June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei .
1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi .
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway .
1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll .
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island .
1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.
1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge .
1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy .
1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco .
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario .
1807 – Russo-Turkish War : Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos .
1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece .
1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire , Quebec .
1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George . He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 – France annexes Tahiti .
1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi , the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel 's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder , thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government .
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia .
1915 – The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising .
1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada .
1927 – The Bird of Paradise , a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull 's controllable-pitch propeller .
1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union .
1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System .
1972 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina . Her husband, President Juan Perón , had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet .
1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1976 – The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin
1995 – Space Shuttle program : STS-71 Mission (Atlantis ) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul , South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld : The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush 's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law .
2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone .
2012 – A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
Births
1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
1398 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1475 – Beatrice d'Este , Italian wife of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1497)
1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 – Rembert Dodoens , Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
1543 – Christine of Hesse (d. 1604)
1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe , German linguist, author, and educator (d. 1818)
1793 – Josef Ressel , Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
1798 – Willibald Alexis , German author and poet (d. 1871)
1798 – Giacomo Leopardi , Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
1803 – John Newton Brown , American minister and author (d. 1868)
1818 – Angelo Secchi , Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1878)
1819 – Thomas Dunn English , American poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1902)
1833 – Peter Waage , Norwegian chemist and academic (d. 1900)
1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
1849 – Pedro Montt , Chilean lawyer and politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
1849 – Sergei Witte , Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (d. 1915)
1849 – John Hunn , American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
1858 – George Washington Goethals , American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
1858 – Julia Lathrop , American activist and politician (d. 1932)
1861 – William James Mayo , American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1863 – Wilbert Robinson , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1934)
1866 – Bartholomeus Roodenburch , Dutch swimmer (d. 1939)
1868 – George Ellery Hale , American astronomer and journalist (d. 1938)
1870 – Joseph Carl Breil , American tenor, composer, and director (d. 1926)
1873 – Leo Frobenius , German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella , Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
1879 – Zsigmond Móricz , Hungarian author (d. 1942)
1880 – Ludwig Beck , German general (d. 1944)
1881 – Harry Frazee , American director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
1881 – Curt Sachs , German-American composer and musicologist (d. 1959)
1882 – Henry Hawtrey , English runner (d. 1961)
1882 – Franz Seldte , German captain and politician, Reich Minister for Labour (d. 1947)
1886 – Robert Schuman , Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
1886 – James Van Der Zee , American photographer (d. 1983)
1888 – Alexander Friedmann , Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
1888 – Squizzy Taylor , Australian gangster (d. 1927)
1889 – Willie Macfarlane , Scottish-American golfer (d. 1961)
1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper , Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2005)
1890 – Robert Laurent , American sculptor and academic (d. 1970)
