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Day of the year
October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 77 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1910 –
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1923 – The
German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter
hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic .
1928 – The airship
Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at
Lakehurst, New Jersey , United States.
1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become
Air India ) makes its first flight.
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed
LaGuardia Airport ) is dedicated.
1940 – President
Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the
Francoist government.
1944 – World War II: Germany
replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
[7]
1951 – Mexican chemist
Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of
norethisterone , the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
1954 –
Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
1956 –
FORTRAN , the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
1965 – Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the
Catholic Worker Movement , resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
1966 – The
Black Panther Party is created by
Huey P. Newton and
Bobby Seale .
1970 – During the construction of Australia's
West Gate Bridge , a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
[8]
1979 – Supporters of the Malta Labour Party
ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
1979 – A
coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President
Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long
Salvadoran Civil War .
[9]
1987 –
Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo,
Italy , killing all 37 people on board.
[10]
1987 – A
coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President
Thomas Sankara .
[11]
1989 –
Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the
NHL .
1990 – Soviet Union leader
Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1991 – The "
Oh-My-God particle ", an
ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a
particle accelerator , is observed at the
University of Utah
HiRes observatory in
Dugway Proving Ground ,
Utah .
1991 – The leaders of the
Baltic States ,
Arnold Rüütel of
Estonia ,
Anatolijs Gorbunovs of
Latvia and
Vytautas Landsbergis of
Lithuania , signed the
OSCE Final Act in
Helsinki , Finland.
[12]
1994 – The United States, under the
Clinton administration , returns Haiti's first democratically elected president,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide , to the island.
[13]
1997 – The
Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 – NASA's
Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 – China launches
Shenzhou 5 , its first crewed space mission.
2006 – The 6.7
Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11
anti-terrorism raids .
2008 – The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the
second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
2013 – The 7.2
Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
2016 – One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the
Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
2018 – 13-year-old American girl,
Jayme Closs , is kidnapped from her
Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
[14]
Births
Pre-1600
99 BC (probable)
[15] –
Lucretius , Roman poet and philosopher (d. 55 BCE)
70 BC –
Virgil , Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
[16]
1265 –
Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (d. 1307)
1440 –
Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse , German noble (d. 1483)
1471 –
Konrad Mutian , German epigrammatist and academic (d. 1526)
1542 –
Akbar , Mughal emperor (d. 1605)
1561 –
Richard Field , English cathedral dean (d. 1616)
1564 –
Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1613)
1599 –
Cornelis de Graeff , Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (d. 1664)
1601–1900
1608 –
Evangelista Torricelli , Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)
1622 –
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie , Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686)
1686 –
Allan Ramsay , Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1758)
1701 –
Marie-Marguerite d'Youville , Canadian nun and saint, founded
Grey Nuns (d. 1771)
1711 –
Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (d. 1741)
1762 –
