What happened on February 6? There are more than 353 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 February 6
February 6 is the 37th day of the year 2024. There are 329 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 6th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Hartford, Connecticut 06134 sunrise occured at 06:56 AM and sunset occured at 05:13 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aquarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Amethyst while the mystical birthstone is Bloodstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 4 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For February 6
- 1649The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
- 1685James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
- 1778American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
- 1788Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1806Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
- 1815New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
- 1817The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
- 1819Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1820The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1833Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
- 1840Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
- 1843The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
- 1862American Civil War: The U.S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennesseein the Battle of Fort Henry.
- 1899Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
- 1900The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
- 1913New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 191430 000 Swedish peasants from all over the country, who have travelled to Stockholm, carry out a huge protest march, which will be known as Bondetåget, to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, to show their support for King Gustaf V and his attempts to exercise personal power as a monarch. In the court yard, the king holds the so-called Court yard speech (Swedish Borggårdstalet, which crown prince Gustaf Adolf recites outside the castle to those, who do not get room at the court yard), where the king puts forth his opinion about the Swedish armed defence propagating that it should be strong, contrary to the official policy of Swedish prime minister Karl Staaff and his government of disarmament. This triggers a political crisis (the so-called Courtyard Crisis; Swedish Borggårdskrisen) and despite the fact that 50 000 workers two days later carry out a counter demonstration (the so-called Workers’ march), supporting the government, Karl Staaff is forced to resign on February 17. This is the last time the Swedish monarch tries to exercise any political power and from now on, the Swedish monarchs accept parliamentarism and abstain from claiming any political powers, even if they are not formally abolished until 1975, when the new Swedish instrument of government comes into effect.
- 1918British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
- 1922The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- 1933The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
- 1934Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
- 1942World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
- 1951The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
- 1952Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- 1958Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
- 1959At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 1959Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1976In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
- 1978The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4\" an hour.
- 1981The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
- 1987Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
- 1989The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
- 1996Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- 1998Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
- 2000Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
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Who Were Born On February 6?
- 1347Dorothea of Montau, Catholic saint (d. 1394)
- 1452Joan, Princess of Portugal, Portuguese princess and saint (d. 1490)
- 1461Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501)
- 1465Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
- 1536Sassa Narimasa, Japanese samurai and Oda clan retainer (d. 1588)
- 1577Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
- 1582Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1657)
- 1605Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
- 1608Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
- 1611Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
- 1612Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694)
- 1639Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
- 1643Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
- 1664Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
- 1665Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1714)
- 1695Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
- 1721Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy (d. 1725)
- 1726Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist (d. 1805)
- 1732Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure (d. 1782)
- 1736Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
- 1744Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
- 1748Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (d. 1830)
- 1753Évariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
- 1756Aaron Burr, American politician and 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1757Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
- 1769Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general (d. 1862)
- 1772Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter (d. 1832)
- 1772Sir George Murray, Scottish soldier and politician (d. 1830)
- 1778Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet (d. 1827)
- 1781John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer (d. 1844)
- 1796John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861)
- 1797Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general (d. 1853)
- 1799Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870)
- 1800Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857)
- 1802Charles Wheatstone, English scientist and inventor (d. 1875)
- 1811Henry George Liddell, father of Alice Liddell (d. 1898)
- 1818Henry Litolff, British musician and composer (d. 1891)
- 1818Jenaro Quesada y Matheus, Spanish nobleman and politician (d. 1889)
- 1818William M. Evarts, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1901)
- 1829Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect (d. 1914)
- 1830Daniel Oliver, British botanist (d. 1916)
- 1832John Brown Gordon, American politician (d. 1904)
- 1833James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart, American Civil War figure (d. 1864)
- 1833José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
- 1834Edwin Klebs, German-born Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
- 1834Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
- 1834Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer (d. 1911)
- 1838Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
- 1838Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
- 1839Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
- 1842Mary Rudge, English chess master (d. 1919)
- 1843Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and essayist (d. 1901)
- 1843Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
- 1847Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
