January 18 history

January 18 history



January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 347 days remain until the end of the year (348 in leap years).

Our aim is to enhance the knowledge of human beings. We will have 7 years of history on this side. The history of each particular day by date is what happened on a date. The date of death of any person and special person will be reported. If anyone wants to gain this knowledge then please visit our web site. The limit of your knowledge will increase greatly.

আমাদের উদ্দেশ্য হলো মানুয়ের জ্ঞানের পরিধি বাড়ানো। আমাদের এই সাইডে থাকবে ১ বছরের সমস্থ ঘটে যাওয়া ইতিহাস। তারিখ অনুসারে প্রতিটি বিশেষ দিনের  ইতিহাস কোন তারিখে কি ঘটেছিল। কোন ব্যাক্তির জন্য এবং বিশেষ ব্যাক্তির মৃত্যর তারিখ জানানো হবে। যদি কোন মানুষ এই জ্ঞান অর্জন করতে চায় তাহলে আমাদের এই ওয়েবসাইডটি ভিজিট করুন । আপনার জ্ঞানের সীমা অনেক বৃদ্ধি পাবে। 

Events

474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor.[1] He dies ten months later.

532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.[2]

1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.[3]

1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.

1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.

1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.

1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.

1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".

1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.

1806 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.

1866 – Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia.[4]

1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.

1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.

1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.

1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.

1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.

1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.

1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.

1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.

1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.

1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

1976 – Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.

1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.

1977 – SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).

1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.

2002 – Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.

2003 – A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France

2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.

2008 – The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2018 – A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan.[5] The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.[6][7][8]

Births

1404 – Sir Philip Courtenay, British noble (d. 1463)

1457 – Antonio Trivulzio, seniore, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1508)

1519 – Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (d. 1559)

1540 – Catherine, Duchess of Braganza (d. 1614)

1641 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French politician, Secretary of State for War (d. 1691)

1659 – Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher and theologian (d. 1708)

1672 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (d. 1731)

1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)

1689 – Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (d. 1755)

1701 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (d. 1785)

1743 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1803)

1751 – Ferdinand Kauer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1831)

1752 – John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)[9]

1764 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician (d. 1815)

1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, lexicographer, and theologian (d. 1869)

1782 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (d. 1852)

1793 – Pratap Singh Bhosle, Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire (d. 1847)

1815 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian and scholar (d. 1874)

1835 – César Cui, Russian general, composer, and critic (d. 1918)

1840 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and author (d. 1921)

1841 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (d. 1894)

1842 – A. A. Ames, American physician and politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)

1848 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (d. 1925)

1849 – Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)

1850 – Seth Low, American academic and politician, 92nd Mayor of New York City (d. 1916)

1853 – Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker (d. 1900)

1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)

1856 – Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon and cardiologist (d. 1931)

1867 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1916)

1868 – Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)

1877 – Sam Zemurray, Russian-American businessman, founded the Cuyamel Fruit Company (d. 1961)

1879 – Henri Giraud, French general and politician (d. 1949)

1880 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1933)

1880 – Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (d. 1954)

1881 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (d. 1975)

1882 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1956)

1886 – Clara Nordström, Swedish-German author and translator (d. 1962)

1888 – Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player, sailor, and pilot (d. 1989)

1892 – Oliver Hardy, American actor and comedian (d. 1957)

1892 – Bill Meanix, American hurdler and coach (d. 1957)

1892 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon and academic (d. 1956)

1893 – Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet, critic, and academic (d. 1984)

1894 – Toots Mondt, American wrestler and promoter (d. 1976)

1896 – C. M. Eddy Jr., American author (d. 1967)

1896 – Ville Ritola, Finnish-American runner (d. 1982)

1898 – Albert Kivikas, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1978)

1901 – Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1973)

1903 – Berthold Goldschmidt, German pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1904 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordion player and composer (d. 2006)

1904 – Cary Grant, English-American actor (d. 1986)

1905 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mob boss (d. 2002)

1907 – János Ferencsik, Hungarian conductor (d. 1984)

1908 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, historian, and television host (d. 1974)

1910 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist and academic (d. 1993)

1911 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (d. 1969)

1911 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)

1913 – Carroll Cloar, American artist (d. 1993)

1913 – Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer (d. 1972)

1914 – Arno Schmidt, German author and translator (d. 1979)

1914 – Vitomil Zupan, Slovene author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)

1915 – Syl Apps, Canadian pole vaulter, ice hockey player, and politician (d. 1998)

1915 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish soldier and politician (d. 2012)

1915 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1984)

1917 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)

1917 – Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese-American businessman (d. 2008)

1918 – Gustave Gingras, Canadian-English physician and educator (d. 1996)

1919 – Toni Turek, German footballer (d. 1984)

1921 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

1923 – John Graham, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Wales (d. 2012)

1923 – Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (d. 2015)

1925 – Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and philosopher (d. 1995)

1925 – John V. Evans, American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (d. 2014)

1925 – Sol Yurick, American soldier and author (d. 2013)

