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Today In History
  October 4th
 
Events
 
23 – Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
610 – Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1302 – A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302).
1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1597 – The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands.
1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007.
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1936 – In the East End of London, marches staged by British fascists and various anti-fascist organizations result in violent clashes between them in what becomes known as the Battle of Cable Street.
1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1943 – World War II: U.S. captures the Solomon Islands from the Japanese.
1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1965 – Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
1976 – Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train.
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 – El Al Flight 1862: An El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.
 
Births
 
1160 – Alys, Countess of the Vexin (d. 1220)
1274 – Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1319)
1276 – Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311)
1289 – Louis X of France (d. 1316)
1331 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (d. 1382)
1379 – Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
1515 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
1542 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1621)
1550 – Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
1562 – Christen Sψrensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
1570 – Pιter Pαzmαny, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
1585 – Anna of Tyrol (d. 1618)
1625 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (d. 1661)
1626 – Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1712)
1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (d. 1778)
1723 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (d. 1798)
1759 – Louis Franηois Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
1787 – Franηois Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1874)
1793 – Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (d. 1862)
1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Canada East (d. 1864)
1814 – Jean-Franηois Millet, French painter and educator (d. 1875)
1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
1835 – Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American contralto opera singer (d. 1921)
1836 – Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936)
1841 – Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (d. 1912)
1841 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925)
1858 – Lιon Serpollet, French industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles (d. 1903)
1861 – Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian (d. 1918)
1861 – Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909)
1862 – Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher (d. 1930)
1868 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 20th President of Argentina (d. 1942)
1874 – John Ellis, English hairdresser and newsagent who served as one of the United Kingdom's executioners (d. 1932)
1875 – Bob McKinney, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1876 – Hugh McCrae, Australian actor and author (d. 1958)
1877 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
1880 – Damon Runyon, American author and playwright (d. 1946)
1881 – Henry Potter, American golfer (d. 1955)
1881 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948)
1884 – Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (d. 1941)
1884 – Subramaniya Siva, Indian author and activist (d. 1925)
1886 – Luis Alberni, Spanish-American actor and singer (d. 1962)
1888 – Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961)
1888 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
1890 – Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962)
1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1934)
1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
1892 – Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator (d. 1957
1895 – Buster Keaton, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
1900 – August Mδlk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987)
1903 – Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician (d. 1993)
1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
1903 – Pierre Garbay, French general (d. 1980)
1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946)
1907 – Alain Daniιlou, French-Swiss historian and academic (d. 1994)
1910 – Viktor Ader, Estonian footballer (d. 1966)
1910 – Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
1913 – Martial Cιlestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011)
1914 – Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2003)
1914 – Brendan Gill, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
1916 – Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006)
1916 – George Sidney, American director and producer (d. 2002)
1917 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1922 – Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
1922 – Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group
1922 – Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor and director (d. 2008)
1924 – Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (d. 2012)
1925 – Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012)
1926 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012)
1927 – Wolf Kahn, American painter
1928 – Alvin Toffler, American journalist and author
1928 – Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player
1929 – Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968)
1929 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
1929 – Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1931 – Terence Conran, English designer and businessman
1931 – Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (d. 2011)
1931 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (d. 2007)
1932 – Milan Chvostek, Canadian director and producer
1933 – Ann Thwaite, English author
1934 – Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1934 – Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist and poet
1936 – Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager
1936 – Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician
1937 – Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress (d. 2015)
1937 – David Crocker, American philosopher and academic
1937 – Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2014)
1937 – Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
1938 – Kurt Wόthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Norman D. Wilson, American actor (d. 2004)
1939 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle racer
1940 – Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager
1940 – Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
1940 – Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist
1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American journalist and author
1941 – Karen Cushman, American author
1941 – Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver
1941 – Anne Rice, American author
1941 – Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
1942 – Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter (Sweet Honey in the Rock)
1942 – Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1967)
1942 – Jσhanna Sigurπardσttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland
1942 – Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995)
1943 – H. Rap Brown, American activist
1943 – Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee (d. 2012)
1943 – Dietmar Mόrdter, German footballer
1943 – Florian Pitti?, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2007)
1943 – Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager
1944 – Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic
1944 – Rocνo Dϊrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1944 – Eddie Gσmez, Puerto Rican bassist (Steps Ahead)
1944 – Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
1944 – John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician
1945 – Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister
1946 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1946 – Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense
1946 – Michael Mullen, American admiral
1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress, singer, and producer
1946 – Bridget St John, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist
1947 – Jim Fielder, American bass player (Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Mothers of Invention)
1947 – Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
1948 – Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
1948 – Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Roomful of Blues)
1949 – Armand Assante, American actor and producer
1949 – Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 – Marion Albert Pruett, American murderer (d. 1999)
1950 – Meg Bennett, American actress and screenwriter
1951 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author
1952 – Jody Stephens, American drummer (Big Star and Golden Smog)
1953 – Tchιky Karyo, Turkish-French actor and singer
1953 – Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Triumph)
1953 – Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
1955 – John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
1955 – Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1956 – Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright
1956 – Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
1957 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor and singer
1957 – Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (Dance with a Stranger) (d. 2013)
1957 – Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
1958 – Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host
1958 – Ned Luke, American actor
1959 – Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 – Tony Meo, English snooker player
1960 – Joe Boever, American baseball player
1961 – David W. Harper, American actor
1961 – Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh!
1962 – Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer
1962 – Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
1963 – A. C. Green, American basketball player
1963 – Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
1964 – Peter Florence, English actor, founded the Hay Festival
1964 – Sarah Lancashire, English actress and director
1964 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, actor, and director (d. 2009)
1964 – Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner
1965 – Olaf Backasch, German footballer
1965 – Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965 – Micky Ward, American boxer
1967 – Marcus Bentley, English voice actor
1967 – Ekin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
1967 – Liev Schreiber, American actor and director
1968 – Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
1968 – Anzela Voronova, Estonian target shooter
1968 – Tim Wise, American activist and author
1969 – Abraham Benrubi, American actor
1971 – Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
1971 – Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Powderfinger and Drag)
1972 – Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
1973 – Abyss, American wrestler
1974 – Paco Leσn, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1975 – Daniella Deutscher, American actress
1975 – Panos Kiamos, Greek singer
1975 – Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager
1975 – Mohamed Jameel, Maldivian footballer
1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer
1976 – Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
1976 – Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer
1976 – Craig Robert Young, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and kick-boxer
1977 – Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre)
1978 – Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
1978 – Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
1978 – Go Soo, South Korean actor and singer
1979 – Brandon Barash, American actor
1979 – Stefan Booth, English actor and singer
1979 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress and producer
1979 – Bjφrn Phau, German tennis player
1979 – Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
1980 – Me'Lisa Barber, American sprinter
1980 – Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
1980 – Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer
1980 – James Jones, American basketball player
1980 – Tim Peper, American actor
1980 – TomᚠRosickύ, Czech footballer
1981 – Shaura, Japanese singer (Moi dix Mois)
1981 – Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Tony Gwynn, Jr., American baseball player
1982 – Jered Weaver, American baseball player
1983 – Dan Clarke, English race car driver
1983 – Risa Kudo, Japanese model and actress
1983 – Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
1983 – Matet de Leon, Filipino actress
1983 – Chansi Stuckey, American football player
1983 – Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
1983 – Tatsuya Ueda, Japanese singer and actor (KAT-TUN)
1984 – Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi)
1984 – Αlvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
1984 – Karolina Tyminska, Polish heptathlete
1985 – Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
1985 – Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
1986 – Yuridia, Mexican singer
1987 – Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
1987 – Will Puddy, English footballer
1987 – Marina Weisband, German politician
1988 – Joseph Marco, Filipino actor and model
1988 – Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
1988 – Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
1988 – Derrick Rose, American basketball player
1989 – Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
1989 – Lil Mama, American rapper, dancer, and actress
1989 – Stacey Solomon, English singer
1989 – Rich Homie Quan, American rapper
1990 – Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer
1997 – Michelle Vito, Filipino actress
2005 – Prince Emmanuel of Belgium
 
