April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 264 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor , with the name of Anastasius I .
1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland .
1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi .
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai : French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna .
1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole .
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War ): Treaty of Utrecht .
1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach 's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte , and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1856 – Battle of Rivas : Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker 's filibusters are holed up.
1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate .
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1908 – SMS Blücher , the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy , launches.
1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1913 – The Nevill Ground 's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan .
1945 – World War II : American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp .
1951 – Korean War : President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1951 – The Stone of Scone , the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey . It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey .
1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang .
1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule .
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem .
1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris , the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 : Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 , prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest-running British radio shows in history.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
1977 – London Transport 's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton , south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1986 – FBI Miami Shootout : A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI Special Agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan .
1989 – Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs .
1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough , England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq .
1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio , and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions , as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis ) against their religious beliefs.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan , China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia .
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores , to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez . 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV.
2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium .
2007 – Algiers bombings : Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro , Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1976 relating to Somalia is adopted.
2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia , off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia .
Births
145 – Septimius Severus , Roman emperor (d. 211)
1357 – John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
1374 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March , English husband of Alianore Holland, Countess of March (d. 1398)
1492 – Marguerite de Navarre , French wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1592 – John Eliot , English lawyer and politician (d. 1632)
1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret , French composer and conductor (d. 1738)
1715 – John Alcock , English organist and composer (d. 1806)
1721 – David Zeisberger , Czech-American clergyman and missionary (d. 1808)
1722 – Christopher Smart , English actor, playwright, and poet (d. 1771)
1755 – James Parkinson , English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (d. 1824)
1770 – George Canning , English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
1794 – Edward Everett , American educator and politician, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
1798 – Macedonio Melloni , Italian physicist and academic (d. 1854)
1819 – Charles Hallé , German-English pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle , German philosopher and jurist (d. 1864)
1827 – Jyotirao Phule , Indian scholar, philosopher, and activist (d. 1890)
1854 – Hugh Massie , Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
1856 – Arthur Shrewsbury , English cricketer and rugby player (d. 1903)
1859 – Stefanos Thomopoulos , Greek historian and author (d. 1939)
1862 – William Wallace Campbell , American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)
1862 – Charles Evans Hughes , American lawyer and politician, 44th United States Secretary of State (d. 1948)
1864 – Johanna Elberskirchen , German author and activist (d. 1943)
