April 13 is the 103rd day of the year

April 13 is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events[edit]

• 1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
• 1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
• 1612 – Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island.
• 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas inPassapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.
• 1699 – Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the Tenth Sikh Guru, Created Khalsa on this day atAnandpur Sahib, Punjab.
• 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere inDublin, Ireland.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
• 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
• 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
• 1849 – Hungary becomes a republic.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.
• 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
• 1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
• 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
• 1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• 1919 – The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
• 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
• 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
• 1941 – A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
• 1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in theKatyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
• 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of PresidentThomas Jefferson's birth.
• 1944 – Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
• 1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra nearJerusalem.
• 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKULTRA.
• 1958 – Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
• 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actoraward for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
• 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
• 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
• 1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
• 1975 – Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of thePopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
• 1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note onThomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
• 1984 – India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
• 1987 – Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
• 1992 – The Great Chicago flood devastates much of central Chicago.
• 1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
• 2014 – A bus traveling from Villahermosa to Mexico City crashes into a tractor-trailer and catches fire, killing at least 36 people.

Births[edit]

• 1506 – Peter Faber, French theologian, co-founded the Society of Jesus (d. 1546)
• 1519 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
• 1570 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier, planned the Gunpowder Plot (d. 1606)
• 1573 – Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625)
• 1593 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1641)
• 1618 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French author (d. 1693)
• 1713 – Pierre Jélyotte, French tenor (d. 1797)
• 1729 – Thomas Percy, Irish bishop (d. 1811)
• 1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
• 1735 – Isaac Low, British-born American merchant and politician, founded the New York Chamber of Commerce (d. 1791)
• 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
• 1747 – Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
• 1764 – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
• 1769 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
• 1771 – Richard Trevithick, English engineer (d. 1833)
• 1780 – Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse (d. 1868)
• 1784 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
• 1787 – John Robertson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1873)
• 1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
• 1802 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
• 1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American inventor (d. 1889)
• 1824 – William Alexander, Irish bishop (d. 1911)
• 1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
• 1828 – Joseph Lightfoot, English bishop and theologian (d. 1889)
• 1832 – Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (d. 1889)
• 1841 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
• 1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
• 1851 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
• 1851 – William Quan Judge, Irish occultist and theosophist (d. 1896)
• 1852 – Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman, founded the F.W. Woolworth Company (d. 1919)
• 1860 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
• 1866 – Butch Cassidy, American criminal (d. 1908)
• 1872 – John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1935)
• 1872 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian-Croatian journalist and author (d. 1945)
• 1873 – John W. Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Solicitor General (d. 1955)
• 1875 – Ray Lyman Wilbur, American physician, academic, and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1949)
• 1879 – Edward Bruce, American lawyer and painter (d. 1943)
• 1880 – Charles Christie, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded the Christie Film Company (d. 1955)
• 1885 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
• 1885 – Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, Head of State of Estonia (d. 1942)
• 1885 – Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and critic (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician (d. 1995)
• 1887 – Peter Ratican, American soccer player (d. 1922)
• 1889 – Herbert Yardley, American cryptologist (d. 1958)
• 1890 – Frank Murphy, American jurist and politician, 56th United States Attorney General (d. 1949)
• 1890 – Dadasaheb Torne, Indian director and producer (d. 1960)
• 1891 – Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1921)
• 1891 – Nella Larsen, American author (d. 1964)
• 1891 – Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (d. 1973)
• 1892 – Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, English marshal (d. 1984)
• 1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the Radar (d. 1973)
