today.nukz.net: Almanac October 14

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was called "The First Lady of American Cinema".

She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August.

The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.

Events

222 – Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I.
1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1465 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk.
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1773 – Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
1806 – Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
1843 – The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
1884 – The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
1939 – The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 – Balham subway station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
1943 – The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
1943 – José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
1944 – Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
1958 – The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
1966 – The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
1967 – The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 – Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
1968 – The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
1968 – An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall^{[disambiguation needed]} of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. This has become known as the Steve Bartman incident.
2006 – The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.

Births

1257 – King Przemysł II of Poland (d. 1296)
1404 – Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
1499 – Claude of France, wife of Francis I of France (d. 1524)
1542 – Akbar the Great, 3rd Mughal Emperor (d. 1605)
1630 – Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)
1633 – James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
1639 – Simon van der Stel the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa (d. 1712)
1641 – Joachim Tielke German maker of musical instruments (d. 1719)
1643 – Emperor Bahadur Shah I of India (d. 1712)
1644 – William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1712 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)
1733 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
1784 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
1790 – Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)
1806 – Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
1840 – Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (d. 1868)
1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
1848 – Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and patron of education and the arts (d. 1924)
1853 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883)
1861 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
1869 – Joseph Duveen, British art dealer (d. 1939)
1872 – Reginald Doherty, British tennis player (d. 1910)
1873 – Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937)
1873 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator (d. 1954)
1882 – Éamon de Valera, Irish political leader (d. 1975)
1882 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
1884 – Jimmy Conlin, American actor d. 1962
1888 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
1892 – Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961)
1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
1894 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
1898 – Thomas William Holmes, Canadian soldier of WW1 and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1950)
1902 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
1904 – Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)
1906 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
1906 – Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian religious figure (d. 1949)
1907 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1908 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
1909 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (d. 1938)
1909 – Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
1911 – Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)
1914 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
1914 – Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
1914 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1915 – Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church
1916 – C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon General
1918 – Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
1921 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean writer and historian (d. 2009)
1926 – Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor and TV personality (d. 1985)
1926 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
1927 – Roger Moore, English actor
1928 – Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995)
1929 – Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
1930 – Robert Parker, American R&B singer and musician
1931 – Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
1932 – Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
1932 – Dyanne Thorne, American actress
1935 – La Monte Young, American composer
1936 – Hans Kraay, Dutch footballer and football-manager
1938 – John W. Dean III, American Watergate figure
1938 – Empress Farah Diba of Iran
1938 – Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
1939 – Rocky Thompson, American golfer
1940 – Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
1940 – Cliff Richard, English singer
1940 – Christopher Timothy, British actor
1941 – Art Shamsky, American baseball player
1941 – Jerry Glanville, American football coach
1942 – Evelio Javier, Filipino politician and civil servant (d. 1986)
1942 – Péter Nádas, Hungarian writer
1944 – Udo Kier, German actor
1945 – Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
1945 – Daan Jippes, Dutch cartoonist
1945 – Lesley Joseph, English actress
1946 – Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues)
1946 – James Robert Kennedy, American football coach
1946 – Craig Venter, American biologist
1946 – Al Oliver, American baseball player
1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)
1947 – Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
1947 – Norman Harris, American musician (The Trammps) (d. 1987)
1948 – Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
1948 – Marcia Barrett, singer (Boney M)
1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host
1949 – Katy Manning, English-born Australian actress
1949 – Katha Pollitt, American writer
1949 – Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 – Joey Travolta, American actor
1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast
1952 – Harry Anderson, American actor
1953 – Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer
1953 – Greg Evigan, American actor
1954 – Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli whistleblower
1956 – Beth Daniel, American golfer
1957 – Michel Després, Quebec politician
1957 – Kenny Neal, American blues singer & guitarist
1958 – Thomas Dolby, English musician
1958 – Aino-Maija Luukkonen, Finnish politician
1959 – A.J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister)
1960 – Steve Cram, English athlete
1960 – Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer
1961 – Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
1962 – Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
1962 – Chris Thomas King, New Orleans based blues musician and actor
1963 – Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
1963 – Lori Petty, American actress
1963 – Alessandro Safina, Italian operatic tenor
1964 – Olu Oguibe, American artist
1964 – Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
1964 – Jim Rome, American sports talk show host
1964 – David Kaye, Canadian actor
1965 – Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
1965 – Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor
1965 – Karyn White, American singer
1966 – Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player
1967 – Savanna Samson, American porn star
1967 – Pat Kelly, American baseball player
1967 – Jason Plato, English Racing driver
1967 – Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist
1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
1968 – Johnny Goudie, American musician
1968 – Jay Ferguson, Canadian musician (Sloan)
1969 – Christophe Agou, French photographer
1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (d. 2012)
1969 – David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
1969 – P. J. Brown, American basketball player
1970 – Jim Jackson, American basketball player
1970 – Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
1970 – Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
1970 – Pär Zetterberg, Swedish football player
1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
1973 – Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
1973 – Sergio Pinheiro, Portuguese Folk Singer
1974 – Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1974 – Jessica Drake, American porn star
1974 – Viktor Röthlin, Swiss marathoner
1974 – Samuel, Brazilian footballer
1974 – Joseph Utsler, American musician
1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
1975 – Michael Duberry, English Footballer (Oxford United F.C.)
1976 – Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1976 – Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
1976 – Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion
1976 – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan Cricketer
1977 – Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
1977 – Bianca Beauchamp, adult model
1977 – Joey Didulica, Croatian football goalkeeper
1977 – Barry Ditewig, Dutch football goalkeeper
1977 – Carl Johan Grimmark, Swedish Christian guitarist (Narnia, Saviour Machine, Rob Rock, Beautiful Sin)
1977 – Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor
1977 – Jeff Garcia, American voice actor
1977 – Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
1978 – Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
1978 – Ryan Church, American baseball player
1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
1978 – Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player
1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
1978 – Usher, American singer and actor
1978 – Javon Walker, American football player
1979 – Stacy Keibler, American actress and professional wrestler
1980 – Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Scott Kooistra, American football player
1980 – Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
1980 – Terrence McGee, American football player
1980 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
1981 – Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer
1981 – Boof Bonser, American baseball player
1982 – Cosmin Curiman, Romanian football player
1982 – Ryan Hall, American marathoner
1982 – Matt Roth, American football player
1983 – Vanessa Lane, American porn star
1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
1983 – Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
1984 – LaRon Landry, American football player
1985 – Daniel Clark, American actor
1985 – Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
1985 – Sherlyn, Mexican actress
1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer
1986 – Skyler Shaye, American actress
1986 – Peter Alcorn, Northern Irish drummer
1988 – Will Atkinson, English footballer
1988 – MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
1988 – Max Thieriot, American actor
1988 – Mario Titone, Italian footballer
1988 – Pia Toscano, American singer
1989 – Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
1990 – Raquel Diaz, American wrestler
1990 – Alexandra Krosney, American actress
1991 – Shona McGarty, English actress
1992 – Savannah Outen, American singer
1992 – Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
1999 – Daniel Roche, English Actor
2002 – Youssif Iraqi Torture victim

