April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 248 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
33 BC – Lucius Marcius Philippus , step-brother to the future emperor Augustus , celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania .
395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia , daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto . She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity .
629 – Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire .
1296 – First War of Scottish Independence : John Balliol 's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar .
1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict .
1521 – Battle of Mactan : Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu .
1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca .
1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá , New Granada (now Colombia ), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar .
1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines .
1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise .
1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale : A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £ 10.
1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel 's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London .
1777 – American Revolutionary War : The Battle of Ridgefield : A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut .
1805 – First Barbary War : United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn ).
1810 – Beethoven composes Für Elise .
1813 – War of 1812 : American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto , Canada ).
1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster , London , is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry .
1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus .
1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state 's land grant institution.
1865 – The steamboat SS Sultana , carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River , killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons .
1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government , under Chris Watson .
1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V .
1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye , a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate .
1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty .
1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery ) are created.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor .
1941 – World War II : German troops enter Athens .
1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People .
1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland .
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo , while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1950 – Apartheid : In South Africa , the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War .
1960 – Togo gains independence from French -administered UN trusteeship .
1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom , with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister .
1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal , Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C. , calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
1977 – Twenty-eight people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster .
1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate -related crimes.
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse .
1986 – The City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster
1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States , saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II .
1989 – The April 27 Demonstration ,a student-led protest responding to the April 26 Editorial , during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 .
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , comprising Serbia and Montenegro , is proclaimed.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank .
1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville , Gabon en route to Dakar , Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal .
1994 – South African general election, 1994 : The first democratic general election in South Africa , in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
1996 – The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10 .
2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse , France .
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City .
2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier , a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn , amid political controversy with Russia .
2011 – The April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States , especially the states of Alabama , Mississippi , Georgia , and Tennessee . 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2012 – At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2014 – Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954.
