today.nukz.net: Almanac July 1

Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.

Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, and was named after Twila Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana. When Tharp was a young child she spent a few months each year living with her Quaker grandparents on their farm in Indiana. In 1950 Tharp's family—younger sister Twanette, twin brothers Stanley and Stanford, mother Lecile and father William—moved to Rialto, California.[1] Her parents opened a drive-in movie theater, where Tharp worked from the time she was 8 years old. The drive-in was on the corner of Acacia and Foothill, the major east–west artery in Rialto and the path of Route 66.[2] She attended Pacific High School in San Bernardino and studied at the Vera Lynn School of Dance. Tharp, a "devoted bookworm,"[3] admits that this schedule left little time for a social life.[4] Tharp attended Pomona College in California but later transferred to Barnard College in New York City, where she graduated with a degree in Art History in 1963. It was in New York that she studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. In 1963 Tharp joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Events

69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by Prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of Castilian during the Reconquista.
1569 – Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1782 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg (1782).
1837 – A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 – The Russian State Library is founded.
1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
1862 – American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 – Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 – Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 – Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded.
1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1942 – World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 – Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 – The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 – Independence of Somalia.
1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state.
1962 – Independence of Rwanda.
1962 – Independence of Burundi.
1963 – ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 – Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
1968 – The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1970 – President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 – The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 – The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 – German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 – A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2003 – Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 – The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 – Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.

Births

1481 – Christian II of Denmark (d. 1559)
1506 – Louis II of Hungary (d. 1526)
1534 – Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig (d. 1588)
1574 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
1633 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1663 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (d. 1738)
1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1723 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (d. 1802)
1725 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier (d. 1807)
1731 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan English admiral (d. 1804)
1742 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
1788 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
1804 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (d. 1886)
1804 – George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founded Clemson University (d. 1888)
1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
1822 – Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1888)
1834 – Jadwiga Luszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English soldier and explorer (d. 1892)
1869 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (d. 1946)
1872 – Louis Blériot, French aviator, inventor, and engineer (d. 1936)
1873 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director (d. 1968)
1879 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954)
1883 – Arthur Borton, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1933)
1899 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
1899 – Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962)
1899 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician (d. 1987)
1902 – William Wyler, French-American director (d. 1981)
1903 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
1906 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
1906 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies (d. 2004)
1907 – Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1908 – Peter Anders, German tenor (d. 1954)
1911 – Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 – David Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
1912 – Sally Kirkland, American writer and editor (d. 1989)
1913 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1913 – Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (d. 1979)
1914 – Earle Warren, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1994)
1915 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (d. 1992)
1915 – Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 – Olivia de Havilland, English-American actress
1917 – Humphry Osmond, English psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1920 – Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
1921 – Seretse Khama, Batswana politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)
1924 – Florence Stanley, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 – Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
1926 – Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 – Carl Hahn, German businessman
1926 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer
1927 – Alan J. Charig, English palaeontologist (d. 1997)
1929 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (d. 2005)
1930 – Carol Chomsky, American linguist (d. 2008)
1930 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Hollywood Flames and Bob & Earl) (d. 1990)
1931 – Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
1932 – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1933 – C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2010)
1934 – Claude Berri, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1934 – Jamie Farr, American actor
1934 – Jean Marsh, English actress
1934 – Sydney Pollack, American director (d. 2008)
1935 – James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1936 – Syl Johnson, American singer, musician, and producer
1938 – Craig Anderson, American baseball player
1939 – Karen Black, American actress
1939 – Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Delaney & Bonnie) (d. 2008)
1941 – Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player
1941 – Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Twyla Tharp, American choreographer
1942 – Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
1942 – Andraé Crouch, American broadcaster
1943 – Marian Glinka, Polish actor (d. 2008)
1943 – Jeff Wayne, American pianist and composer
1944 – Lew Rockwell, American author and activist
1945 – Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1945 – Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress (Blondie and The Wind in the Willows)
1946 – Masaharu Sato, Japanese voice actor
1947 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999)
1947 – Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver
1948 – John Ford, English singer-songwriter and musician (Strawbs, The Monks, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera)
1949 – John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter and musician
1949 – David Hogan, American composer (d. 1996)
1950 – David Duke, American politician, writer, activist, and white supremacist
1951 – Trevor Eve, English actor
1951 – Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist
1951 – Terrence Mann, American actor, singer, and dancer
1951 – Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboardist (The B-52's and The Superions)
1951 – Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (Village People)
1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor and screenwriter
1952 – Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1953 – Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese politician
1953 – Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician
1955 – Lisa Scottoline, American author
1955 – Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1989)
1956 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (d. 2009)
1956 – Alan Ruck, American actor
1957 – Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (d. 2010)
1957 – Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1959 – Dale Midkiff, American actor
1960 – Kevin Swords, American rugby player
1961 – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 – Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist
1961 – Carl Lewis, American athlete
1961 – Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
1961 – Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Andre Braugher, American actor
1963 – Roddy Bottum, American singer and musician (Faith No More and Imperial Teen)
1963 – David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist (d. 2006)
1964 – Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
1965 – Harald Zwart, Norwegian director
1966 – Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1966 – Shawn Burr, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model, actress, producer, author, and activist
1967 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer (d. 2011)
1968 – Tim Abell, American actor
1968 – Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor
1969 – Séamus Egan, Irish singer-songwriter and musician Solas
1970 – Melissa Peterman, American actress
1970 – Henry Simmons, American actor
1971 – Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 – Amira Casar, French actress
1971 – Missy Elliott, American rapper, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress
1971 – Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 – Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 – Sunshine Becker American Singer (Furthur)
1972 – Claire Forlani, English actress
1972 – Alex Machacek, Austrian guitarist (BPM)
1974 – Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
1975 – Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and musician
1976 – Plies, American rapper
1976 – Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
1976 – Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1976 – Thomas Sadoski, American actor
1976 – Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1977 – Tom Frager, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and surfer
1977 – Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Greg Pattillo, American flautist (Project Trio)
1977 – Birgit Schuurman, Dutch singer and actress
1977 – Pamela Rogers Turner, American teacher, coach, and convicted sex offender
1977 – Liv Tyler, American actress and model
1979 – Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1980 – Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player
1980 – Nelson Cruz, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Carlo del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player
1981 – Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer
1981 – Amanda Seales, American rapper and actress
1982 – Hilarie Burton, American actress
1982 – Carmella DeCesare, American model
1982 – Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 – Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 – Adrian Ward, American football player
1983 – Leeteuk, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Super Junior)
1983 – Lynsey Bartilson, American actress
1983 – Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and musician (M2M)
1984 – Morgane Dubled, French model
1985 – Léa Seydoux, French actress and model
1986 – Andrew Lee, Australian footballer
1986 – Agnes Monica, Indonesian singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress
1986 – Julian Prochnow, German footballer
1986 – Casey Reinhardt, American actress and model
1987 – Emily Glenister, English actress
1988 – Dedé, Brazilian footballer
1988 – Evan Ellingson, American actor
1989 – Mitch Hewer, English actor, singer, and dancer
1989 – Hannah Murray, English actress
1989 – Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver
1990 – Natsuki Sato, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1991 – Bryant Jones, American actor
1991 – Gillian Maguire, English actress and singer
1991 – Serenay Sarikaya, Turkish model and actress, Miss Turkey 2010
1992 – Hannah Whelan, English gymnast
1993 – Raini Rodriguez, American actress
1994 – Anri Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
1998 – Hollie Steel, English singer

