What happened on June 21? There are more than 357 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 21
June 21 is the 173rd day of the year 2024. There are 193 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 25th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Oglesby, Texas 76561 sunrise occured at 06:24 AM and sunset occured at 08:39 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 222 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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June 21: A Day In History
On non-leap years (until 2039), this day marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the least hours of daylight in the southern hemisphere.
Historical Events For June 21
- 217 BCThe Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
- 524Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 1307Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
- 1582Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
- 1621Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
- 1734In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
- 1749Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
- 1768James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
- 1788New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1791King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
- 1798Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- 1813Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
- 1824Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1826Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- 1854The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
- 1864New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1877The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- 1898The United States captures Guam from Spain.
- 1900Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
- 1900Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
- 1915The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 1919Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
- 1919The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1929An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
- 1930One-year conscription comes into force in France.
- 1940France signs an armistice with Germany at Compiègne.
- 1940The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 1942World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
- 1942World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1948Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
- 1952The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 1957Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
- 1964Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1970Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
- 1973In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
- 1977Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
- 1982John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 2000Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the ‘promotion’of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- 2001A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
- 2004SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2006Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
- 2009Greenland assumes self-rule.
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Who Were Born On June 21?
- 1002Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
- 1226King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
- 1528Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1603)
- 1535Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
- 1639Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
- 1646Maria Francisca of Nemours, Queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
- 1676Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- 1706John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
- 1710James Short, British mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1712Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
- 1730Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (d. 1801)
- 1732Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
- 1736Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
- 1741Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general in the French Revolution (d.1808)
- 1750Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor, draftsman and printmaker (d. 1818)
- 1750Thomas Spence, English classical writer (d. 1814)
- 1759Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
- 1763Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (d. 1845)
- 1764Sidney Smith, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1840)
- 1774Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825)
- 1781Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
- 1786Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
- 1788Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
- 1791Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
- 1792Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (d. 1860)
- 1805Charles Thomas Jackson, American polymath (d. 1880)
- 1811Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
- 1812Moses Hess, French/German-born Jewish socialist and precursor of Zionism (d. 1875)
- 1823Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
- 1825William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican Bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
- 1828Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
- 1834Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont Irish Jewish noblewoman (d. 1882)
- 1834Frans de Cort, Flemish writer (d. 1878)
- 1839Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
- 1850Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)
- 1850Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1928)
- 1858Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
- 1859Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)
- 1862Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (d. 1943)
- 1863Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
- 1864Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
- 1868Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
- 1870Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
- 1876Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956)
- 1880Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
- 1880Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, and banker (d. 1941)
- 1882Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
- 1882Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)
- 1883Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
- 1884Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
- 1887Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
- 1889Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
- 1889Tadeusz Jan Kowalski, Polish orientalist (d. 1948)
- 1890Frank S. Land, American founder of the Order of DeMolay (d. 1959)
- 1891Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
- 1891Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (d. 1979)
- 1892Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
- 1893Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
- 1894Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
- 1896Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
- 1898Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
- 1899George Miles Watson, British racehorse breeder (d. 1968)
