May 6 is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 239 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome ; some consider this the end of the Renaissance . 147 Swiss Guards , including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo .
1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
1536 – King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church.
1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa , the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1659 – English Restoration : A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament .
1682 – Louis XIV moves his court to the Palace of Versailles .
1757 – Battle of Prague : A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War .
1757 – The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War , and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums .
1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace , the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok , at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke .
1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo .
1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald .
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1844 – The Glaciarium , the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink , opens.
1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence .
1861 – American Civil War : Arkansas secedes from the Union .
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America .
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska .
1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin .
1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act .
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1902 – Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President.
1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII .
1915 – Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run while pitching for the Boston Red Sox .
1916 – Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists executed in the Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman wāli.
1933 – The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld 's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft , later burning many of its books.
1935 – New Deal : Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration .
1935 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk .
1937 – Hindenburg disaster : The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey . Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath .
1941 – At California 's March Field , Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt .
1942 – World War II : On Corregidor , the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive , the last major battle of the Eastern Front , begins.
1949 – EDSAC , the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer , runs its first operation.
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes .
1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey .
1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII .
1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş , Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
1975 – During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut to commemorate 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide .
1976 – An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin 's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
1984 – One hundred three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul .
1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200 , the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is known as the "coaster wars".
1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel .
1994 – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against United States President Bill Clinton , alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991 .
1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland , eight days after he disappeared.
1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens . He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
1999 – The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
2001 – During a trip to Syria , Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque .
2002 – After a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated .
2004 – The series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC . The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the sixth most watched television series finale in U.S. history.
2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland , Ohio . Their captor, Ariel Castro , is taken into custody.
2014 – Six people are injured in a knife attack at a Chinese train station in Guangzhou .
Births
1501 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
1574 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
1635 – Johann Joachim Becher (d. 1682)
1668 – Alain-René Lesage , French author and playwright (d. 1747)
1680 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck , Italian-French cellist and composer (d. 1755)
1713 – Charles Batteux , French philosopher and academic (d. 1780)
1714 – Anton Raaff , German tenor (d. 1797)
1742 – Jean Senebier , Swiss pastor and physiologist (d. 1809)
