February 19 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on February 19 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 30 Bahman 1404.

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Events (45)

197 (1829 years ago) Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 (1670 years ago) The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan idols in the Roman Empire.
607 (1419 years ago) Pope Boniface III is consecrated in Rome.
1594 (432 years ago) Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 (426 years ago) The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 (377 years ago) The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
1674 (352 years ago) England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England.
1714 (312 years ago) Great Northern War: The battle of Napue between Sweden and Russia is fought in Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia.
1726 (300 years ago) The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 (219 years ago) Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama, and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 (207 years ago) British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.
1836 (190 years ago) King William IV signs Letters Patent establishing the province of South Australia.
1846 (180 years ago) In Austin, Texas, the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 (179 years ago) The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1878 (148 years ago) Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 (142 years ago) More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1913 (113 years ago) Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1937 (89 years ago) Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948 (78 years ago) The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1949 (77 years ago) Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1954 (72 years ago) Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
1959 (67 years ago) The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 (66 years ago) China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 (63 years ago) The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1965 (61 years ago) Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
1976 (50 years ago) Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
1978 (48 years ago) Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 (41 years ago) William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
1985 (41 years ago) A Boeing 727 operating as Iberia Flight 610 crashes Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148; it is the deadliest accident to occur in Iberia's history and the deadliest to occur in Basque County.
1985 (41 years ago) China Airlines Flight 006 experiences an aircraft upset over the Pacific Ocean, injuring 24.
1986 (40 years ago) Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
1988 (38 years ago) A Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner operating as AVAir Flight 3378 crashes in Cary, North Carolina, killing 12.
1989 (37 years ago) Flying Tiger Line Flight 066 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four.
2002 (24 years ago) NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2003 (23 years ago) An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
2006 (20 years ago) A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2011 (15 years ago) The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
2012 (14 years ago) Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2020 (6 years ago) Nine people are killed in two domestic terrorist shootings in Hanau, Hesse, Germany.
2021 (5 years ago) Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

Births (199)

1461 (565 years ago) Domenico Grimani, Italian cardinal (died 1523)
1473 (553 years ago) Nicolaus Copernicus, Prussian mathematician and astronomer (died 1543)
1497 (529 years ago) Matthäus Schwarz, German fashion writer (died 1574)
1519 (507 years ago) Froben Christoph of Zimmern, German author of the Zimmern Chronicle (died 1566)
1526 (500 years ago) Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist and academic (died 1609)
1532 (494 years ago) Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet (died 1589)
1552 (474 years ago) Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (died 1630)
1594 (432 years ago) Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (died 1612)
1611 (415 years ago) Andries de Graeff, Dutch politician (died 1678)
1630 (396 years ago) Shivaji, Indian warrior-king and the founder of Maratha Empire (died 1680)
1660 (366 years ago) Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (died 1742)
1717 (309 years ago) David Garrick, English actor, playwright, and producer (died 1779)
1743 (283 years ago) Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (died 1805)
1798 (228 years ago) Allan MacNab, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, Premier of Canada West (died 1862)
1800 (226 years ago) Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun and social worker, founded the Sisters of Providence (died 1851)
1804 (222 years ago) Carl von Rokitansky, German physician, pathologist, and philosopher (died 1878)
1821 (205 years ago) August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (died 1868)