- 1902Howie Morenz, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
- 1903Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
- 1905Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
- 1906Grete Sultan, German musician (d. 2005)
- 1906Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
- 1906Helene Costello, American actress (d. 1957)
- 1906Nusch Éluard, French performer, model, and artist (d. 1946)
- 1908William Frankena, American moral philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1910Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
- 1912Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer (d. 2000)
- 1912Mary McCarthy, American writer (d. 1989)
- 1914William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
- 1916Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
- 1916Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist (d. 2001)
- 1918Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1918James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1919Gérard Pelletier, French-Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
- 1919Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
- 1919Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master (d. 1968)
- 1921Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1921Jean de Broglie, French politician (d. 1976)
- 1921Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1921William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (d. 2010)
- 1923Jacques Hébert, French-Canadian author, journalist and politician (d. 2007)
- 1924Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor
- 1924Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst
- 1924Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1924Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (d. 2006)
- 1925Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
- 1925Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1926Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born American cinematographer (d. 2003)
- 1927Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1929Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
- 1929Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1930Mike McCormack, American professional football player
- 1930Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician
- 1931Jan Trąbka, Polish scientist, philosopher
- 1931Margaret Heckler, American politician, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
- 1931Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator (d. 1988)
- 1932Bernard Ingham, British journalist, former press secretary to Margaret Thatcher
- 1932Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
- 1932O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1933Bernie Kopell, American actor
- 1935Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
- 1935Monte Markham, American actor
- 1936Joseph Gosnell, Canadian Indian tribal leader
- 1938John W. Dower, American author and historian
- 1938Ron Ely, American actor
- 1939Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
- 1940Mariette Hartley, American actress
- 1940Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
- 1941Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
- 1941Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
- 1942Dan Henning, American football player
- 1942Henry S. Taylor, American writer
- 1942Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, American TV reporter and Congresswoman
- 1942Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
- 1943Salomé, Spanish singer
- 1944Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner
- 1944Ray Davies, English singer and songwriter (The Kinks)
- 1945Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher and poet
- 1945Philippe Sarde, French composer
- 1946Brenda Holloway, American singer and songwriter
- 1946Maurice Saatchi, British Iraqi businessman
- 1946Rob Dyson, American racing driver and race team owner
- 1946Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
- 1947Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author
- 1947Joey Molland, English guitarist (Badfinger)
- 1947Meredith Baxter, American actress
- 1947Michael Gross, American actor
- 1947Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1948Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
- 1948Ian McEwan, English writer
- 1948Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
- 1950Anne Carson, Canadian poet
- 1950Enn Reitel, English actor
- 1950Gérard Lanvin, French actor
- 1950Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
- 1950Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer
- 1951Jim Douglas, American politician
- 1951Nils Lofgren, American guitarist, singer, songwriter (E Street Band, Crazy Horse)
- 1952Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
- 1953Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 2007)
- 1953Maurice Boucher, Canadian organized crime boss
- 1953Michael Bowen, American actor
- 1954Anne Kirkbride, English actress
- 1954Kathy Sullivan, American attorney and politician
- 1954Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
- 1954Mark Kimmitt, American Army general
- 1954Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
- 1954Robert Pastorelli, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1955Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician
- 1955Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer and songwriter
- 1955Leigh McCloskey, American actor
- 1955Michel Platini, French footballer
- 1955Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
- 1957Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author
- 1957Lucien DeBlois, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- 1958Gennady Padalka, Russian cosmonaut
- 1959Kathy Mattea, American country singer
- 1959Marcella Detroit, American singer and songwriter (Shakespear’s Sister)
- 1959Tom Chambers, American basketball player
- 1960Kevin Harlan, American sportscaster
- 1961Karen Barber, English ice dancer
- 1961Kip Winger, American singer and guitarist (Winger)
- 1961Manu Chao, French multi-instrumentalist (Mano Negra)
- 1961Sascha Konietzko, German singer and synth player (KMFDM)
- 1962Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
- 1962Viktor Tsoi, Soviet guitarist, singer and songwriter (Kino) (d. 1990)
- 1963Dario Marianelli, Italian composer
- 1963Lucas de Groot, Dutch type designer
- 1964David Morrissey, British actor
- 1964Dimitris Papaioannou, Greek avant-garde stage director, choreographer and visual artist
- 1964Doug Savant, American actor
- 1964Sammi Davis, British actress
- 1965Larry Wachowski, American film director
- 1965Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
- 1966Nan Woods, American actress
- 1966Pierre Thorsson, Swedish handball player
- 1966Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
- 1967Carrie Preston, American actress
- 1967Derrick Coleman, American basketball player
- 1967Jim Breuer, American comedian
- 1967Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American businessman
- 1968Sonique, British DJ
- 1969Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
- 1970Pete Rock, American rapper and producer
- 1970Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
- 1971Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
- 1972Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
- 1972Neil Doak, Irish cricketer
- 1973Juliette Lewis, American actress
- 1974Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