Deaths
 
1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1582 – Teresa of Αvila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1586)
1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625)
1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)
1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician (b. 1678)
1749 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1754 – Tanacharison, American tribal chief (b. 1700)
1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761)
1827 – Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
1851 – Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace (b. 1767)
1852 – James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
1871 – Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
1890 – Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
1904 – Frιdιric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
1935 – Jean Bιraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
1943 – Irena Illakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
1944 – Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
1946 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (b. 1878)
1947 – Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1951 – Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
1951 – Willie Moretti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1894)
1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
1958 – Ida Wόst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
1961 – Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
1963 – Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
1969 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer and actor (b. 1912)
1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (b. 1943)
1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
1977 – Josι Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
1982 – The Amazing Criswell, American psychic and actor (b. 1907)
1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
1990 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1924)
1990 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923)
1990 – Martinš Ziverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
1991 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941)
1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
1996 – Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949)
1997 – Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
1998 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930)
1999 – Erik Brψdreskift, Norwegian drummer (Immortal and Borknagar) (b. 1969)
1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (The Jazztet) (b. 1928)
2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
2001 – George Claydon, English actor (b. 1933)
2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
2002 – Andrι Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2003 – Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
2004 – Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
2004 – Rio Diaz, Filipino model, actress, and politician (b. 1959)
2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924)
2006 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933)
2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
2009 – Gόnther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918)
2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (b. 1935)
2010 – Norman Wisdom, English singer-songwriter, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2011 – Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, American son of Anwar al-Awlaki (b. 1995)
2011 – Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)
2012 – David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921)
2012 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Zimbabwe (b. 1941)
2012 – Daphne Slater, English actress (b. 1928)
2012 – Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944)
2012 – Gloria Taylor, Canadian activist (b. 1948)
2012 – Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player (b. 1967)
2012 – Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (b. 1956)
2013 – John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921)
2013 – Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917)
2013 – Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
2013 – Vυ Nguyκn Giαp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1911)
2013 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)
2014 – Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941)
2014 – Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (b. 1937)
2014 – Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)
2014 – Paul Revere, singer with the American rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders (b. 1938)

 

 
 
 
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