May 28 is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 217 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales , while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys , leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
621 – Battle of Hulao : Li Shimin , the son of the Chinese emperor Gao Zu , defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan ). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui Dynasty 's collapse in favour of the Tang Dynasty .
1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a papal bull by Pope Alexander VI . A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Cranmer , declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – The Spanish Armada , with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon , Portugal , heading for the English Channel . (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby .
1754 – French and Indian War : in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania .
1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans .
1871 – Fall of the Paris Commune .
1892 – In San Francisco , California , John Muir organizes the Sierra Club .
1900 – Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated in Paris.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War : The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy .
1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 – 28 May 1926 coup d'état : Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic .
1932 – In the Netherlands , construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer .
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario , Canada , the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy .
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1936 – Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. , who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 – Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
1940 – World War II : Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium .
1940 – World War II: Norwegian , French , Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich , Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1948 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa . He later goes on to implement Apartheid .
1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1952 – The women of Greece are granted the right to vote .
1958 – Cuban Revolution : Fidel Castro 's 26th of July Movement , heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1961 – Peter Benenson 's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers . This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International .
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1974 – Northern Ireland 's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists .
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos , creating the Economic Community of West African States .
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky , the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community .
1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow , Russia . He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front , ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War .
1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations .
1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton 's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal , Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal , and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker , are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Nuclear testing : Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I , prompting the United States , Japan , and other nations to impose economic sanctions . Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1999 – In Milan , Italy , after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci 's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan , New York City .
2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars .
2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi , a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq 's interim government.
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty .
2010 – In West Bengal , India , a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce .
2012 – The discovery of Flame , a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced.
Births
1140 – Xin Qiji , Chinese poet, general, and politician (d. 1207)
1371 – John the Fearless , French husband of Margaret of Bavaria (d. 1419)
1524 – Selim II , Ottoman sultan (d. 1574)
1588 – Pierre Séguier , French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
1660 – George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1676 – Jacopo Riccati , Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
1692 – Geminiano Giacomelli , Italian composer (d. 1740)
1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin , French physician (d. 1814)
