What happened on March 4? There are more than 933 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 March 4
March 4 is the 64th day of the year 2024. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 10th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Sundown, New York 12782 sunrise occured at 06:25 AM and sunset occured at 05:53 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Pisces. The modern birthstone for this month is Aquamarine while the mystical birthstone is Jade.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 331 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For March 4
- 51Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
- 306Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
- 852Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
- 932Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
- 1152Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
- 1238The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
- 1351Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
- 1386Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
- 1461Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
- 1493Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
- 1519Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
- 1628The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
- 1665English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1675John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
- 1681Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- 1789In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
- 1790France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
- 1791A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
- 1791Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
- 1794The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 1797In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
- 1804Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
- 1814Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
- 1848Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- 1861The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the “Stars and Bars”) is adopted.
- 1882Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
- 1890The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1710 ft long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
- 1899Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland, killing over 300.
- 1908The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
- 1909U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution’s Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
- 1913First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
- 1917Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
- 1918The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1918The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
- 1921Warren Harding becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, via KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.
- 1933Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
- 1933The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
- 1941World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
- 1943World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
- 1944World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
- 1945Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 1957The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
- 1960The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
- 1966A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
- 1970French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
- 1974People magazine is published for the first time.
- 1976The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
- 1977The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
- 1980Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister.
- 1983Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
- 1985The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
- 1986The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley’s Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
- 1991Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq’s invasion.
- 1996A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
- 1998Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
- 20014 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
- 2001Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
- 2002Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
- 2007Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world’s first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
- 2009The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
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Who Were Born On March 4?
- 1188Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
- 1394Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
- 1484George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543)
- 1492Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
- 1525Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (d. 1594)
- 1602Kanō Tan'yū, Japanese painter (d. 1674)
- 1610William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
- 1651John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716)
- 1665Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
- 1678Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
- 1702Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
- 1706Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
- 1715James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
- 1719George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
- 1729Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794)
- 1745Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
- 1745Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
- 1756Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
- 1770Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
- 1781Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
- 1782Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
- 1790David “Robber” Lewis, American robber known for giving stolen money to the poor. (d. 1820)
- 1792Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
- 1793Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
- 1815Myrtilla Miner, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1864)
- 1817Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman and the 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
- 1820Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
- 1822Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- 1823George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1902)
- 1826Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
- 1826John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863)
- 1826Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
- 1828Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1870)
- 1835John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
- 1838Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
- 1847Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
- 1854Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
- 1856Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
