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Today In History
  October 7th
 
Events
 
3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramσn de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Wόrttemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'aoϋt.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
1864 – American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Lιon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940 – World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1950 – Mother Teresa build an order called Missionary of Charity
1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1971 – Oman joins the United Nations.
1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier.
1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.
1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
1987 – Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
1988 – An Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian.
1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
 
Births
 
13 BC – Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman son of Tiberius (d. 23 AD)
1409 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442)
1471 – Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
1573 – William Laud, English archbishop and academic (d. 1645)
1576 – John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
1589 – Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (d. 1631)
1713 – Granville Elliott, English general (d. 1759)
1728 – Caesar Rodney, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (d. 1784)
1744 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (d. 1819)
1746 – William Billings, American composer and educator (d. 1800)
1748 – Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1769 – Solomon Sibley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit (d. 1846)
1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875)
1832 – Charles Crozat Converse, American lawyer and composer (d. 1918)
1835 – Felix Draeseke, German composer and educator (d. 1913)
1836 – Henri Elzιar Taschereau, Canadian scholar and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911)
1841 – Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (d. 1916)
1866 – Wlodimir Ledσchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1870 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873)
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, American singer-songwriter, banjo player, and comedian (d. 1952)
1879 – Joe Hill, American poet and activist (d. 1915)
1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general (d. 1918)
1884 – Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1927)
1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1885 – Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1948)
1887 – Jack Russell, English cricketer (d. 1961)
1888 – Henry A. Wallace, American politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1889 – Robert Z. Leonard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1892 – Dwain Esper, American director and producer (d. 1982)
1893 – Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (d. 1979)
1894 – Del Lord, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1970)
1895 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (d. 1980)
1897 – Thakin Mya, Burmese Martyr (d. 1947)
1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1975)
1898 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German commander and politician (d. 1945)
1904 – Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968)
1905 – Andy Devine, American actor and singer (d. 1977)
1907 – Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (d. 1985)
1909 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (d. 1990)
1909 – Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1995)
1909 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (d. 1983)
1910 – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 – Jo Jones, American drummer (d. 1985)
1911 – Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1973)
1912 – Fernando Belaϊnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 85th President of Peru (d. 2002)
1912 – Peter Walker, English racing driver (d. 1984)
1913 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author (d. 1987)
1913 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer (d. 1949)
1914 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
1914 – Sarah Churchill, English actress and dancer (d. 1982)
1914 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1917 – June Allyson, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
1918 – Harry V. Jaffa, American historian, philosopher, and academic (d. 2015)
1919 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1919 – Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and politician, 19th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
1919 – Georges Duby, French historian and author (d. 1996)
1920 – Georg Leber, German politician, German Federal Minister of Defence (d. 2012)
1920 – Kalju Lepik, Estonian-Swedish poet (d. 1999)
1920 – Jack Rowley, English footballer and manager (d. 1998)
1921 – Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)
1922 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
1922 – William Zinsser, American journalist and critic (d. 2015)
1923 – Irma Grese, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1923 – Bretislav Pojar, Czech animator and director (d. 2012)
1923 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress and singer (d. 1971)
1927 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (d. 1989)
1927 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
1928 – Sanne Ledermann, German-Dutch holocaust victim (d. 1943)
1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 – Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation
1929 – Robert Westall, English journalist and author (d. 1993)
1930 – Curtis Crider, American race car driver (d. 2012)
1931 – Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball player and coach (d. 2004)
1931 – Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1931 – R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and academic (d. 2003)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (d. 2013)
1933 – Harold Dunaway, American race car driver (d. 2012)
1934 – Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (d. 2014)
1934 – Ulrike Meinhof, German journalist and activist (d. 1976)
1934 – Julian Thompson, English general and historian
1935 – Thomas Keneally, Australian author and playwright
1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1936 – Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1937 – Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
1937 – Maria Szyszkowska, Polish academic and politician
1938 – Ann Jones, English tennis player and sportscaster
1938 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor, and poet (d. 1992)
1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author
1939 – Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic
1939 – Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal
1939 – Bill Snyder, American football player and coach
1940 – Bruce Vento, American educator and politician (d. 2000)
1942 – Joy Behar, American talk show host and actress
