March 10 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on March 10 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 19 Esfand 1404.

Occasions on this day in 2026

religious
Laylat al-Qadr (21st Ramadan Night)
cultural
Rivers Festival
international
International Day of Women Judges
countries
Tibetan Uprising Day
countries
Harriet Tubman Day (United States)
fun
Mario Day

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Famous people born on March 10

Events (47)

241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
298 (1728 years ago) Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
947 (1079 years ago) The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor.
1496 (530 years ago) After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command.
1535 (491 years ago) Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, discovers the Galápagos Islands by chance on his way to Peru.
1607 (419 years ago) Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
1629 (397 years ago) Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
1661 (365 years ago) French "Sun King" Louis XIV begins his personal rule of France after the death of his premier, the Cardinal Mazarin.
1735 (291 years ago) An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
1762 (264 years ago) French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
1814 (212 years ago) Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1830 (196 years ago) The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 (195 years ago) The French Foreign Legion is created by Louis Philippe, the King of France, from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France.
1848 (178 years ago) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.
1861 (165 years ago) El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
1873 (153 years ago) The first Azerbaijani play, The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran, prepared by Akhundov, is performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.
1876 (150 years ago) The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
1891 (135 years ago) Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1906 (120 years ago) The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
1909 (117 years ago) By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
1922 (104 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1933 (93 years ago) The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area, leaving around 108 people dead.
1944 (82 years ago) Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1949 (77 years ago) Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.
1952 (74 years ago) Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
1959 (67 years ago) Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
1966 (60 years ago) Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacks rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
1969 (57 years ago) In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
1970 (56 years ago) Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
1971 (55 years ago) John Gorton resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia after a secret ballot vote of confidence, being replaced in both positions by William McMahon.
1974 (52 years ago) 1974 Belgian general election: Elections are held in Belgium for all 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, the Belgian Socialist Party taking the majority with 59.
1975 (51 years ago) Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
1977 (49 years ago) Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
1979 (47 years ago) 1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran: Protestor involvement peaks with 15,000 Iranian women and girls performing a three‐hour-long sit‐in at the Courthouse of Tehran.
1982 (44 years ago) Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun.
1989 (37 years ago) Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F-28 Fellowship, crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24.
1990 (36 years ago) In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988.
1991 (35 years ago) 1991 Salvadoran legislative election: The Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
2000 (26 years ago) The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.
2006 (20 years ago) The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2017 (9 years ago) The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
2019 (7 years ago) Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.
2022 (4 years ago) 2022 Hungarian presidential election: The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote, becoming the first female president in the country's history.
2023 (3 years ago) Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC.
2024 (2 years ago) 2024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively.
2026 Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points.

Births (168)

