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== Events ==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[79]] – [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupted, destroying [[Pompeii]], [[Herculaneum]] and [[Stabiae]]. The modern city of [[Naples]] now stands on the edge of the disaster area.
* [[410]] – The [[Visigoths]] under King [[Alaric I]] begin to pillage [[Rome]].
* [[455]] – The [[Vandals]], led by King [[Genseric]], begin to plunder [[Rome]].
* [[1200]] – King [[John of England]] marries [[Isabella of Angoulême]] in [[Bordeaux]] [[Cathedral]].
* [[1215]] – [[Pope Innocent III]] declares [[Magna Carta]] invalid.
* [[1349]] – 6000 [[Judaism|Jews]] are killed in [[Mainz]] after being blamed for the Bubonic Plague.
* [[1391]] – Massacre on the [[Judaism|Jewish]] population of [[Palma de Mallorca]].
* [[1456]] – Printing of the Gutenberg [[Bible]] is completed.
* [[1482]] – The [[town]] and [[castle]] of [[Berwick–upon–Tweed]] are captured from [[Scotland]] by [[England|English]] troops.
* [[1516]] – The [[Ottoman Empire]] under [[Selim I]] defeats the [[Mamluk]] [[Sultan]]ate and captures present–day [[Syria]] at the [[Battle of Maq Dabiq]].
* [[1561]] – [[William of Orange]] marries [[Anne of Saxony]].
* [[1572]] – [[St. Batholomew's Day massacre]]: Start of a massacre of [[Huguenot]]s (French Protestants) under the orders of King [[Charles IX of France]].
* [[1608]] – The first English representative to [[India]] lands in Surat.
* [[1662]] – The Act of Uniformity requires [[England]] to accept the [[Book of Common Prayer]].
* [[1682]] – [[William Penn]] adds present–day [[Delaware]] to his colony of [[Pennsylvania]].
* [[1812]] – [[Peninsular War]]: A coalition of [[Spain|Spanish]], [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] forces succeeds in lifting the two–and–a–half–year–long [[Siege of Cadiz]].
* [[1814]] – British troops invade [[Washington, D.C.]], burning many buildings, including the [[White House]].
* [[1815]] – The modern [[Constitution]] of the [[Netherlands]] is signed.
* [[1821]] – The [[Treaty of Cordoba]] is signed in present–day [[Veracruz]], [[Mexico]], concluding the [[Mexican War of Independence]] from [[Spain]].
* [[1848]] – The [[ship]] ''Ocean Monarch'' bursts into flames near [[Llandudno]], north [[Wales]]. 208 people are saved by nearby ships, while 178 are killed.
* [[1857]] – The [[Panic of 1857]] economic crisis begins in the [[United States]].
* [[1875]] – Captain [[Matthew Webb]] becomes the first man to swim across the [[English Channel]].
* [[1891]] – [[Thomas Edison]] receives a [[patent]] for the motion–picture–camera.

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 2000 ===
* [[1909]] – Workers start pouring concrete for the construction of the [[Panama Canal]].
* [[1912]] – [[Alaska]] becomes a [[United States]] [[territory]].
* [[1914]] – [[World War I]]: German troops occupy [[Namur (city)|Namur]], [[Belgium]].
* [[1929]] – 67 are killed in a massacre in [[Hebron]], leading to the expulsion of [[Judaism|Jews]] from the city.
* [[1931]] – [[France]] and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a neutrality/no attack [[treaty]].
* [[1932]] – [[Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly non–stop across the [[United States]].
* [[1936]] – The [[Australia]]n Antarctic Territory is created.
* [[1949]] – The [[treaty]] creating [[NATO]] goes into effect.
* [[1954]] – [[President of Brazil]] [[Getulio Vargas]] resigns and commits [[suicide]] shortly after.
* [[1954]] – US President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs the [[Communist]] Control Act, which bans the [[Communist Party USA|American Communist Party]].
