Day of the year
May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 227 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople .[1]
872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome , at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I .[2]
1096 – First Crusade : Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany .[3]
1152 – The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine . He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England .
1268 – The Principality of Antioch , a crusader state , falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch .
1291 – Fall of Acre , the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land .
1302 – Bruges Matins , the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake , General Lan Yu leads a Ming army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür , the Khan of Northern Yuan .
1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela .
1565 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta .
1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd 's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe .
1601–1900
1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts , John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts .
1652 – Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
1695 – The 1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Qing dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people.[4]
1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France .
1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick ), Canada, after leaving the United States.
1794 – Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition .
1803 – Napoleonic Wars : The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate .
1811 – Battle of Las Piedras : The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas .
1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval .
1843 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland .
1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung ) in Frankfurt , Germany.
1860 – United States presidential election : Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward , who later becomes the United States Secretary of State .
1863 – American Civil War : Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant begin the Siege of Vicksburg during the Vicksburg campaign in order to take full control of the Mississippi River .[5]
1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal " doctrine is constitutional.
1896 – Khodynka Tragedy : A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga .[6]
1901–present
1912 – The first Indian film , Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne , is released in Mumbai .
1917 – World War I : The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription .
1922 – Seamus Woods leads an Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast.[7]
1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California .
1927 – The Bath School disaster : Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township , Michigan .[8] [9] [10] [11]
1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China .
1933 – New Deal : President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority .
1944 – World War II : Battle of Monte Cassino : Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino .
1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union .
1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking .
1953 – Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier .[12]
1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom , the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War , ends.
1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria .
1969 – Apollo program : Apollo 10 is launched.
1973 – Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.[13]
1974 – Nuclear weapons testing : Under project Smiling Buddha , India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so .
1977 – Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election , with Menachem Begin , its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel .[14]
1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington , United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1980 – Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland .
1993 – Riots in Nørrebro , Copenhagen , caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum . Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
1994 – Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip , ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra .
2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2009 – The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government , ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
2015 – At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar .
2018 – A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.[15]
2018 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes in Santiago de las Vegas after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana , Cuba , killing 112 of the 113 people on board.[16]
2019 – United States presidential election : Joe Biden announces his presidential campaign .[17] [18]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1631 – Stanislaus Papczyński , Polish priest and saint (d. 1701)
1662 – George Smalridge , English bishop (d. 1719)
1692 – (O.S. ) Joseph Butler , English bishop, theologian, and apologist (d. 1752)[19]
1711 – Roger Joseph Boscovich , Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1787)
1777 – John George Children , English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852)
1778 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria (d. 1854)
1785 – John Wilson , Scottish author and critic (d. 1854)
1797 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
1822 – Mathew Brady , American photographer and journalist (d. 1896)
1824 – Wilhelm Hofmeister , German botanist (d. 1877)[20]
1835 – Charles N. Sims , American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of Syracuse University (d. 1908)
1850 – Oliver Heaviside , English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1925)
1851 – James Budd , American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California (d. 1908)
1851 – Simon Kahquados , Potawatomi political activist (d. 1930)[21]
1852 – Gertrude Käsebier , American photographer (d. 1934)
1854 – Bernard Zweers , Dutch composer and educator (d. 1924)