1452 (574 years ago) Ferdinand II, King of Castile and León (died 1516)
1503 (523 years ago) Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1564)
1536 (490 years ago) Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (died 1572)
1596 (430 years ago) Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden (died 1618)
1604 (422 years ago) Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (died 1670)
1628 (398 years ago) François Girardon, French sculptor (died 1715)
1628 (398 years ago) Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (died 1694)
1653 (373 years ago) John Benbow, Royal Navy admiral (died 1702)
1656 (370 years ago) Giacomo Serpotta, Italian Rococo sculptor (died 1732)
1709 (317 years ago) Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (died 1746)
1748 (278 years ago) John Playfair, Scottish minister and scientist (died 1819)
1749 (277 years ago) Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian-American priest and poet (died 1838)
1769 (257 years ago) Joseph Williamson, English businessman and philanthropist (died 1840)
1772 (254 years ago) Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic (died 1829)
1777 (249 years ago) Louis Hersent, French painter (died 1860)
1787 (239 years ago) Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1862)
1787 (239 years ago) William Etty, English painter and academic (died 1849)
1788 (238 years ago) Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1857)
1788 (238 years ago) Edward Hodges Baily, English sculptor (died 1867)
1789 (237 years ago) Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (died 1850)
1795 (231 years ago) Joseph Légaré, Canadian painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure (died 1855)
1810 (216 years ago) Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and lawyer (died 1886)
1841 (185 years ago) Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California, writer, and librarian (died 1928)
1843 (183 years ago) Evelyn Abbott, English classical scholar (died 1901)
1844 (182 years ago) Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (died 1908)
1844 (182 years ago) Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1927)
1845 (181 years ago) Alexander III of Russia,
1846 (180 years ago) Edward Baker Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (died 1850)
1850 (176 years ago) Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (died 1906)
1853 (173 years ago) Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)
1861 (165 years ago) E. Pauline Johnson, Canadian First Nations poet and performer (died 1913)
1867 (159 years ago) Hector Guimard, French-American architect (died 1942)
1867 (159 years ago) Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian, and author, founded the Henry Street Settlement (died 1940)
1870 (156 years ago) David Riazanov, Russian theorist and politician (died 1938)
1873 (153 years ago) Jakob Wassermann, German-Austrian soldier and author (died 1934)
1876 (150 years ago) Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor (died 1973)
1877 (149 years ago) Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican diplomat and president (1930–1932) (died 1963)
1881 (145 years ago) Jessie Boswell, English painter (died 1956)
1888 (138 years ago) Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (died 1961)
1890 (136 years ago) Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (died 1939)
1891 (135 years ago) Sam Jaffe, American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (died 1984)
1892 (134 years ago) Arthur Honegger, French composer and educator (died 1955)
1892 (134 years ago) Gregory La Cava, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1952)
1896 (130 years ago) Frederick Coulton Waugh, British cartoonist, painter, teacher and author (died 1973)
1900 (126 years ago) Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (died 2017)
1900 (126 years ago) Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (died 1943)
1901 (125 years ago) Michel Seuphor, Belgian painter (died 1999)
1903 (123 years ago) Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (died 1989)
1903 (123 years ago) Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (died 1931)
1903 (123 years ago) Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright, journalist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (died 1987)
1915 (111 years ago) Harry Bertoia, Italian-American sculptor and furniture designer (died 1978)
1915 (111 years ago) Joža Horvat, Croatian writer (died 2012)
1917 (109 years ago) David Hare, American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (died 1992)
1918 (108 years ago) Günther Rall, German general and pilot (died 2009)
1919 (107 years ago) Leonor Oyarzún, Chilean socialite, First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994 (died 2022)
1920 (106 years ago) Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (died 2007)
1920 (106 years ago) Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, American mandolinist and comic singer (died 1989)
1923 (103 years ago) Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
1924 (102 years ago) Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (died 2017)
1925 (101 years ago) Bob Lanier, American lawyer, banker, and politician, Mayor of Houston (died 2014)
1926 (100 years ago) Marques Haynes, American basketball player (died 2015)
1927 (99 years ago) Claude Laydu, Belgian-French actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)
1928 (98 years ago) Sara Montiel, Spanish actress (died 2013)
1928 (98 years ago) James Earl Ray, American criminal; assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (died 1998)
1929 (97 years ago) Sam Steiger, American journalist and politician (died 2012)
1930 (96 years ago) Sándor Iharos, Hungarian runner (died 1996)
1931 (95 years ago) Georges Dor, Canadian author, playwright, and composer (died 2001)
1932 (94 years ago) Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender, English politician (died 2019)
1933 (93 years ago) Ralph Emery, American country music disc jockey, radio and television host (died 2022)
1934 (92 years ago) Gergely Kulcsár, Hungarian javelin thrower (died 2020)
1935 (91 years ago) Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2019)
1936 (90 years ago) Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman and eighth president of FIFA
1937 (89 years ago) María Kodama, Argentine writer and translator (died 2023)
1937 (89 years ago) Sam Hall, American diver, legislator, and mercenary (died 2014)
1938 (88 years ago) Norman Blake, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 (88 years ago) Ron Mix, American football player