1833 (193 years ago) Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1906)
1838 (188 years ago) Lydia Thompson, British burlesque performer (died 1908)
1841 (185 years ago) Elfrida Andrée, Swedish organist, composer, and conductor (died 1929)
1855 (171 years ago) Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (died 1908)
1859 (167 years ago) Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)
1865 (161 years ago) Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer (died 1952)
1869 (157 years ago) Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian-Russian poet and author (died 1923)
1872 (154 years ago) Johan Pitka, Estonian admiral (died 1944)
1876 (150 years ago) Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (died 1957)
1877 (149 years ago) Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962)
1878 (148 years ago) Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (died 1961)
1880 (146 years ago) Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (died 1928)
1886 (140 years ago) José Abad Santos, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 1942)
1888 (138 years ago) José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian lawyer and poet (died 1928)
1893 (133 years ago) Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (died 1964)
1895 (131 years ago) Louis Calhern, American actor (died 1956)
1896 (130 years ago) André Breton, French poet and author (died 1966)
1897 (129 years ago) Alma Rubens, American actress (died 1931)
1899 (127 years ago) Lucio Fontana, Argentinian-Italian painter and sculptor (died 1968)
1902 (124 years ago) Kay Boyle, American novelist, short story writer, and educator (died 1992)
1904 (122 years ago) Havank, Dutch journalist and author (died 1964)
1911 (115 years ago) Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress (died 1979)
1912 (114 years ago) Saul Chaplin, American composer (died 1997)
1912 (114 years ago) Dorothy Janis, American actress (died 2010)
1913 (113 years ago) Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza,
1913 (113 years ago) Frank Tashlin, American animator and screenwriter (died 1972)
1914 (112 years ago) Thelma Kench, New Zealand Olympic sprinter (died 1985)
1915 (111 years ago) Dick Emery, English actor and comedian (died 1983)
1915 (111 years ago) John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (died 2014)
1916 (110 years ago) Eddie Arcaro, American jockey and sportscaster (died 1997)
1917 (109 years ago) Carson McCullers, American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist (died 1967)
1918 (108 years ago) Fay McKenzie, American actress (died 2019)
1920 (106 years ago) C. Z. Guest, American actress, fashion designer, and author (died 2003)
1920 (106 years ago) Jaan Kross, Estonian author and poet (died 2007)
1920 (106 years ago) George Rose, English actor and singer (died 1988)
1922 (104 years ago) Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2015)
1924 (102 years ago) David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player and theoretician (died 2006)
1924 (102 years ago) Lee Marvin, American actor (died 1987)
1926 (100 years ago) György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic
1927 (99 years ago) Philippe Boiry, French journalist (died 2014)
1929 (97 years ago) Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (died 2003)
1930 (96 years ago) John Frankenheimer, American director and producer (died 2002)
1930 (96 years ago) K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)
1932 (94 years ago) Joseph P. Kerwin, American captain, physician, and astronaut
1935 (91 years ago) Chung-Yun Hse, Taiwanese-American wood scientist (died 2021)
1935 (91 years ago) Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (died 2010)
1935 (91 years ago) Russ Nixon, American MLB catcher and coach (died 2016)
1936 (90 years ago) Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (died 2006)
1936 (90 years ago) Frederick Seidel, American poet
1937 (89 years ago) Terry Carr, American author and educator (died 1987)
1937 (89 years ago) Norm O'Neill, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2008)
1938 (88 years ago) Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (died 1989)
1939 (87 years ago) Erin Pizzey, English activist and author, founded Refuge
1940 (86 years ago) Saparmyrat Nyýazow, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (died 2006)
1940 (86 years ago) Smokey Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1940 (86 years ago) Bobby Rogers, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
1941 (85 years ago) David Gross, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 (85 years ago) Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge, English politician
1942 (84 years ago) Cyrus Chothia, English biochemist and emeritus scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (died 2019)
1942 (84 years ago) Paul Krause, American football player and politician
1942 (84 years ago) Will Provine, American biologist, historian, and academic (died 2015)
1942 (84 years ago) Howard Stringer, Welsh businessman
1943 (83 years ago) Lou Christie, American singer-songwriter (died 2025)
1943 (83 years ago) Homer Hickam, American author and engineer