2014 – A tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States kills more than 45 people.
Births
1650 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
1701 – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1718 – Thomas Lewis , Irish-American surveyor and lawyer (d. 1790)
1737 – Edward Gibbon , English historian and politician (d. 1794)
1748 – Adamantios Korais , Greek scholar (d. 1833)
1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval , French mathematician (d. 1836)
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft , English author and philosopher (d. 1797)
1791 – Samuel Morse , American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (d. 1872)
1806 – Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878)
1812 – William W. Snow , American politician (d. 1886)
1812 – Friedrich von Flotow , German composer (d. 1883)
1820 – Herbert Spencer , English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903)
1822 – Ulysses S. Grant , American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1840 – Edward Whymper , English mountaineer (d. 1911)
1848 – Otto of Bavaria (d. 1916)
1850 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler , German general (d. 1921)
1853 – Jules Lemaître , French playwright and critic (d. 1914)
1857 – Theodor Kittelsen , Norwegian painter (d. 1914)
1862 – Rudolph Schildkraut , Turkish-American actor (d. 1930)
1866 – Maurice Raoul-Duval , French polo player (d. 1916)
1876 – Con Leahy , Irish jumper (d. 1921)
1878 – Frank Gotch , American wrestler (d. 1917)
1878 – John Rimmer , English runner (d. 1962)
1880 – Mihkel Lüdig , Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
1882 – Jessie Redmon Fauset , American author and poet (d. 1961)
1887 – Warren Wood , American golfer (d. 1926)
1888 – Florence La Badie , Canadian actress (d. 1917)
1893 – Draža Mihailović , Serbian general (d. 1946)
1893 – Allen Sothoron , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1939)
1894 – George Petty , American painter (d. 1975)
1894 – Nicolas Slonimsky , Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1995)
1896 – Rogers Hornsby , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1963)
1896 – William Hudson , New Zealand-Australian engineer (d. 1978)
1898 – Ludwig Bemelmans , Italian-American author and illustrator (d. 1962)
1899 – Walter Lantz , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (d. 1994)
1900 – August Koern , Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile (d. 1989)
1902 – Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté , Malian educator and activist (d. 1942)
1903 – Horace Stoneham , American businessman (d. 1990)
1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis , Anglo-Irish poet and author (d. 1972)
1904 – Nikos Zachariadis , Greek politician (d. 1973)
1905 – John Kuck , American hammer thrower and shot putter (d. 1986)
1906 – Yórgos Theotokás , Greek author (d. 1966)
1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo , Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
1911 – Bruno Beger , German anthropologist (d. 2009)
1911 – Chris Berger , Dutch sprinter (d. 1965)
1912 – Jacques de Bourbon-Busset , French author and politician (d. 2001)
1912 – Zohra Sehgal , Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
1913 – Philip Abelson , American physicist (d. 2004)
1913 – Irving Adler , American mathematician and author (d. 2012)
1913 – Luz Long , German long jumper (d. 1943)
1916 – Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr. , American judge (d. 2013)
1916 – Enos Slaughter , American baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 – Roman Matsov , Estonian conductor (d. 2001)
1918 – Sten Rudholm , Swedish lawyer and jurist (d. 2008)
1920 – Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 – Mark Krasnosel'skii , Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1920 – James Robert Mann , American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2010)
1920 – Edwin Morgan , Scottish poet (d. 2010)
1921 – Robert Dhéry , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1921 – John Stott , English clergyman and theologian (d. 2011)
1922 – Martin Gray , Polish-French Holocaust survivor and author
1922 – Jack Klugman , American actor (d. 2012)
1924 – Vernon B. Romney , American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (d. 2013)
1925 – Derek Chinnery , English broadcaster
1926 – Tim LaHaye , American minister and author
1926 – Basil Paterson , American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1926 – Alan Reynolds , English painter
1927 – Tato Bores , Argentinian actor (d. 1996)
1927 – Charlie Fonville , American shot putter (d. 1994)
1927 – Connie Kay , American drummer (Modern Jazz Quartet ) (d. 1994)
1927 – Coretta Scott King , American activist and author (d. 2006)
