November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 53 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
960 – Battle of Andrassos : Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo , Sayf al-Dawla .
1278 – Trần Thánh Tông , the second emperor of the Trần dynasty , decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor .
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
1576 – Eighty Years' War : Pacification of Ghent – The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
1605 – Robert Catesby , ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters , is killed.
1614 – Japanese daimyo Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague , ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor , the third emperor of the Qing dynasty , is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden .
1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College .
1861 – American Civil War : The "Trent Affair " – The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state .
1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray .
1898 – The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 , the only instance of an attempted coup d'état in American history.
1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek .
1917 – The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin , Leon Trotsky , and Joseph Stalin .
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch : In Munich , Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1933 – Great Depression : New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration , an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
1936 – Spanish Civil War : Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid , but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich .
1939 – Venlo Incident : Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
1939 – In Munich , Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch .
1940 – Greco-Italian War : The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas .
1942 – World War II : Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa .
1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
1950 – Korean War : United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star , shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft -to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1 : the United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago , Aldabra , Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War , while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi .
1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction .
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League .
1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
1972 – HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion , starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda .
1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki , which is evacuated.
1977 – Manolis Andronikos , a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina .
1985 – Lloyd J. Old discovery of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a key immune signaling molecule (cytokine) that, in addition to its promise for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
1987 – Remembrance Day bombing : A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen , Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis : UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq , forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
2004 – War in Iraq : More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah .
2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan , one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines . The storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused S$2.86 billion (USD ) in damage.
Births
30 – Nerva , Roman emperor (d. 98)
1342 – Julian of Norwich , English mystic and saint (d. 1416)
1491 – Teofilo Folengo , Italian monk and poet (d. 1544)
1622 – Charles X Gustav of Sweden (d. 1660)
1656 – Edmond Halley , English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 – Sarah Fielding , English author (d. 1768)
1715 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (d. 1797)
1723 – John Byron , English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1786)
1725 – Johann George Tromlitz , German flute player and composer (d. 1805)
1763 – Otto Wilhelm Masing , German-Estonian linguist and clergyman (d. 1832)
1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 – William Wirt , United States Attorney General (d. 1834)
1777 – Désirée Clary , French wife of Charles XIV John of Sweden (d. 1860)
1788 – Mihály Bertalanits , Slovene poet and educator (d. 1853)
1831 – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton , English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General of India (d. 1880)
1836 – Milton Bradley , American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (d. 1911)
1837 – Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907)
1847 – Jean Casimir-Perier , French politician, 6th President of France (d. 1907)
1847 – Bram Stoker , Anglo-Irish author and critic (d. 1912)
1848 – Gottlob Frege , German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)
1854 – Johannes Rydberg , Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919)
1866 – Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin , English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company (d. 1941)
1868 – Felix Hausdorff , German mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
1869 – Zinaida Gippius , Russian-French poet and author (d. 1945)
1881 – Clarence Gagnon , Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
1883 – Arnold Bax , English composer and poet (d. 1953)
1883 – Charles Demuth , American painter (d. 1935)
1884 – Hermann Rorschach , Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1922)
1885 – George Bouzianis , Greek painter (d. 1959)
1885 – Hans Cloos , German geologist and academic (d. 1951)
1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp , German architect and academic (d. 1966)