1926 – Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic (d. 2013)

1927 – Sundaram Balachander, Indian actor, singer, and veena player (d. 1990)

1928 – Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet and Russian professional basketball coach of Jewish origin (d. 2005)

1931 – Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean general and politician, 5th President of South Korea

1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2007)

1933 – Emeka Anyaoku, Nigerian politician, 8th Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs

1933 – David Bellamy, English botanist, author and academic

1933 – John Boorman, English director, producer, and screenwriter

1933 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)

1933 – William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart, English lawyer and politician (d. 2017)

1933 – Frank McMullen, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2004)

1933 – Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (d. 2017)

1934 – Raymond Briggs, English author and illustrator

1935 – Albert Millaire, Canadian actor and director (d. 2018)

1935 – Jon Stallworthy, English poet, critic, and academic (d. 2014)

1935 – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli academic and diplomat, 10th Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2007)

1936 – David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport

1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

1938 – Curt Flood, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1997)

1938 – Anthony Giddens, English sociologist and academic

1938 – Werner Olk, German footballer and manager

1938 – Hargus "Pig" Robbins, American Country Music Hall of Fame session keyboard and piano player

1940 – Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican race car driver (d. 1971)

1941 – Denise Bombardier, Canadian journalist and author

1941 – Bobby Goldsboro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1941 – David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)

1943 – Paul Freeman, English actor

1943 – Kay Granger, American educator and politician

1943 – Dave Greenslade, English keyboard player and composer

1943 – Charlie Wilson, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)

1944 – Paul Keating, Australian economist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia

1944 – Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)

1944 – Kei Ogura, Japanese singer-songwriter and composer

1944 – Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria[10]

1945 – Rocco Forte, English businessman and philanthropist

1946 – Perro Aguayo, Mexican wrestler

1946 – Joseph Deiss, Swiss economist and politician, 156th President of the Swiss Confederation

1946 – Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2013)

1947 – Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player and journalist

1947 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director

1949 – Bill Keller, American journalist

1949 – Philippe Starck, French interior designer

1950 – Gianfranco Brancatelli, Italian race car driver

1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)

1951 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and activist (d. 1982)

1951 – Bob Latchford, English footballer

1952 – Michael Behe, American biochemist, author, and academic

1952 – R. Stevie Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1953 – Brett Hudson, American singer-songwriter and producer

1953 – Peter Moon, Australian comedian and actor

1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer

1956 – Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton, English banker and politician

1960 – Mark Rylance, English actor, director, and playwright

1961 – Peter Beardsley, English footballer and manager

1961 – Bob Hansen, American basketball player and sportscaster

1961 – Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster

1961 – Jeff Yagher, American actor and sculptor

1962 – Alison Arngrim, Canadian-American actress

1963 – Maxime Bernier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada

1963 – Carl McCoy, English singer-songwriter

1963 – Martin O'Malley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 61st Governor of Maryland

1964 – Brady Anderson, American baseball player

1964 – Richard Dunwoody, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster

1964 – Virgil Hill, American boxer

1964 – Jane Horrocks, English actress and singer

1966 – Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player and author

1966 – Kazufumi Miyazawa, Japanese singer

1966 – André Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver

1967 – Dean Bailey, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2014)

1967 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer

1969 – Dave Bautista, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor

1969 – Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer

1969 – Jim O'Rourke, American guitarist and producer

1970 – Peter Van Petegem, Belgian cyclist

1971 – Amy Barger, American astronomer

1971 – Jonathan Davis, American singer-songwriter

1971 – Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver

1971 – Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager

1972 – Vinod Kambli, Indian cricketer, sportscaster, and actor

1972 – Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player

1972 – Kjersti Plätzer, Norwegian race walker

1973 – Burnie Burns, American actor, director, and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth Productions

1973 – Luke Goodwin, Australian rugby league player and coach

1973 – Benjamin Jealous, American civic leader and activist

1973 – Anthony Koutoufides, Australian footballer

1973 – Crispian Mills, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director

1973 – Rolando Schiavi, Argentinian footballer and coach

1974 – Christian Burns, English singer-songwriter

1976 – Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player

1976 – Marcelo Gallardo, Argentinian footballer and coach

1976 – Damien Leith, Irish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977 – Richard Archer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1978 – Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player

1978 – Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist

1978 – Bogdan Lobonț, Romanian footballer

1979 – Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player

1979 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer

1979 – Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player

1979 – Kenyatta Jones, American football player

1980 – Estelle, English singer-songwriter and producer

1980 – Robert Green, English footballer

1980 – Kert Haavistu, Estonian footballer and manager

1980 – Julius Peppers, American football player

1980 – Jason Segel, American actor and screenwriter

1981 – Otgonbayar Ershuu, Mongolian painter and illustrator

1981 – Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player

1981 – Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer

1981 – Kang Dong-won, South Korean actor

1982 – Quinn Allman, American guitarist and producer

1982 – Mary Jepkosgei Keitany, Kenyan runner

1983 – Amir Blumenfeld, Israeli-American comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter

