February 13 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on February 13 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 24 Bahman 1404.

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Events (52)

962 (1064 years ago) Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognising John as ruler of Rome.
1258 (768 years ago) Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire, orders his army to sack and plunder the city of Baghdad, which they had just captured.
1322 (704 years ago) The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
1352 (674 years ago) War of the Straits: The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets.
1462 (564 years ago) The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1503 (523 years ago) Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1542 (484 years ago) Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1633 (393 years ago) Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1642 (384 years ago) The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding bishops of the Church of England from serving in the House of Lords.
1660 (366 years ago) With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War.
1689 (337 years ago) William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692 (334 years ago) Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1726 (300 years ago) Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile brings an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
1755 (271 years ago) Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into two: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
1820 (206 years ago) The Assassination of the Duke of Berry takes place in Paris. The Duke of Berry, nephew of Louis XVIII, is stabbed to death while attending the Paris Opera.
1849 (177 years ago) The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
1861 (165 years ago) Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1867 (159 years ago) Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
1880 (146 years ago) Thomas Edison observes thermionic emission.
1913 (113 years ago) The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiates a period of almost four decades of independence.
1914 (112 years ago) Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 (106 years ago) The Negro National League is formed.
1931 (95 years ago) The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
1935 (91 years ago) A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1954 (72 years ago) Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1955 (71 years ago) Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1955 (71 years ago) Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy.
1960 (66 years ago) With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 (66 years ago) Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 (65 years ago) An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 (59 years ago) American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1975 (51 years ago) Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
1978 (48 years ago) Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 (47 years ago) An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 (45 years ago) A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1983 (43 years ago) A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
1984 (42 years ago) Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 (35 years ago) Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
1996 (30 years ago) The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).
2001 (25 years ago) A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 315.
2004 (22 years ago) The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 (19 years ago) Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 (18 years ago) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2010 (16 years ago) A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
2011 (15 years ago) For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2012 (14 years ago) The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
2017 (9 years ago) Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
2021 (5 years ago) Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
2021 (5 years ago) A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.

Births (200)

1440 (586 years ago) Hartmann Schedel, German physician (died 1514)
1457 (569 years ago) Mary of Burgundy, Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1482)
1469 (557 years ago) Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (died 1549)
1480 (546 years ago) Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (died 1542)
1523 (503 years ago) Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1593)
1539 (487 years ago) Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (died 1582)
1569 (457 years ago) Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1625)
1599 (427 years ago) Pope Alexander VII,
1602 (424 years ago) William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1637)
1672 (354 years ago) Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (died 1731)
1683 (343 years ago) Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (died 1754)
1719 (307 years ago) George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician (died 1792)
1721 (305 years ago) John Reid, Scottish general (died 1807)
1728 (298 years ago) John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (died 1793)
1766 (260 years ago) Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (died 1834)
1768 (258 years ago) Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (died 1835)
1769 (257 years ago) Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (died 1844)
1805 (221 years ago) Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (died 1859)
1811 (215 years ago) François Achille Bazaine, French general (died 1888)
