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Raymond Douglas "Ray" Davies, born 21 June 1944) is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television. Since the dissolution of the Kinks in 1996, Ray Davies has embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter.

Events

217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
524 – Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1529 – French forces were driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1582 – Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honno-ji, Kyoto.
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Radulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1940 – France signs an armistice with Germany at Compiègne.
1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.

Births

1002 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
1226 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1528 – Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1603)
1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
1639 – Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
1646 – Maria Francisca of Nemours, Queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1706 – John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
1710 – James Short, British mathematician (d. 1768)
1712 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
1730 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (d. 1801)
1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
1736 – Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
1741 – Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general in the French Revolution (d.1808)
1750 – Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor, draftsman and printmaker (d. 1818)
1750 – Thomas Spence, English classical writer (d. 1814)
1759 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1763 – Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (d. 1845)
1764 – Sidney Smith, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1840)
1774 – Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825)
1781 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1786 – Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
1788 – Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
1791 – Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
1792 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (d. 1860)
1805 – Charles Thomas Jackson, American polymath (d. 1880)
1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
1812 – Moses Hess, French/German-born Jewish socialist and precursor of Zionism (d. 1875)
1823 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
1825 – William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican Bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
1828 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
1834 – Frans de Cort, Flemish writer (d. 1878)
1834 – Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont Irish Jewish noblewoman (d. 1882)
1839 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
1850 – Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
1850 – Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1928)
1858 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
1859 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)
1862 – Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (d. 1943)
1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
1864 – Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
1868 – Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
1870 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956)
1880 – Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
1880 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, and banker (d. 1941)
1882 – Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)
1882 – Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
1883 – Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
1884 – Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
1887 – Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
1889 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
1889 – Tadeusz Jan Kowalski, Polish orientalist (d. 1948)
1890 – Frank S. Land, American founder of the Order of DeMolay (d. 1959)
1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (d. 1979)
1891 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
1892 – Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
1893 – Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
1894 – Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
1896 – Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
1898 – Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1899 – George Miles Watson, British racehorse breeder (d. 1968)
1902 – Howie Morenz, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
1906 – Helene Costello, American actress (d. 1957)
1906 – Nusch Éluard, French performer, model, and artist (d. 1946)
1906 – Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
1906 – Grete Sultan, German musician (d. 2005)
1908 – William Frankena, American moral philosopher (d. 1994)
1910 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
1912 – Mary McCarthy, American writer (d. 1989)
1912 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer (d. 2000)
1914 – William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1916 – Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist (d. 2001)
1916 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
1918 – Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1918 – James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995)
1919 – Gérard Pelletier, French-Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
1919 – Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master (d. 1968)
1919 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
1921 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
1921 – Jean de Broglie, French politician (d. 1976)
1921 – William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (d. 2010)
1923 – Jacques Hébert, French-Canadian author, journalist and politician (d. 2007)
1924 – Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor
1924 – Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (d. 2006)
1924 – Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst
1924 – Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
1925 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 – Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born American cinematographer (d. 2003)
1927 – Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
1929 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
1929 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
1930 – Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician
1930 – Mike McCormack, American professional football player
1931 – Zlatko Grgic, Croatian animator (d. 1988)
1931 – Margaret Heckler, American politician, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
1931 – Jan Trabka, Polish scientist, philosopher
1932 – Bernard Ingham, British journalist, former press secretary to Margaret Thatcher
1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
1932 – O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
1933 – Bernie Kopell, American actor
1935 – Monte Markham, American actor
1935 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
1936 – Joseph Gosnell, Canadian Indian tribal leader
1938 – Ron Ely, American actor
1938 – John W. Dower, American author and historian
1939 – Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
1940 – Mariette Hartley, American actress
1940 – Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
1941 – Aloysius Paul D’Souza, Indian bishop
1941 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
1941 – Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
1942 – Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
1942 – Dan Henning, American football player
1942 – Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, American TV reporter and Congresswoman
1942 – Henry S. Taylor, American writer
1943 – Salomé, Spanish singer
1944 – Ray Davies, English singer and songwriter (The Kinks)
1944 – Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner
1945 – Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher and poet
1945 – Philippe Sarde, French composer
1946 – Rob Dyson, American racing driver and race team owner
1946 – Brenda Holloway, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
1946 – Maurice Saatchi, British Iraqi businessman
1947 – Meredith Baxter, American actress
1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1947 – Michael Gross, American actor
1947 – Joey Molland, English guitarist (Badfinger)
1947 – Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author
1948 – Jovan Acimovic, Serbian footballer
1948 – Ian McEwan, English writer
1948 – Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
1948 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
1950 – Anne Carson, Canadian poet
1950 – Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
1950 – Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer
1950 – Enn Reitel, English actor
1950 – Gérard Lanvin, French actor
1951 – Jim Douglas, American politician
1951 – Nils Lofgren, American guitarist, singer, songwriter (E Street Band, Crazy Horse)
1952 – Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 2007)
1953 – Maurice Boucher, Canadian organized crime boss
1953 – Michael Bowen, American actor
1954 – Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
1954 – Kathy Sullivan, American attorney and politician
1954 – Mark Kimmitt, American Army general
1954 – Anne Kirkbride, English actress
1954 – Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
1954 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (d. 2004)
1955 – Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
1955 – Leigh McCloskey, American actor
1955 – Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician
1955 – Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer and songwriter
1955 – Michel Platini, French footballer
1957 – Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author
1957 – Lucien DeBlois, Canadian professional ice hockey player
1958 – Gennady Padalka, Russian cosmonaut
1959 – Tom Chambers, American basketball player
1959 – Marcella Detroit, American singer and songwriter (Shakespear's Sister)
1959 – Kathy Mattea, American country singer
1960 – Kevin Harlan, American sportscaster
1961 – Kip Winger, American singer and guitarist (Winger)
1961 – Manu Chao, French multi-instrumentalist (Mano Negra)
1961 – Sascha Konietzko, German singer and synth player (KMFDM)
1961 – Karen Barber, English ice dancer
1962 – Viktor Tsoi, Soviet guitarist, singer and songwriter (Kino) (d. 1990)
1962 – Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
1963 – Lucas de Groot, Dutch type designer
1963 – Dario Marianelli, Italian composer
1964 – Sammi Davis, British actress
1964 – David Morrissey, British actor
1964 – Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek avant-garde stage director, choreographer and visual artist
1964 – Doug Savant, American actor
1965 – Larry Wachowski, American film director
1965 – Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
1966 – Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
1966 – Pierre Thorsson, Swedish handball player
1966 – Nan Woods, American actress
1967 – Jim Breuer, American comedian
1967 – Derrick Coleman, American basketball player
1967 – Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand
1967 – Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American businessman
1967 – Carrie Preston, American actress
1968 – Sonique, British DJ
1969 – Harun Isa, Albanian footballer
1969 – Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
1970 – Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
1970 – Pete Rock, American rapper and producer
1971 – Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
1972 – Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
1972 – Neil Doak, Irish cricketer
1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress
1974 – Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
1974 – Neely Jenkins, American bassist and vocalist (Park Ave., Tilly and the Wall)
1974 – Rob Kelly, American football player
1974 – Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
1976 – Antonio Cochran, American football player
1976 – Mike Einziger, American guitarist (Incubus)
1976 – Nigel Lappin, Australian rules footballer
1977 – Michael Gomez, Irish boxer
1977 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
1978 – Luke Kirby (actor), Canadian actor
1978 – Erica Durance, Canadian actress
1978 – Jack Guzman, American actor
1978 – Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer, actor and TV host
1978 – Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
1978 – Dejan Ognjanovic, Montenegrin football player
1978 – Rim'K, French rapper
1979 – Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor
1980 – Luca Anania, Italian footballer
1980 – Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
1980 – Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
1981 – David Bortolussi, French-born Italian rugby player
1981 – Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
1981 – Garrett Jones, American baseball player
1982 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in the line of succession to the British throne
1982 – Rob Mills, Australian singer
1984 – Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
1984 – Jujubee, American drag queen and reality TV personality
1984 – Franck Perera, French racing driver
1985 – Kris Allen, American singer
1985 – Anthony Morelli, American football player
1985 – Byron Schammer, Australian rules footballer
1986 – Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player
1986 – Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter
1987 – Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
1987 – Ryeowook, South Korean singer (Super Junior)
1987 – Dale Thomas, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Allyssa DeHaan, American collegiate basketball and volleyball player
1988 – Alejandro Ramírez, Costa Rican chess Grandmaster
1988 – Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer
1989 – Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner
1989 – Patrick Schönfeld, German footballer
1989 – Jascha Washington, American actor
1990 – Pietro Baccolo, Italian footballer
1991 – Gaël Kakuta, French footballer
1994 – Chisato Okai, Japanese singer (Cute)
1997 – Rebecca Black, American pop star