Deaths

552 – Totila, Ostrogoth king
868 – Ali al-Hadi, Muslim 10th of the Twelve Imams (b. 828)
1109 – Alfonso VI of León and Castile (b. 1040)
1277 – Baibars, Egyptian Sultan (b. 1223)
1592 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
1614 – Isaac Casaubon, French scholar (b. 1559)
1622 – William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (b. 1575)
1681 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish Archbishop of Armagh and saint (b. 1629)
1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1774 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English statesman (b. 1730)
1784 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
1819 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1839 – Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1785)
1860 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
1863 – John Fulton Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)
1894 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective (b. 1819)
1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and writer (b. 1811)
1905 – John Hay, American statesman, diplomat, author, and journalist, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)
1925 – Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
1942 – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer (b. 1857)
1944 – Carl Mayer, Austrian screenwriter (b. 1894)
1944 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian writer (b. 1930)
1948 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
1950 – Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (b. 1865)
1950 – Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, designed Cranbrook Educational Community (b. 1873)
1961 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1964 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
1965 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
1967 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
1968 – Fritz Bauer, German judge (b. 1903)
1971 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1974 – Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
1976 – Anneliese Michel, German woman who was said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 – Kurt Student, German general (b. 1890)
1981 – Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981 – Rushton Moreve, American bassist and songwriter (Steppenwolf) (b. 1948)
1983 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1903)
1984 – Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian educator (b. 1904)
1987 – Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Residents and Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1949)
1991 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
1992 – Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (b. 1924)
1992 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1933)
1994 – Merriam Modell, American novelist (b. 1908)
1995 – Wolfman Jack, American radio host (b. 1938)
1996 – William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1904)
1996 – Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (b. 1954)
1996 – Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (b. 1942)
1997 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
1999 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian director (b. 1908)
1999 – Forrest Mars, Sr., American businessman, created M&M's and the Mars bar (b. 1904)
1999 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
1999 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000 – Sarah Payne, English murder victim (b. 1992)
2000 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2003 – N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
2003 – Herbie Mann, American flutist (b. 1930)
2003 – Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2004 – Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
2004 – Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2004 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
2005 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
2005 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (b. 1951)
2006 – Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
2008 – Mel Galley, English guitarist (Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers, and Phenomena) (b. 1948)
2008 – Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (b. 1968)
2009 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
2009 – Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
2009 – Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)
2009 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
2010 – Don Coryell, American football coach (b. 1924)
2010 – Arnold Friberg, American illustrator (b. 1913)
2010 – Geoffrey Hutchings, English actor (b. 1939)
2010 – Ilene Woods, American actress (b. 1929)
2011 – Leslie Brooks, American actress (b. 1922)
2012 – Mike Hershberger, American baseball player (b. 1939)
2012 – Evelyn Lear, American soprano (b. 1926)
2012 – Alan G. Poindexter, American navy officer and astronaut (b. 1961)