- 1856Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
- 1859Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
- 1861Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian (d. 1933)
- 1862Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
- 1863John Henry Wigmore, American jurist (d. 1943)
- 1863Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
- 1864David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
- 1866Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
- 1870Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
- 1871Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
- 1873Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
- 1873John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
- 1875Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, diplomat and art collector (d. 1961)
- 1875Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
- 1876Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
- 1876Theodore Hardeen, Founder of the Magician’s Guild (d. 1945)
- 1877Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
- 1877Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
- 1877Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
- 1878Arishima Takeo, Japanese writer (d. 1923)
- 1878Egbert van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
- 1878Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
- 1879Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet (d. 1951)
- 1879Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
- 1880Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
- 1881Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
- 1881Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
- 1881Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
- 1881Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
- 1882Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat (d. 1941)
- 1883Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
- 1884Red Murray, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1886Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
- 1887John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian politician and civil engineer (d. 1976)
- 1887Violet MacMillan, American actress (d. 1953)
- 1888Jeff Pfeffer, American baseball player (d. 1972)
- 1888Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
- 1888Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942)
- 1889Jean-Gabriel Domergue, French painter (d. 1962)
- 1889Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii and United States Senators from Hawaii (d. 1965)
- 1889Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
- 1889Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)
- 1889Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (d. 1979)
- 1891Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1891Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
- 1893Adolph Lowe (born Adolf Löwe), German sociologist and economist (d. 1995)
- 1893Charles Herbert Colvin, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1985)
- 1895Jesse Baker, American baseball player (d. 1976)
- 1895Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
- 1895Shemp Howard, American comedian (d. 1955)
- 1896Kai Holm, Danish film actor (d. 1985)
- 1897Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
- 1898Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1986)
- 1898Hans Krebs, German general of infantry (d. 1945)
- 1899Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
- 1899Liana Del Balzo, Italian film actress (d. 1982)
- 1900Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
- 1901Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
- 1901Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
- 1901Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist (d. 1986)
- 1902Fred Mallin, English boxer (d. 1987)
- 1902Rachel Messerer, Russian silent film and theatre actress (d. 1993)
- 1902Russell Reeder, United States Army officer and author (d. 1998)
- 1903Carrie Best, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
- 1903Dorothy Mackaill, British-born actress (d. 1990)
- 1903John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
- 1903Malcolm Dole, American chemist (d. 1990)
- 1903Merwin Graham, American Olympic track and field athlete (d. 1989)
- 1903William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
- 1904Chief Tahachee, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1904George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
- 1904Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
- 1904Luis Carrero Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral (d. 1973)
- 1906Avery Fisher, American audio specialist (d. 1994)
- 1906Buck Canel, Argentine American sportscaster (d. 1980)
- 1906Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
- 1906Fionn MacColla, Scottish novelist (d. 1975)
- 1906Georges Ronsse, Belgian bicycle racer (d. 1969)
- 1906Horace Roye, pioneering British photographer (d. 2002)
- 1906Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
- 1907Edgar Barrier, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1907Eleanor “Sis” Daley, wife of Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
- 1908T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
- 1908Thomas Shaw, American musician (d. 1977)
- 1909George Edward Holbrook, American chemical engineer (d. 1987)
- 1909Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
- 1910Miriam Kressyn, Polish-born actor (d. 1996)
- 1911Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, British peer (d. 1984)
- 1911Christer Boucht, Finnish-Swedish lawyer, adventure traveler and writer (d. 2009)
- 1912Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
- 1912Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
- 1912Edgar Tafel, American architect (d. 2011)
- 1912Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (d. 1996)
- 1912Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
- 1912Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, Guatemalan sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1913John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
- 1913John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist (d. 1995)
- 1913Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
- 1914Barbara Newhall Follett, American child prodigy novelist (disappeared 1939)
- 1914Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
- 1914Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
- 1914Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
- 1915Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
- 1915Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, British politician and businessman (d. 2002)
- 1915Frank Sleeman, Australian administrator and politician (d. 2000)
- 1915Robert Thom, American painter and historian (d. 1979)
- 1916Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
- 1916Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
- 1916Maurice Argent, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1916Michael Howard, British actor and comedian (d. 1988)
- 1916William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
- 1917Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1918Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player