Samuel Adams Holyoke , American composer and educator (d. 1820)
1767 –
Gabriel Richard , French-born American
Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (d. 1832)
1775 –
Bernhard Crusell , Finnish composer (d. 1838)
[17]
1784 –
Thomas Robert Bugeaud , French general and politician,
Governor-General of Algeria (d. 1849)
1785 –
José Miguel Carrera , Chilean general and politician (d. 1821)
1789 –
William Christopher Zeise , Danish chemist who prepared
Zeise's salt , one of the first organometallic compounds (d. 1847)
1802 –
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac , French general and politician,
head of state of France in 1848 (d. 1857)
[18]
1814 –
Mikhail Lermontov , Russian author, poet, and painter (d. 1841)
1816 –
John Robertson , English-Australian politician, 5th
Premier of New South Wales (d. 1891)
1818 –
Alexander Dreyschock , Czech pianist and composer (d. 1869)
1825 –
Marie of Prussia (d. 1889)
1829 –
Asaph Hall , American astronomer and academic (d. 1907)
1833 –
John Alexander MacPherson , Australian politician, 7th
Premier of Victoria (d. 1894)
1836 –
James Tissot , French painter and illustrator (d. 1902)
1840 –
Honoré Mercier , Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th
Premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
1844 –
Friedrich Nietzsche , German composer, poet, and philosopher (d. 1900)
1858 –
John L. Sullivan , American boxer, actor, and journalist (d. 1918)
1865 –
Charles W. Clark , American singer and educator (d. 1925)
1872 –
Wilhelm Miklas , Austrian educator and politician, 3rd
President of Austria (d. 1956)
1872 –
August Nilsson , Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and
tug of war competitor (d. 1921)
1874 –
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899)
1878 –
Paul Reynaud , French lawyer and politician, 118th
Prime Minister of France (d. 1966)
1879 –
Jane Darwell , American actress (d. 1967)
1881 –
P. G. Wodehouse , English novelist and playwright (d. 1975)
1882 –
Charley O'Leary , American baseball player and coach (d. 1941)
1884 –
Archibald Hoxsey , American pilot (d. 1910)
1887 –
Frederick Fleet , English sailor (d. 1965)
1888 –
S. S. Van Dine , American author and critic (d. 1939)
1890 –
Álvaro de Campos , Portuguese poet and engineer (d. 1935)
1893 –
Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
1894 –
Moshe Sharett , Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd
Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
1897 –
Johannes Sikkar , Estonian soldier and politician,
Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1960)
1899 –
Adolf Brudes , Polish-German racing driver (d. 1986)
1900 –
Mervyn LeRoy , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1987)
1901–present
1901 –
Enrique Jardiel Poncela , Spanish playwright and novelist (d. 1952)
1905 –
C. P. Snow , English chemist and author (d. 1980)
1906 –
Hiram Fong , American soldier and politician (d. 2004)
1906 –
Alicia Patterson , American journalist and publisher, co-founded
Newsday (d. 1963)
1906 –
Victoria Spivey , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)
1907 –
Varian Fry , American journalist and author (d. 1967)
1908 –
Herman Chittison , American pianist (d. 1967)
1908 –
John Kenneth Galbraith , Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th
United States Ambassador to India (d. 2006)
1909 –
Jesse L. Greenstein , American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)
1909 –
Robert Trout , American journalist (d. 2000)
1910 –
Edwin O. Reischauer , Japanese-American scholar and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1990)
1912 –
Nellie Lutcher , American singer and pianist (d. 2007)
1913 –
Wolfgang Lüth , German commander (d. 1945)
1914 –
Mohammed Zahir Shah , Afghan king (d. 2007)
1916 –
Al Killian , American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1950)
1916 –
George Turner , Australian author and critic (d. 1997)
1917 –
Jan Miner , American actress (d. 2004)
1917 –
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , American historian and critic (d. 2007)
1917 –
Paul Tanner , American trombonist and educator (d. 2013)
1919 –
Malcolm Ross , American captain, balloonist, and physicist (d. 1985)
1919 –
Chuck Stevenson , American race car driver (d. 1995)
1920 –
Chris Economaki , American sportscaster and actor (d. 2012)
1920 –
Patricia Jessel , Hong Kong-English actress (d. 1968)
1920 –
Peter Koch , American industrial engineer and wood scientist (d. 1998)
[19]
1920 –
Mario Puzo , American author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
[20]
1920 –