1758 – André Masséna , French general (d. 1817)
1758 – Maximilien Robespierre , French lawyer and politician (d. 1794)
1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
1769 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette , French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)
1781 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause , German philosopher and author (d. 1832)
1797 – Joseph Brackett , American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1800 – Roman Sanguszko , Polish general (d. 1881)
1827 – Hermann Raster , German-American journalist and politician (d. 1891)
1836 – Max Eyth , German engineer and author (d. 1906)
1843 – Grove Karl Gilbert , American geologist and academic (d. 1918)
1848 – Henry Edward Armstrong , English chemist and academic (d. 1937)
1851 – Aristide Bruant , French singer and actor (d. 1925)
1856 – Sigmund Freud , Austrian-English neurologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1939)
1856 – Robert Peary , American admiral and explorer (d. 1920)
1861 – Motilal Nehru , Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1931)
1868 – Gaston Leroux , French journalist and author (d. 1927)
1869 – Junnosuke Inoue , Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (d. 1932)
1870 – Walter Rutherford , Scottish golfer (d. 1936)
1871 – Victor Grignard , French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1871 – Christian Morgenstern , German author and poet (d. 1914)
1872 – Willem de Sitter , Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1934)
1872 – Djemal Pasha , Ottoman general (d. 1922)
1879 – Bedřich Hrozný , Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
1879 – Hendrik van Heuckelum , Dutch footballer (d. 1929)
1880 – Winifred Brunton , English-South African painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , German-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
1880 – William Joseph Simmons , American Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1945)
1882 – Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (d. 1951)
1895 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza , Brazilian mathematician and author (d. 1974)
1896 – Rolf Maximilian Sievert , Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1966)
1895 – Fidél Pálffy , Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (d. 1946)
1895 – Rudolph Valentino , Italian-American actor (d. 1926)
1897 – Paul Alverdes , German author and poet (d. 1979)
1898 – Konrad Henlein , Czech soldier and politician (d. 1945)
1899 – Billy Cotton , English singer, drummer, and bandleader (d. 1969)
1902 – Harry Golden , Ukrainian-American journalist and author (d. 1981)
1902 – Max Ophüls , German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1957)
1903 – Toots Shor , American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (d. 1977)
1904 – Raymond Bailey , American actor (d. 1980)
1904 – Moshé Feldenkrais , Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 1984)
1904 – Catherine Lacey , English actress (d. 1979)
1904 – Harry Martinson , Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
1905 – Philip N. Krasne , American lawyer and producer (d. 1999)
1906 – André Weil , French mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
1907 – Weeb Ewbank , American football player and coach (d. 1998)
1909 – Loyd Sigmon , American radio host (d. 2004)
1911 – Guy des Cars , French journalist and author (d. 1993)
1911 – Frank Nelson , American actor (d. 1986)
1913 – Carmen Cavallaro , American pianist (d. 1989)
1913 – Stewart Granger , English-American actor (d. 1993)
1915 – Orson Welles , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1985)
1915 – Theodore H. White , American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986)
1916 – Robert H. Dicke , American physicist and astronomer (d. 1997)
1916 – Sif Ruud , Swedish actress (d. 2011)
1916 – Adriana Caselotti , American voice actress and singer (d. 1997)
1917 – Kal Mann , American songwriter (d. 2001)
1917 – Jilly Rizzo , American businessman and actor (d. 1992)
1919 – André Guelfi , French race car driver
1920 – Martha Beck , American murderer (d. 1951)
1920 – Ross Hunter , American actor and producer (d. 1996)
1920 – Kamisese Mara , Fijian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2004)
1921 – Erich Fried , Austrian-German author, poet, and translator (d. 1988)
1922 – Vladimir Etush , Russian actor
1922 – Camille Laurin , Canadian psychiatrist and politician, 7th Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 1999)
1923 – Harry Watson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1924 – Nestor Basterretxea , Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 2014)
1924 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford , American author (d. 2006)
1924 – Denny Wright , English guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1992)
1926 – Gilles Grégoire , Canadian politician, co-founded the Parti Québécois (d. 2006)
1926 – Marguerite Piazza , American soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1929 – Rosemary Cramp , English archaeologist and academic
1929 – Paul Lauterbur , American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1929 – John Taylor , English bishop and theologian
1930 – Sonia Rykiel , French fashion designer