- 1919Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
- 1919Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian politician (d. 1996)
- 1920Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
- 1920Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
- 1921Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (d. 1986)
- 1921Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
- 1921Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
- 1922Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
- 1922Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
- 1922Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
- 1923Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg
- 1923Francis King, British novelist, poet and short story writer (d. 2011)
- 1923Patrick Moore, British astronomer and television presenter
- 1923Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping rider
- 1923Russell Freeburg, former American newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)and author
- 1923Willie Johnson, American guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1924Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
- 1925Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
- 1926Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
- 1926Fran Warren, American singer
- 1926Henri de Contenson, French archaeologist and researcher
- 1926James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
- 1926Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
- 1926Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, philanthropist and author
- 1926Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
- 1927Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
- 1927Dick Savitt, American tennis player
- 1927Jacques Dupin, French poet
- 1927Philip Batt, 29th Governor of Idaho
- 1927Robert Orben, American magician
- 1927Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1928Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010)
- 1928Samuel Adler, American composer
- 1929Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
- 1929Darrett B. Rutman, US historian (d. 1997)
- 1929Elaine Shore, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1929Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
- 1929Peter Swerling, American RADAR theoretician (d. 2000)
- 1929Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter
- 1931Alice Rivlin, American economist
- 1931Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
- 1931Larry Keith, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1931Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
- 1931William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop
- 1932Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
- 1932Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
- 1932Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
- 1932Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
- 1932Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor
- 1933Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
- 1933John W Mills, British sculptor
- 1933Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver
- 1934Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1934Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
- 1934Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
- 1934Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
- 1934John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
- 1934Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
- 1934Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player
- 1935Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
- 1935Edward Dębicki, Polish Romani poet, musician and composer
- 1935Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
- 1936Aribert Reimann, German composer
- 1936Eric Allendale, West Indian trombonist and songwriter (d. 2001)
- 1936Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
- 1936John Burland, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London
- 1936Robert Garrow, American serial killer (d. 1978)
- 1937Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
- 1937Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
- 1937Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
- 1937Richard B. Wright, Canadian novelist
- 1937William Deverell, Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer
- 1937Yuri Senkevich, Russian medical doctor, explorer and TV anchorman. (d. 2003)
- 1938Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
- 1938Allan Kornblum, United States federal judge (d. 2010)
- 1938Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
- 1938Anton Stanislaus Balasingham, Political strategist and negotiator (d. 2006)
- 1938Don Perkins, American football player
- 1938Marshall Cooke, retired Australian politician
- 1938Paula Prentiss, American actress
- 1938Roy Hazelwood, former FBI profiler of sex crimes
- 1939Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
- 1939Jack Fisher, American baseball player
- 1939Keith Skues, British radio personality
- 1939Zvi Mazel, Israeli diplomat
- 1940Alpha Condé, Guinean politician and President of the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG)
- 1940Arild Lund, Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party
- 1940David Plante, American novelist
- 1940Edward Burke, American Olympic hammer thrower
- 1940Tamara Wilcox, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1940Tom Pedigo, American set decorator (d. 2000)
- 1940Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
- 1940Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German legal scholar and former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
- 1941Adrian Lyne, English film director
- 1941Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
- 1941James Zagel, United States district judge and novelist
- 1941John Aprea, American actor
- 1941Linda Obermoeller, American painter (d. 1990)
- 1942Charles C. Krulak, American general and the 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
- 1942Christopher Shackle, retired Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia in the University of London
- 1942David Matthews, American keyboardist
- 1942Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
- 1942Henk van der Kroon, Dutch founder and president of the Federation of European Carnival Cities
- 1942James Gustave Speth, American environmental lawyer and advocate
- 1942Ji-Tu Cumbuka, veteran American stage and screen actor
- 1942Lynn Sherr, American broadcast journalist and author
- 1942Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian born Hungarian musician, singer and composer
- 1943Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
- 1943Malcolm Barber, English scholar of medieval history
- 1943Ron O'Quinn, American radio disc jockey
- 1943Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
- 1944Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American particle physicist
- 1944Bobby Womack, American singer
- 1944Glen Baxter, English cartoonist
- 1944Greg Weld, American racecar driver (d. 2008)
- 1944Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999)
- 1944Len Walker, former English footballer and manager