• 1894 – Arthur Fadden, Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Werner Voss, German pilot (d. 1917)
• 1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)
• 1900 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
• 1901 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Marguerite Henry, American author (d. 1997)
• 1904 – David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1987)
• 1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish-French author, playwright, and director, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1991)
• 1906 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian vocal pedagogue (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Harold Stassen, American academic and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2001)
• 1909 – Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-American mathematician (d. 1984)
• 1909 – Eudora Welty, American author (d. 2001)
• 1911 – Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 1946)
• 1911 – Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1983)
• 1913 – Kermit Tyler, American pilot and lieutenant (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet (d. 1950)
• 1916 – Phyllis Fraser, American actress, journalist, and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Bill Clements, American politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Howard Keel, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founded American Atheists (d. 1995)
• 1919 – Phil Tonken, American voice actor (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
• 1920 – Claude Cheysson, French politician, Foreign Minister of France (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Liam Cosgrave, Irish lawyer and politician, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland
• 1920 – John LaPorta, American clarinet player and saxophonist (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (d. 1994)
• 1922 – John Braine, English author (d. 1986)
• 1922 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Don Adams, American actor and director (d. 2005)
• 1923 – A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Stanley Tanger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers(d. 2010)
• 1924 – John T. Biggers, American painter and muralist (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Jack T. Chick, American author, illustrator, and publisher
• 1924 – Stanley Donen, American director and choreographer
• 1926 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
• 1926 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Rosemary Haughton, British theologian, philosopher, and author
• 1927 – Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (d. 1983)
• 1928 – Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Gianni Marzotto, Italian racing driver and entrepreneur (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Anita Cerquetti, Italian operatic soprano (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1931 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver
• 1931 – Arturo Rodenak, Argentinian-Chilean footballer (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Jon Stone, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street (d. 1997)
• 1932 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (d. 1976)
• 1933 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American soldier and politician
• 1934 – John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1935 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor
• 1936 – Pierre Rosenberg, French historian
• 1937 – Edward Fox, English actor
• 1937 – Lanford Wilson, American playwright (d. 2011)
• 1938 – John Weston, English diplomat
• 1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor
• 1940 – Mike Beuttler, Egyptian-English race car driver (d. 1988)
• 1940 – Lester Chambers, American singer-songwriter (The Chambers Brothers)
• 1940 – Vladimir Cosma, Romanian composer and conductor
• 1940 – J. M. G. Le Clézio, French author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 – Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
• 1940 – Max Mosley, English race car driver and engineer, co-founded March Engineering
• 1941 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Jean-Marc Reiser, French author and illustrator (d. 1983)
• 1941 – Marjorie Yates, English actress
• 1942 – Ataol Behramoğlu Turkish poet and author
• 1942 – Bill Conti, American composer and conductor
• 1943 – Billy Kidd, American skier
• 1943 – Tim Krabbé, Dutch journalist and author
• 1943 – Philip Norman, English journalist, author, and playwright
• 1944 – Charles Burnett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 – Jack Casady, American bass player (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship)
• 1944 – Susan Davis, American politician
• 1945 – Tony Dow, American actor, director, and producer
• 1945 – Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and Mothers of Invention) (d. 1979)
• 1945 – Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (d. 1970)
• 1945 – Judy Nunn, Australian actress and screenwriter
• 1946 – Al Green, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor
• 1946 – Christopher Strauli, English actor
• 1947 – Rae Armantrout, American poet
• 1947 – Mike Chapman, Australian-English songwriter and producer
• 1947 – Jean-Jacques Laffont, French economist
• 1948 – Nam Hae-il, South Korean admiral
• 1948 – Drago Jančar, Slovenian author and playwright
• 1949 – Len Cook, New Zealand-English mathematician and statistician
• 1949 – Frank Doran, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1949 – Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist and author (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Ricardo Zunino, Argentinian race car driver
• 1950 – Joseph Paul Franklin, American serial killer (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Terry Lester, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor
• 1950 – William Sadler, American actor
• 1951 – Leszek Borysiewicz, Welsh immunologist and academic
• 1951 – Peabo Bryson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1951 – Peter Davison, English actor and singer
• 1951 – Joachim Streich, German footballer and manager
• 1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer (E Street Band and Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band)
• 1952 – Erick Avari, Indian-American actor