Deaths

1066 – Harold Godwinson, King of England (b. 1022)
1092 – Nizam al-Mulk, Seljuk vizier (b. 1018)
1256 – Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 – Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (b. 1280)
1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1565 – Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
1660 – Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
1703 – Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
1711 – Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia
1758 – Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1792 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
1911 – John Marshall Harlan, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
1923 – Marcellus Emants, Dutch novelist (b. 1848)
1929 – Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (b. 1844)
1930 – Samuel van Houten, Dutch politician (b. 1837)
1944 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
1953 – Émile Sarrade, French rugby player (b. 1877)
1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)
1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
1965 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
1965 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and essayist (b. 1914)
1967 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
1969 – Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
1973 – Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
1973 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier (b. 1929)
1976 – Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
1983 – Johannes O., Dutch murderer (b. 1916)
1983 – Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (b. 1887)
1984 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
1985 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
1989 – Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959)
1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
1997 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)
1998 – Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)
1998 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)
2000 – Art Coulter, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
2002 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)
2004 – Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
2005 – Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
2006 – Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
2006 – Chun Wei Cheung, Dutch rowing cox and Olympic silver medallist (b. 1972)
2006 – Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
2006 – Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006 – Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
2006 – Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist (b. 1926)
2006 – Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
2007 – Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
2007 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925)
2007 – Judy Crichton, American television documentary producer (b. 1929)
2008 – Richard Cooey, American convicted murderer and rapist (b. 1967)
2008 – Robert Furman, American civil engineer and WWII intelligence officer (b. 1915)
2009 – Captain Lou Albano, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1933)
2009 – Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor (b. 1938)
2009 – Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935)
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (b. 1952)
2010 – Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (b. 1924)
2011 – Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, American son of Anwar al-Aulaqi (b. 1995)
2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)