1815 (211 years ago) Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (died 1857)
1819 (207 years ago) Francis Smith, Haitian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (died 1909)
1831 (195 years ago) John Aaron Rawlins, American general and politician, 29th United States Secretary of War (died 1869)
1834 (192 years ago) Heinrich Caro, Sephardic Jewish Polish-German chemist and academic (died 1910)
1835 (191 years ago) Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader (died 1908)
1849 (177 years ago) Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1895)
1855 (171 years ago) Paul Deschanel, Belgian-French politician, 11th President of France (died 1922)
1863 (163 years ago) Hugo Becker, German cellist and composer (died 1941)
1867 (159 years ago) Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (died 1905)
1870 (156 years ago) Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (died 1938)
1871 (155 years ago) Joseph Devlin, Northern Irish political leader (Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)) (died 1934)
1873 (153 years ago) Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (died 1938)
1876 (150 years ago) Fritz Buelow, German-American baseball player and umpire (died 1933)
1879 (147 years ago) Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (died 1949)
1880 (146 years ago) Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher (died 1955)
1881 (145 years ago) Eleanor Farjeon, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1965)
1883 (143 years ago) Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (died 1947)
1883 (143 years ago) Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director (died 1922)
1884 (142 years ago) Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (died 1961)
1885 (141 years ago) Bess Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (died 1982)
1887 (139 years ago) Géza Csáth, Hungarian playwright and critic (died 1919)
1888 (138 years ago) Georgios Papandreou, Greek lawyer, economist, and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)
1889 (137 years ago) Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and director (died 1974)
1891 (135 years ago) Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist (died 1985)
1891 (135 years ago) Grant Wood, American painter and academic (died 1942)
1892 (134 years ago) Robert H. Jackson, American politician, 57th United States Attorney General, Nuremberg prosecutor, and Supreme Court justice (died 1954)
1898 (128 years ago) Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (died 1979)
1899 (127 years ago) Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (died 1978)
1900 (126 years ago) Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress (died 1979)
1901 (125 years ago) Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (died 1976)
1902 (124 years ago) Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist (died 1978)
1903 (123 years ago) Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Design Bureau (died 1979)
1903 (123 years ago) Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (died 1989)
1906 (120 years ago) Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author (died 1994)
1907 (119 years ago) Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress (died 2004)
1910 (116 years ago) William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
1911 (115 years ago) Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist (died 1984)
1911 (115 years ago) Jean Muir, American actress and educator (died 1996)
1912 (114 years ago) Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander (died 1961)
1912 (114 years ago) Margaretta Scott, English actress (died 2005)
1913 (113 years ago) Khalid of Saudi Arabia,
1915 (111 years ago) Lyle Bettger, American actor (died 2003)
1915 (111 years ago) Aung San, Burmese general and politician, 5th Premier of British Crown Colony of Burma (died 1947)
1916 (110 years ago) Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist (died 1987)
1918 (108 years ago) Patty Berg, golfer, Ladies Professional Golf Association tour founder
1919 (107 years ago) Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (died 1991)
1919 (107 years ago) Eddie Robinson, American football player and coach (died 2007)
1920 (106 years ago) Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (died 1987)
1920 (106 years ago) Eileen Farrell, American soprano and educator (died 2002)
1921 (105 years ago) Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (died 1968)
1921 (105 years ago) Aung Khin, Burmese painter (died 1996)
1922 (104 years ago) Francis Pym, Baron Pym, Welsh soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 2008)
1922 (104 years ago) Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (died 2014)
1923 (103 years ago) Michael Anthony Bilandic, American soldier, judge, and politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (died 2002)
1923 (103 years ago) Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier (died 2020)
1924 (102 years ago) Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (died 2006)
1926 (100 years ago) Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, American nuclear physicist (died 2012)
1928 (98 years ago) Gerald Regan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)
1929 (97 years ago) Omar Torrijos, Panamanian commander and politician, Military Leader of Panama (died 1981)
1930 (96 years ago) Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2015)
1930 (96 years ago) Israel Kirzner, English-American economist, author, and academic
1932 (94 years ago) Susan Oliver, American actress (died 1990)
1933 (93 years ago) Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, 2nd President of Cameroon
1933 (93 years ago) Kim Novak, American actress
1933 (93 years ago) Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (died 2019)