- 1849Ida Straus, American passenger aboard the Titanic (d.1912)
- 1852C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936)
- 1852Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer (d. 1918)
- 1853Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
- 1854Tommaso Alberto Vittorio of Savoy-Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931)
- 1859Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master (d. 1913)
- 1861Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953)
- 1864John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer (d. 1933)
- 1866Karl Sapper, German explorer and linguist (d. 1945)
- 1872Robert Maillart, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940)
- 1875Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
- 1876Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (d. 1954)
- 1878Walter B. Pitkin, American lecturer (d. 1953)
- 1879Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955)
- 1879Edwin Samuel Montagu, British statesman (d. 1924)
- 1879Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician (d. 1937)
- 1879Othon Friesz, French artist (d. 1949)
- 1880Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (d. 1931)
- 1883Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
- 1884Marcel Cohen, French linguist (d. 1974)
- 1887Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
- 1892Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general (d. 1984)
- 1892William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- 1893Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Pakistani diplomat (d. 1985)
- 1894Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
- 1894Kirpal Singh, Indian religious figure (d. 1974)
- 1895Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1897Louis Buchalter, American organized crime figure (d. 1944)
- 1898Alla Tarasova, Soviet actress (d. 1973)
- 1899Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
- 1901Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1902George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
- 1903Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
- 1905Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (d. 1980)
- 1905Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
- 1908Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (d. 1999)
- 1908Edward Lansdale, American United States Air Force, CIA and OSS officer (d. 1987)
- 1908Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (d. 1981)
- 1910Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
- 1910Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
- 1911Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- 1912Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
- 1912John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (d. 2003)
- 1913Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
- 1914Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
- 1916John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
- 1917Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian-born actress
- 1918Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
- 1919Takashi Yanase, Japanese manga artist
- 1922Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
- 1922Denis Norden, British television personality
- 1922Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
- 1922Patrick Macnee, British actor
- 1923Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 1981)
- 1924Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994)
- 1924Jin Yong, Chinese-language novelist
- 1925Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
- 1926Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1927Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992)
- 1928Allan Meltzer, American economist
- 1929Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist, inventor of the tranquilliser gun (d. 2008)
- 1929Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
- 1929Pierre Brice, French actor
- 1929Valentin Yanin, Russian historian
- 1930Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist
- 1931Mamie Van Doren, American actress
- 1931Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Roman Catholic Cardinal
- 1931Rip Torn, American actor
- 1932Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
- 1932François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- 1932Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German music critic and theorist (d. 2009)
- 1933Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
- 1934Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
- 1936J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
- 1936Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
- 1939Mike Farrell, American actor
- 1939Orlando Parga, Puerto Rican politician
- 1940Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
- 1940Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician
- 1940Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
- 1941Gigi Perreau, American actress
- 1941Spencer Silver, American chemist
- 1942James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
- 1942Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
- 1942Valentina Titova, Russian actress
- 1943Fabian Forte, American singer
- 1943Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
- 1944Christine Boutin, French politician
- 1944Michael Tucker, American actor
- 1944Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
- 1945Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
- 1946Jim Turner, American politician
- 1946Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1946Richie Hayward, American musician (Little Feat) (d. 2010)
- 1947Bill Staines, American singer and songwriter
- 1949Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
- 1949Mike Batt, British composer
- 1950Jane Gordon-Cumming, British writer
- 1950Natalie Cole, American singer
- 1951Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
- 1951Kevin Whately, English actor
- 1951Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
- 1951Margo O'Donnell, Irish singer
- 1952Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
- 1952Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss writer, comedian, moderator and actor
- 1955Bruno Stolorz, French rugby coach
- 1955Michael Pollan, American journalist
- 1957Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedienne
- 1957Robert Townsend, American actor
- 1957Simon Phillips, Drummer (Toto)
- 1958Barry Miller, American actor
- 1958Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1959Ken Nelson, English record producer
- 1960Frank Jeske, East German footballer (d. 1994)
- 1960Megan Gallagher, American actress
- 1961Cam Cameron, American football coach
- 1961Yuri Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut
- 1962Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek politician
- 1962W. Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1963Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
- 1963Quentin Letts, British journalist
- 1964Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian film director and actor
- 1964Gordon Downie, Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip)
- 1965Jan Svěrák, Czech film director
- 1966Rick Astley, British singer
- 1967Anita Cochran, American singer
- 1967Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
- 1968Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
- 1968Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
- 1969David Hayter, American voice actor
- 1969Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer
- 1969Tim Sherwood, English footballer
- 1970Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
- 1971Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player
- 1971Brian Stepanek, American actor
- 1971Carlos Rogers, American basketball player