- 1944Michael “Mick” Wilson, drummer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
- 1944Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
- 1945Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
- 1945Femi Benussi, Italian film actress
- 1945Frank Novak, American actor
- 1945Gary Williams, American basketball coach
- 1945Greg Craig, Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama
- 1945Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
- 1945Tim Weigel, American broadcaster (d. 2001)
- 1945Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
- 1945Tony Allen, English comedian and writer
- 1946Daniel Frisella, American baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1946David Gittins (Red Stripe), singer (Flying Pickets)
- 1946Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
- 1946Jean-Claude Schmitt, prominent French medievalist
- 1946Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
- 1946Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician
- 1946Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, American author
- 1947Aura Lewis, South African singer
- 1947Bob Lewis, American musician
- 1947David Franzoni, American screenwriter
- 1947Greg Guma, American progressive journalist and author
- 1947Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
- 1947Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1947Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- 1947John Hinch, English Professor of fluid dynamics, Cambridge University
- 1947Mike Sheahan, Australian journalist and sports television personality
- 1947Pēteris Plakidis, Latvian composer and pianist
- 1948Brian Cummings, American voice actor
- 1948Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes)
- 1948James Ellroy, American writer
- 1948Jean O'Leary, American activist and politician (d. 2005)
- 1948Leron Lee, American baseball player
- 1948Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
- 1948Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
- 1948Tom Grieve, American baseball player
- 1948Veljko Despot, Croatian music journalist and record business entrepreneur
- 1949Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
- 1949Cookie Mueller, American actress and writer (d. 1989)
- 1949Sergei Bagapsh, former President of the partially recognized de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia (d. 2011)
- 1949Tomislav Trifić, Serbian graphic artist
- 1950Barrie Cassidy, veteran Australian political journalist
- 1950Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver (d. 1985)
- 1950Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
- 1950Rick Perry, 47th Governor of Texas
- 1950Ron Climie, retired American professional ice hockey player
- 1950Safet Plakalo, Bosnian playwright
- 1951Cecilia Todd, Venezuelan singer and performer
- 1951Chris Rea, English singer
- 1951Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
- 1951Glenis Willmott, British politician, leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party
- 1951Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1951Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
- 1951Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006)
- 1951Pete Haycock, English guitarist and composer
- 1951Sam Perlozzo, American baseball manager
- 1951Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
- 1952Peter Kuhfeld, English figurative painter
- 1952Ronn Moss, American actor
- 1952Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
- 1952Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
- 1953Chris Smith, American politician
- 1953Daniel Woodrell, American crime fiction writer
- 1953Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
- 1953Geoff Nicholson, British novelist and non-fiction writer
- 1953John Edwards, Australian television drama producer
- 1953KRK Ryden, American visual artist
- 1953Kay Lenz, American actress
- 1953Nicholas Campion, English historian
- 1953Paweł Janas, Polish football manager
- 1953Peggy Rathmann, award-winning American author and illustrator
- 1953Reinhold Roth, former German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- 1953Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
- 1953Scott Hicks, Australian film director
- 1954Adrian Zmed, American actor
- 1954Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor
- 1954Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
- 1954François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
- 1954Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
- 1954Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
- 1954Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
- 1954Ricky Ford, American jazz tenor saxophonist
- 1954St Clair L. Palmer, vocalist (Sweet Sensation)
- 1954Timur Apakidze, Russian major general and Hero of the Russian Federation (d. 2001)
- 1954Willie Thorne, English snooker player
- 1954Yvan Lachaud, French politician
- 1955Dominique Pinon, French actor
- 1955James Weaver, English race car driver
- 1955Joey Jones, Welsh professional footballer
- 1955Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
- 1955Tim Costello, prominent Australian Baptist minister and current CEO of World Vision Australia
- 1956Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
- 1957Jim Dwyer, American journalist
- 1957Nicholas Coleridge, British entrepreneur
- 1957Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
- 1957Ron Fassler, American film and television actor
- 1958Lennie Lee, British artist
- 1958Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1958Patricia Heaton, American actress
- 1959Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
- 1960Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
- 1960John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
- 1960Kazimierz Matuszny, Polish politician
- 1960Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
- 1960Mykelti Williamson, American actor
- 1960Thierry Pastor, French singer
- 1961Alain Coumont, Belgian chef and restaurateur
- 1961Mahito Ōba, Japanese voice actor and narrator
- 1961Ray Mancini, American boxer
- 1961Roger Wessels, South African golfer
- 1961Sabine Everts, former German track athlete
- 1961Steven Weber, American actor
- 1961Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian jazz musician
- 1961Tinker Juarez, bike racer
- 1962David Sparrow, English actor
- 1962Greg Kragen, American footballer
- 1962Jon Durno, bassist (Roman Holliday)
- 1962Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer
- 1962Paul Canoville, English former professional footballer
- 1962Simon Bisley, British comic artist
- 1962Stephan Reimertz, German art historian and novelist
- 1963Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
- 1963Daniel Roebuck, American actor
- 1963Janey Lee Grace, English singer and disc jockey
- 1963Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod)
- 1964Brian Crowley, Irish politician
- 1964Cheryl Fergison, British actress
- 1964David Colclough, Welsh professional poker player
- 1964Karen Knowles, Australian singer and entertainer
- 1964Paolo Virzì, Italian screenwriter and director
- 1964Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Testament, Slayer, Exodus, Forbidden)
