July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
Events
48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium : Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat by Pompey in Macedonia .
138 – Emperor Hadrian dies of heart failure at Baiae ; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina .
645 – Isshi Incident : Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill , High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law ; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin .
1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton .
1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama .
1512 – The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta .
1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty 's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion , and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing .
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft , Holland , by Balthasar Gérard .
1645 – English Civil War : The Battle of Langport takes place.
1778 – American Revolution : Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain .
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company .
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States .
1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor 's death.
1869 – Gävle , Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico , formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1882 – War of the Pacific : Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state .
1913 – The temperature in Death Valley, California , hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday : Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast , Northern Ireland .
1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 – Scopes Trial : In Dayton, Tennessee , the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes , a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act .
1927 – Kevin O'Higgins TD , Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA .
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 – World War II : The Vichy government is established in France.
1941 – Jedwabne pogrom : Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne .
1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero ") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee .
1951 – Korean War : Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong .
1962 – Telstar , the world's first communications satellite , is launched into orbit.
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement , led by Martin Luther King, Jr. , holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter, Paul and Mary.
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations .
1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh .
1976 – Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial .
1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC .
1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état .
1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira .
1985 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk , Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union ), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid .
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia .
1992 – In Miami , former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory " of human evolution , placing an "African Eve " at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco , a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases : The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos , a former priest.
2000 – EADS , the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra , DASA , and CASA .
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson .
2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle , causing billions of dollars in damage.
2007 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal .
2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo , Tatarstan , causing 122 deaths.
Births
1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1451 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1501 – Cho Shik , Korean poet and scholar (d. 1572)
1509 – John Calvin , French pastor and theologian (d. 1564)
1517 – Odet de Coligny , French cardinal (d. 1571)
1592 – Pierre d'Hozier , French genealogist and historian (d. 1660)
1614 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey , Irish-English politician (d. 1686)
1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville , French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 – David Teniers III , Flemish painter (d. 1685)
1666 – John Ernest Grabe , German theologian and academic (d. 1711)
1682 – Roger Cotes , English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716)
1682 – Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg , German missionary and linguist (d. 1719)
1723 – William Blackstone , English lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1780)
1792 – George M. Dallas , American lawyer and politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
1802 – Robert Chambers , Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)
1804 – Emma Smith , American religious leader (d. 1879)
1809 – Friedrich August von Quenstedt , German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
1823 – Louis-Napoléon Casault , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1908)
1830 – Camille Pissarro , Danish-French painter (d. 1903)
1832 – Alvan Graham Clark , American astronomer (d. 1897)
1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler , American-English painter and illustrator (d. 1903)
1835 – Henryk Wieniawski , Polish violinist and composer (d. 1880)
1839 – Adolphus Busch , German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
1856 – Nikola Tesla , Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