Henri Verneuil , Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1921 –
Angelica Rozeanu , Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (d. 2006)
1922 –
Agustina Bessa-Luís , Portuguese author (d. 2019)
1922 –
Preben Munthe , Norwegian economist and politician,
State Conciliator of Norway (d. 2013)
1923 –
Italo Calvino , Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (d. 1985)
1923 –
Antonio Fontán , Spanish journalist and politician (d. 2010)
1923 –
Eugene Patterson , American journalist and activist (d. 2013)
1923 –
Lindsay Thompson , Australian politician, 40th
Premier of Victoria (d. 2008)
1924 –
Marguerite Andersen , German-Canadian author and educator (d. 2022)
1924 –
Lee Iacocca , American businessman and author (d. 2019)
[20]
1924 –
Warren Miller , American director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1925 –
Mickey Baker , American-French guitarist (d. 2012)
1925 –
Aurora Bautista , Spanish actress (d. 2012)
1925 –
Tony Hart , English painter and television host (d. 2009)
1926 –
James E. Akins , American soldier and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (d. 2010)
1926 –
Agustín García Calvo , Spanish philosopher and poet (d. 2012)
1926 –
Michel Foucault , French historian and philosopher (d. 1984)
1926 –
Ed McBain , American author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1926 –
Jean Peters , American actress (d. 2000)
1926 –
Karl Richter , German organist and conductor (d. 1981)
1927 –
B. S. Abdur Rahman , Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
1929 –
Will Insley , American painter and architect (d. 2011)
1930 –
FM-2030 , Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (d. 2000)
1931 –
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th
President of India (d. 2015)
[21]
1931 –
Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark , English academic and politician
1932 –
Jaan Rääts , Estonian guitarist and composer (d. 2020)
1933 –
Nicky Barnes , American drug lord (d. 2012)
1934 –
Alan Elsdon , English trumpet player (d. 2016)
1934 –
N. Ramani , Indian flute player (d. 2015)
1935 –
Barry McGuire , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[22]
1935 –
Dick McTaggart , Scottish boxer
1935 –
Bobby Morrow , American sprinter (d. 2020)
1935 –
Willie O'Ree , Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the
National Hockey League (NHL)
1936 –
Michel Aumont , French actor (d. 2019)
1936 –
Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell , South African-English businessman (d. 2019)
1937 –
Linda Lavin , American actress and singer
[22]
1938 –
Marv Johnson , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1993)
1938 –
Fela Kuti , Nigerian musician and activist (d. 1997)
[23]
1938 –
Brice Marden , American painter (d. 2023)
1938 –
Robert Ward , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)
1940 –
Tommy Bishop , English rugby league player and coach
1940 –
Peter C. Doherty , Australian surgeon and immunologist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1941 –
Roy Masters , Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
1942 –
Hilo Chen , Taiwanese-American painter
1942 –
Harold W. Gehman, Jr. , American admiral
1942 –
Don Stevenson , American singer-songwriter and drummer
[24]
1943 –
Penny Marshall , American actress, director, and producer (d. 2018)
[20]
1944 –
Sali Berisha , Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd
President of Albania
1944 –
A. Chandranehru , Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (d. 2005)
1944 –
Haim Saban , Israeli-American businessman, co-founded
Saban Entertainment
1944 –
David Trimble , Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd
First Minister of Northern Ireland ,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
[20]
1945 –
Steve Camacho , Guyanese cricketer (d. 2015)
1945 –
Antonio Cañizares Llovera , Spanish cardinal
1945 –
Neophyte of Bulgaria , Bulgarian patriarch (d. 2024)
1945 –
Jim Palmer , American baseball player and sportscaster
[20]
1946 –
Victor Banerjee , Indian actor and director
[22]
1946 –
Richard Carpenter , American singer-songwriter and pianist
[22]
1946 –
Palle Danielsson , Swedish bassist and composer
1946 –
Stewart Stevenson , Scottish engineer and politician,
Minister for Environment and Climate Change
1947 –
Hümeyra , Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
1947 –
Jaroslav Erno Šedivý , Czech drummer
1948 –
Renato Corona , Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2016)
1948 –
Chris de Burgh , British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1949 –