1939 (87 years ago) Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian activist and author (died 2013)
1939 (87 years ago) Irina Press, Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and pentathlete (died 2004)
1940 (86 years ago) LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (died 2012)
1940 (86 years ago) Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist (died 2026)
1940 (86 years ago) David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter
1941 (85 years ago) George P. Smith, American biologist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
1943 (83 years ago) Peter Berresford Ellis, English historian and author
1945 (81 years ago) Katharine Houghton, American actress and playwright
1945 (81 years ago) Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Railways (died 2001)
1946 (80 years ago) Curley Culp, American football player (died 2021)
1946 (80 years ago) Gérard Garouste, French contemporary artist
1946 (80 years ago) Jim Valvano, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)
1947 (79 years ago) Kim Campbell, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
1947 (79 years ago) Tom Scholz, American musician and songwriter
1948 (78 years ago) Austin Carr, American basketball player
1951 (75 years ago) Gloria Diaz, Filipino actress and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1969
1952 (74 years ago) Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (died 2018)
1953 (73 years ago) Paul Haggis, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 (73 years ago) Ronnie Earl, American blues guitarist
1955 (71 years ago) Toshio Suzuki, Japanese race car driver
1956 (70 years ago) Robert Llewellyn, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1956 (70 years ago) Larry Myricks, American long jumper and sprinter
1956 (70 years ago) Odile Buisson, French gynecologist, advocate for women's right to pleasure
1957 (69 years ago) Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (died 2011)
1958 (68 years ago) Garth Crooks, English footballer and sportscaster
1958 (68 years ago) Steve Howe, American baseball player (died 2006)
1958 (68 years ago) Sheikh Mohammad Illias, Bengali politician
1958 (68 years ago) Sharon Stone, American actress and producer
1961 (65 years ago) Laurel Clark, American captain, physician, and astronaut (died 2003)
1962 (64 years ago) Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, and director
1962 (64 years ago) Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter
1963 (63 years ago) Jeff Ament, American bass player and songwriter
1963 (63 years ago) Rick Rubin, American record producer
1964 (62 years ago) Greg Campbell, Australian cricketer
1964 (62 years ago) Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
1964 (62 years ago) Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
1965 (61 years ago) Jillian Richardson, Canadian sprinter
1965 (61 years ago) Rod Woodson, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1966 (60 years ago) Mike Timlin, American baseball player
1968 (58 years ago) Alma Čardžić, Bosnian singer
1968 (58 years ago) Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer and coach (died 2015)
1971 (55 years ago) Jon Hamm, American actor and director
1972 (54 years ago) Beth Buchanan, Australian actress
1972 (54 years ago) Matt Kenseth, American NASCAR driver
1972 (54 years ago) Timbaland, American rapper and producer
1973 (53 years ago) Jason Croker, Australian rugby league player
1973 (53 years ago) Liu Qiangdong, Chinese entrepreneur, billionaire, founder of JD.com
1973 (53 years ago) Chris Sutton, English footballer
1973 (53 years ago) Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer and manager
1976 (50 years ago) Barbara Schett, Austrian tennis player
1977 (49 years ago) Robin Thicke, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
1978 (48 years ago) Benjamin Burnley, American musician
1978 (48 years ago) Camille, French singer-songwriter and actress
1981 (45 years ago) Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Steven Reid, English-Irish footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Kwame Brown, American basketball player
1982 (44 years ago) Dr Disrespect, American live streamer
1982 (44 years ago) Logan Mankins, American football player
1983 (43 years ago) Étienne Boulay, Canadian football player
1983 (43 years ago) Janet Mock, American journalist, author, and activist
1983 (43 years ago) Rafe Spall, English actor
1983 (43 years ago) Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter
1984 (42 years ago) Tim Brent, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 (42 years ago) Ben May, English footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Olivia Wilde, American actress and director
1986 (40 years ago) Sergei Shirokov, Russian ice hockey player
1987 (39 years ago) Martellus Bennett, American football player
1987 (39 years ago) Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player
1987 (39 years ago) Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
1987 (39 years ago) Māris Štrombergs, Latvian BMX racer
1988 (38 years ago) Clarissa dos Santos, Brazilian basketball player
1988 (38 years ago) Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
1988 (38 years ago) Ego Nwodim, American actress
1988 (38 years ago) Quincy Pondexter, American basketball player and coach
1988 (38 years ago) Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player
1989 (37 years ago) Simon Moser, Swiss ice hockey player
1989 (37 years ago) Dayán Viciedo, Cuban baseball player
1990 (36 years ago) Stefanie Vögele, Swiss tennis player
1991 (35 years ago) Kenshi Yonezu, Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator
1992 (34 years ago) Neeskens Kebano, French-Congolese footballer
1993 (33 years ago) Jack Butland, English footballer
1993 (33 years ago) Aminata Namasia, Congolese politician
1994 (32 years ago) Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler
1994 (32 years ago) Nikita Parris, English footballer
1995 (31 years ago) Zach LaVine, American basketball player
1995 (31 years ago) Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
1997 (29 years ago) Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
1998 (28 years ago) Justin Herbert, American football player
1999 (27 years ago) Cole Kmet, American football player
2000 (26 years ago) Nick Bolton, American football player
2002 (24 years ago) Keon Johnson, American basketball player
2004 (22 years ago) Matt Poitras, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths (63)

