July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 156 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina .
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason . Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard , on the same day.
1571 – La Laguna encomienda , known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
1778 – Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain .
1794 – French Revolution : Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France .
1808 – Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam .
1809 – Peninsular War : Battle of Talavera : Sir Arthur Wellesley 's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte .
1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1854 – USS Constellation (1854) , the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned.
1864 – American Civil War : Battle of Ezra Church : Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia .
1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln ).
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1914 – In the culmination of the July Crisis , Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia , igniting World War I .
1915 – The United States of America begins a 20-year occupation of Haiti .
1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army " of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress .
1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
1942 – World War II : Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 . In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag , or execution.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah : The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France .
1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya , western Kyushu, Japan , kills 992.
1965 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen : Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1974 – Spetsgruppa A , Russia's elite special force, was formed.
1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1984 – The 1984 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were opened in Los Angeles .
1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations .
1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington . Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man .
2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania , are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland .
2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
2010 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan , killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321 .
Births
1347 – Margaret of Durazzo (d. 1412)
1635 – Robert Hooke , English physicist and chemist (d. 1703)
1659 – Charles Ancillon , French jurist and diplomat (d. 1715)
1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr. , American judge and politician (d. 1809)
1750 – Fabre d'Églantine French actor, playwright, and politician (d. 1794)
1796 – Ignaz Bösendorfer , Austrian businessman, founded the Bösendorfer Company (d. 1859)
1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach , German anthropologist and philosopher (d. 1872)
1815 – Stefan Dunjov , Bulgarian colonel (d. 1889)
1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins , English priest and poet (d. 1889)
1857 – Ballington Booth , English-American activist, co-founded Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1860 – Elias M. Ammons , American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 – Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski , Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 – Beatrix Potter , English author and illustrator (d. 1943)
1866 – Albertson Van Zo Post , American fencer (d. 1938)
1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine , American-Argentinian astronomer (d. 1951)
1872 – Albert Sarraut , French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (d. 1962)
1874 – Ernst Cassirer , Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945)
1879 – Lucy Burns , American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party (d. 1966)
1879 – Stefan Filipkiewicz , Polish painter (d. 1944)
1887 – Marcel Duchamp , French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
1887 – Willard Price , Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 1983)
1893 – Rued Langgaard , Danish organist and composer (d. 1952)
1896 – Barbara La Marr , American actress and screenwriter (d. 1926)
1898 – Lawrence Gray , American actor (d. 1970)
1900 – Catherine Dale Owen , American actress (d. 1965)
1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979)
1901 – Rudy Vallée , American singer, actor, and saxophonist (d. 1986)
1902 – Albert Namatjira , Australian painter (d. 1959)
1902 – Karl Popper , Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
1907 – Earl Tupper , American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands (d. 1983)
1909 – Aenne Burda German publisher (d. 2005)
1909 – Malcolm Lowry , English author and poet (d. 1957)
1914 – Carmen Dragon , American conductor and composer (d. 1984)
1915 – Charles Hard Townes , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1915 – Dick Sprang , American illustrator (d. 2000)
1916 – David Brown , American journalist and producer (d. 2010)
1920 – Preben Mahrt , Danish actor (d. 1989)
1920 – Andrew V. McLaglen , English-American director and producer (d. 2014)
1922 – Jacques Piccard , Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (d. 2008)
1923 – Ray Ellis , American conductor and producer (d. 2008)
1924 – Luigi Musso , Italian race car driver (d. 1958)
1924 – C. T. Vivian , American minister, author, and activist
1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg , American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1926 – Charlie Biddle , American-Canadian bassist (d. 2003)
1927 – John Ashbery , American poet and academic