1943 (83 years ago) Tim Hunt, English biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate
1944 (82 years ago) Les Hinton, English-American journalist and businessman
1945 (81 years ago) Yuri Antonov, Uzbek-Russian singer-songwriter
1946 (80 years ago) Paul Dean, Canadian guitarist
1946 (80 years ago) Peter Hudson, Australian footballer and coach
1946 (80 years ago) Karen Silkwood, American technician and activist (died 1974)
1947 (79 years ago) Jackie Curtis, American actress and playwright (died 1985)
1947 (79 years ago) Tim Shadbolt, New Zealand businessman and politician, 42nd Mayor of Invercargill
1948 (78 years ago) Mark Andes, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1948 (78 years ago) Pim Fortuyn, Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician (died 2002)
1948 (78 years ago) Raúl Grijalva, United States representative from Arizona (died 2025)
1948 (78 years ago) Tony Iommi, English guitarist and songwriter
1949 (77 years ago) Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer (died 1998)
1949 (77 years ago) Eddie Hardin, English singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2015)
1949 (77 years ago) Barry Lloyd, English footballer and manager (died 2024)
1949 (77 years ago) William Messner-Loebs, American author and illustrator
1950 (76 years ago) Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (died 2006)
1950 (76 years ago) Andy Powell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 (75 years ago) Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani scholar and politician, founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran
1952 (74 years ago) Ryū Murakami, Japanese novelist and filmmaker
1952 (74 years ago) Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican engineer and astronaut
1952 (74 years ago) Amy Tan, American novelist, essayist, and short story writer
1952 (74 years ago) Danilo Türk, Slovene academic and politician, 3rd President of Slovenia
1953 (73 years ago) Corrado Barazzutti, Italian tennis player
1953 (73 years ago) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine lawyer and politician, President of Argentina and Vice President of Argentina
1953 (73 years ago) Massimo Troisi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1994)
1954 (72 years ago) Francis Buchholz, German bass player (died 2026)
1954 (72 years ago) Michael Gira, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 (72 years ago) Sócrates, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2011)
1955 (71 years ago) Jeff Daniels, American actor and playwright
1956 (70 years ago) Peter Holsapple, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 (70 years ago) Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 (70 years ago) Dave Wakeling, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 (69 years ago) Falco, Austrian singer-songwriter, rapper, and musician (died 1998)
1957 (69 years ago) Dave Stewart, American baseball player, coach, and executive
1957 (69 years ago) Ray Winstone, English actor
1958 (68 years ago) Leslie David Baker, American actor
1958 (68 years ago) Helen Fielding, English author and screenwriter
1958 (68 years ago) Steve Nieve, English keyboard player and composer
1959 (67 years ago) Roger Goodell, American businessman, 6th National Football League Commissioner
1960 (66 years ago) Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, second son of Elizabeth II
1960 (66 years ago) John Paul Jr., American race car driver (died 2020)
1961 (65 years ago) Justin Fashanu, English footballer (died 1998)
1961 (65 years ago) Ernie Gonzalez, American golfer (died 2020)
1962 (64 years ago) Hana Mandlíková, Czech-Australian tennis player and coach
1963 (63 years ago) Seal, English singer-songwriter
1963 (63 years ago) Jessica Tuck, American actress
1964 (62 years ago) Doug Aldrich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 (62 years ago) Jennifer Doudna, American biochemist
1964 (62 years ago) Jonathan Lethem, American novelist, essayist, and short story writer
1965 (61 years ago) Jon Fishman, American drummer
1965 (61 years ago) Clark Hunt, American businessman
1965 (61 years ago) Leroy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1966 (60 years ago) Justine Bateman, American actress and producer
1966 (60 years ago) Paul Haarhuis, Dutch tennis player and coach
1966 (60 years ago) Eduardo Xol, American designer and author (died 2024)
1967 (59 years ago) Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor, director, and producer
1968 (58 years ago) Prince Markie Dee, American rapper and actor (died 2021)
1968 (58 years ago) Frank Watkins, American bass player (died 2015)
1969 (57 years ago) Burton C. Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 (57 years ago) Helena Guergis, Canadian businesswoman and politician
1970 (56 years ago) Joacim Cans, Swedish singer-songwriter
1970 (56 years ago) Verena Nussbaum, Austrian politician
1970 (56 years ago) Bellamy Young, American actress
1971 (55 years ago) Miguel Batista, Dominican baseball player and poet
1971 (55 years ago) Richard Green, Australian golfer
1971 (55 years ago) Jeff Kinney, American author and illustrator
1972 (54 years ago) Francine Fournier, American wrestler and manager
1972 (54 years ago) Sunset Thomas, American pornographic actress