Deaths

223 – Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
1040 – Fulk III, Count of Anjou (b. 972)
1171 – Walter de Luci, Normand-born Abbot of Battle Abbey (b. 1103)
1205 – Enrico Dandolo, 42nd Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
1208 – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and Duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
1305 – King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 – King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
1421 – Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
1521 – Leonardo Loredan, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
1529 – John Skelton, English poet
1547 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1558 – Piero Strozzi, Italian military leader (b. 1558)
1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
1596 – Jean Liebault, French agronomist (b. 1535)
1621 – Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer and composer (b. 1564)
1621 – Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
1631 – John Smith, English explorer (b. c. 1580)
1652 – Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1661 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)
1737 – Matthieu Marais, French jurist (b. 1664)
1738 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1796 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
1824 – Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 – Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1876 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico (b. 1794)
1893 – Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1917 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1856)
1929 – Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British politician (b. 1864)
1934 – Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
1940 – Smedley Butler, American Marines general (b. 1881)
1951 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1952 – Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
1954 – Gideon Sundback, American inventor who perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1957 – Claude Farrère, French writer (b. 1876)
1964 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1964 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1964 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
1969 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
1970 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
1976 – Margaret Herrick, American director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (b. 1902)
1979 – Angus MacLise, American composer, drummer (Velvet Underground), mystic and shaman (b. 1938)
1980 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
1985 – Ettore Boiardi, Italian chef, founder of Chef Boyardee (b. 1897)
1985 – Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, singer (Rahbani Brothers) and producer (b. 1923)
1987 – Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer and TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
1990 – Cedric Belfrage (b. 1904)
1992 – Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)
1992 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1956)
1993 – Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer (b. 1906)
1997 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997 – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1998 – Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1998 – Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian Cardinal (b. 1913)
1999 – Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 – John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2002 – Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (b. 1930)
2003 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2003 – Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 – Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2004 – Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 – Jaime Sin, Filipino Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, prominent leader during the People Power Revolution (b. 1928)
2006 – Jared C. Monti, Medal Of Honor Recipient (b. 1975)
2007 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 – Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
2008 – Kermit Love, American puppeteer (b. 1916)
2010 – Irwin Barker, Canadian comedian (b. 1956)
2011 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)