1892 – Henry Gerber , German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (d. 1972)
1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis , Indian economist and statistician (d. 1972)
1893 – Aarre Merikanto , Finnish composer and educator (d. 1958)
1897 – Fulgence Charpentier , Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 2001)
1898 – Yvonne Lefébure , French pianist and educator (d. 1986)
1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French poet and pilot (d. 1944)
1901 – Nelson Eddy , American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1903 – Alan Blumlein , English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
1903 – Paul Newlan , American actor (d. 1973)
1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky , Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1906 – Heinz Harmel , German general (d. 2000)
1908 – Leroy Anderson , American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
1908 – Erik Lundqvist , Swedish javelin thrower (d. 1963)
1910 – Frank Loesser , American composer and conductor (d. 1969)
1910 – Burgess Whitehead , American baseball player (d. 1993)
1911 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 2004)
1911 – Katherine DeMille , Canadian-American actress (d. 1995)
1911 – Bernard Herrmann , American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
1912 – José Pablo Moncayo , Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
1912 – Émile Peynaud , French oenologist and academic (d. 2004)
1912 – John Toland , American historian and author (d. 2004)
1913 – Earle Meadows , American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
1914 – Rafael Kubelík , Czech-American conductor and composer (d. 1996)
1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos , Greek-American mathematician and academic (d. 1976)
1916 – Ruth Warrick , American actress, singer, and political activist (d. 2005)
1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada , Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
1919 – Slim Pickens , American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1919 – Lloyd Richards , Canadian-American actor and director (d. 2006)
1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez , Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1995)
1920 – Ray Harryhausen , American animator and producer (d. 2013)
1920 – Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 2012)
1921 – Frédéric Dard , French author and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1921 – Jean Kent , English actress (d. 2013)
1921 – Reinhard Mohn , German businessman (d. 2009)
1921 – Harry Schell , French-American race car driver (d. 1960)
1922 – Ralph Burns , American songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist (d. 2001)
1922 – Vasko Popa , Serbian poet and academic (d. 1991)
1922 – John William Vessey, Jr. , American general
1923 – Chou Wen-chung , Chinese-American composer and educator
1924 – Ezra Laderman , American composer and educator (d. 2015)
1924 – Flo Sandon's , Italian singer (d. 2006)
1924 – Roy Walford , American pathologist and gerontologist (d. 2004)
1925 – Giorgio Napolitano , Italian journalist and politician, 11th President of Italy
1925 – Chan Parker , American dancer and author (d. 1999)
1925 – Hale Smith , American pianist and composer (d. 2009)
1925 – Jackie Lynn Taylor , American actress (d. 2014)
1925 – Cara Williams , American actress and singer
1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1927 – Pierre Perrault , Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1928 – Ian Bannen , Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1928 – Jean-Louis Pesch , French author and illustrator
1928 – Radius Prawiro , Indonesian economist and politician (d. 2005)
1929 – Pat Crawford Brown , American actress
1929 – Oriana Fallaci , Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
1930 – Ernst Albrecht , German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 2014)
1930 – Robert Evans , American actor and producer
1930 – Viola Léger , American-Canadian actress and politician
1930 – Sławomir Mrożek , Polish-French author and playwright (d. 2013)
1931 – Sevim Burak , Turkish author (d. 1983)
1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton , British jurist; Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
1933 – Bob Shaw , American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
1933 – John Bradshaw , American theologian and author
1934 – Corey Allen , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
1935 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos , Greek captain and businessman (d. 2011)
1935 – Katsuya Nomura , Japanese baseball player and manager
1936 – Harmon Killebrew , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
1939 – Alan Connolly , Australian cricketer
1939 – Lo Lieh , Hong Kong martial artist, actor, and director (d. 2002)
1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira , Brazilian footballer and coach
1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov , Russian composer
1940 – John Dawes , Welsh rugby player and coach
1941 – John Boccabella , American baseball player
1941 – Stokely Carmichael , Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