Laurie McBain , American author
1949 –
Prannoy Roy , Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded
NDTV
1950 –
Candida Royalle , American porn actress, director, and producer (d. 2015)
1951 –
Peter Richardson , English actor, director, and screenwriter
1951 –
Roscoe Tanner , American tennis player
1951 –
Rafael Vaganian , Armenian chess player
1953 –
Betsy Clifford , Canadian skier
1953 –
Tito Jackson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[25]
1953 –
Larry Miller , American actor and comedian
1953 –
Peter Phillips , English conductor and musicologist
1954 –
Peter Bakowski , Australian poet and educator
1954 –
Steve Bracks , Australian politician, 44th
Premier of Victoria
1954 –
Jere Burns , American actor
[22]
1954 –
Julia Yeomans , English physicist and academic
1955 –
Kulbir Bhaura , Indian field hockey player
1955 –
Emma Chichester Clark , English author and illustrator
1955 –
Tanya Roberts , American actress (d. 2021)
[20]
1957 –
Michael Caton-Jones , Scottish actor, director, and producer
1957 –
Mira Nair , Indian-American actress, director, and producer
1957 –
Stacy Peralta , American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded
Powell Peralta
1958 –
Stephen Clarke , English-French journalist and author
1959 –
Emeril Lagasse , American chef and author
[22]
1959 –
Alex Paterson , English keyboard player
1959 –
Sarah, Duchess of York
[20]
1959 –
Todd Solondz , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1961 –
Vyacheslav Butusov , Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 –
Stanley Menzo , Dutch footballer and manager
1964 –
Roberto Vittori , Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1965 –
Nasser El Sonbaty , German bodybuilder and trainer (d. 2013)
1966 –
Jorge Campos , Mexican footballer and manager
1966 –
Bill Charlap , American pianist and composer
1966 –
Ilse Huizinga , Dutch singer
1966 –
Dave Stead , English drummer
1967 –
Eric Benét , American singer-songwriter
[22]
1967 –
Dan Forest , American politician, 34th
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
1967 –
Götz Otto , German actor and screenwriter
1968 –
Didier Deschamps , French footballer and manager
1968 –
Vanessa Marcil , American actress
[22]
1968 –
Rod Wishart , Australian rugby league player
1968 –
Trent Zimmerman , Australian politician
1969 –
Vítor Baía , Portuguese footballer
1969 –
Dominic West , English actor and director
[22]
1970 –
Eric Benét , American musician
1970 –
Ginuwine , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
[22]
1970 –
Pernilla Wiberg , Swedish skier
1971 –
Joey Abs , American wrestler
1971 –
Andy Cole , English footballer and coach
1971 –
Lauri Pilter , Estonian author and translator
1972 –
Fred Hoiberg , American basketball player and coach
1972 –
Matt Keeslar , American actor
1972 –
Michél Mazingu-Dinzey , German-Congolese footballer and manager
1973 –
Aleksandr Filimonov , Russian footballer
1973 –
Maria Hjorth , Swedish golfer
1974 –
Ömer Çatkıç , Turkish footballer
1974 –
Bianca Rinaldi , Brazilian actress
1975 –
Alessandro Doga , Italian footballer
1975 –
Glen Little , English footballer and manager
1976 –
Elisa Aguilar , Spanish basketball player
[26]
1976 –
Christian Allen , American video game designer
1976 –
Manuel Dallan , Italian rugby player
1977 –
Masato Kawabata , Japanese racing driver
1977 –
David Trezeguet , French footballer
1977 –
Patricio Urrutia , Ecuadorian footballer
1978 –
Devon Gummersall , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1978 –
Wes Moore , American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd
Governor of Maryland
[27]
1978 –
Takeshi Morishima , Japanese wrestler
1979 –
Blue Adams , American football player and coach
1979 –
Bohemia , Pakistani-American rapper and producer
1979 –
Jekaterina Golovatenko , Estonian figure skater
1979 –
Paul Robinson , English footballer
1979 –
Jaci Velasquez , American singer-songwriter and actress
[22]
1979 –
Māris Verpakovskis , Latvian footballer
1980 –
Tom Boonen , Belgian cyclist
1980 –
Brandon Jay McLaren , Canadian actor
[22]
1981 –
Keyshia Cole , American singer-songwriter and producer
[22]
1981 –
Elena Dementieva , Russian tennis player
1983 –
Stephy Tang , Hong Kong singer
1984 –
Izale McLeod , English footballer
1984 –
Johan Voskamp , Dutch footballer
1984 –
Jessie Ware , English singer-songwriter
[28]
1985 –
Arron Afflalo , American basketball player
1985 –
Walter Alberto López , Uruguayan footballer
1985 –
Marcos Martínez , Spanish racing driver
1986 –
Lee Donghae , South Korean singer-songwriter
1986 –
Carlo Janka , Swiss skier