- 1971Dana Eskelson, American actress
- 1972David Binn, American football player
- 1972Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer
- 1975Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
- 1975Chad Allen, American retired baseball player
- 1975Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish software engineer
- 1975Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
- 1975Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- 1976Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball goalkeeper
- 1976Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
- 1976Princess Marie of Denmark
- 1976Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
- 1977Jason Euell, English-born footballer
- 1977Josh Stewart, American actor
- 1979Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
- 1979Reentko, German musician and composer
- 1980Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
- 1980Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
- 1980Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
- 1981Alison Haislip, American actress and TV personality
- 1981Calum Best, American model
- 1981Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
- 1981Ricky Barnes, American professional golfer
- 1981Shim Eun Jin, South Korean singer (Baby V.O.X.)
- 1981Ty Warren, American football player
- 1982Alice Eve, English actress
- 1982Elise Ray, American gymnast
- 1982Jade Edmistone, Australian swimmer
- 1982Tank Lu, Taiwanese singer (Mandopop)
- 1983Brodie Croyle, American football player
- 1983Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer
- 1983Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
- 1983Melrose Bickerstaff, American fashion model
- 1983Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
- 1983S. Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
- 1984Antoine Wright, American basketball player
- 1984Darren Bent, English footballer
- 1984Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
- 1985Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
- 1985Kris Humphries, American basketball player
- 1985Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
- 1986Alice Greczyn, American actress
- 1986Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1986Jung Yunho, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
- 1988Allison Holker, American dancer
- 1988Bailey Hanks, American actress
- 1989Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
- 1990Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992Víctor Mañon, Mexican footballer
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Who Died On February 6?
- 891St. Photius I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1215Hōjō Tokimasa, Head of the Hōjō clan and shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (b. 1138)
- 1378Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
- 1497Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c.1410)
- 1515Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
- 1585Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
- 1593Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
- 1593Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
- 1617Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
- 1685King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
- 1740Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
- 1775William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
- 1783Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
- 1793Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
- 1806Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, French general and father of author Alexandre Dumas, père (b. 1762)
- 1807John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
- 1816Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
- 1833Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
- 1834Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
- 1855Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
- 1899Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1899Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
- 1910Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b. 1839)
- 1916Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
- 1918Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
- 1927Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
- 1929Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
- 1938Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
- 1950Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
- 1951Gabby Street, former MLB player (b. 1882)
- 1952George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
- 1958Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
- 1958Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
- 1958Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932) David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
- 1958Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 1958Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
- 1958Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 1958Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
- 1963Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Moroccan politician
- 1964Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
- 1966Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
- 1967Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
- 1976Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali Indian film maker and scriptwriter (b. 1925)
- 1976Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
- 1981Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
- 1981Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
- 1985James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
- 1986Dandy Nichols, English actress (b. 1907)
- 1986Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
- 1986Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
- 1988Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
- 1989André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
- 1989Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
- 1989Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
- 1989Osbourne ‘King Tubby’Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
- 1991Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
- 1991Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 1993Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
- 1994Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
- 1994Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1995James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
- 1996Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1997Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
- 1998Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
- 1998Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
- 1998Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
- 1998José Marroquín Leal (better known as Pipo), Mexican actor and performer (b. 1933)
- 2001Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
- 2001Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (b. 1897)
- 2002Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
- 2005Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
- 2005Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
- 2007Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
- 2007Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
- 2007Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2007Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2007Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
- 2008John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
- 2008Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
- 2011Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)
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