June 14 History

June 14 History

June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 200 days remain until the end of the year.

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
1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and soon conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for Emperor Duanzong.
1285 – Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of the Trần dynasty destroy most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
1287 – Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt at Mile End. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1404 – Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies himself with the French against King Henry IV of England.
1618 – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1690 – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300 year old Sudanese kingdom to an end.
1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
1872 – Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
1881 – The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 – The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size.
1907 – Norway grants women the right to vote.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
1940 – World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
1940 – Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1959 – Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
1986 – The Mindbender derails and kills three riders at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park in Edmonton, Alberta.
1994 – The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
2014 – A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
2017 – London: A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
2017 – In Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is shot while practicing for charity baseball.

Births
1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)
1463 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1514)
1479 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1552)
1529 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1595)
1627 – Johann Abraham Ihle, German astronomer (d. 1699)
1691 – Jan Francisci, Slovak organist and composer (d. 1758)
1726 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh ornithologist and historian (d. 1798)
1730 – Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1786)
1736 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (d. 1806)
1763 – Simon Mayr, German composer and educator (d. 1845)
1780 – Henry Salt, English historian and diplomat, British Consul-General in Egypt (d. 1827)
1796 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1866)
1798 – František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (d. 1876)
1801 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)
1812 – Fernando Wood, American merchant and politician, 73rd Mayor of New York City (d. 1881)
1819 – Henry Gardner, American merchant and politician, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1820 – John Bartlett, American author and publisher (d. 1905)
1829 – Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (d. 1884)
1838 – Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Field Marshal and politician, 3rd and 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1922)
1840 – William F. Nast, American businessman (d. 1893)
1848 – Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher and theorist (d. 1923)
1848 – Max Erdmannsdörfer, German conductor and composer (d. 1905)
1855 – Robert M. La Follette Sr., American lawyer and politician, 20th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1925)
1856 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1922)
1862 – John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic (d. 1915)
1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (d. 1915)
1868 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1870 – Sophia of Prussia (d. 1932)
1871 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (d. 1936)
1871 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish mechanic and engineer (d. 1946)
1872 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and author (d. 1936)
1877 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (d. 1970)
1878 – Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (d. 1943)
1879 – Arthur Duffey, American sprinter and coach (d. 1955)
1884 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (d. 1945)
1884 – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (d. 1953)
1890 – May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
1894 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1894 – José Carlos Mariátegui (d. 1930)
1894 – W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (d. 1966)
1895 – Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1968)
1900 – Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher (d. 2003)
1900 – June Walker, American stage and film actress (d. 1966)
1903 – Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (d. 1995)
1903 – Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1980)
1904 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971)
1905 – Steve Broidy, American businessman (d. 1991)
1905 – Arthur Davis, American animator and director (d. 2000)
1907 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (d. 1978)
1907 – René Char, French poet and author (d. 1988)
1909 – Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
1910 – Rudolf Kempe, German pianist and conductor (d. 1976)
1913 – Joe Morris, English-Canadian lieutenant and trade union leader (d. 1996)
1916 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001)
1917 – Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, author, and screenwriter
1917 – Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and director (d. 2012)
1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007)
1918 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (d. 2008)
1919 – Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009)
1919 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor and director (d. 1993)
1921 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (d. 2013)
1923 – Judith Kerr, German-English author and illustrator (d. 2019)
1923 – Green Wix Unthank, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 2013)
1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
1926 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player (d. 2019)
1928 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
