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March 18th

Events

1068 - An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaves up to 20,000 dead.
1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
1241 - First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Krakow in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1438 - Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1608 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1644 - The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
1741 - New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
1766 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1793 - The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1793 - Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1848 - March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1865 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1871 - Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1892 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
1900 - AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
1902 - Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.[1]
1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1915 - World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1921 - The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
1922 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
1925 - The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1937 - The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1938 - Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
1940 - World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 - The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1944 - Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.
1948 - Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito-Stalin Split.
1953 - An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
1959 - The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
1962 - The Evian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
1965 - Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1967 - The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1969 - The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1970 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1971 - Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
1980 - A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
1990 - Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
1990 - In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.[2]
1994 - Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1996 - A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
1997 - The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
2014 - The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
2015 - The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.

Births

1075 - Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144)
1395 - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military commander (d. 1447)[3]
1495 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)[4]
1548 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (d. 1616)
1552 - Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (d. 1610)
1555 - Francis, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
1578 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter (d. 1610)
1590 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
1597 - Jerome le Royer de la Dauversiere, French religious leader, founded the Societe Notre-Dame de Montreal (d. 1659)
1603 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (d. 1697)
1609 - Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1634 - Madame de La Fayette, French author (d. 1693)
1640 - Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
1657 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (d. 1743)
1690 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764)
1701 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (d. 1776)
1733 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811)
1780 - Milos Obrenovic, Serbian prince (d. 1860)
1782 - John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1789 - Charlotte Elliott, English poet, hymn writer, editor (d. 1871)[5]
1798 - Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872)
1800 - Harriet Smithson, Irish actress, the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz (d. 1854)
1813 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1864)
1814 - Jacob Bunn, American businessman (d. 1897)
1819 - James McCulloch, Scottish-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Victoria (d. 1893)[6]
1820 - John Plankinton, American businessman and industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (d. 1891)[7]
1823 - Antoine Chanzy, French general (d. 1883)
1828 - Randal Cremer, English activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
1837 - Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
1840 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
1842 - Stephane Mallarme, French poet and critic (d. 1898)
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)
1846 - Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (d. 1904)
1848 - Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, American architect and engineer (d. 1938)
1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
1862 - Eugene Jansson, Swedish painter (d. 1915)
1863 - William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
1869 - Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
1870 - Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917)
1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian-French philosopher and theologian (d. 1948)
1877 - Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945)
1877 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and engineer (d. 1945)
1878 - Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (d. 1956)
1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (d. 1973)
1884 - Bernard Cronin, English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968)
1886 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970)
1890 - Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
1893 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
1893 - Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (d. 1918)
1901 - Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian mystic, author and philosopher (d. 1990)
1901 - William Johnson, American painter (d. 1970)
1903 - Galeazzo Ciano, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944)
1903 - E. O. Plauen, German cartoonist (d. 1944)
1904 - Srecko Kosovel, Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926)
1904 - Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (d. 1996)
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985)
1905 - Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
1907 - John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997)
1908 - Loulou Gaste, French composer (d. 1995)
1909 - Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (d. 2007)
1909 - C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
1911 - Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1967)
1912 - Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)
1913 - Rene Clement, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1913 - Werner Molders, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
1915 - Richard Condon, American author and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1922 - Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d. 2015)
1922 - Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist and academic (d. 2006)
1922 - Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011)
1923 - Andy Granatelli, American race car driver and businessman (d. 2013)
1925 - Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician (d. 2017)
1925 - James Pickles, English journalist, lawyer, and judge (d. 2010)
1926 - Peter Graves, American actor and director (d. 2010)
1927 - John Kander, American pianist and composer
1927 - George Plimpton, American journalist and actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
1928 - Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)
1928 - Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines
1929 - Samuel Pisar, Polish-American lawyer and author (d. 2015)
1930 - James J. Andrews, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
1931 - John Fraser, Scottish actor
1932 - John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 2009)
1933 - Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist and politician (d. 2019)
1934 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
1934 - Charley Pride, American country music singer and musician
1935 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician and statistician
1935 - Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016)
1936 - F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster (d. 2016)
1937 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
1938 - Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter
1938 - Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer (d. 2017)
1938 - Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2019)
1938 - Timo Makinen, Finnish race car driver (d. 2017)
1938 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006)
1939 - Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager
1939 - Jean-Pierre Wallez, French violinist and conductor
1941 - Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1942 - Kathleen Collins, African-American filmmaker and playwright (d. 1988)
1943 - Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1944 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (d. 2012)
1944 - Frank McRae, American football player and actor
1944 - Dick Smith, Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic
1945 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
1945 - Michael Reagan, American journalist and radio host
1945 - Susan Tyrrell, American actress (d. 2012)
1945 - Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2009)
1946 - Michel Leclere, French race car driver
1947 - Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright
1947 - Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 - David Lloyd, English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster
1947 - B. J. Wilson, English rock drummer (d. 1990)
1948 - Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1948 - Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
1948 - Eknath Solkar, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1949 - Ase Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
1950 - James Conlon, American conductor and educator
1950 - Brad Dourif, American actor
1950 - Linda Partridge, English geneticist and academic
1950 - Larry Perkins, Australian race car driver
1951 - Paul Barber, English actor
1951 - Ben Cohen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben and Jerry's
1951 - Bill Frisell, American guitarist and composer
1951 - Timothy N. Philpot, American lawyer, author, and judge
1952 - Will Durst, American journalist and actor
1952 - Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (d. 2015)
1952 - Bernie Torme, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
1952 - Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
1953 - Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (d. 2015)
1953 - Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
1955 - Francis G. Slay, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis
1955 - Jeff Stelling, English journalist and game show host
1956 - Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler
1956 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (d. 2008)
1956 - Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier
1957 - Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist and astronaut
1958 - Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 1990)
1959 - Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
1960 - Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
1960 - Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 - James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player
1961 - Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1962 - Michael Andrews, Australian rugby league player
1962 - Irene Cara, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
1962 - Brian Fisher, American baseball player
1962 - Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor and martial artist
1962 - James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1962 - Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor and director
1962 - Volker Weidler, German race car driver and engineer
1963 - Jeff LaBar, American guitarist
1963 - Vanessa L. Williams, American model, actress, and singer
1964 - Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
1964 - Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver
1964 - Jo Churchill, British politician
1964 - Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and clarinet player
1964 - Isabel Noronha, Mozambican film director[8]
1966 - Jerry Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 - Peter Jones, English businessman
1966 - Brian Watts, Canadian golfer
1967 - Miki Berenyi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 - Prince Eudes, Duke of Angouleme
1968 - Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer and manager
1968 - Temur Ketsbaia, Georgian footballer and manager
1968 - Paul Marsden, English businessman and politician
1969 - Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer
1969 - Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
1969 - Shaun Udal, English cricketer
1970 - Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress
1971 - Wayne Arthurs, Australian tennis player
1971 - Mike Bell, American wrestler (d. 2008)
1971 - Mariaan de Swardt, South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
1971 - Kitty Ussher, English economist and politician
1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
1972 - Reince Priebus, American lawyer and politician
1973 - Luci Christian, American voice actress and screenwriter
1974 - Laure Savasta, French basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1974 - Stuart Zender, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1975 - Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
1975 - Brian Griese, American football player and sportscaster
1975 - Kimmo Timonen, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 - Tomas Zvirgzdauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1976 - Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress and producer
1976 - Tomo Ohka, Japanese baseball player
1976 - Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
1976 - Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler, trainer, and author, founded Chikara wrestling promotion
1977 - Zdeno Chara, Slovak ice hockey player
1977 - Danny Murphy, English international footballer, midfielder and sportscaster[9]
1977 - Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball player
1977 - Willy Sagnol, French footballer and manager
1977 - Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player and coach
1978 - Fernandao, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1978 - Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer
1978 - Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1978 - Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
1979 - Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality
1980 - Sebastien Frey, French footballer
1980 - Sophia Myles, English actress
1980 - Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
1981 - Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
1981 - Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist
1981 - Leslie Djhone, French sprinter
1981 - Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress
1981 - Kasib Powell, American basketball player
1981 - Tom Starke, German footballer
1981 - Doug Warren, American soccer player
1981 - Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player
1982 - Mantorras, Angolan footballer
1982 - Chad Cordero, American baseball player
1982 - Timo Glock, German race car driver
1982 - Adam Pally, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 - Ethan Carter III, American wrestler
1983 - Stephanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player
1983 - Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
1983 - Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
1984 - Simone Padoin, Italian footballer
1984 - Rajeev Ram, American tennis player[10]
1984 - Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress
1985 - Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver
1985 - Marvin Humes, English singer
1985 - Vince Lia, Australian footballer
1986 - Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter
1986 - Abdennour Cherif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
1987 - Rebecca Soni, American swimmer
1989 - Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer
1989 - Lily Collins, English-American actress
1989 - Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer
1989 - Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
1989 - Paul Marc Rousseau, Canadian guitarist and producer
1989 - Ming Xi, Chinese model
1991 - Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1991 - Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player
1992 - Ryan Truex, American race car driver
1992 - Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model
1997 - Ciara Bravo, American actress
1997 - Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player

