What happened on September 5? 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 September 5
September 5 is the 249th day of the year 2024. There are 117 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 36th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Washington, District of Columbia 20451 sunrise occured at 06:40 AM and sunset occured at 07:33 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 146 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 5
- 1590Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- 1661Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
- 1666Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
- 1698In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
- 1725Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
- 1774First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1781Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
- 1793French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
- 1798Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
- 1800Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
- 1812War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac’s forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort’s outhouses.
- 1816Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
- 1836Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1839United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
- 1840Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
- 1862American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White’s Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
- 1862James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
- 1864Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
- 1877Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
- 1882The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- 1887Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
- 1905Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
- 1906The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
- 1914World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
- 1915The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- 1918Decree “On Red Terror” is published in Russia
- 1927The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
- 1932The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 1937Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
- 1938Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
- 1941Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1942World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
- 1943World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
- 1944Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 1945Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
- 1945Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 1948In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
- 1957Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
- 1960The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
- 1960The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
- 1961The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
- 1969My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- 1970Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
- 1972Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September” attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
- 1975Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- 1977Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
- 1977Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 1978Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
- 1980The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world’s longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- 1984STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
- 1984Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- 1986Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- 1991The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
- 2005Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
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Who Were Born On September 5?
- 973Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Khwarezmi-born Persian polymath (d. 1048)
- 1187Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
- 1319Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
- 1567Date Masamune, Japanese Samurai and Daimyo (d. 1636)
- 1568Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
- 1621Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
- 1638Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
- 1667Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
- 1695Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
- 1722Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
- 1725Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
- 1735Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
- 1750Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
- 1769John Shortland, English naval officer (d. 1810)
- 1771Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
- 1772Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar, Qajar king of Iran (d. 1834)
- 1774Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
- 1775Juan Martín Díez, Spanish guerrilla (d. 1825)
- 1781Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer, editor and music publisher (d. 1858)
- 1787François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
- 1791Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
- 1792Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
- 1806Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
- 1807Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
- 1809Manuel Montt Torres, Chilean politician (d. 1880)
- 1817Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
- 1818Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
- 1826John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
- 1827Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
- 1831Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (d. 1908)
- 1836Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
- 1847Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
- 1856Thomas E. Watson, American politician, Vice-Presidential candidate (d. 1922)
- 1867Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
- 1873Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American inventor, engineer, soldier (d. 1942)
- 1874Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
- 1876Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
- 1876Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
- 1881Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
- 1883Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist, cataloguer of Franz Schubert’s works (d. 1967)
- 1888Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
- 1892Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
- 1897Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (d. 1980)
- 1897Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
- 1897Morris Carnovsky, American stage and film actor (d. 1992)
- 1901Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1901Mario Scelba, Italian politician (d. 1991)
- 1902Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
- 1904Vera Bradford, Australian classical pianist (d. 2004)
- 1905Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
- 1905Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
- 1905Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979)
- 1907Sunnyland Slim, blues pianist (d. 1995)
- 1908Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
- 1908Joaquín Nin-Culmell, Cuban-Spanish pianist, composer (d. 2004)
- 1908Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (d. 1973)
- 1909Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1909Bernard Delfont, English entrepreneur (d. 1994)
- 1909Hans Carste, German pianist, conductor (d. 1971)
- 1910Leila Mackinlay, British romance writer (d.1996)
- 1910Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
- 1912Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
- 1912John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1912Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
- 1914Gail Kubik, American composer (d. 1984)
- 1914Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and mathematician
- 1916Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
- 1916Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991
- 1917Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008)
- 1918Bob Katter, Sr., Australian politician, minister (d. 1990)
- 1918Harold “Buddy” Williams, Australian country singer (d. 1986)
- 1918Jean-Marie Poitras, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2009)
- 1918Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
- 1919Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945)
- 1920Peter Racine Fricker, British-American composer (d. 1990)
- 1921Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
- 1923David Hamer, Australian politician (d. 2002)
- 1923Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1924Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
- 1927Paul Volcker, American economist
- 1928Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer of Kathak style (d. 2004)
- 1928Joyce Hatto, British pianist, subject of fraudulent recordings (d. 2006)
- 1929Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
- 1929Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
- 1933Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilien Catholic archbishop
- 1934Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
- 1934Dennis Letts, American actor d. 2008
- 1935Helen Gifford, Australian composer
- 1935Johnny Briggs, English actor
- 1935Paul Josef Cordes, German Roman Catholic Cardinal
- 1935Werner Erhard, American founder of transformational training programs
- 1936Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
- 1936John Danforth, American politician
- 1936Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
- 1936Robert Burns, Canadian politician
- 1937Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
- 1937Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
- 1937William Devane, American actor
- 1938John Ferguson Sr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1939Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
- 1939Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
- 1939George Lazenby, Australian actor
- 1939John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
- 1940Raquel Welch, American actress
- 1941Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- 1942Denise Fabre French television presenter
- 1942Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995
- 1942Werner Herzog, German film director
- 1943Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
- 1944Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996)
- 1944Gareth Evans, Australian politician, University Chancellor
- 1945Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
- 1946Dennis Dugan, American actor and film director
- 1946Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born English singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