1973 (53 years ago) Eric Lange, American actor
1975 (51 years ago) Daniel Adair, Canadian drummer and producer
1975 (51 years ago) Daewon Song, South Korean-American skateboarder, co-founded Almost Skateboards
1977 (49 years ago) Ola Salo, Swedish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1977 (49 years ago) Andrew Ross Sorkin, American journalist and author
1977 (49 years ago) Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer and manager
1978 (48 years ago) Ben Gummer, English scholar and politician
1978 (48 years ago) Immortal Technique, Peruvian-American rapper
1979 (47 years ago) Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player and manager
1980 (46 years ago) Dwight Freeney, American football player
1980 (46 years ago) Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player
1980 (46 years ago) Mike Miller, American basketball player
1981 (45 years ago) Beth Ditto, American singer
1981 (45 years ago) Shawn Spears, Canadian wrestler
1983 (43 years ago) Kotoōshū Katsunori, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
1983 (43 years ago) Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
1983 (43 years ago) Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian sex offender
1983 (43 years ago) Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
1983 (43 years ago) Jawad Williams, American basketball player
1984 (42 years ago) Chris Richardson, American singer-songwriter
1985 (41 years ago) Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
1985 (41 years ago) Arielle Kebbel, American actress and model
1985 (41 years ago) Kosta Perović, Serbian basketball player
1986 (40 years ago) Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 (40 years ago) Linus Klasen, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 (40 years ago) Marta, Brazilian footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Maria Mena, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1987 (39 years ago) Anna Cappellini, Italian ice dancer
1987 (39 years ago) Josh Reddick, American baseball player
1988 (38 years ago) Shawn Matthias, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 (38 years ago) Seth Morrison, American guitarist
1989 (37 years ago) Sone Aluko, English-Nigerian footballer
1991 (35 years ago) Trevor Bayne, American race car driver
1991 (35 years ago) Christoph Kramer, German footballer
1991 (35 years ago) Adreian Payne, American basketball player (died 2022)
1992 (34 years ago) Camille Kostek, American model
1992 (34 years ago) Cody Parkey, American football player
1993 (33 years ago) Mauro Icardi, Argentine footballer
1993 (33 years ago) Victoria Justice, American actress and singer
1994 (32 years ago) Tiina Trutsi, Estonian footballer
1995 (31 years ago) Nikola Jokić, Serbian basketball player
1996 (30 years ago) Mabel, British-Swedish singer
1996 (30 years ago) D. J. Wilson, American basketball player
1998 (28 years ago) Katharina Gerlach, German tennis player
1998 (28 years ago) Chappell Roan, American singer and songwriter
1998 (28 years ago) Jungwoo, South Korean singer
2001 (25 years ago) Lee Kang-in, South Korean footballer
2001 (25 years ago) David Mazouz, American actor
2004 (22 years ago) Millie Bobby Brown, English actress, model and producer

Deaths (87)

197 (1829 years ago) Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (born 150)
446 (1580 years ago) Leontius of Trier, Bishop of Trier
1133 (893 years ago) Irene Doukaina, Byzantine wife of Alexios I Komnenos (born 1066)
1275 (751 years ago) Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sufi philosopher and poet (born 1177)
1300 (726 years ago) Munio of Zamora, General of the Dominican Order
1408 (618 years ago) Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel
1414 (612 years ago) Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1353)
1445 (581 years ago) Eleanor of Aragon, queen of Portugal (born 1402)
1491 (535 years ago) Enno I, Count of East Frisia, German noble (born 1460)
1553 (473 years ago) Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1511)
1602 (424 years ago) Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (born 1558)
1605 (421 years ago) Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (born 1550)
1622 (404 years ago) Henry Savile, English scholar and politician (born 1549)
1672 (354 years ago) Charles Chauncy, English-American minister, theologian, and academic (born 1592)
1709 (317 years ago) Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shōgun (born 1646)
1716 (310 years ago) Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet (born 1634)
1785 (241 years ago) Mary, Countess of Harold, English aristocrat and philanthropist (born 1701)
1789 (237 years ago) Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (born 1738)
1799 (227 years ago) Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (born 1733)
1806 (220 years ago) Elizabeth Carter, English poet and translator (born 1717)
1837 (189 years ago) Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (born 1813)
1837 (189 years ago) Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (born 1756)
1887 (139 years ago) Multatuli, Dutch-German author and civil servant (born 1820)
1897 (129 years ago) Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (born 1815)
