June 8 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on June 8 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 18 Khordad 1405.

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Events (50)

218 (1808 years ago) Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
452 (1574 years ago) Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.
536 (1490 years ago) Election of pope Silverius following the death of pope Agapetus I earlier that year.
793 (1233 years ago) Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1042 (984 years ago) Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.
1057 (969 years ago) The Byzantine general Isaac Komnenos is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor in opposition to reigning emperor Michael VI Bringas.
1191 (835 years ago) English forces under King Richard I arrive in Acre, joining the already arrived French and German forces of the Third Crusade.
1663 (363 years ago) Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.
1772 (254 years ago) Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.
1776 (250 years ago) American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
1783 (243 years ago) Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 (237 years ago) James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1794 (232 years ago) Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 (170 years ago) A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 (165 years ago) American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: A Confederate victory by forces under General Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Cross Keys, along with the Battle of Port Republic the next day, prevents Union forces from reinforcing General George B. McClellan in his Peninsula campaign.
1867 (159 years ago) Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
1887 (139 years ago) Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
1906 (120 years ago) Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1924 (102 years ago) British Mount Everest expedition: British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory go missing.
1928 (98 years ago) Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern Peace").
1929 (97 years ago) Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian campaign.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The two-day Battle of Porta between the Royal Italian Army and the Greek People's Liberation Army begins.
1949 (77 years ago) George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in the United States
1953 (73 years ago) An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, United States, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
1953 (73 years ago) The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 (67 years ago) USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1961 (65 years ago) Marriage of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katharine Worsley at York Minster.
1966 (60 years ago) An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1966 (60 years ago) Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident: A United States Navy spy ship is attacked by the Israeli Air Force and Navy, resulting in 34 deaths and 171 wounded.
1968 (58 years ago) James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport.
1972 (54 years ago) Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured in a photograph moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
1982 (44 years ago) Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1982 (44 years ago) VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing 128 people.
1983 (43 years ago) Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in flight resulting in damage to the flight controls. The Lockheed L-188 Electra makes an emergency landing at Anchorage International Airport and there are no injuries.
1984 (42 years ago) Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 (39 years ago) New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1992 (34 years ago) The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992 (34 years ago) GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to Anniston Regional Airport in Anniston, Alabama, killing three.
1995 (31 years ago) Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2001 (25 years ago) Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
2004 (22 years ago) The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 (19 years ago) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years, resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2007 (19 years ago) Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-117 carrying two truss segments and solar arrays to the International Space Station.
2008 (18 years ago) Seven people are killed and 11 more are injured in a massacre in Akihabara.
2023 (3 years ago) Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.

Births (151)