1941 – Margitta Gummel , German shot putter
1942 – Charlotte Bingham , English author and screenwriter
1942 – Paul Lorieau , Canadian optician and singer (d. 2013)
1942 – Mike Willesee , Australian journalist and producer
1943 – Little Eva , American singer (d. 2003)
1944 – Gary Busey , American actor and singer
1944 – Andreu Mas-Colell , Spanish economist, academic, and politician
1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley , American cardinal
1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga , Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 5th President of Sri Lanka
1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares , Panamanian politician, 33rd President of Panama
1946 – Egon von Fürstenberg , Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1947 – Richard Lewis , American actor and screenwriter
1948 – Sean Bergin , South African-Dutch saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
1948 – Fred Grandy , American actor and politician
1948 – Ian Paice , English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Deep Purple and Paice Ashton Lord )
1948 – Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar , Kenyan-English politician
1949 – Greg Burson , American voice actor (d. 2008)
1949 – Dan Dierdorf , American football player and sportscaster
1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu , Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
1949 – Ann Veneman , American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
1950 – Bobby London , American illustrator
1950 – Don Moen , American singer-songwriter and producer
1950 – Michael Whelan , American painter and illustrator
1951 – Don Rosa , American author and illustrator
1952 – Joan Tronto , American political scientist
1953 – Don Dokken , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dokken )
1953 – Colin Hay , Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and actor (Men at Work )
1954 – Rick Honeycutt , American baseball player and coach
1954 – Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior , Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan , American activist
1955 – Charles J. Precourt , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1956 – Nick Fry , English economist and businessman
1956 – David Burroughs Mattingly , American illustrator and painter
1956 – Pedro Guerrero , Dominican-American baseball player and manager
1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes , Portuguese lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
1956 – A. K. Shiva Kumar , Indian economist and academic
1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky , Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow , Turkmen dentist and politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
1957 – María Conchita Alonso , Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
1957 – Robert Forster , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens and Tuff Monks )
1957 – Michael Nutter , American politician, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
1957 – Terry Wyatt , English physicist and academic
1958 – Dieter Althaus , German politician
1958 – Jeff Coopwood , American actor and singer
1958 – Rosa Mota , Portuguese runner
1958 – Mark Radcliffe , English singer and radio host (Shirehorses and The Family Mahone )
1958 – Ralf Rangnick , German footballer and manager
1959 – Buren Fowler , American guitarist (Drivin N Cryin ) (d. 2014)
1961 – Kimberlin Brown , American actress
1961 – Greg Hetson , American singer and guitarist (Bad Religion , Circle Jerks , Black President , and Redd Kross )
1961 – Sharon Lawrence , American actress, singer, and dancer
1962 – Amanda Donohoe , English actress
1962 – Joan Laporta , Spanish lawyer and politician
1962 – George D. Zamka , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1963 – Khalid El-Masri , Kuwaiti-German kidnapped victim
1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter , German violinist
1964 – Stedman Pearson , English singer-songwriter and dancer (Five Star )
1965 – Tripp Eisen , American guitarist (Static-X , Dope , and Murderdolls )
1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas , Greek basketball player
1966 – Yoko Kamio , Japanese author and illustrator
1966 – John Part , Canadian darts player and sportscaster
1967 – Jeff Burton , American race car driver
1967 – Murray Foster , Canadian bass player (Moxy Früvous and Great Big Sea )
1967 – Melora Hardin , American actress and singer
1967 – Seamus McGarvey , Irish cinematographer
1968 – Theoren Fleury , Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Judith Hoag , American actress and educator
1969 – Claude Béchard , Canadian politician (d. 2010)
1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis , Greek footballer and manager
1969 – Tōru Hashimoto , Japanese lawyer and politician
1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith , American actor
1970 – Melanie Paschke , German sprinter
1970 – Emily Skinner , American actress and singer
1970 – Mike Vallely , American skateboarder and actor
1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley , American porn actress