1855 – Francis Bellamy , American minister and author (d. 1931)
1862 – Josephus Daniels , American publisher and politician, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1948)
1867 – Minakata Kumagusu , Japanese author, biologist, naturalist and ethnologist (d. 1941)
1868 – Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)[22]
1869 – Lucy Beaumont , English-American actress (d. 1937)[23]
1871 – Denis Horgan , Irish shot putter and weight thrower (d. 1922)
1872 – Bertrand Russell , British mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1876 – Hermann Müller , German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
1878 – Johannes Terwogt , Dutch rower (d. 1977)
1882 – Babe Adams , American baseball player, manager, and journalist (d. 1968)
1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra , Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974)
1883 – Walter Gropius , German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (d. 1969)
1886 – Jeanie MacPherson , American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
1888 – Hanna Barysiewicz , the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of Records . (d. 2007)[24]
1889 – Thomas Midgley Jr. , American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)
1891 – Rudolf Carnap , German-American philosopher and academic (d. 1970)
1892 – Ezio Pinza , Italian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)
1895 – Augusto César Sandino , Nicaraguan rebel leader (d. 1934)
1896 – Eric Backman , Swedish runner (d. 1965)
1897 – Frank Capra , Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1898 – Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel , Turkish poet, author, and playwright (d. 1973)[25]
1901–present
1901 – Henri Sauguet , French composer (d. 1989)
1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
1902 – Meredith Willson , American playwright and composer (d. 1984)
1904 – Jacob K. Javits , American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General (d. 1986)[26]
1904 – Shunryū Suzuki , Japanese-American monk and educator (d. 1971)
1905 – Ruth Alexander , pioneering American pilot (d. 1930)[27]
1905 – Hedley Verity , English cricketer and soldier (d. 1943)
1907 – Irene Hunt , American author and educator (d. 2001)
1909 – Fred Perry , English tennis player and academic (d. 1995)[28]
1910 – Ester Boserup , Danish economist and author (d. 1999)
1911 – Big Joe Turner , American blues/R&B singer (d. 1985)
1912 – Richard Brooks , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1912 – Perry Como , American singer and television host (d. 2001)
1912 – Walter Sisulu , South African politician (d. 2003)
1913 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood , Canadian-English publisher and politician (d. 2000)
1914 – Pierre Balmain , French fashion designer, founded Balmain (d. 1982)
1914 – Boris Christoff , Bulgarian-Italian opera singer (d. 1993)
1917 – Bill Everett , American author and illustrator (d. 1973)
1919 – Margot Fonteyn , British ballerina (d. 1991)
1920 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1920 – Anthony Storr , English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author (d. 2001)[29]
1921 – Joan Eardley , British artist (d. 1963)[30]
1921 – Michael A. Epstein , English pathologist and academic (d. 2024)
1922 – Bill Macy , American actor (d. 2019)
1922 – Kai Winding , Danish-American trombonist and composer (d. 1983)
1923 – Jean-Louis Roux , Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)
1923 – Hugh Shearer , Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
1924 – Priscilla Pointer , American actress
1924 – Jack Whitaker , American sportscaster (d. 2019)
1925 – Lillian Hoban , American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
1927 – Richard Body , English politician (d. 2018)
1927 – Ray Nagel , American football player and coach (d. 2015)
1928 – Pernell Roberts , American actor (d. 2010)
1929 – Jack Sanford , American baseball player and coach (d. 2000)
1929 – Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley , English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 2012)
1930 – Warren Rudman , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1930 – Fred Saberhagen , American soldier and author (d. 2007)
1931 – Don Martin , American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1931 – Robert Morse , American actor (d. 2022)[31]
1931 – Kalju Pitksaar , Estonian chess player (d. 1995)
1931 – Clément Vincent , Canadian farmer and politician (d. 2018)
1933 – Bernadette Chirac , French politician, First Lady of France
1933 – H. D. Deve Gowda , Indian farmer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
1933 – Don Whillans , English rock climber and mountaineer (d. 1985)
1934 – Dwayne Hickman , American actor and director (d. 2022)[32]
1936 – Leon Ashley , American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1936 – Türker İnanoğlu , Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2024)
1936 – Michael Sandle , English sculptor and academic
1937 – Brooks Robinson , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023)
1937 – Jacques Santer , Luxembourger jurist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1938 – Janet Fish , American painter and academic
1939 – Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack , English historian, journalist, and politician (d. 2024)
1939 – Giovanni Falcone , Italian lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
1939 – Gordon O'Connor , Canadian general and politician, 38th Canadian Minister of Defence
1940 – Erico Aumentado , Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1941 – Gino Brito , Canadian wrestler and promoter
1941 – Malcolm Longair , Scottish astronomer, physicist, and academic
1941 – Miriam Margolyes , English-Australian actress and singer
1942 – Nobby Stiles , English footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2020)
1943 – Jimmy Snuka , Fijian wrestler (d. 2017)[33]
1944 – Albert Hammond , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1944 – W. G. Sebald , German novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2001)
1946 – Frank Hsieh , Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 40th Premier of the Republic of China
1946 – Reggie Jackson , American baseball player and sportscaster
1946 – Gerd Langguth , German political scientist and author (d. 2013)
1947 – John Bruton , Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2024)
1947 – Gail Strickland , American actress