• 1952 – Ron Dittemore, American businessman
• 1952 – David Drew, English lawyer and politician
• 1952 – Jonjo O'Neill, Irish jockey and trainer
• 1953 – Stephen Byers, English politician
• 1953 – Dany Laferrière, Canadian author
• 1954 – Jimmy Destri, American keyboard player and songwriter (Blondie)
• 1954 – Niels Olsen, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Olsen Brothers)
• 1954 – Barbara Roche, English politician
• 1955 – Steve Camp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 – Louis Johnson, American bass player and producer (The Brothers Johnson)
• 1955 – Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer
• 1955 – Ole von Beust, German politician, 1st Mayor of Hamburg
• 1955 – Hideki Saijo, Japanese singer
• 1956 – Possum Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1956 – Alan Devonshire, English footballer and manager
• 1957 – Amy Goodman, American journalist and author
• 1957 – Gary Kroeger, American actor
• 1957 – Dallas Moir, Maltese-Scottish cricketer
• 1957 – Saundra Santiago, American actress
• 1960 – Lyn Brown, English politician
• 1960 – Bob Casey, Jr., American lawyer and politician
• 1960 – Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist
• 1960 – Rudi Völler, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Hiro Yamamoto, American bass player and songwriter (Soundgarden and Truly)
• 1962 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers and What Is This?) (d. 1988)
• 1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
• 1964 – Davis Love III, American golfer
• 1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian-American actress
• 1964 – John Swinney, Scottish politician
• 1965 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator
• 1966 – Mando, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
• 1966 – Marc Ford, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Black Crowes and Burning Tree)
• 1967 – Dana Barros, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1967 – Michael Eisen, American biologist
• 1967 – Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Chantelle)
• 1969 – Dirk Muschiol, German footballer
• 1970 – Monty Brown, American football player and wrestler
• 1970 – Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1970 – Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast
• 1970 – Ricardo Rincón, Mexican-American baseball player
• 1970 – Ricky Schroder, American actor and director
• 1971 – Valensia, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1971 – Dina Korzun, Russian actress
• 1971 – Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor
• 1971 – Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
• 1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
• 1972 – Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Staind)
• 1973 – Bokeem Woodbine, American actor
• 1974 – Sergei Gonchar, Russian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Darren Turner, English race car driver
• 1974 – David Zdrilic, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Jasey-Jay Anderson, Canadian snowboarder
• 1975 – Lou Bega, German singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Bruce Dyer, English footballer
• 1975 – Tatiana Navka, Russian ice dancer
• 1976 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1976 – Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
• 1976 – Patrik Eliáš, Czech-American ice hockey player
• 1976 – Glenn Howerton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 – Yoo Ji-tae, South Korean actor and director
• 1977 – Jeff Stearns, American actor
• 1977 – Margus Tsahkna, Estonian politician
• 1978 – Arron Asham, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Nick Garrett, English singer (The Swingle Singers and Amici Forever)
• 1978 – Kyle Howard, American actor
• 1978 – James Jordan, English dancer and choreographer
• 1978 – Sylvie Meis, Dutch model and actress
• 1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Raemon Sluiter, Dutch tennis player
• 1978 – Keydrick Vincent, American football player
• 1979 – Gréta Arn, Hungarian tennis player
• 1979 – Baron Davis, American basketball player
• 1979 – Tony Lundon, Irish singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer (Liberty X)
• 1979 – Síle Seoige, Irish television host
• 1979 – Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
• 1979 – William Henry van Cutsem, British godfather of Prince George of Cambridge
• 1979 – Murat Yıldırım, Turkish actor
• 1980 – Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Jana Cova, Czech porn actress and model
• 1980 – Kelli Giddish, American actress
• 1980 – Jason Maguire, Irish jockey
• 1980 – Alan Melikdjanian, Latvian-American actor, director, and producer
• 1980 – Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nat Borchers, American soccer player
• 1981 – Gemma Doyle, Scottish politician
• 1981 – Courtney Peldon, American actress
• 1981 – Bryan Scott, American football player
• 1982 – Tim Hamilton, Czech porn actor and model
• 1982 – Nellie McKay, English-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 – Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1982 – Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1983 – Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer
• 1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
• 1983 – Nicole Cooke, Welsh cyclist
• 1983 – Derek Lee Nixon, American actor and producer
• 1983 – Hunter Pence, American baseball player
• 1984 – Jarmo Ahjupera, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer
• 1984 – Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor
• 1984 – Matthew Needham, English actor
• 1985 – Anna Jennings-Edquist, Australian actress, director, and playwright
• 1985 – Algo Kärp, Estonian skier
• 1985 – Kerim Zengin, Turkish professional footballer
• 1987 – Brandon Hardesty, American actor
• 1987 – Massimiliano Pesenti, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Petteri Koponen, Finnish basketball player
• 1988 – Allison Williams, American actress and singer
• 1991 – Akeem Adams, Trinidadian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1991 – Ulises Dávila, Mexican footballer
• 1991 – Josh Gordon, American football player
• 1992 – Denis Kudryavtsev, Russian hurdler
• 1993 – Hannah Marks, American actress
• 1993 – Tony Wroten, American basketball player
• 1994 – Ángelo Henríquez, Chilean footballer
• 1994 – Elvis Merzļikins, Latvian ice hockey player

Deaths[edit]