1866 – Bernard O'Dowd , Australian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1953)
1867 – Mark Keppel , American educator (d. 1928)
1869 – Kasturba Gandhi , Indian wife of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1944)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (d. 1943)
1871 – Gyula Kellner , Hungarian runner (d. 1940)
1873 – Edward Lawson , English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1955)
1876 – Ivane Javakhishvili , Georgian historian and academic (d. 1940)
1877 – Paul Henry , Irish painter (d. 1958)
1879 – Bernhard Schmidt , Estonian-German astronomer and optician (d. 1935)
1887 – Jack Phillips , English sailor and telegraphist (d. 1912)
1887 – Jamini Roy , Indian painter (d. 1972)
1888 – Donald Calthrop , English actor (d. 1940)
1889 – Nick LaRocca , American trumpet player and bandleader (Original Dixieland Jass Band ) (d. 1961)
1890 – Rachele Mussolini , Italian wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 – Dean Acheson , American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)
1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers , Canadian journalist and author (d. 1967)
1899 – Percy Lavon Julian , American chemist and academic (d. 1975)
1900 – Sándor Márai , Hungarian journalist and author (d. 1989)
1904 – Kundan Lal Saigal , Indian singer and actor (d. 1947)
1905 – Attila József , Hungarian poet and educator (d. 1937)
1906 – Dale Messick , American author and illustrator (d. 2005)
1907 – Paul Douglas , American actor (d. 1959)
1907 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas , Welsh farmer and businessman (d. 2001)
1908 – Jane Bolin , American lawyer and judge (d. 2007)
1908 – Masaru Ibuka , Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (d. 1997)
1908 – Dan Maskell , English tennis player and sportscaster (d. 1992)
1908 – Leo Rosten , Polish-American author and academic (d. 1997)
1910 – António de Spínola , Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1996)
1912 – John Levy , American bassist and businessman (d. 2012)
1913 – Oleg Cassini , French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1914 – Norman McLaren , Scottish-Canadian animator, director, and producer (d. 1987)
1914 – Robert Stanfield , Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
1916 – Alberto Ginastera , Argentinian-Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1983)
1916 – Howard W. Koch , American director and producer (d. 2001)
1917 – Danny Gallivan , Canadian sportscaster (d. 1993)
1917 – David Westheimer , American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2005)
1918 – Richard Wainwright , English soldier and politician (d. 2003)
1919 – Raymond Carr , English historian and academic (d. 2015)
1920 – Emilio Colombo , Italian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
1920 – Peter O'Donnell , English soldier and author (d. 2010)
1920 – William Royer , American soldier and politician (d. 2013)
1921 – Jim Hearn , American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 – Arved Viirlaid , Estonian-Canadian soldier and author (d. 2015)
1923 – George J. Maloof, Sr. , American businessman (d. 1980)
1924 – Mohammad Naseem , Pakistani-English activist and politician (d. 2014)
1925 – Yuriy Lituyev , Russian hurdler and commander (d. 2000)
1925 – Viktor Masing , Estonian botanist and ecologist (d. 2001)
1925 – Pierre Péladeau , Canadian businessman, founded Quebecor (d. 1997)
1925 – Emil Mangelsdorff , German jazz saxophonist
1926 – David Manker Abshire , American commander and diplomat, United States Permanent Representative to NATO (d. 2014)
1926 – Victor Bouchard , Canadian pianist and composer (d. 2011)
1926 – Ernest Chapman , Australian rower (d. 2013)
1926 – Gervase de Peyer , English clarinet player and conductor
1926 – Karl Rebane , Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2007)
1928 – Ethel Kennedy , American philanthropist; wife of Robert F. Kennedy
1928 – Edwin Pope , American journalist and author
1928 – Tommy Tycho , Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
1930 – Nicholas F. Brady , American businessman and politician, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1930 – Walter Krüger , German javelin thrower
1930 – Anton LaVey , American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
1931 – Lewis Jones , Welsh rugby player and coach
1931 – Johnny Sheffield , American actor (d. 2010)
1931 – Koichi Sugiyama , Japanese composer and conductor
1932 – Joel Grey , American actor, singer, and dancer
1933 – Tony Brown , American journalist and academic
1934 – Mark Strand , Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (d. 2014)
1934 – Ron Pember , English actor, director and playwright
1935 – Richard Berry , American singer-songwriter (The Flairs ) (d. 1997)
1935 – Richard Kuklinski , American murderer (d. 2006)
1936 – Brian Noble , English bishop
1937 – Jill Gascoine , English actress and author
1938 – Gerry Baker , American soccer player and manager (d. 2013)
1938 – Michael Deaver , American politician, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)
1939 – Luther Johnson , American singer and guitarist
