June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
4 – Augustus adopted Tiberius .
221 – Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar .
363 – Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire . General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
687 – Pope Benedict II chosen.
699 – En no Ozuno , a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō , is banished to Izu Ōshima .
1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ .
1295 – Przemysł II crowned as King of Poland king of Poland , following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms .
1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights .
1409 – Western Schism : The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa , joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon .
1483 – Richard III becomes King of England.
1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes .
1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist , Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1573 – French Wars of Religion : Siege of La Rochelle ends.
1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia , Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians .
1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear .
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars : Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park , London.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo .
1906 – 1906 French Grand Prix , the first Grand Prix motor racing event held
1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi .
1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I .
1918 – World War I, Western Front : Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince .
1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic .
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island .
1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act , which establishes credit unions.
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 , the first practical helicopter.
1940 – World War II : Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina .
1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice , Slovakia ), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat .
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy , Poland , one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces , ends with the defeat of the latter.
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 – The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin .
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor , the first bipolar junction transistor .
1948 – Shirley Jackson 's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya , as a union of statewide labour parties.
1953 – Lavrentiy Beria , head of MVD , is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo .
1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown .
1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland .
1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner " speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet -supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall .
1963 – Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI .
1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds , changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute .
1977 – Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis, Indiana .
1991 – Ten-Day War : The Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia .
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani , the Emir of Qatar , in a bloodless coup .
1995 – Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa .
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution .
1997 – Bertie Ahern becomes Prime Minister of Ireland.
2000 – President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome .
2000 – John Paul II revealed the third secret of Fátima .
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2004 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson re-elected as President of Iceland.
2006 – Mari Alkatiri , the first Prime Minister of East Timor , resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2007 – Benedict XVI reinstated the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/ of the votes.
2010 – Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud elected as President of Somaliland .
2012 – The Waldo Canyon Fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution .
2013 – Riots in China 's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others.
2013 – Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani became Prime Minister of Qatar .
Births
1501 – Cho Shik , Korean poet and scholar (d. 1572)
1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612)
1582 – Johannes Schultz , German composer (d. 1653)
1681 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
1689 – Edward Holyoke , American clergyman and academic (d. 1769)
1694 – Georg Brandt , Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1699 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin , famous French salon hostess of the Enlightenment (d. 1777)
1702 – Philip Doddridge , English educator and hymnwriter (d. 1751)
1703 – Thomas Clap , American minister and academic (d. 1767)
1726 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
1730 – Charles Messier , French astronomer (d. 1817)