- 1974Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
- 1974Neely Jenkins, American bassist and vocalist (Park Ave., Tilly and the Wall)
- 1974Rob Kelly, American football player
- 1976Antonio Cochran, American football player
- 1976Mike Einziger, American guitarist (Incubus)
- 1976Nigel Lappin, Australian rules footballer
- 1977Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
- 1977Michael Gomez, Irish boxer
- 1978Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
- 1978Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin football player
- 1978Erica Durance, Canadian actress
- 1978Jack Guzman, American actor
- 1978Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer, actor and TV host
- 1978Rim'K, French rapper
- 1979Chris Pratt, American actor
- 1979Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
- 1980Luca Anania, Italian footballer
- 1980Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
- 1980Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
- 1981Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
- 1981David Bortolussi, French-born Italian rugby player
- 1981Garrett Jones, American baseball player
- 1981Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in the line of succession to the British throne
- 1982Rob Mills, Australian singer
- 1984Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
- 1984Franck Perera, French racing driver
- 1984Jujubee, American drag queen and reality TV personality
- 1985Anthony Morelli, American football player
- 1985Byron Schammer, Australian rules footballer
- 1985Kris Allen, American singer
- 1986Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player
- 1986Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter
- 1987Dale Thomas, Australian rules footballer
- 1987Ryeowook, South Korean singer (Super Junior)
- 1987Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
- 1988Alejandro Ramírez, Costa Rican chess Grandmaster
- 1988Allyssa DeHaan, American collegiate basketball and volleyball player
- 1988Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer
- 1989Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner
- 1989Jascha Washington, American actor
- 1990Pietro Baccolo, Italian footballer
- 1991Gaël Kakuta, French footballer
- 1997Rebecca Black, American pop star
- 2001Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player
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Who Died On June 21?
- 223Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
- 1040Fulk III, Count of Anjou (b. 972)
- 1171Walter de Luci, Normand-born Abbot of Battle Abbey (b. 1103)
- 1205Enrico Dandolo, 42nd Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
- 1208Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and Duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
- 1305King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
- 1377King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
- 1421Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
- 1521Leonardo Loredan, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
- 1527Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
- 1529John Skelton, English poet
- 1547Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
- 1558Piero Strozzi, Italian military leader (b. 1558)
- 1582Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
- 1591Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
- 1596Jean Liebault, French agronomist (b. 1535)
- 1621Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer and composer (b. 1564)
- 1621Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
- 1631John Smith, English explorer (b. c. 1580)
- 1652Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
- 1661Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)
- 1737Matthieu Marais, French jurist (b. 1664)
- 1738Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
- 1796Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
- 1824Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- 1865Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
- 1874Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
- 1876Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico (b. 1794)
- 1893Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
- 1908Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- 1914Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1843)
- 1917Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1856)
- 1929Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British politician (b. 1864)
- 1934Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
- 1940Smedley Butler, American Marines general (b. 1881)
- 1951Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
- 1952Wilfrid R. “Wop” May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
- 1954Gideon Sundback, American inventor who perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
- 1957Claude Farrère, French writer (b. 1876)
- 1957Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
- 1964Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
- 1969Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1970Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
- 1976Margaret Herrick, American director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (b. 1902)
- 1979Angus MacLise, American composer, drummer (Velvet Underground), mystic and shaman (b. 1938)
- 1980Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
- 1985Ettore Boiardi, Italian chef, founder of Chef Boyardee (b. 1897)
- 1985Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
- 1986Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, singer (Rahbani Brothers) and producer (b. 1923)
- 1987Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer and TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
- 1990Cedric Belfrage (b. 1904)
- 1992Li Xiannian, President of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1909)
- 1992Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1956)
- 1993Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
- 1994William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 1997Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
- 1997Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
- 1998Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
- 1998Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian Cardinal
- 1999Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
- 2000Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
- 2001Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2001John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
- 2001Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
- 2002Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (b. 1930)
- 2003Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
- 2003Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2003Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
- 2004Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
- 2005Jaime Sin, Filipino Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, prominent leader during the People Power Revolution (b. 1928)
- 2006Jared C. Monti, Medal Of Honor Recipient (b. 1975)
- 2007Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
- 2008Kermit Love, American puppeteer (b. 1916)
- 2008Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
- 2010Irwin Barker, Canadian comedian (b. 1956)
- 2011Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)
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