1939 – Louise Lasser , American actress and screenwriter
1940 – Col Firmin , Australian politician (d. 2013)
1940 – Thomas Harris , American author and screenwriter
1940 – Władysław Komar , Polish shot putter and actor (d. 1998)
1941 – Ellen Goodman , American journalist and author
1941 – Shirley Stelfox , English actress (d. 2015)
1942 – Anatoly Berezovoy , Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2014)
1942 – James Underwood , English pathologist and academic
1943 – John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich , English businessman and politician
1943 – Harley Race , American wrestler and trainer
1944 – Peter Barfuß , German footballer
1944 – John Milius , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – John Krebs, Baron Krebs , English zoologist and academic
1946 – Chris Burden , American sculptor, illustrator, and academic (d. 2015)
1946 – Bob Harris , English journalist and radio host
1947 – Lev Bulat , Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic
1947 – Uli Edel , German director and screenwriter
1947 – Frank Mantooth , American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
1947 – Peter Riegert , American actor
1947 – Meshach Taylor , American actor (d. 2014)
1947 – Michael T. Wright , English engineer and academic
1949 – Bernd Eichinger , German director and producer (d. 2011)
1949 – Carl Franklin , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1949 – Tetsuya Takeda , Japanese singer and actor
1950 – Bill Irwin , American actor and clown
1951 – Paul Fox , English singer and guitarist (The Ruts ) (d. 2007)
1951 – James Patrick Kelly , American author and academic
1952 – Nancy Honeytree , American singer and guitarist
1952 – Indira Samarasekera , Sri Lankan engineer and academic
1952 – Peter Windsor , English-Australian journalist and sportscaster
1953 – Guy Verhofstadt , Belgian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium
1953 – Andrew Wiles , English mathematician and academic
1954 – Abdullah Atalar , Turkish engineer and academic
1954 – Aleksandr Averin Azerbaijani cyclist and coach
1954 – Francis Lickerish , English guitarist and composer (The Enid and Secret Green )
1954 – David Perrett , Scottish psychologist and academic
1954 – Ian Redmond , English biologist and conservationist
1954 – Willie Royster , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1955 – Kevin Brady , American lawyer and politician
1955 – Michael Callen , American singer-songwriter and AIDS activist (d. 1993)
1955 – Micheal Ray Richardson , American basketball player and coach
1955 – Neville Staple , Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (The Specials , Fun Boy Three , and Special Beat)
1957 – Michael Card , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and radio host
1957 – Richard Sévigny , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 – Stuart Adamson , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Skids , Big Country ) (d. 2001)
1958 – Lyudmila Kondratyeva , Russian sprinter
1959 – Pierre Lacroix , Canadian ice hockey player
1959 – Ana María Polo , Cuban-American lawyer and judge
1960 – Jeremy Clarkson , English journalist and television presenter
1961 – Vincent Gallo , American actor, director, producer, and musician
1961 – Doug Hopkins , American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms ) (d. 1993)
1961 – Nobuaki Kakuda , Japanese martial artist
1962 – Franck Ducheix , French fencer
1962 – Mark Lawson , English journalist and author
1963 – Billy Bowden , New Zealand cricketer and umpire
1963 – Chris Ferguson , American poker player
1963 – Waldemar Fornalik , Polish footballer and manager
1963 – Nigel Pulsford , English guitarist (Bush )
1963 – Elizabeth Smylie , Australian tennis player and sportscaster
1964 – Steve Azar , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 – John Cryer , English journalist and politician
1964 – Johann Sebastian Paetsch , American cellist
1964 – Bret Saberhagen , American baseball player and coach
1964 – Patrick Sang , Kenyan runner
1965 – Lynn Ferguson , Scottish actress, comedian and presenter
1965 – Tom Hunting , American drummer (Exodus )
1966 – Steve Scarsone , American baseball player and manager
1966 – Lisa Stansfield , English singer-songwriter and actress (Blue Zone )
1968 – Sergei Lukyanenko , Kazakh-Russian journalist and author
1969 – Cerys Matthews , Welsh singer-songwriter (Catatonia )
1969 – Chisato Moritaka , Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1969 – Michael von Grünigen , Swiss skier
1970 – Whigfield , Danish-Italian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1970 – Dylan Keefe , American bass player (Marcy Playground )
1970 – Trevor Linden , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1970 – Johnny Messner , American actor
1970 – Delroy Pearson , English singer-songwriter and producer (Five Star )
1971 – John Leech , English politician
1971 – Oliver Riedel , German bass player (Rammstein and The Inchtabokatables )
1972 – Balls Mahoney , American wrestler (d. 2016)
1972 – Allan Théo , French singer
1972 – Jason Varitek , American baseball player and manager