Deaths

978 - Edward the Martyr, English king (b. 962)
1076 - Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1018)
1086 - Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop (b. 1036)
1227 - Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
1272 - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)
1308 - Yuri I of Galicia
1314 - Jacques de Molay, Frankish knight (b. 1244)
1314 - Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar
1321 - Matthew III Csak, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
1582 - Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)
1675 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
1689 - John Dixwell, English soldier and politician (b. 1607)
1745 - Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
1768 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713)
1781 - Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727)
1823 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
1835 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769)
1845 - Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)
1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)
1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 1826)
1900 - Hjalmar Kiaerskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
1913 - George I of Greece (b. 1845)
1918 - Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
1930 - Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (b. 1863)[11]
1936 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
1939 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
1941 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1947 - William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
1954 - Walter Mead, English cricketer (b. 1868)
1956 - Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)
1962 - Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1964 - Sigfrid Edstrom, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
1965 - Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
1973 - Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
1977 - Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
1977 - Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
1978 - Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1978 - Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
1980 - Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
1982 - Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)
1983 - Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)
1984 - Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
1986 - Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
1988 - Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
1990 - Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
1993 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
1996 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2000 - Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (b. 1909)
2001 - John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
2002 - R. A. Lafferty, American soldier and author (b. 1914)
2003 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
2003 - Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)
2004 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927)
2006 - Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922)
2007 - Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948)
2008 - Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
2009 - Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980)
2009 - Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (b. 1963)
2010 - Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (b. 1924)
2011 - Warren Christopher, American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (b. 1925)
2012 - Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
2012 - William R. Charette, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2012 - William G. Moore Jr., American general (b. 1920)
2012 - George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)
2013 - Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935)
2013 - Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947)
2013 - Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2014 - Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951)
2014 - Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953)
2014 - Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (b. 1943)
2015 - Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)
2015 - Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (b. 1939)
2015 - Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930)
2016 - Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939)
2016 - Jan Nemec, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2016 - Tray Walker, American football player (b. 1992)
2016 - Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
2017 - Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
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