1948 – Joe Bonsall , American country/gospel singer (d. 2024)[34]
1948 – Yi Mun-yol , South Korean author and academic
1948 – Richard Swedberg , Swedish sociologist and academic
1948 – Tom Udall , American lawyer and politician, 28th New Mexico Attorney General , United States Senator from New Mexico
1949 – Walter Hawkins , American gospel music singer and pastor (d. 2010)
1949 – Rick Wakeman , English progressive rock keyboardist and songwriter
1950 – Rod Milburn , American hurdler and coach (d. 1997)
1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh , American singer-songwriter and painter
1951 – Richard Clapton , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Jim Sundberg , American baseball player and sportscaster
1951 – Angela Voigt , German long jumper (d. 2013)
1952 – Diane Duane , American author and screenwriter
1952 – David Leakey , English general and politician
1952 – George Strait , American singer, guitarist and producer
1952 – Jeana Yeager , American pilot
1953 – Alan Kupperberg , American author and illustrator (d. 2015)[35]
1954 – Wreckless Eric , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Eric Gerets , Belgian footballer and manager
1955 – Chow Yun-fat , Hong Kong actor and screenwriter
1956 – Catherine Corsini , French director and screenwriter
1956 – John Godber , English playwright and screenwriter
1957 – Michael Cretu , Romanian-German keyboard player and producer
1957 – Henrietta Moore , English anthropologist and academic
1958 – Rubén Omar Romano , Argentinian-Mexican footballer and coach
1958 – Toyah Willcox , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1959 – Graham Dilley , English cricketer and coach (d. 2011)
1959 – Jay Wells , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – Brent Ashton , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – Jari Kurri , Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1960 – Yannick Noah , French tennis player
1961 – Russell Senior , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Marty McSorley , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Sam Vincent , American basketball player and coach
1964 – Ignasi Guardans , Spanish academic and politician
1966 – Renata Nielsen , Polish-Danish long jumper and coach
1966 – Michael Tait , American singer-songwriter and producer
1967 – Nina Björk , Swedish journalist and author
1967 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen , German race car driver
1967 – Nancy Juvonen , American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Flower Films
1967 – Mimi Macpherson , Australian environmentalist, entrepreneur and celebrity
1968 – Philippe Benetton , French rugby player
1968 – Ralf Kelleners , German race car driver
1969 – Troy Cassar-Daley , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 – Martika , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1969 – Antônio Carlos Zago , Brazilian footballer and manager
1970 – Javier Cárdenas , Spanish singer, television and radio presenter
1970 – Tina Fey , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1970 – Tim Horan , Australian rugby player and sportscaster
1970 – Billy Howerdel , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1970 – Vicky Sunohara , Canadian former ice hockey player
1971 – Brad Friedel , American international soccer player, manager and sportscaster[36]
1971 – Mark Menzies , Scottish politician
1971 – Nobuteru Taniguchi , Japanese race car driver
1972 – Turner Stevenson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973 – Donyell Marshall , American basketball player and coach
1973 – Aleksandr Olerski , Estonian footballer (d. 2011)
1974 – Nelson Figueroa , American baseball player and sportscaster
1975 – Jem , Welsh singer-songwriter and producer
1975 – John Higgins , Scottish snooker player
1975 – Jack Johnson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Ingvild Kjerkol , Norwegian politician[37]
1976 – Ron Mercer , American basketball player
1976 – Marko Tomasović , Croatian pianist and composer
1976 – Oleg Tverdovsky , Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1977 – Lee Hendrie , English footballer
1977 – Danny Mills , English footballer and sportscaster
1977 – Li Tie , Chinese footballer and manager
1978 – Ricardo Carvalho , Portuguese footballer
1978 – Marcus Giles , American baseball player
1978 – Charles Kamathi , Kenyan runner
1979 – Jens Bergensten , Swedish video game designer, co-designed Minecraft
1979 – Mariusz Lewandowski , Polish footballer
1979 – Michal Martikán , Slovak slalom canoeist[38]
1979 – Milivoje Novaković , Slovenian footballer
1979 – Julián Speroni , Argentinian footballer
1980 – Reggie Evans , American basketball player
1980 – Michaël Llodra , French tennis player
1980 – Diego Pérez , Uruguayan footballer
1981 – Mahamadou Diarra , Malian international footballer[39]
1981 – Ashley Harrison , Australian rugby league player
1982 – Jason Brown , English footballer
1982 – Marie-Ève Pelletier , Canadian tennis player
1983 – Gary O'Neil , English footballer
1983 – Luis Terrero , Dominican baseball player
1983 – Vince Young , American football player
1984 – Ivet Lalova , Bulgarian sprinter
1984 – Simon Pagenaud , French race car driver
1984 – Darius Šilinskis , Lithuanian basketball player
1984 – Joakim Soria , Mexican baseball player
1984 – Niki Terpstra , Dutch cyclist
1985 – Oliver Sin , Hungarian painter
1985 – Henrique Sereno , Portuguese footballer
1986 – Kevin Anderson , South African tennis player
1988 – Taeyang , South Korean singer
1990 – Dimitri Daeseleire , Belgian footballer
1990 – Yuya Osako , Japanese footballer
1990 – Josh Starling , Australian rugby league player
1992 – Adwoa Aboah , British fashion model
1993 – Stuart Percy , Canadian ice hockey player
1993 – Jessica Watson , Australian sailor
1998 – Polina Edmunds , American figure skater
1999 – Laura Omloop , Belgian singer-songwriter
2000 – Ryan Sessegnon , English footballer[40]
2000 – Steven Sessegnon , English footballer[41]
2001 – Emma Navarro , American tennis player[42] [43]
2002 – Alina Zagitova , Russian figure skater
2003 – Travis Hunter , American football player[44]
2009 – Hala Finley , American actress[45] [46]
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1675 – Stanisław Lubieniecki , Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623)
1675 – Jacques Marquette , French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
1692 – Elias Ashmole , English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
