today.nukz.net: Almanac September 5

Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement. She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months. The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, Browder v. Gayle, decided by the U.S. District Court in February, 1956 and then by the United States Supreme Court in December, 1956, ended bus segregation in Alabama. Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort for long because she was a teenager and became pregnant while unmarried. The NAACP leaders worried about using her to represent their movement, given the social norms of the time.

Events

1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczynska.
1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War : the British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, leading to the British surrender at Yorktown.
1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
1800 – Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1839 – United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
1918 – Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Th?a Thiên-Hu? Province.
1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.

Births

973 – Abu Ray?an al-Biruni, Khwarezmi-born Persian polymath (d. 1048)
1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1319 – Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
1567 – Date Masamune, Japanese Samurai and Daimyo (d. 1636)
1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1621 – Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1667 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1694 – František Václav Míca, Czech conductor and composer (d. 1744)
1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1769 – John Shortland, English naval officer (d. 1810)
1771 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
1772 – Fat'h-Ali Shah Qajar, Qajar king of Iran (d. 1834)
1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
1775 – Juan Martín Díez, Spanish guerrilla (d. 1825)
1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer, editor and music publisher (d. 1858)
1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1792 – Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 – Manuel Montt Torres, Chilean politician (d. 1880)
1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1818 – Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
1831 – Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (d. 1908)
1833 – George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (d. 1917)
1836 – Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1846 – Jack Daniel, Distiller (d. 1911)
1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1856 – Thomas E. Watson, American politician, Vice-Presidential candidate (d. 1922)
1862 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (d. 1942)
1867 – Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1873 – Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American inventor, engineer, soldier (d. 1942)
1874 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1876 – Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
1883 – Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist, cataloguer of Franz Schubert's works (d. 1967)
1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
1897 – Morris Carnovsky, American stage and film actor (d. 1992)
1897 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (d. 1980)
1897 – Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1899 – Humphrey Cobb, American screenwriter and novelist (d.1944)
1899 – Helen Creighton, Canadian folklorist (d. 1989)
1901 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician (d. 1991)
1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
1904 – Vera Bradford, Australian classical pianist (d. 2004)
1905 – Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979)
1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
1905 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
1907 – Sunnyland Slim, blues pianist (d. 1995)
1908 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (d. 1973)
1908 – Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1908 – Joaquín Nin-Culmell, Cuban-Spanish pianist, composer (d. 2004)
1909 – Hans Carste, German pianist, conductor (d. 1971)
1909 – Bernard Delfont, English entrepreneur (d. 1994)
1909 – Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1910 – Leila Mackinlay, British romance writer (d.1996)
1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1912 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 – Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1914 – Gail Kubik, American composer (d. 1984)
1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and mathematician
1916 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1916 – Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1917 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008)
1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1918 – Bob Katter, Sr., Australian politician, minister (d. 1990)
1918 – Jean-Marie Poitras, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2009)
1918 – Harold "Buddy" Williams, Australian country singer (d. 1986)
1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945)
1920 – Peter Racine Fricker, British-American composer (d. 1990)
1921 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
1923 – David Hamer, Australian politician (d. 2002)
1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 – Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
1927 – Paul Volcker, American economist
1928 – Joyce Hatto, British pianist, subject of fraudulent recordings (d. 2006)
1928 – Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer of Kathak style (d. 2004)
1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist(d. 2005)
1929 – Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1929 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilien Catholic archbishop
1934 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
1934 – Dennis Letts, American actor d. 2008
1935 – Johnny Briggs, English actor
1935 – Paul Josef Cordes, German Roman Catholic Cardinal
1935 – Werner Erhard, American founder of transformational training programs
1935 – Helen Gifford, Australian composer
1936 – Robert Burns, Canadian politician
1936 – John Danforth, American politician
1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
1937 – Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
1937 – William Devane, American actor
1937 – Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
1938 – John Ferguson Sr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1939 – Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
1939 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress
1941 – Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1942 – Denise Fabre French television presenter
1942 – Werner Herzog, German film director
1942 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
1943 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996)
1944 – Gareth Evans, Australian politician, University Chancellor
1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
1946 – Dennis Dugan, American actor and film director
1946 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born English singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1947 – Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008)
1947 – Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese yakuza boss
1947 – Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1949 – Clem Clempson, English rock guitarist
1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1950 – Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor
1951 – Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, American historian
1954 – Richard Austin, West Indian cricketer
1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
1957 – Rudi Gores, German footballer
1957 – Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
1960 – Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player
1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
1962 – Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
1963 – Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
1963 – Kristian Alfonso, American actress
1963 – Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver
1963 – Jonathan Phillips, English actor
1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer
1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
1964 – Amanda Ooms, Swedish actress
1964 – Kevin Saunderson American electronic music producer
1965 – David Brabham, Australian racing driver
1965 – Chris Gore, American filmmaker
1965 – Chris Morris, English satirist
1965 – César Rincón, Colombian matador
1966 – Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
1966 – Milinko Pantic, Serbian footballer
1966 – Terry Ellis, R&B singer
1967 – India Hicks, English model
1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
1968 – Dennis Scott, American basketball player
1968 – Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1969 – Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American musician
1970 – Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
1970 – Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
1970 – Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1971 – Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
1972 – Shane Sewell, Canadian professional wrestler
1972 – Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor
1973 – Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
1973 – Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
1974 – Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer
1975 – Rod Barajas, American baseball player
1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer
1975 – Randy Choate, American baseball player
1975 – Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
1976 – Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
1976 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian comedian/writer and radio personality
1977 – Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
1977 – Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 – Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
1977 – Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 – Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer
1978 – Yu Nan, Chinese actress
1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
1979 – Stewart Holden, English scrabble player
1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer
1979 – George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
1980 – Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
1981 – AnnMarie, American pornographic actress
1981 – Nina Eichinger, German actress
1981 – Daniel Moreno, Spanish professional bicyclist
1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
1982 – Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
1982 – Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
1983 – Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
1983 – Antony Sweeney, Hartlepool United footballer
1984 – Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish professional bicyclist
1985 – Ryan Guy, American soccer player
1986 – Colt McCoy, American football player
1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
1987 – Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royal
1987 – Silvestre Rasuk, American actor
1988 – Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
1988 – Denni Avdic, Swedish footballer
1988 – Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
1989 – Katerina Graham, American actress/singer/dancer
1989 – José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer
1989 – Ben Youngs, English rugby union Scrum-Half
1990 – Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer
1990 – Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
1990 – Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
1990 – Angy Fernández, Spanish singer and actress
1991 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
1993 – Gage Golightly, American actress
1995 – Caroline Sunshine, American actress