- 1964Scott Baker, American journalist
- 1964Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
- 1965Andrew Collins, English journalist
- 1965Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway
- 1965Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
- 1965Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
- 1965Stacy Edwards, American actress
- 1965Viktor Shapovalov, Russian auto racing driver
- 1965WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
- 1965Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut
- 1966Daniela Amavia, American actress and model
- 1966Dav Pilkey, American author
- 1966Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
- 1966Grand Puba, American rapper
- 1966Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and Mayor of Sacramento, California
- 1966Mike Small American professional golfer
- 1966Nick Scandone, American paralympian yachtsman (d. 2009)
- 1966Patrick Hannan, drummer (The Sundays)
- 1966Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
- 1966Wash West, English gay porn film director
- 1967Andreas Wistuba, German taxonomist and botanist
- 1967Andrew Osmond, English writer
- 1967Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
- 1967Dave Rayner, English racing cyclist (d. 1994)
- 1967Derek Mooney, Irish radio and television personality and radio producer
- 1967Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)
- 1967Fiona Ma, California State Assembly Majority Whip and San Francisco politician
- 1967Ivan Lewis, British Labour Party politician
- 1967Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
- 1967Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
- 1967Tim Vine, English actor and comedian
- 1968Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Australian cricketer
- 1968Dionna Harris, American softball player and Olympic champion
- 1968Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1968Jorge Celedón, Colombian musician and singer
- 1968Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
- 1968Patsy Kensit, English actress
- 1968Shafiek Abrahams, South African cricket player
- 1969Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
- 1969Annie Yi, Chinese singer, writer and actress
- 1969Chaz Bono, American actor and gay rights activist
- 1969Frank Nicotero, American comedian
- 1969Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
- 1969Lacy Rose, American pornographic actress
- 1969Matt Tilley, Australian radio personality and comedian
- 1969Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
- 1969Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
- 1969Stina Nordenstam, Swedish pop singer and musician
- 1970Àlex Crivillé, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- 1970Andrea Bendewald, American actress
- 1970Caroline Vis, Dutch professional tennis player
- 1970Edward Gal, Dutch dressage rider
- 1971Anders Kjølholm, Danish bass player (Volbeat)
- 1971Claire Baker, Scottish politician
- 1971Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
- 1971Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
- 1971Jason Sellers, American country music artist
- 1971Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer
- 1971Nick Stabile, American actor
- 1971Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver
- 1971Shavar Ross, American filmmaker
- 1972Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
- 1972Brittney Powell, German-American actress
- 1972Buck 65, Canadian hip hop artist, MC and turntablist
- 1972Giorgos Mazonakis, Greek pop singer
- 1972Ian Garbutt, English professional golfer
- 1972Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
- 1972Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
- 1972Katherine Center, contemporary American fiction author
- 1972Nocturno Culto, Norwegian musician
- 1972Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
- 1972Robert Smith, American footballer
- 1973Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Tollywood film director
- 1973Jennifer Cole, American model, actress and game show/talk show host
- 1973Len Wiseman, American director
- 1973Linus of Hollywood, American rock and pop singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
- 1973Mark Lavine, West Indian cricketer (d. 2001)
- 1973Massimo Brambilla, Italian football player
- 1973Phillip Daniels, American footballer
- 1973Sadik Harchaoui, Moroccan-Dutch legal academic
- 1973Valery Kobelev, Russian ski jumper
- 1974Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
- 1974Bill Young, Australian rugby union footballer
- 1974Crowbar, American professional wrestler
- 1974David Wagner, American wheelchair tennis player
- 1974Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian hip hop rapper
- 1974ICS Vortex, Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
- 1974Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player
- 1974Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer
- 1974Peggy Clydesdale, American artist and painter
- 1974Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
- 1974Virginijus Praškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1975Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1975El-P, American hip hop artist and entrepreneur
- 1975Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
- 1975Jacqueline Anderson, American actress and entrepreneur
- 1975Jerod Turner, American professional golfer
- 1975Julie Dibens, British triathlete
- 1975Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
- 1975Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
- 1975Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player
- 1976Alireza Heidari, Iranian Olympic wrestler
- 1976Brian Diego Fuentes, Argentine soccer player
- 1976Cho In-Chul, World Champion South Korean judoka
- 1976Christian Nicolay, German javelin thrower
- 1976Gary Shortland, British professional figure skater
- 1976Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor
- 1976Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1976Jasin Thomason, American guitarist (The Ataris)
- 1976Kim Jung-eun, South Korean actress
- 1976Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
- 1976Robbie Blake, English footballer
- 1976Sabrina Sabrok, Argentine television host, singer, and producer
- 1976Sam Mraovich, American screenwriter and film director
- 1976Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack)
- 1976Sean Covel, American film producer
- 1976Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
- 1976Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
- 1976Vic Wunderle, American archer
- 1977Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete
- 1977Christian Jessen, English doctor and television presenter
- 1977Dan Wells, American horror fiction author
- 1977Daniel Klewer, German footballer
- 1977Gareth Wyatt, Welsh rugby union player
- 1977Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby union footballer
- 1977Jason Marsalis, American musician
- 1977Jeremiah Green, American indie rock band drummer (Modest Mouse)
- 1977Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player
- 1977Laura Jansen, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1977Mike Kinsella, American musician (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, American Football, and Owen)