1885 – Eva Morris , English super-centenarian (d. 2000)
1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita , Japanese general and politician, 4th Japanese Military Governors of the Philippines (d. 1946)
1888 – David Monrad Johansen , Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1974)
1893 – Prajadhipok , Thai king (d. 1941)
1896 – Erika Abels d'Albert , Austrian artist (d. 1975)
1896 – Bucky Harris , American baseball player and manager (d. 1977)
1897 – Dorothy Day , American journalist and activist (d. 1980)
1898 – Marie Prevost , Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1937)
1900 – Margaret Mitchell , American journalist and author (d. 1949)
1904 – Cedric Belfrage , English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (d. 1990)
1908 – Martha Gellhorn , American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1910 – James McCormack , American general (d. 1975)
1911 – Robert Jackson , Australian public servant and UN administrator (d. 1991)
1912 – June Havoc , American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010)
1912 – Stylianos Pattakos , Greek general and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
1914 – Norman Lloyd , American actor, director, and producer
1918 – Kazuo Sakamaki , Japanese soldier (d. 1999)
1918 – Hermann Zapf , German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015)
1919 – Purushottam Laxman Deshpande , Indian actor, screenwriter, and author (d. 2000)
1920 – Sitara Devi , Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
1920 – Esther Rolle , American actress (d. 1998)
1920 – Eugênio Sales , Brazilian cardinal (d. 2012)
1921 – Douglas Townsend , American composer, musicologist, and academic (d. 2012)
1922 – Christiaan Barnard , South African surgeon and academic (d. 2001)
1922 – Thea D. Hodge , American computer scientist (d. 2008)
1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes , Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1996)
1923 – Jack Kilby , American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1924 – Johnny Bower , Canadian ice hockey player and soldier
1924 – Joe Flynn , American actor (d. 1974)
1924 – Robert V. Hogg , American statistician and academic (d. 2014)
1924 – Victorinus Youn Kong-hi , South Korean priest, 3rd Archbishop of Kwangju
1926 – Carroll E. Lanier , American sailor and politician (d. 2012)
1927 – L. K. Advani , Pakistani-Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India
1927 – Chris Connor , American singer (d. 2009)
1927 – Ken Dodd , English singer-songwriter and actor
1927 – Nguyễn Khánh , Vietnamese general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 2013)
1927 – Patti Page , American singer and actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Bobby Bowden , American football player and coach
1929 – António Castanheira Neves , Portuguese philosopher and academic
1931 – Darla Hood , American actress and singer (d. 1979)
1931 – Morley Safer , Canadian-American journalist and author
1932 – Stéphane Audran , French actress
1932 – Ben Bova , American journalist and author
1933 – Peter Arundell , English race car driver (d. 2009)
1935 – Alain Delon , French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter
1935 – Stratos Dionysiou , Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo , Colombian cardinal (d. 2008)
1936 – Virna Lisi , Italian actress (d. 2014)
1938 – Driss Basri , Moroccan police officer and politician (d. 2007)
1938 – Richard Stoker , English composer, author, and poet
1939 – Elizabeth Dawn , English actress
1941 – Nerys Hughes , Welsh actress
1942 – Sandro Mazzola , Italian footballer and sportscaster
1943 – Martin Peters , English footballer and manager
1944 – Bonnie Bramlett , American singer and actress (Delaney & Bonnie )
1945 – Arduino Cantafora , Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and author
1945 – Vincent Nichols , English cardinal
1945 – Arnold Rosner , American composer (d. 2013)
1946 – Guus Hiddink , Dutch footballer and manager
1946 – Roy Wood , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Electric Light Orchestra , The Move , Wizzard , and Wizzo Band )
1947 – Michael Perham , English bishop
1947 – Minnie Riperton , American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
1947 – Margaret Rhea Seddon , American physician and astronaut
1947 – Lewis Yocum , American physician and surgeon (d. 2013)
1948 – Dale Gardner , American captain and astronaut (d. 2014)
1949 – Wayne LaPierre , American businessman, author, and activist
1949 – Bonnie Raitt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Mary Hart , American journalist and actress
1951 – Alfredo Astiz , Argentinian captain
1951 – Laura Cox , English lawyer and judge
1951 – Peter Suber , American philosopher and academic
1952 – Albert Bittlmayer , German footballer (d. 1977)
1952 – John Denny , American baseball player and coach
1952 – Christie Hefner , American publisher and businesswoman
1952 – Jan Raas , Dutch cyclist
1952 – Jerry Remy , American baseball player and sportscaster
1952 – Alfre Woodard , American actress and producer
1953 – Giorgos Foiros , Greek footballer and manager
1953 – John Musker , American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 – Nand Kumar Patel , Indian politician (d. 2013)
1954 – David Bret , French-English journalist and author
1954 – Michael D. Brown , American lawyer and radio host
1954 – Timothy Egan , American journalist and author
1954 – Kazuo Ishiguro , Japanese-English author and screenwriter
1954 – Rickie Lee Jones , American singer-songwriter and producer
1954 – Ricky Lawson , American drummer and composer (Yellowjackets ) (d. 2013)
1954 – Jeanette McGruder , American singer and actress (The Brides of Funkenstein )
1954 – Thanasis Pafilis , Greek jurist and politician
1955 – Patricia Barber , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1955 – Jeffrey Ford , American author and educator
1956 – Mari Boine , Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
1956 – Richard Curtis , English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Steven Miller , American record producer and engineer