[29]
1986 –
Nolito , Spanish footballer
1987 –
Ott Tänak , Estonian racing driver
1988 –
Dominique Jones , American basketball player
[30]
1988 –
Lassy Mbouity , Congolese writer and politician
1988 –
Mesut Özil , German footballer
1989 –
Blaine Gabbert , American football player
[31]
1989 –
Anthony Joshua , British professional boxer
1989 –
Leandro Antonio Martínez , Argentinian-Italian footballer
1990 –
Jeon Ji-yoon , South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1991 –
Brock Nelson , American ice hockey player
[32]
1991 –
Lil' Kleine , Dutch rapper
[33]
1992 –
Ncuti Gatwa , Rwandan-Scottish actor
[20]
1992 –
Vincent Martella , American actor
[22]
1993 –
Richaun Holmes , American basketball player
[34]
1994 –
Babar Azam , Pakistani cricket player
[35]
Deaths
Pre-1600
412 –
Theophilus ,
Patriarch of Alexandria
892 –
Al-Mu'tamid , Muslim
caliph of the
Abbasid Caliphate
898 –
Lambert of Italy (b. 880)
912 –
Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi , Spanish emir (b. 844)
925 –
Rhazes , Persian polymath (b. 864)
961 –
Abd-al-Rahman III , caliph of Córdoba
1002 –
Otto-Henry ,
Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
1080 –
Rudolf of Rheinfelden (b. 1025)
1173 –
Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)
1240 –
Razia Sultana , sultan of
Delhi (b. 1205)
[41]
1243 –
Hedwig of Silesia , Polish saint (b. 1174)
[42]
1326 –
Walter Stapledon , bishop and
Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir
Richard Stapledon , judge and politician.
1385 –
Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
1389 –
Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
1404 –
Marie Valois , French princess (b. 1344)
[43]
1496 –
Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
1564 –
Andreas Vesalius , Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514)
1601–1900
1674 –
Robert Herrick , English poet (b. 1591)
[44]
1684 –
Géraud de Cordemoy , French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
1690 –
Juan de Valdés Leal , Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)
1715 –
Humphry Ditton , English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
1788 –
Samuel Greig , Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
1810 –
Alfred Moore , American captain and judge (b. 1755)
1811 –
Nathaniel Dance-Holland , English painter and politician (b. 1735)
1817 –
Tadeusz Kościuszko , Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
1819 –
Sergey Vyazmitinov , Russian general and politician,
War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
1820 –
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
1837 –
Ivan Dmitriev , Russian poet and politician,
Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1760)
1838 –
Letitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist (b. 1802)
[45]
1891 –
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett , English author and songwriter (b. 1837)
1900 –
Zdeněk Fibich , Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850)
1901–present
1910 –
Stanley Ketchel , American boxer (b. 1886)
1917 –
Mata Hari , Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
1918 –
Sai Baba of Shirdi , Indian guru and saint (b. 1838)
1925 –
Dolores Jiménez y Muro , Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)
[46]
1930 –
Herbert Henry Dow , Canadian-American businessman, founded the
Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
1934 –
Raymond Poincaré , French lawyer and politician, 10th
President of France (b. 1860)
1940 –
Lluís Companys , Catalan lawyer and politician,
President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
1945 –
Pierre Laval , French lawyer and politician, 101st
Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
1946 –
Hermann Göring , German general and politician (b. 1893)
1948 –
Edythe Chapman , American actress (b. 1863)
1955 –
Fumio Hayasaka , Japanese composer (b. 1914)
[47]
1958 –
Asaf Halet Çelebi , Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
1958 –
Elizabeth Alexander , British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
1959 –
Stepan Bandera , Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
1959 –
Lipót Fejér , Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
1960 –
Clara Kimball Young , American actress and producer (b. 1890)
1961 –
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' , Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
1963 –
Horton Smith , American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
1964 –
Cole Porter , American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