- 1946Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
- 1947Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
- 1947Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008)
- 1947Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese yakuza boss
- 1948Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
- 1949Clem Clempson, English rock guitarist
- 1950Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
- 1950Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
- 1951Michael Keaton, American actor
- 1951Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
- 1951Paul Breitner, German footballer
- 1953Victor Davis Hanson, American historian
- 1954Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
- 1954Richard Austin, West Indian cricketer
- 1956Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
- 1957Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
- 1960Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1961Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
- 1962Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
- 1963Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
- 1963Jonathan Phillips, English actor
- 1963Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
- 1963Kristian Alfonso, American actress
- 1963Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver
- 1964Amanda Ooms, Swedish actress
- 1964Frank Farina, Australian footballer
- 1964Ken Norman, American basketball player
- 1964Kevin Saunderson American electronic music producer
- 1965César Rincón, Colombian matador
- 1965Chris Gore, American filmmaker
- 1965Chris Morris, English satirist
- 1965David Brabham, Australian racing driver
- 1966Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
- 1966Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer
- 1966Terry Ellis, R&B singer
- 1967India Hicks, English model
- 1967Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
- 1968Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
- 1968Dennis Scott, American basketball player
- 1969Dweezil Zappa, American musician
- 1969Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
- 1969Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
- 1970Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
- 1970Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
- 1970Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1971Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
- 1972Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1972Shane Sewell, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1973Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
- 1973Paddy Considine, English actor
- 1973Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
- 1974Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer
- 1975George Boateng, Dutch footballer
- 1975Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
- 1975Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1975Randy Choate, American baseball player
- 1975Rod Barajas, American baseball player
- 1976Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
- 1976Richard Marsland, Australian comedian/writer and radio personality
- 1976Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
- 1977Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
- 1977Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
- 1977Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1977Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
- 1977Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
- 1978Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1978Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
- 1978Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer
- 1978Yu Nan, Chinese actress
- 1978Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
- 1979George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
- 1979John Carew, Norwegian footballer
- 1979Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer
- 1979Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
- 1979Stewart Holden, English scrabble player
- 1980Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
- 1981AnnMarie, American pornographic actress
- 1981Daniel Moreno, Spanish professional bicyclist
- 1981Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
- 1981Nina Eichinger, German actress
- 1982Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
- 1982Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
- 1983Antony Sweeney, Hartlepool United footballer
- 1983Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
- 1983Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
- 1984Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish professional bicyclist
- 1985Ryan Guy, American soccer player
- 1986Colt McCoy, American football player
- 1986Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
- 1987Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royal
- 1987Silvestre Rasuk, American actor
- 1988Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer
- 1988Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1988Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
- 1989Ben Youngs, English rugby union Scrum-Half
- 1989José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer
- 1989Katerina Graham, American actress/singer/dancer
- 1990Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer
- 1990Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
- 1990Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
- 1991Skandar Keynes, English actor
- 1993Gage Golightly, American actress
- 1995Caroline Sunshine, American actress
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Who Died On September 5?
- 1165Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
- 1201Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
- 1235Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
- 1548Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
- 1607Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
- 1629Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c.1585)
- 1734Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
- 1786Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
- 1803François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
- 1803Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
- 1808John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
- 1836Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
- 1837James Ruse, pioneer Australian farmer (b. 1759)
- 1838Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
- 1857Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
- 1876Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
- 1877Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
- 1898Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
- 1901Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
- 1902Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
- 1906Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
- 1912Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
- 1914Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
- 1917Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
- 1920Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
- 1922Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- 1926Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
- 1930Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
- 1931John Thomson, Scottish football player (b. 1909)
- 1932Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
- 1932Paul Bern, German-American film director (b. 1889)
- 1934Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman (b. 1878)
- 1936Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
- 1936Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
- 1942François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
- 1945Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1948Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
- 1953Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician (b. 1895)
- 1954Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
- 1955Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian rules footballer (b. 1911)
- 1965Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
- 1966Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
- 1970Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
- 1972Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)
- 1973Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- 1975Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
- 1977Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and Walloon militant (b. 1897)
- 1979Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
- 1980Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
- 1982Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
- 1983Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1909)
- 1984Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat (b. 1917)
- 1984Jane Roberts, American psychic medium, writer
- 1988Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
- 1989Philip Baxter, Australian chemical engineer, university vice-chancellor (b. 1905)
- 1990Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, British colonial administrator (b. 1907)
- 1990Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
- 1992Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
- 1993Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b.1914)
- 1994John Newman, assassinated Australian politician (b. 1946)
- 1994Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1921)
- 1997Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
- 1997Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
- 1998Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 1998Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
- 1998Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
- 1998Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
- 1999Alan Clark, British politician and diarist (b. 1928)
- 1999Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
- 1999Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
- 2000Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (b. 1918)
- 2000Roy Fredericks, West Indian cricketer (b. 1942)
- 2001Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
- 2001Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
- 2002David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer (b. 1935)
- 2003Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
- 2005Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General (b. 1917)
- 2007D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
- 2007Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2007Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek film director and a writer (b. 1939)
- 2007Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2007Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician (b. 1976)
- 2008Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
- 2010Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), Belgian artist (b. 1922)
- 2010Hedley Beare, Australian educator and academic (b. 1932)
- 2010Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990)
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