- 1977Nacho Figueras, Argentine polo player
- 1977Rockell (Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo), American musician
- 1977Ron Horsley, American author and artist
- 1977Tonga Lea'aetoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player
- 1977Traver Rains, American designer (Heatherette)
- 1978César Morales, Mexican bantamweight boxer
- 1978Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
- 1978Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
- 1978Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979Ariel Carreño, Argentine football striker
- 1979Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
- 1979Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
- 1979Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
- 1979Karima Delli, French politician
- 1979Mark Anthony Parrish, American actor, producer, and social and liberal political activist
- 1979Neil Best, Irish rugby union footballer
- 1979Paul Terry, English footballer
- 1979Sarah Stock, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1979Trenton Hassell, American basketball player
- 1979Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian football goalkeeper
- 1980Alex Ribeiro Garcia, Brazilian professional basketball player
- 1980Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
- 1980Ben Briand, Australian film director
- 1980Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian professional basketball player
- 1980Greg Lamb, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1980Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
- 1980Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
- 1980Kamalinee Mukherjee, (Kamalini Mukherjee) Indian film actress
- 1980Michael Henrich, American-born ice hockey player
- 1980Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
- 1980Phil McGuire, Scottish football player
- 1980Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player
- 1980Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1981Aketza Peña, Spanish road bicycle racer
- 1981Alastair Ross, Northern Ireland Unionist politician
- 1981Ariza Makukula, Portuguese international football player
- 1981Carol Banawa, Filipino singer
- 1981Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
- 1981Gareth Knapman, English theatre actor and director
- 1981Helen Wyman, British cyclist
- 1981Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
- 1981Marie Delattre, French sprint canoer
- 1982Ali Khalid, British Asian actor
- 1982Cate Edwards, American attorney and author
- 1982Elia Rigotto, Italian road bicycle racer
- 1982Landon Donovan, American soccer player
- 1982Ludmila Ezhova, Russian Olympic gymnast
- 1982Machinedrum, American musician and record producer
- 1982Uma Blasini, Puerto Rican beauty queen
- 1982Yasemin Mori, Turkish alternative rock singer
- 1983Adam Deacon, English Actor
- 1983Akeem Omolade, Nigerian footballer
- 1983Dante Senger, Argentine footballer
- 1983Jaque Fourie, South African rugby union footballer
- 1983Ryan Lonie, Australian football player
- 1983Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater
- 1984Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
- 1984K. Michelle, American R & B/Soul singer and songwriter
- 1984Marin Čolak, Croatian auto racing driver
- 1984Norbert Hosnyánszky, Hungarian water polo player
- 1984Phillip Inzerillo, American musician
- 1984Raven Quinn, American musician, singer and songwriter
- 1984Spencer Larsen, American football player
- 1984Tamir Cohen, Israeli/English football midfielder
- 1984Zak Whitbread, American-born footballer
- 1985Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
- 1985Davey Morgan, American children’s book illustrator and professional photographer
- 1985Guillermo Diaz Puerto Rican professional basketball player
- 1985Hrvoje Čale, Croatian footballer
- 1985Jake Buxton, English professional footballer
- 1985Jonas Troest, Danish professional football player
- 1985Mathieu Montcourt, Professional French tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1985Scott Michael Foster, American actor
- 1985Whitney Port, American reality television personality
- 1986Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
- 1986Dominic Telo, South African cricketer
- 1986Erin O'Kelley, American beauty queen
- 1986Margo Harshman, American actress
- 1986Park Min Young, South Korean model and actress
- 1986Shraddha Das, Indian actress
- 1986Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
- 1987Ben McKinley, Australian footballer
- 1987Cameron Wood, Australian footballer
- 1987Tamzin Merchant, British actor and poetess
- 1988Adam Watts, English footballer
- 1988Cody Longo, American film actor
- 1988Laura Siegemund, German tennis player
- 1988Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol
- 1989Bradley Middleton, English footballer
- 1989Erin Heatherton, American fashion model
- 1990Andrea Bowen, American actress
- 1990Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer
- 1990Marco Martina Rini, Italian footballer
- 1990Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer
- 1990Paddy Madden, Irish footballer
- 1991Diandra Newlin, American actress and fashion model
- 1991Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer
- 1992Daniel Lloyd, British racing car driver
- 1992Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1993Abigail Mavity, American actress
- 1993Jenna Boyd, American actress
- 1993Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
- 1995Bill Milner, English actor
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- 251Pope Lucius I
- 480Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
- 561Pope Pelagius I
- 1172Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
- 1193Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
- 1238Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
- 1238Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
- 1303Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
- 1484Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
- 1496Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
- 1583Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, “Apostle of the North” (b. 1517)
- 1604Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
- 1615Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
- 1619Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
- 1710Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
- 1733Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
- 1744John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
- 1762Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
- 1793Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
- 1795John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
- 1805Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
- 1807Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
- 1811Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (b. 1778)
- 1821Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820)
- 1832Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
- 1851James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
- 1852Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
- 1853Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
