today.nukz.net: Almanac September 25

William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life, and Holly Springs/Marshall County.

Faulkner is one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Events

275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.
1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1890 – The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah as-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
1972 – In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaido, Japan.
2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
2009 – U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
2010 – Mahmoud Abbas speaks at United Nations General Assembly to request that Israel end its policy of building settlements in the West Bank.

Births

1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss Italian architect (d. 1667)
1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, North German organist and composer (d. 1711)
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
1694 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1725 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 – Wenzel Pichl, Czech composer, violinist, music director and writer (d. 1805)
1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)
1764 – Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 – Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
1771 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (d. 1829)
1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 – Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
1816 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician (d. 1893)
1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (d. 1879)
1825 – William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
1862 – Léon Boëllmann, French composer (d. 1897)
1862 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1867 – Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1879 – Hermann Barrelet, French rower (death date unknown)
1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1888 – Hanna Ralph, German actress (d. 1978)
1889 – C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1893 – Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician (d. 1985)
1896 – Sandro Pertini, Italian statesman (d. 1990)
1897 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
1898 – Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 – Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1901 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (d. 1968)
1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
1908 – Jacqueline Audry, French film director (d. 1977)
1911 – Eric Williams, Trinidad and Tobago statesman (d. 1981)
1916 – Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian philosopher and leader (d. 1968)
1916 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author (d. 2010)
1917 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1917 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
1920 – Satish Dhawan, Indian-rocket scientist (d. 2002)
1921 – Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruian statesman (d. 1992)
1923 – Robert Laxalt, American author (d. 2001)
1923 – Sam Rivers, American musician (d. 2011)
1924 – Red Webb, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress
1926 – Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
1926 – Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 – Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
1929 – Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1929 – Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1929 – Delia Scala, Italian actress (d. 2004)
1930 – Shel Silverstein, American humorist, singer-songwriter and author (d. 1999)
1930 – Nino Cerruti, Italian stylist
1931 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1931 – Bryan John Birch, British mathematician
1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
1932 – Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977–1981)
1933 – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
1933 – Erik Darling, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
1933 – Brian Murphy, British actor
1933 – Ian Tyson, Canadian singer-songwriter and rancher
1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor
1936 – Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
1936 – Moussa Traoré, President of Mali
1938 – Ron Hill, British runner
1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (d. 2010)
1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor (d. 2009)
1939 – David S. Mann, American politician
1942 – Oscar Bonavena, Argentine heavyweight boxer (d. 1976)
1942 – Robert Miano, American actor
1943 – Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
1943 – Robert Walden, American actor
1943 – John Locke, American musician (d. 2006)
1943 – Aram Saroyan, American poet
1943 – Josh Taylor, American actor
1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1944 – Grayson Shillingford, West Indian cricket bowler
1944 – Doris Matsui, American politician
1945 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
1945 – Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 – Kathleen Brown, American politician
1946 – Felicity Kendal, British actress
1946 – Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (d. 1998)
1946 – Jerry Penrod, American bass player
1947 – Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1999)
1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model
1947 – Cecil Womack, American musician
1947 – Firmine Richard, French actress
1947 – Ali Parvin, Iranian football player and coach
1948 – Mimi Kennedy, American actress
1949 – Jeff Borowiak, American professional tennis player
1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer
1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor
1951 – Bob McAdoo, American basketball player
1952 – Jimmy Garvin, American professional wrestler
1952 – Colin Friels, Scottish actor
1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
1952 – Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
1952 – Cherríe Moraga, American writer
1952 – Tommy Norden, American actor
1952 – Anson Williams, American actor and director
1953 – Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
1954 – Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
1955 – Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1955 – Luanne Rice, American author
1955 – Amyr Klink, Brazilian explorer
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1955 – Zucchero, Italian musician
1955 – Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1956 – Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
1956 – Kim Thompson, American publisher
1956 – Winfried Stradt, German footballer
1956 – Danny Hillis, American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, engineer, and author
1957 – Ian Reddington, English actor
1957 – Michael Madsen, American actor
1958 – Randy Kerber, American composer
1958 – Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
1959 – Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director
1960 – Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960 – Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican actor
1960 – Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress and model
1962 – Aida Turturro, American actress
1962 – Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian television reporter (d. 2010)
1962 – Shreela Ghosh, Indian actress
1962 – Beth Toussaint, American actress
1963 – Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist
1963 – Tate Donovan, American actor
1963 – Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
1964 – Anita Barone, American actress
1964 – Lily Mariye, American actress
1964 – Chris Impellitteri, American musician (Impellitteri)
1964 – Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyu)
1964 – Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 – Gary Ayles, British racing driver
1964 – Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
1964 – Barbara Dennerlein, German jazz musician, plays organ
1965 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
1965 – Matt Battaglia, American actor
1965 – Herminia Bouza, Cuban javelin thrower
1965 – Anne Roumanoff, French humorist
1965 – Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress
1965 – Gordon Currie, Canadian actor
1965 – Rob Schmidt, American director
1965 – Dave Rundle, South African cricketer
1966 – Jason Flemyng, English actor
1966 – Todd Philcox, American football player
1967 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Melissa De Sousa, American actress
1967 – Ashwin Sood, Canadian musician
1968 – Will Smith, American actor and rapper
1968 – John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
1968 – Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
1968 – John A. List, American economist
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
1969 – Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
1969 – Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, American guitarist, songwriter, recording artist and producer
1969 – Hal Sparks, American actor
1969 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1969 – Bill Simmons, American sportswriter
1969 – Tony Womack, American baseball player
1970 – Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 – Kerri Kendall, American model
1970 – Curtis Buckley, American football player
1970 – Misa Shimizu, Japanese actress
1970 – Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
1971 – Nikos Boudouris, Greek basketball player
1971 – John Lynch, American football player
1971 – Brian Dunkleman, American actor
1971 – Jessie Wallace, English actress
1972 – Douglas September, Canadian musician
1973 – Bridgette Wilson, American actress
1973 – Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1973 – Bridget Marquardt, American model
1974 – Igor Bogdanovic, Serbian footballer
1974 – Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Richie Edwards, British bassist
1974 – John Granville, American diplomat (d. 2008)
1974 – Tye Harvey, American pole vaulter
1974 – Paul Hurst, English footballer
1974 – Daniel Kessler, American musician
1974 – Frank Leder, German fashion designer
1974 – Bente Elin Lilleøkseth, Norwegian politician
1974 – Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league player
1974 – Eric Moss, American football player
1974 – Víctor Pacheco, Colombian footballer
1974 – Olivier Dacourt, French professional footballer
1974 – Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Javier Rosas Sierra, Mexican athlete
1974 – Kemel Thompson, Jamaican athlete
1975 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975 – Maya Sansa, Italian actress
1975 – Dat Nguyen, American football player
1975 – Daniel Hyde, British actor
1975 – Declan Donnelly, British actor, television presenter and musician
1976 – Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
1976 – Charlotte Ayanna, American actress
1976 – Santigold, American singer
1976 – Eric Roberson, American singer and songwriter
1976 – Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer
1977 – Clea DuVall, American actress
1977 – Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
1977 – Joel David Moore, American actor
1977 – Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Kiyoshi Ijichi, Japanese drummer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
1977 – Robbie Jones, American actor
1978 – Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 – Rossif Sutherland, Canadian actor
1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 – Joe Cotton, Canadian pop singer
1978 – Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer
1978 – Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1979 – Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist
1979 – Kyle Bennett, American professional BMX rider
1979 – Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
1979 – Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player
1980 – T.I., American rapper
1980 – Chris Owen, American actor
1980 – Elio Germano, Italian actor
1981 – Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 – Van Hansis, American actor
1981 – Gemma Garrett, British model
1981 – Lee Norris, American actor
1981 – Angelo Palombo, Italian footballer
1981 – Sarah Jayne Dunn, English actress
1981 – Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
1982 – Kany García, Puerto Rican singer-songwritter
1982 – Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1983 – Terrance Pennington, American football player
1983 – Donald Glover, American actor and comedian
1983 – Son Dam Bi, South Korean singer
1984 – Rashad McCants, American basketball player
1984 – Esther Baxter, American model
1984 – Matías Silvestre, Argentine footballer
1984 – Cherine Anderson, Jamaican actress
1984 – Annabelle Wallis, English actress
1985 – Marvin Matip, German footballer
1986 – Greg Mighall, English musician
1986 – Marten Strauch, German rugby player
1986 – Nicole Fugere, American actress and model
1986 – Heidi El Tabakh, Canadian tennis player
1987 – Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player
1988 – Joe Prospero, British actor
1989 – Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor
1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1990 – Zac Fox, British actor
1991 – Emmy Clarke, American actress
1991 – Alessandro Crescenzi, Italian footballer
1992 – Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
1992 – Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer
1992 – Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver
1993 – Megan Corletto, American actress
1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor

Deaths

303 – Saint Fermin of Pamplona
1066 – Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
- Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
- Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1396 – Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis:
- Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France (b. 1341)
- Jean de Carrouges (b. circa 1330)
1496 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1506 – King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
1536 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
1626 – Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
1665 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1703 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
1774 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)
1791 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1828 – Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish musician and poet (b. c. 1783)
1849 – Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1867 – Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1893 – Louise von François, German writer (b. 1817)
1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 – Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1926 – Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1929 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1933 – Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1941 – Foxhall P. Keene, American race horse owner and polo player (b. 1867)
1943 – Alexander Hall, Canadian football player (b. 1880)
1946 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
1960 – Emily Post, American etiquette expert (b. 1873)
1961 – Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891)
1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
1971 – Hugo Lafayette Black, American jurist (b. 1886)
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 – John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
1980 – Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1983 – King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1986 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b. 1909)
1986 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
1987 – Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)
1988 – Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
1991 – Klaus Barbie, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
1991 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1995 – Dave Bowen, Welsh football manager (b. 1928)
1995 – Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
1996 – Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
1997 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
1997 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
2000 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
2003 – Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 – Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2005 – Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 – Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian philanthropist and artist (b. 1956)
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2005 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2006 – Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
2008 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (b. 1932)
2009 – Pierre Falardeau, Canadian director, writer and activist (b. 1946)
2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
2010 – Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
2011 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist (b. 1940)