1927 – Joe Moakley , American politician (d. 2001)
1927 – Sheila Scott , English pilot (d. 1988)
1929 – Nina Ponomaryova , Russian discus thrower
1931 – Igor Oistrakh , Ukrainian violinist
1932 – Anouk Aimée , French actress
1932 – Pik Botha , South African politician
1932 – Maxine Brown , American singer (The Browns )
1932 – Casey Kasem , American radio host, producer, and actor, co-created American Top 40 (d. 2014)
1932 – Derek Minter , English motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota , Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1933 – Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert , English police officer and politician, Lord Lieutenant for Greater London
1934 – Brennan Manning , American priest and author (d. 2013)
1934 – Jean Valentine , American poet
1935 – Theodoros Angelopoulos , Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1935 – Ron Morris , American pole vaulter
1936 – Geoffrey Shovelton , English singer and illustrator
1937 – Sandy Dennis , American actress (d. 1992)
1937 – Robin Eames , Irish archbishop
1937 – Richard Perham , English biologist and academic
1938 – Earl Anthony , American bowler (d. 2001)
1938 – Alain Caron , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1939 – Judy Carne , English actress
1939 – Stanisław Dziwisz , Polish cardinal
1939 – Jerry Mercer , Canadian drummer (Mashmakhan and April Wine )
1941 – Jennings Michael Burch , American author (d. 2013)
1941 – Pat Choate , American economist
1941 – Lee Roy Jordan , American football player
1942 – Ruth Glick , American author
1942 – Jim Keltner , American drummer (Traveling Wilburys , Plastic Ono Band , and Delaney & Bonnie and Friends )
1943 – Helmut Marko , Austrian race car driver
1944 – Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire , English academic and politician
1944 – Michael Fish , English meteorologist
1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr. , American singer and actor (The Main Ingredient )
1944 – Herb Pedersen , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Desert Rose Band )
1945 – Martin Chivers , English footballer
1945 – Jack Deverell , English general
1945 – Helen Hodgman , Australian author
1945 – August Wilson , American author and playwright (d. 2005)
1946 – Franz Roth , German footballer
1946 – Nicholas Serota , English curator
1947 – G. K. Butterfield , American soldier, lawyer, and politician
1947 – Pete Ham , Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger ) (d. 1975)
1947 – Keith Magnuson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
1947 – Ann Peebles , American singer-songwriter
1948 – Frank Abagnale , American businessman
1948 – Amrit Kumar Bohara , Nepalese politician
1948 – Josef Hickersberger , Austrian footballer, coach, and manager
1948 – Kate Pierson , American singer-songwriter and bass player (The B-52's and NiNa )
1948 – Si Robertson , American soldier and hunter
1949 – Grant Chapman , Australian politician
1950 – Paul Lockyer , Australian journalist (d. 2011)
1951 – Ace Frehley , American guitarist and songwriter (Kiss , Wicked Lester , and Frehley's Comet )
1952 – Larry Elder , American talk show host
1952 – George Gervin , American basketball player
1952 – Ari Vatanen , Finnish race car driver and politician
1953 – Arielle Dombasle , French-American singer, actress, and director
1954 – Frank Bainimarama , Fijian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Fiji
1954 – Herman Edwards , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1955 – Gudrun Berend , German hurdler (d. 2011)
1955 – Eric Schmidt , American engineer and businessman
1956 – Bryan Harvey , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (House of Freaks ) (d. 2006)
1956 – Bridget Kendall , English journalist
1956 – Kevin McNally , English actor
1956 – Douglas P. , English-Australian singer, producer, and actor (Death in June and Crisis )
1956 – Jeff Probyn , English rugby player
1957 – Willie Upshaw , American baseball player
1959 – Sheena Easton , Scottish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1959 – Louis Lortie , Canadian-German pianist
1959 – Marco Pirroni , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Adam and the Ants , Siouxsie and the Banshees , The Wolfmen , Rema Rema and Spear of Destiny )
1959 – Neil Pearson , English actor
1960 – Mike Krushelnyski , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 – Moana Pozzi , Italian pornographic actress, actress, television personality, model, politician and writer (d. 1994)
1961 – Andrew Schlafly , American lawyer and activist, founded Conservapedia
1962 – Ángel Comizzo , Argentinian footballer and manager
1962 – James LeGros , American actor
1962 – Choi Min-sik , South Korean actor
1962 – Seppo Räty , Finnish javelin thrower
1962 – Im Sang-soo , South Korean director and screenwriter
1962 – Andrew Selous , English soldier and politician
1963 – Russell T Davies , Welsh screenwriter and producer
