer
1983 – Ryan Lonie, Australian football player
1983 – Dante Senger, Argentine footballer
1983 – Adam Deacon, English Actor
1984 – Tamir Cohen, Israeli/English football midfielder
1984 – Marin Colak, Croatian auto racing driver
1984 – Norbert Hosnyánszky, Hungarian water polo player
1984 – Phillip Inzerillo, American musician
1984 – Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
1984 – K. Michelle, American R & B/Soul singer and songwriter
1984 – Spencer Larsen, American football player
1984 – Raven Quinn, American musician, singer and songwriter
1984 – Zak Whitbread, American-born footballer
1985 – Jake Buxton, English professional footballer
1985 – Guillermo Diaz Puerto Rican professional basketball player
1985 – Scott Michael Foster, American actor
1985 – Mathieu Montcourt, Professional French tennis player (d. 2009)
1985 – Davey Morgan, American illustrator and photographer
1985 – Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
1985 – Whitney Port, American reality television personality
1985 – Jonas Troest, Danish professional football player
1985 – Hrvoje Cale, Croatian footballer
1986 – Shraddha Das, Indian actress
1986 – Margo Harshman, American actress
1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
1986 – Erin O'Kelley, American beauty queen
1986 – Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
1986 – Dominic Telo, South African cricketer
1986 – Park Min Young, South Korean model and actress
1987 – Ben McKinley, Australian footballer
1987 – Tamzin Merchant, British actor and poetess
1987 – Cameron Wood, Australian footballer
1988 – Cody Longo, American film actor
1988 – Laura Siegemund, German tennis player
1988 – Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol
1988 – Adam Watts, English footballer
1989 – Erin Heatherton, American fashion model
1989 – Bradley Middleton, English footballer
1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
1990 – Paddy Madden, Irish footballer
1990 – Marco Martina Rini, Italian footballer
1990 – Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer
1990 – Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer
1991 – Diandra Newlin, American actress and fashion model
1991 – Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer
1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1992 – Daniel Lloyd, British racing car driver
1993 – Jenna Boyd, American actress
1993 – Abigail Mavity, American actress
1993 – Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
1995 – Bill Milner, English actor

Deaths

251 – Pope Lucius I
480 – Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
561 – Pope Pelagius I
1172 – Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
1193 – Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 – Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
1496 – Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1583 – Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
1604 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
1619 – Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
1710 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1733 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1793 – Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
1795 – John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
1807 – Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1811 – Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (b. 1778)
1821 – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820)
1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1851 – James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
1852 – Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1853 – Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy admiral (b. 1776)
1858 – Matthew C. Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
1864 – Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824)
1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1872 – Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
1903 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
1906 – John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
1910 – Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1915 – William Willett, English campaigner for daylight saving time (b. 1856)
1916 – Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
1922 – Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
1925 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
1925 – James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1927 – Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1938 – George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1938 – Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1940 – Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)
1944 – Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b. 1897) (executed)
1944 – Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
1944 – René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
1944 – Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
1944 – Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1945 – Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
1945 – Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1946 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)
1949 – Clarence Kingsbury British track cyclist (b. 1882)
1950 – Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1954 – Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898)
1959 – Maxie Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
1960 – Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
1960 – Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
1962 – George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1963 – William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
1967 – Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
1967 – Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
1969 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1974 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
1975 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress (b. 1898)
1976 – John Marvin Jones, Texan member of the United States House of Representatives and Chief Judge of the US federal Court of Claims (b. 1882)
1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1976 – Nikolai Semashko, Soviet sports administrator (b. 1907)
1976 – Jim Walsh, American basketball player (b. 1930)
1977 – Miles C. Allgood, U.S. Representative from Alabama (b. 1878)
1977 – Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic (b. 1925)
1977 – Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator (b. 1912)
1977 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
1977 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
1977 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1887)
1977 – William Paul, American attorney, legislator, and political activist (b. 1885)
1978 – Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
1978 – Joe Marsala, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter (b. 1907)
1978 – John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician (b. 1891)
1979 – Harry Hopkinson, British yodeler (b. 1902)
1979 – Gladys McConnell, American movie actress and aviatrix (b. 1905)
1979 – Mike Patto, (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners (b. 1942)
1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant (b. 1893)
1979 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
1980 – Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer (b. 1892)
1980 – Alan Hardaker, English football administrator (b. 1912)
1980 – Eric Kerfoot, English footballer (b. 1924)
1980 – J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist (b. 1911)
1980 – Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess master (b. 1905)
1980 – Alfred Plé, French Olympic rower (b. 1888)
1980 – Alex Vetchinsky, British film designer (b. 1904)
1981 – Odette Barencey, French film actress (b. 1893)
1981 – Franz Kapus, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (b. 1909)
1981 – John Knight, Australian politician (b. 1943)
1981 – Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler (b. 1900)
1981 – Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905)
1982 – Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist (b. 1912)
1984 – Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
1984 – Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
1984 – Martin Hürlimann, Swiss photographer (b. 1897)
