May 24 is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 221 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt .
1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral .
1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin , Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII 's reign.
1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1607 – One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown , the first English colony in America.
1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan .
1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands , starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance .
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants . Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1738 – John Wesley is converted , essentially launching the Methodist movement ; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida , leading the invasion of Venezuela , and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1822 – Battle of Pichincha : Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito .
1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb " by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore , and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland .
1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference .
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail , in Baltimore , Maryland , to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas .
1861 – American Civil War : Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia .
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted .
1900 – Second Boer War : The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State .
1915 – World War I : Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary , joining the conflict on the side of the Allies .
1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory , becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio , with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field .
1939 – First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana .
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin , NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán , Mexico.
1941 – World War II : In the Battle of the Atlantic , the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy , HMS Hood , killing all but three crewmen.
1943 – The Holocaust : Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp .
1948 – Arab–Israeli War : Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai , but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha 's Parinibbāna .
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano , Switzerland.
1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service .
1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake , the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt .
1961 – American civil rights movement : Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi , for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe .
1962 – Project Mercury : American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule .
1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel .
1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City .
1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1976 – The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine .
1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera , his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha .
1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr : Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War .
1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988 , a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality , is enacted.
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon , evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon , resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia .
1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague , Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo .
2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 – Mountaineering : Temba Tsheri , a 16-year-old Sherpa , becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest .
2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem , Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty .
2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey , injuring 324 people.
2014 – At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels , Belgium
Births
15 BC – Germanicus , Roman general (d. 19)
1494 – Pontormo , Italian painter (d. 1557)
1522 – John Jewel , English bishop (d. 1571)
1544 – William Gilbert , English physician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1603)
1616 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale , Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (d. 1682)
1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit , Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (d. 1736)
1689 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea , English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1769)
1743 – Jean-Paul Marat , Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (d. 1793)
1794 – William Whewell , English priest and philosopher (d. 1866)
1803 – Alexander von Nordmann , Finnish biologist and paleontologist (d. 1866)
1810 – Charles Clark , American general and politician, 24th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
1810 – Abraham Geiger , German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
1816 – Major John Buckley VC , English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1876)
1816 – Emanuel Leutze , German-American painter (d. 1868)
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
1830 – Alexei Savrasov , Russian painter and academic (d. 1897)
1836 – Joseph Rowntree , English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1925)
1850 – Henry W. Grady , Journalist and orator (d. 1889)
1854 – John Riley Banister , American police officer (d. 1918)
1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero , English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1934)
1861 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland , Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1940)
1863 – George Grey Barnard , American sculptor (d. 1938)
1868 – Charlie Taylor , American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956)
1870 – Benjamin N. Cardozo , American lawyer and judge (d. 1938)