1931 – Willie Mays , American baseball player and coach
1932 – Ahmet Haxhiu , Kosovan activist (d. 1994)
1932 – Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath , English lieutenant and politician
1934 – Richard Shelby , American lawyer and politician
1936 – Bernard Lemaire , Canadian businessman
1937 – Rubin Carter , American-Canadian boxer (d. 2014)
1938 – Jean Garon , Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)
1938 – Larry Gogan , Irish radio host
1939 – Eddie C. Campbell , American singer and guitarist
1940 – Alexandra Burslem , Chinese-English academic
1942 – Ariel Dorfman , Argentinian author, playwright, and academic
1942 – David Friesen , American bassist
1942 – Rin Kaiho , Chinese-Japanese go player
1943 – Andreas Baader , German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1943 – Grange Calveley , English animator and screenwriter
1943 – Milton William Cooper , American theorist and author (d. 2001)
1943 – Wolfgang Reinhardt , German pole vaulter (d. 2011)
1943 – James Turrell , American sculptor and illustrator
1944 – Anton Furst , English-American production designer and art director (d. 1991)
1944 – Masanori Murakami , Japanese baseball player and coach
1945 – Richard Eyer , American actor and educator
1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The Flatlanders )
1945 – Bob Seger , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Susan Brown , English actress
1946 – Frankie Librán , Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2013)
1947 – Alan Dale , New Zealand actor
1947 – Kit Martin , English architect and author
1947 – Martha Nussbaum , American philosopher and author
1947 – Ljubomir Vračarević , Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (d. 2013)
1948 – Robert Eyer , American actor (d. 2005)
1948 – Mary MacGregor , American singer-songwriter
1950 – Jeffery Deaver , American journalist and author
1950 – Robbie McIntosh , Scottish drummer (Average White Band and The Senate ) (d. 1974)
1951 – Samuel Doe , Liberian sergeant and politician, 21st President of Liberia (d. 1990)
1951 – Antonio Saldías , Chilean historian and author
1952 – Graham Brazier , New Zealand singer-songwriter (Hello Sailor ) (d. 2015)
1952 – Christian Clavier , French actor and producer
1952 – Gregg Henry , American actor and singer
1952 – Michael O'Hare , American actor (d. 2012)
1952 – Fred Newman , American actor and composer
1952 – Gerrit Zalm , Dutch economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1953 – Alexander Akimov , Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (d. 1986)
1953 – Tony Blair , Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1953 – Michelle Courchesne , Canadian urban planner and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
1953 – Ülle Rajasalu , Estonian politician
1953 – David Rudder , Trinidadian calypsonian
1953 – Graeme Souness , Scottish footballer and manager
1953 – Lynn Whitfield , American actress and producer
1954 – Tom Abernethy , American basketball player
1954 – Dora Bakoyannis , Greek politician, 120th Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
1954 – Angela Hernández Nuñez , Dominican author and poet
1955 – Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh
1955 – Tom Bergeron , American television host
1955 – Ron Fawcett , English rock climber
1955 – John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness , English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1956 – Lakis Lazopoulos , Greek actor and screenwriter
1956 – Roland Wieser , German race walker and coach
1958 – Lolita Flores , Spanish singer and actress
1958 – Jan Leyers , Belgian singer-songwriter (Soulsister )
1958 – Randall Stout , American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (d. 2014)
1959 – Andreas Busse , German runner
1959 – Charles Hendry , English politician
1960 – Lyudmila Andonova , Bulgarian high jumper
1960 – Keith Dowding , English political scientist, philosopher, and academic
1960 – Roma Downey , Irish-American actress and producer
1960 – John Flansburgh , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (They Might Be Giants and Mono Puff )
1960 – Aleksei Lotman , Estonian biologist and politician
1960 – Anne Parillaud , French actress
1960 – Phyllis Treigle , American soprano and actress
1961 – Oleksandr Apaychev , Ukrainian decathlete and coach
1961 – George Clooney , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Tom Hunter , Scottish businessman and philanthropist
1961 – Gina Riley , Australian actress, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Tom Brake , English politician
1963 – Alessandra Ferri , Italian ballerina
1964 – Dana Hill , American actress and singer (d. 1996)
1964 – Tony Scalzo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fastball )
1965 – Leslie Hope , Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Worku Bikila , Ethiopian runner
1968 – Shin Hae-chul , South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (N.EX.T ) (d. 2014)
1968 – Lætitia Sadier , French singer and keyboard player (Stereolab , Monade , and McCarthy )
1969 – Jim Magilton , Irish footballer and manager
1970 – Roland Kun , Nauruan politician
1970 – Kavan Smith , Canadian actor
1970 – Tristán Ulloa , French-Spanish actor and director