1721 – Maria Barbara Carillo , victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)
1733 – Georg Böhm , German organist and composer (b. 1661)
1780 – Charles Hardy , English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
1781 – Túpac Amaru II , Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (b. 1742)
1792 – Levy Solomons , Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
1795 – Robert Rogers , English colonel (b. 1731)
1799 – Pierre Beaumarchais , French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)
1800 – Alexander Suvorov , Russian general (b. 1729)
1807 – John Douglas , Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)
1808 – Elijah Craig , American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)
1844 – Richard McCarty , American lawyer and politician (b. 1780)
1853 – Lionel Kieseritzky , Estonian-French chess player (b. 1806)
1867 – Clarkson Stanfield , English painter (b. 1793)
1889 – Isabella Glyn , Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
1900 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien , French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
1901–present
1908 – Louis-Napoléon Casault , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
1909 – Isaac Albéniz , Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1909 – George Meredith , English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
1910 – Eliza Orzeszkowa , Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
1910 – Pauline Viardot , French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
1911 – Gustav Mahler , Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
1916 – Chen Qimei , Chinese revolutionary (b. 1878)[48] [49]
1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran , French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1941 – Werner Sombart , German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
1943 – Ōnishiki Daigorō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
1947 – Hal Chase , American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
1955 – Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator and activist (b. 1875)
1956 – Maurice Tate , English cricketer (b. 1895)
1958 – Jacob Fichman , Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)
1963 – Ernie Davis , American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
1968 – Frank Walsh , Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh , Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
1973 – Jeannette Rankin , American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
1974 – Harry Ricardo , English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
1975 – Leroy Anderson , American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
1980 – Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption :
1980 – Ian Curtis , English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
1981 – Arthur O'Connell , American actor (b. 1908)
1981 – William Saroyan , American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
1987 – Mahdi Amel , Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
1989 – Dorothy Ruth , American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
1990 – Jill Ireland , English actress (b. 1936)
1995 – Elisha Cook, Jr. , American actor (b. 1903)
1995 – Alexander Godunov , Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
1995 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty , Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911)
1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress (b. 1933)
1998 – Obaidullah Aleem , Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1939)
1999 – Augustus Pablo , Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)
1999 – Betty Robinson , American runner (b. 1911)
2000 – Stephen M. Wolownik , Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)
2001 – Irene Hunt , American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
2004 – Elvin Jones , American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
2006 – Jaan Eilart , Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933)
2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2008 – Joseph Pevney , American actor and director (b. 1911)
2008 – Roberto García-Calvo Montiel , Spanish judge (b. 1942)
2009 – Dolla , American rapper (b. 1987)[50]
2009 – Wayne Allwine , American voice actor, sound effects editor and Foley artist (b. 1947)[51]
2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran , Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
2012 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925)
2012 – Peter Jones , English-Australian drummer and songwriter (b. 1967)
2012 – Alan Oakley , English bicycle designer, designed the Raleigh Chopper (b. 1927)
2013 – Aleksei Balabanov , Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
2013 – Jo Benkow , Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Steve Forrest , American actor (b. 1925)
2013 – David McMillan , American football player (b. 1981)
2013 – Lothar Schmid , German chess player (b. 1928)
2014 – Dobrica Ćosić , Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
2014 – Hans-Peter Dürr , German physicist and academic (b. 1929)
2014 – Kaiketsu Masateru , Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948)
2014 – Chukwuedu Nwokolo , Nigerian physician and academic (b. 1921)
2014 – Wubbo Ockels , Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946)
2015 – Halldór Ásgrímsson , Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)
2015 – Raymond Gosling , English physicist and academic (b. 1926)
2015 – Jean-François Théodore , French businessman (b. 1946)
2017 – Roger Ailes , American businessman (b. 1940)
2017 – Chris Cornell , American singer (b. 1964)
2017 – Jacque Fresco , American engineer and academic (b. 1916)
2019 – Austin Eubanks , American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (b. 1981)[52]
2020 – Ken Osmond , American actor and police officer (b. 1943)[53]
2021 – Charles Grodin , American actor and talk show host (b. 1935)[54]
2021 – Yolanda Tortolero , Venezuelan politician[55]
2023 – Jim Brown , American football player, civil rights activist, and actor (b. 1936)[56]
2024 – Bruce Nordstrom , American businessman (b. 1933)[57]
2024 – Tony O'Reilly , Irish rugby player and businessman (b. 1936)[58]
2024 – Alice Stewart , American political commentator (b. 1966)[59]
Holidays and observances
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