1973 – Jennifer Esposito , American actress
1973 – Olivier Magne , French rugby player
1974 – Àlex Corretja , Spanish tennis player and coach
1974 – Ashot Danielyan , Armenian weightlifter
1974 – David Jassy , Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (Navigators )
1974 – Zöe Lucker , English actress
1974 – Trot Nixon , American baseball player and sportscaster
1975 – Olga Hostáková , Czech tennis player
1975 – Walid Soliman , Tunisian author and translator
1976 – Kelvim Escobar , Venezuelan baseball player
1977 – Ivonne Teichmann , German runner
1978 – Josh Hancock , American baseball player (d. 2007)
1978 – Tom Thacker , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Gob , Sum 41 , and The McRackins )
1979 – Nazanin Afshin-Jam , Iranian-Canadian model, singer, and activist, Miss World Canada 2003
1979 – Malcolm Christie , English footballer
1979 – Sebastien Grainger , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death from Above 1979 )
1979 – Martin Padar , Estonian martial artist
1979 – Michel Riesen , Swiss ice hockey player
1980 – Festus Baise , Nigerian-Hong Kong footballer
1980 – Keiji Tamada , Japanese footballer
1980 – Mark Teixeira , American baseball player
1981 – Alessandra Ambrosio , Brazilian model and actress
1981 – Alexandre Burrows , Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Ian Bell , English cricketer
1982 – Peeter Kümmel , Estonian skier
1983 – Jennifer Heil , Canadian skier
1983 – Rubén Palazuelos , Spanish footballer
1983 – Nicky Pastorelli , Dutch race car driver
1984 – Kelli Garner , American actress
1984 – Nikola Karabatić , French handball player
1985 – Pablo Hernández Domínguez , Spanish footballer
1985 – Will Minson , Australian footballer
1986 – Dai Greene , Welsh hurdler
1986 – Stephanie Pratt , American model
1986 – Lena Schöneborn , German pentathlete
1987 – Lights , Canadian singer-songwriter
1987 – Giuseppe Caccavallo , Italian footballer
1987 – Michelle Phan , American make-up artist and blogger
1987 – Joss Stone , English singer-songwriter, and actress (SuperHeavy )
1988 – Leland Irving , Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Oleh Kovalenko , Ukrainian footballer
1989 – Zola Jesus , American singer-songwriter (Former Ghosts )
1989 – Torrin Lawrence , American sprinter (d. 2014)
1990 – Dimitrios Anastasopoulos , Greek footballer
1990 – Thulani Serero , South African footballer
1991 – Thiago Alcântara , Spanish footballer
1991 – Andreea Grigore , Romanian gymnast
1991 – James Magnussen , Australian swimmer
1991 – Erina Mano , Japanese singer and actress (Ongaku Gatas and Petitmoni )
1991 – James Roberts , Australian swimmer
1991 – Niall Canavan , English-born Irish footballer
1993 – Yuji Takahashi , Japanese footballer
1994 – Dakota Blue Richards , English actress
1996 – Dele Alli , English footballer
1997 – Miriam Kolodziejová , Czech tennis player
Deaths
1034 – Romanos III Argyros , Byzantine emperor (b. 968)
1165 – Stephen IV of Hungary (b. 1133)
1240 – Llywelyn the Great , Welsh prince (b. 1172)
1554 – Thomas Wyatt the Younger , English rebel leader (b. 1521)
1612 – Emanuel van Meteren , Flemish historian and author (b. 1535)
1612 – Edward Wightman , English minister and martyr (b. 1566)
1626 – Marino Ghetaldi , Ragusan mathematician and physicist (b. 1568)
1712 – Richard Simon , French priest and critic (b. 1638)
1723 – John Robinson , English bishop and diplomat (b. 1650)
1783 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin , Polish-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1718)
1798 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler , German poet and academic (b. 1725)
1856 – Juan Santamaría , Costa Rican soldier (b. 1831)
1861 – Francisco González Bocanegra , Mexican poet and composer (b. 1824)
1873 – Edward Canby , American general (b. 1817)
1890 – Joseph Merrick , English man with severe deformities (b. 1862)
1894 – Constantin Lipsius , German architect and theorist (b. 1832)
1903 – Gemma Galgani , Italian mystic and saint (b. 1878)
1906 – James Anthony Bailey , American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1847)
1906 – Francis Pharcellus Church , American journalist and publisher, co-founded Armed Forces Journal and The Galaxy Magazine (b. 1839)
1908 – Henry Bird , English chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 – Richard Harding Davis , American journalist and author (b. 1864)
1926 – Luther Burbank , American botanist and academic (b. 1849)
1938 – Eddie Morton , American singer (b. 1870)
1939 – Kurtdereli Mehmet , Turkish wrestler (b. 1864)
1947 – Louise Peete , American murderer (b. 1880)
1953 – Kid Nichols , American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1954 – Paul Specht , American violinist and bandleader (b. 1895)
1958 – Konstantin Yuon , Russian painter and educator (b. 1875)
1960 – Rosa Grünberg , Swedish actress and singer (b. 1878)
1962 – Ukichiro Nakaya , Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1900)
1962 – George Poage , American hurdler and educator (b. 1880)
1967 – Thomas Farrell , American general (b. 1891)
1967 – Donald Sangster , Jamaican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1911)