1957 – Alan Curbishley , English footballer and manager
1957 – Porl Thompson , English guitarist (The Cure , Easy Cure , Malice , and Shelleyan Orphan )
1957 – Hardi Volmer , Estonian singer and director (Singer Vinger )
1958 – Don Byron , American clarinet player and composer
1958 – Ken Lamberton , American author and educator
1959 – Miroslav Janů , Czech footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1959 – Chi Chi LaRue , American drag queen performer and director
1960 – Oleg Menshikov , Russian actor, singer, and director
1960 – Michael Nyqvist , Swedish actor
1961 – Micky Adams , English footballer and manager
1961 – Leif Garrett , American singer and actor
1961 – Enn Rajasaar , Estonian architect
1963 – Russell Malone , American guitarist
1963 – Paul McKenna , English hypnotist and author
1965 – Jeff Blauser , American baseball player and manager
1965 – Craig Chester , American actor and screenwriter
1965 – Mike Matarazzo , American bodybuilder and boxer (d. 2014)
1966 – Toralf Arndt , German footballer
1966 – Gordon Ramsay , Scottish chef and television host
1966 – Urmas Välbe , Estonian skier
1967 – Kamar de los Reyes , Puerto Rican-American actor
1967 – Henry Rodriguez , Dominican baseball player
1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith , American actress and singer
1968 – Keith Jones , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1968 – José Offerman , Dominican baseball player and manager
1968 – Sergio Porrini , Italian footballer and manager
1968 – Parker Posey , American actress and singer
1968 – Zara Whites , Dutch-French porn actress
1969 – Naw Kham , Burmese drug lord (d. 2013)
1969 – Roxana Zal , American actress and producer
1970 – Tom Anderson , American businessman, co-founder of Myspace
1970 – Michael Jackson , Canadian actor
1970 – Diana King , Jamaican singer-songwriter
1970 – José Porras , Costa Rican footballer and coach
1971 – Carlos Atanes , Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Tech N9ne , American rapper (The Regime and K.A.B.O.S.H. )
1972 – Gretchen Mol , American model and actress
1973 – Sven Mikser , Estonian politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Defence
1973 – David Muir , American journalist
1974 – Joshua Ferris , American author
1974 – Penelope Heyns , South African swimmer
1974 – Masashi Kishimoto , Japanese author and illustrator, created Naruto
1974 – Seishi Kishimoto , Japanese illustrator
1975 – Angel Corella , Spanish dancer
1975 – Brevin Knight , American basketball player and sportscaster
1975 – José Manuel Pinto , Spanish footballer
1975 – Tara Reid , American actress and producer
1975 – Alena Vašková , Czech tennis player
1976 – Brett Lee , Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1976 – Colin Strause , American director, producer, and visual effects designer
1977 – Jully Black , Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1977 – Bucky Covington , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Nick Punto , American baseball player
1978 – Shyne , Belizean-American rapper
1978 – Tim de Cler , Dutch footballer
1978 – Maurice Evans , American basketball player
1978 – Ali Karimi , Iranian footballer and manager
1978 – Emma Lewell-Buck , English social worker and politician
1978 – Júlio Sérgio , Brazilian footballer
1979 – Andrea Benatti , Italian rugby player
1979 – Aaron Hughes , Irish footballer
1979 – Dania Ramirez , Dominican-American actress
1980 – Luís Fabiano , Brazilian footballer
1980 – Laura Jane Grace , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Against Me! )
1980 – Ana Vidović , Croatian guitarist
1980 – Holly Walsh , English radio and television host
1981 – Joe Cole , English footballer
1981 – Yann Kermorgant , French footballer
1981 – Azura Skye , American actress
1982 – Ted DiBiase, Jr. , American wrestler and actor
1982 – Ethan Juan , Taiwanese model and actor
1982 – Mika Kallio , Finnish motorcycle racer
1982 – Sam Sparro , Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1983 – Katharina Molitor , German javelin thrower
1983 – Remko Pasveer , Dutch footballer
1983 – Pavel Pogrebnyak , Russian footballer
1983 – Nikola Rachelle , English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer
1983 – Chris Rankin , New Zealand actor
1983 – Blanka Vlašić , Croatian high jumper
1984 – Kuntal Chandra , Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2012)
1984 – Steven Webb , English actor
1985 – Magda Apanowicz , Canadian actress
1985 – Jack Osbourne , English-American actor and producer
1986 – Patricia Mayr-Achleitner , Austrian tennis player
1986 – Jamie Roberts , Welsh rugby player
1986 – Aaron Swartz , American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013)
1987 – Édgar Benítez , Paraguayan footballer
1987 – Sam Bradford , American football player
1988 – Jessica Lowndes , Canadian actress and singer
1988 – Lucia Slaničková , Slovak heptathlete
1989 – Morgan Schneiderlin , French footballer
1989 – Giancarlo Stanton , American baseball player
1989 – Van Roxas , Filipino singer and actor
1990 – Anett Griffel , Estonian model
1990 – Ingrid Puusta , Estonian sailor
1991 – Riker Lynch , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor
1994 – Lauren Alaina , American singer
1994 – Shane Feldman , Canadian actor and producer
2000 – Jade Pettyjohn , American actress
2000 – Jasmine Thompson , English singer
2003 – Lady Louise Windsor , English daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Deaths
618 – Pope Adeodatus I
955 – Pope Agapetus II
1115 – Godfrey of Amiens , French bishop and saint (b. 1066)
1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 – Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
1226 – Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
1246 – Berengaria of Castile (b. 1179)
1308 – Duns Scotus , Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (b. 1266)
1517 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros , Spanish cardinal (b. 1436)
1527 – Jerome Emser , German theologian and reformer (b. 1477)