862 (1164 years ago) Emperor Xizong of Tang,
1508 (518 years ago) Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (died 1586)
1593 (433 years ago) George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (died 1648)
1625 (401 years ago) Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712)
1651 (375 years ago) William Dampier, explorer, navigator and buccaneer (died 1715)
1671 (355 years ago) Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)
1717 (309 years ago) John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (died 1795)
1724 (302 years ago) John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (died 1794)
1745 (281 years ago) Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (died 1818)
1757 (269 years ago) Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (died 1824)
1776 (250 years ago) Thomas Rickman, English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)
1788 (238 years ago) Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (died 1869)
1810 (216 years ago) Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (died 1856)
1829 (197 years ago) John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (died 1896)
1831 (195 years ago) Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1917)
1842 (184 years ago) John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1918)
1851 (175 years ago) Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (died 1940)
1852 (174 years ago) Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist (died 1925)
1854 (172 years ago) Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1921)
1855 (171 years ago) George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (died 1924)
1858 (168 years ago) Charlotte Scott, English mathematician (died 1931)
1860 (166 years ago) Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (died 1940)
1867 (159 years ago) Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)
1868 (158 years ago) Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (died 1942)
1872 (154 years ago) Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1949)
1876 (150 years ago) Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (died 1958)
1878 (148 years ago) Evan Roberts, Welsh Revivalist minister (died 1951)
1885 (141 years ago) Karl Genzken, German physician (died 1957)
1891 (135 years ago) William Funnell, Australian public servant (died 1962)
1893 (133 years ago) Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (died 1968)
1893 (133 years ago) Gaby Morlay, French actress (died 1964)
1894 (132 years ago) Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (died 1942)
1895 (131 years ago) Santiago Bernabéu, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1978)
1897 (129 years ago) John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (died 1974)
1899 (127 years ago) Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (died 1970)
1899 (127 years ago) Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician and SS officer, facilitator of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates (died 1945)
1899 (127 years ago) Noel Wien, Founded Wien Air Alaska (died 1977)
1900 (126 years ago) Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (died 1945)
1903 (123 years ago) Ralph Yarborough, American lawyer and politician (died 1996)
1903 (123 years ago) Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (died 1987)
1910 (116 years ago) John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (died 1971)
1910 (116 years ago) Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (died 2003)
1911 (115 years ago) Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer-songwriter (died 1986)
1912 (114 years ago) Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter (died 2004)
1912 (114 years ago) Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1989)
1912 (114 years ago) Harry Holtzman, American painter (died 1987)
1915 (111 years ago) Seán McCaughey, Irish Republican Army leader, died on hunger strike (died 1946)
1915 (111 years ago) Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 2015)
1916 (110 years ago) Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
1916 (110 years ago) Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2007)
1916 (110 years ago) Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (died 1992)
1917 (109 years ago) Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (died 2002)
1918 (108 years ago) George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (died 1994)
1918 (108 years ago) Robert Preston, American actor and singer (died 1987)
1918 (108 years ago) John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (died 2016)
1919 (107 years ago) John R. Deane, Jr., American general (died 2013)
1920 (106 years ago) Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (died 1995)
1921 (105 years ago) Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (died 1986)
1921 (105 years ago) Olga Nardone, American actress (died 2010)
1921 (105 years ago) LeRoy Neiman, American painter (died 2012)
1921 (105 years ago) Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (died 1993)
1921 (105 years ago) Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)
1923 (103 years ago) Alice Coleman, English geographer (directed UK Land Use Survey) England (died 2023)
1924 (102 years ago) Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2013)
1924 (102 years ago) Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (died 2013)
1925 (101 years ago) Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (died 2018)
1927 (99 years ago) Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer (died 2020)
1928 (98 years ago) Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (died 2024)
1928 (98 years ago) J. R. P. Suriyapperuma, Sri Lankan politician (died 2025)
1928 (98 years ago) Kate Wilhelm, American fiction author (Hugo Award winner) (died 2018)
1929 (97 years ago) Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (died 2013)
1930 (96 years ago) Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 (96 years ago) Marcel Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1993)
1931 (95 years ago) Dana Wynter, British actress (died 2011)
1932 (94 years ago) Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2021)
1932 (94 years ago) Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (died 2017)
1933 (93 years ago) Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014)
1934 (92 years ago) Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
1935 (91 years ago) Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)
1936 (90 years ago) James Darren, American actor (died 2024)
1936 (90 years ago) Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
1937 (89 years ago) Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright
1937 (89 years ago) Bruce McCandless II, American aviator, electrical engineer and astronaut (died 2017)
1938 (88 years ago) Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
1939 (87 years ago) Herb Adderley, American football player (died 2020)
1939 (87 years ago) Bill Watrous, American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014)
1940 (86 years ago) Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
1941 (85 years ago) Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician and activist (died 1981)
1941 (85 years ago) George Pell, Australian cardinal (died 2023)
1942 (84 years ago) Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player (died 2021)
1942 (84 years ago) Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night) (died 2026)
1943 (83 years ago) Colin Baker, English actor
1943 (83 years ago) William Calley, American military officer
1943 (83 years ago) Willie Davenport, American hurdler (died 2002)
1944 (82 years ago) Marc Ouellet, Canadian archbishop and cardinal
1944 (82 years ago) Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 (81 years ago) Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (died 2014)
1945 (81 years ago) Derek Underwood, English cricketer (died 2024)
1946 (80 years ago) Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1947 (79 years ago) Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter
1947 (79 years ago) Sara Paretsky, American author
1947 (79 years ago) Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
1949 (77 years ago) Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
1949 (77 years ago) Hildegard Falck, German runner
1950 (76 years ago) Kathy Baker, American actress
1950 (76 years ago) Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer
1951 (75 years ago) Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter (died 2026)
1951 (75 years ago) Tony Rice, American bluegrass musician (died 2020)
1953 (73 years ago) Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
1954 (72 years ago) Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (died 2013)
1954 (72 years ago) Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
1955 (71 years ago) Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
1955 (71 years ago) José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager
1957 (69 years ago) Scott Adams, American author and illustrator (died 2026)
1957 (69 years ago) Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
1958 (68 years ago) Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic
1959 (67 years ago) Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian philosopher
1960 (66 years ago) Neil Baker, Australian rugby league player
1960 (66 years ago) Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter
1960 (66 years ago) Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1961 (65 years ago) Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist
1964 (62 years ago) Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach
1965 (61 years ago) Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
1966 (60 years ago) Julianna Margulies, American actress
1967 (59 years ago) Russell E. Morris, Welsh chemist and academic
1967 (59 years ago) Kathryn Tickell, English traditional folk musician, Northumbrian smallpipe bagpiper
1969 (57 years ago) David Barnhill, Australian rugby league player
1970 (56 years ago) Gabby Giffords, American politician and advocate for ending gun violence in the United States
1970 (56 years ago) Steve Renouf, Australian rugby league player
1970 (56 years ago) Kelli Williams, American actress and director
1971 (55 years ago) Bernard Grech, Maltese lawyer and politician
1974 (52 years ago) Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner
1975 (51 years ago) Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportcaster
1976 (50 years ago) Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
1977 (49 years ago) Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
1978 (48 years ago) Maria Menounos, American television personality, professional wrestler, author, and actress
1979 (47 years ago) Derek Trucks, American guitarist, former member of the Allman Brothers band
1981 (45 years ago) Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (died 2019)
1981 (45 years ago) Sara Watkins, American fiddle, ukulele, and guitar player
1982 (44 years ago) Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 (43 years ago) Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
1984 (42 years ago) Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer and manager
1985 (41 years ago) Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver, twice Olympic silver 3m springboard silver medallist
1986 (40 years ago) Keith Gill, American financial analyst and investor
1989 (37 years ago) Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
1994 (32 years ago) Liv Morgan, American professional wrestler
1995 (31 years ago) Jean Butez, French footballer
1995 (31 years ago) Ferland Mendy, French footballer
1997 (29 years ago) Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
2000 (26 years ago) Jan Paul van Hecke, Dutch footballer
2004 (22 years ago) Francesca Capaldi, American actress