1759 – William Pitt the Younger , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
1763 – Manuel Alberti , Argentinian priest (d. 1811)
1764 – Edward Livingston , American jurist and politician, 11th United States Secretary of State (d. 1836)
1779 – Thomas Moore , Irish poet and composer (d. 1852)
1807 – Louis Agassiz , Swiss-American paleontologist and geologist (d. 1873)
1818 – P. G. T. Beauregard , American general (d. 1893)
1836 – Friedrich Baumfelder , German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1916)
1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich , German chemist (d. 1918)
1837 – George Ashlin , Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral (d. 1921)
1837 – Tony Pastor , American businessman (d. 1908)
1841 – Sakaigawa Namiemon , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (d. 1887)
1853 – Carl Larsson , Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg , Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch (d. 1939)
1872 – Marian Smoluchowski , Polish physicist (d. 1917)
1878 – Paul Pelliot , French sinologist and explorer (d. 1945)
1879 – Milutin Milanković , Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1958)
1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar , Indian politician (d. 1966)
1883 – Clough Williams-Ellis , English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village (d. 1978)
1884 – Edvard Beneš , Czech politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1948)
1886 – Santo Trafficante, Sr. , Italian-American mobster (d. 1954)
1888 – Kaarel Eenpalu , Estonian journalist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
1888 – Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot , English educator (d. 1947)
1888 – Jim Thorpe , American decathlete, football player and coach (d. 1953)
1889 – Richard Réti , Slovak-Czech chess player (d. 1929)
1892 – Josef Dietrich , German general (d. 1966)
1892 – Minna Gombell , American stage and film actress (d. 1973)
1896 – Konstantin Märska , Estonian director and cinematographer (d. 1951)
1900 – Tommy Ladnier , American trumpet player (d. 1939)
1906 – Henry Thambiah , Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and diplomat, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada (d. 1997)
1908 – Léo Cadieux , Canadian politician (d. 2005)
1908 – Ian Fleming , English journalist and author (d. 1964)
1909 – Red Horner , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1910 – Georg Gaßmann , German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1987)
1910 – Rachel Kempson , English-American actress (d. 2003)
1910 – T-Bone Walker , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
1911 – Thora Hird , English actress (d. 2003)
1911 – Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian playwright (d. 1986)
1912 – Herman Johannes , Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott , Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981)
1912 – Patrick White , English-Australian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith , English captain and pilot (d. 1996)
1915 – Joseph Greenberg , American linguist and academic (d. 2001)
1916 – Walker Percy , American author (d. 1990)
1917 – Barry Commoner , American biologist and politician (d. 2012)
1917 – Papa John Creach , American violinist (Jefferson Airplane , Hot Tuna , and The Dinosaurs ) (d. 1994)
1918 – Johnny Wayne , Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik , German author (d. 1999)
1921 – Tom Uren , Australian soldier and politician (d. 2015)
1922 – Lou Duva , American boxing trainer and manager
1922 – Roger Fisher , American author and academic (d. 2012)
1922 – Tuomas Gerdt , Finnish sergeant
1923 – György Ligeti , Romanian-Austrian composer and educator (d. 2006)
1923 – N. T. Rama Rao , Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 1996)
1923 – Karl Vaino , Estonian politician
1924 – Edward du Cann , English politician
1924 – Paul Hébert , Canadian actor
1925 – Bülent Ecevit , Turkish journalist, scholar, and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , German opera singer and conductor (d. 2012)
1929 – Patrick McNair-Wilson , English politician
1930 – Edward Seaga , American-Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1931 – Carroll Baker , American actress
1931 – Gordon Willis , American cinematographer (d. 2014)
1932 – Neil Black , English oboe player and educator
1932 – Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry , English politician
1932 – S. Selvanayagam , Ceylon geographer and academic (d. 1979)
1933 – John Karlen , American actor
1934 – Bill Baillie , New Zealand runner
1935 – Anne Reid , English actress
1936 – Claude Forget , Canadian politician
1936 – Ole K. Sara , Norwegian politician (d. 2013)
1936 – Betty Shabazz , American educator and activist (d. 1997)
1938 – Prince Buster , Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
1938 – Jerry West , American basketball player, coach, and manager
1938 – Maurice Woods , American actor (d. 1983)