1934 (92 years ago) George Segal, American actor (died 2021)
1937 (89 years ago) Ali El-Maak, Sudanese author and academic (died 1992)
1937 (89 years ago) Sigmund Jähn, German pilot and cosmonaut (died 2019)
1937 (89 years ago) Angelo Mosca, American-Canadian football player and wrestler (died 2021)
1938 (88 years ago) Oliver Reed, English actor (died 1999)
1940 (86 years ago) Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (died 2022)
1941 (85 years ago) Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (died 2010)
1941 (85 years ago) Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor, director, and producer
1942 (84 years ago) Carol Lynley, American model and actress (died 2019)
1942 (84 years ago) Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (died 2019)
1942 (84 years ago) Donald E. Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2016)
1943 (83 years ago) Elaine Pagels, American theologian and academic
1944 (82 years ago) Stockard Channing, American actress
1944 (82 years ago) Jerry Springer, English-American television host, actor, and politician, 56th Mayor of Cincinnati (died 2023)
1945 (81 years ago) Marian Dawkins, English biologist and academic
1945 (81 years ago) King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (died 2006)
1945 (81 years ago) Simon Schama, English historian and author
1945 (81 years ago) William Sleator, American author and composer (died 2011)
1946 (80 years ago) Richard Blumenthal, American sergeant and politician, 23rd Attorney General of Connecticut
1946 (80 years ago) Janet Finch, English sociologist and academic
1946 (80 years ago) Colin Matthews, English composer and educator
1947 (79 years ago) Stephen Hadley, American soldier and diplomat, 21st United States National Security Advisor
1947 (79 years ago) Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
1947 (79 years ago) Bogdan Tanjević, Montenegrin-Bosnian basketball coach
1947 (79 years ago) Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
1949 (77 years ago) Peter Kern, Austrian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
1950 (76 years ago) Vera Baird, English lawyer and politician
1950 (76 years ago) Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician
1951 (75 years ago) David Naughton, American actor and singer
1952 (74 years ago) Ed Gagliardi, American musician (died 2014)
1953 (73 years ago) Akio Sato, Japanese wrestler and manager
1954 (72 years ago) Donnie Moore, American baseball player (died 1989)
1955 (71 years ago) Joe Birkett, American lawyer, judge, and politician
1956 (70 years ago) Peter Hook, English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
1957 (69 years ago) Denise Austin, American fitness trainer and author
1958 (68 years ago) Pernilla August, Swedish actress
1958 (68 years ago) Øivind Elgenes, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and composer
1958 (68 years ago) Marc Emery, Canadian publisher and activist
1958 (68 years ago) Jean-François Lisée, Canadian journalist and politician
1958 (68 years ago) Derek Riggs, English painter and illustrator
1959 (67 years ago) Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 (66 years ago) Pierluigi Collina, Italian footballer and referee
1960 (66 years ago) John Healey, English journalist and politician
1960 (66 years ago) Gary Patterson, American football player and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Matt Salinger, American actor
1960 (66 years ago) Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player and author
1961 (65 years ago) Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 (65 years ago) cEvin Key, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboard player, and producer
1961 (65 years ago) Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1962 (64 years ago) Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician
1962 (64 years ago) Baby Doll, American wrestler and manager
1962 (64 years ago) Michele Greene, American actress
1964 (62 years ago) Stephen Bowen, American engineer, captain, and astronaut
1964 (62 years ago) Ylva Johansson, Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Employment
1965 (61 years ago) Peter O'Neill, Papua New Guinean accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
1966 (60 years ago) Neal McDonough, American actor and producer
1966 (60 years ago) Jeff Waters, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1966 (60 years ago) Freedom Williams, American rapper and singer
1967 (59 years ago) Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach
1968 (58 years ago) Kelly Hu, American actress
1969 (57 years ago) Joyce DiDonato, American soprano and actress
1969 (57 years ago) Bryan Thomas Schmidt, American science fiction author and editor
1970 (56 years ago) Elmer Bennett, American basketball player
1970 (56 years ago) Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist
1971 (55 years ago) Sonia Evans, English singer-songwriter
1971 (55 years ago) Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
1971 (55 years ago) Todd Williams, American baseball player
1972 (54 years ago) Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuanian discus thrower
1972 (54 years ago) Juha Ylönen, Finnish ice hockey player
1974 (52 years ago) Fonzworth Bentley, American rapper and actor
1974 (52 years ago) Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter
1975 (51 years ago) Ben Collins, English race car driver
1975 (51 years ago) Katie Hopkins, English media personality and columnist
1976 (50 years ago) Jörg Bergmeister, German race car driver
1976 (50 years ago) Feist, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
1977 (49 years ago) Randy Moss, American football player and coach
1978 (48 years ago) Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 (48 years ago) Philippe Jaroussky, French singer