* [[1960]] – At –88.3 [[degree]]s [[Celsius]], the lowest–ever [[temperature]] up until that point, is measured at the Soviet Vostok Research Station in [[Antarctica]]. This record stands until [[1983]], when, also at the Vostok Station, the even colder temperature of –89.2 degrees Celsius is measured.
* [[1963]] – The German [[Soccer|football]] league, the [[Bundesliga]], starts.
* [[1968]] – [[France]] explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
* [[1981]] – [[Mark David Chapman]] is sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the [[murder]] of [[John Lennon]].
* [[1989]] – [[Tadeusz Mazowiecki]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Poland]], becoming the first non–[[Communist]] leader of [[Poland]] in the post–[[World War II]] period.
* [[1989]] – [[Colombia]]n [[drug]] barons declare "total war" on [[Colombia]]'s [[Government]].
* [[1989]] – [[Cincinnati Reds]] manager [[Pete Rose]] is banned from [[baseball]] for gambling, by commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
* [[1991]] – [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] resigns as head of the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Communist]] party.
* [[1991]] – [[Ukraine]] declares independence from the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[1992]] – [[Hurricane Andrew]] makes landfall in southern [[Florida]] as a Category 5 hurricane. It causes a lot of damage and becomes one of the [[US]]'s costliest natural disasters.
* [[1994]] – Initial accord between [[Israel]] and the [[Palestinian Liberation Organization]] about partial self–rule in the [[Palestine|Palestinians]] in the [[West Bank]]
* [[1995]] – [[MSN]] is launched.

=== From 2001 ===
* [[2001]] – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of [[fuel]] over the mid–[[Atlantic Ocean]], making a safe emergency landing on the [[island]] of Terceira, [[Azores]].
* [[2004]] – 89 people die in explosions on two jets at [[Moscow]]'s Domodedovo [[Airport]].
* [[2006]] – The definition of the word [[planet]] is changed, therefore stripping [[Pluto]] of its planet status, making it a [[dwarf planet]].
* [[2008]] – The [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]] end. The host nation, the [[People's Republic of China]], wins the most [[gold]] [[medal]]s, ahead of the [[United States]].
* [[2011]] – [[Steve Jobs]] resigns as [[CEO]] of [[Apple Inc.]]. He dies six weeks later.
* [[2012]] – American [[Cycling|cyclist]] [[Lance Armstrong]] announces that he is no–longer fighting [[Drug|doping]] allegations, and is stripped of the seven [[Tour de France]] titles he won by the World Anti–Doping Agency.
* [[2012]] – [[Anders Behring Breivik]] is declared sane by a court in [[Oslo]], and sentenced to 21 years in [[prison]] for the [[2011 Norway attacks]], in which he had killed 77 people.
* [[2016]] – A major [[earthquake]] hits Central [[Italy]], killing 276 people.
* [[2016]] – The discovery of "Proxima Centauri b", a [[planet]] orbiting around the star [[Proxima Centauri]], is announced.
* [[2018]] – [[Scott Morrison]] becomes the 30th [[Prime Minister of Australia]], after defeating [[Peter Dutton]] in a contest to replace [[Malcolm Turnbull]].