Deaths

1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 – Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c.1585)
1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
1803 – François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
1808 – John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1837 – James Ruse, pioneer Australian farmer (b. 1759)
1838 – Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 – Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 – Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 – John Thomson, Scottish football player (b. 1909)
1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1932 – Paul Bern, German-American film director (b. 1889)
1934 – Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman (b. 1878)
1936 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
1936 – Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1942 – François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician (b. 1895)
1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1955 – Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian rules footballer (b. 1911)
1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 – Dezso Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1970 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
1972 – Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)
1972 – Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter, killed in 1972 Munich Olympic massacre (b. 1940)
1972 – Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach, killed in 1972 Munich Olympic massacre (b. 1939)
1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 – Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and Walloon militant (b. 1897)
1979 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1980 – Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
1982 – Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 – Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1984 – Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat (b. 1917)
1984 – Jane Roberts, American psychic medium, writer
1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1989 – Philip Baxter, Australian chemical engineer, university vice-chancellor (b. 1905)
1990 – Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, British colonial administrator (b. 1907)
1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b.1914)
1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1921)
1994 – John Newman, assassinated Australian politician (b. 1946)
1996 – Basil Salvadore D’Souza, Indian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1926)
1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1998 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
1998 – Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1909)
1998 – Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1998 – Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1999 – Alan Clark, British politician and diarist (b. 1928)
1999 – Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2000 – Roy Fredericks, West Indian cricketer (b. 1942)
2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (b. 1918)
2001 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2001 – Vladimir Žerjavic, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer (b. 1935)
2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General (b. 1917)
2007 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 – Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 – Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician (b. 1976)
2007 – D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek film director and a writer (b. 1939)
2008 – Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
2010 – Hedley Beare, Australian educator and academic (b. 1932)
2010 – Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), Belgian artist (b. 1922)
2010 – Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990)