1971 – Matthew Good , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matthew Good Band )
1971 – Anthony Hamilton , English snooker player
1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi , Lebanese singer
1972 – DJ Shadow , American DJ and producer (Unkle )
1972 – Samantha Smith , American actress, author, and activist (d. 1985)
1972 – Külli Tomingas , Estonian soprano
1972 – Serhat Tutumluer , Turkish actor
1973 – George Hincapie , American cyclist
1976 – Daniel Carlsson , Swedish race car driver
1976 – Haruka Igawa , Japanese actress
1976 – Bret McKenzie , New Zealand guitarist, producer, and actor (Flight of the Conchords , The Black Seeds , and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra )
1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos , Greek footballer
1977 – Zuleikha Robinson , English actress and singer
1978 – Sam Farrar , American singer and bass player (Phantom Planet )
1978 – Nicole Scherzinger , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Pussycat Dolls and Eden's Crush )
1979 – Barış Akarsu , Turkish singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2007)
1979 – Matthew Bode , Australian footballer
1979 – Yehuda Levi , Israeli actor and model
1979 – Abz Love , English singer, DJ, and producer (Five )
1979 – Andy O'Brien , English footballer
1979 – Marleen Veldhuis , Dutch swimmer
1980 – Katherine Jenkins , Welsh soprano and actress
1980 – Melissa Peachey , English television host
1980 – Martin Truex Jr. , American race car driver
1981 – Nino , Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Joe Johnson , American basketball player
1981 – Shmuly Yanklowitz , American rabbi, author, and educator
1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich , Argentinian race car driver (d. 2005)
1982 – Dusty Hughes , American baseball player
1982 – Colin Jost , American actor and screenwriter
1982 – Matthew Mercer , American voice actor, director, and producer
1982 – Lily Rabe , American actress
1982 – Ott Sepp , Estonian actor and singer
1983 – Aundrea Fimbres , American singer-songwriter and dancer (Danity Kane )
1983 – Jeremy Powers , American cyclist
1984 – Christopher Egan , Australian actor
1984 – Han Ji-hye , South Korean actress
1984 – Paula Peralejo , Filipino actress
1984 – Derek Lee Rock , American drummer (Mêlée and Suburban Legends )
1984 – Aleksandr Shustov , Russian high jumper
1985 – Quintin Demps , American football player
1986 – Iya Villania , Australian-Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
1986 – José Manuel Jurado , Spanish footballer
1986 – Edward Maya , Romanian singer-songwriter and producer
1987 – Ana Free , Portuguese singer-songwriter
1987 – Luke McLean , Australian-Italian rugby player
1987 – Yasuka Saitō , Japanese actor
1987 – Ilya Shesterkov , Russian footballer
1988 – Éver Banega , Argentinian footballer
1988 – Elnur Mammadli , Azerbaijani martial artist
1988 – Jewel Mische , Filipino actress
1988 – Ryouta Murai , Japanese actor
1989 – Riva Taylor , English singer
1990 – Yann M'Vila , French footballer
1990 – The Sxplay , Japanese singer
1991 – Suk Hyun-jun , South Korean footballer
1991 – Kawhi Leonard , American basketball player
1991 – Addison Timlin , American actress
1992 – Adam G. Sevani , American actor and dancer
1993 – Fran Kirby , English footballer
Deaths
226 – Cao Pi , Chinese emperor (b. 187)
1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)
1149 – Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
1252 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)
1509 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443)
1520 – Moctezuma II , Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
1575 – Baba Nobuharu , Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
1594 – Niels Kaas , Danish politician, Chancellor of Denmark (b. 1535)
1725 – Arai Hakuseki , Japanese philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1657)
1744 – André Campra , French composer and conductor (b. 1660)
1764 – Ralph Allen , English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1693)
1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs , German painter (b. 1728)
1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein , Prussian minister and politician (b. 1757)
1840 – Lucien Bonaparte , French prince (b. 1775)
1852 – Henry Clay , American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (b. 1777)
1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu , French botanist and academic (b. 1797)
1855 – John Gorrie , American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
1860 – Thomas Addison , English physician and endocrinologist (b. 1793)
1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning , English-Italian poet and translator (b. 1806)
1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt , Indian poet and playwright (b. 1824)
1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley , English biologist and carcinologist (b. 1825)
1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1827)
1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis , Greek painter and academic (b. 1837)
1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician and educator (b. 1864)
1921 – Otto Seeck German historian and academic (b. 1850)