== Births ==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[1113]] – [[Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou]] (d. [[1151]])
* [[1198]] – King [[Alexander II of Scotland]] (d. [[1249]])
* [[1358]] – King [[John I of Castile]] (d. [[1390]])
* [[1393]] – [[Arthur III, Duke of Brittany]] (d. [[1458]])
* [[1552]] – [[Lavinia Fontana]], Italian painter (d. [[1614]])
* [[1591]] – [[Robert Herrick]], English [[poet]] (d. [[1674]])
* [[1635]] – [[Peder Griffenfeld]], Danish [[statesman]] (d. [[1699]])
* [[1669]] – [[Alessandro Marcello]], Italian composer (d. [[1747]])
* [[1750]] – [[Letizia Ramolino]], mother of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] (d. [[1836]])
* [[1758]] – [[Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg–Schwerin]], Queen of [[Denmark]] and [[Norway]] (d. [[1790]])
* [[1759]] – [[William Wilberforce]], English abolitionist (d. [[1833]])
* [[1772]] – King [[William I of the Netherlands]] (d. [[1840]])
* [[1787]] – [[James Weddell]], English [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] explorer (d. [[1834]])
* [[1792]] – [[Joaquim Antonio de Aguiar]], Portuguese politician (d. [[1884]])
* [[1815]] – [[Bartolomé Calvo]], Colombian [[statesman]] (d. [[1889]])
* [[1816]] – [[Daniel Gooch]], English railway pioneer and mechanical engineer (d. [[1889]])
* [[1824]] – [[Antonio Stoppani]], Italian [[Geology|geologist]] and scholar (d. [[1891]])
* [[1831]] – [[Prince August, Duke of Dalarna]], Swedish royal (d. [[1873]])
* [[1837]] – [[Theodore Dubois]], French [[composer]], [[organist]] and [[music]] [[teacher]] (d. [[1924]])
* [[1855]] – [[Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal]] (d. [[1944]])
* [[1865]] – King [[Ferdinand II of Romania]] (d. [[1927]])
* [[1872]] – [[Max Beerbohm]], British [[Caricature|caricaturist]] (d. [[1956]])
* [[1886]] – [[William Gibbs]], American naval architect (d. [[1967]])
* [[1887]] – [[Harry Hooper]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1974]])
* [[1890]] – [[Duke Kahanamoku]], [[Hawaii]]an–[[United States|American]] [[Sportsperson|athlete]] ([[swimming]] and [[surfing]]) (d. [[1968]])
* [[1890]] – [[Jean Rhys]], [[Dominica]]n–[[England|English]] writer (d. [[1979]])
* [[1893]] – [[Haim Ernst Wertheimer]], German–born [[Israel]]i bio[[chemist]] (d. [[1978]])
* [[1895]] – [[Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan]], [[Malaysia]]n king (d. [[1960]])
* [[1895]] – [[Richard Cushing]], [[Archbishop]] of [[Boston, Massachusetts]] (d. [[1970]])
* [[1897]] – [[Gertrude Bambrick]], American actress (d. [[1974]])
* [[1899]] – [[Jorge Luis Borges]], Argentine writer (d. [[1986]])
* [[1899]] – [[Albert Claude]], French [[biologist]] (d. [[1983]])
* [[1900]] – [[Leonardo Conti]], German [[physician]] and [[Nazi]] [[war criminal]] (d. [[1945]])

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 1950 ===
* [[1902]] – [[Fernand Braudel]], French [[historian]] (d. [[1985]])
* [[1903]] – [[Karl Hanke]], German [[SS]] leader (d. [[1945]])
* [[1904]] – [[Alice White]], American actress (d. [[1983]])
* [[1905]] – [[Arthur Crudup]], American [[blues]] [[musician]] (d. [[1976]])
* [[1905]] – [[Siaka Stevens]], [[President]] of [[Sierra Leone]] (d. [[1988]])
* [[1907]] – [[Bruno Giacometti]], Italian [[sculptor]] (d. [[2012]])
* [[1908]] – [[Shivaram Rajguru]], Indian [[activist]] (d. [[1931]])
* [[1915]] – [[James Tiptree, Jr.]], American writer and psychologist (d. [[1987]])
* [[1916]] – [[Léo Ferré]], French [[singer]], [[composer]] and [[poet]] (d. [[1993]])