1864 – Austin Chapman , Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence (d. 1926)
1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden (d. 1929)
1871 – Marcel Proust , French novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1922)
1874 – Sergey Konenkov , Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator and activist (d. 1955)
1878 – Otto Freundlich , German painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz , German general (d. 1948)
1883 – Hugo Raudsepp , Estonian playwright and politician (d. 1952)
1888 – Giorgio de Chirico , Greek-Italian painter and set designer (d. 1978)
1888 – Toyohiko Kagawa , Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (d. 1960)
1891 – Edith Quimby , American medical researcher and physicist (d. 1982)
1894 – Jimmy McHugh , American composer (d. 1969)
1895 – Carl Orff , German composer and educator (d. 1982)
1896 – Thérèse Casgrain , Canadian politician (d. 1981)
1897 – Legs Diamond , American gangster (d. 1931)
1897 – Karl Plagge , German general and engineer (d. 1957)
1898 – Renée Björling , Swedish actress (d. 1975)
1899 – John Gilbert , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1936)
1899 – Heiri Suter , Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1900 – Mitchell Parish , Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993)
1900 – Sampson Sievers , Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979)
1902 – Kurt Alder , German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 – Nicolás Guillén , Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (d. 1989)
1903 – Werner Best , German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)
1903 – John Wyndham , English soldier and author (d. 1969)
1904 – Lili Damita , French-American actress (d. 1994)
1905 – Mildred Benson , American journalist and author (d. 2002)
1905 – Thomas Gomez , American actor (d. 1971)
1905 – Wolfram Sievers , German physician (d. 1948)
1907 – Blind Boy Fuller , American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
1909 – Donald Sinclair , English lieutenant and businessman (d. 1981)
1911 – Terry-Thomas , English comedian and character actor (d. 1990)
1911 – Cootie Williams , American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1913 – Salvador Espriu , Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1985)
1914 – Joe Shuster , Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (d. 1992)
1916 – Judith Jasmin , Canadian journalist (d. 1972)
1917 – Hugh Alexander , American baseball player and scout (d. 2000)
1917 – Reg Smythe , English cartoonist (d. 1998)
1918 – James Aldridge , Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2015)
1918 – Fred Wacker , American race driver and engineer (d. 1998)
1919 – Pierre Gamarra , French author, poet, and critic (d. 2009)
1919 – Ian Wallace , English actor and singer (d. 2009)
1920 – David Brinkley , American journalist (d. 2003)
1920 – Owen Chamberlain , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1920 – Cyril Grant , English footballer (d. 2002)
1921 – Harvey Ball , American illustrator, created the Smiley (d. 2001)
1921 – Jeff Donnell , American actress (d. 1988)
1921 – Jake LaMotta , American boxer and actor
1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver , American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
1922 – Jean Kerr , American author and playwright (d. 2003)
1922 – Herb McKenley , Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
1923 – John Bradley , American soldier (d. 1994)
1923 – Suzanne Cloutier , Canadian actress and producer (d. 2003)
1923 – G. A. Kulkarni , Indian author and academic (d. 1987)
1924 – Johnny Bach , American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1924 – Bobo Brazil , American wrestler (d. 1998)
1925 – Mahathir Mohamad , Malaysian physician and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia
1926 – Fred Gwynne , American actor (d. 1993)
1927 – Grigory Barenblatt , Russian mathematician and academic
1927 – David Dinkins , American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City
1928 – Don Bolles , American investigative reporter (d. 1976)
1928 – Bernard Buffet , French painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1928 – Alejandro de Tomaso , Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (d. 2003)
1928 – Moshe Greenberg , American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2010)
1929 – Winnie Ewing , Scottish lawyer and politician
1929 – George Clayton Johnson , American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1929 – Moe Norman , Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
1930 – Josephine Veasey , English soprano and actress
1931 – Nick Adams , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1931 – Jerry Herman , American composer and songwriter
1931 – Julian May , American author
1931 – Alice Munro , Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Carlo Maria Abate , Italian race car driver
1933 – Jan DeGaetani , American soprano (d. 1989)
1933 – C.K. Yang , Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (d. 2007)
1934 – Jerry Nelson , American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
1935 – Tura Satana , American actress and dancer (d. 2011)
1935 – Wilson Tuckey , Australian politician
1935 – Wilson Whineray , New Zealand rugby player and businessman (d. 2012)
1936 – Herbert Boyer , American businessman, co-founded Genentech
1936 – Tunne Kelam , Estonian journalist and politician
1937 – Edwards Barham , American farmer and politician (d. 2014)
1937 – Gun Svensson , Swedish politician
1938 – Paul Andreu , French architect
1938 – Lee Morgan , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
1939 – Phil Kelly , Irish-English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı , Turkish political scientist, journalist and educator (d. 1999)
1939 – Mavis Staples , American singer