483 (1543 years ago) Pope Simplicius,
948 (1078 years ago) Liu Zhiyuan, Shatuo founder of the Later Han dynasty (born 895)
1291 (735 years ago) Arghun, Mongol ruler in Persia (born c. 1258)
1315 (711 years ago) Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic
1513 (513 years ago) John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1442)
1528 (498 years ago) Balthasar Hübmaier, German/Moravian Anabaptist leader
1572 (454 years ago) William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
1585 (441 years ago) Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517)
1682 (344 years ago) Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1628)
1724 (302 years ago) Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (born 1641)
1776 (250 years ago) Élie Catherine Fréron, French author and critic (born 1718)
1792 (234 years ago) John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1713)
1826 (200 years ago) John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (born 1758)
1832 (194 years ago) Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1752)
1861 (165 years ago) Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, playwright, and ethnographer (born 1814)
1872 (154 years ago) Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (born 1805)
1894 (132 years ago) Jacob Mahler, German-French saddler and anarchist (born 1832)
1895 (131 years ago) Charles Frederick Worth, English-French fashion designer (born 1825)
1897 (129 years ago) Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist (born 1831)
1898 (128 years ago) Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (born 1817)
1910 (116 years ago) Karl Lueger, Austrian lawyer and politician Mayor of Vienna (born 1844)
1910 (116 years ago) Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1824)
1913 (113 years ago) Harriet Tubman, American nurse and activist (born c. 1820)
1923 (103 years ago) Salvador Seguí, Catalan anarcho-syndicalist leader (born 1887)
1925 (101 years ago) Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (born 1878)
1937 (89 years ago) Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (born 1884)
1940 (86 years ago) Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (born 1891)
1942 (84 years ago) Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (born 1865)
1948 (78 years ago) Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, visual artist, and ballet dancer (born 1900)
1948 (78 years ago) Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (born 1886)
1951 (75 years ago) Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1872)
1966 (60 years ago) Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
1966 (60 years ago) Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1903)
1969 (57 years ago) Muriel Hannah, American artist active in Alaska.
1973 (53 years ago) Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1960 – 1973), Governor of Kenya (1952 – 1959), High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1944 – 1951), Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1942 – 1944) (born 1903)
1973 (53 years ago) Li Mi, Chinese lieutenant general and anti-communist, Taiwanese nationalist (born 1902)
1973 (53 years ago) Richard Sharples, British politician, assassinated Governor of Bermuda (born 1916)
1977 (49 years ago) E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (born 1906)
1985 (41 years ago) Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (born 1911)
1985 (41 years ago) Bob Nieman, American baseball player (born 1927)
1986 (40 years ago) Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (born 1907)
1988 (38 years ago) Andy Gibb, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1958)
1992 (34 years ago) Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and composer (born 1925)
1996 (30 years ago) Ross Hunter, American film producer (born 1926)
1997 (29 years ago) LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (born 1929)
1998 (28 years ago) Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director (born 1913)
1999 (27 years ago) Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (born 1919)
2005 (21 years ago) Dave Allen, Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1936)
2007 (19 years ago) Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (born 1938)
2010 (16 years ago) Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (born 1928)
2010 (16 years ago) Corey Haim, Canadian actor (born 1971)
2011 (15 years ago) Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (born 1926)
2012 (14 years ago) Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (born 1938)
2012 (14 years ago) Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
2013 (13 years ago) Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)
2015 (11 years ago) Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1952)
2016 (10 years ago) Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director (born 1921)
2016 (10 years ago) Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (born 1942)
2016 (10 years ago) Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1920)
2016 (10 years ago) Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (born 1928)
2022 (4 years ago) John Elliott, English historian and academic (born 1930)
2025 (a year ago) Stanley R. Jaffe, American film producer and director (born 1940)
2025 (a year ago) Carl Lundström, Swedish businessman and activist (born 1960)