1870 – Jan Smuts , South African lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)
1875 – Robert Garrett , American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1961)
1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth , American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972)
1879 – H. B. Reese , American candy maker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (d. 1956)
1885 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs , English psychologist and academic (d. 1948)
1886 – Paul Paray , French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)
1887 – Mick Mannock , Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
1891 – William F. Albright , American archeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
1895 – Marcel Janco , Romanian-Israeli artist (d. 1984)
1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. , American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d. 1979)
1898 – Kathleen Hale , English author and illustrator (d. 2000)
1899 – Suzanne Lenglen , French tennis player (d. 1938)
1899 – Henri Michaux , Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984)
1900 – Eduardo De Filippo , Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1901 – José Nasazzi , Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 1968)
1902 – Lionel Conacher , Canadian football player and politician (d. 1954)
1902 – Sylvia Daoust , Canadian sculptor (d. 2004)
1903 – Milo Burcham , American pilot (d. 1944)
1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov , Russian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1909 – Wilbur Mills , American banker and politician (d. 1992)
1911 – Barbara West , English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 2007)
1913 – Joe Abreu , American baseball player and soldier (d. 1993)
1913 – Peter Ellenshaw , American special effects designer (d. 2007)
1914 – Lilli Palmer , German-American actress (d. 1986)
1916 – Roden Cutler , Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002)
1917 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway , English lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
1921 – Maria Michi , Italian actress (d. 1980)
1923 – Siobhán McKenna , Irish actress (d. 1986)
1924 – Aleksander Arulaid , Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 1995)
1924 – Philip Pearlstein , American soldier and painter
1925 – Carmine Infantino , American illustrator and educator (d. 2013)
1925 – Mai Zetterling , Swedish actress and director (d. 1994)
1926 – Stanley Baxter , Scottish actor and screenwriter
1928 – Adrian Frutiger , Swiss typeface designer (d. 2015)
1928 – William Trevor , Irish author and playwright
1930 – Hans-Martin Linde , German flute player and author
1931 – Michael Lonsdale , French actor and singer
1932 – James Anderton , English police officer
1932 – Arnold Wesker , English playwright and producer
1933 – Jane Byrne , American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014)
1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein , French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015)
1933 – Christopher Staughton , English lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
1934 – Barry Rose , English organist and conductor
1935 – Joan Micklin Silver , American director and screenwriter
1935 – Rusty York , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1936 – Harold Budd , American composer and poet
1937 – Timothy Brown , American football player and actor
1937 – Maryvonne Dupureur , French runner and educator (d. 2008)
1937 – Roger Peterson , American pilot (d. 1959)
1937 – Archie Shepp , American saxophonist and composer
1938 – Prince Buster , Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
1938 – Tommy Chong , Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1938 – David Viscott , American psychiatrist and author (d. 1996)
1940 – Joseph Brodsky , Russian-American poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1941 – Bob Dylan , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Traveling Wilburys )
1941 – Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham , English academic and politician
1941 – George Lakoff , American linguist and academic
1942 – Ali Bacher , South African cricketer and manager
1942 – Lázár Lovász , Hungarian hammer thrower
1942 – Hannu Mikkola , Finnish race car driver
1942 – Ichirō Ozawa , Japanese lawyer and politician, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs
1943 – Gary Burghoff , American actor and singer
1944 – Patti LaBelle , American singer-songwriter and actress (Labelle )
1945 – Terry Callier , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1945 – Steven Norris , English engineer and politician
1945 – Richard Ottaway , English lieutenant and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1945 – Priscilla Presley , American actress and businesswoman
1946 – Tansu Çiller , Turkish economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey
1946 – Irena Szewińska , Russian-Polish sprinter
1946 – Jeremy Treglown , English author, critic, and academic
1947 – Albert Bouchard , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Blue Öyster Cult )
1947 – Mike De Leon , Filipino director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
1947 – Waddy Wachtel , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1947 – Martin Winterkorn , German businessman
1948 – Richard Dembo , French director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1949 – Hubert Birkenmeier , German-American soccer player and coach
1949 – Jim Broadbent , English actor and screenwriter
1949 – Tomaž Pisanski , Slovenian mathematician and academic
1950 – Vivian Ramsey , English engineer and judge
1950 – Larry Seidlin , American lawyer and judge
1950 – Terry Scott Taylor , American singer-songwriter and producer (Daniel Amos , The Swirling Eddies , and Lost Dogs )
1952 – Sybil Danning , Austrian actress and producer
1953 – Nell Campbell , Australian-American actress and singer
1953 – Alfred Molina , English actor
1953 – Klaus-Günter Stade , German footballer
1953 – Richard Wilson , English sculptor
1955 – Rosanne Cash , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Philippe Lafontaine , Belgian singer-songwriter
1955 – David Leonard , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Richard B. Bernstein , American historian and academic
1956 – Larry Blackmon , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Cameo and Black Ivory )