1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai , Indian-English economist and politician
1940 – Helen Donath , American soprano and actress
1940 – Brian Priestley , English pianist and composer
1940 – Keith Stackpole , Australian cricketer
1941 – Jake Eberts , Canadian film producer (d. 2012)
1941 – David G. Hartwell , American anthologist, author, and critic (d. 2016)
1941 – Robert Pine , American actor and director
1941 – Ian Whitcomb , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1942 – Ronnie James Dio , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
1942 – Pyotr Klimuk , Belarusian general, pilot, and astronaut
1942 – Sixto Rodriguez , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Arthur Ashe , American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993)
1943 – Jerry Miller , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Mick Grant , English racing motorcyclist
1944 – Norman Hammond , English archaeologist and academic
1945 – Hal McRae , American baseball player and manager
1945 – John Motson , English sportscaster
1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré , French director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Virginia Wade , English tennis player and sportscaster
1947 – Arlo Guthrie , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1948 – Ronnie Cutrone , American painter (d. 2013)
1948 – Chico Resch , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1949 – Anna Czerwińska , Polish mountaineer and author
1949 – Sunil Gavaskar , Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1949 – Greg Kihn , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – John Whitehead , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004)
1950 – Tony Baldry , English colonel, lawyer, and politician, British Minister of State for Agriculture
1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos , President of Greece , Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior
1951 – Cheryl Wheeler , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Kim Mitchell , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Peter van Heemst , Dutch politician
1953 – Rik Emmett , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1953 – Zoogz Rift , American guitarist and composer (d. 2011)
1954 – Tommy Bowden , American football player and coach
1954 – Andre Dawson , American baseball player
1954 – Neil Tennant , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1955 – Nic Dakin , English educator and politician
1956 – Tom McClintock , American lawyer and politician
1958 – Fiona Shaw , Irish actress and director
1959 – Ellen Kuras , American director and cinematographer
1959 – Sandy West , American singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2006)
1963 – Ian Lougher , Welsh motorcycle racer
1964 – Martin Laurendeau , Canadian tennis player and coach
1964 – Urban Meyer , American football player and coach
1964 – Wilfried Peeters , Belgian cyclist
1965 – Scott McCarron , American golfer
1965 – Ken Mellons , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Clive Efford , English politician
1966 – Johnny Grunge , American wrestler (d. 2006)
1966 – Christian Stangl , Austrian skier and mountaineer
1966 – Anna Bråkenhielm , Swedish business executive
1967 – Rebekah Del Rio , American singer-songwriter
1967 – Gillian Tett , English journalist and author
1967 – John Yoo , South Korean-American lawyer, author, and educator
1970 – Gary LeVox , American singer-songwriter
1970 – Jason Orange , English singer-songwriter and dancer
1971 – Adam Foote , Canadian ice hockey player
1971 – Gregory Goodridge , Barbadian footballer and coach
1972 – Peter Serafinowicz , English actor
1972 – Sofía Vergara , Colombian-American actress and producer
1972 – Tilo Wolff , German-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1974 – Imelda May , Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1975 – Andrew Firestone , American businessman
1975 – Brendan Gaughan , American race car driver
1975 – Alain Nasreddine , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1975 – Richard Westbrook , English race car driver
1976 – Edmílson , Brazilian footballer
1976 – Elijah Blue Allman , American singer and guitarist
1976 – Ludovic Giuly , French footballer
1976 – Adrian Grenier , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976 – Brendon Lade , Australian footballer and coach
1976 – Lars Ricken , German footballer
1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor , English actor
1977 – Jesse Lacey , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Mvondo Atangana , Cameroon footballer
1980 – Alejandro Millán , Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1980 – Adam Petty , American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 – Claudia Leitte , Brazilian singer-songwriter
1980 – James Rolfe , American actor, director, and producer
1980 – Jessica Simpson , American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev , Bulgarian footballer
1982 – Alex Arrowsmith , American guitarist and producer
1982 – Juliya Chernetsky , Ukrainian-American television host
1982 – Sebastian Mila , Polish footballer
1982 – Jeffrey Walker , Australian actor and director
1983 – Giuseppe De Feudis , Italian footballer
1983 – Matthew Egan , Australian footballer
1983 – Joelson José Inácio , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Doug Kramer , Filipino basketball player
1983 – Anthony Watmough , Australian rugby player
1984 – Nikolaos Mitrou , Greek footballer
1985 – Park Chu-young , South Korean footballer
1985 – B. J. Crombeen , American ice hockey player
1985 – Mario Gómez , German footballer
1988 – Antonio Brown , American football player
1988 – Heather Hemmens , American actress, director, and producer
1990 – Eunan O'Kane , Irish footballer
1990 – Adam Reynolds , Australian rugby player