1971 – Chris Shiflett , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foo Fighters , Me First and the Gimme Gimmes , Jackson United , No Use for a Name , and Viva Death )
1972 – Martin Brodeur , Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Naoko Takahashi , Japanese runner
1974 – Bernard Barmasai , Kenyan runner
1974 – Daniela Bártová , Czech pole vaulter and gymnast
1974 – Faruk Namdar , German-Turkish footballer
1974 – Patrick Tang , Hong Kong actor and singer
1976 – Dean Chandler , English footballer
1977 – Christophe Brandt , Belgian cyclist
1977 – Marc Chouinard , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Mark Eaton , American ice hockey player and coach
1978 – John Abraham , American football player
1978 – Fredrick Federley , Swedish journalist and politician
1978 – Aleksandr Fyodorov , Russian bodybuilder
1979 – Mark Burrier , American illustrator
1979 – Kerry Ellis , English actress and singer
1979 – Gerd Kanter , Estonian discus thrower
1979 – Jan Erik Mikalsen , Norwegian composer
1980 – Taebin , American-South Korean rapper (1TYM )
1980 – Colt Cabana , American wrestler
1980 – Dimitris Diamantidis , Greek basketball player
1980 – Mark Ladwig , American figure skater
1980 – Ricardo Oliveira , Brazilian footballer
1980 – Kelly van der Veer , Dutch singer and actress
1981 – Matt Drake , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Evile )
1981 – Nick Setta , American-Canadian football player
1981 – Edyta Śliwińska , Polish-American dancer
1982 – Dilshod Nazarov , Tajikistani hammer thrower
1982 – Kyle Shewfelt , Canadian gymnast
1982 – Jason Witten , American football player
1983 – Dani Alves , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Ingrid Jonach , Australian author
1983 – Adrianne Palicki , American actress
1983 – Gabourey Sidibe , American actress
1983 – Trinley Thaye Dorje , Tibetan religious leader, the 17th Karmapa Lama
1983 – Raquel Zimmermann , Brazilian model
1984 – Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki , American-Somali terrorist (d. 2013)
1984 – Anton Babchuk , Ukrainian ice hockey player
1984 – Juan Pablo Carrizo , Argentinian footballer
1985 – Tanerau Latimer , New Zealand rugby player
1985 – Chris Paul , American basketball player
1986 – Cindy Daniel , Canadian singer
1986 – Goran Dragić , Slovenian basketball player
1986 – Tyler Hynes , Canadian actor, director, and producer
1986 – Roman Kreuziger , Czech cyclist
1986 – Gintarė Vostrecovaitė , Lithuanian figure skater
1986 – Sasheer Zamata , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1987 – Moon Geun-young , South Korean actress
1987 – Aljona Malets , Estonian footballer
1987 – Meek Mill , American rapper and producer
1987 – Kaliese Spencer , Jamaican hurdler
1989 – Bobby Bazini , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Dominika Cibulková , Slovakian tennis player
1989 – Amra Sadiković , Swiss tennis player
1990 – Danielle Beaubrun , Saint Lucian swimmer
1990 – Caitlin Yankowskas , American figure skater
1991 – Valerio Frasca , Italian footballer
1991 – Harriet Lee , English swimmer
1992 – Brendan Gallagher , Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Ria Popović , English-Serbian footballer
1992 – Zigismunds Sirmais , Latvian javelin thrower
1992 – Takashi Usami , Japanese footballer
1993 – Alex Preston , American singer
1993 – Naomi Scott , English actress and singer
1993 – Andris Siksnis , Latvian ice hockey player
1993 – Kim Dasom , South Korean singer, dancer, actress (Sistar )
1994 – Mateo Kovačić , Austrian-Croatian footballer
1996 – Dominic Scott Kay , American actor and singer
2002 – Emily Alyn Lind , American actress
Deaths
1471 – Edmund Beaufort , English commander (b. 1438)
1475 – Dieric Bouts , Flemish painter (b. 1415)
1502 – James Tyrrell , English knight (b. 1450)
1596 – Giaches de Wert , Flemish-Italian composer (b. 1535)
1631 – Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington , English historian and politician, founded the Cotton library (b. 1570)
1638 – Cornelius Jansen , Dutch-French bishop and theologian (b. 1585)
1708 – François de Laval , French-Canadian bishop (b. 1623)
1757 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1683)
1757 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin , Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
1782 – Christine Kirch , German astronomer and academic (b. 1696)
1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander , Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
1859 – Alexander von Humboldt , German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
1862 – Henry David Thoreau , American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg , Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
1882 – Thomas Henry Burke , Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
1882 – Lord Frederick Cavendish , English-Irish politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
1902 – Bret Harte , American-English author and poet (b. 1836)
1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
1913 – Alexandros Schinas , Greek assassin of George I of Greece (b. 1870)
1919 – L. Frank Baum , American journalist and author (b. 1856)
1939 – Konstantin Somov , Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1951 – Élie Cartan , French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