1940 – Maeve Binchy , Irish author and playwright (d. 2012)
1940 – David William Brewer , English politician, Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London
1940 – Shlomo Riskin , American rabbi, founded the Lincoln Square Synagogue
1941 – Beth Howland , American actress
1942 – Happy Pieterse , South African boxer (d. 2013)
1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner , American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Terry Crisp , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1943 – Elena Souliotis , Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 – Faith Brown , English actress and singer
1944 – Rudy Giuliani , American lawyer and politician, 107th Mayor of New York City
1944 – Gladys Knight , American singer-songwriter and actress (Gladys Knight & the Pips )
1944 – Jean-Pierre Léaud , French actor and director
1944 – Sondra Locke , American actress, singer, and director
1944 – Rita MacNeil , Canadian singer and actress (d. 2013)
1944 – Patricia Quinn , Irish actress and singer
1944 – Gary Stewart , American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1944 – Billy Vera , American singer-songwriter and actor
1945 – Patch Adams , American physician and author, founded the Gesundheit! Institute
1945 – John N. Bambacus , American politician
1945 – John Fogerty , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Golliwogs )
1945 – Jean Perrault , Canadian politician, Mayor of Sherbrooke
1945 – Helena Shovelton , English physician
1946 – Skip Jutze , American baseball player
1946 – Janet Paraskeva , Welsh politician
1946 – K. Satchidanandan , Indian poet and critic
1946 – William Shawcross , English journalist
1947 – Zahi Hawass , Egyptian archaeologist and academic
1947 – Lynn Johnston , Canadian illustrator
1947 – Leland Sklar , American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Section and Era )
1948 – Pierre Rapsat , Belgian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
1949 – Susan Fitzgerald , English-based Irish actress (d. 2013)
1949 – Sue Holderness , English actress
1949 – Wendy O. Williams , American singer-songwriter and actress (Plasmatics ) (d. 1998)
1950 – Kamala , American wrestler
1950 – Ian Bradley , English minister, author, and academic
1952 – Roger Briggs , American pianist, composer, conductor, and educator
1953 – Pierre Gauthier , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1953 – Arto Lindsay , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer (DNA , The Golden Palominos , The Lounge Lizards , and Ambitious Lovers )
1954 – Townsend Coleman , American voice actor
1954 – João Carlos de Oliveira , Brazilian triple jumper (d. 1999)
1954 – Youri Egorov , Russian pianist (d. 1988)
1954 – Andy Hamilton , English actor, director, and screenwriter
1954 – Charles Saumarez Smith , English historian and academic
1954 – Péter Szilágyi , Hungarian conductor and politician (d. 2013)
1954 – John Tory , Canadian lawyer and politician
1955 – Laura Amy Schlitz , American author
1955 – Mark Howe , American ice hockey player and coach
1956 – Jerry Douglas , American guitarist and producer (The Country Gentlemen and Strength in Numbers )
1956 – Markus Höttinger , Austrian race car driver (d. 1980)
1956 – Michael Musyoki , Kenyan runner
1956 – Julie Peasgood , English actress
1956 – Peter Wilkinson , English admiral
1957 – Colin Barnes , English footballer
1957 – Kirk Gibson , American baseball player and manager
1957 – Ben Howland , American basketball player and coach
1959 – Risto Mannisenmäki , Finnish race car driver
1959 – John Morgan , English etiquette expert and author (d. 2000)
1959 – Steve Strange , Welsh singer (Visage and Strange Cruise ) (d. 2015)
1960 – Mark Sanford , American captain and politician, 115th Governor of South Carolina
1960 – Mary Portas , English journalist and author
1961 – Michelle Collins , English actress
1962 – Brandon Cruz , American actor
1961 – Roland Gift , English singer-songwriter and actor (Fine Young Cannibals and Akrylykz )
1962 – James Michael Tyler , American actor
1963 – Gavin Harrison , English drummer (Porcupine Tree , King Crimson , and OSI )
1963 – Houman Younessi , Australian-American scientist and educator
1964 – David Baddiel , American-English comedian, actor, and author
1964 – Jeff Fenech , Australian boxer
1964 – Armen Gilliam , American basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
1964 – Christa Miller , American actress
1964 – Zsa Zsa Padilla , Filipino singer and actress (Hotdog )
1964 – Phil Vassar , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1965 – Chris Ballew , American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Presidents of the United States of America and Caspar Babypants )
1966 – Ashley Laurence , American actress
1967 – Emma Kennedy , English actress
1967 – Glen Rice , American basketball player
1968 – Kylie Minogue , Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1969 – Mike DiFelice , American baseball player and manager