1965 –
Abraham Fraenkel , German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
1966 –
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell , English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)
1968 –
Virginia Lee Burton , American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
1976 –
Carlo Gambino , Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
1978 –
W. Eugene Smith , American photojournalist (b. 1918)
1978 –
Rolf Stenersen , Norwegian businessman (b. 1899)
[48]
1980 –
Mikhail Lavrentyev , Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
1980 –
Apostolos Nikolaidis , Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
1983 –
Pat O'Brien , American actor (b. 1899)
1987 –
Thomas Sankara , Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th
President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
1987 –
Donald Wandrei , American author and poet (b. 1908)
1988 –
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji , English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (b. 1892)
1989 –
Danilo Kiš , Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)
[49]
1990 –
Delphine Seyrig , French actress and director (b. 1932)
1993 –
Aydın Sayılı , Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913)
1994 –
Sarah Kofman , French philosopher and academic (b. 1934)
1995 –
Bengt Åkerblom , Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
1995 –
Marco Campos , Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (b. 1976)
[50]
1999 –
Josef Locke , British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917)
2000 –
Konrad Emil Bloch , Polish-American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
[51]
2000 –
Vincent Canby , American journalist and critic (b. 1924)
2001 –
Chang Hsüeh-liang , Chinese general and warlord (b. 1901)
[52]
2003 –
Ben Metcalfe , Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)
2004 –
Per Højholt , Danish poet (b. 1928)
[53]
2005 –
Jason Collier , American basketball player (b. 1977)
2005 –
Matti Wuori , Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
2007 –
Piet Boukema , Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1933)
2008 –
Edie Adams , American actress and singer (b. 1927)
2008 –
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca , Turkish soldier and poet (b. 1914)
2008 –
Jack Narz , American game show host and announcer (b. 1922)
2009 –
Heinz Versteeg , Dutch-German footballer (b. 1939)
2010 –
Richard C. Miller , American photographer (b. 1912)
2010 –
Mildred Fay Jefferson , American physician and activist (b. 1926)
2010 –
Johnny Sheffield , American actor (b. 1931)
2011 –
Betty Driver , English actress, singer, and author (b. 1920)
2012 –
Claude Cheysson , French lieutenant and politician,
French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1920)
2012 –
Erol Günaydın , Turkish actor and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2012 –
Maria Petrou , Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953)
2012 –
Norodom Sihanouk , Cambodian politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1922)
2012 –
Pat Ward , American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)
2013 –
Donald Bailey , American drummer (b. 1933)
2013 –
Nevill Drury , English-Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1947)
2013 –
Cancio Garcia , Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1937)
2013 –
Gloria Lynne , American singer (b. 1931)
2013 –
Rudy Minarcin , American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
2013 –
Hans Riegel , German businessman (b. 1923)
2014 –
Giovanni Reale , Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931)
2014 –
Jiří Reynek , Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929)
2014 –
Robert Tiernan , American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2014 –
Nobby Wirkowski , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
2015 –
Sergei Filippenkov , Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
2015 –
Nate Huffman , American basketball player (b. 1975)
2015 –
Neill Sheridan , American baseball player (b. 1921)
2015 –
Kenneth D. Taylor , Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934)
2015 –
Tyrone Young , American football player (b. 1960)
2017 –
Chinggoy Alonzo , Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950)
2018 –
Paul Allen , co-founder of
Microsoft , philanthropist, owner of the
Seattle Seahawks (b. 1953)
[54]
2021 –
David Amess , British politician, member of Parliament for
Southend West (b. 1952)
[55]
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