1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1930 – Firoza Begum , Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014)
1930 – Junior Kimbrough , American singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
1930 – Jean Roba , Belgian author and illustrator (d. 2006)
1930 – Ramsey Muir Withers , Canadian general (d. 2014)
1931 – Alan Brownjohn , English poet and author
1932 – Natalie Babbitt , American author and illustrator
1933 – Charlie Hodge , Canadian ice hockey player and scout
1934 – Jacques d'Amboise , American dancer and choreographer
1934 – Lau Kar-leung , Chinese actor, martial artist, and director (d. 2013)
1935 – Simon Dee , English talk show host (d. 2009)
1935 – Neil McKendrick , English historian and academic
1936 – Jim Galloway , Scottish-Canadian saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 2014)
1936 – Russ Jackson , Canadian football player and coach
1936 – Garfield Sobers , Barbadian cricketer
1937 – Francis Veber , French director and screenwriter
1938 – Luis Aragonés , Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1938 – Arsen Dedić , Croatian singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
1938 – Alberto Fujimori , Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, 90th President of Peru
1938 – Chuan Leekpai , Thai lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Thailand
1939 – Richard Johns , English air marshal
1940 – Philip Proctor , American voice actor and screenwriter
1941 – Peter Cullen , Canadian voice actor and singer
1941 – Riccardo Muti , Italian conductor and educator
1941 – Susan Roces , Filipino actress and producer
1942 – Marty Brennaman , American sportscaster
1942 – Tonia Marketaki , Greek director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1942 – John Sattler , Australian rugby player
1943 – Mike Bloomfield , American guitarist and songwriter (The Electric Flag ) (d. 1981)
1943 – Bill Bradley , American basketball player and politician
1943 – Richard Wright , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Pink Floyd ) (d. 2008)
1945 – Jim Davis , American cartoonist, created Garfield
1945 – Faruk Süren , Turkish businessman
1946 – Jonathan Edwards , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Linda Kelsey , American actress
1946 – Fahmida Riaz , Pakistani poet and activist
1947 – Sally Struthers , American actress and singer
1948 – Gerald Casale , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director (Devo and Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers )
1948 – Georgia Engel , American actress
1948 – Eiichi Ohtaki , Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Happy End ) (d. 2013)
1949 – Vida Blue , American baseball player and sportscaster
1949 – Peter Doyle , Australian singer and guitarist (The New Seekers ) (d. 2001)
1949 – Simon Kirke , English drummer (Bad Company and Free )
1949 – Steve Peregrin Took , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Tyrannosaurus Rex , Pink Fairies , Shagrat , Steve Took's Horns ) (d. 1980)
1949 – Randall Wallace , American screenwriter and producer
1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari , Iranian singer-songwriter
1951 – Santiago Calatrava , Spanish architect and engineer, designed the Athens Olympic Sports Complex
1951 – Doug Collins , American basketball player and coach
1951 – Anthony A. Williams , American lawyer and politician, 5th Mayor of the District of Columbia
1952 – Vajiralongkorn , Thai prince
1952 – Glenn A. Baker , Australian journalist and author
1954 – Bruce Abbott , American actor
1954 – Hugo Chávez , Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
1954 – Gerd Faltings , German mathematician and academic
1954 – Steve Morse , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dixie Dregs , Deep Purple , Living Loud , Angelfire , Kansas , and Flying Colors )
1954 – Mikey Sheehy , Irish footballer
1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov , Russian skier
1956 – John Feinstein , American journalist and author
1956 – Robert Swan , English explorer
1958 – Terry Fox , Canadian runner and activist (d. 1981)
1958 – Michael Hitchcock , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – William T. Vollmann , American journalist and author
1960 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho , Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Jon J. Muth , American author and illustrator
1960 – Yōichi Takahashi , Japanese illustrator
1961 – Yannick Dalmas , French race car driver
1961 – Aleksandr Kurlovich , Belarusian weightlifter
1961 – Harlem Yu , Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
1962 – Rachel Sweet , American actress, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Beverley Craven , Sri Lankan-English singer-songwriter and pianist
1963 – Shaunna Hall , American guitarist and composer (4 Non Blondes and Parliament-Funkadelic )
1964 – Lori Loughlin , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Priscilla Chan , Hong Kong singer
1965 – Delfeayo Marsalis , American trombonist and producer
1966 – Shikao Suga , Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Taka Hirose , Japanese bass player (Feeder )
1969 – Alexis Arquette , American actress
1969 – Jón Arnar Magnússon , Icelandic decathlete
1969 – Garth Snow , American ice hockey player and manager
1969 – Dana White , American businessman
1970 – Michael Amott , Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Arch Enemy , Spiritual Beggars , Candlemass , Carcass , and Carnage )
1970 – Isabelle Brasseur , Canadian figure skater
1970 – Paul Strang , Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1971 – Stephen Lynch , American singer-songwriter and actor
1971 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , Iraqi leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1971 – Annie Perreault , Canadian speed skater