1956 – Dominic Grieve , English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
1956 – Michael Jackson , Irish archbishop
1958 – Chip Ganassi , American race car driver and businessman
1959 – Pelle Lindbergh , Swedish-American ice hockey player (d. 1985)
1960 – Guy Fletcher , English keyboard player, guitarist, and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies )
1960 – Doug Jones , American actor
1960 – Paul McCreesh , English conductor
1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas , English actress
1961 – Lorella Cedroni , Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2013)
1961 – Alain Lemieux , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1962 – Héctor Camacho , Puerto Rican boxer (d. 2012)
1962 – Gene Anthony Ray , American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2003)
1963 – Ivan Capelli , Italian race car driver and sportscaster
1963 – Michael Chabon , American author and screenwriter
1963 – Joe Dumars , American basketball player
1963 – Rich Rodriguez , American football player and coach
1964 – Liz McColgan , Scottish educator and runner
1964 – Adrian Moorhouse , English swimmer
1964 – Isidro Pérez , Mexican boxer (d. 2013)
1964 – Pat Verbeek , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1965 – Jens Becker , German bass player (Grave Digger , Running Wild , and X-Wild )
1965 – John C. Reilly , American actor
1965 – Shinichirō Watanabe , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Eric Cantona , French footballer, manager, and actor
1966 – Ricky Craven , American race car driver and sportscaster
1966 – Russell Kun , Nauruan lawyer and politician
1967 – Andrey Borodin , Russian-English economist and businessman
1967 – Eric Close , American actor and director
1967 – Heavy D , Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2011)
1967 – Carlos Hernández , Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
1967 – Steven Shane McDonald , American bass player and actor (Redd Kross , Off! , and Green and Yellow TV )
1967 – Bruno Putzulu , French actor
1968 – Charles De'Ath , English actor
1968 – Mo Willems , American author and illustrator
1969 – Jacob Rees-Mogg , English politician
1969 – Rich Robinson , American guitarist and songwriter (The Black Crowes )
1970 – Tommy Page , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1971 – Kris Draper , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1972 – Greg Berlanti , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Rodrigo , Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
1973 – Ruslana , Ukrainian singer, dancer, producer, and actress
1973 – Bartolo Colón , Dominican-American baseball player
1973 – Shirish Kunder , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Dermot O'Leary , English radio and television host
1973 – Hallgeir Pedersen , Norwegian guitarist
1973 – Vladimír Šmicer , Czech footballer and manager
1974 – Sébastien Foucan , French runner and actor
1974 – Masahide Kobayashi , Japanese baseball player and coach
1974 – Magnus Manske , German biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki
1974 – Will Sasso , Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1975 – Marc Gagnon , Canadian speed skater
1975 – Giannis Goumas , Greek footballer and coach
1975 – Maria Lawson , English singer-songwriter
1976 – Alessandro Cortini , Italian-American singer and keyboard player (Modwheelmood , SONOIO , Blindoldfreak , and Nine Inch Nails )
1976 – Catherine Cox , New Zealand-Australian netball player
1976 – Bob Maesen , Belgian canoe racer
1977 – Prince Poppycock , American tenor
1977 – Kym Valentine , Australian actress
1978 – Elijah Burke , American wrestler
1978 – Brian Ching , American soccer player and coach
1978 – Bryan Greenberg , American actor and singer
1978 – Johan Holmqvist , Swedish ice hockey player
1978 – Jo Joyner , English actress
1978 – Brad Penny , American baseball player
1979 – Tracy McGrady , American basketball player
1979 – Kareem McKenzie , American football player
1980 – Jason Babin , American football player
1980 – Owen Benjamin , American comedian and actor
1980 – Cecilia Cheung , Hong Kong actress and singer
1980 – Jenn Korbee , American singer and actress (Hi-5 )
1980 – Anthony Minichiello , Australian rugby player
1981 – Markéta Jánská , Czech-American model and actress
1981 – Andy Lee , Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1982 – Issah Gabriel Ahmed , Ghanaian footballer
1982 – Rian Wallace , American football player
1983 – Custódio Castro , Portuguese footballer
1983 – Pedram Javaheri , Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist
1983 – Ricky Mabe , Canadian actor and director
1983 – Woo Seung-yeon , South Korean model and actress (d. 2009)
1984 – Sarah Hagan , American actress
1984 – Dmitri Kruglov , Estonian footballer
1984 – Brodney Pool , American football player
1984 – Ryan Wieber , American director and special effects designer
1985 – Tim Bridgman , English race car driver
1985 – Moon Ribas , Catalan choreographer and dancer
1986 – Mark Ballas , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor (Ballas Hough Band )
1986 – Giannis Kontoes , Greek footballer
1987 – Déborah François , Belgian actress
1987 – Guillaume Latendresse , Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Aiko Orgla , Estonian footballer
1987 – Matt Prior , Australian rugby player
1988 – Artem Anisimov , Russian ice hockey player
1988 – Monica Lin Brown , American sergeant
1988 – Kimberley Crossman , New Zealand actress and dancer
1988 – Billy Gilman , American singer-songwriter
1989 – Andrew Jordan , English race car driver
1991 – Aled Davies , Welsh discus thrower
1991 – Erika Umeda , Japanese singer (Cute and ZYX )
1992 – Tommy Aquino , American motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1993 – Rait-Riivo Laane , Estonian basketball player
Deaths
1153 – David I of Scotland (b. 1083)
1201 – Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179)
1351 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman , Moroccan sultan (b. 1297)
1408 – Taejo of Joseon (b. 1335)
1425 – Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1362)
1456 – Ambroise de Loré , French commander (b. 1396)
1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus , Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1563)
1627 – Luis de Góngora , Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561)
1632 – Robert Hues , English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