1915 (111 years ago) Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (born 1866)
1916 (110 years ago) Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (born 1838)
1927 (99 years ago) Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (born 1847)
1928 (98 years ago) George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (born 1856)
1936 (90 years ago) Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (born 1879)
1945 (81 years ago) John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1916)
1951 (75 years ago) André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
1952 (74 years ago) Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
1953 (73 years ago) Richard Rushall, British businessman (born 1864)
1957 (69 years ago) Maurice Garin, Italian-French cyclist (born 1871)
1959 (67 years ago) Willard Miller, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1877)
1962 (64 years ago) Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the Pap smear (born 1883)
1969 (57 years ago) Madge Blake, American actress (born 1899)
1970 (56 years ago) Ralph Edward Flanders, US Senator from Vermont (born 1890)
1972 (54 years ago) John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (born 1898)
1972 (54 years ago) Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (born 1938)
1973 (53 years ago) Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (born 1892)
1977 (49 years ago) Anthony Crosland, English author and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1918)
1977 (49 years ago) Mike González, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1890)
1980 (46 years ago) Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (born 1946)
1983 (43 years ago) Alice White, American actress (born 1904)
1988 (38 years ago) André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)
1992 (34 years ago) Tojo Yamamoto, American wrestler and manager (born 1927)
1994 (32 years ago) Derek Jarman, English director and set designer (born 1942)
1996 (30 years ago) Charlie Finley, American businessman (born 1918)
1997 (29 years ago) Leo Rosten, Polish-American author and academic (born 1908)
1997 (29 years ago) Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1904)
1998 (28 years ago) Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (born 1913)
1999 (27 years ago) Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric (born 1943)
2000 (26 years ago) Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and illustrator (born 1928)
2001 (25 years ago) Liza 'N' Eliaz, Belgian, transgender, hardcore DJ (born 1958)
2001 (25 years ago) Stanley Kramer, American director and producer (born 1913)
2001 (25 years ago) Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter (born 1913)
2002 (24 years ago) Sylvia Rivera, American transgender LGBT activist (born 1951)
2003 (23 years ago) Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1938)
2007 (19 years ago) Janet Blair, American actress and singer (born 1921)
2007 (19 years ago) Celia Franca, English-Canadian dancer and director, founded the National Ballet of Canada (born 1921)
2008 (18 years ago) Yegor Letov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1964)
2008 (18 years ago) Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress and singer (born 1945)
2009 (17 years ago) Kelly Groucutt, English singer and bass player (born 1945)
2011 (15 years ago) Ollie Matson, American sprinter and football player (born 1930)
2012 (14 years ago) Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (born 1921)
2012 (14 years ago) Jaroslav Velinský, Czech author and songwriter (born 1932)
2012 (14 years ago) Vitaly Vorotnikov, Russian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Russia (born 1926)
2013 (13 years ago) Armen Alchian, American economist and academic (born 1914)
2013 (13 years ago) Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1948)
2013 (13 years ago) Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1937)
2013 (13 years ago) Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (born 1924)
2013 (13 years ago) Eugene Whelan, Canadian farmer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)
2014 (12 years ago) Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (born 1946)
2014 (12 years ago) Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (born 1948)
2014 (12 years ago) Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1935)
2015 (11 years ago) Harold Johnson, American boxer (born 1928)
2015 (11 years ago) Nirad Mohapatra, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1947)
2015 (11 years ago) Harris Wittels, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1984)
2016 (10 years ago) Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (born 1932)
2016 (10 years ago) Harper Lee, American author (born 1926)
2016 (10 years ago) Chiaki Morosawa, Japanese anime screenwriter (born 1959)
2016 (10 years ago) Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (born 1923)
2017 (9 years ago) Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (born 1943)
2019 (7 years ago) Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (born 1933)
2020 (6 years ago) José Mojica Marins, Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, and television horror host (born 1936)
2020 (6 years ago) Pop Smoke, American rapper (born 1999)