- 1853Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy admiral (b. 1776)
- 1858Matthew C. Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
- 1864Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824)
- 1866Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
- 1868Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
- 1872Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
- 1883Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
- 1888Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
- 1903Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
- 1906John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
- 1910Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
- 1915William Willett, English campaigner for daylight saving time (b. 1856)
- 1916Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
- 1922Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
- 1925James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
- 1925John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
- 1925Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
- 1927Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
- 1938George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
- 1938Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
- 1940Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
- 1941Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)
- 1944Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
- 1944Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
- 1944Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b. 1897) (executed)
- 1944Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
- 1944René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
- 1945Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
- 1945Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
- 1946Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
- 1948Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)
- 1949Clarence Kingsbury British track cyclist (b. 1882)
- 1950Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
- 1952Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
- 1954Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898)
- 1959Maxie Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
- 1960Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
- 1960Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
- 1962George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
- 1963William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
- 1967Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
- 1967Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
- 1969Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
- 1973Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
- 1974Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
- 1975Renée Björling, Swedish actress (b. 1898)
- 1976Jim Walsh, American basketball player (b. 1930)
- 1976John Marvin Jones, Texan member of the United States House of Representatives and Chief Judge of the US federal Court of Claims (b. 1882)
- 1976Nikolai Semashko, Soviet sports administrator (b. 1907)
- 1976Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
- 1977Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic (b. 1925)
- 1977Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
- 1977Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1887)
- 1977Miles C. Allgood, U.S. Representative from Alabama (b. 1878)
- 1977Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator (b. 1912)
- 1977Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
- 1977William Paul, American attorney, legislator, and political activist (b. 1885)
- 1978Joe Marsala, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter (b. 1907)
- 1978John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician (b. 1891)
- 1978Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
- 1979Gladys McConnell, American movie actress and aviatrix (b. 1905)
- 1979Harry Hopkinson, British yodeler (b. 1902)
- 1979Mike Patto, (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners (b. 1942)
- 1979Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant (b. 1893)
- 1979Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
- 1980Alan Hardaker, English football administrator (b. 1912)
- 1980Alex Vetchinsky, British film designer (b. 1904)
- 1980Alfred Plé, French Olympic rower (b. 1888)
- 1980Eric Kerfoot, English footballer (b. 1924)
- 1980J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist (b. 1911)
- 1980Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer (b. 1892)
- 1980Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess master (b. 1905)
- 1981Franz Kapus, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (b. 1909)
- 1981John Knight, Australian politician (b. 1943)
- 1981Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler (b. 1900)
- 1981Odette Barencey, French film actress (b. 1893)
- 1981Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905)
- 1982Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist (b. 1912)
- 1984Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
- 1984Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
- 1984Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1984Martin Hürlimann, Swiss photographer (b. 1897)
- 1986Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist (b. 1917)
- 1986Edward MacLysaght, Irish genealogist (b. 1887)
- 1986Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (b. 1913)
- 1986Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
- 1986John Spence, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1920)
- 1986Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)
- 1988Beatriz Guido, Argentine novelist and screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 1989Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
- 1990Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
- 1990Harry Worthington, American track and field athlete (b. 1891)
- 1991Godfrey Bryan, English cricketer (b. 1902)
- 1991Kenneth Lindsay, British Labour Party politician (b. 1897)
- 1992Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
- 1992Larry Rosenthal, American professional baseball outfielder (b. 1910)
- 1992Mary Osborne, American jazz electric guitarist (b. 1921)
- 1992Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)
- 1992Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905)
- 1992Peter Judge, English cricketer (b. 1916)
- 1993Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
- 1993Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1894)
- 1993Michael Beecher, Australian-based model and actor (b. 1939)
- 1993Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister (b. 1929)
- 1993Richard Sale, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1911)
- 1993Tomislav Ivčić, Croatian singer, songwriter and politician (b. 1953)
- 1994Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949)
- 1994George Edward Hughes, Irish-born philosopher and logician(b. 1918)
- 1994John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)
- 1994Paul Solomon, American psychic (b. 1939)
- 1995Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
- 1995Iftekhar, Indian actor (b.?)