1978 (48 years ago) Cory Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1979 (47 years ago) Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer
1979 (47 years ago) Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
1979 (47 years ago) Rachel Reeves, English economist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1979 (47 years ago) Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer
1980 (46 years ago) Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer
1981 (45 years ago) Luisão, Brazilian footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
1982 (44 years ago) Even Helte Hermansen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
1982 (44 years ago) Michael Turner, American football player
1983 (43 years ago) Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player
1983 (43 years ago) Anna Watkins, English rower
1984 (42 years ago) Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer
1985 (41 years ago) Somdev Devvarman, Indian tennis player
1985 (41 years ago) J. R. Giddens, American basketball player
1985 (41 years ago) Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
1985 (41 years ago) Al Montoya, American ice hockey player
1986 (40 years ago) Luke Moore, English footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Aqib Talib, American football player
1987 (39 years ago) Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
1988 (38 years ago) Ryan Goins, American baseball player
1988 (38 years ago) Dave Rudden, Irish author
1989 (37 years ago) Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player
1990 (36 years ago) Mamadou Sakho, French footballer
1991 (35 years ago) Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer
1991 (35 years ago) Vianney, French singer
1991 (35 years ago) Luke Voit, American baseball player
1992 (34 years ago) Keith Appling, American basketball player
1994 (32 years ago) Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
1995 (31 years ago) Kendall Fuller, American football player
1995 (31 years ago) Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, French-Cameroonian footballer
2000 (26 years ago) Vitinha, Portuguese footballer
2001 (25 years ago) Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player
2002 (24 years ago) Jaden Ivey, American basketball player
2002 (24 years ago) Sophia Lillis, American actress
2003 (23 years ago) Raúl Asencio, Spanish footballer
2005 (21 years ago) Sergio Mestre, Spanish footballer

Deaths (115)

106 (1920 years ago) Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty,
721 (1305 years ago) Chilperic II, Frankish king (born 672)
858 (1168 years ago) Kenneth MacAlpin, Scottish king (probable; b. 810)
921 (1105 years ago) Vratislaus I, duke of Bohemia
936 (1090 years ago) Xiao Wen, empress of the Liao dynasty
942 (1084 years ago) Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid emir and regent
988 (1038 years ago) Adalbert Atto, Lombard nobleman
1021 (1005 years ago) Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (born 985)
1130 (896 years ago) Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1060)
1141 (885 years ago) Béla II, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1110)
1199 (827 years ago) Stefan Nemanja, Serbian grand prince (born 1113)
1219 (807 years ago) Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shōgun (born 1192)
1332 (694 years ago) Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1259)
1351 (675 years ago) Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general
1539 (487 years ago) Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman (born 1474)
1542 (484 years ago) Catherine Howard, Queen Consort of England and English wife of King Henry VIII (executed; b. 1521)
1571 (455 years ago) Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1500)
1585 (441 years ago) Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (born 1515)
1602 (424 years ago) Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (born 1507)
1660 (366 years ago) Charles X Gustav, king of Sweden (born 1622)
1662 (364 years ago) Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (born 1596)
1693 (333 years ago) Johann Caspar Kerll, German organist and composer (born 1627)
1727 (299 years ago) William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (born 1666)
1728 (298 years ago) Cotton Mather, American minister and author (born 1663)
1732 (294 years ago) Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian and author (born 1640)
1741 (285 years ago) Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and theorist (born 1660)
1787 (239 years ago) Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1711)
1787 (239 years ago) Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French lawyer and politician, Foreign Minister of France (born 1717)
1795 (231 years ago) George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (born 1717)
1813 (213 years ago) Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (born 1725)
1818 (208 years ago) George Rogers Clark, American general (born 1752)
1826 (200 years ago) Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (born 1745)
1831 (195 years ago) Edward Berry, English admiral (born 1768)
1837 (189 years ago) Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (born 1809)
1845 (181 years ago) Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (born 1773)
1859 (167 years ago) Eliza Acton, English food writer and poet (born 1799)
1877 (149 years ago) Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (born 1815)
1883 (143 years ago) Richard Wagner, German composer (born 1813)
1888 (138 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (born 1814)
1892 (134 years ago) Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (born 1791)
1893 (133 years ago) Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (born 1834)
1905 (121 years ago) Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (born 1844)