1764 – Jan Paweł Łuszczewski , Polish politician of the Four-Year Sejm and the Duchy of Warsaw (d. 1812)
1786 – Sunthorn Phu , Thai poet (d. 1855)
1796 – Jan Paweł Lelewel , Polish painter (d. 1847)
1798 – Wolfgang Menzel , German poet and critic (d. 1873)
1817 – Branwell Brontë , English painter and poet (d. 1848)
1819 – Abner Doubleday , American general (d. 1893)
1821 – Bartolomé Mitre , Argentinian politician, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Irish physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
1835 – Thomas W. Knox , American journalist and author (d. 1896)
1839 – Sam Watkins , American soldier and author (d. 1901)
1854 – Robert Laird Borden , Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
1865 – Bernard Berenson , Lithuanian-American historian and author (d. 1959)
1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon , English archaeologist and banker (d. 1923)
1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø , Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)
1875 – Oskar Goßler , German rower (d. 1953)
1880 – Mitchell Lewis , American actor (d. 1956)
1881 – Ya'akov Cohen , Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1960)
1885 – Antonie Nedošinská , Czech actress (d. 1950)
1892 – Pearl S. Buck , American author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1893 – Dorothy Fuldheim , American journalist (d. 1989)
1895 – George Hainsworth , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
1898 – Willy Messerschmitt , German engineer and businessman (d. 1978)
1898 – Chesty Puller , American general (d. 1971)
1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1901 – Stuart Symington , American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988)
1902 – Hugues Cuénod , Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
1903 – Big Bill Broonzy , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
1904 – Frank Scott Hogg , Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
1904 – Peter Lorre , Slovak-American actor (d. 1964)
1905 – Lynd Ward , American author and illustrator (d. 1985)
1906 – Alberto Rabagliati , Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys ) (d. 1974)
1906 – Viktor Schreckengost , American industrial designer and sculptor (d. 2008)
1907 – Debs Garms , American baseball player (d. 1984)
1908 – Salvador Allende , Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973)
1909 – Colonel Tom Parker , Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)
1909 – Wolfgang Reitherman , German-American animator, director, and producer (d. 1985)
1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias , American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956)
1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski , Polish engineer, plane constructor and glider test pilot (d. 2009)
1913 – Aimé Césaire , French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008)
1913 – Maurice Wilkes , English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010)
1914 – Kathryn Johnston , American shooting victim (d. 2006)
1914 – Laurie Lee , English author and poet (d. 1997)
1915 – Paul Castellano , American mobster (d. 1985)
1915 – Charlotte Zolotow , American author and poet (d. 2013)
1916 – Virginia Satir , American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)
1916 – Giuseppe Taddei , Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
1919 – Richard Neustadt , American political scientist and academic (d. 2003)
1920 – Jean-Pierre Roy , Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1921 – Violette Szabo , French secret agent (d. 1945)
1922 – Walter Farley , American author (d. 1989)
1922 – Eleanor Parker , American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1922 – Alan T. Peacock , English economist and academic
1922 – Dick Smith , American make-up artist (d. 2014)
1923 – Franz-Paul Decker , German conductor
1923 – Barbara Graham , American murderer (d. 1955)
1924 – Kostas Axelos , Greek-French philosopher (d. 2010)
1924 – Richard Bull , American actor (d. 2014)
1925 – Pavel Belyayev , Russian soldier, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1970)
1925 – Wolfgang Unzicker , German Chess Grandmaster
1927 – Robert Kroetsch , Canadian author and poet (d. 2011)
1928 – Jacob Druckman , American composer (d. 1996)
1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu , Japanese inventor
1929 – Fred Bruemmer , Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (d. 2013)
1929 – Milton Glaser , American graphic designer
1930 – Jackie Fargo , American wrestler (d. 2013)
1931 – Colin Wilson , English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
1933 – Claudio Abbado , Italian conductor (d. 2014)
1933 – Gene Green , American baseball player (d. 1981)
1933 – David Winnick , English politician
1934 – Kenneth Barker , English academic
1934 – Dave Grusin , American pianist and composer
1934 – Jeremy Wolfenden , English spy (d. 1965)
1935 – Dwight York , American singer (Passion )
1936 ndash; Benjamin Adekunle , Nigerian general (d. 2014)
1936 – Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart , Scottish politician
1936 – Edith Pearlman , American author
1936 – Jean-Claude Turcotte , Canadian cardinal
1936 – Nancy Willard , American author and poet
1937 – Sombat Metanee , Thai actor and director
1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1937 – Reggie Workman , American jazz double bassist.