* [[1916]] – [[Hal Smith]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
* [[1918]] – [[Sikander Bakht]], [[Governor]] of [[Kerala]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[1918]] – [[Abdallah Ibrahim]], [[Prime Minister]] of [[Morocco]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[1918]] – [[Avery Dulles]], American [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] (d. [[2008]])
* [[1919]] – [[Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy]], [[President of Ecuador]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[1919]] – [[Drs. P]], Swiss–Dutch [[singer–songwriter]], [[poet]] and [[writer]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[1921]] – [[Ercole Rabitti]], Italian [[footballer]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[1922]] – [[René Lévesque]], Canadian politician (d. [[1987]])
* [[1922]] – [[Howard Zinn]], American historian (d. [[2010]])
* [[1924]] – [[Ahmadou Ahidjo]], [[President]] of [[Cameroon]] (d. [[1989]])
* [[1927]] – [[Harry Markowitz]], American economist
* [[1927]] – [[Anjali Devi]], Indian [[actress]] and [[producer]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[1927]] – [[Guido Ceronetti]], Italian journalist and poet (d. [[2018]])
* [[1929]] – [[Yasser Arafat]], leader of the [[Palestinian Authority]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[1932]] – [[Cormac Murphy–O'Connor]], [[Archbishop]] of [[Westminster]] and [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[1934]] – [[Kenny Baker]], English actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[1935]] – [[Tsutomu Hata]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[1936]] – [[Kenny Guinn]], 27th [[Governor]] of [[Nevada]] (d. [[2010]])
* [[1936]] – [[A. S. Byatt]], English writer
* [[1939]] – [[Michael E. Phelps]], American [[Biophysics|biophysicist]]
* [[1940]] – [[Francine Lalonde]], Canadian politician (d. [[2014]])
* [[1941]] – [[Jürgen Eschert]], German canoeist
* [[1942]] – [[Max Cleland]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[1943]] – [[John Cipollina]], American [[guitar]]ist (d. [[1995]])
* [[1943]] – [[Dafydd Iwan]], Welsh [[singer]] and [[politician]]
* [[1944]] – [[Bill Goldsworthy]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player (d. [[1996]])
* [[1944]] – [[Gregory Jarvis]], American [[astronaut]] (d. [[1986]])
* [[1945]] – [[Vince McMahon]], American [[Professional Wrestling]] promoter
* [[1945]] – [[Ken Hensley]], English musician ([[Uriah Heep]])
* [[1945]] – [[Ronee Blakley]], American [[singer–songwriter]], [[producer]] and [[actress]]
* [[1946]] – [[Vic Akers]], English [[Soccer|football]] coach
* [[1946]] – [[Rick Loomis]], American game designer (d. [[2019]])
* [[1946]] – [[Manfred Zapf]], German [[footballer]]
* [[1947]] – [[Paulo Coelho]], Brazilian writer
* [[1947]] – [[Joe Manchin]], American politician, former [[Governor]] of [[West Virginia]]
* [[1947]] – [[Steve Pearce]], American politician
* [[1947]] – [[Anne Archer]], American actress
* [[1947]] – [[Roger De Vlaeminck]], Belgian cyclist
* [[1948]] – [[Jean–Michel Jarre]], French musician
* [[1948]] – [[Alexander McCall Smith]], Scottish writer and [[professor]]
* [[1948]] – [[Sauli Niinistö]], 12th [[President]] of [[Finland]]
* [[1949]] – [[Stephen Paulus]], American composer (d. [[2014]])

=== 1951 {{ndash}} 1975 ===
* [[1951]] – [[Oscar Hijuelos]], American writer (d. [[2013]])
* [[1951]] – [[Orson Scott Card]], American writer