1971 – Jeffrey S. Williams , American journalist and author
1972 – Elizabeth Berkley , American actress
1972 – Robert Chapman , English cricketer
1972 – Ayesha Jhulka , Indian actress
1972 – Yum Jung-ah , South Korean actress
1972 – Ed Templeton , American skateboarder and businessman
1973 – Marc Dupré , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Steve Staios , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Afroman , American rapper
1974 – Justin Lee Collins , English comedian, actor, and author
1974 – Alexis Tsipras , Greek engineer and politician, 186th Prime Minister of Greece
1975 – Leonor Watling , Spanish actress and singer (Marlango )
1976 – Jacoby Shaddix , American singer-songwriter (Papa Roach and Fight the Sky )
1977 – Aki Berg , Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Sunshine Cruz , Filipino actress and singer
1977 – Gabriel Diggs , American DJ and producer
1977 – Manu Ginóbili , Argentinian basketball player
1977 – Dexter Jackson , American football player and sportscaster
1977 – Chris Samuels , American football player and coach
1978 – Jacob Oram , New Zealand cricketer and coach
1978 – Julian Peterson , American football player
1978 – Kārlis Vērdiņš , Latvian poet
1978 – Hitomi Yaida , Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Henrik Hansen , Danish footballer
1979 – Birgitta Haukdal , Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer (Írafár )
1979 – Stefanie Küster , Paraguayan-German model, actress, and dancer
1979 – Lee Min-woo , South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Shinhwa )
1979 – Marcus North , Australian cricketer
1979 – James Piotr Montague , English journalist and author
1979 – Alena Popchanka , Belarusian-French swimmer and coach
1980 – Darina , Mexican singer-songwriter
1980 – Stephen Christian , American singer-songwriter (Anberlin and Anchor & Braille )
1980 – Harumi Nemoto , Japanese model and actress
1980 – Noel Sullivan , Welsh singer and actor (Hear'Say )
1980 – Anthony Weaver , American football player
1981 – Nancy Alexiadi , Greek singer
1981 – Billy Aaron Brown , American actor
1981 – Michael Carrick , English footballer
1981 – Jo In-sung , South Korean actor
1981 – Dave Rosin , Canadian guitarist and singer (Hedley )
1981 – Bi Wenjing , Chinese gymnast
1981 – Cole Williams , American actor
1982 – Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir , Icelandic singer and actress
1982 – Tom Pelphrey , American actor
1982 – Michael Rose , English footballer
1982 – Cain Velasquez , American mixed martial artist
1983 – Dhanush , Indian actor and singer
1983 – Cody Hay , Canadian figure skater
1984 – Leah Luv , American porn actress and director
1984 – Zach Parise , American ice hockey player
1984 – DeMeco Ryans , American football player
1984 – John David Washington , American football player, actor, and producer
1985 – Mathieu Debuchy , French footballer
1985 – Dustin Milligan , Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1985 – Darren Murphy , Irish footballer
1985 – Sharifah Sofia , English-Malaysian actress
1986 – Alexandra Chando , American actress
1986 – Lauri Korpikoski , Finnish ice hockey player
1986 – Huma Qureshi , Indian actress
1987 – Sumire , Japanese model (d. 2009)
1987 – Yasser Corona , Mexican footballer
1987 – Yevhen Khacheridi , Ukrainian-Greek footballer
1987 – Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma , Spanish footballer
1987 – John Stevens , American singer
1988 – Ayla Brown , American basketball player and singer
1988 – Greg Hardy , American football player
1988 – Gunnar Nelson , Icelandic mixed martial artist
1988 – Nick Santino , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Rocket to the Moon )
1989 – Felipe Kitadai , Brazilian martial artist
1990 – Soulja Boy , American rapper, producer, and actor
1990 – Simone Pizzuti , Italian footballer
1990 – Shana Swash , English actress
1991 – Rina Aizawa , Japanese actress and model
1992 – Spencer Boldman , American actor
1993 – Harry Kane , English footballer
1993 – Cher Lloyd , English singer-songwriter
1993 – Hannah Lochner , Canadian actress
1995 – Ben Watton , English actor
2000 – Emily Hahn , American actress
Deaths
450 – Theodosius II , Roman emperor (b. 401)
1057 – Pope Victor II (b. 1018)
1128 – William Clito , English son of Sybilla of Conversano (b. 1102)
1230 – Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia
1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas , Spanish explorer, founded the city of Santa Marta (b. 1460)
1540 – Thomas Cromwell , English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1495)
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis , Spanish playwright (b. 1569)
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac , French poet and playwright (b. 1619)
1667 – Abraham Cowley , English poet and author (b. 1618)
1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke , English lawyer and politician (b. 1605)
1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington , English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1618)
1718 – Étienne Baluze , French scholar and academic (b. 1630)
1741 – Antonio Vivaldi , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1678)
1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach , German organist and composer (b. 1685)
1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1691)
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre , French lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the Committee of Public Safety (b. 1758)
1794 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just , French soldier and politician (b. 1767)
1808 – Selim III , Ottoman sultan (b. 1761)
1809 – Richard Beckett , English cricketer and captain (b.1772)
1818 – Gaspard Monge , French mathematician and engineer (b. 1746)
1835 – Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise , French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)