1725 – Jonathan Wild , English criminal (b. 1682)
1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl , German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718)
1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll , Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723)
1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix , French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth , American colonel (b. 1837)
1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
1879 – William Lloyd Garrison , American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
1881 – Samuel Palmer , English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
1901 – Louis-Zéphirin Moreau , Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
1908 – Old Tom Morris , Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
1915 – John Condon , Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
1919 – Amado Nervo , Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
1941 – Lancelot Holland , English admiral (b. 1887)
1945 – Robert Ritter von Greim , German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
1948 – Jacques Feyder , Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1949 – Alexey Shchusev , Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
1950 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell , English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
1951 – Thomas N. Heffron , American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
1958 – Frank Rowe , Australian public servant (b. 1895)
1959 – John Foster Dulles , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
1960 – Avraham Arnon , Belarusian-Israeli educator (b. 1887)
1963 – Elmore James , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson II , American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1908)
1972 – Ismail Yassine , Egyptian actor (b. 1915)
1974 – Duke Ellington , American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
1976 – Denise Pelletier , Canadian actress (b. 1923)
1979 – Ernest Bullock , English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
1981 – Herbert Müller , Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
1981 – A. Thiagarajah , Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1916)
1984 – Vince McMahon, Sr. , American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
1988 – Freddie Frith , English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)
1990 – Arthur Villeneuve , Canadian painter (b. 1910)
1991 – Gene Clark , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds and Dillard & Clark ) (b. 1944)
1991 – Miriam di San Servolo , Italian actress (b. 1912)
1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa , Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
1992 – Joan Sanderson , English actress (b. 1912)
1995 – Harold Wilson , English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
1996 – Enrique Álvarez Félix , Mexican actor (b. 1934)
1996 – Joseph Mitchell , American journalist and author (b. 1908)
1997 – Edward Mulhare , Irish-American actor (b. 1923)
2000 – Kurt Schork , American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
2000 – Majrooh Sultanpuri , Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
2002 – Wallace Markfield , American author (b. 1926)
2003 – Rachel Kempson , English-American actress (b. 1910)
2004 – Henry Ries , German-American photographer (b. 1917)
2004 – Milton Shulman , Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
2004 – Edward Wagenknecht , American critic and educator (b. 1900)
2005 – Carl Amery , German activist and author (b. 1922)
2005 – Arthur Haulot , Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913)
2005 – Guy Tardif , Canadian academic and politician (b. 1935)
2006 – Jesús Ledesma Aguilar , Mexican murderer (b. 1963)
2006 – Henry Bumstead , American art director and production designer (b. 1915)
2006 – Claude Piéplu , French actor (b. 1923)
2006 – Michał Życzkowski , Polish technician and educator (b. 1930)
2008 – Rob Knox , English actor (b. 1989)
2008 – Dick Martin , American actor and director (b. 1922)
2008 – Jimmy McGriff , American organist and bandleader (b. 1936)
2009 – Jay Bennett , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Wilco ) (b. 1963)
2010 – Ray Alan , English ventriloquist, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2010 – Tapen Chatterjee , Indian actor (b. 1937)
2010 – Paul Gray , American bass player and songwriter (Slipknot and Unida ) (b. 1972)
2010 – Raymond V. Haysbert , American businessman and activist (b. 1920)
2010 – Petr Muk , Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1965)
2010 – Barbara New , English actress (b. 1923)
2010 – Anneliese Rothenberger , German soprano and actress (b. 1926)
2011 – Huguette Clark , French-American painter and philanthropist (b. 1906)
2011 – Hakim Ali Zardari Indian-Pakistani businessman and politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Klaas Carel Faber Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)
2012 – Kathi Kamen Goldmark , American journalist and author (b. 1948)
2012 – Jacqueline Harpman , Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1929)
2012 – Juan Francisco Lombardo , Argentinian footballer (b. 1925)
2012 – Mark McConnell , American drummer (Madam X and Blackfoot ) (b. 1961)
2012 – Ndombe Opetum , Congolese singer-songwriter (TPOK Jazz ) (b. 1947)
2012 – Lee Rich , American production manager and producer (b. 1918)
2013 – Helmut Braunlich , German-American violinist and composer (b. 1929)
2013 – Ron Davies , Welsh footballer (b. 1942)
2013 – Gotthard Graubner , German painter (b. 1930)
2013 – Haynes Johnson , American journalist and author (b. 1931)
2013 – Yevgeny Kychanov , Russian orientalist and historian (b. 1932)
2013 – John "Mule" Miles , American baseball player (b. 1922)
2013 – Pyotr Todorovsky , Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2014 – David Allen , English cricketer (b. 1935)
2014 – Mahafarid Amir Khosravi , Iranian businessman (b. 1969)
2014 – Knowlton Nash , Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927)
2014 – John Vasconcellos , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)
2015 – Dean Carroll , English rugby player (b. 1962)
2015 – Kenneth Jacobs , Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
2015 – Tanith Lee , English author (b. 1947)
2015 – Daniel Meltzer , American lawyer and academic (b. 1951)
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