1906 (120 years ago) Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (born 1866)
1934 (92 years ago) József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (born 1864)
1942 (84 years ago) Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (born 1895)
1942 (84 years ago) Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (born 1865)
1950 (76 years ago) Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (born 1875)
1951 (75 years ago) Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister and author (born 1877)
1952 (74 years ago) Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (born 1896)
1954 (72 years ago) Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (born 1890)
1956 (70 years ago) Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (born 1878)
1958 (68 years ago) Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (born 1880)
1958 (68 years ago) Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (born 1871)
1964 (62 years ago) Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (born 1896)
1964 (62 years ago) Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1902)
1967 (59 years ago) Yoshisuke Aikawa, entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (born 1880)
1967 (59 years ago) Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889)
1968 (58 years ago) Mae Marsh, American actress (born 1895)
1968 (58 years ago) Portia White, Canadian opera singer (born 1911)
1973 (53 years ago) Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect and educator (born 1883)
1975 (51 years ago) André Beaufre, French general (born 1902)
1976 (50 years ago) Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (born 1938)
1976 (50 years ago) Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (born 1904)
1980 (46 years ago) David Janssen, American actor (born 1931)
1984 (42 years ago) Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (born 1888)
1986 (40 years ago) Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (born 1907)
1989 (37 years ago) Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (born 1911)
1991 (35 years ago) Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (born 1900)
1992 (34 years ago) Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1909)
1996 (30 years ago) Martin Balsam, American actor (born 1919)
1997 (29 years ago) Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (born 1906)
1997 (29 years ago) Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1920)
2000 (26 years ago) Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (born 1914)
2000 (26 years ago) James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (born 1921)
2000 (26 years ago) John Leake, English soldier (born 1949)
2002 (24 years ago) Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)
2003 (23 years ago) Kid Gavilán, Cuban-American boxer (born 1926)
2003 (23 years ago) Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist; 7th United States National Security Advisor (born 1916)
2004 (22 years ago) François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (born 1942)
2004 (22 years ago) Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1952)
2005 (21 years ago) Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1943)
2005 (21 years ago) Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (born 1907)
2006 (20 years ago) P. F. Strawson, English philosopher and author (born 1919)
2007 (19 years ago) Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (born 1923)
2007 (19 years ago) Charlie Norwood, American captain and politician (born 1941)
2007 (19 years ago) Richard Gordon Wakeford, English air marshal (born 1922)
2008 (18 years ago) Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)
2009 (17 years ago) Edward Upward, English author and educator (born 1903)
2010 (16 years ago) Lucille Clifton, American poet and academic (born 1936)
2010 (16 years ago) Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
2012 (14 years ago) Russell Arms, American actor and singer (born 1920)
2012 (14 years ago) Louise Cochrane, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1918)
2012 (14 years ago) Daniel C. Gerould, American playwright and academic (born 1928)
2013 (13 years ago) Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)
2013 (13 years ago) Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (born 1952)
2013 (13 years ago) Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)
2013 (13 years ago) Andrée Malebranche, Haitian artist (born 1916)
2013 (13 years ago) Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (born 1939)
2014 (12 years ago) Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1939)
2014 (12 years ago) Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (born 1937)
2014 (12 years ago) Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (born 1928)
2014 (12 years ago) Laura Motta, Brazilian catholic nun (born 1919)
2015 (11 years ago) Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (born 1918)
2015 (11 years ago) Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (born 1923)
2016 (10 years ago) O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (born 1931)
2016 (10 years ago) Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936)
2017 (9 years ago) Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (born 1933)
2017 (9 years ago) Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (born 1926)
2017 (9 years ago) Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (born 1923)
2017 (9 years ago) Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (born 1971)
2017 (9 years ago) E-Dubble, American rapper (born 1982)
2018 (8 years ago) Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (born 1934)
2019 (7 years ago) Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936)
2021 (5 years ago) Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (born 1945)
2025 (a year ago) Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas (born 1943)