1970 – Cathy O'Donnell , American actress (b. 1923)
1970 – John O'Hara , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1905)
1974 – Ernst Ziegler , German actor (b. 1894)
1977 – Jacques Prévert , French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1977 – Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' , Indian author and activist (b. 1921)
1980 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu , Turkish journalist and producer (b. 1935)
1981 – Caroline Gordon , American author and critic (b. 1895)
1983 – Dolores del Río , Mexican-American actress and singer (b. 1905)
1983 – Ahmed Rushdi , Pakistani singer and actor (b. 1934)
1984 – Edgar V. Saks , Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1910)
1985 – Bunny Ahearne , Irish-English businessman (b. 1900)
1985 – John Gilroy , English artist and illustrator (b. 1898)
1985 – Enver Hoxha , Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
1987 – Erskine Caldwell , American author (b. 1903)
1987 – Primo Levi , Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)
1990 – Harold Ballard , Canadian businessman (b. 1903)
1991 – Walker Cooper , American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
1991 – Bruno Hoffmann . German glass harp player (b. 1913)
1992 – James Brown , American actor and singer (b. 1920)
1992 – Eve Merriam , American author and poet (b. 1916)
1992 – Alejandro Obregón , Colombian painter, sculptor, and engraver (b. 1920)
1996 – Jessica Dubroff , American pilot (b. 1988)
1997 – Muriel McQueen Fergusson , Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (b. 1899)
1997 – Wang Xiaobo , contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist (b. 1952)
1999 – William H. Armstrong , American author and educator (b. 1911)
2001 – Sandy Bull , American singer and guitarist (b. 1941)
2001 – Harry Secombe , Welsh-English actor and singer (b. 1921)
2003 – Cecil Howard Green , English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (b. 1900)
2005 – André François , Romanian-French cartoonist, painter, and sculptor (b. 1915)
2005 – Lucien Laurent , French footballer and coach (b. 1907)
2006 – Proof , American rapper and actor (D12 ) (b. 1973)
2006 – June Pointer , American singer and actress (The Pointer Sisters ) (b. 1953)
2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne , American actor and director (b. 1922)
2007 – Loïc Leferme , French diver (b. 1970)
2007 – Janet McDonald , American lawyer and author (b. 1954)
2007 – Ronald Speirs , Scottish-American colonel (b. 1920)
2007 – Kurt Vonnegut , American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1922)
2008 – Merlin German , American sergeant (b. 1985)
2009 – Gerda Gilboe , Danish actress and singer (b. 1914)
2009 – Vishnu Prabhakar , Indian author and playwright (b. 1912)
2009 – Corín Tellado , Spanish author (b. 1927)
2010 – Julia Tsenova , Bulgarian pianist and composer (b. 1948)
2011 – La Esterella , Belgian singer and actress (b. 1919)
2011 – Jean S. MacLeod , Scottish-English author (b. 1908)
2011 – Larry Sweeney , American wrestler and manager (b. 1981)
2012 – Julio Alemán , Mexican actor and producer (b. 1933)
2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella , Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1916)
2012 – Roger Caron , Canadian criminal and author (b. 1938)
2012 – Tippy Dye , American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
2012 – Hal McKusick , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player (b. 1924)
2012 – Agustin Roman , American bishop (b. 1928)
2013 – Don Blackman , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Twennynine ) (b. 1953)
2013 – Grady Hatton , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
2013 – Thomas Hemsley , English actor and singer (b. 1927)
2013 – Hilary Koprowski , Polish-American virologist and immunologist (b. 1916)
2013 – Gilles Marchal , French singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
2013 – Maria Tallchief , American ballerina (b. 1925)
2013 – Clorindo Testa , Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (b. 1923)
2013 – Jonathan Winters , American comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2014 – Alfredo Alcón , Argentinian actor (b. 1930)
2014 – Rolf Brem , Swiss sculptor and illustrator (b. 1926)
2014 – Edna Doré , English actress (b. 1921)
2014 – Bill Henry , American baseball player (b. 1927)
2014 – Lou Hudson , American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1944)
2014 – Myer S. Kripke , American rabbi and scholar (b. 1914)
2014 – Sergey Nepobedimy , Russian engineer (b. 1921)
2014 – Jesse Winchester , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944)
2015 – Jimmy Gunn , American football player (b. 1948)
2015 – Muhammad Kamaruzzaman , Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1952)
2015 – François Maspero , French journalist and author (b. 1932)
2015 – Hanut Singh Rathore , Indian general (b. 1933)
2015 – Tekena Tamuno , Nigerian historian and academic (b. 1932)
2016 – Ed Snider , American businessman (b. 1933)
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