* [[1952]] – [[Bob Corker]], American politician, [[United States]] [[Senator]] for [[Tennessee]]
* [[1952]] – [[Linton Kwesi Johnson]], [[Jamaica]]n [[poet]]
* [[1953]] – [[Sam Torrance]], Scottish [[golf]]er
* [[1955]] – [[Mike Huckabee]], American politician, former [[Governor]] of [[Arkansas]] and Presidential candidate
* [[1956]] – [[John Culberson]], American politician
* [[1956]] – [[Gerry Cooney]], American boxer
* [[1957]] – [[Stephen Fry]], English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
* [[1957]] – [[Marcel Vanthilt]], Belgian [[singer]] and [[television]] host
* [[1958]] – [[Steve Guttenberg]], American actor
* [[1959]] – [[Meg Munn]], English politician
* [[1960]] – [[Takashi Miike]], Japanese [[Movie director|director]], [[producer]], [[writer]] and [[actor]]
* [[1960]] – [[Cal Ripken, Jr.]], American [[baseball]] player
* [[1960]] – [[Steven Lindsey]], American [[astronaut]]
* [[1961]] – [[Jared Harris]], English actor
* [[1963]] – [[Hideo Kojima]], Japanese video game creator
* [[1963]] – [[Yrsa Sigurdardottir]], [[Iceland]]ic writer
* [[1964]] – [[Dana Gould]], American comedian and writer
* [[1964]] – [[Salizhan Sharipov]], [[Kyrgyzstan|Kyrgyz]] [[cosmonaut]]
* [[1965]] – [[Marlee Matlin]], American actress
* [[1965]] – [[Reggie Miller]], American [[basketball]] player
* [[1968]] – [[Shoichi Funaki]], Japanese [[professional wrestler]]
* [[1968]] – [[James Toney]], American boxer
* [[1969]] – [[Pierfrancesco Favino]], Italian actor
* [[1972]] – [[Jean–Luc Brassard]], Canadian freestyle skier
* [[1973]] – [[Andrew Brunette]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player
* [[1973]] – [[Dave Chappelle]], American comedian and actor
* [[1973]] – [[Inge de Bruijn]], Dutch swimmer
* [[1973]] – [[Carmine Giovinazzo]], American actor and musician
* [[1974]] – [[Takuya Yamada]], Japanese [[footballer]]
* [[1975]] – [[Mark de Vries]], [[Suriname]]se–Dutch footballer

=== From 1976 ===
* [[1976]] – [[Yang Yang (A)]], Chinese short–track speed skater
* [[1976]] – [[Alex O'Loughlin]], Australian actor
* [[1977]] – [[Robert Enke]], [[Germany|German]] football [[goalkeeper]] (d. [[2009]])<ref>
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* [[1977]] – [[Jürgen Macho]], [[Austria]]n football goalkeeper
* [[1977]] – [[Denilson]], Brazilian footballer
* [[1979]] – [[Orlando Engelaar]], Dutch footballer
* [[1979]] – [[Kaki King]], American [[guitar]]ist and [[composer]]
* [[1979]] – [[Yelena Chernykh]], Russian [[theatre]] [[actress]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[1981]] – [[Jiro Wang]], [[Taiwan]]ese [[singer]] and [[actor]]
* [[1981]] – [[Chad Michael Murray]], American actor
* [[1982]] – [[José Bosingwa]], Portuguese footballer
* [[1982]] – [[Kim Kallstrom]], Swedish footballer
* [[1984]] – [[Charlie Villanueva]], [[Dominican Republic|Dominican]]–[[United States|American]] [[basketball]] player
* [[1986]] – [[Fabiano Santacroce]], Brazilian–Italian footballer
* [[1986]] – [[Joseph Akpala]], [[Nigeria]]n [[footballer]]
* [[1986]] – [[Stewart McDonald]], Scottish politician
* [[1987]] – [[Daichi Miura]], Japanese [[singer]]–[[songwriter]], [[dance]]r and [[choreographer]]
* [[1987]] – [[Jon Scheyer]], American [[basketball]] player
* [[1988]] – [[Rupert Grint]], British actor
* [[1988]] – [[Maya Yoshida]], Japanese [[footballer]]
* [[1989]] – [[Richie Gray (rugby player)|Richie Gray]], Scottish [[rugby union]] player
* [[1997]] – [[Alan Walker (music producer)|Alan Walker]], English–Norwegian music producer