1952 – Maria Montessori , Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
1959 – Ragnar Nurkse , Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
1961 – Lucian Blaga , Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
1963 – Theodore von Kármán , Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
1963 – Ted Weems , American violinist, and trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
1963 – Monty Woolley , American actor and director (b. 1888)
1967 – Zhou Zuoren , Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)
1970 – Alexander Rodzyanko , Russian general (b. 1879)
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş , Turkish activist (b. 1947)
1973 – Ernest MacMillan , Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
1975 – József Mindszenty , Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
1981 – Frank O'Grady , Australian public servant (b. 1900)
1983 – Ezra Jack Keats , American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
1983 – Kai Winding , Danish-American trombonist and composer (b. 1922)
1984 – Mary Cain , American journalist and politician (b. 1904)
1984 – Bonner Pink , English politician (b. 1912)
1985 – Julie Vega , Filipino actress and singer (b. 1968)
1987 – William J. Casey , American politician, 13th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
1989 – Earl Blaik , American football player and coach (b. 1897)
1990 – Charles Farrell , American actor and singer (b. 1901)
1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White , English-American actor and singer (b. 1903)
1992 – Marlene Dietrich , German-American actress and singer (b. 1901)
1992 – Gaston Reiff , Belgian runner (b. 1921)
1992 – Jilly Rizzo , American businessman and actor (b. 1917)
1993 – Ann Todd , English actress and producer (b. 1909)
1995 – Noel Brotherston , Irish footballer (b. 1956)
1995 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança , Portuguese woman who claimed to be the daughter of Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1907)
2000 – Gordon McClymont , Australian ecologist and academic (b. 1920)
2001 – Mike Hazlewood , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Family Dogg ) (b. 1941)
2002 – Murray Adaskin , Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1906)
2002 – Otis Blackwell , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1932)
2002 – Pim Fortuyn , Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician (b. 1948)
2002 – Bjørn Johansen , Norwegian saxophonist (b. 1940)
2003 – Art Houtteman , American baseball player and journalist (b. 1927)
2004 – Virginia Capers , American actress (b. 1925)
2004 – Philip Kapleau , American monk and educator (b. 1912)
2004 – Barney Kessel , American guitarist and composer (The Wrecking Crew ) (b. 1923)
2006 – Lillian Asplund , American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1906)
2006 – Shigeru Kayano , Japanese activist (b. 1926)
2006 – Grant McLennan , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens and Jack Frost ) (b. 1958)
2006 – Lorne Saxberg , Canadian journalist (b. 1958)
2007 – Enéas Carneiro , Brazilian physician and politician (b. 1938)
2007 – Curtis Harrington , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2007 – Đorđe Novković , Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
2009 – Kevin Grubb , American race car driver (b. 1978)
2009 – Viola Wills , American singer (b. 1939)
2010 – Robin Roberts , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1926)
2012 – Fahd al-Quso , Yemeni terrorist (b. 1974)
2012 – James R. Browning , American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (b. 1918)
2012 – Pat Frink , American basketball player (b. 1945)
2012 – Iraj Ghaderi , Iranian actor and director (b. 1935)
2012 – James Isaac , American director and producer (b. 1960)
2012 – Jean Laplanche , French psychoanalyst and author (b. 1924)
2012 – George Lindsey , American actor and singer (b. 1928)
2013 – Giulio Andreotti , Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
2013 – Steve Carney , English footballer (b. 1957)
2013 – Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (b. 1909)
2013 – Esperanza Magaz , Cuban-Venezuelan actress (b. 1922)
2013 – Severo Aparicio Quispe , Peruvian bishop (b. 1923)
2013 – Michelangelo Spensieri , Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2014 – Wil Albeda , Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Social Affairs (b. 1925)
2014 – Bill Dana , American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
2014 – Jimmy Ellis , American boxer (b. 1940)
2014 – Billy Harrell , American baseball player and scout (b. 1928)
2014 – Antony Hopkins , English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1921)
2014 – Maria Lassnig , Austrian painter and academic (b. 1919)
2014 – Farley Mowat , Canadian environmentalist and author (b. 1921)
2015 – Novera Ahmed , Bangladeshi sculptor (b. 1930)
2015 – Errol Brown , Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (Hot Chocolate ) (b. 1943)
2015 – Denise McCluggage , American race car driver and journalist (b. 1927)
2015 – Jim Wright , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1922)
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