1836 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild , German-English banker and financier (b. 1777)
1842 – Clemens Brentano , German author and poet (b. 1778)
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte , French brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
1849 – Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně , Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
1878 – George Law Curry , American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
1895 – Edward Beecher , American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
1930 – John DeWitt , American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
1930 – Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III , Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
1934 – Marie Dressler , Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
1934 – Louis Tancred , South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
1935 – Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
1942 – Flinders Petrie , English archaeologist and academic (b. 1853)
1957 – Edith Abbott , American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
1957 – Isaac Heinemann , German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)
1965 – Edogawa Ranpo , Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
1965 – Attallah Suheimat , Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
1967 – Karl W. Richter , American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942)
1968 – Otto Hahn , German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1969 – Ramón Grau , Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (b. 1882)
1969 – Frank Loesser , American composer (b. 1910)
1971 – Lawrence Moore Cosgrave , Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890)
1971 – Myril Hoag , American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 – Charles E. Pont , French-American minister and painter (b. 1898)
1972 – Helen Traubel , American soprano and actress (b. 1903)
1972 – Charu Majumdar , Indian activist and theorist (b. 1918)
1979 – Don Miller , American football player and coach (b. 1902)
1979 – Charles Shadwell , English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1981 – Stanley Rother , American priest and missionary (b. 1935)
1982 – Keith Green , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1953)
1990 – Jill Esmond , English actress (b. 1908)
1992 – Sulev Nõmmik , Estonian actor and director (b. 1931)
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson , American ornithologist and academic (b. 1908)
1997 – Rosalie Crutchley , English actress (b. 1920)
1997 – Seni Pramoj , Thai lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
1998 – Zbigniew Herbert , Polish poet and author (b. 1924)
1998 – Lenny McLean , English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949)
1998 – Consalvo Sanesi , Italian race car driver (b. 1911)
1999 – Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2000 – Abraham Pais , Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2001 – Ahmed Sofa , Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
2002 – Archer John Porter Martin , English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
2003 – Valerie Goulding , Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Francis Crick , English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – Sam Edwards , American actor (b. 1915)
2004 – Eugene Roche , American actor (b. 1928)
2004 – Tiziano Terzani , Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)
2006 – Patrick Allen , Malawian-English actor (b. 1927)
2006 – David Gemmell , English author (b. 1948)
2007 – Karl Gotch , Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
2007 – Jim LeRoy , American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
2008 – Suzanne Tamim , Lebanese singer (b. 1977)
2009 – Reverend Ike , American minister (b. 1935)
2009 – Jim Johnson , American football player and coach (b. 1941)
2010 – Ivy Bean , English centenarian (b. 1905)
2010 – George P. Lee , American religious leader (b. 1943)
2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis , Libyan general (b. 1944)
2012 – Adam Cullen , Australian painter (b. 1965)
2012 – Colin Horsley , New Zealand-English pianist and educator (b. 1920)
2012 – Carol Kendall , American author (b. 1917)
2012 – Sepp Mayerl , Austrian mountaineer (b. 1937)
2012 – William F. Milliken Jr. , American race car driver and engineer (b. 1911)
2012 – Ruth Mott , English chef and author (b. 1917)
2012 – David Thomas , English cricketer (b. 1959)
2013 – Mustafa Adrisi , Ugandan general and politician, 3rd Vice President of Uganda (b. 1922)
2013 – Eileen Brennan , American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2013 – Frank Castillo , American baseball player and coach (b. 1969)
2013 – Graham Murray , Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1955)
2013 – Rita Reys , Dutch singer (b. 1924)
2013 – George Scott , American baseball player (b. 1944)
2013 – William Scranton , American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1917)
2013 – Ersilio Tonini , Italian cardinal (b. 1914)
2014 – Margot Adler , American journalist and author (b. 1946)
2014 – Alex Forbes , Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1925)
2014 – Alakbar Mammadov , Azerbaijani footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2014 – James Shigeta , American actor and singer (b. 1929)
2014 – Theodore Van Kirk , American soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1921)
2015 – David Faber , Polish-American author and academic (b. 1928)
2015 – Jan Kulczyk , Polish businessman (b. 1950)
2015 – Edward Natapei , Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
2015 – Clive Rice , South African cricketer and coach (b. 1949)
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