1969 – Rob Ford , Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto
1969 – Justin Kirk , American actor
1970 – Ian Cashmore , English paranormal investigator
1970 – Jimi Goodwin , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doves and Sub Sub )
1970 – Glenn Quinn , Irish-American actor (d. 2002)
1970 – Paul Sinha , English comedian and physician
1971 – Isabelle Carré , French actress
1971 – Ekaterina Gordeeva , Russian figure skater
1971 – Marco Rubio , United States Senator from Florida
1972 – Doriva , Brazilian footballer and manager
1972 – Kate Ashfield , English actress
1972 – Michael Boogerd , Dutch cyclist
1973 – Marco Paulo Faria Lemos , Portuguese footballer and manager
1974 – Hans-Jörg Butt , German footballer
1974 – Romain Duris , French actor
1974 – Alicia Minshew , American actress
1975 – Maura Johnston , American journalist
1975 – Charmaine Sheh , Hong Kong actress and singer
1975 – Misbah-ul-Haq , Pakistani cricketer
1975 – Marc Bauer , Swiss illustrator
1976 – Roberto Goretti , Italian footballer
1976 – Glenn Morrison , Australian rugby player
1976 – Alexei Nemov , Russian gymnast
1976 – Liam O'Brien , American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
1977 – Jeremy Borash , American ring announcer and sportscaster
1977 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck , American talk show host and author
1979 – Abdulaziz al-Omari , Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
1979 – Jesse Bradford , American actor
1979 – Ronald Curry , American football player
1979 – Joeri Jansen , Belgian runner
1979 – Monica Keena , American actress
1980 – Mark Feehily , Irish singer-songwriter and pianist (Westlife )
1980 – Miguel Pérez , Spanish footballer
1980 – Lucy Shuker , English tennis player
1980 – Jørgen Strickert , Norwegian comedian, author, and radio host
1981 – Daniel Cabrera , Dominican-American baseball player
1981 – Eric Ghiaciuc , American football player
1981 – Adam Green , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moldy Peaches )
1981 – Victoria Legrand , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Beach House )
1981 – Derval O'Rourke , Irish hurdler
1981 – Aaron Schock , American politician
1982 – Alexa Davalos , French-American actress
1982 – Desiree del Valle , Filipino actress
1982 – Jhonny Peralta , Dominican-American baseball player
1983 – Roman Atwood , American comedian and YouTube prankster
1983 – Steve Cronin , American soccer player
1983 – Toby Hemingway , English actor
1983 – Humberto Sánchez , Dominican-American baseball player
1984 – Beth Allen , New Zealand actress
1985 – Colbie Caillat , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Pablo Andrés González , Argentinian footballer
1985 – Kostas Mendrinos , Greek footballer
1985 – Carey Mulligan , English actress
1986 – Berrick Barnes , Australian rugby player
1986 – Joseph Cross , American actor
1986 – Charles N'Zogbia , French footballer
1986 – Michael Oher , American football player
1986 – Seth Rollins , American wrestler
1986 – Ingmar Vos , Dutch decathlete
1988 – NaVorro Bowman , American football player
1988 – Percy Harvin , American football player
1988 – Craig Kimbrel , American baseball player
1988 – Meisa Kuroki , Japanese actress and singer
1988 – David Perron , Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Luke Prosser , English footballer
1990 – Kyle Walker , English footballer
1991 – Beauty Gonzalez , Filipino actress
1991 – Kail Piho , Estonian Nordic combined skier
1992 – Tom Carroll , English footballer
1992 – Mira Gonzalez , American poet
1992 – Huang Qiushuang , Chinese gymnast
1993 – Bárbara Luz , Portuguese tennis player
1993 – Jonnie Peacock , English sprinter
1993 – Mason Shefa , American director and producer
1994 – Son Yeon-jae , South Korean gymnast
1995 – Jacob Kogan , American actor
1998 – Riho Sayashi , Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume )
1998 – Luis Gabriel Moreno , Filipino archer
1999 – Cameron Boyce , American actor and dancer
Deaths
576 – Germain of Paris , French bishop and saint (b. 496)
1023 – Wulfstan , English archbishop
1357 – Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
1509 – Caterina Sforza , Italian daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (b. 1463)
1556 – Saitō Dōsan , Japanese samurai (b. 1494)
1672 – John Trevor , Welsh politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1626)
1747 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues , French author (b. 1715)
1750 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1787 – Leopold Mozart , Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1719)
1805 – Luigi Boccherini , Italian cellist and composer (b. 1743)
1808 – Richard Hurd , English bishop (b. 1720)
1811 – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville , Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
1816 – Wolde Selassie , Ethiopian warlord (b. 1745)
1828 – Daikokuya Kōdayū , Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1831 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk , Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