* [[1998]] – [[Robin (singer)|Robin]], Finnish singer
* [[2003]] – [[Alexandre Coste]], son of [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]]

== Deaths ==
=== Up to 1900 ===
*[[79]] – [[Pliny the Elder]], Roman writer and naturalist (b. [[23]])
*[[1042]] – [[Michael V]], [[Byzantine Emperor]] (b. [[1015]])
*[[1103]] – King [[Magnus III of Norway]] (b. [[1073]])
*[[1217]] – [[Eustace the Monk]], French mercenary and pirate
*[[1313]] – [[Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1278]])
*[[1540]] – [[Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola]], Italian painter (b. [[1503]])
*[[1542]] – [[Gasparo Contarini]], Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. [[1483]])
*[[1572]] – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
** [[Gaspard de Coligny]], French Huguenot leader (b. [[1519]])
** [[Petrus Ramus|Pierre de la Ramée]], French humanist (b. [[1515]])
** [[Charles de Téligny]], French Huguenot soldier
*[[1595]] – [[Thomas Digges]], English astronomer (b. [[1546]])
*[[1617]] – [[Rose of Lima]], [[Peru]]vian saint (b. [[1586]])
*[[1647]] – [[Nicholas Stone]], English sculptor and architect (b. [[1586]])
*[[1664]] – [[Maria Cunitz]], Silesian astronomer
*[[1679]] – [[Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz]], French churchman and agitator (b. [[1614]])
*[[1680]] – [[Thomas Blood]], Irish–born thief of the British crown jewels (b. [[1618]])
*[[1683]] – [[John Owen (theologian)|John Owen]], English non–conformist theologian (b. [[1616]])
*[[1759]] – [[Ewald Christian von Kleist]], German poet (b. [[1715]])
*[[1779]] – [[Kosmas Aitolos]], Greek Orthodox martyr (b. [[1714]])
*[[1831]] – [[August von Gneisenau]], Prussian field marshal (b. [[1760]])
*[[1832]] – [[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]], French mathematician (b. [[1796]])
*[[1841]] – [[Theodore Edward Hook]], English writer (b. [[1788]])
*[[1856]] – [[William Buckland]], English [[Geology|geologist]] (b. [[1784]])
*[[1883]] – [[Henri, Count of Chambord]], claimant to the French throne (b. [[1820]])
*[[1888]] – [[Rudolf Clausius]], German physicist (b. [[1822]])
*[[1897]] – [[Mutsu Munemitsu]], Japanese politician (b. [[1844]])

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 2000 ===
*[[1921]] – [[Nikolay Gumilyov]], Russian poet (b. [[1886]])
*[[1940]] – [[Paul Gottlieb Nipkow]], German television pioneer (b. [[1860]])
*[[1943]] – [[Simone Weil]], French [[philosopher]] and social activist (b. [[1909]])
*[[1946]] – [[James Clark McReynolds]], U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. [[1862]])
*[[1950]] – [[Arturo Alessandri]], [[President of Chile]] (b. [[1868]])
*[[1954]] – [[Getúlio Vargas]], [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1882]])
*[[1956]] – [[Kenji Mizoguchi]], Japanese movie director (b. [[1898]])
*[[1957]] – [[Ronald Knox]], British [[theologian]] and [[crime fiction]] writer (b. [[1888]])
*[[1961]] – [[Günter Litfin]], first shooting victim at the [[Berlin Wall]] (b. [[1937]])
*[[1967]] – [[Henry J. Kaiser]], American industrialist (b. [[1882]])
*[[1974]] – [[Alexander P. de Seversky]], Russian–American [[aviation|aviator]], [[author]] and [[inventor]] (b. [[1894]])
*[[1975]] – [[Éamon de Valera]], [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1882]])
*[[1978]] – [[Louis Prima]], American band leader (b. [[1910]])
*[[1979]] – [[Hanna Reitsch]], German pilot (b. [[1912]])
*[[1985]] – [[Paul Creston]], American composer (b. [[1906]])