1983 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer-songwriter and actress

1984 – Kristy Lee Cook, American singer-songwriter

1984 – Ioannis Drymonakos, Greek swimmer

1984 – Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer

1984 – Michael Kearney, American biochemist and academic

1984 – Seung-Hui Cho, South Korean student who perpetrated the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech (d. 2007)

1984 – Benji Schwimmer, American dancer and choreographer

1984 – Viktoria Shklover, Estonian figure skater

1985 – Dale Begg-Smith, Canadian-Australian skier

1985 – Mark Briscoe, American wrestler

1985 – Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer

1985 – Hyun Woo, South Korean actor

1986 – Marya Roxx, Estonian-American singer-songwriter

1986 – Ikusaburo Yamazaki, Japanese actor and singer

1987 – Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer

1987 – Christopher Liebig, German rugby player

1987 – Grigoris Makos, Greek footballer

1988 – Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter

1988 – Angelique Kerber, German tennis player

1988 – Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer

1988 – Boy van Poppel, Dutch cyclist

1989 – Rubén Miño, Spanish footballer

1990 – Nacho, Spanish footballer

1990 – Hayle Ibrahimov, Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner

1990 – Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player

1991 – Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer

1992 – Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer

1993 – Sean Keenan, Australian actor

1994 – Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer

1994 – Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player

1995 – Bryce Alford, American basketball player

1998 – Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer

Deaths

52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC)

474 – Leo I, Byzantine emperor (b. 401)

748 – Odilo, duke of Bavaria

896 – Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of the Tulunids, murdered (b. 864)

1213 – Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160)

1253 – King Henry I of Cyprus (b. 1217)

1271 – Saint Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242)

1326 – Robert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter, English baron (b. 1247)

1357 – Maria of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313)

1367 – Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)

1411 – Jobst of Moravia, ruler of Moravia, King of the Romans

1425 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)

1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)

1479 – Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1417)

1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (b. 1470)

1586 – Margaret of Parma (b. 1522)

1589 – Magnus Heinason, Faroese naval hero (b. 1545)

1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch politician, founded Cape Town (b. 1619)

1756 – Francis George of Schönborn-Buchheim, Archbishop-Elector of Trier (b. 1682)

1783 – Jeanne Quinault, French actress and playwright (b. 1699)

1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet and academic (b. 1743)

1849 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)

1862 – John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)

1873 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803)

1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788)

1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)

1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)

1896 – Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)

1923 – Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)

1936 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)

1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

1940 – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)

1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)

1952 – Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)

1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)

1955 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)

1956 – Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1885)

1956 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)

1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1906)

1966 – Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (b. 1880)

1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player and soldier (b. 1921)

1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)

1970 – David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)

1971 – Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)

1973 – Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko, Russian tank commander (b. 1924)

1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)

1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919)

1980 – Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer and photographer (b. 1904)

1984 – Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)

1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)

1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English-French author (b. 1940)

1990 – Melanie Appleby, English singer (b. 1966)

1990 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)

1993 – Dionysios Zakythinos, Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905)

1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)

1996 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)

1997 – Paul Tsongas, American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)

1998 – Dan Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1922)

2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)

2003 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)

2003 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author (b. 1907)

2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (b. 1973)

2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish priest and poet (b. 1915)

2007 – Brent Liles, American bass player (b. 1963)

2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)

2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)

2008 – Lois Nettleton, American actress (b. 1927)

2008 – John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)

2009 – Tony Hart, English painter and television host (b. 1925)

2009 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (b. 1931)

2009 – Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1913)

2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet and author (b. 1935)

2010 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1946)

2010 – Robert B. Parker, American author and academic (b. 1932)

2011 – Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to France (b. 1915)

2012 – Anthony Gonsalves, Indian composer and educator (b. 1927)

2012 – Georg Lassen, German captain (b. 1915)

2012 – Yuri Rasovsky, American playwright and producer, founded The National Radio Theater of Chicago (b. 1944)

2013 – Sean Fallon, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1922)

2013 – Jim Horning, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1942)

2013 – Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (b. 1989)

2013 – Lewis Marnell, Australian skateboarder (b. 1982)

2013 – Ron Nachman, Israeli lawyer and politician (b. 1942)

2014 – Kathryn Abbe, American photographer and author (b. 1919)

2014 – Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1938)

2014 – Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)

2014 – Andy Graver, English footballer (b. 1927)

2014 – Sarah Marshall, English actress (b. 1933)

2014 – Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet and painter (b. 1923)

2015 – Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer and prosecutor (b. 1963)

2015 – Christine Valmy, Romanian cosmetologist and author (b. 1926)

2015 – Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1924)

2015 – Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (b. 1933)

2016 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)

2016 – Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1948)

2016 – T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (b. 1930)

2016 – Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (b. 1924)

2017 – Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (b. 1919)

2017 – David P. Buckson, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (1960–1961) (b. 1920)

2017 – Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939)

2017 – Roberta Peters, American coloratura soprano (b. 1930)

2019 – John Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985)[11]