1843 – Noah Webster , American lexicographer and author (b. 1758)
1849 – Anne Brontë , English author and poet (b. 1820)
1864 – Simion Bărnuțiu , Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1916 – Ivan Franko , Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)
1927 – Boris Kustodiev , Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 – Alfred Adler , Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
1940 – Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
1946 – Carter Glass , American politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1858)
1947 – August Eigruber , Austrian-German politician (b. 1907)
1952 – Philippe Desranleau , Canadian archbishop (b. 1882)
1953 – Tatsuo Hori , Japanese author and poet (b. 1904)
1968 – Fyodor Okhlopkov , Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1908)
1971 – Audie Murphy , American lieutenant and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1924)
1971 – Jean Vilar , French actor and director (b. 1912)
1972 – Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1975 – Ezzard Charles , American boxer (b. 1921)
1976 – Zainul Abedin , Bangladeshi painter (b. 1914)
1976 – Steffan Danielsen , Faroese painter (b. 1922)
1978 – Arthur Brough , English actor (b. 1905)
1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna , Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1981 – Mary Lou Williams , American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
1981 – Stefan Wyszyński , Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
1982 – H. Jones , English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1940)
1983 – Erastus Corning 2nd , American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (b. 1909)
1984 – Eric Morecambe , English actor and singer (b. 1926)
1988 – Sy Oliver , American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
1994 – Julius Boros , American golfer (b. 1920)
1994 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. , American author (b. 1916)
1998 – Phil Hartman , Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
1999 – Michael Barkai , Israeli commander (b. 1935)
1999 – B. Vittalacharya , Indian director and producer (b. 1920)
2000 – George Irving Bell , American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
2001 – Francis Bebey , Cameroonian-French guitarist (b. 1929)
2001 – Joe Moakley , American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
2001 – Francisco Varela , Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2002 – Mildred Benson , American journalist and author (b. 1905)
2002 – Jean Berger , German-American pianist, composer, and academic (b. 1909)
2003 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov , Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
2003 – Ilya Prigogine , Russian-Belgian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2003 – Martha Scott , American actress (b. 1912)
2004 – Umberto Agnelli , Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (b. 1934)
2004 – Francis Brunn , German juggler (b. 1922)
2004 – Michael Buonauro , American author and illustrator (b. 1979)
2006 – Thorleif Schjelderup , Norwegian ski jumper and author (b. 1920)
2007 – Marquise Hill , American football player (b. 1982)
2007 – Jorg Immendorff , German painter (b. 1945)
2007 – David Lane , American white nationalist leader, co-founded The Order (b. 1938)
2007 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka , Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 – Beryl Cook , English painter (b. 1926)
2008 – Robert H. Justman , American director and producer (b. 1926)
2010 – Gary Coleman , American actor (b. 1968)
2011 – Alys Robi , Canadian singer (b. 1923)
2011 – Gino Valenzano , Italian racing driver (b. 1920)
2012 – Hugh Dawnay , English polo player and author (b. 1932)
2012 – Bob Edwards , English journalist (b. 1925)
2012 – Ludovic Quistin , Caribbean footballer (b. 1984)
2012 – Yuri Susloparov , Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (b. 1958)
2012 – Matthew Yuricich , American special effects artist (b. 1923)
2013 – Eddi Arent , German actor (b. 1925)
2013 – Nino Bibbia , Italian bobsledder (b. 1922)
2013 – Viktor Kulikov , Russian marshal (b. 1921)
2013 – Fotis Polymeris , Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
2013 – Eddie Romero , Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2013 – Gerd Schmückle , German general (b. 1917)
2013 – Caesar Trunzo , American politician (b. 1926)
2014 – Maya Angelou , American author, poet, and actress (b. 1928)
2014 – Stan Crowther , English footballer (b. 1935)
2014 – Oscar Dystel , American publisher (b. 1912)
2014 – Malcolm Glazer , American businessman (b. 1928)
2014 – Bob Houbregs , Canadian-American basketball player and manager (b. 1932)
2014 – Isaac Kungwane , South African footballer (b. 1971)
2014 – Azlan Shah of Perak (b. 1928)
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