1943 – Josι Cardenal, Cuban baseball player and coach
1943 – Oliver North, American colonel, journalist, and author
1944 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1979)
1944 – Donald Tsang, Chinese politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1944 – Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (d. 2014)
1945 – Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter and director (10cc, Hotlegs, Godley & Creme, Doctor Father, and The Magic Lanterns)
1945 – David Wallace, Scottish physicist and academic
1946 – Jenny Abramsky, English broadcaster
1946 – John Brass, Australian rugby player
1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor
1946 – Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author
1946 – Pengiran Anak Saleha, Bruneian wife of Hassanal Bolkiah
1947 – Chris Bambridge, Australian footballer and referee
1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and author
1948 – John F. B. Mitchell, English climatologist and author
1948 – Stephen Rucker, American composer
1949 – Dave Hope, American bass player and priest (Kansas and AD)
1949 – Kieran Kane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The O'Kanes)
1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania
1951 – David J. Halberstam, American sportscaster
1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1952 – Mary Badham, American actress
1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
1952 – Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1952 – Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
1953 – Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (d. 2014)
1953 – Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor
1953 – Tico Torres, American drummer (Bon Jovi)
1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author
1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator (Silk Road Project)
1955 – Bill Henson, Australian photographer
1956 – Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (d. 2013)
1956 – Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 – Joey Marquez, Filipino basketball player, actor, host, and politician
1957 – Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor
1957 – Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
1958 – Timothy Ackroyd, English actor
1959 – Dylan Baker, American actor
1959 – Simon Cowell, English businessman and producer, created The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent
1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian lawyer and politician
1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician
1960 – Kevin Boyle, American historian and author
1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boψwy)
1960 – Viktor Lazlo, French-Belgian singer
1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor (Uncanny X-Men)
1961 – Matthew Roloff, American farmer and author
1961 – Tony Sparano, American football player and coach
1962 – Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary
1962 – William Johnson, German-English cricketer
1963 – Ann Curless, American singer-songwriter (Exposι)
1964 – Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter
1964 – Dan Savage, American journalist and author
1964 – Paul Stewart, English footballer
1964 – Yavuz Bingφl, Turkish music and is also an actor
1965 – Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver
1965 – Kumiko Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
1966 – Sherman Alexie, American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and producer
1966 – Marco Beltrami, Italian-American composer
1966 – Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (d. 2012)
1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (The Braxtons)
1967 – Luke Haines, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Auteurs, The Servants, and Black Box Recorder)
1967 – Ellen ten Damme, Dutch actress and singer
1968 – Pippa Funnell, English horse rider
1968 – άlo Voitka, Estonian activist
1968 – Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Radiohead and Atoms for Peace)
1969 – Bobbie Brown, American model and actress
1969 – Per Mathisen, Norwegian bassist
1969 – Benny Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1969 – Malia Hosaka, American wrestler
1969 – Maria Whittaker, English model, actress, and singer
1970 – Nicole Ari Parker, American model and actress
1971 – Daniel Boucher, Canadian singer and actor
1972 – Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player
1972 – Marlou Aquino, Filipino basketball player
1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Hanno Grossschmidt, Estonian architect
1973 – Sami Hyypiδ, Finnish footballer and manager
1973 – Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Georgian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
1974 – Rune Glifberg, Danish skateboarder
1974 – Allison Munn, American actress
1974 – Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer (Wizex and Anders Engbergs)
1974 – Alexander Polinsky, American actor and singer
1975 – Rhino, American wrestler and actor
1975 – Giorgos Karadimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Damian Kulash, singer (OK Go)
1975 – Tim Minchin, English-Australian comedian, actor, and singer
1975 – Kaspars Znotinš, Latvian actor
1976 – Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1976 – Taylor Hicks, American singer-songwriter and actor (Little Memphis Blues Orchestra)
1976 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer and manager
1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
1977 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
1978 – Alison Balsom, English trumpet player and educator
1978 – Omar Benson Miller, American actor
1978 – Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 – Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 – Simona Amβnar, Romanian gymnast
1979 – Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1980 – Edison Chen, Canadian-Hong Kong actor and singer
1980 – Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer
1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese pianist
1983 – Archie Bland, English journalist and author
1983 – Dwayne Bravo, Trinidadian cricketer
1983 – Flying Lotus, American rapper, DJ, and producer
1983 – Scottie Upshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Anna Larrucea, Filipino actress
1984 – Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1984 – Toma Ikuta, Japanese actor and singer
1984 – Kazuki Kato, Japanese actor and singer
1984 – Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 – Kaitlyn, American wrestler and model
1986 – Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1986 – Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1986 – Bree Olson, American porn actress
1987 – Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
1987 – Sam Querrey, American tennis player
1988 – Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer
1990 – Thunder, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (MBLAQ)
1990 – Sebastiαn Coates, Uruguayan footballer
1990 – Ayla Kell, American actress
1991 – Nicole Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Kara)
1992 – Mookie Betts, American baseball player
1997 – Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso of Lesotho
 