*[[1990]] – [[Sergei Dovlatov]], Russian writer (b. [[1941]])
*[[1991]] – [[Bernard Castro]], Italian inventor (b. [[1904]])
*[[1995]] – [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]], German–born photographer (b. [[1898]])
*[[1998]] – [[E.G. Marshall]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
*[[1999]] – [[Mary Jane Croft]], American actress (b. [[1916]])
*[[2000]] – [[Andy Hug]], Swiss martial artist and kickboxer (b. [[1964]])

=== From 2001 ===
*[[2001]] – [[Jane Greer]], American actress (b. [[1924]])
*[[2002]] – [[Hoyt Wilhelm]], American [[baseball]] player (b. [[1922]])
*[[2003]] – Sir [[Wilfred Thesiger]], British explorer (b. [[1910]])
*[[2004]] – [[Elisabeth Kübler–Ross]], Swiss–born psychiatrist (b. [[1926]])
*[[2005]] – [[Ambrogio Fogar]], Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all–round adventurer and television presenter (d. [[1941]])
*[[2007]] – [[Andrée Boucher]], 39th [[Mayor]] of [[Quebec City]] (b. [[1937]])
*[[2009]] – [[Toni Sailer]], Austrian skier (b. [[1935]])
*[[2012]] – [[Pauli Ellefsen]], 6th [[Prime Minister]] of the [[Faroe Islands]] (b. [[1936]])
*[[2012]] – [[Steve Franken]], American actor (b. [[1923]])
*[[2012]] – [[Félix Miéli Venerando]], Brazilian [[footballer]] (b. [[1937]])
*[[2013]] – [[Julie Harris]], American actress (b. [[1925]])
*[[2013]] – [[Newton de Sordi]], Brazilian footballer (b. [[1931]])
*[[2014]] – [[Richard Attenborough]], English [[actor]] and [[movie director]] (b. [[1923]])
*[[2014]] – [[Leonid Stadnyk]], Ukrainian claimant to world's tallest man title (b. [[1970]])
*[[2015]] – [[Justin Wilson]], English racing driver (b. [[1978]])
*[[2015]] – [[Cees van Kooten]], Dutch [[footballer]] (b. [[1948]])
*[[2015]] – [[Chico Maki]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player (b. [[1939]])
*[[2016]] – [[Henning Voscherau]], German politician (b. [[1941]])
*[[2016]] – [[Walter Scheel]], German politician, [[President of Germany|President of the Federal Republic of Germany]] (b. [[1919]])
*[[2016]] – [[Roger Y. Tsien]], Chinese–American biologist (b. [[1952]])
*[[2017]] – [[Cecil D. Andrus]], American politician, [[Governor]] of [[Idaho]] (b. [[1931]])
*[[2017]] – [[Alan Boswell]], English [[footballer]] (b. [[1943]])
*[[2017]] – [[Charlie Robertson (mayor)|Charlie Robertson]], American politician (b. [[1934]])
*[[2017]] – [[Jay Thomas]], American actor (b. [[1948]])
*[[2017]] – [[Amelyn Veloso]], Filipino journalist and broadcaster (b. [[1974]])
*[[2018]] – [[Lawrence J. DeNardis]], American politician (b. [[1938]])
*[[2018]] – [[Tom Frost]], American rock climber (b. [[1938]])
*[[2018]] – [[Robin Leach]], British writer and television host (b. [[1941]])
*[[2018]] – [[Princeton Lyman]], American diplomat (b. [[1935]])
*[[2018]] – [[Javier Ochoa Palacios]], Spanish cyclist (b. [[1974]])
*[[2018]] – [[Aleksei Paramonov]], Soviet–Russian [[footballer]] (b. [[1925]])
*[[2018]] – [[Valentina Rastvorova]], Soviet–Russian fencer (b. [[1933]])
*[[2018]] – [[Ciril Zlobec]], Slovenian poet, writer and politician (b. [[1925]])
*[[2019]] – [[Arun Jaitley]], Indian politician (b. [[1952]])
*[[2019]] – [[Sidney Rittenberg]], American journalist and [[Language|linguist]] (b. [[1921]])

==Observances==
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* National Day of [[Ukraine]]
* Christian Feast Day of [[Saint Bartholomew]]
* Night of Nostalgia, Eve of Independence Day ([[Uruguay]])

==References==
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