• 548 – Ly Nam De, Vietnamese emperor (b. 503)
• 799 – Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and historian (b. 720)
• 814 – Krum, Bulgarian ruler
• 1093 – Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
• 1138 – Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
• 1592 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
• 1612 – Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai (b. 1585)
• 1635 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze prince (b. 1572)
• 1638 – Henri, Duke of Rohan (b. 1579)
• 1641 – Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
• 1695 – Jean de La Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
• 1716 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (b. 1648)
• 1722 – Charles Leslie, Irish theologian (b. 1650)
• 1793 – Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French politician (b. 1763)
• 1794 – Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright (b. 1741)
• 1826 – Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1763)
• 1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
• 1853 – James Iredell, Jr., American politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
• 1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1796)
• 1868 – Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
• 1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and author (b. 1813)
• 1882 – Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
• 1886 – John Humphrey Noyes, American religious leader, founded the Oneida Community (b. 1811)
• 1890 – Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1828)
• 1909 – Whitley Stokes, Irish-English lawyer and scholar (b. 1830)
• 1910 – William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish-English painter (b. 1835)
• 1911 – John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
• 1911 – George Washington Glick, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
• 1912 – Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet (b. 1886)
• 1918 – Lavr Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
• 1925 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor (b. 1875)
• 1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician, Mayor of Frankfurt (b. 1866)
• 1936 – Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician 129th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist (b. 1888)
• 1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
• 1941 – William Twaits, Canadian soccer player (b. 1879)
• 1942 – Henk Sneevliet, Dutch politician (b. 1883)
• 1942 – Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1945 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880)
• 1954 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
• 1956 – Emil Nolde, German painter (b. 1867)
• 1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
• 1961 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (b. 1935)
• 1962 – Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876)
• 1966 – Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi colonel and politician, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881)
• 1966 – Georges Duhamel, French author (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Nicole Berger, French actress (b. 1934)
• 1969 – Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
• 1971 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1975 – François Tombalbaye, Chadian politician, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (b. 1931)
• 1980 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1980 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 1983 – Theodore Stephanides, Greek physician, author, and poet (b. 1896)
• 1984 – Richard Hurndall, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harp player and musicologist (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947)
• 1988 – Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Wallace Stegner, American historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1996 – James Burke, American gangster (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Leila Mackinlay, English author (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Bryant Bowles, American soldier and activist, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Alan Cooley, Australian public servant (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and actress (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and base jumper (b. 1960)
• 1999 – Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Willi Stoph, German politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (b. 1916)
• 2000 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Robert Moon, American postal inspector, created the ZIP code (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Desmond Titterington, Irish race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Caron Keating, English television host (b. 1962)
• 2005 – Don Blasingame, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Bill Baker, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Muriel Spark, Scottish-Italian author and poet (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Don Selwyn, New Zealand actor and director (b. 1935)
• 2008 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Bruce Snyder, American football player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2012 – William B. Buffum, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Lebanon (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Marilyn Lovell Matz, American actress and singer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – David S. Smith, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Robert Wigmore, Cook Islander politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Frank Bank, American actor (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Chi Cheng, American bass player (Deftones) (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Dean Drummond, American composer and conductor (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Ian Henderson, Scottish-Kenyan police officer (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Vincent Montana, Jr., American drummer and composer (MFSB and Salsoul Orchestra) (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician, 29th Vice Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Fred Enke, American football player (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Rafał Sznajder, Polish fencer (b. 1972)