Deaths
 
336 – Pope Mark
929 – Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879)
1242 – Emperor Juntoku of Japan (b. 1197)
1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician (b. 1338)
1553 – Cristσbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
1555 – Louis of Praet (b. 1488)
1571 – Sufi Ali Pasha, Ottoman statesman and naval officer
1577 – George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier, and poet (b. 1535)
1612 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1538)
1620 – Stanislaw Zσlkiewski, Polish-Lithuanian commander (b. 1547)
1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (b. 1559)
1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh guru (b. 1666)
1772 – John Woolman, American preacher and activist (b. 1720)
1780 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier (b. 1744)
1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)
1792 – George Mason, American politician (b. 1725)
1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (b. 1718)
1796 – Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (b. 1809)
1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
1896 – Emma Darwin, English wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808)
1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
1904 – Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
1906 – Honorι Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
1919 – Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
1931 – Eugen Schmidt, Danish tug of war competitor (b. 1862)
1939 – Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1943 – Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
1943 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869)
1944 – Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier, an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning. (b. 1876)
1951 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
1959 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
1966 – Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
1966 – Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
1967 – Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
1969 – Lars Ekborg, Swedish actor (b. 1926)
1969 – Lιon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1970 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
1985 – Cemal Resit Rey, Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor (b. 1904)
1988 – Billy Daniels, American singer (b. 1915)
1990 – Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
1991 – Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
1991 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
1991 – Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
1992 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
1992 – Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian politician (b.1927)
1992 – Tevfik Esenη, Turkish last speaker of Ubykh language (b. 1904)
1993 – Cyril Cusack, South African-Irish actor (b. 1910)
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1996 – Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch politician, playwright, and poet (b. 1903)
1998 – Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist and author (b. 1909)
2001 – Christopher Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1955)
2001 – Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)
2002 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (b. 1912)
2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 – Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (b. 1985)
2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-Russian journalist and activist (b. 1958)
2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
2009 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 – Milka Planinc, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2011 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)
2011 – Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1926)
2012 – Mersad Berber, Bosnian-Croatian painter (b. 1940)
2012 – Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926)
2012 – Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
2012 – Ivo Michiels, Belgian-French author and poet (b. 1923)
2013 – Patrice Chιreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
2013 – David E. Jeremiah, American admiral (b. 1934)
2013 – Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1920)
2014 – Cigar, American race horse (b. 1990)
2014 – Siegfried Lenz, Polish-German author and playwright (b. 1926)

 

 
 
 
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