- 1995Matt Urban, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army (b. 1919)
- 1996Johnny Sauer, American football player, coach, and broadcaster (b. 1925)
- 1996Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
- 1997Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
- 1997Edouard Klabinski, Polish professional racing cyclist (b. 1920)
- 1997Joe Baker-Cresswell, English Royal Navy officer (b. 1901)
- 1997Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
- 1998Donald Rodney, British artist (b. 1961)
- 1998Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General (b. 1907)
- 1998Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Zairean political officeholder and economist (b. 1940)
- 1999Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1999Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
- 1999Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
- 1999Joseph Regenstein Jr., American business leader and philanthropist (b. 1923)
- 1999Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian (b. 1921)
- 1999Milosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1929)
- 1999Teddy McRae, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger (b. 1908)
- 2000Alphons Silbermann, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist (b. 1909)
- 2000Hermann Brück, German-born UK astronomer (b. 1905)
- 2000Kyi Kyi Htay, four-time Myanmar Academy Award winning film actress, singer, opera performer and dancer (b. 1924)
- 2000Michael Noonan, Australian-born New Zealander novelist and radio script writer (b. 1921)
- 2000Ta-You Wu, Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist (b. 1907)
- 2001Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
- 2001Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess grandmaster (b. 1961)
- 2001Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
- 2001Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
- 2001Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer (b. 1904)
- 2001Jim Rhodes, American politician (b. 1909)
- 2001Martin Wright, British bioengineer (b. 1912)
- 2002Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
- 2002Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
- 2002Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
- 2002Margarete Neumann, German writer and lyrical poet (b. 1917)
- 2002Shirley Ann Russell, award-winning British costume designer (b. 1935)
- 2002Ugnė Karvelis, Lithuanian writer and translator (b. 1935)
- 2002Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
- 2003Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
- 2003Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
- 2004Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
- 2004Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish linguist and journalist. (b. 1923)
- 2004George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
- 2004John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
- 2004Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
- 2005Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
- 2005Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
- 2005Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
- 2005Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
- 2005Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
- 2006Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
- 2006Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
- 2006John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
- 2006Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
- 2007Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
- 2007Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
- 2007Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
- 2007Natalie Bodanya, American soprano (b. 1908)
- 2007Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
- 2007Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
- 2007Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
- 2007Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2008Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
- 2008Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
- 2008George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
- 2008Leonard Rosenman, American film composer (b. 1924)
- 2008Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer (b. 1928)
- 2008Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
- 2008Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer (b. 1926)
- 2009George McAfee, American football player (b. 1918)
- 2009Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
- 2009Horton Foote, American playwright (b. 1916)
- 2009John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
- 2009Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist (b. 1917)
- 2009Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
- 2009Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
- 2009Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
- 2009Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
- 2010Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- 2010Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
- 2010Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
- 2010Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
- 2010Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
- 2010Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
- 2010Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
- 2010Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
- 2010Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
- 2010Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
- 2010Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician (b. 1917)
- 2010Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
- 2010Tony Richards, British footballer (b. 1934)
- 2010Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
- 2011Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
- 2011Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
- 2011Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927)
- 2011Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
- 2011Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b.c. 1926)
- 2011Johnny Preston, American pop singer (b. 1939)
- 2011Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)
- 2011Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920)
- 2011Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925)
- 2011Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
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