1984 – Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1986 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1986 – Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist (b. 1917)
1986 – Edward MacLysaght, Irish genealogist (b. 1887)
1986 – Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)
1986 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (b. 1913)
1986 – John Spence, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1920)
1988 – Beatriz Guido, Argentine novelist and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1989 – Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
1990 – Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
1990 – Harry Worthington, American track and field athlete (b. 1891)
1991 – Godfrey Bryan, English cricketer (b. 1902)
1991 – Kenneth Lindsay, British Labour Party politician (b. 1897)
1992 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)
1992 – Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
1992 – Peter Judge, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1992 – Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905)
1992 – Mary Osborne, American jazz electric guitarist (b. 1921)
1992 – Larry Rosenthal, American professional baseball outfielder (b. 1910)
1993 – Michael Beecher, Australian-based model and actor (b. 1939)
1993 – Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
1993 – Tomislav Ivcic, Croatian singer, songwriter and politician (b. 1953)
1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1894)
1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister (b. 1929)
1993 – Richard Sale, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1911)
1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)
1994 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-born philosopher and logician(b. 1918)
1994 – Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949)
1994 – Paul Solomon, American psychic (b. 1939)
1995 – Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
1995 – Iftekhar, Indian actor (b.?)
1995 – Matt Urban, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army (b. 1919)
1996 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
1996 – Johnny Sauer, American football player, coach, and broadcaster (b. 1925)
1997 – Joe Baker-Cresswell, English Royal Navy officer (b. 1901)
1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
1997 – Edouard Klabinski, Polish professional racing cyclist (b. 1920)
1997 – Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
1998 – Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General (b. 1907)
1998 – Donald Rodney, British artist (b. 1961)
1998 – Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Zairean political officeholder and economist (b. 1940)
1999 – Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
1999 – Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
1999 – Eddie Dean, American western singer and actor (b. 1907)
1999 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
1999 – Milosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1929)
1999 – Teddy McRae, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger (b. 1908)
1999 – Joseph Regenstein Jr., American business leader and philanthropist (b. 1923)
1999 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian (b. 1921)
2000 – Hermann Brück, German-born UK astronomer (b. 1905)
2000 – Kyi Kyi Htay, four-time Myanmar Academy Award winning film actress, singer, opera performer and dancer (b. 1924)
2000 – Michael Noonan, Australian-born New Zealander novelist and radio script writer (b. 1921)
2000 – Alphons Silbermann, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist (b. 1909)
2000 – Ta-You Wu, Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist (b. 1907)
2001 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess grandmaster (b. 1961)
2001 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer (b. 1904)
2001 – Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
2001 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
2001 – Jim Rhodes, American politician (b. 1909)
2001 – Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
2001 – Martin Wright, British bioengineer (b. 1912)
2002 – Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
2002 – Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
2002 – Ugne Karvelis, Lithuanian writer and translator (b. 1935)
2002 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
2002 – Margarete Neumann, German writer and lyrical poet (b. 1917)
2002 – Shirley Ann Russell, award-winning British costume designer (b. 1935)
2002 – Velibor Vasovic, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
2003 – Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
2003 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
2004 – Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish linguist and journalist. (b. 1923)
2004 – John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
2004 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
2004 – George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
2004 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
2005 – Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
2005 – Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
2005 – Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 – Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
2005 – Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
2006 – Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
2006 – Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
2006 – Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
2007 – Natalie Bodanya, American soprano (b. 1908)
2007 – Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
2007 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 – Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
2007 – Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
2007 – Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
2007 – Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
2007 – Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
2008 – Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer (b. 1926)
2008 – Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer (b. 1928)
2008 – Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
2008 – Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
2008 – Leonard Rosenman, American film composer (b. 1924)
2008 – Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
2008 – George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
2009 – Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist (b. 1917)
2009 – John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
2009 – Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2009 – Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
2009 – Horton Foote, American playwright (b. 1916)
2009 – George McAfee, American football player (b. 1918)
2009 – Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
2009 – Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
2009 – Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
2010 – Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
2010 – Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
2010 – Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
2010 – Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician (b. 1917)
2010 – Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
2010 – Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
2010 – Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
2010 – Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
2010 – Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
2010 – Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
2010 – Tony Richards, British footballer (b. 1934)
2010 – Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
2010 – Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
2011 – Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)
2011 – Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b.c. 1926)
2011 – Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
2011 – Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927)
2011 – Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
2011 – Johnny Preston, American pop singer (b. 1939)
2011 – Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920)
2011 – Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
2011 – Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925)