1931 – Nérée Beauchemin , Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)
1933 – Roscoe Arbuckle , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1935 – Jack O'Neill , Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
1936 – János Szlepecz , Slovene priest and missionary (b. 1872)
1940 – Paul Klee , Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski , Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
1942 – Paul Troje , German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1864)
1949 – Themistoklis Sofoulis , Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860)
1951 – Aimilios Veakis , Greek actor and director (b. 1884)
1953 – Anton Koolmann , Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1899)
1955 – Max Pechstein , German painter and academic (b. 1881)
1960 – Frank Patrick , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1964 – Eric Dolphy , American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
1967 – Primo Carnera , Italian boxer and actor (b. 1906)
1967 – Jayne Mansfield , American actress and singer (b. 1933)
1968 – Hans Egede Budtz , Danish actor (b. 1889)
1969 – Shorty Long , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
1969 – Moise Tshombe , Congolese accountant and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1919)
1973 – Germán Valdés , Mexican actor and singer (b. 1915)
1975 – Tim Buckley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
1977 – Magda Lupescu , Romanian wife of Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 – Bob Crane , American actor and radio host (b. 1928)
1979 – Lowell George , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention ) (b. 1945)
1981 – Russell Drysdale , English-Australian painter (b. 1912)
1982 – Pierre Balmain , French fashion designer, founded Balmain (b. 1914)
1982 – Henry King , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
1990 – Irving Wallace , American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf , Algerian soldier and politician, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
1993 – Héctor Lavoe , Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
1994 – Kurt Eichhorn , German conductor and educator (b. 1908)
1994 – Jack Unterweger , Austrian serial killer (b. 1950)
1995 – Lana Turner , American actress and singer (b. 1921)
1997 – William Hickey , American actor (b. 1927)
1997 – Ida Loo-Talvari , Estonian opera singer (b. 1901)
1998 – Horst Jankowski , German pianist and composer (b. 1936)
1999 – Karekin I , Syrian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1950)
1999 – Allan Carr , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937)
2000 – Vittorio Gassman , Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
2002 – Rosemary Clooney , American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl , Norwegian computer scientist and academic (b. 1931)
2002 – François Périer , French actor (b. 1919)
2003 – Katharine Hepburn , American actress and singer (b. 1907)
2004 – Bernard Babior , American physician and biochemist (b. 1935)
2004 – Alvin Hamilton , Canadian lieutenant and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1912)
2006 – Fabián Bielinsky , Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
2006 – Lloyd Richards , Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1919)
2006 – Randy Walker , American football player and coach (b. 1954)
2007 – Fred Saberhagen , American soldier and author (b. 1930)
2007 – Joel Siegel , American journalist and critic (b. 1943)
2007 – Edward Yang , Taiwanese director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2008 – Don S. Davis , American captain, actor, and educator (b. 1942)
2008 – Diane Hébert , Canadian medical patient (b. 1957)
2009 – Joe Bowman , American target shooter and boot-maker (b. 1925)
2012 – Takeo Chii , Japanese actor (b. 1942)
2012 – Yong Nyuk Lin , Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (b. 1918)
2012 – Vincent Ostrom , American political scientist and academic (b. 1919)
2012 – Juan Reccius , Chilean triple jumper (b. 1911)
2012 – Floyd Temple , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1926)
2013 – Peter Fitzgerald , Irish footballer and manager (b. 1937)
2013 – Jack Gotta , American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
2013 – Sarah Guyard-Guillot , French-American acrobat (b. 1981)
2013 – Margherita Hack , Italian astrophysicist and author (b. 1922)
2013 – Gilma Jiménez , Colombian politician (b. 1956)
2013 – Jim Kelly , American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
2013 – Victor Lundin , American actor and singer (b. 1930)
2014 – Damian D'Oliveira , South African cricketer (b. 1960)
2014 – Dermot Healy , Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1947)
2014 – Paul Horn , American-Canadian flute player (b. 1930)
2014 – Don Matheson , American actor (b. 1929)
2015 – Hisham Barakat , Egyptian lawyer and judge (b. 1950)
2015 – Josef Masopust , Czech footballer and coach (b. 1931)
2015 – Charles Pasqua , French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (b. 1927)
2015 – Kauto Star , French-English race horse (b. 2000)
2015 – Jackson Vroman , American-Lebanese basketball player (b. 1981)
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