Deaths (80)

632 (1394 years ago) Muhammad, the central figure of Islam. (born 570/571)
696 (1330 years ago) Chlodulf, bishop of Metz (or 697)
951 (1075 years ago) Zhao Ying, Chinese chancellor (born 885)
1042 (984 years ago) Harthacnut, English-Danish king (born 1018)
1154 (872 years ago) William of York, English archbishop and saint
1290 (736 years ago) Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri's adoration (born 1266)
1376 (650 years ago) Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (born 1330)
1383 (643 years ago) Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English politician (born 1338)
1384 (642 years ago) Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright (born 1333)
1405 (621 years ago) Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York (born c. 1350)
1405 (621 years ago) Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk (born 1385)
1476 (550 years ago) George Neville, English archbishop and academic (born 1432)
1492 (534 years ago) Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of England (born 1437)
1501 (525 years ago) George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1440)
1505 (521 years ago) Hongzhi Emperor of China,
1600 (426 years ago) Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (born 1565)
1611 (415 years ago) Jean Bertaut, French bishop and poet (born 1552)
1612 (414 years ago) Hans Leo Hassler, German organist and composer (born 1562)
1621 (405 years ago) Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (born 1567)
1628 (398 years ago) Rudolph Goclenius, German lexicographer and philosopher (born 1547)
1651 (375 years ago) Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (born 1604)
1714 (312 years ago) Sophia of Hanover, German nobility, ancestress of all British Monarchs since 1714 (born 1630)
1716 (310 years ago) Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 1658)
1727 (299 years ago) August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (born 1663)
1768 (258 years ago) Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (born 1717)
1771 (255 years ago) George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1716)
1795 (231 years ago) Louis XVII of France,
1809 (217 years ago) Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (born 1737)
1831 (195 years ago) Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (born 1755)
1835 (191 years ago) Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (born 1761)
1845 (181 years ago) Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (born 1767)
1846 (180 years ago) Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (born 1799)
1857 (169 years ago) Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (born 1803)
1874 (152 years ago) Cochise, American tribal chief (born 1805)
1876 (150 years ago) George Sand, French author and playwright (born 1804)
1885 (141 years ago) Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (born 1799)
1889 (137 years ago) Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (born 1844)
1899 (127 years ago) Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (born 1863)
1913 (113 years ago) Emily Davison, English suffragette (born 1872)
1919 (107 years ago) Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (born 1851)
1951 (75 years ago) Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1874)
1956 (70 years ago) Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (born 1883)
1966 (60 years ago) Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (born 1890)
1968 (58 years ago) Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
1968 (58 years ago) Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (born 1933)
1969 (57 years ago) Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (born 1885)
1969 (57 years ago) Robert Taylor, American actor (born 1911)
1970 (56 years ago) Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (born 1908)
1971 (55 years ago) J. I. Rodale, American author and playwright (born 1898)
1976 (50 years ago) Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (born 1894)
1982 (44 years ago) Satchel Paige, American baseball player (born 1906)
1984 (42 years ago) Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (born 1895)
1987 (39 years ago) Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (born 1907)
1995 (31 years ago) Juan Carlos Onganía, Argentine general and politician, 35th President of Argentina (born 1914)
1997 (29 years ago) George Turner, Australian author and critic (born 1916)
1997 (29 years ago) Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (born 1948)
1998 (28 years ago) Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (born 1943)
1998 (28 years ago) Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (born 1903)
2000 (26 years ago) Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (born 1921)
2001 (25 years ago) Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (born 1935)
2004 (22 years ago) Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (born 1930)
2004 (22 years ago) Mack Jones, American baseball player (born 1938)
2006 (20 years ago) Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (born 1941)
2006 (20 years ago) Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (born 1919)
2009 (17 years ago) Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (born 1935)
2010 (16 years ago) Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (born 1940)
2012 (14 years ago) Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1940)
2012 (14 years ago) Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (born 1926)
2013 (13 years ago) Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1948)
2013 (13 years ago) Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (born 1930)
2013 (13 years ago) Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (born 1942)
2014 (12 years ago) Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (born 1903)
2014 (12 years ago) Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (born 1948)
2015 (11 years ago) Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (born 1932)
2018 (8 years ago) Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (born 1956)
2019 (7 years ago) Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (born 1971)
2022 (4 years ago) Paula Rego, Portuguese-British visual artist (born 1935)
2023 (3 years ago) Pat Robertson, American televangelist (born 1930)
2024 (2 years ago) Ramoji Rao, Indian businessman, media proprietor and film producer (born 1936)
2024 (2 years ago) Chet Walker, American basketball player (born 1940)