1938 – Neil Abercrombie , American sociologist and politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
1938 – Billy Davis, Jr. , American singer (The 5th Dimension )
1938 – Margret Göbl , German figure skater (d. 2013)
1938 – Gerald North , American climatologist and academic
1938 – Krzysztof Baranowski , Polish yachtsman and sailor
1939 – Chuck Robb , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
1940 – Vyacheslav Ionov , Russian canoe racer (d. 2012)
1941 – Yves Beauchemin , Canadian author and academic
1941 – Hiro Narita , Japanese-American cinematographer
1942 – J.J. Dillon , American wrestler and manager
1942 – Gilberto Gil , Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician
1943 – John Beasley , American actor
1943 – Georgie Fame , English singer and pianist (Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings )
1943 – Warren Farrell , American author and educator
1944 – Arthur Doyle , American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (d. 2014)
1944 – Wolfgang Weber , German footballer and manager
1944 – Gennady Zyuganov , Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
1946 – Candace Pert , American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (d. 2013)
1949 – Adrian Gurvitz , English singer, songwriter
1950 – Jaak Joala , Estonian singer (d. 2014)
1951 – Pamela Bellwood , American actress
1951 – Gary Gilmour , Australian cricketer and manager (d. 2014)
1952 – Gordon McQueen , Scottish footballer and manager
1952 – Greg Palast , American journalist and author
1953 – Robert Davi , American actor and singer
1953 – Nigel Sheinwald , English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States
1954 – Steve Barton , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2001)
1955 – Mick Jones , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Clash , Big Audio Dynamite , General Public , Carbon/Silicon , and London SS )
1955 – Dick Mol , Dutch paleontologist
1955 – Gedde Watanabe , American actor
1956 – Chris Isaak , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1956 – Patrick Mercer , English colonel and politician
1957 – Al Hunter Ashton , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1957 – Philippe Couillard , Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec
1957 – Randy Pobst , American race car driver
1957 – Patty Smyth , American singer-songwriter (Scandal )
1958 – Jonathan Bate , English author, critic, and academic
1958 – Riho Sibul , Estonian singer and guitarist (Ultima Thule and Propeller )
1959 – Mark McKinney , Canadian actor and screenwriter
1960 – Zachary Breaux , American guitarist (d. 1997)
1960 – Mark Durkan , Irish politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
1961 – Greg LeMond , American cyclist
1961 – Terri Nunn , American singer and actress (Berlin )
1962 – Jerome Kersey , American basketball player
1962 – George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
1963 – Richard Garfield , American game designer, created Magic: The Gathering
1963 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky , Russian businessman
1963 – Mark McClellan , American economist and politician
1963 – Harriet Wheeler , English singer-songwriter (The Sundays )
1964 – Tommi Mäkinen , Finnish race car driver
1966 – Dany Boon , French actor, director, and screenwriter
1966 – Yūko Minaguchi , Japanese voice actress
1966 – Jürgen Reil , American drummer (Kreator )
1967 – Inha Babakova , Ukrainian high jumper
1967 – Olivier Dahan , French director and screenwriter
1967 – Todd Pletcher , American horse trainer
1968 – Isshin Chiba , Japanese voice actor
1968 – Paolo Maldini , Italian footballer
1968 – Shannon Sharpe , American football player and sportscaster
1969 – Carlo Boszhard , Dutch singer and television host
1969 – Colin Greenwood , English bass player and songwriter (Radiohead )
1969 – Ingrid Lempereur , Belgian swimmer
1969 – Francis Magee , Irish actor
1969 – Geir Moen , Norwegian sprinter
1969 – Mike Myers , American baseball player
1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1970 – Paul Bitok , Kenyan runner
1970 – Irv Gotti , American record producer, co-founded The Inc. Records
1970 – Sean Hayes , American actor, singer, and producer
1970 – Takeshi Konomi , Japanese illustrator
1970 – Matt Letscher , American actor and playwright
1970 – Adam Ndlovu , Zimbabwean footballer (d. 2012)
1970 – Chris O'Donnell , American actor and producer
1970 – Nick Offerman , American actor and producer
1971 – Max Biaggi , Italian motorcycle racer
1971 – Emma Noble , English model and actress
1972 – Garou , Canadian singer
1972 – Caroline Nokes , English politician
1972 – Asako Tajimi , Japanese volleyball player
1972 – Jai Taurima , Australian long jumper
1973 – Amen , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lordi )
1973 – Rebecca Budig , American actress
1973 – Parry Shen , American actor
1973 – Gretchen Wilson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Jason Craig , American illustrator
1974 – Derek Jeter , American baseball player