1929 – Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
1929 – Alan Davidson, Australian cricketer
1929 – Johnny Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)
1931 – Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian
1931 – Ross Higgins, Australian actor (d. 2016)
1931 – Junior Walker, American saxophonist (d. 1995)
1932 – Joe Arpaio, American police officer and sheriff
1933 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1933 – Vladislav Rastorotsky, Russian gymnast and coach
1936 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1936 – Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish author, poet, and translator
1938 – Julie Felix, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 – Steny Hoyer, American lawyer and politician
1939 – Peter Mayle, English author and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1939 – Colin Thubron, English journalist and author
1942 – Jonathan Raban, English author and academic
1942 – Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (d. 2008)
1943 – Barry Burman, English painter and academic (d. 2001)
1943 – Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
1943 – John Miles, English race car driver and journalist
1943 – Harold Wheeler, American composer, conductor, and producer
1944 – Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1992)
1945 – Rod Argent, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1945 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (d. 2012)
1945 – Richard Stebbins, American sprinter and educator
1946 – Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French-Swiss businessman (d. 2009)
1946 – Tõnu Sepp, Estonian instrument maker and educator
1946 – Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States
1947 – Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle, English politician
1947 – Barry Melton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Paul Rudolph, Canadian singer, guitarist, and cyclist
1948 – Laurence Yep, American author and playwright
1949 – Jim Lea, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1949 – Roger Powell, English-Australian scientist and academic
1949 – Antony Sher, South African-British actor, director, and screenwriter
1949 – Harry Turtledove, American historian and author
1949 – Alan White, English drummer and songwriter
1950 – Rowan Williams, Welsh archbishop and theologian
1951 – Paul Boateng, English lawyer and politician, British High Commissioner to South Africa
1951 – Danny Edwards, American golfer
1952 – Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
1952 – Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1952 – Leon Wieseltier, American philosopher, journalist, and critic
1953 – Janet Mackey, New Zealand lawyer and politician
1954 – Will Patton, American actor
1955 – Michael D. Duvall, American businessman and politician
1955 – Paul O'Grady, English television host, producer, and drag performer
1955 – Kirron Kher, Indian theatre, film & television actress, TV talk show host, politician and Member of Parliament
1956 – Fred Funk, American golfer and coach
1956 – King Diamond (Kim Bendix Petersen), heavy metal musician
1957 – Suzanne Nora Johnson, American lawyer and businesswoman
1957 – Mona Simpson, American novelist
1958 – Pamela Geller, American activist and blogger
1959 – Marcus Miller, American bass player, composer, and producer
1960 – Tonie Campbell, American hurdler
1960 – Mike Laga, American baseball player
1961 – Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer
1961 – Dušan Kojić, Serbian singer-songwriter and bass player
1961 – Sam Perkins, American basketball player
1963 – Grant Kenny, Australian iron man and canoeist
1964 – Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer and academic
1967 – Dedrick Dodge, American football player and coach
1968 – Campbell Brown, American journalist
1968 – Faizon Love, Cuban-American actor and screenwriter
1969 – Éric Desjardins, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1969 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
1970 – Heather McDonald, American comedian, actress, and author
1971 – Bruce Bowen, American basketball player and sportscaster
1971 – Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer
1972 – Rick Brunson, American basketball player and coach
1972 – Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist and engineer, founded KDE
1972 – Dominic Brown, English guitarist and songwriter
1972 – Claude Henderson, South African cricketer
1972 – Danny McFarlane, Jamaican hurdler and sprinter
1973 – Sami Kapanen, Finnish-American ice hockey player and manager
1976 – Alan Carr, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1976 – Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer and manager
1977 – Boeta Dippenaar, South African cricketer
1977 – Chris McAlister, American football player
1977 – Joe Worsley, English rugby player and coach
1978 – Steve Bégin, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Diablo Cody, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast and coach
1978 – Nikola Vujčić, Croatian former professional basketball player
1979 – Shannon Hegarty, Australian rugby league player
1981 – Elano, Brazilian footballer and manager
1982 – Jamie Green, English race car driver
1982 – Nicole Irving, Australian swimmer
1982 – Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
1983 – Trevor Barry, Bahamian high jumper
1983 – Louis Garrel, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1984 – Lorenzo Booker, American football player
1984 – Mark Cosgrove, Australian cricketer
1984 – Siobhán Donaghy, English singer-songwriter
1984 – Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
1985 – Oleg Medvedev. Russian luger
1985 – Andy Soucek, Spanish race car driver
1986 – Matt Read, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Andrew Cogliano, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Mohamed Diamé, Senegalese footballer
1988 – Adrián Aldrete, Mexican footballer
1989 – Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter
1989 – Brad Takairangi, Australian-Cook Islands rugby league player
1990 – Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Stephen McLaughlin, Irish footballer
1991 – Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer
1992 – Devante Smith-Pelly, Canadian ice hockey player
1993 – Gurinder Sandhu, Australian cricketer
1994 – Moon Tae-il, Korean singer
1999 – Chou Tzu-yu, Taiwanese singer