1963 – Cali Timmins , Canadian actress
1964 – Michael Mahonen , Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1964 – Lisa Wilcox , American actress
1965 – Anna Chancellor , English actress
1966 – Vyacheslav Oliynyk , Ukrainian wrestler
1966 – Matt Reeves , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Yoshihiro Togashi , Japanese illustrator
1967 – Aki Avni , Israeli actor
1967 – Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1967 – Tommy Smith , Scottish saxophonist, composer, and educator
1967 – Erik Thomson , Scottish-New Zealand actor
1967 – Jason Whitlock , American journalist
1968 – Dana Milbank , American journalist
1969 – Cory Booker , American lawyer and politician
1969 – Darcey Bussell , English ballerina
1969 – Grahame Cheney , Australian boxer
1969 – Tess Daly , English model and television host
1969 – Vladimir Kozlov , Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor
1969 – Mica Paris , English singer and actress
1970 – Kylie Travis , English-Australian actress
1971 – Olari Elts , Estonian conductor
1971 – Shaan Shahid , Pakistani actor
1972 – Nigel Barker , English photographer and author
1972 – Almedin Civa , Bosnian footballer and coach
1972 – Mehmet Kurtuluş , Turkish-German actor
1972 – David Lascher , American actor
1972 – Maura West , American actress
1973 – Duško Adamović , Serbian footballer
1973 – Sharlee D'Angelo , Swedish bass player (Arch Enemy , Spiritual Beggars , King Diamond , Witchery , Sinergy , and Mercyful Fate )
1973 – Andre Gower , American actor
1973 – Sébastien Lareau , Canadian tennis player
1974 – Frank Catalanotto , American baseball player
1974 – Johnny Devine , Canadian wrestler
1974 – Richard Johnson , Australian footballer
1975 – Rabih Abdullah , American football player
1975 – Chris Carpenter , American baseball player
1975 – Pedro Feliz , Dominican baseball player
1976 – Isobel Campbell , Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist (Belle & Sebastian )
1976 – Sally Hawkins , English actress
1976 – Walter Pandiani , Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Faisal Saif , Indian director, screenwriter, and critic
1976 – Olaf Tufte , Norwegian rower
1977 – Khalid Zoubaa , French runner
1979 – Will Boyd , American bass player (Evanescence , American Princes , and The Visitors )
1979 – Natasha Chokljat , Australian netball player
1980 – Sybille Bammer , Austrian tennis player
1980 – Talitha Cummins , Australian journalist
1980 – Christian Lara , Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Ananda Mikola , Indonesian race car driver
1980 – Jason Gainza , Filipino actor
1981 – Fabrizio Faniello , Maltese singer-songwriter
1981 – Joey Gathright , American baseball player
1981 – Patrik Gerrbrand , Swedish footballer
1982 – Katrina Johnson , American actress
1982 – François Parisien , Canadian cyclist
1982 – Alexander Widiker , German rugby player
1983 – Ari Graynor , American actress
1983 – Martin Viiask , Estonian basketball player
1984 – Pierre-Marc Bouchard , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Daniel Holdsworth , Australian rugby player
1984 – Patrick Stump , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fall Out Boy and Arma Angelus )
1985 – José António de Miranda da Silva Júnior , Brazilian footballer
1985 – Meselech Melkamu , Ethiopian runner
1986 – Jenna Coleman , English actress
1986 – Elena Risteska , Macedonian singer-songwriter
1986 – Dinara Safina , Russian tennis player
1987 – Taylor Chorney , American ice hockey player
1987 – William Moseley , English actor
1987 – Elliott Shriane , Australian speed skater
1987 – Emma Taylor-Isherwood , Canadian actress
1988 – Kris Thackray , English footballer
1988 – Semyon Varlamov , Russian ice hockey player
1989 – Lars Bender , German footballer
1989 – Sven Bender , German footballer
1989 – Maksym Bilyi , Ukrainian footballer (d. 2013)
1989 – Dmytro Kozban , Ukrainian footballer
1989 – Emily Rios , American actress
1989 – Milagros Schmoll , Argentinian model
1990 – Austin Dillon , American race car driver
1990 – Erik Keedus , Estonian basketball player
1990 – Martin Kelly , English footballer
1991 – Isaac Cuenca , Spanish footballer
1992 – Allison Iraheta , American singer-songwriter (Halo Circus )
1994 – Elmo Magalona , Filipino actor and singer
Deaths
630 – Ardashir III of Persia (b. 621)
1272 – Zita , Italian saint (b. 1212)
1404 – Philip the Bold , French son of John II of France (b. 1342)
1463 – Isidore of Kiev (b. 1385)
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan , Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
1599 – Maeda Toshiie , Japanese general (b. 1538)
1605 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
1613 – Robert Abercromby , Scottish priest and missionary (b. 1532)
1625 – Mōri Terumoto , Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
1656 – Jan van Goyen , Dutch painter (b. 1596)
1694 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