1991 – María Chacón , Mexican actress and singer
1992 – Ahn Ji-hyun , South Korean actress
Deaths
138 – Hadrian , Roman emperor (b. 76)
645 – Soga no Iruka , Japanese politician
649 – Emperor Taizong of Tang (b. 598)
1103 – Eric I of Denmark (b. 1060)
1290 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham , English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1402)
1461 – Stephen Thomas of Bosnia (b. 1412)
1480 – René of Anjou (b. 1410)
1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1590 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 – Paolo Bellasio , Italian organist and composer (b. 1554)
1603 – Joan Terès i Borrull , Spanish archbishop and academic (b. 1538)
1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy , French commander (b. 1571)
1653 – Gabriel Naudé , French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 – Louis Moréri , French priest and scholar (b. 1643)
1683 – François Eudes de Mézeray , French historian and author (b. 1610)
1686 – John Fell , English bishop and academic (b. 1625)
1776 – Richard Peters , English lawyer and minister (b. 1704)
1794 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny , French general (d. 1754)
1806 – George Stubbs , English painter and academic (b. 1724)
1851 – Louis Daguerre , French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
1863 – Clement Clarke Moore , American author and educator (b. 1779)
1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai , German architect and academic (b. 1812)
1884 – Paul Morphy , American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 – Phoebe Knapp , American organist and composer (b. 1839)
1920 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , British admiral (b. 1841)
1929 – Ève Lavallière , French actress (b. 1866)
1941 – Jelly Roll Morton , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)
1950 – Richard Maury , American-Argentinian engineer (b. 1882)
1952 – Rued Langgaard , Danish organist and composer (b. 1893)
1954 – Calogero Vizzini , Italian mob boss (b. 1877)
1956 – Joe Giard , American baseball player (b. 1898)
1960 – Sæbjørn Buttedahl , Norwegian actor and sculptor (b. 1876)
1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon , Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
1963 – Teddy Wakelam , English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson , Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
1971 – Laurent Dauthuille , French boxer (b. 1924)
1971 – George Kenner , German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1888)
1972 – Lovie Austin , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1887)
1978 – John D. Rockefeller III , American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)
1979 – Arthur Fiedler , American conductor (b. 1894)
1980 – Joseph Krumgold , American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1985 – Fernando Pereira , Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
1986 – Tadeusz Piotrowski , Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
1987 – John Hammond , American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)
1989 – Mel Blanc , American voice actor (b. 1908)
1993 – Ruth Krauss , American author and poet (b. 1901)
1993 – Sam Rolfe , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1995 – Mehmet Ali Aybar , Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
1996 – Eno Raud , Estonian author (b. 1928)
2000 – Vakkom Majeed , Indian journalist and politician (b. 1909)
2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté , Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2002 – Evangelos Florakis , Greek general (b. 1943)
2002 – Laurence Janifer , American author (b. 1933)
2003 – Winston Graham , English author (b. 1908)
2003 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross , German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1902)
2004 – Pati Behrs , Russian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1922)
2005 – A. J. Quinnell , English author (b. 1940)
2006 – Shamil Basayev , Chechen terrorist rebel leader (b. 1965)
2007 – Doug Marlette , American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
2008 – Hiroaki Aoki , Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 – Mike Souchak , American golfer (b. 1927)
2011 – Pierrette Alarie , Canadian soprano and educator (b. 1921)
2011 – Roland Petit , French dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
2012 – Dolphy , Filipino actor, singer, and producer (b. 1928)
2012 – Peter Kyros , American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2012 – Berthe Meijer , German-Dutch journalist and author (b. 1938)
2012 – Fritz Langanke , German lieutenant (b. 1919)
2012 – Viktor Suslin , Russian-German composer (b. 1942)
2013 – Philip Caldwell , American businessman (b. 1920)
2013 – Józef Gara , Polish poet and linguist (b. 1929)
2013 – Concha García Campoy , Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
2013 – Caroline Duby Glassman , American lawyer and jurist (b. 1922)
2013 – Ku Ok-hee , South Korean golfer (b. 1956)
2013 – Gokulananda Mahapatra , Indian author and academic (b. 1922)
2014 – Robert C. Broomfield , American lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
2014 – Juozas Kazickas , Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1918)
2014 – Paul G. Risser , American ecologist and academic (b. 1939)
2014 – Zohra Sehgal , Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1912)
2014 – Gloria Schweigerdt , American baseball player (b. 1934)
2015 – Roger Rees , Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1944)
2015 – Omar Sharif , Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
2015 – Jon Vickers , Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2015 – Hussein Fatal , American rapper (b. 1977)
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