Deaths
809 – Ōtomo no Otomaro, Japanese general (b. 731)
847 – Methodius I, patriarch of Constantinople
957 – Guadamir, bishop of Vic (Spain)
976 – Aron, Bulgarian nobleman
1161 – Emperor Qinzong of the Song dynasty (b. 1100)
1205 – Walter III, Count of Brienne
1349 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German king (b. 1304)
1381 – Simon Sudbury, English archbishop (b. 1316)
1497 – Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1474)
1516 – John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
1544 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 – Carpentras, French composer (b. 1470)
1583 – Shibata Katsuie, Japanese samurai (b. 1522)
1594 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1532)
1662 – Henry Vane the Younger, English-American politician, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1613)
1674 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French author and poet (b. 1600)
1679 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter and illustrator (b. 1628)[1]
1746 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
1794 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1718)
1800 – Louis Desaix, French general (b. 1768)
1800 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general (b. 1753)
1801 – Benedict Arnold, American general during the American Revolution later turned British spy (b. 1741)
1825 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)
1837 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1798)
1864 – Leonidas Polk, American general and bishop (b. 1806)
1887 – Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (b. 1807)
1883 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet and author (b. 1809)
1886 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian director and playwright (b. 1823)
1907 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect and engineer, designed the Home Insurance Building (b. 1832)
1907 – Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician (b. 1830)
1908 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (b. 1841)
1914 – Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)
1916 – João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian author (b. 1865)
1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
1923 – Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b. 1838)
1926 – Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (b. 1843)
1927 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1927 – Jerome K. Jerome, English author (b. 1859)
1928 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic (b. 1857)
1932 – Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (b. 1858)
1933 – Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (b. 1860)
1936 – G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, playwright, and novelist (b. 1874)
1936 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and designer, designed the IG Farben Building (b. 1869)
1946 – John Logie Baird, Scottish-English physicist and engineer (b. 1888)
1946 – Jorge Ubico, 21st President of Guatemala (b. 1878)
1953 – Tom Cole, Welsh-American racing driver (b. 1922)
1968 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
1977 – Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
1977 – Alan Reed, American actor, original voice of Fred Flintstone (b.1907)
1979 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
1980 – Charles Miller, American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1939)
1986 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (b. 1899)
1986 – Alan Jay Lerner, American composer and songwriter (b. 1918)
1987 – Stanisław Bareja, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1990 – Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (b. 1900)
1991 – Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (b. 1907)
1994 – Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1942)
1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
1994 – Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
1995 – Els Aarne, Ukrainian-Estonian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1917)
1995 – Rory Gallagher, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1949)
1995 – Roger Zelazny, American author and poet (b. 1937)
1996 – Noemí Gerstein, Argentinian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1908)
1997 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
1999 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football player and sportscaster (b. 1932)
2000 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and author (b. 1911)
2002 – June Jordan, American author and activist (b. 1936)
2003 – Dale Whittington, American race car driver (b. 1959)
2004 – Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (b. 1900)
2005 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor and director (b. 1914)
2005 – Mimi Parent, Canadian-Swiss painter (b. 1924)
2006 – Monty Berman, English director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1905)
2006 – Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1930)
2007 – Ruth Graham, Chinese-American author, poet, and painter (b. 1920)
2007 – Robin Olds, American general and pilot (b. 1922)
2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (b. 1918)[2]
2009 – Bob Bogle, American musician (The Ventures) (b. 1934)
2009 – William McIntyre, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1918)
2012 – Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1926)
2012 – Bob Chappuis, American football player and soldier (b. 1923)
2012 – Margie Hyams, American pianist and vibraphone player (b. 1920)
2012 – Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, German pianist and academic (b. 1930)
2012 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945)
2012 – Gitta Sereny, Austrian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
2013 – Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
2014 – Alberto Cañas Escalante, Costa Rican journalist and politician (b. 1920)
2014 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress (b. 1935)
2014 – Robert Lebeck, German photographer and journalist (b. 1929)
2014 – James E. Rogers, American lawyer, businessman, and academic (b. 1938)
2015 – Richard Cotton, Australian geneticist and academic (b. 1940)
2015 – Anne Nicol Gaylor, American activist, co-founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation (b. 1926)
2015 – Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924)
2016 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
2016 – Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1919)