1974 – Jason Kendall , American baseball player
1974 – Nicole Saba , Lebanese singer and actress (The 4 Cats )
1974 – Kristofer Steen , Swedish guitarist (Refused and Final Exit )
1974 – Matt Striker , American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor
1975 – KJ-52 , American rapper (Peace of Mind )
1975 – Chris Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Marie-Nicole Lemieux , Canadian opera singer
1975 – Terry Skiverton , English footballer and manager
1976 – Ed Jovanovski , Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Paweł Małaszyński , Polish actor
1976 – Chad Pennington , American football player and sportscaster
1976 – Gordon Moakes , English bass player and singer (Bloc Party and Young Legionnaire )
1977 – Mark Jindrak , American wrestler
1977 – Florian Kehrmann , German handball player
1977 – Tite Kubo , Japanese illustrator
1977 – Quincy Lewis , American basketball player
1978 – Maxime Boilard , Canadian canoe racer
1979 – Brandi Burkhardt , American actress and singer
1979 – Ryo Fukuda , Japanese race car driver
1979 – Walter Herrmann , Argentinian basketball player
1979 – Ryan Tedder , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (OneRepublic )
1980 – Sinik , French rapper
1980 – Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros , Togolese footballer
1980 – Jason Schwartzman , American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (Phantom Planet )
1980 – Chris Shelton , American baseball player
1980 – Michael Vick , American football player
1981 – Natalya Antyukh , Russian sprinter and hurdler
1981 – Paolo Cannavaro , Italian footballer
1981 – Andrea Gibbs , Australian actress and radio host
1981 – Kanako Kondō , Japanese voice actress
1981 – Damien Sargue , French singer and actor
1981 – Takashi Toritani , Japanese baseball player
1982 – Zuzana Kučová , Slovak tennis player
1983 – Vinícius Rodrigues Almeida , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Toyonoshima Daiki , Japanese sumo wrestler
1983 – Felipe Melo , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Antonio Rosati , Italian footballer
1984 – José Juan Barea , Puerto Rican basketball player
1984 – Yankuba Ceesay , Gambian footballer
1984 – Elijah Dukes , American baseball player
1984 – Raymond Felton , American basketball player
1984 – Priscah Jeptoo , Kenyan runner
1984 – Aubrey Plaza , American actress
1984 – Gabrielle Walcott , Trinidadian model, Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe 2011
1984 – Deron Williams , American basketball player
1985 – Ogyen Trinley Dorje , Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th Karmapa Lama
1985 – Arjun Kapoor , Indian actor
1986 – Xisco , Spanish footballer
1986 – Duvier Riascos , Colombian footballer
1987 – Carlos Iaconelli , Brazilian race car driver
1987 – Samir Nasri , French footballer
1987 – Hamilton Pereira , Uruguayan footballer
1988 – Remy LaCroix , American porn actress
1988 – Amanda Marchant , English singer (Samanda )
1988 – Sam Marchant , English singer (Samanda )
1988 – Rina Nakanishi , Japanese model and singer (AKB48 )
1988 – Oliver Stang , German footballer
1988 – Masakazu Tashiro , Japanese footballer
1989 – Lü Huihui , Chinese javelin thrower
1989 – Carlos Lopez , American actor and stuntman (d. 2014)
1990 – Belaynesh Oljira , Ethiopian runner
1990 – Igor Subbotin , Estonian footballer
1991 – Houssem Chemali , French footballer
1991 – Diego Falcinelli , Italian footballer
1991 – John Mark Loudermilk , American actor and producer
1992 – Joel Campbell , Costa Rican footballer
1992 – Jennette McCurdy , American actress and singer
1993 – Ariana Grande , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1994 – Hollie Arnold , English javelin thrower
1994 – Leonard Carow , German actor
1995 – Reema Major , Sudanese-Canadian rapper
2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Deaths
363 – Julian , Roman emperor (b. 332)
1487 – John Argyropoulos , Byzantine philosopher (b. 1415)
1541 – Francisco Pizarro , Spanish explorer and politician (b. 1471)
1688 – Ralph Cudworth , English philosopher and academic (b. 1617)
1752 – Giulio Alberoni , Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1757 – Maximilian Ulysses Browne , Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1784 – Caesar Rodney , American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
1793 – Gilbert White , English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
1795 – Johannes Jährig , German linguist (b. 1747)
1808 – Ludwik Tyszkiewicz , Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier , French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
1830 – George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , French soldier and composer (b. 1760)
1856 – Max Stirner , German philosopher (b. 1806)
1870 – Armand Barbès , French republican revolutionary (b. 1809)
1878 – Mercedes of Orléans (b. 1860)
1883 – Edward Sabine , Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)
1918 – Peter Rosegger , Austrian poet (b. 1843)
1922 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