1599 – Francisco Guerrero , Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 – Natsuka Masaie , Japanese daimyō (b. 1562)
1605 – Robert Catesby , English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1573)
1658 – Witte Corneliszoon de With , Dutch admiral (b. 1599)
1674 – John Milton , English poet and philosopher (b. 1608)
1719 – Michel Rolle , French mathematician and author (b. 1652)
1817 – Andrea Appiani , Italian painter and educator (b. 1754)
1830 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1873 – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros , Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796)
1887 – Doc Holliday , American dentist and poker player (b. 1851)
1890 – César Franck , Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
1895 – Robert Battey , American surgeon and academic (b. 1828)
1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov , Russian painter (b. 1870)
1917 – Colin Blythe , English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav , Slovak poet and playwright (b. 1849)
1924 – Mike Merlo , Italian-American mob boss (b. 1880)
1934 – Carlos Chagas , Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879)
1944 – Walter Nowotny , Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
1945 – August von Mackensen , German field marshal (b. 1849)
1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve , Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
1953 – Ivan Bunin , Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
1953 – John van Melle , Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
1959 – Frank S. Land , American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen , American journalist and actress (b. 1913)
1966 – Bernhard Zondek , German-Israeli gynecologist and academic (b. 1891)
1968 – Wendell Corey , American actor and politician (b. 1914)
1968 – Peter Mohr Dam , Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
1970 – Huw T. Edwards , Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
1975 – Jaime Montestrela , Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925)
1977 – Tasos Giannopoulos , Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)
1977 – Bucky Harris , American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1978 – Norman Rockwell , American painter and illustrator (b. 1894)
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle , French wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
1983 – James Booker , American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
1983 – James Hayden , American actor (b. 1953)
1983 – Mordecai Kaplan , Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
1985 – Nicolas Frantz , Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1899)
1985 – Jacques Hnizdovsky , Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov , Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union (b. 1890)
1992 – Larry Levan , American DJ and producer (b. 1954)
1994 – Michael O'Donoghue , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
1997 – Henry Bland , Australian public servant (b. 1909)
1998 – Rumer Godden , English author and poet (b. 1907)
1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt , English colonel, mountaineer, and academic (b. 1910)
1998 – Jean Marais , French actor and director (b. 1913)
1999 – Lester Bowie , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1941)
1999 – Leon Štukelj , Slovenian gymnast and judge (b. 1898)
2000 – Marc Lifschey , American oboist (b. 1926)
2001 – Aristidis Moschos , Greek santouri player and educator (b. 1930)
2002 – Jon Elia , Pakistani poet, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1931)
2003 – Bob Grant , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1932)
2003 – C. Z. Guest , American actress, fashion designer, and author (b. 1920)
2003 – Guy Speranza , American singer-songwriter (Riot ) (b. 1956)
2004 – Peter Mathers , English-Australian author and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis , Greek actor and director (b. 1928)
2005 – David Westheimer , American soldier and author (b. 1917)
2006 – Basil Poledouris , American composer and conductor (b. 1945)
2006 – Hannspeter Winter , Austrian physicist and academic (b. 1941)
2007 – Aad Nuis , Dutch journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1933)
2007 – Dulce Saguisag , Filipino politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (b. 1943)
2007 – Chad Varah , English priest, founded The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg , Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2010 – Quintin Dailey , American basketball player (b. 1961)
2010 – Alex Fagan , American police officer (b. 1950)
2010 – Jack Levine , American soldier and painter (b. 1915)
2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera , Argentinian admiral (b. 1925)
2011 – Heavy D , Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1967)
2011 – Bil Keane , American cartoonist (b. 1922)
2012 – Lucille Bliss , American voice actress (b. 1916)
2012 – Roger Hammond , English actor (b. 1936)
2012 – Lee MacPhail , American businessman (b. 1917)
2012 – Pete Namlook , German composer and producer (b. 1960)
2012 – Peggy Vaughan , American author (b. 1936)
2013 – Chitti Babu , Indian actor (b. 1964)
2013 – William C. Davidon , American physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1927)
2013 – Penn Kimball , American journalist and academic (b. 1915)
2013 – Arnold Rosner , American composer (b. 1945)
2013 – Chiyoko Shimakura , Japanese singer and actress (b. 1938)
2013 – Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam , Indian journalist and actor (b. 1957)
2014 – Phil Crane , American academic and politician (b. 1930)
2014 – Luigi Gorrini , Italian soldier and pilot (b. 1917)
2014 – Meesai Murugesan , Indian actor and singer (b. 1930)
2014 – Don Paul , American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
2014 – Hugo Sánchez Portugal , Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (b. 1984)
2014 – Ernie Vandeweghe , Canadian-American basketball player and physician (b. 1928)
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