1695 – John Trenchard , English politician, Chief Justice of Chester (b. 1640)
1702 – Jean Bart , French admiral (b. 1651)
1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot , English politician (b. 1710)
1813 – Zebulon Pike , American general and explorer (b. 1779)
1873 – William Macready , English actor (b. 1793)
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson , American poet (b. 1803)
1896 – Henry Parkes , English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
1915 – John Labatt , Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
1915 – Alexander Scriabin , Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
1919 – Anton Irv , Estonian military commander (b. 1886)
1932 – Hart Crane , American poet (b. 1899)
1936 – Karl Pearson , English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
1937 – Antonio Gramsci , Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
1938 – Edmund Husserl , Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)
1952 – Guido Castelnuovo , Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1961 – Roy Del Ruth , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
1962 – A. K. Fazlul Huq , Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, Interior Minister of Pakistan (b. 1873)
1965 – Edward R. Murrow , American journalist (b. 1908)
1967 – William Douglas Cook , New Zealand farmer, founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum (b. 1884)
1969 – René Barrientos , Bolivian politician, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1970 – Arthur Shields , Irish-American actor (b. 1896)
1972 – Kwame Nkrumah , Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
1973 – Carlos Menditeguy , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1914)
1977 – Stanley Adams , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1977 – Scott Bradley , American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
1981 – Münir Nurettin Selçuk , Turkish tenor and actor (b. 1900)
1988 – Fred Bear , American hunter (b. 1902)
1988 – David Scarboro , English actor (b. 1968)
1989 – Konosuke Matsushita , Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (b. 1894)
1992 – Olivier Messiaen , French organist and composer (b. 1908)
1992 – Gerard K. O'Neill , American physicist (b. 1927)
1995 – Willem Frederik Hermans , Dutch author (b. 1921)
1996 – William Colby , American diplomat, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1920)
1996 – Gilles Grangier , French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
1998 – John Bassett , Canadian journalist (b. 1915)
1998 – Carlos Castaneda , Peruvian-American author (b. 1925)
1998 – Anne Desclos , French journalist and author (b. 1907)
1998 – Browning Ross , American runner (b. 1924)
1999 – Al Hirt , American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1922)
1999 – Dale C. Thomson , Canadian historian and educator (b. 1923)
2000 – Vicki Sue Robinson , American actress and singer (b. 1954)
2002 – George Alec Effinger , American author (b. 1947)
2002 – Ruth Handler , American inventor and businesswoman, created the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
2002 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza , Dutch-Swiss businessman (b. 1921)
2005 – Red Horner , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
2006 – Julia Thorne , American author (b. 1944)
2007 – Al Hunter Ashton , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1957)
2007 – Mstislav Rostropovich , Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
2008 – Marios Tokas , Cypriot singer-songwriter (b. 1954)
2009 – Frankie Manning , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1914)
2009 – Feroz Khan , Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1939)
2009 – Woo Seung-yeon , South Korean model and actress (b. 1983)
2011 – Marian Mercer , American actress and singer (b. 1935)
2012 – Daniel E. Boatwright , American politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Anatoly Lebed , Estonian-Russian colonel (b. 1963)
2012 – Harold Pupkewitz , Lithuanian-Namibian businessman (b. 1915)
2012 – Bill Skowron , American baseball player (b. 1930)
2013 – Aída Bortnik , Argentinian screenwriter (b. 1938)
2013 – Tony Byrne , Irish boxer (b. 1930)
2013 – Antonio Díaz Jurado , Spanish footballer (b. 1969)
2013 – Jérôme Louis Heldring , Dutch journalist (b. 1917)
2013 – Aloysius Jin Luxian , Chinese bishop (b. 1916)
2013 – Mutula Kilonzo , Kenyan lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
2014 – Yigal Arnon , Israeli lawyer, founded Yigal Arnon & Co. (b. 1929)
2014 – Vujadin Boškov , Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1931)
2014 – Daniel Colchico , American football player and coach (b. 1935)
2014 – Harry Firth , Australian race car driver and manager (b. 1918)
2014 – Andréa Parisy , French actress (b. 1935)
2014 – Turhan Tezol , Turkish basketball player (b. 1932)
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