1938 – Daria Pratt , American golfer (b. 1859)
1938 – James Weldon Johnson , American poet, lawyer and politician (b. 1871)
1939 – Ford Madox Ford , English author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
1943 – Karl Landsteiner , Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
1945 – Emil Hácha , Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
1946 – Max Kögel , German SS officer (b. 1895)
1946 – Yōsuke Matsuoka , Japanese politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan (b. 1880)
1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett , Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1948 – Lilian Velez , Filipino actress and singer (b. 1924)
1949 – Kim Gu , Korean politician and educator, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1955 – Engelbert Zaschka , German engineer (b. 1895)
1956 – Clifford Brown , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
1956 – Richie Powell , American pianist (b. 1931)
1957 – Alfred Döblin , German doctor and author (b. 1878)
1957 – Malcolm Lowry , English poet and author (b. 1909)
1958 – George Orton , Canadian runner (b. 1873)
1958 – Andrija Štampar , Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888)
1962 – Émile Wegelin , French rower (b. 1875)
1964 – Léo Dandurand , American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
1967 – Françoise Dorléac , French actress (b. 1942)
1975 – Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish priest and saint (b. 1902)
1979 – Akwasi Afrifa , Ghanaian politician (b. 1936)
1980 – Miriam Daly , Irish activist (b. 1928)
1989 – Howard Charles Green , Canadian politician (b. 1895)
1990 – Anni Blomqvist , Finnish author (b. 1909)
1992 – Buddy Rogers , American wrestler (b. 1921)
1993 – Roy Campanella , American baseball player (b. 1921)
1993 – William H. Riker , American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
1994 – Jahanara Imam , Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
1996 – Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist and accountant (b. 1958)
1997 – Don Hutson , American football player (b. 1913)
1997 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole , American singer-songwriter and ukulele player (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau ) (b. 1959)
2000 – Logan Ramsey , American actor (b. 1921)
2001 – Soccer , American acting dog (b. 1988)
2002 – Jay Berwanger , American football player (b. 1914)
2002 – Arnold Brown , English-Canadian 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé , Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 – Denver Randleman , American sergeant (b. 1920)
2003 – Denis Thatcher , English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
2003 – Strom Thurmond , American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (b. 1902)
2004 – Ott Arder , Estonian poet and translator (b. 1950)
2004 – Yash Johar , Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (b. 1929)
2004 – Naomi Shemer , Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
2005 – Tõnno Lepmets , Estonian basketball player (b. 1938)
2005 – Richard Whiteley , English journalist and game show host (b. 1943)
2006 – Tommy Wonder , Dutch magician (b. 1953)
2007 – Liz Claiborne , Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (b. 1929)
2007 – Joey Sadler , New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas , Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
2010 – Harald Keres , Estonian physicist (b. 1912)
2010 – Sergio Vega , Mexican singer (b. 1969)
2012 – Sverker Åström , Swedish diplomat (b. 1915)
2012 – Daniel Batman , Australian sprinter (b. 1981)
2012 – Pat Cummings , American basketball player (b. 1956)
2012 – Ann Curtis , American swimmer (b. 1926)
2012 – Nora Ephron , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2012 – Mario O'Hara , Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
2012 – Doris Singleton , American actress (b. 1919)
2012 – Risley C. Triche , American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
2013 – Henrik Otto Donner , Finnish trumpet player and composer (b. 1939)
2013 – Edward Huggins Johnstone , Brazilian-American judge (b. 1922)
2013 – Byron Looper , American politician (b. 1964)
2013 – Kimberly McCarthy , American murderer (b. 1961)
2013 – Justin Miller , American baseball player (b. 1977)
2013 – Marc Rich , Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934)
2013 – Bert Stern , American photographer (b. 1929)
2013 – Rawleigh Warner, Jr. , American businessman (b. 1921)
2014 – Howard Baker , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1925)
2014 – Bill Frank , American-Canadian football player (b. 1938)
2014 – Rollin King , American businessman, co-founded Southwest Airlines (b. 1931)
2014 – Bob Mischak , American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2014 – Ivan Plyushch , Ukrainian politician (b. 1941)
2014 – Julius Rudel , Austrian-American conductor (b. 1921)
2014 – Mary Rodgers , American composer and author (b. 1931)
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